Chapter Twenty-Four: The Devil Retreats

When the two armies rushed together, all the people in the headquarters of the expeditionary force were staring at the huge battle circle, and the night lost its meaning here, because the various lights caused by countless magic, spells, fighting spirits, and weapons had already illuminated this place, and all the battles could be seen clearly. The colorful ball of light hung above the sky like a sun that had weakened countless times, and could be seen clearly from hundreds of kilometers away.

"There are so many enemies, so many of our tactics are mixed together before they can be used, so it doesn't seem to be very beneficial for our battle. Alexander said, you must know that in order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the air force, in the air force, the ratio of magicians to swordsmen is one to five, that is to say, one out of six people is a magician, so the melee level of these magicians is very worrying, and the magicians of the entire air force will be extinct.

"Well, especially the magicians, if they don't know how to protect, once this battle is over, we will lose one-tenth of the magicians. Zhuge Yibu said.

"Order Ling Yun to pay attention to the protection of mages during the battle, I don't want us to recruit mages on a large scale again, in that case, we will be very moved. In the past, in air battles, it was to maintain a relatively fixed formation, so that the enemy could not break through, so as to ensure the survival of the magician.

"There's another problem. That is, in this kind of battle, the loss of our flying demonic beasts will be very large, much greater than those magicians, after all, there is no way for them to put away. Moreover, the size is large, and the level and combat effectiveness are low, which makes it difficult to avoid enemy attacks. Zhuge Yibu said. Once the flying monsters are killed and wounded, then the air force in the expeditionary force will exist in name only, and it will not be possible to find so many flying monsters as mounts again in a short period of time, which will have an extremely important impact on the future battles of the expeditionary force, because since the establishment of the expeditionary force. The Air Force has always been at the vanguard of the expeditionary forces.

"There's no way around this thing, Ye Lao, I'm really sorry for you this time!" Kong Ming sighed. Losing the flying monster, in the future, can only be in a relatively passive position. If it is said that the soldiers of the expeditionary force are all standing on flying swords, the close place is okay. If it's a little further away. That's a lot of energy, not to mention whether you can reach the destination, even if you arrive, how much combat power you have is still a matter of two words. What's more, the flying monster is not a warship, how much is needed, as long as there are materials, it can be built. They need a very long cycle to grow, and this is not something that can be accelerated like plants. Although the Warcraft can be fed more to get a more powerful Warcraft, the problem of time is always unavoidable.

Ye Jianhui saw Kong Ming's appearance, and his heart was also sad for a while, these demonic beasts were found by him with great difficulty, and the Elven Empire also paid a great price for this, he didn't expect that a lot would definitely disappear in this battle, and for a druid like him, this was also a very sad thing. There was no way, the enemy was too strong, and they could only let those warriors ride those flying monsters to fight.

"Forget it, no one can avoid the disaster of the entire continent. Ye Jianhui said with some loss, at this time, he could only comfort himself with this excuse.

"When this battle is over, let's think about it and see if there is anything we can do to solve it. Kong Ming said.

Everyone continued to look over, and the entire ball of light was getting darker and darker, and it was countless demons that surrounded the entire place of battle. I kept seeing corpses and other things fall from the ball of light to the sea, and there were countless demonic beasts on the surface of the sea where they were happily chopping, and there were constantly huge demonic beasts on the water that came out to catch the food that fell from the sky, and from a distance, it was a scene of shining fish scales. The infinite flying demons in the sky couldn't intervene in the battle in the ball of light for a while, and at this time, they also watched those demonic beasts eat so happily, and there was some unhappiness in their hearts, and suddenly countless flying demons fell from the sky, constantly attacking the demonic beasts on the sea with magic and claws, and for a while, the demonic beasts on the sea were killed and injured, and there were a lot of painful roars from the sea. After less than ten minutes, a lot of water magic and thunder magic suddenly rushed out from the sea, and they continued to bombard the demons and expeditionary forces in the sky, for the monsters, the two are enemies, and there is not much difference. In an instant, the battlefield was even more chaotic. The demons in the sky are constantly casting the magic of the fire, dark, and poison systems on the surface of the sea, while the demonic beasts in the sea are casting all the magic of the demonic beasts in the sea, such as water, electricity, and poison. As a result, what can be seen from a distance is that the ball of light has become a pillar of light connecting the sea and the sky. The whole battlefield was chaos.

At this time, Ling Yun and Long Tianxian were also fighting, there was no pure land on the battlefield in the sky, there were places of battle everywhere, there were people and demons fighting everywhere, and of course, the same was true for those demonic beasts. Originally, the level of the Warcraft as an expeditionary force was not very high, the highest was level nine, and the lowest was only level six, they were mainly used as mounts, but now they were forced to participate in this kind of battle in the sky.

"Xian, after this battle, our air force will be rebuilt! Ma, I finally managed to get together 100,000 demonic beasts, and all of a sudden there are no more, it's really frustrating!" Ling Yun's voice became even colder after he was extremely angry. He slashed it in two with a sword at a demon that was attacking him, and after the demon let out a final scream, he plunged into the sea, and in the process, it was affected by other magic and sword energy, and it suddenly became multiple segments, and the sorrow was torn apart by magic before it was over. On such a battlefield, countless free magic and sword qi, broken weapons and claws. Flying around, no one or that one demon beast or demon can avoid it, so this kind of ripple is also an important reason for the battle damage. No one is good, there are no people and monsters who are not injured, and as for the demons, because they are constantly rushing in, they still maintain great combat effectiveness and pressure on the expeditionary force outside.

"Come on, the Air Force is gone, now is not the time to sigh, our magicians are still struggling? I don't know what those vampires think, they actually fight us in the sky!" Long Tianxian smiled bitterly, making fun of his suffering. That is, he was able to cut off all the demons that rushed towards them with a flying sword, and the two of them were in the rear of the entire expeditionary force, and they were heavily protected by the air force. So there isn't a single demon god who can rush here. But there are still a lot of other Sage-level demons who have leaked over, but where are these opponents? That's why they can face the enemy so easily at this moment, although the expeditionary force is surrounded by demons.

Vampires are strongest when they are in human form, and when they are bats, they are the weakest, but at this time they can only use their bat state to fight, because they are above the sky, and their human form cannot stand. This is a direct result of this. Whether these fragile bats are touched or touched by fighting spirit or magic, they can only end up dying. This situation was not expected by the article, because his original intention was to fight on the island, but he did not expect that it was a great battle with the expeditionary force in the sky, so all the vampires were devastated, and without playing any role, they kept falling from the sky like dumplings, and when they fell to the sea and died, they changed back into human form. It can be said that in this battle, all the demons are vampires who have the most serious losses.

"Hehe! Now the leader of the vampires must be mad, vampires can only show their strength when they are on the ground, and they are similar to mosquitoes when they are put in the air, I didn't expect them to use evil wolves as mosquitoes, it's ridiculous. Lingyun Dao, with another sword, directly split more than a dozen vampires that flew in from the gap into minced meat. Ling Yun is different from Long Tianxian, he doesn't have so many optimistic cells, let him joke at this time, it is better to let him die.

Unlike the speculations of the two of them, the article was very excited to see the demons surrounding all the air forces of the expeditionary force at this time. As for sacrificing vampires, he couldn't see it from his point of view, he saw that it was the demons who were constantly attacking the expeditionary force, and achieved rich results, from time to time humans and monsters fell from the sky into the sea.

"Hehe, this is the main combat power of the people of Huatian Continent, once we eliminate these people, then we can directly open up all the islands, and rushing to Huatian Continent is just around the corner. The article laughed. I didn't expect a hundred demon leaders, only he stood out from them and became the leader of hundreds of millions of demons, and the first battle to become the leader was so exciting, victory seemed to be in sight.

"Hehe, it's all thanks to the leader's clever plan to surprise the enemy, otherwise they wouldn't have sent their main force here to fight with us, I wonder if they are delaying time and letting them retreat quickly?" A demon said, this is a fear demon, mainly responsible for contacting the fear demon army, for the demon, which demon is the leader, then his team is the command of the entire demon army, and the other demons only need to send a demon over to make contact, this method also guides the entire demon There is no way to form a joint force, of course, for those low-level demons, they have no right to refuse the order of any demon leader.

"Clever tricks, hehe, you really know how to talk, yes, it's a clever trick. The article laughed. The article was laughing, but what he didn't know was that the expeditionary force had already prepared a variety of plans, just as the art of war said above. It was precisely this policy that made the clever plan of the article directly abortive, but the expeditionary force wanted to take advantage of the enemy's division of forces and inflict heavy damage on one of them, so that when the other enemies came again, they would not have so much strength.

At this time, the command headquarters of both sides were paying attention to this battle, and the commanders of both sides knew that they would win, one aspect was the expeditionary force, and Kong Ming knew that with five thousand gods and ninety-five thousand saints, such a combat power. You can definitely sweep away all the demons, and now it's just familiarizing yourself with the enemy's tactics and skills. Even then learn the skills of the enemy, if you directly destroy these enemies at once, then when more enemies come, it will be difficult for them to deal with, you must know that they will face an unknown number of demons, judging from the number of enemies, the number and quality of their gods are definitely above the expeditionary force. If all the strength is exposed at once, then the next battle will inevitably be accompanied by greater pressure, and there will always be a time when the pressure is too great for the expeditionary force to bear. That's when they fail, and it's a miserable failure. Demons can do it again if they fail, but they can't do it again if they fail, so in every battle. Kong Mingdu particularly emphasized that one is hidden strength. On the other hand, there are demons. The article looked at the battlefield surrounded by these countless demons, and couldn't help but be excited in his heart, so many demons, grinding will grind the enemy to death, not to mention that there are so many demons that have just arrived behind.

The commanders of both sides have the confidence that they will win, but this confidence is accompanied by the battle that no side is willing to be the first to withdraw from the battlefield, and the only way to persist is to persist, and the battle is to hold on until the last moment. Otherwise, it is impossible to tell who wins and who loses.

"Commander, do we need to go to support?" Tang Xiang asked. Although I knew that the expeditionary force would definitely not lose in this situation, there were still worries.

"Hehe, they didn't do their best, do they need support now?" Alexander laughed, it was obvious.

"It is true that the Air Force, although it now has some losses, can still defeat the enemy. Li Feizhi said on the side.

Everyone else looked at Kong Ming, here he was the commander, only his orders really needed to be implemented, and the words of others could only be used as a reference.

"That's right, we need to support them, if the strength of our air force is too strong now, then the strength of our other armies will definitely not be weak. Order: The navy in the west of Myeongyuan Island immediately made a maneuver to the battlefield and advanced at full speed to support the air force in the battle. At the same time, let the air force slowly retreat towards Mingyuan Island, they only need to reach Mingyuan Island. In addition, let the army of Mingyuan Island be ready to join the battle at any time, we are now going to show the enemy to be weak, since it is weak, we must have a weak appearance. Kong Ming said. Tang Xiang's worry reminded Kong Ming, this is something he never thought of, he just thought of letting the air force show weakness, and did not think of letting other armies support accordingly, only then would the enemy look really weak, not weak on the surface.

"Yes, we missed this point, if our army of 100,000 men can fight the enemy's endless flying demons, then the enemy will need to make a fresh assessment of our strength, which will be detrimental to our future battles, and all our deployments will be in vain. Zhuge Yibu said on the side.

The rest of the people also reacted at this time, they were too self-righteous, as Zhuge Yibu said, once the enemy is defeated by an air force, then their combat effectiveness of the expeditionary force will be re-evaluated, which is really unfavorable for the future battle of the expeditionary force.

Kong Ming's order was quickly conveyed, and all the troops who received the order started to act as soon as possible, and the other armies were easy to say, because they did not fight the demons, only the air force was entangled with the demons, and it was really difficult to retreat backwards, but fortunately, the air force had this content in the plan at the beginning, so most of the people were ready for this.

"Order, the front army becomes the rear army, the rear army becomes the front army, and slowly retreat towards Mingyuan Island!" As Ling Yun's order passed down quickly, the air force of the expeditionary force began to move slowly towards the back, and now it was surrounded by demons, if it was said that it would be withdrawn soon, the people in front might be able to withdraw, but the losses of the army behind were definitely very large, and only this kind of slow retreat was justified. Retreat is a cowardly act in the minds of many people, they believe that victory can only be achieved by moving forward bravely in war, especially when the battle is at its most intense, this statement can inspire people, make people increase some courage in an instant, but the reality is often cruel, sometimes it is necessary to retreat, because it is a tactical need, and it is also a process of survival and victory of an army. In battle, the attack is the easiest to organize, especially when winning, you don't need more words, just a few words, you can let your soldiers rush forward and win, but retreat can more reflect the military quality of an army, which not only includes the command level of commanders at all levels, the usual training of soldiers, but also the understanding of tactics and predicament of officers and soldiers, because at this time it often means that some people need to make self-sacrifices, and some people need to preserve, this is the most difficult scene in the war, in shortIn war, the strength of an army can be best demonstrated not by the victory in its attack, but by the order of its retreat.

As the air force of the expeditionary force slowly retreated to the rear, the article became even more excited after seeing it, and he knew that as long as he worked harder, he could throw this army of the Huatian Continent into the sea, and victory was just around the corner. The other demons also seemed to see the light of victory, and desperately attacked the expeditionary force, and for a while, in the rear of the expeditionary force, the magic was vertical and horizontal, and the light was overflowing, and it was many times stronger than before.

"Hemp, I really want to kill these bastards directly, if it weren't for the fact that the commander had to show any weakness, I would have directly led the second army to kill this group of demons. Long Tianxian said angrily, of course, he could only be angry, after all, Kong Ming was the superior, and his orders Long Tianxian still had to obey.

"Come on, after this battle, we can take a rest, and then it's up to them to see the Marine Army and the Navy, don't sigh like this, there is time for us to rest." Huh, what's going on?" Ling Yun said, watching as many demons were still surging forward one time ago, and the next moment they flew directly back. The demon seems to have retreated.

"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw!" The article is simply shouted out. He used the language of magic, so the expeditionary force did not understand such words. After giving the order to retreat, the text had an unreal feeling, one moment it was still full of ambition, and the next second it made the army retreat. But they also had to retreat, because they had died too many gods, so many that they were no longer the Cheng dù that the text could be responsible for, five hundred and thirty-six gods, which accounted for about half of the demon army, disappeared like this, although he didn't know how many gods died in the expeditionary army, but he didn't dare to continue to take this risk, in case the remaining gods also died, and the team was over, he had no way to explain when he went back, the only way to do it now was to go back first, and then bring more gods here, and bring the demons on the ground to solve Mingyuan Island。

After seeing that the demons also retreated, the air force did not retreat for a while, nor did they pursue them, but just killed all the demons who were not long-eyed and rushed over in the same place, and the others were all watching, with inexplicable looks.

It's not just those who are fighting, it's the people in the command.

"What does the demon want to do?" Ye Wen asked.

"Where do you know what they're doing?" said Zhang Yiming on the side, everyone was looking at him, wanting to see what he was thinking, but they were all disappointed, no one knew what the demon was going to do now.

"It's clear that they're retreating!" Zhuge Yibu said seriously on the side, this is something that everyone knows, but why are they retreating, is it true, or are they hiding people's eyes? This is the question that everyone is concerned about.

Sima asked the Intelligence Department to follow up to see if they were really retreating or if they were thinking of something else, and in addition, ordered the Air Force to withdraw as quickly as possible. Kong Ming said.

"Commander, why did you let them withdraw quickly? In that case, aren't you afraid that the enemy will kill one of them?" Li Feizhi asked, if certain measures are not taken at this time, then once the speed is too fast, it is easy to cause the formation to be unstable, so that the enemy has a chance to take advantage of it.

"Lingyun is more experienced than us in this regard. Kong Ming smiled. (To be continued......)