Building Camp at Every Step

The next day, the snowstorm stopped. The snow inside and outside Eskil City had piled up to a foot deep. Though the air was still freezing, all of Eskil seemed to slowly come to a boil like the boiler of a steam engine set ablaze.

One hundred thousand warriors of the Icefield Giant Bear Tribe, over twenty thousand former City Guards of Eskil City, and another one hundred and eighty thousand able-bodied young men who had fled from Eskil City—three hundred thousand people in all—began advancing toward the core area around Iron Bear Fortress in Eskil City.

The five thousand cavalrymen of Thor's Hammer swept through the six main thoroughfares of Eskil City once more and achieved considerable results. After the cavalry withdrew from the city, sixty thousand Icefield Giant Bear Tribe warriors entered Eskil City simultaneously through its six gates and began clearing out the demonized puppets within.

The warriors of the Berserk Bear Battalion, the strongest force, were divided into six units to serve as the spearhead troops clearing out the demonized puppets in Eskil City. Each unit had fifteen hundred men, while the remaining thousand served as reserves, waiting outside the city and ready to enter battle at any moment.

At Zhang Tie's request, these ten thousand Berserk Bear Battalion warriors, each above Level 6, had all changed into heavy plate armor supplied by the Spencer Family, weighing over 160 kilograms. Every one of them stuffed himself into a steel can of plate armor, then took up a broadsword or a giant axe as the vanguard.

Advancing alongside the Berserk Bear Battalion were several hundred shield carts that had been hastily manufactured overnight. The fronts of these shield carts were made of two layers of riveted, thickened steel plates, studded with sharp metal spikes and rams. The