God Three Group Chat: Three Kingdoms

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If there's a chance to achieve the tactical objective, Xu Huang wouldn't mind giving it a try.

While strategic goals and ideas are beyond his control, he excels at tactics.

Anticipating the most likely scenarios and making targeted arrangements, while also having sufficient contingency plans, is what he should do before the army goes into battle.

As commanders of large armies, they have virtually no advantage over others in battlefield judgment and actual command.

However, for a large-scale army commander, not everything is focused on the battlefield. There are also many areas that can be planned before and after the war begins.

Advance planning and deployment can significantly reduce the amount of preparation and response needed during the battlefield.

"Wen Chang, you'll be in charge of adjusting the movement speed of both sides from now on. Increase the enemy's wind resistance to reduce their movement speed, while ensuring the movement speed of Ma Chao's army. Then we'll continue our retreat north!" Xu Huang looked at Wei Yan beside him and then gave the order.

Wei Yan nodded on the spot, activated the copied legion talent, and took over the battlefield after Xu Huang's legion talent was removed.

Following behind a miraculous legion, the pressure was immense. However, as people of the Han Empire who had expanded their territory, their fighting will and mentality were certainly up to par. There was no question of abandoning their comrades; such a thing hadn't happened in the Han Dynasty for over a century.

If things really go wrong, we must stop them, even at the cost of heavy losses.

Wei Yan touched the candy hidden in his sleeve, thought for a moment, but still didn't eat it immediately. Instead, he continued to maintain the current situation.

If Ma Chao really can't escape, then it's truly time to fight to the death.

After all, the legion behind him was the Miracle Legion; even Wei Yan himself didn't believe that they didn't have any explosive methods.

Maintaining a certain speed while chasing them is probably a way of waiting for them to split up their forces.

If they were to split up and flee, probably none of them would escape. On the contrary, if they were to unite together, they would have a certain military deterrent, which would make it possible for everyone to retreat successfully.

In fact, Wei Yan was right. For Vincenzo, the best outcome was for the enemy to split up and flee. He didn't care whether anyone would escape because he never had any hope or idea of ​​annihilating the enemy.

If any normal person sees that the enemy has five cavalry units while they only have one, who would fight with the idea of ​​annihilating the enemy?

Even with overwhelming strength, Vincenzo knew the reality of the situation.

Defeating your opponent is not difficult, but completely eliminating them is very difficult.

After all, if the five cavalry units were to fight to the death, Vincenzo would estimate that his own army would suffer heavy losses, if not annihilation.

So after a little consideration, the best approach is to drive the enemy out, ideally forcing them to split their forces and retreat, and then eliminate one of their legions. This would result in a perfect outcome with minimal casualties and costs.

That way, we can give an explanation to both our superiors and others. And the best target among these five legions is naturally the Ma Chao legion, which seems to have the strongest combat power but the slowest movement speed.

With their formidable strength and the impressive record of defeating the Seventh Eagle Banner Legion, eliminating the enemy would certainly demonstrate their dedication. As for whether they actually gave their all, that's a matter of opinion.

Most importantly, their slowest movement speed gives them the ability and opportunity to wipe out the entire enemy force.

Therefore, despite having explosive power, Vincenzo maintained a fairly balanced speed while chasing, rather than catching up immediately.

"Run, run, run with all your might! I want to see how long you can keep up. You guys aren't even part of the Military Soul Legion, heh heh..." It can be said that in his current state, Vincenzo was not in a hurry after discovering that the Han Empire and the Parthian army had not split up their forces. Instead, he pursued them with great patience.

Every legion has stamina, and engaging in any activity will consume stamina. Furthermore, the stamina one possesses will severely affect combat power. If one runs out of stamina, then combat power is essentially nonexistent. Among all types of legions, the most unique legion is the Military Soul Legion.

One characteristic of the Military Soul Legion is that it possesses extremely powerful basic effects, which could even be considered elite effects compared to ordinary legions.

The ability to resist death grants soldiers the capacity to cope with it; unlimited stamina grants soldiers sustained combat capability; and the bestowal and spread of military spirit can quickly replenish soldiers and enhance their combat effectiveness.

It can be said that these effects, which every soldier embodies, are precisely the guarantee that they become the cornerstone of the nation.

Therefore, for Vincenzo, as long as the opponent is not the Military Soul Legion, or is about to be promoted to the Military Soul Legion, then in this situation of all-out escape, the physical exhaustion will be very serious. At most, he can go up and clean up the mess in a day.

Although the Tenth Legion is not a Legion of Military Souls and therefore does not have unlimited stamina, as a Miracle Legion, the Tenth Legion has a very long stamina bar and a fast recovery speed, so that during regular marches, it is not much different from having unlimited stamina. Therefore, Vincenzo naturally does not care about this stamina consumption.

In this continuous pursuit, the most important factor was their physical strength. The Tenth Legion held an absolute advantage, and the only concern was the safety of the pursuit route.

After all, if they were to encounter enemy forces on the road, even if the Tenth Legion was strong enough, there was still a possibility of being annihilated.

If the Roman and Han Empire armies in front of him were twice as numerous, Vincenzo estimated that the probability of both sides perishing together would be quite high. Although he could run away, if the number of the enemy were five times greater, he probably wouldn't even have the chance to run away.

However, Vincenzo didn't care about this and continued to pursue.

The reason is quite simple: this area is west of the Euphrates River, and if you keep going north, you will enter the Syrian province.

Leaving aside the Roman army that had already crossed the river and begun its attack on Parthia, which was also Roman territory, and considering that Parthia and the Han Empire were united, it was questionable whether they could even muster so many elite troops.

If the enemy were truly in the Roman province of Syria and could muster an elite army of over 200,000, Vincenzo would feel that his death and the annihilation of his entire legion would be entirely justified.

After all, if that's all the opponent can do, Rome is doomed...

It could be said that it was precisely this impossibility that was why Vincenzo kept pursuing the Han Empire and the Parthian army.

Why let a victory that's destined to be in our hands, a fruit that's destined to be tasted, slip away? (End of Chapter)