Chapter 25: Successive victories
It took less than two hours from the launch of the attack to the end of the battle.
Although Eli did not participate in the street fighting and the final siege, the demon army that lost all the high-level warriors had no power to fight back under the crushing of Cecilia and the three high-level elves.
According to the statistics after the war, in this battle, the demons lost more than 47,000 corpses, and all the high-level generals from the city lord to the deputy were killed by Eli. The casualties of Eli's army were only more than a thousand, and the casualties of the other participating troops were slightly more, but not more than two thousand.
The first battle of the expeditionary army can be said to be a great victory.
The credit for the siege battle should belong to the city lord Eli who broke the city and killed the generals alone. With his extremely strong personal force and the high fighting spirit and morale of his army, the leaders of the other troops had to obey.
Following such a commander, without attacking large cities, you can just kill all the way.
There are countless small and medium-sized cities like the recently recovered Lieyang City that have been occupied by the demons. They can completely recapture them all the way, and at most take a detour when encountering a large city.
"Master, they all want to join your army and fight with you in the future."
After the cleanup work was completed, Cecilia brought a large group of people to find Eli, all of whom were the leaders of the various troops outside the city.
After the unusually easy battle in Lieyang City, they were convinced of Eli's strength. They could spontaneously take the not-so-strong troops to adventure and expedition, which meant that they hated the demons to the bone. If they could follow the Lord of Eli, they would not ask for anything else, just to kill more demons.
As for the requests of these army leaders, Eli agreed without much consideration, even the dwarf army that he had not been happy with before.
With him charging in the front, the army under his command only needed to be able to raise the knife and kill the demons. They did not need their loyalty, but only needed them to really want to kill the demons.
Even if these troops don't listen to his command on the battlefield, it doesn't matter. Anyway, Eli doesn't command the battle. He just charges.
After several decades, the flag of the Hundred Races Alliance was raised again in Lieyang City. As for how long this flag can last, Eli doesn't care. He has no obsession with territory. He just wants to eliminate the living forces of the demons as much as possible and severely weaken the overall strength of the demons.
Because he doesn't care about Lieyang City, Eli doesn't plan to leave his main force in the city. He only arranges a small but elite squadron and Alyssa to stay here and wait for the coalition forces from other fronts to come later.
In fact, in the battle to recover Lieyang City, the army rescued many civilians of various races who were used as slaves in the city, but Eli just arranged people to send them to the rear city of the Hundred Races and didn't care if they had other ideas.
Because the battle ended too quickly, it was still early. Seeing that the soldiers were not exhausted after the battle, Eli simply led the main force out of Lieyang City and prepared to attack Xuri City, which was very close to Lieyang City.
After running all the way, Eli led the army to the outside of Xuri City. At this time, most of the demon soldiers who escaped from Lieyang City were in Xuri City. When they found that the monster human race who had easily broken the city before led the army to kill again, the deserters of Lieyang City immediately prepared to escape from Xuri City again without saying a word.
Originally, the demon defenders of Xuri City did not believe the exaggerated description of the defeated Lieyang City demon soldiers, but seeing that they were in a hurry to escape after seeing the enemy outside the city, the demon defenders of Xuri City had to believe their words a little.
But even if they believed it a little, the demon defenders of Xuri City were not shaken. After all, they did not see the horror of the enemy with their own eyes. It was impossible to let them escape without fighting just based on the deserters' words! The demons are not such a weak race!
"Rest here for ten minutes, and then follow me to attack the city!"
The same order was passed down as when attacking Lieyang City. Eli still took advantage of the soldiers' rest to scan the entire Xuri City with his soul.
Compared with Lieyang City, Xuri City at this time is undoubtedly stronger. Not only does it have 70,000 demon defenders, but it also has two eighth-level strongmen and two seventh-level strongmen.
Whether it is the number of soldiers or the strength of high-level strongmen, Xuri City is a little stronger than Lieyang City, but unfortunately, it is only a little stronger, and the ending of Xuri City will not be any different from that of Lieyang City.
"The vanguard team follows me to charge, and the whole army follows me to attack!"
It was still the same slogan and fighting style as outside Lieyang City. The vanguard team composed of Eli, Jessica and others and the elves took the lead in charging, followed by the vanguard of the follow-up guards, and the armies of various races also mixed together and rushed to Xuri City.
Eli still took the lead, and rushed to the city of Rising Sun under the rain of arrows from the top of the city wall. Then he replicated the scene on the tower of Lieyang City and flew directly to the tower of Rising Sun City. Because they knew in advance that the enemy had a suspected ninth-level strongman who could fly with the air, the high-level strongmen of Rising Sun City did not disperse like Lieyang City, but gathered in one place.
Two eighth-level demons and two seventh-level demons were ready to join forces to fight the enemy. Although their lineup was still not a match for the ninth-level strongman, they should be able to hold out for a while. As long as the demon defenders repelled the coalition forces of hundreds of races outside the city during this period, a ninth-level strongman would be powerless to turn the tide under the siege of thousands of troops.
Of course, Rising Sun City would surely suffer extremely heavy casualties in this way, but if a ninth-level human strongman could be killed, it would not be too bad even if Rising Sun City fell into the hands of the enemy.
It's just a pity that the idea of the demon garrison in Rising Sun City is good, but the first step to implement it is a problem. It is not impossible to temporarily stop an ordinary ninth-level strong man with two eighth-level and two seventh-level , but Eli never said that he was the ninth level.
Standing on the city tower of Rising Sun City, the ruthless battle ax in Eli's hand fell, and the combined attacks of four high-level demon warriors were split open by one axe. Then a sharper ax fell again, and two weaker seventh-level demons fell. The strong man of the clan became a dead soul on the spot.
Seeing that two high-level strong men were wiped out after only taking two moves, the two eighth-level strong demons, including the city lord of Rising Sun City, were shocked. How could this young human being be a ninth-level strong man? It's holy...
Before Jiezi could think of it, Eli's third battle ax came. The two eighth-level demon warriors, who were dying, had no time to think about it. They quickly tried to force Eli back with a life-threatening blow, only to be defeated. Unfortunately, Eli completely ignored the two swords they slashed at him, letting their attacks fall on him, and then sent the two demons to meet their previous companions with an axe.