Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Chapter 857

Feng Yu personally led the South Army with Wei Yan as the vanguard.The Wei Yan Army is a full animal force army.The so-called full animal power means that the legion hardly relies on walking on foot.Even the infantry in his infantry battalion were manned with ostriches.The baggage battalion all adopted new four-wheeled and six-horse baggage vehicles.Such a carriage uses a spring leaf made of stronger toughness steel, which has a greater load-bearing capacity than the original one.

Seat boards were installed on three sides of the cargo carriage, so that the soldiers guarding the baggage car no longer had to walk with the car on foot, but sat on the board.At the seat board at the crotch of the occupant, there is a foldable, leather-wrapped guardrail to prevent the occupant from being thrown down.It's like riding on a saddle.Similar to the seat board design of the Bird Helicopter in the original world.Each baggage car can take up to eight baggage soldiers.

With the ability to march quickly, Wei Yan's army advanced furiously, leaving the main force far behind, and arrived at Pangbo City, which is nearly a thousand miles away, in just three days.However, Wei Yan did not advance to Persis in the north, but turned to the south, approaching the city of Gwadar a hundred miles away to the south.

This is actually Feng Yu's intention.Feng Yu wants to test the actual strength of Gwadar Port.If the force is weak, then Wei Yan can directly attack Gwadar, and then hand it over to the Lin Tao fleet that came from the sea, and then turn north again to join the main force.If the enemy forces in Gua Hong Kong are very strong, then Feng Yu can only temporarily stop the main force's northward advance and concentrate its forces to attack Gwadar City first.

In short, in the hands of Liang Jun, Gwadar can play the role of a transshipment hub for sea and grain roads. On the contrary, it will become a confidant of Liang Jun's northward advance.So in any case, Gwadar Port is what Liang Jun must win.

Wei Yan unloaded all the grain, grass and living materials on the baggage cart in Pangbo City.Then they replaced the parts of the siege equipment borrowed from Simmons, and the soldiers took the dry food and fodder they needed for three days with them, and hurried on the road again.

In order to surprise, Wei Yan deliberately marched at night.When his army was less than thirty miles away from Gwadar City, it was already dawn.The scouts who explored the way ahead rushed to report: "General Qi, there is an enemy army formation ahead!" Wei Yan smiled slightly, and said to the generals beside him: "The Sasanians are very vigilant, so they still found them. But they are ignorant and fearless, and they dare to come out of the city to confront our army, which is exactly what a certain person wishes for."

Then Wei Yan asked the scout again: "How many troops are there in the opposing army?"

"Back to the general, we have combined the assessment of several brothers, and the other party's troops are between five thousand and eight thousand."

Hearing this, Wei Yan's heart tightened slightly, and the smile on his face disappeared.But he still ordered indifferently: "Pass a certain military order, and the whole army is deployed to meet the enemy."

Although the enemy's strength greatly exceeded Wei Yan's expectations, he still had the confidence to defeat the opponent's thousands of troops with one blow.With the sound of Liang Jun's horns, the cavalry quickly began to line up.The infantry jumped off the ostrich one after another, and the heavy soldiers put down the guardrail in front of their crotches and jumped off the heavy cart.Under the call of the generals of the various ministries, everyone lined up skillfully according to daily drills.In a short time, Liang Jun's army formation was formed and slowly moved forward.Liang Jun's baggage carts were surrounded on a slightly higher plateau behind the army formation, and the ostriches used by the infantry were also surrounded.

A quarter of an hour later, Wei Yan could see the silhouettes of countless soldiers, horses and flags on the distant horizon under the rising sun.Wei Yan immediately ordered: "A certain military order, crossbowmen, crossbowmen stop advancing, prepare..."

Before he could finish speaking, a scout came galloping from behind, and before he got close to Wei Yan, he yelled, "Report! General, we found Sassanid soldiers and horses in the rear of our army. About five thousand soldiers and horses were found in Wei Yan's heart." Surprised, she wondered why Sassan still had soldiers and horses coming up from behind.

Immediately afterwards, two more cavalry scouts came galloping from afar and reported one after another: "Report! Enemy cavalry were found three miles away from ten o'clock on the left wing! The number is unknown..."Report, enemy infantry were found within five miles from three o'clock on the right wing Ride! The number is about [-]."

Wei Yan suddenly realized that the enemy's intention was obvious, that is to surround and annihilate only three or four thousand soldiers in his area with superior forces.Needless to say, at least tens of thousands of Sassanid soldiers and horses gathered in the surrounding area centered on Gwadar City.Far beyond his original estimate.

Just as he was thinking for a dozen breaths, another scout patrolling around the marching column came to report that different numbers of enemy troops had been spotted one after another in different directions and places nearby.At the same time, the cavalry on the two wings of the Sassanid Army formation, which were already visible to the naked eye, began to speed up and circled towards the two wings of the Liang Army.

Wei Yan looked around again, and in several directions, he could already see the dust raised by the galloping cavalry, as well as the banners that had just risen from the horizon.

At this time, Liang Jun's cavalry and chariot soldiers could use their own speed and mobility to jump out of the encirclement.But those heavy soldiers and infantry were running out of time.After disbanding the army formation, when they mounted their own ostriches and boarded their own baggage carts, the enemy might have already killed them. At that time, the scattered Liang army was attacked by the opponent again, and the consequences would be disastrous.

Wei Yan is worthy of being a good general who has been on the battlefield for a long time and is quite strategic.He made a decisive decision and roared loudly: "All the longbow chariot battalion and light cavalry battalion withdrew as quickly as possible, jumped outside the enemy's encirclement, and then continued to harass the enemy's encirclement from the outside. The main force of the siege relieves the pressure. Order the soldiers to send orders quickly!"

Before the order could be delivered, his words could be heard nearby, the captains of the two battalions belonging to the Qingqi Battalion of the Chariot Battalion had already led their own soldiers and horses to turn around and retreat.Then Wei Yan pointed at the high ground on the right rear which had been surrounded by baggage trucks with his horsewhip and continued to shout: "All the remaining soldiers and horses, retreat to this high ground to set up defensive positions and military formations!"

Liang Jun's army spread out immediately, rushing towards the high ground like a tide, and retreated behind a circle of carts surrounded by baggage carts.At the same time, one battalion of light cavalry and two battalions of chariots also disappeared on the distant horizon.

It's just that the last Qingqi battalion was located on the outermost side of the military formation before, and was the last one to receive the military order, half a quarter of an hour later than the other battalions.Therefore, at the last moment when it broke away from the encirclement, it still had partial contact with the surrounding enemy troops.

Fortunately, all the pawns who came into contact with them were Sasanian pawns.Liang Jun Qingqi fired random arrows, forcing the Sassanid infantry who were closing in on both sides to slow down, and the sword and shield soldiers among them stepped forward one after another to defend the wall with their shields.This battalion of Liang Jun Qingqi took the opportunity to speed up and gallop in the gap that has not yet been closed...

Chapter 858 Nejjart's Pocket

On the wasteland, on both sides of the gap in the Sasanian encirclement, the Sasanian infantry, urged by the generals, continued to press toward the center against the random arrows of the Liang army.However, as Liang Jun Qingqi ran out more and more, Liang Jun's arrows became more and more sparse.The speed of these pawns closing also increased.

In the end, the fifty or sixty light cavalry at the end of the cavalry were still attacked by the approaching Sasanian javelin soldiers.The javelin projection like torrential rain made them out of ten. In the end, only more than [-] Qingqi soldiers escaped, and the rest of the dozens of Qingqi soldiers and horses fell in a pool of blood like hedgehogs.The crowd of the Sasanian army quickly submerged the corpses of these Liang Jun Qingqi.

On the wasteland highlands, the army formation surrounded by the Liang army's heavy vehicles has been completely surrounded by the Sasanian army.Not far away, a Sassanian general was stationed in his horse to watch the battle. This person was Nejjart, the governor of Gedrosia Province, and he is now the chief general of the Sassanian Gwader War Zone.

At this time, Nejjart, who was looking out from the pergola, was relieved to see that he had successfully surrounded the Wei army.The only thing he was worried about in this operation was to let the other party run away, which would lead to nothing for himself.Although some chariots and riders ran away now, after all, they surrounded the majority of infantry, which made him feel relieved.

Nejjart remembered the military meeting held by Emperor Ardashir a few days ago.At the meeting, Ardashir decided to allocate 6000 elite soldiers to Nejjart and let him form the Gwadar theater.Including the remaining [-] men and horses in Gwadar City, he has a total of [-] soldiers and horses in his hands.

With so many soldiers and horses, Ardashir gave him a seemingly simple task.It is to defend the coastal area centered on Gwadar City, and ensure that the food and grass from the Mesopotamia can be relatively safely transferred from Gwadar to Persis in the northwest.If the main force of the Liang army ignored the coastal areas of Gwadar Port and chose to go directly north to Persis, then Nejjart would need to wait for an opportunity to attack Pangpo City and the targets behind the rest of the Liang army's main force.

In the early hours of this morning, Nejjart was awakened by his own soldiers in his sleep.It turned out that the secret sentries and patrols located [-] miles outside Gwadar City successively discovered the Weiyan Army Corps on the march, and roughly figured out the strength of the Weiyan Army Corps, so they immediately dispatched fast horses to report to Nejjart.

When Nejjart heard that the opponent had only 4000 troops, he didn't take it seriously.He knew in his heart that once these troops approached Gwadar City and found that there were tens of thousands of Sasanian troops stationed in the city and surrounding areas, they would retreat without fighting.

But then Nejjart thought about it, why not take this opportunity to concentrate his forces to wipe out the three or four thousand Liang troops?In this way, this battle is the first victory against Liang Jun.Not to mention the shame of repeated defeats that he was able to Yixue some time ago, it can indeed boost his morale.A good condition has also been created for the future defense of Gwadar.

Having made up his mind, he immediately dispatched his personal guards, dispatched troops from seven or eight barracks around Gwadar City, and set up pockets for the Weiyan Corps.Finally, at dawn, Wei Yan was successfully surrounded.

At this time, Nejjart silently watched the Liang Army formation on the high ground for a few moments, then drew out his sword and pointed at the Liang Army formation: "Attack! Annihilate them!" Sassan's earth-shattering war drums Then the horn sounded,

The Sasanian army launched attacks from four directions at the same time, but tens of thousands of people did not rush forward in a swarm, which would only cause congestion, confusion or even stampede.

Only four infantry phalanxes actually launched the attack.Under the cover of the front row of sword and shield soldiers, they moved along the slope to the high ground little by little with their waists bent, getting closer and closer to Liang Jun's chariot wall.The crossbowmen in the rear had already fired their arrows, and the rain of arrows poured down on the high ground.

However, Liang Jun either covered the top of his head with various shields such as large shields and round shields, or hid in the blind spot behind the carriage.So these random arrows did not hurt anyone.The horses of the heavy cavalry were basically unharmed because they were protected by iron armor.On the contrary, those ostriches walking in the highlands for food were shot to death and injured many by the falling arrows, and the ostriches screamed and screamed everywhere.

When the Sasanian infantry phalanx was still a few battles away from the chariot wall, the general who led them shouted the command "Kill!", and thousands of infantry rushed up, no longer maintaining their formation, and He ran towards the car wall at the fastest speed.The javeliner took advantage of the momentum and threw his javelin into the formation.The sword and shield soldiers and spearmen either climbed up the carriages, or tried to sneak into Liang Jun's formation from the gaps or under the carriages.

A knife and shield soldier who had just climbed onto the top of the carriage was shot through the heart by an arrow and rolled down before he had time to put his shield back on.Another Sasanian spearman boarded the roof of the carriage, only to find a Liang Jun emerging from a skylight at his feet. He dropped the spear in his hand in panic and touched the dagger at his waist, but before it was too late, the opponent The short dagger pierced his stomach.There are also Sassanid soldiers who tried to sneak in from the gaps or the bottom of the carriages. Just when their heads or chests were exposed, their heads were chopped off with a knife or their chests were pierced with a gun.

At the same time, dozens of fireballs flew out of the Liang army formation and landed in the densely populated area of ​​the Sasanian phalanx.Immediately, several people turned into fire men, shouting and rolling on the ground, and the rest of the soldiers also became confused because of dodging.At the same time, many figures of Liang Jun appeared on the top of the chariot wall. They held shields with slingshots and shot lead bullets at the Sasanian infantry under the chariot wall.Many people were beaten to the point of bleeding, some eyeballs were knocked out, and some were even hit by lead bullets in the throat and other vital points, and died on the spot.The Sasanian infantry phalanx was even more chaotic, almost out of formation.

Seeing this, Nejjart in the distance sighed and said: "It seems that I have to use my hole cards to deal with them." Then he said to the commander: "Send the order to temporarily stop the attack. Let the crossbowmen get ready! Let the attacking soldiers wear firecoats."

With the sound of the horn of the Sasanian army's retreat, the Sasanian infantry attacking the four phalanxes of the Liang army retreated like a tide, leaving only dozens of corpses in front of the wall of the Liang army's chariot.But only a quarter of an hour later, they made a comeback again and re-arranged their formation outside Liang Jun's more than [-] battles.Wei Yan, who was hiding in the dark and observing, discovered that these soldiers were wearing a strange kind of clothing over their armor.

The four re-arranged Sassanian phalanxes were not in a hurry to attack, as if they were waiting for something.However, the archer Liang Jun poked out half of his body from the carriage from time to time, and shot cold arrows at the Sassanid soldiers.Those soldiers in the Sasanian phalanx without shield protection were shot and fell to the ground from time to time.It turned out that Liang Jun had unloaded the items in the carriage, and the carriage was converted into a bunker.

Chapter 859 Blood and Fire

A battlefield thirty miles northeast of Gwadar City.The four reorganized Sassanian formations still waited silently.Liang Jun's crossbowmen loaded another round of hot bombs, and dozens of hundreds of fireballs were divided into four groups and flew in four different directions.

The fiery bombs fell precisely into the Sasanian crowd.It was still shattered and burst into raging fire, engulfing many Sasanian soldiers.It's just that these Sasanian infantry have already worn fireproof clothing made of fire cloth.After being splashed with naphtha, they rolled on the spot calmly and put out the fire on their bodies.The firing of this round of hot shells only caused a little confusion in the Sasanian army formation.But like a pebble thrown into a pond, it quickly returned to calm after some ripples.

Another Liang Junchang archer suddenly appeared from the skylight of the carriage, and then he aimed and released an arrow at the fastest speed.If nothing else, the arrow would cost a Sasanian soldier another life.But just after firing the arrow, he saw a fireball in the air hitting the carriage he was in.

The fireball hit the carriage unbiasedly, and the flames immediately spread on the roof of the carriage, and part of it flowed into the carriage from the "skylight". He staggered and jumped out of the carriage, rolled on the ground a few times but failed to extinguish the fire.Until someone threw a blanket on him, but the person could only breathe out but not breathe in.

At the same time, these fireballs flying from the Sassanid army continued to fall on the Liang army's position, shooting up into the sky with flames.Several baggage carts were also ablaze.Many soldiers of the Liang army who got into the carriage were also ignited by the flames that got into the carriage, and jumped out of the carriage, struggling to beat the flames on their bodies.They were all burned one by one.

Wei Yan frowned, thinking secretly that the Sasanian army had imitated Liang Jun's explosive bomb.But then he discovered that the fireballs fired by these ballistas of the Sasanians were actually more powerful than the Liang Jun fire bombs.

At this time, he heard shouts like a tsunami from outside the car wall, and the Sasanian army finally launched an attack again.However, the fireballs of the Sassanians continued to hit the Liang army camp one after another.Liang Jun's ballista bombardment did not stop, and fireballs with smoke trails were flying everywhere in the air.

In the rising flames, the Sasanian infantry wearing fireproof suits naturally had more advantages than Liang Jun.A Sasanian infantry passed through the gap between the two carriages that had just been scorched by the flames, and flames were even leaping two or three feet high on the ground.The Liang Army soldier who was ambushing behind the wall here was either severely burned by the fire, or forced to go further away by the fire, so he entered the Liang Army's formation without hindrance.

Just in front of him was a soldier of the Liang army whose trousers were burning, trying his best to extinguish the fire. Without saying a word, he raised the knife and fell the opponent to the ground.But at the same time, a spear on the left and right also pierced his left and right ribs.

From the other direction, groups of Sasanian soldiers climbed onto the roof of the carriage.There was a sea of ​​fire at the back of the carriage, and the fire has just become smaller.

Relying on the fireproof clothing on their bodies, these Sassanian soldiers jumped onto the ground that was still full of flames without fear, and charged deeper into the Liang army's formation.However, the moment they landed, twenty or thirty spears were thrown at them densely, and more than half of the Sasanian soldiers fell down amidst the screams and wailing.

Several surviving Sassanid soldiers suffered from strokes. When one spearman saw a Liang soldier standing in front of him, he stabbed with his spear, and the spear in the opponent's hand also stabbed at him at the same time.The spear points of both sides pierced each other's body almost at the same time.However, the Sassanian spearman felt the gun in his hand faltered and was blocked, but the opponent's gun blade had already drilled out of his back.It turned out that he was fighting against a heavy cavalry soldier named Liang Jun. His thrust was not strong enough to pierce through the opponent's armor.

Wei Yan, who was commanding in the formation, was sweating on his forehead and palms.Although the generals of the Liang army are relying on their own individual combat power and high morale, they can still maintain a solid line of defense in the fierce battle.But Wei Yan could tell that as long as the time dragged on for another half an hour, the continuous Sasanian infantry would surely break through the defense line in the end.

At this moment, the Sasanian army suddenly stopped attacking in one direction, and then the other three directions also slowed down one after another.With a thought in his heart, Wei Yan took a large shield, took three steps at a time and took two steps at a time to risk boarding a section of the burnt baggage wagon with only wreckage left, and raised his eyes to look into the distance.Sure enough, he didn't expect it.His light cavalry flying feathers and longbow chariot went back and forth, and after killing them, he was launching continuous harassment from the rear of the Sasanian army.

Teams of Qingqi Feiyu warriors galloped around the battlefield for several miles. They kept firing their bows and arrows, and randomly shot densely at the crowd of Sassanid soldiers.Where each round of arrows shoots, there are always more than ten or twenty Sasanian soldiers falling to the ground.The longbow chariot is at a farther place, opening the bow and releasing the arrow, and carrying out precise heavy arrow shooting.

However, Nejjart, who was in command of the Sasanian army, did not panic.Because when he first saw Liang Jun's light cavalry and chariot fleeing, he expected Liang Jun to come.Nejjart calmly ordered: "The peripheral infantry form a defensive formation, heavy cavalry attack!"

As his orders were transmitted by the sound of drums and trumpets, tens of thousands of Sasanian soldiers formed a phalanx in less than a quarter of an hour.These phalanxes spread out around the high ground like a fan, but the front faces the outside.The archers in the formation unleashed their bows and arrows, and the slingers also rushed out from the gap between the phalanx and the phalanx, taking advantage of the situation and throwing the round stone with a rope in their hand, and threw it fiercely at Liang Jun.

Chased by the chaotic arrow rain and flying stones, Liang Jun Qingqi immediately suffered many casualties, and was forced to stay away, circling in circles further away.But a cavalry of Sasanian heavy cavalry rushed out from the gap between the phalanx and pounced on them.

Liang Jun Qingqi Feiyu was no match for these Sasanian heavy cavalry at close range, so he had to escape.But the longbow chariots in the distance still shot heavy arrows one after another, and almost every arrow could kill and injure one person.The armor on those Liang Jun's heavy cavalry was not enough to withstand long bows and heavy arrows.Those Sasanian war cavalry naturally knew this too. Seeing Liang Jun's light cavalry being driven away, they turned around and retreated. It's a camel.The iron armor on them and camels is also thicker than that used by heavy cavalry, and the thickness of those armor pieces is three times that of the latter, and only these heavy-duty camels can carry such a weight.

Chapter 860

Sasanian camel cavalry seem to run much slower than war horses, but in fact they have long strides and strong endurance.So long-distance raids are not necessarily inferior to war horses.

At first, those longbow chariots who opened their bows and sniped did not pay attention to these slow-moving camel cavalry, and even continued to give priority to sniping those Sasanian heavy cavalry who were running away.It wasn't until the camel cavalrymen were about 150 steps away from them that they began to focus on "taking care" of them.

A Sasanian camel cavalry was carrying a lance, urging the camel wrapped in iron armor to run at the forefront.Suddenly there was a crisp sound, and he felt as if he was being pushed violently from the front, and his whole body fell backwards. Fortunately, he held the rein, so he didn't roll over.At the same time, a heavy arrow of Liang Jun was shot and fell to the ground.A deep dent appeared in the iron armor on his chest.The camel cavalry suddenly shuddered.But the longbowman on the other side was even more shocked than him. In his military career, this longbowman had never seen armor that could withstand the longbow and heavy arrows in his hand.

The sound of clanging metal impacts echoed in the camel cavalry, and almost all the heavy arrows shot by the archers of Army Commander Liang fell to the ground.Then they became frightened.

At this time, these Sasanian camel cavalry were still fifty or sixty steps away from them, and they all stood up their spears on their shoulders, and let their mounts run faster.Of course, the longbow chariot would not sit still, so the driver hurriedly drove his horse to gallop.

Naturally, their speed was much faster than that of camels, and they opened up the distance again after a while.But their arrows still couldn't penetrate the opponent's battle armor, so they had to continue running when the opponent caught up.Those Sasanian heavy cavalry also followed about two hundred paces behind the armored camels, chasing and driving Liang Jun together.

When Nejjart discovered that Liang Jun's light cavalry and longbow chariots had disappeared from his sight, he ordered to continue attacking Liang Jun's position.This time, they launched a more violent ballista bombardment at Liang Jun.Fortunately, they didn't have many Greek fires, so they didn't bombard Liang Jun's formation in a covering manner, but concentrated on the car wall.

Half an hour later, the entire vehicle wall and a hundred or so baggage vehicles were already ablaze.After the fire gradually subsided and the baggage carts were burned to wreckage, the Sasanian army surged up again like a tidal wave.The Sasanian soldiers who took the lead were all wearing asbestos (fire cloth) burqas and asbestos boots.

Without any hesitation, they passed through the wall of fire that had not been completely extinguished and was still billowing with thick smoke.Shouting and rushing in.After they got out of the thick smoke, they realized that there were densely packed Liang army infantry in front of them.The sky suddenly dimmed. It turned out that Liang Jun soldiers threw hundreds of javelins that covered the sky and the sun.Those Sasanian soldiers who passed through the fire wall or were passing through the fire wall fell to the ground almost at the same time, with spears stuck in their bodies without exception.

But this only made the tide of Sassanid soldiers pause, and half a quarter of an hour later, the crowd continued to surge into the formation.At this time, the embers of the wall of fire had been completely extinguished.The Sassanid soldiers coming from all directions immediately fought with the soldiers of the Liang Army who formed a circular formation.

Somewhere in the circle, Wei Yan, who had already mounted his horse, saw the endless crowds of the Sasanian army.Gritting his teeth, he shouted: "Boys of the Heavy Cavalry Battalion! Whether our army can survive or not depends on this battle!"

Behind him, about 400 Liang Jun heavy cavalry riders had already got on their saddles.Wei Yan, holding a pair of knives, pointed at the Sasanian army with the first knives in his right hand and shouted: "Come on!" thereafter.

The Sasanian army infantry in front of them never dreamed that there were still Liang army heavy cavalry hiding in the Liang army formation, and they were suddenly rushed.Because both sides are very fast, they are arranged so densely.Almost all lances pierced the bodies of multiple Sasanian soldiers continuously, and each lance was pierced with the corpses of several Sasanian soldiers.

Then the tall horse in iron armor rushed into the crowd of the Sasanian army.The Sasanian infantry standing in front of them were all staggered by the horses, and then their bodies were trampled to pieces by the iron hooves.At the same time, these Liang Jun heavy cavalry took out their maces and slammed them frantically at the heads of the Sasanian pawns who were in the dark.

Wei Yan's double knives also danced into a ball of rotten silver, blood splashed everywhere in the gleaming light of the knives, and severed limbs and heads could be seen flying into the air from time to time.He and the heavy armored cavalry killed more than half of the circle along the line of confrontation between the infantry of the two sides.But at this time, he and the heavy cavalry were exhausted, but the Sasanian soldiers still rushed upwards like a tide.

Their horses had lost their speed and were squeezed into a ball surrounded by Sasanian infantry.From time to time, some warriors were pulled off their horses by Sasanian soldiers or had their legs cut off.Although the circular defense line of Liang Jun's infantry was delayed due to the heavy cavalry's counterattack, it was also crumbling now, and the basically circular shield wall was distorted and deformed.

Wei Yan was still slashing and slashing mechanically with both sides, but his face clearly showed a desperate expression.At this moment, a rhythmic horn sounded suddenly from behind the Sasanian army.

Those Sasanian soldiers stopped as if they heard the snake dancer's flute, and retreated like an ebbing tide.Soon the Sasanian army was no longer seen on the high ground, leaving only their corpses all over the ground.

Wei Yan, who had a sense of the rest of his life after a catastrophe, looked around and found that not far from the north, there were a large number of war cavalry rushing towards him. In addition to his own longbow chariot, Qingqi Feiyu, and Qingqi Feiyu from the Simmons Mercenary Group cavalry.And those Sasanian heavy cavalry and armored camel cavalry were fleeing in front of them.

Wei Yanna became puzzled, not knowing how his side defeated these Sasanian cavalry.But now he didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly reorganized his already scattered army formation, preparing for the third wave of Sasanian attack.

Soon he found that this worry was unnecessary, because Nejjart not only withdrew his troops this time, but also withdrew his entire army in the direction of Gwadar City.

He got the news a quarter of an hour earlier than Wei Yan --- his own heavy cavalry, which drove Liang Jun's Qingqi and chariots, encountered the opponent's reinforcements and was defeated.

Nejjart's attack this time violated Aldashir's combat principles.Although it can be barely explained as an active attack for defense, if the entire army is defeated by Ardashir, these reasons will not be listened to.In addition, he didn't know the reality of the opponent's reinforcements, and the current bone was so hard to crack, so he didn't dare to take any more risks.Taking advantage of the fact that the losses were not too great, an order to retreat was hastily issued.

When he withdrew like this, Wei Yan, who also suffered a heavy loss, did not dare to chase after him, so the two sides quickly broke off contact...

Chapter 861 The Contribution of Simmons

There is no trace of the Sasanian army in the wilderness, only their broken banners and corpses scattered about.Seeing this, Wei Yan hurriedly ordered his generals to count the results of the battle.Soon Wei Yan knew that there were 1000, 32 people killed or completely lost combat effectiveness on his own side, and 520 corpses of the Sasanian army were found.

Considering that the Sasanian army retreated in a hurry, the soldiers who had completely lost their combat power would be ignored by them, and finally beheaded by the Liang army and counted among the corpses of the Sasanian army.Therefore, the actual battle loss ratio of the two sides is about one to one.

It seemed that the battle was a draw, but Wei Yan knew in his heart that such a loss ratio was actually a big defeat for Liang Jun.Obviously, if every battle had this ratio of battle losses, even if Liang Jun's [-] troops were wiped out, they would not be able to conquer the entire Sassanian Empire, and at most would cause the opponent to lose some vitality.

Wei Yan immediately ordered the whole army to turn back.On the way back to Pangpo City, Wei Yan thought about the previous question again.Why did the light cavalry and chariots under the command who were driven away by the Sasanian iron cavalry and camel heavy cavalry turn defeat into victory when they got only a few thousand cavalry?

He immediately asked the general who led the light cavalry and the longbow chariot to inquire.One of them immediately replied: "General Qi, in fact, it's not just these [-] light cavalry who came to help. Their General Simmons also led more than a thousand pikemen to help. It's just because of the speed that these pikemen are now Still behind."

Wei Yan was a little surprised by this, and said in a surprised tone: "Oh, Simmons is here too? However, even so, it is still puzzling that you were able to repel Sasanian's heavy armor and camel cavalry. Tell me how you beat them"

"Report to General. After we withdrew to the rear with light cavalry and longbow chariots, we dispatched fast horses to report to Pangpo City dozens of miles away for help. Then we turned around and attacked the enemy as you ordered. Under their heavy cavalry Under the attack of armored camels, we were unable to restrain the enemy effectively, so we had to retreat to the north. Then we just encountered reinforcements from Pangpo City..."

A general who personally participated in this battle narrated the whole process to Wei Yan.

Although the armored camel cavalry of the Sasanian army could not catch up with Liang Jun's light cavalry and chariots, they stuck to Liang Jun like a dog's skin plaster, and they couldn't get rid of it no matter how hard they tried.Liang Jun originally planned to throw him away for a certain distance, and then turn back.Reluctantly, their cavalry spread out very broadly, and there were much faster heavy cavalry following on both wings.It is not easy to go around behind them without anyone noticing and return to the battlefield.Liang Jun made several attempts but ended in failure.

In this way, the two sides chase each other, stop and go.Before they knew it, both sides had traveled nearly [-] li towards the direction of Pangbo City.Just when General Liang Jun was anxious about not being able to get rid of the dog skin plaster, he encountered Simmons' forward scouts.Only then did they know that Simmons had already received the news and was rushing here with his troops.

At this time, Liang Jun had just pulled Sasanian's pursuers away for a while, and he was going to make another attempt to bypass the opponent and turn back.Hearing this news, several generals immediately changed their minds and continued to retreat to the north at an accelerated speed.

Finally, half an hour later, they joined forces with the reinforcements brought by Simmons.It's just that Pangbo City also needs to keep soldiers and horses to garrison, so Simmons actually didn't bring many soldiers and horses, only [-] war cavalry and more than [-] spearmen.Simmons glanced at the terrain briefly, and immediately came up with an idea: "We will ambush the enemy here."

Although this is still a flat field, the two sides are slightly raised. The mounds are not more than [-] to [-] feet high but have a very large area, forming two slopes that are not too steep on both sides of the road ahead.Between the two slopes is a passage about two hundred steps wide.On the top and bottom of the mound, there are half-person-high wormwood everywhere. In the summer dry season, these wormwood has become very dry.

Simmons expressed his thoughts as quickly as possible, and the generals of Liang Jun did not have time to think about it, so they followed his arrangement.Simmons deployed a dense array of spears between the two slopes with more than a thousand spearmen of his own.This long spear array has one row per step, and each row has five people.This means that there are five or six gun blades waiting for the enemy soldiers every step width.

Meanwhile, hussars were deployed to the back of the mound.The longbow chariot was deployed nearly a hundred paces behind the spear phalanx, but the longbowman jumped off the chariot, climbed to the top of the mound, and crouched in the grass.The pikemen under the mound put down their pikes, and also crouched in the grass, waiting for Simmons' order.

Waited for half an hour when they were all set up.Thousands of Sassanian warriors roared towards them.Due to the obstruction of the two wide mounds, whether it is a galloping camel or a war horse, they can't help rushing towards the gap between the two mounds.Just like a flood meeting a dam with a gate, it will naturally gather at the gate.

The hundred or so camel armored cavalry rushing to the front had already spotted the stopped longbow chariots.Overjoyed in their hearts, they immediately rushed over at full speed.Suddenly, a dense forest of guns appeared in their line of sight---Simmons' spearmen stood up and stood up with two long spears in their hands, but the rear ends of the spears were on the ground.

It was too late for the camel cavalry to stop, and the spear blade that was close at hand instantly plunged into the body of the rider or the camel.The barrel behind the blade was bent into a bow.Although the armor of these camel cavalry was three times thicker than ordinary iron armor, it was still pierced by the blade made of Utz steel.

That is to say, in the blink of an eye, dozens of camel cavalry rolled to the ground.In addition to the direct casualties by the Simmons spearman, it was more because the camel itself was afraid of the guns and stopped in an emergency, but the rider on the camel's back flew out.

Countless streams of fire suddenly appeared in the sky. It turned out that Qingqi Feiyu, who was ambushing behind the hills on both sides, appeared and shot rockets all over the sky.Immediately, fires ignited everywhere on the barren grass, and thick smoke billowed.

The camel cavalry in front knew that the situation was not good, and under the shout of the general, they hurriedly changed direction and retreated.Reluctantly, the riders in the rear didn't know what happened for a while, and continued to surge forward.The torrent of iron cavalry of the entire Sasanian army suddenly became chaotic.

At this time, the longbowmen also appeared from the top of the mound, and fired their bows and arrows at the Sasanian heavy cavalry in the rear.Although their heavy arrows could not pierce the armor of Sasanian camel cavalry, they were more than enough to deal with these heavy cavalry.

Amidst the flames and thick smoke, people were screaming everywhere.In less than a moment, the various departments of the Sasanian Army finally knew what had happened.Those Sassanian heavy cavalry that had not poured into the two mounds began to charge towards the mound...

Chapter 862 Fresh Things