It seemed like a significant expense, but in reality, the costs weren''t as high as imagined.


    It was just Alliance currency, and much of it was just promissory notes.


    What''s the use of issuing Alliance currency? If adventurers spend it immediately, they''re spending the savings that Gu Hang pulled together from various ces in Rubbish Town. If they hoard it without spending, it represents future redemption.


    Truthfully, if one wanted to be nasty, it would be easy to talk about integration into the Alliance system and converting to work points in the future; for those who want to leave and cash out their Alliance currency, you don''t get to set the price of goods anymore.


    Of course, Gu Hang wouldn''t do this unless absolutely necessary, as it would be quite damaging to his reputation.


    Gu Hang still hoped that these people would be able to stay in the future.


    Even if they didn''t remain soldiers, transforming into workers would still mean a poption of a hundred thousand.


    And among these people, Gu Hang valued the Beast ughter Group the most.


    After they retreated for rest and reorganization, Gu Hang called for a meeting with the leader of the Beast ughter Group, Lucy Lee Ko Xi.


    Faced with Gu Hang''s proposition of integration, Li Kexi ultimately chose to ept.


    On the way back, he had a thorough discussion with his brothers. From the team leaders, to the mid-levelmanders, even the lower-ranking soldiers, he asked for many opinions.


    The words they used were different, but the sentiment was nearly the same: they were willing to be integrated.


    What more was there to say?


    Ever since the Beast ughter Group was formed, they had been fighting for half a year. Constant death, constant sacrifice, living conditions harsh beyond measure...


    Hatred was what drove them, but another fact could not be ignored. They were originally a group of adventurers who, aside from this, didn''t know what else to do.


    Revenge was a motivator, surviving on just that, perhaps an even greater one.


    What was so bad about being integrated?


    Life could be better, the future more secure, and it wouldn''t impede their fight against the Green Skin Orcs.


    As for maintaining independence... It was indeed one of the initial ts of the Beast ughter Group, only epting sponsorship and not orders, but that was for the sake of focusing on fighting Green Skin Orcs, to avoid being sent on private jobs by the agents in Rubbish Town.


    Now, Rubbish Town had been turned on its head, the situationpletely different, continuing to hold on to that old principle was unnecessary.


    Since that was what the brothers wanted, and Li Kexi himself had been more or less persuaded in his previous conversation with Perbov, epting the personal overtures of the Governor was met with little resistance.


    However, he did make one additional request in the end.


    "I want to retain our name ''Beast ughter Group,'' as a separate designation. I heard from Perbov that the Alliance Army allows for this," he said.


    "Hahaha!" Gu Hangughed heartily, "Of course, I can agree to your request, but not right now."


    Then, seeing the puzzled look on Li Kexi''s face, Gu Hang contained hisughter and spoke seriously, "You want to preserve the name ''Beast ughter Group'' as the designation for your troops, then you must show corresponding performance. Go kill those Green Skin Orcs. Once you''ve killed enough and truly upheld the ''Beast yer'' trait, I will grant you that designation."


    Li Kexi took a deep breath, his expression resolute, "Then it''s a deal."


    ...


    The adventuring group known as the Beast ughter Grouppleted their reorganization in the following days.


    Five thousand sets of G9 individual weapons were equipped, and they also received a new designation: the 3rd Independent Regiment.


    Gu Hang had spent fifty points of grace on them.


    After theypleted their training and became T5-level troops, they also activated thebat experience umted within them, turning them into infantry with the ''Beast yer'' Trait.


    The transformed 3rd Independent Regiment then returned to the battlefield.


    Although they were only equipped with many individual weapons,cking regimental artillery and with not many mortarsrgely just a significant number of rocketunchers—their G9 rifles were much better than their previous equipment. Moreover, the training conducted under the direct supervision of the Governor over the past few days had made them feel a huge change in themselves.


    These changes were directly reflected on the battlefield.


    With the support of concentrated artillery firepower from the rear, the Independent Regiment could hold a defensive line of more than ten kilometers on their own, with at most some help from ''Militia Regiments''.


    Those so-called Militia Regiments were the original, other adventure groups.


    Over these past few days, it wasn''t just the 3rd Independent Regiment that was reorganized. All other units also underwent reorganization while rotating into the Alliance Army camp for rest.


    Their willingness was also asked.


    Those who wished to stay as soldiers were reformed into garrison divisions. Although Gu Hang didn''t have enough individual equipment to supply them all at once and did not intend to train all of them to T5 level right away—without enough equipment, thebat effectiveness wouldn''t be sufficient, so there was no point in wasting effort.


    But reorganization was still necessary, otherwise,mand would be too chaotic.


    In the end, after seeing the treatment offered by the Alliance Army, the number of people willing to embrace change reached over seventy thousand.


    Just byparison, one could understand that even just starting as privates in the Alliance Army offered them better conditions than their previous scavenging at Rubbish Town.


    Out of these seventy thousand, besides the Beast ughter Group, which was reorganized into an independent regiment of six thousand troops, the remaining sixty-three thousand were formed into six garrison divisions and assigned numbers four to nine.


    There was no major change in the weapon equipment; just promises of better treatment and a revision of themand hierarchy.


    Officers for the division and regiment levels were either transferred from the 2nd Division or from Perbov''s camp or were promoted from among the leaders ofrge adventure groups or highly respected adventurers.


    Moreover, it was impossible to extend politicalmissars down to thepany level due to the massive scale of the reorganization. Currently, they could only be ced within division and regiment levels, where they were to develop loyalty to the Empire and to the Governor from within, nurturing political instructors at thepany and battalion levels.


    Additionally, more than twenty thousand others did not wish to transition to soldiers but preferred to be ordinary civilians or to leave the Alliance structure. Gu Hang did not let them go but temporarily employed them forbat at the pay grade of privates.


    They were formed into ten Militia Regiments without specific numbers but just sequential ordinals, with their internal structures andmand levels based on those of the original adventure groups.


    When garrison divisions rotated back to the front lines forbat, they would also be assigned some of the main tasks, while those Militia Regiments would be basically doing hardbor, like building fortifications.


    There was no need to use people as cannon fodder; Gu Hang did not do such things.


    It hadn''te to that.


    After reorganizing into six garrison divisions, if all the equipment is issued and the soldiers'' training ispleted, Gu Hang would have nine division-sized units, which should be essentially sufficient for military power.


    With an army of nearly one hundred thousand and critically with higher-quality equipment, future military expansion should not be too worrisome about theck of troops.


    After all, besides fighting, the army also needed to be stationed locally. Recently recaptured areas, whether to retain or relocate poptions, needed military presence to suppress resistance for policy implementation.


    Of course, that is a use forter. For now, the priority is the war against the Green Skin Orcs.


    Gu Hang nned to hole up here for two months, fighting a defensive battle for that duration.


    In two months'' time, the reorganization of the nine division-sized units, the training requiring grace points, and the production and distribution of all light and heavy equipment should all bepleted.


    Afterward, it would be time for a counter-offensive.