The Three Kingdoms

At the same time, Wu Jun's Snow Leopard Legion, Guanzhong Legion, and Sea Eagle Legion began to join forces and confronted the four large legions of the Roman Army, the Augustus Legion, the Crusaders, the Iron Blood Legion, and the Parthian Legion. On the plain with a radius of fifty miles around the city of Seleucia.

City of Seleucia.

In the city, outside the city, the eastern suburbs, the southern suburbs, and the northern suburbs, there are battlefields everywhere. The soldiers and horses of the two armies are confronting each other with more than one million soldiers and horses. The sky full of dark clouds is full of an atmosphere that is about to explode.

"Now that we have repelled the Roman army and forced them to retreat to the city of Seleucia, we have completed the initial strategy, and we have to consider how to retreat!"

"It can't be too obvious!"

"That's right, if we withdraw too clearly, the Roman army will counterattack us and turn around. At that time, we will be a paper tiger, a paper tiger that can be broken with one poke!"

"But we can't launch an aggressive attack on Seleucia City. If it is too aggressive, the Roman army will jump over the wall in a hurry. At that time, we may really be caught dead!"

With the golden dragon battle flags flying one after another, all the generals gathered in the joint command battalion of the Wu army, and disputes continued.

It is easy to attack in, but not so easy to withdraw.

Although the power of the cannon in red has frightened the Roman army, they were able to achieve brilliant results with weak forces. Not only did they win the battle, but they also forced the Roman army to withdraw from the entire Mesopotamia. of the southeast.

However, the strength of the Roman army has not weakened much. There were not many casualties in the battle on the Sicily River. Legion, casualties are not great.

Once he came to his senses, this battle was still very dangerous for Wu Jun.

"How do we fight next, everyone?"

Tai Shici glanced over, looked at the commanders of the other two legions, then at the silent chiefs of staff, and spoke first.

"Commander, I'm afraid it's not how to fight, what should be withdrawn!" Zhuge Liang smiled wryly: "For up to three days, if we don't attack the city of Seleucia, the Roman army in the city will react. When they gather the main force, it is estimated that Will strike hard too!"

"It's a pity that our red cannons can't be transported. If we can, at least we can give them a pot of drinking!"

Chen Gong said with some regret.

"This thing is too heavy and cumbersome. If it is shipped here, it will take less than ten days and half a month. It's impossible!" Lu Xun shook his head: "And this should be just a test product made by the imperial court. It exploded several cannons and hurt people. You hurt yourself too, you have to repair it!"

"Right now, hundreds of thousands of Roman troops are gathered in the city. Although we won the battle, there are too many wounded soldiers. If we fight, we won't be able to hold it!" Zhang He narrowed his eyes slightly.

"It's neither fighting nor withdrawing!"

"We have won a battle, and we are embarrassed!"

"How to do?"

All the generals were a little embarrassed, at this time, they really couldn't advance or retreat.

"Kong Ming?" Zhou Tai squinted at Zhuge Liang.

"It's not so easy to move an army of hundreds of thousands, and I'm still thinking about how to safely withdraw from the city of Seleucia!" Zhuge Liang looked at a map, thought for a long time, and said, "The Romans are not fools, too. It is too obvious, and it is easy to expose our actual situation!"

"Generals, I have a strategy, I don't know if I should say it or not!"

In the entire camp, Cao Xiu, the youngest with seniority, suddenly spoke.

"Wen Lie, tell me!" Zhang He said in a deep voice with his eyes brightened.

All the generals also looked at this young general of the Cao family, and there were many generals who placed high hopes on him.

"We can retreat to advance!"

Encouraged by the eyes of several generals, Cao Xiu suddenly became bolder, and talked in front of the giants in the army: "The first time we retreated swaggeringly, but we returned to ambush the Roman pursuers halfway, and gave them a ruthless blow." After the second retreat, I am afraid they will not dare to come up, as long as we retreat to the Sicily River, they will not dare to fight again."

"Advance by retreat?"

The generals were all sensible people, and immediately figured out the meaning of this strategy.

"If we retreat, they will definitely pursue them. At that time, we will ambush from left to right and turn around to fight back. We don't need to fight too hard. As long as we can make them fearful, we will have enough time to retreat!"

Le Jin, chief of staff of the Guanzhong Army Corps, said, "But this ambush point must be cautious!"

"Correct!"

Tai Shici cast a sidelong glance at Zhang He, and said, "And the main force for the ambush must be elite. Our Snow Leopard Corps has suffered a great loss, and the Sea Eagle Corps is not good at land battles. Now the Guanzhong Corps maintains the best troops!"

"I will be the main force of the ambush!"

Zhang He must support Cao Xiu's strategy no matter what.

And Tai Shici was right. Although the Sicily River battle was won, the main force of the Snow Leopard Army also suffered a big loss. On the contrary, the Guanzhong Army and the Parthian Army of the Roman Empire confronted each other, and no major war broke out. , but maintain a lot of main force.

"That's it!"

Zhuge Liang's eyes lit up, and he said in a deep voice: "Tomorrow morning, the Guanzhong Army will retreat first, retreat thirty miles away, and start an ambush, and then the Sea Eagle Army and the Snow Leopard Army will jointly withdraw their troops."

"Where are we going to ambush?" The generals raised their heads, looked at Zhuge Liang, and asked.

This question is important.

If the ambush point is not chosen well, all strategies will fall short.

"here!"

Zhuge Liang had already thoroughly grasped the surrounding terrain. From Cao Xiu's suggestion, his brain turned quickly, and he had already found an ambush point. He pointed to a place on the map: "This place has always been called the Devil's Mountain by the Anxi people. The surrounding terrain is criss-crossing and criss-crossing, it is the best ambush point!" (To be continued.)

[Chapter 350 of the text under the truce of the western battlefield]

City of Seleucia.

outside the city.

In the camp of the Wu army, horseshoes sounded suddenly, one after another battle flags were flying in the wind, soldiers and horses were mobilized again and again, but the direction and trajectory of the soldiers and horses were not encircling the city of Seleucia, but were withdrawing to the rear .

"The No. 40 Eighth Army First Division quickly marched twenty miles backward, move, move, hurry up!"

"No.40 Ninth Army is following up!"

"Hurry up, speed up!"

"..."

The Guanzhong Legion was the first group of soldiers to withdraw from outside the city of Seleucia. The long dragon-like teams marched in the opposite direction of Seleucia, and quickly disappeared into the eyes of the Roman army observing sentries in the city.

"Hurry up and report to His Royal Highness, the Easterners have withdrawn their troops!"

When the eastern army was in full swing, the sudden large-scale retreat of soldiers and horses quickly attracted the attention of the Roman army in the city.

"These Eastern Wu people want to withdraw their troops?"

After Geta received the news, he led a group of Roman generals to the top of the city immediately. He looked at the oriental soldiers and horses in the company outside the city, and there was a trace of gloomy light flickering in his eyes.