Ever since the Xiao Clan of Notting City, to which Boss Xiao belonged, had fallen into decline, Xiao Wentian had plummeted from a wealthy young master clad in fine silks and fed on delicacies straight into hell, becoming a little beggar who begged for his meals. Wandering from place to place through hardship and upheaval, he had long since learned how to read faces and moods, and how to win people over with little effort.
Having found an opening to get closer to Ma Hongjun, Xiao Wentian put his talents to work and struck up a conversation with him. Before long, they were getting along famously, as familiar with each other as old friends. The other five behind him watched with burning envy, but there was nothing they could do.
Who could blame him for knowing how to flatter someone to the skies?
Ma Hongjun led the six soldiers on several patrols around the village where the army was stationed. Only after finding nothing else did he return to the village.
While Ma Hongjun was out patrolling, the two thousand men of the Vanguard Army had already set to work in an orderly fashion.
It was worth mentioning that the armies of the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire had previously operated under different systems. After Yang Ming took command, he overhauled the allied army's organization from top to bottom to avoid trouble, and the entire army's bearing and appearance underwent a transformation that overturned heaven and earth.
This two-thousand-strong Vanguard Army was divided into six units: cooking, communications, reconnaissance, command, engineering, and combat. Their numbers varied, with the command unit being the smallest at a mere ten people, including Ma Hongjun and the Cat Girl Duoduo. The other eight were career soldiers with experience commanding troops in