Jiang Yan Hai and the others discussed their defensive strategy. There was not much to discuss, really. For now, they would not even blow up the city walls, because they were certain the Taotie would attack again.
No one knew whether the Taotie had any new tricks up their sleeves. They now regarded the Taotie as intelligent creatures much like humans. At the very least, their reactions were far sharper than Red Mad Wolf's.
There was little to discuss regarding the defense. Yang Rui had already led his men in laying all the mines. The entire valley floor was mostly covered in broken stones, but with specialized machinery, planting the mines had been simple enough over the course of an afternoon.
All the mines had been configured for remote manual detonation. They could trigger every mine themselves, and even ordinary pressure mines that had been expired for many years could be modified. It was very simple.
Over the course of the afternoon, under drone surveillance, they planted roughly a thousand mines, forming a massive Minefield.
The minefield began roughly a hundred meters from the city wall and extended to around six hundred meters out, creating a mine zone some five hundred meters wide.
The mines were not laid densely across the ground. Instead, their explosive coverage had been precisely calculated. Once detonated, they would definitely give every Taotie quite a surprise.
Night soon fell completely. The weather had remained clear all day, and an almost full moon now hung in the sky. Yet although it was also a moon, according to the Data Analysis System, it was somewhat larger than Earth's moon.
"I never noticed before that the moon could be so beautiful," Commander Lin said softly.
"Perhaps before, all your attention was focused on how to defend against the