The battle situation outside the Purgatory Fortress gradually began to deteriorate. Even though the Kraken overhead had not yet taken action, the huge pressure it brought made the demon defenders completely unwilling to fight.
The commanders of the demon forces have discovered several sneaky escapes - some demons began to feel pessimistic and desperate about the outcome of this battle, trying to escape and hide in the winter mountains further north.
In order to prevent these deserters from causing a larger rout, the demon command chose to use the most severe torture to suppress these deserters.
These tortures and suppressions had some effect. At least the last line of defense outside the Purgatory Fortress was not collapsed by deserters.
But the continued strong pressure of the insect swarm army is quickly crushing the minds of all the frontline demons. They find that these terrifying monsters are more fervent and ferocious in fighting than they are, and they have truly become fearless of death and ignore pain.
Like those undead.
But their combat effectiveness is much stronger than the slow and fragile zombies and skeletons. Many demons watched helplessly as their own defense line, which they had finally organized, was easily torn apart by the swarm in less than a minute.
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The allied forces of the insect swarm and humans advanced with great success, and the defense lines of the demon army continued to shrink and collapse.
When the sun of the second world slowly rose above Kraken's head, the demonic troops outside the city had already abandoned millions of corpses.
Judging from the time displayed on the hourglass, it has only been three days since the swarm began to attack Purgatory Fortress.
And most of this time is spent by the swarm on their way...
Seeing that the defense line outside the city was about to collapse, Shan Ke in the Purgatory Fortress gave the retreat order with an ugly look on his face.
It can no longer take the risk of leaving more troops outside the city. Now all defensive forces must be concentrated inside the city with high walls and a large number of defensive weapons and traps as cover. Only by using this as a fulcrum can it have the last chance of survival.
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After receiving Shank's order, Xuewu immediately led his troops to retreat into the city.
Just like before, it persuaded the remaining two high-level dark gold demons to leave a large number of troops to delay the insect swarm in exchange for time to retreat.
But this time, its plan was not implemented as smoothly as before.
As the saying goes, one gains wisdom after suffering. The bloodcrow warrior's broken arm forced Zagara to abandon the already planned tactics. For a high-level commander of the swarm, this was already a great shame and humiliation.
It will never fall into the same pit twice, so it is already ready to cut off the opponent's retreat.
Just when Xuewu and the other two high-level dark gold demon leaders dropped hundreds of thousands of baits to block the main force of the insect swarm, and he was preparing to withdraw the main force of the demons into the city, the cockroach and lurker troops that had not taken action before came here.
Suddenly, he appeared in front of them and blocked their retreat in one fell swoop.
The Purgatory Fortress itself is protected by spells personally cast by the two demon gods. Neither the Nydus Worms nor the Cockroaches nor even the Void Diggers can penetrate directly into the city from underground.
But there are no spells inside the city to protect the outside. The cockroaches have long dug a tunnel under the battlefield that leads directly to the gate of Purgatory Fortress, waiting to intercept the retreating demonic troops.
And not only that, if the demon leaders such as Xuewu decide to break out of the encirclement, the cockroach troops will chase them all the way to the outside of the city gate.
If Shank opens the door at that time, the cockroaches will swarm in and seize control of the city gate at any cost.
And even if Shank gritted his teeth and refused to open the door, at least the insect swarm would be able to completely eat all the demon defenders on the other three lines of defense.
That is nearly 15 million demons, which is almost equivalent to one-half of the total number of demon troops in the entire Purgatory Fortress area.
If so many troops were lost here, Shank would probably cry on the top of the city...
Zagara sent more than 4 million cockroaches and 1.2 million lurkers, and the mighty black-armored army surged out from under the ground, using the terrain in front of the Purgatory Fortress to firmly block the retreating main demonic force.
live.
Of course, due to the absolute disparity in numbers between the two sides, if the Xuewu and other high-level dark gold demons choose to rush in, the cockroaches will not be able to stop them.
But the lurkers hiding underground will teach the demons who try to break through their defense zone a good lesson, telling them that not just any land can be trampled on...
Faced with the interception of the cockroach troops, Xuewu, who knew that time was precious, finally chose to rush in after discussing with several other dark gold demons.
The huge demon army formed a torrent of blood, forcibly breaking through the defense line set up by the cockroaches, and then rushed towards the gate of Purgatory Fortress without stopping.
And just when they broke through the defense line formed by the cockroaches and prepared to speed up their retreat, dense bone spurs suddenly emerged from the ground, piercing the unprepared demon vanguard!
The rows of bone spurs pierced by the lurkers from the ground were like steel brushes shaving flesh, "shaving" strips of flesh and blood from the retreating demon army. These invisible and intangible fatal attacks from the ground soon overwhelmed them.
It breaks the already very fragile nerves of the demons.
The retreat quickly turned into a rout, and a large group of demons ran towards the Purgatory Fortress with howls and cries.
A group of dark gold demons caught in the demon group tried their best to kill the lurkers underground, trying to regroup the demon troops and retreat in an orderly manner. However, at this moment, the cockroaches who had just been scattered by the demon army took advantage of
The ability to move underground regrouped and spawned on the spot, starting a new round of mutation.
A few hours later, after all the demons escaped from the lurkers' killing zone, the cockroach army, reduced to more than 2.6 million men, followed from behind again.
But this time, this cockroach army is no longer purely composed of cockroaches, but also mixed with at least half of the exterminators who have just mutated!
The pursuit of the cockroach troops made the Blood Crow quickly understand the intentions of the insect swarm. It tried to send an army to drive away these stalkers, but the demon detachment it sent was quickly defeated by the mixed army of cockroaches and exterminators.
The Blood Crow can no longer send out more demons. All its troops must be brought into the city to participate in the city defense battle. This is their last hope for continued survival.
So it unfolded its original prototype, summoned countless armies of the dead from under the earth, and used these armies to block the pursuit of the cockroach troops.
Although these mindless undead were vulnerable to the cockroaches and exterminators, they still succeeded in hindering the implementation of the original pursuit plan.
The demonic troops escaped. They withstood the continuous attacks of the alien dragons that escaped from the rear air battle, and successfully retreated into the Purgatory Fortress with the support of the demons on the city walls and defensive weapons.
However, due to the obstruction of the cockroach troops and the ambush of the lurkers, only less than 10 million of the original 15 million demons actually entered the fortress alive.
Although the insect swarm also suffered certain losses during the interception battle, in comparison, the losses on the demon side were even greater. (To be continued)
