CHAPTER 697 THE NEW STRATEGY

The next afternoon, Rocky got to the Yu City with his army of eight thousand soldiers. They were joined

by Louis and Sabina, who had arrived earlier to explore the terrain of the city for their new strategy.

After all the troops encamped, Rocky gathered a few people to discuss the strategy that would be used

to deal with the Holy Sea Empire's army.

"Louis, have you found the terrain that can be used to separate the forces of the enemy? This detail is

crucial to our new strategy," Rocky asked as soon as they sat down. He got a report from their spy that

the forces of the Holy Sea Empire were more than twenty thousand. While at the moment, Rocky's

current forces were only about ten thousand including the troops of the garrison in the Yu City. He was

certain that if the forces of the Holy Sea Empire couldn't be divided, they were obviously at a

disadvantage. With this, they needed a new strategy since he couldn't risk to be defeated by the Holy

Sea Empire. The risk of this plan was that the Holy Sea Empire troops might dispatch forces to attack

the Heaven Unicorn City. Rocky was worried that even if he could resist the attack from the armies of

the Holy Sea Empire, the Crimson Dragon Army would be unable to spare any part of it. And if worse holds © this.

comes to worst, all of their forces might be consumed later. At the time being, his countermeasure was

to actively attack the enemy to have a breakthrough. So it was important to find a good terrain to

distract the forces of the enemy.

"Yes, but you should know that we found there's still difficulty in it," Louis answered as he nodded his

head.

"Tell me what it is then," Rocky said abruptly.

"The three sides of Yu City are surrounded by the river, so the only direction that the Holy Sea Empire

army can attack us is through the fan-shaped area in the south side. This fan-shaped area is basically

a plain terrain, so it is almost impossible to have an ambush. It will also be hard for us to dispatch the

forces of the enemy there. With this, the south side is not the best option for us to station our troops.

But upon my analysis of the city, I still found an ideal place which we can make use of to separate the

enemy in two. If we succeed, then I am sure we will have an advantage," Louis said as he analyzed the

situation. He pointed to the relief map around the Yu City.

"Where is this ideal place?" Rocky asked immediately. He was interested in it and got closer to the

map.

"That area is in front of the city gate. The soil in this area is soft, and it is very close to the river in the

west side. If we dig a ten meter wide ditch in this area and draw water in from the river in the west side,

then the isolation belt for the enemy will be formed. If they pass through this ditch, they are actually

seeking their own death. If not, they have to take a roundabout way…" Louis told his idea in detail while

pointing to the relief map.

"The enemy will never fully devote twenty thousand soldiers to attack us. It should only be a vanguard

of around five thousand soldiers. In this way, we will use this ditch to cut off the enemy's support and

trap their vanguard into our encirclement. But I still feel that there's still something wrong or missing in

this tactic..." Enlightened by Louis, Rocky came up with a detailed plan right away. However, he still

thought that it was not enough to give the Holy Sea Empire a heavy blow.

"In the west side near the Yu City, there is a river benchland where we can defend and attack from the

side wings..." Louis suggested as he pointed at another area on the map.

"Very well. The Holy Sea Empire army will never think that we will station our main force on the

benchland. If the vanguard soldiers use their full strength to attack the city gate, it would be difficult for

them to defend against our attacks from the side wings. In addition, this ditch will block their way out

too. In this way, we will defeat all the Holy Sea Empire vanguard! The Crimson Dragon Army will

prevail!" Thus a new tactic to defeat the Holy Sea Empire was planned.

"What concerns me is that it's not easy to dig such a ditch. It seems that it needs a lot of time..." Isis

said after reading the relief map carefully.

"That is also my concern as this is the only difficult part in the new strategy," Louis nodded in

agreement.

"I have my own way to deal with it. You don't need to worry about it," Rocky said as he smiled

confidently.

"Commander Qin, you just lead three thousand soldiers into the Yu City and defend the enemy troops

together with the garrison. Isis, you're responsible for..." Rocky started to authoritatively deploy their

forces according to the plan.

After the lengthy discussion of the new strategy, it was already midnight. Rocky went to the west side of

the Yu City alone, released three Dark Heaven Insects and started to work throughout the night.

The next day the twenty thousand soldiers from the Holy Sea Empire appeared 500 meters away from

the Yu City. Their military flags with the words "Holy Sea Empire" flew with the wind, and they were

ready to attack. The army had three commanders. One of them was the one who fought with Rocky

last time.

When noon arrived, the Holy Sea Empire army sent five thousand soldiers as the vanguard just as

Rocky expected. The vanguard was led by a commander to charge fiercely toward the gate of the Yu

City.

Commander Qin, who was responsible for the defense of the city walls, immediately led the army to

fight back with all kinds of defensive methods. The troops used methods such as arrow rain, rolling

stones and gravels, and the like.

In an instant, fires began to fill the ground and black smoke rose around the city walls.

When they saw that the defense of the Yu City was more powerful than they imagined, the two

commanders of the Holy Sea Empire sent another five thousand soldiers for support.

But when the five thousand soldiers of the Holy Sea Empire rushed to the place which was less than

three meters away from the Yu City, they felt a violent quiver under their feet. Then all of a sudden, the

whole ground collapsed, and a ditch ten meters wide, a thousand meters long, and three meters high

was formed. A strong wave poured into the ditch immediately. In an instant, the whole ditch was filled

and the way was blocked. The troops of the Holy Sea Empire were isolated.

By this time, the five thousand soldiers of the Crimson Dragon Army had been stationed on the

benchland for a long time now. Under the leadership of Isis, they immediately rushed out from the side.

Like a long spear, they broke into the offensive crowd of the Holy Sea Empire army. At the same time,

other thousands of Crimson Dragon Army soldiers rushed out of the city gate like the tide.

Realizing that they was in a disadvantage, the soldiers of the Holy Sea Empire panicked.

"Don't panic. The Crimson Dragon Army is no match for the mighty Holy Sea Empire troops. Our

backup will come up soon. In the meantime, kill them all!" the leading commander of the Holy Sea

Empire shouted to stabilize the situation and uplift the spirit of the army.

All of a sudden, a delicate figure appeared in front of the commander. Her strong aura of the Supernal

Stage was revealed, shocking the commander to death.

And before the commander could react, a fierce frost power attacked him. Although this commander

was a master of the Heavenly Stage, he was instantly frosted into an ice sculpture with his horse and

then was smashed into pieces like a glass due to the big gap in the strength between them.

"The commander died! What are we going to do now? The commander died... " the soldiers around

shouted desperately.

When they saw that their commander died, the Holy Sea Empire army fell apart abruptly and lost all

hopes as well as their desire to fight.

Under the attack of the Crimson Dragon Army led by Isis and Sabina, the vanguard of the Holy Sea

Empire had no chance to resist at all.

And because of the obstruction by the ditch, the main force of the Holy Sea Empire army could not do

anything but watch their vanguard being tortured and slaughtered. The two commanders of the Holy

Sea Empire troops had to adjust their forces immediately. And they tried their very best to bypass the

ditch to attack the Crimson Dragon Army.

By the time the army from the Holy Sea Empire bypassed the ditch and arrived, all the members of the

vanguard had been completely annihilated. While only less than a thousand Crimson Dragon Army

soldiers were injured or killed.