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Chapter 1034 A Bad Battle That Made Both Sides Suffer

In the face of an enemy army that has fallen into a state of collapse, the most correct approach is actually to persuade them to surrender.

Naturally, the Han army tried to persuade them to surrender, but they found that the enemy was surprisingly tough, unable to escape and would not surrender, instead they carried out a hysterical desperate effort.

After the Persians and Romans decided to oppose the Han, they have been advocating the policies of the Han people, including the Han Empire's complete castration of slaves.

Defeated and captured is nothing to many races, and even some races are willing to serve as dogs to the victors after defeat. The information they get is that the Han people rarely accept dog legs, and if they are slaves to the Han people, they will be castrated.For this reason, except for a very small number of people of all ethnic groups, they chose to kneel and surrender.

"The trend must be reversed!" Li Kuang had already ordered the sword and shield soldiers who had been charging forward to retreat and repair. He had obtained the results of the interrogation of some prisoners of war and knew that Persia, Sassanid and Rome had been promoting the domineering side of the Han people, and he knew the seriousness of the matter. : "A hopeless enemy must resist and choose to the end. Such a situation should not occur."

The Han Empire is very strong, and the Han army is also very brave and good at fighting, but the war is destined to be bloody. Once every enemy is fighting the Han army with despair, no matter how the Han army can fight, there will be some unnecessary casualties.

In fact, powerful enemies are not scary. The most terrifying thing is the enemy who is so desperate that he has the willpower to fight to the death.

"Although most of it is true, it should be reversed." Song Ping already had his own preliminary battle damage data: "Does the guard want to be a model?"

Most of the time, it doesn't matter what you actually do. It's about letting people who want to know some information get the information you want them to know.

The Han Empire would indeed castrate slaves comprehensively, but this matter cannot be "really hammered", causing the negative impact of increasing the enemy's desperate efforts.

"It should be typical." Li Kuang immediately thought of the Wusun people, and quickly vetoed it.He thought for a while and said, "Properly arrange this batch of captives, so that all ethnic groups can see that the big man is a state of etiquette."

Some armies treat prisoners of war better than their own soldiers. It is nothing more than psychological warfare, giving the soldiers of the opposing army a feeling that even if they are defeated and surrendered, not only their personal safety can be guaranteed, but life may be better than waiting for them. Even better in the country.In this way, it can weaken the enemy's will to die, and may even induce the enemy to come over and surrender.

Song Ping knew exactly what to do, and immediately responded.

Today's battle started when the east was exposed in the morning. The battle between the Han army and the anti-Han axis coalition forces took nearly two hours on the frontal battlefield, and another hour was spent on the "city wall" front in the middle. It was only at noon that they entered the state of attacking the camp.

The camp of the Anti-Han Axis Coalition Army was very large. Although the Anti-Han Axis Coalition Army had its own chaos, it took the Han Army about two hours to advance about seven or eight miles. Based on the size of the entire camp, it only captured about three or four out of ten. What does it look like?

Entering the offensive and defensive battle in the camp area, the casualties of the Han army were much higher than before. The two swords and shield soldiers who had been charging in the front finally retreated 76 people, of which [-] were seriously injured, and the rest were many. More or less with some minor injuries.

What Song Ping had just received was the statistics on the losses and battle results of the sword and shield soldiers. The losses were those. The battle results that could be counted by ear were more than [-] people killed, and those who verbally reported their military achievements were about [-] enemy troops.

Regarding the results reported by the sword and shield soldiers, Song Ping thought it was very reasonable. After all, the enemy army was in chaos at the beginning, and it was so crowded that it was difficult to retreat, so they counterattacked in a state of chaos.

The anti-Han Axis coalition forces really squeezed themselves to the point of no retreat, causing their allies in the far east to face the slaughter of the Han army. The tribes that were not at the front line of fighting the Han army fought themselves to fight for their own way of life. .

From the beginning of the battle to the current stage, Song Ping guessed that the enemy army that he had eliminated should be more than 3 people, and some people in the enemy army died in fratricide every moment. He is very sure that the main force of this anti-Han axis coalition force Even if it is not completely abolished, it will take at least half a year to regain combat effectiveness after escaping.

"The other party is too chaotic, and our people can't confirm the movement of their main force." Song Ping felt absurd when he said this, but at the same time he felt very headache: "This battle has turned into a bad one so far."

As the commander, Li Kuang has long confirmed that it was a bad battle.

It's not that Li Kuang lost command of his own troops, but that his troops were too few and the enemy's troops were too chaotic. Even if his troops were trying very hard to kill people and the enemy's troops were killing each other, we could not effectively persuade them to surrender and it was difficult to end the war in a short time. Those who can escape to meet the enemy in the continuous killing all escape.

The reality is like this, if there is no mass surrender of an army, and the number of troops reaches a certain level, no matter how chaotic it is, it will not be wiped out in a short time.

The only possibility for a large army to be wiped out in a short period of time is that this army lost its will to fight and surrendered in order.

Many times there is always a sentence, such as a certain army was defeated or the entire army was wiped out in a very short period of time, then usually there will be "No matter how many pigs are killed by the enemy, it will still take X days" comments like that.It's because pigs won't surrender, they won't stop until they run to safety or die.The troops who surrendered under the orders of their commanders were all taken prisoner at the first command.

A fully formed legion and a disabled legion in Rome, carrying about [-] vassal races, broke away from the camp under the leadership of Marus.

The problem with the short legs of the Romans was that they were fatal. They were not like those fleeing on horseback. They fled towards the mountains and plains as soon as they left the crowded area.

I don't know if it's out of pride or quality, the Romans maintained a relatively perfect formation even when they were escaping.Compared with all the defeated troops including the Persians, this is very rare.

The Han army was held back by the stranded anti-Han Axis coalition forces. The scattered scouts were difficult to conduct effective investigations because the overall situation on the battlefield was too chaotic. In many cases, it was difficult for the scouts to report effective information. The Romans The news of fleeing the camp has not been reported to Li Kuang for the time being.

Elbata also escaped from the camp, but compared with most of the troops that Malus could bring with him, the troops he could effectively control were only less than [-], and the rest were left behind in the camp. .

It makes no difference whether the anti-Han axis coalition forces have a commander or not. Their extremely chaotic situation has in some ways prevented the Han army's high-speed advancement.

Liu Shen, who was on the battlefield, faced the scene in front of him in a state of confusion.What he saw was a mess everywhere, not only the Han people were killing people, the enemy troops were also killing each other, people were falling down everywhere, but there was no sign of "emptiness" in the space for a short time. So crowded.

After the Han army riflemen entered the enemy camp, it was difficult to maintain a long array line due to the terrain.They were divided into several teams and had their own shooting horizons.

Compared with the long array line before, after the Han army riflemen were divided into several small groups, the probability of encountering an impact greatly increased.

That was the reduction in firepower density and the reduction in shooting frequency, and then they faced an enemy army that was so hysterical that even death could be ignored.

It's funny but realistic. The anti-Han Axis coalition forces were so hysterical that they forgot their fear, ignored the people in front of them and kept falling down, and ran wildly with their legs to collide. On the contrary, they really rushed to the point where they could fight with the Han army riflemen distance.

It was just the anti-Han axis coalition forces who lost their minds. They ignored the impact of death and just wanted to run out of a way to escape. After the collision with the Han army riflemen, no one even thought about asking the Han army soldiers to fight. They just wanted to collide. If you don't die, continue to run forward with your legs.

"Retreat, exit the camp!"

The messengers were running in various positions, conveying the latest orders from Qin Song.

Riflemen should not stay in such a battlefield. Their current number is still scarce, and they are the seeds of army expansion. That is why they still maintain the designation of the Junji Mountain Captain's Department. In the future, they will be dismantled into various standing armies and become firearm The backbone of the teacher.

Qin Song ordered the musketeers to retreat with Li Kuang's consent.

As Li Kuang, who had an overview of the overall situation, he did not immediately agree after receiving Qin Song's request. Only when reinforcements from the rear were able to take over the combat positions of the riflemen did he allow the riflemen on the front line to retreat.

In fact, it is not a reinforcement force, but Li Kuang's original defenders who stayed on the east bank of the Panchi River. Their original role was to prevent disadvantages in crossing the river, so that even if the troops crossing the river were defeated or even wiped out, they would still be able to guarantee the defense of the river. The necessary force is not lost.

After the anti-Han Axis coalition forces collapsed, Li Kuang ordered the reserve troops left behind to approach the battlefield, and the order to send them to the east bank of the Penchi River was relatively late.

Li Kuang, who had already discovered that the battle could not be ended in a short period of time, ordered the new troops entering the battlefield to only make an aggressive posture, and continue to instill fear in the enemy army, so that they can kill each other, but don't rush forward to challenge them. .

"Our troops are too few!" Li Kuang didn't know how many times he said this.He said with a wry smile on his face: "We won the battle, but the result is that we can't advance and can't retreat, and we can't retreat."

"Guardian, after this battle, you have become a famous general in the world." Song Ping didn't think he was flattering: "You invested [-] troops, but you defeated an enemy army of more than [-]. "

It was because of this that Li Kuang felt aggrieved.

People always think that after achieving a certain result they want, since they have achieved it, then if they have more chips in hand, they will definitely be able to do better, and after doing better, they will want to be perfect.

Li Kuang is in such a situation now. If he can defeat more than [-] enemy troops with [-] troops, he will not be reconciled to just defeating them. He is not greedy and cannot get supplementary troops in a short time, which creates depression.

The commander who is the winner is depressed, so what should Marus and Elbata feel when they are the defeated side?
The commanders of the two anti-Han Axis coalition forces never regained contact after leaving the chaotic camp, and they even chose different directions to retreat.

Elbata is retreating straight to the west. What he wants to do most is to retreat to the third line of defense, and quickly take over the command of the third line of defense, preparing to resist the approach of the Han army.

Marus chose to retreat to the north. He knew that his side was short-legged, and he might be caught up if he retreated to the north. However, he still chose to do so because he knew that the city wall could not stop the Han army from attacking. Go north to the grazing area of ​​the coalition army, get enough animal power for transportation, and without looking back, you have to go through the border of the Hunnites and retreat directly to the territory of Sassanid.

The different choices are due to the different countries behind them. The country where Elbata is located is only one hunite away from the middle of the Han Empire. But as long as there is still hope, even if it is only a faint hope, he will not give up trying to bring the Han Empire to China. The Han army was resisted, as long as they could block the Han army for one more day, Sassan would have one more day to prepare.

Rome, where Marus was located, was far enough away from the Han Empire. One had to worry about the sea expeditionary force also coming from the Han Empire. Unless Sassanian fell, Rome would have a long way to go before facing the land invasion of the Han Empire.

There are fleeing people everywhere in the wilderness, some are running on foot, some are galloping on horseback, and everyone's face is either a happy expression of escape, or a face of lingering fear.

Elbata tried to gather the routs around him. Next, he had to organize the arrangement of the third line of defense. The more troops the better, he knew that routs were not a good choice, but one more head could consume more Han troops. An arrow or a bullet, right?

Elbata, who was hungry and wanted more troops, soon realized that all ethnic groups no longer respect the so-called Persian authority. There are many people who directly refuse, and more weapons are facing each other.

All ethnic groups have seen the power of the Han Empire, how much they fear the Han Empire, and how much they hate the Persians who pulled themselves into the anti-Han axis.

They were previously afraid of the power of Sasanian Persia. After experiencing such a great defeat and seeing how vulnerable the Persians were in front of the Han people, they began to think that "the Persians are nothing more than that". Dare to face the Han people, but dare to bark their teeth at the Persians.

"Idiots! Those idiots!" Albata did not curse out of frustration, but sneered: "They have already joined the anti-Han camp, will the Han people let them go? If they don't stand firmly with us and continue to fight against the Han people, not only The Chinese will attack them, and we will not let hostile bastards go!"

Erbata, who was galloping on horseback, suddenly saw a black line in front of him, and at the same time saw the rout of soldiers running towards that black line falling down in pieces. He suddenly came to his senses. No wonder the number of Han troops was so small before. It was the Han army who detoured to the rear of the battlefield.

(End of this chapter)