In the eighth year of Tianquan, July 29.
Morning.
Since the city of Florence was divided into three routes, Sun Quan personally led the Praetorian Guard, the Central Army, the Rest Army, and an army of more than 200,000 troops, rushing day and night, and after a day and a night, the soldiers came under a small city called Lavanna.
The city of Lavana was not a city, but a castle on the northeast coast of Italy, with fewer than a thousand inhabitants and thousands of Romans.
The lord of the city was a Roman youth named Narsi.
He was an imperial nobleman who, after inheriting the title, inherited the family's castle of Ravanna.
Knock knock When the heavy footsteps of the Wu soldiers knocked on the ground outside the castle.
Narhi quickly woke up from the gentle country, and climbed the city wall with his city guards in a panic, when his eyes saw the overwhelming soldiers and horses outside the city, he was almost frightened: "What's going on, is it the army of the empire?"
He is such a small castle, usually hundreds of city guards are responsible for maintaining order, and suddenly hundreds of thousands of enemy troops outside the city are enough to scare him out.
"Lord of the city, they don't seem to be the soldiers and horses of our empire" The city guard chief Mordo looked at the black-haired and black-eyed enemy, and suddenly like a lightning strike, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said.
"It's not the soldiers of the Empire, it's the barbarians," Narshi said.
"Lord of the city, if you look closely, what are their characteristics?"
"It doesn't seem to be the same as us" "They have black hair and black eyes, which is characteristic of the Eastern Devils" "What" When Narshi heard this, his pupils suddenly dilated, and a shocked look appeared on his face: "How can the Eastern Demon appear here?"
The invasion of the Eastern Demon into the territory of the Empire is known to everyone in the Empire.
Previously, in order to form a new three major legions, Severus also recruited many young men from all over the country, and the castle of Ravanna also handed over a hundred slave soldiers who could fight.
Although Narshi was only a minor nobleman of the empire, he also knew a little about the situation in the empire, and even sent people to inquire about the battle of the Dolomites fortress, which was about 100 miles away from the castle of Ravanna.
He also knew the fierceness of that battle, and his fear of fighting the Eastern Devil also arose.
He never thought that the Eastern Demon would appear in his castle, which was too small to be small.
"Now what are we going to do," said Narhi Huang Rouen.
"Lord of the City, while they haven't started attacking yet, let's escape" The city guard said in a low voice: "Our castle is only a few hundred soldiers and horses now, how can we stop them, it is just to send them to death, if we can escape, we can also pass on their news to the empire."
"That's right" As soon as Narshi heard this, it made sense, and immediately took dozens of Western henchmen and began to return to the castle, pack up their softness, and prepare to escape.
Outside the city.
The army of Wu did not avoid or conceal, lined up in front of each other, as if it was like a giant beast, it would open its bloody mouth at any time and eat this castle in one bite.
"Your Majesty, although this city is small, but if it is not easy to fight, it will inevitably cause casualties, even if the casualties are negligible, but in today's situation, each of our combat strength is precious, and it is not suitable to attack, and it is located on the coast, and it does not block our way, we can bypass it from the side, at most it is only a dozen more miles" One of the staff officers advised: "There is really no need for us to waste wounded soldiers" The battle of the breakthrough was all about speed, and now they were in a hurry to leave the Roman territory, and they didn't want to fight the battle they could.
"If we bypass it, I'm afraid it won't meet our strategic requirements."
Sun Quan said indifferently: "Ma Chao" "In" Ma Chao stood up.
"You immediately lead the army to break the city, but as long as you break through the city, don't worry about those people in the city, those who should be let go must be released, we need someone to pass the news for us, let the Roman army know that we are here" Sun Quan said.
He had to use the main forces of the east and west as bait, and he had to attract the main Roman forces for a while, otherwise the soldiers and horses of these two roads might not be able to rush out in the face of the thick walls of the city of Milan and the tenacity of the Dolomites fortress, and finally they would be surrounded and annihilated.
"Obedience" Ma Chao led the army to break through the city.
"Fengxiao, Shiyuan, what did you think of in front of this map" Sun Quan looked at the two strategic military divisions who were facing a marching map and were in a trance.
Pang Tong and Guo Jia had been studying this marching map for more than a day.
Sun Quan was also a little curious.
"Your Majesty, we are wondering if we can ambush them all the way," Pang Tong replied.
"Ambush" Sun Quan squinted, but he was a little surprised, he asked, "Is there a chance?"
They are now breaking through, the breakthrough battle lies in the speed of the soldiers, if you turn back to ambush, it is likely to fall into the drag of time, I am afraid that the ambush is easy, it is difficult to get out, if the ambush Roman army takes them all, it will be a little more than worth the loss.
"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that we have one chance, that is, we may be a little risky," Guo Jiadao said.
"Let's hear it," Sun Quan was interested.
"Back and forth," Guo Jia said.
"Back and forth" When Sun Quan heard this, his eyes lit up, he was not a novice on the battlefield, he could understand the meaning of these strategic words, but he was somewhat puzzled: "Fengxiao, if we go back and forth, maybe we can gain advantage by virtue of our hedging advantage in the first move, but if our follow-up forces are insufficient, we will fall into a war of attrition, you should understand that once we fall into a war of attrition, it will be a catastrophe for us."
"Your Majesty" Guo Jia's face was straight, facing the two lines of the map, and said his thoughts: "Let's make a prediction first, that is, if we are exposed here, how many soldiers and horses will be pursued by the Roman army, and I and Staff Officer Pang have preliminarily determined that they are only 300,000 at most, or even less."
"Why," Sun Quan asked.
"Your Majesty, the Roman army has been fighting fiercely with us for so long, and their casualties are definitely not below us, or even above us, so their troops will not be very large, even if they pursue with all their might, even if they recruit a large number of young and strong men in order to eat us, they will only have a million soldiers and horses at most, or even less than a million."
Guo Jia carefully analyzed: "We must not underestimate the wisdom of the Romans, one side of the water and the other side of the people, there are also shrewd generals on this land, their lords are by no means simple, so even if we take the initiative to expose the deeds here, they will not believe that our main force is all here, they must have doubts, but they have to pay attention to this, so I think they will invest about one-third of the troops in the early stage, and make a test first, because the distance is not very far, if we test us, we are sure that the main force is here." , they concentrated on the head-on pounce" "What you mean is that because of their caution, we will have a chance to kill a horse gun" Sun Quan's eyes were bright.
"Hmm" Guo Jia nodded: "I have worked with Counselor Pang for a day, I think that such a chance is very big, and there will not be many such opportunities, if you don't kill them once, you will always be a little unwilling, but there will be a certain amount of risk in this matter, please ask Your Majesty to take an idea."
"Since the Great Wu Dynasty established itself in Jiangdong, we don't seem to have suffered a loss, this time we suffered such a big loss, how can we get back a little interest?"
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The corners of Sun Quan's mouth raised a cold smile, and he said coldly: "Fengxian, what do you mean?"
"What His Majesty said is exactly what the last general wants" Lu Bu is burly and imposing: "Only Your Majesty is allowed to beat the drum for me in this battle, and I will be able to win."
"Good" Sun Quan's expression became sharp: "How to arrange the next battle, I won't interfere, you can discuss it yourself, all I want is a result."
"No" The generals commanded.
In the end, after discussing with Ju Yi and others, Lü Bu, Guo Jia, Pang Tong, and others had a preliminary strategy, the Sabbath Legion and the Praetorian Guard escorted Sun Quan to hold on to this small castle to attract the attention of the Roman army, and Lü Bu and Ju Yi personally led the Central Army to make a counter-attack.
It was an ambush battle to encircle the point and send reinforcements.
Whether you can succeed or not depends on luck.
An hour later, Ma Chao had successfully conquered the castle of Ravanna, but the owner of the castle, Narhi, escaped with dozens of city guards from the trail.
When the main force of the Roman army poured into the city of Florence like a stormy wave, they were faced with only a bleak city, and there was no trace of the Eastern Devil.
The spies captured a few Roman civilians for interrogation.
Wu's army had withdrawn from Florence two days earlier.
"We're already getting faster, but they're running so fast" Chucks glanced around at this one, his eyes a little cold as ice.
"They can't run away" William said: "Florence is not a fortified city, I have long expected that it will not be able to hold it, but I do not believe that they can break through the fortresses of Milan and the Dolomites, as long as they are still in the territory of the Italian provinces, we can annihilate them all, even if they let them rush out, they will inevitably suffer heavy damage, we will pursue along the way, we will be able to kill them and annihilate them all."
This battle, fought like this, they are confident that they can annihilate this shareholder demon.
"Now let's divide our forces" Chaxx said: "I lead the Iron Legion, the Crusaders, the Guards and the Gallic Legion, to the east" "Hmm" William nodded: "I will lead my subordinates to the west and pursue the Eastern Demon under the city of Milan."
As soon as the two of them were combined, none of the other legion commanders were about to pull out the camp and set out, but at this time, suddenly a small nobleman who claimed to be the lord of Lavanna wanted to meet Prince Caracalla in person and report on the situation of the battle.
Prince Caracalla received the little nobleman, and after listening to his report in person, he was somewhat alarmed and summoned the generals.
"General Chaks, this is the lord of the city of Ravanna, Narhi, he has an intelligence that may be important to us" "Say" "Dear General Chaks, I have found traces of the Eastern Devil" After Narci escaped, he entered the city of Florence to know the battle situation in Rome, and immediately understood that it was the remnants of the Eastern Demons that the empire was going to pursue outside his castle.
"The traces of the Eastern Devil you found" Chucks's eyes were slightly cold: "Where" "Just outside my castle" Narhi looked sad and angry: "These murderous demons have attacked our castle and slaughtered my people, I need to have the heart to fight, but I can't defeat their hundreds of thousands of troops, so I can only ask the empire for help."
"Hundreds of thousands of troops" Chucks and William looked at each other.
William's face was majestic, his eyes were like torches, and he stared at this little nobleman: "Narshi, if you lie to us about this matter because you want to ask for credit, not only will you be sent to chance, but even the entire Andra family will be implicated by you."
"God testifies, I, Narshi, have no half of a lie, yesterday morning, the Eastern Demon soldiers came to my city, and the darkness was overwhelming, and the crowd surged, at least 200,000 people" Narshi hurriedly swore: "The city guards around me can testify" An'er, the first intelligence officer of the empire, walked out and quickly interrogated dozens of city guards around Narhi before confirming the news.
"He's right, the Eastern Devil has indeed appeared at Ravanna Castle" An Er said in a deep voice: "There are at least two or three hundred thousand troops."
"Lavanna Castle" Chucks looked at a map of the empire: "Here" "Could it be that the Eastern Devil is preparing to break through from the coast" William's face was gloomy: "But as far as I know, the soldiers and horses of the Eastern Devil have not been able to occupy the sea around the Italian province in the sea today, and they can't have a response."
"General William, even if they don't have a sea connection, along the coastline, they can go out, this is a straight road to Greece, although the road is a little longer, but it is not a road" Said Theo of the Crusaders.
"It's because we didn't think about it enough" Chucks calmed down and looked at the topographic map carefully: "This is indeed a good road, and it does not need to face our blockage, but it is the safest road" "If this is a decoy," said William, "don't forget, how cunning the Eastern Devil is, if this is just a decoy, and if the main force of the Eastern Demon is not here, we will not be pursuing in the wrong direction."
"But what if their main forces are here, and even their emperor is here" "I think this is something that needs to be taken seriously" The generals' faces were heavy, and their opinions were somewhat divided.
"The plan remains the same" Chacks pondered for a long time before deciding: "William, you still lead the army to Milan, I think they must have a thousand troops to the west, and I lead the Guards Legion, the Iron Legion to approach Dolomites, Vickers, Dio" "Your Excellency the General, the Admiral" The commander-in-chief of the Gallic Legion and the Commander-in-Chief of the Crusaders joined forces to stand up.
"You personally lead the army, want to pursue the castle of Lavanna" Chax pointed to the topographic map, said: "We are pursuing the northeast direction, the distance between them is less than a hundred miles, at any time to ensure mutual support, as long as you are sure that the main force is on the coast, immediately send someone to report, I will immediately lead the army to turn around" "Obedience" The two main generals nodded.
"The soldiers are fast, immediately pull out the camp" Chucks said coldly: "No matter what, we must not let the Eastern Demons escape from the territory of the empire, we must leave them all here in order to sacrifice the soul of Your Majesty" "Yes" The generals are murderous. t1706231537: