121: Chapter 121 The Three Divine Generals of the East, Ailao Pass!

Upon receiving this news, Xu Xuan showed a look of confusion: "Where did they get three Divine Generals from?"

Based on his own journey, Divine Generals were extremely difficult to obtain.

Although there were global announcements every day—for instance, if a lord from a certain country went on a killing spree or defeated a certain number of enemies, it would be announced.

Usually, Xu Xuan would only glance at those announcements without paying them much attention.

But logically speaking, where could these koreans and japanese people get so many divine general cards? It shouldn't be possible, right?

Xu Xuan opened the global announcement column and scrolled through the thousands of announcements from the past few days; there weren't any particularly dazzling achievements.

Among them was an announcement regarding the koreans: [South Korean Lord Li Shunyao defeated 20,000 Orcs with a force of 7,000 (News: Two days ago)].

Rewards like these shouldn't be enough to grant a Divine General, right?

Besides, a Korean Divine General...

Xu Xuan rubbed his chin and racked his brain for a long time. Did these koreans have any famous historical generals?

Even that anti-Japanese general Yi Sun-sin they bragged about so miraculously—wasn't he just a dog of our Great Ming Dynasty?

Thinking of this, Xu Xuan asked, "Lv Bu, can you tell which famous generals the other side has?"

[Lv Bu: Reporting to my Lord, I heard from Li Shunyao that his allies have three famous Japanese generals.]

Famous Japanese generals?

If the opponent could scrape together three Divine Generals, their strength wouldn't be too bad. Xu Xuan had to respond cautiously.

The strength of a Divine General was terrifyingly immense. Under the balance of the chess law, the strength of a Divine General was always at the Peak Realm of the current era.

Although Lv Bu was powerful and had the strength to take on three at once, he might not necessarily defeat the three of them.

Caution was still necessary; the opponent's Divine Generals could inflict horrific casualties upon him.

Under these circumstances, he ordered Lv Bu to investigate further and report back.

"Lv Bu, I'll trouble you to remain undercover and get a clear picture of the situation inside."

[Lv Bu: Foster fath—cough, no, My Lord, please rest assured and leave it to this Lv!]

While speaking, Lv Bu couldn't suppress his instinct to recognize a father and had a slip of the tongue.

Xu Xuan only smiled and pretended he hadn't heard anything.

He soaked in the pool and summoned a screen to view the perspective from Lv Bu's side.

With a swipe of two fingers, Xu Xuan enlarged the screen to a 300-inch giant display. It felt like sitting in the front row of a cinema, watching the virtual screen floating in mid-air.

He bathed while observing through Lv Bu's eyes.

In the screen, Lv Bu was riding the Red Hare, followed by Necromancer Lords who had betrayed the Human Race, such as Li Shunyao and Jin Zhixian.

Directly in front of Lv Bu was a split valley. The cliffs on both sides were covered with archer towers, and a city wall was built at the top of the rift. It was a military fortress built entirely by relying on the terrain.

Countless skeleton archers stood guard 24 hours a day, defending the cliffs to the death.

The advantages of the Undead Race were too obvious; low-level troops did not need to eat.

Skeleton soldiers didn't need to eat anything; they could survive just by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Zombies and the like were usually in a dormant state; playing dead could save energy consumption.

Ghouls, which ate more meat, could go hungry for half a year or even a year without eating. During war, they were driven by hunger and could fill their bellies by eating corpses on the battlefield.

Necromancer Lords had a massive advantage; they didn't need to farm at all. They only needed to focus on mining, upgrading weapons and equipment, and invading other lords to let the zombies and ghouls eat people.

As the Red Hare passed through the gate of the rift, one could see the three large characters [Ailao Pass] written in Hanzi on a checkpoint built of piled stones in the middle of the canyon.

For people in the East Asian cultural sphere, writing in Hanzi was seen as more sophisticated.

Japanese or koreans who knew more Hanzi were considered high-level intellectuals in their regions.

Lv Bu looked up at the top: "Interesting, Ailao Pass!"

Although there was a system translation and Lv Bu could understand Korean and Japanese,

Seeing the three characters for Ailao Pass directly made Lv Bu suddenly feel that these barbarians had some skill, knowing how to write the script of his Celestial Empire.

Following Lv Bu's line of sight as he passed through Ailao Pass, one could see countless caves distributed across the cliffs on both sides of the rift!

After looking around, as an experienced combat general, Lv Bu immediately realized something.

[Lv Bu: My Lord, this place is easy to defend and hard to attack! These barbarians have hollowed out the entire canyon; it's full of caves! If we attack by force, we will suffer very heavy casualties!]

These human traitors had actually hollowed out the entire rift, carving out countless caves and transforming the entire area into a fortress cluster!

Countless tunnels were interconnected, and numerous fortress groups supported each other like the horns of an ox, providing mutual cover.

Lv Bu thought for a moment in his mind about what would happen if he led troops to attack...

[Lv Bu: My Lord, if I lead an army of 50,000 to attack, I estimate I would lose over 10,000 soldiers just to break through the first gate of Ailao Pass.]

[Lv Bu: Once inside the rift of Ailao Pass, both sides are filled with firing slits and hidden troop bunkers. To clear these connected tunnels and underground passages, I might have to pay with the lives of 30,000 soldiers...]

After calculating, Lv Bu sucked in a breath of cold air. The price to take this Ailao Pass was too high!

This place was simply a meat grinder. If troops were truly committed here, the scale of the carnage... would truly be filling it with human lives.

While Lv Bu was arranging troops in his mind based on his knowledge, Xu Xuan had already thought of a countermeasure.

"Don't worry. In my eyes, this kind of fortress is full of loopholes. The meat-grinder battle Fengxian imagines will definitely not happen."

Xu Xuan chuckled inwardly. With his style of doing things, how could he possibly launch a frontal assault on such a tough nut to crack?

The soldiers were his own; once they were gone, there was no way to replenish them. Every death was a permanent loss unless he received rewards for new population.

[Lv Bu: My Lord, are you going to give up on the siege? What will you do if they manage to create a teleportation portal?]

Xu Xuan was calm and composed at this moment: "I have already figured out how to take their rift without losing a single soldier."

[Lv Bu: This... My Lord, it's not that I don't trust your skill, but in this situation where the enemies are hiding in caves, you won't send an army to clear them out?]

"You simply don't believe in this King's strength. Say no more, I know what I'm doing. Continue to investigate! And report back!"

[Lv Bu: Yes!]

Lv Bu's old face turned red; he hadn't expected his little thoughts to be so easily seen through by Xu Xuan.

Indeed, he had yet to see Xu Xuan's methods. In his understanding, to take this rift, one had to pay with lives!

Meanwhile, Xu Xuan soaked in the pool, looking at the 300-inch screen and observing the layout of Ailao Pass.

"The person who designed this Ailao Pass must be a civil engineer. They even know some military knowledge—crossfire, placement of troop bunkers, allowing troops to move rapidly underground to surround incoming enemies from all sides. This design is indeed ingenious. A pity they encountered me."

Xu Xuan was fully confident that he could make the opponent's meticulously designed Ailao Pass collapse without a fight!