"My lord, we've found out. They're men from the Pingyi Border Defense Camp, personally led by Chen Keping—the man who tore up your documents requesting assistance in suppressing the water demons twice in a row!"
Liu Feng's report caused the temperature inside the command tent to plummet. Especially Heavenly Patrol General Feng Jiumo, who had been beaten and humiliated by the mob—at the mention of Chen Keping's name, his teeth ground together in fury.
"What is this Chen fellow doing here?" Ye Zhen's expression turned incomparably grim as well. Fine, he had come—but he had brought a hundred thousand troops with him.
One had to know that the garrison troops of a border defense camp and the soldiers of North Sea Commandery were not on the same level at all.
Among the North Sea Commandery troops, most soldiers were at the Soul Sea Realm. In the border defense camp, however, Pulse Forging Realm soldiers were the mainstream. Moreover, the border defense camp's equipment was entirely standardized.
Although things like Flame Spirit Demon-Exploding Crossbows were not plentiful, Peak Fire Repeating Crossbows and standardized Spirit Weapons were standard issue.
Basically, the power a standardized High-grade Spirit Weapon could unleash in the hands of a Pulse Forging Realm martial artist was absolutely several times greater than in the hands of a Soul Sea Realm martial artist.
Furthermore, the soldiers of the border army camp were trained far better than the North Sea Commandery troops, and were much more proficient in the methods of coordinated battle formations.
Without hesitation, it could be said that even fifty thousand border army soldiers could defeat a hundred thousand North Sea Commandery troops, so long as their commander did not have a pig's brain—even if both sides possessed the same equipment.
This was different from fighting the water