Chapter 1950: Retreat West
Benito was indeed a very decisive figure, especially after returning to the eastern provinces of Rome to join Dilina, and after taking a whole staff group, or a whole civilian group, Benito no longer made any temptations, but directly abandoned a large amount of land, constantly blocked, constantly harassed, and exchanged space for time
Retreating from Dura Europos all the way to Antioch, there was basically no large-scale battle with the Sabbatarians along the way, and basically used harassment to slow down the advance of the Sabbatarians, but after all, the Sabbatarians were a large number of soldiers, and it was difficult for Benito to hold back the attacking Sabbatarians all the way. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After all, even if there are Roman citizens recruited by Dilina, but after all, they have not undergone integrated training, even if they have experience, it is difficult to meet the combat effectiveness standard, and Benito is not stupid, so naturally he will not fight hard with the resting people.
In the same way, after discovering the situation of the Romans, the Sabbatians had no choice but to choose the division of troops in a hurry, forcing Benito to be unable to stop it, so he could only lead his army to retreat.
However, at present, after Benito formed a staff committee to deal with the imperial war professionally, he cooperated with him to give up decisively, even if it was Zhuge Liang, it was difficult for figures like Sima Yi to take any big advantage from the other party.
After all, a sober-minded, resolute temperament, and experienced veteran, after matching with the same wisdom, even if the Han army and Anxi's side far surpass each other in terms of hard power, it is difficult to make a big breakthrough under the opponent's space for time.
Even later, whether it was the staff group on the rest side or Zhuge Liang and others, they all proposed to divide the troops into three ways, and carry out group rounding and interspersing, in order to cut off the opponent's back road first when the opponent's space was exchanged for time.
It's a pity that after the staff committee was launched, the Romans had a certain advantage in the strategic command of the general situation, combined with their mastery of the terrain.
When the Romans discovered the opportunity to rest in peace, they immediately countered.
At first, he acted like he didn't know anything about it, and continued to play a game of space for time with Fars in the middle.
When the left flank of the rest of the siege was still a few days away, the Romans attacked the rest of the left flank first, and then, without waiting for the other two sides to react, rushed out of the encirclement between the two reinforcements to the east, and finally evacuated from the north bypassing the right flank.
After this happen, the offensive of the Sabbatarians became noticeably more cautious, and the Romans were given more time to recuperate.
Shortly after this incident, Vologis V arrived, and then another division was made, this time on the left to those who were pursuing the XV Legion, which almost ended up being a major incident.
Ardashir on the left side was inexplicably a little impatient because he didn't win on the pursuit battlefield for a long time, and there were some guys on this side who were not in place or pitted teammates, so they entered the opponent's encirclement because the assault was too deep.
Of course, there are also judges who found themselves unable to control the three bastards of Ardashir, Li Dao, and Sun Quan, and decisively threw these three guys out as bait to attract the other party to attack, and then counteracted the reason inside.
The final situation was not beyond the estimates of the judges, and a regiment of less than 20,000 men galloped all the way out, chasing out, and after far exceeding the range of the remote control on the left, Benito chose to swallow 20,000 men.
After all, before the Romans withdrew to Antioch, there had to be a war to stabilize the current morale, and Benito's decisiveness allowed the Roman army to be largely preserved, but the land was constantly being lost.
In addition, all the way can only be said to be blocking, and the previous attack on the left side of the Anxida outflanking period cannot be said to be a big victory, at most it stabilized the morale of the army.
In any case, at this point, Benito was in dire need of a big victory, and although his staff had told him that Benito's 20,000-strong army was a decoy, he chose to ambush him.
Although there is basically no obstacle to the flatness here, the plain does not mean that you can't use stratagem, in fact, all the art of war, except for brave combat and fire and water, is actually a local bullying to create a record.
Benito's method is the same, under the design of the staff committee, Li Dao, Ardashir, and Sun Quan, who have not experienced the war, but have just started to make waves all the way, lure them to break away from the left side even more.
In fact, at this time, Lu Meng and Wu Zhu led by Li Dao did not fail to talk about this aspect of the problem, but they won consecutive battles all the way, and they couldn't pull these people in the trial.
Naturally, they had no way to hold these three guys who had to fight, although they did succeed in biting the Romans, but they were immediately surrounded by the reverse outflanking.
Fortunately, whether it is the Xiliang Iron Cavalry or the Danyang Elite, or the headquarters of Ardashir, they are all rare elites, and the Romans' habitual ten waves of arrow rain directly let the military soul iron ride into the sky, coupled with the trial and matching, the two phases cooperated inside and outside to directly tear two huge openings in the Romans' big encirclement.
However, since the staff committee told Benito that Li Dao and others were very likely to be bait, how could they not be guarded, although Benito needed a reason for a big victory to convince the staff committee, but Benito was not stupid, so he naturally made preparations for failure.
Benito, who was released by air, mobilized almost more than eighty percent of his own troops, and forcibly put them on the battlefield after the arrival of the reinforcements.
This behavior far exceeded the psychological prediction of the trial, and the Romans did not retreat after discovering that all the left troops had arrived, and completely showed a momentum of forcibly eating the left army even after the heavy losses of the army today.
Therefore, the left flank, under the command of the judge, tore through the encirclement with a powerful and unrivaled attack and killed it, and did not have the idea of fighting hard with the Romans.
Of course, there is also a big reason for this, and both the trial and Wu Zhu have found that it is not worth the desperate effort, and if they are tough, the possibility of the Romans forcibly eating them is very small, but it is definitely not in the interests of the Han family to lose both sides in the battle.
It is precisely because of this battle that the Han side has really begun to look at Rome at a straight level, and the wisdom of the other party in the war has begun to be revealed.
Although the Romans lost more in this battle than the Han army and the Anxi, this battle was a real battle in which the Anxi and Han troops were counter-surrounded, and were finally repelled by the Romans.
Strategically speaking, Benito had already obtained all the things he wanted, and by this time it had been delayed for quite some time, and the morale of the army had been restored.