Facing the encirclement of the Devil Race and the West Sea Aquatic Race's two armies, the North Sea absolutely needed reinforcements.
With only the six hundred thousand Zhenhai Army troops under the North Sea Prefecture Duke's Mansion, one hundred thousand Demon Slave Army troops, one million permanently stationed county soldiers of middling combat strength, and two hundred thousand newly trained recruits, it was simply impossible to contend against the Devil Race's three million strong army and over ten million elite Water Clan troops.
If Ye Zhen, the commander who had repeatedly wrought miracles, were here, Liu Feng was confident that the North Sea Prefecture Duke's Mansion would not need reinforcements to drive back this powerful enemy.
But Ye Zhen was absent, and Liu Feng did not possess such confidence himself.
But the question was, where could the reinforcements come from?
Previously, Prince Li Ji Yuan and the newly elevated Crown Prince Ji Ao could both have become reinforcements for the North Sea.
But they had also made their terms perfectly clear: only if all the forces governed by the North Sea Prefecture Duke's Mansion were completely placed under their command would they possibly dispatch reinforcements.
Such terms were impossible for Instructor Liao Feibai to accept, and neither Liu Feng nor Gu Tieqi could accept them.
It was merely that their mistress, Instructor Liao Feibai, had acted more decisively, while Liu Feng's approach had been comparatively hesitant.
However, after their mistress Instructor Liao Feibai beheaded those so-called envoys, where would the North Sea's reinforcements come from?
Liu Feng pondered bitterly for a long while and thought of only one place.
In truth, the standing army of the Marquisate of Haiyuan and the naval forces of several great water palaces had all been part of Liu Feng's plans.
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