Lei Tianlun slammed the table and rose. "Such brazen lawlessness—this is unprecedented in ten thousand years!"
"Precisely!" Song Lifu said. "Now that we know of this, we must set things right and return to the source. Lord Lei, how about using the forces of the Heaven-Subduing Pavilion as our foundation?"
Lei Tianlun's expression was grave. "Marquis Su, Lord Song, this is precisely where the difficulty lies. I am officially on sick leave, and the authority to deploy the Pavilion's troops has fallen into Du Qinghe's hands. That man is likely His Majesty's confidant. Without his military tally, the Heaven-Subduing Military Hall cannot deploy its forces."
Li Yafu said, "Exactly so. Though I am the Hall Master of the Military Hall, the generals under my command cannot be deployed at all."
"No!" Mad Wolf said. "Hall Master, the Seventh Battle Team under my command can ignore military orders!"
That was the advantage of personally commanding troops.
The soldiers under a general's direct command obeyed only her orders. Those low-ranking soldiers cared nothing for tiger tallies or military commands; they followed their general's lead.
If the general intended to rebel, orders from above were nothing but scraps of waste paper to her.
"Your Seventh Battle Team numbers only twenty thousand!" Li Yafu said. "The Imperial Guard has one hundred thousand men, and the Hidden Dragon Guard is close at hand. To rise blindly is like smashing an egg against a rock—it would merely send you to your deaths!"
"And what if it is only twenty thousand?" Mad Wolf said. "Back then, with three thousand troops, we descended upon Jiangnan! Faced with ten million Jiangnan sect cultivators, we still swept them aside!"
The three great figures looked at one another...
Lei Tianlun let out a long sigh. "This official is also convinced by