Chapter 740

At the other end of the mountain, not very far away, a huge camp is set up between the green mountains and jungles. Flags of various patterns are flying on several mountain tops, almost in any shape.

The biggest flag in one shot is the highest. It is surrounded by other flags in the middle. On the black flag surface, a simple and honest elephant is painted in white.

It is common for a San to use hieroglyphics as the flag pattern, but the flag surface and painting color are different. Even when a general in the same country goes to war, the flag surface and painting color of the flag will also be different, which is used to distinguish the blood standard of the commander.

"There are few enemy soldiers with armour. Most of them are bare chest and belly. They are thin and short, like macaques."

Si Hongzhuang was standing on the top of a mountain in the defense line. To the Northeast was the enemy camp, and to the West was the front built by the Han army.

They have advanced nearly 60 miles to the northeast. Although it is only 60 miles, it has taken nearly a year. In fact, the engineering operation is not easy to go anywhere. Basically, it is to open a road in the forest, build a bridge in the water, and take a detour in the mountains.

The environment of the primitive jungle is very complex, especially in the area with abundant rain in a year, there are countless kinds of poisonous insects. There are all kinds of wild animals in the dense forest. In addition, some areas with perennial ponding form swamps. If the forest is dense enough and not ventilated, it is very easy to produce miasma.

"We only pushed forward 60 miles and nearly 60000 people died. They pushed forward more than 150 miles. How many people died?"

Fu Wei was on vacation. It was impossible to return to his homeland after only half a month's vacation. He was tired of staying on the ship and had no good place to go on land, so he came to the land front.

The northwest and Northern Xinjiang of the Han Dynasty are in a period of drought. The Indo China Peninsula has an endless rainy season since spring. Even in early autumn, it still doesn't stop.

The local aborigines may have adapted to the rainy climate, but for the Han people, this climate will be very painful. It was raining all the time. The temperature was neither cold nor hot, but the air was very humid. It was difficult to change clothes. It was even more difficult to have a hot meal due to the lack of dry firewood.

At present, most of the local aborigines are naturally raised. Most of the time, they don't seriously eat the food after cooking. They can solve the meal by looking for wild fruits in the forest with rich food. The wild people's stomach has long been used to this way, but it won't solve the hunger at all if the Han people do so. Even the Han people will keep pulling and pulling.

The captain's Department of pingman captured many savages around and drove them to build roads and fortifications. At first, savages were not easy to use, but they were given food to the Han family. A San and the savages captured by the local people, as well as the slaves constantly sent from Malacca, built a defense line 60 miles deep. The problem is that there are a lot of labor deaths.

In fact, the Han people don't care so much about how many ah San and savages die. The captured A-San is only valuable to sardili, and the rest of the A-San Gupta Dynasty have no intention of redemption at all. Savages are more worthless than ah San. Ah San's Dalits are at least very obedient, and most savages are wild and difficult to tame. Just like many workers who build military fortifications, they often need to be solved in order to keep secrets. Ah San and savages have to be cleaned up even if they don't die when they build fortifications.

"After the rain stopped, the war began." Si Hongzhuang stood in a fortification, stretched out his hand to catch the dripping water, took back his eyes and looked at Fu Wei: "how does your navy want to fight this time?"

The first attack of the Gupta Dynasty on pingman Colonel came only from the sea. After one failure, it was obvious that the single route attack was unreliable. Only then did it gather small partners, and worked hard to open up a land attack route. The second attack must go both land and water.

"You know, first of all, we constantly invaded the coast of ah San to look for and spy on the landing points, which gave ah San the illusion that we might land at any time. As a result, ah San worked hard to recruit troops and build ships, and surrounded and intercepted us." Fu Wei said that Huan Wen made some necessary preparations for landing: "ah San is still very hard to fight for his life. It is more and more difficult for us to penetrate behind, and the price is higher and higher. We have to give up competing for the offshore temporarily. Ah San should take the initiative to attack. The best way is naturally to shrink up and wait for the enemy's fighter."

Since the Han state began to operate Malacca in the seventh year of Yuanshuo, and then at the end of the seventh year of Yuanshuo, the pingman captain department was established, the confrontation between the Han Army and a San has been more than a year.

At the beginning, the intensity of the war between the two sides was very low. It was the Han warships who went to carry out the attack first. It should be said that Gupta thought it was a pirate on the other side. It was not until Gupta found that there was a huge military base in the southwest of PYU.

The Gupta Dynasty is worthy of being a rising country and may make mistakes... For example, after discovering that it was the Han Empire, it thought of peaceful exchanges at the first time, but found that there was no possibility of peace and did not advise to prepare for war immediately.

In some aspects, the Gupta Dynasty is still a relatively efficient regime. If the central government is confused and incompetent, it is impossible to transfer from the peace system to the war system in a year, let alone recruit 300000 troops immediately after mobilization in the south. During the preparation for the military war, they could even unite most of the surrounding countries, which also shows that the status of regional hegemony has not been shaken at this stage.

"After all, we underestimated ah San!" Fu Wei said with a sense of generality, "just as we thought Kyushu was the world before, I really didn't think there was any power outside the territory."

It can transform the country from a peaceful system to a war system within a year, and it has specially recruited 300000 soldiers at once. This is the speed of changing the system and the population base. To say that it is not a powerful country is to deceive yourself and others.

It should be said that the larger the national territory and the larger the population base, it will be more difficult for the national system to change from peace to war.

It hasn't been less than a year since the countries of all dynasties in Zhuxia changed from peace to war. Usually, the border is full of beacon smoke and even has been occupied. The rest of the country either doesn't know it or can only worry after knowing it. Everything only comes from the class ruling the country, which may still be arguing, arguing and arguing

That is, the Central Committee has stopped arguing and has determined to launch a counterattack, but SHENTE is rarely able to pull out the regiment immediately, either to have all kinds of wrangling, or there are not enough reserves for the war. If the national territory of the various Xia dynasties were not large enough, I really don't know how many times it would have been subjugated.

"How could they be so fast?"

"Ha ha... You may not believe it. It's those so-called chadili who have made contributions."

It is true that the Qataris of the Gupta Dynasty have made meritorious service. They themselves are the classes that exist for war, just like the warrior classes of various countries in the spring and Autumn period of Zhuxia. They are waiting for war anytime and anywhere. Once they receive orders, they can pull people to report immediately, and a little integration is a big army. Therefore, Zhuxia civilization did not always procrastinate in dealing with war, but also had efficient times.

In the classical era, the more countries with one army, one country, one Lord and one righteousness, the faster the response to war. Many countries divide their nationals into levels in order to deal with the war provoked actively or passively.

Today's three caste system has not decayed, especially the ruler shamudra Gupta was an aspiring monarch. If there is no Han Army coming, shamudra Gupta also intended to attack vagadoga, that is to say, the Gupta Dynasty was also preparing for the war, but the war preparation originally used by the Gupta Dynasty for vagadoga was used for the Han state.

I don't know when the light rain has become bigger. Looking out from the top of the mountain, the whole world seems to be covered with yarn, and everything is hazy.

"Will the enemy launch a surprise attack with limited vision?"

"There has been a response."

What's this place? There are dense forests everywhere and mountains everywhere. There is no broad vision at all. There are opportunities for sneak attacks. Otherwise, what is the purpose of pingman Colonel's forward defense depth?

Fu Wei really didn't know the real situation on land, so he asked curiously.

"The confrontation between small stocks has been going on all the time." Si Hongzhuang said without any surprise: "at this moment, in a corner we don't know, fierce fighting may be taking place."

"Then you..." Fu Wei asked strangely, "can you be so calm?"

"The terrain determines everything." Si Hongzhuang couldn't help but calm down and said, "the big army in this ghost place can't start. One side of the attack can only move forward by pulling out a mountain or a stronghold. It can pull out some strongholds unconsciously, but it can't attack and occupy the mountain quietly."

Fu Wei thought it was the same. The terrain was so complex that he was not afraid of the so-called raid. In addition, the positions with in-depth defense chains took advantage of the defensive side.

"From here on, to the west is a large mountainous area." Si Hongzhuang pulled his hand and pointed to the Northeast: "there is a flat area over there, which is full of jungle."

Fu Wei was not the Navy from the beginning. He was transferred to the Navy because he served as Jiangdu order. He had been working in the army before. His eyes turned and showed an expression of enlightenment.

"Think of it?" When Si Hongzhuang saw Fu Wei's expression change, "ha ha" smiled and said, "garrison with fortifications, spend the enemy's spirit in high-intensity offensive, look for opportunities to annihilate the enemy by using the terrain, and then..."

"Wait until the morale of the enemy is low before counterattack." Fu Wei simply took the following words. There are too many similar war methods in Zhuxia Civilization: "defensive counterattack is really suitable."

"There are too many enemy troops, but there are other advantages." Si Hongzhuang didn't know who or what he was laughing at. After a short meeting, he said, "the coalition forces have made up a large number of troops, but does history no longer prove the disadvantages of a complex army?"

There are too many examples. The coalition forces formed by many parties are inseparable from intrigue. Everyone is afraid of being consumed, unless it has always been a downwind battle. Once there is a little setback, neither side will work hard.

"So you're here." Ugutai Bahram can speak Chinese, but his accent sounds strange. When he entered the shed, he immediately took off his hat and coir raincoat. He was very light and hung it on the hook next to him. With a complaining tone, he said, "those savages sneaked attack in the rain. There are a lot of people."

Si Hongzhuang "ha ha" smiled a few times and said teasingly, "if you don't have any blood on your body, you know that the savage was badly shot by a bow and arrow?"

The Persian army also participated in the garrison of the pingman Colonel's headquarters, and specially required that it must be the front line. A prominent part of the whole defense line was arranged by Si Hongzhuang to the Persians.

"Naked savages, holding bamboo guns and strange things, roared like beasts and charged one after another, but they were still killed by the heroic Persians." Ugutai Bahram smiled exaggeratedly and said, "I have to say that the way the Han people built fortifications is very clever, and those savages are really stupid."

The savages they said should be some force in the coalition, or the unlucky ones who were simply caught to test the Han Army's defense line.

It's easy to distinguish whether savages are savages or not. Those who don't have half a piece of cloth are savages in the real sense. Large tribes or indigenous people who establish a country will at least have a piece of cloth to cover their private parts. The less civilized indigenous people have, the less cloth they have, and the more difficult it is to see metal materials in weapons.

Before long, the Japanese Niu ran four also came. After he entered the house, he didn't even remove the rainproof tools. Putong knelt on the ground and saluted, waiting to be greeted and reported respectfully.

It doesn't matter what Niu ran Si's name was before he got the Han nationality. He gave himself such a name and was responsible for a front-line mountain. He came to report that they had also encountered a raid. Unlike the Persians, they also fought back after the raid.

"Stupid or not..." Si Hongzhuang lost his smile and changed into a serious: "two places separated by more than ten miles are testing together..." when he said half, he looked at the ox rolling four. He didn't ask any more. After a pause, he continued: "the enemy can't help it."

Perhaps it was to show the correctness of Si Hongzhuang's guess. It wasn't that someone came to report the raid. It was someone from the navy who told Fu Wei that it was time to go back and report.

"Ketak's enemy navy has left the port." Fu Wei had nothing to take away. While wearing rainproof tools, he said, "we spied that a ship appeared on a coast 80 miles away in the north. It seems that we want to build a nearby water stronghold."

A Sanyang has a long coastline. The Han state has repeatedly measured it. Four natural harbors alone have been found, one of which is 80 miles north of the headquarters of pingman school.

"It seems that the Navy succeeded."

Si Hongzhuang also knew that there was a natural harbor there. He also knew why he didn't rush to build a military harbor and saluted Fu Wei in his rain gear.

At the same time, they said, "take care!"