In a valley thirty kilometers away from Guangcheng, there are countless temporary camps and wooden houses.
Camp trucks came and went, and truckloads of vegetables, fruits and rice were constantly being delivered.
The sound of helicopters also sounded in the sky from time to time.
But the entire camp didn't have much life, and the thousands of soldiers stationed here were all silent.
Their faces showed fatigue, anger, and unconcealable frustration.
The resentment that keeps accumulating is like the banner with the word "Xue" over the camp.
This is Xue Wujing's camp.
One hundred thousand troops and seven or eight bases were bombarded into rubble overnight, and 90% of the elite troops were killed.
Even among the remaining 20,000 Xue family members, most were injured.
Besides the weapons in his hands, he had almost nothing, and everything including food, drink, and rest was provided by the Tianxia Chamber of Commerce.
This filled everyone with resentment ready to pour out at any time.
At this moment, the lights outside the coach's camp were brightly lit.
A burly man in battle uniform with a big beard was holding a red ax and slashing at a dozen men kneeling on the ground.
The ax was so sharp that it spattered blood, instantly cutting more than a dozen men into two pieces.
But the man in the battle uniform was not satisfied, and he slashed at their corpses dozens of times.
"Trash, trash, all trash!"
"An intelligence team with hundreds of people is of no use at all."
"Seven bases of a hundred thousand troops were bombed into ruins, but you were useless."
"If I keep a dog, it will be more useful than you. At least they will bark a few times when the enemy makes some movement."
"Trash, trash!"
After finishing speaking, the bearded man chopped dozens more times on the corpse.
Then he threw the ax and shouted: "Throw them to feed the dogs. From now on I will keep dogs, not intelligence agents."
Dozens of white-clothed soldiers did not dare to show their anger. They lowered their heads and quickly cleaned up the corpses on the ground.
The bearded man patted the blood on his body and returned to the tent with a breath of hot air.
When he picked up a large bowl of goat milk and drank it, the tent was opened, and a woman in uniform walked in:
"Dad, I know you feel aggrieved, but don't be too angry, otherwise you will easily get upset."
"And what's happened has already happened. We should be thinking about how to win over people and regain our momentum instead of venting our grievances."
"Even if we kill all the spies, it's impossible for our 100,000 troops and seven bases to come back."
"It will also lower morale and make everyone panic."
"If these last 20,000 people lose confidence in us, they will either run away or defect to Temujin."
"In that case, our father and daughter will be the real polished commanders."
The woman is less than 30 years old, 1.75 meters tall, very straight and smart.
Her name is Xue Qingyou, Xue Wuxing's biological daughter, and the chief of staff of the Xue family's army.
"Confidence? Morale?"
The bearded man was obviously Xue Wuxing. Not only did he not calm down after listening to his daughter's words, but he smashed the porcelain bowl on the ground:
"In a war zone, if the casualty rate exceeds 30%, it is considered disabled."
"If the casualty rate exceeds 60%, the designation can be cancelled."
"How many casualties did we have?"
"One hundred thousand people were killed and 5,000 were injured. The casualties exceeded 80%."
"Now, all food, drink, and food, including the camp, must be rewarded with iron wood gold."
"In the past, we, Temujin, who were half a head short, were on equal terms with Temujin, but now we have to make an appointment to even meet Temujin."
"We, the remnant defeated generals, are not even qualified to enter Guangcheng. We can only hide in this valley and wait to die."
"Where is the morale? Where is the confidence?"
"And all the Xue family members, including me, have a sense of resentment in their hearts."
"If we don't vent this frustration, this shadow and shame will crush us to death for the rest of our lives."
Xue Wuji's fists crackled, filled with murderous intent and anger, as if they wanted to tear everything apart.
Karen Xue took a step forward and comforted her father in a gentle voice:
"Dad, don't be depressed, we still have money in hand, and we still have tens of billions."
"As long as we survive this trough period and then find a more affluent location, we can regain the confidence of our 20,000 soldiers."
"Once the confidence of the 20,000 soldiers has been restored, we can continue to accumulate wealth and recruit troops."
She was also very depressed. The family's decades of accumulation fell apart overnight, and now she had to start over again, which was really painful.
But she also knew that if she didn't comfort her father properly at this moment, it would be easy for the entire team to disperse.
"A richer residence?"
Xue Wuzong opened a button to let himself breathe easier:
"Our territory has turned into a pile of ruins, otherwise we wouldn't have moved back to Guangcheng to make a living."
"You want Temujin to give us a wealthy settlement. Do you think we can snatch a piece of fat from his mouth?"
"If the World Chamber of Commerce considers that if Temujin doesn't swallow up 20,000 of us, it's a good thing. If you still think about him cutting his flesh to reward us, just dream."
"Don't say that we helped Temujin a lot in the past."
"We have indeed cooperated with the Tianxia Chamber of Commerce many times, and this time we are joining forces to deal with Shen Qiye."
"But we have also gained a lot of benefits from the Tianxia Chamber of Commerce."
"Money, weapons, equipment, territory, anything that can knock out ironwood, we've done it all before."
"Even if Temuxiong used the road to ambush us, we would have to pay Temujin 100 million for the loss of young crops."
"So when we cooperate, we each get what we need, and there is no question of who owes the other."
Xue Wujiang still maintained a trace of sobriety: "If you want Temujin to make up for the loss, he will kill you in minutes."
Karen Xue seemed to have expected what her father would say, and took over the topic with a chuckle:
"Dad, I know that Temujin and we used to use each other."
"If we accepted his money and charged into the battle, but were killed and crippled by Shen Qiye, we would definitely have to admit that our skills are inferior to others."
"But the fact that we were hit hard this time was not a crime of war at all, but was caused by vulture war bombs."
"Where did the Vulture bombs come from? They are advanced weapons introduced by Temujin."
"Why did the vulture bombs kill us? It was because Temuwuyue betrayed Temujin and used us to scare the monkeys."
"To put it simply, it was the Ironwood family who used the vultures introduced by the Ironwood family to bombard us."
"Temujin should make good compensation to us."
"Otherwise, it would be easy for us to suspect that Temujin, under the guise of attacking Shen Qiye, played a double act with Temujin to purge the allies."
"The purpose is to annex the entire war zone and turn the entire Xia Kingdom's soldiers into Ironwood private soldiers."
"Dad, leave this matter to me. I'll send an application to Temujin and ask him to allocate us a long-term rest station."
"I think as long as Temujin doesn't want the Allied troops to be disheartened, he will definitely arrange for us properly instead of killing the donkey."
Karen Xue's pretty face exuded a sense of confidence, and she was planning how to use Temujin to give the Xue family a wealthy territory.
Xue Wujiang thought for a while and finally nodded:
"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you and arrange it immediately."
"I hope to have my own territory as soon as possible, instead of depending on others."
Arriving at Guangcheng, Temujin said that there were too many troops withdrawing into the city, and asked Xue Wujiang to station himself at several abandoned bases on the outskirts.
These bases not only have inconvenient living facilities, but are also more than ten kilometers apart from each other, making it difficult for Xue Wuxing to control them.
Therefore, although Xue Wuxing felt that his daughter's application was unlikely to be successful, he could only act as a doctor at this moment.
"clear!"
Karen Xue nodded, and then quickly went out to make arrangements.
Not long after, she ran back like a whirlwind, with a burst of joy on her pretty face:
"Dad, dad, it's successful."
"Temujin said he was very ashamed to have caused us losses."
"So he decided not to mobilize us to fight against the Shen family on the front line, and he gave Wucheng to us as our base."
"One is that Wucheng is a large city, and there are many wealthy people who are able to support our Xue family's 20,000 people."
"One is that Wucheng has a large population and strong folk customs, which allows the Xue family to recruit troops to replenish the source of troops."
"There is another one. There is a group of hostile foreign forces that are not very obedient and can allow us, who are full of resentment, to go on a killing spree to vent our anger."
"Temujin hopes that we will set off tomorrow, and then kill the hostile forces as soon as possible, take control of Wucheng and become the only garrison."
"Temujin also hopes that we will be faster, otherwise we will worry about the other war commanders snatching Wucheng over."
Karen Xue's pretty face was very happy:
"Dad, if it works, we can go to Wucheng tomorrow."
