The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

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

One reason is that sieges during the day mainly consume the physical strength and life of the infantry.

Not giving them time to recover and receive treatment would only waste their time, which is unwise.

On the contrary, Yan Feng's cavalry archers and the Knight Wind troops had been watching the show the whole day, gathering their strength and gathering their strength until now, so attacking would not be a problem at all.

The most important thing is that Xu Lai didn’t know how the devil would react.

He decided 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 take this gamble, as the risks far outweigh the benefits.

However, the timing was extremely difficult to judge, so Xu Lai had to arrange two waves of troops to conduct a test.

In case Cregan reacts quickly, Xu Lai will retreat without delay and defend Graycastle with all his strength, making sure to block the demons and prevent them from coming out.

In this way, Xu Lai would be able to obtain most of the land of the Western Empire, including the most fertile plains.

Coupled with the offerings from the grassland area, underground city, and stronghold, Xu Lai's development potential will definitely surpass that of any empire.

Although the Hell Camp has the Gate of the Abyss and seems to be able to mobilize unlimited troops, they no longer have many resources to plunder from the Western Empire.

The gates of the abyss will not last long and will have to close on their own.

Unless during this period, the demons made some major gains, such as occupying the prosperous south.

In short, given the current situation of Hell being surrounded by enemies on all sides, if they really fight to the death with Xu Lai in Graycastle, it will inevitably be a lose-lose situation.

Instead of doing this, it would be 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, he would rather die than let his fellow Taoist die.

If he really had to pick a force to die together with the devil, Xu Lai hoped it would be the Northern Empire or the Southern Empire, but nothing to do with him.

He couldn't sleep in the middle of the night. Although there were a lot of beautiful women around him, they were much more tired than himself, and Xu Lai didn't want to bother them.

The next morning, Xu Lai got up early.

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

After being promoted to a general, Yan Feng can also wear and use equipment, and has no problem using communications with the magic communication stone.

But no news is good news.

If Yan Feng sent a communication overnight, it either meant that he suffered a loss in Briston.

Either Kerrigan is back, in which case there is no need for Xu Lai to continue going out.

After breakfast, Xu Lai also set out with his chivalrous troops.

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

Xu Lai went to confirm it in person. If it was confirmed that Kerrigan had returned, then it would still be in time to notify Lena not to move. She and the Qingfeng Legion would not set out until after noon.

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

The Hell God wanted to run away, but he didn't dare not inform Kerrigan that he had lost Graycastle.

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 the news, Kerrigan didn't even bother to guard the angel legion in the Holy Angel City and sent the great demon legion there.

Even with the help of the Great Demon Legion, the Guards Corps in the Palace could not hold out until dawn and was completely defeated in less than an hour after midnight.

But for Kerrigan, just taking over the palace was meaningless. What he wanted was the heart of the castle buried in the palace.

But this kind of thing could not be rushed, so he killed all the generals stationed in the palace one by one, interrogating them one by one from one or two o'clock in the middle of the night, and killing them until dawn.

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

Of course, Kerrigan is not without other options.

If this were true, then the owner of each city would only need to dig the heart of the castle into a corner where no one knew about it, and then it would be impossible for others to take the city away.

To find the heart of the castle, each camp has its own method.

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

Kerrigan's method was also very simple and crude, which was to dig, but not from top to bottom, but to let the crypt demons search upwards from underground.

As long as something is buried underground, there is nothing that the crypt demon cannot find. It’s just a matter of time.

Kerrigan had arranged many defenses in his base camp. After all, the only remaining abyss gate was in Briston.

At this critical moment, he was unwilling to retreat, especially since he had wasted too much time and troops in capturing Lionheart City.

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

If he completely captured Lionheart City, he could leave part of his troops here and then fly back with his own troops.

But if he dared to do so now, the group of angels in the Holy Angel City would surely rush out and devour the troops he left behind.

This means that all the time and troops he spent were wasted.

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

He didn't have any demons. Even with his powerful bonus, he lost countless demons when he captured the human capital. The number was simply impossible to count.

How could he be willing to give up all his gains and turn back to rescue?

Now, he really had the urge to pull Mendis, the evil god of hell and others over and beat them to death.

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

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

Kerrigan called in his lieutenant, a great demon named Tren.

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

"Yes, my majesty." Tren 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 precaution. As long as the city is not destroyed and the gate to the abyss is not broken, you must not take action.

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

Although Tren 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 coach in the middle of a battle, not to mention that now Briston not only has the defenders he appointed, but also the defeated Mendis.

Throwing another hero at Briston would probably only cause confusion in command and would not be of any help to the battle situation.

However, Teren was leading his most important core troops, even if not all of them, he couldn't let others squander them. The demons had already started to plot before the battle even started.

Even someone as strong as Kerrigan cannot truly control all demons, let alone escape the limitations of the demons themselves.

The support of a thousand great demons gave a significant boost to Briston's morale.

Of course, these great demons are only friendly forces to boost morale.

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

Just as Kerrigan expected, these great demons were targeted by Mendis as soon as they arrived.

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

Tren just looked at him coldly without any movement.

"I'm sorry, but your order is contrary to His Majesty Kerrigan's order. I cannot obey it."

Mendis narrowed his eyes, but he was not angry. He knew that Kerrigan would never hand over his trusted demon to him.

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

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

Mendis chuckled and said, "It's true that Graycastle just fell, but those human cavalry ran very fast.

Just before you arrived, that group of archery knights rushed past our city walls and shot and killed thousands of fire demons.

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

"So, you're just going to let humans run rampant in our base camp and let them slaughter us?"

As the general of Hellboy, Tren is a rare demon born in Rome, a naturally superior demon to all other demons.

In the entire Hell camp, except for Kerrigan, who could make him surrender, he didn't take anyone else seriously at all.

Therefore, even if he was facing the so-called deputy legion commander, he could still question him without any scruples.

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

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

Briston was not allocated, and it was obviously Kerrigan's private land.

If Mendis stayed here, he could neither control the soldiers in the city nor gain any benefit from helping to win the battle, so naturally he could not be active.

Tren also knew this, and looked helplessly at Bristone's real commander, Barton, the fire demon who specialized in fire magic.

"What do you say, General Patton?"

The tall Flame Demon Hero said calmly:
“The only ones who can catch up with those archers are the winged demons under the protection of Mendis, or the great demons led by you, Lord Teren.

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

What's more, those horse archers were obviously sent by humans to harass us.

They couldn't even get close to the walls except to shoot arrows from a distance, no matter what they did."

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

However, Yan Feng saw the red light rising into the sky from Briston, and guessed that it must be the demon reinforcements rushing over, so he came closer to investigate.

However, he did not dare to get too close. He just shot 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 castle gate, he had to get close, even if he led the cavalry to circle around continuously, always on guard against the super fireballs from the city wall.

You may be able to dodge a fireball by relying on your movement speed, but strategic spells released by the enemy, especially the slow spell, are not something you can dodge just by wanting to.

Fortunately, Xu Lai had asked him to bring many acceleration scrolls in advance. Even if they were just ordinary acceleration spells, they could still offset the effect of slowness.

Only by relying on this acceleration scroll can the demon heroes be given an illusion.

In fact, if there was no acceleration effect, any troop with a slightly faster speed that Mendis could bring would be able to catch up with the advantage of logistics.

But what does it matter? Mendis doesn't really care anyway.

Moreover, Briston was indeed too large, and the number of Yan Feng's cavalry archers was not enough to completely surround the entire city.

After running back and forth several times, apart from shooting and killing some fire demons on the city walls, Yan Feng and his men could only harass the demons and prevent them from having a good rest.

It was the same this time. Because of the Fire Demon Tower and the city wall, Yan Feng and his men didn't even have an advantage in range.

But advanced human archers all have projectile skills.

A wave of arrows will be fired from a long distance. Whether the arrows hit the target depends on fate. How much damage will be done and how many demons will be killed also depends on fate.

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

Teren groaned and said:

“Although these horse archers are fast, most of them are recruited knights and cannot carry extra arrows.

Moreover, they were constantly running around, so they definitely needed a place for the horses to rest.

Send the Winged Demon to chase after him. Even if he can't catch up now, he will catch up sooner or later.

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

Patton thought about it and decided that he had to give Tren face after all.

Besides, after a whole night of hard work, he really wanted to have a good rest.

So, he waved his hand and ordered his winged demon generals to lead the winged demons into battle.

Of course, Patton specifically warned these winged demons not to get too close and just keep a distance from them.

No one knows whether this is a human trap. What if there are still large human forces hiding outside? Isn’t this sending people to die?

The most important thing now is still to defend Briston, nothing else matters.

When Xu Lai arrived, Yan Feng was still feeling quite guilty and apologized for not being able to complete the task.

"In that case, Cregan shouldn't have come back?"

Yan Feng said: "Anyway, I didn't feel any particularly terrifying aura, and judging from the scale of the red light that flashed last night, there won't be too many troops returning.

But late last night, I felt a sense of bad luck. It should be that Hellboy appeared in the city."

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