A few days later, Lei Yang was officially appointed as the leader of the Warhawk Squad and was responsible for the defense of the camp in Silver Tower City. Lei Yang looked very high-spirited, he was the youngest of the four squad leaders, only twenty-five years old, and he was in his prime.

Recently, hundreds or even hundreds of refugees have come to join the Lion King squadron every day to enlist in the army. According to the report of the people sent by the Lion King Base yesterday, there are now 700 recruits in the Lion King Base, 800 who were slowly recruited later, and more than 1,300 new arrivals in the recent period, which has exceeded Cheng Lei's expectation of recruiting a maximum of 2,000 soldiers.

Moreover, there are still many refugees reporting directly to the base every day, so Li Changcheng sent someone to ask Cheng Lei if he wanted to stop recruiting. After this period of planning, Cheng Lei has decided to form four regular regiment-level troops and an armored battalion, and these people are naturally not enough at present.

Therefore, he asked the people to talk back to the base and tell Li Changcheng to continue to accept refugees, and the 700 people who had been trained before could be directly assigned to each team, and the remaining 2,000 people continued to train, and continued to be distributed to each team when the training was fruitful.

And in the next period of time, more than 1,000 people will be needed to meet all of Cheng Lei's previous plans. Therefore, he asked Li Changcheng not to slack off in the recruit training camp, and if there are not enough manpower, he can be drawn from various squads, but he must not delay the smooth progress of the training work.

Cheng Lei transferred Jin Hanyang, who had been doing escort work in the base, and two radar soldiers back, and transferred more than a dozen recruits from the War Eagle Squad. He wants to set up a communication team by his side, so the people who are selected can be completely trusted.

After such a long period of training, Jin Hanyang has undergone very big changes, not only is he mature and stable, but also has a bit of the iron-blooded temperament unique to veterans, which makes Cheng Lei feel very satisfied. Seeing Cheng Lei's very satisfied expression with him, Jin Hanyang was also very happy.

Cheng Lei then ordered Jin Hanyang and two radar soldiers to start systematic training for these dozen recruits, so that they could master all kinds of passwords and codes, as well as the use of communication facilities. For these high-tech technologies that are not at all in the world, it is more difficult for those recruits to master, but they can definitely learn it slowly.

Xing Chenghui came to visit Cheng Lei in person, which is very fresh and rare. After sitting down in the reception room of the headquarters, Xing Chenghui didn't drink tea, but just smoked one cigarette at a time, looking a little bored.

Cheng Lei looked at him while drinking tea, Xing Chenghui must have something, maybe he is still organizing the language, thinking about how to talk to Cheng Lei! Cheng Lei didn't urge him, just waited patiently.

"Mr. Cheng, I have very bad news for you." Xing Chenghui finally spoke, took another puff of cigarette and said, "You may not believe it, in fact, I don't want to believe it, but it's true." Sun City has been defeated and has been captured by Valeno. Presumably, now that Balono's army is occupying Cité Soleil, the civilians of Cité Soleil are already in dire straits......

Xing Chenghui's voice was a little choked, after all, they both belong to the people of the Scorching Sun Federation, and Sun City is also the capital of the Scorching Sun Federation. The capital is captured and occupied, no one will feel good, no matter what the ruler is, thinking of those civilians who are in the midst of the war, there will be a feeling of sadness.

Cheng Lei stood up after hearing this, he was shocked by the news: "When is this news?" Master Xingmen, are you really sure? ”

Xing Chenghui nodded and said, "Sure, this is news from the top of Yitos, and it is completely true." ”

"But...... Didn't Itos send 20,000 reinforcements to Cité Soleil? Moreover, Sun City itself still has tens of thousands of troops, is it so vulnerable to the tens of thousands of troops of Baleno? Cheng Lei's heart also pinched, Sun City is occupied, then Balunou will soon attack on multiple fronts, and it may be possible to reach the eastern city in a short time, by that time, if the construction of the base has not been fully completed, and the training of soldiers has not been completed, what can I do?

Xing Chenghui said: "I don't know the specific situation, I only heard that in order to capture Sun City, Balunou dispatched an army of more than 80,000 people, including their three main ace troops, which is more than half of Balunou's national army." The reinforcements sent by Itos were no match for them at all, and after a few rounds of battles, the reinforcements of Itos could not support them and retreated back to the country. ”

"Master Xing Sect didn't just come to tell me the news today, there must be other things, you can tell me if you have something!" Cheng Lei said straight to the point.

Xing Chenghui lit another cigarette and said, "Mr. Cheng is quick to talk, so I won't hide it." That's the case, I'm afraid that after Baron'ou fights, my oil mine in Xingjiamen will be occupied by Balun'ou, so ......"

"So you want me to send troops to help protect it, right, Lord Xing?" Cheng Lei asked.

"Yes......" Xing Chenghui nodded and said, "I don't know what Mr. Cheng thinks?" ”

Cheng Lei shook his head and said, "Master Xingmen, if Balunou really hits us, you should stop the oil mine and resume mining after the war is over." ”

"Why?" Xing Chenghui immediately stood up, and it seemed that he was very dissatisfied with Cheng Lei's idea.

Cheng Lei had already expected his reaction, so he waved his hand to make Xing Chenghui not excited, and then said: "Master Xing, do you think that the soldiers in the Lion King's base can fight against Balunou's iron army now?" And in the case that more than ninety percent of my soldiers are still recruits, even if I send them all, Barono wants your oil mines, can I help you keep them? ”

Cheng Lei's questions were thrown out, which made Xing Chenghui a little speechless. Of course, there is a lot of water in what Cheng Lei said, because even if they are recruits, it depends on who is training them and how they are trained. Li Changcheng's recruits who have been trained in the recruit training camp for two months are probably not much worse than those so-called elite soldiers in Balen'ou, and these recruits will continue to be assigned to various squads for more in-depth training.

Even so, Cheng Lei was unwilling to go head-on with Balen'o's army, so he had these words waiting for Xing Chenghui. Xing Chenghui said with a depressed face: "Decades of industry, is it really impossible to keep it?" ”

Cheng Lei said: "Master Xingmen, you will follow what I said, transfer all the machinery and equipment and personnel to the Lion King base, and re-mine after the war is over." This is a war, a desperate thing, you better look at some of it. My cement factory was also going to be moved to the vicinity of the base before Balen'o called, so that it could be taken care of. I can guarantee that as long as there is one soldier under my command alive, there will be no loss of your machinery and property! ”

Xing Chenghui said frustratedly: "Okay...... I'll go back and think about it. In that case, then Mr. Cheng will stay, I will leave! ”

Cheng Lei kept sending Xing Chenghui to the gate of the camp, and told him not to lose his capital for a little profit. Xing Chenghui said that he would consider it, and told Cheng Lei that Xingjiamen's caravan would not go to the West again after returning this time, at least until the war stabilized for a while. At that time, the gasoline that Cheng Lei asked for could not be transported back by a caravan every month, so Cheng Lei had to be mentally prepared.

Cheng Lei knew that Xing Chenghui was dissatisfied with what he said, and he didn't care, because he had already bought gasoline from Balunou through a manager of a commercial house in Silver Tower City. Ballen's gasoline is cheap and easy to use, much cheaper than the gasoline that Xing Chenghui brought in from the West.

This is because Balun Ou is rich in oil mines, but although it is the first power in the East, it has not fully promoted mechanization. Cars are still a luxury in Baleno, only the big tycoons and the top of the government and the military, even if the petrol is cheap, people still like to ride horses, and cars make them feel insecure.

As a result, the mobile units in Balono's army were all cavalry, and it prided itself on its strong cavalry units. This time, Itos's reinforcements were completely untenable after being charged by Barono's cavalry forces for a few battles, and then they were defeated.

After the battlefield on the side of Sun City was decided, the caravan of Xingjiamen could indeed no longer travel freely between the East and the West. They also had no other trade routes, and the amount of manpower, material and financial resources needed to open up other trade routes was innumerable. Cheng Lei can also understand Xing Chenghui's hardships, and he has confidence in his heart, so he didn't ask Xing Chenghui for anything else.

However, the rift between Cheng Lei and Xing Chenghui has already appeared, and it only took a few months from the intimate cooperation to the rift between the two sides. Xing Chenghui is a pure businessman who can sacrifice everything for the sake of profit, even Cheng Lei, a once close partner.

After he left, Cheng Lei was a little sad, and his cooperation with Xing Chenghui in the future may only be limited to the sale of cement. And Xing Chenghui will definitely use his connections to find other forces to help him defend the oil mine, because the oil mine is the lifeblood of Xing Chenghui and even Xing's family.

Thinking of Xing Chenghui's melancholy look, Cheng Lei really wanted to agree to his request to help him. But reason can't let him do this, for the sake of Xing's family's interests, he sent his soldiers out to fight with Balonou, Cheng Lei said that he couldn't do anything.

Now I can only be wronged Xing Chenghui to find someone else, remembering that when Dahengcheng sent someone to forcibly collect the right to sell cement, Xing Chenghui helped him so much, and Cheng Lei felt a little unbearable. However, at that time, Xing Chenghui was also for his own interests, after all, he also had a share in the right to sell cement. This incident made Cheng Lei contradict him for a long time, and in the end he had to reluctantly comfort himself and let it be......