Chapter 55: Under Victory
No matter how powerful Guan Yu is, it is impossible for him to defeat an army by himself, let alone an army of tens of thousands of people!
He naturally did this for a reason, because he received a messenger from Li Liguo yesterday, in order to pursue the remnants of the Roman army, Li Liguo specially selected a group of legionary infantry who could ride horses, and used the captured Roman war horses to dispatch nearly 3,000 people as the vanguard, which will arrive today!
Li Liguo meant that this force was for Guan Yu to be his reinforcements, but Guan Yu planned to disrupt the Roman army formation first, let them charge without scruples, and then leave a few messengers to lead the reinforcements out from the flank!
This support unit is not a cavalry unit, it can only be regarded as mounted infantry, and it still has to be dismounted to fight when fighting......
Under Guan Yu's loud shouting, the small number of Spartan cavalry glowed with great enthusiasm for battle, and they got together with more and more Roman soldiers!
The Roman commander looked at Guan Yu and the others who fell into the sea of people again, and a cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, this time it depends on how you run!
But before he could be happy, a swaska-shaped eagle banner appeared on the flank!
Thousands of Spartan legionnaires shouted the battle cry of Sparta and attacked the flanks of the attacking Roman army!
The Roman commander didn't expect the Spartan army to come over so quickly, in order to eliminate Guan Yu and the others as soon as possible, he ordered the whole army to assault, and there was no extra men and horses to resist the sudden appearance of the Spartan legion infantry!
Fortunately, the Spartan army that suddenly appeared was not too numerous......
However, the Romans, who had been chased by the Spartan soldiers for an unknown number of days, suddenly saw the Spartan reinforcements, and the Roman soldiers in the battlefield could not see the specific number of the Spartan army at all, and many Roman soldiers subconsciously thought that this was the main force of Sparta!
So, of course, these Roman soldiers fled......
The Roman commander was stunned to see thousands of Spartan soldiers magically defeat the Roman soldiers who were extremely resilient in the past, and he didn't understand that the Spartan soldiers on the opposite side didn't seem to be the kind of Spartan elite with a small number, why did those Roman elites flee by themselves?!
The Roman commander rubbed his eyes and made sure that he was not dreaming, and he almost vomited blood, he personally drew his sword, led his guards into the rear of the battlefield, and slashed the Roman soldiers who fled!
"Give me back, give me back to the battlefield! The main forces of the Spartan army did not arrive, it was just a small force of several thousand people! ”
The actions of the Roman commander and his guards were not useless, and many Roman soldiers returned to the battlefield under the threat of their lives and the authority of the Roman commander!
It's just that the Roman front is barely maintained, but the morale is inevitably lowered by a notch, and it has been at a disadvantage in the battle, if it weren't for the fact that the combat effectiveness of the infantry of the Spartan legion was not too strong, far inferior to the infantry of the Spartan lineage, it would have crushed the resistance of the Romans long ago!
This scuffle lasted until the sun was about to set in the evening, and the two sides had no choice but to withdraw their troops, and the Roman commander who collected his troops by night looked at the sky speechlessly, and there were still tens of thousands of Roman descendant soldiers left, after the daytime rout and attrition, now there are only more than 10,000 people left......
And the remaining Roman soldiers were demoralized, and their morale was shaken, and today they saw the vanguard of Spartan reinforcements, and the main force of Spartan reinforcements was still far away?
The Roman commanders knew that these Roman soldiers had no hope of continuing the battle......
After a day of fighting, Guan Yu and others also suffered a lot of losses, especially the Spartan cavalry who initially resisted the impact of tens of thousands of Roman troops!
The Spartan Iron Horseman, which once shocked Europe, is now in the single digits......
The few Spartan cavalry that survived survived by serving as messengers for Spartan reinforcements......
It can be said that the Spartan cavalry has disappeared in the full force of tens of thousands of Roman troops!
Only Guan Yu relied on a big knife and the chain mail of the upper quality on his body, and killed seven in and seven out of the crowd of the Roman army, of course, when Guan Yu still had physical strength, he would never be able to die, but if there were no Spartan reinforcements, Guan Yu would be killed sooner or later by the sea of people exhausted his physical strength!
The Spartan reinforcements who arrived in time successfully relieved Guan Yu's siege and rescued him, and Guan Yu, who had recovered his strength, also entered the Roman army several times, setting off a bloody storm!
On this day, Guan Yu was really happy!
The earth was full of sunshine again, and when Guan Yu led the Spartan reinforcements to continue to call for formation and delay the footsteps of the Romans, he saw several Roman officers walking over with white flags!
On this day, the Roman commander, who felt that he had no hope even if he returned to the city of Rome, raised the white flag against the Spartan reinforcements, who were far fewer than him, on only one condition, to save the lives of the Roman soldiers and himself!
Guan Yu naturally would not refuse this condition, and since then, the main army of the Eastern Roman Empire, which had reached 150,000 people at the time of the levy, was declared to be destroyed in the middle of the Illyrian region!
Li Liguo, who arrived later, personally received the surrender of the Roman commander, and generously rewarded him with a lot of gold and silver treasures, so that he could live luxuriously enough for the rest of his life, and also cordially invited the Roman commander to serve in his army. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Of course, the propaganda is that the Roman commander politely refused the gracious invitation of the king of Sparta, tired of the killing on the battlefield, and went to the countryside to be a rich man......
Li Liguo did not do anything bad about the prisoners of the Roman army, and he was completely a face that treated the surrendered personnel preferentially!
Under Li Liguo's propaganda, the image of the Spartan kingdom being cruel to its enemies and treating the defectors with kindness was accepted by the European world, and it was called a rational tyrant!
The surrender of the Roman commander greatly hit the morale of the Eastern Roman Empire, and also made the Eastern Roman Emperor extremely angry!
Just when the Eastern Roman Emperor ordered the elimination of the Roman Commander's family, the envoys of the Kingdom of Sparta arrived at the Imperial Palace of the Eastern Roman Empire!
Li Liguo took advantage of the great victory to announce to the whole of Europe that he was willing to take the initiative to start peace negotiations with the Eastern Roman Empire in order to preserve the continuation of the surrendered Roman commander family!
This is definitely great news for the Eastern Roman Empire, which is empty in the country!
You know, the Eastern Roman Empire, after receiving the news of the total annihilation of the expeditionary army, was ready to abandon the Mercia region, the Macedonian region, the Greek peninsula and even the Thracian region!
Intend to defend Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, with all its might!
The peace brought by the envoys of the Kingdom of Sparta was too timely for the Eastern Roman Empire, even if the Kingdom of Sparta made several unreasonable demands! (To be continued.) )