Roman Emperor Constantius II was very confident, he felt that with his elite Roman army, he could defeat the main force of the Jin army, and once the main force of the Jin army was defeated by the Roman army, Mulu City could not be held, and after the Mulu City was broken by the Roman army, there was no difficulty in the supply of grain and grass for the Roman army, so that he was not afraid of the grain route being cut off, and could send cavalry to exterminate the 50,000 Jin army that cut off the grain route, that is, as long as the main force of the Jin army in front of him was eliminated, all problems would be solved. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing that Constantius II was so confident, Barbatio couldn't say anything more, after all, all the generals at this time supported the emperor's opinion, and if he opposed it with all his might, there would be no good fruit to eat.

The Roman army of more than 100,000 quickly set up a tortoiseshell array to meet the Jin army, and deployed cavalry on both flanks in order to pursue the Jin army's soldiers and horses after the Jin army broke up.

It didn't take long for the Jin army of more than 100,000 soldiers and horses to arrive at the location where the Roman army was encamped, and confronted the Roman army at a distance of 500 paces.

"Your Majesty, the Roman army is a tortoiseshell formation again, it seems that they have no other tactics except for the tortoiseshell formation." Song Cheng said mockingly.

"Hahaha!" When the generals heard this, they all burst out laughing.

"Your Majesty, more than a thousand fire bulls are ready to attack the Roman tortoiseshell array at any time." Wang San said softly.

Hua An nodded, looked at a general, and said softly: "Let the soldiers conduct a final inspection of the fire bulls, and make sure that these fire bulls can cause great damage to the soldiers of the Roman tortoiseshell formation after they rush into the Roman tortoiseshell formation." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The general ordered his soldiers to immediately inspect each fire ox, mainly checking the length of the lead to ensure that the thunderbolt was at the best possible time.

"Your Majesty, with these fire bulls as the vanguard, this time our army will definitely be able to defeat the Roman army." Song Cheng said confidently.

Hua An nodded and said: "That's natural, this king has brought all the healthy cattle around Mulu City, if you can't defeat the Roman legions, how can you be worthy of these fire bulls who are about to die." ”

Obviously, this time, Hua'an launched an attack on the Roman legion with the confidence of victory, and with the strength of the Jin army, it is completely capable of defeating the Roman legion, even without the assistance of the fire ox array, the Jin army's iron cavalry can also win, but the casualties will be much greater, and Hua'an naturally does not want the Jin army to suffer huge losses, so he thought of using the fire ox array to deal a fatal blow to the vanguard of the Roman army, and then use the iron cavalry assault to completely defeat the Roman army.

The Jin army's more than 1,000 fire oxen were lined up in two rows, each with two soldiers guarding them to prevent them from moving around at will and disrupting the formation, and at the same time, they were also responsible for lighting the fuses of the ox's tail and thunderbolts.

More than 1,000 fire oxen lined up at the front of the Jin army's formation, which made the Roman soldiers on the opposite side laugh, in their opinion, the Jin army was too cowardly, and actually put the fire oxen at the forefront, while the soldiers hid behind.

The Roman Emperor Constantius II was also very funny, and said lightly: "Have you seen it? The war elephants of the Jin army did not work, and now they have brought a group of ploughing cattle, do they think that these inconspicuous ploughing cattle can break through the tortoiseshell formation of our army? It's ridiculous. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor, ploughing cattle are not war horses, they will not attack forward, even if they are war horses, they must be controlled by soldiers to attack forward!" Roman General Orleans said disdainfully.

"Oh, could it be that the soldiers of the Jin army plan to harness the ploughing oxen to attack our army's tortoiseshell formation? This is simply ridiculous, did the Jin army fight like this all the way? In such a war, I really don't know how they managed to win all the way. Constantius II said with a smile.

At this time, even Barbatio, who was wary of the Jin army, couldn't help but be confused by the Jin army's behavior, he really couldn't figure out, why did the Jin army get a group of cultivated cattle, these cultivated cattle can only be used for food in addition to cultivating land, how can they be used for war?

"What is Jin Jun going to do, what can the ploughing cattle do?" Barbatio frowned.

Constantius II looked at Barbatio and said with a smile: "What's the matter, General Barbatio, you also think that the Jin army's approach is a bit incredible!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor, the Jin army used the ploughing ox as the striker, and completely confused me, this is really incredible, crazy, the Jin army must be crazy." Barbatio said helplessly.

Constantius II smiled and said lightly: "General Barbatio, the Jin army may be really crazy, but whether the Jin army is really crazy or not, our army must completely defeat it, pass the order, and the front army is ready to attack." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor." Barbatio took the order and immediately conveyed the order to attack.

"Knock knock......" The Roman army once again sounded the drums of the attack.

"Your Majesty, the Roman army is attacking."

Hua An smiled at the corner of his mouth and ordered: "Immediately light the fire ox, the forward cavalry is ready to attack at any time." ”

"Prepare to attack, prepare to attack." The ministry will loudly convey the command.

The Jin soldiers in charge of controlling the fire ox immediately began to prepare the ignition object, but in order to prevent the two rows of fire oxen from hitting each other and causing losses, the soldiers in the first row first ignited the tail of the fire ox and the lead of the thunderbolt.

After the fire ox's tail was ignited, it immediately roared and ran straight ahead under the stimulation of pain, and the soldier in charge of igniting it immediately retreated.

After the first row of fire oxen ran out for more than 20 steps, the tail of the second row of fire oxen was also ignited, and suddenly, the second row of fire oxen also roared and ran straight ahead.

In order to maximize the impact speed of the fire ox, all the fire ox tails are smeared with a large amount of fire oil, so that after ignition, it must be extremely painful, and under the stimulation of severe pain, the fire ox must be able to exert the maximum running speed, so that it can give the Roman tortoiseshell array a fatal blow.

Seeing that the ploughing ox at the forefront of the Jin army was coming with flames and impacting at a very fast speed, all the Roman soldiers were stunned, they didn't expect that the ploughing ox could actually attack, and the speed was so fast, which was really incredible.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, it's really strange that the Jin army's ploughing cattle actually launched a surprise attack on our army." The Roman general Orleans exclaimed in surprise.

Constantius II also frowned, he did not expect that these humble ploughing cattle would actually go crazy and attack forward, which is really strange.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, the tails of these ploughing cattle are on fire, it seems that the Jin army did something." A Roman general said.

Barbatio thought for a moment, and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, I understand, the Jin army smeared oil on the tails of these ploughing oxen, and ignited the tails of the ploughing oxen, so that the ploughing oxen could not bear the pain, and they would run forward like crazy, and the Jin army took advantage of this and wanted to use the crazy ploughing oxen to break through the tortoiseshell formation of our army." ”

When the Roman generals heard this, they all nodded in recognition of Barbatio's opinion.

Constantius II nodded in the same approval, and said softly: "The Jin army really has some wisdom, but with these mad cows, they can't defeat our army, and my Roman army can actually be defeated by these brutes." After speaking, he confidently looked at the fire bull that was galloping.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, you see, there seems to be something on the back of the ploughing ox, I can't see it clearly, but it must not be a soldier." A Roman general exclaimed.

Constantius II and his generals looked at it together, and sure enough, on the back of the ploughing ox, they found a very strange object tied to it, but because it was night, it was not very clear to see it, and it was impossible to figure out what it was.

"What's tied to the back of a ploughing ox?" Constantius II frowned.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, the thing on the back of the ploughing ox is very suspicious, maybe the Jin army intends to defeat our army with this kind of thing." Barbatio said cautiously.

Just when the Roman monarchs couldn't figure out what the back of the fire bull was, the fire bull had already rushed close enough to the Roman tortoiseshell array.

The Roman soldiers immediately threw a large number of javelins and hit many fire bulls, but under the effect of strong inertia, these fire bulls still rushed in front of the Roman tortoiseshell formation, and those fire bulls that were not hit by the javelins directly broke through the defense of the tortoiseshell formation and rushed into the Roman tortoiseshell formation.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom" As the lead of the thunderbolt burned out, a large number ......of thunderbolts exploded in front and inside of the Roman tortoiseshell formation.

The soldiers of the Roman tortoiseshell formation were defenseless and suffered heavy casualties, and many soldiers were shattered by the powerful force of the thunderbolts, thus crying for their lives.

Dozens of tortoiseshell formations in the Roman front were almost all paralyzed by the explosion, thus losing the role of resisting the Jin army, and most importantly, these tortoiseshell formations were defeated, which directly caused the Roman soldiers in the rear to panic, thus greatly reducing the combat effectiveness of the Roman army.

At this time, the Roman Emperor Constantius II and all the generals under his command were stunned, they had never seen the power of thunderbolts, and at this time, nearly 10,000 soldiers who saw the vanguard were killed and injured by thunderbolts, and their hearts immediately panicked.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, what kind of weapon is this Jin Army, which can produce such a huge power." Roman General Orleans said in horror.

Constantius II took a breath of cold air, shook his head and said: "We have never seen this kind of weapon, it seems that the Jin army relied on this weapon to fight all the way to Persia, we underestimate the Jin army." ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor, the Jin army used this kind of weapon, and only used more than 1,000 ploughing cattle, so that our army lost nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, it is really terrible, if we use tens of thousands of ploughing cattle, I am afraid that our army's losses will be even greater." Roman General Barbatio said in horror.

Constantius II sighed and began to regret his underestimating enemy, but regret was useless, at this time the armies of both sides had already set up the posture of a decisive battle, if the Roman army immediately retreated, it would inevitably be the victory of the Jin army, so even if nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses were lost, they must insist on resisting.

"Your Majesty, these fiery bulls have not disappointed us! As soon as he struck, the Roman vanguard army turned on his back, but unfortunately we had too few fire oxen, otherwise, the Roman army would inevitably suffer greater losses. Wang San said happily.

"Your Majesty, the forward cavalry is already impatient." Song Cheng reminded loudly.

Hua An smiled and nodded: "The forward cavalry immediately launched an attack, the left and right flanks are ready to outflank, and the rear army is ready to respond at any time." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Song Cheng accepted the order and immediately conveyed it.

"Knock knock knock ......" The war drums of the Jin army's offensive were officially beaten.

"Kill ......" 30,000 elite Jin soldiers roared and launched a frontal assault on the Roman legions.

The distance of five hundred paces was really very close for the cavalry, and as soon as the speed of the war horse increased to the maximum, it reached the forward position of the Roman legion, and immediately launched a surprise attack on the broken Roman tortoiseshell formation.

At this time, the battered Roman tortoiseshell formation had not had time to adjust its formation, and was rushed by the Jin cavalry, and it was immediately completely scattered, and was completely slaughtered by the Jin cavalry.

The Jin cavalry, which showed no signs of slowing down, continued to charge, and broke through the Roman tortoiseshell formation in the rear at great speed, and strangled the Roman soldiers in the tortoiseshell array.

"The left and right flanks are immediately killed, and the rear army attacks to meet the forward." Hua An immediately ordered.

Suddenly, all the Jin soldiers and horses were dispatched and launched a fierce attack on the Roman army.

Although the Roman army was very elite, after nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses in the front were wiped out by the Jin army's fire bull array, the morale had suffered a serious blow, and the overall formation had become incomplete.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, the Jin army is fierce, our army's formation has collapsed, and the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable for our army." Orleans said in horror.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, how did the combat power of the cavalry of the Jin Army suddenly become so powerful that they could directly break through our army's tortoiseshell formation." Cavalry General Marcellus said in surprise.

Constantius II naturally knew that the current situation was unfavorable to the Roman army, however, the Jin army was almost all cavalry, while the Roman army was mainly infantry, if it broke and fled at this time, it would be difficult to avoid the pursuit of the Jin army.

"General Barbatio, immediately let the Spartan legion attack and block the onslaught of the Jin cavalry." Constantius II ordered loudly.

"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor." Barbatio accepted the order, and immediately personally led the remaining 20,000 Spartan soldiers and horses, formed a heavy tortoiseshell formation, and slowly pressed towards the cavalry of the Jin army. (To be continued.) )