The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

Xu Lai divided his troops into three waves and set out in three periods.

One reason is that the siege during the day mainly consumes the physical strength and life of the infantry.

If they are not given time to recover their physical strength and treatment, it will only consume them in vain, which is really unwise.

On the contrary, Yan Feng's archers and the Knight Wind troops have been watching the show all day, and they have been gathering their strength until now. It is not a problem to attack at all.

The most important thing is that Xu Lai doesn't know how the demons will react.

He made up his mind to give it a try because he didn't want to waste such a godsend opportunity.

But if the timing is not right, he certainly won't be stupid enough to gamble on this, the risk is far greater than the benefit.

But this timing is extremely difficult to judge, so Xu Lai had to arrange two waves of troops to test.

If Kerrigan reacts quickly, Xu Lai will retreat immediately and defend the gray castles with all his strength, and make sure to block the demons and prevent them from coming out.

In this way, Xu Lai can get most of the land of the Western Empire, including the richest plains.

Coupled with the grassland area, the underground city, and the offerings from the strongholds, Xu Lai's development potential can definitely surpass any empire.

Although the Hell camp has the Gate of the Abyss, which seems to be able to mobilize unlimited forces, the Western Empire has few resources to plunder.

The Gate of the Abyss will not last long, and they will have to close themselves.

Unless the demons can have some major gains during this period, such as occupying the rich south.

In short, given the current state of Hell being surrounded by enemies, if Xu Lai really fights hard in Gray Castle, it will inevitably be a situation where both sides will suffer.

Instead of doing so, it is better to bully the Southern Empire and the Northern Empire, where the population is large and the combat effectiveness of the troops is not high.

Although Xu Lai's idea is a bit immoral, it is better to die than to die.

If he really has to pick a force to die with the demons, Xu Lai hopes it will be the Northern Empire or the Southern Empire, anyway, it has nothing to do with him.

It was hard to sleep in the middle of the night. Although there were a lot of beauties around him, they were much more tired than himself, and Xu Lai didn't want to torment them.

The next morning, Xu Lai got up early.

Yan Feng set out overnight, but Xu Lai did not receive any news from Yan Feng.

After being promoted to a general, Yan Feng can also wear and use equipment, and there is no problem using the magic message stone to communicate.

But no news is good news.

If Yan Feng sent a message overnight, it means that he suffered a loss in Briston.

Or Kerrigan is back. If so, even Xu Lai has no need to go out.

After breakfast, Xu Lai also set out with the Knight Wind troops.

The cavalry is very fast and will definitely reach Briston before lunch.

Xu Lai confirmed it in person. If it is confirmed that Kerrigan has returned, it will still be in time to notify Lena not to move. She and the Qingfeng Legion will not set out until after noon.

In fact, Kerrigan got the news earlier than Xu Lai expected.

The Hell Evil God wanted to run away, but he didn't dare not inform Kerrigan about his abandonment of Gray Castle.

Therefore, just before Xu Lai and his men finished the battle, Kerrigan had already received the news.

However, at this time, he was attacking the palace of Lionheart City and had already broken through the outer palace wall.

After receiving this news, Kerrigan did not even bother to guard the Angel Legion in the Holy Angel City, and sent all the Great Demon Legion there.

With the help of the Great Demon Legion, the Guards Corps in the palace could not hold out until dawn, and it was completely occupied less than an hour after midnight.

But for Kerrigan, it was meaningless to just take down the palace. What he wanted was the heart of the castle buried in the palace.

But this kind of thing could not be rushed. He chopped all the generals stationed in the palace one by one, interrogated one by one from one or two o'clock in the middle of the night, and chopped and killed until dawn.

Still no one could tell him where the heart of the castle was buried.

Of course, Kerrigan was not without other ways.

If this were true, the owner of each city only needed to dig the heart of the castle to a corner that no one knew, and it would be doomed that others could not take the city away.

Each camp has its own method to find the heart of the castle.

For example, the stronghold can be divined by the prophet, and humans have made many kinds of equipment to detect the heart of the castle.

Kerrigan's method is also very simple and crude, that is, digging, but not digging from top to bottom, but letting the crypt demons search from underground to top.

As long as it is buried underground, there is nothing that the crypt demons cannot find, it's just that it's hard to say in time.

Kerrigan has arranged a lot of defenses in his base camp. After all, the only remaining abyss gate is in Briston.

At this critical moment, he is unwilling to retreat, especially in the capture of Lionheart City, he has consumed too much time and troops.

The key is that he has not completely taken Lionheart City.

If he completely took Lionheart City, he could still leave some troops here, and then fly back with his troops.

But if he dares to do this now, the group of angels in the Holy Angel City will definitely rush out to eat the troops he left behind.

It means that all the time and troops he spent are in vain.

Humans have priests who can heal and angels who can revive.

His demons don't have that. Even with his powerful bonus, he lost countless demons when he captured the human capital. The number is simply impossible to count.

If he had to give up all his gains and turn back to rescue, he would never be willing to do so.

Now, he really had the urge to pull over Mendis, the Hell Evil God and the others and beat them to death.

But this was just a thought. He couldn't bring Mendis back now, let alone pull out the dead guy and beat him up again.

He wanted to have confidence in his base camp, but past experience told him that the guy named Xu Lai had created too many incredible things.

Kerrigan called his adjutant, a great demon named Teren.

"You will lead a thousand great demons immediately and transfer to Briston through the castle gate to prevent humans from occupying our base camp."

"Yes, my majesty." Teren knelt on one knee and accepted the order without hesitation.

Kerrigan thought for a moment and said, "I sent you there mainly as a safety measure. As long as the city is not broken and the gate of the abyss is not destroyed, you must not take action.

Remember, you only need to record what you see and hear, and don't care about anything else. Don't listen to anyone's orders."

Although Teren is not a hero, he is Kerrigan's chief assistant, responsible for helping him manage the most important demon army.

It is particularly unwise to change the commander in the battle, not to mention that Briston now has not only the guards he appointed, but also the defeated Mendis.

Throwing a hero to Briston will probably only cause confusion in command, which will not help the battle situation.

However, Teren led his most important core troops, even if not all of them, he could not let others squander them.

The demons had already started to calculate before the battle began.

Even as strong as Kerrigan, he could not really control all the demons, let alone get rid of the limitations of the demons themselves.

The support of a thousand big demons greatly improved Briston's morale.

Of course, these big demons are just friendly forces to boost morale.

They can only bring bad luck to others, and they do not have the ability to boost morale like angels.

As Kerrigan expected, these big demons were targeted by Mendis as soon as they arrived.

In the name of the deputy commander of the Burning Legion, he ordered Tren to temporarily join his army. He wanted to give these big demons heroic attributes.

Tren just looked at him coldly without any action.

"I'm sorry, your order is contrary to the order of His Majesty Kerrigan, I'm sorry I can't obey it."

Mendis narrowed his eyes, but he was not angry. He certainly knew that Kerrigan would not hand over his trusted big demon to him.

"It doesn't matter if you don't want to join my army, but without my blessing, I'm afraid you can't catch up with those human cavalry."

"Can't catch up? Human cavalry? What's going on? Did humans reach Briston so quickly? I remember that Graycastle just fell!"

Mondis laughed and said, "Graycastle has just fallen, but those human cavalry run fast.

Just before you came over, the group of archery knights just ran past our city wall and shot thousands of fire demons to death.

I sent my Abyss Lord to chase them for a while, but unfortunately they ran too fast and we couldn't catch up at all."

"So, you just let humans run around in our base camp and let them slaughter?"

As a general of the Hell Baron, Tren is a rare demon born in Rome, a great demon who is naturally superior to all demons.

In the entire Hell camp, except for Kerrigan who can make him surrender, all the others are not taken seriously by him at all.

Therefore, even if he is facing the so-called deputy legion commander, he can still question without scruples.

Although Mendis was very unhappy, at this moment, he really couldn't turn against Teren.

"I can't catch up, what can I do."

Briston was not assigned, and this place was obviously Kerrigan's private land.

If Mendis stayed here, he could not control the soldiers in the city, and he would not get any benefits if he helped win the battle, so he naturally couldn't be active.

Teren also knew this, and helplessly looked at the real commander of Bristone, the fire demon Barton who was good at fire magic.

"What about General Barton, what do you say?"

The tall fire demon hero said lightly:

"The only ones who can catch up with those archers are the winged demons under the protection of Mendis, or the big demons led by you, Lord Teren.

If you all refuse to move, what can I do.

What's more, those archers are sent by humans to harass us.

Except for shooting some arrows from a distance, they can't even get close to the city wall, no matter what they do."

As soon as the voice fell, the archers who had harassed for a round, led by Yan Feng, began to run around the city wall again.

However, Yan Feng saw the red light in Briston rising to the sky, and thought that there must be demon reinforcements coming, so he came to investigate.

However, he did not dare to get too close, but only threw some arrows from a distance of two or three hundred meters away from the city wall.

Yan Feng wanted to follow Xu Lai's order and block the gate of Briston's castle, but unfortunately he really couldn't do it.

In order to block the gate of the castle, he had to get close, even if he led the cavalry to circle continuously, always guarding against the super fireball from the city wall.

The fireball may be avoided by moving speed, but the strategic spells released by the enemy, especially the slow spell, are not something you can avoid if you want to.

Fortunately, Xu Lai had asked him to bring many speed-up scrolls in advance. Even if it was just an ordinary speed-up spell, it could still offset the slow effect.

Relying on these speed-up scrolls, the demon heroes would be given an illusion.

In fact, if there was no speed-up effect, Mendis could catch up with any slightly faster troops with the advantage of logistics.

But what does it matter? Mendis didn't care much anyway.

And Briston was really big, and the number of Yan Feng's archers was not enough to completely surround the entire city.

After running back and forth several times, in addition to shooting and killing some fire demons on the city wall, Yan Feng and his men could only harass and prevent the demons from resting well.

This time was the same. Because of the relationship between the fire demon tower and the city wall, Yan Feng and his men did not even have an advantage in range.

But the advanced human archers all had projectile skills.

A wave of arrows was shot from a long distance. Whether it hit the target or not depended on fate, and how much damage it caused and how many demons it could kill also depended on fate.

Anyway, as long as there are demons in that place, a round of arrow rain, tens of thousands of arrows, will kill dozens or hundreds of them.

Tren pondered for a moment and said:

"Although these archers are fast, most of them are recruited knights, and they must not be able to carry extra arrows.

And they are running continuously, so they must need a place for the horses to rest.

Send the winged demons to chase them, even if they can't catch up for a while, they will catch up sooner or later.

Besides, even if they can't catch up, they can drive away these annoying things."

Patton thought about it, and he still had to give Teren face after all.

Besides, after tossing all night, he really wanted to have a good rest.

So, with a wave of his hand, he ordered his winged demon generals to lead the winged demons to go to war.

Of course, Patton specifically warned these winged demons not to get too close, just stay far away.

No one knows whether this is a trap of humans. What if humans still have a large army hiding outside, isn't this sending people to die?

The most important thing now is to defend Briston. Everything else is unimportant.

When Xu Lai arrived, Yan Feng still blamed himself and apologized for not completing the mission.

"So, Kerrigan should not have come back?"

Yan Feng said, "Anyway, I didn't feel a particularly terrifying aura, and judging from the scale of the flashing red light last night, there wouldn't be too many troops coming back.

But in the second half of last night, I felt the breath of bad luck. It should be that Hellboy appeared in the city."

Xu Lai nodded in understanding and asked Yan Feng and the others to go down and rest. He took advantage of the good daylight and personally reined in his horse to Briston. (End of this chapter)