After the college entrance examination, bring a system to serve as a soldier

Chapter 204

Asia Minor, Roman legions.

"Your Excellency Blis, according to intelligence, the Seleucids have gathered more than 200,000 people, set up a Macedonian phalanx, and are waiting for us in front!"

A Roman general respectfully reported to Commander Blis.

"Did you only see the Seleucids, what about the Great Qin people?"

Bliss said with a frown.

Although Rome's main opponent was the Carthaginian commander Hannibal, it also poured great strength into the Seleucian-Macedonian front, sending him, a well-known veteran in the whole of Rome, and an elite army of 100,000.

At first, it went very well, the Seleucids had long lost the glory of Alexandria, and even the infantry phalanx was unchanged, while the Romans had already discovered its shortcomings in the repeated encounters with the Macedonian phalanx.

That is, although the Macedonian phalanx was invincible in frontal attack, the heavy infantry were all wearing heavy armor, holding thick tower shields, and spears more than 6 meters long were mounted on the shields, even the Roman cavalry did not dare to shoot directly at its edge, but the mobility was weak.

The famous Roman generals figured out a way to break the Macedonian phalanx, that is, to throw spears and axes and other projectiles, bypassing the shield wall and directly killing and injuring the infantry in the rear.

Then take advantage of the chaos of the Macedonian phalanx, avoid the front of the Macedonian phalanx, and storm its flank, you can easily defeat the seemingly invincible Macedonian phalanx.

Relying on this more advanced tactic, Bliss led 100,000 Roman legions to win consecutive victories in Asia Minor, beheading more than 100,000 people, occupying a radius of hundreds of miles of land in the Seleucid Kingdom.

Some Roman generals have even begun to dream of driving straight to Antioch, the capital of the Seleucid Kingdom, to complete the battle of destroying the country.

However, just when the Romans were at their proudest, they suffered a heavy blow.

I don't know where to kill the tens of thousands of cavalry, directly around the flank of the Roman vanguard legion, directly giving the Roman vanguard legion a fatal blow.

Bliss's lieutenant was killed in battle, and 20,000 pioneers were wiped out!

The tragic loss made Bliss go directly to the storm, and he concentrated the remaining men and horses to avenge the deputy marshal.

However, in the next few encounters, despite all the efforts of Bliss, he was no match for those cavalry, and he was repeatedly defeated and chased all the way to the coastline.

If it weren't for the opposing commander who saw the Roman fleet coming to support him and retreated, Bliss would have been taken prisoner.

How can Bliss, who has always been arrogant, endure it?

Relying on his influence over the Senate, Bliss brought a large army from Rome again, gathered 200,000 horses, and vowed to be disgraced!

However, although this time relying on the numerical advantage, it did achieve several small victories, but the mobility of the opponent's cavalry exceeded Bliss's imagination, and it was impossible to catch up with the opponent's pace at all.

It was only learned from the captured Seleucids that this mysterious cavalry was a reinforcement invited by Antiochus III from the mysterious eastern kingdom of Great Qin.

It is said that this country called Daqin has a territory of tens of thousands of miles, a population of more than 30 million, and millions of elites under its command!

Bliss and the others were immediately dumbfounded.

Far to the East, there is such a terrible country?

If it weren't for the fact that the entire Great Qin was thousands of miles away from Asia Minor, but there were only 50,000 horses, Bliss would have retreated.

But it is precisely because of this distance of thousands of miles that Bliss is hopeful.

"Your Highness, according to the intelligence of the Seleucid dignitaries we bought, this time, the Great Qin people plan to let the Seleucid legion phalanx drag us down, and then attack the flank of our army!"

The Roman general hurriedly reported.

"Hmph, as I expected, the people of Great Qin will only use this trick!"

"But they definitely didn't expect that this time, we also have cavalry!"

Bliss snorted coldly.

This time, the Roman Senate, which was shocked by Daqin, made a bloody investment.

He did not hesitate to draw elites from the Carthaginian front, and poured the strength of the whole of Rome to piece together more than 30,000 cavalry.

Although it is not as numerous as the Great Qin people, in Bliss's opinion, it is enough to drag the Great Qin people.

As long as the Great Qin cavalry was entangled by the Roman cavalry and had no advantage in mobility, the Roman phalanx, which had several times the advantage in numbers, was enough to crush the Great Qin cavalry to death.

As for the Seleucid army, it really wasn't taken seriously by Bliss.

"Pass the order, everyone have a good night's rest, and tomorrow will be a decisive battle, and you must completely annihilate these hateful Great Qin barbarians!"

Bliss shouted angrily.

"Yes!"

The Roman general nodded, and prepared to go out to deliver the order.

"By the way, let the cavalry corps pay attention to concealment, and don't be discovered by the Great Qin people in advance. "

Bliss thought for a moment and commanded again.

The Roman generals hurriedly complied.

didn't know that their every move had actually fallen into Meng Tian's grasp a long time ago.

The reason why Meng Tian took the initiative to retreat, in addition to choosing a more suitable venue, was to take advantage of intelligence.

In Asia Minor, the Seleucid Kingdom ruled for a longer time, and most of the residents still had Seleucid hearts and natural favors for the Great Qin army that came to save them.

Under the command of Shen Lian, the Jinyi Guard spies soon formed an airtight intelligence network in Asia Minor.

Bliss is doing this completely useless work.

......

It's night, and the stars are shining.

Due to the hot weather, many Roman legionaries did not fall asleep until late in the evening, when the weather turned cooler.

In the middle of the night, the Great Qin cavalry, which had been prepared, quietly came out of the camp under the leadership of Meng Tian.

50,000 cavalrymen, all of them with horses.

Even on the hard Gobi Desert, there was not much noise.

And the howling night wind completely obscured all movement.

The bright starlight in the world also pointed out the way forward for the Great Qin cavalry.

Under these favorable conditions, the Great Qin cavalry, unknowingly, touched the camp of the Romans a mile away.

Then the 10,000 Great Qin elites were replaced with repeating crossbows.

The bolts were covered with thick linen cloth and soaked with oil.

And the 40,000 cavalry of the Western Regions also took out their homemade bows and arrows.

With Meng Tian's order, ten thousand arrows were fired.

After several volleys, hundreds of thousands of fire balls descended from the sky into the Roman tent.

The howling wind and the incomparably dry Gobi quickly fueled the fire.

The entire Roman camp turned into a sea of fire in an instant.

Many Romans, still asleep, were burned to charcoal.

Those who survived by luck could only scurry around like headless flies in the face of the sea of fire that had been connected, trying to find a piece of life.

At this moment, Meng Tian had already commanded 50,000 cavalry and took advantage of the chaos to launch a charge.

Countless Romans, before they died, still had an expression of disbelief.

Great Qin people, it's too terrifying!