The group had been away from the stronghold for two days. Finally, on this day, when the sun pierced through the dense fog, they saw from afar a gate piled together from rough timber, along with watchtowers and beacon towers.
This was at the foot of the mountain, while the military camp lay halfway up its slopes.
At a rough glance, there were around ten watchtowers in sight, each manned by two armored soldiers carrying bows.
Centered around this not particularly steep mountain, every place where one could climb up within a radius of nearly five hundred meters had been completely felled and burned clear. Even the larger rocks had been smashed apart, leaving the field of vision as open as possible.
At first glance, everything looked exceedingly crude.
But Li Shan secretly nodded when he saw it. In his younger days, he had gone out and seen the world, so he understood certain principles.
Before coming here, what worried him most was not anything else, but whether this so-called Heaven-Answering General was undeserving of his name—a mere straw-stuffed fool. His force might look vast and mighty, but if he lacked the ability to control it, military discipline would inevitably be lax.
But now, it seemed that although this place had been hastily built, it lacked nothing in terms of momentum.
Even in broad daylight, the piles of bonfires beneath the watchtowers still burned bright, their flames showing no hint of waning.
When the group came within a hundred meters of the watchtowers, the two armored soldiers who had been leading the way at the very front immediately stopped. Then the gates opened, and a squad of fifteen armored soldiers surged out. They stopped ten meters from the group and began asking whose command they belonged to.
After the situation