sweeping the world

Chapter 740 Ah San in Attack
Not very far away on the other side of the mountain, a huge camp was set up among the green hills and jungles, and flags with various patterns were flying on several hilltops, and the flags were almost in any shape.

The largest-looking flag was held the highest, surrounded by the rest of the flags in the middle, and a simple-looking elephant was painted in white on the black flag.

It is very common for Ah San to use pictograms as the flag pattern, but the color of the flag surface and the painting are different. Even if the generals in the same country go to war, the flag surface and painting color of the flag will also be different, which is used to distinguish the lineage specification of the command.

"The enemy's soldiers rarely have armor, and most of them bare their chests and belly. They are thin and short, and look like macaques."

Si Hongzhuang was standing on a hilltop in the line of defense. To the northeast was the enemy's camp, and to the west was the front line built by the Han army.

They have advanced nearly [-] miles to the northeast. Although it is only [-] miles, it took nearly a year. In fact, the engineering work is not easy to go anywhere. Mountain detour.

The environment of the primitive jungle is very complicated, especially in areas with abundant rainfall throughout the year, there are countless kinds of poisonous insects, and there are various wild animals in the dense forest, and some areas with perennial water accumulation form Swamps, if the forest is dense enough and not ventilated, it is extremely easy to produce miasma.

"Nearly 6 people died when we only pushed forward for 150 miles. How many people should they die if they pushed forward for more than [-] miles?"

Fu Wei was on vacation, and it was impossible to return to the mainland after only half a month of vacation. He was tired of staying on the ship and had no good place to go on land, so he came to the front line on land.

The northwest and northern frontiers of Han were in a period of drought, while the Indochina Peninsula had an endless rainy season starting from spring, and it continued to rain even in early autumn.

The local aborigines may have adapted to the rainy climate, but for the Han people, such a climate would seem very torturous.It was raining constantly, the temperature was neither hot nor cold, but the air was very humid, it was difficult to change clothes, and it was even more difficult to have a hot meal due to the lack of dry firewood.

At present, most of the local aboriginals are raised by nature. Many times, they actually don’t eat the cooked meals seriously. They just go to the forest with rich food to find wild fruits to solve the meal. The stomachs of the savages have long been I am used to this method, but letting the Han people do this will not solve the hunger at all, and even the Han people will have diarrhea incessantly if they do this.

The Pingman school lieutenant's department caught many savages in the surrounding area and drove them to build roads and fortifications. At the beginning, the savages were not easy to use, and they were given food to the Han family to get cooperation.They used captive Ah San, savages captured locally, and slaves from Malacca to build a defense line [-] miles deep. The problem is that too many laborers died.

The Han people actually don't care so much about how many Asan and savages die.The captured Asan is only valuable to the Kshatriya, and the rest of the Asan Gupta Dynasty has no intention of redeeming it at all.Savages are even more worthless than Ah San. Ah San's untouchables are at least very obedient, while most savages are wild and unruly.Just like many laborers who build military fortifications, in order to keep the secrets, many of them need to be dealt with by themselves. Even if Ah San and the savages were not killed while building the fortifications, they would still be cleaned up later.

"After the rain stops, the great war will begin." Si Hongzhuang was standing in a fortification, reached out to catch the dripping water, and looked back at Fu Wei: "How do you navy want to fight this time? "

The Gupta Dynasty’s first attack on the Pingman Colonel’s Department was only from the sea. After failing once, it was obvious that a single-route attack was unreliable, and only then did the behavior of gathering small partners, and opened up a land area with great hardships. Based on the previous attack route, the second attack must be carried out by land and water.

"You know, first of all, we kept invading Ah San's coast to find and spy on the landing point, giving Ah San the illusion that we might land at any time, and the result was that Ah San was desperately recruiting troops and building ships, desperately encircling Intercept us." Fu Wei was talking about Huan Wen's necessary preparations for the landing: "Ah San was quite ruthless when he put his life on the line, but in the future our penetration will become more and more difficult and the cost will be higher and higher. We have to Temporarily give up fighting for the coastal waters. If Ah San wants to take the initiative to attack, the best way is naturally to shrink back and wait for the fighters to wipe out the enemy."

Since the Han Dynasty began to operate Malacca in the seventh year of Yuan Shuo, and then established the Pingman Xiaowei Department at the end of the seventh year of Yuan Shuo, the conflict between the Han army and Asan has been going on for more than a year.

In the beginning, the intensity of the war between the two sides was very low. It was the warships of the Han army who went to carry out the raid first. It must be said that Gupta thought they were pirates or something, and waited for Gupta to find out that there was a huge military base in the southwest of Pyu. Only then did I realize that was not the case.

The Gupta dynasty is indeed a country in the rising stage, and it may make mistakes... For example, after discovering that it was the Han Empire, the first thing they thought of was peaceful exchanges, but when they found that there was no possibility of peace, they did not hesitate to prepare for war immediately.

In some respects, the Gupta dynasty was still a relatively efficient regime. If the central government was incompetent, it would never have been possible to switch from a peaceful system to a war system in one year, let alone recruit 30 troops immediately after mobilization in the south.During that period of preparation for military war, they were even able to unite most of the neighboring countries, which also showed that their status as a regional hegemon at this stage has not been shaken.

"In the final analysis, we still underestimated Ah San!" Fu Wei said with emotion: "Just like we thought that Kyushu was the world before, we really never thought about any powerful countries outside the territory."

It can transform the country from a peaceful system to a war system within a year, and it can recruit 30 soldiers all at once.The speed of this transformation of the system, the base of the population, to say that it is not a powerful country is to deceive itself and others.

It has to be said that the larger the country's territory and the larger the population base, the more difficult it is for the country's system to change from peace to war.

It has not been less than a year for the states of Zhuxia's dynasties to change from peace to war. Usually, the borders are full of wars or even fallen. The ruling class may still be arguing, arguing, arguing...

Even if the central government stopped arguing, it had already decided to launch a counterattack, but God was rarely able to pull out the troops immediately, either because of all kinds of wrangling, or because there were not enough reserves for the war.If the territory of the countries of the various Xia dynasties had not been large enough, I really don’t know how many times the country would have perished before the grind was over.

"How can they be so fast?"

"Hehehe..., you may not believe it, but those so-called Kshatriyas have made meritorious service."

It is true that the Kshatriyas of the Gupta Dynasty have made great contributions. They themselves are a class that exists for war, just like the warrior class of various countries in the Zhuxia, Spring and Autumn Period. They are waiting for war anytime and anywhere. Once they receive orders, they can pull The people report immediately, and a little integration will form a large army.Therefore, the Zhuxia civilization was not always procrastinating in dealing with wars, and there were times when they were efficient.

The more militaristic a country was in the classical era, the faster it would respond to wars. Many countries divided their citizens into different levels to deal with wars that were actively provoked or passively dealt with.

Today's Ah San caste system has not yet decayed, especially the ruler Samadhara Gupta is an aspiring monarch.If the Han army did not come, Samadhara Gupta would have planned to attack Vajathaka. That is to say, the Gupta Dynasty was also preparing for war, but the Gupta Dynasty was originally preparing for the war against Vajathaka. On Han Guo.

The light rain just now became heavier at some point. Looking out from the top of the mountain, the whole world seemed to be covered with fine veil, and everything was hazy.

"Will the enemy take advantage of the limited vision to launch a surprise attack?"

"I have already dealt with it."

where is this place?There are dense forests everywhere, mountains everywhere, there is no wide field of vision at all, and there are opportunities for sneak attacks.Otherwise, what is the purpose of Pingman Xiaowei's forward defense depth?
Fu Wei really didn't know the real situation on land, so he asked curiously.

"The confrontation between small groups has always been going on." Si Hongzhuang said without the slightest surprise: "At this moment, in a corner that we don't know, there may be a fierce fight."

"Then you..." Fu Wei asked strangely: "Can you still be so calm?"

"Terrain determines everything." Si Hongzhuang couldn't help but calm down, and said: "This ghostly place can't deploy a large army, and the attacking side can only move forward by pulling out a mountain or a stronghold. The stronghold, but it is impossible to capture the top of the mountain quietly."

Fu Wei thought so too, the terrain is so complicated that there are no boundaries, coupled with the position with a deep defense chain, the advantage to the defensive side is really not 01:30, and it is not afraid of the so-called surprise attack at all.

"From here, to the west is a large mountainous area." Si Hongzhuang swiped his hand and pointed to the northeast: "There is a flat area over there, which is full of jungles."

Fu Wei was not in the navy from the beginning. He was transferred to the navy because he served as Jiang Du Ling. Before that, he had been working in the army.He rolled his eyes and showed an expression of sudden realization.

"Have you thought about it?" Si Hongzhuang saw the change in Fu Wei's expression, and said with a "hehe" smile: "Use fortifications to garrison, high-intensity assault battles to wear down the enemy's spirit, look for opportunities to use the terrain to annihilate the invading enemy, and then ..."

"Wait for the enemy's morale to drop before counterattacking." Fu Wei simply took up the latter words. Similar tactics have been fought by Zhuxia civilization too much: "Defensive counterattack is indeed very suitable."

"It's just that there are too many enemy troops, but there are other benefits." Si Hongzhuang didn't know who or what he was laughing at, and he said after a while: "The coalition forces have assembled a huge number of troops. , but does history no longer prove the disadvantages of a complex army?"

There are simply too many examples. Intrigue is indispensable in forming a coalition of multiple parties. Everyone is afraid of being consumed. Unless it is always a smooth battle, once there is a setback, neither party will give up.

"So you are here." Urgutai Bahram could speak Chinese, but the accent sounded weird.When he entered the shed, he immediately took off his bamboo hat and coir raincoat, hung them on the hooks next to him with ease, and said in a complaining tone: "The gang of savages took advantage of the rain to attack, and there were a lot of them."

Si Hongzhuang laughed "haha" a few times, and teased, "Seeing that you don't have any blood on your body, you know that the savage was shot by a bow and arrow?"

The Persian army also participated in the garrison of the Pingman Colonel's Department, and specifically required that it must be the front line. A prominent part of the entire defense line was assigned to the Persians by Si Hongzhuang.

"The naked savage, holding a bamboo spear and strange things, roared like a beast, and charged forward one after another, but was still killed by the brave Persians." Urgutai Bahram exaggerated He smiled and said: "I have to say that the way the Han people built their fortifications is very ingenious, and those savages are really stupid."

The savage they are talking about should be a certain force in the coalition army, or the unlucky guy who was simply captured to test the Han army's defense line.

It’s easy to tell if a savage is a savage. Those who don’t have half a piece of cloth all over their body are savages in the true sense. Aboriginal people who have large tribes or established countries will at least have a piece of cloth to cover their private parts. The less, the harder it is to see the metal material on the weapon side as well.

Not long after, the Japanese Niu Gansi also came over. After entering the house, he didn't even take off his rainproof tools. He knelt on the ground and saluted, waiting to be greeted and reported respectfully.

It doesn't matter what Niu Xiansi's name was before. He gave himself such a name after he got his Chinese registration, and he was in charge of a front-line mountain.What he came to report was that he also encountered a surprise attack. Unlike the Persians, they counterattacked after encountering a surprise attack.

"I don't know if I'm stupid or not..." Si Hongzhuang changed his words from a smile to a serious one: "Two places that are more than ten miles away are going to test together..." Halfway through speaking, he looked at Niu Jiansi and didn't ask any more questions. What, after a pause, he continued: "The enemy can't hold back anymore."

Maybe it was to show the correctness of Si Hongzhuang's guess. It wasn't that someone came to report the raid or something. It was someone from the Navy who told Fu Wei that his vacation was over and he should go back to report.

"The enemy navy of Cuttak has left the port." Fu Wei had nothing to take away, and while wearing rainproof gear, he said: "We spied a ship appearing on a coast eighty miles away to the north. It seems that they want to build a water village nearby."

Asanyang has a very long coastline, and Han has repeatedly measured and found four natural harbors, one of which is eighty miles north of Pingman Xiaowei's Department.

"It looks like the navy has succeeded."

Si Hongzhuang also knew that there was a natural harbor there, and he also knew why he did not rush to build a military port. He saluted Fu Wei in return as he put on his rain gear.

At the same time, the two said in unison: "Take care!"

(End of this chapter)