Crushing Through Flesh and Blood

Zhang Tie's plan was simple. In a single sentence: while avoiding the red-circled area around Iron Bear Fortress on the map, they would use Thor's Hammer's momentum and speed to charge back and forth along Eskil City's six widest main avenues—three running east to west and three north to south—where cavalry could fully display its might. They would clear every demonized puppet from those six avenues while opening several other city gates connected to them, creating a lifeline for Eskil City's ordinary people to escape beyond the walls.

As a military map vastly different from an ordinary one, this map of Eskil City even marked in detail the frontage and depth that formations of Sabertooth Beast cavalry or ordinary Rhinoceros Horse cavalry could deploy along each of those six streets.

Zhang Tie had only one requirement for Thor's Hammer in the entire battle plan—no matter what happened, they absolutely had to maintain the army's mobility and speed. They must never stop. Once they fell into the layered encirclement of the demonized puppets, these five thousand men of Thor's Hammer would be tigers trapped in a swamp, destined sooner or later to be swallowed whole by the mire.

Those who had never fought demonized puppets could scarcely understand how terrifying they were, much less devise a battle plan like Zhang Tie's. But Zhang Tie's experience in Tianhan City had long since made him intimately familiar with the way those demonized puppets fought, and he knew perfectly well how to use his own advantages to defeat them.

If he had fifty thousand men in Thor's Hammer, Zhang Tie might have considered circling around near Iron Bear Fortress. But under the current circumstances, using Thor's Hammer to smash against that hard bone near Iron Bear Fortress simply wasn't worth it.

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