Published: March 8, 2025
The complex and ever-changing terrain gives the Li family, as the landowners, a distinct advantage in familiarizing themselves with the geographical environment. This allows them to better exert their strength, leveraging this advantage to defeat their enemies—this is the true principle of warfare.
Not just Diwu Qingrou, even Chu Yang, Tan Tan, and the others fixated their gaze here.
However, Mo Tianji unexpectedly moved the battlefield a thousand miles forward!
As such, the geographical advantage evaporated, and the Li family, whose true strength was far inferior, lost their positional advantage, making their weaknesses even more pronounced.
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What is Mo Tianji intending to do?
Xiao Chenyu and the others returned, informing Diwu Qingrou about the interference caused by Wuzhuo City. This was news significant enough to disrupt the final outcome; naturally, it was imperative to inform the leader of the decisive battle at the first opportunity.
What puzzled everyone was that Diwu Qingrou seemed pleased instead of angry upon receiving the news.
Under such an absolute advantage, if they still had to resort to a decapitation strategy to assassinate Mo Tianji, disrupting morale and eliminating the last shred of confidence for the Li family, it would be outright bullying.
In battles, while everything is fair game, Diwu Qingrou could resort to a decapitation tactic against anyone.
Even when facing Chu Yang, the nine calamity sword master, as long as the need arose, he would not hesitate to execute such a tactic; first, destroy the command center, and then shatter the enemy's pillars of confidence.
But when it comes to Mo Tianji, regardless of the situation, he absolutely did not want to employ such methods.
Being despicable and shameless on the battlefield is acceptable, but the command center cannot be touched.
Because Mo Tianji, like Diwu Qingrou, fought with intelligence, their war was merely a contest between wise men, depending solely on their own cleverness and wisdom against each other. If Diwu Qingrou could not provide Mo Tianji with a relatively fair battlefield, simply using overwhelming force to crush and decisively kill a wise man would make Diwu Qingrou feel unjustly victorious, devoid of any sense of achievement.
He might even develop an inner demon, faintly feeling that he was afraid of losing to Mo Tianji, which led him to resort to such inappropriate pure violence!
Thus, he had always been opposed to such strategic plans; had it not been for the stubbornness of many patriarchs, Diwu Qingrou would have completely vetoed this proposal long ago. Now, with the intervention of Wuzhuo City, it perfectly allowed Mo Tianji to take advantage of the situation, which also aligned with Diwu Qingrou's desires!
Therefore, regarding this "unfavorable" variable, Diwu Qingrou felt no aversion at all; in fact, he was quite grateful to Wuzhuo City.
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“Why did Mo Tianji choose that location for the decisive battle?” Mo Lei Er pondered, filled with doubts. Earlier, the two had sneaked down to take a look when there was no movement. They had just returned.
Their ambush spot had become somewhat remote due to Mo Tianji’s change of plans. As the last and strongest heir of the Dark Demon, Mo Lei Er had considerable knowledge of battlefield tactics; top assassins are most attuned to geographical environments, yet she found Mo Tianji's choice baffling. She genuinely could not understand what considerations led Mo Tianji to abandon a favorable battle location.
Timing, terrain, and morale—these are the essential elements that determine victory in combat since ancient times. While timing is agreed upon by both sides and is indisputable, as for morale, setting aside overall combat effectiveness, both decision-makers from either side hold the highest authority, with orders obeyed without question. Therefore, in this aspect, both sides are generally evenly matched.
As for terrain, it was almost the only place where Mo Tianji and the Li family had some advantages, yet Mo Tianji, at the critical moment of the decisive battle, chose to go against the tide and abandon his own advantages, which was perplexing.