The so-called Mo knife is actually a long-handled three-pointed two-edged knife, the front end of this ordnance has a three-pronged knife shape, and the blade body has blades on both sides, which is said to have evolved from a halberd. \ The total length of the Han army Mo knife is two meters and fifty centimeters, the length of the blade is one meter, and the rest are all grips.
The width of the blade is the width of the three-pointed blade and narrows backwards, which increases the power of the slash and swing, and also means that you can't play at all without enough strength.
After all, the length of the weapon is too long, and the center of gravity is at the front end, and the power of the weapon is enhanced, but it invisibly increases the difficulty of use.
With the chanting of "Qi", the Han military heavy infantry arranged in a straight line formation has begun to wave their weapons.
The Han military equipment armed with the Mo knife is equipped with heavy infantry, they are holding the Mo knife with both hands, the long handle is actually straddling the waist, every time they wield, they are using the waist force to do the "twisting" action, and the repeated steps are the cold light of a sharp blade of the Mo knife flashing, as long as the person in front of him is hit, there is a shield is a shield to break the person, and it must be a waist and broken.
The Han army armed with a large broadsword was equipped with heavy infantry, the total length of the guy in their hands was 1.5 meters, the grip was 60 centimeters, and the sword body was 90 centimeters.
As they moved forward, each step was a round slashing motion with their broadsword.
Gupta's armored infantry was completely stunned, and the short spears they stabbed out could not do any physical damage to the Han army's heavy infantry, and they did not have the slightest resistance in the face of the killing of the Han army's heavy infantry wielding weapons like a wall, and they could only hold on to heavy casualties without receiving the order to retreat.
"This" Zampt Warren simply didn't believe his eyes, and looked at the unilateral slaughter ahead with incredulity, and asked, "What kind of army is this?"
Si Hongzhuang was not surprised at all by the superiority of the mounted heavy infantry, and in the face of Zampt Warren's question, he first made a "hehe" twice, and then said: "The mounted infantry is just that." ” The mounted heavy infantry not only has an advantage in the duel of the infantry, but is also not afraid at all when facing the cavalry, and can even directly fight the iron cavalry.
Equipped with suitable weapons, the cavalry should avoid the edge of the heavy infantry.
On the side of the Gupta dynasty, they only occupied a three-mile depth of the beachhead, and they would definitely not retreat easily, not only did they not withdraw the armored infantry trained in imitation of Greek tactics, but also reinforced them.
The Han army's mounted heavy infantry naturally continued to advance, but the soldiers in the forefront began to gasp.
The weight of the armor on their bodies reached sixty catties, and the guys in their hands also had fifteen catties, and they had to constantly dance their weapons during the battle, which was very amazing in terms of physical consumption, and the combat time was also long for ten minutes.
Because of the physical strength, although the Han army equipped heavy infantry basically did not suffer any casualties, the front line needed to be rotated, and there would be a gap in the attack when they were rotated, and Gupta seized the opportunity to counterattack.
The fighting on the front of the battlefield was fierce, and the armies on both sides were not spectators.
At the front of the left and right flanks of the Han army were the servant armies that had just withdrawn from the front, and the first to fight them were the untouchables of Gupta.
Speaking of which, the untouchables on the Gupta side were not systematically trained, they were all recruited from the countryside, and they were casually given some weapons and pulled into battle.
Although their opponent was the Han servant army, many of the servant army were samurai who had been trained since childhood, even the Japanese peasants had experienced the battle of the peninsula, so they naturally had to be pressed and beaten by the Han servant army.
From the perspective of the overall battlefield, after the battle began, Gupta was constantly pressed to retreat, although there was no large-scale rout, but the situation looked really bad.
"The untouchables of the Xindu people have no combat effectiveness, and they can't kill them all in any way."
Ergutai Bahram was not too surprised by the Han army's strength in land warfare, and he had already seen the strength of the Han people in land warfare from some documents before he came: "The real fighting strength of the Xindu people is the troops trained by the various Kshatriyas, and the war elephant troops and chariot troops are the strongest. ” Si Hongzhuang, the "war elephant troops", actually didn't see the war elephant troops with his own eyes, but he heard from some robes that Linyi and Funan have their own war elephant troops, and it seems that they are really not so easy to deal with, and they need some tricks to fight: "War elephants are afraid of fire, and they are very timid, and they can use all kinds of noise to intimidate, and there is nothing difficult to deal with." ” In fact, the Persian Sassanid also had war elephant troops, including the Roman side, which was an unprecedented loss to Alexander's war elephant troops during his crusade, which also made war elephants completely famous in Central Asia and Europa.
The Persians were the first to train their own war elephant troops, and when they fought with the Romans, the Romans faced up to the horror of war elephants, and as a result, the Romans also began to build war elephant troops.
Of course, elephants are a very common creature in South Asia, in fact, East Asia can still be seen in the Spring and Autumn Period and even the Eastern Han Dynasty, but in Central Asia and Europe and Rome, there is really none, the Persians and Romans engaged in war elephant troops are purchased through trade.
There are really elephants in the land of China, and the Yellow River valley was full of wild elephants in ancient times.
The elephants in East Asia are constantly migrating from the Yellow River Basin to the south, with the dynasties of the Central Plains continue to open up habitats and habitats, the elephants migrate to South Asia and Southeast Asia in the back of the Yue, and wild elephants can still be seen in Chu during the unification period of Qin, but at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they can only be found in Lingnan, and there are also wild elephants in Jiaozhou and Ningzhou of the Han Dynasty.
The Central Plains Dynasty did not study how to tame elephants, and basically focused on killing and expelling elephants, but the peoples of Southeast Asia and South Asia have long been successful in studying and taming elephants.
At present, it is 348 AD, and wild elephants can still be seen in the habitat of Zhuxia, but after more than 200 years, wild elephants will not be seen again.
There is another creature that has also been eliminated by the ancestors of Zhuxia with all their might, and that is the crocodile.
Among the "three evils" in the surrounding area, there is the crocodile Yangtze crocodile, the Chinese alligator is very widespread in the East and West Jin, but it is really difficult to find it in the Sui Dynasty.
Agrarian people, except for the land that can be cultivated, can be seen as animals that can be tamed and become a source of meat, everything is based on good tame and "edible" as the starting point, what cannot be eaten is eliminated, and what will harm crops and threaten the safety of life must be eliminated.
Protecting animals is just a concept that was derived after people had no worries about food and clothing.
The fighting on land was fierce, and there were new encounters at sea.
That was Li Mai's move according to the established plan, and the Han warships lined up in a column to force the Gupta fleet, disrupting the Gupta fleet's breakthrough arrangement, and exerting more pressure.
In the face of the persecution of the Han fleet, Katruk Karp had no choice but to send the fleet to fight, and suddenly the sea began to be lively again.
Most of the warships on the Gupta side were blocked in the water wall originally built by the Han army, and only Kapil Marik, the formation that had been left outside and sailed out of the encirclement early when the opportunity was wrong, was not blocked in the encirclement of the Han fleet.
On the Han side, the Han army dealt with the fleet that was not in the encirclement, and it was composed of a sabotage formation that had returned earlier, and then there were squads that went out to carry out sabotage attacks one after another, forming a situation in which the Han army fought with 37 ships against 46 ships of Pical Malik.
"There is no suspense in the battle on land."
Ergutai Bahram was still far more confident in the Han army's land battle, but he said: "If you don't have reinforcements from follow-up warships, you still have to fight on the sea." ” Mi Yuan didn't comment too much on anything, looking at the fact that the number of warships on their side was at a disadvantage, judging by the previous confrontation, Gupta was really not weak in terms of its ability to engage at sea.
"Cuttac is only a few days' flight away."
Not believing that the Han Empire would ignore this, Ergutai Bahram asked, "Your warships are already here" The Gupta dynasty gathered 1,500 ships of all types, and the assembly point was in Cuttac.
This time, the Gupta fleet that came to fight was only about 500 ships, and another 1,000 ships were in Cuttak, and no one could say whether the Gupta fleet here would be reinforced.
"What are you kidding" Mi Yuan was just telling the truth: "How can the warships of the Han Dynasty be the only ones you see, we are just an expeditionary force, and the Han mainland also has the Beiyang Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet, and the scale of any one of them is more than a thousand." ” Ergutai Bahram's eyes blinked, he didn't know whether to believe it or not, but he at least understood that the Han Empire still had two fleets on its own territory, and as for each fleet with more than a thousand warships, he just listened to a joke.
The confrontation at sea began, but the confrontation on land entered the white-hot stage.
With the Han army's heavy infantry on the battlefield, there was no surprise in the confrontation on the frontal battlefield, it was the Han army's heavy infantry that kept advancing despite its slow speed, but the servant army on both wings had twists and turns with the Gupta regular army.
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"I can't stand it" "I really can't stand it, wow" The Gupta army assigned to the field, they are a group of sword and shield soldiers, the shield is a small round shield, the knife is a scimitar, and there is a kind of leather armor made of leather that I don't know what kind of leather, and it looks like a very flexible battle, but it is a bit like a jumping soldier in the Han army.
There was no shortage of good quality samurai from the Wajiji, and the samurai usually had at least one piece of bamboo armor, but more often than not, farmers who had only come into contact with the war in recent years.
In terms of physical fitness, it is really not many people who can exceed 1.6 meters tall in the Japanese Islands, and they are generally below 1.5 meters.
The fighting in the era of cold weapons requires very high physical fitness, and people who are always tall and strong have an advantage, and the servant army does not lack a ruthlessness, but if you really have to face a regular army with long-term good training, it is really not a ruthlessness that can make up for the disadvantage.
"Order" Si Hongzhuang did not withdraw the servant army, and directly ordered the standard-bearer standing next to him: "Soldiers forward." ” There was a flag bearer on the nest car, not only in the creation of a set of mature flags in today's Han Kingdom, but also in the ancient pre-Qin had this habit, but the ancient pre-Qin did not have a mature flag language and could only make relevant agreements in advance, and there were special flags to shake to issue different instructions that were better in advance.
The regular Han army joined the battlefield on both flanks, and soon fought for the position where the previous servant army had retreated, and pushed forward in unison with the mounted heavy infantry in front of them.
"There is nothing to be done with this kind of beachhead warfare."
Huan Wen still stayed on that mountain, and he was in a good mood when he saw the land battle going smoothly, and said: "Everything is to look at hard power, and we don't lack the strength above the land battle." ” Zhang Qian, the marching chief, was originally the left servant of the Ran Qin State, and after the Ran Qin State was incorporated into Liu Yan's command, he became an official of the Han State.
He is naturally full of confidence in his own land warfare, and has always paid attention to naval battles.
"Gupta gathered a thousand warships, and only five hundred came."
Zhang Qian didn't want to say anything discouraged, but there were some things that he had to be reminded: "This place is not far from the assembly point of the enemy fleet. ” Huan Wen's eyes narrowed when he heard this.
Of course, he knew that the Gupta Dynasty had gathered more than a thousand ships of various types, but only about 500 had come, and they might come again later.
Great battles had broken out on the sea, and the battle was taking place around the water village, and the sky was full of arrows, and from this direction they could see that many ships were in flames on both sides.
The weather became clear, and the ships made of wood did not have the rain to extinguish the fires on the arrows, and if they were not extinguished in time, fires would indeed occur.
"Ben will know."
Huan Wen said that the Gupta Dynasty would be reinforced from Cuttac at any time, and he raised his binoculars to look at the sea where they were fighting: "Li Xiang promised that he would definitely block the enemy fleet in the water wall, and he believed it first." ” Neither of them went to talk about asking for reinforcements from the mainland, and it would take about ten days for the Pingman Captain to go to the mainland by sea, and it would be temporarily impossible to go there because of the storm, even if the notice was in place, the Nanyang Fleet would have to ask the center, and it would take at least half a month to get permission before the fleet could come.
Zhang Qian raised his head and pointed to the sea that was fighting: "Fireship Offensive" Speaking of which, Li Mai also came to luck, the originally calm sea did not know when the wind rose, and their position was still in the limelight, he ordered to prepare for a fire attack without thinking about it, and immediately took action after a short period of preparation.
"Heaven is on the side of the Han" Li Mai was extremely excited and shouted: "The enemy's ships are dense, and it is a great opportunity for fire attack."
There were already many ships on both sides that caught fire, and they felt that they were trying their best to rush to each other without help, intending to pull more enemy ships to accompany them to the funeral, and after the gale appeared, the Han army did not even hesitate to start the fireship offensive, so that the face of Katruk Karp in the rear appeared dead gray for the first time: