Late at night on January 9th, Year 780 of the Imperial Calendar, a large red moon lifted up from behind a bare forest. The moon shone with the blood-red refraction of war and fire, and the smoke dimly shone on the Gray Water River.

Snow-covered ridges on both sides.

In the middle of the night, the demon garrison stationed at Wagga Ferry on the west bank of the Gray Water River felt the ground beneath them shaking and sinking. The demon soldiers who woke up from their sleep hurriedly jumped out of the tent barefoot and involuntarily let out terrifying screams.

Scream: "Glusi!" (Help!")

Like ghosts that suddenly appeared in the dark night, a square formation of 10,000 heavy armored cavalry was rushing towards them! The neatly packed black armored cavalry were like a steel wall, and like a mountain of swords and a sea of ​​swords rushing towards them, gloomy,

The dark wings stretched out silently, eerie and terrifying. The crackling and harsh sound of horse hooves came like thunder, and they were like a whirlwind, sweeping across and destroying everything. In front of this terrible torrent of destruction, the demon clan's fence,

The tents, houses, people and horses were destroyed like paper. The fleeing demon soldiers let out a scream of death and were crushed into powder by this torrent of steel...

The Stirling Legion began to launch a counterattack against the demons! In the early morning, 10,000 heavy-armored cavalry first robbed Wagga Ferry, cutting thousands of panicked demons into pieces. Immediately, beside the bodies of the demons,

, five pontoon bridges were erected on the Gray Water River, and the powerful infantry group quickly crossed the broad, largest river in the Far East. At dawn, Sterling's troops unexpectedly appeared under Pai City on the east bank of the Gray River.

The victory after victory has gone to the head of the demon commander Baron Muyi. The entire army had just drunk and caroused the night before, and they were so careless that they did not even arrange sentries. In the last darkness before dawn, large groups of human infantry quietly swarmed out.

Entering the sleeping and empty city, the tips of countless spears shone in the darkness, like sparks on the grassland. They quickly occupied the main traffic arteries in the city, blocked two city gates, and fired five thousand spears.

The strong bow and crossbow were aimed at the open camp gate.

Everything was ready, Commander Sterling gave the order: "Do it!" The soldiers began to pour fuel and throw torches, and the demon camp was suddenly engulfed in flames. Only a few demon soldiers remained awake.

They were able to escape the fire, and one by one they jumped out of the camp gate and shouted: "Dushala?" (What's going on?) What they answered was a sharp arrow that hit their eyes. More than 20,000 demons were sealed in the camp.

They were burned alive and choked to death in the camp. Some managed to escape with bare hands. What appeared in front of them were thousands of human soldiers armed with sharp blades and full of hatred. Sterling wanted to stop this fanatical massacre.

Action, but to no avail. Even the division commanders who ostensibly accepted the orders were disobeying the orders, secretly encouraging the soldiers: "Kill me!" In the end, Sterling could only send out his own guards, and frantically started from his own men.

He snatched a dozen demons alive under the butcher's knife: this was also the last survivor of the demon Mu Yi Legion.

We learned from the prisoners that three new teams of more than 10,000 demons are arriving. They came to the city of Pai to rendezvous with Baron Muyi, and they are expected to arrive today. After learning this precious information

Sterling kissed the dirty demonic hairy soldier on the spot, then felt disgusted and ordered: "Push him out and chop him!" He quickly ordered: put out the fire in the camp immediately, especially find a way

Rescued the demon uniforms and armor from the munitions warehouse...

In fact, the prisoner still didn't tell the truth: it was not three teams that arrived, but all ten teams of the Demon Orle Corps! When they arrived at Pai City, they found nothing unusual: the city gate was open,

There are a few guards standing lazily below, and some are basking in the sun on top of the city. Everything is normal, except for a thick black smoke column rising up over the city, and the smell of burnt meat is filling the air - but this is also normal.

Especially in areas just occupied by the demon army.

Legion Commander Ou Le frowned: That guy Mu Yi, he's still not tired of playing for so long! It's so bloody that he killed all the human prisoners. What entertainment are we doing here? He was so depressed that he didn't even notice that

Several demon soldiers guarding the city gate kept blinking and making faces at him. Because this is the home territory of the demon clan's rear area, and also because since the war began, the invincible demon army has not encountered anything at all.

Despite the decent resistance, Orle made the same mistake as Baron Mooy. He even omitted the marching procedure of sending a vanguard into the city to check. The army of more than 30,000 people just entered the city unsuspectingly, and the formation was loose.

The soldiers were chatting and laughing, and even put their weapons in their horse bags without taking them out.

Seeing that Ou Le's troops had already entered the city less than halfway, and even Ou Le himself was about to enter. The tragedy of beating the dog behind closed doors was about to happen again. A very patriotic demon prisoner couldn't bear it anymore and shouted: "Ou Le

Master Le, there is an ambush..." A sharp arrow shot out of nowhere quickly penetrated his throat, and he fell down with a "gurgling" sound in his throat.

The troops were in chaos, searching for the daring assassin. At this moment, a terrible "crunching" sound sounded: the heavy city gate gate suddenly fell, crushing several demon cavalry below to a pulp! At this time,

Ou Le himself was also in the city road and almost became a meat product. He exited angrily, pointing his fingers and yelling: "What's going on up there! It's crushing people to death, open the door quickly! Otherwise I will shoot you to death with an arrow!"

"An arrow flew and shot him to death.

Row after row of densely packed archers appeared on the top of the city, and arrows rained down on the unsuspecting Orle troops. For a moment, the people fell on their backs, and the suddenly closed city gate intercepted the Orle troops.

It became two sections that could not correspond to each other. The troops lost their commander and could not decide whether to advance or retreat, and became a mess. The same scene was also played out in the city. Human soldiers were ambushing on the roofs and in the waterways, and suddenly appeared to attack the unprotected march.

The demon soldiers on the street used arrows, spears, and knives to strike. The demon soldiers fled in panic, but fell into various traps one by one.

Someone on the top of the city shouted in the demon language: "You damn humans want to pretend to be our gods! Let me show you how awesome you are!"

The deputy commander of Orle Force was a slow-responsive 250. Until now, he thought it was a misunderstanding and shouted: "Don't shoot arrows, we are friendly forces!" The result was a denser rain of arrows and a burst of uproar.

Laugh. When he finally understood: "I've been fooled! It's a human being!" The anger of being fooled by human beings immediately burned his mind, and he shouted: "Avenge the adults! Kill them all!" Forcibly ordering himself had already caused heavy casualties.

His subordinates climbed up the city wall to attack the central army. The only result was that thousands more bodies were left under the city wall and they missed the opportunity to escape and retreat. When he finally realized that something was wrong, behind him,

The storm was thundering, and the dark human heavy-armored cavalry appeared from the dense forest behind again, killing them overwhelmingly... In this battle, not many of the Oral Legion could escape, especially those who had already entered the city.

Not even one of the vanguard troops escaped.

In one day, two legions of demons were wiped out with more than 50,000 troops. Sterling was still not satisfied. In order to achieve the maximum effect of shocking the demons, he sent his troops out to "demonstrate" and ordered them to "

Try to raise as many flags as possible!”

The quartermaster protested: "Sir, we don't have that many military flags!"

Sterling said impatiently: "Who said it has to be a military flag? It just needs to be a bamboo pole with a piece of cloth on top!"

Just your words will do. That evening, large human troops appeared on several roads in Dusha Province at the same time.

In the sunset, the mighty army was as powerful as a rainbow, with horses like dragons and men like tigers. The soldiers were dressed in razor-sharp uniforms and filled with murderous intent. Above their heads, a sea of ​​flags fluttered in the wind:

“Big discount on the first anniversary of the opening of Iben City’s No. 1 Department Store!”

"Bloody price! Clearance sale by jumping off the building!"

“Beautiful shampoo, black and shiny, no dandruff!”

"The little acne is gone! - Whitening cosmetics series!"

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Along the way, the small army of demons were frightened out of their wits by the sea of ​​flags flying in the distance: According to the practice of the human army, if a brigade has one military flag, then this at least has... They added their fingers before fleeing.

They counted their toes again and again, but still couldn't count them. Finally, they had to ask their companions to "lend me your fingers and count them together!" - They ran too early and didn't even notice these menacing and scary empty shells army just waiting.

As soon as the sun went down, I quickly rolled up my flag and took a small road and ran back to Pai City.

When the sun came up the next day, Sterling's troops wandered around the original place again, with many advertising flags flying above their heads, making the demons frightened: reinforcements were coming all the way!

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(Tang Chuan of later generations believed: "The main reason that allowed Sterling's conspiracy to succeed was that the demon spies were illiterate and could not tell the difference between military flags and advertising flags! It can be seen that the demon kingdom did not popularize education for all, which was their failure.

The root cause also proves from another aspect how wise and far-sighted the universal education policy of our great King of Light is. At least we will not let advertising fool us anymore - but then again, our King of Light himself

He is the biggest historical liar!")

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The spies went back and described such a terrifying scene to the Demon Clan headquarters: an astonishing number of human armies swooped in, overwhelming the world. In order to avoid the punishment of escaping from the battle, the remnant soldiers of Orle's army also came to help: "Yes, yes, we

We fought bravely, but there are so many enemies that the entire Gray River Plain is too crowded to stand. What can we do?" More than 100,000 people from the Stirling Army reported level by level.

It continuously reproduces automatically and becomes 200,000, 300,000, 400,000...and the number is still rising!

Moreover, according to intelligence, a steady stream of armies are approaching Maple Forest Danye, where the Demon God Emperor is stationed! What makes the Demon God Emperor’s escort officers crazy is that as soon as these armies approach a certain distance, they immediately disappear and disappear without a trace.

! This further proves that these cunning humans have ulterior motives: they must have been lurking in a hidden dense forest. Just waiting for His Majesty's imperial carriage to pass by, they will suddenly break out and fight with the Stirling troops entrenched in Pai City.

Cooperate inside and outside, and attack from the front and back! Isn't it often said in human military manuals? Capture the thief first and capture the king! First attack the opponent's command center, causing the whole army to shake and collapse, and finally defeat the opponent's peripheral troops one by one! This is the ABC of the art of war.

Got it!

Tiger of Purple River, you are so cunning! Fortunately, we have seen through your trick, and your conspiracy will never succeed!

Duke Leo, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard who was responsible for commanding all the escort troops, tremblingly begged the Demon God Emperor: "At present, the enemy general Sterling is arrogant and his troops are extremely powerful. Your Majesty is dedicated to controlling the world. It is really not appropriate to take the risk of an arrow in person.

I have the courage to ask Your Majesty to evacuate first..."

The God Emperor smiled lightly and said: "I don't need to avoid anyone."

The civil and military officials praised in unison, saying in unison: My emperor is so powerful that he is invincible in the world! Sterling is a clown who overestimates his own capabilities and dares to attack, and he will surely perish!

Amidst the sound of singing praises, the mysterious military advisor in black clothes and gauze standing behind the God Emperor sighed softly behind his mask: "Your Majesty, what if it is Zuo Jiaming who comes?"

The Demon God Emperor turned his head, and his voice was so soft that only Xiang Wuyue could hear: "Even if Prince Ming comes in person, I will still kill him off the horse." The God Emperor smiled lightly, his magnificent eyes were azure, as deep and unpredictable as the vastness.
Chapter completed!