sweeping the world

Chapter 742 It's Time
In the middle of autumn, the sky full of dark clouds is still moderately rainy. Standing at one place and looking away, the green mountains and green forests within the eyes are shrouded in a kind of haze.

It should have been full of poetic and picturesque scenery, but there were constant roars and screams in the mountains and forests. It was the coalition forces assembled by Gupta attacking the defense line set up by the Han army.

The fighting is on the cutting edge, and it's not the first day either.It is a rare thing for the army of Zhuxia civilization to launch an offensive in rainy weather. It is not a last resort that Zhuxia civilization will not conduct military operations in this kind of weather, but it seems that Gupta and many coalition forces do not fight without rain the concept of?
It had already been raining for several days, and the battle was under the force of the rain. The ground absorbed too much water and became soft, and the feet would sink in when they stepped on the ground. It is muddy, since mud will hinder the movement, it is not a good time to fight.

"Stupid foreigner!" Cai Lan was grinning, the crossbow in his hand was pulled, and the bowstring jerked, and the person shot in front was pierced through the head by the crossbow and fell down without a groan: "Double legs! It's full of mud, it's hard to move, and the slope is too slippery to climb up, it's just a good target."

This defense point is located on a slope, and a continuous line of defense with a shed on the top is constructed. There is a slope in front of the line of defense. The Han army defends on the slope, and below it is a huddled group of enemy troops who want to climb up. .

In places like the Indochina Peninsula, where the air is humid for a long time, the test for bows or crossbows is actually quite big. If the bowstring is not maintained from time to time, it will relax, which will definitely affect the firing of bows and crossbows.

The Han army is not a barbarian without any historical background. The history of Zhuxia is a history of wars. Anyway, almost any kind of battle has been encountered, and the experience accumulated by the predecessors has been recorded in writing, giving future generations more ways to deal with it.

Use various methods to maintain the bowstring at any time, so that you can use it if you want to use it after the battle, it is almost deep into the bones of the Miao descendants of Zhuxia.If you look through various military histories, it is extremely difficult to find an example of a regular army that could not be put into use due to poor maintenance of the bowstring after the war broke out.However, after the continuous rainy season, there are many examples of the bowstring being unbearable, but this is purely due to the problem of moisture during use, and it does not mean that it cannot be used beforehand.

On the offensive and defensive battlefields, only the Han army was still firing arrows. The coalition army on the offensive side was capable of throwing various weapons. However, compared with arrows fired with equipment, throwing weapons by hand must suffer in terms of range. As a result, an offensive and defensive battle turned into a one-sided massacre because it was difficult for the attacking side to go up the slope.

Cai Lan is not a high-ranking official. He is a team leader who can be called an "official". He led 50 people under his command to be responsible for the defense of this slope. In three days, only four of his own were slightly injured, and he killed or killed the enemy army Let alone three or four hundred people.Those four people will be injured by the bamboo spears thrown by the enemy. The armored bamboo spears can't penetrate the body, and the wounds are on the limbs without armor.

The sloping land is an inclined surface of about 35 degrees. Needless to say, the angle was specially created by the Han army. It is about 20 meters long, and a trench two meters deep and three meters wide was dug at the bottom. Obstacles were also deliberately removed.

The long rainy weather has already filled the excavated trench with stagnant water. The originally muddy water has now turned bright red, and it is also full of corpses.Some corpses have been soaked in water for too long, and the skin is pale, and the flesh and blood on the wounds have also become swollen and rotten due to long-term soaking in water.

At first, there were about [-] coalition troops crowded under the slope. The dead and injured fell to the ground mixed with the mud and were trampled. Everyone alive was covered in mud. Cai Lan visually checked and found that he could move. There were about [-] enemy troops left, and he knew that those guys would retreat soon.

Sure enough, the coalition army under the slope didn't know who yelled first, then turned around as before, pushed each other, slipped and fell after taking a few steps, and retreated in embarrassment.

Not only did the offensive on the slope end, Cai Lan looked around and saw that the enemy troops on the entire front were retreating, so he said, "It's a bit abnormal."

The coalition attack has been going on for seven days, and every day they have to send heads to the Han army's defense line. It is not difficult to distinguish the people who are sent to die from the clothes. Those who are naked must be savages, and those with a few pieces of cloth should be Xiaobang or small tribes. , During the seven days, he went forward to die with almost the same pattern.

The Han army knew very well what the coalition forces were doing. It was nothing more than driving the lowly people to consume their own arrows, and then letting their own bows and crossbows be used liberally. As long as the crossbows were useful, the bow strings would get wet.

Driving common people or miscellaneous soldiers to consume defenders' arrows is a common practice in the war history of Zhuxia civilization. Zhuxia civilization is not alone in doing this. In fact, every civilization has the same commonality.Killing some people that no one would care about can consume arrows and reduce the number of available bows and crossbows. This is the idea of ​​the coalition forces.

Today's situation is a bit different. The coalition forces that attacked in the past retreated at different times, and they never retreated together at the same time.

"Did anything special happen just now?"

"The return rate has not been noticed."

Zhuxia civilization talked about beating drums to advance and ringing gold to retreat, and other civilizations will have similar methods, usually using sound to convey the advance and retreat of the army, and different meanings will be attached to different beats.

Cai Lan didn't hear any strange sounds, and didn't see any obvious signals when he looked at it from a high altitude. He wondered how the coalition forces could send information to retreat at the same time.

Just before Cai Lan and most of the Han army at the forefront figured it out, the coalition forces made new moves.

"Huh? The coalition forces are fully retreating?"

"Return to the general, the coalition forces retreated [-] li and set up camp."

Huan Wen did not go to the front line on land. The Gupta Dynasty did not come to attack on the land route. Eighty miles north of the Pingman Captain's Department, the Gupta fleet had already docked to build ports and water fortresses.

On the side of the Pingman Military Command, Huan Wen was responsible for the overall coordination and command. The frontline command of the land battle was handed over to Si Hongzhuang, the captain of the Pingman Military Command, and the naval battle was handed over to Li Mai, the commander-in-chief of the navy. .As the commander-in-chief, Huan Wen was responsible for the strategic layout. He had a long history with his old partner Yuan Qiao to fill in the gaps. Of course, tactics and other matters were left to his generals.

"If there are more than [-] casualties, it's so easy to retreat." Yuan Qiao was talking about the recent losses of the land coalition forces, or the figures that the Han army could determine.He has been staring at the map of mountains and rivers hanging on the wall, and said in a low voice: "The mountain road has been thoroughly checked, and there is no detour. What is the reason for the enemy's move?"

The battle between the mountains and the jungle is very complicated. The most feared thing is that the defense is not strict and the enemy steals the road that has not been explored by the enemy. If this happens, the rear and the front will not be cut off, but only the enemy infiltrates the country and continues to destroy it. Just enough to give people a headache.

In the past, the Qin army went south to Lingnan, and it was true when they fought head-on, but they suffered heavy losses and panic in the face of the enemy's continuous harassment. The first time the Qin army went south was against this background. steps, followed by setting up a trap to trap the enemy leader before opening up the situation.

The Pingman School Captain spent more than a year building a defense line. No one could guarantee that all the passages had been sealed to prevent the enemy from infiltrating. Therefore, various open and hidden sentries were distributed on the front line, and troops were arranged to rotate patrols. What I am afraid of is encountering the predicament Qin Jun once encountered.

Although the Pingman Colonel's Department has taken the greatest precautions, there are still small groups of enemy troops entering the defensive circle, which is determined by the environment of the Pingman Captain's Department itself.After all, there are mountains and dense forests everywhere, is it possible to set up a human wall to stare at every inch of the land?There are always some unnoticed places that will be infiltrated by the enemy, that is, the Han army has already responded, and the enemy who found the infiltration can be encircled and suppressed in time, so that it is difficult for the Han army to cause too much trouble.

"Even so, if the enemy infiltrates one person, our army needs a hundred people to encircle and suppress." Wang Ji said very distressed: "It is precisely because of the large number of our troops that the enemy army is not tired of it."

Since we are fighting in a complex environment, we must be mentally prepared for the complex situation. Not only the coalition forces on the Gupta side have infiltration operations, but the Han army is also doing the same thing. The problem lies in both sides, not just one.

"The enemy stopped its probing offensive and retreated twenty miles..." Huan Wen looked calm, and said slowly, "Do you think you have figured out our army's deployment?"

The culture of each civilization may be different, but the military is basically the same. The attacking side must first understand the layout of the defenders to the greatest extent before they can arrange the direction of attack in a targeted manner.

Before the actual offensive is launched, the necessary test is to find out the layout of the defense line, and then to see the quality of the opponent, all in order to take what you think is the correct response.

Huan Wen arranged the standing army at the front, and used a sledgehammer to kill chickens, which was to tell the allied forces coming to attack on land clearly that they had to be mentally prepared to be smashed.What he did was to cooperate with the overall situation. The Pingman Colonel was not alone, and there was also a Han army in the southeast of Pyu.

The Han Kingdom is developing the Indochina Peninsula, and all the places along the coast near the sea are occupied by Han people, and the plains in the abdomen have been reclaimed by the Han people to the greatest extent. Lu Jinfa.

Before the establishment of the Pingman School Command, the Chen family and the Xiao family were at the forefront of the pioneering group, and their furthest pioneering steps were in the Bamar areas.Their conflict with the Piao Kingdom has never stopped. They originally relied on family armed forces. Later, the Han army entered the army, forming a distant echo with the Pingman Xiaowei Department in the southwest.

The Gupta Dynasty could attack the Pingman school lieutenants from two directions, so why couldn't Huanwen attack the coalition forces on land from both sides?The Pingman School Captain's headquarters is on the defensive on land, mainly waiting for the outcome of the battle at sea to resolve the troubles on the sea first, and then go all out to deal with the land.

"This year's autumn rainy season is coming to an end." Yuan Qiao muttered: "After the weather clears up and the roads are no longer muddy, let's see if the enemy will attack again. If not, the enemy will switch to defense."

On the side of the Han Dynasty, the Pingman Colonel's Department and the friendly army are connected by sea, and the land is blocked by wild mountains and jungles.

Although the Gupta Dynasty built a seaport in the north of the Pingman Colonel, but in order to contact the land coalition forces at that location, it needed to cross 150 miles of mountains and jungles.

Considering the actual situation of primitive mountains and jungles, it is no longer a question of whether one has the courage to dare to cross, but whether one can get out after entering.It can be judged that the sea and army of the Gupta Dynasty are only 150 miles apart, but it is difficult for them to contact nearby, and they still have to rely on domestic transmission.To convey information, the coalition forces on land had to go through the territory of the Pyu country, and had to pass through Arakan or Manipur to enter the small state of Datta before entering the mainland. The journey was very long.

"If it takes half a month for us to contact our friendly army, it will take at least a month for the enemy army to contact us." Yuan Qiao has his own conversion method, and said: "The enemy army comes from two ways, one has action, and the other must have Cooperate."

How about an old partner?As soon as Huan Wen heard what Yuan Qiao said, he immediately understood that the retreat of the enemy army on land was waiting for what kind of action the Han army would take against the enemy army at sea.

"It's still necessary to force the enemy army on land to move." Huan Wen looked at Li Mai and asked, "Can the navy attack?"

Li Mai immediately stood up and saluted: "The enemy's water villages and ports have begun to take shape, and it is difficult to give up. Our army is attacking at the right time."

Yuan Qiao said: "If you want to make the enemy army on land more urgent, it is not enough to target the enemy army on the coast eighty miles away."

Huan Wen could have ordered Li Mai to attack by issuing an order, but they deliberately let go in order to defeat Gupta's navy as much as possible.He received Li Mai's response and saw that Yuan Qiao thought the force should be stronger. He thought for a moment and said, "In this case, the navy will decide on its own."

If the fleet size is only [-] ships, Li Mai does not have the confidence to fight head-on with the Gupta Navy, but the fleet size under his jurisdiction now reaches [-] large and small warships. Now that Huan Wen thinks there is no need to hide, he is confident enough to give the Gupta Navy a big surprise.

"In this battle, Ah San must be dealt the heaviest damage. All the enemy troops on land will be wiped out, and so will the enemy troops at sea." Huan Wen pondered for a while, stood up and shouted loudly: "My lords, annihilate the invading enemies, Attack the enemy's territory."

There is nothing to say, one of them all stood up and shouted loudly: "Is it the king's land in the whole world, is it the king's subject on the shore of the land!"

Huan Wen drew out his sword and said in a loud voice: "The sword in the hands of our generation of warriors is the plow. It will wipe out disobedience for the great Han, and make the enemy's land the Han land, and the enemy's people the slaves of the Han family!"

(End of this chapter)