Chapter 874

Shamudragupta came with a mighty army.

In addition to leaving 20000 guards to guard Fahrenheit City, the 80000 guards belonging to the Gupta royal family were brought by shamudragupta. They were 30000 cavalry, 8000 chariot soldiers, 2000 elephant soldiers and 20000 infantry.

In addition, the number of troops belonging to the chadili Legion reached 120000, including 70000 from the allies, and the rest were armed by the Dalits.

The chadili Legion also has a division of arms. The number of cavalry is almost 40000, 12000 chariots, and the rest is infantry.

The eight allies of the Gupta Dynasty gathered 30000 cavalry, 2000 chariot soldiers and 500 elephant soldiers, and the rest were infantry.

Ten thousand people are boundless, and three hundred thousand people seem to be dense on the earth, not to mention horses and other livestock, carriages and mules.

If there is a big plain, so many people are pulling out in darkness. There are military flags flying everywhere, which looks very spectacular.

"It's like a moving forest!" Marcus had never seen so many people marching together and couldn't help feeling shocked: "in the history I know, only Darius of Persia gathered so many troops and drove to the battlefield."

Gambisis turned black.

Darius? No matter how many generations, as long as the Europeans mention Darius, there is a black history about the Persians. Who let the Persian ancestors fall at the feet of the Europa again and again?

The Romans rarely used more than 100000 troops to fight, usually less than 50000 to sling the surrounding barbarians. Especially after the Romans gained hegemony in the Mediterranean, about 50000 troops were only used when fighting with the Persians. It was basically just a legion with some vassal barbarians to deal with other barbarians.

Coincidentally, the Persians have rarely used more than 100000 troops to invest in a battlefield at one time in recent decades. The largest number of troops in a battlefield in ten years is to compete with the Romans for Syria, but it is only 87000, which is 13000 away from 100000.

It's not that the Romans and Persians don't want to gather most troops to fight. It's that Rome has just come out of the civil strife. Persia is simply still in the civil strife. The Romans don't have the money to arm too many troops. The Persian troops need to be scattered everywhere to maintain stability or suppress rebellion.

"Shamudragupta really came in person." Julian was a little melancholy: "do the cyris really want to fight so many troops with their existing troops?"

On the other side of a San's military camp, I knew that after shamudragupta personally arrived at the battlefield, the cheers were wave after wave, which was a little like the morale of the army.

On the contrary, the Han Army seemed very quiet. It didn't even shoot arrows. It just didn't see the fortification.

There were more than 300000 A-San troops who had confronted and fought with the Han army. Even if they lost 60000 or 70000, there were still about 250000 left. At least 300000 A-San troops arrived in the battlefield, which combined to be at least 550000 troops. Behind them, A-San troops continued to pull out.

"The Han Empire has two standing armies here, the elite of 60000 years of experience and hundred battles." Keshiasto is more or less to speak for his allies: "there are 40000 County soldiers who will never lose to Gupta professional soldiers, and 100000 Japanese minions who don't hesitate to fight."

Kexie Yas didn't say it was OK. As soon as he said it, more people felt guilty.

It is a recognized fact that the Han people can fight in the known world!

According to the Romans themselves, there is no reference value between the Han people and the Romans one-to-one. The gap between the same arms and no weapons and armor, the base number is 1000, and the Han people will win if they collide.

The Persians recognized that the 1000 Han Army needed at least 3000 Persian soldiers to compete with it.

Well, after research, 10000 Han soldiers are at least equal to 50000 soldiers of the chadili Legion. If the Dalits... They always give heads!

The 60000 elite professional soldiers of the Han Army are equivalent to 300000 chadili legions, and the chadili legions of the Gupta Dynasty are by no means as many as 300000 soldiers.

So Julian's melancholy is not whether the Han army can win, but how to face such a powerful Han people.

The Persians are more worried. On the one hand, they are surprised by the strength of the Han people, on the other hand, they are afraid of the strength of the Han people.

Persians like the strong Han people. Once they pull the Han people together and can't get along with the Romans, can they sling the Romans every minute?

Similarly, if the powerful Han people are unwilling to make friends with the Persians, even if the Han people do not collude with the Romans, both the Romans and the Han people can hang and beat the Persians!

Kjayas found something and said in surprise, "there is a cavalry team holding the Gupta King's flag. It should be the Gupta king who invited general Huan Wen to talk before the battle."

Julian said expressionless, "after becoming king, samothra has been expanding and laid down three times the size of his country."

The A-San cavalry had a great heart. It stopped when it was about 100 meters away from the Han Army camp. It never occurred to me that if the Han people didn't pay attention to shooting arrows directly, they would rush into the street.

Soon, the Han Army responded. A cavalry with the same number as the A-San cavalry went out of the camp, and the two sides delivered words about five meters apart.

"He will not fail to see the reality if he can govern the weak Gupta into a powerful shamudra." Julian looked at the Gupta flag waving in the wind in the distance: "he must be thinking about how to end the war with dignity."

As a European, he has never rejected the fight. If he can't fight, he will recognize it first and develop slowly. As long as it can exist, it means that everything is still possible.

Julian is substituting the role of samodaragupta with Europa mode of thinking. He thinks that the Gupta Dynasty really has only one choice, that is, recognizing and counseling first. It is absolutely impossible for him to die hard in the state of Han.

What Julian didn't know was that shamudragupta really wanted to have a wave first, and even the reason had been found. According to the modification of Chinese culture, it was "able to extend and bend" or "painstaking people, the sky does not bear, lie on the salary and taste the gall, and three thousand Vietnamese armor can swallow Wu".

The two waves of cavalry who delivered the words before the battle responded one after another. Not long later, bursts of war drums and horns appeared in the camps on both sides.

The gates of the front battlefield of the Han army were opened, and teams of soldiers went out of the camp in order.

The Gupta Dynasty is very miserable. The camps have long been destroyed. There is no need to go through the gate of the barracks. Soldiers can be provided everywhere to go out of the barracks.

The arrangement of troops is not a matter of a moment and a half. How much time it takes depends entirely on what kind of formation to arrange. As bystanders, Julian, keshias and other foreign visitors watch the arrangement of troops on both sides from the perspective of appreciation.

It took about an hour and a half. The Han army took the lead in arranging troops. The infantry troops were arrayed in the center and the two wings were cavalry.

"What are those things?" Flavis pointed to some big guys covered with boards: "it seems that even the horses are very hard to pull. There is no doubt that whatever they pull is very heavy."

At the slightly forward position of the infantry formation core of the Han Army, there are about 100 large wooden boxes that look rectangular, each about five meters apart, arranged into three rows in front, middle and back. In particular, there are stacked boxes and some round rollers not far from them.

Naturally, flavis didn't get the answer. He suspected that he had hidden remote instruments such as bed crossbows. It's strange that there are so many bed crossbows, crossbows and catapults in the camp. Why should they be arranged more in front.

The Gupta Dynasty is still busy arranging troops. I don't know whether the a San are showing off or intimidating. In the front row of the center, there are war elephants with very large physique. However, the elephant skin is painted white and covered with protective equipment such as rattan armor, metal armor and leather armor. I don't know whether the war tower with people on the back of the war elephant is intentional or original. It looks gorgeous.

"At least two thousand war elephants!" Gambisis looked very serious: "only this elephant army is enough to sweep any small country around, even if we encounter it, it will be very troublesome!"

The Romans had not dealt with the elephant troops for a long time, but as noble children, they had to learn some Roman history, and they encountered the elephant troops in Roman history. Almost every time they fought very hard to win.

"Alexander the Great's expedition to the East led to the loss of confidence in the elephant troops." Marus is of Greek descent: "the great pressure mountain met only dozens of war elephants, and his soldiers were unwilling to fight any more."

The king of Gupta put forward more than the elephant troops. Behind the elephant troops are dense chariot troops, and there are more cavalry on both wings. It is gorgeous simply from the perspective of lineup.

On the battlefield, drums, horns, elephants and horses fluctuated with each other. Huan Wen rode across the majestic war horse and was protected by the guard knights. On the contrary, shamudragupta stood on the war tower and was protected by the elephants. They stopped three meters apart.

"Han generals from the Far East, you have brought blood to this continent, and you will finally sprinkle your blood on this land." Shamudragupta looked at Huan Wen and advised, "go back, you can go back in time now!"

There is a special interpreter present, who will translate the dialogue very loudly.

When shamudragupta finished, first the guards around him cheered loudly, and then all ah San on the battlefield cheered, making the translator embarrassed whether Huan Wen heard his translation.

Huan Wen came to confirm that shamudragupta had personally arrived at the battlefield and was particularly close to the front of the battlefield. In fact, he didn't care what the other party wanted to say.

"Finished?" Huan Wen nodded to shamudragupta with a happy smile on his face, "then I'll go back.", Without giving samodaragupta time to react, he turned his horse and drank a "drive" and galloped back quickly.

Shamudragupta was really stunned. He didn't react himself. The responsible guard shouted to go back quickly.

On the other side, the artillery blocked by the wooden board had long shown its true body and adjusted the firing angle. Huan Wen galloped back while waving and shouting: "fire, fire, fire immediately!"