Contract the defensive lines, hold fast and await reinforcements, seek opportunities for battle.
Under Ye Zhen's orders, this Twelve-Character Strategic Guideline was delivered through every available channel to the hands of every military commander who could be contacted in less than half an hour.
It immediately sparked countless heated discussions throughout the Human-Demon Battlefield.
Under Great Zhou's military system, commanders of every army—especially marshals commanding forces with independent designations—held absolute discretionary command authority within their own jurisdictions.
Just like Ye Zhen's North Sea Heavenly Wave Army: when facing a Devil Race assault, it possessed complete autonomous command authority within its own Blood River Fortress.
Whether ordering a certain unit to make a strategic retreat, contract the defensive lines, launch an offensive, and so on.
Even if military fortresses and strongholds were lost under such strategic command, as long as Blood River Fortress did not fall, it was not a violation of military law.
Only explicit, direct military orders from the War Ministry or the Grand Governor's Mansion could make Ye Zhen alter his established strategy.
In other words, the authority to offer such strategic recommendations or exercise strategic command belonged exclusively to the Human-Demon Battlefield Grand Governor's Mansion and the Governor's Mansions of the major war zones.
To a certain extent, Ye Zhen's dissemination of this strategic recommendation was a gross overstep.
It could even be said directly that he was exercising the Grand Governor's Mansion's strategic command authority.
Thus, when this strategic guideline appeared on Grand Governor Ji Yuan's desk, Ji Yuan flew into a strangely intense rage.
"Simply outrageous!"
With one palm strike, the jade slip on Grand Governor Ji Yuan's desk instantly turned into dust-like powder. Yet the jade desk itself remained completely unharmed.
This perfect control over his power demonstrated Grand Governor Ji Yuan's astonishing strength,