As the saying went: before planning for victory, first plan for defeat!
In truth, when he had decided to strike by surprise into the Devil Race's heartland, Ye Zhen had already considered his route of retreat!
That was, the road home.
From the very beginning, Ye Zhen had never intended to fight the North Sea Heavenly Wave Army or the Zhenhai Army to the last man within Devil Race territory, only for the entire army to die for the nation in the end.
He had never once considered that.
Ye Zhen had led the Zhenhai Army deep into the Devil Race's heartland as a lone force for one fundamental purpose: to find a way to survive.
Under the circumstances at the time, if Ye Zhen had led the Zhenhai Army back to Great Zhou by fighting all the way through the Human-Demon Battlefield, the Zhenhai Army would likely have been fought to extinction.
Even more fatal was the fact that Grand Governor Ji Yuan of the Human-Demon Battlefield had made his treasonous intentions plain and was eager to kill Ye Zhen. If Ye Zhen chose to fight his way back to Great Zhou through the Human-Demon Battlefield, the enemies he faced would no longer be merely the Devil Race, but also Prince Li Ji Yuan's army, as well as the Heaven Temple.
And when facing them, Ye Zhen would be constrained at every turn, utterly unable to cut loose.
In contrast, charging into Devil Race territory was much simpler.
No matter where the Devil Race forces they encountered came from, as long as they were Devil Race, they were enemies.
As long as he could defeat and kill those Devil Race troops, Ye Zhen could use every means under the sun.
Conversely, under the circumstances at the time, charging into