|||->-> The meeting time was selected in the afternoon, and Shen Mengting was half an hour earlier than usual. She sat in the council hall for a long time, until one general after another entered.

Zhao Yu was also one of them, and he finally returned to the camp yesterday. Listening to what he said, Vortex Town is the most active in this recruitment policy. Several of his former good friends are constantly promoting in the town.

I heard that there are already six or seven hundred young people from Vortex Town, who are eager to enter the military camp for further study. Among them, there are also students from the previous trials grounds.

Six or seven hundred, at first glance, is not a big number, but don't forget that Vortex Town is still a very small border town, if this town can squeeze out more than 600 soldiers, then the number of soldiers recruited in other towns must be more objective. Therefore, Shen Mengting is still optimistic about the current situation.

"Thank you so much! Zhao Yu!"

Just when Zhao Yu came back, Shen Mengting didn't forget to thank her sincerely.

Zhao Yu was naturally very embarrassed, he kept scratching his head, and even his face turned a little red, "......Oh! I'm just doing a little bit of a favor, I ...... I haven't been helpful to the team before, but this is the first time I've contributed to the team, and that's really ...... It's so comforting!"

"Don't say that, I'm very grateful for you helping me like this!" Shen Mengting responded.

"And it's not the first time you've helped us, in fact, you've helped us through this difficult time a long time before that!" Shen Mengting hid this sentence in her heart, but she couldn't say it to her heart's content.

In short, this recruitment strategy was relatively successful, and now Shen Mengting is waiting for these new soldiers to come to the barracks and start training. She was confident, with her own methods, that she could train these young men to be at least junior soldiers.

But I have to say one more thing, what Shen Mengting wants to thank now is also those officials in Vortex Town. One of them, the mayor of Whitebeard, was the most important target for which she was grateful, and Shen Mengting decided that if the war really ended one day, she would definitely visit the town in person.

The mayor of Vortex Town does not seem to be in vain, although he is very old, he has an unusually rich network of contacts in various towns. Because of his efforts, at least many towns have shown great resistance to recruiting young people.

That's the way it is! Shen Mengting took a big breath and walked out of her memories.

At this time, the generals had already arrived, and the last ones to arrive were Qian Hao and Shen Jun. The two men seemed to be unhurried, and although they were not late, they stepped into the house.

Shen Mengting wanted to send some criticism, but at such a sensitive moment now, she still forcibly suppressed her anger.

"Everyone is here, right?" Shen Mengting looked around the room, and the people also stood up.

Most of them nodded their heads and shouted the word 'um'. Only a few, such as Zhao Yu and Jiang Jingwen, who have no self-confidence, did not respond to this.

"Okay! Now that everyone is here, let's start the meeting!" Shen Mengting looked indifferent, indifferently This is also relieving the tension in her heart. She deliberately walked to the center of the room, so that everyone's eyes focused on her, "I don't want to say much about the opening words, let's just get straight to the point!"

Her body shook slightly, her posture was still so casual, "You must all know the current situation!" she looked around again.

Since the generals on both sides were sitting, Shen Mengting's current perspective was a little lower. After almost making a circle, she froze, "The total number of enemies is forty-seven thousand, of which forty-three thousand are swordsmen. Almost ninety percent of them were swordsmen, which proves that their impact is very strong! And the commanders of their current battle are all world-famous marshals such as Lian Yunpo and Guan Yunlong. Well, that's just the way it is. Now, you should know how strong the enemy is, right?"

For Shen Mengting's question, most people chose to remain silent. None of them chose to respond, because there was no way to come back with the right sentence right now.

"What's wrong? all of them are silent?" Shen Mengting tightened her lips and looked at Qian Hao and Shen Jun, who had always been active on weekdays.

However, the two of them are currently looking like dead pigs, and they don't even dare to look at Shen Mengting.

Seeing this, Shen Mengting twitched the corners of her mouth disdainfully, and she laughed at herself that the two of them were nothing more than that. Since the other party was so scared that she even avoided her gaze, Shen Mengting didn't plan to embarrass them.

She began to look for another target, but the matter of asking for it was completely changed, "General Wang Bin, now I can ask you to tell me about our military strength!"

Pointing at the name in her mouth, Shen Mengting straightened her waist.

Wang Bin didn't seem to react, but under the gaze of others, he still forcibly made himself stand up, "Ah! Marshal!

"Yes! Now tell me about our military strength. ”

After Wang Bin blinked, he still released the answer, "Ah! So far, we have a total of 21,000 soldiers in the Yokoga military camp. Thereinto...... There were nineteen thousand swordsmen, and there were ...... archers Two thousand. Uh-huh, a total of two thousand archers!"

"Well, you answered very well!" Shen Mengting immediately issued a compliment.

It can be seen that Wang Bin's face is crossed with joy.

"Alright, you can sit down again!" Shen Mengting said another sentence like a command. However, there seems to be a kind of irony in the tone.

"Okay! Now that I've mentioned the comparison of the strength of the two countries with you here, do you have any thoughts on this?" Shen Mengting began to walk around, but this kind of movement was nothing more than moving back and forth.

"The difference in strength between the two countries is really huge!" Vice Marshal Ma Liming spoke, but he had no intention of standing up at the moment. His current posture was still with Erlang's legs crossed and his arms folded, "The enemy is almost twice as many as us...... Yes...... It seems like more than twice as much!"

"It's not just the numbers, it's the ......"

Just as Shen Mengting had just made some remarks, Qian Hao also cooperated and started together. As a result, the voices of the two also overlapped, especially in the word 'quality', almost as if one person spoke it.

Seeing this, Shen Mengting pursed her lips and looked at Qian Hao, with a warm and angry look on her face.

Qian Hao didn't seem to realize anything, he seemed to be very innocent and wronged, and spread out his hands.

Shen Mengting was naturally very annoyed by this person's tone. But she knew that now was not the time to get angry, so after glaring at Qian Hao, she still looked sharply ahead.

"I'm not trying to repeat anything. Here, I constantly emphasize the contrast of power between the two sides, just to remind you all the time: the enemy is very strong, no matter when and where, do not relax. ”

After looking at everyone from afar, Shen Mengting immediately tightened her face a little.

Everyone could feel the marshal's compelling momentum, and they began to square their sitting posture. Among them, Qian Hao is the most exaggerated. He deliberately made it look like he was putting his legs together and his hands on the back of his thighs.

Looking at this person's exaggerated style, Shen Mengting didn't give him a good face. She didn't seem to be able to bear it anymore, and started a verbal attack on Qian Hao, "Qian Hao, please don't be so disgusting, okay? Your sitting posture and your seemingly old face, that's really ah......" As if she was about to make some 'vomiting' action, but at the most critical moment, Shen Mengting still forcibly stopped the action.

Qian Hao saw all this in his eyes, and he opened his mouth wide and even his neck shrunk.

"But Sister Mengting......" Jiang Jingwen's voice suddenly interjected, and she could be recognized from her tone that she was not joking, but seriously discussing the problem. She also stood up, looking quite anxious, "Don't we have new reinforcements?" It's just that the young people recruited in various towns, I heard that the effect is quite good, and there are people in each town who are eager to participate. ”

"Yes! I heard that the effect is really good. But ......" Shen Mengting seemed to be hesitating about something, but she quickly rolled her eyelids for a long time, "It will take a lot of time to make the source of soldiers into combat effectiveness." In addition, it is still in the early stages of registration, and it is not entirely certain to what extent our troop pool will increase. ”

"But...... I think there should always be 20,000 or 30,000! In a huge country, if you can't even find 20,000 or 30,000 young people, it's really a joke!" Shen Jun said suddenly.

However, his current movements were disgusting, his hands digging into his nostrils, and he didn't even notice the several hostile glances at him.

Shen Mengting rolled her eyes angrily at the person who picked her nose, "I can't be sure how many numbers there are." But...... I don't think it's going to be 30,000. ”

Shen Mengting's words made Shen Jun almost fall off the chair, and his fingers immediately detached from his nostrils, "What...... What? They don't even have 30,000. ”

"Shen Jun, please pay attention to your wording, what do you mean that there are not even 30,000. ”

"Oops! no......" Shen Jun immediately stepped forward, his eyes blinking dryly, "I mean...... Does that mean, our country can't even make up the number of only 30,000 young adults?"

"If we can get it, we don't have to go to a certain town to lobby for young people to join the army!" Shen Mengting tilted her neck.

At this time, Shen Jun had nothing to say at all, so he had to keep his mouth shut.

"So that's what I'm trying to make, the current situation is really very unfavorable for us, and you don't think that recruitment can play a decisive role. In the final analysis, this recruitment is only an extraordinary trick used by extraordinary means, and the final victory with the enemy still depends on our more than 20,000 original troops. ”

Shen Mengting's words didn't know how much of a blow they had to the hearts of the generals present. However, she revealed it directly without any scruples.

"So...... Generalissimo, I have a question for you. Deputy Marshal Ma Liming sounded again, but this time he looked very respectful. Not only did he not raise his legs, but he even raised one of his arms directly, like the kind of child who spoke enthusiastically in class.

"Is there anything for the deputy marshal?"

Ma Liming quickly stood up, "If we use our strength to think about confronting the Sauron Empire, then we will undoubtedly die......! I think we should still have reinforcements. ”

The moment Ma Liming's voice fell, everyone erupted in doubts as if they had exploded.

"Oh, reinforcements?"

"Reinforcements?"

Shen Mengting's face changed a little, she seemed to feel that some of the chat with the regent Lin Mingyuan just now might have been leaked.

Sure enough, Malimin came up with the words 'Principality of Aria'. It seems that the eyeliner of this deputy marshal is almost all over the entire Yokoga military camp.

Since the deputy marshal has talked about the matter, Shen Mengting can't avoid anything. Of course, she will not deny its authenticity. Because in such a complicated situation, she also knows that one day she will also tell her subordinates the name of this country.

"Deputy Marshal Malimin, if you take the army of the Principality of Elia as your own reinforcements. Then I'll tell you, you'd be naïve. The security of our country is not built on the help of any country, but depends on our own efforts. But as far as you just said, there are some of them. Shen Mengting turned around and turned her body completely at Ma Liming, "The regent mentioned it to me when he left, saying that there is indeed news that the Qingcheng side is going to intervene in the Principality of Aria. But the final implementation may have to wait for some time. ”

Another murmur of surprise erupted, and most seemed to be surprised at how quickly things had changed.

Especially Zhao Yu, he was extremely surprised by the 'Principality of Aria' in the mouth of the marshal. The last time he heard the name of this country was in Vortex a few months ago.

Zhao Yu didn't know much about the Principality of Aria, and only knew from his friends that this country was the most powerful country in Celos, or it was composed of mysterious elves.

Zhao Yu didn't have a concept of the image of the elves in his mind, but since so many people mentioned how powerful the Duchy of Elia they had established, he felt that it was not an exaggeration.

Thinking of Vice Marshal Ma Liming's insistence on whether or not the Duchy of Aria would be aided just now, Zhao Yu really had reason to believe that this country was very powerful, and it was enough to burst out of the strength that the Sauron Empire was afraid of.

"Generalissimo, how much time will you have to wait?" asked Ma Liming again.

"I don't know about this, I still have to wait for those high-ranking officials in Qingcheng to make a decision. Shen Mengting answered directly and unambiguously.

Ma Liming's eyes glanced downward, and after a few more blinks, he sat back in his seat, "Oh! yes, but if the Principality of Elia can really help us, I don't think the Sauron Empire will dare to act rashly against us." ”

"That's right, what the Sauron Empire fears the most is actually this Duchy of Elia. Wang Bin lowered his head as if in meditation, and confided words one after another, "If there is the help of the Principality of Aria, then we ...... We're winning!" Perhaps overly excited, he got up from his seat.

But it didn't take long for him to realize that he was overly excited, and he sat back in his seat in embarrassment.

Looking at the actions of many generals, Zhao Yu's heart was even more turbulent. He felt more and more that the Principality of Elia was the great savior of mankind, and only by climbing on this boat could the Kingdom of Saran avoid annihilation.

"You all calm down!, whether the Principality of Aria will really help or not, it's all tentative!" Shen Mengting's words seemed to be pouring cold water on everyone.

"I think I'll still be able to help!" "Ma Liming kept stirring his mouth as if he was expressing his opinion, "The Duchy of Elia is also afraid of the strength of the Sauron Empire, I don't think they will sit idly by and watch Sauron continue to grow bigger, and really annex all human countries." ”

"That's right!" Wang Bin suddenly raised his right hand clenched into a fist, and slammed it into his left palm fiercely, "The Principality of Elia will never sit idly by and watch Sauron continue to grow stronger, if it really allows Sauron to annex all of humanity, it will definitely threaten the Principality of Elia itself." So it has the same interests as Saran, and it will definitely support us. ”

Wang Bin's words caused too many people to nod, and now it is not only Ma Liming who is supporting, even Qian Hao and Shen Jun are constantly nodding.

It seems that they have all regarded the 'intervention and help of the Duchy of Airia' as the most important help to save their country. This was very unpleasant to Shen Mengting, and she knew that she had to interrupt the thoughts of her subordinates.

"I think I should have made it clear before that the so-called assistance of the Principality of Elia is still far away. If we are to resist aggression, we must rely on ourselves. ”

"But we can't fight against the Sauron Empire?"

"Who says we can't fight it? Of course, I also know that if the Principality of Elia helps, it will definitely play a decisive role. But there is one thing you should not forget. Shen Mengting raised her head quickly, which made her look down on everyone, "The assistance of the Principality of Aria has a very long lag. That said, we can't really guarantee that it will help us in time. With so much uncertainty, how can we think of relying on the aid of this country to resist a powerful invader?"

Shen Mengting has never stopped looking around at everyone, and she always thinks that only by looking directly at her subordinates can she be more united with them.