"Rest where you are for a day. After nightfall, we set out!"
Yang Mingzhi gave the order.
A night of battle was not to the point of leaving the soldiers utterly exhausted, but this was their first time taking part in combat of such intensity. They needed time to sum up and digest the experience they had gained in battle.
Of course, they also needed time to rest, replenish supplies, and recover arrows.
The arrows used by strong archers were not ordinary arrows either. Their arrowheads were forged from Earth Fire Steel by the Zhu Family of Dihuo Island, their shafts were made from branches of the Ten-Thousand-Year Banyan, and their fletching was made from goose feathers.
Strong bows were extremely difficult to make, and the making of arrows also took a great deal of painstaking effort.
Over these three years, Yang Mingzhi had not only been training strong archers; he had also been researching the craft of making strong bows and arrows.
To make a set of bow and arrows and train a strong archer—the difficulty involved was beyond imagination.
With the Yang Family's resources and foundation, Yang Mingzhi had spent three years and still only trained these thousand strong archers. From this, one could see just how difficult it was to train strong archers.
Placed among other forces, let alone a thousand, even three or four hundred would be extremely rare.
Previously, the Shenmu Sect had fewer than four hundred strong archers. Was it because they did not want to train more strong archers?
Of course not!
It was because they had no ability to train more strong archers.
Moreover, there were still some differences between the Shenmu Sect's strong archers and the Yang Family's strong archers. The Shenmu Sect's strong archers could only be counted as the