Just when everyone was shocked, the third urgent report arrived again.
After capturing Taixifeng, the Chu army crossed the Euphrates River without stopping and swept the cities in Hexi, and the troops were approaching the Aegean Sea.
Chu Jun, are you crazy?
First destroy Radamandis's 100,000 troops, then destroy Hades's 100,000 troops, and now immediately invades the Roman territory and openly provoke the war against Rome. This is too crazy.
Crazy, the Chu army was completely crazy.
Bang!
Saga threw the sprinkled cup in his hand to the ground and shouted angrily: "The Eastern people are so arrogant that they dare to invade our Holy Roman Empire. We will never tolerate it. Empress Dowager, order the whole army to attack. We have 400,000 troops,
Stand the Orientals.”
Sagayi was angry, Kami and other consuls, all shouted for war, and their anger instantly filled the hall.
The Romans were indeed angry. How could they, who had always been arrogant, allow Chu to be so arrogant at their doorstep?
Alexander was also angry and immediately wanted to order the troops, but he still endured it and turned his eyes to his mother Momia.
There was also anger flowing between Momiya's face, but she did not rush to issue an order to start the war, but just asked the generals to make preparations before the war.
A banquet that was originally pleasant and was disrupted like this.
Momiya returned to the bedroom and immediately summoned her mysterious counselor, the Oriental Sima Yi, to the Royal Palace.
When Momiya told Sima Yi about the news of the Chu army's victory, Sima Yi was also shocked and seemed to be unable to believe that Yan Liang could destroy Hades's 200,000 troops so easily.
But soon, Sima Yi calmed down and said lightly: "Persian morale is low, and Hades is a brave but unscheming person. It is normal for him to lose to Yan Liang. The Queen Mother, now the Chu army is in a row of battles, and it is the end of its strength.
At this time, it is the perfect time for us to advance a large number of troops, conquer Persia in one fell swoop, and destroy Yan Liang."
Momiya was silent. Her thin lips were biting secretly, and her heart had begun to tend to start a war.
Seeing this, Sima Yi hurriedly advised: "If the Empress Dowager does not attack at this time, when Yan Liang pacifies Persia and stabilizes the rear, he will inevitably raise troops to invade the west and attack the Roman Empire. At that time, the war will be on the land of Rome.
It starts to burn, does the Empress Dowager want to see that day?"
Momiya's figure suddenly shook, and Sima Yi's words deeply touched her vital points.
After pondering for a long time, a decisive look appeared in Momiya's eyes.
The Roman empress dowager was determined and ordered a 400,000 Roman army to cross the Aegean Sea and march towards Taixifeng.
The order was passed down. Saga and other generals were naturally excited. The seven consuls led an army of 400,000, and within a few days they crossed the Aegean Sea and entered the Lydies district on the east coast.
At this time, the Chu cavalry led by Wen Chou had approached the westernmost area of Persia
After Saga landed, he immediately led a 200,000 Roman heavy infantry army army to advance eastward to face the Chu army's cavalry.
The Roman heavy infantry legion was unusual.
Due to race reasons, Rome was much stronger in physical condition. The infantry equipped with a very thick armor and stomach, and both defense and attack power were super strong.
In addition, the Romans were extremely disciplined. It was precisely with these two advantages that their heavy infantry legions could surround Europe and establish an unprecedentedly powerful Roman Empire.
The cavalry led by Wen Chou was mainly light cavalry, and it was okay to use cavalry shooting to curb the heavy cavalry of Persians. However, if you want to deal with the heavy infantry legion of Rome, you seem to be willing but not capable.
Because the Roman heavy infantry not only had strong defense, but also equipped with strong bows and hard crossbows, which could effectively counterattack the Chu army's light cavalry's cavalry's cavalry's cavalry's harassment tactics.
When Wen Chou faced such a powerful infantry legion, he naturally did not dare to fight without permission. Moreover, he followed Yan Liang's secret order and deliberately showed weakness to the enemy, allowing the Romans to advance east with confidence.
So Wen Chou pretended to retreat and retreated all the way east.
The Romans who had won the first battle were full of momentum, and the huge infantry legion advanced all the way, recapturing Cappadocia, Cilicia, Western Armenia, and Syria and other western Persian areas.
These western regions were originally the richest places in Persia, but unfortunately, what the Romans got was empty cities.
Those wealthy cities were plundered by the Chu army long before the Romans arrived, and even a grain of wheat was left to the Romans.
Although the Romans were advancing all the way, they actually didn't even touch half of the hair of the Chu army.
Moreover, they soon discovered that their 400,000 troops could not fed on the spot, and could only rely on grain ships from Greece to cross the Aegean Sea, and then pass through the land grain road that lasted 700 miles long before they could arrive.
Food on the front line.
This is what Yan Liang wants.
Wen Chou retreated again and again, and when he retreated to Assyrian city, he no longer retreated.
Assyrian city, the most important city on the west coast of Euphrates, will be Yan Liang's setting, holding up a nail from the Romans.
The 150,000 Chu cavalry continued to gather on the Assyria line. Nearly 100,000 Chu infantry soldiers had crossed the Pamir Mountains and entered the newly occupied Persia territory.
Yan Liang personally led his army across the Euphrates River, set up a village outside the Assyrian city, and formed a horn-like momentum with Wen Chou's troops in the city.
A few days later, the 200,000 Persian legions led by Saga arrived in Assyria.
Facing more than 100,000 cavalry of Chu, Saga naturally did not dare to fight without authorization, so he set up a camp on the spot, waiting for the subsequent 200,000 Roman legions to arrive.
In the summer of that year, 400,000 Roman troops gathered at the city of Assyrian and formed a confrontation with the 150,000 Chu troops on the line of the Euphrates River.
Although the Romans were mainly heavy infantry, they were still equipped with 70,000 cavalrymen.
So, not long after the camp was established, Momiya ordered to use 70,000 cavalry to prevent the attacks of the Chu cavalry on the flanks, and to launch a mad attack on the city of Assyrian with more than 300,000 infantry.
However, the Chu army implemented Yan Liang's strategy to the end, and held the city without going out to fight.
Although the Romans were numerous and powerful, the Assyrian cities were limited, and the Romans could not pile up all 300,000 people at once.
Wen Chou led only 50,000 troops and relied on strong bows and crossbows to block the crazy attack of the Romans.
The Romans attacked the Assyrian city continuously and then turned to attack the Chu army camp that formed a horn outside the city.
However, the Roman attacks were repeatedly defeated under the counterattacks of long-range weapons such as the Chu army's bed crossbow, Yuanrong crossbow, and chariot crossbow, and several powerful attacks returned in vain.
The number of attacks was unfavorable and the losses were nearly 10,000. The Romans' attack was in a deadlock.
But Yan Liang's attack had just begun.
A large number of generals such as Zhao Yun, Jiang Wei, Zhang Xiu, and Ma Dai were sent out and led tens of thousands of god-walking cavalry to launch a crazy attack on the Roman supply lines.
From Western Armenia to Cappadocia, the soldiers of the Great Chu are running everywhere for nearly a thousand miles.
Roman grain carts were burned down, hundreds of Romantines were killed by the Iron Cavalry of the Great Chu.
In order to protect their supply lines, the Romans had to send cavalry to disperse the light cavalry of the Chu army.
But the Romans soon discovered that their efforts were futile.
First of all, their cavalry was not large, and they did not dare to divide more cavalry to protect the supply line, so as not to be counterattacked by the Chu army on the front battlefield of Assyrian.
How could the limited number of Roman cavalry protect the supply line in Long Dingli?
Moreover, the Roman cavalry were also dominated by heavy cavalry. They could disperse the Chu army's light cavalry, but they could not annihilate it.
In this way, the Chu army could go back and change to another place and continue to attack the Roman grain team.
For a month, the Romans had no choice but to watch the "despicable" tactics of the Chu army, and they could only watch that hundreds of thousands of food and grass were constantly burned by Chu.
The Roman legion of 400,000 required a staggering amount of food and grass every day. The supply line suffered such a blow, and the supply supply was insufficient, and the morale of the army soon became unstable.
The Roman legion, which was originally highly morale, began to slide to a low point after confronting the Chu army for a month.
But Yan Liang and his army were not in a hurry at all.
Because behind him was a large area of Persian land, with countless food and grass for him to "plunder", and countless Persian slaves who could serve him.
All Yan Liang has to do now is to wait patiently and wait for that fatal opportunity.
Roman camp, imperial tent.
Momiya sat there with a deep brow and listening to the scout's reports. Those reports were mostly bad news about the destruction of a certain grain team, which could only make Momiya's brows deeper and deeper.
"Great Empress Dowager, our food and grass are getting shorter and our morale is beginning to shake. I think it is wise to withdraw our troops first and reconsider this war?" said the veteran Harvey.
Momiya remained silent.
At this point, she finally learned about Yan Liang's power. She had been unable to attack Assyria for a long time, and the food supply was frequently cut off. In fact, Momiya had already become determined to retreat.
However, with Zhang Lie's confidence, she claimed to the Roman nobles that she would take Persia in one fell swoop, push the Roman Empire to the cauldron, and seize endless wealth and slaves for the nobles.
Nowadays, the army has mobilized many people and consumed countless money and food, but returned in vain. Momiya is worried that after returning to the country, her prestige will be greatly damaged and aroused strong dissatisfaction.
The Roman emperor was overthrown, not once or twice. If he returns without success, Momiya is worried that the one who greets them will be a tragic coup, and the two of them will die without a place to be buried.
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All kinds of considerations and internal and external difficulties made Momiya unable to make up her mind whether to fight or retreat.
Just when Momiya was hesitating, soldiers outside the tent came to report that they were the emperor of the Great Chu Kingdom, and had a letter sent to Momiya.
Yan Liang's handwritten letter?
"Did that guy Yan Liang want to ask for a reconciliation?" Momiya's eyes lit up, and she was immediately surprised.