Chapter 417 Can such a victory still be considered a victory?

Chi Xuming pushed open the door of the headquarters, walked a few steps, and arrived at Lin Yuan's exclusive top-floor office.

It was different from the tense scene Chi Xuming imagined.

Lin Yuan and Lu Changsheng were standing next to the simulated sand table, chatting.

"Marquis." Chi Xuming saluted Lin Yuan with a standard military salute, then bowed to the man wearing the red and black mask, and said respectfully, "Sir."

"Lao Chi, what's the matter?" Lin Yuan waved to Chi Xuming, leading Chi Xuming and Lu Changsheng to sit on the coffee table aside.

"Jun Hou... now is not the time to drink tea..." Chi Xuming glanced nervously at Lu Changsheng beside him, then hurriedly lowered his head and muttered in a low voice.

"Don't worry too much. The demon clan's early attacks are all tentative and will not cause too much trouble."

"As a commander, you must be energetic and use your energy at critical moments. Don't be so impatient."

Lin Yuan filled two cups of hot tea, sent them to Lu Changsheng and Chi Xuming, and said calmly.

Chi Xuming raised the tea cup with a grimace on his face. He wanted to speak several times, but he didn't know how to speak. He could only drink the hot tea in one gulp, almost burning his tongue.

"Do the people below have any questions and asked you to ask me what I think?" Lin Yuan saw Chi Xuming holding back and scratching his ears and cheeks. He chuckled and asked proactively.

"Junhou, everyone really doesn't understand..." After being instructed by Lin Yuan, Chi Xuming finally asked, "Since everyone knows that the demon clan's attacks in the past few days were only tentative, why are they still there? Want to activate the defensive array?"

"According to past practice, in the first few days of the demon tide, we will only maintain the lowest power of the defensive array. Only in this way can we defend Dawn City in the final general attack."

"To put it bluntly, although we achieved a great victory on the first day and achieved a high battle loss ratio, all the demon clan sent were low-level cannon fodder, and there were not many high-level demon clan at all."

"Just to deal with this level of impact, we don't need to activate the defensive formation at all."

"If every wave of impact is like a battle during the day, our crystal core reserves will not last until the sixth day, and will be completely exhausted on the fifth day."

"When the time comes..."

Chi Xuming did not continue speaking, but the worried look on his face made his unfinished words clear.

"There is no need for defensive formations..." Lin Yuan poured tea for Chi Xuming again and slowly said, "Then we have to use human lives to fill it."

"Based on past results, if we play well on the first day, we can barely achieve a one-to-one loss."

“The next day, it was just two to one, or even three to one.”

"On the fourth day, it will take a battle loss of five to one to repel the demon clan's offensive."

"In that case, the loss of troops would be too great."

Chi Xuming said anxiously, "Jun Hou, which demon tide did our Demon Slayer Division not use human lives to fill in?"

"The newly recruited soldiers are harvested one after another. Although it is cruel, we can only do this."

"Soldiers are not afraid of death or sacrifice. If necessary, I can defend the city wall."

"As long as we can win in the end, we are all willing to fight tooth and nail!"

Lin Yuan stretched out his hand and waved it gently, stopping Chi Xuming's words.

He looked at Chi Xuming calmly and said word by word, "But I don't want to."

Lu Changsheng's drinking tea suddenly froze, but he quickly covered it up. He looked at Lin Yuan in surprise.

In his impression, Lin Yuan was not a good person who was indecisive, kind-hearted, and unwilling to sacrifice.

To a certain extent, Lin Yuan can even be said to be a ruthless executioner.

Lu Changsheng had already seen his cold-blooded methods.

But now, Lin Yuan actually said something like, "I don't want to sacrifice our soldiers." This greatly exceeded Lu Changsheng's expectations, and also made him very interested in what Lin Yuan wanted to say next.

Chi Xuming was obviously not used to such a military prince, and he couldn't answer the question for a while.

"I do this every time I deal with the monster tide, so is it the right thing to do?" Lin Yuan asked a question and looked at Chi Xuming calmly.

He knew that Chi Xuming was definitely not the only general who wanted to ask him.

But they didn't dare, so they asked Chi Xuming, Lin Yuan's direct descendant and closest subordinate, to come up as a representative to inquire.

The conversation between the two of them will be passed intact to the ears of the middle and lower-level officers in the army.

So Lin Yuan was extra patient.

"But we have always relied on this strategy to barely win..." Chi Xuming didn't quite understand what Lin Yuan meant, so he could only answer carefully according to his own ideas.

"Victory?" Lin Yuan's tone gradually became more serious, and his eyes became sharper. "Each wave of monsters requires an entire generation of human beings to be buried on the front lines in order to survive."

"Can such a result be called a victory?"

Chi Xuming looked at Lin Yuan's eyes and felt that he was staring at a terrifying beast. He swallowed subconsciously and did not dare to refute even a word.

"Every time the demon tide comes, our human race's strategy always has only one sentence." Lin Yuan looked past Chi Xuming and looked at Fengdu City in the distance.

"Just survive."

"To survive. We can fill the pit with human lives, send newly married young people to the battlefield, let other people's fathers raise their butcher knives, and let ordinary people who see the demon race for the first time charge towards an enemy that is absolutely impossible to defeat."

"They are not moving heads, nor are they sandbags to fill the pit. They are our descendants, our future, and our hope."

"We survived every demon wave, but every demon wave, we took a step towards a dead end."

"Do you think that if our current generation fights to the death, can the human race still hold on to the next demon wave?"

"Can such a victory still be called a victory?"

Chi Xuming stared at Lin Yuan in a daze, cold sweat soaking his back. He and Lin Yuan have fought side by side for decades, and he has heard the other party's hidden meaning and guessed Lin Yuan's ultimate goal.

But he couldn't even say a word.

"You actually already know the answer, don't you?" Lin Yuan slowed down his tone, but the murderous intent in his eyes became stronger.

"There will be no next chance."

"If we can't hurt and cripple the monsters this time, even if we survive, the next monster wave will be our doom."

"So, Lao Chi..."

"Don't worry about the consumption of the defense formation."

"I don't plan to defend Dawn City to the death."

"Everything will end before all the crystal cores are consumed."

"I want to take over Fengdu City..."

"Completely wipe out the monsters!"

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