MMORPG: War God, You are Invincible Again-Chapter 1270 - 248: Clouds of War Before the Battle

Compared to the other two suburb marshals, Grand Marshal Long Lin spoke quite plainly. He first explained why the other two were so snide towards Lu Kang and Qin Hong, and then appropriately aired his grievances.

These three suburbs supported the deployment of troops this time, amounting to roughly three hundred thousand troops in total, not all sent at once, but dispatched in batches. Their first batch of troops mostly entered Hua’an City, but this batch of troops got blocked outside Hua’an City. Facing a million-strong army, Long Lin doesn’t necessarily have to outnumber them to break them. As long as he has close to fifty thousand, half of their number, he can find a way to unite with the forces within Hua’an City, coordinate from inside and out, and directly crush this Tianlang Domain army.

Last night, upon receiving a scout report stating that Photon City’s reinforcements had arrived, Grand Marshal Long Lin was even dreaming about arranging the deployment plans for encircling the million-strong Tianlang Army.

However, upon waking up in the morning, the adjutant reported that Photon City had only dispatched thirty thousand infantry and three thousand cavalry, making Grand Marshal Long Lin almost explode on the spot. He had been frustrated for so long, thinking he could retaliate with a wave and showcase Rongtian’s might, but as it turns out, they sent something like this. Anyone would be annoyed by this situation.

Fortunately, Grand Marshal Long Lin was gracious enough and sufficiently rational. Originally, the higher-ups had not anticipated the battle would be so severe, so there was no clear minimal recruiting standard in the draft order. Basically, no one expected Tianlang Domain to come with the determination to launch a domain war.

Thus, at that moment, Long Lin looked towards Lu Kang and Qin Hong with a hint of dissatisfaction.

As for the other suburb commanders seated around, they didn’t dare express any dissatisfaction with Photon City openly, but they certainly cursed countless times in their hearts.

After listening to Grand Marshal Long Lin’s explanation, Lu Kang and Qin Hong, who were initially a bit annoyed, suddenly lost their tempers and even felt somewhat ashamed.

This time, Photon City’s internal discussion originally decided to dispatch a hundred thousand troops to support the western battles. Initially, Lu Hong nodded in agreement, but afterwards, when Qin Hong applied to join the battle, Lu Hong reduced the allocation from a hundred thousand to thirty thousand.

In Lu Hong’s view, a strong force of three thousand, as long as the overall commander of the western battlefield isn’t an idiot, would surely demonstrate the strength of the Qin Long Guards in one battle. When used well, it would rival a hundred thousand or even two hundred thousand troops, so Lu Hong didn’t even plan to dispatch those thirty thousand regular infantry, instead letting Qin Hong lead the three thousand Qin Long Guards to join the western battlefield.

At that time, neither Photon City nor Qin Hong and Lu Kang knew the might of this strong force. Eventually, under the collective request of the Photon City high-ups, Lu Hong reluctantly agreed to these thirty thousand logistical troops.

Yes, in Lu Hong’s view, these thirty thousand are merely to ensure logistical protection during the time when the Qin Long Guards have exhausted their fighting spirit and lost combat capability.

Such a large suburb, the three camps around the city basically have close to a million troops. Deploying only thirty-three thousand to support the western battlefield sounds absurd to anyone’s ears.

No wonder it made the colleagues present feel disgruntled.

Lu Kang’s face flushed, and at this moment, he didn’t know how to explain, so he could only feebly retort: "We...We may be few in number, but we are elite."

"Haha, Marshal Lu must be joking with me, right? Your main force this time should be those thirty thousand infantry, right? In the Tianlang Domain, apart from the special Ghostly Wolf Riders, regular cavalry numbers should be more than half. Photon City can dispatch fewer troops, but it would be better if they sent special forces too. Thirty thousand infantry, honestly, isn’t even enough to feed their cavalry, or serve with a drink!" Marshal He immediately rebuffed.

Upon hearing this, Qin Hong wanted to explain, but Grand Marshal Long Lin interjected: "Enough! Stop arguing. At this point, we can only think of other methods. Hua’an City has been besieged for three months. As a western city, inner city resources were already scarce. After three months of consumption, Hua’an City must be facing shortages, and if there’s no further action, the city will weaken internally, and breaking it would just be a matter of time. So we don’t have time to wait for reinforcements from other cities to arrive, currently there are only two options before us."

Saying this, Grand Marshal Long Lin swept his cold gaze across the crowd, suppressing Marshal He and Qin Hong’s ongoing arguments: "First option, give up Hua’an City, give up the sixty thousand soldiers inside Hua’an City, and the seven million civilians, choose to encircle the rampaging Ghostly Wolf Riders on the western battlefield and the wandering thirty thousand Tianlang Army, saving other troops continually supporting from different areas, gather them, establish new posts, and temporarily yield everything west of Hua’an City to Tianlang Domain."

After saying this, Grand Marshal Long Lin paused first, swept a glance at everyone’s expressions, found that everyone was pondering because of this proposal, and didn’t rush to present the second option.

This choice is undoubtedly the safest for their lives, Long Lin respected everyone’s life and naturally gave them a chance to choose.

After about ten minutes, Long Lin finally spoke out the second option: "As for the second, it is to fight to the death. Within these two days, prepare for battle, confront the million-strong Tianlang Army besieging Hua’an City, vow to defend every inch of Rongtian Domain’s land and never abandon any citizen of Rongtian Domain!"