Resurrection Empire-Chapter 1035 - 403: Li Yang’s New Plan

Even the most formidable person, once swept into the torrent of history, often can only drift along, powerless to resist.

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Ren Zhong did not truly want to become Li Yang's "blade."

Up until now, he still possessed the means to reverse the situation in an instant.

That was to exploit Li Yang's trust in him as a "friend" and directly eliminate him.

It wasn't difficult, merely a flick of the finger.

Li Yang only had cognitive control abilities and completely lacked combat power.

But Ren Zhong did not want to do this, because merely killing Li Yang and interrupting the war in front of him was meaningless.

Since both sides held such trump cards, a war between Ying Hao and Hugh Augustus was inevitable, and those destined to die would still perish, just for different reasons, as it is the inevitability of history.

Alternatively, even if Ren Zhong exploded into action and turned the tables on Ying Hao and Hugh Augustus, completely seizing power, it still wouldn't have any meaning.

Because he saw the absolute combat power trump card of the frozen Elder.

With countless star warships, a multitude of Professionals surpassing Level Nine, and Ninth Rank Ruined Beasts, Ren Zhong knew there was no chance of victory, no matter how strong his forces were.

Then, the comprehensive purge before the great migration was still destined to occur.

Ren Zhong pondered for a long time and decided to grit his teeth and truly join the battlefield, becoming a part of the flesh-and-blood grinding machine and continue observing the direction of the situation.

He believed that there is always a way out, and as long as he could resurrect and start anew, there would eventually be a way to break the deadlock.

The current confusion was only because he had not yet acquired enough information.

In the following month, the fires of war ignited by the Mengdu Group and Source Star Military Industry spread across every settlement in the Source Star System.

Ren Zhong, nominally only a military advisor, was under the general command of Ying Hao himself.

But once the real battle commenced, Ren Zhong immediately realized Ying Hao's so-called general command was merely symbolic. Ying Hao had no military command talent, only utilizing swarm tactics, focused merely on continuously mobilizing forces and achieving overwhelming victories through sheer numbers.

As for ambushes, psychological warfare, logistical battles, terrain advantages, feigned attacks from the east to save the west... none of these tactics or strategies to achieve greater advantages with smaller costs, were known to Ying Hao.

In the first two days after the war began, Ying Hao ignored Ren Zhong's multiple suggestions, achieving several pyrrhic victories, killing nearly twenty million Armored Soldiers and over a billion Ruined Beasts at the cost of almost two million casualties.

At that time, Ying Hao was somewhat complacent, but after pulling aside the battle statistics of Ren Zhong's Starfire Army and examining them, he fell silent.

In just two days, the Starfire Army, with a total of only twenty million people, killed nearly three million warriors of the Mengdu Group and nearly thirty million Ruined Beasts, with only tens of thousands of their own casualties, achieving an astonishing kill ratio.

Subsequently, Ying Hao opened the detailed battle reports of the Starfire Army and began scrutinizing the details of each engagement.

Ying Hao could see from the structure of the reports the distinctive aspects of Ren Zhong's troops.

All Starfire Army actions on the First Continent were targeted, rarely forced into skirmishes.

Before most operations, the Starfire Army's Staff Department, led by Hanyu, conducted thorough investigations, preparing numerous contingency plans, considering various circumstances, and meticulously planning the marching routes, strike timings, strike directions, and weapon configurations of each unit and force, acting either as immovable as a mountain or as swift as lightning.

Even in sudden skirmishes or surprise attacks, the Starfire Army never panicked, responding quickly and methodically—reorganizing, assembling, counterattacking, retreating, ultimately achieving such results.

After reading these battle reports and comparing them with his own, Ying Hao pondered deeply. He had an epiphany.

From then on, Ren Zhong, the chief advisor, quietly ascended to become the true Commander, transforming into the Butcher harvesting lives.

After a month, Ying Hao's three hundred million strong army lost nearly two hundred million people, with the Mengdu Group's two hundred million Armored Soldiers losing nearly one hundred and fifty million, and the Ruined Beasts killed in tens of billions.

Yet this still did not encompass all the casualty statistics.

On Source Star, those displaced by the war, dying from cold, hunger, disease, or forced into the wild dying from Ruined Beasts and various accidents, or from internal conflict among humans, numbered in the billions.