Zhou Yu, the deputy commander of the Southern Expedition, led the Flying Tiger Army Expeditionary Fleet and set off with Liu Xin, the pioneer of Lu Wang, and it took only 20 days to reach the Quanzhou Military Port from Xiapi Zongzhai in Xuzhou. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and starting from Quanzhou Port is the real beginning of this expedition in the strict sense, Liu Xin's 3,000 Xuanjia plus the Qinglong Battalion, which is the best at attacking the old four battalions, and the Flying Tiger Army Marine Corps more than 20,000 men and horses 472 warships of all kinds, this scale of long-sea voyage is also the first time in human history!

According to the nautical charts provided by Zhao Hai after countless voyages, although there were some storms and waves in the Beibu Gulf, fortunately, the Han army was well prepared and did not lose too many warships, and the casualties were not large, and when the Flying Tiger Expeditionary Fleet arrived at Tianzhu Abu Port after 76 days, Zhou Yu ordered the statistics of the personnel and materials of the whole army, and the Han army lost a total of 48 ships in this expedition of up to three months, none of which was a Dinghai ship, and its excellent performance was actually tested.

In addition, the non-combat attrition of the Han army reached 876 people, and the storm in the Beibu Gulf took the lives of more than 500 soldiers, so that Liu Xin couldn't help but sigh when he saw it, the power of the sea was really beyond the reach of manpower. As for the remaining 300 people, they died of various diseases caused by water and soil adaptation, especially fever and malaria. Five years after this expedition, Wu Pu, a disciple of Hua Tuo, wrote a book of "Treatise on Fever", which complemented Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" in the medical history of the Han Dynasty.

After arriving in Abu, Zhou Yu and Liu Xin's expeditionary corps received a warm welcome from Slava, the governor of the Silver Moon Empire. The princess of the Kushan Empire married the most trusted minister of the Han Prince, and the prince of the Silver Moon Empire, Alander, became a registered disciple of the Han swordsman Nie Li, and over the years they have also formed a stable trade relationship with the Han!

At this time, the most famous among the Tianzhu Han people was the great swordsman Nie Li, whose ninety-seven consecutive undefeated streaks in the capital of the Kushan Kingdom had become a myth, and even the Romans admired him very much! In the year after that, Nie Li went south to the Silver Moon Empire and the first master of Tianzhu, Venerable Lemy, on the Ganges River for seven days and seven nights, and the two of them parted happily, leaving a good story!

Originally, after arriving in Abu, Zhou Yu and Liu Xin's plan was to rest for ten days and then go to the Kushan Empire by land and water, after all, the long-term voyage brought great fatigue to the elite of the Han army, but six days later, the governor of Slava came to ask for help, saying that the king of the Silver Moon Empire, Qi Li, had been approached by the Roman legions, and this time they were well prepared to launch a battle very suddenly, and the Silver Moon defenders were caught off guard and collapsed in a battle, and now King Aland led the people to defend Qi Li is also in danger!

The military situation was like fire, and after discussing with Liu Xin and the generals, Zhou Yu decided to march in advance to relieve the siege of the royal capital of the Silver Moon Empire! Although the enemy is outnumbered, the Roman army used three corps of 120,000 people, and the Han expeditionary force is only more than 21,000 people, but once Qili is captured by Rome, they will lose the most convenient way to the north, and it is likely to suffer the blow of the Roman army.

As for where Xu Huang's main force by land has arrived, at this time, the two of them only have a message sent a month ago, and they will definitely not be able to catch up according to the distance. With the decision of Zhou Yu and Liu Xin, since the decision was made, there would not be the slightest delay, leaving the 2,000 soldiers of the Qinglong Battalion plus 3,000 Flying Tiger Army marines to guard the Abu Brigade and set off immediately! Nearly eighty percent of the Dinghai ships were left in Abu by Zhou Yu, and this place must be held, and with a mobile battery like the Dinghai ship will be even more successful, and Dinghai is built for far-sea navigation, the draft is extremely deep, and whether the Ganges River can pass still needs to be tested.

Liu Xin led three thousand Xuanjia along the river bank first, this time the king of Lu chose to advance at full speed in the foreign battle, it is reported that the three Roman legions of Yankuai have 30,000 cavalry, but most of them are arranged on the border of the Kushan Empire, in their eyes the south is not enough to threaten their own strong military force, this is also the premise of Liu Xin's decision, although the port of Abu is blocked, but the expeditionary force is so big that the movement is afraid of a hundred secrets, time has become an extremely critical factor!

In two days, Liu Xin led the army to the place where it was fifty miles away from Qili, where King Lu ordered the whole army to stand by and wait for information, while he was looking up at the sky, where there was a black dot constantly hovering in the air! That is the descendant of the falcon Feiyu next to Liu Yi, there are only two in total, one each of Liu Huan and Liu Xin's brothers, the prince's one is called "Hu Lie", and King Lu's is "Wanliyun"!

"Your Highness, fifty miles ahead is Qili, the Ganges River passes through its east, this time the enemy army is besieging on three sides, the terrain around Qili is flat for ten miles, and the lowly rank is ordered not to be too close, and the enemy army on the top of the hill is observed with a clairvoyant mirror It seems that they are not prepared for our army!" By this time, the Pathfinders had returned, and the Governor of Slava had provided Liu Xin with many guides who were familiar with the local terrain, and it was not difficult for the exchange of languages to have a basis provided by many years of trade.

"Okay, today I'm going to catch him off guard, see how powerful this Roman legion is, and the whole army is moving forward at a fast pace!" The intelligence of the horse and the flying posture of the clouds in the sky Liu Xin can already deduce that the enemy army does not know about his coming, and the so-called opportunity cannot be lost, so he also immediately ordered that the horse's legs were wrapped to prevent the sound of dust and smoke and horses' hooves to alert the other party!

"Brother Xin, I've been fighting, and I've finally waited." Everyone knows that there are as many as 100,000 Roman troops besieging Qili, and Liu Xin's current strength is only 3,000 Xuanjia, and all the knights under the order of King Kelu have a look of excitement on their faces, and they will not have the slightest doubt about Liu Xin's order, even if it is a million enemy troops? On the side, Gan Ding listened to it, and his eyebrows flew and danced!

"You two boys listen to me, you must act in accordance with the military order when you go into battle later, and you must not violate it, otherwise you won't even think about the battlefield in the future!" Looking at Gan Ding's blushing face with excitement, and Zhao Tong was calm and uneasy, Liu Xin secretly said that this is still a son with a father! Of course, the big war is imminent, and the military law is the strictest, and he still has to give a stern explanation.

"Second brother, don't worry, what do you say we should do, right?" Gan Ding said and stabbed Zhao Tong.

"Yes, listen to my brother." Zhao Tong is concise!

"Where are they talking about it?" Liu Xin smiled and was about to give an order, but when he saw that the guides didn't know what they were talking about, he immediately asked the interpreter!

"Back to Your Highness, they said that we are too few in number, and the Romans are very powerful!" The interpreter also immediately said that although he had already been crowned king, Liu Xin still liked his subordinates to be called His Highness!

"Hahahaha, tell them that the Romans are powerful because they haven't met our elite Han elite, these 3,000 Xuanjia are enough to reach his 100,000 elite soldiers, the bold ones will follow, and the cowardly ones will stay here for me! Walk! Liu Xin smiled slightly and said loudly, and after saying that, the dragon hundred refinement pointed to the three thousand Xuanjia in front of him and set off immediately!

The distance of forty miles is only half an hour for Xuanjia, and it is still necessary to restrain the speed of the horse so as not to bring up dust and smoke, at this time, the tall city in front of it is already in sight, and the Roman legions are surrounded by black pressure on three sides and are attacking, and the sound of shouting and killing can be heard for ten miles.

"Big man, you lead 800 people to the left wing, Zining, the right wing will be handed over to you, you two boys follow me to kill, Xuanjia obeys the order, today's battle is only for victory, kill!" Liu Xin glanced at the nearest Roman corps to him and immediately made a decision, of course the big man was in tears, that son Ning Fu's surname was Taishi Mingheng, the son of Taishi Ci, one of the nine tiger generals of the Han army, Zhennan General Taishici!

"Kill!" As Liu Xin shouted, the Xuanjia cavalry divided into three ways and rushed towards the nearest Roman legion, and everyone turned their speed to the extreme at this time!

"General, general, there are enemy cavalry in the rear." This time, Liu Xin's undisguised siege of the Roman legion also discovered the appearance of Xuanjia, and some soldiers reported to Suhas, the commander-in-chief of the army on this road, that there was obviously no solid defensive formation behind the legion!

"Hmph, their cavalry also dare to come and die? Let our cavalry teach them how to fight! Suhas knocked on the pergola, and indeed a group of cavalry rushed to kill, but the shouting was not strong, and the formation seemed to be very loose. He had fought with the cavalry of the Silver Moon Empire before, and his combat power was very average, and he didn't care about sending his own personal guard cavalry at the moment!

In Suhas's eyes, the cavalry army of only 3,000 people in front of him was definitely not the opponent of his 3,000 personal guard cavalry, and looking at the command method of the opposing general in the cavalry shock formation, it was too unpopular, like a plate of loose sand! But who knew that this was exactly a set of formations jointly designed by Guo Jia and Pang Tong to show the enemy's weakness, and what they wanted was to make the opposing general's intention to underestimate the enemy.

The attacking Roman cavalry did not take the enemy in front of them seriously, in their opinion, all sorties were too exalted to the other party, according to past experience, they could quickly eliminate this number of enemy troops, and even many Roman knights had a cruel smile on their faces!

But before they could officially engage with the enemy, they knew that they were very wrong, when the distance between the two sides was quickly shortened to three hundred paces, the enemy's original loose formation immediately changed, only a hundred steps, they actually discharged three huge and neat arrow formations! The cavalry commander immediately became nervous, and his years of experience in battle told him that the enemy army in front of him must have been extremely terrifyingly trained, otherwise how could such a change of formation be completed in just a hundred steps? If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have thought he was dreaming, when had the Silvermoon Empire ever had such powerful cavalry?

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