Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Pang Tong was taken aback, he didn't expect Feng Yu to be so determined to completely conquer Sasan, he immediately responded: "Your Majesty, please think twice..." He glanced at Zhuge Liang while speaking

Zhuge Liang came out and said to Feng Yu: "Your Majesty, to achieve your wish, I estimate that at least 20 troops will be used, and the money and food will be countless. It will take seven or eight months or even longer to gather troops to reach the front line. Your Majesty is really Have you figured it out?"

Feng Yu stood up from the dragon chair at this time, and said to the ministers: "Misters, don't think that I insist on conquering this Sassan just for the sake of great success. Rather, it is a real threat to the most fundamental security of our girder. It is Almost all the sea routes from the west to our Central Plains are within its offshore range. In addition, this crescent-shaped fertile soil also provides more than half of the grain that Daliang transports to the fifteen states every day. More importantly, I will not beat him , he will also attack our Guishuang and Shendu. Therefore, I am determined to win this land, and you should not continue to entangle this issue. In the end, we don't need 20 troops, but only [-] troops. Ten thousand is enough. Because in the west of the Sasanian there is a great empire Rome that has been strong for hundreds of years, that is, the Great Qin. Although it has weakened a lot now, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and it still has considerable strength As far as I know, the Sea of ​​the Earth was originally the inland sea of ​​Rome, but now that Sassan has occupied part of the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, it must have fought against Rome before seizing this new territory. According to the enemy's Enemy is friend principle, it is not difficult for us to persuade Rome to unite with Daliang."

Seeing what Feng Yu said, Zhuge Liang had no choice but to respond: "Since the holy will has been decided, I will no longer persuade the Holy One. But as I said, even if a hundred thousand troops are to be transferred to a battlefield thousands of miles away, it will take at least five or six At this time, I am afraid that Sassanid has already launched an attack on our army’s strongholds and camps and even foreign countries. This will not quench our thirst.”

Feng Yu nodded and said: "Kong Ming's words are correct, so I have already sent the pigeons to relay the letter, ordering Guan Yu's army stationed in Lan's City to cross the pass of the Hindu Kush Mountain and go west across the river to support the West River mouth. In addition, The Beifu army will also take action to contain Sassan's possible large-scale attack. When our [-] troops are assembled, it will be time to sweep the Fertile New Moon!"

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Like Feng Yu, Ardashir, who was far away in the Sassanian capital Taixifeng, also discussed with the ministers how to deal with Liang Jun.In fact, Ardashir did not mean to aggressively invade Guishuang and Shendu.The troops that clashed and killed Liang Jun were originally going to build the Great Wall.It can be seen from this that his original intention was to consolidate the territory of the traditional Persian Empire.

But after the conflict broke out, the local governor sent an urgent report to Taixifeng, which was thousands of miles away, and at the same time dispatched troops and gathered troops to prepare to attack the important town of Xihekou of the Liang army in one fell swoop.

When Ardashir disclosed the news to his ministers, his ministers and generals also talked a lot.Some think that major events should be reduced to minor ones, and some think that Liang Jun should be taught a painful lesson and capture Xihekou.There are even people who think that they should take the opportunity to invade the hinterland of Guishuang and Shendu, and complete the first two Persian empires, a feat that the Persian emperors of all dynasties have never done.

Ardahill finally decided to just teach Liang Jun a painful lesson, to deter Liang Jun from going west.What prompted him to make this decision was that he knew that Daliang's strength should not be underestimated.When he was a general of the Parthian Empire, he paid attention to this country named Liang that came from the far east.After he unified Persia, he collected more information about Daliang.

Ardasil said to the officials: "Teach them a lesson, and then it is best to reach a peace agreement with them. At the same time, we must build a city wall, and in addition, we must actively prepare for war against Liang."

Chapter 810 Siege of West River Mouth

The army town of Xihekou at the mouth of the Xindu River was in a state of desolation, and the faces of every Liang army general were tense.Only a few of them recruit veterans who have seen so many enemy troops.

Thousands of Sasanian infantry crossed the gap at the southern end of the Suleiman Mountains and rolled down the steep slope.Their cavalry is also all armored heavy cavalry, and these heavy cavalry are also equipped with bows and crossbows. Obviously, they have more cavalry and shooting advantages than Liang Jun's heavy cavalry.Their infantry included spearmen with round shields, javelin throwers with three short spears on their backs, and stone-throwing light infantry equipped with only short knives. The crossbowmen were Syrian archers from the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea who were proficient in bow shooting. act as.

The Wubao under the slope of the pass has been abandoned by Liang Jun.After the Sasanian army occupied Wubao, they rushed directly to the vicinity of Xihekou Army Town and quickly spread out, surrounding the city walls on three sides.A Liang army general stood at the top of the city, quietly observing these Sasanian soldiers.He is the chief general of Liang Jun in Xihekou, his surname is Yan and his name is Huai.His father was the deceased veteran Yan Yan.

Two days later, Yan Huai climbed to the top of the city wall as usual, looking out at the Sasanian army outside the city.At this time, the Sasanian army had already set up a military camp outside the city.The camp is full of densely packed tents.Yan Huai observed for a while, but still found no sign of the opponent's attack, and muttered in his mouth: "It's strange, with such a superior force, why hasn't it been so long to attack the city? What are they waiting for?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier behind him yelled: "General, look, the enemy army has come again!" Yan Huai looked around, and sure enough, at the end of the road leading to the pass, a The Sassanid army marched mightily. This army was obviously a heavy troop, pulling hundreds of four-wheeled baggage carts equipped with two horses, and even equipped with heavily armored war elephants.

Yan Huai suddenly realized: "So that's the case, it must be that the troops who came before did not carry siege equipment, they just wanted to surround us as soon as possible, and then waited for the equipment to arrive before launching the attack."

He paused, then suddenly said: "If we can knock out their supply troop by surprise, it will definitely help us reduce a lot of casualties when defending the city."

His personal guard reminded: "General, we are now surrounded by groups, how to go out of the city and attack them."

Yan Huai responded with a sneer: "Don't forget that we are a navy navy. We are surrounded on land. Isn't there still a sea route?"

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Sasanian's transport troops did not have many guards.This is not surprising, within a radius of hundreds of miles, only Xihekou, a heavily besieged place, has two or three thousand Liang troops, and there is no shadow of a single Liang army.As for the servants of the Guishuang nobles attached to Liang Jun, they are not worth mentioning in their eyes.First of all, these Guishuang troops are not willing to fight to the death for Liang Guo, and secondly, their combat power is too weak.

In the past few days, there was a case where a Sasanian reconnaissance cavalry team of more than ten cavalry encountered Guishuang army with hundreds of cavalry.This is the people of Guishuang Xihou who spent their own fief hunting.The result of the battle was that the latter was defeated by the Sasanian scouting cavalry within half an hour.

That's why Sassan's generals can safely and boldly let this supply troop march towards the west river mouth in a big way under the protection of fifty war elephants.At this time, they were still more than 700 battles away from the city of Xihekou, but they did not notice that the water gate of Xihekou had quietly opened.

More than a dozen galley warships sailed out of the water gate of the West River Estuary. Under the favorable wind, their sails were full and their oars fluttered.

The Sassanian soldiers in the camp close to the coast first spotted the fleet.But at this time they didn't know that their supply troops were coming, and of course it was impossible to know that this fleet was to attack this supply.They only thought that Liang Jun's warship was under heavy siege and escaped with important people.These Sasanian soldiers just yelled, whistled, coaxed, and laughed at Liang Jun's cowardice.

A quarter of an hour later, the baggage that was traveling on the seashore also spotted Liang Jun's warships, and found that these warships were rushing towards the beach.They all started to scream in alarm.

"Be careful, this is an enemy warship!"

"Hurry up, take your weapon and prepare to defend against the enemy!"

"Send the war elephants to the beach and stop them."

While they were yelling and shouting, the dozen or so Liang Army galley warships rushed onto the beach one after another, and the soldiers and oarsmen on board jumped into the waist-deep water with their weapons in their hands and rushed towards the shore.

When fifty war elephants lined up on the black rocks by the water's edge, the Sassanid general realized that he had made a fatal mistake.The ballistas on Liang Jun's galley battleship fired at once, and dozens of fireballs were thrown towards the war elephants.The fiery bomb fell on the hard rock, and immediately burst open, bursting into clusters of flames.Few of these flames can burn the war elephants, but they frighten the war elephants who are afraid of fire. Some of them shrink back and dare not move forward, and some even dodge.

There was a muffled bang, and a fireball hit the head of the Sasanian war elephant on the forehead.The explosive bomb exploded after hitting the hard elephant armor, and the entire elephant's head was burned.The war elephant screamed and ran wildly.The Sasanian soldier on the elephant's back was immediately thrown off.Seeing this scene, the entire elephant herd lost control and fled in all directions.Many Sassanid soldiers were trampled to a pulp as a result.

Hundreds of Liang Jun sailors and soldiers took the opportunity to rush to the coast, throwing javelins at the Sasanian infantry.Those heavy soldiers were pierced through their bodies by javelins, and the remaining soldiers were all beheaded to the ground after a short confrontation with the Liang army who had the superiority in numbers, and the few surviving people turned around in panic and ran away.

After a while, those heavy trucks were engulfed by raging flames.When the reinforcements from the Sassanid camp arrived, all these trucks were burned into a ball of fire, and Liang Jun also retreated to the city of Xihekou by boat.

Nejjart, the chief general of the Sassanian army, yelled angrily after learning about this, and slapped himself fiercely, blaming himself for not knowing the situation in Xihekou City in advance.If he knew that there was a military port in the city, and there were more than [-] ships of various types, he would never let the logistics troops behind rush here so unprotected.

When he calmed down a bit, he said to the commanding soldiers: "Quickly send a quick cavalry to request naval support from Kaleqi Port. We will completely seal this city from the waterway!"

After one day and one night, countless mast and sail shadows rose on the western sea level, and then a large number of galley warships emerged on the sea.They were moored on the water outside the water gate of the West River Estuary and blocked the water gate.But at this time, Liang Jun's warships moored in the Junzhen Wharf had withdrawn to the sea outside the city.

Chapter 811

At dawn, Yan Huai woke up early from his sleep, put on his armor as usual, and prepared to go to the top of the city to inspect the city defense.As soon as he stepped out of the gate of the government office, he heard a loud bang from a distance, and then the same loud noise came one after another.

When he thought something was wrong, some soldiers rushed to him and reported, "General, the enemy army has begun to attack the city! They are bombarding the city wall with trebuchets!"

Without saying a word, Yan Huai hurriedly rushed towards the city wall.He had just boarded the top of the wall when another loud noise was heard next to his ears.The splashed dirt left a bloodstain on his face.Like the rest of the soldiers, he hurriedly leaned behind the wall and peeked out.I saw that there were more than [-] concrete and huge trebuchets under this city wall alone.These trebuchets are also counterweighted, and the stones fired are so powerful that they can even smash the stone bricks wrapped outside the adobe city walls.

In just a quarter of an hour, large pieces of stone bricks fell off the trembling city wall.Liang Jun also immediately launched a counterattack with ballistas. These ballistas were originally placed behind some special tall walls dedicated to covering the ballistas.At the beginning, a round of stone bullets with the same weight as the hot bomb was thrown out to correct the elevation angle and direction of the ballista.Only after the stone bullets can continuously hit the opponent's giant trebuchet will they switch to hot bombs.At the same time, Liang Jun's longbowmen also began to shoot at the enemy soldiers who were manipulating trebuchets.

Several Sasanian warriors are busy manipulating a giant counterweight trebuchet.When they just fired a big rock, they were pulling down the throwing arm and buckling it.But there was a muffled bang, and a flying stone bullet just hit the crossbar of the locking throwing arm.With a click, the crossbar broke, and the rebounding stone hit a Sasanian soldier in the head again, causing his skull to shatter and die immediately.At the same time, there was a terrified cry in the air. It turned out that a Sasanian soldier who was loading stones on the catapult was caught on his clothes by the iron hook at the end of the catapult for hanging stone bags. Throwing it out, it fell on the city wall of Xihekou, and turned into a meatloaf on the spot and slid off the city wall.

Within a quarter of an hour, two more stone bullets hit different parts of the catapult.Obviously, Liang Jun has calculated and corrected the parameters of this ballista successfully.He started throwing hot bombs, and when the fireball fell from the sky, the entire trebuchet was engulfed in flames.

Near another trebuchet that had already been loaded with stones, a Sasanian soldier was about to pull the trigger, but was pierced through the chest by a heavy arrow three to four feet long.Another soldier stepped forward and pulled the button hard to let the stone be thrown out.

Although Liang Jun fought back desperately with ballistas and longbowmen, it was impossible to completely stop the continuous bombardment of these giant catapults, but it only greatly delayed the time for them to destroy the city wall.

Yan Huai thought to himself, if the bombardment continues like this, sooner or later the city will be destroyed.At this moment, those trebuchets stopped bombarding one after another.Yan Huai was puzzled, and looked around at the crenel, and found that the Sasanian army was dismantling these giant catapults, apparently to move them.

It turns out that Nejjart, the chief general of the Sasanian army, was also distressed by his expensive heavy trebuchets.I'm afraid that if the bombardment continues, these precious bumps will be destroyed by Liang Jun.

Nejjart knew in his heart that Liang Jun's ballistas were extremely accurate at fixed targets, but when firing at moving targets, because they couldn't continuously check the drop point of the projectiles, they couldn't hit them only by throwing them unless they shot directly.He thought in a hurry, the weather has been calm these few days, and the deck of the ship is almost as stable as the land. Why don't I install these trebuchets on the deck of the warship and bombard the side of the city facing the water, and the city wall collapsed as well? Can easily attack the city.

But when these huge catapults were disassembled, and then transported to the wide-body galley warships of the Sassanian Navy with a heavy truck, and finally installed on the deck, the setting sun had already fallen on the sea level.For the Sasanian army, the day passed like this, and Nejjart could only wait until dawn the next day to launch another attack.

The night is dark, there is no moon in the sky, but the sky is full of stars.On the sea outside the water gate of Xihekou City, Sasanian patrol boats can be seen shuttling from time to time.This kind of patrol boat, similar to Liang Jun's sampan or small Viking warship, is equipped with seven to ten people per boat, and is also equipped with a single mast sail, which is extremely fast.Because the heavy trebuchets are installed on the Sasanian warships, the guard against Liang Jun's water gate has been strengthened.

In addition to these patrol boats, Nejjart also specially assigned a warship to monitor the water gate.As long as Liang Jun's warship opens the water gate and launches an attack outward.The Sassanid warships moored on the nearby waters would be alerted immediately, and they would swarm up to "beat up" the opponent's warships by taking advantage of their strength.

There is a nondescript side door on one side of the water gate.The upper edge of the door is only less than two feet above the water surface, and this is still when the tide is low. When the tide is high, the entire door opening is submerged under the water surface.The Sassanids thought it was just a sewage outlet in the city, so they didn't take it seriously.

But at this moment, bucket-like objects "floated" out of the hole one after another.In fact, this is Liang Jun's semi-submersible boat.Xihekou Junzhen has nine such semi-submersible vessels.

Nine semi-submersible boats came out of the "cave" one after another, quietly and slowly rushing towards different targets like giant crocodiles lurking in the water.Their lookout tubes are likely to be spotted by the opponent's patrol boats or watchmen on large ships during the day, but in the middle of the dark night, it is difficult for people with good eyesight to spot them.

On the deck of the warship dedicated to monitoring the water gate at the mouth of the West River, a general of the Sassanid army came to the edge of the ship whistling, ready to urinate into the sea.In the middle of urinating, there was a loud bang, the whole body of the ship shook and then tilted twenty degrees, and the general was caught off guard and fell into the sea with a plop.Shortly thereafter, other soldiers on board also exclaimed.

It turned out that a Liang Jun semi-submersible ship surfaced on the side of the warship facing away from Xihekou City, only more than ten battles away from the side of the warship.

After that, the sailors of Liang Jun put a thick hemp flower-shaped desulfurized rubber band on the new ballista on the deck in a few breaths, and fired a stone bullet at close range.The stone bullet pierced through the side of the Sasanian warship in an instant, creating a hole the size of a washbasin.

After ten or so breaths, the soldiers on the Sasanian warship had just realized that there was an enemy nearby, and a fireball went into the cabin from the hole the size of a washbasin before.A deflagration occurred in the airtight cabin in an instant, and the flames rushed from various gaps and holes, and then the screams and wailing of the Sasanian soldiers rang out...

Chapter 812 Bloody battle at the head of the city

Not long after, the water surface outside Xihekou City was already ablaze, and nearly twenty warships were set ablaze by Liang Jun's explosive bombs.

In addition to the semi-submersible boats continuing to bombard the surrounding warships with ballistas at close range, some Liang soldiers on the semi-submersible boats even took the opportunity to rush to the decks of some unsuspecting Sasanian warships, facing those Sasanian warships who were caught off guard. The soldiers hacked and killed.

At the same time, the water gate of Xihekou City suddenly opened, and more than a dozen galley warships also rushed out of the city, with full sails and oars, rushing towards each target like an arrow leaving the string.Those Sasanian warships were already in a mess under the sudden attack of the semi-submersible ship, and it was impossible to implement the countermeasures formulated by the naval commander.

The Sassanian warships in a mess fought on their own. In the chaos, they couldn't identify the enemy and the enemy, so they had to leave the battlefield first.It's just that the warships loaded with heavy trebuchets were traveling very slowly, making it impossible to get away.

Amidst the cracking of wood and the screams of the soldiers, these wide-body galley warships of the Sasanian army were rammed one by one by the metal rams on the stern of the Liang army galley warships. Destroyed and sunk.Of course, the giant trebuchets loaded on their decks also sank into the bottom of the sea.

After half an hour, the Sassanid Navy was finally freed from the chaos.Dozens of Sassanid warships retreated to the periphery returned under unified command.But at this time, Liang Jun's warships also withdrew to the city one after another.When many Sasanian warships arrived, the gate of the water gate was closed again.The two water holes that the semi-submersible boats went out on the left and right sides were not sealed with iron bars.

Nejjart had already been awakened by the commanding soldiers in his sleep. He ran barefoot to the shore in a panic, looking at the blazing water battlefield in his eyes, but praying in his heart not to suffer too much loss, especially those who Giant trebuchet.

But the ensuing battle report made him thump his feet and his chest, annoyed.In this raid, the Sasanian navy lost nearly fifty large warships and more than ten patrol boats, while the Liang army only lost two warships and one semi-submersible boat.When the soldiers on the semi-submersible ship abandoned the ship, they also ignited all the explosive bombs remaining in the cabin.

When the sky was bright, the Sasanian army formed another army formation outside the city of Xihekou.Nejjart stood up and commanded Che Yu in a murderous spirit, drew out his sword and pointed at Xihekou City: "The whole army is attacking, and we must break through this city today!"

Tens of thousands of Sasanian soldiers chanted slogans in unison, and then stepped on the rhythm of war drums, braved arrows and flying stones, and pushed towards the city in a dense mass, and it was getting faster and faster.When they approached the city for less than thirty battles, the archers and crossbowmen among them shot at the top of the city.

After a longbowman at the top of the city set up his arrow, he got up and was about to shoot the opponent. Before he had time to aim, he was sunk in his chest by an arrow flying from the city.Some veterans of the Sasanian Syrian archers, their archery skills are not inferior to those of the elite archers of the Liang Army Commander, and their archery skills are also extremely accurate, which can be described as the perfect arrow.They used the combination of random arrow shooting and precise sniper shooting to effectively suppress the longbowman sniper shooting at the top of the city.

In the Sassanian army formation, there was a continuous sound of horns, which was a signal to charge.Their shield walls parted like the waves of the sea, and a large number of soldiers rushed out of the gap holding the siege ladder.Soon, countless ladders were erected on the three walls of Xihekou City.At the same time, eight siege vehicles were also speeding up and approaching the city wall.

When the Sasanian infantry climbed up the ladder, there was a steady stream of rolling wood and stones falling from the top of the city, and Sasanian soldiers were killed one after another by being hit by large trees and boulders.The Sasanian Syrian archers opened their bows even more hastily, and the ears of the soldiers of the Liang army at the head of the city were full of the sound of arrows piercing the air.A Liang soldier had just thrown a large piece of wood thicker than a bowl from the crenel when he was shot through his throat with an arrow.

Under the suppression of these archers' extremely precise archery skills, the rolling stones thrown by Liang Jun suddenly became thinner.Those pawns climbing up the ladder took the opportunity to speed up their pace, and when they were only one step away from the top of the city, they didn't find bamboo tubes with wicks protruding from the fist-sized holes under the crenel.

Immediately afterwards, fire dragons shot out from the bamboo tube Chinese New Year.This fire dragon is not long, but it is enough to reach the city ladder.Several Sassanid soldiers who happened to be facing the fire were instantly burnt into a ball, screaming and falling down from the several battle-high ladders.The ladders engulfed by the fire dragon were also blazing, and they were burnt into two pieces in less than a moment. At the foot of the city, the wreckage of the ladders were scattered everywhere.It turned out that Liang Jun also installed a fire-breathing oil tank behind the wall.In fact, it is a combination of a simple blower device and a storage cabinet for naphtha.Although it is incomparable with the flamethrowers of later generations, it is a big killer for defending the city on the battlefield of the current era.

At the same time, those siege vehicles also leaned against the city wall, and released a flying ladder at a position parallel to the city head.The Sasanian soldiers rushed out of the building carriages and rushed to the top of the city.Two or three Liang soldiers stood up behind the crenel, and threw their spears at the enemy with all their strength, and then they themselves were stabbed into honeycombs by random guns and spears.There was also a soldier of the Liang Army lying down behind the wall, desperately pulling the blower handle of the fire-breathing oil tank.However, the Sasanian siege vehicles were constructed of primitive logs and did not use any flammable protective gear.Therefore, it is very difficult to burn these buildings, but the Sasanian soldiers who were rushing to the city along the stairway in the buildings felt the heat wave.

When the Sasanian soldiers rushed to the top of the city from the ladder, Liang Jun's reserve troops also rushed over, throwing dense javelins at them, and a group of people fell down in an instant.Liang Jun fought bravely, and finally strangled the opponent's offensive at the top of the city. At this time, the portable ballista also began to show its power.At the rear of Liang Jun's formation, those portable crossbows were also erected.The fireball passed over the crowd of Liang Jun and fell directly into the crowd of the opponent, which immediately made the Sasanian soldiers panic.

At this moment, the Sasanian army formation under the city had a sound of horns.Hearing this sound, the Sasanian army at the head of the city scrambled to retreat into the building car.

Seeing this scene, Yan Huai couldn't help being taken aback, his face full of doubts.It's no wonder that the Sassanian troops who attacked the city were restricted by the Liang army's formation and portable crossbows, making it difficult to advance.But after all, they still have a manpower advantage. As long as they persist for another half an hour, the balance of victory may tilt to their side.But at the moment, he gave up in vain.

When Yan Huai looked out of the city, he immediately understood what was going on.In the distance, on the horizon where the Xindu River disappeared, some banners were raised, and some figures of people and horses as small as black spots were faintly seen.No need to ask, this is Liang Jun's reinforcements.

Chapter 813 Guan Yu is here

When the peripheral scouts reported that there was a Liang army reinforcement coming, Nejjart's first reaction was that it must be the Guishuang servant army of Liang State, because there is no real Liang army within a radius of five or six hundred miles. force.

Even the remnant mercenary group of Bactria, the Greek kingdom in Central Asia, which had been employed by Liang Jun for many years, could not come here.They were stationed in Cochin City, [-] miles south of Shendu, to deter the Shendu countries that had surrendered to the Liang army, especially the Chuluo country in the south.Theoretically, if you march quickly at a distance of [-] miles, you should be able to arrive within a few days, but there is still a large desert with a width of [-] miles between these two places.

The scouts who came to report later reported more details of this army. They were typical oriental in appearance, and all of them were cavalry.The armor of war horses is far better than that of Guishuang nobles.Therefore, this army is unlikely to be the Guishuang servant army attached to Liang Guo.

Only then did Nejjart become alert, and he immediately asked, "How many troops does the other party have?"

"Report to the general, the scouts of our army's close observation were unfortunately discovered by the enemy and have been killed. These information was sent back by the scouts of long-distance observation. Therefore, the exact number of enemy troops has not been detected clearly. But according to the scouts, the enemy cavalry should be in More than a thousand riders and less than five thousand riders. Because when their cavalry team galloped across the land, the hooves of the galloping horses sounded like summer thunder."

Hearing this, Nejjart's heart tightened, and his immediate reaction was to quickly withdraw his troops to prevent his army from being defeated by the opponent's internal and external pincers.Later, his troops stopped attacking the city and retreated like a tide towards the coastal pass at the southern end of the Suleiman Mountains.Under the city of Xihekou, there are only countless wreckages of climbing ladders and building cars, and the corpses of Sasanian soldiers in disorder.

Half an hour later, the Liang army cavalry had galloped to the foot of Xihekou city.Yan Huai took a closer look at the city. This is a pure cavalry unit composed of Qingqi Feiyu.The leading general, with a red face and long beard, is majestic and majestic, and has a long knife with a fully curled semicircular blade.Yan Huai naturally recognized this person, he was Guan Yu, the fierce general who was famous all over the world.After losing his memory and surrendering to the Liang army, he was assigned to be stationed in Lan's City.

Yan Huai hurriedly stepped down from the top of the city, opened the city gate and greeted Guan Yu in person.He clasped his fists and said, "I never expected General Guan to arrive so quickly. If the general hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid Xihekou would be destroyed by the enemy today."

Guan Yu jumped off his horse, and said with a hearty smile: "After receiving the edict from Shengshang Wanli, he set off from Lanshi City with his troops and horses, crossed the Hindu Kush Mountains and arrived at Fulousha. Fearing that you are in a tight spot here, I simply brought the two Qingqi Feiyu battalions under my command to rush along the Xindu River day and night, and the rest of the troops are still behind, and I am afraid it will take a day or two to arrive here."

"If that's the case, please bring your troops and horses into the city quickly. The enemy may leave and come back."

Guan Yu waved his hand and said, "No! If we enter the city, the military town of Xihekou will inevitably be besieged. Why don't someone set up a large camp a few miles away from the city, forming a corner with Xihekou. They can't figure out the details of our army's strength, so they probably won't dare to go up against us for a while. When they wake up, our army's rear reinforcements have already arrived."

Yan Huai nodded and said: "This strategy is even good, but..." He paused for a moment and continued: "But this is too risky for the general, if the enemy knows the truth of the general, or just give it a go. , with the general's thousand light cavalry, I'm afraid it will be difficult to resist the enemy's attack outside the city."

Guan Yu stroked his long beard, laughed and said, "It's okay, I know what's in my mind. You just need to borrow a certain battalion to help someone build a camp."

Half an hour later, a group of heavy troops marched out from Xihekou City, and began to build a fort three miles upstream of the Xindu River to the east of the city.At the same time, Nejjart, who had calmed down, also sent scouts to investigate Xihekou again.

Several Sasanian scouts galloped across the fields near the mouth of the West River on horseback.They had found out the enemy's situation in the newly erected Liang army camp at Xihekou, and they were about to return to the camp to report to their chief general Nejjart.

Although two or three hundred miles to the south is the edge of the desert with long yellow sand, and a hundred miles to the north is the desolate Gobi on the Persian Plateau, but the Xindu River Basin is still lush and lush with grass.These Sassanian scouts are to avoid being discovered by the opposing Rangers.Deliberately slowing down the horse, he walked quietly through the woods and bushes.

But they didn't know that they were discovered by Liang Jun the moment they finished their mission and left, and sent several teams of scouts to track them down.At this moment, they didn't notice the few falcons flying in the sky. They were the East China Sea peregrine falcons unique to Liang Jun's scouts.One of the falcons uttered a warning whistle, and swooped down almost vertically into the woods.Talons with metal toes left three deep claw marks on the face of a Sassanian scout before rising again into the sky.The scout screamed, covered his face with his hands and almost fell off the horse, and the rest of them were shocked.

At the same time, the sound of a dog barking came from a distance.The leading scout shouted: "No, we were discovered by the other party, retreat quickly!" After that, they drove away.But soon behind them came the rustling of war horses in the grass and the sound of hooves.With their rich experience, they judged that the other party had at least ten riders based on this voice.This made them even more afraid to face each other, and had no choice but to run away desperately.

Soon, they came out of the woods, and there was a wide grassland in front of them.There is a dirt road about two squares wide on the grassland, and at the end of this dirt road is the slope leading to the seaside pass at the southern end of Mount Suleiman.

The pursuers in the rear had already fired their bows and arrows, and the sound of the arrows piercing through the air kept ringing in their ears.In succession, two or three people rolled off their horses amidst the screams of being hit by arrows, and another person was overtaken by the mountain hounds of the opponent, and he tore off the saddle forcefully.The leader of the Sassanian scouts on a good horse was more than a hundred battles ahead of his companions in the frenzied whipping of the horse.

Half an hour later, the leader of the Sasanian scouts could no longer hear the pursuit of the troops behind him, and the ramp leading to the pass had already appeared in his field of vision.Just when he thought he was out of danger, he heard a strange rustling sound in his ears.It should be the sound of an animal running fast in the grass.

Just as he turned his head to look around, a cheetah leaped up like an arrow from the string and landed on his voice.Before he could make a sound of exclamation, the cheetah's fangs were embedded in his neck.The body then rolled off the horse.

Chapter 814

Nejjart waited for two days, and only one of the three scouts he sent came back.Moreover, the scout team that this person was in had just approached Xihekou Junzhen when they encountered Liang Jun patrolling nearby.After a fierce battle, he was the only one who ran back. The only information he brought back was that Liang Jun had built a camp a few miles away from Xihekou City.As for how many men and horses there are in the camp, it is completely unknown what kind of arms.The other two teams of scouts simply had no news at all, and it must have been a disaster.

Nejjart began to think that Liang Jun's vigilance must be much higher than before, sending more scouts and setting up more guard posts, which made his scouts so frustrated.So why did Liang Jun do this at all costs?Naturally, it is to prevent myself from finding out their truth.There is only one possibility here.That is, there are actually not many cavalry for reinforcements, only a thousand cavalry, if they are spotted by themselves, they will be attacked again immediately.So build a stronghold with bluff to deter yourself from attacking easily.

He shared this idea with his lieutenant general, who pondered for a moment and said: "This possibility is very high, but there is another possibility, that is, they deliberately made us think this way, but they actually set up a trap for us. Wait for us to enter the urn."

Nejjart thought about it too. How could the military strategist matter be based on guessing the other party's thoughts to make decisions?After much deliberation, he decided that he would neither take the risk nor miss the opportunity.

So he sent a [-]-horse war cavalry to attack the Liang army camp directly to find out the truth.If the opponent really doesn't have many troops, even if my two thousand cavalry can't attack the camp, I can still retreat completely, and I can send a large army to crush it.On the other hand, if the opponent is a trap, it is better to lose two thousand soldiers and horses than to wipe out the whole army.

The two thousand Sassanid war cavalry rushed between Xihekou City and the camp, waiting in formation, and under the leadership of the general, they began to yell and curse short and rude words in blunt Chinese in unison.

After a while, there was no movement in the city, but the gate of the camp was suddenly opened, and a wave of war horses gushed out.It was Guan Yu who led more than a thousand Qingqi galloping out.This time he took a risk and did not leave a single soldier in the camp.

Seeing this scene, the generals of the Sassanid cavalry hurriedly shouted for everyone to prepare.Before he could finish his words, the first round of arrow rain rushed towards them.Under the intensive pouring of thousands of arrows, hundreds of Sasanian warriors fell to the ground.There was the sound of people shouting and neighing everywhere, and the Sasanian cavalry was also in chaos.However, some riders of the Sasanian War Cavalry have also taken out their crossbows and fired back.Liang Jun's Qingqi Feiyu also had many people hit by arrows.

The two sides collided in the exchange of shots, and the Qingqi Feiyu rushed into the opponent's cavalry formation wielding their sabers.The blade of a Liang Jun light cavalry rider had just sliced ​​through the neck of a Sasanian cavalry cavalry before he was thrown off his horse by a sudden shot.Before the Sasanian cavalry had time to retract his lance, Guan Yu swung his sword and charged towards him. A blue light flashed, and the head of the Sasanian cavalry flew into the air.When Guan Yu retracted his knife, he let the blade cut the neck of another Sasanian cavalry horse. The horse let out a mournful cry, and threw its owner off the horse, and was trampled into a meat paste by the galloping horses on both sides.