Chapter 450: Attack on Sasanian Persia (page 12)
As the bright light illuminated the sky, the marching speed of the Mongolian and Yuan armies began to increase. They defeated Rome in one go and pushed the enemy directly from the horizon. This was Timur's simple and crude strategy of expanding the outline.
This simplicity and crudeness comes from Timur's confidence in the Mongol and Yuan armies, and also from his confidence in himself.
"Charge the flood tide, suppress all fronts!"
Timur's expression was dull. Rome was an opponent that he could treat differently, so he would not have any luck and direct this war with 200% seriousness.
In just three waves of powerful charges, Rome's outermost barbarian army defense line was completely defeated and completely suppressed by Meng Yuan.
Although the backbone of the legions, such as the Second Augustus and the Thirteenth Blood Rose, withstood the flood charge, the Barbarians' rapid retreat forced them to retreat.
If they don't retreat, they will be trapped in a tight siege, forcing these backbone regiments to retreat.
The Meng Yuan, who had fought against Rome several times, had also figured out the Roman military system, so their goals had always been clear. Timur fully grasped the weakness of this army mixed with barbarians.
The first line of defense of the Roman army was disintegrated by fairly easy means.
The retreat of the front did not cause any chaos. Penilence, who was in charge of the front line command, was quite calm. Although Severus was the commander-in-chief of the three armies, he still conducted the front line command. Severus was in Rome and controlled the overall situation. .
Zhuge Liang specifically pointed out the threat of the God of War before. After deducing the military flag with Zhuge Liang, Penilence fully understood what the God of War was.
Therefore, he did not have any carelessness from the beginning and faced the Mongolian and Yuan army as a challenger.
The defeat of the first line of defense was within his expectation. He had long since stopped counting on these barbarians who could only serve as cannon fodder. The purely citizen army they had formed was their real support this time.
But now, the barbarians are just cannon fodder they use to drain the strength of the Mongolian and Yuan armies.
Rome knows this very well.
Timur glanced at the speed at which the Roman defense line collapsed. Although it collapsed at the first touch, it did have a buffering effect. The most important thing is that the momentum accumulated from the beginning has been vented.
The opponent's cannon fodder suffered heavy losses, but it did have an effect.
"The infantry troops charge, covered by arrows, to suppress the enemy's central army. The army makes a roundabout movement on both sides, knocking out all their flanks first!"
Timur calmly commanded the infantry troops to take over the attack, suppressed the Roman army, and then directly pointed the front of the troops at Ardashir on the flank.
Mongolia also fully understood the opponent's thoughts, so they directly decided to clear out Aldashir and the others.
"Cross cover, prepare to retreat, the enemy is coming towards us!"
When Ardashir saw the Mongolian cavalry rushing toward them, their heads were trembling. They wanted to fish in troubled waters, but they didn't want to fight with Meng Yuan.
"Want to run?"
Looking at Ardashir and other troops in the distance who had begun to adjust their battle lines and prepare to retreat, Timur showed a sarcastic smile on his face. He stepped into this kind of battlefield, but he was not prepared to fight. He is just a courageous bandit. .
"The arrows suppress the enemy for one round. The light cavalry moves around to suppress the arrows. The heavy cavalry prepares for the legion attack. Let me cut their battle line directly!"
Ardashir and the others wanted to retreat, but how could an army of hundreds of thousands retreat so quickly?
Moreover, in order to prevent them from collapsing at the first touch, Rome packed several citizen legions and elite backbones in their camp, in order to prevent Ardashir and the others from retreating at the critical moment, forcing them to fight the Mongols head-on.
Of course an ordinary Roman general wouldn't be able to do this, but Rome put a special figure in for this.
"Remnant soldiers in peace, are you going to run away again?" The angry question made Aldashir's pupils shrink extremely.
How could Ganassis, who once single-handedly suppressed Parthia and defeated Ctesiphon, appear here?
"Ganasis!" The moment Aldashir saw Ganasis, his mind was running at high speed and he understood everything in an instant, but it was too late at this moment.
"I originally thought that Persian Sassanid would be an opponent that could surpass the Parthian Empire, but I didn't expect that it would turn out to be even more rubbish than the Parthian Empire."
"If the opponent is you, maybe I can defeat Ctesiphon this time!"
"Rome will take back whatever Armenia gives to you!"
"Escape, remnants of Anxi, that's all you can do!"
After Ganassis finished taunting him, he directly led his own bodyguards to abandon their pretense and began to accept the command of the barbarians and citizen legions.
Ardashir's face turned completely dark. He had already noticed the anger and confusion in the eyes of the Persian soldiers and generals.
Escape without fighting is indeed the strategy that can preserve their strength to the greatest extent, but running away in this situation completely disheartened Sasan.
The talents he had picked up before would also be discouraged later. This was a conspiracy, a conspiracy to force Aldashir to fight.
"No matter what, at least you have to do it once, otherwise it's really over!" Aldashir's face was livid, Ganassis entered the game, and he had to fight this time.
As they plotted against Rome, Rome plotted against them.
Armenia was a hook planted by Rome from the beginning, and it was not until this moment that it was completely ignited.
If Ardashir was Armenia that was defeated by Rome, this tactic would be completely ineffective at the moment.
But Ardashir was negotiated from Rome, which immediately put Ardashir on the grill.
Just when Ardashir's expression was uncertain, Kushan's commander-in-chief Rahul came directly over and spoke to him.
"Join forces, repel them, and cover each other's retreat!"
Rahul also wants to vomit blood now. They were sold by his own people. The bald monks who replaced the Brahmins actually reached an agreement with Rome secretly, retreated directly, and sold them. Now they can't escape intact.
If they didn't join forces with Aldashir, they wouldn't be able to go back intact today. Even if Fu Men intercepted and killed them, Meng Yuan would never let them go.
Rome had been laying the groundwork for so long, but in the end, they used scheming and countermeasures to lock them on the battlefield.
"Okay, let's join forces and defeat them first!" Aldashir nodded heavily. At this time, he could only fight.
At least something must be done, otherwise the morale will be extinguished, which will be extremely harmful to an empire.
Unlike Ardashir and Rahul who were held hostage, the people from Buddhism and the God of Light withdrew quite decisively.
face? Angry? These things mean nothing to them.
Just when Aldashir and Rahul reached an agreement, Meng Yuan had already arrived in front of them.
The three-talented Mongolian light cavalry rained arrows wantonly on the flanks, disrupting the planning of Aldashir and others.