Chapter 557: A Difficult Battle In the summer of the twenty-first year of the imperial calendar, the source realm was full of death, in just three months, the three countries of the Longmian Continent had killed nearly five million soldiers in total, if it was placed in the past, this level of casualties was enough to cause the rout of the entire war, but this war was a test of all life in the entire source realm, and no one could retreat in this war.
Of the five million soldiers killed, the Empire and the Bright Realm accounted for one-half of the share, and both countries lost about 1.3 million soldiers.
Among them, the Empire is mainly because the Empire is the absolute main force of this war, they have always been at the forefront of the battlefield and the most fierce fighting area, and a large number of Imperial soldiers lost their lives in the battle with the most elite Hell Alchemist of the Hell Legion.
As for the Bright Realm, although their battles were also very heroic, due to the lack of equipment and the confusion of personnel command, even if they resisted those legions composed of low-level demons, they had already suffered heavy casualties.
However, the most casualties are still the Dark Realms, but they are also the force with the fewest casualties, as mentioned earlier, the puppet soldiers are not actually human, although they have the appearance of humans, they are actually biological weapons made by Baimon using genetic technology.
On the battlefield, the puppet soldiers cooperate much better with the Imperial Army than the Lord Alliance organized by the Light Realm, although the military ability of their commanders is uneven, and there are often situations where the entire dark army is surrounded by demons and sneak attacks, but the fighting style that does not care about sacrifice makes them more able to keep up with the Empire than the lords sent by the Light Realm.
In the course of three months, the Empire had advanced two hundred kilometers to the Gates of Hell, and now at least half of the land in the New World had fallen into the hands of the Empire and the Light and Darkness countries, and it had to be mentioned in this battle that the lords of the Light and Dark Realms were the most powerful forces in this war besides the Empire, but at the beginning these forces did not show their strength.
The lords, these nobles who were supposed to preside over the production in the Longmian Continent, forcibly participated in the war after the war started in the New World, in fact, after the first announcement of the war merit reward system between the two countries of light and darkness, the lords had already begun to move.
In the past twenty years, the lords who were born in the era of peace have all grown old, and the young people who inherited their positions are full of ambition, whether it is the country of light or the country of darkness, both countries do not limit the number of private armies of the lords, and in order to protect themselves in this war-torn world, the lords have maintained a large number of weapons all year round.
Normally, these money-burning machine lords would never use it easily, but now that even the gods have personally come forward to promise, if this war is won, then even the lords will covet the benefits after that.
In the past, under the suppression of the gods, most of the battles between the lords could only be resolved through negotiation, but the lords could never make their territory bigger by negotiation.
Every lord knows that only a sword can conquer land, and the opportunity to use a sword is naturally not missed.
The lords of the Kingdom of Light and the Kingdom of Darkness were finally able to lead their private armies to the New World under strong demand, but the images of galloping across the frontier in their dreams did not appear in reality.
The demons' attacks were far more ferocious than they could have imagined, and they were not only well-armed and disciplined, but even their understanding of warfare was not inferior to that of the average human officer.
The lords were brutally slaughtered by those middle-level demons who were called inferior demons at the beginning, and as for the lords who encountered the hell refining demons, they never returned to the camp in the kingdom of light.
In just half a month, more than forty lords of the Kingdom of Light and the Kingdom of Darkness were killed by demons, and in addition to those who died in the frontal battlefield, a large number of them were assassinated when the demons attacked the camps of the two countries.
Some half-elemental demons known as shadow demons are constantly trying to infiltrate human camps these days, and they are not only secretive in their actions, but also able to analyze the status relationship between humans from the aspects of clothing and action.
These demons never attack low-ranking human soldiers, and their favorite thing is to destroy those important humans by brutal means.
Combined with the above reasons, the lords thoroughly realized the cruelty of this war in half a month, and some people who were not strong in their minds tried to withdraw from the battle and return to the territory.
It's just that it is absolutely impossible to quit at this time, and the gods of light and darkness, the agreement they made with the lords before, has become a shackle that imprisons them at this time.
Either the whole army is destroyed or triumphant, and no one can leave the New World where only the Empire can provide transportation, and no warrior fighting in the New World will sympathize with those who have escaped, and if these lords are allowed to return, then the other eager lords will also retreat.
In this way, in the next two months, those lords who once had infinite ambitions experienced the most cruel baptism of their lives, not only had to wear the same armor as the soldiers, but also had to truly advance and retreat together with their own soldiers.
Only by doing so can you avoid the hunt of those shadow demons, and only by fighting in exchange for meritorious deeds can you get supplies, the empire at this time for the two countries to open the merit exchange service, almost can be said to be the savior of all lords, only by obtaining more powerful equipment, can it be possible to survive on this continent.
After two full months of bloody fighting, both light and darkness have undergone an important tempering on the part of the army, and now they can no longer only clean up the missing demons within the defense line established by the Empire, and these soldiers can even hold the line for a certain period of time in place of the Imperial army when it is not a time when the demons are attacking in a big way.
At the forefront of the battle in the New World, a battlefield full of potholes baptized by shells was emitting white gunsmoke.
The Empire's air force and howitzer units had just cleansed the area, and at least nearly 10,000 Hell Alchemists had been torn to shreds by the attack.
However, the battle in this area did not end there, in fact, due to the limitations of transportation capacity and productivity, it was impossible for the Empire to pour precious ammunition on every low-level demon.
"Attack!"
A large number of inferior demons roared into this position with scimitars, their bodies and spine with sharp bone spurs, and when countless inferior demons buried their heads and charged, large bone spurs looked unusually white in the sun.
"Prepare to defend against demonic attacks!"
A human officer with a beard that hadn't been trimmed for an unknown number of days yelled loudly.
On his position, the soldiers wearing leather armor that could no longer be seen clearly were quickly opening the safety of the energy rifles in their hands, and placing magic crystal bullets around them.
Soon, the inferior demons who were running at speeds of more than sixty kilometers per hour approached the range of the soldiers, and the human soldiers did not hesitate to raise their energy rifles and pull the trigger on the demons.
Bursts of light continued to reap the lives of the inferior demons, and from the backs of the soldiers, a faint white cross could be seen.
This is an army from the realm of light, although they are now able to skillfully use energy weapons to slaughter low-level demons, but the lethality of ordinary energy rifles against hell refining demons is not fatal, if hell refining appears among the demons in the attacking position, then these soldiers will not be as easy as they are now.
The defense went smoothly for the first half hour, and ten times the number of inferior demons of the human race fell on this position, but it seemed that the good luck of this group of soldiers today seemed to have come to an end, and some tall hell refining demons began to mingle with those inferior demons and launched a charge towards the human position.
Nearly three meters tall, the Hell Demons look full of strength, their strong muscles not only have no of them bulky, but they are much faster than those inferior demons in terms of movement speed, as the best combat weapons in Hell today, these Hell Demons are wearing armor made of magic metal, when the human soldier's energy rifle hits his body, those armor will always burst out with a burst of light to cancel out most of the damage.
After the Hell Refining Demon subdued their bodies, they were attacked in a similar area as the Inferior Demon, and the speed and defense of these Hell Refining Demons allowed them to leap into the human position before the human soldiers could consume the enchanting power of their armor.
At this time, those human soldiers who raised their guns and shot in the trench instantly transformed from slaughterers to slaughtered, and just ordinary standard leather armor was as fragile as a piece of paper in front of the Hell Refining Demons.
The huge scimitar in the hand of a Hell Alchemist easily cut off several human soldiers around him with one blow, and in the midst of the blood, the Hell Alchemist let out a roar of pleasure, and under his control, more and more inferior demons rushed to the position.
The fierce melee lasted less than three minutes, and the army of this bright kingdom was not far from being wiped out at this time.
And at this time, suddenly a large number of shadow arrows flew from afar, and these dark magics that should have been immune to the Hell Refining Demon actually produced a stun effect after hitting the Hell Refining Demon, and those big demons were immediately killed by the human soldiers around them with energy rifles and magic crystal bombs in the process of being dizzy.
The line gradually solidified again, and the Dark Lord Vincent appeared on the ground on a fiery nightmare, and after a cold glance at the Light Soldiers, who had been killed and wounded, Vincent spoke.
"Your defense mission is complete, and we will take over this position."
The Dark Lord said in an icy tone, but his attitude did not anger the Light Soldiers.
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Actions are always more powerful than words, and if Baron Vincent deliberately slowed down just now, or did not give the order to attack, then by the time they arrived at the position, all the soldiers of light would have been turned into minced meat.
After a military salute to Baron Vincent, the tired soldiers began to slowly retreat, and a large number of puppet soldiers and dark mages replenished the position.