Three Kingdoms Eschatology

But the other party did not answer.After Ma Chao thought about it, his own question was a bit abrupt. Zhou Yu asked him to pass on the message, so how could he explain the reason so clearly? Naturally, he would not be clear.

So Ma Chao didn't say a word, and Guan Yu and Guan Yu quickly left the battlefield with thousands of warriors and retreated to the rear.At the same time, Zhou Yu's main force also quickly withdrew from the scene.

On the way, he bumped into Ma Chao and Guan Yu.Seeing Zhou Yu's face, Ma Chao clasped his hands and asked again: "Commander, when you sent the order, a certain general and General Guan Yu were killing him. Why did you evacuate in such a panic?"

Zhou Yu smiled lightly and said, "Brother Meng Qi, we used snakes to swallow elephants this time. Although we defeated the enemy army, the enemy has 20 soldiers after all. There should be [-] intact soldiers ahead of them." , Once their command returns to normal, turn around and come back. Our soldiers and horses who were still chasing and killing the remnants of the enemy at that time would have unpredictable consequences. Therefore, this commander thinks it is most appropriate to accept it as soon as it is good."

At the same time Zhou Yu said these words, the Sassanid Army was indeed under the unified dispatch of Ardashir, who had returned to the former army, and first formed a defensive formation. After slowly advancing for more than ten miles, it was discovered that Liang Jun had already withdrawn without a trace.

At this time, Ardasil was so scared that he had been killed, so he didn't dare to pursue him again.And although Na Sulehar had the idea of ​​concentrating the cavalry to attack the Liang army in the opposite direction, he swallowed the words again.He knew that what he said was meaningless, this plan was too bold, even if Ardashir would not necessarily adopt it on weekdays, what's more, he just gave Ardashir a failed idea, and now he would not believe him .

So in the end, an army of 15 troops set up more than a dozen army formations on the wasteland, waiting in full force.And Ardashir also sent out cavalry to patrol around, gathering those defeated soldiers who had been defeated earlier.They stayed for a whole day before continuing to Persis.At this time, including those gathered routs, there were only more than [-] troops left in the whole army, and a total loss of nearly [-] soldiers and horses.It can be described as a heavy loss.

This time, Ardashir didn't dare to take any risks at all. The 15 troops were divided into [-] groups and formed into three formations, supporting each other and retreating towards Persis.The journey that could have been reached on the same day took two full days to arrive.Ardashir entered the city of Persis and let the various ministries set up a hasty defense outside the city of Persis, so he was relieved.

It was almost the same moment when Ardashir returned to Persis.Outside Zhou Yuliang's army camp, dust was already flying on the distant horizon.The soldiers on the watchtower were startled, thinking it was another attack from the Sassanid army, they quickly took out the copper gong and were about to ring the gong to call the police.At this time, a cavalry flew over, Liang Jun's soldiers were even more surprised when they saw it, and stopped beating the gong in their hands.Because the two triangular flags on the back of this ranger are the logo of the Emperor's Imperial Forest Army.No one in the army of common sense knows this.

Zhou Yu learned that Feng Yu was coming with the main force of the South Route Army, and immediately led all the generals out of the camp to meet him.When they walked out of the camp, there was already a black mass in the distance, with endless people and horses.

After a while, all the generals sat down in the big tent of the Chinese army.Feng Yu naturally sat at the top, and after listening to Zhou Yu's previous battle report, he laughed and said to the generals: "I'm right, Gong Jin has the talent to command all armies, and he can stand alone."

The reason why Feng Yu said this is because when Feng Yu was selecting generals for the Western Expedition, he deliberately chose Zhou Yu as the commander-in-chief of the North Route Army.But when he expressed his intention, he was opposed by many civil and military officials.Their reasoning is also very simple, Zhou Yuyi has no qualifications in Daliang, and naturally he has no prestige in the army.Secondly, he has no actual experience in commanding troops.Although Zhou Yu was reused by the Sun family when he was serving as the minister of Sun Wu in his early years, he once commanded a heavy army.But before he had time to create any major achievements, the state of Wu perished.In addition, his most important experience of leading troops was to lead an army of [-] to attack Handong County of Liang State, which also ended in failure and was eventually captured by Liang Jun.

After he returned to the Kingdom of Liang, although as the commander of the army, he had carried out several large-scale counter-insurgency and bandit suppression operations, he had never experienced a serious war again.

But now, when Sasan was marching thousands of miles away, Feng Yu proposed that he be the commander-in-chief of the Northern Route Army. This naturally shocked the civil and military officials of the Daliang court and expressed their opposition.But in the end, Feng Yu still resisted all opinions and decided to let Zhou Yu be the commander-in-chief of the North Route Army.

Feng Yu's reasons for doing this are firstly that he knows Zhou Yu's details and abilities through the history of the original world, and secondly that although Daliang has stars like clouds, his counselors are like rain.But among the advisers, such as Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, and Jia Xu, who have the ability to command the army, most of them are old and frail, and the expedition of thousands of miles may be their old life.Moreover, most of them are also important positions in Daliang's internal affairs center. Among other things, it is a huge project to dispatch food and grass for Liang Jun, who is thousands of miles away.Among generals, there are not many who are good at fighting and have a good command of strategy, Zhang Liao is one of them.However, compared with Zhou Yu, Feng Yu believed that Zhang Liao's commanding power and timely decision-making were still inferior to Zhou Yu's.So in the end, Zhang Liao was only the deputy commander of the North Route Army.

At the military meeting in the central army tent, Zhang Liao first said: "Your Majesty, now that the North Route Army has won such a big victory, at least tens of thousands of enemy troops have been lost. And our [-] troops have gathered, then We should strike while the iron is hot and launch an attack on Persis immediately. Before they have time to redeploy defenses in Persis, consolidate the city defense and take the city in one go."

Almost no one objected to this proposal, and they all echoed it.Feng Yu also stood up and said: "The order of our army is that the soldiers will have an extra meal of meat tonight, and go to bed an hour earlier. At dawn tomorrow, the whole army will pull out of camp and attack Persis directly."

Before dawn on the second day, horns sounded endlessly in the overwhelming Liang Jun camp.The soldiers got out of the shacks and tents one after another and began to line up.

When the rising sun emerged from the eastern sky, the nearly [-] troops got into formation and began to march southwest.At the same time, in Persis' palace, Ardashir held his first court meeting after returning to Persis.

Chapter 382

When Ardasil opened his eyes, the sun was already shining. He turned over from the bed and shouted angrily, "Why didn't you wake me up so late?"

The servant said fearfully: "Your Majesty, you...you fell asleep yesterday, but there was no order to wake you up..."

When he was about to continue explaining, Ardasil had already remembered that after entering the city yesterday and hastily arranged the deployment of the army, he leaned back on the bed, and the fatigue and tension of the past few days allowed him to relax for a short time and soon fell asleep.So he waved his hand impatiently and said, "Stop rambling, go fetch water quickly, the king needs to wash up. In addition, he ordered the commander to call a meeting of all the ministers and generals."

After a while, he stepped into the palace hall.All the generals and ministers had already arrived in the hall, and they sat down on the bearded stools on both sides after they all bowed to him with their hearts covered.At this point the meeting is officially started.

Ardasil was about to speak with a stern face, but the orderer said first: "Your Majesty, just a quarter of an hour ago, the scouts sent information that the Liang army in the south had arrived near Persis, and the Liang army in the north had already arrived. Army rendezvous. We are now less than seventy miles away from Persis."

Ardashir clapped his hands on his thighs and said, "Needless to say, this is the army that defeated Nejjart. How many troops are there?"

"About sixty to seventy thousand."

Ardashir's face became more solemn, and so did the generals below.Sulehar said at this time: "Your Majesty, according to this calculation, Liang Jun now has a total strength of 10 to 15 troops. Although our army has 15 horses, the individual combat power of Liang Jun far exceeds that of our soldiers. Double. Therefore, we may not have planned to wipe out the Liang army near Persis before. But there is no problem at all with [-] soldiers and horses guarding the front line of Persis. But His Majesty can no longer stay in the army, but Retreat to Taixifeng, the capital of the king, regroup troops in the Mesopotamia, and then proceed to a decisive battle with the Liang army."

After Sulehar finished speaking, all the generals nodded in agreement after discussing in a low voice for a while.It is also rare that such a consensus can be achieved at the Sasanian court meeting.Ardashir himself did not immediately agree, and thought for a moment before asking, "But who should guard Persis?"

After hearing this, all the generals suddenly became quiet and bowed their heads in silence.Everyone knows in their hearts that this is an arduous and risky job.Ardasil cursed in his heart, and was about to speak, but Sulehar stood up and said: "Your Majesty, your loyal servant Sulehar is willing to take on this important task. I assure Your Majesty that the city is alive and the city is dead." people die."

Ardasil felt happy, because he was going to name Sulehar to take charge of this matter, and immediately said: "Okay, you, Sulehar, will be fully responsible for guarding the front line of Persis. But..."

Ardasil stopped talking when he said this, and continued: "But I can't give you all the fifteen armies. This king needs to take one hundred thousand away. Because after this big defeat, this king is worried that the people in the rear will not be stable. You need a knife to be able to hold it down. In addition, we continue to recruit soldiers and try our best to recruit less than hundreds of thousands, and the quality is definitely not good. Only by adding these [-] elites can we finally win the decisive battle with Liang Jun .”

Sulehar's face changed slightly when he heard this, which did not escape Ardashir's eyes, and the latter said in relief: "This king knows that only [-] troops are required for you to guard the front line of Persis. It is a bit difficult for the army to march to the west. But I don’t need you to hold on all the time. As long as three or four months, I can gather new soldiers and horses in the two rivers, and you can retreat to the two rivers. At the same time, lure Liang Jun's army to come. I wonder if you can do it?"

Sulehar quickly clapped his hands on his chest, bowed and said: "Thanks to your majesty's trust, I will definitely fulfill my mission. Even if there are [-] troops, I guarantee that I will be able to guard Persis within half a year and prevent them from continuing in the hinterland of the Persian plateau." Go west. There are still people in the city, but the city is destroyed and people are dead!"

"Okay, if you can stick to Persis for half a year, this king will seal you up as a marquis and found the country. In addition, you can choose all the remaining supplies and equipment in the army, and you can keep as long as you need!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

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At the head of the city of Persis, Sulehar looked at the Sasanian army that was going far away with no end in sight, and couldn't help sighing.With [-] Sasanian troops against nearly [-] Liang troops, he had to stick to Persis for half a year, and he knew exactly what it meant.

There is a high probability that this year will be his year round.But if he doesn't take on this job, he probably won't be able to bear fruit.Based on his understanding of Ardashir, the other party would blame him for the defeat in order to avoid losing his prestige among the officials and the army.Even the means of punishment may itself be to make him bear the responsibility of guarding Persis.

Then, Sulehar looked down at the fortified city of Persis and the fortifications on the two hundred-pound high hills outside the city, and his confidence regained a little.After all, more than [-] Sasanian troops had spent several months on the defense of Persis city and many fortifications outside the city.Although it is impossible to realize the plan to annihilate the Liang army in one fell swoop in the decisive battle of Persis, it is still possible to achieve it by relying on this fortified city and the fortifications outside the city, as well as [-] soldiers and horses, to try to defend him for a few months.Sulehar took a deep breath, pulled himself together, and immediately began to deploy defenses.

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Feng Yu sat on the saddle and dozed off after a while.As the emperor, Feng Yu naturally has a special carriage in the army.But he chose to wear armor and go with the army.As a result, when he fell asleep, he dozed off.Seeing this, Zhang Liao at the side rode forward and said, "Your Majesty, you should move to Long Yu to rest."

Feng Yu was awakened by the sound, and he yawned and said, "No need now, I have already slept on the horseback for a long time. Where are we now?"

Zhang Liao immediately replied: "Reporting to Your Majesty, according to the map and the information reported by the scouts, we should be less than three miles away from Persis. The vanguard should be able to see the outline of Persis's city wall."

As soon as Zhang Liao finished speaking, a scout came to report on a flying horse, and shouted loudly from a distance: "Report! The vanguard of our army has been attacked! Now we are fighting back!"

Both Feng Yu and Zhang Liao became surprised. They didn't expect that the Sassanid Army would dare to attack the Liang Army.Feng Yu immediately said: "Clarify the details of the matter. Where the enemy attacked, how many soldiers and horses, and the situation of the battle."

They didn't feel relieved until the scouts had finished speaking.It turned out that the so-called attack was just that when the vanguard was approaching the city of Persis, the Sasanian army stationed on a nearby hill fired ballistas at them.Only one cavalryman was killed in action, and there was not much loss.But because of this, the troops could only march around a hundred battles.There are also several battalions of troops setting up an army formation under the hill, guarding against possible enemy charges down the hill.

Chapter 383 Missing

When Feng Yu, Zhang Liao, Ma Chao and others rode their horses to the vicinity of the small hill, they could already see the city walls of Persis City a few miles away.The whistling sound of stone bullets breaking through the air came to their ears from time to time, and the Sasanian army on the hill and the Liang army at the foot of the mountain were bombarding each other with ballistas.

Feng Yu looked up at the top of the hill, which was only about ten feet high.Stone walls can be vaguely seen among the lush forests on the top of the mountain. These walls rely on the mountain and are integrated with the mountain.From time to time, pea-sized black spots could be seen flying out from there, and when they flew close, they turned into stone bullets, hitting the ground and kicking up dust several feet high.

However, the number of ballistas of the Sassanian army on the hill should be very small, otherwise it would not take such a long time to shoot a stone bullet.It can be deduced from this that there should not be many Sasanian defenders above.But this made Feng Yu a little confused, because the bunkers on the hill were obviously not built just for a small group of soldiers.

Feng Yu asked the soldiers to pick up a stone bomb from the Sasanian Army and looked at it, and couldn't help laughing.This stone bomb is actually a stone that has been slightly polished to make the stone approximately uniform in length, height, and width.Compared with the Liangjun stone bullets, it is the difference between the stone tools of the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages.Obviously, compared with Liang Jun's, the hit rate of such stone bombs will be more than ten times lower.

At this time, a few riders galloped towards this side, got off their horses from a distance, and trotted to Feng Yu.The leader was Wei Yan, who was in charge of leading the former army.Seeing Feng Yu kowtowed on one knee, Wei Yan said: "Your Majesty, the former army of our army has arrived less than two miles outside the east gate of Persis. But I found that place is not suitable for camping, so I asked the soldiers to line up and wait." Then report to His Majesty personally!"

"Oh? Why?" Feng Yu asked immediately.

"Because there are two hills about a hundred battles high two or three miles away from the east gate. There are enemy troops stationed on them, and they seem to have a lot of troops. The former army camped there, but there are condescending enemy troops on three sides. Facing the moment of being defeated Not to mention the threat of a sneak attack, but also the possibility of being hit by the enemy's long-range projectile weapons."

Feng Yu nodded and said: "I have passed on my military order, and the central army and the rear army will also stop advancing. But there is no need to rush to set up camp, and wait for the formation first. After we have surveyed the terrain, we will deploy the camp." After all, He pointed to the small hill with the whip again: "Pull out this nail first!"

After a few minutes.The bombardment of Liang Jun's ballista on the top of the mountain suddenly became intensive.Previously, Liang Jun only set up three ballistas to fight back against the enemy on the hill, but now the number has increased to ten, and dozens of portable ballistas also joined the bombardment on the hill.

Of course, with the power of the portable ballista, it is impossible to shoot projectiles of any size to the top of a mountain more than ten battles high, even if it can, it will not have any power.This is hundreds of Liang Jun, using shields as cover, advancing to the half-hillside, and setting up these portable ballistas at a place only six or seven battles away from the top of the mountain.Only in this way can their projectiles be effectively thrown to the positions of the Sasanian army.

Stone bombs and fireballs smashed towards the top of the mountain like hail, and Feng Yu could already see billowing smoke rising from the top of the mountain.Then he found that Sasanian's ballista had not responded for a long time.At this time, hundreds of Liang Jun on the hillside, under the command of the general, stood upright with shields, brandished knives and guns, and charged towards the hillside.They shouted in unison, even Feng Yu who was far away from the foot of the mountain could hear it.

After a while, the voices on the mountain gradually quieted down.A soldier ran towards Feng Yu like he was flying, and said out of breath: "My lord, our army has conquered the enemy's position on the top of the mountain."

Feng Yu then asked again: "How much to kill the enemy's head?"

"Going back to the Holy Land, only two bodies were found on the mountain, and they were still killed by the stone bullets from the previous ballista. I don't know how many cases there are."

Zhang Liaofa, who was behind Feng Yu, asked, "Why don't your generals report the situation to His Majesty in person?"

"Going back to the general, our battalion captain is still leading his brothers to search for remnants of the enemy in the enemy's fortifications on the top of the mountain. That fortification is quite huge..."

Before Ling Bing finished speaking, he was interrupted by Feng Yu, who said to the generals behind him: "We can't figure out the situation with a few words, let's go up the mountain to see for ourselves."

Zhou Yu hurriedly said: "Maybe the remaining enemies on the mountain are not cleared, the Holy Majesty does not need to take this risk..." However, Feng Yu had already rode out, and the soldiers had to follow behind.

After Feng Yu came to the stone wall at the top of the mountain, the first thing he saw was a burnt and half-burnt remains of a ballista.Obviously it happened to be hit by Liang Jun's explosive bomb.He carefully observed the fortifications of the Sasanian Army. The tunnels, barriers, and stone walls and mountains are natural and exquisitely designed.He roughly estimated in his heart that at least thousands of troops could be stationed.

At this time, a general poked his head out from the mouth of the tunnel. Seeing that it was Feng Yu, he hurriedly got out of the tunnel, knelt down on one knee in front of Feng Yu, and said: "Chen Liang, the captain of the C-word battalion of the 27th Army of Weichen, kowtowed to the Holy Majesty." .”

"Oh? You are the captain of the battalion who is in charge of attacking this hill. Why are there no corpses of the enemy guards? Did they escape or hide? If they escaped, how did they escape?"

Faced with Feng Yu's cannon-like questions, the battalion captain named Chen Liang changed his expression slightly, and hurriedly replied: "My lord. I have participated in the information provided by the attacking soldiers comprehensively, and judged that the defenders are no more than 20 people, they only have this destroyed ballista. This is to harass us and delay the advance of our army. But after we occupied this hill, we found that there was no one there. So I concluded that they hid in the tunnel In the tunnel, so the soldiers searched carefully. But after searching all over the sky, they still didn't find a single person..."

Ma Chao couldn't bear his temper, and before the other party finished speaking, he interjected and asked, "Could it be that they ran down the mountain? Or is there a more secret hiding room in the tunnel that you haven't found?"

Chen Liang replied: "If you go back to the general, these two situations are absolutely impossible. This is an isolated mountain. Except for the cliff on the west, our army is besieging it from three sides. Even if the cliff on the west is down, we just in case The enemy escaped by descending down the mountain with ropes, and also deployed more than a hundred soldiers in the woods under the cliff. Mountain hounds. Searched the fortification inside and out, above and below ground. Even if there are secret rooms that cannot be found, as long as people hide inside, the hounds' noses cannot fail to smell them."

Ma Chao exclaimed: "Could it be that they can still fly away without a trace?" Before he finished speaking, Feng Yu's eyes stopped on a strange wooden tower in the distance, and then he walked towards the wooden tower at a leisurely pace. follow along...

Chapter 384 Protracted Battle

When everyone approached the strange wooden tower, they realized that behind the wooden tower was the cliff that Chen Liang had mentioned.The wooden tower is weird because it is said to be a beacon tower but there is no place to light it. A wooden tower with many battles.

Feng Yu laughed when he saw a rope extending from the tower to the bottom of the cliff.When everyone's faces were full of surprise, Feng Yu said, "I know how they escaped, and they must be there now!"

Feng Yu said while pointing his finger at another hill that is more than a hundred battles away and said: "They went there!"

After hearing this, everyone thought they heard it wrong, only Dian Wei said frankly: "Your Majesty, please stop joking with us. Could it be that these Sasanian soldiers can really fly?"

Feng Yu sneered and said, "Of course they didn't fly over, but there was a rope connecting this wooden tower to the wooden tower on that mountain peak. They must have slid over this rope with pulleys."

Although the generals didn't understand what a pulley was, they could understand Feng Yu's words. Anyway, the Sasanian soldier escaped by using a rope hanging on two hills, and then cut the rope.The reason why Liang Bing under the cliff did not notice this situation was because they were in the mountains.

The battalion captain named Chen Liang immediately sent someone down the mountain to check, and there was feedback after a while.Sure enough, as Feng Yu expected, the soldiers found this rope hanging from the cliff on the plain below the mountain, and it continued to rise to another hill a hundred battles away.And there were enemy soldiers hiding on that hill after being scouted by scouts.

Liang Jun then followed the vines to find out the melons, and even reached several hills.The reason why it is said to follow the vines is because these hills have such wooden towers connected by ropes.Moreover, during the conquest and suppression process, Liang Jun clearly saw enemy soldiers gliding through the air dragging ropes.When attacking these hills, although it was easy at the beginning and could be captured almost without bloodshed, it became more and more difficult afterwards, and there were more and more defenders in the fortifications on the hills.

In the end, the "melon vine" stopped in front of the two hills outside the east gate of Persis.That is to say, the two hills outside the east gate that Wei Yan mentioned earlier were heavily guarded by enemy troops.

When Liang Jun attacked these two Sassanian positions, he gnawed hard.Half of the thousands of soldiers who participated in the battle were lost in a short period of time.Javelins, arrows, and stone bullets roared out of the vegetation, knocking down the soldiers of the Liang Army in rows.In addition, Liang Jun climbing up the mountain will be stabbed by dark guns from the forest one after another, and some will step on traps covered with sharpened bamboo sticks.Some Liang army soldiers disappeared without a trace after attacking the stone wall of the Sasanian military fortification.

Feng Yu hurriedly stopped the attack.He also ordered the soldiers to raise a hot air balloon on a nearby hill, and then he and the crowd would overlook the entire Persis area.

The city of Persis is located on a high ground about ten feet high, and only a slope with a width of two hundred feet leads to the high ground outside the east gate.If you don't go up to the high ground to enter Persis City through this slope, you have to detour for a long distance to find another way.Moreover, these paths eventually converge outside the gates of the south gate and the north gate, but cannot lead to the west gate.In fact, Persis has no west gate at all, because the west wall is the cliff of this highland.

The wide slope descends and extends to the east for more than two hundred battles, which are the two hills.These two hills stand there like two door gods.This made it so that if the Liang army set up camp nearby, as Wei Yan said, they would have to face the condescending stone bombs, Greek fire, spears, etc. projected from the hills, and the danger of the Sasanian army sneaking down the mountain to carry out a surprise attack.

Feng Yu said solemnly: "Who is the general of the Sassanid Army?"

"Return to the Holy Lord, according to the confession of the few prisoners who have just been captured, it is Sulehar, the governor of the three eastern provinces of Sassanid."

"Oh, it's him again. This person is really amazing. Such a layout really makes it very difficult for us to conquer Persis. To conquer Persis, we must first conquer the two hills on the left and right. Because when we attacked Persis City, It is necessary to line up on the slope. At that time, they would use ballistas to throw stone balls and the so-called Greek fire from the top of the mountain nearly a hundred battles high. Our ballistas cannot be shot so high. The siege army However, these two hills are not so easy to attack. Obviously, these fortifications and buildings were carefully built with a lot of manpower and material resources. To take them down, you can only use the same method step by step, gradually Pushing up the hill. It's hard to do without months of work. It's a long battle."

After Feng Yu finished speaking, he looked down for a long time without saying a word, and finally made up his mind.After he disembarked from the hot air balloon, he ordered his soldiers to fetch pens and paper, and personally set up Liang Jun's camp.He divided the [-] army into more than ten divisions according to the terrain, some were set up between the hills, and some were set up on the top of the hills.More than a dozen camps support each other and serve as horns for each other.

But in the end he made an astonishing decision. He set up the last camp of about 5000 people under the big slope outside the east gate of Persis, that is, the highland slope. between triangles.Wei Yan was first surprised and said: "My lord, this is a dead place. Since we want to take down the two hills on the left and right first, why should we station troops in this dead place? With the current arrangement of the sage, it is impossible for the defenders of Persis to escape. .”

Feng Yu laughed and explained: "I am not afraid that Sulehar of Persis will run away. I want to cut off the connection between Persis City and these two mountains, so I want to make a stake here."

Only then did Wei Yan suddenly realize: "Your servant is dull, thank you for your guidance."

Feng Yu continued: "However, who should take on such an important task. You must know that it is not only necessary to defend the camps facing the enemy on three sides, but also to block the mutual connection between the three points and support each other. In particular, it is necessary to cut off the The reinforcement of the two hills from Persis City is directly related to whether we can successfully take these two hills."

After hearing this, the generals were silent for a while.Then one after another, someone begged him to guard the camp.Feng Yu scanned the faces of these generals one by one, and then landed on Guan Yu and Wei Xu.

In the end, Feng Yu decided: "This matter will be done by Guan Yu and Wei Xu together. Guan Yu is the main general with [-] heavy armored cavalry, and Wei Xu is the deputy with [-] elite spear and shield soldiers to guard the village. Wei Xu focuses on guarding the camp. , so that the enemy has no chance to launch a surprise attack. Guan Yu focuses on intercepting the enemy's reinforcements from Persis to the two hills."

The two quickly kowtowed on one knee to accept the order, and called out the word "nuo" in unison.

Chapter 385 Land of Two Rivers

Nineveh, an important town on the banks of the Tigris River in Mesopotamia.More than [-] pontoon bridges have been built on the wide river, and the dark crowd on the east bank is passing through these pontoon bridges.

After fifteen days of marching, Ardashir finally brought 10 horses back to the province of Mesopotamia located in the Mesopotamia Plain.

A general rode up to Ardashir and said, "Your Majesty, we will soon enter the city of Taisifeng. Do we need to send an envoy to inform the chief officers and generals to come to Taisifeng to meet His Majesty?"

Ardashir pondered for a while, looked at the large area of ​​golden fertile land on the southwest bank and said: "No need! It is ordered that after the army enters Taixifeng, the four gates will be closed immediately, and entry and exit are strictly prohibited. Moreover, no one, including the local government office of Taixifeng, can Disclose to other places the news that the army has returned. Immediately set up roadblocks at all major crossings and crossings to prohibit people from passing through. "

The general was puzzled, not knowing what Ardashir was going to do.But they did not dare to question each other.Ardashir summoned a confidant general and whispered a few words to him.

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The port of Usat is located at the mouth of the Euphrates River, at the westernmost end of the Persian Gulf.At the moment, Nejjart, who returned to the Two Rivers region with his remnants of defeated soldiers, has set up his southern war zone here.

At this time, Nejart was sitting in the lobby of a mansion expropriated from a wealthy merchant in Wuthorn City, handling official business.Since he retreated to Wucai Port, the two things he cares most about are gathering up the defeated troops and recruiting new sources of troops.It's just that, as the commander-in-chief of the southern theater, he doesn't have the power to conscript troops in several provinces located in the Mesopotamia Plain.Although the provincial governors and governors respected him on the surface, they ignored his request for conscription.Therefore, he could only recruit some soldiers and horses in a limited number near the Wuci port station.Today, he has more than 2 soldiers and horses in his hands, and he has the potential to make a comeback.The second thing is that he is always paying attention to the battle situation in Persis in the north.

He was willing to hear the news of his side's big victory or disastrous defeat in the battle of Persis.The only news he didn't want to hear was that Ardashir returned after a big defeat, but his vitality was not completely lost.Or Ardashir defeated Liang Jun at a great price.

The reason is very simple. If Ardashir can beat Liang Jun, he will not be held accountable for his fiasco in Gwadar when he is happy.If Ardashir returns after a disastrous defeat, his vitality will be severely injured, and even Ardashir will be killed in battle.Then even better, he has a chance to replace it.On the contrary, except for these two results, he will be doomed with a high probability.

At this time, the scouts sent to investigate the situation not long ago have entered the lobby to report the latest battle situation to Ardashir.What this scout brought was the news that Ardashir set up an ambush, but was defeated by Liang Jun in the end.

After hearing this, Nejjart said in a cold voice: "How much is the loss of the enemy and our army, can you find out?"

The scout said in embarrassment: "General Qi, we got this news from a defeated soldier. At that time, the remnants of our army had retreated to Persis under the leadership of His Majesty. As for the losses of both sides He didn't know the soldier either. Finally, when we arrived at the scene, three or four days had passed since the fighting. The scene was still littered with corpses, and no one cleaned it up. After a rough count, we saw thousands of There are tens of thousands of dead soldiers from our side. As for the exact data and those who were defeated and dissipated, it is impossible to count them. Because the Liang Army’s logistics troops passed by nearby, we had to withdraw back early.”

Nejjart heard the information that meant nothing to him, and waved his hand to make the scout retreat.Then, he paced up and down in the hall, thinking over and over, how far was Ardashir defeated?Will he still stick to Persis?

The more he thought about it, the more irritable he became, so he ordered the servant to serve him wine and food, drinking to relieve his boredom.He had just poured himself a few glasses of wine, and another soldier came to report, saying that Ardashir's imperial messenger had arrived, and he also brought Ardashir's edict.

Nejjart was startled, hurriedly adjusted his clothes, rinsed his mouth to get rid of the smell of alcohol, and then came out in a panic to meet the imperial envoy.When the messenger saw Nejart, without saying a word, he directly handed Ardashir's edict to Nejart, saying in his mouth: "The King of kings sent me for one thing only, and that is to invite you into the palace." Tai Xifeng, I have something important to discuss."

Nejjart was even more shocked when he heard this. He didn't know what Ardashir was going to do, so he asked tentatively: "My lord, besides me, will the king also send his troops to Taixi?" rich?"