sweeping the world

Chapter 867 The tip of the iceberg

The Han troops outside the camp are all infantry. They form a small square formation with a hundred people, and then ten small square formations merge into a medium-sized formation, and a hundred small square formations form a large square formation.

The cavalry units of the Han army participating in the battle had already left the camp, and some cavalry units had even gone around to the back of the Gupta dynasty's camp overnight.

Nearly [-] infantry stood still in silence. If they hadn't been able to see clearly at a close distance, they would have doubted whether there were human statues.

Wang Meng needs to make some arrangements, mainly to mobilize the tribe to come over as guards.

Waiting for the [-] cavalry and [-] infantry to be arranged properly, Wang Meng set off with the guests.

It may be due to the distance from the battlefield. It is not a time of war where guns and guns are firing. Only the faint sound of drums can be heard from a distance, but the sound of killing cannot be heard.

The team was protected and set off. Since they were not in such a hurry, and there were infantrymen among the guards, everyone slowed down even though they were riding horses.

"It's only been three hours since I heard the drumming last night, but the Siris army has already started fighting with the Xindu people." Julian said seriously: "We didn't see any movement from the Siris army yesterday. If they It only took three hours from the time we decided to fight to the time we sent out the troops, and the Siris army is far more elite than we imagined!"

The Romans also had "hours" as a unit of time.They divide the day into twelve hours, but the night is divided into four "watches".The length of time is not fixed, each hour is longer and shorter in summer.Every hour in winter is shorter and each longer.

In addition, the Romans made water clocks hundreds of years ago.It is a kind of container for holding water. A ruler with a scale is placed on it. The ruler will rise with the rise of the water level, which is to see how much time has passed according to the position of the pointer.

There is also a "water clock" here in Zhuxia, but it does not have a time scale unit. It is simply a bamboo tube installed in the water flow. When the bamboo tube is full, it will tilt and bump against the stones to make a sound. If you want to know how much time has passed, you need someone Specifically to remember that the bamboo tube knocked on the stone a few times.

At present, the Han Dynasty is also building a water clock, and its style is the same as that of the Romans (in fact, it was imitated by Liu Yan).As for other styles of clocks, such as mechanical clocks, they cannot be manufactured with the current technology anyway.

The crowd didn't go far, but they heard the sound of "dong dong dong" from a distance, but it didn't sound like the sound of beating a war drum. Some people turned their heads and looked into the distance, and saw a large area on the horizon The shadow is moving.

Xias had been watching, and could distinguish the difference between the sound of drums and footsteps: "Don't tell me that's the movement made by the [-] Han Imperial infantry stepping in unison."

The people in the team were all amazed, and it was inevitable that they would be able to talk, and too many people talking would make it a bit noisy.

"The first training subject for our soldiers to enter the army is military posture." Facing Helena's curious question, Wang Meng did not hide anything: "There is no individual will in the army. We found that training military posture and formation can make soldiers develop obedience." Habit."

Helena is not that familiar with the army, she only knows that compliments are right now.

They had actually seen the appearance of marching in line from the [-] infantry guarding them before, but the [-] infantry marched in groups and did not get together, resulting in inconsistent stepping rhythms among the teams.

After discussing, they decided to stop and satisfy their curiosity no matter what.

The result is very obvious, the movement is the sound of [-] Han infantry marching in formation.

If there are only a few people, tens of people, or hundreds of people, the neat movements will look good, but there is absolutely no sense of shock.

There are 3000 soldiers wearing uniforms. Their formation is more than [-] meters long, but they are stepping up and down in the same rhythm. Anyone who sees this scene will instantly feel numb in the scalp and get goosebumps all over the body.That is human instinct, a response to a sense of shock.

"Our ancestors said a long time ago..." Ali's eyeballs almost fell off: "The Han people are powerful!"

Hierro's ancestors?Their royal family is considered to be the descendant of a certain nobleman of the Baicheng Dynasty.The Baicheng Dynasty recognized the Western Han Dynasty as the suzerain state, and it would indeed leave some legends about the Western Han Dynasty.

"Among the Han people, there was a scholar-bureaucrat named Sima Xiangru. He once entered the Southwest (probably later Yunnan, Myanmar, Laos and other regions) alone..." What Ali said was actually heard from others before his mission: " One person conquered Dian, Yelang, Yue, Ailao and other countries. It is one person! Only one person!"

It is rumored that in the Western Han Dynasty, the Han people had entered the Asan Continent, but they were just passing by while selling silk on the trade route, and it seemed that they had reached the Mediterranean Sea as far as they could.In the later period of Emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty, the Western Han Dynasty did indeed accept the southwestern countries as vassals, and the territory map was directly counted as the territory of the Western Han Dynasty, and its influence radiated to the three continents.

Julian and Xeas discussed it and decided to follow the Han army, which numbered [-].

Naturally, Wang Meng had no objection, and readily agreed.

It was the first time that everyone saw a large-scale Han army going out of the camp to the field. They saw that the Han army was marching in formation in the field. They didn't understand it, but they just thought it was so powerful.

This troop was going to the left side of the Gupta Dynasty's camp, which happened to be to the west of the battlefield according to its geographical location, but it did not conflict with their previously arranged itinerary.

Apart from the constant admiration from the onlookers, nothing happened on the road.

The battle on the west side of the battlefield had already broken out. When they arrived, they saw the crossbow troops of the Han army constantly shooting arrows with the sound of passwords. "The sound, and then the crossbow arrows that were as dense as dark clouds flew into the air, and then fell down again.

"Crossbow!" Flavis looked at the Han soldiers holding powerful crossbows ready to shoot, full of greed: "The firing position is about one-third (Rome) away from the Xindu people's camp."

One Roman mile is about 490 meters, and one third is about 500 meters.

The Romans seldom played with bows, but usually played with javelins and throwing bombs.Therefore, the distance of the long-range attack weapons of the Romans is really short. It is really fear and envy to see that the Han army's crossbow can be fired so far, at least 200 meters farther than the Persian longbow.

Not just the Romans, but everyone from other countries saw for the first time nearly [-] long-range troops firing volleys in turns. The most important thing was that the range was too far and the frequency was not that slow. They would subconsciously think about what if it was their own country. What would happen to our army if they encountered this situation?

"Seres' crossbow bolts have a strong armor-piercing effect." Flavis did everything possible to know this: "The Persian longbow is simply incomparable."

In the past and now, the Roman legion is advancing against the Persian longbowmen. There are troubles, but there is really not much trouble.

Julian said subconsciously: "I never want to see the picture of the legion pushing forward with crossbow arrows."

(End of this chapter)