Chapter 1145: Li Ruanyu (2)

Outside the meeting room, the voices of Tieshan and the others grew louder.

It seemed they had begun arguing about something.

Li Ruanyu paid it no mind, as if she had long grown used to it.

Zhao Chi asked, "Instructor Li, what is our next move?"

Li Ruanyu said, "The next step is still northward. Our current strategic objective is to fully connect the two towns to the northwest with our Horn Cliff Town, so that the entire western side of Snowfield City is under our control."

Zhao Chi asked, "After the territories in the Greater World are connected, are there any special effects?"

"No special effects, but support between our allied forces will become more convenient, and transferring supplies will be much easier."

"Understood. What about River Valley Town? Do we have plans to go there? After all, the people from our few villages have already migrated over, so it should be empty now, right?"

Li Ruanyu shook her head: "It's already been occupied by the werewolves. No one leaves a place with a magic formation sitting empty."

Zhao Chi asked again, "Then the town to our north — which faction is the enemy?"

"To the north is Copper Rock Town, Heavenly King Army's territory. Further north is Black Water Town, Desperate Army's territory. Further north still is Dark Wind Town, Glory Army's territory. Once we link up these three towns, our entire western side will be connected."

"Heavenly King Army? Are we going to go to war with the Heavenly King Army? Didn't we form an alliance before?"

Li Ruanyu smiled faintly:

"When did we ever form an alliance?

"All these factions of ours are called the Resistance, but don't you already know? They're all independent factions.

"Before, we agreed to attack the nobles together. Once the nobles were driven out, it became a fight to the death over territory.

"Last week too, we only agreed to take out the werewolves' squadron together. Once the objective was done, of course we scattered again.

"Besides, the Heavenly King Army also raided our northern villages. Us fighting them is only right and proper."

Zhao Chi nodded: "What about the Desperate Army and the Glory Army? Enemies as well?"

Li Ruanyu shook her head: "Not necessarily. Although those two factions aren't as strong as us, after expanding they each have one town and several villages, and a certain number of lords. With them, we should try to negotiate first, and only fight if talks fall through."

Although the World-Breaking Army is much stronger than them, taking them on wouldn't be easy, because it's impossible to gather all our forces to attack them.

After all, there are other hostile factions all around.

Once the World-Breaking Army sallies out in full force, the other factions will go wild with joy and will absolutely seize our empty towns and villages directly.

At that point, with the World-Breaking Army fighting at the front and being raided in the rear, we'd be at a terrible disadvantage.

Even if we take the front, losing the rear means the loss outweighs the gain.

Moreover, having just been through battle, we need time to rest and reorganize, and can't quickly retake the territory.

So even when attacking, we must leave enough combat strength in the territory to guard against attacks from other factions.

The actual number of troops we can deploy won't be that many.

If we can negotiate, we should negotiate.

If talks fall through, it's not too late to fight then.

Zhao Chi asked, "What about the alien werewolf faction? What's their situation?"

Li Ruanyu said:

"They are the strongest enemy.

"Although most of their forces are tied down in the central District 9 by the nobles, their forces on the outside are still very strong.

"The entire southeast of Snowfield City is their territory — almost half of Snowfield City.

"But they're too greedy. Wanting to swallow us up quickly, they've occupied a huge amount of territory, yet they don't have the troops for it.

"This means that although they're very strong, once their troops are spread across all those places, they're not strong anywhere.

"On top of that, having just occupied each area, there's resistance everywhere, so their rule is very unstable.

"Just dealing with that resistance alone is already consuming a great deal of their energy.

"And it's not just our Snowfield City — they've also occupied a lot of territory in several other human cities. This spreads their forces even thinner, leaving them unable to attend to everything.

"So now is our chance, and we must seize it."

Zhao Chi nodded: "Understood."

Li Ruanyu opened the window for some air.

Then she said to Zhao Chi, "Su Qin… do you have any plans for her?"

"Su Qin?"

Zhao Chi was a little surprised, not understanding why Li Ruanyu had suddenly brought her up.

Li Ruanyu nodded:

"A few days ago I went to find Su Qin once and had a chat with her.

"I found that her theories are very solid and her combat style is very steady — she just lacks an opportunity.