Inside the secret chamber, Zuo Jun's voice was as cold as frost, striking the ground with a hard edge.
The White Flame Army had not gone to battle for three months, which had already made its stance clear.
If Cuiqing City really was a trap Qilian Guanshi had laid for Li Fei, then with the White Flame Army holding back, the danger of Li Fei's trip there would be extremely high!
Ye Jingfu did not comment after hearing this.
Once a ten-thousand-man military formation was activated, as long as casualties did not exceed five thousand, it could maintain the strength of Peak Experts.
But the prerequisite was that the military formation had to be activated first.
If their numbers fell below ten thousand, the White Flame Army would be unable to activate a ten-thousand-man military formation.
That was why the four ten-thousand-man Imperial Guard Armies all numbered twelve thousand. The extra two thousand existed to prevent this very situation.
Accommodating two thousand additional soldiers was already the limit of a ten-thousand-man military formation.
Once the White Flame Army's numbers dropped below ten thousand, they could only activate a five-thousand-man military formation. Although it could still display the strength of Peak Experts, its "Health Bar" would be much shorter.
A five-thousand-man military formation could accommodate at most six thousand Imperial Guard soldiers within it. Once casualties exceeded two thousand, the formation would dissolve on its own, and its strength would immediately plummet from the level of Peak Experts!
Zuo Jun could not allow the White Flame Army to fall into such a perilous situation.
If the White Flame Army vanished from the Eastern Border now, the situation would collapse completely!
With the White Flame Army suffering nearly two thousand casualties, new Imperial Guard soldiers had to be brought in. They needed