The fire shone in the tent in the dark night, and in the depths of the shaking shadows, Gongsun Zhi could feel the surging mood of the soldiers after he stopped with his eyes closed, and the warm palm brushed against the cold blade had an unreal feeling.

The noisy chatter and footsteps outside seemed to bring him back to the four years of hellish fighting.

At the beginning of Jian'an's five-year expedition to the Western Regions, nearly 200,000 troops marched all the way until Jian'an defeated the Roman Emperor Severus in the fifth year.

In the past four years, from Central Asia to Constantine, to the Danube River and the Germanic Great Wall in the north, to the Alps in the west, to the Persian Gulf in the south, to the Kushan Blue City, and the High Annexed City, the war has never stopped. Every day, people are killed in the sea of corpses and blood, and they stop thinking that it means death, after all, there is no way home.

In the past four years, many people also hoped that reinforcements would come, and in the end, the soldiers or generals who had hoped for them died in the hedge again and again.

In the initial confrontation with Sassanid Persia, the Western Expeditionary Army was in the case of being attacked by the enemy, and it was difficult to deploy its hands and feet, and then Gongsun Zhi attacked millions of Persian civilians with the mobile advantage of the three cavalry of the steppe, and the blood of villages and cities was killed, so that the plan of the Persian Emperor Ardashir was frustrated, and it was able to stabilize the position, after a winter, the Persian emperor made a new plan again, gathered a large number of Persian light cavalry released from the outside, and formed an army of 200,000 with this formation to advance step by step, towards the east of Taisiphon, attack from the south.

The Fengxiang army of the Xiliang Army and Pan Wushuang used ballistas and bows and crossbows to defend the city, and the rear of the craftsman camp rushed to make arrows and crossbows day and night, repaired armor and weapons, and even every once in a while, craftsmen or people were tired to death, and they stopped forever during the beating. And Zhao Yun's white wolf cavalry and Ma Chao's Xiliang iron cavalry, as well as Xiahou Yuan and Cao Chun's tiger and leopard cavalry relied on the Euphrates River and the surrounding terrain to contain the attack of the Persian army.

The next day, he took off the turban wrapped around his head, tied it up like a Han Chinese, and even gave his mount, a Kushan war elephant, to Dian Wei, and personally waited on the city wall to fight the Persians to show his position.

Although it is based on the city and defended, but there are casualties, the army defending the city is experiencing a sea of people washed out again and again, 8,000 Xiliang army attrition from 5,000, 20,000 Fengxiang army only 15,000 people left, the same way, the opposite 200,000 Persian army, the infantry involved in the siege of the city killed and wounded as high as more than 30,000 people, of which 27,000 died directly in the siege, this is the tragic scene that the Persian emperor never imagined.

However, the casualties are not only this, the Han Dynasty cavalry wandering outside sometimes attacks his baggage rear camp in a roundabout way, even if there is a defense, it will be lost by the other party's ignition of fire, the most difficult thing is that I don't know when the other party will launch a night attack, usually for the infantry camps on the left and right flanks, after all, the number of siege is too large, stretching for more than 30 miles, 50,000 Persian cavalry can not take care of all the infantry camps, unless they do not sleep day and night to guard outside.

Occasionally, Gongsun Zhi stood on the ruined head of Ctesiphon, looking out at the Persian military camp with a bonfire lit up in speckled spots, and felt that this war might be fought for a long time, ten years, or until all the people were gone. However, the army of Sassanid Persia should not be finished, and in the face of Ctesiphon, in October of that year, Ardashir ordered the conscription of the Persians in Parthia, and decided to have a large number of troops to overwhelm the other side.

The turning point of the war came with the west.

Jian'an ten years, the beginning of spring in March, the woman stationed in Constantine in this years-long war, married Lu Xun, and the dowry is two Roman legions, nearly 30,000 people were burned to death in a foothill, before, Lu Xun light cavalry lured the enemy deep, ambushed in the mountains of the Germanic people ignited tung oil, hay caused a fire, and fired with rockets, above the foothills, the crowds of people ran around, pushed, was burned by the fire that was burned black, more people were choked to death by the smoke.

Lu Xun returned to the city, ran up the city wall excitedly, pointed to the fire burning the red sky in the distance, and smiled honestly: "Lingqi, are you still satisfied with this dowry?" ”

Looking at the young man with a dark face, Lu Lingqi turned her head, nodded with red eyes, and at the same time, she was grabbed by the outstretched arm and pressed it on her warm chest, and heard Lu Xun's voice whisper in her ear: "If the people of Daqin bully you, tell me that you don't need to use your fists and legs for your husband, just kill them with your head and make amends for you." ”

Hearing this, the pretty face leaning on his chest broke into tears and smiled, as thin as a mosquito's voice: "...... Got it. ”

In the distance, Lu Bu sat on the city tower and looked at the pair of beautiful people hugging together, and then looked at the red night sky, which was regarded as acquiescence. Gao Shun stood beside him, looking at the men and women, and there was a smile on his stiff face: "Wen Hou doesn't object this time." ”

"No objections." Lu Bu leaned back in the chair, and smiled on his face: "Being able to stay and stay with Lingqi at this time shows his great affection, and his own ability to not only manage the family business, but also make suggestions, is rare...... I used to see the wrong person, but this time I can't be wrong. ”

Gao Shun helped him up and walked out of the eaves, Lu Bu raised his head and sighed: "I almost forgot what the night of the Han Dynasty was like." ”

As the sigh fell, just three days later, the Roman legions outside the city underwent a great change, and even the entire Roman province had a problem, more than 30,000 people died tragically in the foothills, the tragedy of the situation made the rest of the army panic, the barbarians who originally belonged to the mercenary ranks, were already dissatisfied with Caracalla's citizenship and tax reform, plus the long-term attack on Constantine and a crushing defeat two days ago, the resentment finally broke out.

Nearly 20,000 mercenaries from the seven legions defected from the camp, some returned to their tribes, and some knew that the Cylius stationed in front of Constantine were also hiring soldiers, and immediately abandoned the camp to join the defensive side, although they were isolated for a period of time, but this group of people also knew that they had just come, and the other party should be vigilant, but they didn't care, Lu Bu thought it was just a coincidental case, but the next situation made him feel more thrilled than the collapse of the army.

With the defection of the soldiers of the army at the front, more original mercenaries, such as Thracians, Thessalians, Gauls, Spartans....... etc., etc., were separated from the army, and even broke out fierce conflicts, once there were casualties, the outbreak became more violent, and at the same time as the strife in various provinces, a large number of former mercenaries lost their symbols of Roman citizenship and went to Constantine again as mercenaries, and they heard that the conditions of the Eastern commander, as long as there are military merits, they will have their own land, which is the real thing.

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