The Roman rebels, with their deliberate and unintentional calculations, took the Sassanid government forces in the encirclement by surprise and tore a hole in the defense line of the Sassanid Empire, which stretched for several kilometers. Then, taking advantage of the high morale of the soldiers, they quickly tore the hole bigger and bigger.

But this success only lasted for a while, and the army that formed the encirclement was the regular government army of the Sassanid Empire, which was naturally not comparable to those militia groups that protected the territory and the people in the local area. Even after a sudden attack on the camp at night, with heavy losses and even the loss of positions one after another, the government troops in the encirclement only began to panic a little, and then quickly calmed down. According to the instructions of the upper peak, they gathered together and formed an army formation to deal with the attack of the Romans at the gap, preventing the Roman rebels from continuing to expand their gains, and reducing their losses due to the loss of this position as much as possible.

Although the development of the situation to this extent is also expected by Zhang Zeduan in advance, this is the stalemate that Zhang Zeduan has repeatedly emphasized to Heras Curt. In this state, neither side can help the other, but neither can destroy the other. It will take time for either side to mobilize troops to come to the nearest support, so this war is only superficially a showdown between the encircled and counter-encircled sides. In reality, however, it was the soldiers and armies on both sides who were pouring reinforcements into the battlefield. Which side has more people coming in at the same time? The higher the combat power, the more likely to touch the skirt of the goddess of victory.

So in this delicate situation, both sides are gritting their teeth and holding on. No matter who it is, as long as it supports until their reinforcements arrive. The battle can be declared victorious. Thinking of this, Zhang Zeduan couldn't help but secretly think in his heart that the information given to him by supper must not be wrong. At such a critical moment, if there is an intelligence error, then the consequences are really unimaginable.

Zhang Zeduan's side is still using the information he already has in his hands and his own careful and detailed plans to make a big gamble with his fate. He was betting on whether his plan was more elaborate or the force majeure of fate was more inexplicable. At the same time, on the other side of Li Wenyuan, a large number of Western Regions troops received orders to leave their stations and begin to assemble in the southeast direction of Wuwei County. On the other hand, a large amount of grain, ordnance, weapons and ammunition, artillery, and corresponding shells were loaded onto a steam locomotive powered by steam.

This is probably the first steam-powered locomotive in the time and space where Li Wenyuan is located, and at the same time, Li Wenyuan himself guesses that this steam locomotive should also be the first locomotive to be directly requisitioned by the army in the experimental stage and become a military column to support the war. In fact, this steam locomotive was a project that Li Wenyuan had in his mind a long time ago, and then immediately organized people to secretly conduct research, codenamed Kuafu. It's just that there has never been a suitable opportunity to roll off the assembly line for field testing, so this steam locomotive has been on the test bench for corresponding numerical tests and continuous improvements, but it has never really been tested in the field. However, the site for the field test was already set up early under Li Wenyuan's special care. Dunhuang County, the capital of Li Wenyuan's hand-picking, was located to the east of the territory now controlled by Li Wenyuan, but it was the center of the core area under Li Wenyuan's rule. Therefore, the experimental railway from Dunhuang County to Wuwei County was built in a closed area early in the name of military exercises. Starting from the south of Dunhuang County, it winds all the way to the east and finally reaches the west of Wuwei County before stopping. The railway was not as elaborate as it was when it was built in later generations, and the ballasted track was not even laid at this time.

After all, this is just a more experimental railway, in addition to the main test is the actual performance of this steam locomotive in various extreme environments, you can also test the relevant data of the railway by the way, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone. Therefore, at this time, the laying environment of the railway is slightly worse, and it is not in the way.

All the supplies, with the help of the porter on the side, were all carried and injured on the experimental train, and after loading, as the experimenters standing on the platform waved their flags and whistled. The whistle of the steam locomotive sounded loudly. A large amount of white smoke was emitted from the chimney at the top of the locomotive, and then the entire steam locomotive slowly turned under the load that was almost fully loaded, and the wheels gradually accelerated in the direction of Wuwei County, and finally disappeared above the horizon.

After the experimental steam locomotive ran on the experimental railway, Li Wenyuan took Qiu Niang's hand from the rear cargo hold to the front cab. The reason why he held hands all the way was because Li Wenyuan was worried that Qiu Niang would fall to the ground because of the shaking of the car body. After all, the steam locomotive was running on an experimental railway with no ballast. The sleepers of this experimental railway were erected directly on the smashed and compacted land. And most of these rails are made by hand, so it is inevitable that there will be some large tolerances between them. While these tolerances don't cause the train to derail while on the way, it's a bit of a fool's dream to get over the seams of these tracks smoothly and unscathed.

Since the steam locomotive was designed and built by researchers, the common people and officials under Li Wenyuan have all turned away from this huge machine that will emit white air and make such a strange sound at any time. Not to mention the strange machine that can run on its own, and even carry goods several times its own weight at the same time, but still does not affect the forward speed.

However, Li Wenyuan, who was used to riding trains in later generations, always believed that there was absolutely no problem with his design, at least he would not run on the railway and fall apart directly, so if he ignored Qiu Niang's opposition, he forcibly took Qiu Niang to board this experimental train.

But soon, Li Wenyuan realized that he had made a fatal mistake. He only thought that Qiu Niang couldn't trust him, and he was worried that this experimental train would be dangerous to ride, so he refused to share this train with him to Wuwei County to command the war on the front line.

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