Not very far away on the other side of the mountain, a huge camp was set up between the green mountains and jungles, and flags of various patterns fluttered on several hills, and flags were almost any shape.
One of the flags that looked the largest was held highest, and it was surrounded by the rest of the flags in the middle, and on top of the black flag was a white-looking elephant painted in white.
It is very common for Ah San to use pictograms as the flag pattern, but the color of the flag and the painting are different, that is, the general of the same country goes to war, and the color of the flag and the painting will also be different, which is used to distinguish the bloodline specifications of the commander.
"The enemy's soldiers, few of whom have armor, most of them are bare-chested and bare-chested, and their people are thin and short, like macaques."
Si Hongzhuang stood on the top of a hill in the defensive line, with the enemy's camp to the northeast and the Han army to the west.
They have advanced nearly 60 miles to the northeast, don't look at it as only 60 miles, but it took nearly a year, and the engineering work is actually not easy to get to.
The environment of the primeval jungle is very complex, especially in the area of abundant rain in a year, there are countless poisonous insects, there are all kinds of wild animals in the dense forest, and then there are some perennial waterlogged areas to form swamps, if the forest is dense enough and not ventilated, it is extremely easy to produce miasma.
"Nearly 60,000 people died in just 60 miles of our advance, and how many people should die if they advanced more than 150 miles?"
Fu Wei was on vacation, and it was impossible to return to the mainland with only half a month's vacation, and he was tired of staying on land and had no good place to go, so he came to the land front.
The northwest and northern frontiers of the Han Kingdom were in a period of drought, but the Indochina Peninsula had an endless rainy season from spring, even in early autumn.
The local natives may have adapted to the rainy climate, but for the Han Chinese, the climate can be very torturous.
It was raining all the time, and the temperature was neither hot nor cold, but the air was very humid, and it was difficult to change clothes and have a hot meal due to the lack of dry firewood.
Most of the local aborigines are currently born and raised, and many times they don't actually eat the cooked meals properly, but they can solve a meal by looking for wild fruits in the food-rich forests, and the stomachs of the wild people have long been accustomed to this way, but if the Han people do this, they will not solve the hunger at all, and even the Han people will be sparse and non-stop when they do this.
The Pingman Captain Department caught a lot of savages in the surrounding area, and drove the construction of roads and fortifications, but the savages were not easy to use at first, and they were only cooperated with by giving the Han family food.
With the captive Ah San and the savages captured by the locals, as well as the slaves who were constantly sent from Malacca, they built a defensive line sixty miles deep, and the problem was that the laborers also died a lot.
The Han people actually don't care so much about how many Ah San and Savages die.
The captured Asan was only valuable to the Kshatriyas, and the rest of the Asamgupta dynasty had no intention of redeeming them at all.
Savages are even less valuable than Ah San, Ah San's pariahs are at least very obedient, and most of the savages are wild and untamable.
Just like many laborers who build military fortifications, many times in order to keep the secret, their own people need to be solved, and Ah San and the wild people have to be cleaned up even if they die when they are not building the fortifications.
"When the rain stops, the big war begins."
Si Hongzhuang stood in a fortification, reached out to catch the dripping water, and retracted his gaze to look at Fu Wei: "How do you navy want to fight this time?"
The Gupta Dynasty's first attack on the Pingban Captain was only from the sea, and after failing once, it was obvious that it felt that the attack of a single route was unreliable, and it was only then that the behavior of gathering small partners was to open up an offensive route on land, and the second attack must be to advance by land and water.
"You know, first of all, we kept invading Ah San's coastal areas to find and spy on the landing site, giving Ah San the false impression that we might land at any time, and the result was that Ah San desperately recruited troops and built ships, desperately encircled and intercepted us."
What Fu Wei said was some of the necessary preparations made by Huan Wen for the landing: "Ah San is still quite ruthless in his desperate efforts, but in the future, it will be more and more difficult for us to break through, and the cost will be higher and higher, so we have to temporarily give up fighting for the offshore."
Ah San wants to take the initiative to attack, and the best thing to do is naturally to shrink and wait for the enemy's fighters to be annihilated. ” Since the Han State began to operate Malacca in the seventh year of Yuan Shuo, and then to the establishment of the Pingman Captain Department at the end of the seventh year of Yuan Shuo, the confrontation between the Han army and Ah San has been more than a year.
At the beginning, the intensity of the war between the two sides was very low, and it was the Han warships that went to carry out the sabotage battle first, and it has to be said that Gupta still thought it was an island or something, and waited for Gupta to find that there was a huge military base in the southwest of the country before he understood that it was not the case.
The Gupta Dynasty is worthy of being a rising country, and it may be confused, for example, after discovering that it was the Han Empire, the first thing he thought about was peaceful exchanges, but when he found that there was no possibility of peace, he did not hesitate to prepare for war immediately.
In some respects, the Gupta dynasty was a relatively efficient regime, and it would never have been possible to move from a peaceful system to a war system in a year if the central government had been dumb and incompetent, let alone a conscription of 300,000 troops immediately after mobilization in the south.
During the preparation for military war there, they were able to unite even most of the neighboring countries, which also shows that the status of regional hegemony has not been shaken at this stage.
"In the final analysis, we underestimated Ah San," Fu Wei said with emotion: "Just like we used to think that Kyushu was the world, I really didn't think that there were any powerful countries outside the region." ” He was able to transform the country from a peaceful to a war system in a year, and he could call up 300,000 soldiers at once.
The speed of this transformation of the system, the base of the population, is to say that it is either a strong country or to deceive itself.
It has to be said that the larger the country's territory and the larger the population base, the more difficult it is for the state system to shift from peace to war.
It has not been less than a year since the successive dynasties and countries of Zhuxia switched from peace to war, and usually the borders are all in smoke or have fallen, and the rest of the country either does not know that there is such a thing, or can only be in a hurry after knowing it, and everything that only stems from the ruling state may still be arguing, arguing, arguing It's just that the central government doesn't argue, and it has been decided to launch a counterattack operation, but God is rarely able to pull out the corps immediately, either because he wants all kinds of nonsense, or because he doesn't have enough reserves for war.
If it weren't for the large enough territory of the Zhuxia Dynasty, I really don't know how many times it would have been ruined before it was finished.
"How can they be so fast?"
"Hehehe, you may not believe it, but it is those so-called Kshatriyas who have made meritorious contributions."
It's really the Kshatriya of the Gupta Dynasty, they themselves are a class that exists for war, just like the samurai class of various countries in the Spring and Autumn Period, waiting for war anytime and anywhere, and once they receive an order, they can pull people to report immediately, and a little integration is a big army.
Therefore, the Zhuxia civilization did not all procrastinate in dealing with the war, and there were times when it was efficient.
In the classical era, the more militaristic the country, the more important the country, the faster the response to war, and many countries divided their citizens into different levels in order to deal with wars that were actively provoked or passively dealt with.
Today's Asara system is not yet rotten, especially since the ruler Shamadaragupta is an aspiring monarch.
If the Han army hadn't come, Shamadhara Gupta would have planned to make a move against Vakya Tuga, which means that the Gupta Dynasty was also preparing for war, but the Gupta Dynasty originally used Vaga Tuga to prepare for war was used on the Han State.
I don't know when the light rain just now has become heavier, and looking out from the top of the mountain, the whole world seems to be covered with a fine veil, and everything is hazy.
"Will the enemy take advantage of the limited field of view to launch a surprise attack?"
"We have already dealt with it."
There are dense forests everywhere here, and there are mountains everywhere, so there is no too wide field of vision at all, and there are opportunities for sneak attacks.
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Otherwise, what is the purpose of building a defensive depth forward for the Pingban Captain's Headquarters Fu Wei really didn't know the real situation on land, so he asked curiously.
"Small exchanges have been going on all the time."
Si Hongzhuang said without any surprise: "At this moment, in a corner that we don't know, there may be a fierce battle. ” "Then you" Fu Wei asked weirdly, "can you still be so calm" "Terrain is everything."
Si Hongzhuang couldn't help but be calm, and said: "The large army in this ghost place cannot be deployed, and the attacking side can only advance by uprooting a hill or a stronghold, and can uproot some strongholds without knowing it, but it can't capture the mountain quietly. ” Fu Wei thought about it, the terrain was so complicated that there was no boundary, coupled with the position with a deep defense chain, it was really not a little bit of an advantage for the side that took the defensive position, and he was not afraid of the so-called surprise attack at all.
"From here, there's a big mountainous area to the west."
Si Hongzhuang's hand pulled and pointed to the northeast: "Over there, there is a flat area, which is full of jungles. ” Fu Wei was not in the navy from the beginning, but was transferred to the navy because he served as the commander of the Jiang capital, and he had always been in the army.
His eyes rolled for a moment, revealing a look of sudden realization.
"Think of it" Si Hongzhuang saw the change in Fu Wei's expression, and said with a smile: "Garrison with fortifications, wear down the enemy's spirit with high-intensity battles, and look for opportunities to use the terrain to annihilate the enemy army, and then" "Wait for the morale of the enemy to fall before counterattacking."
Fu Wei simply took the following words, and there were too many similar tactics in Zhuxia Civilization: "Defensive counterattack is indeed very appropriate." ” "It's just that there are too many enemy troops, but there are other benefits."
Si Hongzhuang didn't know who or what he was laughing at, and after a while, he said: "The coalition army or something, put together a huge number of troops, but history no longer proves the disadvantages of a complex composition of an army?"
There are simply too many examples, and the formation of a coalition of many parties is indispensable, and everyone is afraid of being consumed, unless it has always been a tailwind, and once there is a little setback, neither side will be willing to give their lives.
"So you're here."
Ergutai Bahram can speak Chinese, but he sounds with a strange accent.
When he entered the shed, he immediately took off his hat and coat, hung it on the hook beside him very easily, and said in a complaining tone: "Those wild men took advantage of the rain to sneak attack, and there were a lot of them. ” Si Hongzhuang laughed a few times and teased: "Seeing that there is no trace of blood on your body, you will know that the wild man was shot by a bow and arrow."
The Persian army also participated in the garrison of the Captain of the Barbarians, and it was specifically required to be the front line, and a salient in the entire defense line was arranged by Si Hongzhuang to the Persians.
"The bare-covered savages, armed with bamboo spears and strange things, let out a beastly roar, and charged one after another, but the Persians were still killed by the Persians, and the blood flowed like rivers."
Ergutai Bahram smiled exaggeratedly and said, "I have to say that the Han people built the fortifications in a very clever way, and those wild people are really stupid. ” The savages they are talking about should be some force in the coalition army, or simply catch the unlucky guy who tested the Han army's defense line.
It's very simple to distinguish whether it is a savage or not, those who don't have half a piece of cloth on their bodies are savages in the true sense, and the natives of large tribes or established countries will at least have a piece of cloth to cover their private parts, and the less civilized the natives will have less cloth on their bodies, and the more difficult it is to see metal materials in terms of weapons.
Not long after, the Japanese man Niu Lusi also came, and after he entered the house, he did not even remove the rain protection tools, so Putong knelt on the ground and saluted, waiting to be greeted and reported respectfully.
It doesn't matter what Niu Luansi's name was before, after he got the Han nationality, he gave himself such a name, and he was in charge of a front-line mountain.
He came to report that he had also been attacked by surprise, and unlike the Persians, they fought back after the raid.
"I don't know if I'm stupid or not" Si Hongzhuang smiled less, and replaced it with a serious one: "Two places separated by more than ten miles to test together", he looked at Niu Lusi halfway through speaking, didn't ask anything more, and paused before continuing: "The enemy can't hold back." ” Maybe it was to show the correctness of Si Hongzhuang's guess, it wasn't that someone came to report a surprise attack or something, it was someone from the navy who told Fu Wei that his vacation was over and that he should go back to report.
"A large number of the enemy navy of Cuttac is out of port."
Fu Wei also had nothing to take away, and while wearing rainproof tools, he said: "We spied on a boat on a coast eighty miles to the north, and it seems that they want to build a water village nearby." ” There is a long coastline on the side of Ah Sanyang, and the Han side has repeatedly measured it, and four natural harbors have been found, one of which is eighty miles north of the Pingman Captain's Headquarters.
"Looks like the Navy has succeeded."
Si Hongzhuang also knew that there was a natural harbor there, and he knew why he didn't rush to build a military port, and saluted Fu Wei who was wearing rain gear.
At the same time, the two said in unison: "Take care":