The stagnation of the Eastern Roman army is mainly due to the fact that this 150,000-strong army can almost be regarded as the main force of the Eastern Roman Empire's army, except for several Roman legions that had to be placed on the border of the Sassanid Empire, the troops in other areas are almost all withdrawn......

Even if the Eastern Roman Empire does not destroy the country, its strength will be greatly damaged, and its territory will be greatly occupied!

That extremely ambitious Li Liguo will never give up the opportunity to swallow the Eastern Roman Empire!

Li Liguo's approach doesn't have to worry about indigestion at all, because he doesn't plan to digest it at all!

There are basically only two measures for the Spartan army to occupy new territory, collect money and food, and select the right soldiers to replenish their own army!

Even if the people's livelihood in the occupied areas withered, there will be no convergence and discount!

As if the occupied area was not the territory of the Kingdom of Sparta, Li Liguo's behavior was like a national-level bandit and robber, just trying to be happy and expand his strength for a while, and he didn't plan for the future at all!

It is unlikely that you want to use time to drag down Li Liguo, after all, the king of Sparta is not a fool, and after the army is expanded, it will definitely be used to fight, and when the time comes, even if you don't want to fight, Li Liguo will lead the army directly over!

It's a pity that the army of the Eastern Roman Empire, which struck first, encountered an embarrassing problem, the scouts couldn't beat others, no, it wasn't that they couldn't beat it, but they were completely defeated!

The cavalry troops are one era behind, the battlefield information is almost completely blocked, and the Eastern Roman Empire army, which is blind, will not know the outcome if it goes any further!

The most conservative approach is naturally to stop the advance and withdraw the army from the occupied areas of the Spartan Kingdom, which have been destroyed by the Spartan army will not be able to produce any oil and water, and will not be able to feed the army of 150,000......

However, the order to withdraw is simple, but who bears the responsibility for not fighting a battle and running away in embarrassment?

Those generals of the Eastern Roman Empire did not have the consciousness of sacrificing themselves for the country!

What's more, moving forward is not a sure defeat, who can be willing to bear this great crime without trying!?

After a few days of stagnation, the army of the Eastern Roman Empire moved slowly again, the marching speed became slower, and more cautious, and at the same time strengthened the connection between the front army and the rear army, the march route pulled out by the army of 150,000 people was several miles long, and the general of the front army issued an order to the rear army, and the herald rode his war horse for half a day!

The reduction in the marching speed of the Eastern Roman Empire army undoubtedly made Li Liguo a little disappointed, the ambush in the middle could not be carried out, and the closer front and rear armies could quickly support each other, and it was difficult to ambush one section of it!

However, this also has an advantage, the slowdown of the Eastern Roman Empire's army gave Li Liguo more time to arrange troops, and even build fortifications in the direction of their march, connecting with those scattered towns to form a relatively 'advanced' defense line in the era of cold weapons!

In fact, it's nothing, just build a few earthen walls, and then put some horses or something, so that the soldiers of the 6th to 10th legions can have something to rely on to defend and not completely expose themselves to the field battle!

Don't look at the simple earthen wall, it actually doesn't have much defensive effect, but it can give the soldier a great spiritual support!

The feeling of condescending to fight and attacking from the back, that's not the same!

This is the reason why the defending soldiers tend to be more resilient than the siege soldiers!

Soon, the army of the Eastern Roman Empire, marching cautiously, met the line of defense of the Spartan army!

The generals of the Eastern Roman Empire didn't pay much attention to the defense line of the Spartan army after seeing it, the earthen wall could indeed cause a lot of trouble to their side, but it was just trouble!

The Eastern Roman Empire intends to break through the entire Spartan defense line with its strong forces, completely crush all the Spartan legion defense lines, and make it lose the determination to resist!

Then, following the tactics used by Li Liguo, the archers rushed to the enemy's nose in a group to fire a volley. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the archers of the Eastern Roman Empire drove over, behind the earthen wall there was a very cooperative army of archers of the same size from 6 to 10 legions!

After Li Liguo realized that the archer cluster tactics had lost its timeliness, he gave up the idea of forming a separate archer cluster in the newly formed 6 to 10 legions, and each legion was equipped with half of the archer troops and half of the hand-to-hand combat troops!

Let these legions have basic solo combat capabilities!

As a result, the archers of the Eastern Roman Empire and the archers of the 5 newly formed legions of Sparta started a tragic game of 'hurting each other'!

The generals of the Eastern Roman Empire, who had made up their minds to destroy the long-range troops of the Spartan army on the opposite side, gritted their teeth and insisted on constantly sending archers to supplement the consumption of each other's shooting in front.

With each salvo, entire regiments of archers on both sides will be crippled and withdrawn from the battle!

New archers were replaced, and several regiments of archers who had lost too much and lost their combat effectiveness were regrouped, and then pulled up and consumed!

The two sides continued to shoot at each other for a day, and the earthen walls and beneath the earthen walls were densely covered with hedgehog-like corpses!

After all, the Spartan army was condescending to shoot arrows, and the losses were naturally smaller, even so, almost all of the archer units of the 5 newly formed legions were scrapped!

In the end, it was even up to the Warlords to carry knives to force the retreating archers to reline and shoot arrows!

Chop off the heads of archers who disobey orders, there are hundreds!

One can imagine how huge the losses of the archers on the side of the Eastern Roman Empire were!

All the Roman generals who commanded the archers were in charge of the archers, and they reacted to the commander-in-chief, this kind of war of attrition was really unbearable, and the archers were already frightened by this tragic attrition......

The next day, the Roman commander had no choice but to give up continuing to use archers to clean up the Spartan archers, in fact, if the archers of the Eastern Roman Empire were simply attritional, even if their own losses were large, it would be enough to completely defeat the Spartan archers of the 5 legions, of course, this if forever can only be if......

Even Li Liguo didn't expect the generals of the Eastern Roman Empire to be so ruthless, blatantly using human lives to confront themselves, and almost succeeded!

The long-range legion organized separately by the Fifth Army under Li Liguo rushed to the defense line where the five cannon fodder regiments were stationed overnight to strengthen the archer troops there. (To be continued.) )