Boiling Beast Bloodline-Chapter 2187 - 673: Two Against One [Final - of Part II]_2

Seeing this provocative statement in person, General Sharlonbas, Supreme Commander of the Sea Clan’s garrison corps, couldn’t help but feel a mix of emotions. He’s fought for half his life, yet it’s the first time he’s seen an enemy stand from his perspective and offer several constructive suggestions, with no threats throughout the full text, yet each word carries a unique chill.

"What kind of person is the commander of this Flying Camel Army?" With the natural intuition of a seasoned soldier, General Sharlonbas keenly realized the difficulty and extraordinariness of his opponent.

Given the fiery trend of the rear occupied areas, the two Sea Emperors, while recruiting Sea Dragons and Prawnian Shrimpmen, issued decrees lambasting General Sharlonbas in Eastern Aegean for incompetence and ordered him to immediately resolve this light cavalry behind enemy lines and stabilize the situation behind the main force.

As the Supreme Commander of the Sea Clan corps stationed in Eastern Aegean, General Sharlonbas is not a fatuous mediocre person. On the contrary, he is an outstanding military strategist known as the "Intelligent General" in Ares, very wise and clear-minded.

General Sharlonbas understands the overwhelming anger of the two Sea Emperors. The unfavorable progress of the battle caused the Sea Clan’s pre-war declaration of "Aegean’s extinction in three months" to become an international joke. With the strength of two major maritime powers, if it takes years of tug-of-war to settle the land races the Sea Clan has always despised, it’s a shame that can’t be washed away even with all the water of Seia! But no matter how shameful, General Sharlonbas understands a helpless fact—the Sea Clan military away from the ocean is a crippled force with many hidden dangers, flaws in regional adaptability that cannot be remedied!

The Sea Clan lacks truly effective land cavalry units, and first and foremost cannot compete with the Flying Camel Army in terms of mobility. Reinforcing allied forces, pursuing and attacking, setting ambushes and encirclements, without mobility, it’s all nonsense!

The quality of Sea Clan’s armaments is very average, whereas the Flying Camel Army has extremely sharp top-level weapons. When Sea Clan warriors clash with them, they are often split in two along with their weapons!

Even more troubling is that the entire million Sea Clan garrison currently needs to defend a vast area of up to 1.8 million square kilometers. Such a broad territory greatly disperses General Sharlonbas’s forces and directly results in relatively sparse Sea Clan garrison forces facing the Flying Camel Army whenever they attack a town.

The ordinary citizens living in this vast territory are not benevolent people; they’re two million humans with intense hostility toward the Sea Clan!

This dangerously volcanic social structure and geographical environment made General Sharlonbas strongly suggest to the Supreme Command at the Base Camp upon taking office that only by quickly killing all humans in the occupied territory and filling the void with massive ocean migrants can the rear truly be stabilized—a perspective coincidentally shared with Rommel.

But the progress at the front has always been unfavorable, and the cowardly staff of the Supreme Command feared provoking the two million humans in the occupied territories to fight to the death, forcibly shelving General Sharlonbas’s wise proposal for the time being without consideration.

Faced with a multitude of tricky issues at hand, General Sharlonbas initially wanted to persuade the two Sea Emperors to draw another million reserves from the sea to bolster the rear occupied areas, stepping forward methodically with superior forces, stabilizing the worsening situation, gradually squeezing the Flying Camel Army’s activity space until they are completely wiped out.

But this conservative tactic of boiling a frog in warm water clearly didn’t please the two Sea Emperors. The Sea Clan’s current logistic line is already under great pressure; deploying another million troops is not difficult, but the salt issue is—oddly enough, in this unprecedented war involving over ten million troops, the mighty Sea Clan army lacks neither food nor clothing, only salt!

But facts are facts, even a hero forged of iron would lose their footing without salt after three days. Currently, the salt wells, salt mines of Western Kalimdo Great Plains, and the salt marsh forests in Florendo of Donau Wasteland, have not been claimed by the Sea Clan army. This strategic oversight is now magnified, directly leaving the massive army in the seabed world waiting in place.

An ancient Goblin craftsman’s saying fits the Sea Clan’s current awkward plight perfectly—"even the largest, most intricate gear mechanism can jam with an invading screw."

General Sharlonbas is no deity; he can’t solve the most troublesome salt issue at hand, alleviating the Sea Emperors’ concerns, so he can only hope for more aid for the garrison corps, considering it’s extremely taxing to guard the vast 1.8 million square kilometers of land and suppress the emerging restoration uprisings with a mere million infantry.

His request was met with a response; after careful consideration, the two Sea Emperors allocated fifty thousand warriors and two thousand Storm Sorcerers from the main force to assist him in quickly annihilating the Flying Camel Army.

With sufficient resources at hand, General Sharlonbas decisively abandoned many human cities and assembled a huge army group, intending to engage the Flying Camel Army decisively with superior forces and eradicate this most influential rebel force in Eastern Aegean, extinguishing the waves of restoration sprouting everywhere.