"Princess, the Romans proposed to compete with our Han army, just outside the city, and it is about to start."

Xiong San held a pair of hammers in his hand, holding two hammer handles between the fingers of one hand, juggling and playing in turns, and holding the candied fruit that Liu Qing brought to her when he came over.

She was Liu Qing's henchman at home.

The key is that all the food in the house, the cost of the purchase, Liu Qing or not, Xiong San's way of eating can not be afforded by ordinary people.

Xiong San belongs to the waist for five buckets of rice.

On the surface, she is Huo Quzhi's descendant, but secretly she is Liu Qing's eyeliner.

Liu Qing is not keen on house fighting, but he is from the royal family, and he has invisibly put the iron plate of Huo Mansion as one, and the upper and lower are integrated, which is eyeliner.

"I heard that the Roman army is not weak in combat, let's go and have a look."

Liu Qing came out of the apse of the palace, and the big cat and the fat tiger opened the way in front of him, majestic.

On the flanks was Xiong San's escort, accompanied by Qingyu Daozun, and five hundred people from Huo Quai's pro-army, who were under martial law along the way and went to the city gate.

At the same time, all parties in the city heard the news.

At this moment, Ctesiphon gathered some of the representatives of the nomadic tribal alliance around the Caspian Sea, Boligu, who were received by the Han army after the defeat of Seleucus.

There were also Egyptian envoys, Roman Titus, and Macedonian envoys who rushed over again.

The nomadic tribes around the Caspian Sea were later known as the Alans.

They have long been north of Parthia, around the Black Sea, in the Caspian region, and live by water.

They are a multi-tribal confederation with complex composition and relatively primitive.

Their tribal alliance consisted of Caucasians, whites, nomadic tribes who had migrated from the East, and Eurasians.

The Han army conquered Parthia, and these tribes around the Caspian Sea came to visit in order to preserve their living space.

After hearing the news, all parties rushed to watch the battle, intending to see who would win and who would lose in the first meeting between Han and Rome, so as to judge the subsequent situation.

Outside the city.

Zhao Anji ordered his subordinates to gather.

"Choose two thousand troops to come out, and the Romans will fight us."

Zhao Anji took his big lance from the hands of his own soldiers, turned it upside down, and said: "The battle of life and death is so rewarding." ”

The lieutenant general gave orders to gather men.

Opposite, Titus came out of the palace and consulted with the leader of his guard, Libius.

Liberus was thirty-two years old, with slender hands and feet, powerful and powerful, not very tall, but particularly rough.

The armor of the Romans was a split armor with a combination of shoulder armor and cuirass.

Libius's arms exposed under the shoulder armor were muscular and bulging, as if they contained infinite strength.

Titus said: "When I was talking to the commander of the Han army just now, I deliberately showed great anger and proposed a war with the Han army. He agreed, and as we expected, the young general, victorious over the Parthians, was confident. ”

Libius grinned.

"He didn't know that before we came, the Senate had personally arranged for people to join our ranks.

There are 2,000 of us, and there are 300 God-given people under the command of the Senate.

No one is our opponent in equal numbers. ”

"Start a war in a while, kill all the Han army, and don't have to spare your hands. The soldiers and horses on the front line will cooperate with us, so that the Han army does not dare to move. Titus said.

Libius turned his head to look at the Han army that was lining up in the distance: "I will let these Orientals know that we are powerful." ”

Titus added: "The other party can defeat Parthia, and the soldiers and horses will not be weak, so be careful."

The commander of the Han army first proposed that there should be a death match, and it would be our turn to choose the location of the battle later, what terrain do you think is favorable to us? ”

Libius: "I lead the legions to conquer the nations, and no terrain affects the combat effectiveness. ”

"But we have received information that the Han army is good at using light cavalry, coming and going like the wind, and choosing an open plain to line up, and their cavalry advantage will be maximized.

We are not afraid, but it is difficult to wipe them out. ”

Libius was clearly organized, and said: "This goes northwest or southeast, both directions, along the direction of the Tigris River, with mountains up and down, and the mountains are not high, which can effectively stop the cavalry from marching, but it will not have much effect on us.

In the undulating area of the low hills, with our spear-throwing tactics, it will be a disaster for the opponent. ”

Titus said: "That is to say, the terrain in the northwest or southeast direction is most advantageous to us. ”

Libius nodded: "If the terrain is chosen by us, I am sure that we can destroy them all." ”

Titus smiled: "You are ready, I will go and talk to the commander of the Han army." ”

……

Huo Quai, surrounded by Dong Zhongshu, Gongsun Hong and others, ascended to the top of the city.

Liu Qing also rushed over on his front and back feet and stood beside Huo Quai's body.

The big cat jumped on the battlements, squatted, the cat's eyes flashed, and looked at the surrounding crowd.

Further to the rear were the envoys of all parties who ascended to the top of the city.

In the city, people are still coming.

"Commander of the East, where do you want to fight us?"

Titus walked up to the city and saw Liu Qing beside Huo Quai, he was slightly stunned, and his eyes stayed to look.

He took the initiative to ask, if what Huo Qubing said did not meet his wishes, he was ready to emphasize that Huo Qubing proposed a death match just now, and the location should be mentioned by them.

Huo Quzhi said: "Let's choose the location." ”

Titus said: "This is the north gate of Ctesiphon, thirty miles to the northwest, and is the remnant of Mount Gerrit. There, the terrain rises and falls, and next to the Tigris River, choose to do it there, how about it? ”

"Okay, it's going to be three hours in the evening, and the one that comes out in the end wins."

Huo Qubing asked his soldiers to convey the battle location to Zhao Anji.

Titus also sent a herald to war.

From the head of the city, the 2,000 soldiers of the Han army and the 2,000 soldiers of the Roman army have been reorganized, and the distinction is clear.

The Han army was all cavalry, wearing light armor, and the troops were slaughtered.

The Roman army held a round shield with a sword and spear crossed on the shield surface, which shone slightly.

This is their standard weapon.

The Roman legions were not equipped with the shields of the large legions, indicating that they were the main attack queue and were very flexible enough to fight in small units.

Outside the city, Zhao Anji whistled, and the whole army saluted Huo Qu's illness and galloped away.

The Romans did not show weakness, and at the same time, two thousand elites drew their swords from their waists, struck their shields, and made a thud, and the momentum was great.

The current Roman army has developed the tactics of mixed arms.

But their cavalry did not completely abandon chariot warfare until hundreds of years later.

The generals, heavy cavalry and other soldiers on the battlefield often dragged chariots to fight, which was similar to the tactics of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in Shenzhou.

Libius stands on a chariot, spear in one hand and shield in the other.

The team kicked off.

He stood on the chariot and raised his spear and made a noble knightly salute to Titus.

When his eyes turned to Huo Quzhi, he raised the broadsword in his other hand and slashed it out of thin air, meaning that he would kill all the Han troops and let Huo Qubing see the gap between Han and Rome.

The chariot under his command was seated by two horses, and the wheels glowed with divine power incantations, as if they were carrying a flame of light to the northwest.

The entire Roman army was also shrouded in a divine light, and two thousand men were all one.

"I have heard the name of the Roman legion for a long time, and the momentum is really different." There were representatives of various ethnic groups in the city, and similar thoughts were born one after another.

Two teams, one in front of the other, disappeared from the sight of everyone in the city.

"How are we going to watch the battle, go to the battlefield, or wait here for the results?" Titus said.

Huo Quzhi echoed the heaven and earth with the soldier's qi, stretched out his hand and wiped it, showing a picture.

The lines of the military array rippled under his feet, spreading like a tidal wave.

After he was promoted to a half-saint, it was the first time that he went all out to promote the military formation.

The size of this military array is incredible.

The soldiers and horses of the two sides had not yet arrived at the battlefield, but Huo Quai's army formation had already covered a hundred miles, covering the battle site thirty miles away.

Heaven and earth qi and military formations are blended, and the terrain and landform where the battlefield is located are clearly displayed.

In the mana projection presented by Huo Quzhi, the low hills are continuous, and the mountains are interspersed with tributaries of the Tigris River, and there are lakes dotted among the mountains.

Looking at the terrain, the position of the battle is mountain warfare, and the team under Zhao Anji is good at it.

Of course, the Romans also felt that it was their specialty, throwing spears in the mountains, and the power was invincible.

The military array released by Huo Quai's illness can look at the battlefield from a distance of dozens of miles.

This shocked all parties in the city.

The envoy of the nomadic alliance around the Caspian Sea, Boligu, was bronzed, in his thirties, with rough braids on his head, decorated with animal bones.

He was the most famous warrior in the Caspian Sea, and when he saw the projection of Huo Quai's blending heaven and earth, he said, "Is the commander using the magic of war?" Why is it so big that it can be seen clearly from dozens of miles away? ”

Titus couldn't help but glance at Huo Quai.

His knowledge of the commander of the Han army came from the information given to him by the Senate before his mission, and the content was limited.

It reads on it the commander of the legion in the East, suspected of being a demigod realm, and a god who has entered the world.

Titus was cautious and skeptical about the contents.

But when he saw Huo Qubing unleash his magic and gain insight into every corner of the battlefield dozens of miles away, Titus's heart beat fiercely.

In the afternoon, the sun is at its peak.

Thirty miles is an instant for a cavalry galloping at full speed.

The Han army was the first to enter the combat area.

Zhao Anji observed the terrain, and the Han troops behind him dismounted one after another and entered the battlefield on foot.

The Han army had seven to fifteen men as combat units, and all of them were dispersed to understand the terrain and make preliminary arrangements.

This kind of mountainous terrain, surrounded by woods and covered with bunkers, is exactly what they have been training for years to do, penetrating into complex environments, stealth, camouflage, assassinating, and so on.

The 2,000 Han troops were all scattered, and they searched around like mercury.

After observing the footage for a while, Titus became calm again.

The Han army was so dispersed that it was equivalent to cutting its own strength, and it was impossible to resist the impact and fighting method of the Roman legions in a column of 100 people!

The picture presented by Huo Quzhi hides other arrangements after the Han army explored the terrain.

About a quarter of an hour passed, and the Roman army also arrived at the battlefield.

They marched into the battlefield in teams of hundreds, echoing each other.

At this time, the Han army had penetrated enough distance on the battlefield to hide all of them, as if they had disappeared, and the two thousand men disappeared without a trace.

When Libius's chariot climbed a low hill, the Roman army in front of him had advanced into the battlefield.

He struck the wall of the chariot with his sword, and the chariot stopped on the low hill.

Believing that his men would soon be able to end the battle, Libius did not intend to take part in the battle himself.

Woooo

At this moment, the Roman army at the forefront encountered the offensive of the Han army.

In the direction of their travel, the Han army climbed up from under the low hills, and fired a volley of crossbow arrows.

The Romans immediately shielded themselves with round shields and blocked the arrows.

Titus looked at the city for a while, and became more and more convinced: "I have never seen the short crossbow of your Han army, the rate of fire is very fast, but unfortunately the power is insufficient, relying on a sneak attack may be able to hurt a few people, but it can't break through our array defense at all." ”

The tide of battle has changed.

Under the offensive of the Han army, the Romans contracted their formation, connected with round shields, forming a wall-like joint shield array, and squatted under the shields, intending to wait for the Han army's attack to end and begin to counterattack.

The battle was exactly what the Romans thought.

Soon after, the Han army stopped firing crossbow arrows and began to retreat.

Titus laughed, "It seems that your arrows are indeed limited. ”

On the battlefield, Libius shouted: "Pursuit, don't let them run, jump with divine power, throw spears!" ”

The Romans pursued the Han army with great momentum.

Some of the Roman tribesmen had divine patterns on their armor, and they jumped directly from one dwarf hill to another, and the battle power that erupted was terrifying.

However, the speed of the Han army was extremely fast, and some of the Han troops who participated in the shooting attack quickly dispersed away.

The Romans were in hot pursuit.

In their pursuit, the Han army launched a new offensive.

Behind the low hills, the sparse forests in the mountains, including some rocks in the mountains, actually turned into one Han army after another, forming a multi-point scatter, but together it is a tactic of encirclement.

This is the camouflage, encirclement and annihilation tactics in the special operations system of later generations, and the cannibalization of the opponent in part and in part.

The rocks, the land, and many unexpected places around the Romans were all disguised by the Han army.

In this era, this special operations team of the Han army has begun to consider terrain camouflage operations.

They carry with them the soldiers who hide the qi machine, such as hiding from the sky and crossing the sea, and at the same time, there are also animal skins drawn by the Danqing vein, which can be covered on their bodies, disguised as mountain rocks, and seemingly unabnormal ground, etc., blending in with the environment.

This is a much higher system and method of warfare than in the current period.

The Han army led by Zhao Anji has rich combat experience, and has a tactical system and training that has led for countless years, which is enough to form a crushing advantage.

On the battlefield, the Han army seemed to be separated from the natural environment, and some Han troops also used soldiers to disturb the perception of the other party.

The first shot is to lure the opponent into an ambush.

A true way to break the enemy, quickly turning into a close-range raid.

When the Han army rushed out, when they cut the necks of the Romans with a sharp blade, blood splattered everywhere!

From the perspective of the spectators, it was as if there was an invisible team that was fighting all over the mountains and attacking the Roman people.

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