God Three Group Chat: Three Kingdoms

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For Guan Yu, the effectiveness of such long-range attacks and mopping-ups, regardless of cost, increased almost simultaneously.

If the goal was merely to achieve victory in a localized war, Guan Yu only needed to release the pressure and threat from the cavalry on both flanks. The besieged Kushan soldiers would immediately collapse, and by pursuing the collapsing Kushan soldiers, he could win this localized war.

However, doing so would not be a good thing for Guan Yu.

It wasn't about the merit gained from the kills, but rather the resistance that these soldiers could form after their retreat, which would only make the subsequent war more difficult.

To turn ordinary civilians into soldiers, there is at least a month of training. Even with such a short training period, the soldiers trained can only understand commands.

Soldiers like those before us, who can obey orders, follow military commands, and fight head-on, can already be considered the foundation of the army.

If we could annihilate the enemy here, even the vast and powerful Kushan Empire would not be able to make up for it in a short time.

After resisting for an hour or two, Gars, who was still commanding the army, gradually understood Guan Yu's thoughts.

Seeing the changes in the battle lines, seeing the battle lines being constantly eroded, although not infiltrated from multiple sides or divided on a large scale, but constantly being cut off on a small scale, Gars realized that something was wrong.

Especially when the troops formed a dense defensive line and suffered a major attack in a short period of time, even losing the corresponding regional command nodes, the Han army did not take this opportunity to forcibly defeat the Kushan soldiers in this area. Instead, it gave him the opportunity to reorganize the command line, which seemed abnormal.

Once or twice is fine, as Gals is quite confident in his abilities. With advance prediction and make-up, it's not impossible for him to save the day before the enemy makes a move.

However, after it happened many times, Garth stopped having that idea.

It was after this happened many times that Garth developed a slight fear of Guan Yu, the commander of the Han army.

This kind of undisguised fighting, with the intention of annihilation, was something Gals had never encountered before.

Therefore, thinking about this, Garth couldn't contain his anger.

Even a clay figure has some temper, let alone a commander like him.

Being looked down upon and despised like this, and fighting with the intention of annihilating him, Garth naturally did his best.

Since he was unwilling to destroy his command nodes and his command capabilities, he would do his utmost to use such command power to direct the army and deliver a ruthless blow to the Han army when necessary.

But there was a condition: Garth couldn't help but look up at the sky.

The Han army's long-range strikes were not continuous, but rather based on the redeployment of its own troops, and only when a dense defensive line was about to be completed would a fatal blow be launched.

To prepare for this attack pattern, he needs to issue the correct instructions before his own infantry are forcibly surrounded into a dense defensive line.

"Retreat means certain death, only advancing offers a chance of survival!" Realizing this, Gars immediately abandoned the idea of ​​ordering his army to continue stalling for time. Even if every minute of delay increased the chances of survival, the damage and casualties suffered by his own legions would be much greater.

Conversely, ordering soldiers to launch counter-attacks and infiltration attacks, weaving the enemy and friendly forces together, could avoid this deadly long-range strike.

Even with the Peacock Legion as a shining example, Garth never imagined that ranged attacks could have such a fatal impact on a large legion.

After all, no matter how ferocious the Peacock Legion is, it is ultimately aimed at individual legions; in large-scale battles, at most it can destroy important command systems and nodes, disrupt the command structure, and thus help its own side achieve victory in large-scale battles.

The Han army's long-range strikes were relatively straightforward: they would attack wherever there were many people or wherever the population was dense.

They don't care about command nodes or regional resistance; they only care about whether they can inflict effective casualties.

With nearly a third of his troops lost, and before the army could re-establish a dense defensive line, Gals used the remaining command nodes to directly direct his own troops in a counter-offensive. Under the encirclement of layers of fortifications, he attempted to force a gap in the defenses and then insert his own troops to forcibly contain the Han army's long-range strike capabilities.

In order to achieve this goal, Gals no longer cared about casualties.

Only through such seemingly suicidal behavior can one leave a glimmer of hope for one's own army, even if that hope only delays the time of death, but that is enough.

Without the long-range lethality of regional cleansing, the Han army would not be able to kill its own soldiers as quickly as it does now.

At this moment, it can be said that Gars had a very clear understanding of the armor and other protective gear worn by his soldiers.

The difference in armor between the two sides led to completely different behaviors of their soldiers when dealing with ranged attacks.

The long-range countermeasures and suppression measures prepared in advance failed to achieve effective suppression when countered later. Instead, the enemy was forced to kill the enemy despite the suppression effect. This highlights the importance of military equipment for defense.

The only area where the two sides are truly evenly matched is probably arrows, at least in terms of regular arrows.

As for the arrows that split in the sky, Garth didn't think they were anything special.

The long spears that fall from time to time, and the arrows that are strong enough to pierce through a person and shield together and pin them to the ground, further illustrate the special nature of their firing weapons.

"The reaction speed is slower than I expected. They only launched a counter-charge at this time. It seems that the opponent is indeed not Rahul." Guan Yu immediately made the corresponding deduction based on the reaction of the Kushan soldiers.

Although there was corresponding intelligence information before the battle, during wartime, intelligence itself is a mixture of truth and falsehood, and there is no absolutely true intelligence.

Information obtained directly from the battlefield is often more reliable.

"Enemy counter-charge! All troops, listen to my command! Resist fire!" Sun Guan, who was on the front line, saw the Kushan soldiers who dared to charge at his own troops and did not hesitate to issue the corresponding combat order.

The tower shields, which had been advancing in an orderly fashion, suddenly stopped and stood still. Then, they tilted backward, lowering their defensive height and leaving space at the top. (End of Chapter)