Mythical Three Kingdoms

Upon hearing this, Sun Quan’s eyelids twitched wildly. “To endure for another month—how can you even say that with a straight face? Tell me, we’re facing an army of at least two hundred fifty thousand, counting the barbarians, with fifteen thousand bearing the Three Talents, and there are two Military Spirit Legions; I haven’t even counted the Dual Talent Legions yet.”

“Tell me, how on earth are we supposed to endure for a month with just our men?”

But upon thinking about this, Sun Quan paused, realizing that they had just fought a skirmish with the Romans half an hour ago.

The opponent then had over two hundred thousand strong, more Three Talents than now, more Military Spirit Legions, more Dual Talents, and we actually survived. Sun Quan couldn’t help but admire himself a bit, feeling a sense of innate pride for not only participating in such a large-scale battle but also surviving it.

Pride my foot! This time we held them off, but there’s no way we can hold off the next wave. The Romans previously seemed to be probing us; afterwards, the Romans got serious, turning all their Eagle Banner Legions into forces comparable to Dual Talents—this is basically a death march!

The Romans took quite a beating too; the main Trajan Legion lost over twenty-five hundred, and the Spanish Legion lost over thirty-three hundred, which left them half-disabled.

If not for Camillo and Tacitus fighting more ferociously, even bringing out their innate fierceness, those two legions would definitely have suffered unprecedented losses.

The Scythian Mounted Shooting Legion seized the chance to wipe out the Vanguard Death Squad, but then got half-crippled by Lyu Meng and Sun Quan, though in exchange, Sun Quan’s Eastern Wu Archers were nearly annihilated, leaving just under three hundred; the Scythian Mounted Shooting Legion was effectively crippled.

This was a fully organized Eagle Banner Legion, reduced by the Elite of Danyang and Eastern Wu Archers to less than two thousand; nearly four thousand were killed, with almost equal battle damage on both sides.

As for the First Auxiliary Legion, it managed to gain an upper hand on Li Jue’s side, suffering less than a thousand casualties, marking one of the rare times a legion managed to outmatch the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in battle damage, truly living up to the name of a Three Talents Legion.

Then the Fifth Lark was a winner too, having gained considerable achievements despite losing over two thousand, with yields comparable to the First Auxiliary Legion.

Following were the Macedonian Corps and Caracalla’s forces; both were severely damaged—the former by Cao Zhen’s forceful surprise attack and the latter by Juo Yi’s forces—truth be told, excluding the barbarians, the battle damage exchange ratio was nearly one-to-one, with Rome slightly benefiting.

In terms of sheer numbers, Rome had the advantage, as they weren’t going all out, but Han’s forces were managing to unleash strength beyond their limits. Truthfully, the quality and resolve of soldiers and generals on both sides were nearly identical.

Regarding progress, suffice to say, Camillo and Tacitus definitely grew in this encounter, comparable to any individual on the Han Army side. The Ninth Spanish Legion didn’t shatter its spirit from the fierce fight against Military Spirit Legions; instead, the daring act of engaging them fired up their fervor.

As for Camillo, instead of just improving, it seemed that the entire Trajan Legion was awakened from its glorious past by the impact from the Vanguard Camp and Feathered Forest Guards. Following heavy casualties, it seemed they were finding themselves again.

The fierce spirit of battling the heavens and the earth, striving to win even at the cost of life, reappeared within the Second Trajan Legion, drawing Alexander’s earnest attention.

If this spirit grows stronger by even five percent, Alexander might even believe the invincible Trajan demanding the Second Eagle Emblem in past glory has returned!

Overall, both the Han Army and the Romans suffered heavy losses in this battle, but the gains were indeed proportional to their sacrifices.

Meanwhile, as Sun Quan was frantic, unbeknownst to him, several armies were already on their way to rescue them—not initially intending to save them, but somehow fate had aligned plans.

Take, for instance, the plan Cheng Yu proposed to Cao Cao after the military reviews—’preemptive transfer of assets,’ suggesting seizing the moment while Liu Bei hadn’t unified territories, focusing westward beyond the Western Regions, basically preparing ahead before Liu Bei stretches over there.

For instance, claiming to establish military colonies, over a hundred thousand Tuntian Soldiers plus thousands of veterans were sent to the estimated area of Central Asia, a means to enhance prospects.

With Cheng Yu’s aggressive approach, he even considered relocating civilians too, but that was deemed too conspicuous, thus he refrained.

Nonetheless, the endeavor remained ongoing, with Cheng Yu discreetly wielding influence for over six months, transferring over thirty thousand core members of the Cao Clan westward in batches.

Back in the days when Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, Lu Zhi, and others defeated the soldiers of the Yellow Turbans, some of them were integrated into the West Garden, while others were disbanded on the spot. Those who are still alive have mostly ended up serving Cao Cao.

As for the other route, Li Yuan escorted by Wan Peng, who trained a batch of Xiliang Iron Cavalry with veteran soldiers familiar with bloodshed before Chen Xi returned.

The training method was the most ancient and brutal kind, although the death rate dropped to one-fifth, it was still very cruel. The advantage of this training method is that after entering the battlefield, they absolutely do not hesitate; blood is something they have long been accustomed to.

After Chen Xi returned, Li Youu originally wanted to find a way to hide these people to avoid trouble from Chen Xi, but later the northward migration incident occurred. Li Youu decisively used the newly trained Xiliang Iron Cavalry along with the Divine Iron Cavalry to clean up the aristocratic families, while seeking a background for this group of people.

After turning back and cutting down some aristocratic families, then Ji Xiang’s unexpected incident occurred.

Later, Li Yuan directly came to terms with Li Youu, considering that his daughter still had some capabilities and resources could be reused. Li Youu sent his daughter to the Western Regions to explain to Liu Bei and selected the five thousand most lethal among the Iron Cavalry to form a legion, led by Wan Peng to protect Li Yuan heading to the Western Regions.

Meanwhile, he also gave Wan Peng the task of recruiting in Liangzhou, especially to see if the previously disbanded tens of thousands of Qiang people could be recruited back. Although Qiang Cavalry are miscellaneous soldiers, the sheer number of Xiliang Iron Cavalry with Qiang Cavalry makes them overwhelmingly formidable.

For Li Youu, the current King of Qiang, Ma Chao, he doesn’t take him seriously at all.

After all, recruiting Qiang people with Xiliang Iron Cavalry is seen as giving them face. As for the King of Qiang, to be honest, he probably doesn’t have the deterrence of Iron Cavalry among the Qiang people.

In short, they didn’t recruit much from Liangzhou as previously Guo Si had already recruited many struggling Han men from Liangzhou, but many Qiang with their own provisions, horses, and weapons followed Wan Peng, feeling like they found their backbone from the past.

On the other side, Benito was grabbing Aristonos by the collar, furiously roaring.

“Are you guys out of your minds? You just landed without checking the situation, and my legion got screwed by you!” Benito sprayed Aristonos’ face with saliva, while being a Breakthrough Level expert, had no temper at all. Indeed, this time they did screw Benito.

“They pissed me off. Originally, I was following behind them, they couldn’t lock onto me, so they couldn’t do anything to me, but now I’m really pissed off, how could you dare to land directly?” Benito released Aristonos, looking puzzled.

“I don’t know, come to think of it, what we did was indeed against regulations.” Laetas said with a face full of confusion.

“Forget it, you guys go explain to His Majesty about this, are we still pursuing?” Benito said in bad mood, really feeling like he was being screwed by a bunch of moronic teammates.

“Let’s pursue. Even if we don’t attack, applying some pressure on the adversary is good. This time, how about you use the Fifth Lark Legion’s talent to sneak up?” Laetas suggested, while Benito coldly glanced at Laetas, “Let’s go, I’ll lead you up and check it out!”

After saying this, Benito incorporated this group into his legion, using Light and Shadow Operation to cover them up, then quickly pursued the Han Army. Soon, the Han Army reappeared in their line of sight, and at this moment Laetas started urging Benito to charge up quickly.

“Hmph, just watch! You’ll find out soon.” Benito sneered repeatedly, refusing to charge up. Then when Laetas intended to suggest Benito to charge again, Sheni Pei leading the Vanguard started cleaning the field, from under their feet continuously outward, cleaning out in a circular method.

“Did you see that? Last time Palmyro said he was ousted from the Parthian camp in such manner, this legion in open areas can counter us, other legions can’t use arrow showers to clean the field, yet this legion’s arrows are virtually infinite.” Benito fixedly watched in Sheni Pei’s direction with a face full of dilemma.

Due to this cleaning method, at present, the Fourteenth Legion dare not charge, because once in the opponent’s range, being cleaned out could honestly lead to one’s death.

“So there’s such a method.” Laetas also looked stunned. This approach was akin to the Han Dynasty raining arrows on the Fifth Lark Legion before, though the difference was that rain doesn’t kill when it touches the body, yet when Cloud Qi Arrows are dense as rain, they do kill.

“But fortunately, the lethality of these arrows isn’t terribly frightening, using two Defensive Talents can withstand it. The problem is if I get revealed, they’ll use those previous arrows, the power of which not only affects us, but you suppressed of Inner Qi, would be shot dead too.” Benito rubbed his forehead, expressing an endless face of helplessness.