Chapter 675

The so-called Mo Dao is actually a three pointed two edged sword with a long handle. The front end of this ordnance has a trident shape and the blade has two edges on both sides. It is said that it evolved from the halberd.

The Han Army Mo Dao has a total length of two meters and fifty centimeters and a blade length of one meter. The rest are handles. The blade width is three sharp and the blade width narrows back. The design of this style will increase the power of splitting and waving, which also means that you can't play without enough strength. 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 is enhanced, but it virtually increases the difficulty of use.

With the singing of "Qi", the heavy infantry of the Han Army arranged in a linear formation have begun to wave weapons.

The Han army equipped with heavy infantry holding Mo Dao. They hold Mo Dao tightly with both hands. In fact, the long handle is straddling the waist. Each time they wave it, they use their waist strength to "twist". The cold light of a sharp blade of Mo Dao flashes repeatedly. As long as the person in front is hit, the shield is broken, and the person in front must be cut off.

The Han Army armed with large broad swords was equipped with heavy infantry. The total length of the guy in their hands was 1.5 meters, the handle was 60 cm, and the sword body was 90 cm. The width of the sword body was the largest at the front end of the handle, and gradually narrowed forward. As they moved forward, they swung and chopped with their broadsword in turn at each step.

Gupta's armored infantry were completely stunned. The short spears they pierced could not cause any physical damage to the heavy infantry of the Han army. In the face of the killing of the heavy infantry of the Han Army waving weapons like a wall, they had no resistance at all. Without the order to retreat, they had to endure heavy casualties.

"This..." zanpute Warren couldn't believe his eyes. He looked at the unilateral massacre ahead and asked, "what kind of arms is this?"

Si Hongzhuang had no accident at all when he gained an advantage over heavy infantry and faced zanpute Warren's question, first issued a "ha ha" twice, and then said, "it's just equipped infantry."

Equipped heavy infantry not only take advantage of infantry in the duel, but also are not afraid when facing cavalry, and even can directly shake with iron cavalry. Heavy infantry equipped with appropriate weapons. On the contrary, cavalry should avoid the edge of heavy infantry.

On the side of the Gupta Dynasty, they only occupied the beach three miles deep, and certainly would not retreat easily. They not only did not remove the armored infantry trained in imitation of the Greek War methods, but also reinforced them.

The heavy infantry of the Han Army naturally continued to advance, but the soldiers in the forefront began to breathe heavily. Their armor weighs up to 60 Jin, and the guy in their hands also has 15 Jin. They have to dance weapons constantly during combat. The consumption of physical strength is amazing. It's a long time to support ten minutes.

Because of physical strength, although the heavy infantry of the Han Army basically had no casualties, the front line needed to be rotated. When they were rotated, there would be an attack gap, and the Gupta side seized the opportunity to counterattack.

The fighting on the front of the battlefield was fierce, and the troops on both sides of the two wings were not watching.

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 Dalits of Gupta.

It should be said that the Dalits on the Gupta side did not undergo systematic training. They were all recruited from the countryside and casually given some weapons to the battlefield. Although their opponents are the servants of the Han state, many of them are trained warriors from childhood. Even the Japanese farmers have experienced the battle of the peninsula. Naturally, the Gupta Dalits will be crushed by the servants of the Han state.

From the overall situation of the battlefield, after the start of the battle, the Gupta side was constantly pressed to retreat. Although there was no large-scale retreat, the situation looked really bad.

"The Dalits of the believers have no combat effectiveness. They can't kill them all." Ugutai Bahram was not surprised by the strength of the Han Army's land war. Before he came, he had seen the strength of the Han Army's land war from some documents: "what people really have combat effectiveness is the troops independently trained by various chadili, and the elephant troops and chariot troops are the most powerful."

"Elephant troops?" In fact, Si Hongzhuang has not seen the elephant troops with his own eyes. Instead, he has heard from some paoze that both Linyi and Funan have their own elephant troops. It seems that they are really not so easy to deal with. It needs some tricks to fight: "the elephant is afraid of fire and has very little courage. He can intimidate with all kinds of noise. There is nothing difficult to deal with."

In fact, there were also elephant troops in sassanne, Persia, including those in Rome. That was when Alexander suffered unprecedented losses from the elephant troops during the eastern expedition, which also made the elephant famous in Central Asia and Europe. The later Persians trained their elephant troops first. When they fought with the Romans, they let the Romans face up to the terror of the elephant. As a result, the Romans also began to build elephant troops.

Of course, elephants are a very common creature in South Asia. In fact, they can be seen in East Asia in the spring and Autumn period and even the Eastern Han Dynasty, but they really don't exist in Central Asia and Europe. The Persian and Roman elephant troops are purchased through trade.

There are elephants in the land of China. In ancient times, the Yellow River Basin was full of wild elephants. When did they gradually decrease and disappear? It's really hard to study. Elephants in East Asia are migrating from the Yellow River basin to the south. With the continuous development of habitats by the Central Plains dynasties, elephants are migrating to South and Southeast Asia. Wild elephants can be seen in Chu during the unification of Qin Dynasty, but they can only be found in Lingnan at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. At present, there are wild elephants in Jiaozhou and ningzhou (Han state).

The Central Plains Dynasty did not study how to tame elephants. It basically focused on killing and expelling. On the contrary, the nationalities in Southeast Asia and South Asia have long studied and tamed elephants and achieved success.

At present, in 348 ad, wild elephants can still be seen in Zhuxia habitat. After more than 200 years, wild elephants can no longer be seen.

There is another kind of creature that was wiped out by the ancestors of all Xia dynasties, that is, crocodile. Among the "three evils" eliminated by Zhou Chu, there were crocodiles (Chinese alligators). Chinese alligators were very popular in the eastern and Western Jin Dynasties, but it was really difficult to find them in the Sui Dynasty.

As for the farming people, except for the land that can be cultivated, the animals that can be tamed and become the source of meat can be seen. Everything is based on good domestication and "being able to eat". What can't be eaten will be destroyed. What will harm crops and threaten life security must be eliminated.

Protecting animals or something? It's just an idea derived from people's worries about food and clothing.

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

That was Li Mai's move according to the established plan. The Han warships lined up to force the Gupta fleet, disrupting the breakout arrangement of the Gupta fleet, while exerting greater pressure.

Faced with the persecution of the Han fleet, katluk Kapp had no choice but to send a fleet to fight, and suddenly the sea began to bustle again.

Most of the warships on Gupta side were blocked in the water stronghold originally built by the Han Army, only kapir Malik, a formation that had stayed outside before seeing the wrong opportunity, sailed out of the encirclement early, and was not blocked in the encirclement of the Han fleet.

The Han Army's response to the fleet that was not in the encirclement circle was composed of a raid formation that had returned earlier, followed by a small team that went out to carry out a raid, which came back one after another, forming the Han Army's 37 ships against PICAR The situation of Malik's 46 ships.

"There is no suspense about fighting on land." Ugutai Bach rambimi was far more confident in the Han Army's land war, but he said: "if you don't have the reinforcement of follow-up warships, you still have to fight at sea."

Mi Yuan didn't say much about it. It seems that the number of warships on their side is at a disadvantage. Judging from the previous confrontation, Gupta's fighting ability at sea is really not weak.

"Ketak is only a few days' flight from here." Ugutai Bahram did not believe that the Han Empire would ignore this, so he asked, "your warships are all here?"

The Gupta Dynasty assembled 1500 ships of various types, and the assembly point was in ketak. The Gupta fleet that came to fight this time is about 500, and 1000 are in ketak. No one can judge whether the Gupta fleet here will be reinforced or not.

"Are you kidding?" Mi Yuan is just telling the truth: "how can the Han's warships be the only ones you see? We are just expeditionary forces. The Han mainland, as well as the Northern Fleet and the southern fleet, each has a scale of more than a thousand."

Ugutai Bahram blinked. He didn't know whether to believe it or not, but at least he understood that the Han Empire had two fleets at home. As for each fleet with more than 1000 warships, he was just listening to a joke.

The confrontation at sea began, but the confrontation on land entered a white hot stage.

With the heavy infantry of the Han Army coming into battle, there was no unexpected scene in the confrontation on the front battlefield. Although the heavy infantry of the Han army was moving forward slowly, there were twists and turns with the regular army of Gupta.

"I can't stand it!"

"I really can't stand it!"

The Gupta army assigned to play is a group of sword and shield soldiers. The shield is a small round shield and the knife is a machete. They have a kind of leather armor made of unknown leather. It looks very flexible, but it is a bit like the jumping soldiers in the Han army.

There are many good and bad servants from the Japanese islands, and there is no shortage of high-quality warriors. Warriors usually have at least one bamboo armor, but more are farmers who have been fighting in recent years. In terms of physical fitness, the height of the Japanese islands can exceed 1.6 meters. It's really not much. It's generally below 1.5 meters.

The fighting in the cold weapon era requires very high physical quality. Tall and strong people always have an advantage. Serving in the army does not lack a strong strength, but it is not a strong strength that can make up for the weakness in the face of a regular army with long-term good training.

"Command!" Si Hongzhuang did not withdraw his servants from the army. He directly ordered the flagman standing next to him: "the soldiers move forward."

There is a flag bearer on the nest car. It is not only in today's Han country, which has created a set of mature flag language, but also in the ancient pre-Qin period. However, there is no mature flag language in the ancient pre-Qin period, so we can only make relevant agreements in advance, and there are special flag shaking to give different pre agreed instructions.

The regular army of the Han Dynasty joined the two winged battlefield and soon competed for the retreat position of its front servant from the army, and pushed forward together with the front heavy infantry.

"There is no place for such beachhead positional warfare." Huan Wen stayed at the top of the mountain and was in a good mood when he saw the smooth land war. He said, "everything depends on hard strength, and we don't lack strength in land war."

Zhang Qian, the long marching history, was originally Zuo pushe of the ran Qin state. After the ran Qin state was incorporated into Liu Yan's command, he became an official of the Han state. He was originally a sheriff in Daijun, but later he was transferred to the military. Naturally, he has full confidence in his own land war and has always been concerned about the sea war.

"Gupta gathered a thousand warships and only came 500." In fact, Zhang Qian didn't want to say anything frustrating, but something must be reminded: "this place is not far from the assembly point of the enemy fleet."

Huan Wen's eyes narrowed after listening. Of course, he knew that the Gupta Dynasty had gathered more than 1000 ships of various types, but about 500 ships came, and there might be another one later.

A war has broken out at sea. The fighting place is around the Shuizhai. The sky is full of arrows. From their direction, we can see that many ships on both sides have fires.

The weather became clear. The ship made of wood had no rain to put out the fire on the arrow. If it didn't put out the fire in time, there would be a fire.

"Ben will naturally know." Huan Wen said that the Gupta dynasty would have reinforcements from ketak at any time. He raised his telescope and looked at the sea at the confrontation: "Li Mai promised Ben that he would block the enemy fleet in the stronghold. Ben believed it first."

Neither of them talked about asking for reinforcements from the mainland. It took about ten days for the captain's Department of pingman to go by sea to Jiaozhi. There was a temporary impasse because of the storm. Even if the notice was in place, the Nanyang fleet had to ask the center for instructions. It would take at least half a month to get permission to have a fleet.

Zhang Qian raised his head and pointed to the sea at War: "fire ship attack!"

Li Mai was lucky. He didn't know when there was a strong wind on the calm sea. They were still in the limelight. He ordered to prepare for the fire attack without thinking about it. After a short preparation, he took action immediately.

"Heaven is on the side of the big man!" Li Mai was very excited and shouted, "the enemy ships are dense, which is a great opportunity for fire attack!"

Many ships on both sides had fires. They thought they were hopeless. They all tried their best to rush to each other in order to pull more enemy ships for burial. After the strong wind appeared, the Han Army started the fire ship offensive without hesitation and let katluk in the rear Kapp's face appeared dead gray for the first time