The Three Kingdoms

Dio replied.

"Then their purpose is obvious. They want to take the opportunity to cut off our flanks!"

Macrinus said: "Although Wahlberg is unknown in the empire, I am afraid that you and I are familiar with him. Back then, even General Olveri was afraid of him. He is the only one in the Holy See who can be with him The presiding arbitrator against Pope Olveri is not simple. He might not ask us for help until the last moment. Since they have sent a signal for help, it means one thing. The situation in Greece is now under his control. In addition, they may even fall under the devil's iron hoof at any time, and look at what they wrote above, even the city of Sparta was lost, and the entire southern part of Greece was taken by the Wu army in just five or six days. The whole battle situation is probably more severe than we imagined!"

"Then we can't sit idly by."

There was a gleam of coldness in Dio's eyes, and he said: "For public and private purposes, we have to send troops to reinforce. After all, the loss of the Greek province is not only a disaster for the Greek Legion and the Holy Angel Legion, but also for the fortress of Severus. It is also an extremely heavy blow, and we may even lose the defensive power of the fortress' flanks because of this, so we will be besieged, or even besieged but not attacked, let us perish!"

"Why don't I know this? That's why I am in a dilemma. Once we send troops to reinforce, now a bigger problem will come!"

Macrinus smiled wryly: "How many soldiers and horses of Eastern demons are there in the city-state of Byzantium? Why don't they take down our indestructible Fortress of Severus without any effort after we send out troops?"

"That's a really big problem!"

Dio stood up and paced back and forth, a little hesitant.

"Report to your Excellency, the two generals. At present, our death spies have infiltrated and investigated the city-state of Byzantium, but the Eastern demons are very guarded against us, and we have never been able to approach their barracks!"

A general who was born as a god of death stood up and reported: "But we can see a problem from their stove fire. Recently, the number of soldiers and horses in their barracks has dropped sharply!"

"Being able to force Wahlberg and Blake on the land of Greece can't handle it. They have a lot of troops, and they haven't seen any signs of increasing their troops recently, which means that their main force is from the Eastern theater. dispatched!"

A legion leader analyzed in a low voice.

"Reinforcement!"

Macrinus thought for a long time before making up his mind. He looked at Dio and said, "Walberg can't hold back for long!"

"Then how much troops do we send?"

"All the Crusaders are dispatched!" Macrinus said: "Too few soldiers and horses are of no use to the battlefield of this kind of war. If you want to use them, you must have the strength of a legion to stabilize the situation in Greece." !"

"With one legion missing, how about the defense of Severu Fortress?" someone asked.

"I'm here!"

Markrinus's eyes were extremely firm: "As long as there is one soldier in the Jagged Legion, this place will always be the territory of our empire!"

Dio stared at the face of Macrinus, thought for a long time, gritted his teeth, and said: "Okay, I will listen to you and lead the Crusaders to reinforce Greece, but you must be careful and defend against their sneak attacks as much as possible!"

"rest assured!"

Macrinus said confidently: "The heavy troops of the Eastern Devils are now in Greece. In fact, my place seems safer. Even if they attack, they probably don't have many troops. If they want to break through the fortress of Severus, unless they have ten times more troops With me, and even if I die, I will bite off a piece of their flesh fiercely for the sake of the empire!"

At noon that day, Dio reorganized the Crusaders, broke out of camp and headed south, along the coast, towards the Greek province.

The sudden absence of the Crusaders in the entire huge fortress naturally caused many vacancies in the first and last strongholds.

The soldiers and horses of the Jagged Legion of Macrinus guarded this huge fortress, which was somewhat insufficient, so he rearranged the deployment of defensive troops in all directions overnight, and it was not completed until the next morning.

……

A round of morning sun slowly rises from the sea level in the east, the sun is shining brightly, warming everything, lightly shining on the sea surface, like a thin layer of gold, spread on the surging blue waves,

On the other side of the strait, among the city-states of Byzantium.

Pan Feng, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Theater Command, was reading at this very moment. What he was reading was not a military book, but a volume of Confucian classics "The Great Learning".

Waiting is a cruel thing.

But he knows that now he can only wait, so he hopes to calm down his mood through reading, and wait for the news and the signal of attack with peace of mind.

"What time is it?"

He was a little tired after a sleepless night.

"Chen Shi!"

"Any news from Greece?"

"not yet!"

"It's another day, Zhuge Kongming, don't let me down!"

After Pan Feng muttered to himself, he picked up the volume of university again and began to study it carefully.

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief..."

In less than half an hour, suddenly a fast horse rushed in, and the soldiers who had been mounted on the horse jumped off in front of the tent, and then came in directly regardless of Sanqi 21, bowing their heads down: "The general staff officer who just came from Jin Yiwei Long signal, we can attack!"

"It came from Greece?" Pan Feng stood up quickly after hearing the words, and asked casually.

"no!"

"Where did it come from?" Pan Feng was taken aback for a moment, then asked again.

"Reporting to Commander-in-Chief, Jin Yiwei's news is an attack signal from the border between the province of Thrace and the province of Greece. The attack signal agreed with us is correct. Three red flares, two long and one broken, absolutely nothing wrong!"

"Why is it from the junction of the province of Thrace and the province of Greece?"

Pan Feng was a little puzzled.

"Commander-in-Chief, let me explain it to you!" Chen Gong came out from nowhere at this time, and he cupped his hands to Pan Feng, with an uncontrollable excitement and smile on his face, and said: "The Chief of Staff Before that, Jin Yiwei had sent a spy to the border between Thrace Province and Greece Province, and these Jin Yi spies would immediately signal us to attack as long as the Roman army passed by here!"

"Where did the Roman army pass by? Which legion are they, where did they come from? Where are they going?"

Pan Feng's eyes lit up, and there was a hint of hope in his expression.

"Congratulations to the commander-in-chief, one of the two legions in the Fortress of Severus has already gone!" Chen Gong said: "I don't know how the chief of staff did it. Lured to go south, the Crusaders have now left the fortress of Severus and entered the Greek province. As long as we cut off the connection between the Thracian province and the Greek province when we start the war, they will be defeated in a short time. , it is impossible to return aid!"

Chen Gong was very excited when he said it: "At this time, I am afraid that the entire Severu Fortress is the emptiest time. There is an Iron Blood Legion tightly guarding their fortress, and it is also the time when we have the best chance to break through the fortress."

"What a Zhuge Kongming, I have to admire him!"

Hearing this, Pan Feng's phoenix eyes widened, and the scorching light flickered in the depths of his eyes. He slapped his thigh, stood up, and shouted: "Come on, call me all the commanders of the army immediately, and they will appear within half an hour." In front of me, those who fail to do so will be dealt with by military law!"

Zhuge Liang was able to hold down the two Roman legions in the Greek province with the strength of only two armies, and also let the Crusaders in the Severus Fortress go south, which was beyond his expectations.

"promise!"

Several messengers quickly left with the military order of the headquarters.

Soon all the commanders of all the legions in the eastern theater gathered in front of Pan Feng.

"Everyone, Zhuge Kongming has created the best opportunity for us to cross the sea!"

At this time, Pan Feng was waiting in armor, standing in front of the generals with a murderous look on his face, his momentum was like a rainbow, and his fighting spirit was high. His eyes swept over several legion commanders, and said: "Now pass on to the only commander of my headquarters immediately. According to the military order, the whole army crosses the sea, storms the fortress of Severu, and tells the soldiers that this is our only chance, we can only move forward, not retreat, anyone who disobeys the order will be killed!"