Chapter 677: The Tide Flies (3)

Central Asia was between war and peace, until the Silk Road allowed trade between the East and the West to flourish, and although there was still war, there was also a slight easing, and the people living in this land were probably accustomed to this way of life, and generations were displaced, led, or died in the war. The autumn wind blew the fields and foothills, and after a Serius invasion last year, a large number of caravans passed through the land, and the ruined city was bustling again, thinking that such peaceful days would last for a long time, but only a year had passed, and the Persians from the south had also set foot here in this autumn.

Parthia, in the cold autumn wind, huge chaos is spreading everywhere, many tribes leave the place where they have lived with their own wealth, and occasionally encounter the Cylius caravan that was scattered by the Persian cavalry, which was hostile to each other at first, but now it has come together, as one of the largest caravans of the Western Expeditionary Army, the Beihe Zhen family, trying to save this situation, unwilling to give up the disconnected trade route, and using the weapons and armor obtained to buy the Central Asian nomadic tribes encountered along the way, Resist the Persian light cavalry that may be pursuing around them, but in this situation, some of the caravans or Parthians are waiting for reinforcements to return, while others are making a difficult choice, whether to stay, or to cross the Kushan Territory and return to Dawan, and after surviving a winter, they will cross the green mountains and return to the Western Regions......

In the name of restoring the glory of their ancestors, the Sassanid Persian emperor Ardashir called on millions of Persians living in Parthia to join the war, and for more than a month, a mighty revolt appeared in all the provinces and subject states covered by the Parthian Empire.

On November 15, the weather turned cold, Gongsun Zhi's 100,000 western expeditionary army arrived at Ctesiphon, and the information sent to him along the way could already be based to the calf, Sassanid Persia's way of cavalry combat has also been submitted to the military discussion, and after making the fastest response to the discussion, the Black Mountain cavalry led by Yan Rou and the anxious Parthian cavalry continued to march eastward, with Heka Dongbiru as the center, and went north in a roundabout way, wanting to open up the trade route first, and then go south to encircle the Persian army.

"The current situation is not good for us, and the only thing that is good is this God." Gongsun Zhi stood on the city wall, looked at the gloomy sky clouds, and said softly, now the Western Expeditionary Army will use Tai Xifeng as the military center of the east and west, temporarily maintaining the military heart, and on the seventeenth day, the sky fell the first heavy snow of winter.

The white snow covered everything that could be seen in the field of vision, and the three cavalry of the white wolf horseman, the Xiliang horse and the bow wolf rider in winter clothes rushed out of the Heka Donbiru assembled by the Persian army in Tessifon, and rushed straight to the Persian army, for the Persian army that did not fight in winter, it was difficult to resist a round in a hurry, and the defeated soldiers rushed into the city to avoid the edge, and secretly organized another cavalry to come out from the north gate, and attacked the left wing of the white wolf cavalry led by Zhao Yun in a roundabout way, but after all, because the snow was too thick on the ground, the control of the horses declined in winter, On the contrary, Ma Chao, who led the troops back to help, was cut off by the waist, leaving more than 1,000 corpses and horses and retreating into the city in a panic.

Sitting in the palace, Ardashir remembered the huge number of Cyrius who had gone west to conquer the west, and he had heard how the opposing army was heroic in the Persian Gulf, killing from east to west, after all, he had not faced it directly, thinking that it was just an excuse for the Parthians to be cowardly, and a battle outside the city made him re-realize.

"It's freezing, these Cylius won't last long, just sit in the city and watch them in peace! Since they dared to fight, they didn't think about letting this Celeus return to the East. ”

The Persian emperor, who trimmed and combed three handfuls of beard, did not care about the enemy cavalry wandering outside the city, and as he expected, although Zhao Yun and his cavalry succeeded in the blitzkrieg, the opponent's army was not distracted, and it was only entrenched at the head of the city, and the infantry outside the city did not give him a chance to take advantage of the defense of the camp, and after four days, he still had to collect his troops and go back.

After this year, it was already the seventh year of Jian'an, in March, the winter snow melted away, and the 100,000 western expeditionary army led by Gongsun Zhi advanced Parthia, and when the mighty banner spread, in April, Sassanid Persia drew 50,000 troops from its own country to enter the campaign, except for the army that conquered other provinces of Parthia, it still had 150,000 troops.

Both sides seem to have a premonition, the time entered May, the two sides fought on a plain west of Heka Dong Biru and east of Ctesiphon, on the edge, while the scouts were fighting, the white wolf rode around and bumped into a Persian light cavalry that also sneaked in, and the infantry army slowly advanced to the front, forming a stalemate, after the trial, Gongsun Zhi launched a night attack, with the Parthian hoplite cavalry as the arrow, and the Xiliang cavalry broke through the first line of defense in the rear, the Persian army launched a counterattack, but was inevitably surrounded by heavy encirclement, and had to retreat without doing its best, Then was pursued by the Persian light cavalry, to the early hours of the morning, the ambush of the forest Pan Feng and Wu Anguo from the side, the pursuit of three thousand Persian cavalry wolf rush, was a large number of arrows to kill the scattered, and was turned to kill the horse Chao crazy counterattack, beheaded two thousand, stacked Jingguan placed in the middle of the battlefield between the two sides, the two sides of the army also ignited the fire in this night, back and forth offensive and defensive war began......

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Far to the east, at the foot of the Green Ridge, the mountain city of Dawangui.

When the chaotic caravan came back from the Kushan realm with the rest of the family, Zhang Ren realized that the back road of the Western Expeditionary Army might be cut off, and after consulting with the veteran Yan Yan, he decided to send troops to rescue, but was dissuaded by the king of Dawan, and then a quarrel broke out.

"Dawan has no troops to send, if your army goes to the west again, what will happen if Dawan has an enemy attack?"

"My Western Expeditionary Army is in danger, who the hell can control you!"

"I am not in the right position, there are many people in the country who are red-eyed, as soon as your army leaves, it will inevitably rebel, this Dawan is the back road for the Gongsun Governor to retreat to the Western Regions, and there can be no loss-"

While the three of them were arguing, a message came back from the scouts outside - there was an abnormal movement of troops in the south of Guishan and assembled towards Dawan.

In the two years since the Western Expedition, Zhang Ren and Yan Yan have been stationed here every inch, and they naturally understand how important this location is, this is not only a matter of the relationship to retreat, but also the only way for all caravans and the supply of grain and straw in the army.

"What a mercenary Guishan man!" When Zhang Ren learned the news, it was not difficult to deduce the other party's problem. After that, he and the veteran Yan Yan were stationed in the city alone, and the army was led outside to build a defense.

In the same month, the Mediterranean, which was different from the Mediterranean, had a pleasant climate, green mountains, and waves in the south crashing over the reefs, and nine armies of 100,000 in Rome gathered for Macedonia and Greece, and another 20,000 men sailed from Sicily across the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara to Constantine.

In the north, after a past winter, the Germanic people are also coming out of the city.

The whole West ignited the flames of war.

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