"Quick, start setting fires at once." After taking care of several Ice Legion soldiers, the captains immediately led their men in starting the blaze.
Every Xiya City soldier had brought a torch and a bundle of straw.
And this was something Nalant had instructed them to do.
Nalant knew the Xiya City soldiers were weaker than the Ice Legion soldiers.
So after charging into the Ice Legion camp, their first priority was not killing the enemy.
Because even if they could rely on surprise to kill a few more enemies, they were still facing the elite soldiers of the Ice Legion.
On top of that, the God of Ice was personally holding the line. Once the Ice Legion reacted and organized an effective counterattack...
Then the final outcome would only be the Xiya City soldiers fleeing in sorry disarray, or perhaps not even escaping at all, instead being surrounded and annihilated by the enemy.
So this first wave of fire-setting was extremely important: they had to do everything possible to create chaos inside the enemy camp.
They had to make it impossible for the enemy to organize an effective counterattack; even the God of Flame would be unable to restrain them in such a situation.
That way, everything they did tonight would already have achieved half its purpose.
And after that, they could take advantage of the chaos to harvest as many Ice Legion soldiers' lives as possible.
Very soon, as one Xiya City soldier after another threw straw and torches onto the tents, firelight gradually began to rise within the Ice Legion camp.
At first, the people in the camp did not notice, but as over a hundred tents were set ablaze, even a blind man would know something had happened in the camp.
And so, the Ice Legion