534 Sun Quan Army VS Undead Army 1 (1/2)
The shared injuries from Diaochan didn't affect other officers that had sworn allegiance to her as she limited the damage transfer to only Liu Yang and Li Feihong.
This was the perk of being the superior, who was acknowledged as an immortal liege. She could choose which vessels that would bear her injuries.
Had she been selfish, she could have transferred all damage to one person. However, that person would have died from soul injuries.
Diaochan understood the fundamental strength of her subordinates. She had faith that Li Feihong and Liu Yang could recover from the damage within a few months, which would be faster than weaker officers, who might need several years.
The sacrifice of the three strongest fighters might hinder the entire army as a whole, but it prevented unnecessary casualties.
Sun Quan was thankful that Diaochan didn't pass on the soul injuries to him and his officers. Or else, he would have been crippled.
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Zhuge Liang: ”By the way, where is Gan Ning's unit?”
Diaochan: ”His fleet is still far away from Guangling. That's odd. He should have gotten there last month.”
Diaochan: ”Never mind. I knew why he's delayed. He ran into a foreign cultivator, the queen of Wo at that.”
Diaochan: ”From their conversation, Gan Ning is doing well gaining the favor from the queen. We can let it slide for now.”
Guo Jia: ”Wo Country? I remember them. They're friendly islanders. We can leave them alone.”
Zhuge Liang: ”Give me the details of this country. Maybe we can trade with them to acquire extra resources for the southern campaign.”
The chat kept on going as Diaochan relayed her vision to the two strategists.
However, Sun Quan didn't pay attention to the current clan messages since he was busy organizing the troops to construct a fort. A big fight was coming.
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= Jiujiang County, East of Shouchun =
2 AM.
Jiujiang County was an agriculture county that specialized in farming. Farmlands were everywhere, yet a large wooden fort stood out like a sore thumb in the middle of farm fields. Spike barricades, trenches, and watchtowers formed three lines of defense toward the east.
Many days had passed since Sun Shangxiang's humiliating retreat. She swallowed her pride and helped Sun Quan constructing a defensive fort and traps for the upcoming battle.
They couldn't mobilize their armies due to the threat of Gan Ji.
But today, they received a piece of good news. Diaochan had successfully killed Gan Ji in Li Feihong's dimension.
Without Gan Ji or the threat of an 8-wing cultivator, Sun Quan and Sun Shangxiang were free to engage against the zombie horde.
Unfortunately, the news came a bit late. Before the sun had set, the zombie horde was already upon them.
A deep howl came from 250,000 remaining zombies who survived the collateral damage from the fight. When these monsters saw a large structure and various watchtowers, they screeched and began to run.
Despite being zombies, the running speed was on par with Usain Bolt.
On the other hand, skeletons formed ranks and marched forward as if they were trained as a proper army.
Their distance was 500 meters away from the first layer of fortress traps and barricades.
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100 Meters behind the first line of barricades, five hundred arrow towers linked together into a long wall for boarding 10,000 crossbowmen and 100 rookie snipers.
Behind these towers, several wooden bridges connected the formation of watchtowers to the second line of the defense mud wall. This was their escape route in the case that the undead army could break through their defense.
In front of the watchtowers, harvested paddy fields had been transformed into a 5-meter-deep and 50-meter-wide moat, protecting the east side of Sun Quan's new fort.
Inside the moat, underground water flooded the bottom moat, which turned the soil into a muddy swamp. Thousands of bamboo pikes pointed to the sky, waiting for any foolish invader to fall and be impaled by them. This was the giant pitfall trap waiting for the mindless zombies.
The preparation was set. The rest was up to the performance of the soldiers and their generals.
”Watch closely how my arrows hit.”
From one of the watchtowers, Sun Shangxiang demonstrated how to kill zombies by activating her homing arrows. Fifty silver arrows flew and created a glittering arc and precisely plunged the arrowheads into 50 zombies' foreheads.
50 targeted zombies collapsed with only one hit.
”See? You only need to aim at their heads.”
Huang Gai, who was standing by Sun Shangxiang's side, squinted his eyes to see the dead zombies from over 300 meters away.
”Are they dead?”
”Obviously.”
”But, princess… Our archers are not that accurate. A volley of 1,000 arrows usually hit only 400-500 soldiers, and only less than a half can precisely hit the heads.”
Huang Gai and his soldiers got used to ancient warfare tactics.
A platoon of 1,000 archers always fired their arrows at a targeted area at the same time, which was a common arrow volley. Archers only took aim when they were defending against a few enemies. Most of the time, they aimed at a general direction and fired randomly since most shots were likely to hit someone among a crowd of a chaotic battlefield.
The zombie army countered this tactic since their bodies could withstand projectiles. Only their brain was vulnerable.
”Use the guns,” Sun Shangxiang rolled her eyes, ”Diaochan's rifles are there for the tasks, right? Have the elite riflemen gun down those zombies. As for archers, be prepare to use cannons against those skeletons.”
Huang Gai nodded and relayed his order to his elites to swap out repeating crossbows for sniper rifles.
Although not many soldiers had trained with this weapon, a hundred snipers were enough to wither down running zombies.
100,000 Running zombies charged forward. 200 Meters remained until they would reach the first line of spike barricades.
*BANG*
*BANG*