Chapter 147 - 128: Mavericks and Academics!【Seeking Subscription!】_2

"In winter, the vegetation isn’t dense, so our airborne Black Dragons discovered the Red Dragons below and are preparing to attack!" Kai Long added new environmental conditions.

"We detected that we’ve been spotted, all Red Dragons immediately ascended and used their speed advantage to rush towards the battlefield. Because the Black Dragons are slower, by the time the Red Dragons reach the battlefield, the Black Dragons have only completed two-thirds of the distance. The Explosive Dragons engage in combat with the four defending Black Dragons. Let’s assume that the power of both sides’ Dragon Riders is equal, the combats with a small difference in power among Dragon Riders generally last about twenty minutes. Thus, our Explosive Dragons can distract the enemy Dragon Riders, while the Explosive Dragon Breath attacks the land forces below. At the same time, the Flame Dragons hidden in the city also strike simultaneously! Flame Dragons have a natural talent of flame spray, they rush into the enemy land forces below and spray flames while the enemy Dragon Riders are distracted. After spraying flames once, your Black Dragons have already arrived, and all our Red Dragons immediately ascend to high altitude. Your Black Dragons are slow to ascend and can’t catch up. There’s a sea of fire in the land army and their morale is shaken." Long Yi said.

"I...." General Kai Long fell silent because he couldn’t think of a good countermeasure at the moment!

Alec’s grandfather had proposed a similar combat hypothesis, utilizing the speed advantage of Red Dragons to achieve victory. However, it turned out to be undesirable. The defense of Black Dragons is extremely high, and once Red Dragons fully utilizes their speed advantage, it leads to considerable physical exhaustion, and five Red Dragons simply cannot withstand this level of exhaustion.

Alec’s grandfather had always believed that the key to this battle lay with the Dragon Riders.

However, Long Yi put the key to the battle on the ground forces at the rear.

The numbers weren’t large, just a mere three thousand troops.

But if they followed Long Yi’s battle scenario, just this once could possibly result in one-fifth casualties!

Maybe other commanders could bear it, but Kai Long couldn’t, it was a completely pointless loss.

And most importantly, there was a city here.

The result of any war is definitely a gain, and this city is the gains of this battle, and the land forces in the rear are the occupation forces of the city. But if the ground forces are wiped out, who will occupy this city? These ten Dragon Riders? A war requires Dragon Riders in too many places, no commanders can afford to use precious Dragon Riders to occupy the city.

Therefore, this was the clue for victory that Kai Long left for Alec’s grandfather. If there was a problem, there must be a solution. The value of the occupying forces is the answer.

"You won." Kai Long said.

"What?" Before Long Yi could speak, Alec shouted first, "General Kai Long, none of our Dragon Riders are lost, you concede just like that?"

"I have already lost several hundred infantry." Kai Long said.

"This..." Alec wanted to say, and this was called a loss? This was just a mere few hundred infantry! As long as Dragon Riders are around, the battle line will not be lost! But in the end, Alec didn’t speak up. After all, he was facing his senior, the Iron Blood General with the longest-standing reputation in the Empire, who had commanded more battles than Alec had seen.

But indeed, he was old and useless. This was war! Can’t even bear such trivial losses?

Kai Long saw Alec’s resistance, and he didn’t want to go into details with him. For such a thing, those kids playing war games in Command College everyday couldn’t understand it at all. In college, life and death were just numbers, only when you are truly on the battlefield directing a victorious or failed battle, will you understand how precious life is.

"As expected, you are humbler than you make it out to be." Kai Long said to Long Yi, he was appreciating Long Yi’s demeanor.

"No, I’m not being humble. I’m really not good at this. If the commander of the Black Dragon was an idiot who didn’t know anything, he’d definitely stick it out until the end." Long Yi looked at General Kai Long and cursed Alec in his mouth.

"I want to know, is there a problem with sticking it out until the end?" When Alec heard it, it stabbed him in the face like a thorn. He glared and roared.

"Nothing much, I’ll just go ahead and kill all your infantry." Long Yi said, smiling.

"So what! All my ten Dragon Riders are alive! How are you going to defeat me?" Alec shouted angrily.

"I won’t defeat your Dragon Riders. After killing all your infantry, I’ll leave immediately to aid other battlefields. You couldn’t stop me anyway." Long Yi said with a smile.

"You like to run! And you still have the nerve to say you won?" Alec simply couldn’t understand Long Yi’s thinking.

Long Yi laughed out loud, facing General Kai Long and laughed, "Old General, don’t blame me for being blunt, I’d rather die by crashing into a dragon’s back than to fight under his command in the future. This guy is too dumb."

"You bastard! I’m going to challenge you..."

"Enough, Alec, I ask you, what is the purpose of this battle?" General Kai Long finally couldn’t stand it anymore and decided to guide this idiot.

"Of course, it’s to seize this city!" Alec said self-righteously.

"Then who is going to defend it after seizing it!"

Alec immediately understood the underlying reason when he was stumped. Once all the ground troops were lost, the city would certainly be lost! Dragon riders can’t occupy for a long period of time! Dragon Riders definitely can’t gather enough resources from a city either!