"Ye Zhen, one thousand against six thousand. What comes next depends on your skill. You have fifteen minutes to prepare!" Marquis Xingqing's voice came from the Command Flag in Ye Zhen's arms.
At the same time, Marquis Xingqing's rousing voice resounded throughout Ye Zhen's thousand-man force by some special means.
"The moment of the decisive battle has arrived! If we win this battle, every participant who holds an official post in their fief shall be promoted three ranks; those without an office shall receive one hundred thousand spirit stones. All who have no merit rank shall be granted one, while those who already have one shall rise by one rank!
"If you die in battle, all rewards shall be bestowed upon your children and kin, and the compensation shall be multiplied tenfold!"
Marquis Xingqing's words stirred every soldier into excited roars. Such rewards—especially a merit rank—were something ordinary people might never earn in their entire lives, yet today, they could attain them.
Even if they died, so long as they won, they could still obtain a merit rank.
In an instant, every soldier's eyes turned red.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
After three battle cries that shot straight into the heavens, Commander Yang abruptly gave the order. "Earth Bear Cavalry, immediately construct defensive fortifications!"
As he issued the order, Commander Yang gave Ye Zhen a meaningful glance. Clearly, he had received instructions.
"Roar! Roar! Roar!"
More than five hundred martial artists behind Commander Yang, each over two meters tall, suddenly began pounding their chests and roaring. Amid their roars, their muscles bulged chunk by chunk, while dreadful cracking sounds rang out from all over their bodies.
Silent earthen-yellow radiance began rising from the ground, curling around them.
In less than three breaths, these Earth Bear Cavalry members had forcibly grown from two