sweeping the world

Chapter 1025 Consciousness
The fighting on the Panchi River front has been No. 20 for four days today.

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

The fighting there was not intense. The anti-Han axis had just attacked again, and then the Han army's arrow rain covered it again and again. More than 5000 people fell down before hand-to-hand combat with the Han army. That gave them hope, but they rushed up but were killed in batches by the Han army like slaughtering lambs.

When more than 5000 people died and 800 people died, they had already collapsed. They turned around and fled backwards, but they were washed away by the rain of arrows from the Han army. The range of the crossbow's range is only about [-] people left.

"The Han army hasn't used gunpowder on a large scale yet..." 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 we didn't expect it to be so strong."

Before turning against the Han Empire, Rome not only witnessed the victory of the Han army.

From a friendly standpoint, the Romans could see the strength of the Han army, but it was difficult for them to understand it more.

Now Rome is at war with the Han Empire, 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 lost troops just now, and counting the loss of more than 3000 people just now, they lost nearly 24 people in just 4 days.He reminiscingly said: "Hundreds of years ago in the Xiongnu Empire, more than [-] cavalrymen went to besiege a Han Chinese infantry regiment with no backup and supplies, and it took several months to exhaust the strength of that Han infantry regiment. Arrows forced the Han generals to surrender conditionally."

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

Elbata was talking about the old story of Li Ling's army. Since Li Ling later became King Jiankun of the Huns, the Huns recorded the battle in its entirety.

The Huns fled to the west, and a lot of information about how the Hun Empire collapsed and how powerful the Western Han army was was passed on to those countries in Central Asia and West Asia.

At that time, Parthia was being rubbed against the ground by Rome, and it was urgent to find a strong ally. Knowing that there was a powerful country in the east, they tried to form an alliance.

The records of the Persians clearly stated that at that time, in order to welcome the envoys from the Western Han Dynasty, the Parthian Empire dispatched 2 armed heavy cavalry alone, and the rest of the sub-legions combined totaled [-].

Using an army of [-] to welcome a country's envoys, in addition to the super-high-standard reception, is nothing more than showing one's own strength.

The envoys of the Western Han Dynasty were in a state of confusion when they were greeted by the [-] troops of the Parthian Empire.However, at that time, the Han people were in an absolute rising period, and they really didn't mean to panic at all. They just thought 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 [-] troops just to welcome its own envoys, including [-] armed heavy cavalry. The enemy is definitely stronger.

That was an armored heavy cavalry, not some kind of arms. At that time, the entire Western Han Empire did not have 5 armored heavy cavalry. The mainstream cavalry was the shock cavalry, and the number of the shock cavalry was only [-] to [-].

The Han people believed that the Parthians were definitely out of their minds. The Western Han Empire didn’t even know who the enemies of the Parthian Empire were. Furthermore, the enemies of the Parthian Empire would not be weak. If that country provoked the Western Han Empire, they would definitely go Damn, but I don't even know who those people are, so how could I go to muddy water.

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

"Our goodwill towards forming an alliance with the Han has lasted for hundreds of years." Albata said while shaking his head: "There is probably nothing more ridiculous than this in the world, right?"

What it is saying is that the Persians were kind to the Han people, but they encountered the Han people's barely concealed malice. From the Persian perspective, it not only seemed sad, but also stupid.

Marus blinked his eyes, really didn't know what expression to use to face the self-pitying Elbata.

The Persians have such "cute" thoughts purely because there is such a great enemy that they must face, Rome.It is also because they have never had direct contact with the Han people at all, and after repeated obsessions, they have wishful thinking because of their obsessions.

In the history of the war with Persia, the Romans actually did some seemingly beautiful things, but in fact they were extremely stupid things. For example, they relied too much on the barbarians in a certain period of time, which led to the tragedy of the barbarian invasion.

It was a product of the fact that it was difficult for the two sides to completely knock down the opponent to the ground with their own strength, and they couldn't hold on anymore, so they had to choose foreign aid.

The Persians are not bad, but after hundreds of years of obsession, they found themselves wishful thinking. At least the Han people did not act hypocritical, instead of pretending to be friendly first and then suddenly stabbing in the back.

The Romans first experienced the barbarian invasion, and later broke the restriction that the barbarians could not obtain Roman citizenship, and they were already reaping the consequences.

Marus asked in confirmation, "How many Han troops are here?"

"The Han army hardly suffered any losses." Albata calmed down and said with a frown, "I haven't seen any sign of them increasing their troops. There are still two regular divisions and about [-] auxiliary soldiers."

The pontoon bridge seems to be the main defensive river section of the Han army. The two regular divisions have not changed much, but they have deployed about [-] Han auxiliary troops to each river section.

In the section of the river where the riverbed will be exposed in summer, the Anxi Dufu Mansion deployed [-] servants from the Western Regions from the rear, with [-] Han auxiliary soldiers.

In some other sections of the river, there were as many as 3000 people, and as few as a few hundred people, all of whom were arranged by Han Chinese auxiliary soldiers and Western Regions servants.

Nearly 30 troops came to the anti-Han axis, and nearly 20 troops were stationed on the side of the pontoon bridge, and the rest were scattered and tried to swim across the river.

Some anti-Han Axis troops managed to spray the east bank of the Chi River, but they were either wiped out or re-drived to the west bank soon, which also allowed Marus and Elbata to discover that the Han army had a mobile cavalry unit.

In the past 24 days, the Romans and Persians only played once, and the scale was not small, but they were firmly blocked. The Han army also used firearms on those two occasions.

"The longer the time drags on, the harder it is to fight!" Marus certainly didn't want the Romans to die too much, and he also felt that since the suddenness was lost, there was no need for a strong attack: "We are waiting for the water level to drop, but the Han Empire also Not so arrogant as not to call in reinforcements."

The Penchi River is too long, and there is always no shortage of places where the river bed is exposed after the water level drops in the hundreds of miles of river.By that time, they no longer had to rely on swimming and could cross the river by wading.

With such a long river section, it is not difficult to wait for summer to cross the river, but even if they are scattered across the river, the troops always need to gather, and given the terrain of the Western Regions, it is inevitable to face the Han army head-on.

"We knew it was going to be a tough fight and there were enough Siri prepared to fight a protracted war."

Erbata...or it should be said that they are truly sober Persians. They are not so naive as to think that by gathering the so-called anti-Han axis, they will really be able to rub the Han Empire on the ground. They don't even dare to think about it. Destroy the Han Empire.

To describe it in a rational way, they took the lead in forming an alliance with Rome and became one of the giants of the anti-Han axis. What they wanted was to tell the Han people not to try to take what they gave away, and they dared to fight desperately.

If things develop in a good direction, the two sides will fight in the territory of Hunnit, no matter how much blood was shed and how many people died on both sides, as long as the Han people can officially declare that the rest of the country is also a sovereign country, and it will no longer be taken for granted. To plunder the whole world, in fact, the goal of the Persians and Romans has been achieved.

Even if it means sacrificing 200 million people, as long as the Han people understand that the Persians dare to work hard and get the respect they deserve, even the victorious Persians are mentally prepared for the worst outcome.

Once things get to the point where nothing can be done, they have worked hard and sacrificed, and their upper echelons will admit defeat in exchange for retaining some rights, and continue to fight against the Han people in another way of resistance.

Don't think that the upper class of the Persians are too imaginative or too naive. They themselves are suffering from similar torture.In fact, they are learning from the Arabs. If they can't fight a regular war, can't they let ordinary people as many as gravel destroy them and engage in suicide attacks?

They don't believe it anymore. The Han people can stand the endless attacks and occupy a piece of land where people are resisting all the time. Maybe they can use this method to drag down the Han Empire, and those upper-level people will jump out at that time to get back the lost land. s right.

The Romans didn't know what kind of mentality the upper class in Persia was fighting this war with.What they saw was that the Persians put on a desperate posture, not only mentally, but the Sasanian Empire also mobilized the whole country as it announced, which did not seem to be fake at all.

To be reasonable, the Romans were still happy to see the Persians fight their old age, and they were willing to make the necessary investment for this.

Constantius squeezed out the meager finances and formed ten new legions. At the same time, he mobilized twenty Roman legions and nearly 20 vassal races, and headed east in a mighty way.

This move by Rome is very sincere, even if the sincerity of the Romans reaches its peak here.They have their own things to do. Apart from continuing to build the coastal defense line regardless of the cost and investing the necessary funds to research a new generation of warships, they no longer have any scruples about dark things.

"It's already entered a state of war." Marus said naturally: "Of course, whatever method can be used to obtain gunpowder, we can use whatever method."

People all over the world are serious about acquiring gunpowder and will pay any price for it.

In the past, they didn't dare to break their faces, and they refrained from using methods that would pay a high price.Now that the war has already begun, there will still be so many scruples to say, so naturally they will do everything they can.

The Romans and Persians are different from the Han people in terms of appearance. Those who want to play infiltration are limited by this aspect, and they really can't play.They had already bought some Han people a long time ago, usually lurking to become spies. They used a batch of them before, but they didn't get any decent results.

"Retreat." Malus said decisively: "We may not be able to get through before summer comes. With the pride of the Han people, they will not tolerate us in their sight, and there is a high chance that they will take the initiative come over."

Although Elbata felt very unwilling, he agreed to Marus's suggestion.

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

"Do foreign races know how to strike at halfway?" Song Ping was a little hesitant about Li Kuang's thinking: "Can they cross the river?"

"How will you know if you don't try?" Li Kuang didn't know how many subsequent reinforcements there would be, and he preferred that there would be no more than 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 barrier, but it is not the Yangtze River after all.

The Han people's understanding of the Penchi River should not be as much as the anti-Han axis. In such a stretch of hundreds of miles, the line of defense is almost full of loopholes. The 20 Han Chinese auxiliary soldiers and the [-] Western Regions servants are still struggling to face the hundreds of miles of river.

Another point is that the 20 Western Region servant army will be a help, and it may become a threat.

In fact, Li Kuang really understood that the people from the Western Regions were on the verge of breaking out. Perhaps he should not drag the people from the Western Regions who were forcibly recruited to the battlefield, but should send them to the country, and choose to kill them if they were cruel.

"Guardian, the enemy army is shrinking, and there are moves to pull out the camp."

Li Kuang was slightly taken aback by the new information.He went up to the arrow tower himself, took a lookout from a high enough height, and found that the enemy army showed signs of retreating.

"We have an advance base on the other side..." Song Ping was also looking at the enemy, and said with a strange expression: "Even if they want to attack halfway, they can't do it!"

As long as the Han army on the west bank is not wiped out, it means that the Han army controls the pontoon bridge, and there is no possibility of being attacked halfway.

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

Even if the enemy puts down a lit raft from upstream, it can easily be intercepted because of its slow speed.

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

(End of this chapter)