Chapter 1040: Babak's Growth
Without any hesitation, Graze led his own troops and the barbarian cavalry to launch a charge.
He had already foreseen what would happen next. Every second that followed would become a direct game between them and the god of death.
"kill!"
Although Achino and Africanus looked solemn, they were not very afraid. They made the same decision as Gretz, which was to quickly approach and engage in hand-to-hand combat, and bring the war back to the field of organizational strength, command and dispatch, or the quality of the soldiers.
This level of secret technique cannot avoid one reality, that is, both sides have suffered great weakening. In this case, there is nothing to be afraid of. How can their Eagle Flag Legion lose to the Parthian Legion?
"Haha, Rome, it's so pathetic that you don't even know you're going to die!"
Babak smiled coldly. They were the ones who prepared the secret technique, so they naturally knew what the consequences would be.
So they prepared something that would be best suited for this environment.
Crossbows...and bed crossbows!
"shooting!"
At Omzada's command, the Parthians all took out their crossbows and bows and began to shoot alternately, outputting all their bursts in the shortest possible time.
A rain of arrows burst out, without those special defensive effects and without the great quality enhancement, let alone arrows shot from longbows, even ordinary shortbow shots could pose a fatal crisis to the soldiers.
Since it was the battlefield that Babak and his men had arranged, it was naturally equipped with a large number of bows and crossbows. Exchanging supplies for results was the tone set by Ardashir.
As long as enough Roman soldiers died, they would have a greater chance of winning subsequent wars.
Even though they were the elite soldiers of the three Eagle Flag Legions, even with their honed battlefield instincts and experience gained from hundreds of battles, no one dared to guarantee that they could survive facing such a dense rain of arrows.
But at this moment, they had no room to retreat.
The moment they step into the trap, all that's left is to fight for their lives.
When two brave men meet in a narrow road, the brave one wins. They all understand this truth.
The well-prepared Parthian elite soldiers, under the command of their respective thousand-man and centurion commanders, had launched a shooting frenzy at the Roman army. Be it the Roman eagle flag or the Roman auxiliary troops, since they were enemies, they would be killed!
At this time, Achino felt extremely regretful, even though both sides were standing on the same starting line.
But the Parthias, who had been well prepared, were obviously stronger than them. They did not carry many archers, and compared with the enemy's rain of arrows, the difference was like the difference between a firefly and the sun.
Hundreds of soldiers fell down almost every moment, and they had no choice but to keep charging forward.
Babak took a deep breath. The Romans still had too many people. The crossbows they carried were almost used up, but there were still too many people on the Roman side. So had to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
"Achaemenids, I leave those cavalrymen to you, is that ok?" Babak turned his head and said to another killing move they had prepared.
"Leave it to me, they won't have a chance to bother you!"
Achaemenides said this calmly, and then led his soldiers to form a circle of barricades, and then set up a spear formation, waiting solemnly.
"Damn it!" Graze and his barbarian cavalry took the initiative to move away.
If they were gifted, they would naturally choose to rush in directly. With just barricades, they would just use the legion attack to blast a path open and then rush in.
But now, they could not ignore the barricades and gun formations. A rash charge would only cost them their lives.
"Go back immediately to get reinforcements!" Seeing that he could not complete the raid, Gretz could only angrily send some of his men back to get reinforcements, at least to bring a few archer legions.
Parthia had prepared everything, forcing the Roman legions to fight them head-on.
In fact, the Parthian soldiers were unable to support such secret techniques. The only reason they were able to achieve this level was mainly because of the secret techniques they had prepared in advance. It can be said that they had been preparing for this moment for a long time.
They had already started making preparations when Ardashir decided to voluntarily abandon the Zagros Mountains.
Just like the hunt for Thirteen Roses, this was a long-planned trap that they could not break.
So Graze sent out several teams to ask for help without any hesitation.
The disappearance of the essence of heaven and earth has resulted in the progress of the war being slowed down indefinitely. The originally super soldiers now only have the physical fitness of mortals, which causes the speed of hand-to-hand combat to be very slow, enough to hold out until their reinforcements arrive.
Gretz's reaction was quite sharp in an instant, when he realized that Rome intended to fight them with the help of the Macedonian policy.
He discovered that they had too few long-range forces and could not even raise their heads under the enemy's fire suppression, so they had to ask for assistance.
As for the Sixth Triumph and the Eighth Giant in front, there is no room for retreat.
Fortunately, they were all heavy infantry legions, and their equipment was sophisticated and strong enough, so even if the Parthian arrows could break through their defenses, they could still charge forward under the Parthian rain of arrows.
Even if they are stripped of the essence of heaven and earth, they are still elite.
Under their leadership, the barbarians who suffered heavy losses did not collapse. Instead, they were overwhelmed by the war and thought of launching a suicidal attack on the front.
For a moment, both Rome and Parthia rushed towards each other like raging waves, even though most of their combat effectiveness had been eliminated by the strategic-level secret techniques.
However, his extremely strong spirit, which had been forged in past battles, did not show any fear in the face of this situation. Killing the opponent and winning was the most correct way to preserve himself.
"Throw spears!" Babak gave the order cruelly. The poor coordination between the Roman legions gave him a lot of room to maneuver.
As Babak's order was issued, the Parthian soldiers who received the order directly threw hundreds of three-foot-long short spears in the direction of Babak's command.
Without special defensive capabilities, even if the soldiers of the Sixth Triumph and the Eighth Giant were of relatively good quality, they would still be fatally attacked by such close-range spears.
Even if they were not stabbed to death directly, as long as the blow hit them, they would be close to death, after all, the opponents in front of them were already rushing towards them.
Babak stared at the battle situation grimly. He had only one way of fighting, and that was to cause as much damage as possible. He didn't want to fight to the death with the Sixth Triumph and the Eighth Giant.
If his Burning Legion was here, he could have tried to destroy the Eagle Flag today, but his legion is not here, and those who are here today are just ordinary elites.
Only the headquarters of Omzada and Achaemenid were present, the rest were merely the elite of Parthia’s unified talents.
Without drawing away the essence of heaven and earth, they would have had little chance of being a match for their opponents, but this great secret technique helped them accomplish this great feat.
Simply put, the 6th Triumphal Legion and the 8th Giant Legion are both double-talented elites, and are as elite as the Imperial Guards, while the Parthians are just the most ordinary double-talented soldiers.
There is an insurmountable gap between the two sides in terms of individual quality and legionary organization.
The coordination between the Roman legions was very poor, but the coordination within them was excellent. If it were not for this, Penelence would not have felt such a headache.
A towering tree that has grown crooked is very difficult to correct. How to make the Roman legion commanders have the mindset of team combat without damaging the original combat effectiveness is what Penilence wants.
Otherwise, he could have simply disorganized the soldiers of each legion and unified their training. Why would he go through so much trouble?
However, the current situation is that Babak and his men are suppressing Achino and his men, and Parthia has gradually gained the upper hand.
Even though the Romans lost tens of thousands of people in the first round of arrow rain, their numbers were still much larger than those of Parthia, but the situation on the battlefield gradually tilted towards Parthia.
It would be the same even if Graze and his barbarians abandoned their warhorses and joined the battle directly.
Babak looked at everything in front of him calmly.
Perhaps a few years ago, he was not even qualified to lead elite soldiers or even face the Roman Sixth Triumphal Legion.
But now, even if we put aside his three talents, he is enough to put the Eagle Flag in a tough fight. His growth rate far exceeds that of most Roman generals.
Because unlike the Roman officers who were under guard, the Parthians, who had already been pushed to the limit, had no spare energy to protect their officers.
Penelunus wanted to use high pressure to train the Roman legion commanders, because high pressure is the best way to make a general improve, but Parthia has been living under high pressure since the beginning.
They were constantly fighting against the high pressure brought by Rome, so the Parthians made rapid progress, almost changing every day.
How many times have I been on the verge of death, and how many times have I achieved a major reversal before failure, a small battle every three days, and a big battle every five days.
If you don't want to die, then make everything you can learn your own. If there is no one to teach you command and dispatch, then learn it by yourself. If you don't have a clear sense of battlefield prediction and battle situation estimation, then just grope your way through it. Failure means death, and survival is success!
The commander of the Parthian Guards who had died at the hands of Greze was more talented than him, but he was dead while Babak was still alive.
There were many talented young people in Parthia, but most of them died in the war.
The Roman Eagle Banner Legion has seen everything it should have seen. The glory of Ardashir and Temujin overshadowed everything, but that doesn't mean he is not strong enough. On the contrary, he is very strong!
The older generation of Parthian generals and officers were unable to defeat Rome and were afraid of Rome from the bottom of their hearts, so they were unable to provide Ardashir and his men with a sheltered environment.
Ardashir and his group of officers were like weeds growing wildly in the wild. Neither heavy rain nor strong winds could defeat them. On the contrary, they were growing vigorously.
The Roman legion commanders were like plants living in a greenhouse. They grew extremely well under care, but when thrown into a cruel environment, the difference in performance between the two sides was immediately apparent.
The Roman Empire was the reason for both its success and its failure.
Being an overly powerful country made it difficult for them to survive in a desperate situation where they were doomed to die. They could not feel the endless pressure from Parthia because Rome was too strong.
Rome currently has only one problem, and that is internal politics.
The generals and officers of the Han Dynasty also had similar problems, but because the internal political problems of the Han Dynasty broke out too early, it brought the Han Dynasty a long period of lows, so the problems in this regard of the Han Dynasty have been greatly improved.
Rome is only now beginning to improve this problem, and Parthia is the whetstone they have chosen.
There is more than one path to success. Parthia's path to success is fast enough because Parthia is in a hurry, so anxious that it cannot wait.
But Rome was not in a hurry at all. They could still wait. They had plenty of time to adjust, but Parthia did not.
But that is all a matter for the future. On the current battlefield, Babak looked down at Graz and the other three.
All kinds of confusing thoughts flashed through his mind, and Babak's eyes once again burned with flames. The order in his hand began to frantically mobilize his troops and turn the main force at an unimaginable speed.
As his command ability became stronger and stronger, he understood more and more that even the decisive battle troops were not invincible. Even with three talents, the military soul was just a flag on a real battlefield. Although it was very strong, when the quality of the regular soldiers was enough to slow down the speed of these legions' attack, the significance of the generals would surpass the legion itself.
Parthia itself is the best at large-scale army combat, because they have mastered the technology of peak blasting, which can arbitrarily burn the talent of a legion on a certain line of defense and turn it into a breakthrough.
But unfortunately, although they have great potential, Parthia no longer has time to realize it.
"No matter if it's a decisive battle type of army or any other type, when you are unable to kill your opponent head-on, it means your weakness has been exposed," Babak narrated calmly.
Omzada and Achaemeni both had expressions of deep shock on their faces. They thought they could only achieve a small gain this time, but they did not expect Babak to be so powerful. Not only did they have the upper hand, they even had the possibility of winning.
Babak shook his head at Omzada and Achaemeni's delusions.
There are also tens of thousands of people, and the overall quality of the other side is even higher, but in the end the balance really turned in their direction. It is not that generals are meaningless, but many of them fail to play their due role.
If it was just the current battlefield, he did have a chance of winning, but as a general with an eye on the overall situation, he knew very well that the current advantages were illusory.
He saw clearly that Gretz sent people to ask for help, so their advantage would only last until a new round of reinforcements arrived from Rome.
If it were in the past, he might have chosen to injure as many Roman soldiers as possible to increase Rome's logistical pressure.
However, the existence of the angel legion forced him to kill as many Roman soldiers as possible.
That kind of ability to recover almost instantly is too abnormal.
Even though the cost is high and the life span is shortened a lot, the effect is still amazing.
