Chapter 2043

"Tough!

"It's only been a little over three hours since the werewolf army invaded. Even if other forces want to come help, they'll need time.

"Besides, the Blade Corps and the Iron Blood Corps are both in the north, and we're here in the southwest. Even if they send reinforcements, they can only reinforce the Xuanwu Corps in the north.

"Our White Tiger Corps is in the southwest. Even if they want to send help, they can't get here — not unless they throw caution to the wind.

"They are other forces after all. When it comes to life-and-death matters, we shouldn't count on outsiders."

Gu Zhan nodded: "Will they go reinforce the Xuanwu Corps? Given the situation, reinforcing the Xuanwu Corps would be good enough."

Lu Yibing continued shaking his head: "There's no news like that yet. We should plan for the worst case."

"Sigh…"

Gu Zhan sighed softly and said nothing more.

At this moment, Guan Zhiyong continued:

"Next, let's go over the situation of the other main brigades. Everyone quiet down.

"Tongyan Town, Hegu Town, and Binghe County — the situation in these three locations is similar to ours. Before the formation's effect ended, we all managed to wipe out quite a few werewolves.

"Now they've all entered the 100-hour ceasefire period.

"However, every location has now been damaged by the werewolves. Although we still hold control of the formations in each area, once the werewolves destroy the outside, the formations will fail completely.

"When that time comes… every one of us will be an isolated island.

"No communication, no connection to each other. Right now, outside Horn Cliff Town, the werewolves are also in the process of destroying things.

"By tomorrow morning, the formation will likely be completely destroyed. When that happens, we'll only be able to rely on the tiny bit of energy we stored earlier to communicate with each other.

"So we absolutely have no time to argue, and no time to hesitate or discuss. We must finalize our plan of action for what comes next tonight.

"Unfortunately, there aren't many options left to discuss either.

"Let's begin.

"We can go over the few possibilities we just mentioned again, and try to discuss them thoroughly."

The scene fell quiet once more.

Every squad leader sank into thought.

In every village and town, there is a formation eye.

Destroy it, and the formation fails.

But destroying it isn't easy.

Yet now there's no one left outside to hold the werewolves back. It's only a matter of time before the formation is destroyed.

Once the formation is destroyed,

the lords connected to Horn Cliff Town's formation will be completely exposed.

They won't be able to communicate or move between each other.

It's like being in a house with no signal — if you want to find someone else, you have to come out of your house, then go find them.

If lords want to contact other lords, they have to come to the Greater World, then enter another lord's territory from the Greater World, and talk face to face.

Of course, the formation can be rebuilt.

It just costs a great deal of time and resources.

The outside has already been occupied by werewolves. To repair the formation, we have to drive them back first.

But if we had the ability to drive back the werewolves, we wouldn't be letting them destroy the formation now.

On another note.

Most of the ordinary residents of Horn Cliff Town have already been transferred into the territories.

As for those who didn't make it in…

I really can't bear to say it…

Jiang Chen cleared his throat and said:

"I still think transferring through the spatial rift is the best method — the only feasible one.

"Of course it's dangerous, but the other methods are even harder.

"They might even lead to total annihilation!

"Even if not many of us ultimately escape, isn't that still better than total annihilation?"

Lu Yibing shook his head:

"Commander Jiang, trust me.

"I have enough confidence in the information I just shared.

"The spatial rift side has already been covered by the werewolves' scouting network. The moment we show our heads, the werewolves will rush in and pursue us with everything they've got.

"As I just said, the werewolves have already paid a heavy cost for this operation.

"They won't let us get away.

"Escaping will be very hard — even getting just part of us out will be very hard.

"And there's no cover in there at all, it's wide open. Very few lords will be able to escape the werewolves' pursuit.

"They're far too fast."

Jiang Chen nodded: "Of course it'll be hard, but this is already the plan with the highest chance of success."

"I agree!" Xing Yi chimed in.

He glanced at Feng Liyan, then said:

"Once we exit through the spatial rift, we can concentrate our breakthrough!

"Pool the elite strength of all of us — that's the only way to smash through the werewolves' blockade in an instant.

"A lot of the time, war is fought on momentum.

"If we go up and strike head-on with thunderous force from the start, there's a good chance we can catch them off guard.

"After all, the enemy is surrounding us, so their forces will be spread across various positions.

"So although we are weak, we can concentrate our strength.

"The enemy may be strong, but they are scattered.

"This way we can seize the opportunity, quickly break through the encirclement at a single point, and escape with all our might.

"Of course, the other side will definitely pursue, but at least we'll have a chance of survival."

After Xing Yi finished speaking, he looked at Feng Liyan again.

Sure enough, just as expected.

Feng Liyan immediately shook his head:

"That makes sense.

"But I still insist on a scattered evacuation!

"Captain Xing's reasoning is completely sound and logical, but the question is how to execute it?

"Everyone knows concentrating forces is powerful, but who will command?

"And how do we regroup after breaking through?

"We're talking about over a thousand Lords here, not just one or two squads.

"Without long periods of rehearsal and practice, it's simply impossible to achieve the effect you described.

"When the time comes, it'll just be total chaos — before the werewolves even attack, we'll be in a mess ourselves.

"Forget breaking through, we probably won't even be able to perform at our normal level!

"Before we can move smoothly, the werewolves' encirclement will have already tightened.

"A scattered breakthrough at least has no problem with mobility.

"And what I'm proposing isn't everyone going their separate ways, but moving together in squad-sized units.

"This way we can both have the strength to break through and effective command.

"Isn't that better?"