Chapter 1025

Today is the twenty fourth day of fighting on the pinchihe front.

Marus stood about 500 meters away from the pinch River and looked at the enemy and us fighting in a daze.

The fighting there was not fierce. The anti Han axis just attacked again, and then the arrow rain of the Han Army covered it again and again. More than 5000 people fell before they fought hand to hand with the Han army. The Han Army in the rear gave them hope as usual, but they rushed up and were killed in batches by the Han army like slaughtering lambs.

When more than 5000 people died and seven or eight hundred people died, they had collapsed. They turned and fled back. They were washed by the arrows and rain of the Han army. Many people fell halfway through the rout. Only more than 2000 people were left alive to escape from the range of the Han Army's Crossbow.

"The Han Army hasn't used gunpowder on a large scale..." marus doesn't care how many miscellaneous soldiers die. What he cares about is: "we know the Han army is very strong, but we didn't expect it to be so strong."

Before making enemies with the Han Empire, Rome not only witnessed the victory of the Han army.

From the standpoint of the friendly side, the Romans could see the strength of the Han Army, but it was difficult to have more experience.

Now that Rome is at war with the Han Empire and the two sides are on a hostile battlefield, marus has experienced the helplessness of fighting with the Han army.

"Their bows and crossbows are too powerful!" Albata was just calculating the lost troops. Counting the more than 3000 people who had just lost, they lost nearly 40000 people in just 24 days. He recalled that in general, "hundreds of years ago in the Hun Empire, more than 100000 cavalry troops besieged a Han infantry regiment without backup and supplies. It took several months to consume the arrows of that Han infantry regiment, forcing the Han generals to surrender conditionally."

Persians have not many records about the Han people, but some important records are basically there.

Elbata is talking about the old story of Li Ling's regiment. Since Li Ling later became the king of Jiankun of the Huns, the Huns recorded the fighting process completely.

After the Huns fled westward, a lot of information was transmitted to those countries in central and West Asia about how the Hun empire collapsed and how powerful the Western Han army was.

At that time, Parthia was being rubbed on the ground by Rome. It was urgent to find a strong ally. Knowing that there was a strong country in the East, we tried to form an alliance.

It is clearly written in the Persian records that in order to meet the envoys from the Western Han Dynasty, the Parthian Empire sent 20000 people only with heavy cavalry, and the other second-class legions combined to a scale of 100000.

Using 100000 troops to greet a country's diplomatic mission, in addition to ultra-high standard reception, is also showing its strength.

The envoys of the Western Han Dynasty were confused about being greeted by 100000 troops of the Parthian Empire. But at that time, the Han people were in an absolute rising period. They really didn't mean to panic at all. They just felt that the Parthians were really crazy.

Later, the Han people received the alliance intention of the Parthian Empire. The result of the discussion was that the Parthian Empire used 100000 troops just to meet its own envoys, including 20000 heavy cavalry. The enemy of the Parthian Empire must be stronger.

At that time, the whole Western Han Empire had no heavy cavalry with a scale of 10000. The mainstream of cavalry was sudden cavalry, and the number of sudden cavalry was 30000 or 50000.

The Han people believed that the Parthians were definitely out of their minds. The Western Han Empire didn't even know who the enemy of the Parthian Empire was. Then the enemy of the Parthian Empire would not be weak. If that country provoked the Western Han Empire, it must be against them, but even those people didn't know who they were. How could they wade in the muddy water.

The Persians only recorded that the Western Han Empire did not respond to the alliance of the Parthian Empire, but they did not know that the Han people of the Western Han Dynasty regarded the Parthians as psychopaths. The Persians described the strong and rich side of the Han people in their own history books, because the Western Han Empire did not wade through the muddy water and left a lot of thoughts, which became a kind of obsession.

"Our goodwill for alliance with the Han people has lasted for hundreds of years." Albata said, shaking his head: "there is probably nothing more ridiculous in the world than this?"

It is said that the Persians have good intentions towards the Han people, but they have encountered the Han people's almost undisguised malice. From the perspective of the Persians, it is not only sad, but also stupid.

Marus blinked and didn't know what expression to use to face elbata.

The Persians have such a "lovely" thought purely because of Rome, a great enemy they must face. It is also because they have never had a positive contact with the Han people at all. Under the deepening of obsession, they will have wishful thinking because of the relationship of obsession.

In the history of the war between the Romans and Persia, it is not that they did some seemingly beautiful but actually extremely stupid things. For example, in a certain period, they relied too much on the barbarians, resulting in the tragedy of barbarian invasion.

It was a product of the fact that it was difficult for both sides to completely knock down their opponents with their own strength. They really couldn't support it and had to choose foreign aid.

Persians are pretty good. After hundreds of years of obsession, they find themselves wishful thinking. At least the Han people don't show hypocrisy. They don't pretend to be friendly first and then stab in the back suddenly.

The Romans first experienced barbarian invasion, and then broke the restriction that barbarians could not obtain Roman citizenship. They were already eating the consequences of their own evil.

"How many Han troops are there here?" asked marus

"The Han Army had little loss." Albata cleaned up his mood, frowned and said, "I don't see any sign of their increasing troops. They are still two regular divisions and about 20000 auxiliary soldiers."

The pontoon seems to be the main defensive river section of the Han army. There is no change in the two regular divisions, but about 20000 Han auxiliary soldiers are dispatched to each river section.

In the river section where the river bed will be exposed in summer, the anxidu protectorate placed 20000 western region servants from the rear with 5000 Han auxiliary soldiers.

In other river sections, there are more than 3000 people and less than hundreds of people, all of whom are arranged by the Han auxiliary soldiers and the servants of the western regions to join the army.

Nearly 300000 troops came to the anti Han axis, nearly 200000 troops were stationed on the side of the floating bridge, and the rest were scattered and tried to swim across the river.

Some anti Han axis troops successfully passed the East Bank of the panchi River, but they were soon either eliminated or rushed back to the West Bank, which also made marus and elbata find that the Han Army had a cruising and mobile cavalry force.

In the past 24 days, the Romans and Persians only played once in succession. The scale was not small, but they were firmly blocked. The Han Army also used firearms on those two occasions.

"The longer it takes, the harder it is to fight!" Of course, marus didn't want the Romans to die too much. He also felt that since he lost his abruptness, there was no need for a strong attack: "we are waiting for the water level to drop, but the Han Empire will not be arrogant enough not to mobilize reinforcements."

The penchi river is too long. There is always some place where the riverbed is exposed after the water level drops for hundreds of miles. At that time, they will be able to cross the river by wading instead of swimming.

It is not difficult to cross such a long river in summer, but even if it is scattered across the river, the troops always need to assemble, and the terrain of the western region inevitably has to face-to-face contact with the Han army.

"We knew it would be a difficult war, and there were enough Xili to prepare for a protracted war."

Elbata... Or should be said to be really sober Persians. They are not naive enough to think that gathering the so-called anti Han axis can really rub the Han Empire on the ground, and they can't even think of destroying the Han Empire.

In a rational way, they took the lead in forming an alliance with Rome and became one of the giants of the anti Han axis. What they held was to tell the Han people not to take anything, and they dared to work hard.

If things develop in a good direction, the two sides will have a big fight in hunit, no matter how much blood they shed and how many people died, as long as the Han people can be officially recognized, the other countries are also sovereign countries and no longer take it for granted that they want to plunder the world. In fact, the goal of the Persians and Romans has been achieved.

Even with the sacrifice of two million people, as long as the Han people can understand that the Persians dare to work hard in exchange for the respect they deserve, even the Persians who win are even prepared for the worst result.

Once things come to an end, they will work hard and sacrifice. Their upper class will admit failure in exchange for retaining some rights and interests, and continue to struggle with the Han people in another way.

Don't think the Persians have big brain holes or are too naive. They are suffering from similar torture. In fact, they are learning from Arabs. If they can't fight regular wars, can't they let ordinary people as many as gravel destroy and play suicide attacks?

They don't believe it. The Han people can stand the endless attacks. They are willing to occupy a land that people resist all the time. Maybe they can use this method to bring down the Han Empire, and the upper classes will jump out and get back their lost rights at that time.

The Romans did not know what mentality the Persians had in fighting this war. What they saw was that the Persians put on the posture of fighting for their lives, not only in terms of mentality, but also in terms of the national mobilization of the Sassanian empire as they announced, which was not like playing a fake at all.

To be reasonable, the Romans were still happy to see the Persians working hard, and were willing to make the necessary investment.

Constantius squeezed out his scarce financial resources and formed ten new legions. At the same time, he mobilized 20 Roman legions and nearly 200000 vassal races to go eastward.

This move of Rome is very sincere. Even the sincerity of the Romans will reach the top here. They have their own things to do. In addition to continuing to build coastal internal defense lines at all costs and investing necessary funds to study a new generation of warships, they no longer have any scruples about dark things.

"It has entered a state of war." Marus said naturally, "of course, whatever means can be used to obtain gunpowder."

People all over the world are serious about obtaining gunpowder and are willing to pay any price for it.

In the past, they dared not tear their faces and restrained themselves from using those means that would pay a high price. Since the war has already started, there will still be so many scruples. Naturally, there is nothing to do.

The Romans and Persians are different from the Han people in appearance. Those who want to play penetration are really unable to play due to this restriction. They had bought off some Han people long ago, usually lurking as spies. They had used a batch of them before, but they didn't achieve any decent results.

"Go back." Marus said decisively, "I'm afraid we can't get through before the summer comes. With the pride of the Han people, they won't tolerate us. There is a great chance that they will come voluntarily within their sight."

Although albata felt very unwilling, he agreed to marus's proposal.

On the Han side, Li kuangdu was already considering whether to take the initiative to withdraw the division on the other side of the river and let the enemy cross the river.

"Does the alien know to attack half over?" Song Ping hesitated about Li Kuang's thinking: "will they cross the river?"

"How can you know if you don't try?" Li Kuang did not know how many reinforcements there were in the follow-up. He tended not to exceed three standing armies at most: "there are too many enemy troops. Once summer comes, we will be more passive."

Pinchi River can be used as a natural danger, but it is not the Yangtze River after all.

The Han people should not know as much about the Pinchi River as the anti Han axis. In such a hundreds of miles of river section, the defense line is almost full of loopholes. Even if the number of troops of anxidu guard house is increased to four standing armies, plus 700000 Han auxiliary soldiers and 200000 western region servants, they are still struggling with hundreds of miles of river section.

On the other hand, 200000 soldiers from the western regions will help and may become a threat.

In fact, Li Kuang really knows that the people of the western regions have reached the edge of outbreak. Maybe he should not drag the forcibly recruited people of the western regions to the battlefield, but send them to China. If he is cruel, he will choose to kill them.

"Duhu, the enemy is shrinking its forces and pulling out."

The new information made Li Kuang a little stunned. He personally went up to the arrow tower, looked out at it with enough height, and found that the enemy showed signs of retreat.

"We have an advance base on the other side..." Song Ping was looking at the enemy and said with a strange expression: "they can't do it even if they want to attack halfway!"

As long as the Han Army on the West Bank is not destroyed, it is equal to that the Han Army controls the floating bridge, and there is no possibility of being attacked by half crossing.

During the war, the enemy tried some tricks to destroy the floating bridge, but the water flow in the river section was calm and slow, and the wood dropped upstream was not fast. When it reached the floating bridge, it would only form floating objects, and there was no impact force at all.

Even if the enemy puts down the fire raft from the upstream, it is easy to be intercepted because of the slow speed.

The floating bridge was firmly controlled by the Han Army, but the enemy made it clear that they wanted to retreat. For a time, Li Kuang was a little confused.