Sweep the World

Today is the 24th day of the fighting on the Penchi River.

Marus stood at a distance of about 500 meters from the Penchi River, looking at the enemy and us who were fighting in a daze.

The fighting there was not fierce. The anti-Han Axis had just attacked another wave, and then the arrow rain of the Han army was repeatedly covered. More than 5,000 people fell before the Han army had four or five hundred people down. The Han army in the rear They were given hope as usual, but they rushed up but were killed in batches by the Han army like they were slaughtering lambs.

When more than five thousand people died and seven or eight hundred people died, they had already collapsed. They turned and fled back and were washed by the arrow rain of the Han army. Thousands of people fell halfway through the defeat, and could escape the Han alive. There are only more than two thousand people left in the range of the military bow and crossbow.

"The Han army hasn't used gunpowder on a large scale..." Marus actually didn't care how many miscellaneous soldiers died. What he cared about was: "We know that the Han army is very strong, but I didn't expect it to be so strong."

Before it became hostile to the Han Empire, Rome not only witnessed the victory of the Han army.

From the standpoint of a friendly side, the Romans could see the strength of the Han army, but it was difficult to have more experience.

Now that Rome and the Han Empire are at war, and the two sides are on a hostile battlefield, Marus can be regarded as experiencing the helplessness of fighting the Han army.

"Their bows and crossbows are too powerful!" Elbata was calculating the loss of troops just now. Counting the more than 3,000 people who were lost just now, they lost nearly 40,000 people in just 24 days. He recalled and said in general: "In the Huns Empire hundreds of years ago, more than 100,000 cavalry soldiers went to besiege a Han Chinese infantry corps with no back-ups and no supplies. It took several months to exhaust that Han Chinese infantry corps. The arrow forced the Han Chinese general to conditionally surrender."

Persians have not many records about Han people, but some important records are basically there.

El Bata was talking about the old things about the Li Ling army. Since Li Ling later became King Jian Kun of the Huns, the Huns completely recorded the battle.

The Huns fled westward, about how the Huns empire collapsed, and how powerful the Western Han army was. A lot of information was passed on to the countries in Central Asia and West Asia.

At that time, Parthia was being rubbed on the ground by Rome and urgently needed to find a strong ally. Knowing that there is a strong country to the east, try to make an alliance.

The record of the Persians is very clear. At that time, in order to welcome the envoys from the Western Han Dynasty, the Parthian Empire dispatched 20,000 heavy cavalry, and the rest of the second-class legions combined were 100,000.

With one hundred thousand troops to welcome a country’s envoys, in addition to super-high-level reception, it is nothing more than to show their own strength.

The envoys of the Western Han Dynasty were embarrassed to be greeted by the 100,000 troops of the Parthian Empire. However, at that time, the Han people were in an absolute ascendant period, and there was no sense of panic at all. They just felt that the Parthians were really crazy.

Later, the Han people received the alliance intention of the Parthian Empire. The result of the discussion was that the Parthian Empire used 100,000 troops to welcome its own envoys, including 20,000 heavy cavalry. The enemy is definitely stronger.

That was a heavy cavalry, not a cat or dog. At that time, there was no heavy cavalry with a scale of 10,000 in the entire Western Han Empire. The mainstream cavalry played was the assault cavalry, and the number of assault cavalry was 30,000 to 50,000.

The Han people even believed that the Parthians were definitely mentally abnormal. The Western Han Empire did not even know who the enemies of the Parthian Empire were. Furthermore, the enemies of the Parthian Empire would not be weak. If that country provokes the Western Han Empire, it must go. Hey, but even those people don't know who they are, how can they go to the muddy water.

The Persians only have records that the Western Han Empire did not respond to the Parthian Empire’s proposal of an alliance, but they did not know that the Western Han Han people regarded the Parthians as neurotic. The Persians described the powerful and wealthy aspects of the Han in their history books, because the Western Han Empire did not wade through the muddy waters and left a lot of thoughts, which all became obsessions behind.

"Our goodwill for the alliance with the Han people has lasted for hundreds of years." Alberta said, shook her head: "I guess there is nothing more ridiculous in the world than this, right?"

It is said that the Persians uphold goodwill towards the Hans, but they encountered the maliciousness that the Hans barely concealed. From the perspective of the Persians, it not only seemed sad, but also stupid.

Marus blinked his eyes, really wondering what expression to face the self-blaming Elbata.

The Persians have such a "cute" idea purely because of Rome, a great enemy they must face. They also had no direct contact with the Han people at all, and after their repeated obsessions deepened, they would have wishful thinking because of obsessions.

In the history of the Romans' war with Persia, it was not that they did not do some seemingly beautiful, but in fact extremely stupid things, such as over-reliance on the barbarians for a certain period of time, leading to the tragedy of barbaric invasion.

That was a product of the difficulty for both sides to completely knock their opponents to the ground with their own strength.

The Persians are pretty good. After hundreds of years of obsession, they found themselves wishful thinking. At least the Han people did not act hypocritically, not pretending to be friendly and then suddenly stabbing a knife in the back.

The Romans first experienced the barbarian invasion, and then broke the restriction that the barbarians could not obtain Roman citizenship, and they were already eating their own evil results.

Marus seemed to ask, "How many Han troops are there?"

"The Han army has almost no losses." Erbata tidied up and said with a frown, "I didn't see any signs of an increase in their troops. They are still two regular divisions and about 20,000 auxiliary troops."

This side of the pontoon seems to be the main defensive section of the Han army. The two regular divisions have not changed much, but about 20,000 Han auxiliary troops have been deployed to each section of the river.

In the section of the river where the riverbed would be exposed in summer, the Anxi Protectorate placed 20,000 servants of the Western Regions from the rear, together with 5,000 Han auxiliary soldiers.

In other sections of the river, there are as many as more than three thousand people, and as few as hundreds of people, all of which are arranged by the auxiliary soldiers of the Han and the servants of the Western Regions.

Nearly 300,000 troops came from the anti-Han axis, and nearly 200,000 troops were stationed on the pontoon side. The rest were scattered and tried to swim across the river.

Some anti-Han axis forces successfully passed to the east bank of the Penchi River, but they were either wiped out or rushed to the west bank again, which also made Marus and Erbata discover that the Han army had a cavalry force cruising.

In the past twenty-four days, the Romans and the Persians only played once. The scale was not small, but it was firmly blocked. In those two times, the Han army also used firearms.

"The longer the time is, the harder it is to fight!" Of course, Marus didn't want the Romans to die too much. He also felt that since the suddenness was lost, there was no need to attack: "We are waiting for the water level to drop, but the Han Empire also Will not be too arrogant to not mobilize reinforcements."

The Penchi River is too long, and the hundreds of miles of the river always do not lack some places where the riverbed will be exposed after the water level drops. At that time, they will not have to rely on swimming and can cross the river by wading.

For such a long section of the river, it is not difficult to wait for the summer to cross the river, but even if it is scattered across the river, the troops will always need to be assembled, and the terrain of the western region will inevitably be in front of the Han army.

"We knew it would be a difficult war, and there is enough Siri ready to fight a protracted war."

Erbata...or should be said to be really sober Persians. They are not naive enough to think that by gathering the so-called anti-Han axis, they can really rub the Han Empire on the ground, even if they dare not even think about it. Destroy the Han Empire.

To describe it in a sensible way, they took the lead to form an alliance with Rome and became one of the giants of the anti-Han axis. What they held was to tell the Han people not to want to take it, they dare to work hard.

If things go in a good direction and the two sides fight in the territory of Hunite, it doesn’t matter how much blood was shed and how many people died. As long as the Han people can officially be recognized as sovereign states, the rest of the country will no longer be taken for granted. To plunder the world, in fact, the goals of the Persians and Romans have been achieved.

With the sacrifice of even two million people, as long as the Han Chinese can understand that the Persians dare to work hard, in exchange for the respect that they should have, even the Persians who have won the victory are even mentally prepared for the worst result.

Once things come to a time when things can't be done, they are desperate and sacrificed. Their upper class will admit defeat in exchange for retaining some rights and interests, and continue to fight the Han people in another way of fighting.

Don't think that the upper strata of the Persians are brain-opened or naive, but they themselves are experiencing similar torture. They are actually learning Arabs, and they can't fight a regular war. Couldn't they allow ordinary people as many as gravel to destroy and play suicide attacks?

They don’t believe it. The Han people can withstand the endless assaults, and they are willing to occupy a land that people are fighting against all the time. Maybe they can still use this method to bring down the Han Empire, and those upper strata will then jump out to retrieve them and throw them away. s right.

The Romans did not know what kind of mentality the Persian upper strata had in fighting this war. What they saw was that the Persians put on a posture of desperate old age, not just their mentality, but the Sassanian Empire also mobilized the whole country as it declared itself, and it did not seem to be a fake.

To be reasonable, the Romans are still happy to see the Persians desperately getting old, and are willing to make the necessary investments for this.

Constantius squeezed out the small financial resources and formed ten new legions. At the same time, he mobilized twenty Roman legions and nearly 200,000 vassal races, and headed east violently.

This move by Rome is very sincere, that is, the sincerity of the Romans has reached its peak here. They have their own things to do. In addition to continuing to build the coastal internal defense line at any cost, and invest the necessary funds to research the new generation of warships, they no longer have any scruples about dark things.

"It's already in a state of war." Marus said of course: "Of course it is the method used to obtain gunpowder."

People all over the world are serious about obtaining gunpowder and are willing to pay any price for it.

In the past, they didn't dare to tear their faces and refrained from using methods that would pay a high price for them. Since the war is already on, there will still be so many scruples to say, it is natural to do everything.

Romans and Persians are different from Han in appearance. Those who want to infiltrate are subject to this limitation, so they really can’t play. They had bought some Han Chinese separately a long time ago, generally hiding them as spies. They used a group before, but they didn't achieve any decent results.

"Retreat." Marus said decisively: "Before summer comes, we may not be able to make it. With the pride of the Han people, they will not tolerate us in their sight. There is a great chance that they will take the initiative. come over."

Although Erbata felt very unwilling, she agreed to Marus's suggestion.

On the Han side, Li Kuang was already considering whether to take the initiative to withdraw the division on the other side of the river and let the enemy troops cross the river.

"Does the foreign race know about half-crossing and hitting?" Song Ping hesitated about Li Kuang's thinking: "They will cross the river?"

"If you don't try, how can you know?" Li Kuang didn't know how many subsequent reinforcements there would be, and tended not to exceed three standing armies at most: "There are too many enemy troops. Once summer comes, we will be more passive."

The Penchi River can be used as a natural hazard, but it is not the Yangtze River after all.

The Han people should not know as much about the Penchi River as the anti-Han axis. In such a stretch of hundreds of miles, there is almost a line of defense full of loopholes. The 80,000 Han auxiliary soldiers and the 200,000 Western Region servants were still struggling to face hundreds of miles of rivers.

Another point, the two hundred thousand Western Region servants will be a help, and it may also become a threat.

In fact, Li Kuang really understands that the Western Regions are on the verge of an outbreak. Maybe he shouldn’t drag the forcibly conscripted Western Regions to the battlefield~www.wuxiamtl.com~. Instead, they should be sent to China. If they are cruel, they will choose to kill. Lose.

"Duhu, the enemy is shrinking its forces and is pulling out the camp."

The new information made Li Kuang stunned a little. He personally went up to the arrow tower, took a lookout at a sufficient height, and found that the enemy troops showed signs of retreat.

"We have an advance base on the other side..." Song Ping was also looking at the enemy, with a weird expression, "They can't do it even if they want to strike halfway!"

As long as the Han army on the West Bank is not eliminated, it is equivalent to the Han army controlling the floating bridge, and there is no possibility of being hit by a half-cross.

During the battle, the enemy used some tricks to destroy the pontoon bridge, but the water flow in the river section was too gentle, and the wood flowing upward was not fast. When it reached the pontoon bridge, it would only form floating objects, and there was no impact at all.

Even if the enemy army lowers the fire raft from the upper reaches, it is easy to be intercepted because of the slow speed.

The pontoon was firmly controlled by the Han army, but the enemy army made it clear that they wanted to retreat, which made Li Kuang a little confused for a while.