Chapter 1182 Arnubis
The Roman legions, led by Arnubis, sailed from the Black Sea into the Don River and headed eastward.
The war between Rome and the Yuan family started again. Unlike the previous one which ended in a whimper, this time there will be a winner!
However, when Arnubis arrived at the camp with his personal guard, he found that the camp was filled with a very low atmosphere, and he immediately had a bad feeling.
He knew Benito's ability. He was relieved that Benito would come here in advance to tidy up the camp, but now it seems that there is no effect.
Did Benito lose?
“I didn’t lose, but I didn’t win either!”
When Arnubis found Benito, he discovered that all the legion commanders above the rank of citizen were in the big tent. It was different from the atmosphere outside as if one's father had died. It felt a bit like breaking down and then rebuilding.
"What exactly is going on?" Arnubis was a little curious. The atmosphere seemed a little off.
"We used the same trick we had against Yuan's army before, and killed at least 12,000 elite cavalry!" Benito described the process.
"How many people were lost?" Arnubis asked curiously.
"Almost two-thirds of the barbarian troops were killed, and the most troublesome thing is that I lost nearly half of my soldiers!" Benito sighed.
"this……"
Arnubis understood that the battle at White Horse was a major defeat for them, with the direct loss of 500,000 barbarians, a tragedy so tragic that even the Senate could not ignore it.
Although Benito lost this game, both sides gained something. If the loss of the Fourteen Combination is not taken into account, it can almost be said to be a super good deal.
But if half of the Fourteenth Combination were lost, the loss would become subtle, after all, the importance of the Fourteenth Combination to Rome was self-evident.
"Does the Han Dynasty have a way to deal with the white horse?" Arnubis' thoughts slid to the other side.
"Yes, I asked the people in the rear, and the commander this time is Ju Yi, the commander of the Xiandeng Death Squad."
"The military spirit of the Han Dynasty has also arrived?" Arnubis was a little surprised. Wouldn't this completely escalate the war?
"No, only a vanguard commander came, but the other side is very good at dealing with white horses, and there is also a man named Sima Yi, who was able to ban our eagle flag in the first place!"
Benito narrated the whole process of the battle, and Arnubis nodded after listening. For them, it was indeed a win or a loss, and it could even be considered a small victory.
But this thing didn't work that way for the barbarians. They could only see that the final result was that the Eagle Flag Legion ran away, and they were left on the battlefield and died miserably.
Moreover, since the war began, many barbarian legion commanders have disappeared, which is why they exude an atmosphere of death from top to bottom.
The main reason was that the losses were too severe. They could not see the long-term things. They only knew that people were dying every day, but they had not won the victory and failed to become citizens.
They were unable to fulfill their wishes and had to endure huge losses, and they could not bear the disappointment.
If the barbarians were not replenished from the rear every day, I'm afraid many of them would have given up by now.
"It must be a great and glorious victory?" thought Arnubis, then turned his gaze to Benito.
"You just said that the commander who first attacked did not bring the Military Soul Legion, but led the legion directly into battle?" Arnubis grasped the key information.
"Yes!" Benito was a little confused, but still nodded.
"If we bring the Roman legion commanders here to lead the barbarians, do you think it's a good idea?" Arnubis' eyes flashed with a gleam of light.
If the Han Dynasty could train its officers in this way, then the Romans could do the same. Moreover, they did not care about the losses to the barbarians. They used the barbarians' names to train their officers. This was simply an astonishing innovation.
Moreover, the Barbarian Legion Commander is currently facing a crisis of confidence, so we can take the opportunity to airdrop in a group of legion commanders to boost morale.
Moreover, it might take several days for a large army to get here from Rome, but these officers can arrive here at high speed in just one or two days.
In the past, they tied the legion commanders and the legions together, but now the actions of the Han Dynasty are undoubtedly telling them that they can train their officers in another way.
This is the correct way for them and the Yuan family to consume the barbarians. In this way, the barbarians can be made more obedient to the upper class, which is a good way to kill two birds with one stone.
"Just do it, Sunax, go back to Penilence and submit my application to him. I need the support of those legion commanders!"
A smile appeared on the corner of Arnubis' mouth, and the ambition that had been buried in his heart suddenly emerged.
If he could gain the respect of all the legion commanders, would that mean he would be qualified to compete with Severus again?
After all, the legion commander is the soul of the legion. If the legion commander supports him, most other soldiers will obey him.
But in this case, he would have to bring constant challenges and victories to these legion commanders.
If he cannot establish prestige through victory, his ambition will be like a moon in the mirror or a flower in the water.
"Yuan family, I hope you can hold on!"
There was a sharp light in Arnubis' eyes. His revived ambition must not be hindered by the Yuan family. He needed a plan, a plan to trap the Yuan family half to death.
However, before Alnubis could be happy for even a single day, he sensed something was wrong.
"Has the weather in Eastern Europe always been like this?" Arnubis directly asked the biggest question in his mind. If the weather was always like this, almost like the Mid-Autumn Festival, then it wouldn't matter.
But he himself also had a talent for foresight and guidance, so he easily saw that it would snow soon.
"It will probably snow in another month." Benito is a veteran of the battlefield after all, and he has a deep understanding of Eastern Europe.
"It snows in September?" Arnubis said with a headache.
He had no problem fighting in the snow, but the problem was that he was deeply concerned about the logistical pressure.
He was full of ambition, but he was afraid that he would be dragged to death before he even started. No wonder those people in the Senate had no worries about him and released him directly.
So they are waiting for him here. If the Yuan family can just delay until winter, then all his so-called ambitions are nonsense.
However, after Arnubis sorted out his thoughts, he found that fighting in the snow was a good idea.
If they fight in the summer, by the time they gain the upper hand, it will be winter. At that time, the defenders may have to hide and regroup. It would be better to start dawdling in the winter and defeat them in one fell swoop in the summer.
"But... there are so many barbarians, why not just use them to open up the supply lines? I remember there are some Slavic barbarians who are very resistant to cold, so we can mobilize some from the back!"
Arnubis worked diligently, planning every detail of the upcoming war.
On the other hand, Huangfu Song, who had obtained a lot of intelligence by relying on the ninja's stealth characteristics, was a little troubled.
"This guy plans to go to war with us in the winter? I thought I could go back home to celebrate the New Year in the winter!"
With Huangfu Song's strategic vision, he naturally saw that the purpose of Arnubis's mobilization was to fight a battle in winter to gain an advantage, and then to defeat the Yuan family in one wave in the summer.
"So, Xu Rong, I'll give you a task. You will command the army this winter!" Huangfu Song shamelessly arranged for Xu Rong and Arnubis to fight head-on, and then planned to slip away and go back to celebrate the New Year.
He is already old, and he has to suffer in the military camp in the ice and snow. He must not even survive the winter, otherwise he will become a joke.
"General Huangfu, you..." Shen Pei was stunned. Why did Huangfu Song suddenly decide to be a hands-off boss?
"Do you think you can always win? It's about time you lose a bit. You used the white horse too hard before. If you don't lose more, when the Roman army arrives, the Han Dynasty won't have any extra manpower to help your Yuan family!"
Huangfu Song casually said to Shen Pei that he could not lose, but Xu Rong could lose, or rather, he did not think Xu Rong could win.
He has information about Arnubis, which can guide the future. This ability is very tricky. He can directly raise the command and crush the opponent in one wave, but Xu Rong may not have this ability.
If the two people have similar command levels, Xu Rong will lose miserably, but Xu Rong is good at defense, and after he will rely on defense in the ice and snow.
When summer comes and the opponent wants to repeat the same trick, he will come over and control the situation, and everyone will be happy.
"I understand!" Shen Pei was just confused because of his concern. With his command, he didn't need Huangfu Song's explanation.
"General Huangfu, do you think I will definitely lose?" Xu Rong frowned. He was a little unhappy with Huangfu Song's contempt.
"It's not that you will definitely lose, it's that you have to lose!" Huangfu Song said to Xu Rong with a sneer.
"This is a test for you. You must fight a war with all your might and you are doomed to fail. This is an order!"
Xu Rong's face was gloomy, but he understood what Huangfu Song meant. After going back and forth like this, summer, winter, and summer again, after all this trouble.
Even if Rome wanted to take real action, it would take a year and a half, and they directly gained a year and a half, which was not the time needed by the Han Dynasty.
But it is the time that Great Britain needs.
A year and a half later, if Rome mobilizes its entire army, the aristocratic families that have already been integrated into Great Britain will push Great Britain to march fully towards Rome.
By then, the life-and-death crisis faced by the Yuan family will disappear, and they will not be Rome’s main target until the demise of Great Britain.
This period of time is the time needed by the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty needs this time to directly crush the Kushans.
Only in this way can we free up our hands in the future to fight against the Roman Empire, using the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa as battlefields to decide who is the real master of this hemisphere.
Xu Rong's thinking had improved greatly since Huangfu Song pointed it out last time, and he would often consider the war from a global perspective.
So when Huangfu Song gave the order, it only took him a moment to understand what Huangfu Song meant.
But this is not a good thing for him, because he needs to lose a game, he has to lose, he cannot avoid losing.
This was a fact that was difficult to accept for him, a pure soldier.
"If you can complete this task, congratulations, you will have made another breakthrough!" Huangfu Song saw that Xu Rong had a gloomy expression and said to Xu Rong in a deep voice.
"As a commander, you need to consider not only the victory or defeat on the battlefield, but also the victory or defeat of the entire situation. This is the level of true command of a large army."
"You can't climb to the top if you only know how to command but don't have strategic thinking. I hope you understand this!"
"Victory is easy, but how to overcome failure is more important." Huangfu Song said and left. Anyway, the order had been given.
The remaining things are all tests for Xu Rong. If Shen Pei wants the Yuan family to survive healthily, he must hold his nose and cooperate with Xu Rong to fight this war that is absolutely a failure.
In the delegation at the rear, Marche was bragging to Iachino, Luciano and others, while Beelzebub and others were eavesdropping while pretending to be dead. After all, Marche's words revealed quite a lot of information.
They were all the legion commanders applied for by Anubis. Penelence didn't know whether he saw through Anubis' ambition or had other considerations, but he sent Marche here as well.
Anyway, their group was moving at an incredibly fast speed. They simply assembled a few flying animals with internal energy and hung a hot air balloon basket on them, and flew all the way from the sky.
As an old veteran, Marche naturally boasted to these young legion commanders.
This is also the purpose of Penilence sending him here, and it is also to let these young people know more. Only by seeing and learning more can a legion commander have a more enriched connotation.
Besides, Marche was not completely bragging. He just used this method to spread his training and insights about the legion, adding some exaggerated embellishments at most.
The ability to distinguish true from false is also a necessary ability for a legion commander.
Africanus was a little depressed. He didn't like barbarians and only wanted to deal with giants. But he was exiled to a place where he could only deal with barbarians. It was simply hell.
However, this was also Penelence's cultivation of Africanus. After all, he did not want Africanus to be just a legion commander, he should be a duke of a border county.
But being a duke is inseparable from commanding the barbarians, so even though Africanus is very capable and fully qualified for the position of legion commander, Penelence still stuffed him in.
Seeing that Africanus was unhappy, Marche changed the subject and talked about the environment in Eastern Europe.
"Eastern Europe. I haven't been here for many years. I came here twice when I was young, and both times I was chased and hacked out by the Slavs. Those bastards are average in fighting power in the summer, but in the winter they are extremely ferocious and their fighting power is terrifying." Marche had a lingering fear on his face.
He was talking about the period before Great Britain was founded and the barbarians were scattered everywhere. After the founding of Great Britain, the barbarians began to gather in the direction of Rome and Great Britain.
In places like Eastern Europe, there are very few barbarians, and even if there are some natives, they have already been incorporated into the Yuan family.
In today's era, there are no such things as savages. They are all valuable labor. Once they are discovered, they will be taken away for education and transformation, and then put into labor production.
