The commander of the Ninth Army was also angry when he saw that Xu Ding did not come to chase him in person, but sent about 200 horsemen to attack him.

Turn the horse's head and turn back to have a good fight with Meng Yu.

But when he turned back, Meng Yu bit off several of his squads behind him.

His cavalry of more than 300 cavalry was now reduced to only about 200 cavalry.

Seeing the corpses of Roman cavalry all over the ground, my heart was also shocked.

How could the loss be so big and so fast.

has not officially confronted, how can he be killed by the rebels so many subordinate generals.

"Kill!" But at this time, he couldn't manage so much, and he had to send the arrow on the string, so he had to rush towards Meng Yu.

Meng Yu was also holding a spear and led two hundred horsemen to rush forward without fear.

The two armies, which were already close together, rushed at each other at once, and the two armies fought, wielding weapons at each other or stabbing or slashing or slashing at each other.

A series of weapons saw the sound of flesh, and then one by one the figures fell off their horses.

The courage of the Ninth Legion is extraordinary, and he also fought from a junior officer, as a nobleman, he has undergone formal training and cultivation since he was a child.

Therefore, the martial arts are not bad, he stabbed Meng Yu with a sword, but Meng Yu gave a shot, the gun was advantageous for the long soldiers to fight, and Meng Yu reversed it was a blow to sweep over.

The commander of the Ninth Legion raised his eyebrows coldly, and swung his sword as a block.

The two golden sounds passed, and the two of them were attacked by each other's cavalry, and the two of them also challenged each other, killing the attacking opponent's ordinary cavalry off their horses.

The two armies were equal in strength, with the men of the Ninth Army Commander being more skilled in horsemanship, more experienced in horse warfare, and better armed.

But when the two armies rushed over, turned around and turned their horses back, they found that there were obviously more cavalry on the rebel side than there were cavalry on the Roman side.

Looking at the battle, the ownerless Roman army had significantly more than three times as many horses as the rebels.

In other words, the rebel army suffered only twenty or thirty casualties just now, while half of the Ninth Army Corps was gone.

Glancing left and right, the commander of the Ninth Legion quickly had a number in his heart, and muttered in his heart for a while, puzzled.

At the same time, there was a terrible conjecture, looking at Meng Yu, I couldn't help but be afraid.

So he didn't immediately give the order to rush over.

After all, if you rush to kill once, it's hard to say how many people are left around you.

"Kill!"

Meng Yu smiled, urged the horse to roar and rushed first, and more than a hundred horsemen behind him also waved their weapons and rushed towards the Roman cavalry of the ninth legion commander.

"Kill! For the honor of the Empire! "I don't know why, the Ninth Legion Commander was a little scared at this moment, because he shouldn't have looked in the direction of the city gate.

It was this half of the eye that made him lose the courage to win.

The Ninth Legion was scattered by Alexander Qin and crushed by the storm.

The Ninth Legion lost this battle, and the Ninth Legion was finished.

The two armies fought below, and the moment they touched, they skillfully held their weapons and killed each other.

"Puff ......"

Obviously, the cavalry of the rebel army, which had a greater numerical advantage, only a dozen or so fell this time.

The cavalry of the Roman legions, with the exception of the commander of the ninth legion, were all killed on their horses.

The commander of the Ninth Legion, who was alone, urged his horse to turn his head back, looked at the scene where there was no one on the left and right, and suddenly let out a wild laugh.

Especially when he saw the Roman battle flag of Thessaloniki falling, Alexander Qin led the cavalry into the city gates, and he knew that he had lost completely.

The province of Macedonia fell, and everything was over, it was all over itself, and it was all over one's family.

The Great Roman Empire was in trouble.

"Your Excellency Commander, you think that there is no one to fight, surrender, surrender to the commander of our army can accept you and lead you to the paradise of freedom." Meng Yu saw the situation up and down the gates of Thessaloniki, and the battle finally ended with the victory of their rebel army.

So he wanted to persuade the commander of the standing army.

"Huh! Surrender, impossible, I am the commander of the Ninth Legion of the Great Roman Empire, how can I surrender to you rebels, come, we have a final duel, only Great Rome is heaven, only our city of Rome is the real heaven. The commander of the Ninth Army held the hilt of his sword tightly, and then urged his horse to rush over.

"Don't move, everyone, I'll come!" Meng Yu rode over alone, waved his spear and rushed to kill the commander of the Ninth Legion, the two horses staggered, and then several golden sounds, and the two of them continued to make moves, and the move was about to attack the opponent's vital point.

However, in the end, Meng Yu had some advantage in mentality, caught a flaw in the commander of the Ninth Army, and stabbed him into his neck artery with a shot.

"Me! Defeated......" With a bang, the commander of the Ninth Army fell off his horse, bringing up a puff of dust, flying fine particles, which were dazzling under the refraction of the sun......

In the battle, the commander of the Ninth Army was killed, most of his troops were killed, and a few fled.

The Ninth Standing Army of the Roman Empire was eliminated, becoming the first Roman legion to be expelled by promise.

Thessaloniki is a thriving provincial capital and is a political and economic center.

In addition is an important path to Byzantium (Istanbul), so there are frequent business visitors.

In addition, he also has a superior seaport, and there is a lot of land and water trade, which is naturally an extremely important and wealthy city.

Whether it is strategically or otherwise convenient, taking this place has a great effect and attraction for Xu Ding.

The defeat of the army caused the city to fall into the hands of the rebels.

The naval warships in the port of the dock had no choice but to retreat away from the port and retreat to the shallow sea to impose a surface blockade of Thessaloniki.

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"Commander! The Romans' naval army has not left, and has been blockading and monitoring us in the shallow bay, which is very unfavorable to us, and Soros is estimated to be unable to come! The goods were accompanied by Xu Ding to the south city wall, looking at the Roman navy near the coast in the distance and said.

"Nope! Soros will come, I believe him, as I believe in you, rest assured, he is on his way, or it will be a few days away, and these naval forces will soon be withdrawn or disappear. Xu Ding paused for a moment, and then said:

"Even if you don't leave, it's okay, they don't dare to go ashore, they can't threaten us, just let them stay in the water, you hurry down to recruit troops, after this battle, our team will grow rapidly, your pressure will be greater, and the burden will be heavier and heavier, especially yours."

The city of Thessaloniki is rich in supplies, as well as a large number of equipment, and a large population.

There are also more people who meet the requirements for recruiting generals.

With the results just now, I believe that more and more people will want to join.

Of course, these should have made him excited, but Xu Ding directly took five hundred men from his command and threw them into the cavalry.

This is the real source of pressure to shop around.

There are 500 elite veterans, which is more convenient when it comes to managing and training other recruits.

However, the strength of the cavalry has proved everything, and it is determined to develop a strong cavalry team, which is also the fastest and most effective method.

Not only can the combat effectiveness of the cavalry be maintained, but also the loyalty of the city can be maintained.

After all, they all fought with him.

News of the recruitment of the rebel army was posted and publicized.

Soon there was a great response, and about 4,000 slaves and slave farmers joined in.

Xu Ding's rebel army suddenly grew back to 6,000, and there was also a team of about 1,000 craftsmen and logistics.

These are also one of his strengths, the army has expanded, and they are needed for the repair and polishing of many equipment and the manufacture of equipment for attacking and defending the city.

Leaving Carbby to guard the city of Thessaloniki, Xu Ding led the cavalry to attack the east while training, tempering the cavalry in battle.

It took three days to reach the border with Thrace.

Completely conquered the eastern and central parts of Macedonia.

At the same time, about 3,000 strong people were recruited here, and the team grew to 10,000.

Leaving Meng Yu here to guard and train recruits, Xu Ding took six hundred horsemen south to attack the southern peninsula.

The Southern Peninsula is a special area inserted into the depths of the Aegean Sea, and taking it can restrict the left and right areas of the Aegean Sea on both wings.

At the same time, he can also get in touch with Soros's people for the first time.

Because Xu Ding knew the general situation of Soros from the doppelganger's circle of friends.

Although Soros was born as a pirate, after experiencing the city of Naples, he became more loyal to him.

He found a new direction, so after leaving the army, he continued to grow and develop, successively annexed three groups of pirate forces along the way, and spent all the money promised to him, rapidly expanded his army, all the way east, captured many Roman towns, and collected a large number of ships.

Then he fought a battle with the Roman navy in Achaia, and in the end both sides were defeated and wounded, and both suffered losses.

Although he was wounded, Soros trained his navy, abandoned some old ships, and then went to attack the city of Athens.

However, it did not succeed, and some more manpower was lost.

So he headed north towards Thessaloniki.

However, he learned that there was a Roman naval army stationed in Thessaloniki, so he first landed on the southern peninsula to collect information about the direction of the city of Thessaloniki.

According to his speculation, he had been delayed for so long, and Xu Ding and the other infantry troops should have taken Thessaloniki City long ago.

So Xu Ding waited for the spies sent by Soros and successfully captured them alive.

"Tell me, where is your chief?" Xu Ding drew his sword and walked over.

The spies who were captured alive shook their heads and said, "I'm sorry we don't know, we're just the lowest people, we don't know anything, we ......"

"Hehe, if you don't say it, I know, you are the great pirate Soros's people, and he is on an island in the southwest of the open sea, I am not wrong." Xu Ding said with a smile, and the sword slapped lightly on a person's face.

These people all looked at Xu Ding in horror.

Who is this, how do you know where they come from, even where the boss is.

Finished! Finished!

The Romans even knew this, and we were probably surrounded.

"Okay, don't scare you, go back and tell Soros that Lao Tzu has been waiting for him here for a long time, hurry up and get me ashore." Xu Ding put his sword into the sheath, and with a wave of his hand, the knights who held down these naval soldiers all let go and stood behind Xu Ding.

These people are all dumbfounded, what kind of play is this?

Xu Ding took out a letter from his bosom and said: "Give it to Soros, just say that Thessaloniki doesn't need to go, there are still many Roman sailors there, there is no need to fight them, go north, go to Kavala, I will wait for him there!" ”

After saying that, Xu Ding took the people and left, but after getting on the horse, he didn't forget to take out a gold coin from his trouser pocket and throw it over: "Take it to your boss, he will tell you who I am?" ”

After saying that, this time it's really gone.

Look at me, I'll look at you, and then the man with the letter picked up the golden soldier, only to see a strange word engraved on it that they didn't recognize.

Looking at the gold coins, looking at the letters, and then touching his somewhat cold neck, the man gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go, go back to the boss." ”

"We're not going to get any more information?" Someone asked.

"I'm still probing a fart, be careful that my head is gone, and besides, what we want to inquire about, someone told us in the scriptures."

Soon the men found the boat they had landed in, and then went out to sea and rowed to their target.

"It's ......!" Soros didn't expect the people he sent out to come back so soon, but when he saw the letter and the gold coin engraved with the Chinese character Qin, he stood up sharply, and then laughed:

"Hahaha, good! It's the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief is still there, and it's great that they really hit this side. ”

"Boss, is this the commander's thing?" An old man from Naples asked.

Soros said: "Of course, I'll see what instructions the commander has." ”

After reading it, Soros frowned slightly, and then asked the person who came back with the letter, and then sighed and said: "It's really not easy to command them, eliminate the commander of the Ninth Army of the Roman Imperial Army, and kill the governor of the Macedonian province, but Mengdu and Veratoli ...... Forget about them, come and give the order to set sail, and they will go north to Kavala. ”

The sailors who set sail and shouted the trumpet were full of energy, all spreading the legendary deeds of the commander who had not yet met.

Provincial governor, a regiment of the party army has been killed.

Xu Dingbei returned to Thessaloniki and asked Cargo to go to Kavala with his foot soldiers first.

Xu Ding himself spent three days in Thessaloniki, estimating the time, and then preparing to withdraw from Thessaloniki and abandon it.

At this time, the Roman army, which pursued Montu and Villatuli in the north, and then in the south, finally hurried to Thessaloniki.

Unfortunately, they came ten days and eight days late, and the Ninth Legion was destroyed.

The commander-in-chief of this pursuing force is still the elder of Chuanpu, looking at the city that should have belonged to their Rome, but now it has been captured by the rebels, Chuanpu feels very uncomfortable.

Especially with the battle banner of Alexander Qin hanging over the city, he knew that trouble was coming for the Romans.

The rebels thought that it was impossible to exterminate and kill them in a short time.

The main forces of the two rebel armies, one in the south and the other in the north, greatly contained the power of the patriarch.

"The enemy army under the city is coming to attack the city." Xu Ding asked the Roman army outside the city, and when he saw that they were not encamped, he asked, and roughly estimated that the other party had less than 10,000 men.

Such a force is really not an advantage for the current Xu Ding.

Chuan Pu urged the horse to come out of battle and said: "I am Chuan Pu of the Senate, responsible for this encirclement and suppression of your rebels, I want to talk to your Alexander Qin." ”

"Oh! You want to talk to me. Xu Ding was a little surprised, the enemy commander wanted to talk to him, so he asked, "I don't know what Your Excellency Chuanpu wants to talk about?" ”