Chapter 53: Victory
Li Liguo, who was victorious, soon received a messenger from Guan Yu and knew that the Eastern Roman Empire had taken a detour and evacuated back!
The Roman army and the Roman cavalry on the grain road resisted fiercely, and by the time the battle was over, the remnants of the Eastern Roman Empire had already left their camp and disappeared, and the Spartan cavalry was used intensively, so naturally there were not enough scouts to detect the movement direction of the remnants of the Eastern Roman Empire!
However, after getting the news that the main army of the Eastern Roman Empire had lost its combat effectiveness, Li Liguo obviously did not plan to put back the army of the Eastern Roman Empire without claws!
Those soldiers of the Eastern Roman Empire who fled back are all elites, as long as the Eastern Roman Empire is given a period of time to repair, the tens of thousands of people who fled back can pull up an army with super combat effectiveness!
Under Li Liguo's order, the fastest Spartan cavalry dispersed first, following the traces of the Eastern Roman Empire army to find their direction of movement!
However, when the Spartan cavalry discovered the location of the remnants of the Eastern Roman Empire, the remnants of the Eastern Roman Empire, who had retreated with all their might, had already walked out of the occupied area of the Spartan Kingdom and had just entered the Lycia region!
That is, the Visigothic settlement!
In order to slow down the speed of the remnants of the Eastern Roman Empire, General Guan Yu let the Spartan infantry of the 4 legions led by Li Liguo in the rear catch up, and without hesitation, he led thousands of Spartan cavalry to launch a decisive charge against the remnants of the Eastern Roman Empire who still had tens of thousands of horses!
Originally, the commander of the Eastern Roman Empire army did not mean to entangle with the Spartan cavalry, but just threw down more than 10,000 auxiliary legionnaires to resist the Spartan cavalry......
It's a pity that the Roman commander underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Spartan cavalry, and even underestimated the spiritual bonus effect of Guan Yu, a general, on the Spartan cavalry!
Under the leadership of Guan Yu, as long as the general holding the Qinglong Glaive was not killed in battle, none of the Spartan cavalry behind him escaped, and the assault assault and assault all the way forward!
The infantry of the Eastern Roman auxiliary legion watched in horror the suicidal charge launched by the Spartan cavalry, and they collided with their spears so hard that many of them had no horses, and they had to pull a few cushions on foot......
The auxiliary legions of the Eastern Roman Empire, which were not very strong in their will to fight, were completely broken by the assault formation composed of Spartan heavy cavalry and lancers!
The commander of the army of the Eastern Roman Empire soon received the news that the troops of the Imperial Palace had been defeated!
The world-famous cavalry unit of Sparta really deserves its name!
The commander simply stopped, and reorganized his army to eat the Spartan cavalry first, but the Spartan cavalry, which had previously charged like a madman, did not attack after the Eastern Roman army had set up its position......
Guan Yu led people to quietly look at the Eastern Roman Empire army opposite, the other party sent a large army to attack, Guan Yu retreated with cavalry, if the Roman army just sent a partial division to attack, Guan Yu led people to defeat them!
The Roman commander was speechless and found that in order to keep the Spartan cavalry from attacking, he had to leave at least half of his men and horses behind to ensure that they were not routed......
As the days passed, the slow-moving Roman commander, who was entangled in the Spartan cavalry, once again received terrible news that the Visigothic civilians had seen the Spartan kingdom's eagle banner enter the Lycian region!
Time is running out for him!
The Roman commander knew that his current state of the army could not resist the Spartan army of more than 70,000 people in the entire 4 legions, and if he ran away, he would be attacked by the mad dog-like Spartan cavalry, and the tens of thousands of Roman troops could only maintain the battle formation in aggrieved!
It is conceivable that sooner or later this speed will be overtaken by the Spartan army marching with all its might!
The Roman commander had no choice but to give an order that was very demoralizing, and all the auxiliary legions were guarded here, and the main legionnaires from the Romans ran away first!
Most of the auxiliary legions of the Eastern Roman Empire are soldiers and mercenaries from other nationalities, and their combat effectiveness is good, but the discipline and loyalty are naturally inferior to the main legions of the Romans themselves!
The decision of the Roman commander was absolutely correct from the perspective of the national interests of the Eastern Roman Empire, but in the eyes of those abandoned soldiers, it was not right!
As a result, just one day after the Roman commander and the Roman troops left, the Spartan iron cavalry created a miraculous victory of 3,000 people and more than 40,000 people!
The battleless auxiliary legionnaires did not think of fighting with the Spartan cavalry at all, and when Guan Yu charged, many auxiliary legionnaires did not wait to meet the enemy, and they 'took the initiative' to route......
Guan Yu was also in the mood to hunt down and kill those scattered auxiliary legionnaires, anyway, they were no longer organized and abandoned by the Romans, and there was no harm left!
The auxiliary legionnaires in the back saw that the Spartan cavalry did not chase and kill their fleeing comrades, and naturally triggered a larger rout!
The Spartan cavalry didn't kill many people, and they routed a whole auxiliary legion of more than 40,000 people along the way!
Those Roman officers could not stop the trend of rout and flee at all, not to mention, they were also afraid of dying under the iron hooves of the Spartan cavalry!
As a result, a few days later, the Roman commander once again saw the entangled Spartan cavalry behind him!
At this time, the remnants of the Eastern Roman Empire had just entered the Illyrian region, and there were still thousands of miles away from the border of the Eastern Roman Empire......
The Roman commander, who hated this Spartan cavalry, made a careful deployment at night, and then the next day, under Guan Yu's nose, he did not change the fast marching column at all, completely ignoring it!
How could Guan Yu let this situation go?
Even if he doubted it, he had to charge to intercept this remnant of the Roman army!
The Spartan cavalry charge was as smooth as ever at the beginning, and the Roman soldiers in the marching army couldn't stop the charge of the Spartan cavalry at all, and the blood of Guan Yu and his people was flowing like a river!
However, the Romans, even if they were only remnants, numbered more than 40,000 people!
The Roman commander desperately took nearly half of the troops as bait, allowing the Spartan cavalry to break through all the way to the center of the Roman queue, and then mobilized the Roman elite that had already been prepared to surround Guan Yu and his party!
The Roman commander gave full play to his numerical advantage and made layers of encirclement, and the Spartan cavalry led by Guan Yu found that after being surrounded, they were not afraid at all, and under the morale bonus of Guan Yu, they rushed left and right in the encirclement and launched a fierce battle! (To be continued.) Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info)