A sickly fellow ridiculed by the entire army? I'll be the most beautiful woman in the barracks!

This time, the round-faced warehouse manager was very efficient. In just fifteen minutes, he brought back the new military supplies with his men.

After Li Erlong and his men checked repeatedly and found no problems, they came to Zhao Daxuan's side.

"Sir, there's no problem this time."

Seeing that no one had come to cause him any trouble more than a quarter of an hour after he killed the warehouse manager, Zhao Daxuan knew that the matter was over.

With a slight smile, he led Li Erlong and the others away.

When they left, Li Erlong had the round-faced storekeeper find them some horse-drawn carts to transport military supplies and provisions.

No one noticed that as Zhao Daxuan and his men left, Wang Liefeng hid behind the crowd, watching them leave with a cold eye and eyes full of resentment.

Just as Zhao Daxuan and his group were leaving the core camp, in a tent in the supply depot, two middle-aged warehouse managers stood before the supply officer at the head of the tent.

"My lord, are you just going to let Zhao Daxuan leave like this?"

The quartermaster snorted coldly, glanced at the two men in front of him, and said indifferently, "Otherwise what? Zhao Daxuan now holds the power of life and death; who dares to provoke him?"

"That idiot Wang Chunhe deserves to die. He's dead, so be it. I don't need to stand up for him."

The granary manager showed a hint of lingering fear. Fortunately, when the people from Wangbei Camp came to collect the grain today, he did not deliberately make things difficult for them; otherwise, he might have been the one losing his head today.

When Zhao Daxuan was just a centurion, he dared to hit his storekeeper, so he knew that this man was not someone to be trifled with.

Therefore, when the people from Wangbeiying came today, he simply instructed his men to follow the rules.

The granary manager nodded. "Indeed, it's best to avoid their sharp edge for now."

The group exchanged glances, a complex emotion flashing in their eyes, and for a moment, the tent fell silent once more.

When Zhao Daxuan and his men arrived at the Wangbei Village camp outside the city with several carriages and hundreds of horses, it was already late afternoon.

Apart from some of the injured who were resting, the others were either enthusiastically setting up defensive lines or focusing on training.

After Li Erlong and his men settled their belongings, they joined the training team, determined to seize every moment to enhance their strength.

They discovered that since becoming Zhao Daxuan's soldiers, their strength could be continuously increased through training.

Nowadays, the soldiers are busy training, and the task of recruiting new soldiers mainly falls on Qin Lide. Zhao Daxuan only arranged for two ordinary soldiers to help with the physical examination.

Zhao Daxuan led Qin Lide to the wooden hut containing the military supplies for the resettlement camp. "Village Chief Qin, these military supplies are entrusted to you. Thank you for your help during this time."

"The soldiers are busy training, so I'll have to leave these trivial matters like recruiting new soldiers to you."

Qin Lide smiled and bowed to Zhao Daxuan: "Lord Zhao, please rest assured. Your willingness to entrust me with such an important matter shows your trust in me, and I will never let you down."

Zhao Daxuan nodded, and then led Qin Lide to inspect the defenses around the camp.

With the arrival of refugees today, the digging of the trench has been accelerated once again.

Although it is still a long way from completion, I believe it will be completed soon with the addition of more refugees in the next two days.

Upon arriving at an outer defensive line, Li Shishi and her sister were arranging for people to install fire dragon spray nozzles.

Upon seeing Zhao Daxuan return, the two sisters' eyes lit up, and they quickly went to greet him, their tone light and cheerful.

"My lord, have you brought back all the supplies? Did you have a safe journey?"

Zhao Daxuan nodded and said with a smile, "This is a small matter, a piece of cake! How's the defense line coming along? If it's not finished by tomorrow, you can't come back!"

The Li sisters rolled their eyes at Zhao Daxuan and said coquettishly, "Don't worry, we'll definitely finish it by tomorrow!"

But then, Li Shishi sighed softly.

"However, time is of the essence, and our two sets of magical artifacts are simply not enough to cover the entire camp. Half of the defense line is still outside our coverage area."

Zhao Daxuan shook his head and offered words of comfort.

"It's alright. Just having these two sets of divine artifacts here is enough to have a great deterrent effect, not only in terms of their destructive power, but also in terms of their psychological deterrence."

The two sisters breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Zhao Daxuan's words of comfort.

Zhao Daxuan was busy at the camp until it got dark before he brought Li Shishi and her sister back to the Zhao residence in the east of the city.

As soon as I pushed open the door and entered the house, I smelled a strong aroma of meat in the air.

Zhao Daxuan and the three sisters, Li Shishi and Zhao Daxuan, took a deep sniff, their faces filled with delight.

They exchanged a glance and knew that Lin Zhiqing would be cooking today.

At this moment, Sixi came forward, and Zhao Daxuan asked with a smile, "Did Zhiqing cook today?"

Si Xi smiled, bowed, nodded, and gave a thumbs-up, replying, "Sir, your nose is really sharp."

"Haha, you rascal."

Zhao Daxuan smiled and shook his head, then walked towards the kitchen in the side courtyard. When he arrived at the kitchen door, he saw Chunmei and Xiahe helping out in the kitchen.

When Zhao Daxuan arrived, Lin Zhiqing had just finished cooking a dish. Chunmei carried the dish out of the kitchen and bowed to Zhao Daxuan as soon as she saw him standing outside the door.

Zhao Daxuan spoke up first, "Alright, alright, hurry up and take the dishes over, don't burn your hands."

Chunmei, her ears turning red, then took the dishes out.

Lin Zhiqing then came out and smiled slightly at Zhao Daxuan.

"My husband, it seems I timed it perfectly; I knew you would come back at this time."

Zhao Daxuan chuckled and gently pinched her nose, speaking softly, "Why aren't you tinkering with your alchemy today?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Zhiqing smiled mysteriously and said softly, "Because it's already finished! But I'll show it to you after we finish eating."

Zhao Daxuan looked surprised upon hearing this. Had there been another breakthrough in just two days? He looked at Lin Zhiqing with suspicion.

Lin Zhiqing showed no fear, puffed out her proud chest, and raised her chin to look back at him.

Zhao Daxuan smiled, not insisting, and took Lin Zhiqing's soft hand, leading her to the dining area.

One has to admire Lin Zhiqing's culinary skills; she truly masters one method and understands all methods.

With the refined salt provided by Zhao Daxuan, the already delicious dishes became even more flavorful under Lin Zhiqing's guidance.

A gust of wind swept away the clouds, and Zhao Daxuan's fighting prowess remained as strong as ever. Even Li Shishi and her sister ate two extra bowls of rice today.

These two sisters are exhausted these past two days.

After finishing their meal, everyone, led by Lin Zhiqing, went to the side courtyard.

Sixi took out a small wooden bucket, slowly poured out about a bowl's worth of liquid, and poured it into an iron basin in the yard.

He then took a tinderbox from the kitchen and threw it into the iron basin. Instantly, flames as tall as a person shot out of the basin, and waves of heat assaulted Zhao Daxuan's face.

Zhao Daxuan's eyes lit up as he looked at the blue flames in front of him, clearly sensing that their temperature was higher than the flames spewed from the fire dragon nozzles before.

He turned to Lin Zhiqing and smiled, "Zhiqing, is the fuel you improved from a fire dragon nozzle? The temperature is noticeably higher!"

"My lord, do you think it's just because of the high temperature?"

A hint of pride appeared on Lin Zhiqing's face.

"Sixi, go show us its power!"

Si Xi, who was waiting nearby, was prepared. He ran forward with two buckets of water and poured all the water from the buckets into the iron basin.

As water was poured in, the burning flames flickered, but did not go out; instead, they spread further with the overflowing liquid.

Suddenly, a large ball of flames burst into flames around the brazier, shooting into the sky and lingering for a long time.

It wasn't until Sixi poured several buckets of sand into the fire that the fire was brought under control.

Zhao Daxuan's eyes gleamed. He knew that kerosene or something similar must have been added to achieve such an effect, but the temperature and time of combustion were far too long.

"My lord, this is the fuel formula I've just developed for the fire dragon jet!"

"I already had Bailianfang start making it this afternoon according to the new formula, and you should be able to get the new fuel by tomorrow afternoon."

Lin Zhiqing looked at Zhao Daxuan with bright eyes, her voice light and cheerful, as if to say, "Come and praise me!"

Upon seeing this, Zhao Daxuan couldn't help but smile. Just as he was about to speak, he heard a commotion outside the Zhao residence.

Immediately afterwards, the door was pounded on.

"Open the door! Open the door! We are the city guards!!"