(Don't disbelieve me—I really was rushing to finish my draft yesterday and worked until five in the morning. I just got carried away discussing the movie and lost track of time. Also, how many scenes were actually cut when the film was released domestically? When I watched The Warlords, I found that every explosive scene had been removed!)
Seeing Zhang Xiu and Zhang Ren each kill their way onto one of their warships, Huang Zu's expression immediately turned solemn. He had no idea whether the Wang Xuan Army's main force was here on the Mianshui River, but regardless, he had to do his best to suppress the two men without exposing Li Tong and Xu Chu.
Of course, that was assuming there were no other experts at the externalized Qi level here...
It would be best if he could kill the two of them!
People always had to have dreams. What difference was a life without dreams from being a salted fish? Of course, that wasn't exactly how Huang Zu put it, but that was what he meant deep down.
There actually weren't many soldiers on a single warship. The rowers were all on the lowest level and didn't participate in combat at all. In terms of soldiers who could actually fight, a tower ship could carry four or five hundred, while the smaller ships had only one or two hundred.
The ships Zhang Xiu and Zhang Ren had boarded were merely medium-sized warships carrying around two hundred soldiers. In theory, two hundred men couldn't possibly have any effect on generals at the externalized Qi level like Zhang Xiu and Zhang Ren. But that was only in theory.
Seeing that they couldn't withstand Zhang Xiu, the soldiers began retreating, withdrawing into the passages of the ship's tower to resist him