Chapter 1022 - 622: Blood Moon Virtue, Calamity Team’s Surging Battle Power_2

Chapter 1022: Chapter 622: Blood Moon Virtue, Calamity Team’s Surging Battle Power_2

Taking advantage of the chance to consult Major General Guan Huchi about Battle Qi, Leng Feng begged him to design a simple but practical Battle Array for his company, and they were drilling it in the camp every day with fiery enthusiasm.

The most gratifying thing was Leng Feng’s own Battle Qi; with Guan Huchi’s pointers his progress had been meteoric, and now there was hope of breaking through the Golden bottleneck.

However, Leng Feng had already complained to Fang Zhou more than once that the weapons and Equipment issued to the Calamity Special Operations Team were too fragile.

After seeing those snapped bows on the training grounds several times, Fang Zhou reminded himself inwardly that he had to sort out this Equipment issue.

.......

"Captain, you finally came out!"

One evening, Fang Zhou finished the garrison duty of his Clone at the Hecarim barracks in Tusk City and had just let his mind return to his main body when he saw Zhuo Yue waiting for him, looking visibly anxious.

"What happened?" Fang Zhou said calmly.

In his impression, although Zhuo Yue had a bit of a hot temper, he could still keep the big picture in mind.

Now that he was this flustered, had something happened again inside the Calamity Special Operations Team?

"Captain, Leng Feng led a few hundred soldiers and charged over to the logistics office ten minutes ago. They might already be in a clash with those people!" Zhuo Yue said quickly.

"What?!" Fang Zhou’s brows knit together.

The Calamity Special Operations Team had been so busy with training lately that they could barely keep up; how had they managed to stir up a conflict with logistics?

After Zhuo Yue’s explanation, Fang Zhou finally understood that the cause of this incident actually had something to do with himself.

Ordinary soldiers in the Dawn Legion were generally Black Iron level, and elite soldiers and junior officers were Bronze level.

Captains and other Middle Tier officers were Silver, and above them, Battle Group commanders and other High Tier officers were Golden.

The logistics office had prepared training gear for ordinary soldiers: the white common-quality Dawn Military Training Set, usable by Black Iron Professionals.

But the Calamity Special Operations Team was different from ordinary Battle Groups; its members were at least Black Iron Upper strength.

Bronze-level elite soldiers made up at least thirty percent.

As a result, the quality of the Dawn Military Training Set was insufficient for the Warriors of the Calamity Team to use.

After Fang Zhou discussed it with Leng Feng, Zhuo Yue and the others, they decided to go to logistics and draw some higher-tier training gear.

This was also one of the benefits the Calamity Team enjoyed as a Special Operations unit.

That afternoon, Leng Feng took several squads of soldiers with Fang Zhou’s requisition form to the logistics office, intending to draw some Green Excellent Quality training Equipment.

It should have been a very simple matter, but this time the quartermaster they dealt with insisted that Fang Zhou did not have a Major General’s rank, so the application form he issued was invalid and he refused to let Leng Feng draw this batch of supplies.

Strictly speaking, what this quartermaster said wasn’t wrong.

Generally, in the Dawn Legion, without the signature of a Major General-level officer, it was impossible to draw supplies from logistics.

But Fang Zhou was the Commander of an independently operating Special Operations Team; strictly speaking his rank was Colonel, yet he had the independent authority to requisition supplies.

What’s more, the quartermasters they had met before all knew that the Calamity Special Operations Team was currently soaring upward, and Colonel Fang Zhou was a favorite of Major General Ning Danxin, so they mostly turned a blind eye and made things easy for him.

Brimming with enthusiasm and wanting to try out the new gear, Leng Feng this time ran into a rigid, literal-minded hothead quartermaster and got stonewalled.

During the argument, the quartermaster, whose name was Ma Wei, inevitably let some slanderous and mocking remarks about Fang Zhou slip into his words, and that instantly poked a hornet’s nest.

Of the ten-plus men Leng Feng had brought, six were veteran Warriors of the original Calamity Special Operations Team—one could say all of them had been saved by Fang Zhou’s Undead Summoned Creatures on the Hell Pit Fortress battlefield.

After this period of serving under him, Fang Zhou was like a second father to them.

How could they possibly tolerate an outsider standing in front of them and spewing such vitriol about Fang Zhou?

After one hot-tempered veteran Warrior planted a fist squarely on quartermaster Ma Wei’s face, the friction started just like that.

After all, this was the other side’s turf; although the dozen men of the Calamity Special Operations Team were fierce, they were quickly at a disadvantage.

But after one quick-witted soldier ran back to the Calamity Special Operations Team to report, the furious Leng Feng soon led his men charging over.

What the situation was like over there now, no one could say for sure.

"Why didn’t you go?" Fang Zhou asked after listening.

Seeing that Zhuo Yue hadn’t gotten involved, Fang Zhou couldn’t help being a bit surprised.

"Uh..."

Hearing the implication in Fang Zhou’s words, Zhuo Yue felt a bit embarrassed and said, "With you away and Leng Feng away too, if I went as well, the entire Calamity Special Operations Team would fall into Chaos..."

Fang Zhou was genuinely gratified.

If the one staying behind at this moment were Leng Feng, he wouldn’t necessarily have this awareness.

For the hot-headed Zhuo Yue to have this sense of the bigger picture was rare; Fang Zhou valued him more for it in his heart.

But matters over at the logistics office couldn’t be left to develop unchecked, so Fang Zhou took Zhuo Yue and headed that way.

.........

"Everyone stand down!"

When Fang Zhou arrived at the logistics office, the scene was already absolute Chaos.

Over a hundred soldiers were brawling in a tangled mass at the logistics office entrance, with some Legion soldiers stationed nearby pointing fingers and fanning the flames from the sidelines.

The soldiers of the Calamity Special Operations Team, seeing their immediate superior Fang Zhou, all stopped fighting.

Before, they had only thought about not letting brothers from the same camp get bullied, and had rushed in heedlessly.

Now, though they’d gotten their fill of throwing punches, thinking of Fang Zhou’s strict discipline, each and every one of them felt uneasy, unsure how he would deal with them.

Just before Fang Zhou arrived, one soldier from logistics had taken a punch to the face from a Warrior of the Calamity Special Operations Team and was bleeding from the nose.

Seeing that his own superior hadn’t said anything, he hardened his heart; even after Fang Zhou shouted for them to stop, he still swung a punch at the Warrior who’d hit him.

Sharp-eyed Fang Zhou caught his motion at once, his gaze turning cold as a ray of Death Protection shot out!

"Bang!"

The soldier attempting the cheap shot drove his fist straight into the Shield of Death Protection, which had a damage-reflect effect; he immediately spat blood from his mouth, severely injured, and staggered backward, collapsing.

"Ah!"

The brawl that had just come to a halt suddenly grew tense again because of this reversal.

"If anyone dares move again, I’ll execute him on the spot for defying an Upper-level officer’s orders!"

A voice devoid of any emotion said icily.

All the soldiers who’d still been itching to move felt a chill in their hearts at those killing words, and no one dared budge again.

The speaker was Fang Zhou.

With his status as on-site officer of highest rank—a Colonel—his words were more than just bluff.

Under the officers’ control, soldiers from both sides returned to their own lines.

Leng Feng and Zhuo Yue came to Fang Zhou’s side, and Leng Feng said, face full of guilt, "I’m sorry, Captain Fang Zhou, I caused you trouble!"

Before Fang Zhou could reply, Zhuo Yue interjected, "Captain, this isn’t Leng Feng’s fault. It’s that guy on the other side looking down on us that made us start fighting!"

"Shut up!"

Fang Zhou barked, "Leng Feng, who told you to just up and lead your men out to fight at the drop of a hat? Is that how you lead troops?"

Leng Feng and Zhuo Yue didn’t dare talk back.

"Starting today, your company is confined to barracks for a month, and all training loads are doubled!"

"Yes, Captain!"

Leng Feng’s eyes lit up. His men, brimming with energy, had already been punished by Fang Zhou several times for misbehaving.

For these Warriors who were the first to get used to the Calamity Special Operations Team’s training, doubled training was actually the lightest punishment.

Not only Leng Feng, but the other soldiers in the formation all breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Exchanging a month of confinement for such an exhilarating brawl was, in their eyes, well worth it.

Because Fang Zhou and Leng Feng were speaking loudly, everyone present heard the punishment Fang Zhou dealt out to his men.

Ma Wei had been cowed by Fang Zhou’s ferocity when he stepped in and hadn’t dared speak.

Now, seeing him casually try to close the matter, Ma Wei had no choice but to step forward.

Face full of anger, he strode over and said, "Colonel Fang Zhou, your soldiers started a private brawl in the camp and injured so many of our logistics office soldiers.

Are you really going to handle it just like this?"