Chapter 3118 - 1039: Holding the Fort

Chapter 3118: Chapter 1039: Holding the Fort

Zhou Tian’s Abyss Angels, having occupied those territories, must surely station some personnel there. Otherwise, if Zhou Tian’s Abyss Angels capture a castle and immediately retreat, although it would still achieve Zhou Tian’s goals, the territories would soon be reclaimed by the Modified Angels.

Clearly, if those castles had no effect at all for the Abyss Angels, they wouldn’t have carried out such an action and forcefully occupied that territory.

For Zhou Tian, achieving the planned effect requires defeating the Modified Angels, which is possible. However, given the Modified Angels’ condition, defeating them is no easier than outright annexing Paradise. Under the current circumstances, for Zhou Tian’s Abyss Angels to achieve their goal, a hard fight against the Modified Angels is not a good choice.

Zhou Tian’s Abyss Angels are not stupid. Upon receiving Zhou Tian’s orders, they immediately made a decision, knowing how to achieve their goal in the upcoming fight with the Modified Angels.

Direct combat is not as effective as a war of attrition!

Though theoretically, if Zhou Tian’s Abyss Angels engage in a war of attrition with the Modified Angels, they can’t be the opponent. Given the number of Modified Angels, even through attrition, they could easily exhaust the Abyss Angels under Zhou Tian.

If the Modified Angels aren’t defeated in a very short time, the longer the battle continues, the more pronounced their numerical advantage becomes.

Despite this, even though everyone knows the numerical advantage of the Modified Angels, Zhou Tian’s Abyss Angels still chose to proceed. At the time, they were not afraid of falling into defeat with such a choice.

Ultimately, although the Modified Angels had a clear population advantage, it was merely a slight numerical superiority.

If during the upcoming combat, the Modified Angels suffer heavy losses, then whatever they lose in numbers, they lose permanently. Without Zhou Tian’s techniques to assist their recovery, at least in this battle, the Modified Angels won’t be able to instantly make up for the previous losses.

If the Abyss Angels perform strongly enough, it’s not difficult to erase the Modified Angels’ population advantage.

Moreover, the Modified Angels can’t expect support in a short time, while the Abyss Angels have the backing of Zhou Tian and the Abyssal Consciousness. As long as they achieve the purpose Zhou Tian sent them for, even if they lose the battle against the Modified Angels, they can still count it as a win when Zhou Tian’s plan fully unfolds.

Thus, following Zhou Tian’s plan, the Abyss Angels had already made corresponding preparations.

Absolutely avoid a hard fight with the Modified Angels. In the first moment when the enemy is unprepared, seize certain castles, and then just hold the position defensively.

Although in terms of strength, once the Abyss Angels reach this standard, the victory and defeat of a war can no longer be predicted by normal logic. But even if one’s strength is great, the side in defense certainly holds an advantage.

Even before this, the Abyss Angels could easily capture those castles. But the reason for such results at the time was because the Abyss Angels were much stronger than the defending Modified Angels. Plus, those Modified Angels weren’t prepared for these enemies, thus making it easy for the Abyss Angels to take down the enemies swiftly and successfully occupy those castles.

Now, with the Abyss Angels fully prepared, leveraging the defense installations within those castles, it is almost certain that a team of equal strength would find conquering those castles impossible. Given the circumstances, if Zhou Tian’s Abyss Angels went and fought the Modified Angels, if both sides were to massively damage each other before being destroyed, then reasonable use of their defensive advantage could theoretically allow the Abyss Angels to decimate the Modified Angels’ forces without any strategy.

Without a doubt, Zhou Tian didn’t have any specific demands for his Abyss Angels, meaning that in a situation where they can hold the castles defensively, Zhou Tian’s Abyss Angels would definitely not run directly to fight the Modified Angels desperately.

Moreover, precisely due to this reason, Zhou Tian’s Abyss Angels originally could have heavily damaged the enemy during the time before they gathered, but fearing their forces would become too scattered, they directly abandoned that opportunity.

Unquestionably, this performance by the Abyss Angels certainly reduced the losses they inflicted on the Modified Angels significantly. With such combat tactics against the Modified Angels, they might not even be able to deliver a heavy blow in the end.

However, although fighting in that manner at the time might not have allowed the Abyss Angels to seriously wound the Modified Angels, the Modified Angels wouldn’t likely severely harm Zhou Tian’s Abyss Angels either. And precisely for this reason, Zhou Tian would support the decision made by his Abyss Angels.