Daxia Mansion.
While Liu Wenyan and Su Yu were discussing, there were also people arguing in the City Lord's Mansion.
There were only a few people in the empty hall.
Xia Longwu sat upright, looking down.
Below, an old man on the left, a military advisor of Daxia Mansion, was smiling and listening silently without saying a word.
An old man on the right, elegant and easy-going, also smiling, with silver-white hair, did not speak at this moment.
In addition to these two, a middle-aged strong man in the hall, with well-developed muscles, stood up alone at this moment, and shouted in a loud voice: "Wan Tiansheng, stop preaching your stuff! This is Daxia Mansion, not the Seeking Realm!"
The person the strong man shouted at was the silver-haired old man on the right.
Wan Tiansheng, the sixth-generation president of Daxia Civilization Academy!
Wan Tiansheng smiled casually. Even when the strong man yelled at him, he was calm. His voice was not loud, but he could hear clearly. He said slowly: "Zheng Ping, please speak nicely. Don't be so loud. I am not deaf and can hear you."
Wan Tiansheng said with a smile on his face, as if he was just chatting with his neighbors. He said softly: "The Dragon Guards should be withdrawn. They have fought. They have lost nearly a thousand of the three thousand guards in the battle with the Tianyi clan. The loss is heavy."
"When it's time to show your fist, then show it. I have no objection."
"But now, are you really going to destroy the Tianyi clan? "
Wan Tiansheng looked at Xia Longwu and whispered: "The mansion master should understand that it is impossible. The Tianyi clan only deployed a 10,000-man guard in the battlefield of the heavens, not the entire main force."
"Continue to pursue, it may create greater results, but it will take more lives to fill it."
"Three thousand Longwu guards, the mansion master is ready to throw all of them in?"
After Wan Tiansheng finished speaking, he shook his head and said: "There is no need for this, it is too reckless! Fight, it has been fought. At this moment, we should talk! Go and talk to the Tianyi clan, at a certain price, let the remnant army of the Tianyi clan withdraw Leave..."
When he said this, the strong man said angrily: "We have surrounded them. They are now close to the dead end. This 10,000-man guard can be killed. What is your intention to let them go, Wan Tiansheng?"
"Did the Tianyi Protoss bribe you?"
Wan Tiansheng was not angry, and smiled: "Zheng Ping, personal attacks are unnecessary. I didn't deny that I can take them down. The key is... Is it worth it? Three thousand dragon guards, how much did the Great Xia Mansion spend to build them? Now, just for a 10,000-man guard, all of them are thrown in?"
"Where are you in it? "There are people from our war academy and people from our civilization academy, all of them are elite, just to fight a ragtag army?"
Wan Tiansheng sighed lightly: "Some people don't like to use their brains, they just like to fight and kill. Such people... should be thrown into the battlefield as soldiers, and never let them command."
The strong man said coldly: "I have been in the army for 30 years, and I fought my way out from the soldiers!"
"..."
Wan Tiansheng laughed and said softly: "So why don't you just be your thugs? Why do you have to get involved in the formulation of the big plan?"
The strong man said angrily: "I know you look down on me, and I don't need you to look up to me! But as long as we recruit the remaining 2,000 Dragon Guards of Daxia Prefecture, we can wipe them out without spending too much money!"
The strong man said unwillingly: "The loss of nearly a thousand people has forced them into a desperate situation. Wan Tiansheng, you asked Daxia Prefecture to withdraw its troops at this time. Have you considered what the Dragon Guards think?"
"Are the soldiers on the front line willing?"
"I am a soldier, I understand them! They are unwilling, they are aggrieved, they have lost one-third of their comrades, and have an absolute advantage. At this moment, they have forced the enemy into Desperate situation, giving up at this moment... No one can be willing!"
The strong man's eyes were red, "In order to win this war, we paid so much price..."
"So we need to make up for it!"
Wan Tiansheng said softly: "War is not about militarism, Zheng Ping, after so many years, why don't you understand? Sometimes winning or losing is not about how many people you kill, but how much you gain. "
"I don't like the fighting style of Daxia Mansion, killing everyone and leaving no grass behind!"
"Not good, very bad!"
"You will only inspire the enemy's resistance by doing this , will only make them fight to the death and burn their boats!"
"When it's time to stop, stop immediately, let them use resources, skills, martial arts, divine blood, and natural treasures to exchange for their lives."
"Next time, when the war starts again, halfway through, they will lose 30%, and they will think of surrendering and buying their lives."
"Disintegrate their fighting spirit, instead of inspiring their fighting spirit."
Wan Tiansheng sighed: "Daxia Prefecture has fought so many battles in these years, yes, each time the most enemies are killed, but each time it is also the prefecture with the greatest losses and the least gains!"
"The enemy The fighting spirit of the people in the battlefield of the heavens has been aroused by you. The myriad races in the battlefield of the heavens know that if they meet the people of the Great Zhou Mansion, they can buy their lives if they can't win. If they meet the Great Xia Mansion... they will fight to the death! "
"Zhou Potian did a good job in this regard, and even the Daming Mansion did better than us."
"My Great Xia Mansion has elite soldiers and generals, and we are invincible in the battlefield, but...what about the losses? What about the compensation?"
Wan Tiansheng shook his head and sighed: "Zheng Ping, I think the lord of the mansion should send you to the treasury to see if the treasury... is empty!"
Zheng Ping's body shook slightly and looked at Xia Longwu.
Xia Longwu, who had been silent all this time, saw Zheng Ping coming and said calmly: "The treasury is not full, but it doesn't matter, Daxia Mansion can afford it!"
Wan Tiansheng chuckled and said: "The Mansion Master means... continue to fight?"
Xia Longwu looked at him and said indifferently: "Wan Tiansheng, some of your words are right. Daxia Mansion will suffer the greatest losses and gain the least if it goes to war. I know these things better than you, but over the years, I have only listened to what you said, but never taken it seriously. Do you know why?"
Wan Tiansheng was not surprised and said slowly: "I understand, the Mansion Master needs to train a strongest human race. Legion! Let the human race have a vanguard army that can fight fierce battles! "
"You understand!"
Xia Longwu stood up and said coldly: "In the past, the Great Zhou Palace was the strongest! The Great Zhou army swept across the battlefields of the heavens and was invincible! At that time, they were like this. If they won, the enemy could buy their lives with money."
"One year, two years... ten years, a hundred years!"
"When they conquered the heavens and forced the enemy into a desperate situation, they thought they could close the net and reap the rewards, but... they were wrong! That elite Protoss Corps fought to the death!"
"With a force of 10,000 people, they defeated The careless army of the Great Zhou Dynasty! The army of the Great Zhou Dynasty has forgotten to fight to the death! The army of 100,000 people...actually collapsed! "
Xia Longwu sneered: "This is the Battle of Luozhou Sea recorded by the human race! A miserable defeat!"
"The most elite army of 100,000 people was defeated by a remnant army! Unbelievable, all the races in the heavens were shocked, and all the races suddenly found out...the most elite army of the human race was actually a paper tiger!"
Xia Longwu's face was cold, "The Great Zhou Army, which was known as invincible, just shattered the myth! Because they are used to fighting...why do so many people die?"
Xia Longwu looked To Wan Tiansheng, he said in a deep voice: "The lesson of the past is right in front of us, Wan Tiansheng, do you still think it is unnecessary to fight a tough battle?"
"Not really."
Wan Tiansheng shook his head, and then said: "But Daxia Mansion can't hold on any longer! Mansion Lord, you should be flexible and not deny the Great Zhou Army because of a defeat. The Great Zhou Army can rise again quickly because they gained a lot in the past, so they can quickly build another elite corps!"
"And our Daxia Mansion...if we lose the Dragon Guard, it will be difficult, too difficult to build another Dragon Guard!"
Xia Longwu looked at him and looked down at him.
Wan Tiansheng did not evade, looked directly at Xia Longwu, and said again: "Retreat, negotiate, and use resources to buy life!"
"I, Xia Longwu, am the soul of the Great Xia Mansion, I cannot retreat!"
"You have to retreat!"
The elegant Wan Tiansheng before was aggressive, with sharp eyes, "If you don't retreat, the Great Xia Civilization Academy will never provide a soldier to the Dragon Guard again, and no civilized division will enter the Dragon Guard to fight again!"
"Are you threatening me?"
Xia Longwu said in a low voice, Wan Tiansheng stood up, his face serious, " If you don't retreat, I would rather let the teachers and students in the academy go to the Great Zhou Palace than let the students of the academy die in the battlefields of the heavens to make you, Xia Longwu, famous! "
"Asshole!"
Zheng Ping said angrily: "Wan Tiansheng, are you going to betray the Great Xia Palace?"
"No, I am saving the Great Xia Palace. I am willing to fight for the human race, not for a dictator!"
Wan Tiansheng suddenly took off the crown on his head and said in a deep voice: "Wan Tiansheng resigns from the post of the head of the Great Xia Civilization Palace!"
Xia Longwu stared at him for a long time and did not speak.
Just then, the old man on the left laughed and said: "Wan Fuzhang, stop teasing Zheng Fuzhang."
Zheng Ping frowned and looked at them, a little unhappy. What does it mean?
The old man chuckled and said, "We have to retreat. Daxia Mansion has been fighting for decades, and the battles are too hard and the losses are too great. This time the Mansion Lord summoned you to talk for this matter."
"Since you guessed it, why bother to lose the Mansion Lord's face..."
Wan Tiansheng pretended to be confused, "What do you mean?"
The old man laughed and shook his head, "You are still the same as before. Let me tell you, you are so noisy, can't you be calm?"
"The Mansion Lord wants to retreat... but he can't retreat. He is a banner of the human race and the soul of Daxia Mansion. If he retreats, what will the frontline soldiers think?"
"He is not the shameless Zhu Tiandao..."
The hall, which was originally tense, suddenly heard laughter.
Even the serious Xia Longwu sat down at this moment, coughed lightly and said: "Nonsense! Don't talk nonsense, Lord Zhu... cough, you still have to save face when you need to."
Everyone laughed, and the old man also laughed, "Yes, I was wrong. Let's not talk about that person, and continue the previous topic. Retreating is necessary. The Longwu Guards cannot exchange thousands of people for the Tianyi Divine Clan's 10,000 guards."
"You can't do it in the name of the Lord of the Palace."
"The Lord of the Palace killed several Tianyi Divine Cult strongmen, and he needs Retreat immediately."
"Today, I summoned you two here for the grand ceremony in a few days... The Palace Master is in retreat, and Lord Xiahou will temporarily take over the position of Palace Master. At that time... Wan Tiansheng, you can come again to do what happened today."
The old man smiled and said, "Let Lord Xiahou withdraw his troops! The Palace Master is in retreat, and he doesn't care about anything. It has nothing to do with him."
"Even if the frontline soldiers are dissatisfied, it doesn't matter. Lord Xiahou won't care about these."
"Lord Xiahou is a businessman. Let him negotiate compensation, losses, and prices with the Tianyi God Clan. At that time, Tianyi The gods will not doubt it, and will not let the myriad races see the weakness of the Great Xia Mansion. "
At this moment, Zheng Ping understood and could not help but curse: "Old man, is this appropriate? Lord Xia...you always blame him for everything, and now he has been criticized a lot..."
"So I don't care about another criticism."
The old man smiled and said: "Mr. Zheng, Mr. Wan is actually right, the treasury of the Great Xia Mansion is almost empty, and we really can't continue to fight like this. We can't build a second Dragon Guard, Once this group of powerful soldiers and generals are defeated, the elite troops of the Great Xia Palace will be finished!"
"It's just the Tianyi clan. We are not going to destroy them directly. Why do we have to focus on a group of 10,000 guards? The Palace Master is in seclusion, and Lord Xiahou takes office. He loves money but not fame. All the clans in the heavens know it. "
"He chose to withdraw his troops and let the Tianyi clan compensate and fill the treasury of the Great Xia Palace. Who can have any objections?"
The old man smiled brightly, "The Tianyi clan will probably be glad that Lord Xiahou took office instead of the Palace Master continuing to lead the Dragon Guards. Otherwise, Then this ten thousand guards are really finished. "
"The Lord of the Mansion is famous for not bowing his head. If the Lord of the Mansion retreats at this time, it will be incredible. I feel that the Daxia Mansion... is really over."
Zheng Ping wanted to speak but stopped, and then he said quietly after a while: "Is it really that serious?"
"Really, the treasury is really empty."
The old man sighed, "Otherwise, after fighting for so many years, how could he choose to compromise at this time? The Tianyi God Clan dared to enter the Daxia Mansion. According to the previous attitude, he would never give up until they were hurt!"
"But now, I really have to raise my troops and accumulate strength."
The old man said seriously: "The Lord of the Mansion chose to go into seclusion at this time, and he also had this kind of thinking. He can't fight anymore. Not only the Dragon Martial Guard, but also the Demon Suppressing Army issued many veteran recruitment orders. The losses were too great, including the Demon Suppressing Army, which will be calmed down in the next period of time."
"The Great Xia Mansion seems to be powerful, but in fact it is already a bad match. It has made its reputation over the years. It is necessary to choose to recuperate at this moment!"
"When When the Great Xia Mansion has recovered its vitality, when will the Mansion Master come out of retreat again!"
"That time, it will also be the time for the Mansion Master to reach the peak of invincibility!"
Aside, Xia Longwu said calmly: "I originally wanted to kill his way to the battlefield of the heavens in the near future, and kill a king to help me reach this realm! However... In order to be safe and conserve my strength, this battle will be postponed. In a few years, I believe that the Great Xia Mansion can recover its vitality!"
"The Mansion Master is wise!"
Wan Tiansheng flattered: "The Mansion Master made this choice, and the Great Xia Mansion has hope!"
Xia Longwu didn't buy it, He said calmly, "Aren't you going to resign? Why don't you resign at the ceremony in a few days? Since Zhou Potian wants you, then you can go."
"The Lord is joking!"
Wan Tiansheng remained calm, "We just rehearsed it just now, in case Lord Xia Hou sees the clues and others see the truth during the ceremony. Zhou Potian is cunning and treacherous, and I don't want to associate with him!"
"Haha!"
Xia Longwu sneered, "This... convey to Zhou Potian!"
He said to the old man on the left.
The old man laughed, looked at Zheng Ping, and said with a smile, "Mr. Zheng, you convey this to Lord Zhou. Mr. Wan's words, convey them all without missing a word!"
Zheng Ping's face was dark, and he didn't say a word.
Xia Longwu ignored them and stood up and said, "This is how it's decided! The Longwu Guards will evacuate quickly, the Tianyi clan will have to pay the price, and I will... go into seclusion, and when I come out, I will start with the Tianyi clan!"
The people below agreed, and no one had any more objections.
Wan Tiansheng was all smiles. Before he left, he glanced at Zheng Ping and sighed, "A reckless man is not worth discussing with!"
Zheng Ping's face was dark, "Old man, this year's exchanges between various prefectures will make you cry!"
Wan Tiansheng didn't care, but laughed happily, "I'm waiting, beat, beat hard! In previous years, the people in your war academy were too soft and their fists were too light, as if they hadn't eaten."
"If you go again this year, I will provide you with 10,000 kilograms of blood food for free. Eat more and use more strength. If you drive away half of the students, I will give you a banner. There are too many people in the civilized academy, what do you need so many people for?"
Wan Tiansheng shook his head and said, "A bunch of mediocre people, I have long wanted to streamline the organization. If it weren't for those old guys stopping me, I would recruit at most a thousand people every year! Old Zheng, I'm going to trouble you this time. Work hard. If you drive away a thousand people, I will personally lead the teachers and students of the academy to send you a banner!"
Zheng Ping's face became uglier and uglier. This old man, he has never won a quarrel with him!
Wan Tiansheng laughed heartily, walked out of the hall slowly, and said with emotion: "Daxia War Academy... has declined! Oh! Longwu Academy is worth seeing, but it's a pity that you are Daxia War Academy. Really, if you don't drive away a thousand people this year, I will look down on you!"
After he finished speaking, Wan Tiansheng disappeared in front of him.
Zheng Ping and others left, and suddenly said helplessly: "This old man is getting more and more difficult to deal with! Palace Master, is Daxia Palace really going to switch from offense to defense?"
Beside him, Xia Longwu, who had just left, appeared again at some point.
Watching Wan Tiansheng leave, Xia Longwu was silent for a moment, and said softly: "It's not about guarding, it's about waiting! Waiting for the vitality to recover! Wan Tiansheng waited for so many years, until the Great Xia Mansion was powerless, so... he won."
Zheng Ping sighed again: "I'm a little scared."
"What are you afraid of?"
"I'm afraid... I'll lose my fighting spirit, my confidence, and my morale."
Zheng Ping turned his head to look at Xia Longwu, and said with complicated eyes: "I'm afraid that after I retreat, the people in the Great Xia Mansion... will change with this retreat!"
"What is coming will come sooner or later."
Xia Longwu said lightly: "You can't fight for a lifetime. When the old soldiers retire, they have to return to fight again! Rest and recuperation is a must. It's better to recuperate now than when you can't fight."
"Old Zheng, the War Academy has suffered heavy losses over the years. It's time to rest."
After saying this, Xia Longwu stopped talking, a little bleak.
He has been strong all his life, but at this time, he can't be strong anymore.
He said he looked down on Zhu Tiandao and Zhou Potian, but in fact... he had some admiration and envy.
"At least... they had fewer men killed in battle than my Great Xia Mansion..."
Muttering in his heart, Xia Longwu's eyes showed a trace of bitterness. He wanted to continue fighting, but reality did not allow him to continue.
Warmongering!
The Great Xia Mansion was like a raging fire at the moment. It seemed to be flourishing, but in fact it was already in danger.
"Wan Tiansheng... After fighting for so many years, I want to see what you can change?"
Xia Longwu muttered in his heart. He also wanted to see how far Wan Tiansheng could go.
"Civilized Academy... I hope there will be no trouble in the next frontier. Teacher... Can you really control it?"
Xia Longwu chuckled. Teacher, yes, that was his enlightenment mentor.
But over the years, he almost forgot.