On the other side, after receiving reinforcements, the demon lord was also full of ambition and ready to make a big move, he called his officers and those powerful mage leaders over, and told them his tactical intentions.

So, ten minutes later, a large number of demon mages began to assemble at the foot of the mountain, Zhou Xiaoyang watched as those mages began to make various preparations for casting spells, and even some mages also carved magic arrays on the ground, and then gathered together, as if they were preparing to join forces to cast some super-large magic.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Xiaoyang immediately understood that the enemy had changed his tactics and was preparing to use magic to bombard their positions for a long time, so he immediately notified his subordinates and asked them to take their undead warriors to hide in the tunnel just dug out last night. Let those undead warriors continue to stand still and be bombed!

In order to confuse the enemy, Zhou Xiaoyang also asked his subordinates to weave a human form out of branches and weeds when they evacuated, and then put on some scrapped armor and set up in place to pretend to be those undead warriors, anyway, those undead warriors will often stand in place and remain motionless when they have no orders, but they are not afraid that they will be exposed.

Zhou Xiaoyang and they had just made thousands of dummies, and the enemy's bombardment had already begun, so Zhou Xiaoyang and they could only quickly hide in the tunnel.

However, as a commander, Zhou Xiaoyang can't hide in the depths of the tunnel and ignore the enemy's offensive, so it's safe, but he can't know when the enemy will end the bombardment and send infantry to attack.

Therefore, Zhou Xiaoyang's hiding place is a tunnel entrance relatively close to the ground, and he also holds a self-made simple periscope to observe the outside situation from time to time.

The enemy's bombardment was very violent, as the range of killing magic fell, those dummies set up on the position were blown down by pieces of explosions, and at the entrance of the tunnel where Zhou Xiaoyang was hiding, some gravel and soil were splashed in from time to time, making Zhou Xiaoyang quickly become disgraced, and there was also the female reporter Bai Xiaoli like him.

Watching the other party's movements constantly moving away from the tunnel entrance, Zhou Xiaoyang said with a smile: "Otherwise, you should retreat inside first!" It's so dangerous here, and it wouldn't be nice if a magic hit the entrance and scared you! ”

In the face of Zhou Xiaoyang's persuasion, Bai Xiaoli, who had already had some retreat in her heart, felt that she was being underestimated, so she replied angrily: "Major Zhou, don't underestimate me, I used to be a militiaman for a while, and I charged with everyone, how could I be frightened by a magic that fell in front of me!" ”

"I'm going to stay on the front line all the time today, and keep a good record of how you guys fought!"

"Alright! Then you just stay! But fighting is actually very boring, just like now, those enemies may have to bomb for hours! Zhou Xiaoyang spoke, found a more comfortable position for himself, half lay on the ground, listened to the faint sound of bombing outside, and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Every few minutes, Zhou Xiaoyang would use his periscope to observe the situation outside, but to his disappointment, the group of enemies under the mountain had no intention of stopping the bombing.

It wasn't until more than four hours later, after Zhou Xiaoyang had finished his lunch, that the group of enemy mages under the mountain finally seemed to have exhausted their mana and began to stop casting spells one after another.

Zhou Xiaoyang knew that as soon as the bombardment stopped, the enemy's infantry should be about to attack the mountain, and the other party had received a lot of reinforcements today, and the intensity of the attack might be even greater than the previous two days, so don't be careless.

So he immediately picked up the homemade earthen phone at hand, informed his subordinates of the news, and told them to hurry out with those undead warriors and prepare to meet the enemy's mountain siege troops.

After those human non-commissioned officers and officers received Zhou Xiaoyang's order, they immediately led their undead warriors out of the tunnel and rushed towards their positions.

As a result, along the way, they found that their positions were all blown up in a mess, the originally elaborate low walls were gone, many of the improvised catapults on the top of the hill were also blown up because they had not had time to move into the tunnels, and as for the dummies that had been erected on the positions, they were all blown up by the remaining ones.

It's a pity that there is no time for them to repair their positions again, because the enemy's mountain attack troops, as Zhou Xiaoyang expected, have already arrived at the foot of the mountain, and at this time, they are forming a team under the supervision of several demon generals, and they will soon attack.

After hastily repairing some of the less damaged improvised catapults, the enemy had already launched an attack, and the much sparse stone bullets on the hill began to be smashed at the attacking enemy.

Seeing this, the demon lord who was also watching the battlefield at the bottom of the mountain couldn't help but smile and said, "It seems that those guys' catapults have been destroyed a lot!" I don't know how many of those undead warriors are left now, and it may only take one round of offensive today to be able to take down the mountain! ”

However, his words soon slapped him in the face, and as the attacking troops entered the range of the crossbows, soon the dense pieces of arrows and crossbow arrows on the mountain were shot down, killing and wounding hundreds of people in an instant, who were also slackened by the sparse stone bullets.

The attacking troops who suffered a loss hurriedly raised their shields one by one, and the pace of their advance slowed down a lot, trying to ensure that the shield array was neat.

After finally approaching the enemy's first line of defense, the attacking troops were just about to disband their shield arrays and engage the enemy in a white-knuckle battle, when several rolling logs and rocks rolled down the mountain.

It turned out that Zhou Xiaoyang saw that the morale of the enemy army had increased greatly because of the arrival of reinforcements, so he was ready to give these guys a ruthless blow at the beginning of today, and kill the morale of the other party.

As those rolling logs and stones continued to roll down along the mountain road, those enemy troops were indeed smashed into scattered formations, and many soldiers were stoned to death and crushed to death because they couldn't dodge.

At this time, the defenders on the top of the mountain also kept firing arrows at the enemy troops below, taking advantage of the chaos to kill and wound many enemy soldiers.

However, these enemy forces were worthy of the elite, and even though almost a third of their men were killed or wounded, they quickly regrouped their troops under the command of the officers and launched an attack on the top of the mountain.

The zombie pikemen who were at the forefront of the front line naturally immediately held their spears flat one by one, formed a gun formation, and launched a brutal white-knuckle battle with these enemy troops.

Zhou Xiaoyang hid at the entrance of the tunnel, observing the battle situation everywhere from time to time, and then constantly issued his latest orders.

"Xiao Li, where are those crossbowmen under your command shooting! Press down a little further, don't be afraid of accidental injury, and shoot me hard at the horned demons who are about to squeeze in front! Those big guys are a big threat, and even if you accidentally injure a few undead warriors, you have to kill as many of them as you can before they get close. ”

"Lao Xu, are you sleepwalking? Left-wing! Watch out for your left flank, you're about to be broken through by the enemy, get that reserve on top of me! ”

After saying that, Zhou Xiaoyang took out the kettle on his waist and poured himself a mouthful of cold white water.

And Bai Xiaoli also found that this combat hero really hid in this tunnel the whole time, commanding the front-line combat troops remotely like a ground mouse, and had no intention of going out to kill in person.

Before, she thought that the other party was just being modest, but now it seems that this guy is telling the truth!

But don't look at this guy hasn't gone out to kill once, and the command basically allows his subordinates to focus on defense. However, after more than two hours of fighting between the two sides, those enemies were really repelled by them, and at a glance, there were a lot of enemy corpses piled up in front of each line of defense.

That's right, in this battle, Zhou Xiaoyang commanded his troops, and they had already retreated to the third line of defense, after all, all the defense facilities built before were basically blown up, which caused their undead warriors to have no fortifications to rely on, and they almost had to fight with those enemy elites face to face in a fair fight, so if you blindly defend to the death, you will definitely not be able to fight the other party, and you can only fight and retreat, and exchange space for time to reorganize the troops.

And although it seems a little aggrieved to fight like this, the effect is still good, after a battle, although the own side has suffered more than 5,000 casualties, but the opponent's wave of mountain siege troops has almost been exhausted, and finally it can be withdrawn to less than 1,000 men and horses.

Because his own troops fought very tenaciously this time, and they withdrew when they were exhausted, so it was rare for the demon lord not to blame his soldiers this time, but he felt that he still underestimated the enemy commander and was won by the other party.

However, he had just received a lot of reinforcements, and he could afford to lose once or twice, so he quickly reorganized his troops and attacked the hill again, leaving no time for the other side to rest.

The demon lord sent more attacking troops this time was more numerous and of higher quality, and there were hundreds of second-order masters mixed in them as grassroots officers.

So as soon as Zhou Xiaoyang and the other party exchanged hands this time, he felt a huge pressure, and in just one hour, he let his troops retreat to the fourth line of defense in one breath, and then the last line of defense was behind.

With an average of fifteen minutes to push the defenders back a line, these enemy forces really had the momentum to capture the hill in one fell swoop.

Zhou Xiaoyang knew that these enemies must not be allowed to see the hope of capturing the mountain so easily, so he decisively activated his own killer weapon, thousands of elite undead warriors who had evolved at least twice were quietly sent to the foot of the mountain by Zhou Xiaoyang through those tunnels, and then when the enemy's mountain attacking troops were all focused on the enemy in front of them, these undead warriors lifted the stone slabs at the entrance of the tunnel, quickly poured out from several tunnel entrances, and quietly killed the enemy's back.

And there are a lot of archers and mages who are not very good at melee combat! Therefore, when the demon lord saw this scene, he was extremely anxious, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to send a signal to those mountain siege troops to remind them that there was an enemy behind them.

However, the distance between those tunnel exits and the mountain siege troops was less than a hundred meters, so although the reminder of the demon commander was already very timely, it was still useless, because at that time, the two troops had already engaged, and in this kind of melee, most of the demon archers and mages with low melee ability were quickly killed, and it was only when the demon heavy infantry in front of them had a lot of reinforcements that they finally barely stabilized the battle line.

However, as soon as those demonic heavy infantry withdrew from the front line, this gave the undead warriors on the frontal battlefield a chance to counterattack, this time Zhou Xiaoyang sent his own war pet Xiaobai, and let him lead the dozen or so innate warriors, together with those undead warriors, to launch a counterattack against the enemy.

As for himself, of course, he continued to hide in the tunnel, after all, among the mountain siege troops this time, there were many second-order masters, and he would not rush out stupidly to send him to death for the sake of being a hero.

Under the front and rear attacks of the enemy, the demons' mountain-attacking troops soon couldn't support it, and were cut into several pieces by Zhou Xiaoyang's troops, but unfortunately when he killed and injured about the average enemy army, the demon general sent a force to meet the surrounded friendly army, Zhou Xiaoyang saw that his undead warriors suffered many casualties in this battle, so he could only regretfully take the initiative to let go of the passage and let the encircled enemy army withdraw.

Most of the enemy soldiers who managed to escape were still in shock, and they did not dare to attack again for a while, and all of them quickly withdrew to the large camp below the mountain under the cover of reinforcements.

Although he won this battle, Zhou Xiaoyang did not have a smile on his face, because he understood that his cards were almost gone, and once he had no cards to play on his side, the enemy could easily attack the mountain by virtue of his superiority.

Since it was almost four o'clock in the evening at this time, and the soldiers were very tired after a day of fighting, although the demon general felt very unwilling, he could only choose a truce first and wait for tomorrow to attack.

The defenders on the hill are under the command of Zhou Xiaoyang, silently cleaning up the battlefield and repairing those fortifications, although most of these things will be blown up by the enemy army with magic tomorrow, but they can't be built! After all, what if the enemy's mage troops were suddenly transferred away! Wouldn't their fortifications come in handy!

This is the case on the battlefield, most of the time the generals only need to do their own thing, and then wait for the enemy to make a mistake or something happen, and then it is time to seize the fighter and launch a counteroffensive.

When Zhou Xiaoyang gathered his officers and non-commissioned officers and held a meeting to discuss tactics as usual, Bai Xiaoli also stayed aside and recorded all this silently, and even took advantage of Zhou Xiaoyang's lack of attention to take a photo of these combat heroes with a magic camera, and everyone in the photo maintained their truest side.