Chapter 206: Battle Plan
A few days later, under the planning of the entire Dragon Nest Tribe, the production personnel have basically been evacuated, and important materials have been relocated to a new site a hundred miles northeast.
Now the whole Dragon Nest Tribe has become a militarized camp, filled entirely with combat personnel of the Dragon Nest Beastmen.
A large number of weapons and armor have been equipped on Beastman soldiers, undergoing rigorous training day and night. The neatly aligned formations look like columns of ironclad torrents.
"How is the situation?"
"The rate of land corruption there is accelerating, and the undead creatures have started new movements. It seems they are about to begin the next round of expansion. We don't have much time left."
"...The envoy from the Tribe Alliance at the Bloody Border left yesterday. As for the support we requested, they said they would go back and ask for it."
"Damn it! They're truly treating us as abandoned pawns. What's going on at the border?"
"According to reports from the scout camp, the conflict war with humans there has been stagnant for half a month, and it's unclear what they are thinking."
In the central hall, all the high-ranking Beastmen and the Beastman Officers have gathered to discuss the future decisions of the Dragon Nest Tribe.
From multiple perspectives, the current situation of the Dragon Nest Tribe indeed doesn't look good.
The undead tide to the southwest is already stirring, poised to sweep across the Kawa Great Forest like a natural disaster, and at this moment, the Dragon Nest Tribe, right in front, would inevitably suffer a direct impact.
Even with equal numbers, or numbers ten times their own, the Dragon Nest Beastman Legion relies on their powerful battle formation group combat capability, unafraid.
But the undead army isn't counted in tens of thousands, but rather covers an unknown area in the southwest of the Dragon Nest Tribe, an unmanageable quantity!
In the shadow of this kind of undead tsunami, the Dragon Nest Legion at most is only a relatively hard rock, ultimately to be drowned by endless waters.
Just as the Dragon Nest Tribe is about to confront the undead army in a bloody hand-to-hand battle, the Tribe Alliance, which was originally supposed to be a source of support, suddenly became indifferent, unwilling to even provide some material assistance.
From the news sent back by the rat-troop scouts, something unknown has definitely changed in the war at the border, not only causing the war between the Beastman Alliance and the human Southern Countries to stop, but also making the fear of the undead army among the Beastmen disappear.
"Forget it, don't worry about things over there for now. His Highness has already issued an order to prepare for a counterattack in three days!"
The changes between the Beastmen and humans at the border definitely contain many secrets, but the Dragon Nest Tribe no longer has the energy to pay attention to those.
"Finally going to act, that's great! Since those damn undead won't stay quietly in Hell, let's take their bones apart!"
With Governor Vini conveying Austin's command, the entire assembly hall was filled with excitement.
Previously, for safety reasons, Austin expressly ordered the Beastmen not to engage with zombie creatures, causing the Dragon Nest Beastmen to keep retreating from those slow-moving undead, feeling immensely frustrated.
Austin holds an extremely high reputation within the tribe, so the Beastmen naturally don't have any thought of blame towards Austin, but their temper with the undead isn't nearly as good.
Apart from a few sharp-minded Beastmen who can see the dangerous predicament faced by the Dragon Nest Tribe, the majority of Beastman Warriors present, and within the entire tribe, wish to slaughter those damn undead.
During this period, the Dragon Nest Beastmen, already filled with rage, are eager for action.
"Don't be happy too soon, I understand your feelings, but you must follow orders for this operation. This action is crucial to the outcome of the war, and our opportunity is this one-time chance. No one can disobey orders and jeopardize the operation!"
Seeing everyone's excited expressions, Vini immediately poured cold water over them. Once everyone calmed down, he began to slowly relay Austin's war strategy.
"Next is His Highness's war plan...."
This war against the zombie undead is Austin's first and only counterattack against the encroachments of the zombies, step by step pressing forward.
In this battle, either Austin can completely destroy the mysterious pyramid building that changed the environment of the earth, or he must retreat, leaving behind the legacy for which he has fought for years.
No matter how much importance is placed, if objectives aren't achieved, Austin won't continue to confront the sea of undead zombies hard-headedly, even if the Dragon Nest Beastmen suffer minimal losses in the battle amid the zombie undead sea.
The outline of this regular war strategy can be summarized with three phrases:
Feign east attack west,
Lure the tiger from the mountain,
Hit the dragon's heart directly.
Perhaps due to Austin firing a shot from the electromagnetic cannon, the mysterious pyramid is currently surrounded by a massive tumor lump of merged zombie undead flesh, protected under the Corpse Mountain, while the nearby region is also densely packed with zombie undead.
And because the Thunder Attribute change of the Magic Power Rasengan isn't perfect, during the preparation phase, Austin must find a quiet, undisturbed place, while not too far from the towering lump of flesh.
Therefore, the first step of the operation is to lure away the zombie undead gathered near the Corpse Mountain lump.
First, from within the Dragon Nest Tribe, the high-mobility Centaur cavalry legion attacks near the pyramid, aiming to cause the maximum slaughter in the shortest time, create chaos, then swiftly retreat, leading most of the zombie undead into the distance.
Once a large number of zombie undead are lured away, the group charge of the Dragon Nest Beastman Legion lying in ambush on the other side will clear a region near the Corpse Mountain lump in a short time.
Subsequently, Austin will gather power on the hilltop, releasing his developed strongest attack method at present, annihilating the lump of Corpse Mountain flesh and the mysterious pyramid causing the terrain abnormalities all at once.
The plan is perfect, but Austin also understands this is under the condition that everything proceeds smoothly.
Furthermore, the biggest variable in the plan stems from himself.
The Thunder Attribute change of the Magic Power Rasengan has not been truly mastered, or in other words, the Thunder Attribute change of the entire Magic Power Rasengan has only been developed to half.
Unfortunately, time waits for no one; even if developed halfway, Austin can only barely proceed.