Loyalty (2)

Martial arts experts and armies were used in two different ways.

Martial arts experts were better suited for street fighting.

They excelled at fighting in complex environments.

Take Xin Zheng as an example.

Suppose there were three thousand Innate experts, deployed by a professional tactical master for street fighting. Without the opposing side receiving help from martial arts experts or Jianghu experts, even the Qin Kingdom, with its Tiger Wolf Army, could forget about taking Xin Zheng from the front.

There was only one possible method.

A siege.

Imagine a squad of a dozen or so Qin Kingdom soldiers. They might only need to enter an alley before never coming out again. Even an Innate martial artist's Internal Energy would eventually run dry in high-intensity combat, and their stamina would eventually fail. But with the seamless coordination of three thousand Innate martial artists, one group could rest while another continued fighting, adopting different tactics according to the battlefield and wearing down the enemy's living strength.

During the day, their primary methods would be interception and defense.

Innate martial artists were still human, after all.

They could still die under a volley of crossbow bolts.

But if only three to five bows or crossbows were trained on them,

in relatively open terrain,

they still posed no threat.

To pose a threat, there generally needed to be more than ten bows or crossbows.

And a certain number of armored soldiers were needed as well.

In other words, men responsible for close combat.

It could be said that even on open plains,

with no cover whatsoever,

surrounding and killing a single Innate martial artist required a normally equipped fifty-man squad. Any fewer would only be divided and eliminated one by one by the Innate martial artist, who could use superior mobility to wipe