Terra had already learned the outcome of the Battle of the Twin Gates.
Dorn expressed his approval of the result.
Given the power Horus had displayed, it was basically impossible to keep him completely outside the Solar System.
Anyone who dared think otherwise was undoubtedly underestimating the Warmaster. He was Horus Lupercal, the primarch with the greatest command ability. Even Lion El'Jonson fell somewhat short of him in large-scale legion warfare.
Therefore, the primarchs chose to completely destroy the Twin Gates, thwarting the rebels' plan to use these two star gates left behind by the Dark Age of Technology for massive troop deployments.
All that remained was to make use of the thousands of defensive lines stretching from Pluto to Terra, deliberately letting the rebels enter this pocket. Naturally, Horus would grow weaker the longer he fought.
The master of defense, Rogal Dorn, had carefully calibrated the strength of every defensive line, ensuring that the rebels could capture them, but only at the cost of blood.
With every line they took, the rebels would feel victory lying just ahead. With just a little more effort, they would reach Terra.
That was precisely where Dorn's brilliance lay. If he had merely built an impregnable defense, the rebels would inevitably have continued waiting for reinforcements before gambling everything once they had gathered sufficient strength.
It was like an approaching flood. Blindly building dams to block it would only make the waters rise and swell, until they finally burst through the barriers with devastating force.
By giving them hope first, then exhausting them through endless siege battles and slowly bleeding them dry, they would unknowingly pay an enormous amount of sunk cost.
After hearing Dorn's plan, Lox vividly dubbed the tactic devised by the primarchs the "Pinduoduo strategy."
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