Looking at the brightly lit Nanhuo City in the distance, Jiang Zhong felt complicated. This was the first time he had failed since the great war between immortals and demons two hundred years ago.
In order to save face, he explained to everyone that this time he was defeated by his ancestors.
In fact, he was defeated by Ye Feng.
Although Ye Feng is Jiang Zhong's benefactor, he is the enemy of the entire demon clan. For the sake of the demon clan, he has to be an enemy of Ye Feng and his disciple Jiang Qi.
This failure made me doubt my position.
Is it right or wrong to send troops this time
No matter what his original intention was, letting hundreds of thousands of demon warriors die tragically in the abyss of South Fire City was a wrong decision.
Nangong Wei first thought of the siege tactics and said, "Lord Jiang Zhong, Nanhuo City is impregnable, and the magic defense array is even more unbreakable. Another attack will only increase casualties. Should we stop fighting first? When I say truce, I don't mean withdrawing troops, but stopping the attack and changing offense to defense. We should hold the Bevilia Plain and prevent them from leaving the city. Without the Bevilia Plain, they will have no food supply, and Nanhuo City will become a dead city."
General Ward was also unwilling to give up, and immediately agreed: "Changing from offense to defense is a good idea. Although we have suffered heavy losses, we still have 100,000 troops and can fight again. We must fight the human race to the end."
The Lord of the Left has always been in agreement with Nangong Wei and agreed with Nangong Wei's ideas.
He smiled awkwardly: "With our demon army stationed here, the human race will never be able to occupy the Bovilia Plain. Without the food of the Bovilia Plain, the human army will starve to death. The magic defense array of Nanhuo City is very powerful. We can't attack. It's a good idea to follow Lord Nangong's method and change offense to defense."
Jiang Zhong was still a little worried: "If it were ordinary people, our method of besieging the city would indeed be a good method, but the enemy's leader is Ye Feng, who is unfathomable and full of tricks. What if he leads the army to try to break through? We must be on guard."
General Ward sneered: "There is no magic defense array to protect them here. If they dare to rush out, they will die."
"We are not afraid of them coming out, we are afraid of them not coming out."
Seeing that everyone insisted on the siege tactic, Jiang Zhong had no other good ideas for the time being. He ordered, "Let all soldiers dig trenches, build fortifications, and carry out the siege plan. Also, Lord, we have suffered heavy casualties, and the morale of the army is low. We need fresh blood. Please draw new troops from your respective territories for reinforcement."
Nangong Wei said with embarrassment: "Lord Jiang Zhong, my army suffered the greatest loss. In total, we lost more than 200,000 soldiers. The garrisons in my cities are already very weak, and I can no longer draw new troops to support them."
The left lord shook his head and said, "I still have thousands of miles of desert to defend. There are many monsters and humans there. I'm afraid if I withdraw too many troops, they will rebel."
General Ward's eyes were a little timid: "Our northern army is already insufficient in strength. I have already notified the new Ice and Snow Lord to recruit another 50,000 troops."
Jiang Zhong knew that the heavy responsibility of recruiting new soldiers still fell on his shoulders.
He said seriously, "Lord Nangong, Lord Zuo, you two have vast territories, and a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even if your forces are weak, you can still recruit 30,000 soldiers each. General Huade and I will each recruit 50,000 soldiers. In this way, we can recruit 16 armies, allowing us to maintain 300,000 troops again, so that we can have an absolute advantage to crush the human coalition."
Nangong Wei and Zuo Lu looked at each other and had to agree.
"But this time we need to recruit troops from various cities, which will take us three days."
"It doesn't matter. We are just surrounding them but not attacking them. They dare not rush out for the time being."
The demons began a new round of troop deployment, which was proceeding at full speed.
Nangong Wei and Zuo Lu returned to their tent. Although the attack failed, Nangong Wei and Zuo Lu's troops suffered relatively few losses, while Jiang Zhong's army suffered the most losses, so Nangong Wei was in a good mood.
"Lord Nangong, I didn't expect these humans to be so cunning. They actually used the magic talisman formation of our ancestors, causing a large number of casualties among our warriors."
Nangong Weixiao's eyes flashed with a cunning look: "Failure this time may not be a bad thing."
Zuo Lu asked in confusion: "So many of our demon warriors were killed or injured, why did Lord Nangong say that?"
"You've been in the desert for so long that your brain has turned into sand. Compared with Jiang Zhong's losses, who suffered the most serious losses this time?"
"Of course it's Jiang Zhong. He had an army of more than 200,000 soldiers, and more than half of them were killed or wounded."
Nangong Wei could hardly hide his excitement. "Besides, they were the elite warriors that Jiang Zhong was proud of. He lost so many of them at once, and his military strength will be greatly reduced. Let's see if he dares to show off his military strength in front of me and ignore me, the leader of the Lord Alliance."
The left lord had a look of sudden enlightenment on his face, and exclaimed: "Brother Nangong, you actually used a trick of driving the tiger to swallow the wolf, brilliant, I was wondering why you let Jiang Zhong be the general of the coalition army."
Nangong Wei quickly signaled the left lord to lower his voice: "Don't talk nonsense, I didn't say that, this is all your own guess."
Although Nangong Wei suffered heavy losses, he had many cities and a total military force of up to one million. The loss of more than 200,000 soldiers did not shake his foundation. He just wanted Jiang Zhong to send out as many troops as possible to hide his strength.
Zuo Lu showed a cunning look. They were all hiding their strength, and Zuo Lu knew what Nangong Wei was thinking.
In General Ward's tent, General Ward sat in a chair, shaking a glass.
The amber wine glass emits a hazy glow under the light.
Gu Xiu lowered his voice and said, "My Lord is going to send another 50,000 men. These 50,000 men are actually nothing to us, but we are unwilling to give up. Nangong Wei, that old fox, still has hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, but he hides his strength and only sends another 30,000 men. We have lost so many brothers to help him capture the city."
General Ward waved his hand violently to stop Gu Xiu from continuing.
"I know everything you said, but Nangong Wei and I have the same goal. Our goal is to consume Jiang Zhong's troops, and we have achieved our goal."
Guman looked puzzled and asked, "Why should we consume Jiang Zhong's troops?"
General Ward sneered cruelly: "These human coalition forces are nothing in my eyes. The biggest enemy of our Ice and Snow City is not them, but..."
General Ward did not point out who the real enemy was, but Gu Xiu and Gu Man knew it well.