Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1058: Responding to Change with the Unchanged (Part )

For someone whose mantra power is severely depleted and who wants to recover as quickly as possible, sleep and meditation are equally important.

Without enough sleep, the quality of meditation will be significantly affected.

Therefore, compared to starting meditation in a hurry, Zhou Xu chose to sleep for four hours first.

Four hours later, before daybreak, the Guards successfully arrived at the grassland pass.

After four hours of deep sleep, Zhou Xu's overall mental state was obviously much better.

"Silk, you guys should take a rest as well. The subsequent defense deployment tasks will be handed over to the Royal Guards."

Although the Guards had just experienced an all-night journey, they had never fought with the greenskin troops and were in relatively good condition.

As professional soldiers, if the mission requires them to stay up all night, basically nothing serious will happen.

After making simple arrangements for this matter, Zhou Xu immediately began to meditate every second.

At this stage, to put it bluntly, the military strength of the Great Zhou in this area is just this much.

If you want to improve the combat effectiveness of your troops, you can only wait for the reinforcements from Locke and the Lizardmen to arrive.

As for the conscription order Zhou Xu issued before setting out...

Don't expect the newly recruited soldiers to be useful immediately.

Even when fighting against other human forces, they would not be so sloppy, not to mention that the opponent is the greenskins with stronger troops.

Sending them into the battlefield right after they are recruited is no different from committing suicide.
No matter how low the requirements are, two months of basic training is still necessary.

Zhou Xu's conscription order was not for the current battle, but for subsequent battles!
The appearance of green-skinned troops in the Northeast is enough to show that something new must have happened here that they are not aware of, and it is estimated that there will be unrest in the future.

Knowing this, whether it is the subsequent troop replenishment, or the defense tasks after repelling the greenskin troops and regaining lost territory, or even some military actions they may need to take later, more troops will be needed to support them.

Recruiting soldiers now is for preparation for the future, not for the battle at hand.

Zhou Xu started meditating after arranging the deployment of the Imperial Guards in the early morning, and continued meditating until noon.

After feeling that his meditation state was beginning to decline, he temporarily ended his meditation, ate something, and asked about the latest situation. Next, he planned to take a two-hour nap and then get up to meditate again.

For him at this moment, the two most important things are sleeping and meditation.

After all, if a battle breaks out before the Lizardmen's reinforcements arrive, how much mantra power he recovers will directly affect the actual combat effectiveness of the troops here.

For the entire day, the greenskin troops on the opposite side did not make any moves.

I don't know if it's because of the battle last night that they need time to rest, or if the other side is planning to use the same old trick again and take action after nightfall using the advantage of night vision...

Taking this into consideration, Zhou Xu simply adjusted the daytime troop deployment so that more soldiers could rest more during the day in case of possible battles breaking out at night.

During this process, Qiansui, who had been in a coma since last night, was awakened by hunger.

When Zhou Xu went over, it was eating its meal with a pitiful look on its face.

After seeing Zhou Xu, it ignored the injuries on its body and immediately struggled to run over. In the process, many wounds that had just stopped bleeding and scabbed were torn open again, and blood flowed out.

But it didn't feel any pain, it just came up and rubbed its head against Zhou Xu's body, its pitiful appearance made Zhou Xu's eyes full of heartache. "Don't move, the wound is split open."

As he spoke, Zhou Xu touched Qiansui's head, and while comforting it, he also quickly asked it to lie down.

During this process, Qiansui was sobbing the whole time, looking like someone who had been wronged.

Come to think of it, Qiansui's current injury can be said to be the most serious ever.

When it was struck by Yan Sheng's 'lightning attack', only its hair was damaged, and some burn marks appeared on the surface of its skin. At the same time, due to the stimulation of the electric current, it went into shock and fainted.

On the other hand, this time, the ogre was incredibly strong. During the fight between the two sides, not to mention the visible flesh wounds on Qiansui's body, several bones were broken under the flesh. As for those bone fractures that they could not detect for the time being, there must have been some.

At this moment, Zhou Xu could only ask it to move less and avoid further injuries, and pray that the extraordinary creature's recovery ability would allow it to fully recover.

During the rest process, time passed quietly, and as the sky gradually darkened, Zhou Xu, who had temporarily come to an end of his meditation, made new adjustments to the entire defense. He began to increase the number of troops, increase the number of braziers in the area, and strengthen night defenses.

During this time, Xuan Yu flew back quickly.

Perhaps because he knows that the current situation is rather serious, this rebellious son has become much more serious now and is able to help with some things.

This made Zhou Xu feel like his child had finally grown up.

Following Xuan Yu's gestures, Zhou Xu roughly knew that the greenskin troops on the opposite side had taken action.

Taking a look at the pitch-dark wilderness, Zhou Xu had no intention of using the mantra.

Neither the Eye of Insight nor the Eye of Secrets has the ability of night vision. He hasn't recovered much of his mantra power throughout the day, so he might as well not waste that energy.

"Increase your vigilance. Greenskin troops may have moved nearby."

After giving the reminder, Zhou Xu continued to meditate.

For Zhou Xu at this moment, let alone the greenskin troops having moved nearby, even if they were already in front of him, he would only need to meditate before officially launching an attack.

Maintaining this state, time quickly came to the second half of the night. After observing in the first half of the night, the greenskin troops that had arrived nearby could no longer wait and finally launched an offensive towards the canyon pass again.

As the night fell, the noise woke up Qiansui who was sleeping soundly.

"Just continue sleeping. There's no need for you to move for now."

Zhou Xu, who noticed the movement here, touched Qiansui's head.

During this time, the guards responsible for defending the canyon pass had already moved swiftly and shot three rounds of flaming arrows towards the night outside.

Under the light of the fire, a group of burly green-skinned soldiers suddenly came into their sight.

"WAAAAGH!!!!"

Without the ogres, the greenskin troops felt much less oppressive, but this obviously did not affect their actions. While shouting war cries, the greenskin soldiers charged directly towards the canyon pass.

Facing this battle, Zhou Xu's voice rang out in the canyon...

"Spear formation, meet the attack!!"

(End of this chapter)