"In the war ahead, anyone who dares desert again will be killed without mercy!"
Killing the chicken to scare the monkeys proved effective. Everyone feared death. If desertion meant certain death, they might as well fight for a chance. The battlefield changed in an instant; only the brave knew neither fear nor dread.
"Keep marching!"
The army set off again. Wang Jun and Wang Ming were brothers, and with Wang Ming dead, Wang Jun could no longer sit still.
"General He, my brother can't have died for nothing. I want revenge. But according to the soldiers who escaped, their entire force was routed by Jiang Hao alone. Do you believe that?"
"I certainly don't. Even if a Transcendent Master descended upon them, killing an army of two thousand in such a short time would be impossible. Jiang Hao is only a Divine Valor Realm fighter. How could he possibly be that capable?"
As they crossed the Red Wasteland, He Yi's gaze deepened. What sort of skill left no corpses behind? With power this great, it seemed he would have to be careful.
He had better not capsize in a gutter and let the enemy devour his fifty-thousand-strong army down to the last man. That would be quite the spectacle.
At that thought, He Yi beckoned. Shen Tianlong rode over on his Beast Pet. "What are your orders, General?"
"Send more men ahead to scout the enemy. Report every enemy movement to me, no matter how minor."
"Understood!"
The army set up camp thirty li from the Dense Forest Area, and somewhere between a dozen and twenty-odd scouts began reconnoitering the Shenzhou Self-Defense Army. Jiang Hao had long been prepared for this move. Besides deploying the entire Reconnaissance Division, he had also unleashed his deadly weapon: the Army Ants.
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