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From a practical point of view, this Pontus kingdom's counteroffensive was much more important to the Pontus kingdom than the Seleucid Empire; If the Seleucid Empire loses this battle, it will be nothing more than the loss of the newly occupied Cappadocia region, and the Pontus Kingdom, which has suffered heavy losses in the border areas, will not be able to recover in a short time.

As long as the Brutus Empire learns the news that the 40,000 troops of the Kingdom of Alexander in the border area have been annihilated, it is unknown whether the Kingdom of Alexander can resist the attack of the Brutus Empire; Under such circumstances, it was naturally impossible for the Kingdom of Alexandria to provide much help to the Kingdom of Pontus.

That is to say, even if the kingdom of Pontus won the battle, successfully defeated the invading army of the Seleucid Empire, and successfully recovered the Cappadocia region; The Pontus Kingdom also did not have the strength to counterattack the Seleucid Empire itself, and at best, they would make the Seleucid Empire's offensive plan fall short, and that's it.

However, if the Pontus Kingdom loses this battle, then the Pontus Kingdom will disappear from this world completely; As long as the army of the Seleucid Empire defeated the counterattacking army of the Kingdom of Pontus in a head-on decisive battle, and the Kingdom of Pontus did not even have the strength to defend the capital, how could they possibly resist the pressure of the army of the Seleucid Empire?

Once Sinop, the capital of the Kingdom of Pontus, was brought under the rule of the Seleucid Empire, the Kingdom of Pontus, which had become independent from the Seleucid Empire, would once again become part of the Seleucid Empire; The Pontus region, which originally belonged to the capital region of the Pontic Kingdom, will once again become the Pontus province of the Seleucid Empire, and Seleucus VII will reach a new peak in the Seleucid Empire!

Compared to the army of the Kingdom of Pontus, who fought back desperately for the survival of the kingdom, Seleucus VII's enthusiasm for this battle was more based on his own ambition; The destruction of the Pontus Kingdom has always been the biggest goal of Seleucus VII's heart, as long as the Pontus Kingdom, which is the strongest kingdom of the Kingdom Alliance, is eliminated, how long can the Armenian Kingdom and the Parthian Kingdom, which are full of internal contradictions, hold out?

From the day the League of Kingdoms was established, the Kingdom of Pontus has been the core force of the League of Kingdoms, and it has also been the lubricant that regulates the relations between the Kingdom of Armenia and the Kingdom of Parthia; If it weren't for the constant mediation of the Pontus kingdom, the kingdoms of Armenia and Parthia would have been at war over the border conflicts.

Even under the mediation of the Pontus Kingdom, the relationship between the Kingdom of Armenia and the Kingdom of Parthia was tense and contradictory; As for the Kingdom of Alexander, which has newly joined the Kingdom of Kingdoms, how could the Kingdom of Alexander join the Kingdom of Kingdoms without the matchmaking of the Kingdom of Pontus, let alone any connection with the Kingdom of Armenia and the Kingdom of Parthia.

Such a kingdom alliance that is not united internally relies on a single Pontus kingdom to maintain the operation and cooperation of the entire kingdom alliance; If the kingdom of Pontus were suddenly wiped out, it would be even more unlikely that the Armenian and Parthian kingdoms, which had fought separately, would have survived the attacks of the Seleucid Empire.

The so-called kingdom of Alexander, which was already the lamb to the slaughter that Seleucus VII used to satisfy the appetite of the Brutus Empire; The four provinces of Alexandria and the Bithynia region of the Pontus kingdom were enough to satisfy the appetite of the Brutus Empire, and it was enough to maintain a harmonious and stable alliance between the Brutus Empire and the Seleucid Empire.

As long as the Seleucid Empire could re-integrate the kingdoms of Pontus and Armenia, as well as the Parthian kingdoms, the territory of the five provinces was not considered by Seleucus VII at all; Because after obtaining these three kingdoms, the Seleucid Empire will restore the most prosperous period in the history of the Seleucid Empire, which is the highest goal pursued by Seleucus VII.

Armenia and the Medes will once again become the production base of the Seleucid Empire's ironclad cavalry, and the Seleucid Empire, which once crisscrossed the Eastern Continent, will also regain its position on the Eastern Continent. When that day comes, Seleucus VII will personally lead his army south to Egypt to complete the unification hegemony that the Seleucid Empire did not complete at the beginning!

Of course, these are only the beautiful conjectures of Seleucus VII himself, and the top priority of the Seleucid Empire is to defeat the 100,000 counter-offensive army of the Pontus Kingdom; Although the walls of Masaka were strong, Seleucus VII did not intend to fight an offensive and defensive battle with the army of the Kingdom of Pontus in Masaka, and Seleucus VII decided to fight the army of the Kingdom of Pontus head-on.

When the 100,000 troops of the Pontic Kingdom marched into the Cappadocia region, Seleucus VII led the 60,000 troops of the Seleucid Empire out of Masaka and set off directly to meet the army of the Pontic Kingdom; Seleucus VII did not leave a single soldier behind to defend Masaka, nor did he fear that the people of Masaka would rebel.

In Seleucus VII's view, if the army of the Kingdom of Pontus won this decisive battle, the Cappadocia region would naturally be recovered by the Kingdom of Pontus again, and there was no need for the defeated army of the Seleucid Empire to waste time on Masaka; If the Seleucid Empire wins, will the people of Masaka dare to rebel against the powerful forces of the Seleucid Empire?

Two days after the Seleucid Empire's 60,000 troops marched north, they found the 100,000 troops of the Pontus Kingdom rapidly moving south; Seleucus VII made up the central main force of his army with the soldiers of the Silver Shield Legion, the soldiers of the Pirate Legion covering the main force on the left flank, and the Scythe Chariot troops covering the main force on the right flank.

The most elite ironclad cavalry was led by Seleucus VII himself, ready to meet the Cappadocian cavalry of the Pontus kingdom; After discovering the traces of the Seleucid Empire, the army of the Pontic Kingdom also began to prepare for war, and the 50,000 Chinese army composed of hill soldiers and eastern infantry slowly came, with the same sickle chariot troops on the left flank and 20,000 Pontic light cavalry on the right flank.

The 20,000 most elite Cappadocian cavalry of the Pontic Kingdom charged directly at the ironclad cavalry of Seleucus VII; The duel between 20,000 Cappadocian cavalry and 13,000 ironclad cavalry was only the beginning of this brutal and bloody battle.

The Scythe Chariot Force, which was about the same size as the Pontus Kingdom and the Seleucid Empire, also charged at the same time, while the Pirate Legion soldiers of the Seleucid Empire, who were the weakest in battle, were about to meet the light cavalry of the Pontus Kingdom; The 22,000 soldiers of the Silver Shield Legion, the main force of the Chinese army, also had to fight against the 50,000 hill soldiers and eastern infantry of the Pontus Kingdom.

In fact, for the soldiers of the Silver Shield Legion, their task was the easiest of all the Seleucid armies; The Eastern Infantry and the Hill Soldiers were recognized as the infantry with the worst combat effectiveness in the entire Eastern Continent, and the two arms of the Pontus Kingdom were all newly recruited, so it is conceivable how poor their combat effectiveness was.

Even though the Chinese army of the Pontus Kingdom had 50,000 men, the soldiers of the Silver Shield Legion were absolutely confident that they could defeat this army of intransigent eastern infantry and hill soldiers; However, the 15,000-strong pirate legion had to face the 20,000-strong Pontus light cavalry, which was the battle that worried Seleucus VII the most.

No matter how much worry there was, after Seleucus VII led the ironclad cavalry and the Cappadocian cavalry of the Pontus Kingdom into a battle, they were all forgotten; It turns out that it is just a rumor that the Cappadocian cavalry is similar in combat power to the ironclad cavalry, and the ironclad cavalry still has a more powerful impact and more powerful combat power than the Cappadocian cavalry.

When thirteen thousand ironclad cavalry and twenty thousand Cappadocian cavalry accelerated and collided together, the unparalleled impact of the ironclad cavalry immediately tore a gap in the Cappadocian cavalry, and quickly widened such a gap; However, the large number of Cappadocia cavalry was difficult to parry under the sharp attack of the ironclad cavalry, and could only desperately attack the ironclad cavalry from both flanks.

The key to the battle between the two top cavalry is whether the ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire tore the Cappadocian cavalry of the Pontus Kingdom in half, or whether the Cappadocian cavalry of the Pontus Kingdom completely blocked the ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire in the gap; Although the impact speed of the ironclad cavalry has become denser and denser, the casualties of the Cappadocian cavalry have skyrocketed.

By this time, the soldiers of the pirate legion had already fought with the light cavalry of the Pontus Kingdom; It is not so much that the two armies are fighting, but that the light cavalry of the Pontus Kingdom are hunting the soldiers of the pirate legion with javelins, and the soldiers of the pirate legion, who cannot get close to the enemy light cavalry, can only use their own casualties to block the advance of the enemy light cavalry for the main force of the Chinese army.

As for the bloody battle between the two armies of the chariot troops, it was extremely tragic; It is also a 10,000-scale scythe chariot, and it is also a speeding scythe chariot, and the collision between the two is bloody and cruel.

The first to end the battle on the entire battlefield was the attack of the Silver Shield Legion on the 50,000 Pontic Kingdom infantry, and the brave attack of the elite Seleucid Empire Silver Shield Legion on the battlefield directly stunned their enemies; The newly recruited Eastern infantry and hill soldiers of the Pontus Kingdom were already extremely ineffective troops, and they quickly suffered extremely heavy casualties under such an attack.

As the casualty toll skyrocketed, after only an hour of fighting, the infantry army of the Pontus Kingdom, which was still nearly 40,000 people, actually collapsed on all fronts! The sentence of defeat is not so simple, the infantry of the Pontus Kingdom that collapsed on the whole line cried wolf, and the soldiers of the Silver Shield Legion launched a pursuit with even higher morale! (To be continued.) )