The key to warfare is intelligence. Knowing yourself and your enemy will keep you from peril in a hundred battles.
After spending some time with Zhang Chi, Gu Youyou felt as if her governor and conception vessels had been opened. With some practical operation over time, her little head had grown increasingly astute.
Being sharp-witted meant simplifying complex issues, peeling away the layers to reveal the core of the problem.
Just like in this war, where fifty thousand soldiers were fighting against three hundred thousand.
The Heavenly Pillars Alliance's troops seemed formidable, fierce and seemingly invincible against the soldiers of the Human Clans from the North, but among the Demon Clan were ten thousand soldiers, all of them powerful, perhaps enough to close the gap.
Without an actual fight, they would assume for now that their fifty thousand were on par with the opponent's fifty thousand.
The essence of tactics is actually quite simple: create favorable conditions.
