Under the same night sky, fifty miles away, on the sloping plain, the iron-blooded army of the Roman Empire was also licking its wounds, and the soldiers were like the soldiers of the Wu army, their morale was low, their breath was sluggish, and their spirits were low.
"Orientals, they are too cruel" "God will punish them" "Where the hell did these Orientals come from, their weapons are terrifying" "What kind of weapon is this?"
"Has the Lord Forsaken Us?"
"I didn't expect that we would attack in advance, and under the ambush, we couldn't kill them all, these tenacious Orientals are too terrible" "Although the Orientals are tenacious, their combat effectiveness is not as good as ours, but what kind of weapons do the Orientals use, this thing can breathe flames and burn our soldiers, it is really terrible" “” In the simple temporary barracks, the soldiers built bonfires on the lawn, and the Roman soldiers resting back to back around the campfires were resting, and some were discussing the feelings of this battle with great energy.
As long as many soldiers remembered the tragic battle on the beach plain, they were a little chilled in their hearts.
The soldiers of the Wu army are not terrible, these Orientals are far inferior to them in physical fitness.
But when the strange black powder bomb was bombing, the lethality that burst out was like a heavenly punishment in the eyes of the Roman soldiers, and it almost broke their morale in battle.
What kind of weapon is this, exactly Every soldier is a little afraid.
The questions that these soldiers are thinking about are also the questions that Maximinus, the commander of the legion, is thinking about.
With a gloomy face, he stood alone on a hill, staring at the reputation above the night sky, his pupils were cold: "These Orientals seem to have mastered a terrible weapon, if they use this weapon on the battlefield unscrupulously in the future, how terrible it will be."
The armies of the Roman Empire were very strong, and they were the most powerful in these centuries.
Today, the Roman Empire has a total of seven main armies.
Septimius Severus, an emperor of African origin, raised an army in the name of a provincial governor, and finally forced the imperial senate to bow down with a powerful army, allowing him to sit in the position of Roman emperor.
But Severus knew very well in his heart that in the Roman Empire, he had no foundation, and the only thing he could rely on was military power.
He was a man above military power.
He was ruthless and cruel to his political opponents, but he loved his generals, and after he took the position of Roman emperor, he expanded the army three times, spending most of the empire's finances on military spending.
Today, the soldiers of the seven Roman legions together have exceeded one million.
Although the population of Rome is not inferior to that of the Central Plains, for the Roman Empire, which is now a somewhat chaotic economy, this is a large number of troops, which is a large load.
But Severus insisted that only a strong military power could allow him to lead Rome to the top.
Among the seven Roman legions, in addition to the Guards Legion personally commanded by the Roman Emperor Severus himself, the strongest combat effectiveness was the Iron Legion led by Maximinus.
Maximinus' full name is Gaius Julius Velus Maximinus.
He was also of humble barbarian origin.
The Roman Empire was also a war between the south and the north, and the integration of multiple races achieved the hegemony of the West, and the barbarians marked in the empire were actually similar to the barbarians in the Central Plains.
They are basically a race that has been excluded from their own orthodox position.
Maximinus, who was brave and good at fighting since he was a child, joined the Roman army when Severus first became the governor of your Panoa province, followed Severus, and has been fighting with Severus in the north and south, from a small five-man commander, to a ten-man commander, a centurion, a thousand-commander, a thousand-captain, and finally became the commander of an iron-blooded army.
In just over a dozen years, with the strength of a province, Severus gradually expanded, and was able to unify the chaotic Roman Empire, where the princes rose together.
He is one of Severu's most trusted generals, and Severu's eldest son, Caracalla, is the most relied on.
He was proud of the top three generals of the Roman Empire, and this battle was a successful ambush for the Oriental army, but it did not achieve the expected result, but instead fought a two-way defeat.
This made him very dissatisfied and unwilling in his heart.
At the same time, the strange weapons used by the Orientals on the battlefield also made a little frightened, and when the warships exploded, they took the lives of nearly a thousand of his soldiers in a short period of time almost instantly.
He shuddered a little to think about.
"Honorable General, are we going to withdraw to Selesia like this?"
A few captains walked up and said a little unwillingly.
"Our casualties in this battle are too great" Although Maximinus was not reconciled, he was never impulsive, he said calmly: "Now we must retreat, let the Predator Legion rest, and then fight, otherwise we will lose control of the province of Mesopotamia, and in the future, when we stabilize the province of Mesopotamia, we will have a chance to fight."
The main force of the Roman legions had returned to the Roman Empire with Severus, and only the Predators were left in the province of Mesopotamia, which had been seized from the Sabbath Empire and the Great Wu Empire of the Easterners.
There were many contradictions in this newly established province, and the Sabbatarians, who had lived here for hundreds of years, were very hostile to the Romans.
If the Predator suffered a heavy defeat at this time, they would lose their deterrent power against the provinces of Mesopotamia, and if they lost the hearts of the people, not to mention the city lords who had already supported the army in the cities, even the ordinary people below, would rebel.
"Have a good night's rest, and tomorrow the whole army will return to Seleucia," Maximinus gritted his teeth and snorted coldly.
"Yes" When the captains heard this, even if they were unwilling, they could only nod their heads and accept their orders.
In the midsummer sky, the moon is bright, the stars are dotted, the night seems to be quieter and quieter, time is passing bit by bit, and the huge military camp is only the heavy footsteps of patrol soldiers and bursts of snoring.
Dawn was about to dawn, and it was the darkest hour of the day, and an army that had been running long all night had quietly approached the camp of the Roman army step by step.
Half an hour later.
Boom, boom, boom On the plain, a flaming mushroom cloud rose, and the black powder bombs created by these Great Wu under the cultivation of perfection were extremely lethal, and in just a moment, the entire camp was blown up and the earth was shocked, and the flames were covered.
All the inventory of the Sea Eagle Legion, at this moment, was poured into it, and it burst out with a destructive power and powerful shock that surpassed this era, destroying the fighting spirit of the Roman soldiers in a short time.
"Help" "God, what's going on?"
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"Lord, Why Have You Forsaken Your Faithful Believers" "Ahh Bursts of terrible shouts rang out in the camp, and Roman soldiers woke up from their sleep, as if they were in an infernal hell.
"It's Oriental" Maximinus ran out of the camp in a hurry, his eyes saw that the camp had fallen into a sea of fire, and there were panicked soldiers everywhere, his face turned pale instantly: "Damn, the Orientals actually killed a turn" "Sons, when we are ashamed, for the honor of our Sea Eagle and the honor of our Dawu Navy, we will rush to kill with me" Zhou Tai was like a poisonous snake in the dark, aiming at the opportunity, opening his fangs, and personally leading more than 10,000 elite soldiers to kill in one fell swoop and defeat the formation of the Roman army head-on at the most chaotic time.
"Kill" "Kill" Tens of thousands of elite soldiers of the Wu army, in the face of the chaotic tens of thousands of Roman troops, seemed to be slaughtered like tens of thousands of tigers and wolves, and the spears in their hands were harvesting the lives of Roman soldiers one by one.
The bloody battle of one-sided is being relentlessly staged.
The Persian Gulf enters the inland inlet of the river, and the contact between the river and the sea has a great impact on the river, and in the midst of these waves, one by one the warships sail in in an orderly manner.
"Latest Battle Report" In the cabin of the ship, the corners of Lu Meng's mouth cracked, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and a smile was revealed, but his smile was obviously a little bitter: "The commander first lost a battle, suffered a big loss, and then killed a horse pistol, won a big battle, each with casualties, and the casualties of the Sea Eagle Legion were also unprecedented, this battle was barely a draw with the Roman army, but the good news is that he pressed the Roman army in the province of Mesopotamia."
"Commander Zhou Tai was a little aggressive before, so he was ambushed by the Roman army using the terrain, but it was very good to shoot him later."
Chen Gong looked at the battle report above: "A battle annihilated 20,000 Roman soldiers and disabled a Roman legion, although it was not able to leave the Roman general, but the Roman army should also stop for a while, unless reinforcements from their empire arrive, otherwise they dare not go out of the province of Mesopotamia, so that we have enough time to take the Empire of Peace" "Whether we can take the Rest Empire, we still need to see if General Zhao can conquer the Taixi Blockade and take the Taixi Blockade, so that we can defeat the hundreds of thousands of troops in Rest, otherwise with the current territory of Rest, we will continue to fight city by city, and this battle will last for at least two or three years."
Lu Meng looked at Zhao Yun, who was sitting quietly next to him, and said in a deep voice.
"Where to land" Zhao Yun raised his head, his eyes were calm, and he asked indifferently.
"Two days later, we landed here, this is an inland estuary, and it is also the closest ferry port to Ctesiphon" Lu Meng pointed to an inland ferry on the sand table, and said: "According to our preliminary detection, if it goes well, we will go straight to Ctesiphon from here, at most three days."
"After landing, I will be the main general" Zhao Yun said suddenly.
For the two major armies in the Western Regions, he is considered a guest battle, and he does not have much dominance, which is not a rule in the army, but this battle is an inland siege battle, and he really doesn't worry about anyone leading the army.
"No problem" When Lu Meng heard this, he didn't think about it at all, and readily agreed.
He naturally had great trust in the former commander of the Central Army Corps, the second-ranked fierce general of the Great Wu Dynasty.
"Ctesiphon" Zhao Yunhu's eyes flashed with a cold rainbow light, and a city marked with a red flag fell on the sand table, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but raise a cold smile: "I want to see if you should hold my Zhao Zilong's spear."
This will be an opportunity for him Zhao Yun to rise again in the Wu army.
He must take the capital of the Rest Empire, Tessie, and seal the city.
The significance of taking Ctesiphon is equivalent to winning the first credit for conquering the Sabbatarian Empire.
Only a significant feats can make him, a general who fell in the Battle of Runan, get up again.
So in this battle, he will move forward at any cost.
In any case, be sure to break through the city.
Chen Gong and Lu Meng also clearly felt Zhao Yun's unstoppable aura at this moment, and their hearts trembled, and they were sure that they were inexplicably a little sad for this imperial capital of the Rest Empire. t1706231537: