The sun was setting over Lin Zhan’s mountaintop villa.
The members of the Huaxia team, along with their girlfriends, began to arrive.
To Lin Zhan’s surprise, Chen Xin, the weapons technology researcher, had also returned from various battlefronts, bringing his sister Chen Xin to the gathering.
Lin Zhan looked at the long table, noticing a vacant seat specially reserved next to the Wang sisters. He felt a pang of emotion, knowing it was for Ying Xuan’s elder brother, Ying Tu.
Raising his glass, Lin Zhan addressed his comrades:
“Brothers and sisters, today marks the first full gathering of our Huaxia team. I am overjoyed that every single one of you could make it. My first toast is to all of you.”
“To the boss!” Everyone drank a toast.
Lin Zhan poured a second glass and, looking at the empty seat, said to everyone:
“This second toast is to Elder Brother Ying Tu. Though I never met him, and he passed away before the Huaxia team was formed, Elder Brother Ying Tu was a true man, worthy of being a descendant of our Huaxia King. Elder Brother Ying Tu will always be a member of our Huaxia team, and he was our first captain.”
“Old Lin, that won’t do. Listen to me, this absolutely cannot happen. The first captain of the Huaxia team must be you,” Ying Xuan said anxiously, standing up.
“Yes, Boss Lin, Elder Brother Ying Tu will understand your intentions, but this matter of the captaincy is out of the question,” the Wang sisters, Wang Manxuan and Wang Manxue, also stood up and said.
Just as Lin Zhan was about to say more, Ying Zheng’s voice echoed from outside:
“Young Lin, Tu’er would be grateful in the afterlife, but the first captain must be you. Because you represent the new generation of the Huaxia team that defeated the new generation of the Ten Thousand Races. This is about the struggle for destiny, you cannot abdicate!”
Ying Zheng, Zhang Qingxuan, Liu Che, Liu Xiu, and Lin Wufa, several Human Kings, walked in together.
“Greetings, Ancestors,” everyone in the room quickly stood up and bowed.
“Ancestors, why are you here? We actually have something to discuss with you, so it saves us a trip tomorrow,” Lin Zhan bowed and said to the Kings.
Ying Zheng nodded and said, “Ancestor Yan sent us a message, knowing about your wager with Rommel. This time, you intend to give the Ten Thousand Races a big blow.”
Lin Zhan chuckled and said to everyone, “Since the Ancestors are here, I’ll explain it to everyone in detail.”
“I plan to pull a big one on the Ten Thousand Races. I made a bet with Rommel, asking him to send 1 billion of the Ten Thousand Races’ allied forces. This matter is now settled, so we need to figure out how to annihilate this 1 billion allied force.”
Zhang Qingxuan looked at the young members of the Huaxia team, who were still eating and drinking without any apparent worry, and couldn’t help but ask:
“Why aren’t you kids worried at all? What if humanity loses?”
The young Taoist Zhang Haoming, along with his senior brothers, all gave their sect leader uncle a look and said to Zhang Haoxuan:
“Great Uncle, if you have nothing else, please go back and do your evening prayers. Don’t talk nonsense here and embarrass us.”
Zhang Haoxuan…
Jiang Zheng saw everyone looking at him, so he put down his chopsticks and asked everyone, “May I say a few words?”
“Yes.”
Jiang Zheng…
“Everyone knows, Rommel dares to promise 1 billion allied forces to confront us, but in reality, he’s just trying to scare us. Ask him, does he dare to gather all 1 billion at the main battlefield of the Ten Thousand Races? Old Lin can blow up the entire Zhu Changchang of the Ten Thousand Races.”
“So, Rommel will most likely have these 1 billion people enter in batches, camping separately, and launching a wheel-like offensive against our forward positions, wearing down our frontline soldiers. After all, no matter how much we expand our army, we don’t have 1 billion people. In my opinion, Old Lin would be doing exceptionally well if he could field 100 million.”
Lin Zhan shook his head with a wry smile.
“Where am I supposed to find 100 million people? Right now, at most, we can muster 75 million main combat troops, and that’s with careful planning beforehand.”
The Kings Liu Che and Liu Xiu were surprised. “Holy hell, you’re good, kid. You managed to raise so many main combat troops without anyone knowing. That’s great.”
Lin Lin Zhan shook his head.
“We still haven’t gathered enough. With Old Ancestor Han Xin, I’ve always had them prepare 20 million elite troops capable of directly confronting the royal armies of the Ten Thousand Races. This group has been trained, and there are also 15 million reserves with combat power equal to the main armies of the Ten Thousand Races.”
“The Human King’s Palace, Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Meng Tian, the three old ancestors, will also expand their 10,000 guard troops to 20 million.”
He then said to the young Taoist Zhang Haoming, “Right, brother-in-law, tomorrow, have Brother Tie Si take you to the Human King’s Palace. Deliver some supplies to Old Ancestor Bai Qi. This matter cannot be taken lightly.”
“Also, my maternal grandfather’s new legion, based on the Zhenlei Legion, the Xunfeng Legion, and my father and father-in-law’s heavy artillery and missile legions, will have a total of 15 million people. They are not all assembled yet, with only 8 million main combat personnel. The rest are from the artillery and missile legions.”
Lin Zhan then said to Jiang Zheng:
“Old Jiang, your Sixth Army Group, including the Hundred Battles Legion, still has 5 million people, right? I plan to break through the lizardmen’s battlefield in a month and wipe out the lizardman race. Anyway, there are no Great Emperors, and only two imperial positions haven’t been revived. If we don’t deal with them, who will?”
Jiang Zheng nodded. “That’s a good idea. I’ve been wanting to transfer the Sixth Army Group out for a while now. After all, the Sixth Army Group has the most special operations units among all the Human Army Group, so it will be very useful on the main battlefield.”
“Rommel will definitely be wary of our Airdrop No. 5, so he will definitely send heavy infantry to attack our forward positions while dispatching high-mobility cavalry to outflank and look for our weak points for surprise attacks.”
“In addition to the ground assault, he will also deploy a large number of air forces to defend their airspace, guarding against our airdrops, especially Airdrop No. 5, and using their air force to harass us.”
Lin Zhan nodded and said to Chen Xin on the side:
“Chen Xin, what Old Jiang said is correct, it’s pretty much what I predicted. You’ve seen our new weapons, and all the data has been prepared for you. For this period, I’ll have to trouble you and Old Qian to improve the new weapons, especially in terms of air defense. Our air force is not as numerous as the Ten Thousand Races, so our anti-air weapons must keep up.”
Chen Xin, the technical man, said excitedly, “Boss, just watch! I’ll make sure they come back dead.”