With battle imminent, the atmosphere in the Ice Cave Military Camp had grown noticeably tense. Unlike the usual bustle, everyone was making their final preparations for battle.
Chen Qianshu had worked through the night to develop fifteen bottles of potion and handed them to Jiang Hao. He had wanted to accompany the army, too, but Jiang Hao would never let someone so precious take that risk. He strictly forbade Chen Qianshu from setting so much as half a step outside the Ice Cave Military Camp and even assigned several Beast Tamers specifically to "protect" him.
The Dense Forest Area was relatively spacious, with a broad expanse of hills and grassland around its edges suitable for large armies to fight on. The terrain was higher in the west and lower in the east, with Frozen Canyon close to its western side and Wuji Pass to the north.
At that moment, Chen Xiaolin was leading the Logistics Department personnel in digging a pit less than three hundred meters from the forest. According to Jiang Hao's instructions, it did not need to be too deep, just deep enough to conceal a person standing upright, but it had to be large enough to hold three thousand people at once.
There happened to be a small river beside the pit, allowing water to be diverted into it. Did you think this was meant to deal with the Northern Barbarians? Wrong.
Jiang Hao then divided the ten thousand members of the Beast Tamer Battalion into two groups. One group of five thousand went straight through Frozen Canyon to the Dense Forest Area and hid behind the hills, while he personally led the other group toward Wuji Pass.
The commander of Beihai's fifty-thousand-strong army was named He Yi. He was He Qin's younger full brother and an