The job change is a bizarre and calamity; the nation begs me to tone it down.

As soon as Gu Xu finished speaking, the entire conference room fell completely silent.

Li Tiezhu touched his shiny bald head, his mouth agape enough to fit a weight.

Several deputy legion commanders, along with dozens of high-ranking officers who had just been transferred from various legions, all stared at Gu Xu in the main seat, their eyes filled with astonishment.

Clearly, no one expected that their newly appointed corps commander's first move would not be to target personnel within their own defense zone, nor would it be to crack down on discipline or conduct.

Instead, they turned the blade outwards and decided to take the entire army to an alien dimension for "real combat training"!

It should be noted that, for a long time, the Divine Xia Empire has consistently adopted a conservative defensive strategy in dealing with these numerous alien dimensional rifts.

The major legions pinned their main forces at the entrance to the rift, built high walls and fortresses, and set up large-scale protective formations.

They all adopted a "If you dare to come out, I'll break your legs" attitude.

The reason for doing this is not because the high-level professionals in Sherlock are good-tempered.

Rather, it's because the cost of cross-dimensional warfare is simply too high.

After all, the environment in alien planes is often extremely harsh and filled with unknown rules that suppress it.

Those who go in are less than one-tenth of their former strength, not to mention they have to face the home advantage of the opponent.

Normally, only those eighth-tier quasi-saint level powerhouses would report to the Supreme Command to obtain certain materials in order to break through bottlenecks. This would involve organizing a large-scale troop operation to launch a surprise attack.

Furthermore, they fight and run, never lingering in battle.

Even so, the returning teams often suffered heavy casualties each time.

But now?

Their legion commander actually wrote a letter and said that the entire Calamity Army should be brought in for training.

It's like everyone's usually guarding their own front doors with machine guns, and suddenly a new captain arrives, waves his hand, and says, "Brothers, let's go throw grenades in someone else's living room!"

They're completely unpredictable.

Of course, only familiar faces like Su Qiong and Jiang Shu, who deal with Gu Xu every day, were not surprised and had expressions that said, "I knew it would be like this."

After a short while, Li Tiezhu swallowed hard and rubbed his hands together on the table. "Commander, you mean... we shouldn't stay here and defend, but instead attack directly?"

"Otherwise what?"

Gu Xu leaned back, crossing his legs and resting them on the edge of the table: "Keeping these time bombs hovering under our noses makes it impossible for us to sleep soundly."

"Since we don't know when they'll cause trouble, why don't we go check out their place first and see what kind of force the Calamity Army is made of?"

"What's wrong, Deputy Commander Li? Do you think it's difficult?"

"No difficulty!"

The next moment, Li Tiezhu's voice suddenly rose, and his eyes began to shine: "Fighting on the defensive is so frustrating! If you were leading the charge, we old bones would give our lives to close those cracks!"

The others realized what was happening by now.

I was stunned just now because my thinking was still stuck in the old "steady and solid" tactics.

But things are different now!

Who is the person sitting in the main seat?

That's a ruthless character who can pin a false god's projection to the ground and use it like a rag.

With such unreasonable combat power backing them up, what kind of adventure is it to go to an alien plane?

That's called forming a group to grind experience points!

"The legion commander is right. It'll be trouble sooner or later, so we might as well cut the Gordian knot."

Lin Yuan nodded, his eyes filled with admiration as he looked at Gu Xu: "After all, with you in charge of the battlefield, we only need to clear the flanks and clean up the remnants, minimizing casualties."

"I second that. With the legion commander leading the team, I don't think a mere cross-dimensional operation will be difficult."

"That's right, if we don't make those aliens shit themselves, then they'll consider their last act clean!"

"Haha, I've been itching to get my hands dirty for ages! Now I can finally stretch my muscles!"

Immediately, voices of response rose and fell among the generals.

Their faces were filled with eager excitement.

Gu Xu looked at the group of fierce generals, then exchanged a glance with Su Qiong and nodded in satisfaction.

Morale is up!

His impassioned speech on the platform earlier was well worth it.

The Calamity Army must have the spirit to hit wherever they point, and to dare to take a bite out of whoever they are.

However, just as the atmosphere in the conference room was burning like dry tinder, and everyone was itching to break camp and set off immediately.

A sudden burst of rapid electronic noise rang out.

Jiang Shu was looking down and quickly taking notes on the tablet.

Upon hearing the sound, she instinctively tapped the red envelope icon that popped up on the screen.

She was initially excited along with everyone else, and had even started to think about what kind of writing style to use to record the Calamity Army's first great victory across dimensions.

As soon as the intelligence popped up, she only glanced at it, and a look of horror instantly appeared on her round face.

"What's wrong, Chief Advisor Jiang?"

Seeing Jiang Shu's expression, Gu Xu subconsciously raised an eyebrow and asked, "Judging from your face, something doesn't look good?"

"Commander..."

Upon hearing the noise, Jiang Shu immediately came to her senses and reported, "It's an urgent battle report from the Supreme Command, with top-level red clearance."

As soon as these words were spoken, the lively discussion in the conference room came to an abrupt halt, and everyone's attention was focused on the thin tablet in Jiang Shu's hand.

Special-level red-level authority, the Divine Xia Empire can only grant this privilege when facing a major threat.

This frequency band will then be used to transmit intelligence.

Last time, the Northern Alliance suffered a source-level intrusion.

The time before last, when the Forbidden Water Clan encountered an invasion by demigods, they used this method to notify the commanders of all legions.

"Oh? Read it."

As he spoke, Gu Xu quickly sat up straight.

"yes!"

"Half an hour ago, the Qiongqi Legion's base on the northwest defense line was attacked on a large scale. The invaders have been confirmed to be an allied force of alien races from the Elf Forest plane."

"Currently, the Qiongqi Legion's defensive line has been completely torn apart, and the forward positions have collapsed entirely..."

Jiang Shu read the first paragraph in one breath, and everyone present showed an expression of disbelief.

What did they hear?

An alien alliance from the Elf Forest plane has invaded?

Has the Qiongqi Legion's position collapsed?

Li Tiezhu's brows furrowed instantly: "This... can't be, right? Those pointy-eared creatures from the Elf Forest aren't exactly top-tier in terms of strength among the various planes connected to our Divine Sherman, are they?"

"Besides, although that old guy Li Suyuan has a terrible temper, his defense is absolutely top-notch. How could the Qiongqi Legion have been defeated so quickly?"

This question voiced the doubts in everyone's mind.

After all, according to the military's intelligence, the strongest person in the Elven Forest was that old codger named Elonis.

At best, he's only at the level of a demigod.

Moreover, the Elf Forest plane is not peaceful either, with constant wars between various races. In addition, it is hampered by the ancient tree heart material of Divine Shear, which prevents it from producing more Saints and lacks high-end combat power.

It doesn't seem like they have the ability to crush the Qiongqi Legion in a short time.