After occupying Jikul, Jackal got in touch with Mephisto in Travank. He explained his tactical plan to the Demon God and said that he would immediately send troops to help the Zakarum Legion escape from the predicament of being hunted.
At this time, everyone in the Kurast harbor had just learned about the occupation of Jikul from a group of survivors. Foxwolf expected that even if the professionals in the harbor guessed his true intention of occupying Jikul,
There was absolutely no time to send reinforcements to Hodge, who was pursuing the Zakarum Legion.
The most they could do was notify the Demon Slayer Legion to give up the pursuit and retreat. In this way, the Zakarum Legion successfully retained most of its strength.
What he is playing is the time difference in between.
However, although Foxwolf's plan was brilliant, he could not have anticipated how powerful the insect swarm was in battlefield reconnaissance and transportation capabilities.
Moreover, he also underestimated the war wisdom of the high-ranking commanders of the insect swarm. What he didn’t know was that less than two hours after he occupied Jikul, Xue Hua had already learned that Jikul might
News that it had been breached, and two high-level Zerg species, Zagara and Sarah, figured out his true intentions almost instantly.
The asymmetry of information on the battlefield caused Foxwolf's tactical error.
When he sent this army of 350,000 sheep-headed demons led by the legendary Amazon Evil Contractor Sheen and the legendary mage Evil Contractor August to rush to the aid of the Zakarum Army and had already begun planning the next plan to attack the seaport
, but he did not expect that his troops would be attacked by poisonous banelings from below the ground just after they crossed the river.
In fact, logically speaking, the poisonous baneling burrow cannot be hidden from the perception of the legendary powerhouse, but the problem is that neither Sheen nor August expected that the insect swarm would target them near the river bank.
Ambush.
This resulted in the two men's perceptions not extending below the ground, and they just kept looking forward for the fastest way to reinforce the Zakarum Army.
So, the tragedy happened like this.
The moment a large number of sheep-headed demons just stepped into the rain forest in front of the river bank, countless wheel-shaped monster insects covered with dark carapace and hard sharp spines popped out from the ground. A group of evil spirits among the group of sheep-headed demons
Before the contractors could react, a violent explosion occurred.
Dark green physalis accompanied by sharp thorns of flying bone fragments exploded in the unsuspecting sheep-headed demon army formation. A group attack of 5,000 poisonous baneling insects cleared out a large area of the rainforest almost instantly.
space.
Nearly 30,000 sheep-headed demons gathered together were killed on the spot by flying acid and bone fragments. More than 20,000 seriously injured sheep-headed demons fell to the ground and howled miserably.
Before the reinforcements could do anything, they instantly lost nearly one-seventh of their strength. This sudden attack made the two legendary evil contracters who were following the Winged Demon troops in the sky almost go crazy with anger.
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In the following time, the movement speed of this sheep-headed demon army suddenly slowed down by half.
In order to avoid being ambushed by the poisonous baneling bugs again, the two legendary evil covenanters opened their senses one after another, paying full attention to all the movements under the ground.
Moreover, the poisonous baneling attack just now also led to the death of more than ten evil covenanters who were demon commanders. Those evil covenanters who were lucky enough to survive saw the bodies of their colleagues being slowly melted by acid erosion under the poisonous baneling attack.
They died tragically, and like frightened quails, they hid in the protective circle of the sheep-headed devil.
Compared to the two legendary evil contracters who just witnessed the tragic scene in the air, these ordinary evil contracters who had personally experienced the terrifying scene were obviously much more stimulated.
Under their influence, this demonic reinforcements began to become noisy and all the vegetation became intimidated. Any abnormal noise in the rainforest would trigger a crazy attack with various skills.
Under such circumstances, it took the reinforcements an entire hour to complete the half-hour journey originally planned. When they arrived at the scheduled rendezvous with the Zakarum Army, the scene in front of them was
Once again, the two legendary evil consorts were stunned.
All I could see was a messy scene in the rainforest, with big trees falling down, the land turning over, and thick smoke still rising from a large number of surrounding trees.
In this huge open space that seemed to be burned alive, more than half of the elite Zakarum Legion, which was originally extremely powerful, was now dead or injured.
A large number of charred corpses and various broken limbs covered the entire forest, and only two or three big cats and kittens were left among the Winged Demon troops in the sky.
The canopy of the rainforest was filled with corpses of dead winged demons, and the corpses of some Zakarum Legion demons were also hanging everywhere on the branches.
The remaining Zakarum Legion only has about 170,000 or 80,000 soldiers left, but the professionals and insect swarm troops who attacked them have long since withdrawn.
When the news was learned by Foxwolf and Mephisto respectively, the former thought hard and puzzled for a while, and then suddenly let out a long sigh, as if he looked more than ten years older.
The latter was furious as usual, but such a loss still did not stop Mephisto's ambition to regain the seaport of Kurast.
As the last bastion for humans to monitor the entire rainforest, since Uri on the other side of the Wizard's Gap announced that it would close the city to defend itself, Kurast Harbor became the last thorn in Mephisto's heart.
And since it is related to the counterattack plan of the Eternal Battlefield, if we cannot involve enough human forces in the first world, then ending the Eternal War will become a clumsy joke.
So no matter what, Mephisto must retake the Kurast seaport, at least to let humans invest one more legion of troops in the rain forest!
He once again sent a mixed army of various demons with a number of 350,000 from Cui Fanke, and this time, he also added the Forgotten Legion and the Mother of Demons troops that he specially brought from the second world.
In this army.
This powerful mixed demon army is led by a total of seven legendary evil binders, including the six legendary evil binders who previously abandoned the Zakarum Legion and fled.
Adding this force to the 350,000 reinforcements sent by Foxwolf and the remaining 100,000 people from the Zakarum Legion, the number of the devil's counterattack army has reached a shocking 850,000.
Moreover, because of Mephisto's severe warning, the fox wolf was already preparing to use up the remaining troops in Jikul, and he would personally lead them to assist Mephisto in the siege.
In this way, when the demon army actually arrives at the port city of Kurast, the total strength is likely to exceed one million.
Among them, the number of leading legendary evil contracters has reached eleven (Kuya was left by the fox wolf to look after Jikul)!
Under the pressure of the army, the pressure on the professionals in Kurast Harbor increased sharply. Even the joy of meeting the Demon Slayer Legion and the Amazons of the Haworth Islands was brought by this army of more than one million demons.
The pressure was reduced.
Several legendary powerhouses discussed a feasible plan to defend the city in the headquarters overnight. As the owner of the insect swarm that was the main force defending the city, Xue Hua was naturally invited into the command tent as an invitee.