While Chen Huai'an plotted and calculated against the demonic forces on the Northern Frontline, scouting parties along the Barbarian Land's border frontlines also brought back intelligence, discovering the eastward advance of the demonic cultivator forces.
Most of these demonic cultivators' troop deployments matched the scenarios Yang Lingqing had previously simulated dynamically in her mind, though a small portion differed somewhat.
However, she had no intention of continuing to issue overall army orders. Instead, she handed battlefield command over to the frontlines, allowing the frontline generals to make their own adjustments and arrange their tactics.
After all, when two armies faced one another, it was absolutely no good thing for the rear commander, absent from the battlefield itself, to excessively interfere and micromanage based solely on battle reports and simulated analyses.
Yang Lingqing would issue orders and maintain control over the broader strategic deployment, but in the concrete implementation of battle orders, the frontline troops should be granted sufficient autonomy. That was the truly reasonable and efficient way to wage war.
Half a day after this force of demonic cultivators descended upon the Northwest, news of the first clash between the two armies came from the Southern Frontline.
The main force on this frontline consisted of cultivators from the Sun Clan of Yanlai City, who had come to provide support from the Central Region.
When the Dongfang Clan's immortal vessel crossed the border, this family power located along the northwestern edge of the Central Region learned that the Northwest had come under attack and the Yang Clan was in peril. Without the slightest hesitation, they dispatched a large number of their cultivators to provide aid.
Ordinary factions, upon hearing that the Northwest had suffered a surprise attack from the demonic path, might have needed to weigh the pros and cons.
But