The many officers present,
after hearing Li Liyue's words, all gave a military salute in unison.
Yet the expressions of the officers were nowhere near as impassioned as when they had responded to Ding Ye just moments ago!
Because when Deputy Commander Ding Ye had given them their orders, he had required the officers to lead their troops in resisting the Poisonous Tribe's Chang Sheng Division for ten days, after which reinforcements from Jizhou Prefecture would arrive!
Although facing the Poisonous Tribe's Chang Sheng Division, whose equipment far surpassed that of the Great Yan Kingdom's army, even holding out for ten days was by no means an easy task, and no one knew how many young soldiers' lives would have to be paid for... compared with the thirty days Commander-in-Chief Li Liyue had mentioned, resisting for ten days was far easier!
For a moment,
unease rose in the hearts of the officers... To withstand the Chang Sheng Division's tanks, artillery, and aerial bombardment for thirty days was simply an impossible mission to those officers who understood the firepower of the Poisonous Tribe's powerful divisions!
But military law stood like a mountain. Commander-in-Chief Li Liyue had already issued the order, and it was a mission arranged by Jizhou Prefecture and the Capital City. Even if the officers harbored grievances, what could they say?
At that moment, the more quick-witted officers were already considering how to preserve their lives in this great battle! Those who were somewhat more pessimistic had even begun thinking about how to contact their families and how to leave behind their wills!
The officers' reactions alone made it incomparably clear just how much the Poisonous Tribe's Chang Sheng Division terrified the Great Yan Kingdom's soldiers and officers—their mission was not to defeat the Chang Sheng Division, whose numbers