At dusk, the other units rushed to the valley one after another to rendezvous. Hook had arranged a flowing banquet and was waiting; the food was laid out on the open plaza outside, everyone lined up to take their share. It was simple, but being able to have a full meal after a big battle was already good enough. After dinner, Luo Zheng gathered all the military commanders and formally announced the deployment again. Hook had no objections at all, Captain Li also had no opinion on leading the raid, and the other brothers had discussed it beforehand and agreed readily.
After the meal, Hook separately gathered his own subordinates and the elders for a meeting. The meeting took only half an hour to finalize the army-building matter. The troops were already there; they just needed to confirm official designations and organization: Groups One to Five, the final numbers determined by the size of their battle merits, but each group would make its own military flag.
