The words "capital punishment" nearly scared the dozen or so people into fainting. They had imagined all kinds of disputes arising once the Wolf Fang Regiment arrived, but they had never expected Liu Yuding to be so bold as to invoke military law and the charge of a capital crime!
They had indeed grown used to being arrogant over the past half year. Led by Wang Chen, there was practically no base that dared oppose them, and everyone even treated them with extra deference. After all, they controlled the supplies.
Yet this Wolf Fang Regiment did not take them seriously at all and came right at them head-on?!
One of them panicked and hurriedly spoke up. "But this isn't Wolf Fang Base! This is..."
"This is a camp established by the Strategic Department. You are members of the Strategic Department, so Wolf Fang military law does not apply to you." Liu Yuding forcefully cut him off.
Fan De could no longer sit still either and anxiously said, "You know that, yet..."
"But while death may be spared, punishment cannot." Liu Yuding interrupted again, his expressionless face carrying his Cold-Faced Yama persona to the very end. "Not under Wolf Fang regulations, but under the military law of the united alliance of all participants in this war—the duties a soldier ought to uphold."
The group was completely dumbfounded. The alliance army consisted of fifteen regiments, and the Strategic Department was clearly not among them. Thus, they were not bound by the alliance army's rules. What Liu Yuding had just mentioned—the military law of the united alliance of all participants in the war—simply did not exist.
But its nonexistence did not mean they could do whatever they pleased. This war was of immense importance, and there was no need to elaborate on how