Chapter 661: An Adventure Once and for All
After Xiang Yu listened to Han Xin's words, he also looked to the east, at least at this time, the fate of Xiang Yu, Han Xin and Philip V was tied together, and when he went back, what would be the result of him and Philip V, it would depend on what Yinggao thought in his heart.
"With such a large force and very strong soldiers as Rome, if we don't take some risks, how can we completely achieve the effect once and for all, and there is nothing wrong with the general doing this."
With Xiang Yu's approval, the expression on Han Xin's face was a little firmer, and he finally made his own decision.
At this time, they were not in the Roman capital, but in an open field of unknown location, which was obviously not very far from the Roman city, but it was a fairly hidden place.
This result is not because there is anything wrong with Han Xin and others in this war, but it is just related to the strategy they adopted.
As early as on the way here, Han Xin had set a strategy with Xiang Yu and Philip V, that is, this time they would attack the Romans, only attack their cities, consume their men, but not occupy their cities.
The most fundamental purpose of this is to do his best to enhance the utilization rate of the sergeants under Han Xin and Xiang Yu in such a strange land.
Although the ability of the attacking side is certainly measured by the number of cities captured in this era, the result of this is that you must leave a considerable number of soldiers in each city you occupy, both to consolidate your rule over the cities you have captured, and to prevent the cities you have fought so hard to take back by the enemy.
This time Han Xin wanted to do the opposite, he decided that the ultimate purpose of attacking the city was to attract the defenders and then eliminate them, as long as they could eliminate the defenders in several major cities of the Romans, then even if they didn't attack that city, that city was equivalent to an empty city for them, and there was no problem when they wanted to attack it.
In this way, they cruied in front of almost every Roman city with a huge army, of course, the Romans knew that this was Daqin's men and horses coming to attack them, and when they inquired, the number was still very large, so the generals who stayed in the Roman capital sent a letter as soon as they learned about it, that is, the letter received by the Roman consul who was in full swing with the defenders of Seleuc.
In the letter, the generals left behind in Rome have not yet said that their city has been breached, they just say that the city is already in danger, and when the Roman consuls return, it is indeed impossible to hold the city, but these soldiers they left behind will naturally do their best to protect the city.
Such a letter reflects the Roman consul, that is, of course, Rome should still be saved, not to mention that he did leave a lot of soldiers to defend the land of Rome, and he believed that the Roman defenders under his command could at least catch up with the resistance he encountered when he attacked Daqin, if the Romans could show such spirit, there would definitely be no problem in temporarily holding the main cities of Rome, or holding the capital.
And referring to the virtue of fighting to the end with the defenders of the Seleuc, once the Roman defenders also fought with the men and horses of the Great Qin attack, both sides were almost hanging for a breath, in this case, he appeared in front of the Great Qin cavalry attacking Rome with a force of 100,000 men and horses, and he might not have to make any effort himself, and the attack of the Great Qin would be directly defeated.
With this in mind, the Roman consul took almost all of his remaining men and horses, and did not care about the lack of men and horses, but rushed back day and night.
Although the place where Han Xin and Xiang Yu were stationed at this time was a lot of distance from some of the major cities of Rome, it had a very important feature, that is, it was a place that the Roman consuls had to pass through to return to the Roman boundary with their men and horses.
Before they arrived, they had swept almost all the Roman cities, especially the Roman capital, and when they reached the gates of the Roman capital, it was as if they had to attack it, but there were 100,000 defenders in the barracks outside the Roman capital.
Although Han Xin and Xiang Yu brought a numerical advantage, they still lost some men and horses in the process of attacking other cities, and what they wanted was not to capture the capital of Rome, but to wipe out all the men and horses guarding the capital of Rome, in other words, their ultimate goal was to completely eliminate these 100,000 horses.
Fortunately, the character of the Romans is basically very arrogant, in the previous I don't know how many years, basically the Romans went to attack other forces, and when other forces attacked the Romans, there were very few, so after the alliance of Great Qin and Xiongnu and Macedonia came, although they did not occupy much advantage in numbers, but the Romans were not afraid of them, they always thought that they could reproduce the situation in the first war with the Macedonians, or the situation in the war with Hannibal, these two forces in their opinion, how are they more powerful than these ragtag armies composed of Great Qin, Xiongnu and Macedonia.
The result of arrogance was that the Romans would not cower in the city, and they had to go out of the city to fight the army led by Han Xin, and such a battle pushed them to a point of no return.
The cavalry of Macedonia, Xiongnu and Daqin all have relatively strong combat effectiveness, and their fighting methods are completely different, Han Xin's courage is also quite big, when dealing with the defenders of Rome, he is to let Philip V to command the Macedonian cavalry, let Xiang Yu to command the Hun cavalry, and he himself commanded the cavalry of Daqin, dividing his men and horses into three parts, taking turns to attack the enemy.
In the end, the Romans were defeated by their arrogance and arrogance, and the 100,000 defenders fled back to the city with only a few thousand, of course, in this battle, Han Xin also paid a total of nearly 100,000 people, because the people who could be left in the Roman capital to guard were the most elite part of the Roman cavalry, which was different from the 100,000 garrison troops they left for Yinggao, which was a real elite.
Although the losses were a bit heavy, Han Xin knew that such losses were something they had to experience in this battle, and without such losses, they would not have been able to gnaw off the difficult bone of the Roman capital.
After the attack and defense of the Roman capital, Han Xin's command still had 1230,000 men and horses left, but unlike the situation of the Romans, Han Xin's remaining centaurs were the elite of the remaining elites after the big waves.
To the surprise of the Romans, they did not occupy the Roman capital after eliminating the elite defenders outside the capital, which was filled with Roman nobles and untold wealth.
In the following time, Han Xin took the might of the defenders who swept through the periphery of the Roman capital, and took down the defenders in the remaining cities, in other words, as long as he heard that there were Roman barracks and Roman soldiers, Han Xin would take his own team and destroy them.
In the end, the remaining people in Han Xin's hands were less than 100,000, to be honest, Han Xin really hadn't experienced so many losses since he made his debut, but this time it was different from all his previous wars, this time the loss was in exchange for Great Qin's long-term rule over this world, in exchange for the situation that there was no war for decades or even hundreds of years, and in exchange for the moment when the Central Plains people became the most noble race in the world.
It is natural to say such a thing, but in this era, it takes extra sacrifice and hard work to achieve this.
And now, there is only this last step left to accomplish the very ambitious goal that Yinggao has set for them, and the last step is to find a way to eliminate the last part of the men brought by the Roman consuls, who are sure to receive the news back.
There is one thing in this that is completely unknown, so for Han Shin and them, this decision is quite difficult to make.
In the end, they chose to volley on the road they had to take, and they were secretly stationed near the road they had to pass, so much so that even the people of Rome thought they didn't know where to retreat.
After Han Xin stationed the rest of his army in one place, he mainly relied on a few very reliable scouts to obtain information about the outside world, and he believed that when the Roman consul returned, Han Xin would give him a considerable surprise before he returned to his capital.
In these days of rest, these remaining Great Qin elite soldiers have recovered to a very good state, as for the grain and grass that these large armies need to consume, it is not a problem at all by this time, in addition to the Romans' cities, there are also many Romans' younger brothers' cities, the eldest brother has made the family beat his nose and face swollen, if you want to destroy your younger brother, isn't it a matter of minutes, so the Romans' younger brothers know that as soon as the warriors of Great Qin come, there is no need to say anything, You will obediently contribute some of the food in your city, and it will be considered safe.
The forces of this era are very clear about the situation in the world, and it is very likely that this day will change because of the combat effectiveness of Great Qin, if it is really not known when Great Qin will destroy Rome, then the matter of giving food to the soldiers of Great Qin now may become a good thing for them to improve their status in the future.
On this day, a small group of scouts returned to the place where Han Xin and the others had set up camp, and brought back a piece of news.
According to the scouts, a small group of men and horses went out from the capital of Rome and rushed in the direction of Seleu, and they did not know what they were doing, and they asked Han Xin for what they meant, just to intercept and kill that group of men and horses on the way.
"No, most of them were beaten by us, and there were basically no defenders in the city, and now they are a little scared, so let's go to see if the Roman consuls have returned to the borders of Rome, what they are afraid of is that we have gathered a large number of soldiers and horses again, and attacked their capital again."
After Han Xin gave this order, he immediately summoned Xiang Yu and Philip V to his side.
"I think that according to the predictions of those Romans, if the Roman consuls return at full speed after receiving the letter, they should be about to arrive, whether they can bring the glory that the king wants to Seleucus, and then to Daqin, it depends on this battle."
Although Han Xin's words were from the perspective of Great Qin, Xiang Yu and Philip V also understood that how much they contributed in this battle would basically definitely affect Yinggao's attitude towards them in the future, especially Xiang Yu, he knew that Yinggao believed him because he was not a Huns, but a Central Plains person like Yinggao, and the Central Plains people definitely hoped that the Central Plains people would dominate the world, there was no doubt about this. At the same time, he is also very much looking forward to the day when Yinggao really dominates the world, and he will take the Huns where he will go.
Not to mention Philip V, he knew that he was a very ambitious person before, and he also believed that Yinggao must know this, he didn't expect that he could always dominate a piece of land like Xiang Yu, he only hoped that he could be a little stronger than Antiochus III, after all, people could still be a guest in Xianyang City, right?
And if the two of them want to realize what is in their hearts, there is nothing else to say, that is, now cooperate with Han Xin to directly make the Romans fall from the clouds to the ground in this battle, in other words, from the time they lead the army to leave, there should be no more Rome in this world.
And now, I don't know how many men and horses the Roman consuls will bring back, which is the biggest problem they face, if the Roman consuls return with 150,000 or 60,000 men, they will definitely have a difficult battle.
"General, rest assured, we will definitely give everything for this battle!"
Of course, Philip V still responded most positively, but Xiang Yu did not speak, because he knew that a war full of unknowns was the most difficult to fight, and it was not something that could be done just by shouting a few slogans, and what they needed to do now was to work out a set of plans, even if they lost, they could not be wiped out here.