"The teacher is unknown?" Liu Xin sneered, "Putimius openly burned the tea, that is to slander the reputation of my Han goods, how can I ignore it!" ”

Throughout the winter, the two powerful countries of the world, the Great Han and the Great Qin, who were thousands of miles apart, were making careful preparations for the upcoming war, but Parthia, who was at the center of the whirlpool, looked unhurried, and the brothers Ardaban and Arshak fought among themselves from time to time.

Gradually, when the spring flowers were in full bloom, Putimius himself led his army south, and his two sons, Caracalla and Geta, each led an army of one army to the left and right, and an army of 400,000 marched to the city of Susa.

The 300,000 soldiers and armor provided by the Han Dynasty had already arrived in Susa, but in addition to the 100,000 Parthian troops of Arshak who had changed into new clothes, Ardaban had just recruited more than 50,000 troops, and most of the armor was still lying in the storehouse.

Hearing that Daqin's army had killed again, Vologis couldn't help but panic, and hurriedly recruited a large number of people, armed them, and coupled with Susa's original army, he finally put together an army of 200,000 people and drove to the border to meet the enemy.

The Great Qin army was well-trained, morale-high, and well-prepared, and the Parthian army was on the verge of collapse. Ardaban fled back to Susa with only a few dozen cavalry soldiers, and the Great Qin army followed closely and drove straight in, less than a hundred miles away from Susa City.

Vologis no longer bothered to blame Ardaban, and hurriedly gathered a group of civil and military officers to discuss the relocation of the temporary capital to another important town, Azak.

At this time, Prime Minister Remitu got up and said: "Great King, Azak's troops are empty, I am afraid that it will be difficult to stop the attack of the Great Qin army, it is better to take refuge in Ekbatana for the time being, there are 100,000 elite soldiers of the Great Prince, maybe you can resist for a while, and then you can make a good strategy." ”

Ardaban was not happy, and said loudly: "No, Ekbatan is next to Daqin, and it is not a suicide to move the capital there temporarily!" ”

While they were discussing, a guard suddenly came to report: "The Han envoy is asking to see you outside the door!" ”

Vologis thought of the Han people's reminder to him, and now he couldn't regret it, and hurriedly said: "Please! ”

The person who came was Jia Xu, who arched his hand towards Vologis and said, "Our Emperor His Majesty heard that the king has been newly defeated, and he has sent a foreign minister to ask if the king needs the assistance of our Han?" ”

Vologis was overjoyed and said in a loud voice: "If you great men can lend a helping hand, this king must be grateful!" This king is willing to ......"

"Wait!" But he saw Remitu stretch out his hand to stop Vologis, and said to Jia Xu, "What conditions does the Han have for us to help?" And in what way? ”

Jia Xu smiled and said, "Our Emperor His Majesty said that since the Han Dynasty leased the land of Parthia, then he and Parthia are close friends. When a friend is in trouble, he should draw a sword to help, so why do you need any conditions? However, after this crushing defeat in Parthia, I am afraid that it will be difficult to recover in a short time, and our Emperor His Majesty sent foreign ministers to communicate with the king and allow our Han army to fight across the border......"

Before Jia Xu finished speaking, Vologis had already jumped up excitedly, and said in a loud voice: "No problem, no problem, this king will give an order, the army of the Han Dynasty can pass freely in Parthia, no one is allowed to stop or interrogate, and the towns and villages along the way must provide food and provisions." ”

Remitu was worried, frowned and said, "I don't believe that Your Majesty the Emperor has such a good intention, sending troops to help us for no reason, but with nothing to do?" ”

Ardaban shouted: "Nonsense! Now that you don't rely on the assistance of the Great Han, what are you going to do to stop the attack of the Great Qin? Do you really want to run to Ekbatan to die, as you just said? ”

Because Ecbatan was garrisoned by Arkak, and Remitu persuaded Vologis to take refuge in Ekbakana, Ardaban rightfully included him in Arkak's camp. Now no matter what Remitu says, Ardaban will jump out against it until he completely loses Vologis' trust.

Jia Xu's sudden appearance was like grasping a life-saving straw for Vologis, and now when he heard Ardaban say this, he suddenly became angry, raised the scepter in his hand and slammed it on Remitu's shoulder, shouting: "Get out!" From now on you are not the Prime Minister! ”

With Vologis' permission, the 2nd, 3rd, and 6th Han legions marched together and left the Han concession in the southeast of Parthia. These three legions were originally stationed in the Uzberi Fortress, the Turugert Fortress and Seoul respectively, because Liu Xin felt that the situation in Parthia was more critical, so he transferred them all to the concession, and at the same time transferred to the concession also transferred to the Engineer Corps.

The land in the concession was barren and desert areas were numerous, and more than 200,000 garrisons were added at once, and a large number of barracks and fortifications needed to be built. Liu Xin has a long-term plan for this concession, so all the projects there must be built very strongly, and they must be completed by professional engineers.

In fact, the weather was cold during that time, and it was not the best time for construction projects, and many of the buildings had to be demolished and rebuilt after the weather became warmer. However, Daqin's army will soon come, and the fortifications must be repaired first, and it is also a last resort to cause a little Lang fee.

Thanks to the strong fortifications and comfortable barracks built by the Corps of Engineers, the 250,000 men of the 2nd, 3rd and 6th Corps were kept in good condition without massive non-combat attrition due to the harsh environment and weather.

In the rescue of the fire, there is no hesitation. The recuperated Han soldiers received the order to attack, and immediately divided their troops into three ways to kill Susa City. The vanguard was all cavalry, with 50,000 grassland cavalry led by Zhao Yun in the middle, 10,000 light cavalry of the Second Army led by Zhang Fei on the left, 20,000 light cavalry of the Third Army led by Zhang He on the right, and the rest of the infantry and 10,000 heavy cavalry of the Second Army marched later.

At the same time, the Great Qin army also rushed towards Susa City in the starry night. Caracalla and Gaita, who were in the vanguard of the left and right, were secretly competing to see who could take Susa City first. Caracalla led the Gallic legions, with soldiers mainly from the four Gallic provinces, Geeta led the Germanic legions, and soldiers from the upper and lower Germanic provinces. The soldiers of these two legions are generally tall and powerful, and they are the two elite legions in the Great Qin army, and they have repeatedly made meritorious achievements in the war of Great Qin's foreign expansion, and they are famous.

However, although these two legions were strong, they were both infantry, and they were hoplites wearing heavy armor, so the speed of the march was naturally very slow. Although they set out early, they arrived in Susa far later than the elite cavalry of the Great Han. When they were still more than twenty miles away from the city of Susa, they were suddenly blocked by the Han cavalry, and it was Zhang He who was fighting Caracalla, and Zhang Fei was fighting against Gaita.

The most common thing that the Great Qin army used to fight was to form a phalanx, which was tightly protected by shields on all sides, and countless spears stretched out from behind the shield wall, like a huge hedgehog, so that the enemy could not start, so as to establish themselves invincible first.

Probably because the previous battle had gone so well, and their intelligence work was not in place, they did not notice any difference between the army in front of them and the Parthian army they had encountered the other day. Gaita had already gotten carried away, and he didn't pay attention to the black-clothed and black-armored army in front of him at all, and bullied Zhang Fei with few soldiers, and immediately ordered the whole army to press it. However, the footsteps of the heavy infantry could not catch up with the cavalry in any way. Zhang Fei waved his spear, and the cavalry lined up in a long dragon and walked around the formation. Gaita only thought that Zhang Fei was cowardly and chased after him boldly.

In this way, the Great Qin army, which had not had time to form a formation, suddenly swarmed up, and what Zhang Fei wanted was such an effect. I saw that the Han cavalry retreated eastward, and at the same time fired random arrows at the Germanic legions. Because the Great Qin soldiers were all wearing heavy armor, it was difficult for ordinary feather arrows to kill them, and after a few rounds, the casualties of Gaita's soldiers were no more than 100 people.

Geta felt that this army was no different from the Parthian army, except that they were only on horses, and could not help but urge the sergeants to catch up. However, the Han cavalry rode and shot, always keeping a certain distance from the Germanic legions. The soldiers of the Germanic Legion were out of breath, but they were always out of reach of the enemy. At this moment, I suddenly heard a loud shout, and Zhang Fei had already turned over and killed him.

It turned out that Zhang Fei saw that the Great Qin army was chasing slower and slower, and knew that their physical strength had been greatly depleted, so he immediately decided to launch a counterattack. The cavalry, who was still running eastward, followed Zhang Fei's shout, turned his horse's head and rushed towards the Great Qin army, and threw his spears one by one with the speed of the war horse. The power of the spear was far from being comparable to that of the feather arrows, and the Great Qin soldiers, even if they were wearing thick armor, were pierced by the spears one after another.

In order to deal with the hoplites of Daqin, Liu Xin specially convened the generals for a discussion, thinking that this method should be effective, so it was popularized in the cavalry of the whole army.

After the throwing of the guns, the Germanic army was already in a big mess, however, there was another "whoosh" sound of breaking through the air, and countless iron arrows rained down. This is a new type of cavalry crossbow that the Han army just equipped last year, each crossbow can fire three iron arrows at the same time, and the power is far beyond ordinary bows and arrows, it can easily penetrate three layers of iron armor, the only weakness is that it is more time-consuming to reload iron arrows, so it can only be a ** hit in actual combat.

However, this ** blow is enough. The Germanic army, which had just been caught off guard by the Han army's throwing guns, was suddenly hit by this rain of arrows, and immediately suffered heavy casualties, and even Geita was hit by an iron arrow in his left arm. After this round of crossbow arrows, the Han cavalry had already drawn their sabers and rushed into the enemy formation with a shout......

On the other hand, Caracalla was much more cautious, and when he saw that his path was blocked, he immediately ordered the formation of a phalanx, and a full 50,000 people were huddled together, dressed in thick armor and spears, and pressed over step by step, and the earth began to tremble with the sound of his footsteps, as if a huge chariot had driven by, enough to crush any enemy who stood in his way.