After some brief training, the defenders of the Serpent's Spine opened the gates and advanced deep into the Townlong Steppes in a vast procession.
The defenders of the Serpent's Spine in the Kun-Lai Summit region were almost all members of the Shado-Pan.
They were all qualified kung fu pandas.
They all knew kung fu and could use chi to strengthen their punches and kicks.
But unlike the Pandaren Monks in the game, they did not carry two weapons on their backs as decorations while fighting enemies entirely with their fists and feet.
Sabers, spears, swords, poleaxes, heavy hammers, great axes, bows, and muskets-they were skilled with them all.
Any weapon that could kill enemies was acceptable to them!
Some Pandaren soldiers even brought old-fashioned artillery onto the battlefield.
Those old-fashioned cannons had wheels and carriages, allowing strong yaks to pull them along easily.
Those old-fashioned cannons might have looked outdated.
But the weight of the shells they fired spoke for itself.
An iron ball weighing over twenty kilograms could plow a bloody path strewn with severed limbs through the enemy ranks.
So on an actual battlefield, their power was still considerable!
Whether firing shrapnel shells or solid shot, they could deliver effective strikes.
Even though Herad had told them that lowering the anti-aircraft guns to fire horizontally worked wonders.
They still brought along the old equipment they had used for centuries.
Even with better replacements available, they still needed to use up the ammunition for those old cannons.
As the Pandaren army advanced through the Townlong Steppes, signs of plundering lay everywhere along the way.
The Mantid plundered everything they could see.
Edible fruit that was nearly ripe, and even edible fruit that was still unripe, had all been swept clean.
They did so despite knowing that the Pandaren had