Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

The order in this round is actually very simple, that is, "Catch up with the enemy, catch the enemy, and kill the enemy!"

Not only that, Li Mu himself also quickly led the remaining main forces around him, marching along the mountains and forests.

Before, because he was worried that he would be ambushed by the enemy in the mountains and forests, Li Mu's forward speed was relatively slow.

But now that the words have been determined, Li Mu can naturally march forward without any scruples as soon as the enemy starts to retreat, ignoring the forests on both sides.

Under such circumstances, a torrent in the forest was quietly gathering, and began to chase the Antigonians closely.

Demetrius II, the king of the Antigonid Empire, was completely unaware of all this at this moment.

He was not in a good mood, because he knew that being in the mountains was actually his best chance to defeat the Han Kingdom, and now this best chance had been lost, and Antigonus had paid a heavy loss.

But even so, Dmitry II did not feel depressed, because he knew very well that the war was not over yet.

Since the war is not over, it means that the Antigonian Empire has no chance at all.

As long as there is still a chance, Dmitry II will fight to the end and will never surrender easily.

Just as he was thinking, a loud noise suddenly came from outside the chariot on which Dmitry II was riding.

This made Dmitry II look very unhappy.

It was not good to fight a war in the first place, but now there are still people making noise here.

Dmitry II stuck his head out of the chariot, and said to the followers around him very unhappy: "Go and ask what happened. If someone makes trouble, remember to deal with the perpetrator."

His Majesty the Emperor is in a bad mood, so if someone bumps into him at this time, Dmitry II naturally doesn't mind showing his majesty as an emperor.

As an entourage of Dmitry II, of course he knew what the emperor meant very well, so he rode away immediately.

But a moment later, the attendant reappeared in front of Dmitry II on horseback at a faster speed.

"Your Majesty's situation is not good, the army of the Han Kingdom has already chased after our army!"

After hearing these words, Dmitry II was taken aback.

"How is this possible?

Why are the people of Han Kingdom so fast? "

Of course, no one can answer this question.

At this time, Demetrius II also understood in his heart that the noisy voice was not intentionally made by other people, but that the army of the Han Kingdom had begun to harass the main force of Antigonus after approaching. .

Thinking of this, a very strong sense of crisis suddenly emerged in Dmitry II's heart.

If everything went according to the plan, Antigonus soldiers should have come to harass the main force of the Han Kingdom, but now everything is reversed.

How did things turn out like this?

Dmitry II collected himself and gave an order.

"Don't worry about the soldiers and horses of the Han Kingdom behind you, they must have come from a small team in the mountains and forests and found our trail.

Since this is the case, we can be sure that they will not pose much threat to us, so we will continue to march and leave this mountain forest early, so that when we reach the plain, they will not dare to continue chasing us. "

In the mountains and forests, small groups of troops do have the capital to be able to attack large groups by virtue of the ubiquitous forest, but if small groups of troops dare to do so in the plains, they only need one group to charge, and they can quickly Killed the squad.

So what the Antigonid army has to do now is to leave the forest immediately, so that they can get rid of the entanglement of the small team, retreat quickly, and achieve the previous goal.

But Dmitry II found that he seemed to have miscalculated again.

As the time passed by every minute and every second, more and more Han soldiers appeared around the Antigonian army.

Intensive gunshots began to sound from every corner of the forest, and almost every gunshot would cause a soldier of Antik to fall down, which undoubtedly added great psychological pressure to the soldiers of Antik.

Even Dmitry II's expression became very ugly at this time, and he was a little speechless.

Amidst the dense gunfire, Dmitry II suddenly thought of a question, that is, how many Han soldiers are there in this forest?

No one can think of an answer to this question.

In normal logic, if you want to judge this point, you must rule out future investigations, but judging from the extremely dense gunfire now, anyone who wants to go into the forest to investigate is simply courting death.

Not only that, but as the firepower of the musketeers of the Han Dynasty became more and more intensive, the soldiers of Antigonus were harvested like wheat, which caused great turmoil in the formation of Antigonus' army.

Soon, the last part of the Antigonus army began to break up. They fled in all directions in order to avoid the fire from the gunmen of the Han Dynasty.

Dmitry II never thought that the war would develop to this point.

So the question is, what should the current Dmitry II do?

In fact, there are only two options, either to lead the army to launch a counterattack directly on the spot, or to abandon the small number of Antik soldiers who have been firmly entangled by the soldiers of the Han Dynasty, and let the army continue Run away.

Dmitry II took a deep breath, finally gritted his teeth and gave the order.

"All retreat, don't stay at all, don't stay for a moment!"

When he said these words, Demetrius II knew clearly that this time the Antigonian Empire was completely defeated.

Chapter 1242

Demetrius II knew very well that when he issued this order, the failure of the Antigonid Empire this time was already irreversible.

But in the face of such an extremely passive battle situation, Dmitry II had no other better way.

Of course, it wasn't that he didn't think about counterattacking immediately, but the problem was that the Musketeers were hiding in the mountains and forests, and they really had too much of an advantage.

In this case, before the soldiers of the Antigonid Empire rushed into the forest, they would first receive a round of musket fire, and after rushing into the forest, they would continue to bother to find Musketeers of the Han Dynasty.

If you have to consider that the Andi Inn has been in the mountains for the past few days and suffered heavy losses from the gunmen of the Han Kingdom, you will know that this is definitely not a good idea.

Therefore, Dmitri II also chose to retreat very decisively, because this is a choice that can allow the Antigonian Empire to achieve smaller losses under such conditions.

Everything happened exactly as Dmitry II had expected.

When Demetrius II chose to speed up and abandon the troops behind, the Antico soldiers in the back immediately collapsed.

This kind of collapse is very unfavorable to the Antigonian Empire, because the spread of the army behind will affect the central army and the front army at a very fast speed.

Considering that everyone is a soldier of the same country, the central army and the front army, it is naturally impossible to treat the army behind with the attitude of killing the enemy, so this kind of diffuse defeat affects all army soldiers on a large scale. Horses are inevitable.

After just half a day, when Li Mu led the main forces of the Han Kingdom to catch up and participated in this pursuit, things took a turn for the worse.

Antigonus's army left countless corpses and fled wildly among the mountains and forests.

Even in order to avoid the pursuit of the musketeers of the Han Dynasty, many soldiers fled directly into the forest in the mountains in a panic, just to prevent the troops of the Han Dynasty from chasing them any longer.

Facts have also proved that this is actually a very smart choice.

Because after discovering that the main force of Antico had begun to flee, Li Mu immediately issued an order to let the main force of the Han Kingdom not care about the small group of Antico soldiers who would flee, but to continue on the main road. The main force in pursuit of the Antigonid Empire.

This is to cause the greatest damage to the Antigonian Empire.

Li Mu's order was very simple and direct: "Just let me chase all the way until you are in front of you, until there is no more Antigonus!"

Li Mu was also very decisive this time, since it was already a mess, let's just mess it up to the end.

Facts have proved that Li Mu's tactics of winning in chaos are indeed very useful.

The reason why it is so easy to use is nothing more than two reasons.

The first reason is, of course, that many squads of the Great Han Kingdom have veterans of the Chi You Army as their captains, so when it comes to the combat quality of small groups, they are naturally much, much better than the Antigonians.

As for the second reason, it is because the Musketeers of the Great Han Kingdom are also much stronger than the soldiers of Antioch because of the firepower advantage of muskets when fighting alone.

When these two advantages are added together, the soldiers of the Han Kingdom are obviously stronger when fighting in chaos, while the soldiers of Antigonus will appear more timid, unable to fight no matter what.

So this messy war has been fought from day to night, even the second day.

Because the situation on the battlefield was so chaotic, Li Mu had to gather a large number of his own soldiers along the road while advancing.

Even after four or five days, there were still some squads returning to the main army one after another. After careful questioning, it turned out that it was because they were chasing the Antigonian troops closely all the way, and they didn't know it at all. Where did the chase go.

After hearing these reasons, Li Mu couldn't laugh or cry, but these small teams that can chase for several days are actually not at a loss, because they usually achieve very brilliant results.

All in all, Li Mu found out on the second day that it would be useless to continue the pursuit, so he began to actively gather troops and count the results of the battle.

This counting is not important, after the counting, Li Mu himself was startled.

"It's too scary to kill more than 5 enemies, isn't it?"

One must know that the entire army sent by the Antigonid Empire this time was only 13 people. Li Mu killed more than 5 people at once, which is equivalent to killing nearly half of the 13 people.

You must know that this is just killing people, not including prisoners.

If the more than 3 captives captured are also counted, then only about 13 of the 4 people in the Antigonian Empire were able to escape in the end.

According to the standards of some exaggerated historians, this battle can almost be regarded as annihilated.

After obtaining the results of this battle, Li Mu suddenly realized that maybe he really should re-evaluate the combat methods of these Musketeers.

"Could it be said that for Musketeers, this light squad-style combat method is really correct?"

Li Mu fell into thinking, but he still didn't get the answer, he decided to ask his majesty the emperor after class.

For Li Mu, he felt that there were no military questions in this world that Zhao Kuo could not answer.

But after all, of course, Li Mu now does not have the time to ask Zhao Kuo. What he has to do next is to lead his troops across this plateau, and continue to capture the west of Asia Minor Peninsula. other cities.

Just as Li Mu was taking stock of his victory and continuing to march westward, in a city about [-] miles south of Li Mu, Demetrius II looked at the many ministers of the Antigonid Empire in front of him with a very ugly expression. .

"It must be admitted that we, Antioch, have completely failed in this war."

This sentence came directly from the mouth of Dmitry II himself, and no one had any opinion on this sentence of Dmitry II.

13 people went out, and less than 2 people followed Dmitry II to retreat to the city. The rest were either killed in battle or disappeared.

If this is not a complete failure, then what is a complete failure?

After saying this, Dmitry II gritted his teeth, as if he had made up his mind, and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry about it, we will immediately take all the troops to the port to board the ship, and retreat back to our mainland Greece!"

At this moment, Demetrius II is located in a port city. From here, he can pass through the island of Cyprus, and then directly cross the Aegean Sea in the eastern Mediterranean, and return to the mainland of Greece, which is still under the control of the Antigonian Empire.

After hearing Demetrius II's words, the generals of the Antigonid Empire present had different expressions.

A young general couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, are we going to give up the entire Asia Minor peninsula to these Han people?"

When speaking, the tone of the young general was obviously unconvinced.

For this young general, he felt that the Antigonian Empire had never fought a direct decisive battle with the Han Dynasty, and it was only because the Han people were more clever and despicable that the Antigonian Empire lost This inexplicable war.

But unlike young people, Dmitry II obviously wants to be more mature and stable, and he is also more able to clearly judge what kind of situation is now.

So he immediately stopped the young man, and said: "I understand your feelings very well, believe me, I also want to go back and fight those big Han people for 30 rounds immediately, but we can't do that.

Because if we really do this, then we have no way out but death, and our Antigonian Empire will only perish. Beheading, is this the result you want? "

Dmitry II's series of rhetorical questions directly left everyone present speechless.

Now that no one has spoken, Demetrius II continued: "Then abandon your dignity now, because the next thing we have to do is to fight for the survival of the entire Antigonid Empire.

We must retreat back to the Greek mainland and send all our fleets to block the Aegean Sea and the Bosphorus.

As long as the Han army cannot cross the strait, we can continue to occupy the mainland of Greece and have a long-lasting confrontation with them. "

Dmitry II's words have already reached this point, and everyone present has nothing to say, they can only obediently follow Dmitry II's request and begin to retreat.

In the evening of the second day, Li Mucai led the army to the port city.

But at this time, Dmitry II had already left the city with all the soldiers who could be brought on board.

Due to the limited number of ships, it is said that only more than 1 soldiers can be taken away by Dmitry II, and thousands of soldiers are left here.

According to the normal situation, if these thousands of soldiers are willing to guard the city, they can actually spend a little time.

The problem at the time was that these thousands of soldiers thought they were abandoned, so they were no longer willing to serve the Antigonian Empire. When they saw Li Mu's army coming, they immediately chose to surrender.

So Li Mu occupied the city almost unimpeded, and learned the ins and outs of the whole thing from the captives who surrendered.

After knowing that Dmitry II had left by boat with the army, Li Mu couldn't help but sighed, with a sad expression on his face.

"Now that all the ships have been taken away, it seems that there is really no way to destroy the Antigonian Empire this time."

Li Mu had been familiar with the territory of the entire Antigonian Empire long beforehand. This Antigonian Empire, in modern terminology, was a country that straddled Asia and Europe.

Therefore, if you want to completely destroy the Antigonid Empire, you must have ships to cross the Bosporus Strait.

But the problem is that what the Han Kingdom lacks the most is ships, or to put it more rigorously, the Han Kingdom has almost no ships to use on the Mediterranean side.

On the contrary, the Antigonian Empire and the Chumi Dynasty all inherited the Greek civilization under the rule of the Macedonian Kingdom, so they are very familiar with this sea area and have a lot of ships of.

Without a ship, even if the Musketeers led by Li Mu were there, no matter how brave they were, they would not be able to fight across the strait.

This is like the difficulty that France faced with the United Kingdom in history. In many cases, France has an advantage in its army, but it happens that the navy is not enough. It is as strong as the United Kingdom, so every time it fights with the United Kingdom, the French There is no way to cross the English Channel at all.