Throne of Vientiane Civilization

If a person whose mantra power is severely depleted wants to recover as soon as possible, sleep and meditation are equally important.

In the absence of sleep, the quality of meditation will be significantly affected.

Therefore, instead of rushing to start meditating, Zhou Xu chose to sleep for four hours first.

Four hours later, before dawn, the Imperial Guard successfully arrived at the grassland pass.

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

"Silk, you should also rest. All subsequent defense tasks will be handed over to the Guards."

Although the Imperial Guards had just experienced an overnight journey, they had not fought with the greenskin troops and were in relatively good condition.

As professional soldiers, if the mission requires them to stay up all night, there will basically be no major problems.

After simply arranging this matter, Zhou Xu immediately started meditating against the clock.

At this stage, the strength of their army in this area is, to put it bluntly, this much.

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

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

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

Even when fighting other human forces, they don't use such sloppy tactics, not to mention that the opponents are greenskins with higher troop strength.

As soon as you are recruited, you immediately go to the battlefield. What is the difference between that and sending yourself to death?

No matter how low the requirements are, two months of basic training is still required.

Zhou Xu’s conscription order is not for the immediate battle, but for the subsequent battle!

The emergence of green-skinned troops in the Northeast is enough to show that there must be some new situation that they don't know about here, and it is estimated that there will be no peace in the future.

With this point in mind, whether it is the subsequent replenishment of troops, the defense mission after repelling the greenskin troops, retaking the lost territory, or even some military operations they may need to take later, more troops will be needed. support.

The purpose of recruiting troops now is to prepare for the future, not the battle in front of us.

Zhou Xu started meditating after arranging the defense mission of the Imperial Guard in the early morning, and Zhou Xu continued meditating until noon.

After feeling that his meditation state began 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 time, the two most important things are sleep and meditation.

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

Throughout the day, the greenskin troops on the opposite side did not make any movement.

I don’t know if it’s because of last night’s battle that they also need time to rest, or if the other side is preparing to repeat their old tricks and wait until nightfall to take advantage of night vision to launch operations...

Taking this into account, Zhou Xu simply adjusted the deployment of troops during the day so that more soldiers could rest more during the day to prevent possible battles at night.

During this process, Chitose, who had been sleeping since last night, was also woken up by hunger.

When Zhou Xu passed by, it was eating its food with a pitiful expression.

After seeing Zhou Xu, it immediately struggled and ran over regardless of its injuries. In the process, many of the wounds that had just stopped bleeding and scabbed were torn open again, bleeding profusely.

But it didn't know the pain, so it came up and rubbed its head against Zhou Xu's body. The pitiful look made Zhou Xu's eyes full of heartache.

"Don't move around, the wound will open."

While speaking, Zhou Xu touched Chitose's head, and while comforting him, he quickly let him lie down.

During this process, Chitose was whimpering the whole time, looking like she had been wronged.

Thinking about it, Chitose's current injury can be said to be the most serious in history.

When it withstood Yan Sheng's 'lightning attack', its hair was only damaged, and certain scorch marks appeared on the surface of its flesh. At the same time, it was shocked and fainted due to the stimulation of the electric current.

On the other hand, this time, the ogre magic power was frightening. During the scuffle between the two parties, not to mention the visible flesh wounds on Chitose's body, several bones were broken under the skin and flesh. As for those that they could not check for the time being, Bone fractures are bound to occur.

At this moment, Zhou Xu could only let it move less. While avoiding further injuries, he prayed that the recovery ability of extraordinary creatures would allow it to completely recover as before.

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

During this period, Xuanyu flew back quickly.

Probably because he knows that the current situation is quite serious, he, the rebellious son, has become a lot more serious now, and he can also do some things to help.

This can't help but make Zhou Xu feel like the child has finally grown up.

Following Xuan Yu's gestures, Zhou Xu probably knew that the green-skinned troops on the opposite side were taking action.

Looking towards the wild field where he could no longer see his fingers, Zhou Xu had no intention of activating the mantra.

Neither the 'Eye of Insight' nor the 'Eye of Peeping Secrets' have night vision capabilities. His mantra power has not recovered much at the end of the day, so he should not waste that energy.

"Strengthen your vigilance, the greenskin troops may have moved nearby."

After giving the reminder, Zhou Xu continued to meditate.

For Zhou Xu at this time, let alone the greenskin troops had moved nearby, even if they were already in front of him, before launching the offensive, he would just meditate and be done with it.

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 already arrived nearby could no longer wait and finally launched an offensive towards the canyon pass again.

Under the cover of night, the noise woke up Qiansui who was sleeping soundly.

"You continue to sleep first, you don't need to move for the time being."

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

During this period of time, the guards responsible for the defense at the canyon pass had already moved quickly and flew three rounds of fire arrows towards the night outside.

Under the light of the fire, a burly greenskin soldier suddenly broke into their field of vision.

"WAAAAGH!!!!"

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

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

"Spear formation, meet the attack!"