Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master novel Chapter 697

The next afternoon, Rocky got to the Yu City with his army of eight thousand soldiers. They were joined by Louis and Sabina, who had arrived earlier to explore the terrain of the city for their new strategy.

After all the troops encamped, Rocky gathered a few people to discuss the strategy that would be used to deal with the Holy Sea Empire's army.

"Louis, have you found the terrain that can be used to separate the forces of the enemy? This detail is crucial to our new strategy," Rocky asked as soon as they sat down. He got a report from their spy that the forces of the Holy Sea Empire were more than twenty thousand. While at the moment, Rocky's current forces were only about ten thousand including the troops of the garrison in the Yu City. He was certain that if the forces of the Holy Sea Empire couldn't be divided, they were obviously at a disadvantage. With this, they needed a new strategy since he couldn't risk to be defeated by the Holy Sea Empire. The risk of this plan was that the Holy Sea Empire troops might dispatch forces to attack the Heaven Unicorn City. Rocky was worried that even if he could resist the attack from the armies of the Holy Sea Empire, the Crimson Dragon Army would be unable to spare any part of it. And if worse comes to worst, all of their forces might be consumed later. At the time being, his countermeasure was to actively attack the enemy to have a breakthrough. So it was important to find a good terrain to distract the forces of the enemy.

"Yes, but you should know that we found there's still difficulty in it," Louis answered as he nodded his head.

"Tell me what it is then," Rocky said abruptly.

"The three sides of Yu City are surrounded by the river, so the only direction that the Holy Sea Empire army can attack us is through the fan-shaped area in the south side. This fan-shaped area is basically a plain terrain, so it is almost impossible to have an ambush. It will also be hard for us to dispatch the forces of the enemy there. With this, the south side is not the best option for us to station our troops. But upon my analysis of the city, I still found an ideal place which we can make use of to separate the enemy in two. If we succeed, then I am sure we will have an advantage," Louis said as he analyzed the situation. He pointed to the relief map around the Yu City.

"Where is this ideal place?" Rocky asked immediately. He was interested in it and got closer to the map.

"That area is in front of the city gate. The soil in this area is soft, and it is very close to the river in the west side. If we dig a ten meter wide ditch in this area and draw water in from the river in the west side, then the isolation belt for the enemy will be formed. If they pass through this ditch, they are actually seeking their own death. If not, they have to take a roundabout way…" Louis told his idea in detail while pointing to the relief map.

"The enemy will never fully devote twenty thousand soldiers to attack us. It should only be a vanguard of around five thousand soldiers. In this way, we will use this ditch to cut off the enemy's support and trap their vanguard into our encirclement. But I still feel that there's still something wrong or missing in this tactic..." Enlightened by Louis, Rocky came up with a detailed plan right away. However, he still thought that it was not enough to give the Holy Sea Empire a heavy blow.

"In the west side near the Yu City, there is a river benchland where we can defend and attack from the side wings..." Louis suggested as he pointed at another area on the map.

"Very well. The Holy Sea Empire army will never think that we will station our main force on the benchland. If the vanguard soldiers use their full strength to attack the city gate, it would be difficult for them to defend against our attacks from the side wings. In addition, this ditch will block their way out too. In this way, we will defeat all the Holy Sea Empire vanguard! The Crimson Dragon Army will prevail!" Thus a new tactic to defeat the Holy Sea Empire was planned.

"What concerns me is that it's not easy to dig such a ditch. It seems that it needs a lot of time..." Isis said after reading the relief map carefully.

"That is also my concern as this is the only difficult part in the new strategy," Louis nodded in agreement.

"I have my own way to deal with it. You don't need to worry about it," Rocky said as he smiled confidently.

"Commander Qin, you just lead three thousand soldiers into the Yu City and defend the enemy troops together with the garrison. Isis, you're responsible for..." Rocky started to authoritatively deploy their forces according to the plan.

After the lengthy discussion of the new strategy, it was already midnight. Rocky went to the west side of the Yu City alone, released three Dark Heaven Insects and started to work throughout the night.