Two months prior, the Rhode team, using the siege of the Sha Hu team as an opportunity, launched a "lure the reinforcements" strategy targeting the Eastern Lands' rescue efforts.
This resulted in considerable losses for the Eastern Lands.
Dozens of passionate youths, including the eldest grandson of Emperor Valley's Hua Ye Shen, perished forever in that icy wasteland.
Even now—
King Gao Ling of Northwest Loulan and others remain trapped in the Blackwater Forest, enduring the harsh cold.
The Eastern Lands will not forget this deep-seated hatred!
As Li Qianfan successfully breached the outer defense zone, Li Wujiang's "an eye for an eye" plan was violently set into motion!
The revenge operation, spearheaded by Dark Blade, aimed to conduct their own authentic "lure the reinforcements" against the enemy.
What others can do, Dark Blade can do as well!
To this end,
After repeated consultations between Li Wujiang and Su Nanyin, it was decided to temporarily set aside the primary task of preventing Dark Net infiltration and quietly dispatch all available Dark Blade members to the Blackwater Forest battlefield.
Li Qianfan, in particular, is the core nexus of the revenge plan.
Once activated, he will disrupt the enemy's outer defenses on the eastern front.
The Dark Blade's Fourth to Eighth Squads, totaling sixty members who had already arrived earlier, will then charge through the despair-inducing outer defense zone at top speed and engage in close-quarters combat with the enemy.
In terms of close-quarters combat—
Since the 1950s, the youths of the Eastern Lands have never feared anyone!
They even forged an undefeated legend in the history of human light infantry!
Li Wujiang has absolute confidence that Li Qianfan and his team can completely cripple the so-called Rhode team.
And lay siege!
Once the Rhode team is crippled and surrounded but not annihilated, what will be the enemy's reaction?
They will undoubtedly dispatch reinforcements to hastily support the Blackwater Forest battlefield.
This would then form the "lure the reinforcements" situation.
In short,
Dark Blade will show the Rhode team how to execute an authentic "lure the reinforcements" operation, mirroring what the Rhode team did previously!
(Dragon Ruins will also negotiate new "sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight" rules with the Moses family, and neither side will be allowed to help.)
Previously,
Dark Blade's First Squad of twelve members had already reached their designated location.
Li Wujiang is currently rushing to the designated location with twelve experts seconded from Emperor Valley.
And the twelve people withdrawing eastward, including Li Xingtang, Li Santiao, and Zhai Xing Zhai Yue, will turn around and head straight to Li Wujiang's location once Li Qianfan releases the "showing off" video.
Calculating it this way,
The number of people participating in the "lure the reinforcements" operation, personally led by Li Wujiang, plus her, totals thirty-seven.
However, Su Nanyin felt that these thirty-seven people were not enough to block all the reinforcements.
Even if they could, they would incur certain costs.
She then decided to dispatch the reserve Second Squad overnight as well.
The twelve members of Dark Blade's Second Squad are the new generation from the Eastern Lands, including Qin Zhou, Tie Yuan, and Chu Yingying, who had previously ventured into the outer areas of the Blackwater Forest!
Their average age is less than twenty-one.
This is also the squad with the lowest average age and least combat experience among the eight squads established after Dark Blade was urgently formed.
These new recruits were almost ecstatic when they received the invitation from Dark Blade.
They never dreamed that by simply visiting the Blackwater Forest, such a good opportunity would fall into their laps.
(If directly accepting the command of War God Li Wujiang is not considered a good thing, then what is? This is also why Qin Zhou and others, after returning to the country, were taken away for secret training before they could even go to Tiandong to help King Gao Ling and deliver a message to Sister Wan.)
Up until the second before Su Nanyin issued the order,
Qin Zhou and the others were still training strenuously in a deep mountain, scrambling and rolling.
Now—
Upon receiving Su Nanyin's order, Qin Zhou and the others, who had never participated in systematic combat, immediately shouted in excitement, assembled at top speed, and prepared to descend the mountain!
"Remember, you must unconditionally obey the orders of the Grand Commander. If anyone thinks they are special because of their elders and dares to cause trouble, then don't blame me, Su Nanyin, for turning my back on them."
Fearing that Qin Zhou and the others, being young and impulsive (especially a group of spoiled brats), Su Nanyin specifically instructed.
"Understood!"
Qin Zhou replied loudly.
Click.
Su Nanyin put down the microphone, raised her hand to pinch her brow, and pondered who else could be used.
This "lure the reinforcements" operation was also "exclusively" participated in by Dark Blade.
Overseas teams like Chang Kong could not be used, and personnel from the Eastern Lands' Sixteen Military Divisions, highest security, and safety units also could not be mobilized.
Once established military units were involved, it would no longer be a nighttime operation.
There was a high probability of igniting a war that would bring disaster to the nation and its people!
Apart from the Third Squad, responsible for her security and preventing Dark Net infiltration, Su Nanyin had no one else to deploy.
The more than forty people who accompanied the Li Family Village on their expedition are currently secretly lurking in Qingyun, prepared to receive Dark Net infiltration, and absolutely cannot be moved.
Seeing her mother's exhaustion, Su Maomao silently stood behind her and massaged her shoulders.
Su Nanyin looked up, "Where's Yao Yao? Still catching up on sleep?"
Du Junlin returned home slightly later than Li Qianfan.
However, even now, nearly thirty hours had passed, and she had been sleeping soundly in her bedroom, not even eating.
"I'll go check."
Su Zui said softly, then quickly walked towards the stairs.
She knocked on the door, "Yao Yao, Yao Yao, wake up, wake up."
No response.
After waiting a moment, she knocked again, "Yao Yao! Wake up."
Still no response.
Su Zui's heart sank, sensing something was amiss, and she quickly turned the doorknob and pushed the door open.
The bedroom was empty—
There was no sign of Du Yao Yao!
Su Zui froze for a moment, then turned and called out, "Mom! Yao Yao is missing."
Du Junlin was gone.
Just as Su Nanyin thought she was sleeping in her bedroom, she had, at some unknown time, quietly slipped away through the back window.
Leaving behind a letter—
"Alas, children grow up and become independent of their mothers."
Su Nanyin hurried upstairs, took the letter from Su Zui, and sighed softly.
She didn't even need to ask to know where Yao Yao had gone.
She must have gone to the Blackwater Forest to find Li Qianfan!
It was the intention of both Su Nanyin and Li Qianfan that Yao Yao should remain under Su Nanyin's command after returning to the country.
After all, once the Blackwater Forest conflict escalated, there was an 80% chance that the Rhodes family would pressure the Dark Net to cause trouble in the Eastern Lands to alleviate the pressure on the battlefield.
Dark Blade, specifically targeting the Dark Net, was already stretched thin due to its recent formation and had dispatched the majority of its forces. They urgently needed absolute elite trump cards like Du Junlin to handle any potential emergent situations.
Du Junlin, who had verbally agreed, had instead run away—
"Other people's children forget their mothers once they get married. You, on the other hand, forget your mother once you have a man."
Su Nanyin complained casually, while Su Maomao quietly said, "Mom, I haven't forgotten you."
Su Nanyin opened the letter and asked, "If I taught you to fight, would you still stay by my side?"
Su Zui fell silent.
"Clearly, you're ungrateful. And Chong Chong, always hiding in Qingyun! I truly don't understand what kind of things I've given birth to."
As Su Nanyin grumbled, her expression suddenly changed!
Then it changed drastically!!
Even the hand holding the letter began to tremble.
Su Zui saw this and hurriedly asked, "Mom, what's wrong?"
"Zhuang Wujian—"
Su Nanyin's voice was hoarse, "Damn Li Qianfan! Damn Du Junlin! Why didn't you tell me that Zhuang Wujian, who had been missing for thirty years, not only didn't die but also founded the so-called War Demon God Hall!?"
Li Qianfan hadn't mentioned the War Demon God Hall when he called Su Nanyin.
He assumed Du Junlin would tell her after returning home.
But Du Junlin, in order to escape, deliberately concealed it, yet he conveyed the information he had heard at the Rhodes Castle in written form.
Du Junlin was, after all, young.
Even though she knew Zhuang Wujian was a very peculiar and terrifying woman, that was the extent of her knowledge.
Su Nanyin, however, had personally experienced how terrifying Zhuang Wujian was back then.
At this moment, she suddenly understood why Shen Yue had made a swift retreat and decided to permanently reside in Piaomiao Township.
She—
Was not even qualified to know the news of Zhuang Wujian's return after thirty years!
However, she wouldn't blame Shen Yue for this.
Because she knew very well that Shen Yue hadn't told her this news for fear of her worrying.
But if—
Li Qianfan or Du Junlin had informed Su Nanyin immediately upon learning of Zhuang Wujian's return and involvement in the Blackwater Forest siege,
Then the Dark Blade's "lure the reinforcements" plan would have undergone significant adjustments.
It might even have been canceled!
"I heard from your father and the others that Zhuang Wujian's most peculiar and terrifying aspect is her fusion of Eastern martial arts with Japanese ninjutsu,"
Su Nanyin said to her elder daughter in a low voice, "She even incorporated a type of 'undead zombie' dark art cultivated in Japan decades ago. You can think of her as a zombie with high intelligence. With Zhuang Wujian involved, Li Qianfan is in danger."
Without further ado, she turned and hurried downstairs.
She grabbed the desk phone and called Li Wujiang again.
"What's wrong?"
Su Nanyin had just called her not long ago, and now she was calling again. Li Wujiang immediately sensed that something was amiss.
"Do you know about Jiuweihu Zhuang Wujian from thirty years ago?"
Su Nanyin spoke at top speed, "She's not dead. She founded the War Demon God Hall in Africa! And, she is very likely at the Blackwater Forest right now."