The Three Kingdoms Voyage

Chapter 366
Awad held his breath, clenched his fists, and his heart beat violently.He found that Ardasil was really clever, and it was against common sense for Gu Ran to attack suddenly in advance, but it was precisely because of this that the Romans were unprepared and were hit by him, which forced Sun Shao to take a risky attack and gave Great opportunity for him to ambush.

Han people are good at defense, which has been proved in Axum, but if Sun Shao leaves the camp and faces [-] cavalry with an army of [-], will he still have a chance?When Awad thought of the iron cavalry ravaging the once invincible Han army, he was elated and couldn't help but want to roar.

"Attack—" Awad roared in an almost out of tune voice.

The long sound of the horn soared into the sky and spread far away in the dark night.

The Sassanids lying in ambush in the northeast of the Roman camp could no longer hold back when they saw someone coming out of the Han camp. When they heard the sound of Awad's horn ordering to attack, they immediately let go of the reins and began to ride their horses. The Mercedes-Benz quickly increased to a certain speed, and the sound of rumbling hooves reached everyone's ears clearly like a thunderstorm.

Little Gordian's ecstatic heart immediately sank to the bottom of the sea. He knew what the consequences would be, and he could guess how many people the Sasanians had ambushed against Sun Shao. In order to save him, Sun Shao ventured out of the camp. Now Facing great danger, in other words, he has almost no chance of surviving.

It was all because of his carelessness, and now that the Sasanian iron cavalry had already started to move, even if Sun Shao turned around and ran, it would probably be too late.The Sassanids devoured Sun Shao's army and would have killed his two hopeless legions in a single turn.

The fiasco is imminent.

Little Gordian raised his face and looked at the night sky where the stars were twinkling in the east. He was full of remorse, and tried not to shed tears. It was his first time to lead an army independently. Is it really good for nothing?

"General, look!" The staff beside him suddenly exclaimed. Little Gordian didn't care to wipe away his tears, and followed his hand to look forward. nor.Little Gordian's heart sank, and the Sassanian really made a decisive move, and the moment he made a move, he was thunderous.But then I thought again, no, even if the Sassanid's horse was fast, it wouldn't be so fast, the flames were still there two breaths ago, why are they gone now?Certainly not the Sasanians had arrived, unless they were flying.

Little Gordian turned his head and looked at the staff in surprise, and the staff also looked puzzled: "When the Sasanian's horse's hooves slammed, those fires went out. This...what's going on?"

The two stared at each other.

The Sassanids were also puzzled. They galloped their horses as fast as they could, and ran towards the fire dragon. They were about to run in front of them, but the fire dragon suddenly went out, and it was too late. In the blink of an eye, there was no trace ahead, leaving only the dark night.

How is this going?The Sassanian knights didn't know whether to continue charging or stop. Just after such a moment of hesitation, the smooth charging formation stagnated, and they rushed to the original position of the fire dragon by inertia.

"Boom—" There was a loud noise, and the knight rushing to the front suddenly disappeared. Immediately afterwards, another horse behind him couldn't hold back his feet, and suddenly the horse stumbled and fell to the ground all of a sudden. The knight on the ground couldn't make any reaction, so he flew up through the clouds and fog, flew straight for more than ten steps, and fell heavily on the ground. Before he could make an effective evasive action, the horse behind had rushed over, and the mouth of the bowl The big horseshoe stepped directly on his back.

With a clear "click", the knight was stepped on and broke his spine, and died on the spot.

In one breath, dozens of war horses fell to the ground, and the formation was in chaos. The knights behind shouted loudly, trying their best to make the war horses jump over or avoid the fallen companions, and continue to run forward.

Just when the Sasanians were in chaos, there was a piercing whistling sound from Sun Shao's camp [-] paces away. Anyone who has experienced the siege of Axum is familiar with this voice. This is the most powerful defensive crossbow of the Han people. It can shoot a giant arrow like a spear for [-] steps. Although the shooting speed is not fast, the lethality is amazing. As long as If you get shot, whether it's a man or a horse, you'll definitely shoot right through.

As for the Sassanids whose formation is now chaotic, although the number of these defensive crossbows is small, they are deadly enough. As long as a few knights or horses in the formation are shot down, the knights charging behind with inertia will fall down a large area. , the damage caused is far more terrifying than the defensive crossbow itself.

The Sassanids were aware of this, but they didn't have time to react. Even if some people instinctively raised the round shields in their hands, the defensive crossbows of the Han people couldn't stop even the heavily armored cavalry. What can a shield do?

"Puff" and "Puff", several crossbows easily shot through the Sassanian knight, and the Sassanian fell to the ground with his horse and man. The knights behind were caught off guard and fell to the ground one after another.Although this is a flat plain with no obstacles, it is very risky to charge in the dark. Now that they encounter such interference, the Sassanids will suffer, but they have no other way , can only continue to accelerate the charge, hoping to rush out of the attack range of the Han Chinese defensive crossbow as soon as possible, and at the same time pass the news of the alarm to the rear.

The hurried alarm signal replaced the melodious charge signal, which caused even greater panic among the Sassanids. The generals behind did not know what was happening in front of them, thinking that the enemy's defense was too tight to be conquered, and they had to retreat.But the army has already started to charge, so how could they stop easily? Just as they hesitated, they had already rushed to the attack range of the city defense crossbow. thing.

Unfortunately, it's too late.

The defensive crossbow roared, piercing one knight after another, causing disturbance from the rear, and disrupting the smooth formation of the Sassanids. In the dark night, the Sassanids could not tell how many arrows they had shot. Come on, even the sound of the long arrow piercing the air was drowned out by people shouting and neighing. They only knew that a series of people fell down in front of them for no reason. Sometimes the comrades around them fell off the horse suddenly. This invisible fear Even more horrifying, the Sasanian's soaring murderous aura vanished, and all that was left was panic that spread rapidly.

The horns of inquiry and alarm sounded one after another, and Awad was puzzled. What was going on?Ordinarily this time, it should be very sure. Although it is dark night, I can't see the situation ahead, but Awad knows that there are no obstacles here to affect the charge of the horses, and Sun Shao only has 1 people, even if they all come out to form a formation , and will definitely not be the opponent of these more than 2 cavalry, let alone this is a sneak attack?
However, although he couldn't see the situation ahead, he could figure out from the sound of the horn that something unexpected must have happened.

What happened?However, Awad couldn't figure it out for a while, which made him feel up and down, and his originally strong fighting spirit suddenly turned into worry.

But little Gordian immediately became ecstatic. No matter what was going on there, at least it could be heard from the sound of the Sasanians' horns that they must have suffered a loss, and Sun Shao gained the upper hand again, although he is now Still don't know how Sun Shao got the upper hand, but it's enough for him.He immediately reported the news to the whole camp, telling all the soldiers that our allied forces are attacking the Sasanians hard, the danger is over, and as long as we hold the camp, we will win.

When the Roman soldiers heard the Sassanid horns, they already had a premonition. Now that they heard the order from the young Gordian, their morale was immediately boosted. out.The Sassanids also heard the sound of the horn. Although they had not yet received an order to retreat, their morale had already been frustrated and they were unwilling to fight, so they quickly withdrew from the Roman camp.

The Sasanians receded like a tide and disappeared into the darkness, and the noisy battlefield suddenly fell silent.The deadly silence was restored in front of the Roman camp, only the heavy panting of the bloody Roman soldiers and the cries of the centurions asking about the casualties remained.The east also gradually became quiet, neither the Romans nor the Sasanians could see clearly what happened there.

Awad was hesitant. The current situation made him a little uncertain. He didn't know whether to continue to attack the Romans or rush over there to check the specific situation. More torches, the sound of Roman drums getting closer.

Roman reinforcements finally arrived.

Awad didn't dare to neglect any more, he immediately ordered the Sasanians to withdraw from the battlefield, but instead of leaving, they lit torches, exposing the army to the Romans, and then faced each other quietly.At the same time, the relevant generals were called over to inquire about the situation, but those generals could not figure out the situation. They only knew that thousands of knights were lost in this charge, but they did not even encounter a single Han Chinese.

The Roman reinforcements arrived and set up a large formation near Gordian's camp, ready to stand.Little Gordian didn't dare to push him any further, and hurried out of the camp to meet Mennolufis, the leader of the army.Mennolufis inquired curiously, and only then did he know that there had been a fierce battle here, even Sun Shao was involved, but the situation on his side was even more weird.

"His Majesty the Emperor received your request for help, so he asked me to come here first. His Majesty the Emperor and others led the army behind, and they will arrive soon. Because I was afraid of being ambushed by the enemy, I walked a little slowly." Mennolufis said with a smile: "However, fortunately, the general commanded well, and the camp was not lost."

"Ashamed and ashamed." Little Gordian pointed to the Sasanians in the distance and said, "Although the Sasanians failed to take down my camp in one go, they have no intention of withdrawing their troops. If you haven't, I'm sure they will attack again."

"Yeah, it's a little strange, they have seen us, why don't they leave?" Mennolufis was also a little strange, "Could it be that he wants to eat me too?"

"It's possible." Young Gordian nodded and said, "However, since His Majesty has arrived, they will definitely retreat. After all, it will be dawn soon, and our troops are twice as strong as theirs."

Mennolufis nodded sympathetically.

Not long after, two more Roman legions arrived. When they asked about the situation, they felt very lucky.However, they found that the Sasanians still showed no signs of leaving, and instead they were forming formations, as if they were preparing to continue attacking.The Romans didn't dare to be careless. The Sassanids were strong in battle. With their strength here, they were enough to fight the Romans again. Could it be that they couldn't make a sneak attack and wanted to change it to a strong attack?
Until Quintus led the army to arrive in person, the Sassanids did not retreat, but launched another attack. Two thousand-man teams roared to kill them in the black darkness before dawn.Quintus didn't have time to think, and immediately commanded the army to fight with the Sasanians, and the cry of killing sounded again on the silent battlefield.

Although the Sassanids had suffered in front of the Han army's camp and their morale was greatly reduced, they faced the Romans without fear and rushed over with roars. Urging the horses to charge straight into the phalanx, trying to use the powerful impact of the heavy armored cavalry to open the gap and break through the phalanx.Such tactics were not new, and the Romans were not surprised, as the Sassanids had always bullied them that way.Their way of dealing with it was the spear array, rows of soldiers huddled together, and stabbed the Sasanian horses with forest-like spears.Although the horses of the Sassanids were covered with vests, they could withstand the stabbing of the spears, but the knights on the horses often couldn't catch the belly of the horses, and were knocked off the horses by the spears, and then killed by the Romans.

The two sides once again launched a bloody fight.

Sun Shao stood on the general's platform in the big camp, holding up his clairvoyance to check. The distance was too far, and the sky was dark. With the torches on both sides, he could only see some general situation, but he saw the Romans. The formation is very solid, knowing that the Roman reinforcements have arrived, and there is no need to go out to take risks, so I feel relieved.

"Ziyuan, what a plan." Sun Shao turned his head and praised Master Sima with a smile.Sima Shi hurriedly said humbly: "The king has praised you, but this humble official just said it casually. Without the arrangement of the king, this plan will definitely not work."

"Hahaha..." Sun Shao shook his head, "Ziyuan, you, don't just know how to hide and clumsy like your father, young man, what can't you say? It doesn't matter if you say something wrong, it's up to me. You Look, didn’t this trick of substituting fiction for reality just hit the Sassanids with a sap? I think you are very talented in military use, so don’t bury yourself.”

Sima Shi smiled, but didn't say anything.Just now, Sun Shao was worried about whether to go out to rescue the Romans. He suddenly remembered the pits he had just dug in the daytime to guard against the Sassanid cavalry, so he made a suggestion to have more than 100 soldiers stand on the ground every ten steps. Each of them held two torches, lit the torches one by one, and pretended to be a large army coming out of the camp, luring the Sasanians to attack.When the Sasanians came, these soldiers jumped into the pits and hid themselves, while stamping out the torches.The Sasanians are cavalry, and it is not easy to stop once they charge. Even if they find that there is no enemy in front of them, they can only continue to charge forward. At this time, not only the pits and the soldiers in the pits can play a certain role, but the camp The city defense crossbows of the Lishe Battalion as far as [-] paces can also play a role. In the dark night, as long as a certain amount of chaos is caused, a large number of Sasanians can be killed.

The matter was just like Master Sima, and it went so smoothly that it was unimaginable. It not only delayed the time, caused the Sasanians to hesitate, but also killed many Sasanians, and the price they paid was at most the one hundred soldiers.

As a result, Master Sima was praised by Sun Shao, and he was very happy in his heart. According to Sun Shao's habit of rewarding every meritorious service this time, he will definitely get a certain reward.However, the Sima family's family education was very strict, and they were taught not to show their emotions when they were young. Although they are happy in their hearts, they still don't show anything on their faces.He looked at the Sassanians who were attacking again, and said with some puzzlement: "The Sassanids came for a sneak attack. Now that the sneak attack has failed, and the Roman reinforcements have arrived, why don't they retreat? Could it be that they continue to attack?" Will it be done until dawn?"

"I also think it's a bit weird." Sun Shao frowned, suddenly thought of something, couldn't help being startled, and raised his head to look in the direction of Taixi Fengcheng.

Master Sima also thought about it, he looked at Sun Shao in surprise, but found that although Sun Shao was a little nervous, he was not in a hurry, after a while, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth and he shook his head.Master Sima didn't understand what he meant, and didn't dare to say anything, but just stood quietly beside Sun Shao.

Under the city of Taisifeng, when everyone was waiting for the news of the battlefield ten miles away, the east gate of Taixifeng suddenly opened, and the Sasanians rushed towards the Roman army camp outside the city without a sound.Most of the Romans rushed to rescue the little Gordian, and there were only a few soldiers left in the camp. Although they discovered the Sassanids in time and sounded the drums to call the police, the Sassanids ignored them. He rushed over and quickly broke through the Roman camp.As soon as they rushed in, they set fire everywhere and massacred the Romans who came in haste.

The Romans were startled twice a night. These soldiers were mercilessly massacred by the Sassanids before they recovered from the situation. Control the situation, but under the sharp attack of the influx of Sasanians, they were still beaten back step by step.

The Sassanids rode horses and clashed back and forth in the Roman camp. They kept throwing torches on the tents, igniting one tent after another, turning the Roman camp into a sea of ​​flames.The Romans were trying their best to maintain it, but when they saw the big campfire, their morale plummeted. They could no longer withstand the attack of the Sassanids, and they were soon defeated.

The Sassanians cheered and drove the Romans to flee in all directions. They rushed out of the ground behind the Roman camp, but suddenly turned and killed the Han camp.Chen Hai, who was in charge of guarding the rear camp, had already made preparations when he heard the cries of killing from the Roman camp. As soon as he saw the Sassanids coming, he immediately commanded the soldiers in the camp to launch a counterattack.

The Sassanians were crazy. They braved the dense arrow rain in the camp and launched wave after wave of attacks. Chen Hai was a little surprised, and felt that these Sassanians didn't seem to be taking advantage of the situation and ransacked the Roman camp. Afterwards, he will come to get some cheap money. From the looks of it, it seems that he has come here specifically for the Han army camp.

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Ardashir stood at the head of the city with a gloomy face, his eagle-like eyes stared at the camp of the Han army who was screaming and killing in the distance, clenched his fists, and hit the city wall fiercely. He shouted in a deep voice, "Attack!"

The city gate of Taixifeng, which had been burned to the ground, was suddenly opened, and groups of heavily armored infantry rushed out, stepping on the ground that was still warm, and went straight to the camp of the Han army facing the gate.

(End of this chapter)