A person who had expended a great deal of Verbal Truth power needed both sleep and meditation to recover as quickly as possible.
When sleep-deprived, the quality of meditation would be noticeably affected.
Therefore, rather than rushing into meditation, Zhou Xu chose to sleep for four hours first.
Four hours later, before dawn, the Imperial Guard successfully arrived at the grassland pass.
After four hours of deep sleep, Zhou Xu's mental state had clearly improved considerably.
"Shilke, you all get some rest too. Leave all subsequent defensive deployments to the Imperial Guard."
Although the Imperial Guard had also just endured an overnight march, they had at least never fought the Greenskin troops, so their condition was relatively better.
As professional soldiers, they could stay up all night for the sake of their mission without suffering any major problems.
After making these simple arrangements, Zhou Xu immediately began meditating again, racing against time.
At this stage, the troops of Great Zhou in this area amounted to only this much, plain and simple.
If they wanted to further improve their army's combat strength, they could only wait for reinforcements from Locke and the Lizardmen to arrive.
As for the Conscription Order Zhou Xu had issued before setting out...
Don't expect newly recruited soldiers to be of immediate use.
Even if they were fighting other human forces, things couldn't be this slapdash, let alone when their opponents were Greenskins with stronger troops.
Throwing them straight onto the battlefield the moment they were recruited—what difference was that from sending them to their deaths?
No matter how low the requirements, two months of basic training was still necessary.
Zhou Xu's Conscription Order was not for the battle at hand, but for the battles that would follow!
The appearance of Greenskin troops in the Northeast Region