"What's the situation like now?" Tilly asked.
"The enemies who intercepted the convoy were almost completely wiped out, and the demons who are still in the sky are fleeing. We should have won," Sylvie replied.
"It's a pity that I didn't have the chance to perform in the end." Andrea shrugged regretfully. "Looks like that senior demon lord was badly injured."
'Seagull' did not participate in the battle. Instead, it hovered in the clouds, guarding against the possible appearance of Hackzord or other Senior Demons. After all, the most effective way to deal with these demons with strange abilities was still Andrea's close-range sniping.
Unlike her dispirited companions, Sylvie heaved a sigh of relief.
She knew that this counterattack was not the same as the ambush against Sky Lord. The reason why the enemy could not detect the existence of 'Seagull' was because she was not on the plane at that time. Changes in the situation on the battlefield were transmitted through the Sigil of Listening. Even if she was constantly exposed to the vigilant Eye Demons, 'Seagull' would still disappear without a trace.
But this time, as they had to fight far away from the camp, she had to follow 'Seagull' in order to command the overall situation. It was also for this reason that if Sky Lord appeared with a new vigilant Eye Demon, 'Seagull' would also be discovered by them. In other words, only when Hackzord or other Senior Demons appeared alone could her attack achieve an unexpected effect.
Otherwise, it would be hard to predict how the battle would develop later on if he missed his target.
Hence, it was a good thing that they did not appear.
After all, there was nothing more worth celebrating than successfully completing a mission and returning safely at the same time.
"It's better if you don't take action. If Hackzord really comes, I don't think the convoy will be able to escape unscathed." Tilly shook her head helplessly. "I'm guessing that when Edith came up with this plan, she was probably betting that the freely moving vigilant Eye Demons are not something that can be immediately replenished. That's why Sky Lord did not dare to act rashly."
These words were practically what Sylvie was thinking.
She could not help but nod. As expected of the Princess Royal!
"Oh..." Tilly drilled out of the clouds, "Now that we've already won, let's confirm the result of the battle before leaving."
Sylvie was experienced in this kind of thing. Without the obstruction of obstacles, she only needed to use a little magic power to complete a rough survey of the battlefield.
However, the moment she came to this conclusion, she could not help but be stunned.
"Two thousand … No, close to three thousand …"
"Three thousand?" Vendy was surprised. "How can there be so many?"
"Those Mad Demons —" Sylvie looked at the hillside and took a deep breath. "They weren't coming for the convoy. They were fleeing in all directions!"
Only then did she notice the densely packed holes on the top of the mountain. Apparently, in order to reduce the consumption of fog, most of the enemies had burrowed into the ground and would only be awakened when there was a need to fight. But when the Fortress Monstrous Beasts collapsed, the Red Mist that had lost its source of supply quickly dissipated, and these demons faced a disaster.
They did not swarm out to eliminate the attackers, but because they sensed the dissipation of the fog. Driven by their instincts, they burrowed out of their hiding places and ran down the mountain, hoping to reach the next Red Mist supply point before they ran out of breath.
But whether it was Fine Sand City or Sedimentation Bay, they were too far away.
The world that had dissipated from the Red Mist became clean and clear again, but to the demons, it was an uninhabitable land of death. They did not run far before falling to the ground one after another, spreading out evenly at the foot of the hillside. Apart from a few Mad Demons who were equipped with gas tanks, most of them were silent.
The General Staff's judgment on this point was undoubtedly correct. Just like how Graycastle could not equip every soldier with a God's Stone of Retaliation, the enemy could not distribute the gas tanks and breathing devices to every Mad Demon. After mobilizing the fully equipped army to attack the human cities, only the troops that were originally active in the Red Mist area were left to guard this place.
If it had been two days later, the situation might have been completely different.
Even if they recruited drivers from outside the army, they still managed to launch a counterattack the day after the First Army retreated from Sedimentation Bay. It had to be said that this decision was extremely decisive.
"I think that the title of Pearl of the Northern Region will spread throughout the Four Kingdoms after this battle." Tilly curled her lips.
…
With a team of less than a hundred people, they had annihilated nearly three thousand enemies. They had only lost one steam truck and two Fires of Heaven, and there were no casualties among the combatants. This successful counterattack had boosted the morale of the First Army's headquarters, and even their voices when reporting work had become much louder.
But Edith did not show any satisfaction because of this. Almost on the same day that the news of victory reached Cage Mountain, she threw out the next step of the battle plan.
The plan immediately received the approval of the commander-in-chief, Iron Axe.
The convoy was even on the way back when they received the order to turn to Cage Mountain's West Pass. The truck carrying pure water for the Magic Cube met up with them halfway, and after rehydrating the entire team, they joined the convoy and drove west together.
The Air Knight returned to Thorn Town, and after a short preparation, he took off again and arrived at Cage Mountain Airport before nightfall.
At noon the next day, the convoy, which had been on the move for an entire day, entered the western border of the Kingdom of Wolfheart. As it was more difficult to avoid the potholes and other obstacles on the road at night, three more steam trucks were damaged along the way, and the remaining trucks were thrown into an attack on another Fortress-like Monstrous Beast without stopping.
Even though the demons had already realized that the humans had designs on these moving obelisks, they did not expect that in just a day and a half, the counterattack team had already completed the transfer across the Kingdom of Wolfheart. The other Fortress-like Monstrous Beast had just retreated into Gust Castle, and in the absence of external protection, the convoy withstood the attacks of a few patrolling Devilbeasts and approached within ten kilometers, where they lowered four Longsong Cannons.
The Air Knight once again played the role of a "hunter". With the tacit cooperation of Sylvie and Tilly, this group of rookies, who had only been on the battlefield for less than half a year, had almost replicated the process of the previous battle. Taking advantage of the fact that the enemy's aerial forces had made the cannons their primary target, they swooped down from above and instantly broke up the enemy's formation.
The Monstrous Beasts were blasted to smithereens by the cannons, and facing the convoy guarded by the God's Punishment Witches, the small number of Mad Demons did not have the ability to hold them back even if they got close.
On the third day, the enemy finally began to expand the defensive perimeter of the four cities, and sent people to destroy the simple hardened roads between the cities. However, the entire battle line was hundreds of kilometers long, and it was almost impossible to ensure that not even a drop of water could leak through. That day, the steam trucks drove through an area dozens of kilometers away from Fine Sand City, attracting the attention of the demons. Twenty-five 'Fires of Heaven' went around the towering Impassable Mountain Range according to plan, and directly charged into the rear of the Metalstone Ridge to strafe the supply line that transported the Red Mist.
It was also at this time that the effects of the two consecutive aerial battles and the overly long battle line on the demons gradually became apparent. By the time they had gathered enough Devilbeasts to rush to the scene, the Air Knight had already disappeared into the cold, howling sky.
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