Standing at the head of the city wall, looking at the dotted star fire in the distance, a look of anticipation appeared in Qing Yu’s eyes.
Gaju’s 150,000-strong army arrived outside Feiyun Pa*s this afternoon.
Due to the long and hasty march, the army was sleepy and not conducive to fighting. So they set up camp twenty miles outside Feiyun Pa*s and waited for tomorrow.
“I didn’t expect that these gra*slanders would still be able to build a camp, I thought they would only set up tents?” Qing Yu smiled a little strangely.
The Gra*slanders were nomadic people, living in large tents and building camps, which also refreshed Qing Yu’s impression of them somewhat.
“The people of the Golden Wolf Khan’s court have been fighting with our dynasty for many years, and some of the tactics and military techniques of the Central Plains have been emulated by them. The camp is not the only one that has been learnt from the past.” Xu Tiecheng said from the sidelines.
“Is that so?” A wry smile appeared at the corner of Qing Yu’s mouth, “Then have they ever learnt the night raids of the Central Plains war?”
“Just tonight, the enemy army has just marched in a hurry, the men are sleepy and the horses are tired, it’s just right for a night attack.”
Xu Tie Cheng smiled and hurriedly said, “Hold on, Daoist Master, the disadvantages of a hasty march are known to us, and the enemy army is also aware of them. I do not think that Gaju will allow us to do as we wish.”
Night raids and counter-night raids have always been an indispensable strategy in ancient warfare. Although a night attack can be a surprise kill, once it is seen, it is easy to be caught in a trap.
“It doesn’t matter, whether the enemy has a trick or not, it suits the poor dao’s heart.”
Qing Yu turned around and ordered, “Gu Dan, let the water corpses out of their cages. Let the Gra*slanders test the Water Corpse’s abilities today.”
Whether the night attack was seen or not, the darkness was perfect for the water corpse to attack. In the darkness of the night, even the gra*slanders, who were fierce by nature, would be scared when they encountered something as strange as a water corpse.
In a large battle, once a large number of soldiers become fearful, the battle is basically doomed.
Qing Yu did not know anything about ancient military, but he knew how to target a person’s weakness.
Gaju’s side may have been thinking of putting a plan in place, but it would never have occurred to him that Qing Yu never cared whether a night attack would be seen through.
“Daoist Master,” Gu Chen said with a bitter smile on his face, “We have never manipulated a large number of water corpses, but we have somewhat overlooked the fact that the number of water department pa*sages that manipulate water corpses is limited.”
Water corpses are not the kind of zombies in Resident Evil, they do not have their own mobility. If the water corpses were not manipulated, they would be no different from corpses.
Therefore, the person who controls them is the most important part.
In this Feiyun Pa*s, there are only a few hundred people in the Water Division who practise the “Zhou Liu Shui Power”, so even if one person manipulates 20 water corpses, they can only manipulate less than 20,000 water corpses.
It would be impossible for all of them to come out.
“Whatever, try to manipulate as many as you can, and if you feel forced to do so during the battle, you can just use the “Sword of Defeat”.” Qing Yu said casually.
The submerged dragon was the main event anyway, the water corpses were just an add-on.
“Yes.” Gu Chen immediately went down to prepare.
“The water corpse that Daoist Master is talking about, could it be ——” Xu Tie Cheng asked with some hesitation.
As the general stationed at the Flying Cloud Pa*s, he did know what the dead prisoners and captives that went underground were used for, but he did not know what would eventually become of them.
“Water corpses”, the term was not something decent at first hearing.
But Xu Tie Cheng had been prepared for it. After all, how could it be decent when it consumed a large number of dead prisoners and captives.
“Water corpse is the term used by ancient dust and others, if we really want to say it, poor Dao actually thinks that water ghost is more apt.”
Qing Yu looked up at the dark and windy sky tonight, “It’s a really nice night. I can’t see out of sight in the dark, so I don’t need to worry about the water corpse leaking out.”
The “Water Soul Formation” is also a kind of corpse refining technique, and if such a large scale of corpse refining were to get out, there would inevitably be all sorts of outside reproach.
The night was perfect for concealing the abnormalities of the water corpses. If the fire goes down after the battle, all the water corpses and human corpses will be reduced to dust.
When Qing Yu said this, the feeling in Xu Tie Cheng’s heart became stronger and stronger.
With the power and status of this Taoist master in Northern Zhou, he had to rely on the darkness to cover everything, so it was clear how evil the so-called water corpses would be.
But once he thought that it was the gra*slanders who encountered this evil water corpse, Xu Tiecheng had a few moments of anticipation in his heart.
Having dealt with the gra*slanders at the border for so many years, Xu Tie Cheng’s disgust and hatred for the gra*slanders was already buried in his bones. If it was possible to kill or injure a large number of gra*slanders, Xu Tie Cheng would be happy enough to wear a woman’s dress and do a Western lap dance.
As he was thinking, Xu Tie Cheng saw more swaying figures on the ground in the distance.
“That’s the water corpse?” Xu Tie Cheng said to himself.
The superior eyesight of a True Dan realm martial artist enabled Xu Tie Cheng to clearly see those swaying figures in the darkness.
The limbs were soft and weak, as if their bones had been drawn, and they were hobbling towards the wolf barbarian camp in the distance.
“Speed, it’s a disadvantage.” Qing Yu muttered to himself.
Water corpses, or water ghosts, had all their muscles and most of their organs turned into water spirits, with only a few organs such as skin and skeleton remaining.
This also led to the fact that the speed of a water ghost was a little slower than that of a normal human. Short bursts of energy can exceed the limits, but such bursts are difficult to sustain.
However, it is fortunate that there are people in the earth department who have opened up tunnels, enabling these water spirits to use them to approach the enemy camp.
Otherwise, a round of arrows would have caused many of the water spirits to fall.
“They’re really thinking of a counter-attack, the water spirits are at the gate and there’s no sentry to pa*s the signal.” Qing Yu laughed lightly as he looked at the continuous tents at the end of the ground.
It was so close, it would be a lie to say that the enemy hadn’t discovered the enemy attack. Even he, a military amateur, could see that there was a lie.
In fact, the men on the other side were also a little chagrined.
They had already spotted your night attack, so why were they so slow.
Normally a night attack is a cavalry raid, a charge and a fire, and then a run. With the speed of the cavalry, they would have been there in no time.
If it was a cavalry raid on the Northern Zhou side, they would have been in the enemy’s enclosure by now. However, the speed of these water spirits was even slower than that of a normal human, and they were no match for infantry, let alone cavalry.
As the leader of the tribal alliance, Gaju had waited a long time this night to see the enemy at his doorstep.
Thinking that these water spirits were taking their time and must have noticed that something was wrong, Gaju gave a direct order, “Attack and wipe out all these Chinese.”
“Lord Gaju, something is not right with these Midlanders.” The old shaman Alfanger said in a hurry.
“Something is not right, can’t I see that?” Gaju said unconcernedly, “Whatever the ruse, these nearly 20,000 people are no fake. I will behead them and cast their heads into the kind of human-headed kyo-kuan that the Chinese have, so that the Chinese will see the power of our people of Everlasting Heaven.”
