Chapter 867

The Han troops outside the camp are all infantry. They take 100 people as a small square array, and then 10 small squares will be combined into a medium-sized array, and 100 small squares will form a large square array.

The cavalry troops of the Han Army had long left the camp, and even some cavalry had circled behind the camp of the Gupta Dynasty overnight.

Nearly 30000 infantry soldiers stood still in silence. If they were not close enough to see clearly, they would really doubt whether they had placed human statues.

Wang Meng needs to make some arrangements, mainly to mobilize tribes as guards.

Waiting for 3000 cavalry and 5000 infantry to be arranged, Wang mengcai set out with the guests.

It may be that it is far enough away from the battlefield. At present, it is not a war time when guns and guns are roaring. Only subtle drums can be heard in the distance, but the sound of shouting and killing can not be heard.

The team was protected and set out. Because it was really not in such a hurry, there were infantry among the guards. Although they rode, they slowed down.

"It's only three hours since I heard the drum last night, but cyris's army has fought with the believers." Julian said solemnly, "we didn't see any action of the cyris army yesterday. If it took them only three hours from deciding to fight to sending troops, the cyris army is much more elite than we thought!"

The Romans also had "hours" as a unit of time. They divided the day into twelve hours, but the night was divided into four "shifts". The length of time is not fixed. In summer, each hour is longer and each hour is shorter. In winter, every hour is shorter and every hour is longer.

In addition, the Romans made water clocks hundreds of years ago. It is a container for water. A graduated ruler plate is placed. The ruler plate will rise with the rise of the water level, that is, how much time has passed according to the position of the pointer.

There is also a "water clock" in Zhuxia, but there is no time scale unit. It is simply to install a bamboo tube in the water flow. When the bamboo tube is full of water, it will tilt and collide with the stone to make a sound. If you want to know how much time has passed, someone needs to remember how many times the bamboo tube knocks the stone.

At present, the Han state also established water clocks, which are the same in style as those of the Romans (actually imitated by Liu Yan). As for other styles of clocks, such as mechanical clocks, they can't be made with current technology anyway.

They didn't go far, but they heard the sound of "Dong Dong Dong" in the distance. It didn't sound like beating a war drum. Someone turned his head to look in the distance and saw a large dark shadow moving on the horizon.

Keshias kept looking and could distinguish the difference between the sound of drums and the sound of steps: "don't tell me that it was the movement made by the neat steps of 30000 Han imperial infantry."

The people in the team are surprised. They can't help talking. Too many people talk and seem a little noisy.

"The first training subject for our soldiers to enter the army is military posture." Facing Helena's curious question, Wang Meng did not hide: "there is no personal will in the army. We found that training military posture and queue can make soldiers form the habit of obedience."

Helena is not so familiar with the army. She only knows that compliments are right now.

In fact, they had seen the formation of the five thousand infantry marching in order from the five thousand infantry escorting them before. However, the five thousand infantry marching in groups did not come together, resulting in inconsistent stepping rhythms among the teams.

After discussion, they decided to stop and satisfy their curiosity.

The result was obvious. The movement was the sound of 30000 Han infantry marching in array.

If only a few people, dozens of people and hundreds of people move neatly, they will look good, but there is absolutely no sense of shock.

Thirty thousand soldiers in uniform uniform, with a length of more than 3000 meters, are stepping up at the same rhythm. Anyone who sees this scene will suddenly feel numb and goose bumps all over. It's human instinct, a response to shock.

"Our ancestors said long ago..." Ali could see his eyes falling: "the Han people are powerful!"

Jero's ancestors? Their royal family is the descendant of an aristocrat of the Centaur Dynasty. The Baicheng Dynasty recognized the Western Han Dynasty as the suzerain state, and indeed left some legends about the Western Han Dynasty.

"Among the Han people, there was a scholar doctor named Sima Xiangru, who once entered the southwest alone (probably later Yunnan, Myanmar, Laos and other regions)..." what Ali said was actually from other people's hearsay before his mission: "one person subdued Yunnan, Yelang, Yue, Ailao and other countries. It's one person! Only one person!"

It is said that during the Western Han Dynasty, the Han people had entered the a'san continent. It was just a pure passing through when they took the commercial road to sell silk. It seems that they reached the Mediterranean as far as possible. In the later period of the reign of emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty, the Western Han Dynasty did accept the southwest countries as vassal states. The territory map was directly counted as the territory of the Western Han Dynasty, and the influence radiated to the A3 continent.

Julian and keshias discussed and decided to follow the 30000 Han army.

Wang Meng naturally had no opinion and happily agreed.

It was the first time they saw a large-scale Han army out of the camp to the field. They saw that the Han army was marching in an array in the field. They didn't understand it. They just felt very powerful.

The troops will go to the left side of the Gupta Dynasty camp, which is just to the west of the battlefield according to the geographical location, but it does not conflict with the itinerary they arranged before.

Nothing else happened on the road except the constant admiration of the onlookers.

The war had already broken out in the west of the battlefield. When they arrived, they saw the powerful crossbow troops of the Han Army shooting arrows in the sound of the command. Every time they were fired by 5000 crossbow soldiers, each time with a huge "Shua Shua", and then the crossbow arrows that were dense as if they were dark clouds flew into the air, and then fell down again.

"Crossbow!" Flavis looked at the Han troops holding powerful crossbows and was full of greedy: "the launch position is almost one-third (Rome) from the truster's camp."

In Rome, it is about 1490 meters, and one third is about 500 meters.

The Romans rarely played with bows. They usually played javelin and projectile throwing. Therefore, the distance of the Roman long-range attack weapons is really short. It is really fear and envy to see that the powerful crossbow of the Han army can be fired so far, at least 200 meters farther than the long bow of Persia.

Not only the Romans, but all people from other countries, saw the volley of nearly 20000 long-range troops for the first time. The main thing is that the range is too far and the frequency is not so slow. They subconsciously think about what will happen if their own troops encounter this situation.

"Cyris's Crossbow has a strong armor breaking effect." Vlavis tried his best to know this: "the Persian long bow can't be compared at all."

Before and now, the Roman Legion pushed forward against the Persian longbow. There was trouble, but there was really no big trouble.

Julian subconsciously said, "I never want to see the Legion advancing against a crossbow."