Just as Xie Liancheng had predicted, it was an oasis.
"Look over there. They're all desert plants. Once we bring those desert plants back, our mission this time will basically be complete."
Xie Liancheng said this with a beaming smile toward Zhou Chongshan.
There was hardly any sign of tension on him.
That was because, during the previous battle, he had essentially confirmed that the Snakefolk's way of thinking was quite different from that of humanity.
Humans believed that the border could not be breached, so their armies and powerful forces were stationed at the border to repel foreign enemies. Once the border was breached, the situation would be grim.
The Snakefolk, however, were different. The powerful Snakefolk occupied the best locations, while the barren strongholds on the outskirts, which had few resources, were left to the useless weaklings.
The stronghold before them had been assigned to precisely those weaklings.
There was nothing to hesitate over. They simply had to charge in and kill them all.
The Snakefolk who had only just fled back had never imagined that the Vanguard Iron Cavalry would arrive so quickly.
Their previous crushing defeat was still fresh in their minds. Now that they had only just escaped back to the stronghold, how could they possibly dare to fight another battle? They turned around and burrowed into the sand, fleeing.
Xie Liancheng and Zhou Chongshan did not think much of this outcome.
Their forces were limited to begin with on this mission, so there was no possibility of surrounding and killing all the Snakefolk.
Now that they had taken this stronghold, their objective had been achieved, and that was enough.
Afterward, Xie Liancheng and Zhou Chongshan's attention first fell on the buildings inside the oasis.
Although those "houses" were visibly crude, built merely by piling