To counter the Alliance's tactic of breaking its forces into scattered units and blooming everywhere, Jiang Hai took Jiang Yuntian's advice and likewise began dispatching divided forces for rescue, planning to block them from the outside and seek opportunities to encircle and annihilate them afterward.
Jiang Hai had anticipated that the Alliance would regroup its scattered forces, and he had made preparations accordingly.
More than twenty Chaos Lifeforms within the Church headquarters could be deployed to the battlefield at any time. As long as the Alliance gathered its forces and came charging in, the Church's Chaos Lifeforms would definitely teach them a lesson.
At the same time, with more than ninety million legions pressing in from the outside, wiping out the Heretics' five million legions would not be difficult.
Clearly,
this was how things were supposed to go.
However, the Federation's actions fell outside all of Jiang Hai's predictions. Well, not entirely. There was one thing Jiang Hai had predicted correctly.
The Alliance's fleets had indeed regrouped.
But
rather than gathering into one enormous fleet, they reorganized their more than ten thousand scattered fleets into one hundred legions.
In other words, every hundred forces merged into one. After the merger, each force possessed nearly fifty thousand legions.
After completing this step, Lin Fan did not launch an all-out offensive against the Church headquarters while its defenses were weakened, as Jiang Hai had expected. Instead—
rather than attacking inward, he attacked outward.
The Church fleets had likewise been scattered, with fewer than ten thousand legions in almost every force. Most of them were believer fleets. How could they possibly withstand the assault of fifty thousand Alliance legions?
More than a hundred attacked Black Hole Cavity Realms fell. Leveraging their overwhelming local advantage in force numbers, the Alliance eliminated over a million