"What do you mean? Aren't you good at ambush tactics?" Yaoyao chuckled.
"No matter how good the ambush tactics are, they're not as powerful as your formations." I thought of when we were in Fanshen Village. Yaoyao hadn't fully recovered yet, but with three demons and us two absolute rookies, Bingbing and I, she could set up a Five Elements Array that made Shen Xingyue and her group of experts scramble. It was a classic case of overcoming the strong with the weak.
Our current team is definitely not weak, but it's still safer to use this method. After all, in that instance, all six of us in the Five Elements Array were unharmed.
However, Yaoyao poured cold water on my idea: "You're overthinking it! Southern cultivators are far more skilled at setting up formations than our northern shaman tribes. If a formation encounters someone who knows how to break it, can find the formation's eye and weak points, and concentrates fire to destroy the entire formation, causing casualties to everyone, then it's better not to set up any formation at all!"
I didn't know about this, but since Yaoyao said so, she must have her reasons. Perhaps she wasn't that confident in her own formations.
If formations are out, then we'll have to resort to physical ambushes.
"Get in the car first, we can think on the way," Bai Qingcheng said.
Everyone got in the car. I let Bingbing drive and sat in the passenger seat, smoking a cigarette and racking my brain for a solution.
After we crossed the bridge and entered Jinling city, arriving at Jinling Railway Station, I suddenly had an idea!
"We might be able to try setting an ambush at Jinling Station," I called Bai Qingcheng.
"How? Jinling Station is so crowded."
"It's not crowded at night!" I said. "Don't you remember, the high-speed rail station is closed at night? There's a huge waiting hall, three floors in total. Every floor, including the ceiling, can be used to station ambushing troops. Plus, the lighting is excellent. The entire hall is empty without any beams or pillars. As long as we place the demon core in the middle of the hall, every direction will have a suitable firing angle. We won't even need anyone to guard it; we can just lure the enemy into a trap."
"You mean... use snipers to set up an ambush?"
"If a problem can be solved with guns, why bother with brute force?" I chuckled. "Mobilize the sharpshooters from Shabia, or even from the brigade. Have them lie in wait around the area, divided into several teams. We experts don't need to fight; we just need to ensure the safety of the sharpshooting teams."
When attacking enemies in trenches, you don't send tanks for a head-on confrontation, but rather use the tanks' high protection to shield the infantry, allowing the infantry to charge forward and eliminate the enemies. Our tactic is the reverse: let the martial arts experts and demons shield the shooters, and use bullets to inflict casualties on the enemy!
"Good idea. Then, let's split up," Bai Qingcheng agreed. "Mu Jige and I will take the demon core back to base and study it first. You'll take the rest of the people to set up the positions at the station. I'll contact the snipers immediately and send you as many as I can."
"Alright."
The cars split into two routes. I led a group to the now-closed Jinling High-Speed Rail Station. The Jinling action team of Shabia was already there. We had the management open the waiting hall and turn on the lights.
Perhaps the cleaning staff were lazy; it was messy from the day, and they hadn't had time to tidy up. They'd probably do it before the station opened in the morning. That's fine; being too clean might arouse suspicion.
I first inspected the second and third floors. There were many shops with their roll-up doors still up, so we could hide inside. The roof was sealed. I predicted that if a fight broke out, the enemies might choose the shortest route and escape directly from the rooftop, so we needed to station snipers here as well.
I went up to the rooftop via a service passage. It was my first time on such a large aerial platform. The view was excellent, under the starry sky, it felt like standing on the sea.
I designated four sniper positions, which should be enough. Even if we can't annihilate them all, letting a few escape is acceptable. After all, we shouldn't pursue a cornered enemy!
Back on the first floor, the snipers started arriving. Over sixty of them came, wearing various uniforms.
This was my first time using such elite Yanxia forces in combat, so I had to plan carefully...