The vanguard of the Jin army and the vanguard of the Roman army, at a distance of about two hundred paces, respectively, stopped and waited for the order to attack. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hua An rode his horse to a higher position, raised his eyes to look at the opposite side, and saw the Roman vanguard army, with hundreds of people as a group of a large number of shields gathered together, forming an impermeable shield array, from a distance it seems to be a turtle with only a shrunken head and feet, therefore, this formation is called the tortoiseshell formation, which is an excellent formation for the Roman legions to fight against the cavalry in the field, and can often restrain the cavalry and make the cavalry helpless.

"Your Majesty, the tortoiseshell formation of the Roman striker is impermeable, and the arrow rain attack will not have much effect." Wang San looked at the tortoiseshell array and said softly.

Hua An nodded and said: "That's right, the top and all around the tortoiseshell array are all shields gathered together, and the arrow rain attack can only tickle the tortoiseshell array, and it won't have any effect!" ”

"Your Majesty, although the tortoiseshell array can completely ignore the attack of the arrow rain, it must not block the impact of the iron cavalry, as long as the iron cavalry launches an assault, it can completely break through the defense of the tortoiseshell array and defeat it." Song Cheng said.

Hua An frowned and nodded, and said: "It's really hard to say how much of a role the iron cavalry assault can play, but everything needs to be tried, and as long as you try it, you can determine how powerful the tortoiseshell formation of the Roman army is." ”

When the generals of the Jin Army heard this, they all nodded in approval.

In the Roman army opposite, the Roman Emperor Constantius II and his generals also stood in a high position to facilitate the observation of the entire battlefield.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, the Jin Army's vanguard legion is completely a rabble, you look at their clothes, they are all different, such an army will not be the opponent of my Roman army." Roman General Orleans said confidently.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, the vanguard of the Jin army is completely a captive corps, these soldiers were captured by the Jin army, so they have to work for the Jin army, such an army will not have much combat effectiveness, as long as our army launches an attack, it will immediately collapse." A Roman general said confidently.

When the Roman Emperor Constantius II heard this, he nodded very happily and said, "General Orleans, immediately let the vanguard army attack forward." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor." The Roman general Orleans accepted the order and immediately conveyed it.

"Knock knock knock...... The Roman army took the lead in beating the war drums of the attack.

Hearing the sound of the war drums of the attack, the Roman vanguard army immediately began to move forward, but very slowly, to prevent a large hole in the tortoiseshell formation, which would make it difficult to resist the attack of the Jin army's arrow rain.

"Your Majesty, the Roman army has begun to attack." The general reminded.

Hua An raised his eyes and saw that the tortoiseshell formation of the Roman army was like a slowly crawling turtle, looking very thick and cute, of course, this was not a thick and cute tortoise, but a murderous tortoiseshell array.

"Your Majesty, the Roman army has come within range of the crossbow." The ministry reminded again.

Hua An frowned slightly, and said loudly: "After the order, the war elephant legion in front immediately launched an attack and broke through the Roman tortoiseshell formation, and the camel cavalry on both wings immediately followed up and prepared to annihilate the enemy." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The general of the subordinate led the troops and immediately officially conveyed the order.

Under the orders of the animal trainer, the "Ang ......" war elephants accelerated towards the tortoiseshell formation of the Roman army, and a large number of camel cavalry followed, preparing to strangle the Roman army after the war elephant army broke through the Roman tortoiseshell formation.

The massive bodies of the war elephants rushed towards the Roman legions, and the elephant's hooves stomped on the ground, shaking the entire battlefield, but the Roman vanguard legions did not seem to be frightened, and continued to advance steadily.

"Stop moving." Seeing that the army of war elephants was getting closer and closer, the Roman forward general gave the order to stop the advance.

However, the Jin army's war elephant army had no intention of stopping its advance, and was still rapidly charging towards the Roman tortoiseshell array.

"Bid gun, bid gun." The Roman forward general gave the order loudly.

Suddenly, the shields of the Roman tortoiseshell formation began to loosen, and the Roman vanguard soldiers threw their javelins out of the gaps in their shields and shot at the war elephants in the attack.

......In a very short period of time, a large number of war elephants were shot by a different number of javelins, and they howled in pain, but continued to run forward under the effect of inertia.

However, the vast majority of the war elephants fell on the sand before reaching the Roman tortoiseshell formation, and only a small number of war elephants rushed into the Roman tortoiseshell formation and fell on the bodies of more than ten Roman soldiers, crushing more than ten Roman soldiers to death.

A large number of soldiers and horses who followed closely behind the War Elephant Legion were also shot by Roman javelins, but with the advantage of numbers, the soldiers and horses of the Jin army still entered the front of the Roman tortoiseshell formation and tried to attack the Roman tortoiseshell formation.

However, the impact of the war horse and the camel was obviously not as good as that of the war elephant, and because it was a large army acting together, for this reason, the war horse and the camel were not fully accelerated, and the impact force of the not too large speed was naturally very limited, so it failed to break through the Roman tortoiseshell formation.

The cavalry that failed to break through the tortoiseshell formation all rolled off the top of the Roman tortoiseshell formation, and were stabbed by spears sticking out of the gaps in their shields, thus crying for their lives.

Hua An, who was standing in the distance and watching the battle, witnessed this scene with his own eyes, and was greatly shocked in his heart, he did not expect the impact of the forward soldiers and horses under his command at all, and they were actually punished like this, and all the generals of the Jin army were also quite shocked.

"Your Majesty, the Roman tortoiseshell array seems to be much more powerful than we imagined!" Wang San said with emotion.

"Yes! Your Majesty, if we continue to fight like this, our front army will inevitably fail. Song Cheng continued.

Hua An looked at the soldiers and horses of the former army who were fighting, paused for a moment, and said: "Pass the order, and the army will immediately break back and flee." ”

"Flee." The ministry general was somewhat surprised.

Hua An nodded and said, "That's right, it's a rout, and immediately flee in the direction of Mulu City." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The general shouted the order and immediately conveyed the order to flee.

The soldiers and horses of Persia and Tianzhu who were fighting with the Roman army in front were subdued, and their combat effectiveness was naturally not very strong, especially the soldiers and horses of Tianzhu did not want to fight at all, so after receiving the order to flee, they immediately ran backwards to save their lives.

The Roman Emperor Constantius II, who was watching the battle from a distance, saw that the tortoiseshell array successfully restrained the opponent's soldiers and horses, and gave the opponent's soldiers and horses a lot of killing, he was very happy, and felt that although the Jin army had many soldiers and horses, it was not the opponent of the Roman army, and after the Jin army began to break and flee, Constantius II was even more excited, in his opinion, the Jin army was completely vulnerable, and actually broke and fled before the Chinese army was dispatched, which made him very contemptible.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, the Jin army is not as powerful as the legend, is it completely vulnerable?" A Roman minister said disdainfully.

"Yes! Your Majesty the Emperor, this is just contact, the most elite Spartan army of our army has not yet been dispatched, they have already begun to break and flee, the Jin army is so powerful, I really don't know how to fight all the way to Persia, is it all by luck? Another Persian minister said mockingly.

When Constantius II heard this, he was greatly pleased, and said, "Give the order, and the army will immediately launch a pursuit." ”

Infantry General Barbatio frowned, and hurriedly stopped: "Your Majesty the Emperor, will there be a trap here!" The Jin army was like a bamboo all the way, how could it be so easy to lose to our army, besides, their main force has not yet been dispatched, why did they break and flee? ”

Obviously, Barbatio, who was experienced in combat, had a hunch that the Jin army was deliberately fleeing, which made the Roman army feel that it was underestimating the enemy, which was conducive to the next victory of the Jin army.

Constantius II smiled and said softly, "General Barbatio, don't you even see this?" The Jin army took the rabble as the vanguard, and these rabble were defeated by our army, so that the main force of the Jin army also dispersed, the reason is as simple as that, do you need to think more? ”

Obviously, Constantius II had judged from the route and state of the Jin army's rout that this was indeed a rout, not a regular retreat, so he was confident that his judgment would not be wrong.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, things may not be as smooth as they seem, maybe this is the Jin army's plan to lure the enemy." Barbatio persuaded again.

Constantius II glanced at Barbatio very dissatisfied, and said: "General Barbatio, I regret very much that you are once again appointed as a general, your courage seems to be only suitable for being a personal army captain, Marcellus, to pursue the Jin army with all your might." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor." The cavalry general Marcellus accepted the order loudly, and immediately led tens of thousands of cavalry under his command to begin to pursue the fleeing Jin army.

Under the pursuit of the Roman cavalry, the Jin army lost a lot of soldiers and horses, but all the losses were local auxiliary troops, and the real Jin warriors did not suffer the slightest damage.

After fleeing for more than 20 miles in one go, Hua An and the main army under his command stopped at an oasis, preparing to retreat to Mulu City after resting for a while.

"Your Majesty, during the battle just now, although our army was in a disadvantageous position, it was not without the strength to reverse the decline, why should we flee?" Wang San looked at Hua An and asked in surprise.

"Yes! Your Majesty, just now the cavalry of the front army was blocked by the war elephants, and the speed was too slow, so it failed to break through the tortoiseshell formation of the Roman legions, if the cavalry was fast enough, they could completely break through the tortoiseshell formation of the Roman legions, so that the Roman legions could be defeated. Song Cheng followed.

Obviously, Wang San and Song Cheng were a little unconvinced, and felt that they should not show weakness to the Roman legions, after all, in this way, it would lower the morale of the Jin army and make the Roman legions very arrogant.

Hua An smiled slightly, and said softly: "It's not a bad thing to let the Roman army be proud for a while, besides, this king can be regarded as luring the enemy deeper, the farther away the Roman army is from the rear, the more difficult it is to supply logistics, which is very conducive to our army cutting off their food routes." ”

"Oh, the king will cut off the grain routes of the Roman army." A Jin army general said with a slight startle.

Hua An nodded and said, "Yes!" This king has not used the trick of cutting off the grain route for a long time, this time the Roman army is mainly infantry, and the action is not as fast as our army, if the grain route is cut off, it will definitely be able to greatly damage the morale of the Roman army, and then our army will attack with thunder, and will be able to defeat the Roman army in one fell swoop. ”

"Your Majesty, the last general is willing to lead his troops to attack the grain routes of the Roman army." Song Cheng Zhengse pleaded.

Hua An waved his hand and said: "Use a knife to kill chickens, and the work of cutting off the food route of the Roman army will be handed over to the auxiliary soldiers and horses, and I believe that they will be able to complete the task." ”

Obviously, Hua'an felt that the task of cutting off the grain and grass of the Roman army could be handed over to the surrendered soldiers and horses of Persia and Tianzhu, and there was no need to use the elite troops of the Great Jin Dynasty, after all, the elite troops of the Great Jin Dynasty were to be used for a decisive battle with the main Roman force, so how could they be diverted for other purposes.

"Your Majesty, the tortoiseshell formation of the Roman army is quite powerful, how does the king plan to break the enemy." Wang San asked softly.

Hua An thought for a moment and said softly: "The baggage battalion of Mulu City is stepping up the production of thunderbolts, and this king intends to use thunderbolts to break through the tortoiseshell formation of the Roman army. ”

"Your Majesty, the Roman army has 150,000 and hundreds of tortoiseshells. I'm afraid I won't be able to make so many thunderbolts in a short period of time! Wang San frowned and said.

Hua An smiled: "This king didn't say that he wanted to use a thunderbolt with a bigger head!" Crafting a large thunderbolt would take only one to break a Roman legion's tortoiseshell array, and we've got enough brimstone to build a large thunderbolt won't be slow. ”

When Song Cheng heard this, he frowned and said: "Your Majesty, the javelins projected by the Roman tortoiseshell array are very powerful, even if we have powerful thunderbolts, how can we put them in front of the Roman army tortoiseshell array?" I am afraid that it will be blocked when the distance is very far, just like the war elephants of our army, before they reached the Roman tortoiseshell array, most of them were hit by the javelins projected in the Roman tortoiseshell array, so it did not play a big role. ”

Hua An smiled indifferently, and said: "General Song is too worried, this king has already thought about it, the reason why the war elephants were easily stopped was not because the speed was not fast enough, but because the volume was too large, it was easy to be hit by the javelins projected by the Roman soldiers, at the same time, the number of war elephants was very limited, our army only had two hundred war elephants this time, after most of them were shot, the remaining small number of war elephants could not cause much damage to the Roman tortoiseshell array, if more than a thousand war elephants charged together, the effect may be much better, And this time the king wants to collect a large number of cattle from Mulu City, and let the cattle rush towards the Roman legion with a huge thunderbolt, so that with the advantage of numbers, the Roman tortoiseshell array will inevitably be defeated in one fell swoop, even if it can't be all defeated, as long as it can destroy most of it, and then, the main cavalry of our army will attack, and it will definitely be able to defeat the Roman legion. (To be continued.) )