Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

In the beginning of the battle, the soldiers of the Peacock Dynasty were actually the third prince’s expectation. Of course, they were the first to shoot a lot of bows and arrows, trying to suppress the actions of the soldiers of the Great Han Kingdom on Chengtou’s side. .

This kind of suppression seems to have achieved obvious success. At least before the soldiers of the Maurya Dynasty must pass under the city wall, the defenders of the Han Dynasty on the city wall did not take any action.

The third prince was even more proud after seeing this scene, he laughed and said to the generals around him: "You see, this is the power that we can exert when we are in the army under the protection of the Buddha. May it be compared with us who have the Buddha's light?"

Regarding the words of the third prince, the many generals of the Peacock Dynasty around him naturally nodded repeatedly, and all kinds of flattering voices were heard endlessly.

But at this moment, dense gunfire suddenly rang out.

At the beginning, the defenders of the Han Dynasty did not shoot. Of course, it did not mean that they were frightened by the bows and arrows of the Maurya Dynasty, but they hoped to directly defeat the first wave of the Maurya Dynasty's offensive with the greatest damage. , In this way, it can cause a very huge psychological blow to the people of the Maurya Dynasty.

So when the soldiers of the Maurya Dynasty were densely piled up under the city, if they fired their muskets at this time, they could really hit people with their eyes closed.

Three thousand musketeers fired a volley, and the soldiers of the vacant dynasty at the front under the closed wall fell down densely.

This wave of killings was astonishing. At least a thousand soldiers of the Maurya Dynasty were ruthlessly harvested directly.

The third prince was still laughing, but after seeing this scene, the smile on his face froze immediately.

If this is the case, forget it, but after only a dozen seconds, another round of salvo started.

Although this round of riding and shooting did not achieve the brilliant results of the previous round, it also harvested hundreds of soldiers of the Maurya Dynasty again.

The casualties of the soldiers of the Qise Maurya Dynasty in just two rounds exceeded 2000. The third prince saw such a heavy casualty, and he cried out in disbelief.

"How could such a thing happen? Could it be that these outsiders have some kind of cursed magic?"

No one could answer the third prince's words, because the generals of the Peacock Dynasty who were beside him were also stunned, unable to believe what they saw in front of them.

After the third round of salvo, more than half of the soldiers of the Maurya Dynasty who were crowded under the city wall had died, and the rest of the soldiers of the Maurya Dynasty were also frightened and ran back rolling and crawling.

Ever since, the Maurya Dynasty's first tentative attack on the city failed at a very unexpected speed.

The third prince watched this scene, and did not speak for a long time.

He really didn't expect that the soldiers of the legendary Han Kingdom would be so powerful. Could it be that this was the power that wiped out the Seleucid Empire?

Suddenly the third prince called out.

"These damned heretics, the strange power they use cannot last forever. There must be a price to send orders for our people to continue to attack. As long as we continue to attack, they will not always So brave."

The third prince's idea is actually very simple. He thinks that the other party should have the protection of some kind of Buddha or other gods, but anyway, the protection of the gods cannot last forever in this small city. There will always be a time when the power fades, and at that time it is time for the Maurya Dynasty's army to launch a counterattack and conquer this pass.

Under the order of the third prince, the remaining Maurya army immediately sent out a second wave of offensive.

But it is obvious that this way of thinking is completely against science, and in fact there are thousands of rounds of ammunition stored in the warehouse of Zhennanguan, which is enough to kill the 3 Maurya army countless times .

So soon, the soldiers of the Maurya Dynasty retreated again, and dropped thousands of corpses.

Looking at this scene, the third prince was really dumbfounded. You must know that there are indeed 3 soldiers and horses under his command, but in the two attacks in just half an hour, he had already lost More than 3000 people attended.

According to this logic, wouldn't the 3 people under his command be completely wiped out within 5 hours?

The third prince's face was pale, and his body was suddenly shaky. After a while, he finally gritted his teeth and gave an order.

"Let's call here first today, we are going to pray to the Buddha, let the Buddha give blessings, and overcome the curse that these despicable and shameless aliens have cast on us!"

Chapter 1267 Zhao Kuo is even a little happy

For the third prince, he obviously planned to attribute the failure this time to the fact that the other party had obtained a help from the other party's god.

If this is not the case, then the failure this time is a bit unjustifiable, after all, he used a full 10 times the number of soldiers and horses to attack Zhennan Pass.

When shirking responsibility, everyone's brains are very flexible, and this third prince is obviously no exception.

After repelling this day's attack, all the soldiers and civilians in Zhennan Pass were greatly boosted in confidence.

At the beginning, they were actually a little worried. After all, the tens of thousands of Maurya soldiers outside didn't look like they were going to joke with you.

But now seeing the soldiers of the Maurya Dynasty mourning, after thousands of corpses were laid down outside the closed wall, no one took these guys seriously anymore.

As the saying goes, facts speak louder than words. If you say that the corpses of your own people are densely packed there, everyone will be terrified, but when you see the corpses of the enemy lying there densely, everyone will even want to laugh out loud. .

It is already very difficult to live in this world. Living on the plateau is a very difficult thing. Now these guys from the Maurya Dynasty actually come to attack Zhennan Pass, so the people in Zhennan Pass The common people, of course, just want them to die.

After returning to the barracks, the third prince thought hard all night, and finally made up his mind.

"We surround this kind of pass, we don't believe it, we can't trap them to death."

The third prince has figured it out. In this case, if you want to take the initiative to attack, it seems that you are looking for a dead end. It is better to let everyone slowly surround and surround this place to death.

However, there were still some objections to the third prince's strategy.

"His Royal Highness, the South Pass of this town is surrounded by mountains on both sides. We can only cover the west and east exits leading to the territory of the Great Han Kingdom, which cannot be surrounded at all."

When Sima Shang built this town of Nanguan, of course, he also carefully selected the address, so this place will become a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If the enemy from South Asia wants to attack, they can only Attack from the southwest, and the other directions are the tall Qinghai-Tibet Plateau mountains.

Only the road to the east leads to the Great Han Kingdom, the mainland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

So the so-called offensive encirclement on the surface of the third prince is actually not the same thing.

Whose encirclement only encloses one direction and leaves all the other three directions empty? This is rather nonsense.

But the third prince had clearly thought it over a long time ago, and said without blushing, "What are you afraid of?

We only need to surround here for half a month or a month, and the plateau will snow. By then, all the terrain in the high salt will be blocked, and it will be impassable at all, isn't it?

So although we can't break their way in winter, the heavy snow from the Buddha can help us do so. Do you have any opinions now? "

With the help of Buddha's prestige, the third prince finally managed to suppress all objections.

A battle destined to become very long, the defensive battle begins here.

When Zhao Kuo knew what happened here, it was already a month later.

There is no way, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is too far away from the Imperial City, and there are no planes in this era, and even the train can only be taken after arriving from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to Xianyang.

After learning that the territory of the Great Han Kingdom was actually attacked by the Peacock Dynasty, Zhao Kuo was not angry, and was even a little surprised.

"Is this Ashoka so bold?

I didn't even look for him, but he dared to come to the door on his own initiative. "

Ever since, Zhao Kuo immediately summoned many ministers under his command to hold a military meeting. The goal of this military meeting is very simple, which is to deal with the attack of the Maurya Dynasty.

After hearing that there was a chance to fight, the first person to jump out was none other than Li Mu.

Li Mo is definitely the most enthusiastic about fighting under Zhao Kuo's command. It can be said that he is a figure at the level of a war madman. Therefore, after hearing Zhao Kuo's words, he immediately made an impassioned statement, wanting to crusade against the Peacock Dynasty remarks.

"These guys from the Peacock Dynasty are really disgusting. Our Han Dynasty didn't take the initiative to find them, but they came to make trouble instead. The Maurya Dynasty must be wiped out, so that we can prove the majesty of our Han Dynasty to everyone. , Let the whole earth know that our Great Han Kingdom is inviolable."

After Zhao Kuo heard Li Mu's words, he couldn't help being a little funny, because he found that Li Mu's words were really similar to his thoughts just now, maybe this is the tacit understanding between the monarch and his ministers.

But no matter how you say it, it is of course impossible for Zhao Kuo to draw a conclusion on this matter alone. He looked at the other two prime ministers aside, and wanted to see from their side what kind of situation it was. Attitude.

To put it simply, is the current situation of the Han Dynasty suitable for launching a war of annihilation?

It is relatively safe to draw conclusions from the mouths of the two prime ministers on this point.

After all, in the past few years, the Great Han Kingdom has indeed expanded its territory very fast. This kind of expansion is very fast. As a result, the archives country will now use a lot of power to digest these newly conquered Land, so does the current Han Dynasty still have the strength to digest the entire territory of the Maurya Dynasty?

This is a problem.

For example, it seems that the former Qin Dynasty during the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms period in history was like this. Although Fu Jian at that time said that he unified the entire north, in fact its north was very unstable.

Then under such circumstances, Fu Jian rashly attacked the Eastern Jin Dynasty in order to directly conquer the world, and the result of doing so was that after his failure in the Battle of Feishui, the former Qin Dynasty collapsed in an instant.

Although the current Dahan Kingdom is said to be far more powerful than what it was back then, but in any case, it is still necessary to avoid this lesson from the past. After all, the strength of the Dahan Kingdom is indeed extremely powerful. The level of strength that the Peacock Dynasty can develop, so Zhao Kuo is not worried.

However, now that the Peacock Dynasty is doing this, Zhao Kuo is really upset, because Zhao Kuo's original plan was to start the war against the Maurya Dynasty in two or three years, and then continue to attack the west. That Rome, and countries like Carthage.

But what I didn't expect now is that the Peacock Dynasty unexpectedly came to the door uncharacteristically. This is obviously very intolerable to Zhao Kuo, who has long regarded himself as the boss of the world.

As far as the situation is concerned, even if the war of destroying the country cannot be launched this time, at least an elite force must be sent to severely attack the Maurya Dynasty. Otherwise, how can it show the majesty of the Han Dynasty?

Now everything is waiting for the two prime ministers to give Zhao Kuo an answer.

This meeting originally thought that the two prime ministers would think about it for a long time, but what he didn't expect was that Xu Li and Pang Nuan just looked at each other, and then quickly gave an answer.

I only heard Xu Li say to Zhao Kuo: "Your Majesty is asking the question knowingly. We are now so powerful that the Han Dynasty is so powerful. Of course, it is something that can be done casually, so Your Majesty Don’t worry, just go ahead and do it.”

After Zhao Kuo heard this sentence, he was a little shocked.

This time Xu Li's attitude was too unexpected. Did Shirley support Zhao Kuo's troops to destroy the Maurya Dynasty?

This was something that Xu Li, who had always been quite calm, would not take.

Xu Li obviously also saw Zhao Kuo's surprise, smiled and said to Zhao Kuo: "Your Majesty may not know something, our current Han Kingdom is no longer the Han Kingdom of the past."

After saying this, Xu Li also counted a bunch of numbers for Zhao Kuo with his fingers.

First of all, in the Great Han Kingdom, the branches of those school palaces have penetrated into every county, and each school has cultivated 100 scholars a year. Can train tens of thousands of scholars.

According to normal logic, as long as one can read and write, one can easily gain a place in the government in this era.

In other words, every year, the Han Kingdom will produce tens of thousands of scholars who can compete for official positions. This competition is actually quite fierce, because the number of officials in the Han Kingdom is really not that high. Therefore, when the Han Kingdom continues to expand abroad At that time, there will be more official positions. Is this a burden of the Han Dynasty? On the contrary, it will allow more scholars who have just graduated to enter the government to do things.

From this point of view, the talents cultivated in the academy will definitely raise their hands to support such an expansion process of the Han Kingdom after hearing the news.

After all, some of the graduates in these academies have begun to complain, saying that they have to go to work as housekeepers for businessmen in order to make a living, which is a rather shameful behavior.

After Zhao Kuo heard this sentence, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Actually, if you want me to say that going to those merchants' homes to be a housekeeper and manage affairs, isn't it a very legitimate job?

And they can actually apply for our listed company, where there will be a more complete welfare policy, isn't it? "

Xu Li smiled and said to Zhao Kuo: "Your Majesty doesn't know about this again, in fact, as early as a few years ago, our listed company has become one of the best places for scholars to go after graduation.

After all, if you can work in a listed company, you can get a very generous salary. This salary is even enough for the employees of these listed companies to buy a house in the outskirts of the Imperial City, which can make their whole family very happy. Live in the imperial capital. "

Zhao Kuo understood as soon as he heard it, good guy, dare to say that among these listed companies, have they all started to train young white-collar workers?

What a delightful thing.

But no matter how you say it, this is indeed a very good phenomenon, which means that the Han Kingdom has actually been liberated from the predicament of lack of talents in the past few years, and a steady stream of scholars have invested in the market Going, definitely has a very important role in promoting the whole society.

Regardless of whether these scholars are devoted to officialdom, shopping malls, or other fields, after all, they are people with knowledge, and knowledge is always beneficial to society. Only those who have mastered knowledge, but People with ulterior motives are the pests of society.

Zhao Kuo nodded with great satisfaction and said, "Now I finally know why the two prime ministers agreed so happily. It turns out that it is not that there are too few officials in our Han Kingdom, but that there are more and more people who want to be officials in our Han Kingdom. More and more."

Xu Li laughed, and said seriously to Zhao Kuo: "What your majesty said is very true now, so even if your majesty does not want to start a war, after a while, I am afraid that a large number of scholars will unite and write to your majesty It may not be necessary to ask His Majesty to start a new war."

Zhao Kuo laughed loudly, and turned his gaze to the Chief of Staff Sima Shang.

"Sima Shang, you must have already asked your staff to prepare a conquest plan against the Maurya Dynasty, tell it now and listen."

Sima Shang was the one who reached the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the westernmost point and established the Zhennan Pass, so he should be the one who is most familiar with the South Asian subcontinent among the people present, even Zhao Kuo did not say that he would go there personally. Did you pass that place?

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Sima Shang really stood up confidently, walked to the familiar map, picked up the familiar baton, and began to point on the map, explaining what came from The staff department has already planned a policy.

"Please take a look, at present, in fact, if you want to attack the South Asian subcontinent, in the final analysis, you want to attack the Maurya Dynasty, because the Maurya Dynasty controls the entire northern plains of the South Asian subcontinent. We must eliminate the Maurya Dynasty in order to completely conquer South Asia. Subcontinent, proceed with laying the groundwork.

As for the ethnic groups on the plateau of the Deccan Peninsula to the south of the Mauryan Dynasty, we don’t need to pay too much attention to it, because those ethnic groups that are halfway to the plateau are generally not more democratic than the Korean Peninsula or the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is difficult to deal with, and after so many years in our Han Dynasty, we have already had the experience of fighting on the plateau, and the Deccan Plateau is far inferior to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

What's more, there are only a bunch of small and fragmented states in it. "

Next, Sima Shang talked about how to conquer the Maurya Dynasty's plan.

"First of all, it can be seen that if you want to enter the Maurya Dynasty, there are actually four routes.

The first route is to start from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the southwest of our country, climb these mountains on the east side of the subcontinent of Vietnam along the way, enter this place called Bengal from the east, and then attack the territory of the Peacock Plateau all the way west.

The second route is to start from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, directly cross the Himalayas condescendingly, and then attack the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty from north to south.

The third route is from the northwest side of the South Asian subcontinent, which is called the Khyber Pass by the locals, all the way through the Hindu Kush Mountains, and finally enters the vast plains.

The fourth route starts from our Iranian plateau, marches along the coast of the Indian Ocean, and finally comes out from the southwest of the Maurya Dynasty. "

After the explanation, Zhao Kuo nodded. Although Zhao Kuo had already made a judgment in his heart, he still asked Sima Shang in front of him: "According to the opinion of the staff department, which one should we choose?" Which route is better?"

Sima Shang answered Zhao Kuo's question.

"Returning to Your Majesty, among these four routes, the first and second routes are actually very unsuitable for the army to advance, because it is too difficult to supply and the terrain is too rough and the altitude is too high.

As for the fourth route, it is also troublesome to cross the desert terrain along the way, so we recommend the third route, which is to go directly to the core area of ​​the Maurya Dynasty through the Kaibor Pass. The capital of the dynasty is also relatively close. "

After listening to Sima Shang's answer, Zhao Kuo nodded slightly in agreement.

Why did Zhao Kuo agree with this answer?

In fact, the reason is very simple, because Zhao Kuo knew that the Aryans entered the South Asian subcontinent through this Khyber Pass in history and conquered the whole of India. In fact, in the history of India, most of the The invaders came through this Khyber Pass.

Since so many emperors chose the Khyber Pass route by coincidence, it is conceivable that this place must be a very suitable place for the army to operate. For Zhao Kuo himself, he can already copy the answer, so why not for what?

Zhao Kuo said: "If you don't have any opinions, let's choose this Khyber Pass. From tomorrow, everyone will order to gather troops. This time, we mainly use the Central Asia and West Asia that have just been conquered by us. The local residents are the mainstay, and then 3 Musketeers should be enough."

For these arrangements of Zhao Kuo, it is impossible for normal people to have any opinions. After all, everyone knows that Zhao Kuo is the most powerful military commander in the world.