#(but ye want to write more on JY being a great strategist)

[shallliveoninsong]

Their troops are pinned down. Cornered and bottlenecked with no way out. They're almost out of firepower. No aerial support can get through the planet's shield so they're on their own.

Outnumbered and outgunned Jing Yuan thinks he's found a solution.

"You seriously want to take away so many soldiers from defending the line for this?" Jingliu asks.

"I believe this can work. And you're the key to it."

It's long, arduous work, but finally, the tunnel is finished. It doesn't matter that the majority of their troops are exhausted from excavating it by hand as to not alert their enemies. It must be several miles long. The knights on the line have managed to hold formation, albeit just barely with the scarce numbers. The stage is set.

It's just big enough for Jingliu to run through comfortably and no bigger. As dawn breaks and the fiercest of the fighting continues on the surface the plan is set in motion.

Jing Yuan and the rest keep the abominations occupied on the surface. Then, seemingly out of nowhere icy death emerges from behind, slaughtering most of the enemies troops before they could know what hit them. When they finally did catch on and there were too many swarming back at Jingliu she fell back, escaping back through the tunnel with the abominations a few leagues behind her. This was the second part of the plan. Soon as she was safely outside again the bombs planted in the tunnel were activated, collapsing the earth in on the last of the abominations.

Another victory for the Cloud Knights.