Roman province of Mesopotamia.

After more than ten days of rapid marching, Nairon led his Guards to the border of the province where the banner of rebellion was first raised.

This reaction speed and marching speed shocked everyone, as we all know, although the legion under Ai Long's command is brave and elite, it has always been all foot soldiers, and it is indeed a short board in terms of marching speed.

However, what everyone doesn't know is that while Nironn was dealing with the noble traitors in Rome, he began to upgrade the equipment of the legion with the support of the two emperors.

The Roman legions have always been 5,000 men, but Elond's Guards has 1,000 more, and he has two more Guards under his command.

These 12,000 Roman warriors had recently been given horses for themselves, and for this reason Emperor Marcus the Great had a lot of blood in the treasury......

With war horses, it is naturally not comparable to the marching speed on foot before.

After a short period of riding training, Aaron led his army to set off, after all, he didn't need his soldiers to fight on horseback, as long as he could sit firmly on horseback and march!

Of course, the treasury bleeding is not just for the two legions to update their equipment, Dinard is also preparing to recruit more young men and build two more guards legions in the name of Elon, after all, the domestic situation in Rome is also very tense.

It will take a long time for these new troops to truly form combat effectiveness, so Ngalani also left his adjutant Charles to assist Dinard in completing the recruitment and training of the new army.

Now the new adjutant next to Aaron is a young man named Ties, who was also Aaron's bodyguard, and was promoted by Aaron because of his bravery and quick mind.

Although there are still many problems and shortcomings compared to Charles, Ngalani believes that he will grow up quickly after a long time.

Cultivating young generals is also one of Niron's tasks now, after all, in addition to himself, several other warlike generals in the empire are more or less involved with the nobles, or have directly followed the nobles to rebel.

In the future, if the Roman Empire wants to regain its glory, it is not enough for him to be the son of the god of war.

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The Guards did not stop when they entered Mesopotamia, and soon approached a city called Il.

Seeing that the city had no intention of surrendering, the Guards Corps spontaneously marched in formation.

Seeing that the city gate was closed and the whole city looked like it was facing a great enemy, Aaron took a few guards to ride his horse to the bottom of the city.

Ai Long observed carefully under the city for a while, and the soldiers at the head of the city also watched him nervously and did not move, and after a while, Ai Long returned to the front of the army with a contemptuous smile.

"Ties, you can organize an attack."

Ai Long gave the order lightly.

However, Tis was very excited when he heard this, and he replied to Ngalani first, and then began to recall the previous commands of Aaron, and finally began to give orders in a deep voice......

This was the first time he had commanded a battle independently, and he didn't expect the commander to give such an understatement to order, and there was nothing to add or teach.

The battle ended in less than an hour, which was already expected by Ngalani......

After entering the city, Aaron went to bed early, and as for the government affairs to pacify the people and restore order, he was responsible for the personnel arranged by his son Dinard.

Then, in the following ten days, Ai Long led his troops to easily defeat the old, weak, sick and disabled defenders left behind by Abidius one after another, and conquered seven or eight cities with a great victory.

The Guards also approached the capital of Mesopotamia, the city of Rechia, the former home of Abidliu Pompeii.

The successive victories made the whole of the Guards very optimistic about the future war.

These, including Ties, believed that the Imperial nobleman, Abidius, was no more than that, and that perhaps they would soon be able to put down the rebellion in Mesopotamia.

Only Ngalani doesn't think so.

He understood that his troops were dispatched so quickly, and that the Guards Regiment was equipped with horses to shorten the march, and Abidius was naturally prepared in a hurry.

But the resistance in the city in front of him was too weak, looking at those old and sick people who had no combat power, he knew that this was Abiliu's show of weakness, and even threw these wastes out to delay time, there must be other premeditated plans behind them.

"Since you want to use a trick, then I'll let you cooperate! I'd rather see what your undefeated cavalry army is. ”

Due to the severe situation of rebellion in various parts of the country, Ngalon also wanted to seize the time to open a breakthrough, so after thinking about it, he was ready to use his own unique killing move......

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The next day, Ngalani led a legion alone as the vanguard army to the city of Reqia, and his attitude was very arrogant.

Looking at Abidliu, who had been on the head of the city several times, Aaron went up to directly persuade him to surrender.

Seeing that the arrogant Elon had divided his troops and only brought a legion to attack the city, Abidiliu thought that his arrogant plan had worked, and then he didn't talk nonsense and decisively gave orders to the army.

For a while, the gate of Reqiya City was opened, and countless soldiers rushed out of it, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves also sounded in the two flanks and rear of the Ai Long Legion, and it was a posture of encircling and annihilating the Ai Long Legion.

Seeing this, Elon did not panic, he immediately returned to the military formation and ordered, while the enemy was still marching, all the guards gathered and quickly rushed to the foot of the mountain on the right side of the city of Reqia, and then reopened a new defensive formation.

Some of the soldiers of the Guards also took out the strong crossbows they carried, and completed the replacement of equipment while changing the formation, which is indeed a must-have in terms of offensive and defensive conversion efficiency.

With their backs to the mountains and the Guards legion left one side to defend, Elon ordered the long detachments to fan into formation, and then the crossbowmen were divided into nine teams in three directions, three teams in each direction, ready to shoot the enemy.

This tactic was used by Ngalani, and the result was the defeat of tens of thousands of Germanic elites and the capture of 3,000 captives!

At the heart of this tactic is the reliance on crossbowmen, or the powerful crossbows they wield.

I heard that this unreasonable weapon was actually brought from the far east, and it was brought by the escort team escorting my mother, and because there were no craftsmen who knew its complex craftsmanship, domestic craftsmen have not been able to imitate it so far, and can only do some simple repairs.

In recent years, Ai Long has been continuously spent on the heavy money obtained from the Silk Country, and it has now reached the scale of more than 3,000 crossbowmen.

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In order to prevent any accidents, Abidiliu did not leave behind, and seeing that Aaron was backing the mountain to form a defensive formation, he immediately ordered the cavalry corps and the infantry corps to attack simultaneously on both sides.

This time, he invested four legions, and his strength was four times that of the enemy, even if Ayrond laid down an iron bucket array, Abidio didn't believe that he could hold it!

It was too late to say that it was too late, and the cavalry of Abidiliu's army was fast and the first to approach.

But in the next second, they suffered a continuous and powerful blow from the crossbowmen in the Ai Long array!

From the skilled crossbowman shooting the crossbow arrows to squatting down and pulling the crossbow machine to reload the crossbow arrows, it is just a few breaths, and the Ai Long is divided into three teams to fire in echelons, which can just achieve the effect of continuous strike.

In this way, the Abidiliu army that suffered the blow was miserable, even the swift cavalry could not pass through such a dense crossbow bolt and get close to Airon's military formation, even if a few people with excellent luck and full of dodging talent rushed over, they could not resist the siege of the elite front row of the Aironne army with heavy shields and spears!