sweeping the world

Chapter 675 Even God is on the side of the big man!
The so-called Mo Dao is actually a long-handled, three-pointed, two-edged knife. The front end of this ordnance has the shape of a three-pronged knife, and the blade has blades on both sides. It is said that it evolved from a halberd.

The total length of the Mo Dao of the Han Army is two meters and fifty centimeters, the length of the blade is one meter, and the rest is the handle. If you don't have enough strength, you can't play at all.After all, the length of the weapon is too long, and the center of gravity is at the front end. The power of the weapon has been enhanced, but the difficulty of using it has been invisibly increased.

With the chanting of "Qi", the Han army's heavy infantry, arranged in a straight line, has begun to wave their weapons.

The Han army equipped with Mo Dao is equipped with heavy infantry. They hold the Mo Dao tightly with both hands. The cold light of a sharp blade flickered, and as long as the person standing in front of him was hit, he would die if the shield was cracked, or it would definitely be broken in the middle.

The Han army equipped with heavy infantry holding a broad sword. The total length of the guy in their hands is 1.5 meters, the handle is [-] centimeters, and the sword body is [-] centimeters. The width of the sword body is the largest at the front of the handle, and gradually narrows in width forward.When they moved forward, every step they took was a circular swinging movement of the big broadsword.

Gupta's armored infantry were completely stunned. The short spears they stabbed could not cause any physical damage to the Han army's armored infantry at all. Facing the killing of the Han army's armored infantry wielding weapons like a wall, they did not. Without the slightest resistance, without an order to retreat, they could only struggle with heavy casualties.

"This..." Zapter Warren couldn't believe his eyes, he looked at the unilateral massacre in front of him in disbelief, and asked, "What kind of army is this?"

Si Hongzhuang was not surprised at all that the armored infantry gained the upper hand. Facing Zaput Warren's question, he first said "hehe" twice, and then said: "It's just the armored infantry."

Equipped heavy infantry not only has an advantage in infantry duels, but also has no fear when facing cavalry, and can even directly challenge iron cavalry.Equipped heavy infantry equipped with suitable weapons, on the contrary, cavalry must avoid the sharp edge of equipped heavy infantry.

On the side of the Gupta Dynasty, they only occupied the beachhead three miles deep, and they certainly would not retreat easily. Not only did they not withdraw the armored infantry trained in imitating Greek warfare, they also provided reinforcements.

The armored heavy infantry of the Han army naturally continued to advance, but the soldiers at the front began to pant.The armor on their bodies weighed 10 catties, and the guy in their hands weighed [-] catties. They had to constantly wield their weapons during the battle, which consumed an astonishing amount of energy. Ten minutes of combat was considered too long.

Because of physical strength, although the Han army's equipped heavy infantry basically suffered no casualties, the front line needed to be rotated. When they rotated, there would be attack gaps. The Gupta side seized the opportunity to counterattack.

The fighting on the front of the battlefield was fierce, and the armies on both sides were not spectators.

At the front of the left and right wings of the Han army were the servants who had just withdrawn from the front. The first to fight with them were the untouchables of Gupta.

To put it bluntly, the untouchables on Gupta's side did not undergo systematic training, they were all recruited from the countryside, and they were given random weapons and dragged into the battlefield.Although their opponent was the servant army of the Han Dynasty, many of them were warriors who had been trained since childhood. Even the Japanese peasants had experienced the Battle of the Peninsula. Naturally, the Gupta untouchables would be suppressed and beaten by the servant army of the Han Dynasty.

From the overall perspective of the battlefield, after the battle started, Gupta's side was constantly being suppressed and retreated. Although there was no large-scale retreat, the situation looked extremely bad.

"The untouchables of the Xindu people don't have much combat power, and they won't be able to kill them no matter how hard they are." Urgutai Bahram was not very surprised by the land combat strength shown by the Han army. He had already learned from some documents before coming. Seeing the strength of the Han people's land warfare: "The real combat effectiveness of the Xindu people is the troops trained by the Kshatriyas independently, and the elephant troops and chariot troops are the strongest."

"War Elephant Troop?" Si Hongzhuang actually didn't see the War Elephant Troop with his own eyes, but he heard from some robes that Lin Yi and Funan had their own War Elephant Troops. It seemed that they were really not that easy to deal with. Some tricks: "War elephants are afraid of fire, and they are also very timid. They can use all kinds of noises to intimidate them, and there is nothing difficult to deal with."

In fact, Persian Sasanian also has war elephant troops, including Rome also has war elephant troops. It was Alexander who suffered an unprecedented loss when encountering war elephant troops during his Eastern Expedition, which also made war elephants famous in Central Asia and Europe. .The Persians behind were the first to train their own war elephant troops, and when they confronted the Romans, they made the Romans face up to the horror of war elephants. As a result, the Romans also started to build war elephant troops.

Of course, elephants are a very common creature in South Asia. In fact, they can still be seen in East Asia during the Spring and Autumn Period and even in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but they really didn’t exist in Central Asia and Europe. The Persians and Romans engaged in war elephant troops. procured through trade.

There are indeed elephants in China. The Yellow River Basin in ancient times was full of wild elephants. It is hard to know when they gradually decreased and disappeared.Elephants in East Asia are constantly migrating from the Yellow River Basin to the south. As the dynasties of the Central Plains continued to expand their habitats, elephants migrated to South Asia and Southeast Asia. There are wild elephants, but by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they could only be found in the south of the Five Ridges. Currently (Han) Jiaozhou and Ningzhou also have wild elephants.

The Central Plains dynasty did not study how to tame elephants. They basically focused on killing and expelling elephants. However, the peoples of Southeast Asia and South Asia have long been successful in researching and taming elephants.

At present, in 200 A.D., wild elephants can still be seen in the Zhuxia habitat, but after more than [-] years, there will be no wild elephants.

There is another creature that the ancestors of Zhuxia tried their best to eliminate, and that is the crocodile.Among the "three pests" eliminated by Zhou Chu was crocodiles (alligators). Alligators were very common in the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasties, but it was really difficult to find them in the Sui Dynasty.

Farming peoples, in addition to the land that can be cultivated, animals that can be tamed and become a source of meat can be seen in the eyes. Everything is based on being easy to be tamed and "eatable". Those who cannot be eaten will be destroyed, which will harm the crops And those that threaten the safety of life must be eliminated.

Animal protection or something?It's just a concept derived from people who have no worries about food and clothing.

The fighting on land was fierce, and there was also a new confrontation at sea.

That was Li Mai's move according to the established plan. The Han army's warships lined up to approach the Gupta fleet, disrupting the Gupta fleet's breakout arrangement, and at the same time exerting greater pressure.

Faced with the persecution of the Han fleet, Katruk Karp had no choice but to send the fleet to confront, and suddenly the sea began to become lively again.

Most of the warships on Gupta's side were blocked in the water fortress originally built by the Han army. Only Kapil Malik, which was originally left outside, and sailed out of the encirclement early due to an error, was not blocked. Within the encirclement of the Han fleet.

The Han army's defense against the fleet that was not in the encirclement was composed of the raid formations that returned earlier, and the teams that went out to carry out raids came back one after another, forming a battle of 37 ships for the Han army against Picard Malik's 46 ships. situation.

"There is no suspense in the battle on land." Urgutai Bahram Bimiyuan still has confidence in the Han army's land battle, but he said: "If you don't have the reinforcements of follow-up warships, the confrontation at sea will be more difficult." Still have to fight.”

Mi Yuan didn't comment too much, seeing that the number of warships on their side was indeed at a disadvantage. Judging from the previous confrontation, Gupta's side was really not weak in sea combat capabilities.

"Kutak is only a few days' voyage away from here." Urgutai Bahram did not believe that the Han Empire would ignore this, so he asked, "Your warships are already here?"

The Gupta Dynasty assembled [-] ships of various types, and the assembly point was Cuttack.The Gupta fleet that came to fight this time was only about [-] ships, and another [-] ships were in Cuttak. No one can tell whether the Gupta fleet here will receive reinforcements.

"Are you kidding me?" Mi Yuan was just telling the truth: "How could the warships of the Han Dynasty be the only ones you can see? We are just an expeditionary force. The Han Dynasty also has the Beiyang Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet. The size of any of them exceeds Thousands of ships."

Urgutai Bahram blinked his eyes. He didn't know whether to believe it or not, but at least he understood that the Han Empire still had two fleets in its homeland. As for each fleet having more than a thousand warships, he Just listen to a joke.

The confrontation at sea has begun, but the confrontation on land has entered a white-hot stage.

As the Han army's armored heavy infantry entered the battle, there was no surprising scene in the frontal battlefield confrontation. The Han army's armored heavy infantry kept advancing despite its slow speed, but the servant troops on both wings followed. There were twists and turns in the battle of the Gupta regular army.

"I can't stand it anymore!"

"I really can't stand it anymore!"

The Gupta army who was assigned to the battle, they were a group of sword and shield soldiers, the shield was a small round shield, the sword was a scimitar, and they were wearing a kind of leather armor made of unknown leather. They looked very flexible in combat, a bit like the Han army The jumping soldiers in the middle.

The servant army from the Uriel Islands is mixed, there is no shortage of good-quality warriors, and the warriors usually have at least one piece of bamboo armor, but most of them are farmers who have only been exposed to fighting in recent years.In terms of physical fitness, there are really not many people who can exceed 1.6 meters in height in Wu Lie Island, and they are generally below 1.5 meters.

Fighting in the era of cold weapons requires very high physical fitness, and tall and strong people always have an advantage. The servant army does not lack a lot of vigor, but it is really difficult to face the long-term well-trained regular army. It's not that a single ruthlessness can make up for the disadvantages.

"Order!" Si Hongzhuang did not withdraw the servant army, but directly ordered to the standard bearer standing beside him: "Soldiers move forward."

There was a flag bearer on the nest cart, not only in the modern Han Dynasty who created a set of mature semaphores, but also in the pre-Qin ancient times. It is just that the pre-Qin did not have mature semaphores and had to make relevant agreements in advance, and there were special flags for shaking To issue different orders that have been agreed in advance.

The regular army of the Han Dynasty joined the battlefield on both wings, and soon fought back the position where the servant army had retreated before, and pushed forward in unison with the armored heavy infantry in front.

"There's no room for trickery in this kind of beachhead battle." Huan Wen still stayed on that mountain, and he was in a good mood to see the success of the land battle. No shortage."

Zhang Qian, the commander of the army, was originally the Zuo Servant of Ran's Qin State. After the Ran's Qin State was merged into Liu Yan's command, he became an official of the Han State. He was originally a county guard in Dai County, but later he was transferred to the military. .He is naturally full of confidence in his own land battle, and has been paying attention to naval battles.

"Gupta gathered a thousand warships, but only came here for five hundred." Zhang Qian didn't want to say anything depressing, but he had to remind him of some things: "This place is not far from the gathering point of the enemy fleet."

Huan Wen narrowed his eyes after hearing this.Of course he knew that the Gupta Dynasty assembled more than a thousand ships of various types, but only about [-] ships came, and there may be more ships coming later.

A great battle had already broken out at sea, and the place of battle was around the water village. The sky was full of arrows, and from their direction, many ships on both sides could be seen on fire.

The weather became fine, and the wooden ships had no rain to extinguish the fire on the arrows. If the fire was not extinguished in time, a fire would indeed break out.

"This general will naturally know." Huan Wen said that the Gupta Dynasty would have reinforcements from Cuttak at any time. He raised his binoculars and looked at the sea where the confrontation was taking place: "Li Mai assured this general that the enemy fleet will definitely be blocked." In the water village, I will believe it first."

Neither of them talked about asking for reinforcements from the mainland. It took about ten days for Pingman Captain to go to Cochin by sea, and there was temporarily no way to get there because of the storm. It would take at least half a month for the fleet to arrive.

Zhang Gan raised his head and pointed to the sea where the battle was taking place: "Fireboat offensive!"

Speaking of it, it was Li Mai's luck. The calm sea did not know when there was a strong wind. Their position was still in the limelight. Without thinking about it, he ordered to prepare for a fire attack. After a short preparation, he immediately took action .

"God is on the side of the big man!" Li Mai was extremely excited, and shouted: "The enemy ships are densely packed, which is a great opportunity for fire attack!"

There were already many ships on fire on both sides. They felt that they were hopeless, and they tried their best to rush to the other side, intending to drag more enemy ships to be buried with them. After the strong wind appeared, the Han army started the fire boat offensive without hesitation. For the first time, the face of Katruk Karp in the rear appeared deadly gray...

(End of this chapter)