On this occasion, as knights of Waii Subcontinent, even though they could not directly go to the frontlines and fight demons corps and demon general to death, they could also do many things. They could prevent some knights of demons and Three-eye Association from crossing Kalay Mountain Range and threatening the countries in the south of Kalay Mountain Range in a short period of time.
The demon general who had suffered a great loss in front of Nein City and outside Upton City adopted a strategy of advancing steadily step by step with demonized puppets as the vanguard. In such a strategy, the knights of demons and Three-eye Association became relatively stable. Therefore, knights of both parties maintained a stalemate over the past one month.
The demon general felt that it was sure to win the battle. It didn't want to risk its precious knights and fighters of demon corps in case of falling into the traps and pockets of humans.
As for the demon general, the army of 200 million demonized puppets was enough to flatten everything. Therefore, its elite forces could advance steadily behind the army of demonized puppets, which was the method to occupy Blackson Humans Corridor at the lowest cost.
As for these knights of southern countries, few of them would like to fight demon knights at the risk of their lives here.
If it wasn't for the honor and duty of a knight, perhaps most of the knights would have left this subcontinent.
September 4th. When the vanguard of demonized puppets officially walked out of Kalay Mountain Range, the overall situation in the southern countries of Blackson Humans Corridor deteriorated at once...
On the same day, Zhang Tie and the other human knights who were garrisoning in the south of Kalay Mountain Range were shocked. The evacuation began …
After retreating hundreds of miles, Zhang Tie boarded the fury-level airship for Jinyun Country with Elder Yuchen of Lan Clan and Elder Ge Qing of Ou Clan.
Like how the knights of Zhang Clan of Huaiyuan Palace used "Mu" as their unique family names, the knights of Lan Clan of Banxin Palace used "Yu" in the middle of their family names while the knights of Ou Clan of Chuixue Palace used "Ge" in the middle of their family names. The knight names of the two clans were also unique in the world.
Although Zhang Tie could fly all the way back to Jinyun Country from here, he didn't have enough time to fly back to Jinyun Country. However, Zhang Tie was not stupid enough to expose his real battle strength.
The airship that was going to pick up the three of them stopped at Silver Pine City, the capital of Riska Duchy, south of Kalay Mountain Range. Skar Principality was a small country. When they left Silverpine City by airship, except for the 40,000 city guards who were left here, the entire Silverpine City had been evacuated. The city had long since been deserted.
When the airship rose into the air, the 60,000 defenders of Silver Pine City straightened their waists, raised their heads, and gave a salute to the airship. After that, they watched the airship flying away with their eyes.
Standing on the deck of the airship, Zhang Tie watched the garrisons of Silverpine City with a complex mood.
These guards of Silverpine City were meant to be sacrificed. They would stay behind to fight the demons, in exchange for their lives. It was a chance for their families to leave Waii Sub-continent.
Each one who stayed here could have 5 family members leave Waii Sub-continent first. There were 20 days' grains for these garrisons in the city. As long as they could defend this city for 7 days under the siege of demonized puppets, they would be able to escape away.
7 days brought a faint hope to many people. Actually, after experiencing the battle in Selnes Theater of Operations, Zhang Tie knew that these people could not survive the siege of demonized puppets army and so many demon powerhouses. Even though these people could resist the siege of demonized puppets using the city-defense facilities of Silverpine City, they could barely stand 3 days, not to mention 7 days. However, the possibility of them holding out for three days was very small, let alone seven days. Additionally, they could barely stand 3 days, not to mention 7 days. Additionally, they could only delay a small part of the demonized puppets army. Most of the demonized puppets army would ignore the existence of this city and continue to advance towards the south.
Besides Silverpine City, all the other cities in the south of Kalay Mountain Range were the same. This iron-blood policy had been implemented since the first holy war against demons.
Was this policy fair? Zhang Tie didn't know that almost all of these human fighters who chose to die together with demons were commoners with average family conditions. None of those rich and powerful people would stay here to die. Zhang Tie didn't know whether it was unfair or not. Because not all the human fighters could stay here to die; neither did he have enough resources to ensure that everyone could leave here safely. As a decision-maker, he had to make a choice between staying here and leaving here. This choice followed the most primitive exchange rule, which was cold and realistic — — only with sacrifice could there be a new life. Everything was the simplest numbers game. A person could rely on the advantage of the city defense weapons and the city walls to eliminate at least five enemies. Therefore, the value of the warrior who stayed behind to defend the city was enough to make five of his family members leave.
Those commoners who didn't want to stay to defend the city or whose family members didn't want to stay to defend the city would have a slim chance to leave Waii Sub-continent. They would either be killed by the iron hoofs of demons or have to escape to those remote, uninhabited and unexplored regions far away from the city and depend on their luck to survive themselves.
The so-called priceless life and the dignity of life were so childish that they were almost laughable at this moment.
The Holy War told everyone that life had a price. Not only did it have a price, but it wasn't expensive either. The poorer one was, the cheaper the price would be.
As a knight who grew up from a grassroot, Zhang Tie couldn't recover his composure for a long time facing the fate of being harvested from so many grassroots.
"Let's go. It's everyone's choice. Even as knights, we could do nothing about many things. One's power is too trivial in the holy war. If you want to control more people's fates, you have to be more powerful!" Elder Yu Chen told Zhang Tie in a low voice on Zhang Tie's side. This Lan elder seemed to be able to understand Zhang Tie's complex mood.
Zhang Tie tightly clenched his fists. After taking in a deep breath, he followed Lan elder into the cabin.
Only with greater battle strength could one control more people's fates. Zhang Tie bore this sentence in mind. "Only by doing this could I control more people's fates."
After returning to the berth cabin of the airship, Zhang Tie directly entered the elements realm for cultivation.
…
3 days later, the fury-level airship landed in a passing city for replenishment. At midnight, they sensed a restless qi outside the airship. Zhang Tie woke up in the elements realm as he pushed open the hatch door. He walked out.
Elder Yu Chen of the Lan Clan and Elder Ge Qing of the Ou Clan had also finished their cultivation at almost the same time. They walked out of their cabins, and looked at each other.
"Let's go to the deck and take a look!" Elder Ge Qing said.
The three of them went to the deck. The night sky of the city had been dyed red by the soaring flames. The entire city was in chaos, and an aura of violence and slaughter was fermenting in the night. Like the fangs of a venomous snake, it pierced into the central nervous system of the city and began to inject poison, causing everything to become violent.
The captain of the airship came to the deck quickly with a solemn look.
"Report, there's a riot in Xinwu City. There are more and more mobs outside the airship base! "
"How long will it take for the airship to replenish its supply?" Zhang Tie asked.
"One and a half hours!"
"Tell the crew to be well prepared and replenish the supplies as soon as possible. After that, we will set off right away!" Zhang Tie ordered.
"Yes, sir!" The captain saluted. Then, he quickly left the deck of the airship and supervised the airship's replenishment.
"The human heart is sometimes more frightening than the devil race!" Elder Ou Geqing looked at the malevolent flames in the distance, shook his head and said.
"Many people would die in each holy war. In the last holy war, most of them were killed by humans instead of demons and Three-eye Association. Greedy Wolves accounted for one-fifth of the total number of deaths in the Holy War. Fear, resentment, these are all poisons that corrode people's hearts and make them more terrifying than demons! " Elder Lan Yuchen said with wisdom, "When facing the Devil Race, if the human race doesn't have a strong cohesiveness, more than half of the humans will kill each other before the Devil Race attacks!"
"Therefore, we have to go back to Taixia Country!" Ou Geqing said decisively, "We can't work with this brat."
Elder Yu Chen nodded.
Watching the flames outside the airship base silently, Zhang Tie narrowed his eyes...
...
1 hour later, before the airship completed its replenishment, the periphery of the airship base had been broken through by mobs. The outer walls were pushed down one after another while over 10,000 mobs poured in with various weapons.
Under the leadership of a senior officer, a team of fighters blocked those mobs in front of them.
At the sight of these fully-armed soldiers, those mobs stopped their footsteps at once.
"This is a military forbidden zone. No one is allowed to break in..." A military officer in glasses told those mobs loudly. Closely after that, he turned around and told his subordinates, "These people are all citizens of Xinwu City. They're not demons. Without my order, don't attack them!"
Those armored soldiers in long spears exchanged glances with each other.
The mobs slowed down their footsteps as they slowly approached these soldiers.
"There's an airship here. We also have the right to leave..." The leader of the mobs shouted loudly as he instigated the other mobs to surge towards those soldiers.
"You can leave; however, the airship here doesn't belong to you. You have no right to use it..." The young military officer in glasses reproached them in a righteous manner, "Please stop, don't come any closer!"
"We just want a chance to survive. As citizens of Xinwu City, we also have the right to leave …" The leader of the mobs tore off the buttons of his clothes, exposing his chest. After that, he patted his chest and continued to approach Zhang Tie, "It's all the blood of humans here. You haven't let demons shed a drop of blood. Do you want us to shed blood? Come and kill us, we're all citizens of Xinwu City. Come and kill us... "
"I'll say it again, please stop, this is a restricted military zone …" The young officer with glasses shouted with sweat all over his forehead, trying to make more people hear him as he watched the mob get closer and closer. Those soldiers behind him became more and more restless.
When the two parties were only a few meters away from each other, the young military officer in glasses still opened his arms and shouted...
"Demons have not reached here yet. Please calm down. Listen to me. You also have a chance to leave. Xinwu City should not be chaotic at this moment... "
An unusual light flashed across the eyes of the leader of the mobs as he suddenly sprung up. At the same time, a dagger appeared in his hand. Closely after that, the mobs ferociously stabbed the heart of the military officer in glasses with the dagger. The military officer goggled at that mobs who patted his own chest with an impassioned look with widely opened eyes. At this moment, the mobs who stabbed the dagger into his heart spurted out a lot of blood.
The young military officer wanted to say something; however, he couldn't utter it anymore.
With a grim look, the leader of the mobs drew out his dagger and stabbed it into the neck of the military officer who forbade those soldiers to attack them. Closely after that, the leader of the mobs directly stabbed into the neck of the military officer who forbade those soldiers from attacking them. Closely after that, the leader of the mobs fell onto the ground together with the military officer.
A stream of blood spurted out of the military officer's neck and sprayed onto the face of the mobs. Realizing that someone had started the attack, the mobs behind him swarmed forward at once and submerged those soldiers in the airship base in a split second.
In such a short distance, as long as those soldiers with long spears lost their initiative, they would be approached by the mobs who outnumbered them many times. That would be a disaster.
...
After stabbing dozens of times on the body and neck of the military officer in glasses, the leader's entire face was dyed red by the fresh blood that spurted out of the young military officer's neck.
The mobs climbed up. After that, he stamped the young military officer's glasses into pieces. After that, he wiped off the fresh blood on his face. After that, he drew out the saber from the waist of the young military officer and shouted, "Grab, all the airships. After grabbing them, you could leave here. Save the crew members. Drive the airships for us. Kill all the others. "
The leader of the mobs waved his arm while numerous people rushed towards those airships.
...
Standing on the high deck of the airship, Zhang Tie watched what happened in the distance distantly. He watched the young commissioned officer in glasses falling down with a blank look and being killed by those people whom he wanted to protect.
The lines on Zhang Tie's face gradually turned stiff...
...
The huge figure of the hurricane-level airship was very eye-catching in the airship base. Compared to the other small and medium-sized airships in the airship base, Zhang Tie's airship was really outstanding.
At the sight of Zhang Tie's fury-level airship, some leaders of the mobs' eyes gleamed. After exchanging a glance with each other, they ran towards Zhang Tie's airship at a high speed.
The entourage of the airship had formed a cordon outside the airship.
This airship was the battle airship of Hurricane Corps, the personal vehicle of the corps leader. Almost all the crew members were battle-hardened powerhouses and fighters. A lot of them were fighters above LV 10. Given their tough, iron-blooded qi and shiny weapons, those mobs who were running towards them stopped their footsteps.
"We're citizens of Xinwu City. This city has been taken over by the citizens committee composed of us. We want to requisition your airship!" The leader of the mobs watched that beautiful fury-level airship with greedy eyes as he slowed down his footsteps and shouted.
"Stop!" A dark-face commissioned officer said icily.
"I've told you that this city has been taken over by our citizens committee..." The leader of the mobs shouted as he walked with weird eyes.
"Ready!" The dark-face commissioned officer of Hurricane Corps just raised his hand and ordered those soldiers to prepare for the battle.
With a sound of "Huala", all the soldiers moved one step forward as they pointed their shiny weapons at those approaching mobs.
The mobs stopped their footsteps at once.
"What? Don't tell me you dare to attack us? Don't tell me you dare to kill the citizens of this city …" The leader of the mob did not stop. Instead, he repeated the same trick as he walked. He tore off his shirt and revealed his chest, "Come here if you have the guts. Come on, come on …"
The mobs started to clamor.
At this moment, the elders of Lan Clan and Ou Clan all fixated onto Zhang Tie's face...
With a glassy-eyed look, Zhang Tie just raised his hand while a battle qi flew out of his finger and blew up the leader of the mobs' body into pieces from dozens of meters away.
Zhang Tie opened his mouth icily as he issued an order, "Anyone who disturbs the supply of the airship within 50 m will be killed!"
Closely after Zhang Tie's order, those soldiers of Hurricane Corps had charged at the mobs like fierce tigers entering a flock of sheep. In the blink of an eye, the heads of those mobs in the front flew off one after another.
In less than 2 minutes, the area within 50 m around the airship had been cleared. The corpses of the mobs covered the ground. All the other mobs ran out of the airship while crying for their parents. After running far away, when they found that the guards of this airship didn't chase after them, they just watched their companions being turned into corpses within 50 m with pale faces. Nobody dared approach this airship anymore...
After another half an hour, the airship completed its supply. All the crew members and guards returned to the airship. Under the gaze of those mobs, the fury-level airship took off and left the rioting Xinwu City for Huaiyuan Palace overnight...
...
After passing by Kalay Mountain Range, the demon army rushed towards the south like a flood that swept across the land...
Cities collapsed one after another; countries perished one after another. The entire Waii Sub-continent was quivering under the attack of demons, causing people to suffer...
Hurricane Corps in Huaiyuan Prefecture started to evacuate in batches...
In late October, most of the countries and regions in the south of Kalay Mountain Range had collapsed.
At the end of November, all the major Hua clans in the north of Jinyun Country had evacuated...
At this moment, Zhang Tie gradually completed his preparation for the final fatal strike.
...
On November 23rd, in the temporary palace of the corps leader of Hurricane Corps...
"A part of the vanguard of the demon army has arrived at the north bank of Yuanjiang River 1 hour ago …" The director hurriedly came to Zhang Tie's office as he tried his best to report this news in a calm tone.
Zhang Tie put away his remote-sensing crystal. Just now, he had contacted his elder brother. All the family members were worried about his safety. In the past month, Zhang Tie's mom even told his elder brother to contact Zhang Tie three times a day so as to confirm that Zhang Tie was fine.
"Garrison troops of Hurricane Corps, board the airship right now and leave in 2 hours..."
"Yes, sir!" The director gave a salute towards Zhang Tie before turning around and leaving rapidly.
Zhang Tie stood up and glanced around this office for the last time before preparing to leave...
Right then, Heller's voice which had not contacted him for a long time appeared in Zhang Tie's mind, "Castle Lord, I think you should know a news!"
Zhang Tie didn't stop his footsteps as he asked Heller in his mind, "What news?"
"The mutated ptomaine miasma that you sent into Castle of Black Iron last time has already completed its second mutation..."
Zhang Tie's heart pounded as he stopped his footsteps at once...
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