Today's second update: Chapter 2856! 2/4!
Yanran herself excelled at military command. In the battle against the Huang Clan, if she had not faced Mo Chou, Yu Ding's registered disciple, and if the Huang Clan's individual combat strength had not been unimaginably powerful, she would not have suffered such a crushing defeat.
The confidence she had lost against the Huang Clan was recovered in this battle against the Rabbit Clan.
Intelligence showed that, in order to plug the gaps, put out fires, and catch people, the enemy commander kept pulling Rabbit Clan warriors from other positions. In Yanran's eyes, the enemy's actions were utterly unstructured and chaotic.
They were simply robbing Peter to pay Paul.
If she wished, she could launch a wave of fierce assaults against the Rabbit Clan's other weakly defended lines and take them down.
But that... was still not enough, and the losses would be severe.
Marching and deploying troops required adapting to the right time, the Advantage of Location, and popular support. One had to understand how to make use of every favorable factor.
"Two more days, Brother Li. Let's throw the Rabbit Clan's positions into total chaos!"
A forceful assault on a position would inevitably bring casualties. Using the least strength to achieve the greatest results was the way of a general.
Even though Yanran had a great deal of resentment toward people like Dou Chen, who obeyed openly while defying her in secret, she had not reached the point of deliberately sending them to fill trenches when there was clearly an easier way.
War was a contest of brains. Four ounces deflect a thousand pounds—that was the path to victory.
Before setting out, Xu Kun had mentioned that, under Yun Yun's instructions, the Cat Clan had sent quite a few powerful fighters