When news of the Azureans' adjusted strategic deployment reached Commander Gao, his only response was a sneer.
Heh! You think making yourselves look like hedgehogs will stop us from attacking?
How naive.
According to the information Commander Gao already had, as long as the Azureans did not concentrate their troops into groups of a thousand, his side would always have a way to wipe them out.
In the current situation, for instance, they could simply deploy a matching number of soldiers for each enemy unit, preferably keeping them invisible, then use stun guns to pick off the enemies one by one.
Although stun guns could not necessarily kill Azureans at the Brass Veteran level instantly, they had no trouble killing those a rank below.
If the soldiers moved a little faster, they would even have time to harvest the dark energy inside the Azureans' bodies.
If there was any drawback to this approach, it was that these battles would no longer hone the soldiers' practical combat skills.
But that really did not matter. True close-quarters combat would only become valuable once humanity's own strength reached a certain level. For now, technological weapons still offered greater combat power.
Commander Gao had no reason to hesitate. He immediately issued orders to begin a new operation targeting the Azureans' deployment.
After issuing the orders, Commander Gao waited in the base.
Of course, he was not merely sitting idle. A holographic image in front of him displayed the overall structure of Coral Star in three dimensions.
The holographic image was not static. It could be controlled with gestures to zoom in or out.
All of this was possible primarily because thousands of Ultra-Miniature Detection Devices had been deployed tens of thousands of kilometers overhead. They could detect the movement of any object on Coral