Chapter 560 Heavy Losses!

Gu Rubing himself was not interested in the so-called Parthian territory, but the Parthian Empire had already placed people on the border. It was obvious that he was plotting against Liangzhou. Under such circumstances, taking the initiative would be a good opportunity.

Just as Gu Rubing was thinking about it, a crossbow captain came in. Seeing Gu Rubing talking to the Roman envoy, he came to Zhuge Liang and said something in Zhuge Liang's ear.

Then Zhuge Liang's expression changed and he turned to look at the Roman envoy.

"Lord, we should ask His Majesty for instructions on this matter first and see what His Majesty has to say. Let's make a decision, right?"

Hearing this, Gu Rubing looked at Zhuge Liang doubtfully.

When did Liu Xie need to make the decision on his own affairs?

But soon, Gu Rubing saw the eager look in Zhuge Liang's eyes and understood instantly.

"Yes, we still need to ask His Majesty for instructions first. Let's do this. Envoy, you go and rest first. We will contact you after we have gone to find His Majesty."

The Roman envoy looked at Gu Rubing. He always felt that things were not that simple. These two people had something to hide from him. Could it be that what he was hiding was discovered?

There were some doubts in my heart, but they had already let me go, and I couldn't force myself to stay here.

"Your Highness King Lie, please think carefully about our affairs."

After speaking, the Roman envoy turned and left, but when leaving, he slowed down and wanted to take the opportunity to listen to what the two men planned to say.

But it was obvious that Zhuge Liang wanted to avoid him and would not speak until he disappeared.

After everyone was sure to leave, Zhuge Liang looked at Gu Rubing.

"Lord, we have just received information that the Parthian Empire is in collusion with Cao Cao, and the Roman Empire is in contact with Sun Jian. We even suspect that Cao Cao and Sun Jian are behind these two empires, but they seem to be mutually exclusive. I don’t know between them.”

"It turns out it's them!"

Gu Rubing was still curious as to why Western countries suddenly came to trouble him.

According to Gu Rubing's memory, since the turmoil broke out in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the West had no intention of taking action. On the one hand, it was because there was a Western Region between the West and the Han Dynasty. On the other hand, the distance was too long and supplies could not be supplied to each other.

But this time, when these two empires suddenly took action against themselves, someone from within must have joined forces with them.

"Lord, in this situation, how can we tell the Roman envoy whether we should join forces?"

"What does the Prime Minister think?"

Of course Gu Rubing wanted to refuse, but he saw that Zhuge Liang seemed to have something else in mind.

"Lord, now that we know that Sun Jian and Cao Cao are behind these two empires, and they don't seem to know about each other, why don't we take advantage of them and attack them directly when they are weak."

This suggestion made Gu Rubing's eyes light up.

"Then just do as the Prime Minister said."

Soon the two men summoned the Roman envoy again and agreed to Rome's proposal.

Regarding its success this time, Rome did not dare to stay and immediately went back to report to its own Emperor Caesar.

"My lord, it seems I need to go with you this time."

Zhuge Liang is preparing to play a big game of chess, a game that can swallow up the entire Roman Empire and the Parthian Empire. The scale of this game definitely exceeds Gu Rubing's calculation ability, so Zhuge Liang is naturally worried.

Gu Rubing also knew this very well and naturally would not refuse.

The two discussed it for a day, and it wasn't until early the next morning that Gu Rubing walked out of Zhuge Liang's room.

But walking on the street, Gu Rubing suddenly realized that what he and Zhuge Liang were discussing seemed to be about the future management of Jiuzhou and nothing about the battle of Liangzhou. Why did Zhuge Liang tell him what happened next? He didn't care about these things after that?

Gu Rubing had doubts in his heart, but when he thought about it, he was the only legendary counselor after all, so he should have thought more comprehensively.

Three days later, Gu Rubing led Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun to the Liangzhou battlefield.

Only Xu Rong and Lu Su were left to guard Sili.

Liangzhou, Jiuquan County.

Taishi Ci led the generals and stood on the city wall, looking at the Xi'an camp in the distance with a very solemn expression.

"Everyone, my lord has been photographing an army of 200,000 people one after another. So far, there has been no movement from the other side. Do we want to test it out?"

Hearing Tai Shici's words, Pang De and others were a little hesitant. When they came, they were all told by Gu Rubing not to take action at will unless the other party came to knock on their door. But now that they were right in front of them, how could they still do it? Can you bear it?

After much hesitation, just when Pound was about to agree, a voice came from behind.

"What are you planning to do? Have you forgotten the Lord's instructions?"

After the voice fell, Huang Zhong walked up from behind.

Seeing Huang Zhong speak, Taishi Ci naturally couldn't say anything else.

However, Taishi Ci was still a little unwilling. He had been in the territory of the Han Dynasty all year round. For the people of the Han Dynasty, the Western Regions or the countries outside the Western Regions were small countries. It made him very unhappy to let a small country block the door of his home. In addition, Huang Zhong and the others were fighting fiercely in Jiaozhou, and he also knew this. Here, he had been holding on without making any achievements, and he was still facing a small country, which made him somewhat unable to hold his head high.

Just when Tai Shici wanted to explain something, the sound of war drums came from outside the city.

Then we saw that there were 200,000 troops in the Parthian camp, and they were in formation, which was obviously a provocation.

"Old General, can we take action this time?"

Huang Zhong looked at the enemy's formation.

It looked very rigorous, but if you look closely, you can see that the enemy was lax.

This is just a show-off. In addition, due to years of thinking, even an old man like Huang Zhong has looked down on these Western countries for many years, so naturally he is not so vigilant.

"Okay, Taishi Ci, listen to my order. You take 100,000 cavalry, launch a charge, and come back after defeating the enemy."

Hearing Huang Zhong's order, Taishi Ci nodded excitedly.

Seeing Taishi Ci rubbing his hands, Huang Zhong still felt something was wrong. For safety reasons, he sent Pang De to follow.

The two of them rushed directly into the enemy's formation with 100,000 cavalry.

After the two sides fought for half an hour, Huang Zhong saw on the city wall that the army formation was the same as what he saw, both of them were strong on the outside but weak on the inside, and could not withstand a single blow.

Taishi Ci, who was on the battlefield, naturally saw this situation. After his cavalry rushed into the army formation, the entire Parthian army formation became chaotic.

Taishi Ci saw with his own eyes that a Han cavalryman killed three Parthian soldiers in a row, but was only slashed by the opponent, and it was not a vital point.

It was because of this scene that Taishi Ci became even bolder.

Just when everyone thought that victory was in their grasp, and even Huang Zhong was considering whether to pursue the opponent when he was defeated, a deep sound of musical instruments rang out.

Then a group of elephant soldiers suddenly rushed out.

Each of these elephant soldiers was at the level of a second-rate general, and the elephants were thick-skinned and had strong defense, so the formation of the Han cavalry was in chaos for a while.

"Not good, retreat!"

Huang Zhong sounded the horn to withdraw his troops directly.

However, in such a chaotic situation, only those close to the city gate were able to retreat in time, and most people were entangled by the troops of Anxi.

Taishi Ci and Pang De were ready to leave after hearing Huang Zhong's order to retreat, but they did not expect that the other side would send out four famous generals to entangle them.

Taishi Ci waved his double halberds, trying to get rid of the two people in front of him, but these two were also famous generals, and their overall strength was not lower than Taishi Ci. This kind of attack could not hurt them at all.

Soon, Taishi Ci was actually at a disadvantage.

Pang De was not doing well either, but because of the close distance, Pang De only had a simple fight with the other party, and with the blessing of the Eight Gates Golden Lock Sword Technique, he quickly broke out of the encirclement and entered the city.

Seeing that Taishi Ci was entangled, Huang Zhong knew it was not good, and immediately rushed out of the city with the remaining 50,000 cavalry, trying to rescue Taishi Ci.

However, just after these 50,000 cavalrymen left the city, a cavalry suddenly rushed out of the originally chaotic Parthian army. The target of these cavalrymen was not Huang Zhong's reinforcements, but to block the city gate.

This means that the people inside could not get out, and the people outside could not come back.

Pang De and Zhang Ren immediately led the soldiers in the city and rushed out desperately, trying to open the door and let Huang Zhong and his men come back.

But this cavalry was obviously not the same as other ordinary cavalrymen in Parthia.

These cavalrymen were wearing heavy armor. Although there were not many people, only about 2,000 people, their strength had reached the level of second-rate generals. It was obvious that they were definitely not simple.

The two sides were deadlocked for a long time. The Han cavalrymen present also saw that the city gate was blocked. They wanted to go back, but they definitely couldn't go back, and they would be affected to some extent.

Three hours later.

Both sides were exhausted, and Parthia finally withdrew.

Huang Zhong and Taishi Ci returned to the city with the remaining people.

However, when they counted the losses, they all frowned, especially Taishi Ci, who simply lowered his head and stopped talking.

In this battle, they actually lost 100,000 people, all of whom were cavalry, the most valuable of all arms, except for special arms.

These 150,000 cavalry were all the cavalry that Gu Rubing could take out now.

After this battle, there were only 50,000 left.

Huang Zhong didn't know how to explain such a loss.

"Ziyi, you are too careless."

Huang Zhong sighed helplessly.

Originally, this incident had nothing to do with Taishi Ci.

But Huang Zhong could see that Taishi Ci actually had the opportunity to evacuate the battlefield, but Taishi Ci didn't know why he had to get entangled with the two famous generals, otherwise how could he lead people to support and be calculated by the other side.

Taishi Ci lowered his head and said nothing. He was also thinking about how to explain to Gu Rubing when he came.

A day later, Gu Rubing brought Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun here.

Gu Rubing found that Huang Zhong and others present were not in a very good mood when they saw him, and there were not many smiles on their faces.

"What happened to you? Did you fight? And lost?"

Gu Rubing looked at Huang Zhong curiously.

Huang Zhong looked at Gu Rubing in surprise. He didn't expect that Gu Rubing's intelligence was so fast. He had just lost the battle, but Gu Rubing knew it.

"My lord, this time it was all Zhong's command error. I underestimated the enemy!"

"Don't blame the old general, my lord, it was my carelessness and my desire to win, so I suffered such a big defeat."

Taishi Ci knelt in front of Gu Rubing hurriedly.

Zhuge Liang's eyes looked at the two people kneeling on the ground, as if he was hesitating about something.

"What are you two doing? I said it as if I wanted to hold people accountable. I just asked. You suffered a defeat. I expected it. I have told you long ago that no matter whether it is Parthia or Rome, It's stronger than you think, but you don't believe it. If you believed what I said, how could they be defeated? No matter how strong they are, can they be stronger than our cavalry? "

Gu Rubing smiled and helped the two of them up from the ground, and joked: "Tell me how much you will lose, and I will see how to punish you."

"One hundred thousand!"

"What? Ordinary soldiers?"

"cavalry!"

Hearing the news of one hundred thousand cavalry, Gu Rubing almost sat down on the ground, but fortunately with the support of his caregiver Ge Liang, he did not fall down.

Seeing this, Taishi Ci knelt on the ground again.

"Lord, please punish me. This time it's all my fault for having such a great success, otherwise I would never have suffered such a loss."

Upon hearing this, Zhuge Liang waved his feather fan as if he had made a decision.

"Okay, since General Ziyi accepts the punishment, let's come and fight for sixty."

Gu Rubing wanted to say something when he saw this, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was stopped by Zhuge Liang.

"Lord, since we have lost the battle, someone has to bear the price. Since Ziyi has said that everything this time is all his fault, then this time's incident can only be thrown on him."

Seeing what Zhuge Liang said, Gu Rubing couldn't say anything and could only nod.

Soon after the sixty strokes were completed, Taishi Ci fainted from the pain.

Seeing Taishi Ci fainting from pain without even crying out, Gu Rubing secretly raised her finger at him, truly admiring such a man.

Zhuge Liang looked at the map and then said directly to Gu Rubing: "Lord, our current situation is not good, so we have to open up a second battlefield. As for the location of this second battlefield, it is at Yumen Pass!"

Gu Rubing looked at the map and found that the location of Yumen Pass was right in front of them. Moreover, Yumen Pass was easy to defend but difficult to attack, which could indeed help them relieve some pressure.

As long as the other party takes action against them, Yumenguan can take action and cut off their escape route.

If the other party attacks Yumen Pass, he can immediately support him. The two sides are each other's horns and rely on each other.

"No problem, but now we need a general. Who is willing to go?"

Hearing this, several people present looked at each other. Just when Huang Zhong was about to walk out, Zhuge Liang immediately shook his head at Huang Zhong.

When Huang Zhong saw this, he also retracted his body.

"Lord, I recommend someone!"