Chapter 5330 Burning

Zhan Ying's tactics can be summed up in one word.

Delay.

Since the catastrophe began ten years ago, the human world has not been seriously injured so far.

The human army and the human cultivation world are still there.

As the home team, the human world can afford to delay. But the heavenly world, which is playing away, cannot afford to delay.

There is no need to delay for sixty or seventy years like the catastrophe more than 20,000 years ago.

In Zhan Ying's plan, now seeking a decisive battle with the main force of the heavenly world, the chances of winning are 50-50.

Once the war is delayed until this winter, when the heavy snow once again covers this ancient land, the balance of victory will tilt towards the human world.

If it can be delayed until next winter, the human world will have a 70% chance of winning.

As for how many civilians will be killed and how much land will be lost in his delay strategy, it is not in Zhan Ying's consideration.

In his heart, he only plans for victory, and everything else is secondary.

Now the battle of Niangzi Pass has only entered the first stage.

Only when the second line of defense of Niangzi Pass is breached, will the heaven and the human sides fall into a tug-of-war.

With Xu Kai's strength, it is not a problem to block the heaven for one or two months at Niangzi Pass.

Only when the third line of defense of Niangzi Pass, that is, the frontal Queguan of Niangzi Pass, is breached by the heaven, will Zhan Ying take action.

Niangzi Pass, early morning.

The billowing smoke has already covered the sky. The sun has risen in the east for nearly two hours. It is already dark inside and outside the Niangzi Pass defense line.

The first Qiankong Cliff defense line is raging with flames.

After burning for seven or eight days, the rock walls of Qiankong Cliff are all red at this moment.

The human warriors hidden in the depths of the cave were killed by heat and suffocated to the death of up to 10,000 people.

But they cannot abandon Qiankong Cliff.

Once the soldiers in the cave are withdrawn, the destruction army of the heaven will drive straight in and drive directly to the second line of defense.

The significance of the Qiankong Cliff defense line now is to rely on the tall mountains to prevent the fireballs ejected by the Legion of Destruction from directly hitting the second Wengcheng defense line of Niangzi Pass and the third Queguan defense line.

Now the Wengcheng defense line is in a state of emergency.

This wave of fighting started two days ago and has not stopped until now.

The solid defense line and many city walls have collapsed.

The bodies of both sides are piled up like a mountain in the collapse.

Obviously, in the past two days, both sides have been fighting for the collapsed gap repeatedly.

There are more than one hundred huge rolling logs, and less than half of them are still in operation. Two-thirds of the rolling logs have lost their combat power.

In close combat, human warriors have no advantage.

Especially in front of the giant warriors who are two or three feet tall, human warriors have no power to resist the hundreds of pounds of giant axes and maces wielding them.

The only way to kill the tenacious giant warriors is to cut their necks with a knife.

But they are too tall and the human warriors are too short.

The brave human warriors can only exchange their lives.

To surround and kill a giant warrior, four halberd soldiers, six rope soldiers, six springboard soldiers, and four crossbowmen are needed.

It is very difficult for twenty of the most elite human soldiers to knock down a giant warrior.

Under normal circumstances, human warriors can knock down and kill a giant warrior only after losing about thirty people.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of human warriors are heroically martyred.

The old Xu Kai's eyes are full of bloodshot at this moment.

Because of his age, he can't be as energetic as young people.

He didn't rest for two days and two nights, and he looked very tired.

As the commander-in-chief of the three armies, although he doesn't need to go to the battlefield, he is the most tiring.

Once the battle starts, the commander-in-chief must pay attention to the war at all times.

If the soldiers look back and can't see their own commander-in-chief, it will have a great impact on morale.

This is why, when the human world won the battle of Eagle Cliff ten years ago, Zhao Shiqu closed his eyes forever.

He was exhausted to death.

Fighting against the heavens is like sending soldiers into a meat grinder.

Humans, or rather, all living beings, have a fearful heart.

Every day, 200,000 to 300,000 people jump into this millstone, and there is no hope, which leads to deserters on the battlefield of Niangzi Pass.

Last night, the Seventh Legion, a general of Huwei with a 10,000-man army, was ordered to lead his troops to attack and seize a gap that had been occupied by the enemy.

As a result, the general fled from the battlefield because of fear after rushing halfway.

As a result, 10,000 elite soldiers in the world were leaderless. In just half an hour, more than half of them were lost.

Although the general Huwei and dozens of generals who retreated together were ordered to be beheaded by Xu Kai, and their heads were hung on the Queguan of the third line of defense, it still could not stop more and more generals from retreating from the battlefield.

From last night to this morning, in just five or six hours, Xu Kai killed hundreds of people who retreated from the battlefield.

These people are almost all generals above the rank of lieutenant. Most of them were born in noble families. It's OK to let them run around and eat, drink, gamble and have sex, but they are not cut out for fighting face to face with the terrifying giant army.

Now the second line of defense has piled up millions of giant corpses.

The pile of corpses is higher than the city wall, and the soldiers on both sides are fighting in the sea of ​​corpses and blood.

Xu Kai knew that this wave of attacks should end.

If the fight continues, I'm afraid that more and more people who are afraid of fighting will come.

So, he ordered to mobilize 2,000 barrels of fierce fire oil from the warehouse behind the defense line to burn these bodies.

In less than half an hour, the raging fire swept the entire second defense line inside and outside.

There were tens of thousands of elite soldiers in the human world and more than a thousand soldiers in the heavens, fighting, and no one expected the sky fire to fall.

It was too late to retreat.

These soldiers shouted and roared in the sea of ​​fire, and were gradually engulfed by the flames.

An Wenxiu saw that Xu Kai was so cruel that he dared to abandon more than 10,000 human soldiers in order to stop his attack.

Now the fire was raging and blocked the entire defense line. An Wenxiu wanted to continue the attack, but the adjutant said that there was not much fireproof liquid, which made An Wenxiu temporarily stop the war.

The army of the heaven retreated in an orderly manner. At the same time, the fireballs that had blocked the defense line of Qiankong Cliff for several days stopped spraying.

The entire battlefield was filled with the smell of burnt barbecue within a radius of 100 miles.

At the same time, the Sea of ​​Forgetfulness and the Black Witch Island.

The cultivators on earth have been repairing here for several days. The damaged Liuyun has been completely renovated by Xiaoqi and Guiyatou, two skilled craftsmen.

Now this ship is absolutely epoch-making.

The two girls borrowed the water-dividing bead that Zuo Qiu gave to Ye Xiaochuan from Ye Xiaochuan.

Then they carved many waterproof barrier arrays.

Now this ship can not only sail on the sea, but also dive underwater when encountering bad weather such as storms. As for the maximum diving depth, the two girls secretly said that it can dive at least a thousand feet.