After rushing over 200 miles, only less than 100,000 iron-armored demons survived to the bank of Weishui River …
Such a great loss shocked Sagus, the Monarch Abyss of demons.
Since the demon army appeared in the periphery of the Realm of Disasters over the past 2 years, they had been besieging cities and territories all the way. Although demon knights and wing demons might suffer a bit loss, the ground corps was always overwhelming. Taixia Country's army constantly retreated. Both parties rarely contacted each other on the frontline. In Wuzhou Province, Zhuzhou Province and Yinzhou Province of Taixia Country, few battles broke out between demon ground corps and Taixia Country's army. Even if they did, they were all small-scale. Additionally, all the forces that resisted demon corps on the ground were easily shattered by demon corps.
The demon corps composed of LV 9 fighters had completely surpassed any current corps in Taixia Country in terms of battle strength. Even the top 4 armies of Taixia Country couldn't establish such a powerful troop.
In such a situation, Sagus the Monarch Abyss of demons was full of ambition all the way here. In Sagus' opinion, besides knights, no other force in Taixia Country could stop the demon army's offensive in this holy war. As long as demon army could gain an absolute advantage on the ground, even though knights of Taixia Country could resist demons' attack for the time being, with the failure of Taixia Country's ground troops and a great number of population and cities being occupied by demons, the threat of knights of Taixia Country to demons would finally disappear.
Knights originated from the huge population of Taixia Country. What demons feared most about Taixia Country was not its current battle strength, but its endless war potential. The war potential of Taixia Country originated from the population of Taixia Country.
As long as demons could destroy the population advantage of Taixia Country with their ground troops, knights of Taixia Country would become rootless. Finally, the entire Taixia Country would be completely destroyed by demons in this holy war. By then, the new world that demons had been expecting would arrive.
This was the strategy of demons in the holy war against Taixia Country and the significance of the LV 9 demon corps — — to destroy the population advantage of Taixia Country in the shortest period through the super powerful ground corps of demons and shake the foundation and soil of Taixia Country that produced knights.
Before the holy war, demons had reached a conclusion through careful calculation — — as long as demons could reduce the population scale of Taixia Country to less than half of the current level, Taixia Country would not produce knights as fast as the consumption speed of Taixia Country's knights on the battlefield. By then, Taixia Country would gradually become weaker and fewer knights. Finally, Taixia Country would be exterminated by demons.
The situation facing Yezhou Province, Wuzhou Province, Zhuzhou Province and Yinzhou Province had completely verified the prediction of demons' higher-ups about this holy war — — as long as demon knights could stall knights of Taixia Country, the LV 9 demon corps would complete the attack and occupation of the population and cities of Taixia Country in the shortest period through the strategy of lightning war. Based on the large number of Hua population and cities that demons had captured, Heavens Reaching Empire supported by demons could appear on the Eastern Continent in the shortest period and gradually rival Taixia Country and become a force on the side of demons.
Sagus the Abyss Monarch thought that the ground corps of demons could be invincible in this holy war and would not meet any opponent or challenge. However, it was out of his imagination that the ground force of demons was severely beaten by Taixia Country at the bank of Weishui River soon after demon army occupied the 4 provinces of Taixia Country.
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem On the way, half of the almost invincible iron-armored demons of over 200 miles had been killed on the way before they saw a single person.
Before the war, the demon powers had already evaluated the influence of the industrial strength of Taixia Country and the new weapons that might appear in this holy war. However, the demon powers all agreed that as alchemist bombs were rare and expensive, the weapon that Taixia Country could use to pose the greatest threat to demon ground corps was white phosphorous gel incendiary bomb. In the competition between demons and Taixia Country in the Earth-elements Realm, Taixia Country had even put into the battlefield a miniaturized white phosphorous gel incendiary bomb which could be carried by individual soldiers. In the future, Taixia Country might equip troops of Taixia Country with such weapons on a large scale.
However, the so-called "large scale" in Taixia Country was just relative to the previous use of white phosphorous gel bombs. In the last holy war, Taixia Country mainly used white phosphorous gel bombs to equip airship troops. They were rarely used by ground troops. After seriously evaluating the manufacturing process of white phosphorous gel bombs and the small number of miniaturized white phosphorous gel bombs that were seized from the Earth-elements Realm, demon powers and elites all agreed that even though Taixia Country could equip ground troops with miniaturized white phosphorous gel bombs, they couldn't equip ground troops with miniaturized white phosphorous gel bombs on a large scale due to the limitation of manufacturing process, materials and cost. Even though they could equip Taixia Country with white phosphorous gel bombs, only military officers were qualified to do so. Given the scale of Taixia Country's army, each military officer above LV 6 could equip two white phosphorous gel bombs. It was already the limit of Taixia Country's industrial capability.
Although Taixia Country's white phosphorous gel bombs could bring trouble to the ground troops of demons, it was just a trouble. In front of the overwhelming army composed of LV 9 demon fighters, the few white phosphorous gel bombs that a few military officers of Taixia Country were equipped with were meaningless.
Fiery oil appeared after the holy war. Therefore, all the military officers and elites of demons had not imagined that the new fiery oil weapons could cause a great loss to the ground troops of demons.
Watching the flames that would pop out of the ground from time to time, Sagus instantly understood one thing — — the power of these new weapons produced by Taixia Country was out of one's imagination. Additionally, Taixia Country could easily equip a large number of troops with them.
In a fit of rage, Sagus crushed the armrest of his throne …
If Sagus knew how many incendiary mines had millions of engineer corps buried in the two banks of Weishui River and Helan Mountain Range in the past 2 months, he might be more shocked …
The battle in the sky and on the ground was still going on. The first head-on collision between demons and the army of Taixia Country would not come to an end so easily. All the iron-armored demons who rushed to the bank of Weishui River immediately dove into the icy Weishui River and swam towards the other bank after surviving the catastrophe.
Iron-armored demons were amphibious troops of demons. Besides outstanding battle strength on the ground, all the iron-armored demons were good at swimming. Although Weishui River was wide, it couldn't stop the army of iron-armored demons …
However, did Taixia Country only have so many trump cards?
The demon general didn't retreat even though the ground troops suffered a small setback. Under the pitch-black metal mask, Sagus' eyes flickered with ghostly fire. Closely after that, it waved its hand while over 20,000 wing demons flew out of the demon army towards Weishui River like a dark cloud …
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