Chapter 1087: Taking a shortcut? Dream on!
After both sides made their respective decisions, they withdrew from Taixifeng at the same time. They had taken everything they should have, and what was left was just a pile of useless buildings.
Ctesiphon was destined not to stay, and he would disappear in the long river of history along with Parthia.
To destroy a country, one must naturally start from the root. As the place where Parthia bled, Ctesiphon's symbolic significance is no less than the will of another empire, so Ctesiphon is destined to be destroyed.
The commanders of the two armies were very confident in themselves, so they simply displayed their troops and prepared for a real war.
At the end of the Empire War, it was still a battle between regular soldiers and neither side had any intention of playing tricks.
In fact, both sides have basically confirmed the end of this war. Now they just need to give an explanation to the grassroots soldiers of both sides. Military morale is still very important.
"The Roman commander on the opposite side, come out and talk!" Yue Fei appeared in front of the two armies indifferently, and then shouted loudly to the opposite side.
Penilence was stunned when he heard this. Up to now, whether it was Rome or the Han Dynasty, the front-line generals basically had the Kushan's ability of telepathy. It must be said that this method has promoted exchanges between countries to a great extent.
Moreover, this thing is becoming more and more popular, and maybe language problems will be completely eliminated in the future.
"Let's go and take a look." Penelence was the Roman vice emperor after all, so he still had to save face. What's more, the Han Dynasty stood out so arrogantly, and the person standing behind him was the general of the Han Dynasty. Penelence was also willing to listen to what the other side said.
"Penelus!" Pipenianus frowned and greeted Pennelus. He didn't feel the need to answer at all.
What's more, Su is not here. It would not be good if something goes wrong if he faces the strong man known as Wenhou Lu Bu.
"You are right here, don't worry, the Han Empire also has to maintain its reputation." Penilence said cheerfully, "And I am a good fighter!"
Severus was gone. He was an emperor with a strong desire for control. With Caesar and Augustus appearing in the world, he had to return to Rome as soon as possible to prevent some unrealistic chaos from happening.
What this world lacks the least is fools, and fools can often cause a lot of unexpected damage.
"Han, Yue Fei." Yue Fei briefly introduced himself, and Penilence saluted in return, "Rome, Penilence."
“How young!”
Penilence was a little dazed. Looking at Yue Fei, he seemed to see his younger self.
He was very sure that Yue Fei was not an old cucumber like Nigel, but a real young man, so full of vigor and vitality. However, it was obvious that the young man in front of him was far superior to him when he was young.
Moreover, the other party's upright and noble spirit made him feel ashamed of himself. As the commander of the guards who had worked for Commodus, he and Li Rucai were in some ways the same kind of people, both of whom were the type who assisted the tyrant in his evil deeds.
Fortunately, Severus was still reliable and he was able to get away with it, otherwise his ending would have been bad.
Thinking about it, he glanced at Guo Hao again, who was equally young.
" I don't know why the Roman Empire invaded the border of the Han Dynasty without any reason." Yue Fei said indifferently. In fact, this was the script that Li Ru had stuffed into his hands.
Although Yue Fei thought it was nonsense, his advisers including Shen Pei thought it was very useful, so Yue Fei had no choice but to bite the bullet and give it a try.
"When did Ctesiphon become the border of the Han Empire? We came here only to conquer the Parthian Empire." Penelence was disgusted. He did not expect that the young man opposite him was so dirty. He was obviously young and upright, but he started to throw dirty water on him.
Although he doesn't care about this, Penilence, as a political official, is well aware of the twists and turns involved.
Sometimes, some fictitious sewage can produce extraordinary effects.
"Parthia is a vassal of the Han Empire, and there is a letter of credence to prove it!" Yue Fei directly showed the letter of credence in his hand to Penilence.
Penilence was shocked on the spot, not because what Yue Fei held in his hand was a fake, but because this thing was actually real.
"This is impossible..." Penelence was about to refute, but suddenly he thought of Vogyges V who was so crazy that he violated the will of the Parthian Empire.
In just a moment, Penelence sorted out the clues and finally understood why Parthia was determined to fight to the death with Rome.
He was one hundred percent sure that there were Han people in Parthia, or that the Han Dynasty influenced Parthia's decision-making.
A chill ran through Penilence's heart, and then he immediately recovered, thinking that there was no point in saying all this, it was just nonsense.
"Fake!" Penilence opened his eyes and began to lie.
Just like when Huangfu Song faced the imperial will wrought by Zhang Jiao and directly defined it as witchcraft.
It’s not about what evidence you have, but what I admit. As long as I don’t admit it, your evidence is false.
"Penelus, right? It's not good for you to lie like that." Li Ru, who was behind Yue Fei, stepped forward without a smile on his face. His eyes were slightly cold, and he said in a threatening tone, "You can't just say it's fake. There's no such thing as that."
The smile on Penilence's face grew, but his eyes became extremely cold as he looked at Li Ru and said, "Like you said, you can't just say it's not true."
"It seems that the truth can only be contained within the scope of force." Li Ru sneered, then retreated to his position again.
Penilence turned his horse around and said that Yue Fei looked upright and full of courage, but how could he be so dirty? It turned out that there was a guy behind him who specialized in handling dirty things.
However, to him, these verbal traps were nothing, as he also came from a background of dealing with shady matters.
"I miscalculated. He turned out to be another all-round talent!" Li Ru shook his head. After looking at Penilence, he realized that his original plan to fight for moral legitimacy had failed.
Penilence is not just a general, but an all-round player like Zhuge Kongming.
"It doesn't matter. We rely on the weapons in our hands to speak." Yue Fei waved his hand. Although he didn't like Li Ru's style of doing things, he also understood that people like Li Ru were indispensable.
"It seems that the Han Dynasty just wants to give an explanation and take away what they have salvaged!"
On the other side, after Penelence returned to his seat, the treasurer Piponanus beside him said.
"Send someone to the Han Dynasty for a secret talk. Next, we should get down to business and trade. The Han Dynasty brought a wise man with them, so they should have the same idea!"
Penelunus nodded and said to Piponanus.
"I will go there in person, this matter is very important!"
Pippanus shook his head. He had to go in person to handle the financial affairs. There were always some things that could be missed during the trade between the two countries. He was not at ease to leave it to others.
"After the battle, when Su and the others come back, you can set off again!" Penilence nodded. He should listen to Pippenanus about finance. It was simply a bottomless pit and he didn't want to make things difficult for himself.
And because he was worried about Pippenianus' safety, he directly transferred all the Roman masters to Pippenianus as bodyguards.
To be honest, even if Severus died now, it would not be as serious a problem as the death of Pippianus. The financial problems of Rome would make anyone cry.
After settling the trivial matters, Penilence and Yue Fei chose to take action almost at the same time.
The vanguard was Anubis. All his plans were wiped out in one day. At this moment, he wished he could eat Ju Yi's flesh and drink Ju Yi's blood.
Just as Severus had three personal guard legions named to conquer Parthia when he started out, the dukes of the border counties such as Niger and Arnubis also had them.
However, in the previous city battle, his personal guards were directly killed by Ju Yi's vanguard and their ashes were scattered. Those were the hard work of all his years.
The legions that are truly loyal to him are his own people, unlike the cooperative relationship like the Roman Eagle Flag.
However, Ju Yi used a torrent of arrows to let him know why the Invincible Legion and Trajan's Legion were in such a miserable state.
Now, no matter how great his ambitions were, he had to submit to Severus, and even his position as Duke might be lost. A duke without power was nothing more than an empty shell.
So he had to fight, and he had to fight fiercely. He had to use his strength to intimidate those jackals who coveted his position, and he also had to show his value to the Roman Senate.
Penelunus generously allocated him a group of elite barbarians, intending to let Arnubis go up and get beaten first to test the waters, hoping to find the flaw of the Han commander.
"You are not dead?" Ju Yi greeted Arnubis happily.
"You!" Arnubis was almost mad with rage, but Ju Yi was standing far away, and he knew that couldn't rush over with the barbarians in his hands.
Albinus gritted his teeth and raised his Roman dagger. "In the name of the North, I will kill the enemy in front of me!"
There was almost tangible flame in Albinus' eyes, his uneasy heart filled him with rage, and the Roman dagger he raised high shone brightly.
At this moment, everyone was shrouded in the pale and dim light, and at the same moment, everything on the battlefield disappeared into the distance, and then it was as if the battle was replayed. Everyone clearly watched the replay and subsequent developments, and the Han army was defeated.
The dim pale glow disappeared, and what seemed like hours of watching a movie turned into an instant and fell into the memory of everyone present.
The battle was fought hand to hand under the command of Alnubis. The war was rehearsed at this point and based on this, the direction to victory was obtained.
The Roman Barbarian Army, the Roman Eagle Legion, and everyone in the Han Army saw the entire process. This was Albinus's talent as a monarch, and it would be replicated in the future!
A very powerful monarch talent, an ability that can give one a high probability of obtaining the future he wants, and the ability to truly copy this future into reality based on his own abilities.
"A monarch's talent?" A smile appeared on Penelence's face. Arnubis's move was indeed powerful, even he was amazed.
If he fails to do so, he will fall into the hands of the opponent... No, he won't.
If the opponent cannot see the future, there is still a three-pointer possibility. In the future that everyone can see, Arnubis will still not be his opponent.
Arnubis' monarch talent has strong spiritual implications, but Penelence, as a world-breaking god, naturally gets rid of the influence easily.
Just eating and sleeping with the top student doesn’t mean you can get the same score as him.
In an open-book exam, if you are not supposed to know the answer, you still won’t know it.
"Let me see the true strength of the commander of the Han Dynasty!" Although Penelence was confident that he would not lose to Arnubis, he also recognized that this ability was indeed very powerful and had high strategic value.
"Guiding the future? Such ability!" Yue Fei sneered twice.
Li Ru, Shen Pei and other counselors looked very unhappy at this time. The ability of the other party made them feel scalp tingling. This strange talent, which could directly find a way to victory in the future, was really too against the rules. Moreover, the scene they had seen in the dream future had already begun to happen.
More importantly, that kind of fantasy future also caused a considerable impact on the soldiers of the Han army. Knowing that they would definitely be defeated in the future, even a powerful army that had fought hundreds of battles would be shaken. Especially when that kind of future gradually happened in reality, the pressure on the Han army would become greater and greater.
Li Ru was even thinking about how to kill Arnubis directly.
He himself is the commander of half a large army. If he encounters an opponent who can review the situation in advance, he will really be killed.
For this kind of opponent, it is better to just use tricks to kill him.
Don't think it's absurd. Think about how the Qin State forced Bai Qi to death and the Zhao State forced Li Mu to death. It is natural for a strategist to use tricks outside the plan.
"Don't worry, defeating him is easy!" Yue Fei was still confident.
"Can we still win?" Li Ru was stunned, a little surprised. Yue Fei was not a person who liked to brag.
"His monarch talent carries mental suggestion!" Yue Fei said simply, and Li Ru, Shen Pei and others reacted quickly, then with grim expressions they blocked the influence of Arnubis' monarch talent.
To some extent, it is the same thing as Zhou Yu's brain-dead halo.
But Zhou Yu is popular with both young and old, and Arnubis can only bully those who are inferior to him in military strategy, but he can react in an instant when the military strategy of those who are stronger than him is.
However, as long as it is found, the problem can be solved by following the method used for the brain-dead halo.
Li Ru, who had returned to normal, frowned as he looked at the battle line that was the same as the previous one.
Although he got rid of the influence, he still felt at a loss as to where to start. He seemed to be too negligent in war and overly involved in government affairs, and his military strategy had been somewhat neglected.
"Then..." After Tian Feng and Ju Shou recovered, they felt the situation was a bit tricky, but they could still fight. However, Yue Fei didn't seem to react.
The barbarian army is about to break through the front line of the Han Dynasty. If this continues, something bad might happen.
"I'm waiting, waiting for the time to send him directly into the abyss!" Yue Fei waved his hand and said.
"You don't think that getting the life strategy in advance will allow you to surpass those people you can never surpass."
Yue Fei's face became increasingly cold; Arnubis's ability brought back bad memories for him.
He, Zhuge Liang, and Guo Ziyi were all very familiar with the guidance talent.
Han Xin, Bai Qi and Huo Qubing had used this thing to bully them many times, and they understood the principle of it very well.
Han Xin's "the more the better", Bai Qi's "securing victory", Huo Qubing's "leading to victory", each one is much more magnificent than Arnubis.
Can you defeat the commander of a large army just by relying on the monarch's talent?
If Han Xin used this ability, then he would be helpless, but if Alnubis used it, he'd better forget it.
