"The teacher was born unknown?" Liu Xin sneered, "Putimius publicly burns tea, that is to slander the reputation of my big man commodity, how can I ignore it!"
Throughout the winter, Dahan and Daqin, the two great powers of the world separated by thousands of miles, were making meticulous preparations for the upcoming war, but Parthia, who was at the center of the whirlpool, looked unhurried, Aldaban and The Arshak brothers also fought each other from time to time.
Gradually, when the spring blossoms, Putimius personally led his troops to the south. His two sons Caracalla and Geta each led a legion as the left and right vanguard, and the 400,000 army rushed to the city of Susa mightily.
The 300,000 soldiers provided by Dahan had all arrived in Susa long ago, but apart from Arshak’s 100,000 Parthian troops, which were replaced by new outfits, Ardaban had just recruited more than 50,000 troops. Part of the armor is still lying in the warehouse.
Hearing that Daqin’s army had come again, Volojis couldn’t help but panicked. He hurriedly recruited a large number of civilians, armed them, plus Susa’s original army, and finally put together a team of 200,000 people. The army drove to the border to meet the enemy.
Daqin's army was well-trained, morale was high, and fully prepared, Parthia's army collapsed. Ardaban fled back to Susa with only dozens of cavalry soldiers, and the Daqin army followed the army, less than a hundred miles away from the city of Susa.
Volojis had been ignorant of blaming Aldaban, and hurriedly assembled a group of civil and military personnel to discuss moving the temporary capital to another important town, Azak.
At this time, Prime Minister Remitu got up and said: "Majesty, Azak's forces are empty. I'm afraid it will be difficult to stop the offensive of the Daqin army. It is better to take refuge in Ekbatana, where there are 100,000 elite soldiers of the Great Prince, which may be able to resist. For a while, try to make good plans."
Aldaban became unhappy, and said loudly, "No, Ekbatana is next to Daqin, so I moved the capital there temporarily. Isn't it a dead end!"
During the discussion, suddenly a guard came to report: "The Han envoy is asking for a meeting outside the door!"
Volojis thought of the Han's reminder to him, and now he regretted it, and said hurriedly: "Please!"
The visitor was Jia Xu. He bowed his hand to Volojis and said: "Our emperor has heard of the new defeat of the king. The foreign minister is here to ask if the king needs the help of our big man?"
Volojis was overjoyed and said repeatedly: "If you guys can lend a helping hand, this king will definitely be grateful! This king is willing to..."
"Wait!" Seeing Remitu stretched out his hand to stop Volojis and said to Jia Xu, "What are the conditions for the big man to help us? In what way?"
Jia Xu smiled and said: "Our emperor said that since the man leased the land of Parthia, he and Parthia are close friends. Friends are in trouble, so they can help themselves. What are the conditions? But what? After this fiasco, Parthia may not be able to recover in a short time. Our Emperor sent foreign ministers to come here just to communicate with the king and allow my Han army to fight across the border..."
Before Jia Xu could finish, Volojis jumped up excitedly and said repeatedly: "No problem, no problem, this king will pass on the order, the army of the big man can move freely in Parthia. No one is allowed. To block and question, all the towns and villages along the way must provide food and supplies."
Remitu was worried, frowning and said: "I don't believe that your emperor is so kind to send troops to help us for no reason, but has nothing to do?"
Aldaban shouted: "Nonsense! Now that you don't rely on the help of the big man, what are you doing to stop the Daqin from attacking? Do you really want to go to Ekbatana to die like you just said?"
Because Ekbatana was stationed by Arshak, and Remitu persuaded Vologis to avoid Ekbatanna, Ardaban naturally included him in Arshak's camp. Now, no matter what Remitu said, Ardaban would jump out to oppose it until he completely lost the trust of Volojis.
The sudden appearance of Jia Xu, for Volojis, was like grabbing a life-saving straw, and now listening to Aldaban's words, he suddenly became angry and raised the scepter in his hand and slammed it against the thunder. On Mitu's shoulder, he shouted sharply: "Get out! You are not the prime minister from now on!"
With the permission of Volojis, the Second Army, Third Army, and Sixth Army of the Great Han set off together and left the Great Han Concession in the southeastern part of Parthia. The three legions were originally stationed in Uzbeli Fortress, Turugert Fortress, and Seoul. Because Liu Xin felt that the situation in Parthia was more critical, they transferred all of them to the concession. At the same time, there were others who were transferred to the concession. Corps of Engineers.
The land in the concession was barren and many desert areas. More than 200,000 garrisons were added at once, and a large number of barracks and fortifications were needed. And Liu Xin had a long-term plan for this concession, so all the projects there must be very strong and must be completed by professional engineers.
In fact, the weather during that time was cold, not the best time for construction projects. Many constructed buildings would have to be demolished and rebuilt after the weather became warmer. But Daqin's army is coming soon, and the fortifications must be repaired first, and it is a must to cause some waste.
Because of the strong fortifications and comfortable barracks built by the Engineer Corps, the 250,000 horses of the Second, Third, and Sixth Corps were able to maintain good condition without massive non-combat attrition due to the harsh environment and weather. .
There is no hesitation in coming to fight the fire in the rescue. The vigorous men and soldiers were ordered to attack, and immediately divided their troops to kill Susa City. The forwards are all cavalry. In the middle is the 50,000 prairie cavalry led by Zhao Yun, the left is the 10,000 light cavalry of the 2nd regiment led by Zhang Fei, the right is the 20,000 light cavalry of the 3rd regiment led by Zhang Yun, and the rest are infantry. And the 10,000 heavy cavalry of the Second Corps then proceeded.
At the same time, the Daqin army also rushed to Susa City in Starry Night. Caracalla and Getta, who are the left and right vanguards, are secretly struggling, wanting to compare who can win Susa City first. Caracalla led the Gaul Legion, and the soldiers were mainly from the four Gaul provinces, Getta led the German Legion, and the soldiers came from the Upper and Lower Germanic provinces. The soldiers of these two regiments are generally tall and powerful. They are two elite regiments in the Daqin army. They have repeatedly made military exploits in the war of Daqin's external expansion and have a great reputation.
However, although these two legions are powerful in combat, they are both infantry, and they are heavily armored infantry in heavy armor, so the marching speed is naturally very slow. Although they departed earlier, they arrived at Susa City much later than the elite cavalry of Dahan. When they were still more than 20 miles away from Susa City, they were suddenly blocked by the Han cavalry. It was Zhang Xi who faced Caracalla and Zhang Fei who faced Getta.
The most common method used by the Daqin army in combat is to form a square formation, shielded on all sides with shields, countless spears sticking out from behind the shield wall, like a huge hedgehog, making it impossible for the enemy to start. In an invincible place.
Probably because the previous battle was so smooth, and their intelligence work was not in place, they didn't notice the difference between the army in front of them and the Parthian army they encountered a few days ago. Geta had long been overwhelmed and didn't pay attention to the black-clad and black-armored army in front of him. He bullied Zhang Fei's young soldiers and immediately ordered the whole army to press on. However, the heavy infantry could not catch up with the cavalry in any way. With a wave of Zhang Fei's snake spear, the cavalry formed a long dragon and walked around the formation. Getta only thought Zhang Fei was timid and chased after him boldly.
In this way, the Da Qin army, which had not had time to form a battle, swarmed up, and Zhang Fei wanted such an effect. I saw the cavalry of the Han army retreating eastward while shooting chaotic arrows at the Germanic army. Because Daqin soldiers wore heavy armor, ordinary feather arrows could hardly kill them. After a few rounds, Getta's soldiers had no more than 100 casualties.
Getta felt that there was no difference between this army and the Parthian army, except that it was riding on a horse, and could not help loudly urging the sergeants to catch up. However, the cavalry of the Han army rode and fired, always keeping a certain distance from the Germanic army. The soldiers of the Germanic Legion were out of breath after chasing them, but they were always out of reach of the enemy. At this moment, after hearing a loud shout, Zhang Fei had already reined his horse and came back.
It turned out that Zhang Fei saw that the Daqin army was getting slower and slower, and knew that their physical strength had been greatly depleted, so he immediately decided to launch a counterattack. The cavalry who was still running eastward followed Zhang Fei's shout, and Ziller turned his horse's head and rushed toward the Daqin army. With the speed of the horse running, a throwing gun was thrown over. The power of throwing guns is far from that of feather arrows. Daqin soldiers were penetrated by throwing guns even if they were wearing thick armor.
The use of throwing guns as a long-range weapon was a common tactic of the Sixth Army. In order to deal with Daqin’s heavy infantry, Liu Xin specially convened the generals for a discussion. He believed that this method should be effective, so he promoted it in the cavalry of the whole army. .
After the shots were thrown, the Germanic Legion was already in chaos. However, there was another "swishing" breaking through the air, and countless iron arrows poured over like raindrops. This is a new type of cavalry crossbow that the Han army just equipped last year. Each crossbow can fire three iron arrows at the same time, and its power is far superior to ordinary bows and arrows. It can easily penetrate three layers of iron armor. The only weakness is that it takes time to reload the iron arrows. Only one round of attacks can be carried out in actual combat.
However, this round of attacks is enough. The Germanic regiment, who had just been caught off guard by the guns of the Han army, was suddenly hit by the rain of arrows. Suddenly, there were heavy casualties. Even Getta's left arm was shot with an iron arrow. After this round of crossbow arrows, the Han cavalry have already drawn out their sabers, shouting and rushing into the enemy line...
On the other side, Caracalla appeared to be much more cautious. Seeing that his path was blocked, he immediately ordered a square formation. A total of 50,000 people crowded together, dressed in thick armor and spears. Step by step, the ground began to tremble with the sound of dongdongdong's footsteps, like a huge chariot driving past, enough to crush any blocking enemy.