Chapter 418: Sticking the Persians to Our Battlefield—2
When Vologis V retreated, he firmly believed that it was impossible for the other side to launch a pursuit, because in terms of the disparity in strength, such a pursuit was meaningless, and could only be defeated by his powerful Persian army with a return rifle. What's more, in the process of retreating, he will definitely pay attention to whether the formation is scattered or not, and will definitely not give the other party a chance to take advantage of it, which the Persian soldiers with rich military culture can still do.
But things are not as simple as he thought. Because among the army of the Han Empire, there are many capable ministers who can see through this, so they came to Suning with their doubts.
"If you start a pursuit, it is very likely that you will be attacked by the other party, if you don't pursue, it will be equivalent to us doing things he left our sight, once she returns to the Persian plateau, she will definitely integrate the strength of the country, and then attack us, when the time comes, they will become stronger, and will inevitably bring greater threats to today's defense line!"
"Of course I won't let him return to the Persian plateau without any problems." Suning's answer set the tone for the upcoming pursuit, "I won't do that kind of stupid thing to let the tiger return to the mountain, but I won't joke with the lives of my subordinates, so the main purpose of this pursuit is not to chase and kill them, but to make them have to make a return attack again and again, and we can also use the small formation to avoid their encirclement and interception, and then quickly withdraw to our position." ”
Suning's statement said this, everyone present understood his plan, it turned out that he wanted to use the virtual and real routines to fool the enemy, constantly reflexively pursue on the retreating road, and then use faster and more agile escape speed to avoid the enemy's key blows, and finally let the enemy suffer huge losses. This loss, of course, does not refer to personnel formation, but to time and physical strength.
So all the generals agreed to Suning's suggestion, and they divided into different detachments and chased in the direction of the enemy's retreat.
Whoever led a large number of such Persians retreated not much faster than the Han army, and the people, including Huo Quzhi, were very good at light cavalry pursuit. So in such an environment, in less than three days, the army of the Han court has caught up with the Persians who are traveling in the same direction, that night, in order to avoid the long night dream of the Han Empire army, I think the opponent launched an attack, they also hit the enemy's baggage troops, this group of slow-moving, and the extremely precious materials carried by the army, out of their heroic resistance, but the final result is that the whole army was annihilated, and the baggage they carried soon disappeared completely under the roar of Zhu Rong.
Although this is not the only baggage army of the Persian characters, although with the supply of other armies, they can barely return to the Persian plateau alive, but the premise is that the baggage of friendly troops has not suffered the same bad luck as him, but unfortunately, it is not Huo Qubing who has such combat effectiveness, the Han Dynasty army has been fighting fiercely in the past few years, although they continue to have new recruits to join their respective formations, but under the guarantee of advanced medicine, the survival rate of veterans is very high, Their tactical and strategic experience was very avant-garde, while the Persians were not at all comparable in this respect, their elite was concentrated on the western frontier to resist the possible ambitions of the Romans, and their army that had been assembled with great difficulty was mostly a few new recruits and veterans who had been attached to the eastern frontier. But these veterans did not have much military confidence in their hearts, because in the previous battle, their painful experience caused them too much panic, the strength of the Han Dynasty army, so that they still remember, if it were not for the cultural heritage of the empire, given them enough courage, they may not dare to re-embark on the battlefield with the presence of Han Dynasty people.
If the same place is played out in almost half of the baggage troops, the reason why the remaining half are not attacked is not because of how strong their defense is, but because their immediate enemy has chosen other opponents, such as directly attacking the Persian army's large battalion, and using their own sturdy aluminum alloy armor to resist the enemy's flying arrows. Then they fought back in the way they could, although in terms of range, their advantage was not very significant, and they might even face the threat of a more powerful fixed Lujian, but it was undeniable that with the help of gunpowder, they were able to pose a far greater threat to the enemy than they had previously imagined.
And the vast majority of them didn't choose not to go, and after creating enough threat and chaos, they quietly left, quickly disappearing into the night. It took a lot of time to be wounded in the bloodshed, and very few were able to send them in pursuit of the Han army. It is more important to note that not all the pursuers of the Han Dynasty army participated in the raid, and they also left enough troops to block them on the way to escape, and when they fled, the Persians realized that their emperor was likely to lose to the other side's prime minister again.
When the sun rose the next day, the battle reports of the various legions were also summarized in the hands of the emperor one after another, and then he was surprised to find that there were countless elite soldiers injured in the camp, and among those angry pursuit levels, there were also many people who lost their lives in the enemy's ambush, such a result made His Majesty the Emperor lose face, originally she thought that her retreat was foolproof, but she didn't expect that the other party was just a light pursuit, so he paid such a big price, Fortunately, however, the enemy had already appeared around him, and his plan had not yet been fully developed, so he ordered the various legions to turn around and begin to pursue the soldiers of the Han Dynasty army who had just attacked them.
Most of the lower-ranking generals were dismissive of the emperor's decision, as they had realized that the Han people had probably guessed the emperor's mind. In the emperor's thoughts, the possibility of encountering the Han Dynasty's pursuit of drama is very low, so the drill for the soul body pursuit is not so sufficient, but it is undeniable that they have already paid a heavy lesson in the pursuit, which proves that the Han Dynasty people have a preliminary defense against their own pursuit.
After that victory, they could not fail to realize that the enemy was likely to retaliate.
Since they have guessed this, of course, they will leave an ambush in the process of pursuit, just like they did last night, and the stupid emperor did not see this from the battle report, then the imminent defeat will be inevitable, so these low-level generals and commanders began to secretly resist the emperor's will, they were not ready to seriously carry out this order, so, when the pursuit began, some noble children were indeed according to the emperor's orders, A frenzied chase began, but most of the generals and commanders chose to move forward leisurely, and sure enough, those who rushed to the front soon heard a miserable cry, and they shouted for the friendly troops to come to the rescue. Even to those old generals who were a little slow to act, they threw out all kinds of foul language and personal danger. But those old furniture, for their behavior at all, and only a few young generals feel that the other party's ambush is likely to have all rushed out, the test to move, a good opportunity to attack inside and outside, so they rushed forward with great interest, of course, what they ushered in is not necessarily all victory, even if it is victory, it is just to drive the other party away, more is to encounter a wave of long-range firepower, although there is no more ice floe after the ice floe, but the flank manpower to cover the wind soldiers is also quite sufficient, At least from a firepower point of view.
These war reports from the front line were quickly passed into the hands of the emperor, but the emperor was dismissive of this, he thought that it was understandable to suffer such losses, after all, the Han Dynasty army had brought great casualties to the Persians on the battlefield in the past, but this sentence could not be stopped because they stepped on it, because they finally framed the Han Dynasty people in their well-defended fortress and barbed wire combined defense system, if they did not seize this opportunity to eliminate it, Then they will pay a greater price to attack the terrible defense system, or carry all kinds of domestic infamy, and the turtle will return to the country.
The Emperor could not accept such an outcome, and he would rather have his soldiers cleanse them with blood, and the shame of defeat than accept the mediocrity of returning home, for that would be a great blow to the danger of his rule.
The Emperor's intentions were quickly returned to the generals at all levels, and of course the generals knew that the Emperor's idea was correct, and since the Han Dynasty army had left the strong defense line on which they depended, it was now an excellent opportunity to destroy them, and if they were allowed to escape back into the defense line, the heavy price they paid this time would be even more inexplicable to the people at home.
So the generals from all walks of life finally got ready to prepare, and worked hard and conscientiously to implement the emperor's idea, but it is a pity that they have paid a lot of casualties in the pursuit just now, and now they have no big advantage compared to the number of Han Dynasty people, and the large army led by the emperor is still behind, which requires them to pursue more carefully, otherwise they may be wiped out by the Han Dynasty army in the field with a similar number, because from the point of view of equipment, Their armor is lighter and harder than their own, and their bows and arrows are more lethal than others. Second Sister, they also have a powerful weapon called Flame, which can create great chaos in a short period of time.
You know, the soldiers who attack in groups, what they are most afraid of is that kind of weapon, if they are hit head-on, then I will also sit down, after huge casualties and huge psychological shock, a soldier has suffered a huge blow in morale, no Persian general wants to see such a tragedy in his subordinates, so they are very cautious in the recent process, but this is obviously not what the emperor wants to see, he wants him to be so handsome, He was able to deal with the enemy in front of him as quickly as possible, so as not to let them flee back, but his generals, even if they caught up with the army of the Han Dynasty, did not dare to attack easily, and just followed from a distance.
The emperor looked very angry, she gave orders over and over again, let the traffic police pursue, but no one carried out his order, and the excuse for the feedback was almost the same, that is, the troops they now have are not sufficient, which made the emperor fall into a thunderous rage, because the reason for such an embarrassing situation of insufficient troops was precisely because they did not save themselves in the previous pursuit process, so some old generals were unexpectedly severely punished, The emperor also hopes that there will be such an action, so that the families of those noble children will not complain too much about him, of course, the hometown is very dissatisfied with this practice, but now they also know that if they dare not destroy the Han Dynasty army at this critical moment, then it will be difficult for them to win this war.
So these old generals had to lead their troops into battle, but fortunately the emperor listened to their advice and replenished them with sufficient troops, so that they were fully replenished in a few hours, and the advantage of troops was doubled by the Han army.
What they didn't know was that the Emperor had broken the original formation of his huge army in order to be able to do this. The chaotic legion organization made it take 2 to 3 days for the generals who stayed with him to reorganize, but fortunately, the Han Dynasty troops on the opposite side did not seem to have enough strength to threaten the security around the emperor.
And what they should be most worried about now is the Imperial army that is following them closely.
However, the Imperial army did not achieve any success in the following statistics, because the other side almost gave up any military operations and just blindly fled back.
Just as the Emperor became agitated, and what he didn't know was that another pursuit was also in full swing, because among the birds it was another strategy for his next possible escape.
Yes, Kang Tseen had already anticipated the routine that the emperor might use in the next retreat.