God Three Group Chat: Three Kingdoms

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"It's already night, and the Kushan army hasn't given up the siege. It seems they're even more anxious than we imagined." Gazing at the scene outside the fortress, Yu Yao frowned. Seeing this completely unexpected situation, the pressure on her heart increased.

"Losing the fortress means losing its defenses. Only by taking the fortress as quickly as possible can we ensure the smooth flow of our army's rear. Otherwise, how can the enemy's front-line troops maintain their fighting capacity if they have no food?" Zhao Kuang raised an eyebrow, directly explaining the importance of the current location to the Kushan army.

"Even so, it shouldn't be so urgent as to require a night siege. At night, how many of the Kushan army's physical abilities would be able to ignore the obstruction of night vision?" Through the daytime battle, Yuyao also understood the approximate strength of these Kushan troops and their physical abilities.

Is this level of physical fitness really enough to sustain a fight at night?
"When soldiers come, we'll block them; when water comes, we'll dam it. Since the enemy dares to attack the city, why not just drive them away? No matter how much we consider, we'll still have to fight in the end. Anyway, we don't need to hold out for too long..." Zhao Kuang, who had intended to continue thinking along this line of thought, gave up the idea after considering the outcome and possibilities, and embraced his weapon again.

“That’s not a problem, we just need to be careful to guard against possible harassment attacks…” Yu Yao, who still didn’t quite believe that the other side would launch a full-scale attack at night, suddenly thought of another possibility, a way of fighting that could make use of a large number of soldiers and generals.

That is to use continuous attrition warfare to draw their small number of troops into a war of attrition.

If they could hold out until daytime, the Kushans would be able to rest and recuperate, and their elite troops would be ready to be deployed to the battlefield. How could their troops, who had been fighting for a day and a night, possibly withstand such a formidable force of elite troops?
Even if they could hold them off, the Kushans could have easily prolonged the conflict, or even decided when to deploy their elite forces.

If they did not want their city to fall, they had to rely on the city walls to defend themselves and wait for reinforcements, making full use of the terrain advantages.

"A war of attrition?" Hearing this prediction, Zhao Kuang thought for a moment and felt that such a possibility still existed. Then he turned to look at Yu Yao and said calmly, "In that case, Captain Yu will take the soldiers to rest, and I will lead the soldiers to defend at night to ensure that there are troops to defend against the enemy's attack the next day."

“Okay!” Hearing Zhao Kuang say this, Yu Yao did not object and nodded in tacit agreement, accepting the suggestion.

Then Yuyao led his soldiers down from the city wall and retreated to the second line behind the city wall, preparing to rest and be ready to be relieved at any time.

"You scum, let me see how long you can hold out!" After confirming that Yu Yao had left, Zhao Kuang's eyes flashed with excitement as he looked at the approaching Kushan army as if he were looking at a bunch of prey.

However, when the Kushan army was less than a hundred paces from the city wall, they did not charge with siege weapons as they had during the day, but instead advanced slowly and in a very orderly manner.

Only a few small groups broke away from the main force and launched an attack at a faster pace.

"Is it because they can't see at night that they shortened the charging distance?" Zhao Kuang was momentarily stunned by the Kushans' bizarre tactics. He followed standard defensive tactics, instructing his soldiers to fire arrows to halt the enemy's advance and inflict as many wounds as possible.

It wasn't until the small detachment of troops revealed the battering rams hidden by shields that Zhao Kuang realized something was wrong.

The battering ram, originally used to smash the city gates, no longer has rolling wheels; only the battering hammer itself remains.

Under normal circumstances, even if the enemy possessed a complete battering ram, there would be nothing to fear, as there are well-established defensive methods and techniques. Furthermore, the impact force of a ram without even a basic support structure is far less than that of a fixed battering ram. However, seeing these Kushan soldiers wielding battering rams but not charging towards the city gate, Zhao Kuang, after a brief moment of stunned silence, immediately realized something was amiss.

On the battlefield, you can't treat the enemy like a fool.

The enemy's actions are generally purposeful, and such actions that deviate from normal combat behavior must also have corresponding planned outcomes.

"These locations are on the city wall, and the enemy is ramming into the city wall itself?" Following the route of the Kushan soldiers' charge, Zhao Kuang's expression changed drastically. He roared, "Soldiers not on the city wall along the attack route, attack the enemy's battering ram units at top speed! Soldiers on the attack route, retreat to the flanks immediately..."

Regardless of whether the situation was as he had imagined, in order to preserve his own forces, Zhao Kuang quickly made the safest plan and choice.

The 1000-strong squad, which was originally under Zhao Kuang's command, was no longer at full strength.

Despite traversing continuous mountain peaks and ranges, and even with aerial resupply and directional corrections, the entire thousand-man team suffered several non-combat casualties.

In addition to the continuous defense during the day, and the ballistae brought out by the Kushans, several soldiers were also lost.

It can be said that this is the first time in a long time that Zhao Kuang's thousand-man squad has suffered such heavy casualties. Even if it were a thousand-man squad under Guan Yu's army, it might not be worth mentioning, but in the princess's guard, this is a very heavy result.

After Zhao Kuang issued the order, thanks to their exceptional skills and speed in transmitting information, the princess guards on the city wall managed to move away from the battering ram's attack route in just a few minutes.

However, even with such a rapid retreat, they could not stop the Kushan soldiers from wielding their hammers.

At a certain point, the Kushan soldiers who used battering rams to further attack the city walls did not have to pound on them for very long before they felt the walls shaking and something was wrong.

"Damn it! These damned bastards!" Looking at the city wall that collapsed with a crash, and then at the Kushan siege ram soldiers who were crushed to death under the collapsed wall, Zhao Kuang's eyes were filled with heartache.

They originally thought they would be given more time, but the Kushans' arrangements left them with no time to evacuate.

The collapsed city wall buried the Kushan soldiers along with it.

The Han Empire soldiers who were originally on the city wall also suffered varying degrees of casualties as the city wall rapidly collapsed.

Seeing the Kushan soldiers who had laid down all their siege weapons and were roaring as they launched their attack, Zhao Kuang didn't have time to count how many comrades had died in this round of wall collapse. Instead, he roared and relayed the order, "Assemble!" (End of Chapter)