Chapter Thirty-Eight: Fighting the Roman Mercenaries
The procession did not advance more than thirty miles, and there were ambushes on both flanks fifty miles. There are 300,000 horses in total, all of whom are mercenaries of the Roman Empire, poorly equipped, with light cavalry on both wings, spears and light infantry in front of the army formation 70 miles away.
Ouyang Xuan is no stranger to this tactic of triple encirclement, this kind of formation is also a typical European cold weapon tactic, defeating the enemy with both sides at the expense of the frontal army. Since he understands this tactic, of course Ouyang Xuan will not be fooled, he only knows that Ouyang Xuan, a Roman mercenary, will be treated as Roman citizens after serving for thirty years, and they are all relatively wealthy people. Ouyang Xuan ordered the whole army to turn around and adopt the policy of quickly breaking through one by one to the left-wing movement. Without him, Ouyang Xuan had portable artillery that they didn't have.
The two armies soon lined up at a distance of one mile at the foot of the mountain on the left, and Ouyang Xuan did not order the charge, but said to the herald: "Order all artillery, aim at the enemy position by yourself, three medicine packs, and five high-explosive shells in turn." "No!".
A moment later, as Ouyang Xuan's sword fell, thousands of mortars rang out, and in a moment, the mercenary army formation was covered in the smoke of artillery fire, all of them were light cavalry, where could they withstand this blow, in the short interval after the end of the five rounds of artillery fire, the captain and the corps commander who survived regrouped and galloped towards the Huaxia army. Ouyang Xuan smiled slightly, and said to Linghu: "Order, the whole army will fire five rounds of crossbow arrows, and the Yulin Army assault rifles will fire three times in a salvo." "No!" , Ling Hu Zhang gave his hand to the order on the horse, and the flag officer ordered the flag to wave. The whole army picked up the crossbow and wound it, and the Yulin army took off the rifle on the horse, opened the insurance, and the blade in the fox Zhang's hand fell, and the rain of arrows and bullets instantly shrouded the area between three hundred and four hundred steps in front, and the charging Roman soldiers were killed and wounded innumerable, and several mercenaries who were lucky enough to pass through the death zone were swept off their horses by the assault rifles of the Yulin army before they had time to rejoice. After the five rounds of arrows and bullets were over, Ouyang Xuan ordered the left and right armies to charge with long knives and spears to clean up the mess. The generals took the order and took the lead in the charge. This time, Ouyang Xuan did not let the Yulin Army rush to kill, and sat in the rear army with the Chinese army as a reserve. When the left and right armies returned, there were no mercenaries or horses standing on the battlefield.
Ouyang Xuan said to Linghu: "Order, order artillery, six medicine packs, and three salvos from four miles away." "No! It's just that the minister doesn't understand, why shoot without a target? ”。“ Haha, General Linghu, just now the mercenary cavalry only had a team flag, but no eagle flag, and the number was not right. Go down and give orders, the Europa like to keep reserves in battle." "No!"
With the flag swinging, the artillerymen reloaded the kits and waited for orders. As Linghu Zhang's long knife fell, Lingqi waved. The thump rang out again, and a moment later, explosions accompanied by gunsmoke in a depression four miles away. After three rounds of shelling, Ouyang Xuan ordered again: five medicine packs, the target is three miles away from the top of the slope, and five rounds of coverage artillery bombardment preparations.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the figure of the mercenary infantry appeared on the top of the slope, and they were seen in the telescope with gray faces, and the formation was quite neat, and from the array, the number of people was more than 10,000. As they marched down the slope top, Ouyang Xuan gave the order to bombard. As the golden sword glowing with blue light swung down, the cannonball was already unloaded. In an instant, mushroom clouds rose from the top of the slope, accompanied by flying mercenaries. When the flag symbolizing the legion appeared on the top of the slope, Ouyang Xuan ordered the artillery to concentrate on attacking the perimeter of the military flag. Moments later, the flag rose into the sky under artillery fire, along with several corpses with red-tasseled helmets. After the shelling, Ouyang Xuan ordered the Yulin Army, the Central Army, and the Rear Army to charge with long knives and spears. After all, the Roman legions were not the Hun army, they used spears, but the Huaxia army used long knives and spears, as well as steel sabers for close defense, except for the shield bearers and archers of the infantry, as well as the steel sabers for close defense, which were all made by the Duliba people by high-temperature gasification and smelting and forging. It is also a Chinese military standard weapon, a military long sword, saber sold on the black market for 10,000 gold coins, this weapon needs to be returned when decommissioned, and a sword made of ordinary steel is issued.
Ouyang Xuan didn't have a long knife, he still used his traditional left hand to hold the long sword, and his right hand was holding his own meteorite knife. Taking the lead in attacking the horses and rushing forward, these Roman support armies can no longer form an effective formation, and they quickly collapse under the impact of the Chinese army's war horses. Because he didn't have a long weapon, Ouyang Xuan still encountered some trouble. Being stabbed in the body and horse by several spears, if it were not for the protection of soft armor, the consequences would be unimaginable, but it also caused minor internal injuries to Ouyang Xuan. When he came back from the killing, Ouyang Xuan obviously felt several poking pains on his body, and he quickly returned to normal.
After calming down on the battlefield, Ouyang Xuan ordered to give up cleaning the battlefield, and the front team of the whole army changed to the rear team, marching at full speed in battle formation to the position of the mercenary legion on the left. In less than two hours, on the vast Gobi Desert sandwiched between two mountains, they encountered the left army that was hurrying north to the north. This time Ouyang Xuan was not polite, this place is all plains, it is impossible to have a depression where you can hide troops like just now. It is directly the free coverage of ten rounds of artillery fire, and the blockade of crossbow arrows and assault rifles. It was even shorter than the last time, and in less than an hour, the left-hand mercenary legion, which had less than 100,000 men, was completely wiped out. The sun had already turned west, and the temperature on the Gobi Desert had dropped significantly, Ouyang Xuan did not stay, and the two battlefields had not had time to be cleared, and ordered the whole army to continue to march rapidly in the north-west direction. Twenty miles forward, set up camp in an oasis, and send scouts to closely monitor the frontal mercenary legions thirty miles away.
After dinner, Ouyang Xuan found a medical officer, checked his body, and put medicine on his body with several bruises on his body. Ordered Hu Zhang to prepare for the anti-robbery camp, and quietly left the camp with a team of Yulin Army guards, ten miles away from the camp, and contacted the flying saucer at the Yinzhou base. A quarter of an hour later, he got on a flying saucer and went to the base of the Duliba people in Yinshan, informed the elder of the original story of today's injury, and handed over the designed broadsword style to the elder, asking him to make a long knife from the existing meteorite knife. The elder smiled and said, "Your Majesty, thank you for your help to our people over the past hundred years. In order to show our sincerity, we will give your Majesty the sphere you found in the Heavenly Mountains Valley, which is the most primitive metal at the beginning of the universe, and combine it with the holy sword to make the weapon you need, hoping that it will bring luck to you and your subordinates, please wait here for a while." After speaking, he took the drawings and went to the Duliba people's own workshop, and two hours later, the elder entered the house with a golden broadsword that shone blue light all over, and handed it to Ouyang Xuan with both hands. said: "This metal now exists on the earth, except for the existence in the earth's core, it is estimated that only the hilt of the knife in His Majesty's hand is left on the surface. This metal is accompanied by gold, and when exposed to the air, it gradually absorbs a substance that we still don't understand, and the atom is transformed internally, becoming what His Majesty once called a metal platinum." "Oh, doesn't that mean you can find this metal where there's gold?" Back to the most expensive of your majesty, this metal will be transformed as long as it is out of the original protection. It's no longer available." "How dare I accept such a precious thing."
"It doesn't matter, in the words of the Chinese people: Knowing the grace of the retribution. This thing was originally found by His Majesty, and it should have belonged to His Majesty, and it is a godsend that my people can take a little bit. Your Majesty can use it with confidence, the craftsman has added the protective metal owned by our people when processing, this metal is the same as the metal on His Majesty's knife, so it can be perfectly combined with the graupel energy, and the craftsman has filled it for His Majesty, and His Majesty can use it wholeheartedly." "So, I thank the elders. I will allocate 100 catties of super energy and elders as a reward." "The old man thanked His Majesty for the reward."
Ouyang Xuan walked out of the hall and learned a set of sword techniques in the courtyard, which Ouyang Xuan learned from a prince of the Southern Army who used a big sword all the year round, after years of improvement, he is now a master, with an ordinary big knife, the master disciple of the prince has been unable to walk in front of Ouyang Xuan. The big knife is not heavy as a whole, only more than ten catties heavier than the original meteorite knife, the blade is two meters long, and the knife head is nearly three meters in total. There is a pinch of red tassels at the head of the handle, the original stop is processed into a round, the surface is also coated with a layer of glaze, and there is a slightly raised line on the blade that is not glazed in contact with the hand, which is flat with the glaze, and the tail is a knife compiler. The glaze is very rough, which is very suitable for holding in the hand, and the more martial he is, the more Ouyang Xuan likes this knife.
Bid farewell to the elder, returned to the army, and ordered a Yulin soldier to go to the treasury and take a hundred catties of super gathering hail energy to send to the elder. The first thing he did when he returned to the camp was to ask the captain of the horses, the Roman mercenaries had not moved, and the camp was set up in a wide plain oasis, but the lights clearly did not match the number of soldiers.
"Haha, these supporting troops are not to be feared, the lack of lights shows that some lamps are not filled with oil after they are lit. It means that they either ran away or prepared a plan. Come on". One of the deacon's Yulin guards entered the tent and stood with his hands bowed, "Spread my order, order the Yulin army and artillery to quickly assemble, arrive at the front mercenary camp before dawn, and rob the camp with me before sunrise." "No!".
In less than a quarter of an hour, the heavily armed Yulin Army and the artillery in the carriage were assembled. Ouyang Xuan carried the newly made long knife on the horse, hung the knife on the victory hook on the right side that had already existed on the saddle, the long knife looked at the horse's body, the head of the knife was obliquely downward, and the team of 20,000 people galloped quickly, heading straight to the mercenary camp. When he was still ten miles away from the camp, he ordered the horses to slow down and approach slowly. Ouyang Xuan didn't want the sleeping mercenaries to feel the coming of death through the vibration of the ground. Within an hour, the army had reached the high ground two miles away from the mercenary camp. The artillery was ordered to get out of the car and conduct three test firings.
As dawn approached, the mercenary camp erupted violently with the sound of cannonballs, flickering in the darkness like fireworks of death. After the three-round test firing, Ouyang Xuan ordered ten rounds of covering bombing. According to the test firing data, each cannon quickly adjusted its muzzles, aimed at the chaotic camp, and quickly sent ten shells into the camp that had fallen into chaos.
As soon as the cannon fire stopped, Ouyang Xuan took off his long knife and rushed into the mercenary camp with the Yulin Army. The mercenaries who should have been dizzy, where could they withstand the rush of the Yulin army. Ouyang Xuan took the lead, the long knife picked up the rejecting horses that had exploded, and rushed into the camp first, facing a group of mercenaries who had just finished the formation, holding a Roman-style spear in their hands, with a slender tip of the spear, and they were all facing the line of Ouyang Xuan's charge. Ouyang Xuan lowered his body, leaned forward, held the tail of the handle of the knife with his hand, and waved it vigorously, the spear was broken with a brush, the tip of the knife was handed forward, and with a shake of his wrist, a human head flew up in an instant. This was repeated several times, and the battle formation of the three rows immediately collapsed, and the soldiers who had just flown out the javelins in their hands could only stand there stupidly and wait for death to come. The Yulin soldiers have always followed Ouyang Xuan's teachings, they can use long-range weapons, not melee knives and guns, and each group has one or two people holding assault rifles in their hands, continuously carrying out point fire between the marches. The camp that was already chaotic was even more chaotic after the rush of the Yulin army. The soldiers couldn't find the commander, the commander couldn't find the soldiers, except for Ouyang Xuan, who faced an effective resistance, the rest were all fighting alone, and they were quickly annihilated.
Towards the end of the battle, a mercenary knight came straight to Ouyang Xuan with a spear in his hand, and when he saw the red tasseled helmet on his head, he knew that it was a senior commander, and Ouyang Xuan was also not polite, and he came straight to the knight with a knife. The knight stabbed Ouyang Xuan in the left chest with his spear, Ouyang Xuan swung his knife and used the back of the knife to block the spear, and when the two horses staggered, he struck back the saber and cut the knight off the chest. With the help of the horse's speed, Ouyang Xuan slashed and killed more than a dozen people in a row, and only then did he circle the horse and turn to continue to charge. By the time the day dawned, the battle was nearing its end, and the Yulin Army had already hung up their knives and assault guns to clean up the wounded or pretending to be dead mercenaries.
When the sun rose, Ouyang Xuan returned to his camp with the aftermath of victory. Judging from the statistics just now, there are at least more than 20,000 mercenaries whose whereabouts are unknown, including the commander of this legion. Ouyang Xuan ordered the whole army to rest for a day and give up the idea of a surprise attack on the rear of the Romans. Send scouts to find the missing 20,000 people, they are all infantry, and they should not go too far. It wasn't until the early morning of the second day that Tanma brought back the news that the missing soldiers were originally ambushed in a river valley thirty miles away from the mercenary camp, and after Ouyang Xuan attacked the camp, they fled directly to the southwest sea. There was nothing unexpected about them running away, but the direction of running was a little strange. His own fleet was in the Persian Gulf, so Ouyang Xuan didn't think too much about it. Instead, after the army was reorganized, it went directly through the mountain pass and killed the rear of the Roman legions. As soon as they came out of the mountain pass, the horses returned, and the Romans retreated westward. This made Ouyang Xuan very depressed, and ordered the Yulin Army and the left and right armies to speed up the pursuit. He led the middle and rear armies to protect the artillery battalion and sweep the surrounding Roman strongholds.
However, things were far from being as simple as Ouyang Xuan thought, and a greater threat ensued, forcing Ouyang Xuan to retreat to the Great Wall and temporarily reach a peace agreement with the Romans.