Volume 6, Chapter 37 – Tianyin’s Operation

The ambush troops at the front line were “discovered” by the enemy and, driven by the spreading fire, the army Tianyin had prepared for the “ambush” panicked and chose to retreat.

Naturally, they retreated in whatever direction made it easiest to pull back. With the flames unable to spread in such a short time, the Half-beast army that had just been lying in ambush in the forest used the cover of the trees to withdraw toward the rear.

Of course, on the other side, the one that had spotted the ambush, the commanders of the army, that is, the Minotaur generals, were extremely annoyed that they had almost been ambushed themselves.

So, under the orders of the various generals, the grand army of over a million soldiers began to pursue the already routed Half-beast army.

And the original instigator, the demon wrapped entirely in flames, Bagh, also wore a ferocious expression as he joined the army chasing down the routed troops.

Even with Bagh’s level of intelligence it was not hard to notice all kinds of suspicious points in the way these “routed troops” were fleeing.

However, because of a demon’s nature, bloodthirsty, cruel, and fond of bullying the weak, Bagh not only failed to care about the abnormalities of these routed troops. On the contrary, this demon who had just seen through the ambush charged at the very front of the entire army…

Even though demons were clearly a group of sly, insidious beings, they had still suffered defeat in every one of the previous invasion wars.

While this great army was hounding the routed troops relentlessly, Tianyin, who had just been seated in the main camp directing the battle, had already arrived at the real “ambush” point.

On a wide, open plain.

This plain was the flattest and most vast place within Dawn’s borders. By rights, if Tianyin wanted to set an ambush, she should have chosen a canyon, just like when Yunchou had ambushed her before.

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However… Tianyin deliberately went against that idea and set the ambush location on this broadest plain in all of Dawn.

“My lord… while it is true that according to the lord’s plan we have lured the enemy forces over here, if we set the ambush site in this place… isn’t that a bit inappropriate?”

On the edge of the vast plain, as Tianyin gazed at the open landscape before her, a very young-looking Half-beast general at her side voiced his doubts to her.

And it was not just this general. In fact, every general who had followed Tianyin here harbored the same doubts in their hearts.

After all, the enemy’s numbers were already higher than their own, and in an ambush they ought to at least occupy favorable terrain.

That was basic common sense when designing an ambush.

Yet Tianyin’s insistence on doing the opposite and choosing an open plain with clear lines of sight as the ambush site really left the many Dawn generals present baffled.

“My lord, this way we not only fail to seize the terrain, we are even crushed in terms of troop numbers by the enemy… wouldn’t our army end up in a completely passive position?”

Seeing Tianyin remain silent, that Half-beast general’s courage grew a little.

But in the end, when Tianyin withdrew her gaze from the plain and casually glanced at the Half-beast general, he very sensibly shut his mouth.

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“I know all that without you saying it. However… the disadvantage in numbers is nothing we need to care about, and we also do not need the advantage of terrain.”

As she said words that left the generals present at a loss, Tianyin’s gaze was sharp, and her tone brooked no argument.

Her long silver-white hair was lifted by the distant breeze. On Tianyin’s delicate, adorable little face, her originally pitch-black pupils were slowly covered by an eerie violet.

“Next, all you need to do is deploy the troops in concealed positions around the plain. Remember, you must station troops in every direction and turn this plain into a tightly sealed encirclement.”

“That… but my lord… even if we can form such an encirclement, once we start fighting the enemy, our numbers cannot possibly wear them down?”

A Half-beast general voiced his concerns.

Granted, when the enemy discovered they had fallen into an ambush, their morale would indeed take a certain hit from the surprise attack.

However… on a plain with such an extremely open field of view, any soldier with slightly better strength would be able to see exactly how many troops were ambushing them.

Once they knew how many troops were ambushing them, the enemy’s morale might even recover.

For that very reason, throughout history almost every ambush had been set in places with poor visibility and narrow space.

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Only in such cramped locations with limited sightlines would the ambushed army be unable to clearly see how many enemy troops were attacking them.

That would also impose unimaginable psychological pressure on the ambushed troops. In such a cramped space, their own people would be packed together, and in every direction around them would be enemy soldiers…

That psychological pressure was also the reason why, even when the ambushing force clearly had fewer troops than the ambushed army, the ambushers would so often still end up winning.

So, war did not only rely on strength that came from numbers. Skillfully using terrain to create advantages was also one of the abilities a competent general had to grasp.

“You think I do not understand any of that?”

In response to the doubts of the generals at her side, Tianyin’s eyes, now completely covered in that eerie violet, narrowed slightly.

“If we ambush the enemy on this plain, we indeed hold no advantage in either numbers or terrain. However…”

After saying this, Tianyin’s voice paused for a moment. At the same time, her violet eyes swept over the surrounding generals.

“When did I ever say the ambush was yours to carry out?”

As Tianyin’s words fell, the Half-beasts and Elves present all showed looks of disbelief.

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Taking in the way all the generals’ expressions had changed drastically, Tianyin withdrew her gaze and looked once more at the boundless plain before her.

“The only purpose of having you set up an encirclement around the plain is so that once the enemy fully enters the plain, you can completely seal it off.”

“Only allowed in, not allowed out.”

Speaking lazily, Tianyin slowly took the knight’s sword out from her System Inventory, then slowly drew it.

“Although this plain cannot provide an advantage in terrain for an ambush, for me alone… it offers the greatest possible advantage.”

“So…”

Tianyin’s feet left the ground and she slowly floated up into the sky.

“For this army of a million, I alone am enough.”

This… was the most crucial step in Tianyin’s plan.