Unparalleled Evildoer

Chapter 357 Lure the enemy deeper
Inside the beast army tent, the ghost guard said in a deep voice: "News came from Dongsheng that Qingqiu City has been besieged. The three families decided to let me lead their beast army to pretend to go back to rescue. After entering the city, we will open the city gates, attack the city from inside and outside, kill the empress, and leave my beast army here to garrison under their command for the time being."

Wuzhan said hoarsely, "What does the General decide to do?"

"This is undoubtedly depriving me of my military power. How can I not see this? However, if I disagree, they will definitely become suspicious and may further force me, or even start a fight. I will be alone against three, and it will be difficult for me to escape unscathed. Therefore, I agreed to their decision and hurried back to discuss countermeasures with the military advisor."

Wuzhe was silent for a moment, then chuckled and said, "I wanted to use our army to lure them into a decisive battle with humans, but now there is no need for that. They came to us on their own initiative."

The three heads of the Ghost Guards all looked at Wuzhan, puzzled, "Why did the military advisor say that?"

"General, you can use the same trick against us. Go back now to exchange military power and ask to set off tomorrow. I will notify the humans and ask them to launch a night attack tonight. Then you can volunteer to pursue them and test whether their troops will obey your command. They will definitely not go against your will at this time. In this way, you can lead your beast army into the trap set by humans. By the time they realize what's happening, they will have been wiped out and you will be left alone. You can still be their commander when you return to your own team. You can imagine how they will feel at that time."

The ghost guard held Wuzhan's shoulder and said excitedly, "This is amazing. Having a military advisor here is better than having an army of 100,000. The military advisor will be my good brother from now on. Following me will make you enjoy all the glory and wealth in the world."

……

Several monsters were sleeping soundly on the sentry tower in front of the beast army camp. Several dark shadows climbed up from under the tower and cut off the throats of the monsters cleanly. The monsters woke up suddenly, but died.

The man in black on the watchtower lit a fire stick and shook it, and then, "whoosh..." thousands of rockets shot out from outside the camp and fell towards the beast army's tents.

The monsters in the tent were awakened by the fire and rushed out of the tent in a hurry. Before they could figure out the reason, they were greeted by the flash of swords and the shadow of unknown spells that burned their eyes. Outside the tent were men in black, who were all agile and ruthless. The monsters found it difficult to capture their figures. In an instant, the front of the military camp was in chaos and a raging fire broke out, causing heavy casualties among the monsters.

The men in black attacked the beast army of the Dragon Palace at night. The front camp was in chaos, and the monsters in the back were awakened and blew horns. At this time, Aozhan and Aoyan had transformed into dragons and flew into the air to check. Seeing that it was humans who attacked at night, they roared: "Kill them all!"

However, when the men in black saw Aozhan appear, they did not want to fight anymore. They blew their whistles and retreated. The monsters chased them angrily, but they didn't chase them far before some of the men in black turned around and threw something to the ground. "Teng..." a fire dragon ignited and blocked the beast army that was chasing them.

Aozhan flew to the wall of fire, roared like a dragon, and sprayed out a column of water like a waterfall to put out the burning fire. But he never expected that the burning wall of fire would burn more vigorously when it met water, and it reached more than ten feet high. Aozhan became furious, and swung his dragon tail, flew over the fleeing crowd of people in black, and sprayed out a column of water more than ten feet wide to attack them.

"Roar..." A huge shadow roared up from the ground holding a huge sword, flew towards the water column, slashed it with the sword, crossed the sky, split the water column, and continued to chop down towards the dragon head.

Aozhan was shocked. He never expected that humans would have such a powerful person. "Bang..." He opened his dragon claws and held the giant sword. The dragon body trembled and was shaken away by the huge force. Before he could steady his body, dense sword shadows shot towards him. Aozhan used water shield to resist. "Bang bang..." A series of roars blocked all the sword shadows. When he looked at the men in black again, they had disappeared into the mountains and forests.

The ghost guard transformed into a three-headed giant roc and was the first to fly to Ao Zhan and asked, "General, what happened?"

Aozhan said indignantly: "How dare these damned humans attack my military camp at night!"

The ghost guard asked: "Why don't you continue to chase them?"

"Most of them are practitioners, and their movements are very fast. One of them can use the sword magic, and he almost injured me."

The ghost guard said fiercely: "This human is so arrogant, we must kill them all!" Looking in the direction where the humans fled, he asked: "How many of them are here?"

"At least two thousand people."

The ghost guard said, "Two thousand people? I don't think it's that simple. By the way, I was just about to tell the general that there is a swamp not far from here where a large number of humans were found, at least tens of thousands of people."

Ao Zhan suddenly realized, "I was wondering why the humans here disappeared so quickly, it turns out they all fled there!"

"I guess the people who came to attack at night must be hiding somewhere." The ghost guard confirmed.

As he was talking, the other two generals also rushed over. Ao Zhan and Gui Wei transformed into human form and landed. After some questioning, Ao Yan said, "Uncle, my nephew is willing to lead the troops to hunt down those hateful humans!"

Zaochi said: "We don't trust Your Highness to take risks. After all, there are tens of thousands of people, and some of them have practiced cultivation."

Ao Yan said: "We have wiped out tens of thousands of cavalrymen, so what are the civilians?"

Jiuying said, "Your Highness must not take it lightly. Tonight's raid also brought considerable losses, which shows that these people are much more powerful than the cavalry. If Your Highness goes forward rashly, you may be ambushed again."

Aozhan said: "The two generals are right, we can't have any more losses!" Zaochi and Jiuying said in unison: "I am willing to lead the troops to wipe them out!" In fact, they all knew that two thousand practitioners were nothing to be afraid of. What they were eyeing were the tens of thousands of civilians, and they all wanted to share this piece of fat meat.

The ghost guard hummed and said, "Since you all want to go, I won't argue with you. I just want to ask, whose soldiers should you take with you?"

Now those people were stunned. They had handed over the military power to the Ghost Guards, and they were supposed to lead the Beast Army of Qingqiu City. They could only exchange it back after conquering Qingqiu City.

The three families have already colluded secretly. The purpose of doing so is to prevent the Ghost Guards from having any ulterior motives. Once Qingqiu City is captured, their beast armies will disobey the orders of the Ghost Guards, kill the Ghost Guards, and return to their respective demon emperors. The beast armies left in Nanzhanbuzhou will be without a leader, and will naturally be divided up by the three families.

Ao Zhan said with a smile: "If the four of us join forces, it doesn't matter whose troops we take. At worst, how about we split it in half?"

The ghost guard said, "I still have enough food. You three families can share it. But I have a request. Leave the beast armies of your three families to me. Will you obey my command? I want to test you tonight. Don't disobey my orders when you arrive in Qingqiu and become a mess. That will reveal your flaws. Once Bie Xin finds out, he will never be able to open the city gate."

After hearing this, the others looked at each other for a long time, then exchanged glances, and finally laughed. Aozhan said, "Since General Guiwei is worried, then General, please lead the beast armies of our three families to annihilate those humans. We will never interfere. As for the human flesh, we will not divide it. It belongs to the general. Take it all back for the siege. How about that?" They all thought to themselves, "We'll let you be happy for a while. Once the city gate is broken, you'll die."

Then, the horn sounded, and the three beast armies were gathered together. The ghost guards gave the order to set off. Sure enough, the three beast armies obeyed the order and rushed to Pingyang in a mighty manner overnight.

Wuzhan followed the ghost guard and when he passed by Yinggyu who was next to Aoyan, Yinggyu, who had originally lowered his head, actually raised his head and looked at Wuzhan with a gloomy look. His skinny jaw was trembling, as if he was laughing, which was very strange.

……

The three generals were naturally worried and wanted to go too, leaving only Ao Yan and Ying Gui to guard the beast army in Qingqiu City. The beast army moved very quickly indeed, following the traces of humans all the way, and arrived at the entrance of the Death Swamp near dawn.

At that time, although there was a bright moon in the sky, the ground was very dark. The swamp was filled with fog and emitted a sour and smelly smell. The ghost guards ordered to stop advancing and sent orcs to check the number of footprints. After confirming that they had entered the swamp, they ordered to advance with caution.

The three generals nodded when they saw this, thinking that the ghost guards were indeed cautious, at least they did not rush in rashly.

As the beast army gradually stepped into the swamp, and due to the huge size of the monsters, the sound of their feet wading in the sticky liquid was like waves.

The fog grew thicker and colder, blocking the vision of all the monsters. They were not in the habit of using torches because most of them could see at night, but this was a thick fog, and even the sharp-eyed wolf-headed men could not see objects more than two meters away, let alone the ferocious birds hovering in the air.

In fact, if they lit a torch and accidentally dropped it on the black liquid, perhaps the black liquid would be ignited. Then they would be able to detect the danger and withdraw rationally. But unfortunately, the entire beast army did not have a single torch, and often an advantage is also a disadvantage.

There is no battle that is sure to be won, and Wuzhan is also taking a gamble. He can only consider more before things happen, including the time, the fog, the unexpected changes that may occur at any time, and the hearts of these people.

The cold arrows shot out from the fog, but were masked by the tide of sound and could not be heard at all. "Bang bang..." they hit the monsters that were unable to notice in time. When the wailing sounds became louder, the monsters behind them realized that humans were shooting arrows at them.

The ghost guard immediately shouted: "Stop moving forward!" After the order, the sound of water gradually stopped, but the wailing sounds continued one after another.

The ghost guard turned to Ao Zhan and the others and said, "The humans are indeed hiding inside. Should we wait until the fog clears before attacking?"

Zaochi said, "What are you afraid of as a mere human? Just charge forward. Are you staying here and waiting for them to shoot you with arrows?"

The ghost guard said, "Okay, we'll listen to General Zaochi!" and passed the order down.

The horns were blown, the drums were beaten, the beast army roared and rushed, the sound shook the entire swamp, the earth rumbled, and the valley echoed.

None of the monsters paid attention to what the sticky stuff was under their feet. Even the monster in front of them was stuck in the quagmire without noticing it. When they stepped on it, they felt like they had stepped on something hard, which submerged the monsters that were still struggling and roaring in the black liquid.

The army of monsters was completely submerged in the thick fog. No one was seen in front of them, and even the direction could not be identified. The sky and the earth were in darkness.

Ao Zhan felt vaguely uneasy. He smelled burnt smoke and was about to remind Gui Wei and others when he saw fireworks all over the sky.

(End of this chapter)