It was Patience who ordered Colthello to slow down.
Her Cormyr sub-corps was the vanguard of the entire army, and its task was to determine a safe area within the city so that the follow-up troops could follow in.
After all, Cinderella is a city. Although the south gate where the army gathers is large, there is no way for tens of thousands of people to come in all at once.
If there is no particularly urgent action, it will take almost a day for an army of tens of thousands of people to enter the city. During this day, Patience had to find a way to ensure that the army's movement into the city would not be too disturbed.
Fortunately, those demons didn't have the awareness to rely on the city walls and gates to defend the city. According to intelligence, more than 10,000 demons are gathering in the center of Cinderella's city at this moment, waiting for the challenge from the human army.
This is good news. Moreover, not only Dane, but also Patience, she also saw a deeper reason - relying on the city walls and gates to defend and fight is obviously a more beneficial choice for the demons. They did not adopt this method, which seemed to mean that among this group of demons, there was no demon lord who could command all the demons, distribute military tasks, and fight in a unified way.
There is nothing to be afraid of without a demon lord and without an army with a unified command. Even if the natural individual combat power of the demon race is much stronger than that of humans, it cannot make up for this shortcoming.
What's more, the number of demon troops is far less than that of humans.
This attack on Cinderella, from all aspects, should be considered a sure thing, and the loss will not be too great.
This is why Dane would rather delay the rhythm of the war for so long than start the war in advance. He just wants to gain a certain amount of time and space for development, accumulate enough strength, and then wipe out Cinderella's demons with a crushing momentum.
Don't look at it as a waste of time, but this is actually the way to consume the least amount of time.
The advantages are enormous, but this war is still one that cannot be left to chance. An army composed of powerful creatures like demons, if they are not treated carefully, their flaws and weaknesses will be exposed carelessly, and if they are caught and bitten by others, then the problem is quite serious.
It is also true that Patience, the legion commander, walks on thin ice on the dilapidated streets of Cinderella. Seeing Colthello daring to advance so ferociously in the city, she was also a little worried, for fear that the guy's reckless actions would accidentally fall into the siege of demons, so she hurriedly let the vanguard team slow down. Take a step and wait for yourself to bring more troops to support.
Patience's judgment was correct. She made Colthello suspend his advance order, saving a regiment of soldiers.
Two hours after the Colthello unit stopped advancing, some abnormalities were discovered—the three ranger scout formations he sent forward all had no response, and none of the ranger alive returned.
Although Colthello's fighting style is more offensive, sometimes he will be more brave in battle, lacking some cautious attitude. But this does not mean that he is stupid. The scout formation in front failed to return the normal feedback information, and the significance of that could not be more obvious.
There are unknown dangers ahead!
Of course, there is a process for the scouts to give feedback. There may be some delays in the middle, which is relatively normal. There is no reply for at least two hours, which is not a particularly big deal.
But Colthello is not going to gamble with fate on this matter.
It might be too late to retreat now. If there is real danger, it is estimated that he is not far away. So, instead of being hit in a hasty retreat, it is better to stay in place, deal with it cautiously, and stand by for help at the same time.
With the Sword Dancers on the outside, the Rangers on the inside, and the Nightsabers on the side, Colthello formed his regiment into a defensive formation.
This saved his life and that of his men.
Ten minutes after his defensive formation was set up, thousands of demons suddenly appeared in front of his parking position!
Such a situation frightened Colthello into a cold sweat: If he hadn't obeyed Patience's order before and continued to move forward, he might plunge headlong into the encirclement circle of more than a thousand demons. At that time, in the case of being raided in multiple directions, it will be called "responsibility every day, and the ground will not work."
Fortunately, that kind of thing didn't happen. The current formation of his wing is pretty good. Although there are no heavy troops in his troops, and the defense is not comparable to the heavy infantry of the White Wolf Guard, at least he is not worried about being attacked from behind or from the flanks. In the case of an attack, this battle can still be fought.
The first to show off must be the ranger troops. More than four hundred rangers, after those demons appeared, put the arrows in their hands on the bows and arrows immediately, and under the orders of the officers, they released a round of shots from all the spirit rangers level is unquestionable. Those roaring demons were directly harvested and taken away by the arrow rain.
On the spot, at least hundreds of demons were hit by arrows.
However, it is here that the horror of the demon army is reflected—their individual strength is indeed powerful. Hundreds of demons were hit by arrows, but a large number of demons were attacked, but they did not directly lose their fighting power because of this. Many demons who were hit by arrows became even more violent.
In this round of shooting, the number of demons that were actually taken away seemed to be less than fifty.
Colthello felt a little egg pain. The speed of the demon sprint is very fast, and with the help of the ruins of the buildings around the street, when these demons launch a surprise attack, they are already relatively close.
The speed is fast and the distance is close, so there is less space for rangers to shoot and carry out long-range strikes.
This has a relatively large impact on Colthello's army. Among his vanguard troops, the ranger troops are the most powerful. If the power of long-range shooting is difficult to display, then this battle will indeed be difficult to fight.
"Prepare for the onslaught! Ranger troops free to pick and choose targets to shoot!"
Colthello can only issue such an order. I hope that the elite rangers can grab more opportunities to shoot arrows before the impact of demons when they are free to shoot, so as to reduce the number of demons as much as possible and reduce the number of demons. impact.
However, the bad news didn't stop there. When the rangers fired a volley, were loading arrows, and had not had time to shoot a second round of bows and arrows, a scream came from the sky.
Looking up, Colthello saw a large number of demons flying out from the ruins of the buildings on the street!