Sixty miles outside the city of Yacatoria (north of present-day Hamayyah, Iraq), a cavalry of Gongba gathered in an open wilderness.

"What should we do next, Lord Steward?" Murong Ling asked. He has been Zeng Mu's deputy for more than ten years, and although he has reached a very high tacit understanding in many aspects, he still can't keep up with Zeng Mu's train of thought in terms of strategy and strategy, so he often needs to wait for Zeng Mu to say what he wants.

"Ge Chong, tell me about our current situation." Zeng Mu was still so unhurried. He made Murong Ling, Ge Chong, Pan Yue, Tuoba and others particularly admire, saying that he really got the "true biography" of His Majesty King Ming.

"In front of us is the Governor of Mesopotamia of the Persian Empire, Thanamos Aldaban Musa, a famous general of the Persian Empire, who led a large army to ambush the Roman Emperor Julian, who was originally implicated in Ardashir's murder of his father and was captured and awaiting execution. Later, despite his previous suspicions, he personally went to the prison to restore Mossa's reputation, released him from prison, and handed over Ctesiphon's elite army to his command, and finally brought the former Ardashir's general under his command. ”

Ge Chong's narration was very exciting, and everyone was a little distracted.

"After Musa became a general under the Bers, he repeatedly performed military exploits, defeated the kingdoms of Sheila and Ansa, ambushed Roman reinforcements, captured Baramila, and subdued Armenia, and more than half of the credit came from his hands. So Musa was in his seventies. Bezchi was still relieved to hand over Mesopotamia and the Western Line to him. ”

"What a fierce man, seventy years old is still so powerful!" Tuoba exclaimed, but his voice was small and was quickly ignored by everyone.

"Now he's in the city of Arcadolia. He had more than 30,000 Bedouin cavalry and about 50,000 elite infantry. ”

"Bedouin cavalry? How did you run into them? Wang Tong chattered.

"Since we occupied the three counties of Hexi, Aral and Caspian in Zhaozhou, and overlooked the Persian hinterland, Persia has long relied on the mercenary cavalry of the Scythians not to flee to other places. It was our extermination that left the Persians without a source of hired rangers, so they now rely more and more on hiring cavalry from the Bedouins. Not to mention, these nomads who wandered in the deserts of Arabia, Syria, and Egypt were really brave and brave, and their will to fight was very tenacious, and they had their own advantages from the original Scythians. "The Bedouin cavalry we faced was only one of a hundred thousand cavalry hired by the Persians. ”

"100,000 cavalry, this Persian is really not ordinary rich." Li Li sighed.

"The Bedouins are very poor in scattered and barren wilderness, so they are hired at a low price. I heard that the price is 30% cheaper than the Scythian people before. Ge Zhong replied with a smile, and everyone couldn't help but chuckle and looked at Zeng Mu's still peaceful and deep gaze, Ge Chong quickly stopped smiling and continued to explain the situation: "The other 50,000 people are all elite soldiers trained by Musa, who have fought against Ansa and Sheila, and fought many times with the Romans. He has a lot of combat experience and is a veritable elite soldier.

"Now Musa is deployed in such a way that 50,000 infantry have laid a strong defensive line around the city of Arcadolia, and the Bedouins are deployed on the flanks outside the city."

After listening to Ge Chong's narration, there was a brief silence at the scene.

"Secretary Xu, you talk about it first." Zeng Mu turned to Xu Hu and said that he was Xu Dang's second son. is also very delicate, with his mother's appearance, although Xu Dangcai gave him the name "Tiger" to be majestic. Xu Hu also graduated from the Chang'an Army Military Academy, which finally made Xu Dang feel relieved, because Xu Hu's elder brother, Xu Dang's eldest son Xu Hui, was unwilling to inherit his father's business. Instead, he worshiped under the door of Gu Daozi, a master of Chinese painting and a professor at Yongzhou University. Aspire to become a famous "painter".

"I don't have anything to say, let's talk about it as Deputy Chief Manager Murong." Xu Hu turned to Murong Ling and said.

Zeng Mu, Murong Ling and the others knew that although this clerk was not witty and sharp. But it is better to be steady and meticulous, to focus on picking up and filling in the gaps, and not to care at the moment.

"It seems to me that Moses is forcing us to fight a decisive battle with them." Murong Ling expressed his opinion.

"Now the cities of Mesopotamia are tightening their forces and holding on to the fortifications of the towns. And Moussa led this army to maneuver back and forth, thinking that the strategy was to compress our space for maneuver. Musa knew that unlike the Roman legions, we were far more mobile than the Romans, and that it would be very difficult for him to clear the wilderness against a strong wall. ”

"But if the Persians don't have a strong wall and clear the wilderness, but there is no way to take us, so Jisa relies on the natural danger of the Euphrates River and adopts the tactics of joint defense of the cities to compress our space little by little. Now we are in a bad situation, and the soldiers and civilians of all the lands have retreated into the cities, and have resisted our attacks with their strong walls. It is not impossible for us to capture a town, but we are afraid that once we are stuck under a certain town, Musa can send Bedouin cavalry to drag us first, and then the infantry army will surround us, and as long as we are surrounded, Musa can calmly draw another 100,000 horses from the Mesopotamian cities to besiege us. ”

After listening to Murong Lingdi's words, everyone began to talk in a low voice.

"This Mousa is really ruthless, the city of Baramir has been besieged by the Romans for nearly three months, and he is about to fall, but he does not care. We sacked more than a dozen towns along the west bank of the Euphrates, and he didn't care, but he just slowly arranged the dispatch and concentrated the troops. Pan Yue patted the helmet hanging on the saddle and said, then turned to Murong Ling and asked, "Deputy Chief, what should we do?" ”

Murong Ling glanced at Zeng Mu, hesitated for a moment and continued: "According to tactics, the best way is to abandon Musa and find a place to cross the Euphrates River, directly into the core hinterland of the Mesopotamia region, and even threaten Ctesiphon on the east bank of the Tigris River. Directly shake the foundations of the Persian Empire. ”

Speaking of this, Murong Ling's expression darkened: "Although this move is rooted, it is extremely risky. First of all, we could not build a bridge over the Euphrates without the support of equipment and sappers. The second is that we have no ships to support us, and now the Euphrates is completely controlled by the Persians, all the abandoned bridges and ships have been burned, and the Persian sailors are still patrolling the water day and night. Next-load beautiful girl if we force our way across the river. You might cut it in half and eat it. ”

Murong Ling patted the nail piece on his thigh, vented his frustration and continued: "And even if we can cross the Euphrates River, there is a long and narrow area between these two rivers, and there is not much room for maneuver, and there are many rivers in Shuize, which is very unfavorable for us to maneuver. Then we will be faced with a dilemma, and then we will risk crossing the river and retreating to the west of the Euphrates, just as we are now; Or cross the Tigris River to the east and go deep into the eastern bank. But it was the nest of the Persians, and it was not only difficult to find a guide. And there are more armies that will encircle us, and if they fall for the trick, they will end up like the Roman Emperor Julian. ”

"What then? It is extremely risky to go east, and it is not of much strategic significance to continue to wander on the west bank. Lu Kuan said loudly.

"Then let's fight Moses in a decisive battle." Zeng Mu, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.

"A decisive battle?" Everyone couldn't help but wonder. Although the Chinese cavalry fought fiercely and was not afraid of death, after all, it was 30,000 against 80,000, and everyone was a strong general, wasn't this a sacrifice in vain?

"The most critical thing for Musa's mobile force is 30,000 Bedouins, and without these cavalry, this mobile force cannot be maneuvered." Zeng Mu continued.

"The governor means to defeat these 30,000 Bedouin cavalry?" Murong Ling's eyes lit up. However, there are still some people who don't understand very well that the Bedouins are leaning outside the city of Arcadolia, as long as they are fighting with the Bedouin cavalry, the remaining 50,000 infantry can slowly surround them, and the elite archers and pikemen in Persia are not vegetarians.

"We were halfway through the attack and suddenly found that the city of Arcardolia was not easy to fight, and we were about to turn around and leave. What do you think of Mouses? What to do? Zeng Mu asked.

Murong Ling was the first to react: "He will definitely send the Bedouins out." Tail chasing us and dragging us back at all costs. Buy time for his infantry. He waited for three months and finally waited for us to take the bait, how could he be willing to let us escape? ”

Zeng Ji nodded and said, "Yes, Musa knows, if we let us run away this time, I don't know when we want to catch our shadow again?" And our presence is too much of a threat to Mesopotamia, once the Romans capture the city of Palmyra, they can completely free up their hands to send an infantry to join us, and then we can go to Ctesiphon whenever we want, and as long as we defeat our cavalry, the Romans will be frightened, abandon Palmyra, and retreat to the border, and for Musa, all the problems of the western border will be solved. ”

Two days later, Moses received a report that a large force of cavalry was approaching the city of Arcadolia, under the banner of the Chinese cavalry, which was "notorious" in Mesopotamia.

"They finally couldn't take it anymore." Musa's face was happy, but he quickly calmed down, the Huaxia people were a very cunning wolf pack, and they could not be taken lightly until they had completely lost their breath.

As soon as Moussa put on his armor with the help of the guards, Gederosia ran in full armor and shouted, "General Moussa, the Chinese are here!" ”

"Hold your breath, my Royal Highness!" Musa scolded with a gloomy face.

Gedrosia hurriedly quieted down and stood aside respectfully, in awe of this old general whom his father and emperor respected very much, and Gedrosia who was sent to study.

Musa put on his helmet and covered his head with all his silver hair. He glanced at Gedrosia and sighed softly in his heart, this prince who was less than twenty years old was really too young. But His Majesty Emperor BCS I fervently wanted him to grow into a good general, but this was impossible. However, there is no way to do this, there are too few talents available in the Persian Empire now, since the passage of time, the generals who used to follow Shapur II in the southern and northern wars have grown old, and finally only himself, the youngest general of the year, is left. However, the Shinchi general has not grown up for a long time. Xerthian is a fierce general. It's a pity that he can't stand alone, Zamaspu is a good hand in handling government affairs, but it's a pity that he can't fight a fight, and Onsali is a good minister. It's a pity that it's okay, and it's not very reassuring in terms of fighting, Priadva can be regarded as both civil and military. It's a pity that every night is inseparable from women and wine, now even the horse can't sit steadily, and there is a fart fight, and the remaining dozen generals can only be regarded as medium talents, and they can still support the Romans by gritting their teeth, and there is some suspense on the Chinese who can fight well.

When he thought of this, Moses' heart was disheartened, O Ahura Mazda, bless thy Persian people. Mussa's surrender to Besgys was not as "legendary" as Gordson's intelligence suggested. The veteran Musa just didn't want Persia to bleed, and he also knew that Persia was in a situation under the threat of the two great powers in the east and west, for the sake of Persia, and for his family of dozens of relatives, Musa "surrendered" to the British branch, and the veteran also knew that the British branch would not let him go for anything else. And because His Majesty the new emperor also knew that there were not many generals available to the Persian Empire now.

As soon as Gedelosia had followed Mousa to the bottom of the city of Accartoria, he heard a loud trumpet outside the city, and the sound of thunderous horses' hooves and cries mixed with it. Of course, Gederosia, who had some experience, knew that this was the Huaxia cavalry attacking, and couldn't help but be shocked: "The Huaxia people attacked so quickly? ”

As he walked up the steps to the tower, Musa replied without looking back: "This is how the Chinese fight, the infantry is like a moving mountain, but the cavalry is like a fire with the wind. Otherwise, they would have been able to sack a dozen cities in one fell swoop, including Mari, Durduli, Sibal, Karbala, Cassidia, and so on, and we would not be able to do anything about it. ”

The state ascended the tower. Mosa and Gederosia were astonished at what they saw, and saw countless black cavalry running back and forth from the north and south flanks in the open space in front of the city of Arcadolia, and they were like dark clouds drifting in front of the tents outside the city, and the rumbling thunder was pouring down heavy rain. The raindrops were made up of countless arrows and even rockets, all of which fell on the heads of the Persian soldiers who were nervously preparing for battle. After a while, a number of Persian soldiers lay on the ground. Fireworks also rose everywhere.

Due to the comparatively small size of the city of Calladoria. Only 20,000 infantry were stationed in the city, and the rest were stationed in front of the city. Gedrosia couldn't help frowning when he saw that the Chinese cavalry were just shooting arrows back and forth, but they didn't rush straight towards the camp position.

Mosa seemed to see Godrosia's doubts, and said: "They are harassing our positions with their good cavalry, trying to find a hole in our defense, and once they find a gap or a weak point, the cavalry behind them will rush into the gap like a flood, and then break our position all the way. ”

After half an hour, the cavalry running back and forth suddenly turned around and ran backwards, while another cavalry came to the front, took their job, and continued to run and shoot arrows at the Runners.

"This is the tactic of the Huaxia, and it takes good physical strength and horsepower to storm the gaps and positions, so they must rotate at intervals in order to allow the other cavalry to rest, maintain the best fighting condition, and be ready to go into the assault."

Speaking of this, Musa couldn't help frowning: "The Huaxia people are not very determined to attack us, they are just testing our strength this time." ”

At this time, thousands of Chinese cavalry ran out of the brigade, threw long ropes at the Persian camp, and then pulled down the wooden fence that the Persians could rely on in front with the help of horsepower. However, the bows and arrows of the Persians counterattacked and the Chinese fell off their horses, and in a short time they left behind hundreds of corpses and a few short sections of wooden fences that were on the side and ran back to the brigade.

After another half an hour, the Chinese seemed to be helpless against the Persian position, and Musa regretted it in his eyes, he should not have listened to the persuasion of his generals to build such a solid camp outside the city. If you cultivate a little sparsely and let the Huaxia break through a part, in this stalemate stage, you will release the Bedouins and cut off the back road of the Huaxia people, so that you can complete your tactics.

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Gederosia shouting loudly: "The Huaxia people want to run!" ”

Musa hurriedly looked up and saw that the Chinese were slowly retreating, some distance from the Persian position, and the rain of arrows was much more sparse.

"General, hurry up and pursue, take advantage of the discouragement of the Chinese people, or I don't know when I will be able to catch the tail of the Chinese people." Gedrosia exclaimed anxiously.

Musa thought for a while, and hurriedly ordered: "Order the Bedouin cavalry to attack immediately, give me a bite to the Chinese, and the rest of the army immediately mobilize and follow the hurry."

Speaking of this, Jisa chuckled in his heart, stopped and thought for a while before ordering: "Tell the leader of the Bedouins that once you have to be careful, the Huaxia people are very cunning, don't get too far from our army, and withdraw immediately if you exceed a hundred miles." ”

After a while, the Huaxia cavalry, who was still running just now, suddenly turned around and galloped backwards, leaving a cloud of dust in the sky, and a huge cloud of dust was also raised on the north side of the city of Arcatoria, and the direction was rolling towards the tail of the Huaxia people. The infantry inside and outside the city also acted urgently, and 40,000 infantry marched forward in formation.