Chapter 890: Long Live Parthia
"Old General Sassan, I wonder what arrangements you plan to make for us. In addition, we need a document about the Roman legion. Could you provide it to us?" Zhuge Liang stood up and said gently.
"This is exactly what I am going to say next. This time, I wonder if the Han army can advance with our army and attack the left wing of the Roman army?" Fars Sassan said seriously.
Parthia was fully confident of this operation, and because of this, they were willing to give the credit of the left wing to the Han Dynasty. This way, the two sides would have more exchanges and effectively enhance trade between the two countries.
"Of course!" Zhuge Liang chuckled. He felt a little embarrassed by Parthia's understanding.
"Originally , the Roman Seventh Legion, the Roman Ninth Legion, and the Roman Thirteenth Legion were stationed in the opposite defense zone. However, it seems that due to domestic changes, the Roman Fourth Legion, the Roman Sixth Legion, and the Roman Twelfth Legion are also stationed here."
Fars Sassan briefly described their opponents. To be honest, if the entire empire had not become stronger after the merger, this lineup would have been a bit of a nightmare for them.
In the previous Parthian Empire, Ganasis could reach the vicinity of Ctesiphon with two Eagle Flag Legions and a bunch of miscellaneous legions. Now with six Eagle Flag Legions, the combat effectiveness is at least half as strong, but they are not afraid at all and regard it as a piece of cake.
It's not that they know nothing about the Eagle Flag Legion, but they have a deep understanding of the Eagle Flag Legion. In their estimation, although the first dozen or so legions of the thirty Eagle Flag Legions are double-talented legions, they are basically at the same level as the Royal Guards.
After all, the double-talent and triple-talent division method itself is problematic, and the resulting combat power division naturally cannot be described by ordinary division.
The double talents of the barbarians are really double talents, while the double talents of the Roman citizens are basically the double talents starting from the beginning of smelting talents. It is a concept to call them the Praetorian Guards.
As for the legions in the last dozen or so sequences, in theory they are also stronger than the ordinary barbarian double-talent legions.
However, Fars Sassan was not too worried about whether the Han Dynasty would fail. The three-talent legion he led was enough to deal with ordinary troubles, not to mention the other legions, which gave him a strong impression.
Having fought bloody battles with the Han Dynasty, they knew very well that the Han Dynasty's legions were by no means comparable to ordinary legions, and there would be absolutely no problem in handing the left wing over to the Han Dynasty.
As for Parthia itself, there will absolutely be no problems.
The war between Rome and Parthia had been going on for so many years, but Rome had never destroyed Parthia. Moreover, if it were not for the seven great nobles who continued to hold back the Parthian emperor for more than a hundred years, Rome might not have been able to gain an overall advantage.
As long as an entire empire can work together, its strength will be absolutely incredible.
Just like Parthia today, in the past few years it could only be pinned to the ground by less than one-fifth of Rome's strength, and was even beaten to the point of its capital. However, after domestic integration, it was able to immediately gather a large army, and then make dumplings out of the same number of Roman troops and treat them as a meal.
The gap between them is not a little bit.
This is also why, for feudal empires, the same national strength can exert different power in the hands of different emperors.
This brings us to two things: one is the Jingkang Shame and the other is the Battle of Jiankang.
The former was a humiliation for the Song Dynasty, while the latter was the first glorious victory of Yue Family Army and the Battle of Huangtiandang led by Han Shizhong.
These two events actually happened very close to each other. The Jingkang Shame happened in 1126, and the Battle of Jiankang happened in 1130.
The Jingkang Rebellion was basically a complete defeat, but did the Song Dynasty have no power? Obviously not.
During the Battle of Huangtiandang, Han Shizhong was able to besiege the Jin soldiers, let alone other things.
Putting aside Yue Fei's personal abilities, Han Shizhong alone has the ability to not lose to the Jin army. As long as Song Gaozong is determined to resist, the Song Dynasty has the ability to defeat the Jin army.
However, Song Gaozong subsequently carried out a series of confusing operations, killed Yue Fei on false charges, and personally cut off the last bit of national destiny of the entire Song Dynasty.
What died was not only Yue Fei, but also the entire country's determination to defend its country.
If Song Gaozong had supported Yue Fei's Northern Expedition, the recovery of lost territories would not have been a false claim but a fact that had already happened. He might even have been able to earn the title of the greatest emperor of all time and reverse the failure of the entire Song Dynasty.
Parthia is in the same situation at the moment. After the Jingkang humiliation, it immediately launched a counterattack, which is completely different.
After all, in the past hundred years, even though the war between Parthia and Rome was one-sided, they killed a lot of Roman legions, even the soldiers of the Eagle Flag Legion were killed a lot, and they had no fear at all.
"Super strong defense, rebound attack?" Zhuge Liang couldn't help but frowned after listening to the explanation of the Roman Thirteenth Legion.
The Han Dynasty had studied this legion before, but had never been able to achieve both strong defense and a powerful rebound attack. In the end, they could only compromise and develop in the direction of strong defense.
The Xiliang Iron Cavalry and Shield Guards were both notable achievements in terms of strong defense, and the Thirteenth Legion actually took into account both defense and rebound, which aroused Zhuge Liang's curiosity.
As expected, the Empire can bring endless surprises to people. Such a magical legion has appeared. It is worthy of being the War of Empires. It has brought them some surprises before it even started.
As for the other legions, Zhuge Liang didn't care much about them, and was even a little disappointed.
There are no particularly outstanding colors, we can only say that each has its own characteristics, which are not quite the same as the style of the Han Dynasty, but basically the Han Dynasty has tried, or replicated, and has targeted solutions.
What is truly surprising is a legion like the Thirteenth, about which the Han Dynasty had no research results.
"What do you think?" Zhuge Liang asked via voice transmission.
"If that Roman Ninth Legion shows up, just leave it to us to deal with it. I'd like to see if the Ninth Legion is as weird as people say, charging without starting. Hey, it sounds like it's true!" Li Jue said with a cheerful smile.
"You all have three talents, don't you have any shame at all?" Zhang Liao was a little speechless. It was really shameless for people with three talents to bully people with two talents or the Imperial Guards.
Of course, Zhang Liao naturally equated himself with the heavy cavalry, and stood on a moral high ground to point fingers at Li Jue.
The others were already used to it. On the way here, the two sides had been bickering, and they didn't know whether this was a good relationship or a bad one.
"Qi, do you really think we are as worthless as you in Bingzhou? Of course, it will be Bo Yuan who will take the lead then!" Guo Si looked at Zhang Liao with dissatisfaction. They would never bully the weak. It is totally meaningless to bully the weak. It would be better to use the time to train Zhang Xiu.
"If the Thirteenth Legion appears, can you let me handle it?" Gao Lan suddenly said.
Everyone was a little surprised. Gao Lan had been silent all the way, and no one expected him to have the confidence to take on a heavy infantry corps that was suspected to be the Royal Guards.
Gao Lan looked at the puzzled looks of the crowd and explained through voice transmission the special features of his legion.
"Resurrection through willpower test?" The pupils of the people who heard this shrank slightly, expressing their surprise at Gao Lan's words. They knew that Gao Lan's headquarters were heavy infantry, but they never thought that they would be this kind of heavy infantry.
“How many times can he be resurrected?” Zhuge Liang couldn’t help but ask. He was a little surprised when he first detected Gao Lan’s talent, but he didn’t expect that Gao Lan could perfectly combine the legion’s talent and the type of soldiers, and develop such a cheating talent.
Even Gongsun Xu, who led another rogue army, the Baima Yicong, looked at Gao Lan in shock.
Their Baima Yicong had only pushed their speed to the extreme, but survivability was their eternal pain, and Gao Lan had obviously pushed their survivability to the extreme now. He was a little envious of such a legion.
However, Gongsun Xu was also very clear that heavy infantry was just Bai Ma's toys. Even with heavy cavalry, Bai Ma could still achieve the ultimate one-for-one exchange.
Do you understand that speed is the value of power?
Give me a hundred thousand white horses and I will even knock down the city walls for you to see.
Shortly after the meeting, the army set out and marched towards Rome.
The Parthian marching speed was not fast, but the momentum of its slow advance was very frightening. The Parthian legions lined up in a row without any disguise, and their morale became stronger and stronger as they advanced collectively.
The Han army on the edge of the left wing saw that the Romans unexpectedly chose to fight directly in the field, and did not rely on the camp for defense as they had imagined.
"It looks like Rome is doomed. They actually committed such a serious military taboo. Are they confident that they will not lose to Parthia? Is it because they have won so many times that they can no longer face up to the strength of the two sides?"
Zhuge Liang sighed. He hadn't even been labeled as an idiot yet, so how could he do such an idiotic thing?
In fact, this was true, and Rome did not take the Parthians seriously at all.
It's like one day Afghanistan declares war on the United States and sends troops to attack the United States. It sounds ridiculous, right?
This is what Rome thought, and all the Roman legion commanders, including Ganasis, maintained a mentality that was almost overly proud.
Fortunately, this is the Mesopotamian region, an endless plain without any obstructions. Otherwise, with some strategy, Parthia might have been able to directly destroy this large army of the Roman Empire here.
Strategically underestimating the enemy is a strategy, but giving up the advantage of terrain and choosing to fight a war with fairness is a complete taboo in military strategy and is extremely stupid.
However, the Romans did not care about the geographical advantages. In their view, there was nothing to be strategized about in this kind of terrain. It was just a battle between regular troops and regular troops. There was no reason for them to lose on a frontal battlefield.
In their view, they did not attack Parthia because they were afraid of the Han and Kushan dynasties and gave them enough face. However, Parthia actually took advantage of them.
Judging from the situation, the Han Dynasty should have sent troops, but what can such a small army do? Parthia was simply out of control.
"It seems that Voggis is about to change to the sixth generation. He is really stupid enough to take the initiative to fight us in the field. He is simply looking for death!" Ganasis said with a smile, and the legion commanders on the side also laughed.
Ganasis' words expressed the thoughts of all the legion commanders. In their view, Parthia had been misled after fighting the barbarians for so many years and really thought that their Roman Empire consisted of only barbarians.
This time, in addition to the six Eagle Flag Legions, there are also ten citizen legions. Most of these citizens are barbarians, but they are also legions that surpass the barbarian legions.
In the past, the armies that fought against Parthia were all Rome's lowest-level barbarian legions. This time, they not only dispatched six high-level legions, but also about ten mid-level legions.
Parthia was courting its own demise.
In fact, Rome was initially afraid that Parthia would use some kind of human wave tactic, so they took the initiative to block Parthia's route and built a temporary camp to prevent Parthia from using human lives.
As a result, now that the war was about to break out, after discovering that Parthia seemed to have only mobilized an army on paper, they immediately became eager to rush out and defeat Parthia.
"Since they are looking for death, just give them a ride!" Ganasis gave the final order.
The two sides were on full alert on a plain more than ten miles apart. The clouds in the sky began to distort. As Fars Sassan drew his sword, the momentum of Parthia reached its peak and everyone raised their weapons.
"Parthia!"
In an instant, the air seemed to solidify, and the offensive formation of the Parthian army was instantly strengthened by the blessing of the clouds, which gave the entire legion greater strength.
At the same time, Roma also adopted an offensive formation, and it was obvious that they had no intention of avoiding the enemy's attack.
"Although it was a little silly, this strength and ambition are indeed worthy of the name of the empire. It's a pity that we underestimated the enemy!" Zhuge Liang shook his head.
The Parthians and Romans did not conceal their intentions at all, and he could almost see at a glance what the leaders of both sides were thinking.
It's like if a group of Hu people came to attack Youzhou, Gongsun Zan's first reaction would definitely be to lead his troops to wipe them out directly. Unfortunately, Parthia is not a group of Hu people, and Rome is not Gongsun Zan. The gap between the two sides is not that big and clear.
"Parthia has some skills that we Han Dynasty don't have, and Rome doesn't seem to be weak. Parthia has been beaten all along, and it seems that it is not just because of the internal strife!" Lu Su nodded and looked at the clouds in the sky.
The clouds are no longer just clouds, but clouds mixed with the manifestation of faith and will. It can be seen that the strength of both sides is good. Although not as glorious as the Battle of Northern Frontier, their small army is no match at all.
"Heroes of Parthia, we have finally waited for this day... For Your Majesty, for Parthia!" Fars Sassan's ups and downs in voice rang out, and combined with the soldiers' strides forward, it was unexpectedly harmonious.
He is definitely an expert in mobilizing emotions, and his ability is definitely not inferior to Zhou Yu. Even Zhuge Liang suspected that this was his legionary talent.
As the words for Parthia came to an abrupt end, Fars Sassanid shouted the last words.
"Parthia! Long live!"
Fars Sassan's voice stopped abruptly, and was followed by a thunderous roar.
"Parthia! Long live!"
In an instant, the Parthian army was on fire.
