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Chapter 871 There Is Absolutely Something Wrong
Our own casualties were less than 4000, but we killed or captured more than [-] Asan, and the ratio of battle damage was astonishingly one to seventeen.

If it is calculated by the battle loss ratio of battle deaths, the death ratio is one to ninety.

As a price, the Han army consumed more than [-] arrows, almost like [-] arrows achieved a result.

Because the Han army was advancing on the battlefield, the arrows fired could be recovered, and in fact not as many as 80 were consumed.There are only a few arrows that cannot be recycled. In fact, the Han army lost only about [-] arrows in three days.

The unhurried tactics of the Han army will make the onlookers feel boring, but for Ah San, it will make him feel uncomfortable all over.

It's not that Ah San has tried to counterattack, they mustered up the greatest courage, screaming and wanting to regain the camp occupied by the Han army, but facing the Han army's arrow formations, they repeatedly charged and fell down on the road. The courage that had just been mustered up within a hundred meters of the Han army had already been exhausted.

Asans would often rush back in the middle of the charge and then run back in dejection. As they ran back, they would be shot over, and three or four out of ten of them would not even be able to touch a single hair of the Han soldiers. Less than half of the remaining ones went back and shivered.

It's not that the Asan's are incompetent, it's that the combination of the Han army's bow and crossbow is really terrifying.

Going back hundreds of years, the Huns, once the strongest nomadic people in the Asian continent, gathered hundreds of thousands of troops to besiege a (Western) Han army with only 5000 militiamen and auxiliary soldiers. The two sides changed places continuously , After another encirclement battle later, the Huns fell by tens of thousands, but the (Western) Han army could not do it, and the (Western) Han army's arrows were exhausted to bring the final result of the war.

History has repeatedly proved that no matter whether it is an offensive battle or a defensive battle, once there are enough archers and arrow reserves, they will be invincible and rock-solid, especially under the premise of taking advantage of the range, it is not It is said that daring to die can change the direction of the war, and it is not whether the attacker (defender) is brave or not that can determine the outcome of the war. What can determine the war is when the arrows are exhausted.

"The total number of arrows we have in reserve exceeds 800 million!" Huan Wen was not talking nonsense, the real number was just like this: "Come here to fight the war of destroying the country!"

In this expeditionary force, there were only 6 Han troops belonging to the standing army, and 12 county and county soldiers. They brought [-] crossbow machines of various models and [-] bows of different tensions.

Just counting the number of crossbows and bows, anyone can operate the crossbow. It is difficult to pull the bow and shoot accurately, but it is not difficult to pull the string to shoot the arrow.

The crossbow is a machine. It is not difficult to operate and is easy to learn.If you want to be a qualified crossbowman, the difficult thing is to learn to project, level, accumulate, and diffuse under various passwords and according to the requirements of each password. That is, the difficulty is in executing the passwords.

Operating a bow is far more difficult than operating a crossbow. Don’t look at just holding the bow with one hand and pulling the string and setting the arrow with the other, but how to hold the bow, how to draw the string and set the arrow, how to loosen the string and how to deal with the arrow that is about to be shot The momentary cooperation, the angle of holding the bow and whether it is stable or not, all determine how far you can shoot and whether you can shoot accurately.

At the same time, archers also need to know how to follow the password to shoot different arrows, which is far more complicated than crossbowmen.In this way, it is a matter of course that the training of archers is far more difficult than that of crossbowmen.

For example, if you want to launch a projectile, the string tension of the crossbow held by a crossbow soldier is determined mechanically. You only need to know how much to raise it.However, archers not only have to control the strength and amplitude of the string pull, but also the tilt angle of the bow. If there is even a slight mistake, the distance of the shot will not meet the requirements.

"It's full of knowledge!" Julian really hadn't deliberately observed what happened to the archers before. He listened to the officers of the Han army yelling out complex passwords, and watched the archers of the Han army follow the passwords. When performing archery, the arrows shot from different passwords have different flight angles: "Is it because soldiers can't do such complicated things that we are not good at archery?"

For Rome, which has no regular archers, no Roman can answer Julian's questions.

The Persians on the sidelines were equally shocked.

In the history of the Persians, there have always been regular archers. They used to rely on archers to run across Central Asia and West Asia. When they encountered the Romans, they could even rub them on the ground.

There is such a saying that the reason why the Romans developed the tortoise formation was forced by the Persians, and then it was clear that the Persians' archery had no effect on the Roman legions that formed the tortoise formation, but the Persians still did not change their tactics. The balance of the victory of the Persians in the war also tilted towards the Romans.

The Persians are very good at playing archery. They also have their own archery culture. They have not developed a special armor-piercing arrow in the long history, and they have ignored the same style that archers also need to match far and near. I never thought that archers also need elite melee troops to defend.

The position they were staying in was within Ah San's camp area, and the Han army continued to rain arrows to cover and clear the field as steadily as a few days ago, sending small troops to test it out, and Ah San let out of the camp area before continuing to advance.

Time moves backwards, and the battlefield moves forward. What has changed is that the number of crossbowmen used by the Han army is decreasing, and archers have replaced the crossbowmen.

"From the western side of the camp, we are now within two (Rome) miles of the camp." Flavis looked around at the messy camp, which was six miles deep according to the length of the Han army. Li: "I found that the Xindu people's will to resist has been disintegrated, and most camps retreated after only a round of arrow rain."

"Yes." Julian frowned and said: "We think that the Xindu people have lost the will to resist, but General Siris asked us not to go any further."

Xias came over and said mysteriously: "I got the news that a nobleman from Hierro accidentally fell into a pit. He yelled and yelled to lure people away. There were dozens of Xindu people hidden in it." .”

The nobleman of Yero was undoubtedly dead, but those Asan hiding in the excavated hole were discovered, which is enough to explain a problem, Ah San actually played tricks!
Both Julian and Flavis were stunned, subconsciously looking around, looking for places where underground space might exist.

"I was going to the rear just now, and I was invited back very politely." Xias was very happy that he knew what the Romans hadn't noticed, and continued in a showy tone: "The soldiers of the Han Empire are on the carpet. Search, and every time you find one, seal the entrance and exit and pour smoke into it."

"I thought they were making a fire nearby..." Flavius ​​was indeed wondering why so much smoke was rising, and he turned around and said jokingly: "The Hierro people have done a great job!"

In fact, the work of "digging gophers" was mainly handed over to the Japanese servants, and they were happy to do this kind of thing.

The nobleman in Yero has indeed made meritorious service, but he is not the first person to find out that there are Asan Tibetan soldiers in the ground. Carry out elimination.

"Now that we know, why do the people of Seris continue to move forward..." Julian stopped halfway through his words, and made a stunned expression: "According to the people of Seris, they are just playing tricks?"

Oh, Julian actually knows idioms?

Several people were chatting, but Wang Meng appeared.

"Everyone." Wang Meng saluted and said hello, explaining the purpose of his visit: "General Zhengnan has prepared a banquet, please go to the banquet."

Several people looked at each other silently, guessing that there must be a big move next, or one that is too big to take into account their safety.

Almost when they arrived at the place where the banquet was set up, there was a sudden loud noise on the front line, first from a local area, and then spread to the entire front line.

During the war, Huan Wen naturally didn't have time to entertain, and even Yuan Qiao didn't show up. In fact, Wang Meng came to host this banquet to get international friends out of the war zone.

"Angel Wang." Julian drank the wine in a dull manner, did not touch the dishes that he usually likes to eat, and said gloomily: "We came here to watch the battle. Now the real war broke out, but we are here drink wine."

"This is also for your safety." Wang Meng said sincerely: "When the war starts, we will fight in that kind of complicated terrain. We cannot guarantee your absolute safety."

The truth is this, Julian didn't dare to vouch for everyone that he didn't care about the danger. He wanted to say that he didn't care about the danger and wanted to watch the battle, but he forcibly endured it later.

"There will be no changes in this war. It must be the Han Empire that won the final victory." Xias said a compliment that was not flattering, and then said a few gossips before revealing his real purpose: "We What should be seen has already been seen, the monsoon is coming soon, isn't it..."

"We have received accurate news." Wang Meng understood that the Persians did not want to stay in the Asan Continent and wanted to go to the mainland of Han as soon as possible, but this is not in line with the current interests of Han: "Samodragupta has led the army Starting from Huashi City, we will arrive at the battlefield within 20 days at the earliest."

Almost everyone showed a surprised expression, not because they were surprised by Samadragupta's personal conquest, but because they were frightened that the Han people could prepare to know Samadragupta's whereabouts.

What shocked them even more was that what the Han army put forward was to use a total strength of only 22 of the regular army and the servant army to fight against the more than 60 troops commanded by Samadragupta. decisive battle.

"Serys..., you guys..." Flavius ​​didn't stutter on purpose, he was really shocked, and subconsciously asked: "Are there reinforcements behind?"

Wang Meng just smiled and said nothing.

(End of this chapter)