Three Kingdoms Eschatology

A smile appeared on the corner of Feng Yu's mouth and said: "Since he is an envoy, let him untie him, I want to see what he has to say."

After the visitor was untied and informed of Feng Yu's identity, he patted the dust on his clothes neither humble nor overbearing, and bowed to Feng Yu: "Emperor Daliang, my Majesty Ardashir, the king of Sasanian kings, sent me here A letter of challenge to you. Now His Majesty Ardashir has gathered millions of soldiers in Gaugamela, and asked the Emperor Daliang to decide whether to win or lose. However, Ardashir still gave This is an opportunity for your country to seek peace, as long as you lay down your weapons and leave the Sasanian border empty-handed, His Majesty Ardashir will guarantee your safety."

After finishing speaking, he glanced at the Liang Jun general next to him.The other party quickly took out a letter and handed it to Feng Yudao: "My lord, this is the letter found from this person."

Feng Yu opened the letter and found that it was written in Chinese, but the font was crooked and the grammar was rather blunt, obviously written by someone who is not so proficient in Chinese.But the general meaning can still be understood. It is indeed as the messenger said that Ardashir invited Feng Yu to a decisive battle in Gaugamela.There was even a map attached to the letterhead, clearly marking the location of Gaugamela.

Feng Yu sneered indifferently, and said to the messenger: "With so many of us, we have traveled so far, how could we return empty-handed. Go back and report to your lord. After accepting this letter of war, I will lead an army in Gao Gamela will fight your country!"

After the envoy left, Wei Yan said in a hurry: "Your Majesty, do we really want to have a decisive battle in Gao Hela as they wish? It is a taboo for military strategists to fight the enemy on the battlefield preset, let alone our Compared with its so-called million-strong army, it is at an absolute disadvantage."

Feng Yu reined in his horse and responded: "They don't claim to be an army of one million, but they are counted according to their population. It is really possible to gather an army of one million and wait for us. But I still have to accept their challenge, no The rest can choose the conditions."

After saying this, he jumped off his horse and unfolded the map on the side of the road, surrounded by all the generals.Feng Yu pointed to Gaugamela on the map and said to everyone: "Look, Gaugamela is located in the northwest of Taisifeng, between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River. Their one-million-strong army company can stretch for hundreds of miles. If we go west, we will be blocked by the fortified city of Ctesiphon if we go east, and we will meet the Euphrates River in the south, and the Sasanian army will inevitably deploy tens of thousands on the other side of the river. My rangers are preventing me from crossing the river. So no matter where we go, we will stand still for at least a few days.

In just a few days, enough Sassanian army of one million has been swept away, and we still have to fight one of them.And it's even more unfavorable, because it has to face the enemy soldiers who may pour out from Taixi Fengcheng.What's worse, if we really did this, they can recapture or block the Zhashan pass by randomly drawing some troops from the million-strong army, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

The last reason why we must fight them is that our supply lines are too long to support them for a long time.In other words, it is my wish to fight them quickly.Back in the day, Alexander, the king of Macedon, took the initiative to collide with the big formation set up by Darius for this reason. "

After hearing Feng Yu's remarks, the generals suddenly became enlightened.Feng Yu arranged military orders one by one according to the map.

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At Gaugamela, tens of miles northwest of Tesiphon, new camps stood up one after another.Ardashir rode his horse and galloped across the field, surveying the terrain again, deducing the scene of the future decisive battle in his mind.

Gaugamela is a large saline-alkaline desert with a radius of hundreds of miles, so it is not suitable for farming. The surface is very flat and the vegetation is extremely sparse.This is very suitable for battles between the two sides, especially for the side with an absolute advantage in troops.

Of course, the Sassanid Army, who has already learned how powerful Liang Jun's longbow chariot is, would never give Liang Jun the conditions to take advantage of it on his home court.They planted short wooden stakes only three inches high on the flat ground.Such wooden stakes do not affect the infantry phalanx passing on foot, nor does it affect the galloping of war horses, but they will overturn the galloping chariots.

Just as Ardashir was about to return to his tent, a scout rode over on a flying horse and shouted from a distance: "Report! The main force of the Liang army is here, here it is!"

At this time, on the south bank of the Tigris River, a huge army that was running so fast that its head and tail could not be seen had approached Gaugamela.

Chapter 919 The Enemy's Tacit Understanding

Thirty miles southeast of Gaugamela.Under the reflection of the setting sun, forest spears, large shields like walls, iron cavalry exuding metal texture all over, tall war elephants, and long dragon-like carts and chariots gathered into several endless teams meandering through the wasteland with.The longest of these teams is ten miles long.

Feng Yu is still accompanying the former army.There was a cloud of dust in front, and after a few horsemen came galloping, the knights jumped off their horses and reported to Feng Yu: "My Majesty, our army's forward scouts have found the Sasanian army's company battalion five miles ahead. The exact number of troops cannot be estimated because the camps stretch to the sky and are boundless!"

Feng Yu nodded, and whipped the horse to speed up.The generals and personal guards who followed him hurriedly followed closely.A cavalry team of hundreds of riders immediately left the group and galloped forward.

Soon, they joined up with thousands of vanguard cavalry.Then they all suddenly stopped the horse's progress.Some of them opened their mouths in shock, because they had never seen so many camps.There is a vast forest in the distance, but if you look carefully, you can find that it is a boundless camp, and the flagpoles and banners inside overlap to form a forest-like scene.With a distance of six or seven miles, the commotion in the camp could already be heard clearly.

It was Wei Yan who said again: "Strange, it looks like they really have a million soldiers. At first, I thought they were just bluffing, with a maximum of 40 to [-]."

Zhao Yun sneered at the side and said: "Although there are many soldiers and horses, the enemy general has never thought about how to dispatch so many soldiers and horses in a unified manner. Throughout the ages, there are only one person who can mobilize millions of troops to coordinate a battle. Set up an ambush on all sides by Han Xin."

Feng Yu shook his head and said, "Don't underestimate the enemy. After all, Sasan is a big country with a population of tens of millions. It is possible to send out a few geniuses to command the army. Pass my military order, and all ministries will act according to the previous deployment!"

As all the generals made their promises, they each dispersed to act.After a while, there was the clanging sound of building a camp.Another army hurried towards Taisifeng, this is Wei Xu's army, responsible for monitoring the movement of the Sasanian army in Taisifeng, preventing them from rushing out of Taisifeng and attacking his rear.

Surrounded by all the generals and personal guards, Feng Yu rode his horse and ran sideways for more than ten miles, but he didn't see the end of the Sasanian army's company camp. Instead, he found short wooden stakes several inches high on the ground.Feng Yu knew at a glance that this was a setting for overturning his own chariot.At this time, the scouts who went to investigate the details of the enemy's camp reported that the Sasanian company with a million troops stretched from the southwest bank of the Tigris River to the northeast bank of the Euphrates River.So there is no chance for Feng Yu to play a roundabout trick.

Before Liang Jun's camp was fully set up, the night became dark.Piles of bonfires were lit on the campsite, and tens of thousands of bonfires lit up the night sky in the Sassanid camp several miles away.

A troop formed a phalanx and emerged from a certain Sasanian army camp, and rushed towards a camp of Liang Jun, but Liang Jun's random arrows made them retreat. Obviously this was just an attempt harassment.

Liang Jun also responded quickly, sending troops frequently, sometimes a legion and sometimes a battalion, to harass the Sasanian camp.The two sides fought like this until midnight and early morning before they calmed down and stopped such meaningless actions.

Early the next morning, Feng Yu left the gate surrounded by soldiers.A soldier brought him a Mazha, and Feng Yu sat down on it, looking at the other side leisurely.Of course, the company that stretches for dozens of miles cannot see the whole picture by relying on such observations.But Liang Jun has raised more than a dozen giants floating in the air --- hot air balloons in his own camp.In addition, hundreds of scouts and rangers were dispatched to guard the two wings of the main force of the army, preventing the Sasanian army from quietly outflanking the Liang army's invisible wings.

Feng Yu sat on the mat, and set up an awning with his hands to look at the opposite side provocatively. In fact, he could see nothing but the camp tent stretching across the sky from a distance of several miles.

A quarter of an hour later, as Feng Yu expected, there were bursts of drums and horns in the Sasanian barracks.A large number of Sasanian troops poured out of each camp and began to gather in the open space in front of the camp.Zhao Yun quickly reminded Feng Yu: "Your Majesty, the enemy army has begun to form. Shall we fight?"

Feng Yu waved his hand and said, "No, it's not yet time. Let's grind him first."

"So, Your Majesty, please go back to the camp, we will stick to the camp."

Feng Yu still shook his head and said, "No need, I'm sure the enemy will not rush forward rashly. If they do come, we can go back to the camp soon."

On the opposite side, the Sasanian army came out in full force, forming a large formation of a million soldiers and horses with a width of more than [-] li outside the camp.From a distance of several miles, Feng Yu could also see the forest of spears and flags sticking out of the horizon.

On the side of the Sassanid army, Ardashir, who was wearing armor, was sitting on the cart, also looking forward.

In this situation, he would not attack the opponent's camp unless it was absolutely necessary.According to the common sense of the art of war of attacking three and defending one, doing so is equivalent to helping the opponent increase its strength by at least three times.So he desperately hoped that the enemy would reach a tacit understanding with him and make a quick decision.However, after waiting for almost three hours, Liang Jun was still not as he hoped, and Liang Jun also began to prepare for a decisive battle.The day passed quickly, and he reluctantly withdrew the army back to the camp. This day was wasted in vain.

At this moment, Ardahill felt a trace of anxiety in his heart.Or because of his millions of soldiers and horses.These soldiers and horses have an absolute advantage in strength when fighting, but their daily consumption is also astonishing.Not counting those horses and livestock, just the rations of millions of soldiers consume thousands of tons of food and grass every day.If it is converted to transport by trucks, thousands of carts will be used to transport it, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses will be required to escort it.

It is impossible to maintain this by daily real-time transportation, so Ardashir had hoarded a large amount of food and supplies before the war, but the hoarded items were always limited, and these were only enough for half a month for his million-strong army. expense.Previously, although Ardahill thought of this problem, he didn't care.Because he believes that Feng Yu is more willing to understand this battle as soon as possible than him, because Feng Yu's supply line is so long, it is more difficult than him to replenish food and grass supplies.

But after seeing Feng Yu's performance today, he felt a little uneasy.He was worried that Feng Yu had used some means he didn't know to be able to add enough food and grass to continue the war for a long time.If so, he would be forced to fight a tough battle with this million army.As for the tough battle, he had no confidence at all that he could win Liang Jun.

For the next few days, Feng Yu responded in the same way, and had no intention of forming a battle with Aldashir.Ardashir even urged the army to press forward for nearly a hundred battles, but Liang Jun remained indifferent.

Chapter 920

Another day at noon, the Sassanian army still lined up outside the camp, stretching for nearly a hundred miles.But there was still no movement from Liang Jun, which made Ardashir even more anxious.After a few days in a row, Liang Jun ignored them. If this continues for another seven or eight days, the food and grass will be exhausted.

Seeing that the sun was westward, the soldiers should be hungry, so Ardashir was helplessly preparing to order the troops to withdraw.At this time, the sound of Liang Jun's drums and horns came from the southeast.When Ardahill heard this, he became excited immediately, and Liang Jun finally moved.

Liang Jun soldiers, cavalry, and chariots drove out of the camp one after another, setting up their formations.The general next to Ardashir immediately suggested: "Your Majesty, the Liang army has just set up the formation, and we have not yet completed the formation, so we will cover up and kill them in one go. We will definitely win a big victory."

Ardasil replied: "Others are not idiots and won't be flexible. If we press past them, they will immediately retreat into the camp and give up this duel with us. I finally invited them to come out for a decisive battle. scare them back."

As soon as he said this, no one dared to speak more.After waiting for more than two hours, Liang Jun finally lined up the army formation. More than 7 soldiers and horses lined up for ten miles, connecting the sky and the earth without bounds.But under Feng Yu's overlooking view, who had risen into the air, the Liang army was only a limited section, while the Sasanian army's army formation was still densely packed and boundless, extending towards the banks of the two rivers.

Following the explosion of several explosive bombs as a signal, Liang Jun began to advance slowly amidst the sound of war drums and horns.But Ardashir's army of millions remained unmoved.It's not that he doesn't want to launch an active attack. It stands to reason that his army formation is far wider than the opponent's, and the sooner he contacts them, the sooner he can encircle them.

But how difficult it is to command this million-strong army, once it takes action, the army formation will be deformed and even chaotic.A little carelessness can also cause screaming and stampede accidents in front of the camp, and the consequences are unimaginable.Therefore, Ardasil chose to sit on the sidelines and wait for Liang Jun to hit him by himself, and then mobilize his two wings to surround him, so as to reduce the chance of confusion.

Liang Jun's banners and gun forest were getting closer and closer to the Sasanian army formation, and the two sides could already see each other clearly.The driver of Liang Jun's longbow chariot has jumped off his horse and is leading the chariot forward.When the distance between the two sides was less than a hundred battles, these longbow chariots stopped, and it seemed that Feng Yu was going to use them as fixed arrow towers.

In addition, those ballistas also began to be placed and installed on the spot to deploy the ballista positions.The war elephant that dragged Feng Yu's hot air balloon also stopped here.Stone bombs and arrows struck the Sasanian army formation overwhelmingly.Ardasil hurriedly ordered a counterattack, and the more dense stone bombs, arrows, and Greek fire from the Sassanian army flew towards the Liang army.

However, the ballistas of the Liang army had a range of more than a dozen battles longer than those of the Sassanian army. The advantage of such a distance alone was enough to determine the outcome of the entire war.Not to mention the range of Liang Jun's longbow relative to the Sasanian Army's arrows.

The shield walls in the front row of Liang Jun also stopped.Countless arrows shot into the soil in front of the shield wall with a whistling sound, and the stone bullets also made pits one after another on the ground.A few stone bullets even rolled to the front of the shield wall with kinetic energy, knocking several Liang soldiers to the ground.

A plume of flames rose into the air from the ground, billowing thick smoke, and one of them was falling in front of the shield wall, and the rising flames burned several shields.The soldiers of the Liang army did not flinch, and stood there as firmly as Mount Tai.But they could also feel the heat of the flames through the washcloth padding on the back of the shield.But it was the farthest Greek fire ever fired by the Sasanian army.The rest fell a few battles away from the shield wall.

At the same time, the Sassanid army was like a vicious hell.Many people rolled to the ground under the attack of arrow rain, stone bombs, hot bombs, and explosive bombs.A Sasanian sword and shield soldier raised his shield above his head, blocking a dozen arrows, but an explosive bomb landed right at his feet.The earthen jar was smashed open, debris burst into his eyes, and a few pieces of iron nails were shot into his calf, which was not covered by armor. He dropped the weapon and covered his eyes with his hands and fell to the ground howling.

There were screams and howls in the vicinity of Ardashir one after another, and several soldiers were also shot down by heavy arrows.A few heavy arrows were still shot at the carriage of Ardashir's car, making a dull sound.It made Aldahill break out in a cold sweat.

He saw that the entire middle of the army was in chaos under the wild shooting of Liang Jun, and he knew that he could not wait for Liang Jun to collide with him. If this continued, he would only be defeated. The only way was to contact Liang Jun's army as soon as possible.He shouted anxiously: "Send my military order, the whole army advances! Drive Liang Jun to death!"

The sound of drums and horns sounded one after another, mixed with the muffled sound of the explosion of Liang Jun's explosive bombs, and they gathered in the sky above Gaugamela.The huge Sassanid army formation started to move, but once such a colossus was launched, its parts were distorted, deformed and confused like a self-moving clay sculpture.

Fortunately, they were not far away from Liang Jun, and after a while they rushed to the [-]th battle near Liang Jun, and their arrows were already able to reach Liang Jun's position.Arrows poured down on Liang Jun's phalanx like a shower, and Liang Jun's phalanx had already turned into a tortoise shell formation. The arrows hit the shield and made a sound like hail.Feng Yu in the balloon hanging basket swung his hand down violently, and shouted: "Send the order, attack with all your strength. Be sure to pierce the enemy's formation within half an hour and kill the enemy chieftain!"

It was an agreement between Feng Yu and the generals to kill the enemy chief within half an hour, and this was the only way for Liang Jun to win.Otherwise, when a million-strong army rolls up, no matter how powerful Ren Liang's army is, he will be like a lion caught in a net and can only sit and wait to die.

Arrows with red smoke trails shot out from the basket of the hot air balloon in all directions, which was a signal to the generals of Liang Jun to charge.At this time, Liang Jun's ballistas and longbows poured all kinds of arrows and projectiles towards the crowd of Sassanian army like crazy.

Guan Yu waved the Qinglong Yanyue Saber in his hand, and Zhao Yun pointed forward the silver spear in his hand, and each of them rushed towards the Sassanian army with the iron cavalry that had formed a cone formation behind them.The rest of the generals commanded the infantry in the middle to charge forward.Javelins were thrown from Liang Jun's hands in the last few rows like torrential rain. Liang Jun in the second and third rows held individual ballistas and fired crossbow guns at close range repeatedly.

Many Sasanian swordsmen were thrown off their shields by javelins, and then shot through their chests by crossbows on the spot. The Sasanian soldiers behind them were tortured unbearably by various throwing weapons.The hundred-mile-long Sasanian army formation suddenly appeared a ten-mile-long extremely chaotic crowd.Guan Yu and Zhao Yun had already led their respective cavalry on the left and right, and rushed in like a tiger into a herd of sheep.

Chapter 921 Decisive Victory over Gaugamela

The light of Qinglong Yanyue Dao shrouded Guan Yu's men and mounts, killing all the way forward.The Sasanian soldiers standing in front of him were either dead or wounded, and the heads and limbs cut off by the blade flew out from the light and shadow of the Qinglong Yanyue Saber from time to time.

In order to prevent accidental injury, Liang Jun stopped the ballista bombardment.Directly ahead, all the ballista projectiles fired from the last wave fell to the ground, and tens of hundreds of flames rose in an instant.A Sasanian soldier whose whole body was on fire ran towards Guan Yu like a headless chicken.

If this soldier were allowed to approach, the mount under Guan Yu's crotch would be frightened and run away.Sooner or later, the Qinglong Yanyue Knife slashed down vertically with an arc-shaped light trail, and the burning man was split into two, and the two pillars of fire fell to the ground immediately.

Just when Guan Yu beheaded this man, a Sassanian spearman stabbed at Guan Yu quietly with his spear. He hadn't been halfway out when he was pierced through the head by a crossbow shot by a single-armed ballista. fell to the ground.

The Liang army infantry was pushing and pulling the lever, and when he raised and lowered the crossbow spear, the scimitar of a Sasanian sword and shield soldier cut him on the neck, but his neck was also cut by the Qinglong Yanyue knife that came horizontally. broken.

Zhao Yun's side was also stabbed with long spears. Countless Sasanian soldiers either fell under the blade of his spears or were rushed to the ground by the horses and ran over their bodies.

Feng Yu, who was still staying in the hot air balloon basket, saw that the part of the Sasanian army that exceeded the width of the Liang army's army had been wrapped in the middle, and the longbow chariots and ballistas on his side changed their shooting directions from the front. It became two wings, in order to curb the speed of the Sasanian army.

Feng Yu also shook hands at this time.Although he has a [-]% chance of winning this battle, no one is sure until the end of the battle.Feng Yu shook a rope leading to the ground, and the bell at the other end of the rope jingled.The soldiers on the ground quickly pulled the hot air balloon down with a winch.Feng Yu will personally direct the sniping of the enemy troops on the left and right flanks.

From the team wrapped around the two wings, Rolling War Cavalry emerged, broke away from the brigade, and rushed straight towards Feng Yu.Apparently, the generals of the Sassanid Army had discovered Liang Jun's intentions, and they wanted to kill Liang Jun's commander—that is, Feng Yu—before Liang Jun broke through their own army formation.

At this time, the battlefield situation has developed to the point where whoever beheads the opponent's coach first will win the battle.Feng Yu's personal guards also set up shield walls behind the two wings. Some soldiers had flat-end single-armed crossbows, and some carried javelins on their shoulders and stood ready.Those longbowmen who were still on the chariot fired heavy arrows one after another.

The Sassanid cavalry rushing over were knocked down by the javelins while the people shouted and neighing. Even some who could reach the Liang army's defense line were knocked down by rows of crossbows fired at close range. , no one was spared.

On the other side, Guan Yu was less than thirty battles away from Ardashir's Che Yu, and Zhao Yun was only ten battles away from him.Now Ardasil regretted, regretting that he shouldn't ride in this gleaming golden chariot, which was particularly conspicuous among thousands of troops, otherwise Liang Jun would not have paid so much attention to him.He didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly ordered Yufu to say: "Get out! Get out quickly!"

The driver flicked the reins, whipped the horse, and drove the carriage back through the messy crowd.At this moment, a crossbow gun whizzed over and shot through the body of the mail horse, and with a mournful cry, the horse collapsed to the ground.But its body was still tied to the shaft by the reins, and the speed of the other three war horses suddenly slowed down.

Zhao Yun had already reached the front and shouted loudly: "The enemy chieftain will leave!"

But as soon as he finished speaking, four or five of Ardashir's relatives surrounded him. Zhao Yun stabbed his spear three times in a row in the blink of an eye. At the same time, the three Sasanian knights were bleeding from their hands. His throat fell off the horse.

The last man's lance stabbed towards his chest, but when the point of the lance was still two feet away from him, the mace in the heavy cavalry of the Liang army who was catching up had already hit the Sassanid cavalry on the head. As soon as he rolled his eyes, he fell straight down on the horse.

But at this time, Ardashir's carriage also ran away, but Guan Yu and dozens of cavalry under his command had already followed through the chaotic army.Ardashir's driver frantically whipped the horse to increase the speed as fast as possible. Suddenly, the entire carriage rose into the air, turned around in the air, and then fell to the ground.Ardashir's head hit the ground, and with a bang, his cervical spine was broken and he died on the spot.

It turned out that his carriage was overturned by the short wooden stake of the longbow chariot of the anti-beam army.Ardashir never thought that he would run away alone in a carriage, which led to the consequences of throwing stones at his feet.

Guan Yu looked at it and thought to himself: "It's really disappointing. I thought that someone could behead the enemy chief with his own hands, but I didn't expect him to burp directly."

Guan Yu came to the overturned carriage, stabbed the Qinglong Yanyue Dao into the spokes of the carriage, lifted it vigorously, opened the carriage, and saw the body of Ardashir with his head folded on his chest, without saying a word, He cut off Ardashir's head with one knife, and picked it into his hand with the tip of the knife.

The Sassanian Army Formation, which was hundreds of miles long, had completely collapsed in the width of ten miles in the middle. Attacked at the convolution of the two wings.

At the same moment, Feng Yu's personal guard army was like an isolated island caught in the sea of ​​Sasanian soldiers.Enemy forces charged at their shield walls from almost every direction.The individual ballistas and crossbows in the hands of many Liang soldiers have been fired, and even all the crossbows carried by many people have been fired.You can only rely on the soldiers in the first two rows to fight at close range with spears.Hundreds of longbow chariots and thousands of ballistas surrounded by Liang Jun continued to shoot heavy arrows and fireballs in all directions.However, their various bullets, including stone bullets, are about to bottom out.

Under the wave after wave of attacks from the Sassanian army, Feng Yu's army formation began to distort, and skirmishers broke through the line of defense continuously, but they were quickly knocked down by the longbowmen behind as key targets.Feng Yu couldn't help becoming nervous, the battle situation has reached this state, it is impossible to last much longer.But then he felt relieved, because he found that the enemy army in the front had been completely defeated, and his main force had turned back to fight back to the two wings.

Although the enemy forces on the two wings had not completely fled, some of them found that their commander had disappeared and began to flee outwards.More and more people fled, and a trend soon formed. When the main force of the Liang army who turned back came, the Sassanid army had completely collapsed and fled towards Taixifeng in the southeast direction.The reason why they didn't turn around and escape back to the camp was because many of their camps had already been set on fire by Liang Jun.

Chapter 922 The Strategy of Revenge

On the plain between the Euphrates and the Tigris, nearly a million Sasanian troops ran around like headless chickens.Tens of thousands of Liang troops were divided into several groups, chasing and killing them all over the mountains and plains.One of the Sassanids fled to Taishen, and the Sassanids who defended the city opened the city gate for them.

But then they found that the situation was uncontrollable, and the opened city gate could no longer be closed, because Sassanid soldiers kept pouring into the city like a torrent of broken dikes.Then something even more terrifying happened. The Wei Xu Army, which was monitoring Taixi Fengcheng, fished in troubled waters and entered Taixi Fengcheng.

As soon as Wei Xu's Liang army entered the city, they left two battalions of soldiers and horses to guard the city gate.The rest of the soldiers and horses went all the way along the main street of the city.Because the city was full of broken soldiers, it was too crowded, even the cavalry could not gallop, so they could only walk forward slowly.

As long as it is an active target, Liang Jun in the distance will shoot with random arrows, and those nearby will shoot with swords and guns.As long as it looks like a government barracks, Liang Jun will be thrown into a torch and burned.Of course, there were war cavalry who kept pushing into the Sasanian crowd, crushing them down and trampling past them.

All this was done for one purpose, not to kill as many Sasanian soldiers as possible, but to drive them out of Ctesiphon.Sure enough, after more than half an hour of killing, Taixi Feng's rout soldiers all over the city found that a large number of Liang soldiers had also rushed into the city, and it was not safe, so they fled from all the city gates.Two hours later, Ma Chao's army, one of the main forces of the Liang army, also entered Taixifeng, and then the four gates were closed tightly, and they began to wipe out the remaining enemies in the city and control the whole city.

The battle lasted for another three days before it came to a complete end. During these three days, the Liang army followed the upper and lower reaches of the two rivers, relying on Taixi to seal the city, and kept chasing and killing the defeated Sasanian soldiers.For a while, Sasanian residents living in the lower reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris would see corpses floating down the river from time to time.Most of them belonged to Sasanian soldiers.The field between the two rivers was also littered with corpses. The Sasanian army captured by the Liang army lined up like giant pythons and were escorted to the vicinity of Taixifeng City for centralized custody.

On this day, Liang Jun held a formal ceremony of entering the city.Feng Yu sat in the gold-wrapped chariot that Ardashir had been on, and drove into the city surrounded by cavalry.Both sides of the road were full of Taixifeng people kneeling, and when they arrived at the gate of the palace, those old Sasanian officials also knelt all over the ground.

When Feng Yu stepped off the carriage, these old Sassanian ministers yelled something with their etiquette, which probably meant Shan Hu Long live.After Feng Yu entered the palace hall, he summoned them into the hall, and then only told them three things.One is that Sasanian was merged into Daliang and divided into three prefectures of Daxia, Persia, and Mesopotamia for management. The three prefectures set up a governor to take charge of military and civilian affairs.Under the various prefectures, the system of prefectures and counties in Zhongtu was modeled on that of Liang State.The second is that the positions of all the officials in the court and the central government remain the same.This is equivalent to establishing a court cabinet parallel to that of China.The third is to issue an appeal to the counties and counties in the name of the new court, ordering them to surrender to Daliang.

Sure enough, as Feng Yu expected, after defeating Sasanian's million-strong army and beheading Ardashir, the former Sasanian king, conquering Sasanian or all parts of Persia went extremely smoothly.Some cities took the initiative to send people to present their household registers without waiting for the call to action.It seems that the Persians also did not come close to the concept of the modern nation-state.As long as the strength is strong enough to give the people a way to survive and maintain order, it doesn't matter who will be their king.

However, in order to consolidate the rule, Feng Yu still used some means.Among them, the most effective method is marriage. Feng Yu married more than a dozen young Persian women in Taixifeng's palace as queens and concubines. They were all children of wealthy Persian nobles.In addition, he selected [-] strong single soldiers from the nearly [-] expeditionary army who voluntarily stayed permanently, and they will also marry a large number of local Persian women.

The second means is language. Feng Yu is trying to promote Chinese in Persia.But this Chinese language is more difficult for these Persians to learn.However, Feng Yu thought of a flexible method, which is to use the Latin alphabet to mark Pinyin to promote Chinese.It is much easier to learn this way.

Half a year later, Feng Yu saw that the general situation had stabilized, so he sent the rest of the Liang army back to Zhongtu except for the [-] Liang troops who had taken root in the local area.They have been away from their hometown for more than a year. If they continue to stay, it will be inhumane, and there is a high possibility of mutiny, or at least many deserters.

Feng Yu personally walked out of Taixi Fengcheng, watching the mighty army marching eastward.There were many generals who followed the army back to Middle-earth, but Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Guan Yu, Lu Bu and several other generals stayed here.Among these generals, except for Lu Bu, the others stayed voluntarily.

Zhao Yun who was beside Feng Yu suddenly remembered something, clasped his fists to Feng Yu and said, "Your Majesty, I remembered something. Last year, Brother Chen Tiao was humiliated by the Bedouins and has not yet been avenged. Now most of our main force has been transferred back to the central government. Tu, if we attack the Bedouin again, the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses will definitely not be enough. They are nomadic tribes, wandering in the Gobi desert for thousands of miles, and a large number of soldiers and horses are needed to round them up. Is this enemy We don't report it?"

Feng Yu sneered and said, "How can we not avenge this revenge? However, what you said is reasonable, not only that these [-] troops are not enough. Even if we keep all the [-] troops, we will not be able to wipe out all the Bedouins." Yes. It would take a lot of manpower and material resources to rely on these infantry to encircle these elusive Bedouin rangers in the barren land with a radius of thousands of miles. Not to mention the arrows, ballista projectiles and other combat materials used in daily combat. Just It is extremely difficult to transport food into the hinterland of this desert."

Hearing what Feng Yu said, the generals were even more puzzled.But what Feng Yu said next made them suddenly realize.

"However, I already have a way to deal with these Bedouin nomadic tribes. It is to use the Huqi under our Beifu Army. At present, our Beifu Army has ruled from the Whale Sea in the east, to the northern shore of the Black Sea in the west, and to the Beiming Ocean in the north. The entire prairie. There are countless Huqi who have surrendered within the jurisdiction. Although they can now have enough food and clothing through the horse market provided by the imperial court, they have nowhere to plunder for a long time and make them panic. They can just be transferred to let the wind go. This is my general The reason for Fengxian staying temporarily."

Feng Yu glanced at Lu Bu while talking, and Lu Bu hurriedly kowtowed on one knee and said, "I will not disgrace my mission."

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After sending the army away, Feng Yu did not go back to the palace directly, but came to a workshop in Taixifeng under the guard of his own soldiers.This workshop is super big. It was originally a secret workshop for making Greek fire in the Sasanian Empire, but now it has been expanded by Feng Yu to three times its size.Now, besides Dongtou’s workshops, Greek kerosene is still being made.According to Feng Yu's guidance, the people in Xitou are experimenting with an epoch-making thing---black powder.

Chapter 923

A hundred miles southwest of the Euphrates River, a small castle called Saidaman flew the dragon flag of the beam.It's just that this dragon flag is obviously a "cottage" imitation version, which is far from the original dragon flag pattern of the Daliang Army.

The reason for this is that this flag was made by a local tailor who had just surrendered to Daliang not long ago, and compared with the military flag of Liang Jun's messenger team.In fact, so far, most of the locals have never even met a person who really came from the Eastern Liang Kingdom.

In the early years, Saidaman was just a military station located at the junction of the Mesopotamian Plain and the Bedouin Desert.Used to house Persian troops patrolling along the northeastern edge of the Great Desert.Later, after Ardashir established the Sasanian Dynasty, in order to resist the looting of Bedouin rangers from the desert, he began to build the Great Wall along the border between the Mesopotamian Plain and the Bedouin Desert.