It wasn't just the army coming to attack him?
Qin Siyang's words left everyone silent.
Zhao Longfei asked, "Xiao Qin, do you think there might be ordinary people mixed into this Ordinary Brigade?"
"It's possible. Of course, those ordinary people wouldn't be there willingly. They'd have been forced along. No ordinary person would want to become cannon fodder on a battlefield of Sequence Ability Users."
Wei Rulai frowned for a moment, then said, "If they're shooting guns and firing cannons at us, they're no different from an army, even if they aren't one. If there are a few ordinary people among them, killing them in battle won't cause much of a stir."
"Commander Wei is right. That's why what I want to emphasize is the proportion. If most of them are soldiers, of course we can call them an army. But if, apart from a handful of soldiers, most of that force consists of ordinary civilians from inside the Safe Zone, can it still count as an army?"
Wei Rulai smoothed his yellow hair. "You're saying Yan Xiaoying is playing semantic games on the battlefield?"
"That's my guess. Otherwise, there's really no explanation for why she'd send an Ordinary Army over to provoke Brigade Commander Yan Xiaojie with attacks that barely tickle him. If she can pin the crime of massacring innocent civilians on Brigade Commander Yan Xiaojie, she'll have a legitimate pretext to rally other forces to attack you."
Yan Xiaojie asked, "Why would ordinary civilians come Outside the Safe Zone? Even if I killed them, surely they couldn't call it a massacre?"
"She just needs an excuse. They came Outside the Safe Zone for safety education, or to revisit places where they used to live. Commander Wei can use his status as an uncle to fight over the