The siege outside the city had weakened slightly, signaling that the Sun Sect's forces were not as numerous as he had previously thought. What should have been an overwhelming siege had now entered a wasteful phase that was costing lives.
The entire Fan Hede was like a meat grinder, with both Fan Hede soldiers and members of the Sun Sect pouring their lives into it, seeing who would be wiped out first. Chen Ke believed there was a high chance that the Sun Sect would break first.
After all, the worst fear for those attacking a city is the inability to achieve a swift and decisive victory; there's even a saying in middle school Chinese textbooks, "With the first drumbeat comes vigor, with the second a decline, and with the third exhaustion." The same principle applied to sieges.
Initially, when the city walls fell, the morale of the Sun Sect's soldiers would be greatly boosted, and their killing intent would be at its strongest, pushing into the city and forgetting life and death.
