Stars adorn the deep dome.

Zhao Anji and the Fulu branch led their troops and horses, and after separating from Utis, they advanced north along the road, preparing to block the Egyptian army.

"The prince said before that Egypt has a long history, and it is the origin of civilization like our Shenzhou, and the first country in the world to establish state power, what do you mean?" Fu Lu Zhi said with a face that I am illiterate, who am I afraid of, and I asked above board.

"It's their cultivation, fighting style, and combat effectiveness that should not be underestimated, and they have been passed down from generation to generation, so let's be cautious in our use of troops."

Zhao Anji expressed his understanding.

He came back from Chang'an with Huo Quai.

The Fulu Branch, on the other hand, fought on the Parthian front during this time.

"We killed all the way from the Han Dynasty, and the Han flag flew thousands of miles. What Egyptians, stinky bullshit, but a ghost under the knife. ”

Fulu Zhi said brazenly: "Ahead is the camp where the Egyptians are temporarily stationed. I've always been here, and I know them somewhat, they cling to Rome, they fear power, they don't have the men to fight to the death, and they are no match for our army. ”

At this time, the two were under the cover of the military strategy, hiding their tracks, and talking while riding horses.

Behind them, the Han army led by them was quite peculiar.

Next to the two of them, the more than 1,000 people galloping at the front of the queue were actually Parthian tribesmen, and they were dressed in tatters, with broken armor and incomplete swords, looking like a group of routed soldiers.

On the other side of Fulu Zhi and Zhao Anji, there is another person, tall and strong, who is the leader of the rout, and it is Rursas who has obviously been killed by Utis just now!

How did he end up here?

Zhao Anji turned his head to look at Rulsas: "Luo Xiu, you have the ability to pretend to be whom, you are really good, and you have repeatedly performed miraculous feats!" ”

It turns out that this Rulsas is dressed as Luo Xiu, who has turned into a cow!

Rosho, dressed as Russa, was looking up.

Above the entire marching procession, a bronze tablet hangs.

The handwriting on it is a dragon and a snake, and the iron is painted with a silver hook, and it is written that the content of the plan is to hide from the sky and the sea.

The power exuded by that Ji Jian was in harmony with heaven and earth, enveloping and covering the entire army.

"After the prince became a half-saint, the marching slip written, the blessing of the generals, the power and the integration of heaven and earth, are too powerful."

Luo Xiu looked envious, retracted his gaze after speaking, and looked in front of him: "It's almost there." ”

Twenty miles ahead of them was the temporary camp of the Egyptian army waiting for Rusas.

It is located at the junction of the Soja Promenade and the southwest corner of the Parthian border.

"The Egyptians are well prepared, transporting troops from both water and land routes, intending to raid our Han army."

Fu Lu Zhi squinted and said: "Da Sima said that there is also an Egyptian team that is going north by water and wants to attack Macedonia. ”

"When facing the enemy with our Han army, I still dare to divide my troops to fight Macedonia......"

In front of the Han army, there was an open field.

At night, the Egyptians hid their movements from the military camp and set up camp.

Outside the camp where they were stationed, there was a pillar that looked like it was made of gold, with dense incantations, and on the pillar stood a golden eagle.

The golden eagle corresponds to the Egyptian god Horus, who was a symbol of royal power in Egypt.

The strange thing is that the eyes of the golden eagle move up and down, looking at the surroundings in the night, it is like a living thing.

Inside the barracks, Kadipu Halouf was sitting upright in a tent.

He was the commander of the Egyptian army, in charge of the military campaign against Parthia.

"The people of Russas haven't moved yet, it's almost the appointed time."

Kadeep Halouf frowned.

The lieutenant general next to him, Pruka, was a middle-aged Egyptian, with a dark complexion and bright eyes: "Let's send someone to the east to see?" ”

Haluf said: "No need, this place is close to the Parthian border, and sending people to spy will easily arouse the vigilance of the Han army."

We wait until the darkness of the night (midnight), and if they haven't come, we get moving.

The Romans were already on the offensive at the turn of day and night (evening).

We have to work with Rome to get the best results. ”

Haruf was tall and lanky, wearing the gold-colored armor that only high-ranking Egyptian generals had.

He wears a helmet of the same color on his head, and on both sides of the helmet is carved with the texture of eagle wings.

In addition to the lieutenant general Pruka, there was also a temple priest in his tent, an old man, with long eyes and tails drawn diagonally upwards in the corners of his eyes.

This kind of eye tail is a kind of makeup unique to Egyptian nobles and temple priests, regardless of gender.

It was this priest who used some of the artifacts scattered around the camp to cover the barracks, so that the whole camp blended with the night, and it was difficult to find a barracks hiding here without getting close.

"The time is almost up, notify the ministries, put away the camp, and prepare to go."

Halouf stepped out of the tent and looked at the night sky.

In the surrounding camps, tents were lined with chariots.

When the divine power cover was removed, the golden eagle erected on the pillar in front of the camp suddenly flapped its wings and landed on the scepter in the priest's hand, shrinking in size.

Throughout the camp, Egyptian soldiers lined up.

They wore leather armor with exposed arms, intricate incantations carved on the surface of the armor, and shields and spears in their hands.

The soldiers gathered and the queue was tight.

Ancient Egypt has a long history, and their armies were very strong at one point.

Before the Twenty Dynasties (the Shang Dynasty of Shenzhou), Egypt had one of the strongest armies in the world at that time.

Their Eighteenth Dynasty, even at the time of its demise, had a regular army of more than 100,000 people.

Historically, Egypt, and the surrounding areas, there were constant military frictions and conquests.

In addition, Egypt had an early emergence of a logistics department to manage weapons, troop supplies, and fortifications, known as the "Armory Academy".

They divided the army into infantry, navy, and chariot units, and had battalions, companies, and other formations, and the system was very advanced.

Their typical corps composition was between 800 and 2,000 infantry per regiment with 200 to 400 chariots.

A regiment was divided into ten battalions, each with a hundred to three hundred fighters.

There were between 150,000 and 200,000 standing elites throughout Egypt.

Including the local garrison, there were more than 250,000 combatants.

Its combat effectiveness was once second to none in the Mediterranean.

However, since it was conquered by Alexander and Egypt entered the period of Ptolemaic rule, it lacked a strong and independent fighting spirit, and its combat effectiveness weakened invisibly.

At this time, there were 35,000 soldiers brought by Haruf.

Just as he came out of the tent, the sound of horses' hooves sounded in the distance.

The military in charge of the security scouts came back to report that the men of Rursas had arrived.

In a few moments, the people of 'Rusas' rode up.

Halouf stood in the camp and watched from afar, and whispered to the people beside him: "These Parthian deserters are hiding from pursuit in the mountains, their equipment is broken, and their military power is weak. I'm skeptical that we're giving things out, and how useful they can be. ”

The people led by Rursas, who came from the opposite side, not only had broken armor, but some also held broken spears, and they looked really embarrassed.

The two sides are close.

Halouf personally led people to greet him outside the barracks.

And Rulsas asked the brigade to stop, and he rushed over with a pro-army of hundreds of people.

In the distance, Rusas turned over and dismounted, and led the people to approach on foot.

The two sides have communicated many times before, and Egypt has already sent supplies to the defeated troops twice.

Adjutant General Haruif, who had seen Rulsas, was whispering to Haruf that the one at the forefront was Rulsas.

Halouf nodded slightly, and took a few more steps forward.

When the two sides were close to seven or eight feet, Halouf suddenly became a little alert, and hesitantly stopped taking a step.

At this time, Luo Xiu, who was disguised as Rusas on the other side, came five or six feet away from him and grinned.

Behind the oblique of Rursas, one left and one right, within the Parthian camouflaged ranks, rushed out of Zhao Anji and the Fulu Branch.

The two pounced on Halouf like vicious tigers.

Other Han armies also launched their own battles.

Fulu Zhi and Zhao Anji, with the improvement of the national fortunes of the Han Dynasty, have been fighting for many years, and now they are the two realms of heaven and man.

Boom!

The two of them slashed out in no particular order, blessing their respective troops, talismans, and knife momentum flashed, as fast as electricity.

Zhao Anji relied on the talent of the bitter meat strategy, and he was not afraid of being injured at all, so he rushed forward head-on.

Haruf was taken aback, reacted hastily, drew the sword with the golden dark stripes on his waist, and stabbed it head-on.

Zhao Anji did not dodge or dodge, and took the opportunity to swing a knife with his backhand to cut Haluf's arm.

The Fulu branch shouted wildly and swung his sword diagonally from the flank.

The two are one positive and one strange, and the cooperation is exquisite.

Boom!

Haluf's long sword was recovered, collided with Zhao Anji's Han knife, and when he collected the sword, he found that the sword in his hand actually collapsed into a gap.

He had already reacted that it was the Han army that had come to attack the camp, and he was surprised: the weapons of the Han army were so sharp.

The Fu Lu branch approached along the knife momentum and made a move to fight for his life.

Faced with the siege of the two without fear of life and death, Halouf was in danger in the blink of an eye.

Between the electric light and stone fire, the figures are staggered and separated.

Haruf took a few steps back, and blood gushed out of his chest and waist at the same time.

In his chest, Zhao Anji did not hesitate to exchange injuries for injuries, quickly broke the enemy, and stabbed into the front with a Han knife, which was fatal.

On the other hand, Zhao Anji's abdomen was also pierced by his sword, and the divine power contained in the sword was burning the wound.

However, Zhao Anji launched a bitter meat plan, a powerful recovery power, quickly eliminated the divine power at the wound and recovered himself.

Haluf's figure shook and he slowly sat down.

He looked to the side before he took his last breath.

With the launch of Zhao Anji and the Fulu Branch, the hooves of the Han army in the rear came over like thunder, holding a repeating crossbow, and dense arrows were shot out of the arrow box.

The golden eagle wing pattern on Haruf's helmet was becoming dull and losing the light of divine power.

The last thought in his mind was the arrows of the Han army, the densest arrows he had ever seen, after the first wave of arrows was shot, it was the second wave, the third wave, the queue alternated, keeping the arrows suppressed, and constantly pushing forward.

In the night, killings abounded.

By the time Utis had overcome the rout and had rushed from the direction of the Aih Pass, it was almost dawn.

Zhao Anji and Fulu Zhiqin landed on the battlefield, covered in blood.

The Egyptians lost more than half of their casualties, and the remaining soldiers and horses began to evacuate and flee south.

"Catch up and grab their boat!"

"Ship robbery?"

"Yes, the defeat of the Egyptians along this road is the first step, and the prince has arranged for people who are good at handling ships to cooperate with us along the coast to the west.

We grabbed the ship and headed south to attack Egypt proper. ”

After a short conversation, Utis understood that Huo Qubing asked him to come to support and annihilate the Egyptian tribes. It is not to help Zhao Anji and Fulu to kill the Egyptian soldiers and horses in front of them, but to let them join forces and enter Egypt proper.

Utis's thoughts moved slightly, and he faintly guessed Huo Quzhi's true combat intentions, and suddenly became excited......

In Ctesiphon, Huo Quai's illness watched the battle.

The offensive launched by the Romans was dominated by the Fourth and Fifth Legions, which had previously confronted the Han army, and mainly attacked Macedonia and the Han army.

The Roman Third Legion, which has entered the combat area, has not yet been officially revealed.

Similarly, Zhang Cigong, who was sent out by Huo Quai, and Zhao Ponu's department did not participate in the war.

The Romans wanted to wait for the Egyptians to come up and cooperate with them. Then the Third Corps was mobilized to attack from the front and rear, in order to defeat the Han army, capture all the areas of Seleucus and Macedonia in one fell swoop, and inflict heavy losses on the main force of the Han army.

"It's a pity that the Egyptians never thought of coming up."

Huo Quzhi's gaze turned to the marching map, but he frowned slightly.

Rome took the initiative to declare war, and the hole cards would never be a simple third legion, nor would it stop at the assistance of the Egyptians. What else they have arranged, even Huo Qubing has not seen through it yet.

Egypt.

Ptolemy VIII rose from his chamber at the dawn of day.

He found that he did not have his beautiful queen, stepdaughter, and niece Cleopatra III.

His mind swept over his wife's young and beautiful face, and he couldn't help but lick his lips.

He got up from the couch and heard the hurried footsteps of the attendants outside the door.

The figure of the attendant walked into the dormitory: "Pharaoh, news has come from the front. ”

Ptolemy VIII smiled and said firmly: "Where did you fight, did you tear through the defense line of the Han army in the south?" ”

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