Chapter 1942: Taking advantage of the chaos to force the crossing
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[Huh, sure enough, walking directly on the water is a bit of a loss for the soldiers, but seizing this opportunity, I annihilated nearly two thousand rest elites, and my own losses are small, so I don't think I will make irrational moves in a short time. Benito felt the morale of the soldiers around him recovering and felt a lot more relieved.
After all, Benito's purpose from the beginning was not to fight a hard-fought war with the Sabbatarians, but to seize the opportunity to take advantage of the chaos to give the Sabbatarians a head-on blow, so that the soldiers around him would understand that although their Roman legions had been severely damaged, their strength was still there.
And the timing was good just now, and I had been enduring not exposing such an ability before, just to make the resting people realize at one time, and it was definitely a stupid choice to attack or something.
Seeing that the resting people on the other side of the river did not retreat, Benito didn't pay too much attention to it, after all, the pontoon bridge had been repaired by two-thirds, and he suddenly found that what he had done before was useless, and it was probably unacceptable to anyone.
"Ferruccio, you let people form a formation on the spot to defend, although the rest of the people are now peaceful, but if we are negligent, what happened before is still very likely to happen." Benito observed the resting people on the opposite side and determined that although the resting side was furious, after seeing the performance of the Fourteenth Combined Legion, he should have given up the idea of forcibly breaking through.
But even so, Benito still cautiously ordered all the legions to be stationed along the river according to the defensive line he had arranged, and it was as if there was no way to do it, but he was unwilling to die, and wanted to wait for the Romans to neglect.
"Was it before dawn, under the cover of night?" Zhuge Liang and the others asked, "In our current situation, only if Ardashir has restrained the Fourteenth Combined Legion, it is possible to successfully cross the river." ā
"With Ardashir's situation, there's a good chance he'll choose that time, so we're ready, this damn Fourteenth Legion." Fars Sassanid was furious, "After that, if the Fourteenth Legion retreats to the east of the Euphrates, then pursue it directly, and the rest will turn back and plunder." ā
Zhuge Liang nodded, indeed, on this side of the Tigris River, Fars Sassanid successfully defeated the Roman army by attracting the attention of the enemy, then wait for the Romans to escape the Euphrates River, and then use the previous means, I really think that the Romans will not remember to eat!
When it was darkest before dawn the next day, Ardashir's army launched an attack on the Romans in the dark, and as far as Gao Shun and others observed, although the attack of the Sabbatarians was discovered by the Romans, it was too close to be stopped at that time.
"Everyone obeys my orders, rush, rush to the beach!" When Fars Sassanid discovered the flames of the Roman camp, even though he knew that his grandson had launched an attack and was trying to contain his opponent, he did not hesitate to climb the pontoon bridge himself and ordered a raft to force the crossing.
The camp of the Romans was by no means chaotic, because Benito's caution, and the elite of the 14th and 15th Eagle Banners were stationed on the perimeter, so although they were caught by surprise by the sudden attack of the Sabbatarians, it did not disturb the whole camp.
However, Ardashir knew his purpose better, he did not come to compete with the Romans, but to attract the attention of the Romans, so under the cover of night, Ardashi's army was almost a long line, and in a short time half of the Roman camp was attacked.
Under the black light, there were shouts of the Sabbaths everywhere, and the sound was so great that even Benito had some doubts that the Sabbath army had crossed the Tigris, let alone the ordinary soldiers below.
Therefore, the camp that was originally stationed was obviously chaotic at this time, even if the suppression of the 145th Legion did not completely collapse those barbarian armies, but the 145th Legion was gradually attracted by Ardashir's all-out attack.
"Rush!" Standing on the pontoon bridge, Fars Sasanid roared, countless rafts that had been prepared for a long time, taking advantage of the night, when the Romans had no time to fight back, took advantage of the fact that only one-third of the width of the river was left, and rushed across the Tigris River!
"Kill!" Datis led his guards to seize the beach successfully, and immediately stepped on the cold river water in the night, and launched an attack on the Romans against the clouds of both sides!
"Rush Rush!" Fars Sassanid was overjoyed to see this scene, and as Datis charged, many Sabbatians soon followed the direction of Datis to kill the riverbank, and then quickly launched an attack on the archers arranged by the Romans on the river beach under the organization of Dattis, preparing for the landing of more Sabbatarians in the future.
As more and more soldiers crossed the Tigris River, and even gradually began to have an establishment and size, Fars Sassanid immediately made a decision and rushed over by boat, and at this time the Han army leisurely sailed over.
"This kind of chaotic war is very good, such a flat plain, the Sabbatarians have to gnaw at the defense so tightly, and it is not so easy for the Romans to gradually stabilize the defense line, brothers to steal weapons and come to help friendly troops!" When Li Dao came to the other side of the river, he was already excited, and by this time the sky was already dark, and the Romans had stabilized their line under the command of Benito.
However, when Li Dao was about to help with his weapons, the situation on the Romans' side had changed dramatically, and it was obvious that Benito's vision was not bad, he knew his purpose and knew the priorities, and he didn't give Li Dao a chance to play at all.
Although this line of defense could not be held for too long compared to the steady stream of armies on the Sassanid side of Fars, at this point, the Romans did not need to support it, and the defense line in their rear could retreat directly as long as they resisted for a while.
"Ferruccio, inform Elcrane that they retreat, the fifteenth legion will be led by you and fight and retreat, and the fourteenth legion will be cut off with me." Benito commanded the army to constantly alternate attacks, replacing the brutes who were easily broken through, allowing them to carry out auxiliary attacks, and then covering them with the cover of the Fifteenth Army, ready to let these people retreat first.
"Where?" Ferruccio asked.
"Withdraw to the west of the Euphrates, where the defensive line has been built, and after withdrawing there, we will be able to recruit troops on the spot to replenish our troops, you go and inform me, I will block it first." Benito calmly ordered to the adjutant Ferruccio, and Ferruccio also knew that he could not waste too much time at this time, so he immediately went to inform him.