Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Mo An added: "Cousin, don't worry, listen to me. In addition to getting ballistas for you, I can also attract reinforcements for you. The reinforcements are from Guishuang, and of course they are not official members of the Guishuang Empire." The army is a mercenary army. Although they only have a size of more than a thousand people, they are an elite division with excellent equipment and brave and tenacious soldiers."

Mo An took a sip of water, calmed down and continued, "Besides, although I can't mobilize the main force of the fleet, it is still possible to mobilize more than a dozen warships to assist in the battle. Although the enemy troops come in and attack by land and water, the sand However, Wadi Port belongs to the estuary delta area, with many rivers and ditches, and the river bed is also deep. With the help of warships, it will be able to get twice the result with half the effort. With the help of several parties, the enemy army will be defeated in one blow."

Mo'an's words rekindled Galava's hope.However, there was another level of worry in his heart, and he asked Mo An: "But if you want to buy ballistas, please hire a mercenary regiment. It should be expensive. If you want too much money, I'm afraid that Hong Shawadi will be rich." The library can't support it."

Mo An pondered for a while, blinked his eyes and said: "It's really expensive. A normal ballista costs about 200 gold coins, and a heavy ballista costs nearly 2000 gold coins. Calculate the price. The weekly employment price is about [-] gold coins, in addition to providing them with food and grass supplies."

Galawa thought about it in his mind, and said in surprise: "If you come down like this, wouldn't it cost [-] to [-] gold coins before and after, but now there are only [-] gold coins in the Sawady treasury."

Mo An immediately replied: "It's okay, I'll give you the [-] to [-] gold coins. When the enemy army is defeated in the future, my cousin asked me to cut down some trees, dig some gems, and rob some slaves in Hongshawadi. Pay me back."

Galava happily took Mo'an's hand and said: "That's it. If you can help me repel the enemy and recover most of the Hongshawadi area. I will allow you to cut down and mine for free in Hongshawadi. , robbing slaves for two years."

At the pier of Shawady Port, Galava looked at the sails of the three warships in the distance. The warships were loaded with [-] Roman gold coins.Galava thought to himself: "Mo An, don't let me down."

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Sure enough, Mo An did not disappoint Sawady. Only one month later, the warships of the Third Fleet sent ten ballistas and more than ten instructors to train the ballistas.These ballistas include one hundred ordinary ballistas and ten heavy ballistas.

Galava couldn't wait to watch the test firing of the ballista on the barracks.

Under the operation of these Roman instructors, stone bullets the size of a sea bowl fell precisely and orderly within a row of circles drawn with white ash powder, smashing out big holes one after another.

Especially the giant ballista, which actually threw stone bullets the size of a small watermelon nearly a mile away, scattering a wooden wall in all directions.It made Galava click his tongue even more.

The only thing that makes Galava regret is the incendiary bomb provided by the Romans, which is far less powerful than Liang Jun's incendiary bomb.

This is actually not surprising, because Roman ballista incendiary bombs are made of kerosene mixed with flammable materials, and their purpose is only to ignite a fire in a flammable environment, that is, it acts as a "long-distance rocket".Naturally, it is not as good as the burning effect of naphtha.

Mo'an explained to Galava that there is a kind of Greek fire in Rome, which should be more powerful than Liang Jun's naphtha.But the secrecy of this thing is too strict, and he can't get it even if he spends a lot of money, so he has no choice but to give up.

After another month, Mo'an's fleet came to Sawady Harbor again.This time they brought the mysterious Kushan mercenary army from the mouth of the Xindu (India) River to Shawady Port.Its voyage almost circled the coastline of the subcontinent.

Galava personally greeted the elite troops at the pier.Despite the long-distance sea turbulence, these tall and strong soldiers are still full of energy.

Each of them held a five-foot spear, two five-foot javelins on their backs, a dog-leg steel knife on their waists, and a three-foot round shield hanging on their chests.The armor on his body is also very strange. The chest and abdomen of his upper body are "muscle armor" made of a whole piece of bronze, as are the greaves.But the rest of the body is a very fine-looking chain mail armor.

According to Mo An, this legion is not the Da Yuezhi people of Guishuang, but the descendants of the Greeks left by Alexander on the two wings of the Hindu Kush Mountain hundreds of years ago.That is, the remnants of the Seleucid Dynasty-the Kingdom of Bactria.

After the Da Yuezhi people conquered Bactria and established the Guishuang Empire, the survivors refused to intermarry with the Yuezhi people, nor obey the rule of the Guishuang Yuezhi people.

They don't have a large habitat, so naturally they can't make a living by farming and animal husbandry. The whole race lives on mercenaries.This is actually not surprising. The Greeks had a tradition of serving as mercenaries in Alexander's classical era.

Among the mercenary regiment, a tall young general with black curly hair and a high-nosed nose held Galava's hand and said to him, "I am Alexander Seguulu, the commander of the Bactrian Mercenary Corps."

Chapter 264

On a coastline in the west of the Inovaddy River Delta, the sound of horseshoes suddenly sounded.After a while, the three riders came here, and they galloped on the beach on the coast, splashing a splash of water.In the end, he jumped off the horse and rushed into the sea excitedly to play with the water.

All three of them were Liang Jun scouts, originally from Hanzhong Berkshire, and had never seen the sea in their life.Seeing the endless blue ocean at this time, I was naturally excited.

One of them said: "Back then, when I was in my hometown, I only heard people say that Qingzhou in the southeast, Xuzhou and Yangzhou can see the sea. Later, when I went to the expedition, it was rumored that we would eventually hit the seashore. I didn't believe it at the time, because we were going to the sea. I hit the southwest direction. I didn’t expect there to be an ocean more than a thousand miles southwest of Yizhou.”

The other person picked up a handful of seawater and tasted it, then spit it out with a wow and said, "...Bah, this seawater is really fishy and salty. Hehe, our king knows about it, but you don't know about it."

The last leader-like scout said: "Okay, stop playing, let's get on with the business..." When he said this, he suddenly stopped talking, pointed to the distant sea horizon and said: "Look, that What is it?"

The other two also looked over, only to see some sail shadows appearing on the sea level.Then the whole hull appeared.

In the end, when the ships were half the size of a palm, all three of them could clearly see that they were Chula naval warships.They had seen the two Zhuluo ships captured by the Liang Army in the Battle of Heiniyuan.

"Let's go, go back and report to the military adviser!" The three quickly jumped on the horses, raised their whips and spurred the horses away.

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Liang Jun's camp was located fifty miles northeast of Shawadi City, on the banks of the Dulong River.At this time, in the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhuge Liang, Zhang Ren and the generals were discussing tactics.A scout has come to report that the Chula fleet has been spotted on the sea.

Zhuge Liang took a breath, and said to everyone: "The Zhu Luo fleet joined the battle, and our army was very passive. Look at our position, there are rivers and ditches within a hundred miles, and there are ocean coasts on both sides to the southwest. This means that the enemy can turn around our army from the waterway at any time."

Zhang Ren replied somewhat disapprovingly: "Advisor, we can use Viking ships to block off the various waterways. Last time in the black mud plain, didn't they capture two of their warships by our army? They never dared to show their faces again after that."

Zhuge Liang shook his head and said: "One moment, another moment. Most of the waterways here are spacious and the riverbed is deep. It is suitable for their warships to sail. And there are so many waterways. If we want to block each waterway, we will divide our troops. The scattered Viking ships The team is concentrated and attacked by the opponent's warships, and it is easy to lose."

Zhang Ren was suspicious of what he said, and he muttered, "Then what should we do?"

Zhuge Liang pondered for a long while without speaking, pacing back and forth in the hall.Since Zhang Ren worked with Zhuge Liang, he has never seen him so indecisive.

Finally, Zhuge Liang sat back on the chair again, sighed and said: "There is no point in this battle, we can only take the Sawady Port quickly. Once the enemy fleet loses its home port, they can't load much supplies." Your ship won't stay afloat for long."

Finally, Zhuge Liang began to give orders: "Pass down my military order. At dawn tomorrow, the whole army will arrive at the city of Sawady with all its supplies. However, the camp here should not be removed. Instead, flags should be planted everywhere, and a team of soldiers should be left in the camp." In the middle, beating gongs and drums, making a lot of noise, in order to act as if there are many people and powerful crowds."

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At dawn the next day, Liang Jun advanced towards Shawadi, and the whole army drove to less than a mile outside the city wall of Shawadi and began to set up camp.This move means that Liang Jun will continue to attack Sawady.

Liang Jun's camp is facing the north gate of Shawadi City, and on the left and right sides are two diversion channels of the Dulong River that flow into the ocean.At this time, Liang Jun had already set up an army formation outside the camp and invited Zhu Luo's army in the city to fight.The top of the city of Sawady was silent, only the banners were fluttering and fluttering in the sea breeze.

In fact, there are a large number of Zhu Luo soldiers ambushing behind the battlements at the head of the city.Galava also personally watched Liang Jun from the tower.

Galava withdrew his gaze from a distance and said to the generals next to him: "It seems that the Liang army approaching the city only has a strength of more than 2000 troops. Our scouts went to investigate, and they still have a large camp behind. There are few soldiers on guard. I believe that the big camp is where they store their supplies and food. Go and tell Mo An to let his dozen or so warships escort twenty troop carriers along the waterway to sneak attack on the other side's granary."

Another general reminded: "Grand Duke, didn't we plan to use these dozen warships to launch a surprise attack on them from the waterway when the enemy and us are in a decisive battle under the city?"

Galawa said with a smile: "If they can attack and burn the rear camp where they hoarded food and grass, it will be a greater victory."

Then he put away his smile and said seriously: "Send my military order to make the mercenary regiments ready. If the enemy finds that our fleet is encircling their rear and rushes back to support them, they will immediately go out of the city and attack them. Defeat in one fell swoop!"

After a while, more than a dozen Chula battleships, mixed with [-] troop carriers transformed from ordinary Chula cargo ships, quietly sailed out of the harbor at the south gate of Sawady City, entered the Dulong River, and followed a waterway far away from Liang Jun's camp. Blow up the sails and sail upriver.

At this time, outside Liang Junying, thirty giant counterweight trebuchets were also assembled and lined up.Two thousand soldiers of the Liang Army are still maintaining their formation, ready to fight.Zhuge Liang sat in the big tent of the Chinese army, closed his eyes and rested his mind.

A commanding soldier entered the account and reported: "Report to the military division, the enemy's warships have been dispatched. There are more than [-] warships and warships in total, and they are sailing to the upper reaches of the Dulong River."

Zhuge Liang's eyes suddenly opened, and he ordered in a loud voice: "Send my military order to attack Sawady with all our strength, and we must capture this city before it gets dark today!"

After a while, the counterweight trebuchet threw a burst of huge stones and gravel full of nets into the city of Sawady.Sawady City began to crumble under the violent bombardment.

Suddenly, ten small black dots flew out of the city of Sawady, heading straight for Liang Jun's camp.Immediately afterwards, another small black dot flew out and rushed towards Liang Jun's army formation.

Zhuge Liang, who was sitting in the tent, suddenly heard the sound of cloth shattering, followed by a crackling sound and a loud bang.

Zhuge Liang was still a scholar after all, and the goose-feather fans frightened by the series of noises all fell to the ground, and his face turned pale.

It turned out that a stone bullet like a small watermelon was shot into the large tent of the Chinese army. After smashing a seat, it smashed a big hole in the ground.Zhuge Liang felt a pain on his face, and when he touched it with his hand, he found that a small sawdust splashed on his face and collapsed into his flesh.

The guard next to him recovered from his stupor and hurried forward to protect Zhuge Liang.At this time Zhuge Liang heard various loud noises outside the tent, he quickly pushed the guards away, and rushed out of the tent.

Chapter 265 The First Setback

Just when the Liang army camp was bombarded by Zhu Luo's heavy ballistas, the Liang army formation in front was also bombarded by hundreds of Zhu Luo army's ordinary ballistas.

Following a series of muffled sounds, a stone bullet the size of a melon pierced through the chest of a Liang soldier.The soldier flew several battles away before falling to the ground, a hole suddenly appeared in his chest, and the ring armor at the hole rolled up like a lily.A circular hole the size of a stone bullet also appeared in his large shield.

There was another bang, and a blood mist rose around the head of another Liang soldier. After the blood mist dissipated, he realized that his head was gone.After two breaths, the body fell to the ground.

Zhang Ren, who was commanding in the army formation, did not expect this to happen at all, and was at a loss for a while.At this time, Zhuge Liang ran over with blood on his face and shouted loudly: "The enemy has ballistas, use them to fight back!"

In fact, without waiting for Zhuge Liang's order, Liang Jun's fifty ballistas had already begun to fight back against the city of Sawady.A stone bomb flew towards the city.

But besides having fewer ballistas than the opponent, Liang Jun also has a disadvantage.That is, Zhu Luo's ballista shoots condescendingly, which can easily correct the impact point and trajectory of the stone bullet.Moreover, Liang Jun's army is densely packed, which makes it easier to increase the killing effect.

Originally, Liang Jun's crossbows were intended to be used after the catapults smashed down a section of the city wall, and then pushed it closer.Therefore, the position of these ballistas is still relatively far from the city wall.

At this distance, throw from low to high.It can only just throw the projectile to the top of the city.Because the city wall blocked the line of sight, it was much more difficult to correct the trajectory than the opponent, and the power of the projectile was greatly reduced when it reached the top of the city.

Huh, Kara.With a few loud noises of wood breaking, Liang Jun had several counterweight catapults, which were destroyed because the key beams and wooden frames were broken by stone bullets.

As soon as Zhu Luojun blasted down with a ballista, six or 70 Liang Jun casualties were caused, and a section of the fence of the camp was also blown down.Five counterweight trebuchets were destroyed.Liang Jun's army has been in chaos.Fortunately, the firing frequency of this ballista is relatively low, otherwise, the continuous bombardment of these ballistas would break up the Liang soldiers.

Zhuge Liang's face was ashen, and he continued to shout orders: "The army spread out! The ballista advances for twenty battles, and uses incendiary bombs to project and cover the opponent's city!"

Zhuge Liang knew that in order to facilitate the correction of ballista ballistics and landing points, Zhu Luojun must set up their ballistas at the top of the city!

Several teams of Liang Jun's gun and shield soldiers immediately covered the vehicle-mounted ballista and a pair of longbowmen, and pushed forward to the city of Shawadi.At this time, Zhu Luojun launched a second round of bombardment.

Ten fireballs drew ten parabolas in the air, fell into Liang Jun's camp, and immediately ignited some tents, and the fire began to burn.

Zhang Ren's face changed, and he shouted: "Hurry up and put out the fire, especially the place where the ballista incendiary bombs are stored, it must not escape!" Zhuge Liang.

Another hundred stone bullets were shot into Liang Jun's formation, but at this time, Liang Jun's soldiers had already dispersed. Although the formation was sacrificed, many casualties were reduced.

The Liang Jun ballista advancing to the front began to throw incendiary bombs towards the city.The longbowman also launched a concentrated projectile towards the top of the city.

This is the first round of ballista shooting after changing the position, and the type of projectile has also changed, so the ballistic drop point cannot be corrected.The shooting angle of the ballista, the rotation range of the ballista's twisted arm and other shooting parameters can only be determined entirely by the experience of the ballista player.

Boom boom boom, most of Liang Jun's incendiary bombs did not land on the top of the city, but either hit the front of the city wall, or crossed the top of the city and fell into the city.Only two of them landed on the top of the city, igniting two pillars of flames soaring into the sky.The nearby Zhu Luojun dodged one after another.

The incendiary bombs had no effect, but many Zhuluo soldiers were injured by the longbowman's random arrows.

Liang Jun's crossbowmen quickly prepared for the next round of shooting.The two sides bombarded each other with ballistas in this way, but it was clear that Liang Jun's losses were much greater than the opponent's.In the Liang army camp at the rear, Zhang Ren led the soldiers to carry water and put out the fire in a hurry, and finally stopped the danger.

Liang Jun's ballista fired at the top of the city for the second round, which significantly increased the hit rate.In this round, nine incendiary bombs are falling on the top of the city.

At the top of the city, two Chula ballistas were engulfed in flames.A dozen or so Zhu Luo soldiers couldn't dodge in time and turned into burning men, screaming fiercely, some even jumped down from the top of the city in a panic amidst the raging fire.

When Liang Jun's ballista players were preparing to shoot for the third round, Zhula's ballista suddenly concentrated on them.Puffy, with a series of muffled noises, more than twenty Liang Jun spear and shield soldiers were hit by dense stone bullets, and the bloody scene was too horrible to look at.Two Liang Army ballistas also happened to be hit, and they immediately fell apart.

At the same time, the gates of Sawady City suddenly opened wide.An elite army broke out from the city.Zhuge Liang didn't expect that the opponent would rush out of the city at this time.He was overjoyed at first, and then his heart sank when he saw the opponent's military appearance.

Looking at the opponent's armor and equipment, it is obvious that they are not ordinary Zhu Luojun, and even the appearance and physique of those soldiers are very special.Not to mention ordinary caste Cholas, even Brahmins like Rahal and Jarava, and Kshatriyas are quite different from them.

A thought suddenly popped up in Zhuge Liang's mind, "Could it be that the Zhuluo people invited foreign reinforcements?!".

Zhuge Liang didn't have time to think about the situation, and he hurriedly shouted loudly: "The army array is in order, and go forward to protect the ballista position!"

The soldiers of the Liang army in the rear quickly regrouped into a phalanx and drove forward quickly.But it was still a step too late. At this time, the light infantry of the Seguulu mercenary group rushed out of their spear phalanx and quickly approached the ballista array.

The soldiers of the Liang army here were just bombarded by ballistas, and they were still in chaos.The longbowmen fighting on their own started shooting at the incoming enemy one after another.

Several of Segouliu's light infantry fell to the ground with arrows, but the rest had already come to the shield wall, some entered through the gap in the shield wall blasted by the ballista just now, and some threw javelins at Liang Jun through the shield wall .

The soldiers of the Liang army also fought back with flying spears.But the formation that had just recovered a little formation became chaotic again.After the soldiers of the Liang Army beheaded and dispersed the scattered soldiers, Seguliu's dense spears pressed over like a mountain.Under random stabbing, the gap in the shield wall became wider and wider, and countless Liang soldiers fell in a pool of blood.

Zhuge Liang was furious and roared, "Let the longbowmen and crossbowmen back!"

At this time, the Liang Jun phalanx in the rear has just reorganized its formation, and there are still [-] battles away.The crossbowmen and longbowmen in front threw away their crossbows and longbows, and rushed backward desperately.Just after they rushed back to the formation, the spear and shield soldiers of the Liang army at the forefront were defeated by the opponent's spear phalanx and fled.

At the top of the city, Jialawa was overjoyed when he saw that Seguliu had succeeded, and ordered loudly: "Pass down my military order, except for a thousand soldiers in the city to guard, the whole army will attack!"

Chapter 266

The battlefield under the city of Sawady was in a mess.A large number of Zhu Luo soldiers were pouring out from several gates of the north city wall, trying to hide and kill Liang Jun.

In front, just as the fleeing Liang Army crossbowmen and longbowmen fled into the rear formation, Seguliu's phalanx of spears also arrived.

Hearing a few orders from Seguliu's formation, all the mercenaries stopped in their tracks. Except for the two rows of spearmen at the forefront who were still holding their spears, the rest of the soldiers stuck the back ends of their spears on the ground almost instantly, and then took out their spears. Javelin down.

At the same time, the spear and shield soldiers in Liang Jun's phalanx were also ready to throw their spears.The two armies threw javelins and flying spears almost at the same time.Two batches of javelin flying spears converged in the air, which can be described as covering the sky and blocking out the sun, and after interlacing, they each rushed towards the opposing army.

Amidst the blood splatter and the puffy blood mist, countless soldiers of the two armies fell to the ground.As soon as a mercenary threw his javelin, his chest and head were hit by Liang Jun's flying spear.The flying spear on the chest passed through the large shield but failed to penetrate the "muscle armor".But the flying spear on his head caused fatal wounds, and the spear blade pierced his forehead for more than a foot.

In Liang Jun's formation, because of the cover of a large shield, the casualties were much smaller than the opponent's.Most of the casualties were also shot in the head.However, the shield wall is full of javelins, making it difficult for those large shields to be held with one hand.

Seguliu's phalanx moved forward again, and the layers of dense spears penetrated into every hole, tearing open some holes and gaps in the shield wall again.Liang Jun soldiers in the first two rows were all stabbed and stabbed down.

The soldiers of the Liang army in the third row quickly formed a shield wall.But they had thrown the last spear and spear, and they couldn't stab each other with the first knife, so they had to use the shield wall to defend themselves.

At this moment, Zhuge Liang had ordered the two captain archers ten battles behind to shoot at Seguliu's phalanx, and Seguliu's mercenaries fell in disarray under the heavy arrows.Their military formation also became loose.

Soldiers of the Liang Army took the opportunity to charge up with swords and shields. Anyone with a little battle experience knew that as long as these Liang Army infantry rushed into the formation, the Segouliu soldiers with long spears were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

Seguliu, who personally commanded the formation, gave an order, and his phalanx retreated quickly like a whole.Always keep the dense gun forest between the two armies.

At this time, all the units of Zhu Luo's army had come up from the left and right wings, and behind Seguliu, there were still a large number of Zhu Luo soldiers coming like a tide.

Seeing this, Zhuge Liang immediately said: "Pass on our military order to withdraw the troops and return to the camp. The longbowmen fired rockets at our ballista position just now!"

In Liang Jun's formation, the gongs of withdrawing troops sounded intensively.Seguliu did not take the opportunity to chase after Liang Jun, but took this opportunity to reorganize his already messy army formation.

Hundreds of burning heavy arrows drew firework trails in the air and landed on the ballista position that Liang Jun had discarded before.Some of the heavy arrows shattered the incendiary pots, causing a massive fire.Suddenly, there were several loud rumbling noises like thunder.It turned out that some incendiary bombs exploded violently at high temperatures.

Several battles of high flames rose into the sky, and more than a hundred Zhu Luo soldiers were happily carrying ballistas and other spoils here. They were instantly rushed into the air by the air wave, and then fell into the sea of ​​flames.Some Zhuluo soldiers and Segouliu mercenaries in the surrounding area were also pushed down by the blast.

In this day and age, few people have ever seen a chemical explosion.Not to mention the Zhuluo people affected by the explosion, the Segulu mercenaries, even the soldiers of the Liang Army who were far away from the explosion point were also shocked by the scene and stunned.

It wasn't until the generals urged one after another: "Don't be dazed, don't take this opportunity, and retreat into the camp as soon as possible!" Liang Jun soldiers came back to their senses and hurriedly withdrew to the camp.

Zhuge Liang and Zhang Ren counted the number of people, and there were nearly a thousand casualties in the battle just now, and the loss of trebuchets, ballistas and longbows was even more numerous.Every corner of the battalion was filled with wounded soldiers, and the mournful wailing was endless.

Zhuge Liang glanced at the sky, and said sadly: "I, Liang Kingdom, have never suffered such a disastrous defeat since the establishment of the king. This is Liang's crime of rash advance."

Zhang Ren asked with grief and anxiety on his face: "Oh, military commander, what's the use of what you say now, what should we do now? You still have to make up your mind."