After the division of the seven major theaters and the distribution of personnel and troops, the rest of the matter is simple. The commanders of each theater lead the corresponding troops and go directly to each theater to take up their posts.

And Shang Ji took the remaining more than 30 legions and more than 5 million elite troops, and rushed directly to the three major nodes with great momentum.

The distance between the three nodes is quite far, taking the Luofeng Pass in the middle as an example, the Wutong Pass on the left and right sides is also more than 2,000 miles away from the nearest Xiangjiang City, and the farthest is nearly 4,000 miles.

Because it was expected that the battle would be fierce, in order to facilitate the command, Shang Ji set up two major town guard generals.

With Zhao Yun as the guard of Wutong Pass, there are top generals such as Lu Kuang, Xu Huang, Zhao Shen, Gao Xiang, and Dax (one of the two remaining top generals compensated by the Theocracy Alliance).

Huang Zhong guarded the township and town, and his command included Liu Meng, Lu Puli Shi (ibid.), Wind Elf, Dragon Gengxin, Peng Thesilea, and other top combat forces.

As for the most important Luofeng Pass, it was naturally guarded by Shang Ji himself. Luofeng Pass has also gathered the largest number of top-level combat power. They are Su Huan, Dian Wei, Wang Shu, Fu Yao, Li Xu, Yang Cheng, Qin Ping, Maple Leaf Fashen, Lilith, Kassandra, Medusa, and the female generals of the Phoenix Dance Legion.

And after the three nodes, there is also the two million elite death legions led by the undead tyrant Payne.

It's just that the death legion is a special situation, and it is not included in the calculation of troop strength under normal circumstances.

But don't underestimate the Death Legion because of this, unlike the regular undead army that relies on crowd tactics to fight, the Death Legion only has two million troops (originally there were four million, but Payne took the initiative to eliminate a large number of unqualified undead, and in the end there were only two million left), but the average combat effectiveness is quite outstanding, and the lowest is equivalent to a fifth-order soldier.

The fifth-order army, this level is already the standard of the main field forces in many national regions, and even in some relatively weak national regions, the fifth-order army is already the elite trump card in the national region.

And within the Legion of Death, there is also a Dark Guard with a total strength of up to 120,000. This is the top undead army under Payne's direct jurisdiction, and the lowest in the army are sixth-order undead, and there are not a few high-level undead creatures of the seventh and eighth orders.

In addition, Payne also controls an army of necromancers with a size of up to 3,000.

Although the combat power of undead creatures is half a level lower than that of creatures of the same level, with their numerical superiority and resolute execution of orders, they are absolutely not afraid of life and death, and their combat effectiveness is not much inferior to that of several core units in Pingzhou.

If you count the more than 1.8 million regular undead troops, the comprehensive combat power of the Death Legion is even second only to the Guards Legion!

Because the undead legion was in a special situation and did not need food, tents and other logistical materials, Shang Ji ordered Payne to lead the undead army to secretly lurk in the dense mountains and forests behind Luofeng Pass, which was a killer feature.

As for the undead legion, this is the Lequan war zone guarded by Tai Shici, Ge Zhen and others. Thirty legions were ready to fight and serve as strategic reserves.

In order to prevent a sudden attack by the mysterious legion, Shang Ji decisively divided the army into four. Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Shang Ji each led the elite light vehicles of the headquarters to quickly rush to the three passes, and sent the Liu clan to sit in the army, leading most of the baggage logistics to come slowly.

Because of the limited use of space equipment, although the regular combat strength of Shang Ji's expedition was only 5 million, the scale was extremely huge.

The logistics transport team and the large army stretched for thousands of miles. Fortunately, it was marching in the upper part of the Pingzhou Military District, and there was no fear of enemy raids on the road, and there were countless towns along the way that could be repaired and settled, otherwise just to ensure the safety of the logistics and transportation lines would have to make Shang Ji scratch his head.

And the sudden change in the mode of war also made Shang Ji a little anxious. The speed of the march has plummeted, and the problems to be considered have multiplied. Fortunately, there are professionals such as Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia to assist and share a lot of work, otherwise Shang Ji would have the heart to commit suicide!

It is precisely because of this that Shang Ji has further strengthened the policy of streamlining the administration of the army. Even he was secretly ruthless in his heart, and the troops who took the initiative to go out to fight in the future must be compressed and compressed, preferably to less than one million!

Without the drag of logistics and large troops, the elite cavalry led by Shang Ji arrived at Luofeng Pass in just one day.

Luofeng Pass is a pass, a purely military building, and its nature is somewhat similar to the original black water plug.

It's just that unlike the Black Water Plug, the Black Water Plug is built along the river, and there is no dangerous terrain around it. The Luofeng Pass is built by the mountain, the left and right sides are lofty mountains, the terrain is dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The building is purely military in nature, although it is only a medium-level pass, but it is enough to match the average big city in terms of military defense.

The original Luofeng Pass was just an inconspicuous small pass with limited defense. However, after learning of the arrival of the mysterious force, Yan Huang immediately invested a huge amount of manpower and material resources to upgrade a small pass to a medium-sized pass in just a few days.

From a purely military point of view, Luofeng Pass at this time even surpassed the average big city in terms of military defense!

The situation of Wutong Pass on the left side is similar to that of Luofeng Pass, and it has also been promoted to an intermediate pass under the investment of Yanhuang regardless of the cost.

As for the Xiangjiang City that Huang Zhong needed to guard, it was originally a big city. On the grounds that there was about to be a big war, Yan Huang forcibly relocated the people in the city, and at the same time strengthened the city defenses, greatly improving the defense of Xiangjiang City.

Although the defense of the two levels and one city has been qualitatively improved in a short period of time, Shang Ji knows very well that it is impossible to block the mysterious forces by relying solely on the geographical advantages and passes.

The beacon has developed to this day, and cities of the level of big cities can only play a role in slowing down the enemy's advance in a large-scale decisive battle. If you want to rely on Luofeng Pass to block the mysterious army, unless Luofeng Pass is promoted to a giant pass like Tiger Prison Pass, don't even think about it!

The real victory or defeat still depends on the frontal fight of the Pingzhou army, and in a big battle of this level, it is impossible to win a trick.

It took more than half a month after Shang Ji arrived at Luofeng Pass, and the follow-up troops of the Pingzhou Army arrived one after another, and a large number of basic materials were also put into storage.

Among the three nodes, Luofeng Pass, which was personally guarded by Shang Ji, had the strongest troops and the highest average combat effectiveness, with a full 2 million troops sitting in Luofeng Pass. These include top legions such as the Black Armor Xuanqi, the Phoenix Dance Guard, the Shura Guard, the Flying Phoenix Legion, the Spellcaster Legion, and the Berserk Legion.

Wutong Pass and Xiangjiang City are much worse than Luofeng Pass, and the deployed troops are only 1.5 million, and even the top troops are much less.

However, during this period, Shang Ji did not wait in vain like this, on the one hand, he frantically strengthened the city wall and arranged defensive equipment. On the other hand, they inspected the terrain and geography on the spot, discussed the combat plan with the generals, and filled the loopholes in the defense.

After Shang Ji's hard work, the defense of the three nodes has been significantly improved, which has reduced the defensive pressure of the Pingzhou Army a lot.

After another full month, just when Shang Ji was bored and waiting, suddenly a system prompt sounded:

"Ding, the Death Continent has announced that the aliens have done evil, causing the war on the Death Continent to burn the heavens and the people to their lives. The lords of the heavenly realm could not bear to see the lives of the Death Continent in misery, and at the request of all the people, they sent heavenly soldiers to save the people from fire and water. The super large war mode [Death Counterattack] has begun, please prepare for it! ”