"In this battle, our Exorcising the Dragon Army was defeated, plain and simple! Especially the right wing-it was an utter rout!"
Inside and outside Wen City, lights blazed. Digging trenches, erecting fences, transporting supplies and wounded men, boiling water, cooking, even securing the battlefield and fighting over equipment and corpses... everything was a frantic tangle!
Even so, the Exorcising the Dragon Gang still persisted in its teeth-grinding tradition-holding meetings after a battle.
Nor was there just one meeting. Logistics was meeting, the battalions' squad commanders and army staff officers were meeting, and naturally, the chiefs were meeting too. As for that ear-splitting pearl of wisdom, it had been shouted at the chiefs' meeting by Great Chief Liu Heihuang.
And sure enough, once he shouted it, the somewhat oppressive atmosphere in the government offices' rear courtyard in Wen City immediately broke.
"Liu Heihuang!"
Jia Runshi rose without hesitation and rebuked him. "You have the nerve to pronounce on victory and defeat? Where were you when we were fighting desperately today? If you'd turned back earlier to catch them between us, would we have suffered so much?!"
"Jia Runshi, you were sitting in the central army. What losses did I cause you?" Liu Heihuang cared nothing for the fact that the other man was Chief Zhang's trusted follower, and exposed him the moment he opened his mouth. "If those chiefs on the right wing think I ruined things, they should stand up and say it themselves. Since when did our Exorcising the Dragon Gang forbid people to speak, so they have to find you, their fellow countryman, to speak for them?!"
That jab was far too blunt. Jia Runshi choked on his words.
The men he had singled out-the chiefs from the lower Ji River who had now been assigned under Xu