Of course, at the most critical moment, the left ear will still activate the Gengyang Golden Thunder Formation.
From the perspective of the demons, the human race's battle losses in Mozhang Ridge were only 10 to 20% lower than before. In the past year, the battlefield at the northern foot of Mozhang Ridge had devoured nearly 300 humans like a meat grinder. The lives of thousands of generals, but the battle losses of elite generals in the middle and late stages of Tongxuan realm have been reduced by 30%, the battle losses of basic military attachés in Piling realm have been reduced by 50%, and the losses of elite generals above Mingqiao realm have been greatly reduced. More than 60%.
The demon soldiers of the four demon palaces in Tiancheng Mountain, led by Taiguan, were greatly exhausted in the previous war. At the beginning of the meat grinder-like war of attrition in Demon Zhangling, they were able to stay in Beiling City, The area around Yangui City was resting, but this time in order to strengthen the offensive against the human race's eastern flank, half a million elite demon soldiers from the Niejing Palace were mobilized to participate in the war. However, they never thought that after more than ten days, they would lose their troops and be killed. After killing nearly 100,000 elite demon soldiers, demons such as Taiguan, Tuwu, Pandu, and Dantu were also heartbroken.
Although the material consumption of Mozhang Ridge is like a bottomless pit, as long as the war on the eastern and southern fronts is safe, Ji Jiangye and Yuan Zhou are already confident that they can defend Mozhang Ridge to the end.
At this time, the demon clan abandoned all the demon strongholds in front and withdrew to the Changping Fortress further north, presumably to terminate this attrition war in advance.
In the main city of Yantaiguan, Chen Hai also expanded a dozen workshops dedicated to military weapons on the basis of the original craftsmen's workshops. He also expanded the workshops on the Shanba Plain that extends for more than a hundred miles to the southwest of Yantaiguan. , raising tens of thousands of livestock for grazing.
There are three to four hundred thousand Rakshasa demon soldiers gathered in the demon stronghold. In addition to necessary duties, most of the Rakshasa demon soldiers have fallen into a deep sleep after chewing a meal of blood. After all, they have been on continuous duty. After several days of fierce fighting, even the extremely energetic Rakshasa demons could not withstand such exhaustion. A good sleep would help them better digest and absorb the essence of flesh and blood in their blood food.
During the same period, Chen Hai also focused on the Lingquefeng Mountain Basin Plain and the surrounding small and medium-sized valley basins, mainly on the families of the military attachés who borrowed aid from the Fusang Sea and the families of the generals in Beiling Town after their remarriage, with oxen, camels and horses. , plows and other agricultural tools, they have opened up more than 20 million grain fields. It is estimated that more than 2 billion kilograms of grain can be collected every year, which can basically meet the grain consumption of Beiling Town soldiers.
In the middle of the Demon Village is a stone temple built by the human race.
Under the cover of nearly 10,000 winged demons and an even larger number of elite demon cavalry, hundreds of thousands of remnants of the Rakshasa demon tribe slowly retreated towards the fortress two to three hundred miles away.
In addition, Tianying City has discovered two large Xuanyang iron ore veins on the edge of the Lingquefeng Mountain Basin Plain, which can produce four million kilograms of Xuanyang refined iron and one billion kilograms of ordinary copper and iron every year. In addition to the mining vehicles, rail baggage vehicles have also begun to be used. With two large mines and smelting sites, Tianying City only needs to invest a few thousand miners.
At the same time, a tragic battle had just ended on the eastern flank of Mozhang Ridge.
The light snow is beginning to clear, and the entire Yantaiguan Pass is covered with light snow for thousands of miles. Occasionally, black rocks are exposed in some places, like an exquisite ink painting, fresh and refined.
Hundreds of miles away, the Crow-Slaying Demon Lord, who had transformed into a giant man with a beard, stood on top of a blood-hoofed beast that was more than ten meters high. His gaze spanned hundreds of miles, staring at Ji Jiangye's confident face. , a ferocious blood glow leaked out of the demon pupils.
In the past, Tianying City was built at the northern foot of Dongdu Mountain, more than ten thousand miles away from the main headquarters of Beiling Town. In order to ensure that his lifeline was not lost, Chen Hai had to send a large number of elites to Dongdu Mountain to ensure that Tianying City was safe. This At the same time, it also seriously affects the development of Beiling Town's military potential.
On the outskirts of the Lingque Peak Mountain Basin Plain, the eight fortresses all deployed a forbidden-level defensive array and elite soldiers and horses ranging from three to five thousand. The biggest effect was that strong men of the Demon Lord level would suddenly come in, and they could fight with them. The Yuanxuan Great Formation delayed the powerful enemy for a period of time, allowing the Tianxuan Thunder Ship to rush over from the direction of Yantaiguan to rescue them in time.
The east wing defense line is centered on one city and four fortresses. The gates of each gate are opened, and the Tianji chariots rumble out, creating a pressing situation, forcing the demons to panic without any spare power to clean up the battlefield. withdraw.
In comparison, the manpower required to mine and smelt Xuanyang refined iron on this scale and ordinary copper and iron on a considerable scale in the Northwest Territory requires thirty or forty times more than in Tianying City.
Under Lingque Peak, there was once an ancient battlefield where the human and demon clans fought many bloody battles. The fierce battles like landslides and earth-shattering severely destroyed the terrain of two to three hundred miles around Lingque Peak. Coupled with the long-term erosion of the river, the In the deep mountains at the southwest foot of Mozhang Ridge, there is a mountain plain extending for more than 220 miles from east to west and more than 150 miles from north to south, with rivers such as Minchuan flowing through it.
It's just that in the eyes of the big clans, ordinary people are as small as ants. They don't think there is any need to improve by recruiting thirty or forty times more ants and ordinary people to mine ore and smelt copper and iron.
Just like at the beginning, Chen Hai did not want to personally lead the first battalion and take such a big risk to wander on the edge of the Black Hair Desert, but if he wanted to take care of Yunmen Fortress and Dongdu Mountain, he must bring the strongest combat power Conduct maneuver operations.
Ji Jiangye stood at the top of the city of Dong'an Pass, looking at the retreating figure of the Rakshasa demon clan, with quite a satisfied expression on his face.
Currently, a new Tianying City is being built under Lingque Peak. More than 80% of the craftsmen and craftsmen have moved here, which means that he can gather all the main soldiers and horses of Beiling Town to the western foot of Mozhang Ridge. Tactics will become more flexible and mobile.
The night was getting darker. Three hundred miles northeast of Dong'an Pass, a demonic fortress with a radius of ten miles was entrenched there like a man-eating beast.
In any case, although the wars in Yunmen Sai, Tengxiling and other places were still fierce, after a year of hard work, the hoarding army at the western foot of Mozhang Ridge had achieved some success.
The loss of men and horses in Beiling Town is much lower than that of other towns, but the loss of Tianji war machines is much higher than that of other towns. It has an annual output of more than 2,000 light and heavy Tianji chariots and six to seven thousand heavy-bore crossbows. , Tianying City, which has the capabilities of more than 60 wind flame airships, can be said to be the real lifeblood of Beiling Town.
However, the soldiers in Beiling Town are mainly elite generals of Tongxuan Realm. In addition to the consumption of grain, they also consume a lot of meat. Nearly one billion kilograms of meat are consumed every year. At present, Tianying City cannot raise meat poultry and meat animals. Provided, Chen Hai will also use the large and small valleys, mountains, dams, plains and basins in the depths of Mozhang Ridge to carry out land cultivation or grazing and raising livestock, ensuring that Mozhang Ridge can achieve self-sufficiency to a certain extent.
The main city of Yantaiguan is too close to the battlefield ahead, and the Yunmen Fortress was beaten to the ground. The main city of Yantaiguan is protected by the Ten Thousand Immortals and Demons Killing Formation, so it has little impact, but outside the city, five or six people follow them at every turn. It is like a magnitude earthquake, which is not conducive to farming, nor is it conducive to building houses to accommodate ordinary people. Even if it is to herd livestock, it can only raise a kind of fire-patterned bull with the slowest nerve response and not very easily frightened. It can slightly make up for the meat. shortcomings.
The war launched by the demons against the east wing defense line before winter completely arrived can be said to be the largest war this year. It lasted for a total of eleven days. The demon clan used two million demon soldiers to attack the east wing defense line in turns. Large and small fortresses.
There is no need to supervise the battle and calculate the results. The powerful spiritual consciousness of Ji Jiangye, Yuan Zhou and others have already seen every move that happened on the battlefield in the past few days.
Tu Wu's sharp voice, like iron scraping against each other, sounded in the main hall: "It has been five years since the Fourth Hall attacked Demon Deer Ridge. Even if the Fourth Hall could recruit a large number of demon soldiers and generals from the north, they have already accumulated There are 12 million elites who died in the battle before Demon Deer Ridge. The human race relies on the Heaven and Earth Formation, but their bodies are naturally weak. Even if the casualties are slightly smaller than us, the cumulative casualties are definitely more than 10 million. Logically speaking, the northwest The three sects of the Territory should be getting more and more exhausted as they fight, and in two or three years they may be completely unable to hold on and collapse—but, tell me, are there any signs that the Northwest Territory human race is unable to hold on?"
The Qianyuan Xuanji Formation is actually the same kind of formation as the Qianyuan Xuanji Formation used by the Ying clan to defend Yanjing, but it has one more Taoist-level Qianyuan Demonic Suppressing Pillar than the latter formation. This makes the defensive power of this Qianyuan Xuanji Formation in the true sense several times stronger, enough to prevent small-scale elite wing demons from raiding into the plains of Lingque Peak Mountain Basin.
However, in the eyes of Chen Hai, the black smoke pillars rising from the furnace behind Yantaiguan quite destroyed the picture in front of him. However, Sha Tianhe, Xie Jueyuan, and Huang Qiwei felt that these black smoke pillars were not thick enough and not enough. Not dark enough, not choking enough, not dense enough.
After the reconstruction of the three roads from the Pingmashan defense line to Mozhang Ridge was completed, and wheeled baggage vehicles were used to replace the traditional animal power, the demon clan then sent a small group of elite demon soldiers to infiltrate to the south of Mozhang Ridge. If you want to attack the human supply line, the gain outweighs the loss...
It has arrived in the early winter of the 37th year of Jianxing, and the preliminary construction of the new Tianying City under Lingque Peak has finally been completed.
Tianying City does not have a towering city wall that stretches for more than a hundred miles. Going down from the north slope of Lingque Peak, there are Tiangong Academy, the city guard office, a residential area where a population of 30 to 400,000 people live together, and hundreds of buildings. The workshop area consists of large and small factories, and the defense of Tianying City relies more on a strong fortress built at the gorge or dangerous peak outside the Shanba Plain to prevent infiltration attacks by small groups of demons.
The Gengyang Golden Thunder Formation is too dazzling and cannot be released at this time, but Chen Hai still deployed the Gengyang Golden Thunder Formation and the Qianyuan Xuanji Formation borrowed from the Nine Commanderies in the underground palace deep in the Lingque Peak Mountain. among.
In this battle, Ji's and Yuan's soldiers and horses on the east wing's defense line killed more than 300,000 elite demonic soldiers. Although our own losses were more than 200,000, with the popularity of Tianji war machines and new tactics The widespread promotion of the system has allowed ordinary people who are strong and healthy even without Tongxuan Realm cultivation to enter the battlefield to assist in combat. With the addition of heavy-duty Tianji chariots, they can display the talents of ordinary Mingqiao Realm and Dao Dan Realm generals on the battlefield. The strong wall operations that connected the battle formations and military lines were exerted, which reduced the losses of Ji's and Yuan's direct troops on the east flank defense line and the elite generals to a level unprecedented in the front.
In the stone palace, Taiguan, Tuwu, Pandu, Dantu, Yinli and other demon kings were sitting on tall king chairs made of demon dragon skulls, their faces as sinking as water.
The new Tianying City was built on the north side of Lingque Peak, in the center of the mountain plain.
Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er personally took action to drive away a group of winged demons who were trying to sneak across the Demon Deer Ridge on the eastern battlefield. They were standing high in the sky, looking at the spirit of vitality exuding even in the cold winter. Everyone in Yantaiguan is quite satisfied. If they can survive the catastrophe this time, this will be their core base for controlling Tianluo Valley.