The Spartan hoplite legion, like a king-sized turtle, slowly crawled towards the Jin cavalry, and got closer and closer to the Jin cavalry, and had the momentum of fighting to the death with the Jin cavalry. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Your Majesty, the Spartan Legion has finally taken the initiative to attack, whether our army will meet it." A Jin army general asked loudly.

Hua An waved his hand and said: "Order the cavalry in front to retreat, always keep a distance of more than three hundred steps from the Spartan legion, to avoid fighting with the Spartan legion." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The Jin generals accepted the order loudly and immediately went to convey the military order.

Soon, the Jin cavalry received the order and immediately retreated in a planned way to maintain a distance of more than three hundred paces from the Spartan army.

"Your Majesty, the Spartan army wants to fight a decisive battle with our army, it is completely wishful thinking, and our army will annihilate it at the cost of not losing a single soldier." Wang San said with a smile.

Hua An smiled: "Why do you have to be annihilated? The Spartan Legion is the most elite hoplite legion in Rome, and it would be nice if they could be allowed to surrender to our Great Jin, but I'm afraid they won't surrender! ”

Obviously, seeing that the besieged Spartan Legion was still in good shape, Hua'an developed a love for talents, and hoped to bring the Spartan Legion under his command and make them an auxiliary legion of the Great Jin.

"Your Majesty, no matter whether the Spartan Legion will surrender or not, it will not be wrong for us to send our subordinates to persuade them to surrender, at this moment, the Spartan Legion has been besieged, and it is a good time to persuade them to surrender." Wang San Zhengse said.

Hua An nodded: "Okay! Immediately send the subordinate general to persuade him to surrender. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang San responded, and immediately asked one of his subordinates to go and persuade him to surrender.

The Spartan army intended to fight the Jin cavalry, but when they approached the Jin cavalry, the Jin cavalry began to slowly retreat and always kept a long enough distance from them, so that they could not realize their intention to fight the Jin cavalry, which made all the Spartan soldiers very helpless and angry.

"General, the Jin army is trying its best to avoid contact with our army, our army is all infantry, it is impossible to catch up with the Jin cavalry, this will only greatly consume the physical strength of the soldiers, and will not cause any losses to the Jin cavalry." A Spartan general said calmly.

Barbatio nodded, and said helplessly: "Now that we are surrounded by the cavalry of the Jin army, we really can't advance or retreat!" Does God want us to die of thirst in the desert? Isn't God even able to satisfy our desire to die on the battlefield? God is so unfair. ”

"General, let's give up the tortoiseshell formation and disperse to break through! Maybe you can fight with the Jin army for a while. A Spartan general said.

Barbatio said bitterly: "You should all know very well that the reason why the Spartan army is invincible is completely dependent on the power of the tortoiseshell formation, if you give up the tortoiseshell formation and quickly break through, the power of our Spartan army will be greatly weakened, and the Jin army only needs to pay the loss of thousands of cavalry to completely annihilate our army." ”

"General, if our army does not disperse and break through, maybe not a single Jin army will die of thirst in the desert if they can't kill it, so let's break through!" A Spartan general said helplessly.

Barbatio frowned and hesitated, he didn't know what to do, and closed his eyes in pain.

At this moment, the general of the Jin army, who was responsible for persuading him to surrender, arrived at the front of the Spartan army and shouted: "Spartans, you have no way to escape, lay down your arms and surrender, the Great Jin **** will treat you preferentially." ”

"General, the generals of the Jin army are persuading them to surrender." A Spartan general reminded.

Barbatio opened his eyes slightly, looked at the imposing Jin generals, sighed secretly, and asked, "Are you willing to surrender to the Jin army?" ”

"General, the Spartans will never surrender, we will be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, and we will never surrender." A Spartan general shouted.

"General, we Spartans will not surrender, we will die on the battlefield and achieve our honor." Another Spartan general shouted.

Obviously, the sense of honor and mission inherited from their ancestors filled the Spartan generals with pride and preferred to die in battle rather than surrender to the enemy.

Barbatio smiled with satisfaction and said loudly, "In that case, what are you waiting for?" ”

Several Spartan generals understood the idea, immediately pulled out the javelins behind their backs, and threw them at the Jin generals together.

The generals of the Jin army had already been on guard, and when they saw the javelins shot out of the Spartan tortoise shell array, they immediately dodged and successfully dodged the deadly attack of the Spartan standard guns, but the horses that sat down were hit by the javelins projected by the Spartan generals and died on the spot.

"Spartans, wait for your death!" The Jin army general scolded angrily, got up from the ground, and ran to the rear.

"Your Majesty, the Spartans refused to surrender, and they intended to shoot our generals, which is really unknown and must be annihilated." Wang San said angrily.

After all, this general of the Jin army, who was almost shot, was a capable general under Wang San, and if something happened, it would be a great loss for the entire Jin army.

Hua'an is naturally very dissatisfied, there is nothing wrong with the Spartans refusing to surrender, but it is not right to raid the generals of the Jin army, as the saying goes, the two countries do not kill each other, and the generals of the Jin army went to persuade them to surrender with good intentions, to give them a chance to live, but they not only did not appreciate it, but also intended to shoot the generals of the Jin army, which was a blatant provocation, telling the commander of the Jin army that they would never surrender.

"Since the Spartans will not surrender, let them die of thirst in this desert! The order went down, and the army took turns looking at the Spartan legions, don't let them run, let's go. Hua An gave a military order, and turned his horse's head and ran in the direction of Mulu City.

At this moment, Hua'an no longer has any interest in the Spartan army, after all, the Great Jin army is the most elite army in the world, and the Spartan army is just the elite army of Rome, which cannot be compared with the Great Jin army at all, besides, the Great Jin army is loyal to the Great Jin court, and the Spartan army is from Spartan City, and it is more identified with the Roman Empire, and will not identify with the Great Jin Empire in the east, so there must be the possibility of rebellion, if it is strong, the more dangerous.

After returning to Mulu City, it was already late at night, but there was still a fire in the room where Hua An lived, looking at the flickering firelight, Hua An's heart was full of warmth, obviously, there must be someone waiting for him in the room at this moment, and who else could this person have besides Yu Chilan.

"The king has returned." Yu Chilan rushed out of the room and looked at Hua An with joy.

Seeing that Yu Chilan suddenly ran out of the room and looked at him enthusiastically, Hua An's heart was suddenly filled with a strong warmth, and he immediately stepped forward to hold Yu Chilan's hands and whispered: "How does Lan'er know that this king is back." ”

Yu Chi Lanwan smiled and said softly: "Lan'er heard the king's footsteps, the king's footsteps are different from others, Lan'er can hear it as soon as she hears it." ”

Hua An smiled slightly, and said distressedly: "Lan'er, it's so late, why didn't you have a good rest, you will get old if you stay up late." After speaking, he gently pinched Yu Chilan's cheek.

Yu Chilan pouted and replied: "The king led the army out of the city to fight overnight, and Lan'er couldn't sleep with worry. ”

"Oh, is it true? Lan'er is so worried about this king, how can this king repay Lan'er? Hua An said and stopped Yu Chilan's back.

"Hmph, the king is not serious again, and he wants to bully people again." Yu Chilan said shyly.

Hua An smiled: "This king cherishes Lan'er, how can it be said that it is a bully?" Let this king take good care of it. After speaking, he hugged Yu Chilan in his arms.

"Your Majesty, you have to be gentle tonight, and you are not allowed to hurt others." Yu Chilan pouted and warned in Hua An's ear.

"Haha! Good. Huaan laughed and strode into the room.

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In the direction of the Roman capital city of Constantinople, Caesar Julian in the western part of the Roman Empire personally led more than 100,000 soldiers and horses to the outskirts of the city, and prepared to enter Constantinople to realize his ambition of usurping the throne.

Julian usurped the throne because he hated the current emperor, Constantius II, and the hatred between them began many years ago.

Julian was the son of Julius Constantius, whose father was a half-brother to Constantine I, and his grandfather was Constantius Strolus.

After the death of Constantine the Great, the founder of the Constantine dynasty, there was no designated successor, and the princes began to compete with each other for power in order to become the only leader of the enemy country, and the country fell into constant battles and intrigues, and as Julian's cousin, Constantius II launched a brutal massacre of Julian's family, and many people died at the hands of Constantius II, and Julian was a survivor.

Although Julian was not killed by Constantius II, he also suffered great hardship in his life, Constantius II was always wary of Julian, and in order to prevent Julian from threatening his throne, he exiled him far away, and he received a Christian education to enslave his mind and make him prostrate at the feet of Constantius II willingly.

Later, due to the continuous invasion of the king of the Persian Empire, Shapur II, Constantius II was very headache, and the weak Constantius II wanted to have a brother of the same clan to help him manage the country of Rome, so he thought of Julian, and at this time, his brother was left with only Julian, except for Julian who was related by blood, no one could help him.

After serving as Caesar in the western part of the Roman Empire, Julian pacified Gaul and Germania successively, defeated the powerful Alamans in the Battle of Strasbourg, and later conquered the Zarians in the Rhine region.

When the Roman Emperor Constantius II decided to personally lead the main army on an expedition to Persia, Julian smelled a rare opportunity and immediately sent Hosaku to Persia to collect information from the front.

In order to seize the throne in the chaos, Julian concentrated half of the forces of Rome in the west, and in the name of reinforcing His Majesty the Emperor, he marched to Constantinople in the eastern part of the empire, and finally arrived on the outskirts of Constantinople.

At this time, there were only 20,000 Roman defenders in Constantinople, and they were not elite divisions, while Julian's soldiers and horses were as high as 100,000, and all of them were elite soldiers, far more powerful than the defenders defending Constantinople.

However, the geographical position of Constantinople was too superior, and the city was built extremely strongly, so Julian was not sure of breaking Constantinople even with a five-fold superiority in troops, and hesitated to do so.

In Julian's big tent, the henchman Benobades stepped forward and said, "Caesar, Constantinople is already in sight, what is there to hesitate about. ”

"Constantinople is very strong, our army may not be able to break through, besides, there has been no news from the east for several days, and I don't know what the battle is like, if the emperor is defeated, we can take Constantinople without any scruples, but if the emperor returns victorious, we will only have to wait for another chance, do you understand?" Julian said earnestly.

Obviously, Julian did not make up his mind to rebel at this moment, he was still waiting for the opportunity, waiting for the opportunity for Constantius II to lose his troops and even die in battle, as long as Constantius II died in battle, he could justifiably obtain the emperor's throne, if Constantius II was defeated, he could also immediately launch a rebellion, and he was confident enough to succeed, his only worry was that Constantius II won all the way and defeated all his opponents, so that the chance of him launching a rebellion was very small.

"His Majesty the Emperor is facing enemies in Persia and the Jin Kingdom in the east, both of which are powerful countries, and I believe that even if they achieve victory, they will suffer heavy losses." Bynobardes said.

Julian smiled and said softly: "I hope the situation is as you said, however, the emperor only lost tens of thousands of horses in the capture of Taixifeng, and with this combat power, the probability of the Jin army winning is not very large!" ”

"Caesar, Xizuo has just sent back the news that the Emperor's army was defeated by the Jin army, and most of the losses were lost, and His Majesty the Emperor only led 50,000 cavalry to flee the battlefield and was rushing towards Ctesiphon.

When Julian heard this, he was immediately surprised, he did not expect that Constantius II would be defeated so badly, the main army was lost, and he only led 50,000 remnants of the army to retreat, and in this way, Constantius II was no longer able to confront him Julian, and his time for revenge finally came.

"Caesar, let's immediately send troops to take Constantinople!" Henchman General Bainobades said loudly. (To be continued.) )