It doesn't matter what the lord is.

Brother Brown raised his head and looked at Lid suspiciously, with a look of vigilance and a hint of desire.

Lid said calmly:

"Surrender. Go to Yuxi City."

These six short words were like a thunderclap!

Brother Brown's eyes widened instantly, and the bloodshot eyes were clearly visible. His hands clenched instinctively, and the wound on his arm was squeezed and bleeding. Not only him, but the demons behind Brother Brown were also struck by lightning, but no one said anything, and the scene was silent.

Lid pointed at Delis who was lying there and said:

"I have no discrimination against the races that have surrendered. And in my opinion, you are much more sensible than the lizardman Ji. When you were next to Yuxi Castle, although you attacked Yuxi Castle many times, you did not use your full strength every time. This is why Yuxi Castle persisted for twenty years in the face of wind and rain until my arrival. Strictly speaking, I have to thank you."

Brother Brown had recovered from his initial shock. He squinted his eyes and looked at Lid, saying:

"I am a demon..."

The tone of its words was strange. It was unclear whether it was emphasizing that it would not surrender, or testing whether Lid and Yuxi City could really take it in.

Lid laughed and said only:

"Filita is also considered half a demon. The female demon and the male demon you gave me now have opened a succubus house in Yuxi City, and they are living a good life."

"I was wondering why all the succubi in the territory disappeared some time ago."

Brother Brown let out a breath, but his grip on the spear did not loosen.

It looked at Lid and said:

"I won't make any more hypocritical excuses. I just want to ask one question. If I take my men to Yuxi City, how can we guarantee that we won't be oppressed because of our origins? Once there, we will be no different from prisoners."

Lid was too lazy to explain anything to him and replied:

"You can't even beat my apprentice, why would I go through so much trouble to hurt you?"

Brother Brown was choked and felt indignant, but when he thought that the evenly matched strength between him and Aleya was based on Aleya's serious injury, he lost his temper.

It turned around and said to the demons behind it:

"You heard it too. The demon army ambushing us in the south is most likely Langyan's subordinates. That beast has done this many times. It is possible that it has obtained the tacit approval of Lord Amifars. If that is the case, we will be walking into a trap if we go back. Those who are willing to go to Yuxi City with me, stand on the right. If you are not willing, I will not force you."

More than twenty demons were divided into two teams.

Brother Brown covered his neck and walked towards the demons standing there with a gentle look.

Several demons thought it was quite righteous and did not force themselves to surrender to humans, so they gave it an apologetic smile.

However, the next moment, Gobrown's spear instantly pierced through the chest of one of the demons. The remaining few had no time to react before they were beaten to death by the surrendered demons, leaving behind a pile of broken limbs and flesh.

Gobrown turned to Lid, knelt on his knees, and said:

"I am willing to offer my loyalty to the Lord of the City."

33. Inside and outside the city

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Outside Yuxi City, there was heavy wind and rain.

The demon clan's main army has arrived at the battlefield, covering the entire area within sight in a dark mass. From afar, it looks like an lingering dark cloud.

He Yue in the City Lord's Mansion hadn't slept for three days and three nights. During these three days, there had been no reports from the battle front, so he put on a coat and sat in the Internal Affairs Office waiting without sleep. The documents to be processed were piled up like a mountain.

Don't think that there are no internal affairs to take care of during wartime. There is a war outside, and the city is not peaceful either. For He Yue, the things he needs to consider are simply super doubled all at once.

People's hearts are unstable, supply chains are out of stock, funds are short, armaments are wasted, food and grass are supplied, the production of city defense equipment is supervised, and manpower is withdrawn... By the way, after the Anbu conducted a thorough liquidation of Yuxi City, the hidden chess pieces in many positions were also pulled out, and people need to be found to fill them.

However, Yuxi City has long faced a serious talent shortage.

Employing young newcomers will inevitably lead to frequent mistakes. Inexperience, impulsiveness, and high expectations are the inevitable price to pay for growth. Now that He Yue is supporting them, the people below can let go and accumulate experience. Of course, young people have their own advantages, especially young people from common people, who understand the sufferings of the people better than those nobles who are high above them, and have more spirit and drive. For the rapidly developing Yuxi City, it would be a good thing if these people could grow up smoothly.

It's just that now, He Yue is under too much pressure. No one seems to remember that she is just a young person.

He Yue held his forehead with one hand and felt that everything he saw was double.

She closed her eyes and leaned back in the chair to rest for a while. She was so exhausted that she almost fell asleep. But just when her body was about to lose consciousness, a familiar female voice sounded at the door:

"Master Prime Minister, the battle report from the front has arrived."

He Yue opened his eyes instantly, stood up, walked quickly to the door, and said hurriedly:

"How about it?"

Shuang handed the battle report in his hand to He Yue and said:

"I've held on. But it's still hard."

He Yue read the battle report in his hand at a glance, and his breathing became increasingly rapid.

He paced back and forth in the room, holding the battle report in his hand, muttering:

"It's not the right time yet... Fang Shisan can't withdraw to Yuxi City at this time... The city defense equipment is still being produced day and night, and the reinforcements haven't arrived yet. If she can hold on for a little longer, the situation will be better later. But we can't put all the pressure on her..."

Shuang said calmly:

"We caught all the hidden chess pieces in Yuxi City some time ago. During the war, trade with other territories was greatly reduced. There is no need for the Anbu to keep so many people in the city. I have already sent half of them to support Fang Shisan."

He Yue asked:

"We can't relax supervision in the city yet. Although many people died that night, not all of them died. Some people are hiding very deeply. If the pressure in the city is suddenly reduced, there is still a possibility of chaos."

Frost nodded:

"Understood. I handed over some of the Anbu's information to Bai Huang. Originally, our Anbu and her patrol team were supposed to not interfere with each other, but now there is no other way. I can no longer keep an eye on Yuxi City by myself, so I can only choose to cooperate with the patrol team."

He Yue said:

"How many people did you transfer?"

"Less than two hundred."

Frost replied:

"Changqing helped train them. Although they are not familiar with military formations, they have no problem following orders and their personal strength is not bad. As long as Fang Shisan knows how to use them, they can be put to good use. I can only pray every night that more of these people can come back, so that my Anbu will not be directly crippled and the plan of external surveillance will be postponed again."

He Yue exhaled and whispered:

“It’s still a drop in the bucket.”

"Tens of thousands of demons, no matter how many people go there, it's just a drop in the bucket. Zhaochen doesn't care about it, Yunyang doesn't care about it, Yunhai gave a little symbolic support, but it's not of much use. Relying on five cities to stop the invasion of the demons, one of the six tribes in the middle, in my opinion, there is only a slight chance of winning unless the Lord of Lingwu comes in person. Prime Minister... prepare as much as possible for the defense of the city."

He Yue nodded silently and looked towards the west, his eyes full of worry.

People in the city feel a sense of crisis, which has become fertile ground for anxiety and panic.

Outside the city, the army felt more than just a sense of crisis.

They were on the brink of life and death, it was not a crisis, it was a cruel random selection. Every attack and defense would result in a large number of casualties, this was inevitable, for the soldiers, it was like an invisible hand rolling the dice, their lives all depended on the size of the points.

They tried their best to get a chance to survive. The cruelty of war is shown here to the greatest extent. Everyone is a living individual with his own family and friends, no different from other people. But when it comes to the casualty report, it is just a cold number.

Fang Shisan was sitting in a wheelchair. The rain soaked her thin clothes and her light brown hair was covered with mud spots.

Tiara pushed the wheelchair, biting her lower lip tightly with her teeth, wanting to cry but not daring to.

The soldiers in the front row held their shields, desperately resisting the demons' charge again and again. Long spears were thrust out from the gaps in the shields, piercing the demons' bodies, and then retracted, neatly like a mechanical assembly line. Behind the shield formation, bows were like full moons, and arrows rained densely on the demon army, knocking the demons in the back row to the ground.

But there were also demons who grabbed the edge of the shield and dragged a shield soldier out to bite him. There were also demons who raised their clubs and smashed the shield soldiers into pulp with brute force. Whenever this happened, the shield soldiers behind them would silently step up, put up their shields, and wait for their companions behind them to kill the demon in front of them, or wait for the next companion to take over their position.

Qian Teng and He Ji stood beside Fang Shisan, watching the soldiers bleed and sacrifice with cold eyes. He Ji's eyes were full of helpless compassion, and Qian Teng carried a big sword with a fanatical smile on his face.

On the demon side, the cold-faced young man Amifars, who was sitting on a giant ice elephant, looked down at the human army formation, looking at this thin but invincible defense line.

It itself did not have a clear number of how many demons it brought this time, because a large number of demons were wild low-level demons that it brought with it. Those demons had no wisdom and were very weak. They were not good enough in front of the formally trained human soldiers, but they were very suitable to act as vanguards to consume the physical strength of the human army.

It was not in a hurry, as the huge gap in power gave it enough leeway to coordinate this war.

Unlike the painstakingly built Place Thirteen, it can easily gain a huge advantage with just a little arrangement.

But no one would say anything.

Because war is unfair.

34. Lend me your life

Amifars was not in a hurry to take over Yuxi City. In its eyes, conquering the city was only a matter of time.

It didn't feel bad no matter how many low-level demons died, but if the regular demon army suffered too many casualties, its position in the demon army would be suppressed by its peers. So it chose to slowly consume the low-level demons first. In its opinion, it might not need the regular demon army at all, and the low-level demons all over the mountains could consume the human soldiers to death.

However, the human army before it was clearly beyond its expectations.

Fang Shisan could certainly see what Amifars was thinking. She had already made arrangements. Even if there were only a few hundred soldiers, they would take turns to rest as much as possible. However, because the army was under great pressure, each team did not have much rest time. They would usually return to the front line after sleeping for about an hour or two.

Fortunately, when a person is in an excited stage, they actually need very little sleep. This is a disguised form of overdraft. When the war is over, they will fall into a long-term fatigue and need a lot of rest to make up for the body's deficit. But because it is very likely that they will not live to that time, no one cares too much about this. Some soldiers joked before that it was like borrowing a huge sum of money and not having to pay it back after squandering it all. If you think about it carefully, you will earn a lot.

Fang Shisan thought this analogy was good.

It is indeed borrowing, borrowing from heaven.

Pay with your life.

For three days and three nights, many soldiers took only a short rest every day, squeezing out every bit of strength in their bodies, fearing that they would not have used up all their strength when they died, which would be a loss. Every bit of regret was equivalent to adding a bit of burden to the brothers behind them, and no one was willing to do that.

The situation is not optimistic.

People can sleep for a short time every day and still maintain an excited state. But a short rest cannot restore physical strength, and the army's combat effectiveness is still slowly depleted. Even if the physical strength is restored faster than usual with the protection of the military formation and Yuxi City, it is still not as good as the huge loss caused by the wheel tactics of the demons. To give a simple example, in the early days, a soldier could hold a shield in front for four hours before changing shifts, but now it usually takes two hours to change shifts. When this number drops below one hour, the minimum rest time will be reduced, which also means that the army will not be able to hold on.

Amifars could also see this, but it did not look down on the human army because of this. Instead, it took them very seriously.

The war twenty-one years ago was not so troublesome. At that time, the national defense formation was also operating normally, and all the demons that invaded human territory were suppressed to varying degrees. But at that time, Yuxi City was too weak, and the demon army easily defeated it, and then there was the devil's atrocities.

At that time, the human army was very weak. It was not that they did not have the will to fight to the death. At that time, countless humans spontaneously organized themselves and fought desperately. The blood dyed the land under Yuxi City red. Even now, many of the wall bases still have dark red bricks and stones that are different from the surrounding colors. But at that time, they had no formation and fought alone.

Moreover, at that time, Yuxicheng's protection was not as strong as it is now.

Amifars had some knowledge of the territory's protection. He knew very well that the current Yuxi City not only had a new army, but was completely renewed from the inside out. The words "people's will" sounded vague, but they were directly reflected in the territory's protection. Even in such a situation, the people of Yuxi City still believed in their own army, which showed their unity.

"Lid..."

It repeated the name in a low voice, and thought of the young man who had gone deep into the demon clan alone, and there was a little more importance in its eyes.

It was not easy to build the dilapidated Yuxi City into this state in less than a year. Amifars knew the foundation of Yuxi City very well. It was still in good shape 21 years ago, but then the superior ordered to kill all the stubborn people who dared to resist and keep the nobles who surrendered. Since then, Yuxi City has only some fat white pigs left.

It thought it was here to kill pigs, but it didn't expect that this time it would face a harder bone than last time.

"Lizard Man Ji."

Amifars called out expressionlessly, and immediately someone stood up from the army.

The tall, muscular humanoid lizard swept its tongue across its eyelids, baring its teeth, and said:

"My subordinate is here."

"Look at how eager you are to make a move. Go ahead, take your demon army and kill more people."

"Yes."

The lizardman Ji clenched the iron fork in his hand, which was a weapon almost as tall as himself. He turned around and stepped towards the human army step by step.

Behind it, a group of troops with completely different momentum from the lower demons followed closely. Lizardman Ji shouted a few times with his hoarse voice, and the lower demons in front slowed down their pace of attack. Lizardman Ji led his troops and naturally integrated into the lower demons, getting closer and closer to the human army.

Sudden attack.

Human soldiers were used to dealing with the onslaught of low-level demons, but regular demon armies were different. They were stronger, more organized, and more comfortable killing people. The shield soldiers at the front were instantly overwhelmed, and before the shield soldiers behind could get in front, they saw a majestic human-standing lizard leap high in the demon army, crushing a backup shield soldier, and the iron fork in its hand instantly pierced the chest of a human soldier who was holding a gun, then opened his arms, looked up to the sky and roared:

“Follow me and kill——!!”

The morale of the demons was instantly boosted. The demon army on the periphery attacked the human defense line like crazy. Although the casualties were heavy, it also caused great pressure on the human soldiers. The shield soldiers in front were obviously unable to hold on. Even if they didn't want to retreat, they moved slowly backwards under the push of the demons. They still tried their best to move forward, but their feet left long traces on the ground.

Lizardman Ji raised the iron fork in his hand and kept charging into the human army. The spearmen could still cause him some trouble, but the archers behind him would be slaughtered once they got close to him.

Human blood splattered on its cold face, and its nostrils flared as it took in the sweet and delicious smell of blood.

Behind it, the demon army had already torn a tiny hole in the human defense line and poured in like a tide.

Lizardman Ji saw the center of the human army and knew that their leader should be there, so he pointed his iron fork and rushed over there with high spirits.

The iron fork swept across, creating a bloody mist.

Unrivaled.