Chapter 266: The Female Reporter Arrives
Seeing these enemy masters retreating, Xiao Bai had no intention of pursuing, after all, among the opponent's army, there were hundreds of second-order masters, although most of them were only the existence of innate one-fold and two-fold combat power, but her current state was not very good, and once she was entangled, she would be besieged and killed.
So Xiao Bai soon returned to the ground with more than a dozen innate martial artists from his side, and at this time, there were already many undead warriors below cleaning the battlefield and repairing those damaged defenses.
This time, the casualties were heavy, and the beaten undead warriors could be seen almost everywhere, even the zombie pikemen in heavy plate armor, and they could be seen that their thick steel plate armor was twisted and deformed.
However, in this cruel fight, there are also many undead warriors ushered in the third upgrade, including dozens of skeleton skilled archers, who have been upgraded to skeleton marksmen, in the process of evolution, these guys have even absorbed a lot of the armor on their bodies, so that after the completion of their evolution, the bones of the whole body are glowing with a silver-gray metallic luster, and after upgrading three times, these skeleton soldiers whose original combat effectiveness is not even as good as ordinary people, now they also have the combat power of the warriors.
Among those zombies, there are dozens of zombie giants who have successfully upgraded to zombie giants, their height has suddenly reached two and a half, their muscles have become stronger, and the armor they wear has also been partially absorbed by them in the process of evolution, making their skin with a hint of metallic luster. After the evolution is completed, these zombie giants naturally also have the combat power of the Transforming Martial Arts, and they are also the strength of those late-stage Transforming Martial Artists, and in terms of strength, they are only a little worse than the innate first-class martial artists.
Finally, there are those ghouls, and there are several more who have evolved to elite ghouls, and these guys are more advanced than zombies and skeletons, so they only evolved twice to have the strength of a warrior.
As for the undead creatures that have evolved to the second-order strength, they have not yet appeared, and it can be seen that these low-level undead creatures are still very difficult to break through to the second-order, and they must accumulate enough experience points.
In order to allow these evolved undead elite warriors to better exert their combat power, Zhou Xiaoyang handed over the elite enemy equipment captured in several battles to these undead warriors, including the powerful war bows and armor-piercing heavy arrows of those demon archers, as well as the heavy plate armor, long-handled war hammers and battle axes of those demon hoplites.
After arming these hundreds of undead elite warriors with the combat power of the Transformation Martial Arts, at the critical moment of the battle, these undead warriors who are not afraid of death may even play a greater role than the dozen or so innate martial artists under his command. After all, human warriors will be afraid, they will be tired, and their combat effectiveness will decrease due to pain when they are injured, but these undead warriors will not, as long as their soul fire is not destroyed, even if their hands and feet are cut off and their chests are pierced, these guys will still continue to fight the enemy, and they will not die.
In addition, after this assassination by the enemy, Zhou Xiaoyang also attached importance to his own safety, and he was ready to stay in the cave after that, and even prepared to let his undead warriors expand the cave later, and dig out a few tunnels to lead to the position.
Those human soldiers under him, Zhou Xiaoyang, were also ready to persuade them to do so, after all, most of those human soldiers just had dark cultivation, and they also had little resistance in the face of the assassination of those enemy masters.
In order to tell these subordinates to pay attention to safety and discuss new tactics in the future, Zhou Xiaoyang gathered his human officers and non-commissioned officers after making sure that the enemy army had indeed retreated.
When the first officer got into the cave where Zhou Xiaoyang was hiding, the first sentence was: "Captain, are you injured?" ”
Zhou Xiaoyang was a little surprised when he heard this, he didn't go out to fight the enemy in the previous battle! How could it be hurt!
But then under the guidance of the other party, Zhou Xiaoyang found that he didn't know when a long wound appeared on his face, and the blood that flowed out stained half of his face red.
Zhou Xiaoyang recalled, and felt that when Xiaobai threw him into this cave before, his face was accidentally scratched by some sharp stones on the mountain wall, just because the wound was relatively shallow, and he used all his energy to command the undead army to fight before, so he actually ignored the pain from the little wound, at this time, the blood on the wound had dried up and scabbed, and the pain was almost gone, and Zhou Xiaoyang would not notice it.
However, although the injury was not serious, in order to avoid accidentally infecting the wound, Zhou Xiaoyang quickly cleaned and bandaged the wound on his face.
After he bandaged the wound, the person was almost there, so Zhou Xiaoyang began to discuss the next tactical play with everyone.
Most people agree with Zhou Xiaoyang's suggestion to dig more tunnels and let everyone hide underground to command, after all, everyone is a normal person, and everyone is still willing to do it if they can improve some of their own safety.
And soon some people proposed that they could secretly dig this tunnel to the foot of the mountain, so that if the enemy attack was too fierce and could not be blocked by the front, they could also use this tunnel to send a force to appear directly behind the enemy, and to attack back and forth, then the enemy would inevitably be in chaos, but this trick could be used once, and it would be difficult to work again after the enemy had defense.
However, for Zhou Xiaoyang, it is enough to be able to work once, after all, there are so many enemy troops, as long as they can slowly exhaust their vitality by relying on small tricks again and again, then it is their own side that wins the victory in the end.
In the past two days, they have relied on various tactics to eliminate more than 10,000 enemy elites, and the total strength of the enemy army looks like it is only more than 30,000, that is to say, as long as they give the other party a few more ruthless tricks and bleed those enemies, the other party may retreat because of the lack of troops and feeling that they cannot break through the defense line.
Just when Zhou Xiaoyang and his subordinates had just finished discussing tactics, the enemy had already launched a third wave of attacks, and the other party did not send those masters to assassinate Zhou Xiaoyang, the commander, in this wave of attacks, but let those second-order masters serve as the vanguard of the army, constantly eliminating those undead warriors who stood in the way, wanting to tear apart the lines of these undead warriors and give other soldiers in the rear a chance to break the game.
It's a pity that Zhou Xiaoyang and the others also put the undead elite warriors who had just evolved three times before into the battle, and fiercely restrained the enemy's offensive, although the casualties of the undead warriors in the end were not small, but after a few hours of hard fighting, they still repelled this wave of the enemy's attack.
At this time, the sky began to slowly darken, and the enemy obviously couldn't launch a new attack again today, so after Zhou Xiaoyang left a dozen human soldiers and more than a thousand undead warriors to monitor the enemy, the others were sent by him to start repairing various defenses and digging tunnels.
And he himself is ready to ask for some reinforcements from his upper peak, after all, after today's repeated battles, the loss of his own undead warriors is really a bit serious, yesterday it was more than 3,000, but today it has been lost more than 9,000, that is to say, it has lost more than 12,000 in total. And Zhou Xiaoyang has always been a cautious person, so he wants his superiors to transfer some more undead warriors to his side to fill this gap.
Since this time the enemy army was united by demons in several regions, the battle line was also stretched extremely long, even across several countries, so in order to facilitate command, the Blue Dragon Empire also divided each front into more than a dozen independent small war zones according to different regions this time, and Zhou Xiaoyang's division commander in this war zone was Zhu Wu, the god machine military division.
After using the magic phone to get in touch with the other party, Zhou Xiaoyang first reported today's results and losses to the other party, and then began to ask the other party for reinforcements single-handedly.
However, Zhu Wu said that there were no reinforcements, because those redundant undead warriors had already been sent to other battlefields with even heavier losses.
In Zhu Wu's words, that is, Zhou Xiaoyang and they still fought very beautifully, and they fought with the enemy for two days, and only lost more than 10,000 undead soldiers, and in some places, after a few days, the undead soldiers have not even reached 10,000, so those redundant undead warriors are naturally sent to those places to support, as for Zhou Xiaoyang, there are still more than 30,000 undead warriors here, so Zhu Wu feels that with Zhou Xiaoyang's exquisite micro-manipulation skills, it is completely fine to hold on for another three or five days.
After spending a long time and failing to move the commander Zhu Wu, Zhou Xiaoyang could only hang up the phone helplessly, and then he began to let his subordinates dig tunnels and build various fortifications even harder, after all, in the next three or five days, they still can't get a reinforcement here! So naturally, we have to find a way to improve the defense of the position, so that we can hold it for a longer time.
And at this time, in the enemy camp under the mountain, the demon general was also asking for help from his superiors, after all, in the past two days, the losses on his side were even more serious than Zhou Xiaoyang's, and he had already suffered more than 15,000 casualties, and now there were less than 20,000 soldiers and horses left on hand, and the undead soldiers on the mountain looked more than his own soldiers! In addition, the human commander is extremely cunning, commanding those undead warriors like living people, and his tactics are flexible and changeable, it is absolutely impossible to take down this seemingly inconspicuous hill with the little soldiers and horses he has at hand. So, you have to ask your superiors for help!
Unlike Zhou Xiaoyang, this demon master general obviously has a big face, and he soon asked for reinforcements, one is 20,000, and there are many demon mages among them, which is specially requested by the demon lord, because he is going to use magic to bombard the small hill where the enemy army is stationed for a long time, killing and injuring as many undead warriors as possible, and it would be better if he could kill a few human officers.
The mage troops in his hands before were not only small in number, but also poor in quality, and many so-called demon mages, in this kind of low-magic world where magic power was still very thin, released a few burst fireball spells and began to feel that their mana was insufficient, and they were unable to carry out the bombing tactics he envisioned at all.
And the next morning, in the process of eating breakfast, Zhou Xiaoyang saw a large number of reinforcements enter the enemy camp, this scene made his face solemn, because he knew very well that the demon general, who had received a large number of reinforcements to supplement his troops, would definitely launch a more fierce attack next.
Some of the officers under Zhou Xiaoyang complained that the upper peak was not strong, the reinforcements were not sent, and a female reporter who had no combat effectiveness and would only add to the chaos was sent over.
That's right, just this morning, Zhou Xiaoyang and their side also came to a person, a female reporter sent from the rear, saying that she wanted to interview the deeds of their combat heroes, and then report it back to the rear to boost the morale of other soldiers and civilians.
And Zhou Xiaoyang's group of martial artists had never received any reporters before, and now they were always followed by the other party to ask questions, which made them feel very annoyed, but they couldn't drive them away, after all, this was sent by their superiors, and if they drove people away, it would be disobeying military orders.
Soon, the female reporter named Bai Xiaoli found Zhou Xiaoyang again, wanting Zhou Xiaoyang, the commander, to tell him about his previous heroic deeds.
Zhou Xiaoyang, who was upset by the arrival of a large number of enemy reinforcements, said impatiently that he had no heroic deeds, and he usually stayed in the rear to command the army to fight, at most he shot a few arrows, Bai Xiaoli If she really wants to interview any heroic deeds, you can go to those undead soldiers at the forefront of the line, especially those zombie pikemen who are responsible for resisting the line, they must have many bloody battles, singing and crying heroic deeds to tell you.
Bai Xiaoli naturally saw that Zhou Xiaoyang was perfunctory, which made her feel very aggrieved, after all, arranging her to come for an interview was also the intention of her superiors! It's not that she has to come, but these guys, whether they are officers or soldiers, are very uncooperative with their interviews, causing her to be busy for a long time and not have any usable materials, which makes her go back to deal with it!
In order to be able to interview some useful materials, Bai Xiaoli decided to continue to stay and watch, waiting for the fight to start, and she might be able to write down a lot of usable materials by herself by observing Zhou Xiaoyang and them fighting.