Chapter 892: To Fight or Not to Fight?

A Bamboo Tube was urgently delivered to Baifeng's desk. Baifeng did not know who had sent it, but he felt it was more likely to have come from the Western Development Group; after all, they had faced many difficulties along their journey, and the possibility of them encountering problems was higher.

However, unexpectedly, as soon as Baifeng opened it, the few short sentences made sweat begin to bead on his forehead. He muttered to himself, "Really, this fast?"

Afterwards, he dared not delay in the slightest and immediately gathered everyone for an emergency meeting. It was still very rare to hold such a large meeting, unless some urgent problem had been encountered, so everyone hurriedly set aside the work in their hands to attend.

This time, it was too rushed, and nothing had been prepared in the meeting room. After everyone was seated, Baifeng took out that note and had it passed down.

"Everyone, a major event has occurred. There is great chaos within the Shennong Clan. Their internal Tribal Alliance has invited the Xuanyuan Tribe to help them oppose the Shennong Clan. Upon learning this news, Xuanyuan decided to unite with our Huaxia to attack the Shennong Clan. Because the content of the letter is limited, many details were not mentioned, but Chou said that he has already secured enough benefits for our Huaxia.

I believe that with Chou's ability, the benefits secured are definitely sufficient, but the problem now is whether or not we should participate. You all should speak your thoughts."

Xiong had already read the note, and this news was shocking enough for him as well. Combining it with the current situation, he immediately stated, "King, I believe we must first see what the Xuanyuan Tribe's conditions are. Furthermore, the letter does not say what the current situation of the Shennong Clan is. After all, we all know that the Shennong Clan is the largest tribe; wanting to attack them is truly not an easy matter.

But if the benefits are sufficient, I think this is also a very good opportunity. Our Soldiers have good equipment and good bodies, but they have never fought a war and lack training.

It is just that I do not know what the Shennong Clan's Weapons are like, but ordinary Weapons pose no great threat to our Soldiers; I only fear they have too many people.

There is another problem, which is that our Soldiers are too few in number. We must leave behind enough Soldiers to guard our Huaxia. In this way, even if we go to participate in the war, we cannot send too many people. Will the Xuanyuan Tribe have any objections to this?"

After the person in charge of war finished speaking, Yulong, the person in charge of the economy, also began to express his opinion: "Father, if it is war, our food reserves are completely sufficient. Aside from supplying our own, transporting it over a long distance, even for ten thousand people's food, is completely enough.

However, if we really are to participate in the war, I believe that to save costs, we can completely transport the food to the Xuanyuan Tribe via water routes, and then let the people of their Xuanyuan Tribe deliver the food to the battlefield. We do not have that much logistical labor to go to such a distant battlefield; the logistics must be handled by the Xuanyuan Tribe.

However, this can also be another form of alliance. Uncle Xiong said we cannot send too many Soldiers, so we will use Weapons and food to support the Xuanyuan Tribe. The Xuanyuan Tribe is certainly lacking in food and Weapons.

Compared to the Soldiers we have cultivated with such difficulty, food and Weapons can be replenished in a short time, but people cannot. We are short on people."

Baifeng nodded: "Good. What about the others? Do you have any thoughts? Speak them all."

However, the other departments did not have much to do with war, and they did not have many thoughts for the moment, nothing more than the issue of whether to fight or not.

But the people from the Ministry of Works, the Carpenter department, and the Yietiebu stated: "We can provide Weapons with all our might."

The implication of saying this was that they were also willing to participate in this war.

The others remained silent, so Baifeng simply said: "Fine, let me state my meaning. We must participate in the war, because we cannot hide from it. Aside from this time, there will be even greater ones in the future. However, I firmly believe that the Xuanyuan Tribe will be able to win.

Regardless of whether we will fight the Xuanyuan Tribe in the future, right now, the Xuanyuan Tribe is our best ally. War will inevitably have casualties and losses, but I feel that our gains will be even greater. Although the Shennong Clan is very large, I believe this war will continue until the Shennong Clan is destroyed.

On this point, I can even fully guarantee it. The war will not end halfway; I told you all this many years ago.

The Shennong Clan has a sufficiently large territory and a sufficiently large population, but the territory is useless to us; it is too far from us, and our own territory is already too large to develop.

However, we can completely absorb their population. It will be a great help to the development of our Huaxia. Our Huaxia currently only lacks people.

If we can determine the matter of the population in the negotiations with Xuanyuan, and Xuanyuan is willing to make concessions on this matter, we can go all out.

If the benefits he can concede are small, then we will exert a small amount of effort according to the benefits he gives. We must participate in the war; now we only need to consider how much effort to exert.

Just as Yulong said, we can even send fewer people; we can provide them with Weapons and food.

What do you think now?"

Xiong immediately stated: "Our Ministry of War fully supports this. However, I believe we can start conscription early this year. Since we are participating in the war, we will certainly have to send many experienced Soldiers to the battlefield, so we must replenish our manpower to maintain our normal order, and we must also expand recruitment!"

Baifeng nodded: "Mm, not bad, not bad. You can start acting on this today, and release the news that we are going to participate in the war. Don't tell them whether the new recruits will go to the battlefield or not. If they can still come under these conditions, they are good Soldiers in terms of ideology first."

However, Baifeng turned his head and scanned those officials, then added another sentence: "Xiong said the new recruits don't need to go to the battlefield, but I don't think so. If new recruits don't go to the battlefield, they will always be new recruits. The veterans gain more and more experience, while the new recruits know nothing; how can that work?

Therefore, I believe we must treat them normally. As long as their training is qualified, they may all go. There is no need to pick and choose. At the same time, regardless of their background, no matter whose son it is, if they are selected, they must go."

Xiong understood the implication of Baifeng's words and realized he was warning certain people, so he took the lead in stating his position: "King, I request that for this operation, I, as well as my son Shaoyin, will all go to the battlefield."

Baifeng agreed without hesitation: "Good!"

He was not targeting Xiong, but because he trusted Xiong. Furthermore, if Shaoyin wanted to go higher, he had to have sufficient merit. Baifeng also did not want his Huaxia to produce a group of useless second-generation heirs so quickly.