Boom, boom, boom A rhythmic roar resounded in the positions of the Augustan legions, the center bloomed, and the Roman soldiers were blown into pulp, and the entire Augustan legion was shrouded in flames.
Compared with the Roman soldiers who were killed or injured by shells, more casualties came from the trampling of self-crowding, and countless Roman soldiers were like headless flies.
"Fire, keep fire, up, up, blow it up" Ding Feng had never been so excited, he watched one by one cannonballs come out, like meteors falling, falling on the position of the Roman army, and the scene of the center blooming, his heart was extremely excited.
He was excited to master such a peerless weapon, and he was excited to be ahead of his time. rumble Suddenly, above the position, a red-coated cannon exploded, pieces of fragments were drawn out, and countless soldiers around them fell down in response.
"Division Commander" Several guards were quick and hurriedly threw down Ding Feng's body with their bodies.
After half a "damn it", Ding Fengcai got up from the ground, wiped the blood on his face, looked at the few unconscious guards on his body, gritted his teeth and asked, "What the hell is going on?"
"Division commander, the seventh gun has blown up," a regiment commander reported.
"How many casualties did we have?"
"More than 100 soldiers in charge of the operation of this red-coated cannon were all killed" At this time, a craftsman in charge of recording strode out and said to Ding Fengyu: "Master Ding, twenty cannons have been fired in a row, and the bodies of several cannons have begun to heat up, and the current iron materials are not very good, I'm afraid they won't last long, I suggest stop firing the cannons immediately, and wait until the cannon body is cold and silent before firing the cannons."
"We can't wait, now on the battlefield continue to increase our red-coated artillery, no matter how good the weapons are, they are not as good as the lives of the soldiers, if this battle cannot deter the Roman army, we will pay tens of millions of lives, pass on my orders, other cannons, continue to bomb" Ding Feng looked at the battlefield with a telescope, and now it is not the time to completely gain the upper hand, and it is necessary to continue bombing, blow up the fighting spirit of the Roman army, and blow up the morale of the Roman army, so that this battle can be regarded as achieving its goal.
He can't care about the problem of exploding the chamber now, and now that the battlefield below is in a fierce moment, his artillery here cannot be stopped, and he continues to give orders: "Pass the order, after each cannon is loaded, immediately put a shield around it, make every effort to defend, and try to prevent casualties caused by the explosion."
"Yes" Several generals were ordered to leave.
Boom, boom, boom The artillery was still bombarding, but with the three cannons in a row on the hilltop exploding, their shells fell much slower, allowing the Romans to breathe a sigh of relief and begin to react defensively.
"Withdraw" The Roman general William had recovered from the bombardments again and again at this time, his eyes quickly swept across a messy battlefield, riding his horse and flying, the knight's sword in his hand was erected, and he shouted: "I am William Augustus, all the warriors of Augustus's legion obey my orders, immediately retreat, retreat with all their strength, and withdraw to the camp."
Retreat Retreat The soldiers of Augustus' legion heard General William's military order, and at this time, they headless flies seemed to have a little goal, and hurriedly gathered their troops and horses to retreat from this devilish battlefield.
"Wave the flag and let Ding Feng stop firing cannons" Seeing that the Roman army began to retreat on a large scale, Zhuge Liang on the command platform was full of excitement, and he hurriedly gave an order: "Immediately let Commander Tai Shici lead the whole army to attack and beat the water dogs, and the retreat of the Roman army must be turned into a rout" A retreat is an orderly retreat.
A rout is a chaotic string without order.
Augustus' legion is indeed the elite soldiers of the Roman Empire, and at this time, it is obvious that order can be maintained, but as long as the Wu army pursues the victory in the back and kills hard enough, it should make Augustus's retreat likely to turn into a rout.
"No" The flagmen on the high platform hurriedly began to wave the two small flags in their hands, using the flag language to convey military orders.
"Newspaper" On the top of the hill where the twenty red-coated cannons were, a sentry with a telescope who was observing saw the flag on the command platform and hurriedly rushed up to report it.
"Say" Ding Feng plucked out his ears, and the strong vibration and roar from the bombardment of the cannon, even if he plugged his ears, he couldn't bear it, and he was already a little deaf.
The voice also shouted loudly.
"Division commander, the command has an order, stop firing artillery immediately" the observation sentry shouted.
"Say what, say it again" "Division commander, the command has an order, immediately stop firing artillery" Observing the sentry's anger, he shouted loudly in his voice.
"Let's stop" Ding Feng heard it clearly this time, gritted his teeth, and gave the order to stop firing.
"Yes" In the smoke-filled hilltop camp, twenty cannons suddenly stopped. on the battlefield.
"Commander, the shelling has stopped" "Commander, command the order, all-out counterattack, beat the water dogs" The two observer scouts reported the situation to Tai Shi Ci at the same time.
"Order, the whole army attack" Tai Shi Ci's somewhat distracted spirit suddenly perked up, and at this time it was time for him to fight back, he raised his head, his eyes were sharp, like a hunter aiming at his prey, and the silver spear in his hand was raised: "Sons, charge and kill them head-on, kill them without leaving a piece of armor."
"Kill" "Kill" One by one, the soldiers of the Wu army woke up like a sleeping lion, like a tiger out of the slaughter, and rushed towards the surging charge of the remnants of Rome.
The most ferocious one is Ma Chao.
"Soldiers of the Independent Army, the time has come for us to make meritorious contributions, kill me."
The independent army led by Ma Chao is like a vanguard arrow, moving forward.
"Kill the Past" "Kill the Past" The Independence Army was a bit odd with the Snow Leopard Legion and even the entire Wu army, they were a large army of soldiers who were resting and strong, and they paid more attention to military merit, because military merit allowed them to clear their captives.
In the middle of the Roman barracks, on a high platform.
"Are there any other soldiers and horses in our barracks?"
asked Gaita, who calmed down, and although he was not very old, he was very calm, and hurriedly shouted at the generals.
"Yes" A Roman general stood up and replied: "The 3rd Legion of the Predator Legion has entered the barracks yesterday afternoon and has been reorganizing in the left flank barracks" "Order, let the Iron and Blood Third Army attack immediately, and respond to the retreat of Augustus's legion" Gaita calmly issued a military order: "The position here in the Sicilian River can no longer be kept, pass on our military order, everyone in the barracks is ready to withdraw their troops and withdraw from the Sicilian River, and also, immediately send the herald to return to Seleucian City as soon as possible, so that the Iron Blood Legion and the Crusader Legion who are in the process of reorganization will send troops to respond, and the third order is to order the Parthian Army in the upper reaches of the Sicilian River in the north not to continue to fight against the Wu army, let them go south immediately and meet us" "Yes" The Roman generals heard the orders one after another and quickly moved.
This battle is still in the continuous confrontation, after the Roman army packed up the remnants, in the continuous retreat, retreating towards the Seleucian city, since the Wu army wants to put on a siege trend, it can only attack, do not give them a chance to breathe, in the step by step attack After three days and three nights of fighting, the officers and men of both armies were exhausted.
The Roman army gathered all its main forces, and with the support of reinforcements from Seleucian City, it withdrew from the Sicilian River a hundred miles away in one go, returned to Seleucian City, and defended the city, barely stabilizing the retreating formation.
As the Parthian legions in the north moved south, the main force of the Roman army was obviously strengthened, and the offensive of the Wu army also stopped, and the line of attack began to shrink.
At the same time, the three major legions of the Wu army, the Snow Leopard Legion, the Guanzhong Legion, and the Sea Eagle Legion began to unite, and the four large legions of the Roman army of Augustus, the Crusader, the Iron Legion, and the Parthian Legion of the Roman army that were firmly defending the Seleucian city were facing the plain within a radius of 50 miles.
Seleucian City.
In the city, outside the city, in the eastern suburbs, in the southern suburbs, in the northern suburbs, there were battlefields everywhere, and the soldiers of the two armies were facing each other with more than one million soldiers and horses, and the dark sky was filled with an atmosphere that was about to erupt.
"Now that we have repelled the Romans and forced them to retreat to Seleucia, the initial strategy has been completed, and we have to consider how to retreat."
"It's too obvious that it can't be withdrawn" "That's right, if we withdraw too obviously, the Romans will counterattack us and turn back, and then we will be a paper tiger, a paper tiger that will break at the first poke" "But we can't make too fierce an offensive against Seleucia, if we attack too fiercely, it will make the Roman army dogs jump over the wall, and then we may really be killed."
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Under the flying golden dragon battle flags, in the joint command camp of the Wu army, all the generals gathered together, and the controversy continued.
It's easy to attack and get in, but it's not so easy to get out.
Although the power of the red cannons had frightened the Roman army, they were able to achieve brilliant results with their weak forces, not only winning the battle, but also forcing the Romans to withdraw from the entire southeastern part of Mesopotamia.
But the strength of the Roman army was not weakened a lot, and there were not too many casualties in the battle of Sicily, and Augustus's legion only suffered a big loss from its own chaos, and the coverage of only 20 cannons was not very large for a legion of more than 100,000 troops.
Once they came to their senses, this battle was still very dangerous for the Wu army.
"Guys, what's going to happen next?"
Tai Shici's gaze swept over, looked at the commanders of the other two legions, and then at a few silent chiefs of staff, who were the first to speak.
"Commander, I'm afraid it's not how to fight, what should be the right withdrawal" Zhuge Liang smiled bitterly: "At most, for three days, if we don't attack Seleucian City, the Roman army in the city will react, and when they gather the main force, it is estimated that they will also attack hard" "It's a pity that our red-coated cannons can't be delivered, if we can transport them, at least we can give them a pot to drink."
Chen Gong said with some regret.
"This thing is too heavy and cumbersome, if it is shipped over, it will not be possible in ten days and half a month" Lu Xun shook his head: "And this should only be an experimental specimen made by the imperial court, which blew up several cannons, hurting people and themselves, and must be repaired."
"Now there are hundreds of thousands of Roman troops in the city, although we have won, but there are too many wounded soldiers, if we fight, we can't bear it at all" Zhang He squinted slightly.
"It's not fighting, it's not quitting" "We won a battle, but we were embarrassed" "What to do" All the generals are a little embarrassed, and it is really impossible to advance and retreat at this time.
"Kong Ming" Zhou Tai glanced at Zhuge Liang.
"Hundreds of thousands of troops, it's not so easy to move, and I'm still thinking about how to safely withdraw from Seleucian City" Zhuge Liang looked at a map, thought for a long time, and said: "The Romans are not stupid, they are too obvious, and it is easy to expose our actual situation" "Generals, I have a plan, I don't know whether to talk about it or not" In the entire camp, Cao Xiu, who had the least seniority, suddenly spoke.
"Wen Lie, say" Zhang He's eyes lit up and said in a deep voice.
The eyes of the generals also looked at this young general of the Cao family, and there were also many generals who had high hopes.
"We can move forward by retreating" Cao Xiu received the encouragement from the eyes of several generals, and suddenly became bolder, and talked eloquently in front of the giants in the army: "The first time we swaggered back, but halfway back to ambush the Roman pursuers, and gave them a hard blow, and when the second time we retreated, I am afraid they will not dare to come up, as long as we retreat to the Sicilian River, then they will not dare to fight." ” "Retreat is Advance" All the generals understood and immediately figured out the meaning of this strategy.
"If we retreat, they will definitely chase after them, and when the time comes, they will ambush left and right, turn around and counterattack, they will inevitably fight, there is no need to fight too hard, as long as we can fight until they are afraid, we will have plenty of time to retreat."
Le Jin, chief of staff of the Guanzhong Corps, said: "But this ambush point should be cautious" "Right" Tai Shi Ci glanced at Zhang He and said: "And the main force of the ambush must also be elite, my Snow Leopard Legion has suffered a big loss, and the Sea Eagle Legion is not good at land battles, and now the Guanzhong Legion will maintain the best strength."
"I'll be the main force of the ambush" Zhang He had to support Cao Xiu's strategy no matter what.
And Tai Shici is not wrong, although the battle of the Sicilian River was won, a big victory, but the main force of the Snow Leopard Legion also suffered a big loss, but the Guanzhong Legion, and the Parthian Legion of the Roman Empire, have not broken out a big war, but have maintained a lot of main forces.
"Just Fight" Zhuge Liang's eyes lit up, and he said in a deep voice: "Early tomorrow morning, the Guanzhong Legion will retreat first, retreat thirty miles away, and then ambush, and then the Sea Eagle Legion and the Snow Leopard Legion will jointly withdraw their troops. ” "Where are we ambushing" The generals raised their heads, looked at Zhuge Liang, and asked.
This is an important question.
If the ambush point is not chosen well, all strategies will be in vain.
"Here" Zhuge Liang had already thoroughly understood the terrain around here, and since Cao Xiu's proposal, his mind had turned rapidly, and he had already found an ambush point, and he pointed to a place on the map: "This place has always been called the Devil's Mountain by the people of Anxi, and the surrounding terrain is swirling and staggered, making it an optimal ambush point." t1706231537: