God Three Group Chat: Three Kingdoms

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With the help of flames, combined with stones falling from the sky and crossbow arrows hitting the walls, the walls were constantly impacted and destroyed, making a deafening sound and momentum.

It was like a series of heavy blows that constantly struck the hearts of the Kushan Empire's soldiers. It can be said that the effect brought about by this continuous attack was very effective.

Not to mention Qiu Lique, even Dong Xi, who was preparing to launch a feint attack, wanted to change his mind after seeing such a massive attack and the damage it caused to the city wall.

The reason why a feint is called a feint is not because of lack of strength, or because one does not want to suffer too many casualties, so one needs to resort to tricks, right?

But the ultimate goal is to capture the city.

However, in most cases, the troops carrying out the feint attack have basically nothing to do with climbing the city.

From the beginning to the end, it was just an auxiliary task, and the price paid for this auxiliary task was not low at all.

So after weighing the pros and cons, most people are unwilling to take on this kind of feint attack mission.

Even if a person with excellent abilities performs a feint attack mission, he can complete the task at a very low cost and obtain a terrifying difference, but that is only possible for a very small number of people.

Normal people cannot do this, nor can they reach this height. Most normal people pay a considerable price and end up becoming a foil.

Moreover, the reward for this foil depends entirely on the commander-in-chief of the army, rather than on some fair regulations.

So if you are unlucky and not only do you not gain any credit after winning a war, but you may even be at fault, that would be extremely unlucky.

Of course, that is the normal situation. For Dong Xian at this time, he is very likely to encounter another situation.

That is to change the feint attack into the main attack, completely defeat the opponent, and then take the credit for yourself.

After all, who can break the city? It’s the same as breaking the city.
As long as they can break the city and enter it, the merit of being the first to reach the city will belong to them.

As for the difficulty, Dong Xian was aware of it, but looking at such a fierce auxiliary long-range offensive, if he didn't give it a try, when would there be the next time?
As he acted as a feint, he had absolute first-mover advantage. As long as he could capture the city before others attacked, he might even be able to launch a full attack. That would be even better and there would be no problem.

With this idea in mind, Dong Xi quickly came out of the enemy's arrow range after the troops cleared the fire scene and made subsequent preparations before charging into the city, while waiting for the end of the long-range guided attack.

However, before the formal execution, Dong Xian still had to obey military orders.

In other words, the first attack and impact on the city is ultimately based on testing. After finding out the key information, or leading the enemy's army to climb the city, fierce firepower support will be given to greatly kill the enemy's manpower and reduce the cost of siege.

For a normal general defending a city, the cessation of the enemy's long-range attacks means the beginning of a serious attack. Naturally, he will redeploy his manpower on the city walls to carry out defense, hold the city walls and other tasks.

This means that these people are once again exposed to the range and coverage of this firepower strike.

Therefore, a short retreat by the attackers and re-launching long-range attacks can often have a good suppressive effect.

Of course, this effect is not absolute and depends entirely on the psychological and behavioral games between the attackers and defenders.

However, in actual situations, the besiegers who have long-range strike capabilities have the initiative and the right to speak on the battlefield.

At least the defenders rarely launched attacks when they were not in a superior position. Dong Xi naturally thought about the possibility of the other side attacking, but then he rejected this option.

Because if the other party does this, they will only die faster under the long-range attack of the fleet.

After all, the normal army's means of attack and defense basically have no power or opportunity to resist those large catapults and giant crossbows.

To put it even more exaggeratedly, once you are affected by the fate constellation, you can basically just wait for death, with no possibility of survival at all.

Therefore, Dong Xian openly adopted an attacking posture and basically did not do any defense, which could be regarded as a provocative behavior.

However, Qiu Li only took a glance and found the flaw in this behavior, and then suppressed his urge to attack.

The reason was simply because the other party's actions were too obvious, as if they were trying to lure him out.

This kind of behavior is not only difficult for Qiu Lique to accept, but also difficult to adapt to. After all, most of the tasks he performed before were basically offensive.

It cannot be said that there are no purely defensive missions, but they are very few.

Qiu Lique felt something was wrong the more he thought about it, so he finally hammered his hand hard and gave an order, "Notify the headquarters, assemble the troops, and prepare to attack outside the city..."

Even if the other party tempts him, he will accept it.

Only by regaining morale through a temporary victory can he have the morale foundation for continued resistance. Otherwise, it would probably only take a few days and nights for all the soldiers to run away without anyone attacking.

The city wall, although not very solid, was still quite good in Qiu Lique's eyes.

Soldiers standing on the city wall, or soldiers relying on the city wall for protection, can all feel the effect of the city wall. As for psychological self-comfort, sometimes it is something that cannot be obtained through conventional means.

However, standing on the city wall and being hit by the stones from the catapults would have the opposite effect. When the city wall could no longer provide psychological comfort and protection, the only way to boost morale was to use other methods.

When Dong Xi, wearing strong armor, holding a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, stood in front of the army, looking thoughtfully at the distant city wall, he led the army and slowly moved forward under the cover of long-range attacks from naval ships.

After entering the final impact distance, Dong Xi led his army and silently waited for the end of the long-range attack.

Because the city is not very high, the difficulty of attacking the city is not particularly high even without prior preparation.

Simply preparing some stairs three or four meters high will be enough for the siege mission.

Soldiers with strong physique and agile steps are able to climb up the city wall using ladders within five steps.

After climbing up the city wall, both sides began to fight in a test of courage, strength and will.

In this regard, Dong Xian is still very confident.

On the one hand, the soldiers around him were all his retainers, and if he did not retreat, there was no way others would retreat.

On the other hand, it is also because the other side is already a defeated general, how much morale and will can they have to support? (End of this chapter)