God of Pets

Chapter 754 The Twenty-Four Route Army Attacks the Southern Heavenly Kingdom

Inside the Heavenly Army's meeting hall, all the generals wore solemn expressions.

This time, the ten major families are no longer putting on an act; they have made it clear that they intend to defeat the Heavenly Court army at Tianzhu Cave.

Tianzhu Cave Heaven is the Heavenly Court Army's main sphere of influence in the cave heavens. If it loses this place, the Heavenly Court Army's future development will likely be very difficult.

Although the Heavenly Court army has troops stationed in many grotto-heavens, the interests of those grotto-heavens are basically divided up by the ten great families.

The benefits that the Heavenly Court army could obtain there were far less than those here at Tianzhu Cave.

Therefore, the Tianzhu Cave Heaven has the largest and most elite military force.

If we lose this battle, we don't know how long it will be before we can have another chance.

“Even Luo Yuanfei failed. This matter cannot be resolved by simply killing Chen Guan. We must win this battle to protect our interests in Tianzhu Cave Heaven. Otherwise, the Heavenly Court Army's situation will likely become extremely difficult.” General Rong Sandao said solemnly, “Moreover, orders have already been sent from the Ancestral Court. This battle can only be won, not lost. Gentlemen, who do you think is suitable to lead the troops in this battle?”

All eyes turned to the few Xiu family generals who sat silently to the side.

In recent years, almost all the tough battles have been fought by the Xiu family.

But now that a new master has taken the throne, the Heavenly Army will be renamed Qi, which puts the Xiu family in a rather awkward position.

The deputy commander of the Xiu family, who originally acted as the deputy commander of the Heavenly Court Army, is no longer in charge of the Heavenly Court Army's affairs. Instead, General Rong Sandao, who originally had a low profile, is now in charge.

This was to prepare Qi Zhi'an for taking over the Heavenly Army in the future, but the awkward thing is that at this time, the Xiu family is needed to take action.

Especially now, the only one who can lead the twenty-four legions of Tianzhu Cave Heaven and has a chance of winning this battle is the young master of the Xiu family.

In terms of talent, ability, virtue, and character, it would be difficult to find many people like him even among the top ten families.

Moreover, within the cave, there is probably only one person whose prestige can surpass that of the leaders of the twenty-four military corps.

They all looked at the Xiu family's generals, but none of them uttered a word.

The deputy commander of the Xiu family's army is no longer in charge of the Heavenly Army and has gone home on vacation. What else can they say?

"General Xiu Fan, do you have any suggestions?" Rong Sandao asked, seeing that no one else spoke up.

He also knew that in the current situation, the only one who could accomplish something and dared to step forward was probably Xiu Jieming.

But no one is mentioning Xiu Jieming now because everyone knows that the Xiu family has been wronged.

You seized their military power and cut off their path, and now you expect their children to risk their lives for you? What kind of world is this?
Therefore, the Xiu family members didn't speak up, and none of the other generals mentioned it either.

If they take advantage of the Xiu family's misfortune now, who knows when it might be their turn to be attacked? And then who would show them any mercy?

They could choose not to mention it, but Rong Sandao had to. He was the person the Chief Judge had placed in the Heavenly Army, and now he was laying the groundwork for the young master.

If the Heavenly Army collapses before the young master takes over, how will he explain it to the Chief Justice?

However, he also knew that even if he brought it up, the Xiu family probably wouldn't take the bait.

The Heavenly Army won't belong to the Xiu family, so why should they let their children risk their lives for the Heavenly Army?

Rong Sandao understood this principle, but he had no choice. If the Xiu family refused, he would have to force Xiu Jieming to lead the troops into battle. "My Xiu family has a son named Xiu Jieming, who is currently stationed in Baili City and has achieved some merit. If General Rong is willing, Jieming can be the commander to attack the Southern Heaven Kingdom." Xiu Fan's words shocked everyone.

The generals never expected that even at this point, the Xiu family would still be so willing to help the Heavenly Army.

"General Xiufan... that's good... but it's tough on you all..." Rong Sandao felt too ashamed to continue.

If he weren't one of the judge's men, he really wouldn't want to bring it up.

Fortunately, the Xiu family gave him face in the end, and also fulfilled the Xiu family's final loyalty.

"The Heavenly Court Army made our Xiu family what it is today. Now that the Heavenly Court Army is in trouble, our Xiu family has an unshirkable duty to help. If General Rong needs anything from our Xiu family, please just give the order," Xiu Fan said calmly.

Rong Sandao was even more ashamed and speechless. He could only announce that Xiu Jieming would be transferred to Tianzhu Cave Heaven to lead the twenty-four armies to suppress the rebels of the Southern Heaven Kingdom.

All eyes were focused on Tianzhu Cave Heaven.

The Heavenly Court Army issued a proclamation to suppress the rebels, and Xiu Jieming led twenty-four army groups to conquer the Southern Heavenly Kingdom.

The Southern Heavenly Kingdom, under the guise of a proclamation to punish the traitorous Heavenly Court army, secretly had the support of the Ten Great Families. Their goal was to drive the Heavenly Court army out of Tianzhu Cave Heaven in one fell swoop, cutting off the Heavenly Court army's most important resource base, which was tantamount to breaking the Heavenly Court army's backbone.

This is a battle that neither side can afford to lose; whoever loses will bear the infamy of being a traitor.

However, it is truly impossible to predict the outcome of this battle at this moment.

The ten great families are very powerful, but they cannot actually send their legions to the battlefield themselves. After all, they still need to maintain order in the ancestral court. Otherwise, they would not have used Chen Guan to deal with the Heavenly Court army.

The ten major families were able to provide Chen Guan with some resources and send some people, which was already the maximum they could do.

Nowadays, the army of the Southern Heavenly Kingdom is basically sent by small forces or shady forces.

There's still no definitive answer as to who's behind them.

Everyone knows that these soldiers are definitely related to the ten major families, but no one knows exactly who they are related to.

Today, the entire Southern Heavenly Kingdom has gathered more than 300,000 troops.

However, this force of 300,000 is largely unreliable, as they come from different factions, and their coordination alone is a problem.

It is simply impossible to form an effective combined attack in a short period of time.

The Heavenly Army had been operating in Tianzhu Cave for many years, and all twenty-four corps were well-equipped and strong, with each corps having at least tens of thousands of elite soldiers.

Now that the 24th Army Corps has launched a major offensive, it can muster at least a million well-trained troops, and the gap between the two sides is not small.

When the Heavenly Court army arrived in front of the Southern Heavenly Kingdom city, the people of the major and minor families couldn't help but feel a sense of dread when they saw the magnificent Heavenly Court army, which stretched out like a dark cloud.

War is not a one-on-one duel. Just by looking at the comparison of the two armies' lineups, many people felt that the Southern Heavenly Kingdom would have a hard time winning this battle.

"Commanding a million soldiers as if they were his own arms, this young master Xiu Jieming of the Xiu family is indeed a rare military genius." Qin Qiu stood on the city wall and observed for a while. He saw that the army opposite was calm and composed, each performing their duties. Even he could not find any oversights. He couldn't help but admire them and even had the idea of ​​meeting this young master of the Xiu family.

(End of this chapter)