"The teacher is famous?" Liu Xin sneered, "Putimius publicly burned the tea leaves, which slandered the reputation of my Han products. How can I ignore it?"
Throughout the winter, the two powerful countries of the world, the Han Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty, which were thousands of miles apart, were making careful preparations for the upcoming war. However, Parthia, who was at the center of the whirlpool, looked unhurried. Artabanus and
The Arshak brothers also fight among themselves from time to time.【,k~
Gradually, when spring came, Putimius personally led his troops southward. His two sons, Caracalla and Geta, each led a legion as the vanguard on the left and right. An army of 400,000 people rushed to kill them in a mighty manner.
City of Susa.
The 300,000 soldiers and armor provided by the Han Dynasty have all arrived in the city of Susa long ago. However, except for Arshak's 100,000 Parthian troops who have put on new uniforms, Artaban has just recruited more than 50,000 troops.
Some of the armor is still lying in the warehouse.
Hearing that Qin's army was coming again, Vorogis couldn't help but panic. He quickly recruited a large number of civilians and armed them. Together with Susa's original army, he finally pieced together an army of 200,000 people.
The army marched to the border to meet the enemy.[
The Qin army was well-trained, had high morale, and was fully prepared. The Parthian army collapsed at the first touch. Artaban fled back to Susa with only a few dozen horsemen. The Qin army followed and marched straight in, leaving Susa.
The city is no longer a hundred miles away.
Vorogis no longer cared about blaming Artaban, and quickly summoned a group of civil and military officials to discuss moving the temporary capital to Azak, another important town.
At this time, Prime Minister Remitu stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Azak's troops are empty, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to stop the attack of the Qin army. It is better to temporarily escape to Ecbatana. There are one hundred thousand elite soldiers of the prince there, and they may be able to resist it."
For a while, Xu will come up with a good strategy."
Artaban was not happy and said loudly: "No, Ecbatana is right next to the Qin Dynasty. If you temporarily move the capital there, wouldn't you be asking for your own death?"
During the discussion, a guard suddenly came to report: "The Han envoy is outside the door asking to see you!"
Vorogis thought of the Han people's reminder to him, and now he regretted it, and hurriedly said: "Please come quickly!"
The person who came was Jia Xu. He bowed his hand to Wologis and said: "Our Emperor heard that the king has suffered a new defeat, so he sent a foreign minister here to ask whether the king needs help from our men."
Vologis was overjoyed and said repeatedly: "If you big men can lend a helping hand, I will be grateful! I am willing..."
"Wait!" Remitu reached out to stop Wologis and said to Jia Xu, "What are the conditions for the big man to help us? And in what way?"
Jia Xu smiled and said: "Our Emperor said that since the big man has leased the land of Parthia, he and Parthia are close friends. When a friend is in trouble, he should draw his sword to help, so what conditions are needed? But
, After this disastrous defeat, Parthia may not be able to recover in a short time. Our emperor sent foreign ministers here just to communicate with the king and allow our Han army to fight across the border..."
Before Jia Xu could finish speaking, Vorogis jumped up excitedly and said repeatedly: "No problem, no problem, I will give the order right now. The Han army can pass freely in Parthia, and no one is allowed to pass through it."
Stop and interrogate, and the towns and villages along the way must provide food and supplies."
Lemitu was worried and frowned and said: "I don't believe that your Majesty the Emperor has such good intentions. He sent troops to help us for nothing, but for the same purpose?"
Artaban shouted: "Nonsense! If you don't rely on the help of the big men now, what can you do to stop the attack of the Qin people? Do you really want to go to Ecbatana and die like you just said?"
Because Ecbatana was garrisoned by Arshak, but Remitu persuaded Vorogis to avoid Ecbatana, Artaban naturally included him in Arshak's camp. Now
No matter what Lemitu said, Artaban would jump out and oppose it until he completely lost the trust of Vorogis.
Jia Xu's sudden appearance was like grasping a life-saving straw for Wologis. Now when he heard what Artaban said, he suddenly became angry and raised the scepter in his hand to hit Lei hard.
On Mitu's shoulder, he shouted sternly: "Get out! From now on you are no longer the prime minister!"
With Vologis's permission, the Second, Third and Sixth Legions of the Han Dynasty set off together and left the Han Concession in southeastern Parthia. These three legions were originally stationed in Uzbeli Fortress.
Because Liu Xin felt that the situation in Parthia was quite critical, he transferred all of them to the concession in Turugart Fortress and Seoul. At the same time, the Engineer Corps was also transferred to the concession.
The land in the concession is barren and there are many desert areas. More than 200,000 garrison troops were suddenly added, and a large number of barracks and fortifications needed to be built. Liu Xin had long-term plans for this concession, so various projects there had to be built.
It is very strong and must be completed by professional engineers.
In fact, the cold weather during that period was not the best time for construction projects. Many of the built buildings had to be demolished and rebuilt after the weather got warmer. However, the Qin army was coming soon, and the fortifications had to be repaired first, causing
A little waste is inevitable.
It is precisely because of the solid fortifications and comfortable barracks built by the Engineer Corps that the 250,000 troops of the Second, Third and Sixth Corps were able to maintain good condition without a large number of non-combat attrition due to the harsh environment and weather.
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Reinforcements were put out to put out the fire, and there was no hesitation. The Han soldiers, who had gathered their strength and strength, received the order to attack, and immediately divided their troops into three groups to attack the city of Susa. The forwards were all cavalry, and in the middle were 50,000 prairie cavalry led by Zhao Yun.
On the left are 10,000 light cavalry from the Second Army led by Zhang Fei, and on the right are 20,000 light cavalry from the Third Army led by Zhang. The rest of the infantry and the 10,000 heavy cavalry from the Second Army will follow.
At the same time, the Qin army also rushed towards the city of Susa at night. Caracalla and Geta, who were the vanguards on the left and right, were secretly competing, wanting to see who could capture the city of Susa first. Caracalla led
It is a Gallic legion. The soldiers mainly come from the four major Gallic provinces. Geta leads a German legion, and the soldiers come from the upper and lower Germanic provinces. The soldiers of these two legions are generally tall and powerful. They are among the most powerful in the Qin army.
The two elite legions of the Qin Dynasty repeatedly made military exploits in the war of Qin's external expansion and became famous.
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However, although these two legions are powerful in combat, they are all infantry, and they are heavy infantry wearing heavy armor. The marching speed is naturally very slow. Although they set off earlier, they arrived in Susa far away.
Yuanwan and the elite cavalry of the Han Dynasty. When they were still more than twenty miles away from the city of Susa, they were suddenly blocked by the Han cavalry. The one facing Caracalla was Zhang, while the one facing Geta was Zhang Fei.
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The most common thing used by the Qin army when fighting was to form a square formation, with shields on all sides. Several spears protruded from behind the shield wall, like a giant hedgehog, allowing the enemy to attack first and then establishing themselves first.
In an invincible position.
Probably because the previous battle went too smoothly, and their intelligence work was not done well, they did not realize that the army in front of them was any different from the Parthian army they encountered a few days ago. Geta had long been carried away,
He didn't take the black-clad and black-armored army seriously in front of him at all, and bullied Zhang Fei's lack of soldiers, so he immediately ordered the entire army to press forward. However, the heavy infantry could not catch up with the cavalry no matter what. Zhang Fei waved his snake spear,
The cavalry formed a long queue and walked around the formation. Gaita thought Zhang Fei was timid and boldly pursued him.
As a result, the Qin army that had not had time to form a formation suddenly swarmed forward, and Zhang Fei wanted this effect. He saw the Han cavalry retreating eastward while casting "Chaos" towards the German army.
Arrows. Because the Qin soldiers were all wearing heavy armor, it was difficult for ordinary feather arrows to cause damage to them. After a few rounds, Geta's soldiers had no more than a hundred casualties.
Geta further felt that this army was no different from the Parthian army. They were just riding on horses. He couldn't help but loudly urge the sergeants to catch up. However, the Han cavalry rode and "shot", always maintaining a certain level with the German army.
The soldiers of the German Legion were out of breath in pursuit, but they could never reach the enemy. At this moment, they heard a loud shout, and Zhang Fei had reined in his horse and turned over to fight back.
It turned out that Zhang Fei saw that the Qin army was chasing slower and slower, and knew that their physical strength had been greatly depleted, so he immediately decided to launch a counterattack. The cavalry who were still running eastward followed Zhang Fei's loud shout and
They all turned their horses' heads and rushed towards the Qin army. Using the speed of the horses, they threw the spears one after another. The power of the spears was far beyond the comparison of feather arrows. Even though the Da Qin soldiers were wearing thick armor, they all
Penetrated by a spear.
The use of throwing spears as long-range weapons is a commonly used method of warfare in the Sixth Army. In order to deal with the heavy infantry of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Xin specially convened the generals for a discussion and believed that this method should be effective, so he conducted a wide-scale cavalry attack on the entire army.
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After the guns were thrown, the German army was already in chaos. However, there was another "swish" sound piercing the air, and countless iron arrows poured over like raindrops. This was just equipped by the Han army last year.
The new cavalry crossbow can fire three iron arrows at the same time, and its power is far greater than that of ordinary bows and arrows. It can easily penetrate three layers of iron armor. The only weakness is that it is time-consuming to reload the iron arrows, so it can only be used in actual combat.
Perform a round of attacks.
However, this round of attacks was enough. The German army, which had just been caught off guard by the Han army's spears, was suddenly hit by this rain of arrows, and suffered heavy casualties. Even Geta was hit by one on his left arm.
Iron arrows. After this round of crossbow arrows, the Han cavalry had already drawn their sabers and rushed into the enemy's formation with shouts...
On the other side, Caracalla seemed much more cautious. When he saw that his way was blocked, he immediately ordered a square formation. A total of fifty thousand people crowded together, wearing thick armor and holding out their spears.
They pressed forward step by step, and the thumping footsteps made the earth start to tremble, as if a huge chariot was passing by, enough to crush any enemy that stood in its way.