Obviously, Hua'an is not afraid of the Roman legion's tortoiseshell formation, because Hua'an has a hundred ways to deal with the Roman tortoiseshell formation, in Hua'an's eyes, the Roman tortoiseshell formation is simply a defensive death formation, which is very cumbersome and inflexible on the battlefield, and it is impossible to cause substantial damage to the fast-moving Jin cavalry, as long as the Jin army is weak, it can be evacuated immediately, and the Roman tortoiseshell formation is slow like a turtle crawling, and it is impossible to effectively pursue the evacuated Jin army, as for the small number of cavalry of the Roman legion, Hua'an really hasn't paid attention to it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Does the king mean that all the baggage chariots should be transformed into heavy chariots at once?" Wang San asked in a low voice.

Hua An nodded and said: "This is natural, the difference between the baggage vehicle and the chariot is not very big, the difficulty of the transformation should not be much, I believe it can be completed in a few days." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the last general will go and let the baggage camp prepare later." Wang San opened his mouth and answered.

Song Cheng looked at Hua An and asked softly, "Your Majesty, if we defeat the main Roman army this time, will we immediately launch an attack on Constantinople?" ”

Hua An thought for a while, nodded and said: "The geographical location of Constantinople is extremely important, if our army can defeat the main Roman army this time, it will attack westward in one fell swoop and capture Constantinople, so that after my Great Jin occupies Constantinople, we can form the Roman Governorate." After speaking, he looked at the generals.

"The Roman Governor's Palace, the king has begun to prepare the Roman Governor's Palace." Song Cheng said happily.

"Your Majesty, this time, we will definitely defeat the main Roman army, and then break through Constantinople in one fell swoop, and use Constantinople as the seat of rule to form the Roman Governorate." Wang San said excitedly.

"Yes, this time we're going to form the Protectorate of Rome." All the generals of the Jin army were excited.

Obviously, all the generals of the Jin army are very interested in the formation of the Roman Protectorate, after all, the Roman Empire is the last powerful empire in the west, as long as the Roman Empire is defeated and the Roman Protectorate is established, there will be no more forces that are the opponents of the Great Jin.

Hua An nodded happily, and said, "Generals, let's work together to defeat the main force of Rome and establish the Roman Governor's Palace!" ”

"Roar, roar, roar, ......" all the generals of the Jin army suddenly shouted happily.

Seeing that all the generals had confident expressions, Hua'an seemed to see the victory of the Great Jin Army.

Subsequently, the various departments of the Jin army began to make urgent preparations for war, and the baggage battalion was also stepping up the transformation of the baggage vehicles, so that all the baggage vehicles could be turned into chariots as soon as possible.

A few days later, the main Roman army was less than 100 miles away from Ctesiphon, and the Jin army was also fully prepared, and only Hua'an gave an order to leave Ctesiphon immediately to meet the main Roman army.

"Your Majesty, the main Roman army is not far away, and it is estimated that it will arrive at Ctesiphon within two days." A Jin army general looked at Hua'an and reported softly.

Hua An nodded, looked at the generals, and asked softly: "How are the preparations of the various armies, and can they fight with the Roman army?" ”

"The king can rest assured, the whole army is ready, and it is completely ready to fight with the Jin army." Wang San reported loudly.

"Your Majesty, the chariots remodeled by the baggage battalion are all ready and ready to be used." Song Cheng followed.

"Your Majesty, 60,000 Roman captives are still working, do you want to imprison them immediately?" A Jin army general asked softly.

Hua'an nodded and said, "Okay, all the Roman prisoners must be controlled immediately to prevent them from taking advantage of the situation to rebel." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The general received the order and immediately went to prepare.

Hua An looked at Song Cheng and ordered: "General Song, you immediately lead an army of 50,000 to fight against the Roman army, remember, only defeat is not allowed to win, your task is to test the reality of the Roman army and not defeat the Roman army, do you understand?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Song Cheng replied.

Hua An looked at Wang San again and ordered: "General Wang, you immediately lead the main army to deploy outside the city of Taixifeng, in this battle, we will fight a bloody battle with the Roman army outside the city." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang San replied.

Hua An nodded, looked at several generals again, deployed some tasks, and asked them to complete them immediately.

After deploying everything, Hua'an began to constantly imagine in his heart, imagining what kind of situation he would encounter in the process of fighting the Roman army, and how to deal with it, but in any case, Hua'an had the confidence to defeat the main Roman army, and this will never change.

A day later, Song Cheng's 50,000 cavalry and Julian's vanguard army encountered each other fifty miles west of Ctesiphon, and each prepared for battle.

The Roman advance was 60,000 cavalry led by the cavalry general Marcellus, which was 10,000 more than the 50,000 cavalry under Song Cheng, and the difference in combat strength was not very large.

"General, the Roman army is only 60,000 cavalry, do we still want to be defeated?" A subordinate general looked at Song Cheng and asked softly.

Song Cheng said helplessly: "Of course we have to fail, this is the king's personal order, we must obey it unconditionally, and we must not break the king's deployment, understand?" ”

"Yes, General, subordinate orders." The general hurriedly responded.

Song Cheng nodded and ordered: "The whole army will attack immediately and kill ......" After speaking, he quickly killed the Roman cavalry.

When the Roman general Marcellus saw that the Jin army took the initiative to attack, he was not to be outdone, and immediately led his troops to assault and fight with the Jin cavalry.

The difference in strength between the two sides is not large, for this reason, no one can occupy an absolute advantage, however, the soldiers of the Jin army have long been ordered to show weakness, for this reason, they did not work very hard, and deliberately showed weakness in the battle.

"Retreat, the whole army retreats." Song Cheng gave a military order loudly and led his cavalry to retreat.

"General, the Jin army has retreated, whether to pursue it." A Roman general looked at Marcellus and asked softly.

Marcellus shook his head and said: "Don't pursue, the Jin army is enough for 200,000, this is only part of their soldiers and horses, in case this is the Jin army's trick to lure the enemy, wouldn't it be dangerous for us to attack rashly." ”

"It's still thoughtful to the general, then let's immediately report the victory to His Majesty the Emperor!" The general said.

Marcellus nodded lightly and said, "Okay, let's go back immediately and report the information to His Majesty the Emperor." ”

Marcellus then led his 60,000 cavalry to gallop backwards, and soon met the main army under Julian's command.

Seeing Marcellus returning in a hurry, Julian's generals were all taken aback, they didn't understand what was going on, and thought that Marcellus had lost the battle, so they were defeated.

"Stop retreating." Marcellus gave a soft order, and rode in the direction of Julian.

"What's the matter, Marcellus, why did your soldiers come back suddenly?" Julian asked lightly.

Marcellus said respectfully: "Your Majesty the Emperor, we just encountered the 50,000 cavalry of the Jin army and defeated it, however, I was worried that this was a conspiracy of the Jin army, so we did not launch a pursuit, and the second immediately came to join His Majesty the Emperor. ”

Julian smiled and said lightly, "It seems that our Marcellus is still very cautious?" Very good, there is nothing wrong with being cautious, Tai Xifeng is not far away, at most tomorrow, we can have a decisive battle with the main force of the Jin army, this day, it is really exciting! ”

"His Majesty the Emperor said that victory is coming, how exciting it is!" Severus said happily.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, tomorrow evening, we can drink celebratory wine in the city of Taixifeng." Orleans said excitedly.

Obviously, with Julian present, all the Roman generals were full of confidence in victory.

Julian looked at the generals lightly, and said: "Tomorrow may be the day of our decisive battle with the Jin army, I heard that there are 60,000 captives working as coolies in the city of Taixifeng, if these people still have a trace of backbone, they should cooperate with our army and launch a rebellion in the city, so that it will be easier for us to achieve victory." ”

"His Majesty the Emperor means to contact the captives in the city and get them to cooperate with our army's actions?" Severus asked in a whisper.

"Can you get in touch?" Julian frowned.

Severus patted his chest and said, "Your Majesty the Emperor, don't worry, I will find a way to contact the captives in the city, and I will definitely let them do it in the city when the time comes." ”

Julian looked at Severus with great satisfaction, and said, "General Severus, if you can get the 60,000 captives in the city to cooperate with our army, you will be the first to do this expedition, understand?" ”

When Severus heard this, he felt flattered, and hurriedly nodded: "Your Majesty the Emperor can rest assured, Severus will send his henchmen to Ctesiphon to contact the captives in the city." ”

"Okay, you go and prepare immediately, the cooperation of the captives is very important." Julian replied.

Severus nodded, and immediately went to prepare.

In the direction of Ctesiphon, the soldiers and horses under the command of Hua'an have gathered all the Roman prisoners together, which can be easy to manage and make it difficult for these prisoners to make chaos, but if you want to completely control their rebellion, you still have to send many soldiers and horses to guard them, after all, the number of Roman prisoners is large, even if they have no weapons in their hands, they are a force to be reckoned with, and to effectively guard them, there must be thousands of soldiers with weapons in hand.

In order to prevent the Persian soldiers from deliberately provoking the Roman prisoners, Hua'an deliberately withdrew to the Persian prisoners, and completely let the Jin soldiers guard the Roman prisoners, and the Jin soldiers in charge of guarding were as high as 3,000, and each Jin soldier was responsible for guarding twenty Roman prisoners on average, and the strength was still sufficient.

"Your Majesty, the people of Persia have recently returned to Ctesiphon, and there may be Roman spies in it, and we have to guard against it!" Wang San stood beside Hua An and whispered.

Hua An nodded lightly, and said with a straight face: "You are right, it has been discovered recently that there are people who have returned to Ctesiphon and have come into contact with Roman captives, among these people, there may really be Roman spies, but we can't figure out who is a Roman spy, so we must be more vigilant." ”

"Your Majesty, there are more than 60,000 Roman captives in the city of Ctesiphon, and the scale is so large, it is inevitable that they will meet with the Roman spies who have infiltrated the city, even if we keep them in centralized custody, we may not be able to put an end to this situation, and this is very unfavorable for us, in case the Roman captives know that their 200,000 troops have arrived in Ctesiphon, they will definitely not stay in peace, they will try their best to cooperate with the main Roman forces outside the city, so as to cope with the main Roman army to break Ctesiphon." Wang San said softly.

Hua An smiled: "Do you mean to kill all these 60,000 Roman captives?" ”

Wang San shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, the meaning of the last general is to collect all the tools in the hands of these Roman soldiers, and tie their hands and feet together with iron chains, so that they have no way to resist, so that our army can wholeheartedly fight against the main Roman army outside the city." ”

Obviously, Wang San felt that the 60,000 Roman prisoners under centralized custody were not reliable enough, after all, these Roman prisoners had tools in their hands and a large number of personnel, once they took advantage of the Jin army's unpreparedness to attack suddenly, it was very likely to pose a great threat to the Jin army, so that the Jin army could not be distracted and could not wholeheartedly fight with the main Roman force under Julian's command.

Hua An smiled and said: "What you said is also reasonable, but we let the Roman captives build houses, which has caused them great dissatisfaction, if we tie them up like prisoners, it will definitely further arouse their dissatisfaction, so it is no different from killing them, which is not conducive to the rule of Anxi by my Great Jin in the future!" ”

Obviously, Hua An thinks about the long term, he not only sees the immediate benefits, but also sees what will happen after the establishment of the Roman Protectorate, so naturally he will not agree to tie all the Roman captives hand and foot.

"Your Majesty, if you don't tie these captives hand and foot, at least collect the tools in their hands! These tools for work are also powerful weapons in their hands, and they have to be guarded against! Wang San said again.

Hua An smiled and said softly: "You think too much, it is not very useful to collect the tools in the hands of the Roman prisoners, you must know that if these Roman prisoners rebel, they can use the tables and chairs in the house, and even break a tree as a spear, without tools, they still have the strength to rebel, so there is no need to collect the tools in their hands, so as not to cause their dissatisfaction, or even panic, in this way, it will lead to their rebellion." ”

"Your Majesty, what if they rebel?" Wang San asked anxiously.

Hua An smiled indifferently, and said: "This king will send someone to warn the Roman captive leader Barbatio and others, let them settle down a little, otherwise, my Great Jin army will not be as polite as last time, this time, if they dare to have the slightest rebellion, my Great Jin will kill them all, not one will be left, there will be 5,000 soldiers and horses left in the city to guard them, and it will be fine." (To be continued.) )