Chapter 339 Initiative and Contraction

In war, whoever has more strategic initiative will have the balance of victory tilted towards him.

Illusion, feint, concealment.

All are to enhance one's own strategic initiative and make the enemy lose initiative.

Just like Chinese chess, the chariot is unparalleled, but when it is trapped in the corner, it can't move.

The weakest soldier can also cooperate with other chess pieces to trap the strongest car in a cage.

A chess piece that takes two steps to break free from the siege is intercepted in the formation at the cost of time.

Your opponent will not give you two steps to return the chariot to a maneuverable position.

To move, you must spend two steps and exchange other chess pieces.

Push the chess piece.

Two moves are enough to checkmate.

This is the purest conspiracy, leading to different degrees of failure.

And no matter which possibility it is, it will not be an acceptable result for this advance army.

Ji Lin's purpose is simple to pure.

Since the other side was afraid of him, he sent a fake army with only one-tenth of the troops to prepare for an attack. Reality is not a game, and the difference in combat power between the two sides can be easily judged at a glance.

The main force, which could not be caught, waited quietly at an altitude of 3,000 meters.

Let the other side make a response plan for his actions, and let the other side run around to save the two camps until they did not have enough strength.

Everything went according to plan.

The two strategically isolated and immobile troops were the best bloodletting sinks for the enemy.

Because of Ji Lin's existence, they did not dare to send a large number of troops out of the camp for mopping-up missions. Troops without heavy weapons could only fight a 1:1.5 loss ratio with local civilizations.

The local civilization also realized this advantage. They could use the mountains and forests to penetrate the enemy's camp defense line and infiltrate the rear to attack the team transporting supplies-without worrying about encountering a mopping-up force cutting off the retreat and being wiped out.

The advance team still has an advantage, but this advantage is no longer caused by the superiority or inferiority of the weapons of both sides, but the gap caused by the training experience, technology, and command ability of officers of both sides.

He was waiting, waiting for the portal station to release its manpower and transport it to the two outer camps to strengthen their defense.

The reconnaissance post in the forest had reported to him that six three-man mage reconnaissance teams had appeared, circling the two advance team outer camps as the center, and taking the surrounding information into control.

Ji Lin listened to the discussion of tactical formulation in the staff, which rose and fell like the white noise of raindrops hitting the glass.

Outside the porthole was a sea of ​​clouds where the ground was invisible. The layers of thick white clouds overlapped and piled up into continuous hills, like a reflection of everything on the ground.

Three thousand meters, a height that humans could not reach, was surging with clouds covering the sky.

The fleet was ready, and the preparations for the attack had long been completed. The next step was to force the other party to make corresponding responses.

If they chose to keep the camp, they would wait for the other party to input more manpower, and then turn around to launch an offensive against the portal.

If they chose not to keep it, Ji Lin would not mind extending the time to return a little to directly attack the camp and gain an advantage in combat effectiveness.

This was his strategic initiative.

There are still five days left in the countdown.

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Unlike the stable and peaceful high-altitude fleet headquarters, a fierce quarrel is erupting at the portal station.

Continue to defend or retreat.

The reconnaissance troops have found traces of the enemy, and the enemy is building a camp and preparing to attack. They must respond to this. They have not yet fallen into moral decline to the point where they will not move when their allies are in trouble.

Abandoning friendly forces is a serious crime among serious crimes. Unlike the troops that were annihilated because of reckless advance in the past, if they do not help their colleagues when they can save them or not.

The entire command will be punished after returning to the empire.

"We can not send additional troops and let the third advance team continue to strengthen the defense... Besides, the camp may not be real."

A human mage said hesitantly, and he was also a little indecisive.

"Do you dare to bet that the other party will not attack?"

An elf mage said.

"The enemy and the original guard troops here can organize an offensive of tens of thousands of people."

The human mage coughed lightly and looked at the elves in front of him who had never experienced a war of equal strength, or even a war of disadvantage.

"If they really set their sights on the third advance team, then we can withdraw the second advance team first."

Sacrifice one in exchange for the safe evacuation of the other.

The mages were arguing, and they were having meaningless discussions about the current situation again and again, leaving the plan progress hovering at the starting point.

"We have seen that he distributed the weapons of the annihilated advance team to the original guards here."

What they said made sense, but it was almost correct nonsense.

But who will make the decision? Can the decision maker show the determination to sacrifice the car to save the king, or to transfer troops to save the car.

And Eno sat in the chief commander's seat, thinking with his head, he didn't sleep well all day yesterday. The tranquilizer didn't relieve the pressure of reality on his mind, and even couldn't let him sleep well at night.

"The Imperial Parliament is still making a decision. They said they need more information to judge."

The commander-in-chief of the portal station looked at the expressions of the seats who wanted him to make a decision, and made a decision that he should have confirmed long ago with some pain, and sighed.

"Organize a support force of 2,000 people, 2,000 line infantry, and send more trolls to strengthen the ability of encounters. We will go to pick up the third advance team from their defense line."

Let the second advance team prepare for evacuation while strengthening the fortifications.