Destiny Only Han

Chapter 810 Scipio: Since Han was born, why Luo...

"Scatter!"

Among the cavalry of the Han army, those veterans who acted as generals and military marquis roared in unison, ordering the cavalry behind them to change from the dense formation when they charged the infantry front to a scattered formation.

After all, what they were going to face next were those war elephants rushing towards them like hills with their long trunks swung!
When the dense cavalry formation encounters such a behemoth, it will inevitably be knocked out by the opponent, and then directly stepped on into meatloaf...

Boom boom boom!
Two hundred war elephants ran wildly at the same time, and the entire battlefield was like an earthquake, even fist-sized stones were shaken wildly.

But what is even more terrifying is the elephant's cry!
As the heaviest creature on the surface of the earth, the roar of an elephant is enough to deter fierce tigers and lions, not to mention human beings who are rational and afraid of death and less courageous horses.

This is also the reason why Antiochus III was superstitious that elephants were invincible, and even though Lucius defeated the Seleucid war elephant troops, he still recruited a large number of war elephants in his army!

Well, in layman's terms, they all think that the elephant's defeat is not the elephant's fault, but the commander's mistake...

But today, the cavalry of the Han army is destined to make them feel a little bit of Eastern shock!

First of all, the horses of these retired veterans are mostly retired war horses bought from the official stables of the Han Dynasty through relationships. For these horses, the roar of elephants is completely inferior to the sound of guns and guns they hear during daily training.

Especially the sound of muskets exploded directly in their ears!

The important thing is that horses are actually a very special kind of animal. They are timid and fearful when they are with their own kind, but when they are with a rider whom they trust, they become very daring again. Dare to rush once!
Therefore, the war horses of the Han army were not frightened by the elephant's roar, and naturally they would not be frightened by the elephant's size.

And the cavalry of the Han army who rushed forward did not try to fight the war elephants like in the film and television works. Instead, they went around in circles, took off their riding bows, and practiced hard with them for more than ten years, but they were basically eliminated in their own motherland. Use tactics to fight against the behemoth in front of you.

"Fire arrows!"

"Shoot the elephant in the eye!"

After a quick cry, the arrows flew out like raindrops. Although they didn't hit the elephant's eyes as the command said, the arrows with feathers still pierced the elephant's head.

So, like an elephant left in the sea with an extra circle, it started to go crazy in a daze.

They no longer obeyed the instructions of the beast master on their backs, but sped up their pace and ran towards their enemies.

At this moment, smoke and dust were everywhere, and the galloping war elephants were as powerful as dump trucks rushing around!

But when it comes to flexibility, how can a multi-ton behemoth compare to a galloping horse?
Therefore, the target of the war elephants was directed at the Roman central army after the Han cavalry...

On the cloud cart, Antiochus III waved his fist vigorously, feeling a sense of revenge.

The last time he fought against the Roman legion, the Romans repelled his elephant soldiers with arrow rain, causing the terrified elephant to plunge into his most elite silver shield infantry, so that even before the fight started, his own side suffered casualties heavy……

This time, it's the turn of the Romans to be alone!

I escaped, and you are the one who is unlucky... Liu Ying's words inexplicably came to Mrs. Fan's mind, but when Liu Ying said these words that day, he was kicked away by Liu Bang's whip.

So Mrs. Fan shook his head abruptly, not thinking about what was there or not, and concentrated on the battlefield in front of him.

As the Roman central army began to collapse, Eumenes II, who led the light cavalry, could no longer wait and see what happened. At this time, only he can stand up and quickly stabilize the battle situation, otherwise the next battle group to collapse must be his right-wing cavalry!

The important thing is that among the light infantry who are being attacked by the crazy war elephants, a considerable part of them are Pergamon soldiers!
It's just that after the light cavalry moved, Seleucid's cavalry also moved.

Their target is naturally the Roman light cavalry!

After all, anyone with a discerning eye can see that relying on light infantry and those fleeing crossbowmen and slingers is not enough to expel or guide out-of-control war elephants from the Roman central army's line.

So as long as the Seleucid cavalry entangled the Roman light cavalry, the Roman central army would be completely defeated by their own war elephants sooner or later!
The front ranks of the Seleucid cavalry are those tribal cavalry riding on camels and wearing turbans.

It is said that war horses are afraid of camels. For example, when Cyrus II, the founder of the Achimenid dynasty of the Persian Empire, attacked Lydia, he used camel cavalry as a forward. The death of the kingdom!

At this moment, amidst the screams, more than 700 camel cavalry are ready to reproduce the glory of their ancestors!

At the same time, Chong Zhong led [-] Han infantry, quickly rushed to the front of the silver shield infantry and spear phalanx, then stopped still, and confronted the Roman legion on the opposite side who wanted to support the Chinese army.

The advantage of the infantry phalanx is that thousands of people fight together, but the disadvantage is that it is difficult to turn, and it is very easy to be attacked suddenly when changing the formation.

This is especially true of the tortoise shell array that the Romans are good at at the moment.

Each centurion used shields to cover the front, rear, left, and right, not only to defend against arrows, but also when the soldiers in the front row were pushed forward by the soldiers in the back row when they charged, they knocked open the front line of the infantry on the opposite side!
But how happy it is to charge, how embarrassing it is to turn to retreat.

In particular, Seleucid's ultra-long spear phalanx brought a strong sense of oppression to the Roman soldiers.

After all, when they fought the Macedonians last time, they had never fought a frontal team battle. It was later that they finally defeated this infantry phalanx like a moving porcupine through pulling.

Especially the last time the battlefield was on a hillside, it became more and more difficult for the phalanx infantry to turn.

But this time, they had the river on their left, the light infantry phalanx messed up by war elephants on their right, and their own army, the Italian city-state army, and the allied forces of Pergamum behind them.

They have only one way forward!

But in front, there are densely packed long spears, and layers of infantry phalanxes...

While Lucius was hesitating, he saw that behind those Seleucid soldiers who were tall but with strange body proportions, especially the fat torso, there suddenly appeared strange wooden frames one by one.

The wooden frame was about two people high, and there were seven or eight men on the left and right sides pushing hard. Judging from the speed at which the wooden frame moved, it seemed that there were wheels underneath.

"What is this?" Lucius frowned.

He had fought with Flaminin several times in Greece and Macedonia, the successor country, and he knew their consistent tactics and tactics well, so he was able to lead the legion infantry in the last war with the Seleucids and drive the Seleucids away The war elephants defeated their most proud silver shield infantry!
Therefore, this kind of wooden shelf is really incredible and unheard of.

But as a veteran general, he instinctively guessed that this should be a kind of war machine, although he still didn't know how it was used...

But it doesn't matter!

The Roman Legion, all composed of citizen soldiers, will let the opponent know what invincibility is!

Therefore, he no longer cared about the doomed center line, but ordered the soldiers of Pergamon to guard the flanks of the Roman legion, while he led the Roman legion that formed the tortoise formation to charge.

As long as the Seleucid phalanx can be defeated, the victory of the whole battle will be in the hands of the Romans!
When Lucius led the legionnaires to walk quickly, the waterwheel-like rollers on both sides of the wooden frame began to rotate crazily.

Immediately afterwards, pointed-bottomed clay pots with a Mediterranean style, usually used to hold olive oil, flew out.

"How despicable!" Lucius cursed while holding the dagger at his waist.

Now that the legionnaires are preparing to charge forward, the jars thrown by the enemy must be filled with olive oil. When the jars fall to the ground, the oil will flow everywhere after breaking open, which will greatly affect the progress of the legionnaires. !

"It's so rich!"

This was the second thought that came to Lucius' mind.

Not to mention the ancient times when productivity was underdeveloped, this kind of hand-pressed olive oil is very valuable even now, and a small bottle costs 200 yuan!
Therefore, in Lucius' view, this behavior of the Seleucids might as well throw the money directly on the ground and lure those legionnaires whose families are not rich to fight for it...

Well, he is not worried about being attacked by fire.

After all, cooking oil has a high ignition point, and it is difficult to be ignited in such an open and windy place.

But when the pot shattered and grease shot his face, he knew he was wrong.

This is not olive oil!

As a Roman dignitary, although he has no cooking experience, he stayed in Athens for a while, and occasionally imitated the Athenians and smeared olive oil on his body, so he was very firm in his judgment.

But it doesn't matter, no matter what kind of oil it is, it is not so easy to ignite it!
Therefore, he only needs to urge the legionnaires to leave this grease-soaked place as soon as possible!

Anyway, this is the Asia Minor Peninsula, not the Apennine Peninsula where Rome is located. There are dirt roads everywhere, even if the soles of their shoes are stained with grease, it will not affect their progress in the slightest!

Unfortunately, human cognition is always limited.

When the infantry of the Roman Legion shouted slogans and marched forward in almost uniform steps, what was thrown from the trebuchet was no longer clay pots, but fireballs.

Boom boom boom!
The smoky fireball fell down and bounced a few times on the ground mixed with grease and mud.

When Lucius secretly celebrated that the fireball did not kill or injure several legionnaires, and mocked the Seleucids for their vulgarity and ignorance, he suddenly heard a blank shout from nowhere.

"fire!"

"on fire!"

In just a few breaths, the bewildered cry turned into a mournful cry.

Many legionnaires hurriedly threw away the shields that were stained with grease, emitting flames and black smoke, and more soldiers began to dodge hastily.

On the ground where the fireball rolled, the flames burst into the sky with a bang!

On the cloud car, Mrs. Fan jumped up holding on to the railing.

"Who stipulated that the stones thrown by the trebuchet must be stones?"

"Young master just uses it to throw kerosene!"

Beside him, Antiochus III looked at the panic-stricken Roman legion in the distance, turned his head and asked, "Is this the mysterious liquid brought from Anxi?"

"No, no, no..." Fan Zhen shook his head like a rattle.

"Those liquids are good wine, which I plan to reward the military with. The reason why I changed clothes is to confuse those guys, lest they drink it secretly in advance!"

Fan Chen gritted his back molars, and continued, "As for the liquid thrown out now, it's called oil, and it's a good thing brought from the Isle of No Flow, um, the current Anman Governor's Mansion!"

"The emperor's cousin said that the oil there is light oil, which can be used directly without any processing, and unlike the oil in the Han Dynasty, the oil in the Anman Governor's Mansion can be ignited directly with a torch!"

"So you see, how miserable they are!"

Antiochus III nodded in agreement.

Now it's not just the right-wing infantry in Rome that is in chaos, their central army has completely collapsed, and the Roman light cavalry who were entangled by the Seleucid cavalry have already turned around and fled!

Therefore, the right wing of Rome faced not only the rain of arrows shot by the Han infantry with their powerful crossbows, but also the Italian city-state infantry behind them were being attacked by the Han cavalry in turn!

"Kill!"

Xu An galloped wildly, but he was already satisfied.

Under his saddle, hung a human head that was still bleeding blood!
This man is Domitius the tribune!
When Xu An was chasing and killing the rout soldiers, he accidentally found a man who was still flirtatious even when he was running, especially his helmet was more conspicuous.

Then, no more...

But he couldn't take this reward alone. After all, if he didn't have the escort of the group of veterans around him, I'm afraid he would have been killed by the trapped Roman infantry long ago!
Anyway, he is different from his sister Pixiu who looks like a fairy, he is more committed to what his brother-in-law of the emperor said.

Thousands of gold is gone and come back...

Well, it's actually a win-win!
That is to say, he took away his fame and achievements, and the cavalry of the Han army who followed him in the battle took away the rewards issued by Antioch III!

Although he still doesn't know who the head on the saddle is, it doesn't matter, the man with that flamboyant helmet must be a Roman general!
So on the other side, Chongzhong became a little anxious.

It was agreed that he will be the main attacker today, but it is those six-legged bastards who are killing the Quartet at this moment...

So he didn't care. Anyway, the formation of the Romans was completely messed up. The important thing was that most of the Han infantry under his command were veterans who had experienced battles. Even if they didn't command, they still knew how to fight the battle!
"Come on!"

Chongzhong started to rush forward with his long spear.

At this moment, what kind of swordsmanship family, what kind of swordsmanship with one enemy and many, were all forgotten by him.

His father said, stop playing with swords when you are on the battlefield, just concentrate on playing with guns!
Therefore, not only is he holding a spear in his hand at this moment, but he also has two pistols inserted under his robe...

This is what Liu Ying personally told him when he was still the crown prince, the great man is unparalleled in the world...

At that time, he was still very ignorant, but then he thought, if there is a musket with six barrels, and he holds two, can he be able to fight twelve against one?

If the barrel is doubled again, his father's proud swordsmanship will be even more outdated!
But now he has to concentrate on dealing with the enemy in front of him.

What Antiochus III said was right, the serious Romans were indeed very powerful in combat, or not in combat effectiveness, but in their will to fight.

In all fairness, when Chong Zhong was the head of the regiment at sea these years, he also fought against many barbarians.

But I have never seen a barbarian army like the Romans. Even if the formation is completely rotten, only one army on the right is left, still struggling to support, and still launching counterattacks!
Unfortunately, that's all.

What the Roman soldiers were facing was a group of veterans of the Han Army who had been walking on the tip of their swords for more than ten years but had never missed a shot. More importantly, the Han Army soldiers were armed to the teeth. A sword or a short spear can pierce through.

After all, the era of cold weapons has developed to the stage of plate armor, and the defense is no longer cold weapons such as knives, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, but guns and artillery that shoot close to the face...

Facing the experienced and strong Han soldiers, the Roman soldiers' customary defense and counterattack tactics with large shields and short swords were easily resolved.

The entire battlefield quickly showed a one-sided situation.

"Good! Good! Good!" Antiochus III slapped the railing hard, and said three good words in his newly learned Chinese!

Although his treasury was basically empty after this battle, it didn't matter.

Because as long as the Roman legion on the Asia Minor Peninsula is defeated, the Pergamon City-State Alliance will have no backing and can only surrender to him!

At that time, his treasury will become full again!
After all, the Pergamons controlled the Dardanelles, which is a long and narrow strait connecting the Gallipoli Peninsula and the Asia Minor Peninsula, and connecting the Aegean Sea and the Marmara Sea. Merchant ships from south to north pass through here, so The Pergamons were historically rich!

"Not bad, not bad..."

Mrs. Fan is holding the "tips in the bag" that Han Xin wrote to him, and the deduction of the battle situation in it is almost exactly the same as what is happening now!
At this moment, he felt the gap between people for the first time.

At the same time, he also gained a better understanding of his father's previous "enduring humiliation".

For his future and for him to go to Han Xin's class, his father allowed Han Xin to slap the left cheek, and then put the right cheek to it with a smile!
No complaints or regrets, as if I owed Han Xin a lot...

At this moment, Mrs. Fan understood what a father is and what a father's love is.

At this moment, Mrs. Fan felt ashamed of her leaving without saying goodbye.

After this battle is over, I'll go home and have a look... Mrs. Fan secretly made up her mind to say goodbye to her former unrestrained self.

"Oh my general, do you know the beauty of Egyptian women?"

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In the Changxin Hall, the lights are on.

When Liu Ying called Li Shang and Wang Ling, who were somewhat absent-minded, to come over for dinner, the radio station that had been silent before suddenly flashed a rapid red light, followed by a long series of tick-tock sounds.

Li Shang and Wang Ling held their breath immediately, and even Han Xin couldn't help raising his head, staring at the telegraph operator who was writing at his desk.

Cao Shen is the prime minister. Even though it is the first day of the new year, he still has a lot of work to do, so he said goodbye and left after writing the battle plans...

Well, in the words of high EQ, it means that Liu Ying trusts him very much.

As for low EQ...

Laborers have to take time off after Labor Day, and the Han Dynasty is just a feudal dynasty...

After a while, the telegram was placed in front of Liu Ying.

Han Xin, Li Shang, and Wang Ling who were sitting on the other side of the long table scratched their heads, but due to their different class status, none of the three of them had the courage to stand up and go to Liu Ying to see what happened.

"Our army... Bah, the Seleucids were victorious. They killed 120 Romans and captured [-] and seven elephants..."

"You said, I received such good news on the first day of the new year, do I need to change my year name to celebrate?"

Seeing Liu Ying's serious thinking, Han Xin and others immediately looked at each other in blank dismay.

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Athens city.

In the mist, a running messenger appeared on the famous Marathon Avenue, but unlike his predecessors, what he sent today was a tragic news.

lost!

The Romans are defeated!
Two entire legions were killed by the Seleucids, and few of the 1 Italian Federation and other servants escaped back!

It's just that when he ran and shouted, all the Athenians who passed by couldn't help smiling.

Damn!

This is the voice of all Athenians.

After all, the Romans landed on the Peloponnese Peninsula under the slogan of liberating Athens, and then the Athenians threw their heads and blood to donate money and food, but in the end they changed themselves to a new owner!

So, die well!
Different from the suppressed cheers in Athens, in the villa of Scipio on the outskirts of Athens, there was a gloomy and gloomy atmosphere.

"younger brother……"

When Scipio heard the bad news, his face was full of grief and wept uncontrollably, and the sugar bowl he was holding fell to the ground with a thud.

It was not only the two legions controlled by the Scipio family who died on the Asia Minor peninsula, but also his own dream of becoming a consul again!

"Why? Why would the Seleucids win?" Scipio yelled like crazy.

"Hmm... The deserters inquired from the merchants on the road, and they said that the king of Seleucus invited Han mercenaries from the far east..."

"Is the news true?"

"It shouldn't be wrong. The Egyptian merchants in the city are selling wheat and going to the east to buy Han's weapons and armor..." Flaminin came in from the outside and replied, staring at Scipio's bloodless cheek and said:

"Just received the news that Pergamon has surrendered to the Seleucids, and their fleet has once again belonged to Seleucids. Maybe the Seleucids will appear in Athens soon."

"So, retreat, return to Rome..."

Scipio was silent for a long time, and just about to stand up, he suddenly spurted out a mouthful of blood, and fell to the ground with a thud, his eyes wide open, and he looked sideways at the bright sky of Athens, but he didn't breathe anymore.

The blood gradually soaked the white sugar sprinkled on the ground.

(End of this chapter)