In the early morning of late June, the sun is rising.

"Your Majesty. The Han army was running in all directions in our Parthian territory, and the ministers took advantage of their attack and the lack of manpower in the siege to break through the siege of Apamea and return from the siege. ”

Bhutto's eyes were scarlet, and he knelt down in front of the throne, and his heart couldn't help but be sour:

"In this breakthrough, more than 24,000 soldiers and horses were lost."

On the throne sat the lord of the kingdom, Mithridatis.

He was in the prime of life, but during this time, the old age was visible to the naked eye, frost-white hair appeared on his temples, and fine lines at the corners of his eyes were obvious.

Only his eyes were still majestic, and he was dressed in a white robe and held a scepter.

"How many men did you bring back?"

Mithridates II looked at Bhutto, whose robes were stained with blood.

To Bhutto's surprise, there was an illusory and vague figure sitting in the wing of the hall. Its aura is so strong that even Bhutto is frightened.

When he came in, the other party was there.

"The ministers gathered all the tribes along the road and brought back more than 20,000 troops, plus the soldiers and horses left behind in Ctesiphon, my Parthia can be called the elite at present, and there are still more than 50,000." Bhutto said sadly.

Two years ago, Parthia's soldiers and horses were as high as 300,000, and there were 200,000 elites.

"I've decided to shrink my line and hold on to Ctesiphon, what do you think?" Mithridates II tract.

"Abandoning the periphery, defending the royal capital with all your might, and fighting to the death with the enemy is the right decision in the current situation, Your Majesty is wise and wise, as always!"

Bhutto said solemnly: "The minister has been studying the tactics of the Han army.

They took the advantage of light cavalry to the extreme, and were good at running attacks, surprise attacks and ranger tactics. ”

"Our Parthian ironclad army was invincible, but the Han army repeatedly fought in the plains, and was repeatedly broken by their dexterity and cunning with light cavalry.

His Majesty personally ordered the line of defense to be retracted, and it was obvious that he had seen the characteristics of the Han army, and if we continued to fight with them on horseback, we would still be defeated. ”

"Taixi Feng City has thick walls, and there are two acropolis around it, which are mutually supportive, if the Han army comes, our army will hold on, which can effectively curb its light cavalry advantage.

With His Majesty here, the troops will be able to resist the Han army. ”

Mithridati II nodded slightly: "When we first fought with the Han army, we thought that the ironclad heavy cavalry was invincible, but when we met the Han army, we lost the battle. It wasn't until the Baitong Rock Dam was burst that we really took it seriously, but it was a little too late. ”

"Since then, the two commanders of the Han army have seized the weakness of our lack of food and attacked our food supply many times, each time hitting our most lethal position."

"If we take a defensive position after the white stone embankment breaks and fight again after a year, it may not be the situation in front of us.

I Parthia was ...... ...... who should not be in a hurry to start another war"

Mithridati seemed to be a little remorseful, took a deep breath, and lifted his spirits:

"Last night the Han army intervened in Seleuc, and Rumli's men were lured into the city of Siati and trapped, and if we lose this battle again, the country's fortune will be ruined.

If we can win, the Han army will be defeated, and we will take advantage of the situation to recover the border, and there is still a chance to recover. ”

Bhutto bowed and said: "On the way back, the Han army chased after him along the way and engaged in battles many times.

The minister judged that the Han army was arriving in a blink of an eye. ”

"The commander of the Han army is also on his way here."

Mithridates II said coldly: "I am ready for this battle, and I will surely kill him here." ”

Bhutto glanced at the illusory figure on his flanks, and thought that this person was afraid that he was part of His Majesty's arrangement.

This man followed and listened to the conversation between the monarch and the minister the whole time, but never said a word.

"What do you think of the upcoming engagement?" Mithridates asked again.

"If you follow the regular siege order, the other party will attack the acropolis first, and then attack the main city of Taixifeng."

Bhutto said: "But the commander of the Han army never used his troops according to common sense. He uses soldiers, sometimes he can jump out of the battle, and from another level, he plays tactics that affect the entire victory or defeat.

There is no definite method for his use of soldiers, there is no law to follow, and the minister can't see through how he will arrange. ”

He added: "But at this moment there is a Roman offensive against Seleucus and Macedonia. He wants to compete with Rome for time, and wants to break my Ctesiphon as soon as possible, and it seems that there is only one way to attack directly.

If he competes in a frontal siege battle, the minister thinks that he will not want to break the city in a short time. ”

"Alright, we'll wait for him to come......" Mithridates also glanced at the dim man who was sitting aside.

The other party seemed to be laughing, and made a fluctuating voice: "He has already come, this time, I will share the victory and defeat with him." ”

Just as his words fell, a loud bang was suddenly heard!

Half of Ctesiphon was shaking.

Recently, Tai Xifeng has long entered a state of martial law, and only the city gates on the flanks are opened to prevent the Han army from raiding.

After the loud bang just now, another sound came out one after another.

Boom - boom!

It was the Han army that used military tactics to stealthily march and quietly approach Ctesiphon, and then suddenly launched an offensive and attacked the city gates.

A voice resounded throughout the city: "Zhang Cigong, the lieutenant of the Northern Army under the Great Sima Seat of the Han Army, led the army to attack, which one dares to fight with me?!" ”

"Who dares to fight our army?"

"Who dares to fight our army?"

There was a shout outside the city that shook the city, and the army was in command.

"The little king of the Western Huns under the throne of the Han army is evil and jealous, and he has come to break the city!" This is the voice of the Evil King.

"Zhao Ponu, the general of Yingyang under the throne of Da Sima, who will fight with me."

“……”

Outside the city, there was thunder and cheers.

It was Huo Quai's generals from all walks of life who led the troops to kill.

Inside the city, there was instant silence.

In the palace, Mithridatis slowly got up: "Sure enough, I bypassed the Acropolis and came directly to attack my Ctesiphon!" Then he walked out of the hall.

Bhutto got up and followed.

The illusory figure disappeared silently.

Both Mithridates and Bhutto had extremely high practices, and in the blink of an eye they came to the towering walls of Ctesiphon.

There are Han troops outside the city walls in all directions, which are the Hun soldiers and horses led by the King of Hun Evil, and the forbidden troops led by Zhang Cigong, Zhao Ponu, Chen Qing and others.

Only the south side of the city gate was unoccupied, and it was unusually quiet.

But Mithridati appeared at the head of the city on the south side.

And at the moment when he appeared, there was a Han army outside the city, as if separated from the void, with nearly 2,000 people, three horses per capita, silent and silent.

There are less than 2,000 troops, but the prosperity of the edge is not lost to thousands of troops.

Huo Qu on horseback was sick, his robe hunted, and he looked up obliquely.

He and Mithrida Tiri had secretly fought several times, but this was the first time they had met officially.

The head of the city and the outside of the city look at each other from each other.

Huo Quzhi raised his voice and said, "King Mithridati, are you willing to surrender?" ”

"I am the lord of Parthia, and I have no victory or defeat at the moment, why should I surrender?"

Mithridates stood at the head of the city, scepter in hand, and his voice was low.

"If you fall, you will not die. Become a vassal state of our Han and maintain self-government. All you need to pay is the domestic standing army and horses, and the border defense must have our Han army stationed all year round. Only these two conditions, how? "Huo Qu is sick and has a good time.

"If I surrender, do you dare to use me to continue to be the lord of the country?" Mithridates could not see the joy and anger.

Huo Quzhi smiled: "Why don't you dare?

You Parthia was in its prime, and was defeated by our army, and ended up outside the city today, with me in one day, who would dare to rebel? ”

"I heard that you are arrogant by nature, and it is true!" Mithrida Ladder Road.

Huo Quzhi snorted lightly: "Is my arrogant dog also in the city?" Let him get out of here and I'll see. ”

Mithridatis: "If I win this battle, I will kill all the Han people." If I am defeated, I will die with my kingdom! ”

Bhutto knelt down on his knees beside him and swore: "May I die with Your Majesty and live with my country!" ”

The defenders at the head of the city also knelt down and shouted, "Live with the country and die with your majesty!" ”

Mithridati became the head of the independent city and said: "Champion Hou, come on, see if you die or I die!" ”

"Then there's nothing to say."

Huo Quzhi said: "The whole army, retreat thirty miles back and camp, and after resting, you will come to break the city and the country!" ”

Zhang Cigong and the others were secretly stunned, Huo Quai's troops have always been vigorous and rapid, and the offensive was like a raging storm.

Why is it unusual this time?

Although he was surprised that Huo Quai's illness was different from the past, the whole army was forbidden, and the Han army at the Sifang City Gate receded like a tide, and according to the order, retreated thirty miles and set up camp.

At noon, the generals of all parties gathered in the camp of the Chinese army to see Huo Quai.

"Da Sima, why do you want to collect troops and retreat this time, and not attack the city directly?" Zhang Cigong was puzzled.

"Not long ago, Mithridates II was almost killed, and after that time, he did his best to contact all parties and make a lot of arrangements...... In this battle, the enemy and I have many arrangements, you will know later. ”

"Set up camp tonight, if anything happens, you immediately raise an army to attack the city, and I will create the most suitable opportunity for you."

Huo Qu was sick in the camp and made a series of orders, and the generals immediately took the orders and left.

When everyone left, Huo Quzhi deduced the victory and defeat of the enemy and his own arrangements, and was more cautious than in the previous war.

Half an hour later, he took out two scrolls and examined them in his hand.

One of them is the death code of Egypt that Samadhi had recently infiltrated into Macedonia, and the other is an epic of the gods.

Huo Quzhi will carry the death code of the jackal-headed god and approach the epic of the gods.

Wonderful changes have occurred.

All the words on the Code of Death were absorbed by the epic of the gods, and the handwriting trickled like a stream and was transferred to the epic of the gods.

"Sure enough, the Book of the Dead in Egypt is one of the three chapters of the epic of the gods, according to Perseus. However, it was incorporated into the understanding of the Egyptians and some changes were made. ”

As mentioned earlier, Pharaoh Ptolemy of Egypt was a general under Alexander.

Egypt was once occupied and controlled by Alexander, and the two have a lot of connections.

Egypt is just in the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean Sea.

Historically, Egypt has been regarded as a colony by Mediterranean powers, such as Macedonia under Alexander, and later Rome.

At this time, when the contents of the Book of the Dead are stripped away and integrated into the epic of the gods.

One of the three missing chapters on it, the handwriting emerges.

The thirteenth hidden content also has an extra sentence: "Killing gods requires weapons!" ”

It sounds like a useless or incomplete sentence.

Huo Quzhi thought that this sentence was referring to some kind of special weapon or method...... In these countries in the West, compared with our Han Dynasty, the historical trajectory has obviously shifted more, and the traces of gods and demons are also more obvious.

Here, it is only in the last hundred years that the miracles of the 'gods' seem to have disappeared and disappeared.

These 'gods' that Westerners believe in make Huo Qubing feel indescribably weird......

When he was thinking about it, Bai Nanyu walked in from outside, wearing a cold moonlight Han dress, with a slender figure, carrying a copper kettle, and hot water inside.

She took out a marching cup made of bamboo tubes, squatted in front of Huo Quai's body and poured water.

"I'm ...... tonight Want to sleep with Hou Ye? The voice was coquettish, and the face of the disaster was a little crimson.

“？”

Huo Quzhi thought for a while: "Are you worried about the next battle?" ”

Bai Nanyu snorted: "After getting close to Tai Xifeng, the uneasiness in my heart is getting stronger and stronger, I ...... I want to be closer to Master Hou. ”

Huo Quzhi smiled: "Are you reminding me that in the upcoming battle, there will be remnants of the vertical and horizontal path who will participate in the war?" ”

Bai Nanyu said: "It is impossible for the Parthian lord to deal with the Hou Ye by himself, so he can only ask for help from external forces." ”

Huo Quai: "You can't stay tonight, if something happens, don't come to join in the fun, I have preparations and arrangements." ”

Bai Nanyu wanted to speak and stopped, hesitated before getting up and saluting: "Master Hou remember to be careful. "The steps are gone.

The night is deep and the stars are shining.

In the camp of the Han army, soldiers and horses were on guard, and the weather was strict.

Huo Qu sat in the barracks, doing his best, and when he opened his eyes in the second half of the night, his figure disappeared from the camp.

At the head of the city of Ctesiphon, at the same time there appeared Mithridates II, as well as ...... That illusory figure, criss-crossed by a half-saint!

Ps: Speaking of which, I saw that some book friends reacted to a small collapse in combat power, saying that Rome was raised too high, rest assured, there will be a perfect explanation later, and the reason will be reasonable.

Ask for a ticket, thank you

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