bestfiction Chapter 568: Encounter on a narrow road, past events in Yizhou 6
Chapter 568: Encounter on a narrow road, past events in Yizhou 6
As night falls, this is the time period when Kidō monks can take advantage.
After the monks were ready, Commander-in-Chief Xu Qingfeng once again told You Ye to pay close attention to the situation on the battlefield. Then, he led five hundred original ghost gate guards and marched towards the demon clan's base camp carrying a large amount of flame crystals.
In addition to the five hundred ghost gate guards led by Xu Qingfeng, there are also one hundred guards who are divided into ten groups to guard ten mobile strongholds. The remaining Ghost Gate guards all stayed at the Misty Valley stronghold, following Long Ying to guard Liu'er.
Sixteen thousand monks were divided into three levels. Xu Qingfeng and the five hundred original ghost gate guards rushed straight into the hinterland of the demon clan's base camp. Each of the ten strongholds has 500 monks, located immediately outside the base camp, ready to support Xu Qingfeng at any time. The remaining more than 10,000 monks, under the leadership of Xie Youming, were on standby in positions that were not affected by the saint's will.
Youyehara was placed in the third formation, but she insisted on being transferred to the second formation. Xie Youming had no choice but to organize her into a mobile barrier closest to the east in the second formation.
In fact, since they learned that the Ghost Gate could not seize demon cultivators, the Ghost Gate guards felt a little helpless. In the past, after their death, they would seize the enemy's powerful combat power, but now, they can only seize the human monks, which does not increase their own combat power.
Therefore, under relatively safe conditions, if the ghost gate guards suffer heavy damage, they will choose to enter a dormant state to prevent the Yang soul from leaving the body and returning to the ghost gate.
However, this time, Xu Qingfeng and the five hundred original Ghost Gate guards will risk being recalled to the Ghost Gate and go deep into the enemy's position.
Although Xu Qingfeng went deep into the enemy camp, which was full of dangers, as an experienced veteran, he quickly discerned the weak points in the defense of the demon camp. The barrier blocked the detection of his spiritual consciousness, but he could accurately find the defense gaps in the base camp just by relying on observation and intuition. His tactics are clever, and he can quickly draw the demon soldiers in front of him into the barrier every time. No matter how much noise occurs inside the barrier, the outside world knows nothing about it.
In terms of melee combat strength, the Ghost Gate Guards are on par with demon cultivators of the same realm, but the original Ghost Gate Guards have richer combat experience. Therefore, faced with the siege of five hundred ghost gate guards, the demon soldier's patrol or guard team was unable to resist at all. Xu Qingfeng quickly approached the location of the saint's shadow.
Under his command, the Ghost Gate guards quickly divided into four groups and began to arrange flame crystals around the saint's shadow.
Since a large barrier needs to be arranged and nested in different areas, the ghost gate guards must control a ring around the saint's shadow that isolates the saint's shadow on the inside and the demon soldiers on the outside. However, with only 500 people, such a tactical arrangement does not seem realistic. Therefore, Xu Qingfeng first deployed half a ring of defense, and then completed the remaining half of the ring after the barrier began to take effect and the second formation began to support.
This tactic had already been formulated in prior discussions. After the second formation stabilizes its position, the third formation can start a surprise attack and completely destroy the base camp of the demon soldiers.
However, this negotiated tactic was just a cover. How could they believe that the base camp of the demon soldiers was not heavily guarded. Their real purpose is to isolate the connection between the saint's will and his host monks through the flame crystal barrier. Without the resident monks, the will of the saint cannot exist independently in the world. In order to achieve this goal, they need a large number of troops to attract the attack of the demon soldiers.
Xu Qingfeng's strategic layout went smoothly, the inner barrier opened in response, and the saint's will was cleverly isolated within an independent barrier. Immediately afterwards, he deliberately created a buffer zone without a barrier. On the other side of the buffer zone, another barrier expanded southward like a half-moon. At the same time, the successful first phase of the operation triggered a flash of spiritual light. , like stars dotting the night sky.
As Xu Qingfeng's victory signal light came on, the second group of troops also began to respond in the inner ring. After Xu Qingfeng won the victory and symbolized the successful isolation of the saint's will by the barrier, Youye led hundreds of monks from the resistance army to break out of the small stronghold and rush towards the unfinished outer ring.
This sudden change plunged the Demon Clan's base camp into chaos. First, the saint's shadow mysteriously disappeared, then multiple areas within the camp lost contact, and finally, a large number of human monks came from unknown sources, causing the demon soldiers inside the base camp to fall into confusion. They could not find their leader, and the leaders could not find the Demon King, so they could only fight on their own. This level of resistance, for the well-prepared resistance monks, was tantamount to throwing an egg against a stone.
You Ye brandished his spear, and the gun's energy was as coherent as a dragon's, quickly penetrating the demon soldiers' defense line. The monks she led were like arrows leaving the string, pointing directly at the pre-arranged location.
The other monks also used their magic weapons to quickly eliminate the demon soldiers in front of them. If someone's attack fails, others will immediately launch supporting attacks from all directions.
The demon soldiers, who lacked systematic command, quickly began to retreat. The second group of monks quickly joined Xu Qingfeng's first group of ghost gate guards and began to gradually expand the outer barrier from a half-moon shape to a complete ring.
The previous attacks went smoothly, but the tens of thousands of monks in the third formation encountered obstacles when they got the signal to start marching.
Xu Qingfeng and the others didn't know that this demon clan's base camp was originally the territory of the demon clan's general soldier. It called itself Master Yuan Hong and was an ape-turned-spirit with the ancient demon ape species. Although it only had perfect cultivation of god transformation, it was proficient in the five elements. Laws, and is good at using the power of the five elements to attach to one of his own mace magic weapons.
Master Yuan Hong has never revealed his true strength, and his perfect cultivation is just his revealed combat power. However, all the demon cultivators who have fought against him feel that this cunning ape has hidden his strength.
But even so, its mace defeated the tiger-headed deputy commander's law of power attack with one blow.
Normally Master Yuan Hong is not a demon cultivator who likes to bully the weak. Although he is the commander-in-chief, he does not have the military power to control the main force of the demon clan. And he would always come forward to mediate the conflicts between the various demon kings.
But being kind doesn't mean it's not a ruthless character.
The prudent Master Yuan Hong had already dispatched 20,000 soldiers and horses to lurk outside the base camp before it was completed.
It's just that this time, Master Yuan Hong didn't expect that the other party would use such a weird method to break into the base camp first, and also shield the saint's shadow.
When Xie Youming just led the army to rush towards the base camp, Master Yuan Hong was a little anxious when he saw that there was no sign of the saint's will. He also ordered the ambush troops to rush out and kill the human monks.
Xie Youming never expected that there was a powerful demon army hidden outside this base camp. Facing the tide of monsters, the monks of the Resistance Army felt unprecedented pressure, and their military morale began to waver. Although Xie Youming was well aware of his own disadvantages, he could only bite the bullet and command the entire army to fight.
After quickly forming a battle formation, Xie Youming took out the Nether Soul Chain and stood in front of the formation, with seven ghost dragons surrounding him. When the vanguard monster approached five hundred steps, he wrapped the soul chain around his left arm and punched out. The seven ghost dragons instantly let out a dragon roar and rushed towards the demon soldiers behind the ferocious demon beasts. At the same time, the leading captain in the battle formation issued an order to fire a 500-step volley.
One after another, spiritual arrows shot like raindrops at the group of monster beasts that were sprinting four hundred steps forward. The dense rain of arrows drew neat parabolas in the air, and the sound of explosions was intertwined with various spiritual lights. Although this round of shooting created a slightly sparse isolation zone between the monsters, the monsters that followed continued to come one after another.
Xie Youming shouted loudly, asking the rear to continue attacking. At the same time, he opened his right palm and smeared blood on the Nether Soul Chain on his left arm. He clasped his fists tightly and slammed them into the ground. With a rumbling sound, the eighth and ninth dragon balls also lit up, and nine huge cracks opened in the ground, crashing into the charging monster. At the same time, the leading captains also completed the second round of shooting instructions. This time, in addition to the volley of spiritual arrows, long-range magic attacks were also added.
Layers of arrow rain are like scythes harvesting life, constantly reducing the density of the attacking monster beasts; long-range spells are like weaving protective nets, delaying the pace of the vanguard monsters entering the battle formation, and at the same time alleviating their violent impact. . Nine earth dragons roared in front of the monster formation, like nine meteors piercing the night sky, tearing a shocking gap among the monster beasts in front. Those unfortunate creatures were either wiped out in the earth explosion, or were killed by the power of the earth explosion. Throw it far away from the battlefield.
Just when the monks on the resistance front were feeling a little complacent because of their effective killing of monsters, thousands of monsters suddenly appeared in the sky, like dark clouds, heralding an ominous sign.
"Rooting the air!" Xie Youming's roar was like thunder, instantly awakening the firepower network intertwined with spells and spiritual arrows. The fire net quickly adjusted and turned its focus to the air. However, those demon cultivators who control the spirit beasts are by no means idlers. They deftly avoid ground attacks. Even if they are occasionally hit, they can still stay in the air with the hard skin of the spirit beasts.
Without the long-range suppression from the ground, the monsters on the ground poured into the battle formation like a tide. The monks in the front row immediately waved their magic weapons. At the same time, spears stood up like a forest, and spiritual power condensed on the spear tips, waiting for the collision with the monster. Whenever the monsters jumped up, they would be repelled by the burst of spiritual power, and some were even directly penetrated through the head and died.
But the monster beasts' offensive continued, and soon the seemingly indestructible spear formation began to show cracks. Except for the nine dragons surrounding the Netherworld Ghost Elder who were still circling to prevent the monster beasts from approaching, the other battle formations had all fallen into close combat with the monster beasts.
As the demon soldiers behind the demon beast also came to kill, the resistance army's battle formation began to show signs of wavering, as if it might be overwhelmed by this ferocious offensive at any time.