Chapter 7 The war begins!
The next morning, the sun rose as usual.
Eli led his personal guards to push open the door of the combat meeting room. Earlier, he had asked Rondo to draw up a list of participants.
In addition to the various commanders of the guards who came with him, there were dozens of soldiers from the Demon Hunting City itself participating in the meeting.
Eli had also fought in the Demon Hunting City in his previous life, but he did not have any sense of urgency at that time, and he was also in the dark about everything in the Demon Hunting City.
This time, he took charge of the Demon Hunting City again. With the memory of his previous life, he already knew which people here were useful, which people were determined but had little skills, and which people had no will or skills at all, but were just loyal.
Relying on the advantage of being a "prophet", Eli arranged the combat deployment seemingly casually according to his "preferences".
That's right, combat deployment. Eli was ready to go to war with the demons the day after he arrived in the Demon Hunting City.
And unlike the previous city defense battles, this time Eli planned to take the initiative to meet the enemy and lead his army to attack the demon camp.
"Today's meeting is over. Everyone, prepare yourselves. In half an hour, we will go out of the city for a decisive battle!"
Without a single word of nonsense, Eli left the combat meeting room with Jessica and Cecilia without even asking "Who is in favor, who is against?", leaving behind a group of soldiers whispering to each other.
"Go out of the city for a decisive battle? It's so difficult to defend the city, Lord Eli is still too impetuous."
"If a young man is not impetuous, can he still be called a young man? I think it's okay to take the initiative to fight. After being bullied by the demons for so long, he has to fight back once!"
"It is rumored that Lord Eli is quite powerful. He has never lost in the battles with the younger generation of the imperial capital. No wonder he is so confident."
"How can personal force affect the entire battle situation? Anyway, I was arranged to stay and defend the city. You should be more careful on the battlefield."
As a new official, Eli had no reputation and no prestige in the Demon Hunting City. However, when he held a combat meeting, the generals just listened patiently and did not interrupt. This was the impact of too long a war, that is, all the actions of the soldiers should be under command and resolutely obey the orders of their superiors.
Even though many of the generals present did not approve of Eli's young and impulsive combat deployment, they still arranged everything according to the order, hoping that Lord Eli would be brave enough to lead them to a great victory.
Besides, the passive defense lasted too long. The blood of the soldiers defending the city was almost exhausted. Taking the initiative to attack once might awaken their blood, which would be worth the battle.
Half an hour was not a long time. In a well-organized preparation, the troops going out of the city for the decisive battle were assembled. The guards brought by Eli were not incorporated into the troops of the Demon Hunter City, but formed a separate army, only obeying the command of Eli and Rondo.
Eli, who likes to keep things simple, did not hold any grand oath-taking ceremony. He just stood at the gate of the city on horseback. Looking at the nearly 10,000 soldiers in front of him, he took a breath and shouted a voice that could echo throughout the city...
"I will lead the charge to fight the demons!"
"Just follow me and kill some of the remaining demons."
"Go to war! Open the city gate!"
Amid the deafening shouts, the heavy city gate opened, and Eli rushed out first. Jessica and Cecilia were half a body behind him, and their battlefield instructor Rondo was left far behind and could not catch up at all.
"Eli, don't rush too fast, you are out of touch with the troops!" Deputy General and Deputy City Lord Rondo shouted from a distance behind.
"Lord, slow down, we can't keep up." The generals of the Demon Hunting City led the army to set off, but they could not feel the tail of the Lord of the City.
Amid the sound of "da da da" horseshoes, Lord Eli and his two personal guards ran farther and farther, and soon disappeared from the sight of the large army of the Demon Hunting City.
At the same time, the demon camp in the distance did not know the news of the upcoming attack of the Demon Hunting City, because there was no one in the city who could pass the news to them. All the demon traitors on this front died yesterday.
"Cortez, when can we kill another wave of humans? I am almost rusty in these days of truce."
In the demon camp, two demon sentries with a height of more than two meters, broad shoulders and round arms, and fierce faces were drinking strong liquor, and they had no intention of standing guard seriously. In addition to them and the sentries at several other entrances and exits, there were no guards in the entire demon camp.
With the offensive and defensive momentum of the demon army and the human demon hunting city, sentries were not needed at all, but the leader of the camp was a demon noble who had learned human culture to the point of brain twitching. Even the safest base camp had to arrange sentries, which was really hard for them.
"It's almost there. The rear has added another 3,000 soldiers to the Viscount. Now we have 8,000 demon soldiers. The Viscount should organize an attack tomorrow or the day after tomorrow at the latest. Maybe we can break into the city again this time. Then we will kill to our heart's content!"
The demon soldier Cortes raised the wine bag and took a big sip. He exhaled a breath of wine and patted his companion on the shoulder. Then the two demons continued to drink, completely ignoring their duties.
"Da Da Da"
"Da Da Da"
At this time, a burst of rapid horse hoof sounds sounded. The two drunken demon sentries did not care at first, thinking that it was the demon cavalry in the base camp galloping on horseback, but when they heard clearly that the horse hoof sounds came from outside, three human knights had already rushed towards them.
"Shh"
"Puff"
A broadsword casually cut off a demon soldier's head, and a knight's spear pierced another demon soldier. In a blink of an eye, the only two demon guards at this entrance died.
"There is only one demon here that can fight you for a moment. Leave it to me. You split up on the spot and meet up at the back of the camp after killing the demons."
After a brief explanation, Eli rode his horse straight to the center of the demon camp, while Jessica and Cecilia, after receiving the order, killed the two sides of the camp that did not know the arrival of the God of Death.
Even if there was no sentry to warn, when the smell of blood on both sides of the camp spread, Eli, who rushed to the demon command post, still encountered resistance from a large number of demon soldiers.
"Get out of my way!"
A huge shadow swept across, and in the roar of the fighting spirit that was oppressive to the limit, dozens of meters around Eli were swept away. The demon soldiers swept by the fighting spirit or the shadow turned into a pool of blood foam on the spot, not to mention the whole body, it was difficult to keep even the remains of the limbs.
The demon soldiers in the distance who had not yet rushed up were dumbfounded, and saw that the human knight who rushed into the camp was holding an axe with one hand, and his eyes were full of murderous intent that frightened the demons.
The axe blade was hanging down to the ground, and the axe handle was thick and long. It was obviously the appearance of a two-handed battle axe, but in that person's hand, it was as light as a toy for killing demons. This...where did the human berserker come from?