The blood clotted to dust, forming a huge mottled, dog-toothed battlefield, and the soldiers hedged, and Dian Wei knocked out of the pile of people in iron armor, and picked up a human head in his hand, which belonged to a general in the Sassanid Persian army. In a moment, there was a thud and a thud slammed into the shield that came from the top, and the skull and fur were splashed out.

"The Great Han Western Expeditionary Army is here—" The giant man's voice exploded like thunder.

The direction he was heading was the position of the king banner of Persia, and he was pushing forward with the Xiliang foot soldiers. In the roar of the ground, the figures of the cavalry broke through the miasma, and 4,500 white wolf riders bypassed the front line of intertwined fighting, and launched a charge again, and the fierceness of the battle suddenly rose to the extreme.

During the half-month of fighting, from the beginning of mutual testing and small-scale contact fighting, as time went on, small-scale battles became more and more intensive. The Sassanid Persians were deeply influenced by the nomads of Central Asia, and even surpassed the Parthian Empire in cavalry warfare, and the heavy cavalry and light cavalry developed in parallel, fighting with the white wolf cavalry under the command of Gongsun Zhi, both sides were mounted archery, and then contact and confrontation, and then distance archery...... Repeatedly, this made the Western Expeditionary Army quite distressed, as long as it could not trap the opposing cavalry and annihilate it, it would be difficult to win this war as soon as possible.

Even though there were daily battles, each battle only lasted more than two hours before the troops were withdrawn, and the generals of the Western Expeditionary Army were all killed in the sea of corpses and blood, and the young Persian emperor on the opposite side also had enough wisdom to deal with it, and it seemed that he was not willing to face off with the Western Expeditionary Army.

"He should be procrastinating...... "After today's daytime strike, Gongsun Zhi has been pondering what the Persian emperor opposite him is going to do next, and Ma Chao and Cao Chun around him are looking at him quietly.

"Yan Rou from the north sent back the news that the cavalry of the Persians was raging in the north of Anxi, and he fought fifteen times, and there were Persian civilians in all the cities of Anxi, and the Persian emperor on the opposite side probably wanted to drag us down with the main force, and then lock us here with the territorial advantage of the capture, and wait until the soldiers were almost consumed, that is, he wanted to take down all the members of our western expeditionary army——"

Zhang Fei slammed his fist: "Oh, those who should be killed, I just said that they cowered and didn't fight head-on, they originally wanted to use this strategy!" ”

His voice weakened at this point, and he looked at Gongsun Zhi in the first place: "..... then next, how are we going to fight?" You can't spend it here with him. ”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Since the man likes to play so much, then I'll play with him." Gongsun Zhi squinted and watched the bean-sized flames swaying in the lamp oil, and was silent for a while: "Recall the rest cavalry and the Black Mountain cavalry Yan Rou, the Xiliang cavalry to protect the right wing of the foot soldiers, the archers to protect the left wing, and slowly retreat to the stationing of Tessiphon, if the Persian army comes, they will be dragged in turn." ”

"In addition, the Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Wuhuan tribes scattered and rested in the northern and southern provinces, hunting Persian light cavalry, and if there were scattered tribes along the way, tell them that the Persian army would be wiped out, leaving only the Persians, and if they wanted to continue to live in this land, they would rise up and resist."

The short deliberations dispersed after the order was issued, the time was already the middle of summer in the second year, the night was hot and dry, Gongsun Zhi only wore a deep coat and walked in the camp with Dian Wei and Li Ke, a pile of bonfires burned in a staggered and orderly manner, according to the shadows of the three people, and soon, there was a figure with full body armor.

"Zihe, don't go back to the tiger and leopard riding side, what are you looking for me to do?" Gongsun Zhi inspected a nearby soldier's tent, looked back at him and said with a smile, then beckoned, and continued to walk forward, "Time flies so fast..... I still remember that when you followed me, it was white and pure, with fine skin and tender meat, and now it is almost as black as General Zhang." ”

The voice paused, and then he said again: "Say, what's the matter." ”

Over there, Cao Chun, who has passed the year of establishment, is indeed rare to see the scholarly anger of the past, and when he heard about his past, he also smiled, but his eyes were closely looking at the back of the opposite side, and he arched his hand: "Du Du, Chun actually wants to ask, Du Du should have other plans in his heart?" ”

"Nope!" Ahead, the steps stood still, and Gongsun Zhi tilted his head slightly: "In the previous half a month of fighting, Zihe also saw that the Sassanid Persian Emperor was by no means a mediocre person, not only judged the situation very well, but also had a very patient confrontation with us, and wanted to consume the entire Western Expeditionary Army a little bit, and to deal with this kind of person, he had to be more patient than him, and do something beyond his expectations to disrupt his steps." ”

He stretched out his palm, and slowly turned his palm over: "..... the rest is that it's time for us to turn the tables." ”

In the voice, looking at the patrol firelight, the picture gradually blurred, and remembered something.

In fact, Gongsun Zhi still has a sentence in his heart that he has not told anyone, and it is also something that has been calculated since the Western Expedition, that is, to break the entire West to pieces, and it is best that there are people entrenched in every place and every mountain to build the country, just like the situation in the Western Regions, the night before Stephanie sent back, he sat in front of the fireplace with Di Maert in his arms for a long time and said a lot of things.

"...... face the strong Great Qin and Anxi, and even the many nations and tribes around you, you may die in their hands before you have a chance to show your ability, but in the face of a weak Great Qin, a tattered West, and a small country built in a hurry everywhere, if you want to get a piece of the pie in such an environment, then your chance has come, this is a gift from my father, I can't watch you grow up little by little, but I can help you grow up early."

"Isn't that going to kill a lot of people?"

The wolf king hugged the child and gently rubbed his hair, "...... this era is like this, you have to get used to it, if you don't get used to it, it's you who will die." ”

In the seventh year of Jian'an, the weather was in autumn, and the original confrontation situation suddenly took a sharp turn, and the 150,000 Persian army against the Western Han Expeditionary Army, as if it had been attrition overnight, and the overwhelming cavalry did not know where to go.

This made Ardashir's mind a little clogged, and his heart twitched.

In places where he could not see, countless cavalry teams divided into dozens and hundreds, taking care of each other with the resting capital of Hekadonbiru as the center, spreading to the nearby provinces and cities of Ecbatana, Hundred Prison Gate, Apameia, Hirgania, etc., and sprinkling the documents copied for days in Latin and Tocharian everywhere, the Parthians in the ranks impassionedly told the situation of the Persian massacre of the city, inciting the Parthians to revolt, and in the following two months, the Persian civilian riots became more and more frequent, The Parthian people, who did not want to be involved, gradually lost their calmness, first small-scale physical conflicts, after the death of people, tribes and families gathered more people to seek revenge, and the good deeds followed in the middle to make a coax, or instigated, just a fight of hundreds of people, which gradually evolved into a melee of hundreds of people.

The Parthians fought against the Persians, the tribes fought against each other, and the provincial governors' guards then joined in, forming an even greater whirlpool of war, which slowly spread to almost the entire Parthian Empire.

Ardashir called on millions of Persians to participate in this war, and these cavalrymen pointed their butcher knives at the men, women, and children dressed in Persia who could be seen along the way, and the villages and tribes attacked by the Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Wuhuan were often difficult to see alive, and the wooden fences and trees in the villages were full of Persian heads.

When the news came back in October, the Persian Emperor Ardashir sat alone in his tent and was silent for several days, after issuing an order to withdraw Hekadonbiru, who needed to rearrange his plans and that winter was approaching.

At the same time, the Roman army in the west was heavily defended under the arrangement of Thrace, while guarding against the Germans who rushed south, while rectifying military affairs, since the beginning of the army reform, the barbarians who originally belonged to the ranks of mercenaries have been dissatisfied, after all, it is good to take money to fight, and by the way, they have become Roman citizens and enjoy superior treatment.

In the midst of all kinds of discontent, the nine Roman land legions slowly walked all the way to the west of Constantine, and in the name of arming, they began to rectify. At this time, Constantine, the conscription of the alliance army has begun to take shape, Lu Bu since the end of the year, the body is a little sick, perhaps there are also reasons for not adapting to the water and soil, to today the complexion is much better, walking to the city, all around are erected ballistas, holding a large round shield of the Spartan warrior loudly scolded a few recruits, a little farther away, Gao Shun led a Spartan general and several Roman legionnaires to discuss the city defense.

Lu Bu leaned on the wall battlement and turned his gaze, a group of people walked over, the woman led by a woman wearing a red cloak, looked particularly eye-catching in front of the soldiers, tall and graceful, with long black hair and red feathers tied up, while talking to the young man of the Lu family beside him, while giving orders to the herald, she looked much more mature and capable, and when she saw her father standing here, Lu Lingqi smiled like a little daughter.

"Dad's health seems to be fine."

"Hahaha! No matter how bad it is, the people of Daqin are going to fight. ”

Lu Lingqi suddenly grasped the handle of the knife, and snorted with horizontal eyebrows: "They have to do that kung fu, it's about to be winter, just the speed at which their turtles are slowly crawling, maybe they won't be able to come up next year, Lingqi can't wait, I really want to go out of the city and kill it." ”

Next to him, Lu Xun quietly watched the father and daughter talk, and then a soldier came over and whispered something in his ear, he hurriedly stepped forward and interrupted: "Wen Hou! Lingqi, General Gao has something to discuss. ”

"Well, I'll go." Lu Lingqi turned her head and waved her hand: "Dad, your body hasn't recovered yet, go back to rest first, and my daughter will go over to discuss the military situation with Uncle Gao first, and report to you when I go back later." ”

Lu Bu nodded with a smile, watched his daughter leave heroically, and sighed: "My daughter has grown up......"

The sky has not yet snowed, and in the east, the mountains of corpses and a sea of blood have piled up.

The Kushan army divided into two routes, one north to the east to advance to Dawan, the other into Parthia, taking advantage of the eve of the approaching winter to frantically plunder the land, this is an unpredictable variable of all parties, or a variable born of greed, the whole of Central Asia and even the Mediterranean region to get the news, feel extremely complicated.

The warm blood poured on the cold city wall, and Zhang Ren waved his knife: "The city is here, and my Han people will never take a step back——"

At the same time that the air was blazing, the trade routes west of the Green Ridge were completely destroyed in this great war, and such bad news was not good for the Central Plains, which was inconvenient for information, and it was also the most fatal to the current situation.