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Chapter 694 Is this king not tolerant enough?

The King of Yan not only did not look down on the Romans, but also looked up to him. However, everything has its own rules. As long as he is an individual, he will be tired. Sima Ji, who used the servant army to test the Roman legion, obviously peeked at the offensive and defensive transformation of the Roman legion. No army's subordinate troops will be at the same level. If there is ace troops, there will be public security forces.

The 36th Army of the Central Jin Dynasty, their names were actually given to the Imperial Army, but the levels of the Imperial Army were very different. Compared with the Roman Empire in the same period of history, Sima Ji did not believe that the seven Roman legions he faced were all elites in a hundred battles. This was not in line with common sense at all.

Even Sima Ji's army can be divided into four parts: the minion army, the four feudals, the eight banners and the Jin army in terms of military preparation.

Although Sima Ji was not a general of a genius, he had never made a very basic common sense mistake. After peeping around for a long time, Sima Ji felt that he had found seven Roman legions, the legion with a significant decline in physical strength and looked quite average, so he immediately ordered the 20,000 Eight Banners to take this legion as the key target of attack.

The current Roman Empire, as a huge empire with multi-ethnic and multi-tribe integration, divided the vast land occupied by the empire into several areas, controlled by four emperors, and the strongest Diocletian controlled most of the East, including the entire Eastern Mediterranean coast, as an Eastern administrative region.

The current Roman Empire is also different from before. Rome has long been the power of Roman citizens as the Roman legion, but now, in theory, all people from the Roman Empire are considered Roman citizens. Let’s put it this way, the source of Roman legion troops in the past was similar to the system of the Tang Dynasty’s palace soldiers, and the source of Roman legion troops has been expanded a lot, similar to the system of military households in the Yuan and Ming dynasties.

This is why Diocletian just reformed and gave the Roman Empire a shot of cardiotonic. Now the effect has not yet passed. Sima Ji has been here for decades in the evening and should have seen many Roman legions become beggars.

"Let Murong Han send two teams of 10,000 to cut off the return of the Roman Legion. If this battle is not decided, no one can leave here!" His mobility is far greater than his opponent, and Sima Ji would be stupid if he doesn't take advantage of it. The Roman Legion's behavior of empire-oriented and struggling with his opponents was unfortunately his favorite opponent.

The Roman legion was used to disrupt the Roman legion and consume the opponent's physical strength, and the Xianbei cavalry of the Four Feudals cut off the opponent's way back. At the same time, the Eight Banners Army used the Roman legion's formation to forcefully fight. So far, Sima Ji's army did nothing. But even so, it was enough that the Roman legion was in a mess.

The seven Roman legions, each with a unit of five or six thousand people, plus ten thousand cavalry as support. In fact, there are only 40,000 to 50,000 people. Although there are ants wars and elephants wars, it is impossible to say who is higher and who is lower in terms of technology and tactics. However, the winning rate of more people is objective.

Even now, the cavalry used by Sima Ji is already between the number of the Roman legion. All this makes Marcus complain secretly, and he seems to have met an opponent who is particularly good at mobilizing large legions to fight.

This was the result of Diocletian's expansion of the army. Before this, the Roman legion's strength would not be as strong as it is now. Egypt would not be able to mobilize seven legions at a time. Marcus, who wanted to fight outside the border, felt that he seemed to have made a mistake, but it was too late now. He could only hope for the long-standing honor and accumulation of the Roman legion to help him survive this difficulty.

The fighting like a meat grinder is not unfamiliar to the Roman legion, but although they are not unfamiliar with infantry fighting cavalry, they also have to divide the cavalry. The cavalry army in front of them is quite shameless.

The legion, which was taken care of by Sima Ji, had a fight with the Eight Banners of the Jurchens. Although the javelin and javelin projector were not directly stabbed by a knife, it was also full of blood.

The heavy bow used for tigers and wild boars has a nickname for javelin projectors in later generations, which is very appropriate to illustrate the power of this bow and arrow. The East Asian javelin soldiers are not common. This time, this was the first time that the Jurchen cavalry met an orthodox javelin soldiers.

"Jaberlin throw!" Under the camp flag, the Romans shouted loudly, aiming at the enemy with the heavy javelin in their hands, and then threw it out with great force. The heavy javelin came out of his hand, and the sound of breaking through the air in the air was like the grim smile of the god of death!

The next second, dozens of heavy arrows were covered by the javelins throwing javelins. Several heavy arrows with the same armor-breaking power smashed their large shields, and then they broke through the armor defense without diminishing, penetrated the soldiers' bodies, bringing bloody flowers and painful screams.

Thick and long clusters of arrows flew all over the sky, hitting a dull sound in front of the large shield of the Roman Legion. This does not mean that the soldiers of the Roman Legion are safe and sound. The weapons such as bows and arrows are actually very metaphysical weapons like torpedoes. No matter how good the quality of the shield in front of you is, whether you can protect you to survive will still have two possible consequences.

Also, there are too many cavalrymen surrounding this legion. There are only five or six thousand people in a Roman legion. Sima Ji directly joined the 20,000 Eight Banners. The configuration of javelin soldiers in the Roman legion is fixed, and everyone has heavy bows of the Eight Banners cavalry. Even the shield in front of them is strong, it cannot help them resist such a huge exchange ratio. While throwing out the javelin, dozens of sharp arrows break through the air. No matter how brave the soldiers are, they cannot sacrifice themselves without any loss, right?

Marcus, who was in the Roman camp, also discovered the dangerous situation of this legion, which made people blow the trumpet and command the approaching legion to prevent the besieged legion from falling into a collapse. However, it is easy to issue an order. The commanding legion also received the order, but it is not as easy as it is said when approaching.

Every Roman legion is under great pressure. You should know that every Roman legion is dealing with the existence of a starting ten thousand men.

When close forces are connected, it is the world of maces. The Roman spears are actually very protective in combination with tight formations. However, in addition to spears, the melee weapons of Roman soldiers are really very ordinary. Because the legion, which is mainly infantry, must consider the physical strength of the soldiers under its command, and the Roman legion requires flexibility, there are not many heavy weapons equipped. It just so happens that the maces are the most common horse weapon of the Eight Banners.

If they were fighting face to face on the ground, the short swords of the Roman soldiers would eventually gain an advantage in close combat. However, the fight is not fair now. What the Roman soldiers must do is to fight the high with low.

A Roman soldier used a shield to block the Jurchens' condescending heavy blow. The vibration from the shield made him numb, but then, as the enemy's middle gate opened, the short sword in his hand pierced straight out, as if he would gain the first result of this battle in the next moment. The sharp sword would pass through the enemy's body, blood gushed out, dyeing everything around him red...

If it weren't for a heavy arrow to nail him to the ground, all the above ideas would have come true. If it weren't for the heavy arrow that appeared when it shouldn't have appeared, the Roman soldiers lying on the ground wouldn't have watched the barbble-covered mace get closer and closer, and the world is quiet.

The mace was a weapon that the Song army in later generations hated very much, and the degree of disgust was extraordinary. Now, the Romans have experienced this feeling. It is definitely not a pleasure to see the mace with barbed ones swaying at them.

The soldier who was hit by a mace to the ground screamed, which shocked everyone's impression. He was even seriously injured even if he didn't die. Whether he could survive depends entirely on luck, and it was cheap, and even natural materials were available. It is worthy of being a natural weapon for all kinds of fishermen.

The situation on the entire battlefield is inevitably evolving in a direction that is beneficial to the invaders. Of course, this is just the wishful thinking of the Romans. Sima Ji felt that he should have won. He was the ultimate winner of the civil war in the Great Jin Dynasty.

The first Roman legion that collapsed was the one he focused on. Under Sima Ji's sledgehammer, there were no walnuts that could not be smashed. When the first Roman legion collapsed, it immediately caused a chain reaction. This was a very common thing in ancient battlefields.

"Tang Qiang, take the heavy cavalry to finish the game." The scene of the dawn of victory appeared clearly. Sima Ji naturally could not miss the great opportunity to let the heavy cavalry, who was the foundation of his life, attack. He defeated the Roman legion at the end of his strength.

"Follow me to kill them!" Tang Qiang took the lead and shouted loudly. The black heavy cavalry army appeared on the battlefield like a dark cloud covering the sun. Their entry point was the Roman legion that was being taken care of.

This Roman legion was particularly unlucky when Jingluo was furious because he was caught in the eyes of the King of Yan. Sima Ji was a man who was not ashamed of fighting more but proud of his pride. The students he taught were naturally like this. Although the main way of fighting was to fight head-on, a specific problem could be analyzed in detail, and soft persimmons could be found on a battlefield.

Tang Qiang led a heavy cavalry to roar past and directly snatched the heads of the Eight Banners of the Jurchens. He continued to destroy the scattered Roman legions. Then he turned and attacked the other Roman legions on the flanks. In just a few dozen breaths, the collapse of the two Roman legions successively.

The Jin Guard's heavy cavalry immediately had an immediate effect as soon as they stepped onto the battlefield, and the other generals naturally would not miss the opportunity. Murong Han asked all the Xianbei cavalry of the four vassals to suppress them and siege the Roman legions inside the encirclement.

The fight lasted for more than an hour. Sima Ji used half of his troops to make the seven Roman legions in front of him die in name only. He took the eagle flags of the seven Roman legions and nearly 20,000 prisoners, and left the battlefield without hesitation. The gates of Egypt were already open.
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