Xiao Tianyang was certainly not making baseless guesses.
First, such an exaggerated casualty ratio was an outcome no decision-maker could tolerate.
After all, not only did they have to endure the blow to their dignity from being humiliated, but they also had to bear the heavy price behind it.
Second, the Tianwu Dynasty's advantage after replacing its equipment was simply too great.
If the tug-of-war continued, it would only add to their own casualties.
The advantage brought by the new equipment was the foundation that allowed them to crush the enemy's strength in this prolonged battle.
And the positional warfare that stemmed from it was also Yue Fei's overt scheme for continuously inflicting heavy losses on the enemy.
There were mainly three reasons for saying so.
First, although the coalition of elements and evil spirits was the attacking side, they were not actually the ones who had started the war.
Therefore, Yue Fei was the initiator of the war, which meant that he naturally got to choose the battlefield.
With that, he had laid down his first piece of foreshadowing.
Or rather, he had dug a huge pit for the enemy.
Second, Yue Fei had created the illusion from the very beginning that even after replacing their equipment, his side was still no match for the enemy.
Of course, no matter how realistic an illusion was, it was still fake.
Yet if the truth was hidden behind that illusion, the enemy would not have too many concerns.
That Douluo Continent was inferior to the coalition was a universally acknowledged fact.
Even Xiao Tianyang himself had not denied it.
Yue Fei's initial defeat and his voluntary withdrawal from the positions his side had built also seemed perfectly reasonable.
Third, Yue Fei had exploited the enemy's competitive and vengeful nature.
His main