Three Kingdoms Eschatology

At this moment, a guard beside him exclaimed: "Deqin, look ahead!"

Wu Bodeng looked around, and his heart rose to his throat.On a dirt slope directly in front of the White Wolf Qiang Cavalry Team.Suddenly a large group of cavalry rose.

Wu Bodeng had never seen such cavalry before, they were real iron cavalry.Even the man and the horse are taller than the elephant, and both the man and the horse are covered with iron armor.It hit me head-on like a gust of wind.Thousands of huge iron hooves are running on the ground, which can make people feel obvious trembling.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was within twenty battles, and it was too late even for ordinary infantry to turn around, let alone the galloping cavalry.

Wu Borden bit the bullet, waved the lance in his hand and shouted: "Warriors of the White Wolf Qiang, charge! Kill!" to cheer up his subordinates.

The two war riders collided with lightning and flint.The horse lance of Liang Guo's heavy cavalry easily pierced through the bodies of the Qiang soldiers.And even if the latter stabbed the opponent with the spear and knocked the opponent off the horse, he would be thrown off the horse due to the huge reaction force, and then he would be trampled to pieces by the chaotic warriors.

Seeing this tragic situation, the Qiang cavalry in the rear did not dare to stab the opponent head-on with their lances, and instead stabbed obliquely. However, in this way, the heavy armor on the opponent's body was difficult to pierce, and often caused the spear blade to slip to one side, drawing a line. Road to Mars.

Wu Bo Deng leveled his spear and stabbed at the opponent's face covered with chain armor, but was provoked away by the opponent with a horse spear.At this time, a heavy cavalryman who had lost his horse came running to Wu Boden's left, holding the saber in his hand horizontally, and the sharp blade was coming towards Wu Boden.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, U Bo Deng tightened the reins, tried to stop the horse, and turned the horse's running direction.But it was too late. In the blink of an eye, Wu Boden's horse's head was cut off by the sharp saber. When he fell, his neck just touched the blade of the opponent, and his head was cut off.

The rest of the White Wolf Qiang soldiers also died or were wounded.And Qingqi Feiyu caught up again and joined the battle group.Half an hour later, the horse continued to gallop back and forth on the battlefield, panting heavily, but at a much slower speed.

However, there were no Qiang cavalry still resisting, and the Qiang soldiers were either killed in battle, fled, or surrendered and were captured.

In the wilderness, there are already corpses all over the field.Under the transpiration of the sun's water vapor, the noses of the people at the scene were filled with the smell of blood.After a while, all the Qiang cavalry were wiped out.

The iron cavalry of the Liang Kingdom felt the sweltering heat at this time. Under the command of the general, they took off their armor and took a bath by a small river nearby to rest...

Just three days later, the Bailangqiang camp in the snowfield of Xishan was raided.Thousands of Liang Guo cavalry and tens of thousands of Shu Army infantry suddenly appeared in the valley.

The white wolf Qiang who stayed here wanted to resist at first, but was immediately met with brutal counterattacks.The bodies of the Qiang people were knocked into the air by the heavy horses, and the heads and limbs of the people were rolled up by the long swords and horses.One tent after another was engulfed in flames.

Most of the White Wolf Qiang knelt down and begged for surrender, but some of the White Wolf Qiang tried to escape in disorder, but were killed by Liang Guoyou cavalry patrolling all around...

A group of Qiang people were fleeing towards the mountains in the west with their bundles on their shoulders.Sanqi accelerated to catch up.They rode their horses through the crowd of Qiang people, passing through as if entering no one's land.The three horse spears stabbed from the left to the right, and stabbed the Qiang people who were close to him to the ground one by one.Some of them were directly crushed and trampled to death.

After one of them stabbed a Qiang leader, he simply picked up the corpse on the tip of his silver spear and continued galloping on horseback.

This person is Ma Chao and Ma Mengqi.He just arrived in Chengdu two days ago.There was nothing wrong with him at first, but he heard that Feng Yu had set a trap for the White Wolf Qiang, so he pestered Feng Yu to participate in this battle on the grounds that he had the experience of fighting the Qiang people.Feng Yu had no choice but to agree to him.

At this time, Sanqi ran to the front of the Qiang people and blocked the way.The leader's body still hangs from the point of the gun.The rest of the Qiang people are already shattered.The opponent was only three cavalry, and he didn't have the courage to resist again. Men, women, old and young all knelt down and begged for surrender.

In this battle, the White Wolf Qiang suffered a devastating blow and could no longer exist as a group.Feng Yu believes that exterminating the White Wolf Qiang is a necessary step before the decisive battle with Zhu Luofan's army.To this end, he has planned carefully for a long time, and transferred the Gaoshun army.

Chapter 208 Bashu "Giant Pit"

Under the city of Nan'an, there is a large tent for the generals of Zhu Luo's camp.

Rahal, the general of the first "Senas" (big army) of the Chola Empire, sat on a low stool with his eyes downcast.The generals of the legions under his command sat cross-legged and neatly arranged in order opposite him.

There were several Han and Nanman sitting beside Rahal. They also sat cross-legged like poisonous people. Some of them were captured by the Zhu Luo army, and some of them took the initiative to defect, acting as staff and interpreters for Rahal.

The curtain of the big tent was lifted, and another person came in.It was Rahal's younger brother Dikal, who also sat cross-legged silently among the crowd.At this time, the guard standing beside Rahal just leaned over and whispered to him: "General, everyone is here, we can start."

Only then did Rahal open his eyes, raised his head and slowly scanned the crowd, before speaking:

"Now, among our large army, including the two war elephant regiments that originally guarded Hongshawadi and Nanzhong, a total of sixteen army regiments have been transferred to Shu. The [-] Kalabola conscripts sent by the king have also rushed over. .

From Hongshawadi to Nanzhong, we also mobilized tens of thousands of peasants to open a simple road as long as [-] miles in the past few months.We also filled the granary in the Bodao base camp with grain.And midsummer is coming, which is our war elephant's favorite season. "

Speaking of this, Rahal adjusted his mood and tone, and said solemnly: "So now, it's time for us to launch a general attack on Han. If we take down Bashu, everyone here will be able to become duke and successor. At least Can be the king of a principality. When we gain a foothold in Bashu and develop stronger, we will continue to occupy more fertile and rich land downstream along the big river outside the camp. Let Shiva..."

When Rahal finished drawing the big pie for everyone, the generals of all legions showed excited expressions.Only Descartes asked with doubts: "General, didn't you say that the second largest army would be transferred from Magadha? They didn't come to fight?"

Rahal smiled slightly and said, "His Majesty Karikala has agreed to my request. The Second Legion will take over our garrison and management of Hongshadiwa, and we will only concentrate on capturing new territories."

As soon as he finished speaking, complex expressions appeared on the faces of the generals in the tent.Descartes also resentfully said:

"Honshadiwa was developed after several years by our first large army.

To the east of Hongshadiwa, there is still a large area of ​​land that can be developed, and to the south, there is Funan Kingdom that can be conquered.There are a large number of people who believe in Brahmins, and it is very convenient to rule.Such a piece of fat was taken away by the second largest army for nothing.

But we have to face new enemies that we don't know and don't know alone.Whether we can conquer them or rule them effectively is an uncertain future! "

Everyone saw that Dikal took the lead to speak, although they were afraid of Rahal's authority, they did not explicitly advise Rahal.But they all expressed their agreement with Dikal by admiring and nodding in low voices.

Rahal Sharma smiled coldly and said calmly:

"Everyone, your vision is too short-sighted. Don't you know how vast the territory of Han is? Than the fertile soil in the Ganges River Basin. These lands once supported tens of millions of people. It is more than our current population of the entire Chola Empire. How can this be the uninhabited and smoky jungle of Hongshawadi? Compared? And now, after they encountered a catastrophe, their population is less than [-]% of the original. Isn’t this an opportunity given to us by Lord Shiva? I try to do this by His Majesty the King, so that the second largest army will not Come grab it with us!"

After Rahal's words, everyone shut their mouths.Seeing that everyone stopped talking, Rahal ordered:

"My military order, starting today, will launch a comprehensive attack on Nan'an and Han'an, which must be taken within three days. In addition, the third war elephant regiment, the No.12 assault regiment, and the seventh auxiliary regiment of the sixth infantry regiment are ordered to cross the border. Han'an, go straight to Chengdu."

All the generals in the tent, including Dikal, agreed, and got up and prepared to go.

Almost at the same time, Feng Yu also held a church meeting in a dilapidated mansion in Chengdu.In addition to Liang Fang personnel, the participants also included some ministers of the former Shu Kingdom.Everyone was frowning, they already knew that a large number of Zhu Luo soldiers had arrived in Shuzhong.

Today, on Feng Yu's side, including Gan Ning's Navy Corps, there are four legions before and after, as well as a large number of scouts and Viking soldiers entering Shu.Including the local troops left by Shu, the total strength is nearly 4.

As for Zhu Luo's army, according to multiple investigations by scouts, it is estimated that there are about 14 total troops.In fact, this number counts the opponent's armed civilians and the Caraborans.But this made the generals of the Han army think that their strength was only a fraction of the opponent's, so they naturally felt anxious.

In the hall, Feng Yu was the only one who looked calm and composed.He first asked the general who presided over the transfer of the people in central Shu. After he confirmed that all the people had been resettled in Brazil, Padang, and Hanzhong, he said with confidence:

"Everyone, although the Zhuluofan army who invaded our Han soil is strong, I have prepared a huge trap for them. No matter how many of them come, they will be buried in this big pit like a bottomless pit. This huge pit is the entire Bashu Basin..."

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Under the city of Nan'an, there was another strange sound of rumbling drums, which was the sound of the unique war drums of the Carapora people.After a while, densely packed Carabola soldiers rushed out from the nearby forest and rushed towards Nan'an City.

These Caraborans are barbarians living in the tropical jungles of the southernmost part of the world.Because they do not believe in Brahmans, they are not part of the caste system at all, not even the "Sudra" at the bottom of the caste system, but untouchables belonging to the untouchable class.

Therefore, these Carabola conscripts did not enter the camp of the Zhuluo Army, but collected local materials from the nearby woodland, built shacks, and built a temporary camp.

At this time, countless bamboo and wooden simple ladders were erected on the city walls of Nan'an City, almost covering all four sides of the city walls of Nan'an City.

These Calabola conscripts with their upper bodies and sackcloth and animal skins, held crude weapons and attached themselves to the ladder ants.

The suspension bridge at the north gate of Nan'an City was lowered suddenly, the city gate was opened wide, and a large number of cavalry poured out of the city, led by Xu Rong's heavy cavalry.Followed by a large group of Shu army infantry.

Rahal never imagined that the defenders in Nan'an City would suddenly rush out of the city when he was attacking aggressively.Because the Nan'an defenders have never given up on Nan'an's intentions from beginning to end.They can withdraw if they want to leave early, why wait until now?

Caught off guard, Rahal had no time to mobilize the legion's regular army to intercept the breakout enemy.

Chapter 209 Nanan Breakthrough

On the north side of Nan'an City, more than a thousand heavy cavalry who poured out of the city gate came out in unison, waving their maces and clubs, and slashing horizontally and vertically with their war knives.In a moment, the Carabora barbarians at the city gate were defeated.

Then they quickly evolved into a flying geese formation and pushed forward.The rest of the Han infantry were caught in the middle of the "human" shaped geese formation, and rushed forward.

Xu Rong took the lead and rushed to the head of the flying geese.The long spear in his hand stabs left and right.The blood dyed the front half of the horse red.

Those unarmored Carabolans faced heavy cavalry like tofu hitting a hammer.

In an instant, the heavy cavalry crushed a road of flesh and blood among the densely packed crowd.

The knights on the heavy cavalry didn't even use the cavalry blade, and they could knock down and trample countless Calabola infantry to death just by charging with the cavalry.Seeing this scene, the Carabolans were terrified and fled away one after another.

In the northern stronghold of Nan'an City, there is also an infantry regiment and an auxiliary regiment stationed.Without waiting for Rahal's military order to come, they have already come to intercept the Han army who broke through under the leadership of their respective generals.

Xu Rong led nearly 5000 Han troops. Just as he broke through a bloody path among the Kalaporans, he found a large formation of Zhu Luo's army of [-] to [-] people in front of him.Arrows have already attacked the Han army like locusts.

Xu Rong shouted: "Kill!" The heavy cavalry followed and rushed towards the opponent in a cone formation.Zhu Luojun followed the command and shouted, and formed a shield wall with large shields in the blink of an eye, and countless spears, spears, swords and halberds emerged from behind the shield wall.

"Change the mace! Change the cone formation" Xu Rong shouted out the eight-character military order.The cavalry who followed him shouted one after another, and quickly spread this order to the entire heavy cavalry team.These knights discarded their horses and took off the mace-toothed clubs hanging several feet long in front of the saddle, and hung them in the air.

Arrows ding-ding-dong-dong shot at their iron armor, and some of them turned into hedgehogs.There are also a very small number of warriors who were shot in the vitals and rolled off their horses.However, the formation of the Han army's heavy cavalry did not have the slightest effect.They have been closed into a conical formation from the geese formation, and due to their slow speed, the infantry has fallen behind dozens of battles.

The iron cavalry at the forefront of the conical formation, that is, the three cavalry standing in front of Xu Rong, had already rushed to the shield wall of the opponent's formation, and they had swung their maces in their hands.

Puff puff puff, following a few muffled sounds, several spears pierced through the iron armor on the chest of the front horse and pierced into the horse's body.With a horse whistling and neighing, the huge war horse still rushed forward under the influence of inertia, and the person on the mount swung a mace at the last moment of flying out.

The three Zhu Luo soldiers who had pierced their spears into the horse's body were already rushed away by the counter force, and one of them was pierced through the chest by the back end of the spear.

With a loud bang, the giant horse wrapped in iron armor rushed down on the shield wall, and immediately crushed the three Zhu Luo soldiers who were wearing shields to the ground.The heavy cavalry knight on that horse also flew out under the action of inertia, but before he flew out, the mace had smashed the head of a Zhu Luo soldier.

Xu Rong reined in the horse, and the war horse jumped over the corpse of the war cavalry in front of him, stepped on the shield that fell to the ground, and ran backwards.The Zhu Luo soldiers under the shield were immediately bleeding from their seven orifices trampled by the ton-heavy war horse.

Xu Rong, who had seven or eight arrows stuck all over his body, had replaced the pistol in his hand with a four-foot-long blade and a one-foot-long handle.

The saber flew up and down in his palm, swung it vigorously, and mercilessly chopped at the surrounding Zhu Luo soldiers.Accompanied by blood splashing everywhere, heads and severed limbs jumped into the air from time to time.

At the same time, the heavy cavalry on both sides of Xu Rong opened a gap in the shield wall in a similar way, and the cavalry behind poured into Zhu Luo's formation from the gap.

Due to the excessive width of the front of Zhu Luojun's army, the depth was shallow.In this way, the heavy cavalry arranged in a conical formation could easily penetrate the opponent and tear a hole in Zhu Luo's formation.Thousands of iron cavalry rushed through this opening, and the knights on both sides swung their maces vigorously, either smashing the heads of Zhuluo soldiers, or swinging their spears away.

Immediately afterwards, Yan Yan, who followed behind, led thousands of infantry, also rushed into Zhu Luo's formation from this gap, and kept attacking on both sides, trying to completely tear Zhu Luo's formation into pieces.

The formations of both sides in the formation have become a mess, divided into several groups, people sticking to each other, fighting fiercely with each other.

A pawn of Yan Yan was pierced through the chest by Zhu Luobing's spear, and his steel knife with the head of the head was also chopped into the neck of Zhu Luobing directly opposite.Another pair of Han soldiers and Zhu Luo soldiers stabbed each other into each other's chest with their blades, and their bodies fell to the ground almost at the same time.

There was a whistling and neighing of horses, and the infantry of the Han army suddenly saw Zhu Luo soldiers piled up in front of them, and were pushed to the ground.It turned out that a large group of heavy cavalry lined up and swept towards them from the side.

After Xu Rong's heavy cavalry swept past Zhu Luo's formation, they split into two and came back, piercing into the formation again from behind.Zhu Luo's army, whose formation was already in disarray, was unable to coordinate their actions, and was easily cut into pieces.The entire formation was in chaos.

Surrounded by a dozen personal guards, Yan Yan fought with dozens of Zhu Luo soldiers in the formation.He stabbed left and right, beheading five or six Zhu Luo soldiers one after another.The surrounding guards also wielded their weapons and slashed and killed.But after all, there are many opponents and few people. With the same casualties, the difference in strength will only become more and more disparity.

In the end, there were only six or seven personal guards around Yan Yan.When they were unable to support them, accompanied by a rush of horseshoes, ten heavy cavalry came galloping and knocked these Zhu Luo soldiers into the air one by one.With a bang, Yan Yan suddenly felt his face heat up. It turned out that the head of Zhu Luobing who was opposite was smashed by the mace, and blood from his brain splashed on Yan Yan's face.

The heavy cavalry was divided into more than a dozen cavalry, weaving back and forth among the chaotic crowd.At this point, scattered infantry cannot resist the high-speed impact of heavy cavalry.They were brought to the ground like dominoes, and then trampled by iron hooves.

Zhu Luo's army formation was finally completely defeated, and those Zhu Luo soldiers fled around in despair.Xu Rong and Yan Yan ignored them, gathered their own soldiers and continued to break through to the northwest.

At this time, Rahal had mobilized a war elephant regiment and a cavalry regiment to rush here, and the distance from the Han army could be seen with the naked eye.Moreover, Zhu Luo's broken soldiers gathered again and chased the Han army with them.

With their speed, although they couldn't catch up with the opponent's heavy cavalry, they were still confident that they could catch up with Yan Yan's pawns who had been fighting under the scorching sun for half an hour.

A river standing in front of Xu Rong and Yan Yan is the Minjiang River that leads to Chengdu.There are more than [-] Viking ships on the river, which are coming ashore. These are the ships sent by Feng Yu to meet them.

Seeing this, Xu Rong took his heavy cavalry and rode towards the upper reaches of the Minjiang River.Yan Yan quickly boarded the Viking ship with the Han soldiers and sailed towards Jiangxin.When Zhu Luo's army arrived, he could only look at the river and sigh.

Chapter 210 No Man's Land

Less than a hundred miles to the northwest of Chengdu, there is a small city surrounded by green mountains and green waters.Next to the city is a stream of clear water. The strange thing is that although the water gushes from the Xiling Snowfield, it is not rushing.

It turns out that there is a dam in the river, and it is equipped with some water conservancy facilities such as diversion ditches.It is the famous Dujiangyan, this small town is Du'an County, and this river is the upper reaches of the Minjiang River.

After the Minjiang River passes through Dujiangyan, it divides into several waterways, fanning out towards the Chengdu Plain.One of them also leads directly to the Tuojiang River.

At this time, the surface of the Minjiang River was full of Viking ships, and the ships were full of Yan Yan soldiers and horses that had been withdrawn from Nan'an.

These Viking ships entered the Central Shu Plain along the Ba River and the Jialing River.On the Central Sichuan Plain, they were loaded on huge wooden wheels and traveled a dry road of more than 50 miles, from the Jialing River System to the Fu River System, and then transferred to the Tuojiang River System.Finally, we arrived at Du'an County along the waterway.

Yan Yan's soldiers and horses were stationed in Du'an County under Feng Yu's order.In Feng Yu's overall combat plan for the Bashu campaign, Du'an was regarded as an important fulcrum.Like the rest of the city, the population of the city was also emptied, and the whole city was already a heavily guarded army town.

There are two other important fulcrums like this, one is Langzhong, the gateway to Brazil, and the other is Jiangzhou at the confluence of Jialing River and Shu River.The triangle formed by these three fulcrums occupies more than half of the area in the northern part of the entire Shuzhong Basin.

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Due to the active retreat of the Han army, Zhu Luo's army easily captured the two cities of Nan'an and Han'an.But all they got was an empty city, not to mention food and property, and even houses were completely destroyed.

For these Zhu Luojun, it seems that the only valuable things they got were the four walls of the city.But in fact, there are secrets hidden under the walls of these cities.The bottom of a certain section of the city wall has been hollowed out and supported by large logs.As long as a little trick is used, the city wall can be collapsed in an instant.

This is not only true of Nan'an, but also of every city that the Han army evacuated.

Only in Jiangzhou City, the Han army stood firm and did not retreat.Zhu Luojun was still unable to attack for a long time after numerous casualties.Rahal had no choice but to order the Zhu Luo army in Jiangzhou to suspend the siege and change to a long-term siege.Rahal is determined to concentrate his efforts to conquer Chengdu first.

On the east bank of the Minjiang River, endless soldiers, horses and war elephants meander.The river is covered with bamboo rafts made of thick bamboo tubes, loaded with food, grass and war materials, dragged by elephants on the bank, and go up the river.In the team, Rahal and Dikal are riding side by side.

Dikaal said, "Brother, if what the interpreters say is true, you can reach Chengdu fifteen miles further."

Rahal replied blankly: "Yes, I received a report yesterday. Another army of ours has arrived at the city of Chengdu."

"But we have traveled this way, why haven't we seen a single local person? When we invaded Nanzhong from Hongshadiwa. In the barren mountains and mountains, although there are few people, at least we can meet some people like Karabo Savages like Laren. Although many cities have been found here, there is no one in them. No matter how much the population of Han has dropped, it won’t turn such a large area into a no-man’s land.”

The corner of Rahal's mouth twitched, and he said coldly: "It's not that there are no one left, it must be that the Han army has transferred all the population. A few days ago, they stuck to Nan'an, Han'an, just to give Evacuate these populations to buy time. It’s a pity that my brother and I didn’t see through their tricks at the time, and thought they were trying to prevent us from penetrating into the heart of Han.”

Rahalton lowered his tone, and continued: "During this time, I had some interpreters translate their art of war, and studied them carefully. Their practice is called "clearing the walls and clearing the field."

"What does it mean to be firm and clear?"

"Literally speaking, it is to empty out the city, the residents outside the fortress, and all the food. It prevents the enemy troops from afar from getting supplies on the spot. Then use the strong city to wear down the enemy's vigor and strength. Finally, in the Win the battle."

Dikar nodded thoughtfully, and asked Rahal again: "In this way, even if it is not a solid wall to clear the field, but the enemy army really retreats completely and abandons the entire Bashu land. Then we occupy such a large uninhabited area. It doesn't seem to make sense anymore. How does brother plan to deal with this situation?"

A smile appeared on Rahal's face, and he said in an old spirit: "Our Zhuluo Empire, under the command of His Majesty the King, has conquered east and west over the years and occupied countless lands and people. But the population of some places has always been It is the hidden danger in the heart of His Majesty Karikala, such as the Sinhalese in Ceylon Island, and a large number of Karaporans who do not accept the kingship in the rainforest in the south of the Cauvery River."

Dikal asked puzzledly, "Then what does this have to do with us?"

Rahal continued with a teasing tone: "If you use your brain, you will know it has something to do with it."

"These people, the king has always wanted to move them far outside the core area of ​​the empire, but if they are forced to move to places with harsh environments, it will inevitably lead to rebellion. It will make the king lose his rule over these places. Therefore, This is why the Shang Wang only migrated to a few strongholds along the Satiwa River and the Savin River.”

Dikal suddenly realized: "Brother, I understand. The climate and environment in Bashu is much better than that of Hongshadiwa, so as long as my brother asks the king, he will definitely send a large number of immigrants to come here."