Chapter 163: Crossing the Abyss and Attacking the Demon Capital
Just when the generals of the two heavenly demons in the air of Li Huangpo were fighting fiercely, Hou Yi had another action.
Hou Yi led 60,000 ice and fire troops to quietly leave the east gate of Demon Rock City in six batches, and Hou Yi led the star general Tingming, the herald star general Xue Suguang, the night patrol star general Hei Fan, the assassination star general Lu Python, and the secret attack star general Chen Shanjun took advantage of the east city wall to cover the soldiers and ran south from the buffer wasteland in six ways.
According to the direction indicated by Hou Yi in advance, the Six-Way Ice and Fire Army came to the Black Abyss in the middle of Night Wolf City and Demon Rock City on the Heavenly Demon Border to converge.
This Black Abyss is the location that Hou Yi personally explored and discovered, but before arriving at this Black Abyss, none of the generals found that the entrance to this Black Abyss was there.
I saw Hou Yi jump off the fire qilin, holding the Ice and Fire Divine Sword, and carrying the sword mana, a blue sword qi and a red sword qi slashed forward, slashing through the huge vines that were blocked in front of the Black Abyss, revealing a natural underground crack.
The cracks in the deep underground and the cracks in the cliffs formed the Black Abyss, which was dark and quiet, and there were countless vines blocking it, and there was no way to see it.
Except for Hou Yi, no one knew where this endless abyss would lead, and what unknown dangers would await them.
Hou Yi ordered the Ting Ming army to open the way in front, and the 10,000 ice and fire army were divided into ten columns and rode from top to bottom, the upper three columns of the fire army set fire, the lower three columns of the ice army threw ice thorns, and the middle four columns of the ice and fire army slashed with blades, breaking the huge vines on the cliffs around the abyss from top to bottom, and opening up a large army advance channel between the black and dark abyss.
The First Route Army opened up a section of the road, and the First Route Army filled up the position and continued to open the road. The rest of the Fourth Route Army will follow, and the replaced First Route Army will follow behind the main army.
The 60,000 Ice and Fire Army advanced slowly through this winding crack, and the Sixth Route Army was alternately responsible for opening the way.
This move is an extremely dangerous move, if the news is leaked or discovered, the Demon Realm only needs to send a few demon generals to lead a small number of troops to block and collapse the only crack exit of the Black Abyss, and they can strangle Hou Yi's tens of thousands of ice and fire troops with danger.
But the main force of the Demon Emperor, Lin Aofan, and the Red Blood Army were all in the area of Demon Forest City and the Heavenly Realm army, the Dark Demon King led the troops to guard the Demon Spring Pass, and the Nine Nether King led the army and Xuanyuan Jianying to repeatedly fight for Night Wolf City. Most of the combat troops that can be mobilized in the Demon Realm have gone to the front line, and even most of the first-rate generals in the Demon Realm are gathered on the front line, and the defense strength of the Demon Capital at the moment is the weakest.
What's more, the location of this dark abyss doesn't even know Lin Shuangyun, the commander of the secret battalion. The general demon general is even less known. The only people who could know the secret location of the Dao were a few leaders of the Great Demon Realm.
The former female generals of the Demon Emperor, An Yan, Bi Qingchen, and Wen Xiuting all led their female soldiers to support the three-way front, and the 50,000 garrisons and more than 60,000 female soldiers in the inner palace in the demon capital were all sent by Lin Aochen and the princess to supervise the battle in the area of Qinglong Pass and Black Dragon Pass.
The Demon Capital has increased the garrison of the Demon Palace, and now there are only 36,000 female soldiers in the Inner Palace and 50,000 garrisons, and the garrison army is the defense force of the Demon Realm Army, and the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers is three grades worse than that of the Ice and Fire Army.
The Demon Capital is so garrisoned, and its strength has only reached one percent of the scale of normal days. The remaining ninety percent of the army is on the front lines.
Hou Yi led the army through a two-hour difficult trek and a clear march. Only then did he travel all the way through the black abyss that stretched for four hundred miles.
Passing through the Black Abyss means that the 60,000 Ice and Fire Army have passed through the depths of the Great Demon Realm. Directly to the central region of the Demon Realm, at this moment, the Demon Capital is only seventeen towns away from this Black Abyss.
The Houyi army collected the banner and raised the banner of the mobile unit of the demon army captured on the battlefield. The officers and men of the whole army wore black robes, and under the cover of this battle flag, they avoided the main roads of the town, took the secluded paths in the wilderness, and marched lightly to the magic capital.
Of the seventeen towns between the Black Abyss and the Demon Capital, four of them were Lin Shuangyun's fiefdoms, two were Lin Jing'er's fiefdoms, and one was Bai Limin's fiefdoms. The marching route chosen by Hou Yi was within the territory of Lin Shuangyun and Lin Jing'er.
Lin Shuangyun and Lin Jing'er had instructions in advance, if a sentry found that tens of thousands of demon troops were passing through here, there was no need to report or investigate, they were the transport troops who rushed to the demon capital to supply supplies.
It was with this order that Hou Yi's 60,000 Ice and Fire Army could arrive at the Demon Capital without being noticed.
In order to avoid the demon outposts and patrols along the way, it took Hou Yi and the Ice and Fire Army more than two hours to complete the route that only took one hour to reach.
It took more than three hours for one to arrive, and Hou Yi finally led the army to the city of the demon capital, and 60,000 soldiers of the Ice and Fire Army gathered in front of the first gate of Wuyao on the east side of the demon capital.
The garrison troops on the Demon Capital City saw that such a group of people suddenly appeared under the city, and the banner was the banner of the Demon Realm Mobile Force to transport supplies.
The commander of the garrison asked himself: "Didn't you receive an order from the demon army to transfer back to the demon capital to replenish supplies?" The commander asked the leading generals of the city as usual, and said, "Where are the military horses? What is the so-called matter?"
Hei Fan didn't answer, the arm crossbow on his left hand raised his hand and threw out an arrow, and with a "whoosh" sound, it shot through the helmet of the city commander, and the sudden arrow made the city garrison shocked, and he didn't know why.
Due to the fact that the Demon Capital has to dispatch military supplies to the front line every day, the defensive barrier in front of the Demon Capital is only in an open state, and the defensive barrier in front of the city gate is in an open state, and the commander of Wu Yaomen, who is responsible for opening the garrison organs, was killed as soon as possible, and there is no garrison army capable of opening the various garrison organs in the city.
The garrison of the Demon Capital was wondering how this mobile unit of the Demon Army had launched an attack on the Demon Capital, could it be that this was a mutiny? The garrison guarding the area around Wuyaomen had just taken up arms and was preparing to resist the sudden outbreak of "mutiny" under the city.
But seeing that Hei Fan finished his arrow, he threw his hand into the air with a red letter fire, and the Five Roads Ice and Fire Army took the lead in launching an attack on the Demon Realm garrison guarded by Wuyaomen.
The soldiers of the Ice and Fire Army flew up to the city gate, defeated the thousands of garrisons blocking the Wuyao Gate, and then attacked all the way along the eastern wall of the Demon Capital under the leadership of the star general.
The Ice and Fire Army is fighting against the Demon Realm garrison who are responsible for guarding, and the combat effectiveness is three levels worse, and the Ice and Fire Army follows Hou Yi's instructions before departure, as long as they do not resist fiercely, they will lose their combat effectiveness. Or stun or knock down or cripple, in short, try to kill as little as possible the demon defenders.
Although the Ice and Fire Army came all the way at high speed, and their condition could only be said to be good, but there was a difference of three levels in each other's combat effectiveness, and the difference in combat power of these three levels could make it easy for the Ice and Fire Army to hit the Demon Realm Garrison.
Moreover, these 60,000 ice and fire troops had already followed the instructions of the Heavenly Emperor Hou Yi before setting off, and smeared the precious potions on the weapons to restrain the demonic nature of the demons, as long as these weapons were stained with the body and blood of the demon army, his magic power would continue to decrease in a short period of time and reach a comatose state.
There are another 50,000 garrisons to guard the twenty gates of the outer city of the Demon Capital, the eight gates of the inner city, and the various important places in Gyeonggi in the Demon Capital, with an average of nearly 1,000 garrisons guarding each city gate.
Before the demon army could react to what was happening, it was slashed by the black-robed ice and fire army that rushed up from below the city.
The chief guard of the demon army garrison, who controls the defense mechanism of the city's weapons on the castle tower, saw that the situation was not good, and just wanted to order the garrison to attack the army under the castle. was slashed to the ground by Chen Shanjun, who suddenly rushed in.
The city's defense weapons, guardian barriers, and various defense traps. Before they could start, the star generals and the leaders of the Ice and Fire Army rushed into the control room to deal with the manipulating demon army garrison.
How could the 1,000 garrisons around each city gate withstand the powerful attack of the 50,000 Ice and Fire Army, and soon the Ice and Fire Army defeated the demon army.
Hou Yi's five-way ice and fire army took advantage of the situation to take the five city gates on the east side of the demon capital, and the speed of the offensive made it impossible for the garrisons stationed in the outer city of the demon capital to stop an effective counterattack, and they really did not have enough troops to counterattack. The four-way ice and fire army marched along the north and south walls. Continue to capture the city walls on the north and south sides of the magic capital.
If it turned out that the Demon Dragon Forbidden Army defending the Demon Capital and the elite legions such as the Eight Battalions of the Demon Capital were there. How dare Hou Yi take 60,000 ice and fire troops to attack the demon capital to die.
The successive falls of the five city gates in the outer city on the east side of the demon capital made the soldiers and civilians living in the demon capital dazed. Alarm bells rang everywhere on the towers, and the inner city garrison quickly assembled to defend against the invaders in the outer city. The rest of the city gate garrison in the outer city immediately organized troops in an attempt to recapture the occupied city gates.
This is the only time in the history of the Great Demon Realm that the Demon Capital has been invaded by enemy forces, and the panic effect caused by the invasion of the Demon Capital is far greater than its strategic value.
The news of the battle in the outer city was transmitted to the Great Demon Palace as soon as possible. The Demon Emperor put on his battle armor and hung a sword at his waist, and immediately summoned 36,000 female guards of the inner palace to prepare for battle immediately. The Demon Emperor also issued a mobilization order for the Demon Capital, calling on all generals' soldiers and private armed forces in the capital to participate in the battle to defend the Demon Capital.
The Ting Ming army held the east wall of the demon capital, Xue Suguang's army attacked the south wall of the demon capital, the Hei Fan army attacked the north wall of the demon capital, Lu Python and Chen Shanjun attacked the inner city of the demon capital all the way forward, and the Hou Yi army led the way to forcibly break through the inner city gate.
The 60,000 Ice and Fire Army and the Demon Capital Garrison launched a fierce battle, more and more garrisons fainted on the walls of the Demon Capital, and the inner and outer cities of the Demon Capital were in a stalemate of war, and the Demon Capital, which was empty of troops, could only defend and resist at the moment, unable to expel and annihilate the invaders.
The Great Demon Palace also sounded the alarm to make a battle alert, and the defensive barrier of the Great Demon Palace has been fully opened.
The 20,000 female guards of the Inner Palace of the Great Demon Palace have deployed a line of defense on the periphery of the Great Demon Palace, and there are 1,000 female guards guarding the four gates of the Great Demon Palace, and they are ready to defeat the invading enemy troops at any time and swear to defend the Great Demon Palace. The Demon Emperor personally led a thousand female guards to the parapet of the Great Demon Palace to be fully guarded.
Lin Jing'er's mother, the Bright Demon Queen, who was visiting the Great Demon Palace, also led a hundred female guards to guard the main road of the front palace gate, the Bright Demon Queen is the Demon Emperor's own sister, and the Dark Demon King is the Demon Emperor's younger brother, so Lin Shuangyun and Lin Jing'er's blood relationship is really close.
Chen Shanjun's troops held the gate of the inner city of the demon capital, and the 20,000 ice and fire army of Lu Python and Hou Yi opened up the passage between the inner city and the Great Demon Palace, and Lu Python's army held the passage between the inner city and the Great Demon Palace, and the Hou Yi army launched an attack on the Great Demon Palace alone.
Hou Yi knew that there were Lin Shuangyun and Lin Jing'er's families in the Great Demon Palace, so Hou Yi made a strict order before attacking the Great Demon Palace, their purpose was to contain the resisters outside the Great Demon Palace, and they must not kill the female soldiers guarding the Great Demon Palace, just knock them out and put them down.
The Ice and Fire Army is the first army in the Heavenly Realm, the trump card of the Heavenly Realm, experienced in a hundred battles, proud of the battlefield, and a strong pro-guard army.
Hou Yi led the army to charge in person, and the female guards on the periphery of the Great Demon Palace were led by Lin Shuangyun's generals Blood Fangzi and Blood Saihua. The "Ten Beautiful Jades" in front of the Demon Emperor have followed Lin Shuangyun and Lin Jing'er for many years, but they have seen the Heavenly Emperor Hou Yi a long time ago. At that time, Hou Yi and Lin Shuangyun and Lin Jing'er were in love.
Blood Fangzi and Blood Saihua knew what Hou Yi's purpose was here, so the two female generals deliberately stopped the Ice and Fire Army, and only let Hou Yi arrive at the Great Demon Palace.
When the Ice and Fire Army under Hou Yi saw that Hou Yi had arrived at the Great Demon Palace, they all slowed down their offensive and fought with the female guards of the Great Demon Palace in front of them.
The order left by Hou Yi to Lu Python was not to attack, but only to contain it, and then evacuate the demon capital immediately after seeing the retreat signal he had sent.
Lu Python and the Ice and Fire Army slowed down the strength of the blades in their hands, and pestered the female guards as much as possible to buy precious time for Hou Yi to break into the Great Demon Palace.
When the Demon Emperor stood on the top of the parapet and saw that the intruder outside the Great Demon Palace was Xuanyuan Houyi, her face turned inexplicably pale and worried. The Demon Emperor clenched the hilt of his sword, and looked at the blue armor under the black robe inside and outside the Demon Capital, which was not the mobile force of the Demon Army but the Ice and Fire Army of the Heavenly Realm.
Shouldn't this Ice and Fire Army be blocked outside of Demon Forest City, how could it hit the Demon Capital?
The Demon Emperor couldn't help but guess gloomily: "Could it be that all the demon armies around Demon Forest City have been defeated, or is the passage of one of the three levels completely opened by the Heavenly Realm army." Hou Yi's Ice and Fire Army was able to drive straight into the Demon Capital and invade the Great Demon Palace, could it be that the Qi of the Great Demon Realm has been exhausted?" (To be continued......)