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Chapter 560 Heavy losses!

Gu Rubing himself was not interested in the so-called Parthian territory, but the Parthian Empire had already placed people on the border, and it was obvious that they were planning something bad to do to Liangzhou. In this case, taking the initiative to attack would be a good opportunity.

Just as Gu Rubing was thinking about it, a captain of the roving crossbow army came in. Seeing Gu Rubing talking to the Roman envoy, he came to Zhuge Liang and said something in Zhuge Liang's ear.

Then Zhuge Liang's face changed and he turned to look at the Roman envoy.

"My Lord, we should consult His Majesty first on this matter and see what His Majesty says before we make the decision, right?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Rubing looked at Zhuge Liang in confusion.

Since when did Liu Xie need to make the decision on his own affairs?

But soon, Gu Rubing saw the anxious look in Zhuge Liang's eyes and understood instantly.

"Yes, we still have to ask His Majesty first. Let's put it this way, Messenger, you go and rest first. We will contact you after we find His Majesty."

The Roman envoy looked at Gu Rubing. He always felt that things were not that simple. These two people were hiding something from him. Could it be that his hidden thing was discovered?
I felt a little confused, but since they had already asked me to leave, I couldn't force myself to stay here.

"Your Highness, King Lie, please think carefully about our affairs."

After saying this, the Roman envoy turned and left, but he slowed down when he left, wanting to take the opportunity to listen to what the two men were going to say.

But it was obvious that Zhuge Liang just wanted to avoid him and would not speak until he saw him disappear.

After everyone was sure to leave, Zhuge Liang looked at Gu Rubing.

"My lord, we just received intelligence that the Parthian Empire is in collusion with Cao Cao, and the Roman Empire is linked to Sun Jian. We even suspect that these two empires are controlled by Cao Cao and Sun Jian, but it seems that they don't know each other."

"It turns out it's them!"

Gu Rubing was still curious why Western countries suddenly came to cause trouble for him.

According to Gu Rubing's memory, since the unrest in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the West had no intention of taking action. On the one hand, it was because there was a Western Region between the West and the Han Dynasty. On the other hand, the journey was too far and supplies could not be supplied to each other.

But this time, the two empires suddenly took action against him, and there must be someone inside who joined forces with them.

"My Lord, given the current situation, how do we tell this Roman envoy whether we still want to join forces?"

"What does the Prime Minister think?"

Gu Rubing certainly wanted to refuse, but he saw that Zhuge Liang seemed to have other intentions.

"My lord, now we know that behind these two empires are Sun Jian and Cao Cao, and they seem to be unaware of each other. So why don't we take advantage of them and take them down directly when they are weak."

This proposal made Gu Rubing's eyes light up.

"Then let's do as the Prime Minister says."

Soon the two of them called the Roman envoy again and agreed to Rome's proposal.

Rome did not dare to stay for its success and immediately went back to report to Caesar.

"My Lord, it looks like I need to go with you this time."

Zhuge Liang was preparing to play a big game, a game that could swallow up the entire Roman Empire and the Parthian Empire. The enormity of this game definitely exceeded Gu Rubing's calculation ability, so Zhuge Liang was naturally worried.

Gu Rubing was well aware of this and naturally would not refuse.

The two men discussed for a whole day, and it was not until the early morning of the next day that Gu Rubing walked out of Zhuge Liang's room.

But while walking on the street, Gu Rubing suddenly realized that what he discussed with Zhuge Liang seemed to be the management of Jiuzhou in the future, and there was no matter about the battle of Liangzhou. Why did Zhuge Liang tell him about the future? Would he no longer care about these things in the future?

Gu Rubing had doubts in his mind, but when he thought about it, he realized that he was the only legendary strategist after all, so his thinking should be more comprehensive.

Three days later, Gu Rubing took Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun to the battlefield in Liangzhou.

Only Xu Rong and Lu Su were left to guard Sili.

Liangzhou, Jiuquan County.

Taishi Ci led the generals and stood on the city wall, looking at the Parthian camp in the distance with a very solemn expression.

"Everyone, the lord has sent over 200,000 troops one after another. So far, the enemy has not made any movement. Should we go and test them?"

After hearing Taishi Ci's words, Pang De and others were a little hesitant. When they first came, they were told by Gu Rubing not to act rashly unless the other party came to them. But now the other party is right in front of them, do they have to endure it?
After hesitating for a long time, just when Pound was about to agree, a voice came from behind.

"What are you going to do? Have you forgotten your lord's instructions?"

As the voice fell, Huang Zhong walked up from behind.

Seeing that Huang Zhong had spoken, Taishi Ci naturally had nothing to say.

However, Taishi Ci still felt somewhat unwilling in his heart. He had been in the territory of the Han Dynasty for many years. To the people of the Han Dynasty, the countries in the Western Regions or outside the Western Regions were all small countries. He was very unhappy to be blocked at his doorstep by a small country. In addition, he also knew that Huang Zhong and his men were fighting fiercely in Jiaozhou. He had been guarding here without any achievement and was still facing a small country. This made him somewhat ashamed.

Just when Taishi Ci wanted to explain something, the sound of war drums came from outside the city.

Then we saw that there were 200,000 troops in the Parthian camp, lined up in battle formation, which was obviously a provocation.

"Old General, can we take action this time?"

Huang Zhong looked at the enemy's army formation.

It looks very serious, but if you look closely, you can see that the other party is casual.

This kind of people are just showpieces that are strong on the outside but weak on the inside. In addition, due to years of thinking, even an old man like Huang Zhong has looked down on these Western countries for many years, so naturally he is not so wary.

"Okay, Taishi Ci, listen to my orders. You lead 100,000 cavalrymen to launch a charge, defeat the enemy, and then return."

Hearing Huang Zhong's order, Taishi Ci nodded excitedly.

Seeing Taishi Ci ready to fight, Huang Zhong still felt something was wrong, so for safety reasons he sent Pang De to follow him.

The two men led 100,000 cavalrymen and charged directly into the enemy's formation.

The two sides fought for half an hour. Huang Zhong saw from the city wall that the army formation was the same as what he had seen, both strong on the outside but weak on the inside, and could not withstand a single blow.

Taishi Ci on the battlefield naturally saw this situation. After his cavalry rushed into the formation, the entire Parthian army formation became chaotic.

Taishi Ci saw with his own eyes that a Han cavalryman killed three Parthian soldiers in a row, but was only cut once by the enemy, and that was not a vital wound.

It was because of this scene that Taishi Ci became even bolder.

Just when everyone thought that victory was certain, and even Huang Zhong was considering whether to pursue the enemy when they were defeated, a burst of deep musical instrument sounds rang out.

Immediately afterwards, a group of elephant soldiers suddenly rushed out.

Each of these elephant soldiers was at the level of a second-rate general. In addition, elephants had thick skin and strong defense, so the formation of the Han cavalry was thrown into chaos for a while.

"Not good, retreat!" Huang Zhong immediately sounded the horn to call back his troops.

However, in such a chaotic situation, only those close to the city gate were able to retreat in time, while most people were entangled by the Parthian soldiers.

After hearing Huang Zhong's order to retreat, Taishi Ci and Pang De prepared to leave, but they did not expect that the other side would send out four famous generals to entangle them at some point.

Taishi Ci swung his double halberds, trying to deal with the two men in front of him, but these two men were also famous generals, and their overall strength was no less than Taishi Ci's. This kind of attack could not hurt them at all.

Soon, Taishi Ci was actually at a disadvantage.

Pang De's side was not easy either, but because the distance was close, Pang De only had a brief fight with the opponent. With the help of the Eight Gates Golden Lock Sword Technique, he quickly broke out of the encirclement and entered the city.

Seeing that Taishi Ci was entangled, Huang Zhong knew that something was wrong, and immediately rushed out of the city with the remaining 50,000 cavalrymen, trying to rescue Taishi Ci.

However, just after these 50,000 cavalrymen left the city, a group of cavalrymen suddenly rushed out from the originally chaotic Parthian army formation. Their target was not Huang Zhong's reinforcements, but to block the city gate.

This means that people inside cannot get out, and people outside cannot come back.

Pang De and Zhang Ren immediately led the soldiers in the city and rushed out desperately, trying to open the door and let Huang Zhong and others come back.

But this cavalry was obviously not the same as other ordinary cavalry of the Parthians.

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These cavalrymen were all wearing heavy armor. Although there were not many of them, only about two thousand, their strength had reached that of second-rate generals. It was obvious at first glance that they were definitely not simple.

The two sides were in a stalemate for a while. The Han cavalry present also saw that the city gate was blocked. They wanted to go back, but they certainly couldn't. They were all affected to some extent.

Three hours later.

Both sides were exhausted, and the Parthians finally withdrew their troops.

Huang Zhong and Taishi Ci brought the remaining people back to the city.

But after they counted the losses, they all frowned, especially Taishi Ci, who simply lowered his head and stopped talking.

In this battle, they actually lost 100,000 men. These were all cavalry, the most valuable of all arms except for the special arms.

These 150,000 cavalrymen are all the cavalry that Gu Rubing can deploy now.

After this battle, only 50,000 were left.

Huang Zhong didn't know how to explain such a loss.

"Ziyi, you are too careless."

Huang Zhong sighed helplessly.

Originally, this incident had nothing to do with Taishi Ci.

But Huang Zhong could see that Taishi Ci actually had the opportunity to withdraw from the battlefield, but for some reason Taishi Ci chose to get entangled with those two famous generals. Otherwise, how could he have led people to support and been plotted against by the other side?

Taishi Ci lowered his head and said nothing. He was also thinking about how to explain to Gu Rubing when he came.

A day later, Gu Rubing arrived here with Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun.

Gu Rubing discovered that Huang Zhong and others present were not in a very good mood when they saw him, and there were not many smiles on their faces.

"What happened to you? You fought? And you lost?"

Gu Rubing looked at Huang Zhong curiously.

Huang Zhong looked at Gu Rubing in surprise. He did not expect that Gu Rubing's intelligence was so fast. He had just lost the battle, but Gu Rubing knew it.

"My lord, this time it was Zhong's fault. I underestimated the enemy!"

"Don't blame the old general, sir. It was my carelessness and my desire to win that led to this great defeat."

Taishi Ci hurriedly knelt in front of Gu Rubing.

Zhuge Liang looked at the two people kneeling on the ground, as if hesitating about something.

"What are you two doing? You sound like you're asking for blame. I'm just asking, your defeat was within my expectations. I've long told you that both the Parthians and the Romans are stronger than you think, but you didn't believe me. If you believed me, how could you have been defeated? No matter how strong they are, can they be stronger than our Han cavalry?"

Gu Rubing smiled and helped the two men up from the ground, then teased, "Tell me how much you lost, and I'll see how to punish you."

"One hundred thousand!"

"What? Ordinary soldiers?"

"cavalry!"

Upon hearing about the 100,000 cavalrymen, Gu Rubing almost fell to the ground, but fortunately he was supported by Ge Liang, who was taking care of him, so he did not fall down.

Seeing this, Taishi Ci knelt on the ground again.

"My lord, please punish me. This time it's all my fault for wanting to show off. Otherwise, such a loss would never have happened."

Upon hearing this, Zhuge Liang waved his feather fan as if he had made some decision.

"Okay, since General Ziyi accepts the punishment, then come on, give him sixty strokes of the cane."

Seeing this, Gu Rubing wanted to say something, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was stopped by Zhuge Liang.

"My lord, since we have lost the battle, someone must bear the price. Since Ziyi has said that this matter is all on him, then this matter can only be thrown on him."

Seeing Zhuge Liang say this, Gu Rubing didn't know what to say and could only nod.

Soon after sixty blows, Taishi Ci fainted from the pain.

Seeing Taishi Ci fainted from the pain without even uttering a single cry, Gu Rubing secretly gave him a finger. He really admired such a man.

Zhuge Liang looked at the map, and then said directly to Gu Rubing: "My lord, our current situation is not good, so we have to open up a second battlefield. As for the location of this second battlefield, it is at Yumen Pass!"

Gu Rubing looked at the map and found that the location of Yumen Pass was right in front of them. Moreover, Yumen Pass was easy to defend and difficult to attack, which could indeed help them relieve some of the pressure.

As long as the other party attacks them, Yumen Pass can take action and cut off their retreat.

If the enemy attacks Yumen Pass, we can provide support immediately, and the two sides will support each other and rely on each other.

"No problem, but we need a general now. Who is willing to go?"

Hearing this, the people present looked at each other, and just as Huang Zhong was about to walk out, Zhuge Liang immediately shook his head at Huang Zhong.

Huang Zhong also shrank back when he saw this.

"My Lord, I recommend someone!"

(End of this chapter)