After dinner, the night passed uneventfully. Early the next morning, more than ten thousand cultivators gathered in the camp square. The Azure Cloud Sect was assembling its army of cultivators for a rally before launching the attack.
At the rally, Zhang Jinwu, a golden core late stage cultivator of the Azure Cloud Sect, laid out the arrangements for the day's operation and divided the more than ten thousand cultivators into groups.
According to Zhang Jinwu's arrangements, each squad consisted of thirty-odd cultivators, with two foundation establishment cultivators serving as captain and deputy captain. A force like the Liu Household Battle Team formed exactly one squad, with Liu Changxu's father, Liu Shihao, as captain and Liu Changxu as his deputy. A lineage force like the Wu Household's, however, with only one foundation establishment cultivator and fifteen qi refinement cultivators, had to join other lineages to form a squad.
Ten squads, totaling more than three hundred cultivators, formed a company, with two Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment Cultivators serving as commander and deputy commander. Both company commanders, however, were drawn from the Azure Cloud Sect's own core cultivators. This was mainly to reassure the lineage cultivators. After all, if commanders were chosen from the subordinate lineages, they would inevitably favor their own lineages during battle, damaging the Azure Cloud Sect's reputation. The sect had always been very careful in this regard.
Ten companies formed a battalion, with two golden core early stage cultivators serving as commander and deputy commander. Each battalion had three to four thousand cultivators and would attack in one direction under the leadership of two Azure Cloud Sect golden core cultivators.
Under the Azure Cloud Sect's arrangements, the Liu Household Battle Team was assigned to the Fifth Squadron of the Third Regiment.
When the two squadron commanders appointed by