The first round of bombing by the Eilanhir Empire made the entire demon world boil in winter. The demon resistance forces, who originally thought that the human attack would be ineffective, finally recognized the real gap between the two sides.
In the north, the key area of the Eilenhill Empire's attack, there were explosions everywhere. Thousands of cannons roared, sending countless shells over the heads of the demonic resistance forces.
These demons who once showed off their power in the human world now have little ability to resist.
Although they still have an army of more than one million, the combat capabilities of these troops are actually very low.
They do not have qualified logistical supplies, because the cultivated land was destroyed by the Elanshir Empire, and the entire demon world is now in a state of extreme food shortage.
The demons who have intersected with the Elanthir Empire, as well as the occupied areas of the Elantyr Empire, are supplied with massive food from the Magic Continent, so their lives are pretty good.
But for those places that refuse to cooperate, life is quite miserable. At least, most of the demon-controlled areas don't even have enough to eat.
Without food, the combat effectiveness of the army can be imagined. In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the demon troops, many demon commanders had to start allowing their soldiers to rob civilians of their own race.
Most of the demon dogs have been lost due to genetic attacks, and most of the remaining demon dogs have become food for high-level demon soldiers.
The population of the entire demon-controlled area is declining sharply. The demon clan with a population of billions has dropped sharply to only a billion people a year after the war broke out.
This is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that after losing a large number of factories and cities, the devil's war potential has been completely exhausted.
It’s not just that there are no qualified supplementary troops, it’s not just that the soldiers lack training.
The commanders of these demons can no longer even guarantee that their troops can maintain operations.
The original force of 3,000 people now only has 1,400 or even 1,200 people. Even so, similar troops are still the main elite of the demon army.
As for the improvised armies, some of the troops required a strength of 5,000, but could only manage to make up 2,000.
Such a force, not to mention fighting, just barely maintains law and order, and may not have enough manpower.
What makes the devil even more desperate is that even at this point, the combat troops, which are seriously short of manpower, are still short of food and clothing, and they don't even have enough resources.
Let’s take the simplest example: when winter just started, the demons in the northern region replenished 115 sets of armor for every 1,000 soldiers. This is the material replenishment data on paper.
It can be seen that even from the whitewashed paper data, the war supplies obtained by the devil's front-line combat troops are already very scarce.
What is the actual situation? In fact, every 1,000 soldiers in the demon frontline combat troops can only obtain 70 sets of supplementary armors, and another 10 sets can be repaired and shipped back to the troops...
At the same time, the demon troops fighting on the front line consumed magic destruction arrows in battle, and the total daily consumption was about 3,000.
As a result, the number of magic destruction arrows added to the hands of the front-line combat troops was only 2,400. From here, it can be seen that the number of magic arrows in the hands of the demon troops has been decreasing.
The reduced number of arrows could only be filled with ordinary bows and arrows: the devil consumed 15,000 ordinary bows and arrows every day and replenished 16,700 arrows, barely maintaining the number of arrows for the front-line troops.
You know, the demons are always fighting a defensive battle, and they are constantly retreating, so magic destruction arrows, including other ordinary bows and arrows, are all consumable items and cannot be recycled and reused after the battle.
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The final result is that although the demon has increased the number of arrows it reserves on the front line, most of the arrows it stores are ordinary arrows, while the number of magic arrows is decreasing sharply.
Because the demon's logistics supplies have completely collapsed, front-line demon soldiers rarely have access to non-combat supplies such as cotton coats. Therefore, the demon army fights in the cold winter, and more soldiers freeze to death than die in battle.
There are almost no cotton-padded clothes to keep out the cold, and there is a lack of bows and arrows, and even armor cannot be equipped. Under such circumstances, talking about the fighting power of the demon clan is no different from joking.
Therefore, when the heavy armored grenadier troops of Ailanthil began to attack the demon's defense line, the demon troops were basically in a state of collapse.
Although the mountain road in the north is rugged, it has an end after all. When the forward troops of the Eilanhir Empire broke through several lines of defense stationed by demonic armies, a vast plain appeared in front of them.
This is the granary of the devil's north! It is fertile and fertile, with rivers crisscrossing it, and almost no dangerous terrain.
The desperate demon troops finally realized that all the favorable terrain they relied on had been captured by their opponents.
At the edge of a dry forest, a demon officer pressed the long sword on his waist and stared at the smoky mountain in the distance with a sad face. It was their last defensive position in the mountainous area.
At this moment, dozens of A-10 attack planes and three AC-130 gunships were firing continuously around the hilltop. He could clearly see the fire and smoke there.
He simply did not believe that anyone could come back alive from such a terrible attack, let alone that his companions could persist for a long time under such terrible firepower.
It is almost certain that the area there will be occupied by humans before noon, and the stubborn demons in the northern mountainous area will lose all their geographical advantages at almost the same time.
As an experienced demon commander, he can be sure that in a few hours, those terrifying human troops will arrive at his current location and drive the troops he leads out of the forest.
Then, those planes that linger like flies will swoop down from the sky and harvest their lives.
In just one afternoon at most, his 3,000-odd demon soldiers would be annihilated. There were corpses everywhere on the ground, and there were only a few soldiers left alive...
"Damn it..." He cursed, but there was nothing he could do. He was ordered to station here, train new soldiers and be prepared to defend this land.
But with the troops he has now, he simply cannot complete this arduous task! You know, the troops he commands are not 3,000 battle-hardened warriors!
He only has 500 elite demon soldiers in his hands, all of whom are veterans who have been with him for many years. The remaining 500 soldiers are considered qualified supplementary soldiers. Although they do not have much combat experience, they can be said to be strong and brave warriors.
Scholar.
But the other 2,000 or so people are basically farmers and other armed recruits with pitifully low combat effectiveness. They are just cannon fodder and destined to die!
He felt sorry for these soldiers. If he had allowed him to train for another three months, these soldiers could have learned a lot. At least in battle, they could rely on each other and face difficulties together.
But now, the new recruits have not been trained yet, and he has no time to continue training these people. In this case, the demon soldiers who have not been fully trained can only be wasted as cannon fodder.
"Sir! The trenches have been dug! We have also set up some covered bunkers in some areas..." A low-level officer came over and lowered his head to report on the layout of the defense line.
Following the officer's instructions, this demonic force established a line of defense along the edge of the forest. This line of defense was very concealed, but lacked sufficient firepower.
They don't have decent anti-aircraft guns, so they don't have air defense capabilities. Sadly, because of the existence of infrared detector devices, their hidden fortifications are actually not "hidden" at all.
The opponent will easily destroy these trenches, find the hiding demon troops and kill them one by one...
And they don’t have enough firearms to defend against the assault of the Eilandsil Empire troops: on the trench defense line on the edge of the entire forest, this demonic army only has 200 imitation Mauser 98k rifles!
This kind of firepower density is almost like a joke in the eyes of the Airanshir Empire's army.
"grown ups……"
"I know! Prepare to fight! Cheer up all the soldiers!" The demon officer gave the order helplessly, as if he was welcoming the arrival of death.
At this time, in the distance, a cavalryman riding an earth dragon beast approached quickly and stopped near the edge of the dry coniferous forest.
This demon soldier is wearing a gorgeous armor, but it is not the traditional pattern of demons. Although I don’t know when this pattern entered the demon army, those who are familiar with this pattern know that this is the direct line of Demon King Arisia.
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Yes, these armors all come from Elanthir, and are custom-made by Arisia herself for her own bodyguards.
An armor factory in the Airanhir Empire undertook this project and ordered a batch of exclusive armors for the demons. The number was an astonishing 20,000 sets.
The key is that it only took 3 days to produce these armors. The large-scale mechanical production lines gave these armors superior strength and almost perfect quality.
The knight stopped at the edge of the jungle, turned over and jumped off the earth dragon beast, then pressed his long sword and walked to the demon officer who was staring at him.
"Are you here to support us?" Seeing the knight approaching, the demon commander asked slowly.
Although he knew that the other party was unlikely to come here alone to support him in fighting the enemy, he still asked because he didn't want to hear other answers, the one that bothered him very much.
"I came under the Queen's order to convey the Queen's order to you." The knight said: "Put down your weapons and leave here! If you are willing, I can help you..."
