Chapter 871

His own casualties were less than 2000, but he killed or captured more than 34000 ah San, and the war damage ratio was an amazing one to 17.

In terms of the proportion of war losses, the proportion of war deaths is one to 90.

As a price, the Han Army consumed more than 800000 arrows, almost 30 arrows to achieve a victory.

Because the Han army was advancing on the battlefield, the arrows launched could be recycled. In fact, it did not consume as much as 800000. There are a few arrows that cannot be recycled. In fact, only about 60000 arrows were lost by the Han Army in three days.

The Han Army's method of fighting without haste and delay will make the bystanders feel boring. For ah San, he is uncomfortable all over.

Ah San didn't try to fight back. They summoned up their greatest courage and screamed to recapture the camp occupied by the Han army. In the face of the Han Army's arrow array, they repeatedly charged, and 23 / 10 fell on the road. Their courage had long been exhausted before they were close to the Han army within 100 meters.

A San often ran back half way, and was shot over three or four tenths when they ran back. They didn't even touch a hair of the Han Army soldiers. Less than half of the charging team returned trembling.

It's not a Sanmen's incompetence, it's the combination of bow and crossbow of the Han army. It's really terrible.

For hundreds of years, as the strongest nomadic people on the Asian continent, the Huns, They gathered hundreds of thousands of troops to besiege a (Western) Han army with only 5000 civilians and auxiliary soldiers. The two sides changed the site continuously. After the subsequent siege, the Huns fell tens of thousands of people, but the (Western) Han army was not allowed. The final result of the war was that the arrows of the (Western) Han army were consumed.

History has proved time and again that in both offensive and defensive warfare, once there is enough reserve of bowmen and arrows, it is invincible and firm as a rock. Especially on the premise of occupying the range advantage, it does not mean that daring the dead can change the direction of the war, It is not whether the attacker (defender) is brave or not that can determine the victory or defeat of the war, but when the arrows are exhausted.

"We have more than eight million arrows in reserve!" Huan Wen didn't talk nonsense. The real number is like this: "coming here is the war to destroy the country!"

This expeditionary army, which belongs to the Han Army established by the standing army, has only 60000 people, the number of soldiers in counties and counties has reached 80000, with 80000 crossbow machines of various types, and 120000 bows of different tension.

Only counting the number of crossbow machines and bows, anyone can operate the crossbow. It is difficult to draw the bow and shoot arrows accurately, but it is not difficult to just pull the string and shoot arrows.

Crossbow is a machine. It is not difficult to operate. It is easy to learn. If you want to be a qualified crossbow soldier, the difficulty is to learn to shoot, shoot, save and diffuse according to the requirements of each password under various passwords, that is, it is difficult to execute the password.

Operating a bow is much more difficult than operating a crossbow. Although you just hold the bow and pull the string to take an arrow, how to hold the bow, how to pull the string to take an arrow, how to loosen the string to cooperate with the arrow to be shot in an instant, and whether the angle and stability of holding the bow determine how far you can shoot and whether you can shoot accurately.

Archers also need to know how to follow orders to shoot different arrows, which is much more complex than crossbow soldiers. In this way, it is natural that the training of archers is much more difficult than crossbow soldiers.

For example, when launching a crossbow, the string tension of the crossbow is determined by machinery. It only needs to know how many angles to lift. However, archers should not only control the strength and amplitude of the string, but also control the tilt angle of the bow. If they make a little mistake, the shooting distance will not meet the requirements.

"It's full of knowledge!" Julian had never deliberately observed what the archer was like before. He listened to the Han army officers yelling out complex commands. Then he looked at the Han Army archers shooting arrows according to the commands. The flight angles of arrows shot by different commands were different: "are we not good at shooting arrows because soldiers can't do such complex things?"

For Rome without regular Archer troops, no Romans could answer Julian's questions.

The Persians watching were also shocked.

In the history of the Persians, there have always been regular archers. They used to rely on archers to traverse the whole of central and West Asia. At the beginning of meeting the Romans, they can even press them on the ground.

There is a saying that the reason why the Romans studied the tortoise shell array was forced by the Persians, and then it was clear that the Persian archery had no effect on the Roman Legion forming the tortoise shell array, but the Persians still did not change their methods of warfare, and the balance of victory in the war between the Romans and the Persians tilted to the Romans.

Persians are very good at archery. They also have their own arrow array culture. That is, they have not developed special armor breaking arrows in a long history. In addition, they ignore the style that archers also need to match far and near. They even don't think that archers also need elite melee troops to defend.

They stayed in A-San's camp. The Han Army, like a few days ago, steadily covered the site with arrows and rain, and sent small-scale troops to test. A-San gave up the camp before continuing to move forward.

The time moved back and the battlefield moved forward. What changed was that the number of crossbow soldiers used by the Han army was decreasing, and the archers replaced the position of crossbow soldiers.

"From the camp sideline at the west end, we are now within two (Rome) miles of the camp." Vlavis looked around at a messy camp, which was six miles deep according to the length unit of the Han Army: "I found that people's resistance will has been disintegrated, and most camps retreated after a round of arrow rain."

"Yes." Julian frowned and said, "we think people have lost their will to resist, but general cyris asked us not to move forward."

Keshias came up and said mysteriously, "I got the news that a noble of Jero accidentally fell into a pit. He shouted and led people away. There were dozens of believers in it."

There is no doubt that the noble of Jero is dead, but those ah San hiding in the dug hole are found, which is enough to explain a problem. Ah San has played a strategy!

Julian and flavis were stunned. Subconsciously, they looked around for places where underground space might exist.

"I was just going to the rear and was politely invited back." Keshias was very happy that he knew what the Romans didn't find. In a show off tone, he continued: "the soldiers of the Han Empire are searching in a carpet. Every time they find one, they seal the entrance and fill it with smoke."

"I thought it was a nearby fire to cook..." flavis was really wondering how so much smoke would rise. He shook his head and joked, "the Jero people have made contributions!"

In fact, the work of "digging gophers" is mainly handed over to Japanese servants to join the army. They are happy to do such things.

The noble of Yelo did meritorious service, but he was not the first person to find A-San Tibetan soldiers under him. Before him, the Han Army investigated and occupied the camp and quietly eliminated A-San of underground Tibetan soldiers.

"Now that you know, why do the cyris continue to move forward..." Julian stopped halfway and made a sudden expression: "according to the cyris, they are making plans?"

Oh, did Julian know idioms?

Several people were talking, but Wang Meng appeared.

"Ladies and gentlemen." Wang Meng saluted and said hello, explaining his intention: "general Zhengnan will prepare a banquet and invite you to the banquet."

Several people looked at each other silently and guessed whether there must be a big action or one that was too big to care about their safety.

Almost when they arrived at the place where the banquet was set up, the front line suddenly erupted into a very fierce noise, first a local cry, and then spread to the whole front.

During the war, Huan Wen naturally could not have spare time to entertain, and Yuan Qiao did not appear. In fact, Wang Meng presided over this banquet to get international friends out of the war zone.

"King angel." Julian drank the wine tastelessly, didn't touch the dishes he usually liked to eat, and said gloomily, "we came here to watch the war. Now the real war broke out, but we drink here."

"This is also for your safety." Wang Meng said sincerely, "when the war started, it was fought in that complex terrain. We can't guarantee your absolute safety."

This is the truth. Julian dared not assure everyone that he didn't care about danger. He wanted to say he didn't care about danger and wanted to watch the war, but he stubbornly endured it.

"There will be no variables in this war. It must be the final victory of the Han Empire." Kexie Yas said a compliment that was not a compliment, but also said a few idle words before he said his real purpose: "we have seen what we should see. The monsoon is coming soon, isn't it..."

"We have received accurate information." Wang Meng understood that the Persians did not want to stay in the a'san continent and wanted to go to the mainland of the Han country as soon as possible, but this was not in the interests of the current Han country: "shamudragupta has led his army out of Fahrenheit city and will arrive at the battlefield as soon as 20 days."

Almost everyone showed a surprised expression. They were not surprised at samodaragupta's personal expedition, but that the Han people were prepared to master samodaragupta's whereabouts.

They were even more shocked that the Han army set out to fight a decisive battle with more than 600000 troops under the command of shamudragupta, with a total force of only 220000 from the regular army and the slave army.

"Cyris... You..." flavis was not deliberately stammering. He was really shocked and asked subconsciously, "are there reinforcements behind?"

Wang Meng just smiled and didn't speak.