Fishing for... Whales

While Fang Zheng was back at Heavenly Dao Palace sorting out internal affairs, the battle between the Fire Nation and the Swarm had never ceased.

Logically speaking, the Swarm only needed a simple F2A to wipe out the Fire Nation, but Fang Zheng had not chosen to do so.

As Sun Tzu said: Warfare was the way of deception. Thus, when capable, feign incapability; when active, feign inactivity; when near, make the enemy believe you are far; when far, make the enemy believe you are near.

Fang Zheng's goal was not merely to teach the Fire Nation a lesson or make them suffer a little. Rather, he intended to wipe out most of the Fire Nation's military in one stroke and pull all the teeth from this tiger... Even if he could not pull them all, he would at least make it difficult for it to feed.

Did they really think Heavenly Dao Palace was so easy to provoke?

Thus, Fang Zheng had continually ordered the Swarm to wage guerrilla warfare against the Fire Nation, hiding all high-tier units and using only Hydralisks, Xenomorphs, and Zerglings to harass the Fire Nation over and over.

As a human himself, Fang Zheng naturally understood that humans were creatures of habit. Once they had seen these three unit types often enough, they would subconsciously assume the Swarm only had these three kinds of troops. Then, when the decisive battle came and Fang Zheng deployed the other units, the Fire Nation would definitely be dumbfounded.

And beyond that, the most important thing was... profit.

Every war had its purpose. Just as Fang Zheng wished to weaken the Fire Nation, if he wanted the Fire Nation to commit most of its forces to this unexplored land, there naturally had to be benefits attractive enough to