"Yes! The Outer Gods! If the Outer Gods wanted to breach Great Xia, they first had to break through the defensive line the Night Watchmen had established at the borders—the War Passes.
Do you know why the War Passes had yet to be fully put into operation?
Because there were too few Night Watchmen!
The Night Watchmen simply did not have enough people to guard the various cities while also deploying personnel to defend the passes. That was why they chose to expand recruitment, bringing in more new recruits to solve their manpower shortage."
"I understand now!" Ding Chongfeng suddenly realized. "Their target wasn't this Training Camp, but us inside it?"
Shen Qingzhu glanced at him, his eyes carrying a hint more approval.
Following Shen Qingzhu's train of thought, Ding Chongfeng continued, "Whether more than six hundred of us recruits could join the Night Watchmen was a crucial link in this war. Once we died, Great Xia's personnel rotation would suffer a massive gap!
Once that gap appeared, Great Xia would have no one left to deploy, and the combat power at those frontline War Passes would be greatly diminished. The Outer Gods could then seize that opportunity to invade.
This truly was a crisis sweeping across Great Xia!"
After his analysis, everyone in the auditorium came to understand.
"So that's how it is!"
"As expected of the Ancient God Church. There was such an enormous scheme behind this matter!"
"The more you think about it, the more terrifying it gets!"
"..."
As everyone discussed fervently, Shen Qingzhu spoke again:
"Then, if the Ancient God Church wanted to break into this Training Camp and wipe out us new recruits, forcing their way in from outside would definitely not work.
Although the Training Camp was located in the suburbs, this was