Mythical Three Kingdoms

Due to the same Visualization training method, although the Kushan soldiers indeed Visualized various Gods and Buddhas, essentially, as the Sage who created Belief Blessing said back then, all Buddhas can be regarded as Tathagata in essence.

This means that there is a commonality in the Visualizations of all Kushan soldiers. Although this commonality cannot achieve Belief Blessing or the level of coordinated cooperation, once Belief Blessing is activated, this commonality allows these ordinary soldiers to have extra tacit understanding.

For a legion, tacit understanding, to a certain extent, might be more important than the combat power of a single soldier. After all, an army is a place where combat power is generated through coordination.

This also means that the training method based on Visualization is much simpler to form a legion compared to the Han Army’s constant drilling and grinding. In other words, relying on Belief Blessing, the Kushan soldiers can easily form a legion through the tacit understanding they generate themselves.

Even relying on this extra tacit understanding, Kushan soldiers can meet the basic requirements of forming a legion without much additional training. Therefore, for Kushan, improving individual combat power is more effective than constantly strengthening organizational dispatch.

This also means that if the Kushan legions lose their backbone middle level and then lose Belief Blessing, no matter how good their physical quality is, they are just an untrained new army in the Han Empire. The core requirement for soldiers in the Han Empire is cooperation, even for the Military Spirit Legion, which still leans towards cooperation rather than individual combat power.

And now, the Kushan Rear Army is in a situation where the middle level officers and the backbone of the legion had been fully withdrawn during the previous charge. Although the Kushan Rear Army wants to resist, their coordination skills have already collapsed. In the eyes of the Han Army, they are just a group of scattered troops.

Naturally, as soon as both sides made contact, it was like when Kushan cut into the Han Army’s Central Army with fake soldiers, and even worse, Kushan couldn’t even advance and retreat together, quickly causing chaos in the rear when tangled with the five Han divisions, leading many soldiers to directly flee.

When Zhang Ren discovered this situation, he was somewhat worried whether the Kushan Rear Army was used as bait just like their Central Army’s setup.

However, just like how the main Kushan force was unable to return after entering the Han Central Army, the main Han force, having entered the Kushan Rear Army, couldn’t return either because even if they turned back, it would be difficult to re-form an encirclement in the rear in a short time.

Therefore, Zhang Ren directly discarded all ominous thoughts and launched a ferocious assault on the Kushan Rear Army with fearless momentum. The over-twenty-thousand strong Kushan Rear Army fled under the fierce attack of Zhang Ren and others with less than ten thousand troops.

Although Zhang Ren previously intentionally left an easy escape route for the Kushan Rear Army, much like the so-called siege wars that always leave one side open to give the opponent a way out and speed their retreat, based on the previous performance of Kushan, Zhang Ren assumed that escape route would be of little significance. However, it turned out to be unexpectedly effective.

After defeating the Kushan Rear Army, Zhang Ren didn’t spend much time thinking about the collapse of the Kushan Rear Army. To him, it held no significance; the most important task for him now was to charge into the Kushan Central Army and release Wutugu.

Thus, after collapsing the entire Kushan Rear Army, Zhang Ren immediately merged with the main forces of Meng Huo, E Huan, King Mulu, Deng Xian, and Wu Lan, launching a full-scale attack on the Kushan Central Army. Right in front of Zhang Ren and others were the elite main forces of Sharuk, Monnari, and Albaz.

Unlike the Rear Army, which collapsed almost at the first touch, the main forces of Sharuk, Monnari, and Albaz had Belief Blessing and, at the time of withdrawing the elite with Qi Refining to Gang, the Central Army and the Vanguard’s main forces were not directly withdrawn but retained to act at the opportune moment.

Therefore, when Zhang Ren and others led their troops out, they immediately encountered stiff resistance from Albaz’s main forces. As he had already lost all combat power after having most ribs crushed by Wutugu’s Out-of-Body attack, he decisively gave up further combat after dragging away the remaining conscious troops, turning instead to command on behalf of Sharuk and Monnari.

It’s undeniable that while Wutugu may lack brains, his frenzied attacks firmly restrained Sharuk and Monnari, preventing them from directing their troops. Additionally, the near Military Spirit Legion-level defensive power of the Rattan Armored Soldiers made it exceedingly difficult for Kushan soldiers to inflict fatal injuries on them.

Fortunately, with Albaz taking over command, and relying on a large number of Armor-Piercing Armor-wearing, Great Shield-holding shield-armored soldiers, as well as the Defensive Enhancement from Belief Blessing to Acala, managed to desperately hold against the Rattan Armored Soldiers, transforming the battle into a clash of extraordinary defensive power, becoming a test of blocking and parrying.

As a result, after relying on Great Shields to resist the Rattan Armored Soldiers, the main forces of Albaz, along with the Rattan Armored Soldiers’ main forces, did not exceed a hundred in terms of enemy casualties and losses, turning the combat techniques into the clash of two shield walls.

Though the Kushan Great Shields were too heavy and unsuitable for sustained battle, given that as many as three Kushan legions besieged the Rattan Armored Soldiers, through rotation, the Kushan main forces managed to steadily hold the Rattan Armored Soldiers. Simply put, both sides were entirely stuck in a mode of physical strength consumption. As for the battle, the armors and Great Shields of both sides made it difficult to break through each other’s defense.