Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Feng Yu laughed again: "Actually, it's nothing. It's just that there is a record in the book about a certain battle in Persia, the predecessor of Sasanian. The result of that battle proved that it didn't take a million troops to conquer Persia. Even if Persia spent half a year gathering hundreds of Ten thousand soldiers and horses can still be defeated with [-] elite soldiers, and most of the [-] elite soldiers are infantry."

After hearing this, all the generals fell silent, secretly thinking that Feng Yu was just spreading rumors.in those days.Liang Jun defeated Cao Wei's army of more than [-] with [-], which was only a one-to-three comparison of troops.Moreover, the soldiers Cao Pi gathered at that time were miscellaneous soldiers who could not even use guns.It is impossible to use [-] troops to defeat the opponent's carefully prepared one million troops.

Feng Yu saw the doubts in everyone's hearts and continued: "This man is the ancestor of Simmons, the Macedonian king Alexander of Greece. After he marched for thousands of miles with 50 pikemen and a small number of light cavalry and light infantry, he can still be in today's Taisifeng. Thirty miles to the north, on the Gaugamela Plain, the Persian king Darius' army of one million was prepared for half a year. Of course, the number of one million is a bit exaggerated, but according to the Western classics I have consulted, there are at least [-] to [-] Persians Large army. In a ratio of one to ten troops, Alexander still defeated Darius and seized the entire territory of Persia, which is today's Sasanian. Today, my [-] troops are far more than Alexander's [-] pikemen They are much better, have more generals than his, and are more brave and good at fighting, why don't you have the confidence to defeat them?"

After hearing Feng Yu's last words, all the generals hastily stated their position, and Wei Yan said in unison: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the ministers will definitely work together to defeat the Sasanian army, even if they have millions of soldiers."

Feng Yu replied: "It's good that you have this confidence, and we don't have only [-] soldiers and horses at our disposal. Lu Bu's army should have reached Gwadar Port by now, and Simmons and Meng Huo's army are still carrying out looting in Lianghe. Join the three of them, and I will have [-] troops at my disposal. This force is enough for us to defeat the Sasanian army."

Three days later, tens of thousands of Liang Jun marched out of Persis City, walked down the southern path to Persis Heights, turned southwest, and headed towards Mount Zha.

Chapter 914

Lower Tigris River, Great Swamp.At this time, if you look down from the air, tens of thousands of Sasanian soldiers and horses are crowded on the dry roads in the lake.In addition, there are dense bamboo rafts advancing along various waterways and lake branches in the lake.They are all heading for the same goal - a region called Ur in the lake.

This is the third encirclement and suppression against Liang Jun personally commanded by Prime Minister Rud Shaba.The first two attempts ended in failure.At the very beginning, the Sassanid Army obtained information that Liang Jun's central stronghold in the Great Swamp was the city of Barras, but after mobilizing tens of thousands of troops to go there, they were all in vain.

Afterwards, Liang Jun continued to plunder the towns in and around the Great Swamp.It's just that they only grab food, don't kill people, and even burn down houses as much as possible.Moreover, they had to make an IOU if they robbed the food.

In fact, this is Feng Yu's way of buying people's hearts, because it is the only way to directly rule the Central Plains royal court over Sassan.At present, the population of the Central Plains is limited. If the Sasanians are slaughtered at will, even if they occupy the whole territory in the end, what they will get is a large uninhabited wasteland, and the expenditure is far greater than the income.In addition, killing people is unnecessary, because the Sassanian territory is vast, and although the population on it has a unified language, they do not have a unified national identity.As long as benevolent government is implemented, they don't care what race people are the rulers.Of course, the strong men may be used again by Ardashir to fight against the Liang army, but in the case of food shortages, too many troops are a burden.These are all Feng Yu's strategic intentions.

For the second time, the Sasanian army set up Minka secret sentries and patrols in the Great Swamp.He also made key defenses for several of the strongholds and camps, built them into strong cities and fortified bases, and stationed heavy troops in them.But even so, still failed to find the trace of the other party.Instead, Liang Jun was asked to kill several patrols one after another, and pulled out more than a dozen strongholds with secret sentry cards.They even broke through a camp with a heavy army, and most of the nearly [-] soldiers in the camp died in battle.Many of them died in a horrifying scene. They were crushed to death by some kind of heavy object, and parts of their entire bodies were crushed into a puddle of flesh and blood.The Sassanid army knew that it was trampled by Liang Jun's war elephants.With more and more casualties, there are naturally huge loopholes in the net laid down by Rud Shaba.In the end, after the Sassanian army found Liang Jun's main camp again, the opponent still calmly jumped out of the Sassanian army's encirclement and fled to nowhere.Five or six days later, the news that Sasanian towns were attacked one after another confirmed that Liang Jun was still active in the Great Swamp.

In the end, Rud Sabah came up with another way. He believed that Liang Jun’s troops could not get enough supplies by fishing and gathering in the swamp with so many troops. They must obtain supplies from their fleet on the sea supplies.And from the sea surface to the water surface of the Great Swamp, one must pass through the mangrove forest that stretches for hundreds of miles.Liang Jun must have opened a hole in this mangrove belt for transportation on the sea and in the swamp.As long as you find this opening and monitor it, you can find traces of Liang Jun.

Unfortunately, reality is always crueler than imagination.The mangroves at the edge of the swamp stretched for hundreds of miles, and the area burned by Liang Jun was more than two hundred miles long.It is no longer possible for Sassan to rely on the burned mangroves to find the location of Liang Jun's daily supply transfer point.

So he only sent thousands of soldiers and horses to drive hundreds of small boats to patrol along the junction of the swamp and the ocean.It is expected to use this to discover the traces of Liang Jun in the Great Swamp.Most of these boats and soldiers never returned.Most of them were destroyed by Liang Jun semi-submersible ships, and a small part were sunk by other Liang Jun warships.

But after paying a heavy price, a small boat finally discovered Liang Jun's material transfer point by chance, and returned safely to report the situation to Rud Shaba.Rud Sabah immediately dispatched the most elite scouts to monitor this location.

Every time Liang Jun sets a handover point, he will use it three times in a row, and then establish a new handover point.And when the current handover point was discovered, it was the time when Liang Jun made the second handover.So when it was used for the last time, it was discovered by Rud Sabah's elite scouts.

These scouts dive into the water, breathing through reeds.Using bamboo tubes to help float in the swamp, and walking through the reeds, the Liang Jun Viking fleet that was transporting supplies was firmly bitten.Until the discovery of Liang Jun's new base camp Ur City.

Different from the two cities occupied by Liang Jun before, this is an abandoned city with no people.Because the water level of the swamp permanently rose a few years ago, several land passages connecting the city to the outside world were flooded, so the original population in the town abandoned it.The reason why Liang Jun chose this place is very simple. To occupy an inhabited town, no matter what measures are taken, even if everyone in it is locked up, the Sasanian army will know the news.Because Sassan stipulates that all towns or settlements in the Great Swamp must report to the Sassan army every three days.So when the date comes, if they don't see a report from a certain town, they will definitely send someone to check.

When Rud Shaba learned that the main camp of the Liang army was in Ur, he was overjoyed and immediately gathered a large army.The waters around Ur are wide, and if you want to encircle it from the outside, 10,000+ soldiers and horses are not enough.Therefore, Rudshaba could only adopt a sneak attack method, and after quietly approaching the city of Ur, he suddenly surrounded the city of Ur.

However, he underestimated Liang Jun's detection capabilities. When a group of Sassanian army's bamboo rafts passed through a piece of water grass with pennies on them, he didn't know that two Liang Jun's East Sea peregrine falcons hovered in the sky at some point.

In the city of Ur, Meng Huo walked into Simmons' big tent excitedly, raised the letter in his hand, and said to Simmons: "Brother Simon, look, we finally don't have to stay in this bubble. Your Majesty has written, We are asked to go up along the Karun River, and then go west along the Zhashan Mountains, and cooperate with the main force to capture the pass of the Zhashan Pass."

Simmons was also excited. Just as he was about to order his soldiers to deploy and move the march, Meng Huo's scouts rushed to report: "General, a large number of enemy troops were found twenty miles away in the direction of eight o'clock. Some of them walked, some Take a bamboo raft and approach here."

Simmons wondered: "Have we been exposed? Or did the Sasanians pass by by chance?"

Meng Huo slapped his thigh and said, "Hey, we are going to leave anyway, no matter whether he is coming for us or not, the 36 plan is the best plan, we will leave quickly."

As soon as Simmons heard it was reasonable, he hurriedly sent an order, and immediately pulled out his camp and retreated northeast along the Karun River.But when they had just prepared their marching ranks, the Sasanian army had already rolled in and spread out, rushing from six directions.

Chapter 915 Out of the Great Swamp

On the water near the city of Ur in the Great Swamp, there is a strange sight, with hundreds of war elephants and hundreds of Viking ships all over the water.Of course, whether it is a war elephant or a Viking ship, it is fully loaded with Liang Jun.The fleet led by Simmons sailed northward first, and the war elephants led by Meng Huo stayed behind.

The speed of the Viking ship was much faster than that of war elephants trudging through the water. After traveling for two miles, they separated from the elephant team. At the same time, they also found a large number of Sasanian army bamboo rafts coming to them and a boat from the water. Thousands of war cavalry were killed on the dry road.

Simmons was very shocked, and secretly said: "After all, the Sassanians found the trace. If you go one step later, you will be besieged by the Sassanian army in the city of Ur."

Thinking of this, he immediately gave an order to his generals: "The enemy must have discovered our base camp in Ur and encircled us from all sides. Therefore, we must rush out of the enemy's interception as quickly as possible. There is a risk of being encircled later. The whole army obeys orders, advances at full speed, and rushes over!"

More than a hundred Viking ships accelerated suddenly and approached hundreds of bamboo rafts of the Sasanian army.The two sides were still dozens of battles away, and arrows rained in the air.The Simmons mercenary group was not good at bows and arrows, so they were overwhelmed by the opponent.So Xin and the others were covered by the ready-made large shield on the Viking ship, and did not cause too many casualties.However, the Sassanid army on the bamboo raft shot arrows one after another and fell into the water.

When the two sides were less than twenty battles apart, the javelins of the Simmons Mercenary Group began to show their power.The dense javelins smashed at the bamboo rafts of the Sasanian army, and the soldiers on them had nowhere to hide, and fell down amidst screams.On some bamboo rafts, there was no living person on it in the blink of an eye.

The bamboo rafts of the Sassanian army were forced to dodge to both sides.Simmons's Viking ships did not deliberately pursue them, but the fleet scattered and rushed forward, and when they encountered the bamboo rafts of the Sasanian army approaching, they were shot and stabbed randomly.In this way, their fleet quickly rushed past the interception of these bamboo rafts.But the bamboo rafts of these Sassanid soldiers still followed up reluctantly,

At this time, the waterway in front of Liang Jun began to narrow and become shallow, and one side of the waterway happened to be an extension of the dry road.Those Sassanid warriors armed with lances had poured into the water one after another, blocking Liang Jun's way.The depth of the water is less than the horse's belly, and the water surface is hard sand and gravel, covered with a thin layer of silt.

So their war horses can still gallop in this shallow water.Moreover, the javelins of the Simmons mercenary group were almost used up in the fierce battle with Liang Jun just now.In this case, Liang Jun's warship would have to be beaten to death if it rushed up.

Simmons hurriedly ordered the fleet to stop, looking around, hoping to find another way out.However, there is no end in sight on both sides, covered with reeds, and the water surface is just a shoal that is not over the roots of the reeds.He turned his head and saw that the trailing bamboo rafts were catching up again.Simmons suddenly became anxious.

At this moment, the Sassanid soldiers on the bamboo rafts suddenly shouted.Some huge monsters appeared behind them---Meng Huo's war elephants caught up.I saw these war elephants rushing through the water four or five feet deep.The water surface of the swamp suddenly became choppy, with billowing white waves.Once they hit the bamboo raft, the latter can only turn over on its back.Sometimes even before they come into contact with the bamboo raft, the waves caused by the rushing will cause the soldiers on the bamboo raft to lose their center of gravity and fall into the water.There were sinking and floating heads of Sasanian soldiers all over the water.

As soon as a taller person stood up in the water, the war elephants rushed towards them, and they were thrown upside down in the waves, and then their bodies were pierced by ivory, turning the water red.

Some bamboo rafts that were far away were attacked by the crossbows of Meng Huo's army on the elephants' backs.

Seeing this situation, Simmons breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly ordered: "All ships get out of the way and make way for the friendly troops behind." After a while, hundreds of warships separated to both sides, making way for a lenient The waterway of nearly ten battles came.War elephants galloped past.

When Meng Huo passed by, Simmons shouted in blunt Chinese: "Brother Meng Huo, there are cavalry from the Sassanid army ahead. Certainly a certain ship cannot beat them, and your elephant team is still needed to fight!"

In fact, Meng Huo had already seen the iron cavalry of the Sasanian army stationed in the shallow water on the back of the elephant, and he raised his hand and said, "Don't worry, I'll go and clean them up."

When the general of the Sassanid army on the opposite side saw Simmons' Viking ship stop moving forward, he still sneered in his heart and said: "After a while, the main force of the army will be chasing and intercepting it. You are just wasting your time waiting there. It doesn't matter, even if you rush over now, it will be a dead end."

But then he couldn't laugh out loud. Hundreds of huge monsters rose up behind those strange warships, and then Liang Jun's warships parted ways, and these huge war elephants rushed towards them.

He was so frightened that he couldn't make a decision whether to retreat or fight up.Just as he was distracted for a while, those war elephants had already rushed to the shallow water area, and it was impossible for him to retreat at this time.

The leader of the Sasanian cavalry had no choice but to clenched his teeth and shouted: "Rush up...kill!"

After all, he rode his horse and charged forward to meet the opponent.At the moment when the elephant and horse staggered, his lance plunged into the headgear of the opponent's war elephant first.However, after penetrating an inch, he felt a huge resistance, unable to move forward at all.It turns out that although the armor on the elephant is made of bamboo, it is two inches thick, and it is difficult for ordinary people's strength to penetrate.

When he was stunned, it was like an arrow shot from his back and hit his helmet. Although the shot pierced the helmet, it didn't penetrate the skull, but caused a bloody head.With his eyes blurred by the blood, he took back his lance and waved it wildly. Finally, another soldier on the elephant killed him with a single shot.

The leader died tragically, and the rest of the war cavalry could hardly resist Meng Huo's war elephants. Some of them had the experience of dealing with the African war elephants of the Roman Legion, and they knew that rockets could defeat the enemy.But it's a pity that their rocket was already wet by the splash of water when the horse galloped through the water.After a while, these hundreds of warriors either died tragically under their guns, or fled to the distance.

At this time, Simmons and Meng Huo heard the sound of horns from behind again, knowing that the Sasanian army was chasing up, they hurriedly ordered the soldiers to move forward.A moment later, they saw the mouth of the Karun River.Immediately, Simmons's troops abandoned their boats and went ashore together with Meng Huo's war elephants, and marched quickly towards the foot of Mount Zha.The boat they left behind was set aflame.

Half an hour later, the gathered Rudsaba army caught up, but only saw the burning wreckage of the Viking ship, but Liang Jun was nowhere to be found.

Chapter 916

Karon Estuary.Rud Shaba sent five scouts to track Liang Jun's whereabouts along five directions.Then came back four times to scout in a row, and all the reports he got were nothing.Six or seven thousand Liang troops just disappeared without a sound.Seeing the duck with its beak flying away, Rud Shaba beat his feet and chest angrily, and had no choice but to go back home.However, he didn't know that these six or seven thousand Liang Jun had ruined Ardashir's wishful thinking.

At a pass in the middle of Zha Mountain, the Sassanid Army built solid fortifications here, waiting for the Liang Army to relax.In addition to excavating caves, tunnels and trenches relying on mountain rocks, there are also Greek fire-breathing cabinets, a large number of ballistas, crossbowmen, boulders that can roll down the pass, and so on.There are also tens of thousands of troops.There is not only one such pass, but there are several other areas. These passes are the only throats in the Zhashan Mountains that can easily pass tens of thousands of troops.

Ardahill's wishful thinking is that Liang Jun will always choose at least one pass to pass through. Even if Liang Jun can successfully conquer the pass in the end, it will cause heavy casualties to Liang Jun.Liang Jun didn't have many soldiers and horses, so he spent [-] to [-]% of them. If he fought against Ardashir's million-strong army on the Mesopotamian Plains, the latter's winning rate would be increased even more.

At this time, the front army of Feng Yu's army had arrived under the pass, and Feng Yu himself was also in the front army.Feng Yu set up an awning and looked up the pass, but he couldn't see anything because of the angle.He also ordered people to raise the hot air balloon, and all the generals sat in the hanging basket to observe.

Since most of the pass fortifications were built in the rock mass in order to defend against Liang Jun's explosive bombs and explosive bombs, we can only see a rough idea, but we still can't see the details of the Sasanian Army's defensive deployment.Feng Yu's current system panel can't be used either, because that range is only limited to the Zhili area of ​​Zhongtu-Daliang Fourteen Prefectures.Feng Yu had no choice but to return to the ground and ordered all the soldiers to set up camp.

At the same time, he launched a tentative attack with the Guards.He thought to himself that if the Sasanian army's defense here is weak, he would not have taken advantage of it, so that when the rear of the Chinese army arrives tomorrow, he can directly pass through the mountain pass and enter the Mesopotamian plain.

With the sound of horns and drums, there was a crisp sound of collision between the crossbow arm and the baffle of Liang Jun's ballista.Under the bombardment of stone bombs and fireballs all over the sky, you can see billowing smoke from the Sasanian camp at the pass, and you can also see flames rising from time to time.

Seeing that it was almost done, Feng Yu waved his hand.Thousands of soldiers of the Guards Corps held their shields and formed a dozen rows of tortoise shell formations, marching along the slope of the pass to the top of the pass that is more than [-] battles high.They only fought more than a dozen battles before they saw black dots flying out of the Sasanian army's camp. They were stone bullets thrown by the Sasanian army.

There was a bang, and the shields of the two soldiers were hit by a stone bullet at the edge at the same time.One of the shields shattered on the spot, and the other shattered into several pieces.One of the soldiers suddenly broke his arm.He cried out in pain and fell to the ground.The rest of the soldiers stepped over him silently, and after the entire phalanx had passed, two soldiers came up from behind and dragged him and the rest of the wounded soldiers down.

Then came something more dangerous, the Sassanids began projecting Greek fireballs.Fortunately, their ballistas were not as accurate as Liang Jun's.Thirty rounds were thrown in one wave, but only one fell on the "turtle shell" of Liang Jun's phalanx.

Greek fire oil was poured on the two Liang soldiers along the gaps in the shields. They quickly threw away the burning shields. Although they seemed panicked, they ran to the rear in an orderly manner from the gap between the square array and the columns, and then rolled on the ground. Put out the fire.They wore fire-resistant clothing made of fire cloth, so they were safe and sound in the end.However, a lot of their hair was singed away, and their faces were also smoked into big faces.

Despite such an attack, Liang Jun's tortoise shell array still pushed forward unswervingly towards the pass.The Sasanian army began to release arrows with bows and crossbows, but it had no effect on Liang Jun's turtle shell array.

At this time, the sun has already set in the west.Feng Yu, who had been paying attention to the battle, was suddenly stung by a strong golden light in his eyes. He blinked and looked into the distance again, but the strong light disappeared again.He shook his neck slightly again, and finally let the strong light reappear.It turned out that it was a reflection from a rocky wall in the pass.More precisely, metallic reflections.

Feng Yu looked at it carefully from another angle, and finally confirmed that it was a copper pipe.Feng Yu was startled, guessing that this must be the Greek fuel tank that Liang Jun had seen before, he immediately ordered the soldiers beside him: "Send my military order, stop the attack immediately, and withdraw the troops!"

The soldiers of the Guards Corps are Feng Yu's treasures regardless of their personnel and equipment. How could he cause unnecessary casualties to them.

Immediately, the sound of the gong representing the order to withdraw troops sounded, and Liang Jun continued to maintain his formation, retreating slowly down the slope step by step.When the Sasanian army saw that they had retreated, they stopped firing stone bombs and fire bombs, as if to save these resources.

Wei Yan, who was beside Feng Yu, asked puzzledly: "Your Majesty, our phalanx is only twenty battles away from the pass, why did we suddenly retreat?"

Feng Yu snorted coldly and pointed to the distance and replied, "Look carefully there, and see if there are a few copper pipe-like things sticking out. That's their Greek fire oil tank. If our soldiers get close, they will definitely lose money." Disastrous. So we are still proceeding with the original plan."

The next day, the Chinese army and rear army arrived one after another.The [-] troops formed a large camp stretching for more than ten miles at the northern foot of the Zhashan Mountains.But what surprised the Sassanian defenders at the pass was that these Liang troops remained silent after setting up camp, and did not launch an attack.

After another five days like this, Sassan Army relaxed when he saw that Liang Jun had not moved for a long time.But this does not mean that they have relaxed their guard and are still closely monitoring every move of Liang Jun's camp.

This morning, a dozen soldiers guarding the back door of the Sassanian army camp heard the noise and footsteps outside the door, and thought it was the arrival of a supply team.One of them happily opened the gate when he was shot into a hedgehog by more than a dozen arrows.The last scene he saw for the rest of his life was a few war elephants and rows of soldiers from the Liang Army quietly charging towards the camp.

When the Sasanian soldiers built this camp, they did not consider defending against the enemy from the southwest of Zhashan.Naturally, there is no defense against the back of the camp.When Meng Huo's war elephants and Simmons' infantry rushed into their camp, they were at a loss and were naturally annihilated.

It turned out that Feng Yu sent Meng Huo and Simmons the letter through the port of Sirov, instructing them to withdraw from the swamp, then arrive at the southern foot of the mountain pass, and attack from behind.

When the Liang army of Menghuo Simmons opened the front door and the main Liang army from the north rushed into the camp, the Sasanian army was almost wiped out.The first thing Feng Yu did when he entered the camp was to get the captured Greek fire oil.

Chapter 917

Zhashan pass.Feng Yu took a water hyacinth handed over by the soldier, opened the plug, and poured the Greek kerosene sample inside on a rock.It's a light yellow liquid that emits a strong smell after dripping on the rocks.

As soon as Feng Yu smelled it, it brought back distant memories of gasoline, pine perfume and other smells.Suddenly, his eyes changed, as if he could smell a more familiar smell in this strange mixed smell.He moved his nose to the mouth of the gourd, and took a deep breath. It really was the smell after the firecracker exploded, indicating that sulfur and nitrate were mixed in it.

Thinking of nitric acid, Feng Yu suddenly felt ecstatic.This means that there are still saltpeter mines in this world, or someone has mastered the formula and process of making saltpeter.With nitrate, you can get something that can change the whole world-gunpowder.Feng Yu, who has long forgotten all about chemistry in junior high school, at least remembers the formula of gunpowder—one nitrate, two sulphur, and three charcoals.

He immediately said to the soldiers: "Go and find all the Sasanian captives related to this Greek fire. I have something to interrogate them myself."

The guards made a promise and went to do it, but after about half an hour, they just came back with more than ten Sasanian prisoners.

"Your Majesty, these people are all captives related to the Greek fire. Some of them are in charge of material allocation, some are in charge of the operation of the Greek fire-breathing cabinet, and some are in charge of repairing it."

Feng Yu immediately asked: "Ask the person in charge of supplies, how did this Greek fire come about? Did the materials be transported separately and then prepared for use?"

When the translator asked these Sasanian soldiers about this, one of them immediately said in a chattering voice: "Master General, this Greek fire is finished and then brought in by the train. Its production method and formula are as follows: Sasanian’s top secret is impossible to deploy and use on the spot.”

Feng Yu's face was slightly disappointed, and then he asked: "Then do you know where this thing was produced?"

The Sasanian general showed a puzzled look, and replied: "My lord, how could this little one know. Even the place where it was produced is kept secret. However, the little one knows the approximate location where it was produced, either in the capital Taixifeng or in Near Ctesiphon."

"Oh? Then how do you know this?"

"Returning to the general, it's because the younger one was in charge of the logistics. The grain and other war supplies come from everywhere, but the Greek oil always comes from Ctesiphon."

Feng Yu thought to himself, it seems that only by conquering the whole Sassanian territory in the end can we know the origin of this nitrate.Then he ordered the [-] troops to rest at the pass for seven days, and then march towards Taixifeng after hoarding a sufficient amount of grain, grass and supplies transferred from the rear.

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Taixifeng Palace.The Sasanian emperor Ardashir was listening to Rudshaba's report.Although Rud Sabah's report was full of word games, after several hard battles, he finally drove Liang Jun out of the big swamp.Ardashir heard the facts right away. Rud Sabah used tens of thousands of troops and spent nearly two months, but the result was nothing.

Seeing that Ardashir remained silent for a long time, Rud Shaba quickly blamed himself: "I failed to wipe out the Liang army, and I am guilty of dereliction of duty. Your Majesty please punish."

Ardasil waved his hand and said, "The safety of the southeast of Mesopotamia is a trivial matter now. Do you know that the main force of the Liang army conquered Persis more than ten days ago, and Sulehar was also killed in battle. They are marching on Ctesiphon. I am concerned with the great matter of fighting them. Compared with this, the rest is nothing."

At this time, some soldiers came in and sent an urgent military report.When Ardashir knew that the Liang army had conquered a heavily guarded pass in the middle of Zhashan Mountain yesterday, he exclaimed: "How is this possible? I figured it would be possible to defend it for a month, but within a few days Lost!"

Then he looked forward to checking the battle result data and battle details in the report.If it caused huge casualties to Liang Jun, even if Liang Jun broke through the Zhashan line of defense so quickly, he would still have achieved his goal.

In the end, he was still disappointed. According to the battle report, the Liang army only lost a few thousand troops, and according to the Sasanian army's habit, the battle report often made a lot of false reports.In fact, Liang Jun only killed dozens of people from the beginning to the end, and the battle report was falsely reported nearly a hundred times.

Finally, after reading all the reports, Ardasil concluded that the Liang army attacking from the south of Mount Zha must be the Liang army that escaped from the Great Swamp.Angrily, he threw the battle report heavily on the ground.Rud Shaba picked it up carefully, looked at it, and confessed to the other party in shock.

Ardasil sighed and said: "Forget it. Anyway, we have prepared millions of soldiers. From today, we will start preparing for the decisive battle. The Liang army occupied the pass yesterday, and it will take less than two days to reach Taixifeng Itinerary. Of course, they will definitely have to rest at the pass for some time. But we must start preparations for the decisive battle now." After finishing speaking, he summoned the soldiers in front of the gate and said: "Quickly send orders to the battalions and ministries stationed outside the city. , Gather to Gaugamela from now on.”

Gaugamela was the site of the final battle between the Greek Macedonian king Alexander and the Persian emperor Darius 600 years ago. Today, 600 years later, it was once again used by Ardashir as the scheduled battlefield for a decisive battle with Liang Jun.

From the perspective of terrain and location, Gaugamela is the most suitable place to use more to win less.But when Ardashir made the decision, Prime Minister Rud Sabah still raised some objections.He didn't have any realistic and objective reasons, but just felt that this place was unlucky.Because the army of Darius III was defeated by Alexander, who was absolutely inferior in strength, which led to the destruction of the whole of Persia.

Unexpectedly, Ardasil didn't believe in this evil, he laughed and said three reasons.One is that Alexander's victory was also a fluke.The second is that according to the Persian secret records, in the Battle of Gaugamela, Darius led millions of soldiers and horses, but the actual number was less than 20.Moreover, the soldiers and horses of Darius III were all recruits recruited in a hurry, and their combat power was worrying.And now there are [-] veterans in Ardashir's army, and the rest of the newly recruited soldiers have also gone through two months of basic military training.In the end, Ardahill comforted himself and said that Alexander came from the west back then, but now Feng Yu came from the east.The direction of arrival is different, and the luck will definitely be different, so this time the battlefield will be set in Gaugamela, but it will win.

Although he found so many reasons, there was only one real reason for him to set the battlefield at Gaugamela—there was no other nearby battlefield that was so favorable to the side with the absolute superiority of troops.

Chapter 918 Gaugamela

On the banks of the Tigris River in the drizzle, a large number of Liang Jun soldiers in ocher clothes and black armor lined up in various formations waiting to cross the river.The Liang army formation in front has passed a stone bridge one after another.

Among them were Feng Yu and some Liang generals.The talkative Wei Yan opened his mouth to express his high opinion again, pointed at the Tigris River with his horsewhip and said: "The Sassanids are really stupid, they don't need such a good natural danger, and they specially reserved this stone bridge so that we can easily cross this river." big river."

All the generals and Feng Yu laughed after hearing what he said.Before starting to cross the river, everyone had the same thought as Wei Yan. Many people suspected that the stone bridge left by the Sasanian army had hidden some kind of trap.Liang Jun sent out scouts to scout the bridge up and down the bridge, on the bank of the water, and even across the river for more than ten miles. They really couldn't find anything unusual before they boldly urged the army to cross the river.

Feng Yu put away his smile and said calmly: "It seems that this war will end sooner than we expected."

Wei Yan's mind was really spinning quickly, and he knew what Feng Yu meant when he heard it, and he took over the words: "The Holy One means that the Sasanian army is preparing to gather troops to fight us decisively, so there is no plan to stop us on the road at all?"

"That's right, and Ardashir must have assembled an absolutely superior force. That's why he has the confidence to put on a stance and fight us to the death."

At this moment, Zhao Yun questioned, "But my lord, I still don't understand a little bit. How did he know that my lord would be willing to fight him on the battlefield that he had planned?"

Feng Yu shook his head and said: "I don't know about this now, I have to figure out where they are setting up their battles before I can figure out Ardashir's intentions."

When he said this, he paused, and ordered in a serious tone: "Zhao Yun, Wei Yan, send all the most elite scouts under your command to conduct an in-depth investigation in the direction of Taixifeng, mainly to investigate where they have gathered heavy troops..."

Before Feng Yu finished speaking, there were bursts of commotion in front of the queue.After a while, several cavalrymen escorted a heavily tied Sasanian to Feng Yu, and the leading general got off his horse and knelt down on one knee to report: "Your Majesty, the vanguard soldiers have caught a spy. He claimed to be the messenger who came to send the letter of war."