Chapter 1067

The Western expeditionary force of the Han Empire did not continue to advance westward when it came to jilongpo. The reason is that the current force is not suitable for marching. In addition, there are "outsiders" around. There is a threat of instability in the future if it does not solve the kingdom of jidoro and Kashmir.

In fact, there is another factor, that is, the West High car.

Hunit lived in name only in the first World War. The Arameans in their country fled to the Aral Sea to go to the Aramaic tribe there. The descendants of the northern Huns followed Adia batla. They didn't want to continue to fight with the Han people. It was said that the people in the West were weak and returned to their origin as a whole.

Xiongnit, which exists in name only, has been out in any way. The next goal to be solved by the Han Empire is xigaoche.

As the enemy of the Han Empire, xigaoche stepped onto the stage in the ninth year of Yuanshuo. With the continuous destruction of those countries and tribes against the Han Empire, xigaoche can survive today because of the distance and the swamp sea.

The Han Empire has invaded hunit territory, and it no longer needs to cross the swamp area with a length of about 300 miles to attack xigaoche. Under this premise, the Huns, who were not weak, were so vulnerable to the Han Empire. Xigaoche chose to give up its habitat and migrate westward.

Junjishan army was set up to guard against xigaoche and Rouran tribal alliance. Naturally, it also had the task of monitoring the western regions.

The ruran tribal alliance was solved, and the western regions returned to the embrace of Zhuxia. The rest of the duty of junjishan school captain was to target xigaoche.

At first, the Han people could not understand that junjishan was a swamp with a span of 300 miles to the West and northwest, and it was not clear that the army could only March there in a short summer. After waiting to know this situation, there was no need for the military department of junjishan.

Junjishan was chosen as the military unit to set up the first firearm division. It is just as a military unit that they seem redundant. On the premise of not abolishing them, junjishan is also an important strategic area. It is quite appropriate to choose here to build a firearm division.

In the 14th year of Yuanshuo, the Han people explored three iron mines and one copper mine in junjishan, that is, one nitrate mine.

There are three iron ores, one is a super large iron ore, which is smelted after mining. It is found that the ore of this super large iron ore is very excellent.

At that time, the prime minister's office came up with a proposal. Considering that the Han Empire was bound to move westward in the future, was it necessary to use the resources on the other side of qijunji mountain to build an industrial zone on the spot?

Considering the distance between Chang'an and bossasan and the fact that Chang'an's resources are transported from various places, the resources needed for the western expedition in the future are massive. Indeed, an industrial zone should be built ahead.

In the 15th year of Yuanshuo, the fourth firearms construction base was completed in Junji mountain. After one and a half years of construction, it began to be put into production.

So far, although junjishan is still unable to produce finished guns and bronze guns, it mainly produces parts, but it can maintain the equipment of the front-line forces.

In fact, there is only one industrial zone in Chang'an with a full set of production lines to manufacture firearms, and the other three are artificially restricted.

Fifteen years before Yuan Shuo, there was only one factory that could make gunpowder. It was in the Qinling Mountains. By the 17th year of Yuanshuo, the number had soared to six. Naturally, with the formation of the army to pack firearms, the need for gunpowder increased. If there were no more gunpowder production factories, firearms could only be used as stabbing guns.

Junji mountain is no longer an overseas territory, but a vast grassland, which is regarded as a part of the mainland.

The general's office had previously put forward a proposal to build a firecracker and gunpowder manufacturing plant in mainland A3. Their discussion was rejected only in menxia province.

The production method of gunpowder has always been closely protected by the Han Empire, and the confidentiality is much higher than that of flint gun and bronze gun.

Without gunpowder, what is the use of flint guns and bronze guns?

Under Xie an's command, there are now more than 38000 firearm troops, and the number of bronze guns of each caliber has reached a staggering 480.

Bronze guns for land warfare, including gunners and logistics personnel, need at least ten people to serve one regardless of the caliber. With the increase of the caliber, more personnel are needed. For example, a 180 mm caliber used in land warfare needs two things to serve.

The use of bronze guns on land is not to install, fix, load and fire. Each bronze gun also needs special logistics support personnel, such as transporting gunpowder and shells, maintenance and so on.

That's just a man. The minimum caliber 75mm bronze gun needs animal power. It's two mules and horses; For the 220 mm bronze gun with the largest caliber, six mules and horses are needed. This is not a spare animal power, so it can be seen how hard it is to move the bronze gun on the land.

Flint gun troops are better. The main reason is that riflemen don't need people to serve, but they still need a huge logistics force.

The firearm division is not fully staffed, but more than 38000 soldiers have nearly 30000 auxiliary personnel. The reason is that once the more sophisticated weapons fail, they really can not continue to be used like the gaps in knives and guns. What they need is professional maintenance.

Xie an, who was patrolling the firearm division camp, saw Xie AI walking quickly and standing in place.

"General." Xie aixingli said: "the scout reported that the Persians divided a partial division and inferred from the march route that they were going to go to jidoro."

The two armies, 120 miles apart, have a large number of eyes watching each other at any time, but they can't escape each other's prying eyes if they are a little rusty.

"As expected." Xie an was not surprised: "what's Chang Shi's opinion?"

"The scouts also reported that the enemy's move to clean up the camp was supposed to be in response to the deviant division." Without much hesitation, Xie AI suggested: "the enemy's partial division to jidoro is beneficial to the Han, so we can't react. The enemy is advancing eastward, but our army can't refuse to express."

The fact that the troops of the western expedition did not continue westward did not mean that the Persians would not respond to any movement.

"So..." Xie an had a plan for a long time, but he would communicate with Xie AI with his character. Seeing that Xie AI had expressed his opinion, he nodded and said, "he sent Yu Lin army to fight."

There were only two troops with special names in the Han Empire, namely the Huben army and the Yulin army.

In the early days, the Huben army, as a heavy cavalry, had a strong sense of existence. Indeed, it also reflected its value on the battlefield, but as gunpowder was put into the war, they were negative.

The Yulin army was the first mixed army of sudden cavalry, bow cavalry and light cavalry in the Han Empire. It was also the first standing army with a staffing of more than 15000 people.

Like the Huben army, the Yulin army, as the main force in the early stage, will appear on each main battlefield.

Unlike the Huben army, even if the Han army began to use gunpowder, the Yulin army was still active in all battlefields, that is, it was no longer the absolute main force.

Li Jun, who got the military order, showed a happy expression and said to the visitor, "please reply to the general. Yulin will not disappoint the general."

As a lieutenant general of the Yulin army, Li Jun, like other generals and schools with cold weapons, feels great pressure on the emergence of the firearms army. What can be comforted is that compared with the starting soldiers, their regiment dominated by cavalry, even if firearms appear, has its own place to play.

"For the country's wings, such as the prosperity of the forest!"

Shouting slogans, the knight galloped out of the gate, followed by a pack horse and another vice horse.

At present, the full strength of the Yulin army is 32000. Xie an's military order is to let the Yulin army go to war alone to deal with the nearly 150000 Persian troops that have moved.

After leaving the camp, the badminton army began to gather according to their own arms, and soon divided into the camps of sudden cavalry, bow cavalry, light cavalry and baggage team. Then the light cavalry took the lead and went west.

Although they were cavalry, they were equipped with a large number of carriages.

Of course, the cavalry's baggage team also needs to have a high enough moving speed. They carry relevant things including combat materials and living materials for the combat troops, as well as materials needed for camp establishment.

An army has never been that simple. There are too many details. If a general has poor overall planning ability and does not have a qualified assistant, the army will fall apart in minutes, and then collapse and disperse.

The action of the Yulin army pulling out of the camp must be seen by the Persian scouts.

Next, there will be another chase and escape between scouts. The news will be known by the rear only when the Persian scouts who found the intelligence go back.

Thirty two thousand soldiers, more than eight thousand auxiliary soldiers, and no less than 120000 horses, a bird's-eye view from high altitude shows a large dark shadow moving to the West.

This large black shadow is splitting itself. About 4000 light cavalry and 2000 bow cavalry leave the array. They form a group every 2000 light cavalry and 1000 bow cavalry. Then they form two new black shadows and advance to the west at a very fast speed.

Li Jun personally led all the sudden cavalry and the rest of the troops to march at normal speed. They will soon distance themselves from the two separated troops, and then maintain a distance of about 30 Li until they come into contact with the enemy.

A hundred and twenty miles away, it took six or seven hours for the Sassanian army to prepare all the things that should be taken away from the camp.

Before that, there was a group of tens of thousands of infantry cavalry, including 1000 heavy cavalry, 3000 bow cavalry and 20000 ordinary cavalry, and the rest were infantry on foot.

Because it was a mixture of walking and riding, their marching speed was not fast. They were probably on their way at a speed of about seven or eight miles per hour.

The overall appearance of this area is a barren surface, but it is not just a desert or Gobi. There are vegetation formed by weeds on the ground, but there are no forests. There are more than a dozen trees together, and more of them are isolated trees.

Because the Persians are the host, they will have a more comprehensive grasp of the terrain. The planned marching route is to be as close as possible to the place with water source. Otherwise, even if they carry water source, 60000 people will walk hundreds of miles. Especially if they don't die in the Han Army, they will die of thirst.

After the Han army came over, what they did at the first time was to draw a map. The map would not be very standard. The approximate terrain of mountains and rivers would be drawn, and where there was a water source would also be marked. The main reason was to pay more attention to the distribution of water sources, just for the convenience of marching.

The two armies of the enemy and ours are marching towards each other. If there is no change in speed and the camp does not stop at nightfall, the vanguards of both sides will contact in about eight hours.

In this area, there were a large number of scouts scattered from the Han Army and Sasan. The two armies did not start a war, but the fighting between the teams was very frequent.

The Han Army has made special statistics. The number of damaged scouts has exceeded 300, including 60 or 70 missing scouts.

Persia also has statistics, but the data are not clear to the single digit of the Han army. Their own calculation is that more than 2000 people have been lost.

This is the Empire. There were so many scouts just before the war. If it were a small country, it would be difficult to say whether there were 2000 troops in the country, let alone such a number of scouts.

As time went by, God joked with two marching troops at this time.

"Why suddenly there are dark clouds." Li Jun looked up at the sky. His eyes saw the light in the dark clouds. The next moment was a lightning splitting down. Then he heard the roaring thunder: "the whole army stopped, and the engineers immediately built a camp!"

In terms of altitude, this area should be regarded as a plateau.

The Han army was not so strange to the plateau climate, especially Li Jun, who repeatedly participated in the northern expedition, was well aware of the horror of thunderstorm weather on the plateau.

In fact, even if there is no lightning and it will only rain, the March will be terminated unless it is urgent.

In such a year, there is no quick acting cold medicine after catching a cold in the rain. Even if there are Chinese herbal medicines to treat the disease, it also needs a slow process.

About ten minutes apart, the two armies seven or eight miles apart stopped marching. Unless they were in the stage of fighting, the scouts among them hurriedly looked for shelter from the rain.

The conditions of the Han Army scouts are definitely superior to the Persian army. They will find a place with a gentle terrain and stay away from trees to avoid being split by thunder. Then they will take out a linen blanket from the auxiliary horse's package, put it on first, and then take out the same cloth as the tent to cover it.

God will not wait for the people on the ground to be ready to rain again. After the first drop of rain falls, the whole sky seems to split, and it rains cats and dogs in an instant.

Of course, Li Jun's tent was one of the first to be erected. He stood on one side of the curtain and frowned at the urgent and heavy rain: "it's really not the right time for the rain!"

Isn't it? It's obviously a fierce expedition, but I have to stop on the way. If I believe in superstition, I can associate it with the disadvantageous direction.