Chapter 2705: That Is the Battlefield I Should Go To

He Lingchuan gave a light tap, and the other three clever people all understood.

"Bekka has occupied the Mao River Plain, considering it relatively safe," Wen Dalun said with a smile. "These aristocratic offspring can't even handle logistics properly. Bekka's supply lines should, in theory, be very ample, but I've heard from several enemy prisoners that food transport to the rear is often delayed, and the quality is unstable—sometimes those coarse wheat cakes are barely swallowable, and even the mounts refuse to eat them. Once, after a battle, they returned to camp starving, but dinner was delayed by two hours, and each person received only one bowl of mixed vegetable porridge. Morale plummeted, and a mutiny nearly broke out. They didn't get a proper meal until the afternoon of the third day, because our harassment of their supply convoy had delayed it by a full ten days before it reached the camp."

War is the touchstone that tests organizational capability. In truth, which army, which organization, doesn't have people fishing in troubled waters?

In reality, the Dragon God Army of Cangyan, established less than twenty years ago, is constantly rectifying conduct, yet every crackdown manages to catch some typical examples.

He Lingchuan pointed at his own nose: "Are we really the ones who caused this?"

"No, but no one has ever come to ask us." Wen Dalun shrugged. "Delays are punished, but I don't know if the official in charge of logistics transport has been severely punished. I suspect they mostly have other ways to explain things away."

He Lingchuan nodded: "Typical Bekka."

The three were all calculating his idea, paying no mind to how naturally he said it.

The Tiger Wing General had never been to Bekka, but He Lingchuan had been involved in Bekka's missing courier case and immortality pill case, and knew well the various outdated chaos within this empire. Although Bekka in this era has existed for four hundred years and hasn't yet reached the six hundred years of later generations, He Lingchuan believes that whatever problems were destined to arise have already arisen, differing from later times only in degree.

Wen Dalun laughed: "Kill a few of these aristocratic offspring, and Bekka's aristocrats will finally know what it feels like to hurt."

"In short, due to various reasons, even without Panlong's harassment, Bekka's logistics capacity, compared to the frontline army's combat strength, is relatively weak—it's a flaw concealed by Bekka's halo." He Lingchuan looked toward the Scarlet Falcon General. "With the Scarlet Falcon General leading the charge, we will strike strong against weak, and surely throw Bekka's rear into chaos, with people panicking!"

Zhong Shengguang also said: "I received the military report from the Mao River Plain. Our forces intercepted Bekka's logistics transport twice, and both times encountered divine descent, resulting in casualties."

Bekka's logistics units also have a weapon for safe passage: divine descent.

Once divine descent succeeds, the unit's combat capability surges.

The Scarlet Falcon General laughed: "Excellent, just what we wanted."

Is she still afraid of divine descent?

Those demon avatars descending through mortal skins—she kills them one by one, pair by pair!

"We have painstakingly cultivated the Mao River Plain for years, and Bekka took it over only a few months ago, yet they have been ruthlessly plundering it, so the people's hearts still lean toward us." Zhong Shengguang said to the Scarlet Falcon General, "As for the terrain of the Mao River Plain, you are as familiar with it as the Tiger Wing General, so you should be at no disadvantage."

The Scarlet Falcon General said lightly: "Rest assured, I know the location of every mouse hole on the Mao River Plain."

She is the guardian deity of Panlong, having nearly measured every inch of Panlong's wasteland and the Mao River Plain with her own feet. She knows where to find cover, where to shake off pursuers, where to set traps, where to obtain supplies, and most importantly—

Where to ambush the enemy for the highest success rate!

As for the Mao River Plain, Bekka's forces are far less familiar with it than she and the Wind Army are—this is a prerequisite for successful rear-guard interception warfare.

"As for real-time intelligence on Bekka's logistics units, our intelligence system left in the Mao River Plain can still operate, but you must carefully discern and heighten vigilance, for false information and traitors cannot be ruled out." Zhong Shengguang said this, then sighed: "Once you penetrate enemy territory, you must find your own supplies and intelligence. If surrounded, we cannot rescue in time. This is the most fragile point in Tiger Wing's plan."

Even the Scarlet Falcon General, striking deep in enemy territory, faces enormous risk.

Tiger Wing General's rear plan, no matter how good, relies on a fulcrum: the Scarlet Falcon General will not be captured.

Otherwise, all is lost.

The Scarlet Falcon General did not boast, nor did she pound her chest in guarantee, but said:

"That is precisely the battlefield I should go to."

The greater the difficulty, the more it is the battlefield she should rush toward.

Who else but me?

"Then please, Scarlet Falcon General, give them a little shock." He Lingchuan laughed. "Your duty outweighs heaven. Once Bekka's logistics are disrupted, frontline supplies cannot be guaranteed, and Bekka's great army cannot possibly maintain combat strength like Panlong's army does. By then, it will be our turn to act with ease."

The old tradition of Panlong's army is to grow tenaciously in adversity. Hunger, barrenness, and disaster have never toppled this city or these soldiers. Those hard years have only passed a dozen or so years ago, and the old Panlong people can still endure hardship.

Bekka's army is different—without excellent weapons and sound logistics, even missing a few meals, they will complain bitterly.

They have never endured the hardships that Panlong's army has, so naturally they lack Panlong's resilience and perseverance.

Put simply, if we reduce Bekka's army's logistics to the same level as Panlong's, Panlong's army can defeat them using its rich experience alone.

"Therefore, the true turning point in the Panlong-Bekka war, shifting from passive defense to active offense, does not lie in the future multi-army melee on Panlong's wasteland, but in the enemy rear, on the vast Mao River Plain." He Lingchuan said, word by word, "The speed at which the Scarlet Falcon General cuts their logistics supply line will determine how feeble Bekka's great army performs in frontline combat."

The Scarlet Falcon General chuckled softly: "Rest assured, I will be swift."

She rarely showed humor, and everyone laughed, the stern atmosphere in the room slightly relaxing.

But the Scarlet Falcon General immediately added: "In that case, all the initial pressure will fall on Panlong's wasteland, and on you all."

Her leadership in the logistics interception will take effect only after time, while Bekka's great army has likely already invaded Panlong's wasteland.

Without the Scarlet Falcon General, the pressure to resist foreign invasion will fall entirely on Zhong Shengguang, He Lingchuan, and the other Panlong commanders.

The wasteland terrain is leaky on all sides, unlike the easy-to-defend Dragon Throat Pass, and Bekka has clearly declared they will wage a human-sea tactic, with the great army attacking from multiple routes.

She naturally worries: "If war breaks out on Panlong's wasteland, the intensity will far exceed that of the Mao River Plain."

Panlong's wasteland, peaceful for over a decade, will surely erupt in a sky-shattering bloodbath!

"You just focus on acting freely on the Mao River Plain, no need to divide your attention." Zhong Shengguang's words rang with power, "Here, I and Tiger Wing will hold the line. What warriors fear most is not seeing hope; what soldiers fear most is not knowing why they fight. Now that dawn has appeared, we will hold out as long as we need to."