The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

For several days, the demons' attacks did not stop at all, but they were basically just bluffs.

Not to mention the main force of the demons, even the mid-level soldiers have never been seen.

The demons used mirror images and little demons to continuously consume Graycastle's ammunition reserves.

Now it was Xu Lai who was a little anxious. His ammunition reserves were more than the devil had expected, so there was no need to panic.

But Xu Lai was still worried about Kerrigan's forbidden spell. It was less than half a month before Kerrigan's forbidden spell was unsealed.

Of course, perhaps the forbidden spell of blazing city burning might be sealed for a longer period of time, but the longer the time, the more it proves that this forbidden spell is extremely powerful.

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

By then, once Kerrigan casts the forbidden spell, even if Xu Lai has time to evacuate Graycastle, he will not be able to control Graycastle in the first place.

Those damn crypt demons have been lying underground for four days, motionless, and I don’t know what opportunity they are waiting for.

It has to be said that the defenders on both sides were very patient.

Kerrigan patiently summoned hellfire, made duplicate copies, and arranged for the reincarnated little demons to rush over and die.

Rena, who was under siege day and night, also arranged each troop in an orderly manner, dividing them into defense areas and shifts.

Kerrigan used the same fatigue tactics as Xu Lai did before. The main force of the demons had never been dispatched, and only summoned creatures and imps were used for harassment.

Four days of continuous attacks have required all soldiers to be on high alert. As a result, it would be impossible to defend the city today, and they would not even have the strength to abandon the city and flee.

But in the Hell camp, among the many little demons and mirror images, there are also high-level goods like Hellfire.

If we don't do anything about it, and if these guys run under the city wall and cooperate with the crypt demons underground, we might end up with a serious crisis.

To manage it, we need to concentrate some elite forces. We cannot be like the demons in hell, where all high-level troops are waiting to be attacked.

At the same time, humans must always pay attention to what is happening underground.

It can be said that in terms of energy and physical consumption, humans are several times more than the demons from hell.

On the contrary, Xu Lai, who was basically a bystander and was only responsible for logistics coordination and transportation of supplies, became more and more impatient.

The oppressive feeling of hell is still very strong, especially Xu Lai is very clear that the opponent's demon army can teleport into the city to fight at any time.

The existence of the city wall can only resist the regular troops of Hell at most. High-level special forces such as demons, fire elves, and crypt demons will not be stopped by the city wall.

What's more, there are forbidden spells in hell.

Now Xu Lai's Gray Castle and the Castle of Kasai, which he had conquered with his forbidden spell, had completely switched positions.

Now Hell has taken the initiative, and Xu Lai and his men are trapped in the city.

“How about letting Tahan and the others move?
The Hell City has been under siege for four days, and Tahan and his men didn't bring much food with them. At least let them come closer to replenish their food and other supplies."

Xu Lai found Lena first and expressed his desire to mobilize the cavalry outside the city.

However, Reina shook her head firmly and said, “Your Majesty, I have observed it.

Some time ago, there was no sign of any catapults in hell.

Today, I have seen demonic craftsmen starting to assemble catapults.

This means that the demons are about to launch a real attack.

You ordered the cavalry regiment to attack the enemy at this time, but the demons did not launch a siege at this time, and the main force was still concentrated in Kerrigan's hands.

If he turns around and eats up the cavalry, should we rescue him or not?"

Seeing Xu Lai silent, Lena continued: "Besides, General Tahan and General Yan Feng both wear the best space rings.

Before they set out, we anticipated that the enemy would take a long time to attack, so each knight carried as much food and fodder as possible.

I believe the knights have at least more than a week's worth of supplies.

I guarantee you that within a week, Hell will really be on the offensive.”

"you promise?"

Reina smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, I promise. In fact, Kerrigan is much more anxious than us."

Xu Lai said puzzledly: "How is that possible? He could have waited until the forbidden spell was ready, and then used it on us, and taken Graycastle without bloodshed."

Reina smiled and said, "Then may I ask, what is the point of him taking over Graycastle?"

Xu Lai was stunned and said, "Of course it's to destroy us."

"Then are we going to stand there stupidly and wait for his forbidden spell to hit us?"

"Of course not."

Reina shrugged and said:

"So, Kerrigan's goal is to destroy our manpower, not to capture a military fortress with no development potential.

Of course he can cast forbidden spells, but we are not surrounded by him like in the City of Holy Angels.

At that time, the worst that can happen is that we abandon the city and flee. Haven't you already made full preparations to deal with the forbidden spell?

It’s just a Gray Castle. I can just give it to him.

We station our troops in Little Gray Fort, which consumes less energy and is more effective.

On the other hand, Kerrigan abandoned the imperial capital he had just captured and came here to confront us. This confrontation lasted for a month.

Is he really not afraid that after this month, the Lionheart City he captured will return to the hands of humans again?

Has he forgotten how much effort it took to capture Lionheart City?
Lionheart City is now in an unstable situation. The Southern Empire, the Northern Empire and even the Eastern Empire have been coveting Lionheart City for a long time.

Kerrigan has not shown up in Lionheart City yet, and he has also brought out the main force. I think we are not the ones who are anxious at this moment."

"That's right, the worst that can happen is that we lose a city. This city plus the entire Grey Valley can't support many people anyway.

As long as Little Graycastle is not lost, the demons will never be able to break out of Grayvale.

To Cregan, Grey Valley is also a useless thing. Not only is it useless in his hands, but its value cannot be compared with Lionheart City.

At this moment, I'm afraid Kerrigan wants a decisive battle more than anyone else."

Reina nodded and said, "We have support from outside and inside. As long as we don't act rashly, we will always have the advantage."

After hearing what Lena said, Xu Lai was completely relieved.

He simply was too lazy to come out and watch it every day, so he just left it to Reina so that he wouldn't have to see it or be bothered by it.

And the fact turned out to be just as Lena guessed. On the sixth day, the devil could no longer bear it and showed signs of launching a general attack.

After being bombarded for nearly a week by Graycastle's increased number of catapults to 120, the demons from Hell finally launched their first counterattack.

It's just a pity that the demons aimed for a long time, but the first shot they had prepared for a long time failed to hit the target.

The huge rock fell a hundred meters away from Graycastle.

As expected, the demons were not good at operating this kind of siege equipment. Under Reina's command, all the catapults on the city wall launched a counterattack against the demon catapults.

However, these demons were very timid and placed their catapults ten kilometers away.

If you shoot in a place like this, you would have to burn incense and pray to Buddha for a whole day just to hit one target with a hundred catapults.

The total number of catapults that the demons deployed one after another was only more than 20.

Of course, there are also advantages, which is that it is difficult to hit humans, so it is basically for deterrence.

In this way, the two sides smashed each other for a long time, and finally a big mark was smashed on the human wall, while the demons directly lost a catapult.

In the afternoon, the demons seemed to have brought more catapults.

The previous catapult position actually began to move forward on its own initiative.

Of course, Lena would not miss this good opportunity and immediately ordered all the high-level catapults on the city wall to be equipped with magic ammunition.

One after another, high-level ammunition was fired.

Even if it didn't hit the target, the exploding ice cones and bursting ground spikes caused heavy casualties to the demons that were carrying and guarding the catapult.

No matter how calm Kerrigan was, he couldn't help but curse when he saw this.

“How much ammunition do humans have hidden?

If we keep throwing stones day and night for a week, we can build a city with just the stones we throw!"

Although Kerrigan's statement was a bit exaggerated, Xu Lai did consume a lot of stone during this period.

Fortunately, there is a Mingyue City under Qingfeng City, and there is a super large quarry nearby.

Moreover, after Mingyue City was handed over to the management of the former horse thief king Bello, the resources collected from underground showed a significant increase.

This guy, not only did he not let people mine, he also hired underground nobles near Darkhor.

Underground, only resources such as gold mines, sulfur mines, crystal mines, etc. are valuable, and wood resources are also relatively precious.

But stones and iron ore are basically things that are thrown on the ground and no one picks them up.

The key point is that Bello does not provide them with gold coins, but only supplies them with fine wine, fruits, pearls, jade, gems, gold and silver utensils produced in their human cities.

The value of this kind of stuff has greatly decreased in the human world because of war.

But underground, it is still a rare treasure.

Anyway, to the underground nobles, cavemen are no different from tools, and they don’t feel any pity no matter how many of them die.

However, the efficiency of these cavemen in underground mining can even surpass that of laborers who have been living underground for a long time and living a suppressed life.

It was precisely because of the stone supply from Mingyue City that Xu Lai didn't feel sorry for throwing as many stone bullets as he wanted.

Although Kerrigan complained, he had received reports from other demon heroes that both the Northern Empire and the Eastern Empire had sent troops to formally invade the territory occupied by Hell.

Hell's former territory included half of the Northern Empire, the entire Western Empire, the imperial capital, and parts of the Eastern and Southern Empires.

Now, half of the Western Empire fell into Xu Lai's hands, and cities such as the Emerald City that were once occupied by the Northern Empire were also given up. Now there is only half of the Western Empire plus one-tenth of the Northern Empire left.

Adding together the rest of the small corners and including the recently captured Lionheart City, the total territory is less than half of what it used to be.

Other people's territories are getting larger and larger, but Kerrigan's is getting smaller and smaller. How can he not be anxious?

And the most important Lionheart City does not have many main force troops left now.

Once the armies of the Eastern Empire and the Northern Empire broke through the defense line he had previously set up, it would be hard to say who would own the Lionheart City he had just captured.

This was something Kerrigan couldn't accept, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and challenge Xu to a fight.

Regardless of whether he wins or loses this battle, he cannot stay here any longer.

And in this battle, whether he wins or loses, he doesn't want Briston anymore.

If they win, they will let Patton guard Graycastle, and he will lead the main force back to defend Lionheart City.

If we lose, we will retreat to Lionheart City together, use Lionheart City as the base, and develop the existing hell territory.

When the situation stabilizes, he will have to go back to hell.

Although he was unable to open the Gate of the Abyss again, it would not be a problem if he brought up a few elite soldiers from Hell.

What he lacks now is not the hell troops, but high-level hell heroes.

Too many Hell heroes were killed in this year's battles, and now he has to make use of those Advent heroes that he had looked down upon before.

However, although Kerrigan already had a subconscious awareness of failure in his heart, he actually could not accept failure.

He had no intention of taking back the catapult that had been transported all the way from Lionheart City.

Even if he couldn't live through the rest of his life, he would make those hateful humans pay the price today!
During the past half month, Kerrigan had not been doing nothing.

He threw countless sacrificed souls into the incubation pool, and combined with the resources plundered from Lionheart City, he quickly hatched nearly one million demons.

Of course, these are just little demons whose combat power is almost zero, and they basically have no combat power.

Kerrigan hatched these little demons not for fighting, but to consume human ammunition.

It is not easy to quickly hatch a little devil. Gold coins and souls are both necessary.

If it is only used to consume one or more arrows from humans, it is obviously not cost-effective.

But if we send them to die and then use the power of the evil god to transform them into level 4 horned demons, it would be a great deal.

I don’t know how much time, experience and money I saved in the process.

The only thing Kerrigan lost was the batch of demons he produced. Without diversity, they could only advance based on the horned demons.

Otherwise, these little demons should, in theory, grow slowly according to the proportional probability of the demonic troops.

But now Kerrigan can no longer accept the word "slow".

Even the powerful Hellfire cannot be broken through by human ranged forces unless they give in, let alone these little demons.

These little demons have almost no other advantages except their numbers.

But humans had no choice but to give in. Firstly, the rest of the troops were still resting, and secondly, Reina couldn't be sure whether the demons would launch a general attack.

Because the demons are the attackers, the initiative is always in their hands.

They can attack when they want and retreat when they want.

However, Reina cannot just stand guard because of the devil's actions, as that would prevent her from restoring the strength and energy of her soldiers.

Besides, the demons also deployed their own catapults. Lena needed to concentrate the firepower of the catapults and prioritize killing the demons' ultra-long-range firepower points.

Without the support of a large number of catapults, it would be easier for the demons from hell to pass through the firepower network.

Even if a demon fell halfway, the evil gods behind them would use the corpses of these demons to summon a large number of terrifying long-horned demons across half of the battlefield. (End of this chapter)