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Chapter 709 Make a deal (two in one)

"It's the Tenth Legion!"

It was Meng Yu who answered the call. He brought hundreds of cavalry to monitor the Roman army behind him and provide guards for the infantry in the army.

So he knows the situation of the Roman pursuers best.

"The Tenth Legion! It seems that the Romans don't want us to go deep into Anxi, and they are afraid that we will cooperate with the Parthians." A standing army came chasing after them alone. The intention was obvious. Xu Ding thought for a while and said:
"It doesn't matter, you are all in the city now, unless the Romans really want to fight Hatra, but if they really want to fight us, they are not afraid of them, because we are strong and strong, and we have the local advantage of General Caliph."

Speaking Xu introduced the Caliph to everyone.

Although the caliph was a prisoner, Xu Ding did not despise him, and fully respected him.

Khalifa said: "It's a pleasure to meet you all. You are all powerful generals under Qin. I hope we can cooperate happily."

Reluctantly, Harry could only be more magnanimous now.

Meng Yu, Huobi, and Soros got acquainted with the Caliph one by one.

The three of them were also very curious about the owner of Hatra City.

Even if this guy was captured, he could still get the appreciation of his own commander. It seemed that he was also a ruthless person.

Some things are not suitable for the caliph to listen to, so after entering the mansion, the caliph went to attend to his affairs, and Xu Ding chatted with several confidants about other matters.

During the conversation, he compared goods: "Commander, you didn't put the caliph under house arrest and let him stay with you, so you didn't let them know the secret of our cavalry."

Those who advanced into the city were cavalry, and those who followed Xu Ding were all cavalry. The Caliph must have seen cavalry equipment.

This is definitely a treasure for the Parthians who are mainly cavalry.

So shopping around is worrying.

Naturally insecure, he is wary of all potential safety hazards, so he often likes to offer opinions and opinions the most.

Xu Ding said: "I brought the caliph with me. First, I want to fully express my goodwill. We are not against Anxi, and we hope to cooperate with them. If he is placed under house arrest, then no Anxi people in Hatra City will believe us.

Parthians in other cities are even less likely to trust us.

Second, it is impossible for our cavalry to hide the secrets forever. From the moment my cavalry entered the city, there were no secrets. It would be better to let the Caliph see it generously and let him explore.

Only in this way will he allow us to stay here temporarily and provide us with food and grass with peace of mind.

Third, I found that the Parthian Empire was far less powerful than I thought it was. On the contrary, it was very fragile and very weak. If Parthian had the strength to fight against the Roman Empire, it had to strengthen Parthian's military power. "

After chatting with the caliph, Xu Ding learned about the basic political system of Anxi, which is a loose alliance empire.

The ability to concentrate on doing big things is limited.

Although it can be stronger for a while, it will not be able to last forever, and it will easily disintegrate and fall apart.

A Parthian Empire that is too weak does not fit his plan to fish out of troubled waters.

That's why Xu Ding was relieved to let Khalifa follow him and let him learn equipment technology from his teacher.

Now that the saddle and stirrups have been invented, there is no way to stop it from spreading.

Anyway, in the future, the Great Han West Expedition will definitely not expect to have an advantage in this aspect. When it develops to a certain stage, the method of warfare will be another form, so Xu Ding is no longer so restrained.

"So that's the case, we are too conservative." Shop around after hearing the words and thought about it, and felt that Xu Ding's words were very reasonable, so they didn't focus on this matter.

After the three of them talked about the affairs, they went down to arrange the army, and Xu Ding asked someone to call the caliph over.

After sitting down, Xu Ding asked: "General Caliph, the Tenth Legion of the Romans will be here in half a day. If the Romans attack the city, will there be reinforcements from the Winter Capital?"

The caliph said: "General Qin, when you arrived, I sent news to the winter capital Taixifeng. They should send an army to support us, but now I have taken over the rebel army. What is Taixifeng's side? How I will think about it, I don’t know.”

Whether His Majesty the emperor in Dongdu is willing to fight the Romans for the rebel army, the Caliph is not sure.

It stands to reason that the current emperor Vologasis V is also an ambitious careerist. He rose to power by rebelling against his father, and then instigated Rome's affiliated countries Osroyna and Aditya Bena to launch a rebellion in 193 , is also a master who wants to make things happen.

The emergence of the rebel army should be in his interests.

It's just that the rebel army appeared in the Parthian Empire and captured the city of Hatra. The Caliph had no way of judging what the emperor would think.

Xu Ding said: "I believe that even if His Majesty did not send troops, Hatra would be fine. Now I want to discuss a deal with the Caliph. I wonder if you are interested?"

"What business?" asked the caliph.

Xu Ding said: "Being by my side, you should have seen the specialness of our cavalry. To tell you the truth, the reason why our cavalry is strong is that it is equipped with saddles and stirrups, so it is very convenient to fight, and its combat effectiveness is average. The strong soldiers are much higher.

This is why my cavalry can beat your cavalry. "

It turned out that those two things were called saddles and stirrups, and the caliph was relieved.

Needless to say, as a seasoned knight, the Caliph had discovered the special features of the rebel cavalry early on, but there were still some things that he hadn't figured out.

Now that Xu Ding said it, his master became even more innocent, but he was also confused.

What on earth does Alexander Qin want to do.

Xu Ding smiled and said: "In order to show the sincerity of our army, I can teach you these two things. I believe that with these things, the combat effectiveness of Hatra's cavalry will undergo earth-shaking changes and become the strongest cavalry team in Anxi. .”

Originally Hatra's troops were already very strong, if the cavalry's fighting power was on a higher level, then...

Caliph's heart throbbed a little.

Who doesn't want to become stronger, who doesn't want to expand their territory.

Especially frontiers like him have the strongest desire for sex.

Even for nothing else, in order to protect Hatra from being captured by others such as Rome in the future, he and Hatra must become stronger.

"I don't know what we, Hatra, can do for the rebels?" After asking this sentence, the caliph basically accepted the benefit by tacit consent, and reciprocated it in return.

As an aristocrat, I understand this truth better.

Alexander Qin can't say this for no reason.

Xu Ding said: "I hope to use Hatra as a link to form a friendship with Anxi in the future. In the future, our army will be in the north, and you will be in the south to deal with the Roman Empire and form an alliance against our greatest enemy."

Union, if it was before the caliph scoffed.

What are the qualifications of the rebels in Rome, but I dare not think so now, the rebel army is still very strong.

With a population of [-], this is a force to be reckoned with.

Dealing with the Romans from the south to the north doesn't seem to count.

So the caliph asked simply: "General Qin, I believe that we will have the opportunity to cooperate, and I also hope that our friendship will last forever. I will explain everything to the empire."

In the afternoon, the Tenth Army of the Roman Standing Army appeared outside Hatra.

Seeing the city of Hatra, the head of the Tenth Army paid attention to it silently for a long time, and then waved his hand and said, "Camp!"

The Tenth Legion was not afraid of the Parthians coming out of the city to attack, and set up camp like no one else was around.

The Caliph family is good at defending the city, but not good at attacking. If they dare to go out of the city, the Tenth Army will give them a look.

Xu Ding didn't go out of the city to attack the Tenth Army in boredom, and there was a city guard who was going to fight.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, the No.11 Army and two affiliated armies including Armenia arrived.

The two fully staffed joint legions of the Roman army gathered a total of about [-] horses.

The number of people does not sound like a lot.

After all, the rebel army also has [-] horses, but the gap between the two is not a star and a half.

The two combined legions have two standing legions of the Roman Empire. They have very strong combat effectiveness and carry the most sophisticated weapons.

Soon the Roman side sent envoys to ask Hatra to hand over the rebel army, otherwise they would threaten to attack the city.

Caliph decisively refused.

"Your Excellency the Caliph, you really want to be an enemy of our Rome. You will drag the Parthian Empire into the quagmire of war. You should think about it." The messenger said bluntly.

The Caliph snorted coldly: "You and I are enemies in the first place. Now that you are invading our country, you should be the ones who want to drag you into the quagmire of war. I heard that the emperor of your country is still suppressing the rebels in the west. Your army is here to invade at this time." Our country, did not pick the right time."

"Repeat, we are not invading your country, we are just here to pursue a group of rebels, please hand over the rebels in your city, take the rebel Alexander Qin, we will withdraw our troops immediately, otherwise we will wipe out the banditry in the west, and we will break through the rest of the cities .” The messenger still threatened arrogantly.

The caliph's face was frosty, he slapped the table heavily and said angrily: "Come here, kill him, throw his head out of the city, and tell the Romans that we don't have any rebels in Hatra, and we have never seen any rebels nearby. Only the invading enemy was seen."

"You..." The envoy was shocked, and just as he was about to speak, he was knocked unconscious by the guards in the hall and dragged him down. Then his head was chopped off and thrown out of the city.

The Romans outside the city were very angry when they saw this person.

The commanders of the Tenth Legion and the No.11 Legion immediately made the same decision and immediately attacked the city.

The two armies did not have a subordinate relationship, and their purpose was only to encircle and destroy the rebel army. After chasing into the Parthian country, it was regarded as a kind of ultra vires.

In addition, without logistical support, it is impossible to besiege the city here for a long time.

Therefore, we must fight quickly, fight when you can, and leave if you can't.

In this way, at any rate, it can be explained to the city of Rome.

"General Caliph, you know best how to guard Hatra. Now the northern city is handed over to you. I believe you will not let us down." Xu Ding saw that the Romans were about to attack, so he handed over the control of the northern city to Caliph.

The caliph said: "Don't worry, General Qin, our caliph family has never let Hatra down, let alone the empire, but if necessary, I hope to get the support of the rebel army at that time, with more people and more strength, it will be easier to fight like this." easy."

It’s okay to take over the North City, you can’t let us fight the Romans and watch the tigers fight to preserve our strength.

You are the ones who brought the trouble, so kindness cannot be overstated.

Xu Ding smiled and said: "Don't worry, I will send someone to learn from General Caliph. If we need to take action, we will not be stingy."

After speaking, Xu Ding compared goods with Meng Yu and said: "You all have taken care of infantry, learn from General Caliph, in the future we will have a big city, and we need to attack and defend it. This is a good opportunity, don't miss it .”

Meng Yu naturally answered yes when comparing goods.

Then the Roman army began to attack, and there were a lot of siege equipment, including trebuchets. It can be seen that the purpose of chasing them was not simple.

However, the two standing legions did not move, but first went to a subsidiary legion to attack Hatra.

The stone bullets smashed in fiercely, and it was the first time that Meng Yu, who was in the city, felt what it was like to be bombarded with stone bullets.

But Khalifa and others have seen it, so they are not surprised.

He commanded his subordinates to counterattack and evade in an orderly manner.

Thus began an offensive and defensive battle.

Xu Ding was not at the north gate, but at the south gate.

The south gate is what he needs to focus on prevention and control. If the caliphate is too famous and Hatra is accidentally captured by the Romans, with the south gate in hand, everything will be easy to operate.

Just over an hour later, Meng Yu and the shoppers all came to spread the word that the Romans had stopped attacking the city.

"Didn't fight so soon?" He stopped attacking after half a day. Xu Ding didn't watch at the north gate and didn't know the reason, so he brought his troops to the north gate.

When the Caliph saw Xu Ding, he laughed heartily and said, "General Qin, the Romans have been repulsed. If there is no accident, they will have to withdraw their troops tomorrow."

"Oh! Why is General Caliph so sure?" Xu Ding glanced outside the city. The Romans attacked the city with all their might. There were not many casualties, and the corpses were piled up layer by layer.

The Caliph smiled triumphantly: "General Qin didn't know something. The Romans used two joint legions, but they didn't send enough commanders, so they couldn't attack Hatra for a long time. Once they failed to attack the city, they would not will continue.

They can lose the affiliated legion, but they can't lose the standing legion. If the two legion commanders don't want to be responsible, they must retreat. You can see that after they retreated, the troops made some adjustments. From our experience, they This is a sign of getting ready to retreat. "

Having dealt with the Romans for a long time, Hatra has rich experience, so the Caliph is more confident.

Meng Yu then whispered to Xu Ding about the battle situation just now, saying that the Romans only used two subsidiary legions to attack one after the other, and the two standing legions just made a feint and sprinted, and finally withdrew back.

The Caliph's command counterattack did quite well, and it would be difficult for them to attack head-on.

Learning to defend the city is also discovering the opponent's flaws. In case of a war in the Parthian Empire one day, you have to fight Hatra?
Therefore, both Shop Bi and Meng Yu had looked at it seriously just now, and had a lot of thoughts in their minds.

(End of this chapter)