Volume 5 Chapter 36 Five Enemy Forces
I, Xue Hai Wu Ya and the other six faction leaders, parted ways with the Grand Alliance. After we walked out of the lobby of the Nine Cities headquarters, I said, "Everyone, I won't say much to express my gratitude. I'm sure you all know that we all prosper together and suffer together. Now we should each gather our troops and return to Po Jun City. We'll discuss this at the Jing Lei League headquarters."
The five people agreed in unison and acted separately. Our six factions are considered strong in the great alliance. After each of us transferred our troops, we saw that the coalition army was reduced by nearly half.
After ordering my subordinates to lead the team back, I rode Benlei and rushed to Lianzhen City as quickly as possible , returned to Pojun through the system teleportation array, and then teleported back to the headquarters. While passing through Pojun City, I saw a large number of people from foreign gangs gathering in the city. I guess their armies are being teleported over continuously, and declaring war is imminent!
When I returned to the headquarters, the profiteer and others were already waiting for me, and we immediately held a meeting.
I first asked Ah Wei, "Have you completed everything I asked you to do?"
Ah Wei nodded and said, "All the personnel have been assigned to handle it. The eldest sister-in-law has already made preparations. This time, she will personally lead 50,000 troops to rescue. However, there was a problem with the Eighth Brother. He could have sent 100,000 reinforcements, but suddenly received a joint declaration of war from the Death Tribe and the Nine Nether Valley. He had no choice but to defend himself first, and could only squeeze out 20,000 troops to support us at most. In addition, in order to repay the boss for his help last time, Zhan Chuixue promised to send troops to attack the rear of the Evil God Temple. However, it happened suddenly, and he still needs time to mobilize the troops. It will take at least two or three hours to launch. We have no intention of interfering in Shenghua City, and we don’t have any strong allies there. We can only send some spies to spread rumors in Shenghua. They only said that after the three factions of Shenghua divided up the Jinglei League, their strength would definitely increase greatly , and they would be able to obtain huge wealth. I am afraid that the balance of Shenghua will be broken. They also said that the Jinglei League intends to seek allies in Shenghua to share trade interests. I think there will be some leaders of other gangs in Shenghua who will be restless. They also sent people to sow discord among the three factions. But this plan will not be effective in a short time. In addition, Mingjian Villa was fighting with the Tang Sect in Shuzhong in full swing. This time, the Jinglei League also tried its best to draw troops to participate in the attack. As long as we can repel their attack this time, the Mingjian army will not dare to stay outside for a long time and will definitely be transferred back. We don’t have to worry about this powerful force in the future. In addition, we also sent a letter for help to the Holy War World, but there is no response at the moment.”
I counted on my fingers and found that there were a lot of players in Shenghua City, so many big gangs were born there. Tongtian, Bingxue and Wangzhe were all strong, but because there were too many gangs in Shenghua City and they restrained each other, these three gangs definitely did not dare to send out all their forces. Combined with the intelligence at hand, it is estimated that the three gangs sent out about 300,000 people.
The Evil God Temple is relatively speaking only a small gang. This time they attacked our alliance, probably more to avenge the last time I stopped them from destroying the Free and Easy Alliance. They are not qualified to participate in the division of interests at the level of commerce, so the number of troops dispatched by the Evil God Temple will never exceed 20,000. However, the Fire Cloud Evil God is very powerful. If he were to be one of the generals who initiated a duel, I am afraid that no one on our side except me could fight against him. We must be on guard against this.
Mingjian Villa is a headache. I was busy participating in the battle of the Grand Alliance a few days ago, but unexpectedly, Fengyun Tower, an ally of our alliance, was suddenly destroyed by Mingjian. Afterwards, the boss of the former Fengyun Tower found me, and I learned that there was a traitor in Fengyun Tower. The incident happened suddenly, and our alliance had never received any information for help from Fengyun Tower. It should have nothing to do with me, but Fengyun Tower boss Feng Lei asked me to help him get revenge, and promised to rebuild Fengyun Tower and become a subsidiary gang under Jinglei League. Now is the time when I am eager to expand my power, so I agreed immediately, but if I really want to pick Mingjian Villa, I think my strength is not enough, so I just promised Feng Lei and others that after they conquered the nine cities, I would give him a piece of the garrison allocated by our alliance to rebuild the gang, and settle accounts with Mingjian in the future. Mingjian Villa was originally the largest gang in Tianshi City. It has been developing more rapidly recently. Its strength is probably even greater than that of the Nine Cities. It has also won over a large number of subordinate small gangs. If it comes to attack our alliance, it can at least dispatch 150,000 to 200,000 troops!
In total, the Thunder Alliance has more than 80,000 members. If we include its subordinates Tiexue and Yinyue, the number will reach 120,000. Moreover, it is a war period these days, and the members have been ordered to go online as much as possible. Therefore, the number of online members is close to full. Xiaoyi and Myna have a total of 70,000 reinforcements, and I have secured the support of five gangs in the original alliance. They can at least gather 200,000 reinforcements for defense. The Thunder Alliance should be as stable as a rock.
But I'm still unsure of Beibei and the others' movements! Although I only announced my withdrawal from the alliance in Jiucheng and haven't officially turned against them, they have clearly colluded with foreign enemies, and they are likely to intervene and stab the Jinglei Alliance from the back. It's hard to say whether I can handle it.
After pondering for a while, I said resolutely: "Order the Divine Thunder and Rolling Thunder Halls to retreat and abandon the first and second branches!"
"Puff!" The profiteer who was drinking tea spat out a mouthful of water. The first branch was the original base of the violent group, and the second branch was the original base of the Ba Jian League. These two branches have belonged to the Jing Lei League for the longest time, and we have invested time and money second only to the headquarters in their construction. I am going to give up with just one word. It is not only a matter of losing a large amount of money, but these two places are also the bridgeheads of the Jing Lei League in the two cities of Lianzhen and Tianshi. Once lost, it will be very difficult for our league to break out of Pojun City in the future!
Not only the profiteers, but also Lonely, Bad Bad and others looked at me with doubtful eyes, obviously they did not agree with my decision.
I explained, "To resist foreign aggression, we must first stabilize the internal situation. I have thought about it. The key reason why the Thunder Alliance is facing the predicament today is that our foundation is unstable and we are developing too fast! In fact, before our alliance started the East-West trade, it was right to follow the route of the Grand Alliance, but we should have thought that such amazing profits would surely attract people's covetousness. We should not have acted too hastily! And since we have taken action, we should first deal with the Grand Alliance and completely ensure our own safety, so that we will not be as passive as we are today. Unfortunately, we are too eager to expand and plan to use the Grand Alliance to capture a few more cities before turning back. "We are just wishful thinking to take control of the Grand Alliance. Now our first priority is to defend. The first and second branches are in other cities, surrounded by enemies. If we want to defend them, we will have to consume a lot of our troops. We don't have such strong capital now! Withdraw all the troops back to Pojun City and defend our own territory first. After resisting this crisis, we can't expand outward for the time being. Now the Jinglei League and the Grand Alliance have actually become a situation where there can't be two tigers in one mountain. When the time comes, we will first destroy the Luanshi and other gangs and truly unify Pojun!"
Everyone was silent. This was a major adjustment in my strategic thinking, which should have been based on careful research and planning. However, I had no choice but to do so now, as the enemy would not give us that much time.
The profiteer pondered for a moment and said, "Boss, your strategy is full of variables! That means the Thunder Alliance will face a series of battles, and there is no guarantee of victory. Once defeated, it will be difficult to make a comeback. The Grand Alliance has not officially declared war on us yet. Can we give up some of our interests and still have the possibility of cooperation with them?"
Then I remembered that I had not yet told everyone what happened in Jiucheng. They still thought that it was only Qingfeng Pavilion and others who were secretly planning it. So I shook my head and said, "It's too late!" Then I told them the details one by one.
After hearing this, Ji Mo slapped his thigh and said, "Great! Actually, I've long been impatient with those guys in the Big Alliance playing tricks! Boss, even if you win the support of five gangs, that's a different way of playing. If this strategy succeeds, our Jing Lei League will be a legitimate big gang in the future, and we don't have to live in fear like we do now."
I nodded and said, "I never thought that the always submissive Boss Bei would actually have the ambition to be a true leader. I underestimated him before! The situation changed drastically at that time. I also tried to temporarily cooperate with the Grand Alliance, but unfortunately failed. I had no choice but to focus on the present. As for the possibility of more difficulties in the future, I can't care about so much!"
The profiteer agreed, "You are the boss. Since you have made such an impromptu decision, we naturally have to fully support you. But it is a pity to give up two branches in vain."
I smiled slyly and said, "Who said we were giving up in vain? Even though we can't keep these two branches, we still have to use them to make some use of their remaining energy!"
Everyone asked curiously, "Would you like to hear more details?"
I said calmly, "Since the Iron Blood incident, we have stepped up our infiltration of the various gangs in the Grand Alliance. There have been unusual movements in the Qingfeng Pavilion and other gangs, and we actually obtained vague intelligence in advance. Among them, the boss of Fengchi Tianxia, Laiqu Rufeng, is a greedy person. The undercover we sent, after paying tribute to a set of top-grade equipment and flattering him a few more times, was promoted by him to be a close confidant. Although his status is not high, he can have a say in front of Laiqu Rufeng, and now is the time for him to play a role - Laiqu Rufeng is greedy by nature, so we will spread the news of the withdrawal of the First Branch of Lianzhen. Even if Beibei, Zi Buyu and others can bear it, the undercover will instigate a few in front of Laiqu Rufeng. In other words, how could he not take advantage of the opportunity? He will definitely take this branch. In this way, we can advertise that it was the big alliance that attacked our alliance first, which will win sympathy in public opinion! Since we are preparing to unify Pojun by ourselves, we must pay attention to people's hearts. As for the withdrawal of the second branch of Tianshi, we will keep it a secret. Judging from the geographical location, this place should be attacked by a detachment sent by Mingjian Villa, and they have to calculate the troops based on our original defensive strength, so the number of people and horses cannot be too small. We can withdraw most of the Gunlei Hall, but leave an elite force there, fight them to the death in the form of street fighting, delay time, and relieve some of the pressure on Pojun City.”
As I was talking, I suddenly received a declaration of war, which was sent by Tongtian, Mingjian and other five sects. As expected, Mingjian's notice was to attack the second branch of our alliance, the Evil God Temple attacked the headquarters of our alliance, and the three Shenghua sects attacked the third, fourth and fifth branches of our alliance in Pojun City respectively.
I smiled and said, "Everyone, do you see what's going on?"
Badly sneered, "This is just a petty trick. Those factions must know that our alliance has the support of Tianshui Pavilion and Brothers Alliance. It would be difficult to attack our headquarters directly. So they used the Evil God Temple to attract our attention, and they divided their troops to attack our branches. However, it was too obvious. They must have expected that we would send troops to rescue the branches. In fact, the five factions secretly gathered their forces, and the target was still our headquarters. This trick is real and fake, and even a three-year-old child can't hide it. Originally, the Brothers Alliance was pinned down and there were too few reinforcements. We really felt stretched. Unfortunately, they didn't know that we dared to abandon the first and second branches, and won the support of the five factions including Xuehe. There is no need to send troops from the headquarters, and each branch can be safe and sound."
I nodded and said, "Yes, but there is one more thing. I suspect that the Death Tribe and Nine Nether Valley's attack on the Brotherhood Alliance was not accidental, but part of their plan! Moreover, since the Grand Alliance has colluded with them, they must have informed them of the news that the Blood River faction had surrendered to our alliance. How could they not have a contingency plan? On the surface, they should have known that the situation was hopeless and retreated, but they still came to attack. There must be something fishy going on!"
Everyone frowned, and the profiteer asked, "Could it be that the Grand Alliance is really going to send troops to assist them?"
I shook my head and said, "It's unlikely. Although they are colluding, the main force of the Grand Alliance is currently trapped by Lian Zhen. If they turn around to deal with us, Jiucheng can recover all of Lian Zhen's lost territory. With people like the wind, there is no way they will spit out the fat meat that has already been in their mouths. I'm afraid there are unknown forces that are ready to make a move!"
Everyone pondered for a while, but couldn't guess what cards the other party had in hand. Suddenly someone came to report: Xuehai Wuya, Yishi Haoxiong and others had arrived outside the headquarters!
I hurried out to greet them and invited them into the hall. Without exchanging pleasantries, I said directly, "Everyone, I have received the declaration of war. The enemy will launch an attack in less than an hour. I am not polite. May I ask how many reinforcements you can mobilize?"
Xuehai said: "I have 100,000 soldiers from the Xuehe faction. The 40,000 soldiers who participated in the attack on the Nine Cities are already very tired. I have asked them to return to their base to rest. As for the remaining 60,000 soldiers, I can mobilize 50,000. If the situation is really urgent, we can mobilize all of them."
Xiao Yao said: "We don't have many people, but it is not a problem to support the Thunder Alliance's 30,000 fresh troops."
The Greatest Hero and the Supreme Demon God also stated separately that they could support the Thunder Alliance with 30,000 to 40,000 people, and could send more troops in emergency situations.
Yishi Xionghao smiled and said, "My headquarters can only dispatch 30,000 troops, but I have a close relationship with the leader of the Dragon Tiger Society. I have asked him to help transfer 30,000 brothers from the Dragon Tiger Society, but it will take about two hours to arrive."
I clapped my hands and said, "Great! With your help, why should we fear the attacks of the five sects? From now on, we will work together and create a new atmosphere in Pojun City!"
