"I Henry, the king who is favored by God, and all my bishops say to you, go down, go down."—Henry IV's challenge letter to Gregory VII

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In late autumn, sixty Rome outside the city of Taixi, in the wilderness under the Guernica Mountains up the Tigris River, there were 15,000 elite Roman troops, including 5,000 new infantry of the Leus Legion, two thousand four detachments of the New Cavalry Legion, and about eight thousand soldiers of the 12th Legion and the Skylark Legion. They protruded from the hidden mountain pass, and suddenly wrapped the palace capital of Parthia under his sword.

The strategy in this strategy was completely beyond the expectations of Parthian monarch Herod.

However, in the name of "Pathia's secretly funding for the murderer of Caesar, attempting to split the Republic and conspiring to seize the Syrian province, is equivalent to tearing down the previous armistice agreement", Libida supported the opposition parties such as Mindaz and entered Syria along the aisle south of the Taurus Mountains in Xiaoya. Since the announcement of the conquest, Herod made up his mind - he not only wanted to abandon the actual capital Seleulia, but also gave up the Dongdu capital Taixifeng, which is separated from its river. In other words, he had to give up all the Mesopotamia, farmland, towns, pastures and ports between the ancient two rivers. Herod was an "opponent who was beaten by Libidaus more than ten years ago"

", but Li Bida had only three legions before, but now he has nearly twenty legions: ten elite legions are placed on the front line of Syria and Armenia, and Agripa and Lufio's ten second-tier legions are stationed in the Lydia plains of Little Ya. "We are far from being an enemy. Anyway, the advantage of the Parthians is that they come and go without a trace and retain their strength. We might as well retreat to the old capital Nisa, which is located in the plateau and the mountains. The Romans will definitely not last long. After Li Bida returns to Roman city to fight for power and profit, we will launch a counterattack, so that all the old land can be collected without any effort." This is what Hellod said to General Selcith.

Then, the noble Lord Assassis, regardless of the hard persuasion of his young son Pacruz, first swept the wealth of all the citizens and merchants of Seleulia, and shipped them over tens of thousands of pack horses and camels. He passed the pontoon bridge of the Tigris River, and regardless of the crying in the city, he began to set fire to the city, using the excuse of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields to guard against the invasion of the Romans - but Libida's six legions were still in the area of ​​Kale City (he was still raising sufficient logistics supplies, after all, the lesson of the last time was very profound); in addition, Libida and Mindaz personally led four legions were still in the Chinodosha Fortress at the junction of Armenia in the north.

Pacruz, who knew that his father would be defeated by the entire army, temporarily mobilized 30,000 people, including 20,000 tribal cavalry. Among them, a small number of elite cavalry equipped with ovens were arranged in the middle of the Tigris River. The keen and brave prince knew that the Romans in Kale were void soldiers, and the four legions of Libida, the fortress of Chinodosha, were the deadly hammers in the hands of the high priest.

And his mission is to block Li Bida's actions before his father evacuated safely.

But Li Bida was obviously more advanced. After leaving the Seventh Legion as a vacant soldier in Chinodosha, he led three legions with three legions to break through the unmanned valley of Rome forty, and once again appeared on the flank of Pacros as a big adventurer and a gambler.

For two huge empires, the so-called showdown is often not a decisive battle that exerts the whole country, but it happens to be an encounter or surprise attack of a small-scale main force with strong "accidentality and artistry" - after the victory or defeat of a battle is decided, it can also determine which one is male and which one is female.

Helpless Pacros could only fight to the death to change the formation, trying to push Li Bida to the edge of the mountain range to annihilate it, but who would have thought that Li Bida's formation would change faster - within half a day, 15,000 Roman soldiers set up their positions from north to south, and their formation was neat and orderly.

So Pacros hurriedly sent a Pegasus to search for his father's location, but he was confused because the orders were intercepted by the light cavalry of the Mathians sent by Li Bida. The rest of the people who were lucky enough to go out were like stones and no news.

Early the next morning, Li Bida gave up defense very decisively and attacked Pacros' camp directly.

On the Guernica wasteland, the light and heavy cavalry of both sides clashed back and forth like the wind, and the flags and the teams were sometimes intertwined and sometimes wandering. The bronze gunners of the Liwus legion were in the camp step by step. At any time, with the cooperation of the light infantry and cavalry, they ejected fire, frightening the Parthian horses in the panic, and then alternately covered and advanced.

"We can't be forced back by this monster weapon, because behind us is the surging Tigris River, which is a dead place. Even if we retreat to Seleuria on the left bank, we will be besieged and annihilated by the enemy!" Faced with the Romans' big winged formation, the young Pacruz finally couldn't help it. He ordered all the cavalry to launch a breakout charge against the Romans' approaching formation.

"Samontoga!" Faced with the whistling of thousands of Parthian cavalry, the chief centurion of the Lius legion, Flakus, turned around and shouted loudly to the four corpses beside him after turning back to receive the Libida's instructions.

"Father, this is so amazing!" Niko, who always followed Li Bida under the flag, cheered loudly on the horse's back with his eyes shiny, "My papa is indeed the descendant of Liwus's God of War. You don't have to be afraid of papa. Niko is holding a bow and arrow blessed by the goddess, protecting you here. The enemy cavalry will never hurt you at all."

A strange sound suddenly sounded, first one by one, then one by one, followed by piece of cork rockets, with smoke tails, like thousands of venomous snakes and pythons, shooting towards the Parthian cavalry that was rushing towards the turbulent formation! Then, Niko looked at his father with admiration and raised his hand. The military flag behind him was raised high, and Li Bida's new cavalry shouted, accompanied the infantry shield wall spear forest on both wings, and from the central nuclear position, he rushed and crushed the Pathian cavalry that was in chaos.

"The unique elite created by this generation happened to be the nightmare of the Parthians for the next thirty years." In the end, Li Bida smiled and said proudly in front of his daughter. It was natural for his father to show off to his daughter.

In the shouts, the advance troops of the Lius Legion discovered that in the black smoke and the flying rain of fire, an enemy young nobleman wearing a golden crown was riding a horse, trying to jump to Gaofu and break through. "That is the prince of the Parthians! Shoot, shoot, for the glory of the high priest!" Many centurions who received the intelligence shouted with their fingers, and then a team of soldiers from the Lius Legion who were close to the high fu rushed over quickly, forming a wall, and bombarded the formation at Pacros and his followers who rushed down from Gaofu. (To be continued, please search for Piaotian, the novel is better and faster!
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