CHAPTER 1862: CHAPTER 887: STRATEGIC MILITARY COUNCIL

"If Temel, like Twin Star Town, launches a charge, the Tukan people naturally wouldn’t mind turning it into ruins," Gaven patiently analyzed, "But once it’s determined to be a tough nut to crack, one that can’t be broken in a short time, they are very likely to bypass it directly, using the fastest speed to raid Tavelan.

Firstly, for the Tukan Army, the greatest threat is not us, but the soon-to-land Felen Allied Forces. As long as they block the Felen Allied Forces at sea, forcing them to change landing ports, they would have enough respite to turn back and deal with other cities.

Secondly, in the Lake Asen battle, the Tukan people’s supplies were forced to be discarded in large quantities, conservatively estimated, their food is only enough for them to last ten days. Once they fall into food shortage, they would collapse without a fight.

The food stock of other cities is just a drop in the bucket for the Tukan Army.

Only Tavelan, the capital of the Cesk Kingdom, has the capacity to completely resolve their crisis; it’s not only the wealth hub of the Cesk Kingdom but also the main depot for the Felen Allied Forces’ supplies.

A successful battle there could solve two major crises at once. If it were the Earth Spirit Lord, what choice would you make?"

After bringing the Totem Tree to the Laiserman Kingdom, Gaven’s previous life memories of this war serve only as a reference.

The series of battles with the Dark Witch were all chain reactions from bringing the Totem Tree, which didn’t occur in his past life’s memory.

The Tukan people only engaged in full-scale war with the Laiserman people while crossing the lake, where the Laiserman Witch used her powerful elemental magic to break the ice and slaughtered many Tukan people, driving them out of the Laiserman Kingdom.

That battle also hurt the Tukan people’s vitality, but it wasn’t fatal, with only one-fifth remaining at Lake Asen, though most of their supplies made it across.

The Laiserman Kingdom, similarly, suffered severe losses, losing countless Laiserman Berserkers and couldn’t continue in the follow-up battles.

In the following decades, they remained in post-war complications.

Not only did the Dark Witch emerge to seize power, but the Kingdom of Ser also took advantage of their weakness, continuously attacking them until the Arcane Catastrophe arrived, causing a devastating blow to the Red Robe Mage Kingdom, and only then did both sides cease fire for a long time.

Due to Gaven, everything has been veering wildly away from historical direction.

In the Lake Asen battle, their success was far greater than historically, significantly reducing casualties of the Laiserman Kingdom’s Berserker Legion to fifty thousand, while the Tukan people’s casualties reached a terrifying one-third, intercepting eighty percent of their supplies.

If it were a regular army, such terrifying losses would have caused a complete collapse, but Khan Yamen’s terrifying pressure kept them together, and along with entering a new unfamiliar environment, forced them to huddle together.

Not all developments are favorable to Gaven and them.

The Dark Witch’s intervention caused Lake Asen to be frozen nearly half a month earlier, while King Yasan’s Felen Allied Forces’ main force were still drifting at sea, not yet entirely ashore.

This pushed the entire war into the unknown.

Changes in the Tukan’s own situation made the tactics they employed vastly different from the previous life.

The Tukan people of the previous life, although they suffered losses at Lake Asen, still arrogantly believed that it was the Laiserman’s geographic advantage causing the fatal blow. They still considered themselves an unstoppable invincible force, and deemed the Felen Allied Forces as a disorganized mob incapable of threatening them.

So, after crossing Lake Asen, they did not fully utilize their speed advantage to attack Cesk, but instead continued to raid, plundering wealth and becoming bloated, slowing down considerably, taking ten days to reach Feshant.

The Felen army had by then constructed copper wall-like defenses awaiting them, drawing both sides into prolonged offense-defense battles, eventually wearing down the eagle from the plains.

During a serious slave revolt among the Tukan people, King Yasan led the Felen Allied Forces decisively in a counterattack, the old dragon taking the opportunity to slay Khan Yamen, causing the Tukan army to scatter, with less than a tenth returning to the Endless Wilderness.

This life is different.

Due to severe losses at Lake Asen, they inevitably regard the soon-to-arrive Felen Allied Forces with high importance and actively seek food supply to sustain themselves.

Since King Yasan had reached the Eastern Desolation early, if he could slay Khan Yamen in the past life, why not take the initiative this time?

It can only be said that those who think this underestimate Khan Yamen now, and underestimate the belief provided by tens of thousands of powerful soldiers from Felen, enhancing combat effectiveness for individuals.

While Felen Continent can’t claim to have power-houses everywhere, there are dozens comparable to Haslan Witches, but have any shown themselves? Where are those divine beings? Have they all disappeared?

On one hand, indeed, the Laiserman Witch prohibited the faith of All Gods, giving the divine no reason to intervene.

On another hand, All Gods fear that their divine incarnations might accidentally be slaughtered by Khan Yamen.

Losing a divine incarnation is minor; causing a major faith disruption on Felen Continent is substantial—ordinary people can’t differentiate between All Gods’ true forms and divine incarnations.