The Three Kingdoms

"Now tell me about the situation in Mulu City!" Tai Shi said kindly.

"Report to Commander, there are currently about [-] Parthian soldiers in Mulu City, but according to our scout observations, the Parthian nobles in the city have been recruiting slave soldiers!"

Zhu Heng took a step forward and said: "Mulu City is an important city of the Anxi Empire. Before the battle with Guishuang, Anxi used Mulu City as a fortress to guard against the fortress of the Guishuang Empire. There are many young and strong people in the city. If they If you are recruiting slaves, you will form a slave army that consumes us!"

"slave?"

When Tai Shici heard this, his eyes turned cold.

This term has not appeared in the Central Plains for many years.

"The Central Plains had abolished slavery many years ago. Even the Huns, they only dared to use the plundered Huns as slaves, but there were many slave systems in the dynasties of the Western Regions!"

Zhuge Liang's face was calm, and he said in a deep voice: "In the Anxi Empire, princes and nobles are the most respected. These nobles basically don't treat slaves as human beings. They recruit slaves, which is different from how the princes recruit young and strong in our country. The princes, when the troops are insufficient, will recruit the young and strong in the city to fight together, but their purpose of recruiting slaves is not to assist in the battle, but to let the slaves die, which directly consumes our energy and combat effectiveness!"

"It's too cruel, isn't it?"

"Somewhat devoid of humanity!"

"Aren't slaves human?"

"Won't these slaves rebel against them?"

When the generals heard the words, they couldn't help feeling a little chill in their hearts.

"Hehe, this is a systemic conflict between the great empires of the Western Regions and our Central Plains Celestial Dynasty. You think they are cruel and careless about human lives, but in their hearts, this is a matter of course!"

Zhuge Liang said: "The nobles of the empire think that it is a great blessing to let those slaves die for themselves, and these slaves have been enslaved for many years, and many slaves have become slavish, maybe it is for the surviving family members, maybe it is for other people. For whatever reason, they won't resist nobles easily!"

"Then we can only watch them use these slaves to consume our main force?"

A trace of coldness flashed across Pan Feng's long and narrow phoenix eyes.

"Although killing aliens will not be soft-hearted, we are not butchers after all. Killing some unarmed slaves will collapse our morale that has just been ignited!" Sun Ce's face was cold, his one-armed palm was bruised, and his voice was a bit gloomy.

"It's not that there is no way, let's act first!"

Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "When they failed to gather the slave soldiers together, attack quickly, catch them by surprise, go straight to their main force, and abandon their slave soldiers. As long as their main force is defeated, these slaves may die Become our spear!"

"The end will fight!"

"The end will fight!"

When the generals heard the words, they couldn't hold back at last, and stood up from their actions one after another, and challenged Tai Shici to fight with great morale.

"Commander, give me three days, and I can take Mulu City!"

Not to be outdone, Singer strode out and said with cupped hands.

"The No. 40 army just fought an ambush, a blitzkrieg that lasted hundreds of miles. Although your casualties were small and negligible, this battle must have exhausted your soldiers and horses. If you continue to fight, you will die. If you are injured, you must rest before you can fight. The whole army retreats [-] miles, camps, and rests for ten days!"

Tai Shici glanced at Singer and said.

"commander……"

Singer still wanted to fight for it, but Zhu Ran reached out and grabbed him.

He froze for a moment, winked at Zhu Ran, and suddenly woke up.

He is not stupid, and after thinking about it, he understood that the main forces of the other four armies of the Snow Leopard Legion have already come up, and none of them have started their meat. Let him win the No.40 first army, and it will be difficult for him to be a man in the future.

In particular, he is still from Guishuang. Although it is said that the Central Plains are now Datong, and all ethnic groups are tolerant, these military generals of foreign origin are not as good as Jiangdong's direct line after all.

"The last general takes orders!"

After Singer figured it out, he respectfully accepted the order.

Tai Shici smiled slightly, very satisfied with Singer's attitude, he considered for a while, and his eyes fell on Yan Xing, the deputy commander: "Deputy Commander Yan, Mulucheng, you led the No.40 Second Army and the 43rd Army. Is it feasible to capture Mulu City from within?"

"The last will obey!"

Yan Xing stepped forward with strides, surrendered his hands to accept the order, and then left the tent with the generals of No.40 Second Army and No.43 Army.

In the big camp, the atmosphere of discussing the war began to become a little tense.

"Commander, it's actually not difficult to win Mulu City!"

Zhuge Liang stood up, looked at the temporary sand table, and said, "It's just that if we take down Mulu City, we'll be stepping on the bottom line of the Anxi Empire, and their waiting main force will rush like a mad dog." Come up!"

"It's inevitable!"

Tai Shici said: "And isn't our original intention to attract the inevitable main force here? Zhao Yun has led eight thousand elite soldiers and has already joined the Sea Eagle Legion. Whether he can break through Taixifeng or not depends on whether we can bring the rest of the Parthian Army to this place." All the main forces are attracted here!"

"However, once hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Parthian Army rush forward, it will not be a trivial matter!"

Zhuge Liang felt a little heavy in his heart: "If we are not careful, we may not be able to wait until Taixi Fengcheng is breached, and the front has already been collapsed by the Anxi army!"

The strength of the Snow Leopard Legion is only a few hundred thousand, but now the Anxi Empire has gathered the entire empire's troops, plus their serf soldiers and horses, plus the slave soldiers recruited by force, there are at least hundreds of thousands of troops .

Too many ants can kill an elephant.

The Parthia Empire has been able to establish a country here for many years, and has been able to fight against a big empire like Rome for hundreds of years. Their army will definitely not be so incompetent.

And in their empire, there must be military generals and civil servants who can support the entire empire.

Although the two sides don't know each other very well, and the language between the two countries is also very difficult, but if they underestimate the soldiers and horses of the Parthian Empire because of this, maybe they may stumble here.

The previous defeat in the First World War in Mesopotamia was a bloody lesson.

"What does the chief of staff mean?" Tai Shici pondered for a while.

"It's still the same sentence, strike first!"

Zhuge Liang said in a deep voice: "When we took down Mulu City, we didn't wait for them to surround us, but took the initiative to pounce on them. In this way, we will turn passive into active, concentrate our main force, divide their forces, and reach a goal of more than one." The purpose of hitting more and less!"

"I'm afraid this requires the use of cavalry capabilities? If you want to turn passive into active, you must deal with the armored cavalry of the Parthian Empire first. If you don't deal with their cavalry, you can't limit their mobility."

Tai Shici thought about it deeply, thinking about Zhuge Liang's plan, and said: "But we don't have many cavalry now. In the previous Mesopotamia battle, our cavalry had been severely injured by the Roman army. The current cavalry is very weak." They are newly recruited soldiers, and the total of the five armies has only three divisions of cavalry, more than 2 people, and their combat effectiveness is not as good as the two divisions of the Central Plains cavalry!"

"Enough is enough!"

Zhuge Liang looked confident, squinted at the two burly figures sitting next to him, and said with a smile: "Commander, don't forget, the courage of the generals, we have two powerful cavalry generals, fight It may not be lost to the rest of the cavalry!"

"Take Mulu City first, and see the reaction of the Parthian army!"

Tai Shici also looked at Pan Feng and Sun Ce, with a look of relief on his tense face. Indeed, there are two such powerful cavalry generals with the courage of generals. Maybe they can compete with the armored cavalry of the Anxi Empire. One high and one low.

"Ok!"