Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 697 The New Strategy

The next afternoon, Rocky got to the Yu City with his army of eight thousand soldiers. They werejoined by Louis and Sabina, who had arrived earlier to explore the terrain of the city for their newstrategy.

After all the troops encamped, Rocky gathered a few people to discuss the strategy that would beused 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 detailis crucial to our new strategy,” Rocky asked as soon as they sat down. He got a report from their spythat 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 YuCity. He was certain that if the forces of the Holy Sea Empire couldn't be divided, they wereobviously at a disadvantage. With this, they needed a new strategy since he couldn't risk to bedefeated by the Holy Sea Empire. The risk of this plan was that the Holy Sea Empire troops mightdispatch forces to attack the Heaven Unicorn City. Rocky was worried that even if he could resist theattack from the armies of the Holy Sea Empire, the Crimson Dragon Army would be unable to spareany part of it. And if worse comes to worst, all of their forces might be consumed later. At the timebeing, his countermeasure was to actively attack the enemy to have a breakthrough. So it wasimportant to replace 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 noddedhis 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 SeaEmpire army can attack us is through the fan-shaped area in the south side. This fan-shaped area isbasically a plain terrain, so it is almost impossible to have an ambush. It will also be hard for us todispatch the forces of the enemy there. With this, the south side is not the best option for us tostation our troops. But upon my analysis of the city, I still found an ideal place which we can makeuse of to separate the enemy in two. If we succeed, then I am sure we will have an advantage,” Louissaid 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 themap.

"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 thewest side. If we dig a ten meter wide ditch in this area and draw water in from the river in the westside, then the isolation belt for the enemy will be formed. If they pass through this ditch, they areactually seeking their own death. If not, they have to take a roundabout way..." Louis told his idea indetail while pointing to the relief map.

"The enemy will never fully devote twenty thousand soldiers to attack us. It should only be avanguard of around five thousand soldiers. In this way, we will use this ditch to cut off the enemy'ssupport and trap their vanguard into our encirclement. But I still feel that there's still somethingwrong or missing in this tactic...” Enlightened by Louis, Rocky came up with a detailed plan rightaway. 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 fromthe 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 thebenchland. If the vanguard soldiers use their full strength to attack the city gate, it would be difficultfor them to defend against our attacks from the side wings. In addition, this ditch will block theirway out too. In this way, we will defeat all the Holy Sea Empire vanguard! The Crimson Dragon Armywill 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..." Isissaid after reading the relief map carefully.

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

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

"Commander Qin, you just lead three thousand soldiers into the Yu City and defend the enemytroops together with the garrison. Isis, you're responsible for..." Rocky started to authoritativelydeploy their forces according to the plan.

After the lengthy discussion of the new strategy, it was already midnight. Rocky went to the westside of the Yu City alone, released three Dark Heaven Insects and started to work throughout thenight.

The next day the twenty thousand soldiers from the Holy Sea Empire appeared 500 meters awayfrom the Yu City. Their military flags with the words "Holy Sea Empire” flew with the wind, and theywere ready to attack. The army had three commanders. One of them was the one who fought withRocky last time.

When noon arrived, the Holy Sea Empire army sent five thousand soldiers as the vanguard just asRocky expected. The vanguard was led by a commander to charge fiercely toward the gate of the YuCity.

Commander Qin, who was responsible for the defense of the city walls, immediately led the army tofight back with all kinds of defensive methods. The troops used methods such as arrow rain, rollingstones 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 twocommanders 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 thanthree 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 metershigh was formed. A strong wave poured into the ditch immediately. In an instant, the whole ditchwas 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 thebenchland for a long time now. Under the leadership of Isis, they immediately rushed out from theside. Like a long spear, they broke into the offensive crowd of the Holy Sea Empire army. At thesame time, other thousands of Crimson Dragon Army soldiers rushed out of the city gate like thetide.

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. Ourbackup will come up soon. In the meantime, kill them all!" the leading commander of the Holy SeaEmpire 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 theSupernal Stage was revealed, shocking the commander to death.

And before the commander could react, a fierce frost power attacked him. Although thiscommander was a master of the Heavenly Stage, he was instantly frosted into an ice sculpture withhis horse and then was smashed into pieces like a glass due to the big gap in the strength betweenthem.

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

When they saw that their commander died, the Holy Sea Empire army fell apart abruptly and lost allhopes 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 SeaEmpire 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 notdo anything but watch their vanguard being tortured and slaughtered. The two commanders of theHoly Sea Empire troops had to adjust their forces immediately. And they tried their very best tobypass 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 ofthe vanguard had been completely annihilated. While only less than a thousand Crimson DragonArmy soldiers were injured or killed.