Chapter 3376: Consumption Begins
Mastiff Feng saw it clearly. Knowing the cost of launching another large-scale soul attack.
"What if we can kill their leader named Ye Liuyun in one go?" an elder asked.
"Qi Sang and Yu Lei both failed! He must be the hardest one to kill. There is probably a protective treasure in the Consciousness Sea! And it is said that he has also cultivated the soul source, and the power of the soul is not weak at all!"
Although Mastiff Feng thinks Ye Liuyun is more difficult to kill, he doesn't think he can't. He was just waiting for Ye Liuyun to reach their lair and kill them in one fell swoop.
Therefore, even if other elders suggested it now, he would not send a small number of strong men to die.
Qi Sang and Yu Lei have not completed their missions, so there is no point in sending more powerful souls. It is better to wait and take action together.
Therefore, he just asked all the assembled troops to meet the enemy, trying not to separate and not give Ye Liuyun a chance to defeat each one. He knew that Ye Liuyun had few soldiers, so he could only rely on men to make up for the disadvantages of equipment.
After several months of preparation, the number of demon soldiers has returned to tens of millions. It's just that the newly recruited soldiers have not been trained or tempered in battles, so their combat effectiveness will be relatively poor, and they can only be used to build up their momentum.
Ye Liuyun's army, headed by the demon army led by Heishan, directly launched an attack on a planet in the Holy Demon Galaxy.
The demons here still have a tribal system, and the demons originally lived in a relatively loose manner. But after hearing the news that they were coming to attack, they had already gathered together and formed a mighty army of one million demons.
However, the strength of this demon army is far inferior to that of the regular army. Montenegro did not use the help of other armies, and led the demon army to kill, capture prisoners, and seize resources. With their army of more than 300,000 people, they cleaned up the entire planet.
A large number of prisoners they eliminated were handed over to the Death Army for training. Xiao Heng and Jiang Yuanhai's army just followed behind to watch the fun and had no chance to take action.
In such a simple battle, the army will not use fire chariots in order to save energy. It is enough to deal with it with powerful crossbows.
Therefore, the demon army in Montenegro has so many resources that they will never run out. The realm is improving rapidly. The realms of Heishan and other commanders have already reached the ninth level of Guiyi. The former veterans have also improved to the eighth level.
They will not train the newly captured surrendered soldiers who are of low level. Instead, they will concentrate all their resources on the original veterans and high-level demon soldiers to continuously improve the strength of the elite soldiers.
Therefore, at present, their 200,000 elite soldiers are basically at the 18th or 9th level.
The cannon fodder army is a constant survival of the fittest. Those with high levels will be eliminated while those with low levels come in. The eliminated soldiers became their food and training resources.
The strength of the soldiers of the Death Legion improved much more slowly. Yu Xiaofeng and other commanders had not yet reached the late stage of Guiyi. The soldiers' realm had only improved rapidly to the sixth level of Guiyi.
The main reason is that there are too many of them, and the resources are not much when averaged out.
Moreover, the Death Legion spent a long time practicing in the space world and had little time to fight. Ye Liuyun also wanted to retain as many Death Legion soldiers as possible. After all, these soldiers had higher fighting qualities, so they gradually improved more and more slowly.
"You still need to practice more. Some injuries are inevitable! If you continue to practice, the Death Army will become the forbidden army of the Fire Seal Dynasty!"
Yu Xiaofeng was also discussing with Ye Liuyun, wanting the Death Legion to train more and exchange the harvested demon resources for some training resources.
So Ye Liuyun was finally willing to let the Death Army go out to practice, and this time even the female soldiers were let out to practice.
He let the demon army stand firm on this planet and sent the death army and female soldiers out to sweep the surrounding planets. The armies of Xiao Heng and Li Zhaoyuan were followed by the Death Army to provide them with backup.
The Death Legion and the female soldiers went out to train this time. They didn't even use the crossbows. Instead, they directly fought against the demons, so the casualties were high.
They wiped out the demons on the four surrounding planets. When they returned, only ten of the Death Army were left.
Ten thousand people, with only 8,500 female soldiers left.
This level of battle damage even shocked Ye Liuyun. At this rate, after the entire Holy Demon Galaxy is defeated, there will only be a few people left in these two teams.
"Some consumption is normal. Although the casualties are larger, the strength of the soldiers has improved rapidly, and their combat effectiveness has also improved."
Yu Xiaofeng was also afraid that Ye Liuyun would be reluctant to leave him again, so he kept trying to enlighten him.
Qin Peng, Tie Jun and others also persuaded Ye Liuyun: "It is difficult for soldiers to grow without tempering. Only if they have personally experienced a life-and-death battle can they have the motivation to improve their strength!"
"Okay! But you still need to take some rest, and you can't fight continuously!"
Ye Liuyun finally had no choice but to agree. He also knew that he had to let these soldiers practice on their own in order to improve faster.
Then the Death Legion and the female soldiers also began to rest in place and restore their true energy. The black-armored elite soldiers and the armies of Xiao Heng and Li Zhaoyuan continued to expand to the surrounding areas and sweep away the demon planet.
However, as soon as they occupied two planets, the demon clan's tens of millions of troops came over. So they had to withdraw.
"Ten million troops! It seems that even if we can win this battle, the casualties will not be small!"
Several commanders, including Ye Liuyun and Yu Xiaofeng, estimated that the demon clan's military strength was ten times theirs, which was a huge gap.
Even if they had an advantage in equipment, they were no match for them. They could only fight and retreat, and then use the old method of sneak attacks from time to time to wear down the patience of this army bit by bit.
So in the first battle, they sent Xiao Heng and Li Daoyuan's army out, and Ye Liuyun led the black-armored elite soldiers to guard the planet ahead to meet the enemy, but they only used fire chariots and strong crossbows to attack, fighting and retreating, and would not confront the demons head-on.
However, this time the demons had sufficient troops, and a hundred thousand troops charged directly at the beginning, and there were also large armies surrounding them on both sides, and they were not too dispersed.
Ye Liuyun also felt that there was no chance to attack any of the armies, so he simply intercepted them and kept retreating with the army. After roughly using fire chariots and strong crossbows to kill 30,000 to 40,000 demon soldiers, they withdrew from that planet.
The demon army did not stop to reorganize, but relied on its advantage in strength to let the legion that was responsible for the charge rest, while the other armies continued to pursue.
Therefore, the planet where Ye Liuyun and his troops were stationed soon could not be defended, and the entire army retreated into the starry sky.
The demon army used the same method, the legions that attacked before reorganized and followed, and the other legions continued to advance towards Ye Liuyun and his troops.
However, in the starry sky, Ye Liuyun and his troops had a more obvious advantage. Their warships were fast, and they had a greater advantage whether retreating or attacking.