Xu Yang took the Hundred Battles Battalion's request very seriously.
As the supreme commander of Mountain Pass, he personally wrote a letter and sent it to the 66th Elite Legion in the far west.
After all, the Far East Army and the Far West Army belonged to two entirely separate systems, though both obeyed the unified deployment orders of Dao-Suppressing Pass.
At present, on the Mountain Pass defensive line, Xu Yang was the undisputed supreme commander of the three legions and the Mountain Pass garrison.
The marshals of the other two legions also had to obey Xu Yang's orders.
The Far East Army's Fourth Legion was easy enough to deal with, since the Hundred Battles Battalion was itself an elite unit of the Fourth Legion. The Far West Army's 66th Legion, however, would be somewhat more troublesome.
That was precisely why Xu Yang had written the letter himself.
Now, a full thousand men had been selected from the three legions to join the Far East Army's Fourth Legion's Hundred Battles Battalion. Their purpose was to cover the Scout Battalion as it investigated Outer Dao enemy activity within four hundred li beyond the pass.
The Outer Dao tide a year ago had pushed this resistance, which had lasted more than three thousand years, into a period of unprecedented tension.
Every scout sent beyond the pass went with his heart in his throat, terrified of encountering that most horrifying scene again.
Shen Ce stood before the Hundred Battles Battalion's camp.
With his single eye, he surveyed the thousand elite soldiers before him, drawn from the three legions.
The Fourth Legion's main force had transferred three hundred capable men, while Mountain Pass's 1056th Legion had contributed two hundred veterans.
This time, Xu Yang's letter had clearly carried considerable weight with the Far West