After this small-scale campaign of raids had continued for some time, the various generals in the Phoenix Clan camp underwent an obvious change in attitude toward Lin Yan. Though these battles were small, eliminating only one or two thousand fierce beasts at a time, their sheer frequency added up. Altogether, they even matched the results of a fairly large battle.
More importantly, nearly all of these battles ended in victory. And victory was the best persuasion. Through this unending string of victories, Lin Yan gradually earned the recognition of the officers and soldiers of the Phoenix Clan Army.
These battles not only produced tangible results, but also greatly improved the coordination between the various races within the Phoenix Clan. With the Primordial Myriad Phenomena Surveillance Network's near-omniscient grasp of the battlefield and the Ecological Deduction Sandbox's near-prophetic tactical simulations, Lin Yan continuously deployed the forces of the Phoenix Clan's various departments, deliberately making them fight together. Gradually, he transformed the originally scattered forces, which had even harbored mutual grudges, into a unified whole. Their combat power rose tremendously.
From then on, Lin Yan slowly ceased limiting himself to harassment by teams of a thousand. He began attempting bolder and more complex tactical combinations.
At times, two or three units would launch a feint attack together to lure the enemy in, while the main force raided a lightly defended logistical node. At other times, they deliberately exposed a flaw to lure the fierce beasts deep in alone, then surrounded and annihilated them with composite grand arrays prepared in advance. Sometimes, they exploited Buzhou Mountain's complex underground-fire environment to create localized Earth Vein eruptions or tides of lava, burying entire fierce beast units.
Every sortie by every unit had clearly defined duties: who would lead the main assault, who would conduct the