Huan Wen quickly got Yuan Qiao's feedback, and the first move after getting that letter of allegiance was to throw it away at will, as if he didn't take it seriously.
It has been six days since the Han army landed in Jitanado, and the port area has entered the final stage of construction, but the construction speed of the water village is a little slow.
The second group of 20,000 follow-up troops, who arrived on the third day, took over some of the areas captured by the first troops, mainly those that were strategically fortified.
The first troops to land swept around after landing, and the main direction of expansion was east and north, and they did not meet stubborn resistance, and it took only five days to advance more than 120 miles east and north with the landing point as the core, and the east was blocked by mountains before stopping, and the north was stopped in a forested area.
The third group of follow-up troops arrived on the sixth day, just as Yuan Qiao returned to the camp, and the newly arrived fleet also took advantage of the erected port to unload the troops, and their arrival increased the number of troops landing in Gitanado to 120,000.
"Our front-line scouts have already spied on the enemy's intelligence."
Huan Wen stood up and walked to the shelf where the map of the mountains and rivers was hung, and pointed to the area in the eastern mountainous area: "There are about 60,000 enemy troops here, and they have stopped to build fortifications according to the terrain, and they are in a stubborn posture. ” Yuan Qiao looked at the relatively simple military map and nodded in understanding, and saw Huan Wen's hand in the northern region.
"Most of this place is a virgin forest area, and it has almost not been developed."
Huan Wen's index finger was pointing at the map, and circles were drawn in individual areas: "A group of enemy troops have also appeared here, and the number should be about 110,000." ” The degree of development on the Gupta side, especially around the royal capital and the coastal areas, has to be said to be very high, and the density of cities and villages is quite dense.
Getanado is a small country, and the only highly developed area is the royal capital city of Sutter and its surroundings, and the number of cities is very small, and it is also a village-level gathering place.
Most of their territory may be inhabited, but it is really almost barbaric, as confirmed by the misap.
"It is estimated that there are more than 170,000 enemy troops in the east and north" Yuan Qiao attached great importance to this information, and said with some emotion: "Gupta seems to have a very large population."
The population of the Gupta Dynasty is indeed quite large, it should be around 20 million, but the vast majority of them are so-called untouchables.
The Han side could not clearly distinguish the military structure of the Gupta Dynasty, and the area where the enemy army was located was difficult to detect, and it was difficult to figure out how many of the 170,000 enemy troops that had been discovered, how many of them were Kshatriya legions, and how many were untouchable armed forces whose lives were worthless.
"We are sending troops in the northern region."
Huan Wen was actually mentally prepared for encountering elephant soldiers, and he also specifically learned about it with Ergutai Bahram: "The elephant soldiers in forest warfare are not easy to deal with. ” How could Ah San not have the existence of elephant soldiers, the history of their taming of elephants can be traced back to ancient times, the first Ah San dynasty to use elephant soldiers in large quantities was the Peacock Dynasty, they relied on elephant soldiers to defeat Alexander the Great in the east, forcing the Greek Macedonian coalition army to withdraw from the territory of Ah San.
The Persian Sassanids also had elephant troops, but they could not be compared with the Gupta dynasty in terms of numbers, and their elephant troops were repeatedly meritorious in the contest with Rome, and they were another trump card in addition to the armor and cavalry archers.
The Romans actually had their own elephant troops, and they used them before the Persians.
They realized that the strength of the elephant soldiers came from Carthage, and they must know that Rome overthrew Carthage to become the hegemon of the Mediterranean.
And Carthage's archers and elephant troops were very powerful, and there were elephant troops in Hannibal's expedition to Rome, that is, the number of elephants surviving after a long journey was scarce, but it still gave the Roman army a great shock, and even destroyed the Roman tortoiseshell array several times.
Although the Persian Sassanid has formed a partial alliance with the Han State, the Persians will not really dig out their hearts and lungs, and when Egutai Bahram introduced the elephant soldiers to Huan Wen, he said that he was very powerful, and there were some ways to deal with it, but the elephants were afraid of fire and did not mention it at all.
"So the Persians are not reliable."
Yuan Qiao didn't think there was anything wrong, no one stipulated that allies must share intelligence comprehensively, just as the Han State would not tell the Persians the real operation methods and weaknesses of the crossbow and other equipment, how could the Persians tell the weaknesses of the troops they relied on The allies were just the existence that came together temporarily because of the need for interests, and Zhu Xia had recognized this very early on.
The real situation is that since the Qin Empire swept through the Eight Desolations and Liuhe and the Great Unification Dynasty was established, the Qin Empire did not have any allies.
Or it should be said that the great unified dynasty in the history of Zhuxia never had allies.
The alliance is built on the basis of having the same strength, which is not a behemoth in the Zhuxia Great Unification Dynasty, and the surrounding strength is basically hostile, where are the allies.
The Zhuxia Dynasty under the great unification must have a vassal or vassal state, or the kind of vassal or vassal state that plays with it and has no luxury of helping at all.
An elephant soldier is an elephant that is controlled by a man, and the elephant is usually very large.
There were elephant soldiers who simply relied on ropes attached to the ears of elephants, and there were elephant soldiers who carried baskets with a few archers.
The elephants on Ah San's side are actually quite small, and basically only rely on the ropes controlled by the perforations of the elephant's ears, and the driver drives the elephants to collide or trample.
In the past, Carthage, their elephants were very large, according to some Roman historical records, the elephants at the peak of Carthage were five or six meters tall, and there were even seven meters tall elephants, and after loading the basket, in addition to the driver, they could also carry six or seven archers.
In contrast, the elephants on Ah San's side are generally about three meters high, a few can reach four meters, and a few can reach five meters, which really can't be compared with Carthage, which is also an elephant soldier.
Huan Wen knew that elephants were afraid of fire from the Romans who accompanied the army, and also learned that elephants were small in size but small in size.
Rome now has no elephant troops, not that there is no in their territory, nor does it lack the means to tame elephants, but the elephant itself is a delicate animal, and Rome, which is divided and caught in financial difficulties, can not afford to raise a large army of elephants, and the number of elephant troops is small and cannot play a key role.
"Geopolitically, our alliance with the Persians is destined to break down, except when we expand to their borders."
Huan Wen was still quite interested in the expedition to Persia: "They also knew this. ” How is the Persian Sassanid also an empire, it will not be like some small countries that only think about the present and do not think about the future.
Together with the Han State, they dealt with the Gupta Dynasty in order to cut off the Gupta Dynasty's long-range "blood replenishment" to Rome.
In the process of the alliance, the Persian Sassanid used its political prestige to move the two Satraps and Vagataka and other countries in a malicious direction, because he could not see the benefits of the Han State monopolizing and conquering the Gupta Dynasty.
The two Satrap and Vagattaga were connected to the Gupta dynasty by the border, and compared with the Han State, a country that needed to transport troops across the sea for tens of thousands of miles to fight, the advantage would not be just a little bit, not to mention the plundering of wealth, and the amount of land occupied could be digested to the greatest extent.
"The Persians are smart."
Yuan Qiao could already predict a point: "Once Gupta is destroyed, there will inevitably be disputes between the Great Han and the two Satraps and Vagatha. ” Before the start of the war, the Persian Sassanids had solemnly declared that they would not occupy even an inch of Gupta territory, and their advice was that as many countries in the allied camp as they conquered during the war, except for the Persian Sasanids, those lands would be considered owned by the occupying powers.
It's not that Han Guo didn't see through it, but he still didn't react after seeing it through.
The Persians wanted to make the Han Kingdom have a conflict with the two Satraps and Vagatha, but in fact, it was in the hands of the Han State, and the Han army came to the Asan Continent to satisfy the appetite of a Gupta dynasty, so it was better to find an excuse to start a war later, so it was better to push the boat along the river.
"Wen is eager to see what options the Persians will have when the time comes."
Huan Wen didn't care how many enemies there were, and the more wars he could make, the happier he became: "If they choose to support those two small countries, the Han Dynasty will be able to help the Great Qin people." ” Yuan Qiao and many of his colleagues actually agreed that if Han was to choose a long-term ally, there was really no more suitable object in the known world than Rome.
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That is the position of the two countries itself determines the thing, the Han State is in the east, Rome is in the west, the two countries also control all the land from the land to the ocean, but in the middle is a vast to exaggerated continent, there is no big conflict of interest at the same time, the two sides form an alliance to expand to the middle, isn't it a good choice The idea of an alliance with Rome has long been mentioned to Liu Yan, and the support point is the one above, and there is a doubt that Rome will split by itself, and if you really want to negotiate an alliance, you have to wait for Rome to reunify.
Of course, if the Han and Rome were to form an alliance, the alliance would only last until the two countries met on the border, and there might be a few years of peace in between, followed by an unprecedented war that would lead to the victory over the sole owner of the World Island.
"We don't think we'll live to that time."
Huan Wen was obviously disappointed, but he quickly cheered up again: "Our generation can lay the foundation for future generations, and it can be regarded as the right time." ” Yuan Qiao didn't think so far, and his energy was focused on the current war.
He stopped talking and walked to the side to look at the information he hadn't had time to see in the last few days, focusing on the war situation in the western part of the Gupta dynasty.
"The two Satraps and Vagatharga, which are connected to the western border of Gupta, are both great powers that can send hundreds of thousands of troops."
Yuan Qiao watched the intelligence and said, "They have already started attacking Gupta as agreed. ” Huan Wen had already read the information, or there would not have been some of the above conversations.
Vagata had long-term border frictions with the Gupta Dynasty, and both countries had large armies on the border in peacetime.
Vagattaka's attack on the Gupta dynasty not only had to face the Gupta army, but also had to fight one fortification after another.
The relationship between the two Satraps and the Gupta dynasty was okay before, and to some extent it was friendly, but this time the two Satraps didn't care about any friendship.
It is precisely because the relationship between the two countries was not tense before, which led to the Gupta Dynasty only arranging a small number of garrisons on the border, waiting for the two Satraps to suddenly turn their faces and not recognize people, although the Gupta Dynasty was aware in advance, but the Gupta Dynasty wanted to mobilize the army to deploy no matter how fast it would be hasty, and the two Satraps took the cavalry as the first strike, and invaded within 100 miles of the Gupta Dynasty's borders in just ten days.
"There will be a good show in the future."
Huan Wen said maliciously: "Vakya Tuojia is difficult to advance, and the casualties must be very serious.
What do they think when they see their neighbors easily going from victory to victory, but they themselves are blocked?"
"It is agreed on how many territories to be conquered, and in the future those territories will be owned by the country that conquers the party."
Yuan Qiao thought on the other hand: "In order to achieve balance, the Persians should support Vakya Tuoga. ” "Inevitably."
Huan Wen is not optimistic about the balance policy played by the Persians: "Persia is constantly in turmoil, and it has to face the actual threat of the Great Qin people, even if the army can be withdrawn, presumably the Persians will not be willing to use their own army to help Vajia Tuojia open up the territory and shed blood."
I heard that the finances of Persia are not optimistic. ” If the Persians didn't want to be chess players and didn't hide the weakness of the elephants, Huan Wen wouldn't have been so gloating, and since the Persians weren't authentic, then don't blame him for not having the discipline to see the jokes of his allies.
Besides, he didn't have much discipline in the first place, and if the Persians hadn't messed up themselves, he would have wanted to stumble.
While the two were talking, someone outside told Kianush Arta Ardashir to come by boat, and had sent an entourage to inform him that he would come to Huan Wen soon.
"Bet on five copper plates."
Huan Wen's fingers tapped rhythmically on the desk: "He's here to ask for help." ” "Acquire ordnance."
Yuan Qiao made a thinking demeanor, and said slowly: "I don't know if the country agrees."
When Kianush Arta Ardashir arrived at the Pingman Captain's Department from the Han mainland a month ago, he should have received some instructions from the country, and it is very likely that Huan Wen and Yuan Qiao just said that they would support Vajia Tuojia.
As soon as he left the Han Kingdom, it was not impossible to go back immediately, but the current monsoon was obviously wrong, and it would take too long to go to the Han Kingdom again, so finding Huan Wen became the best choice.
It didn't take long for Kianush Arta Ardashir to enter the military tent after being reported, and after a few polite words, he went straight to the point, which really made Huan Wen and Yuan Qiao guess correctly, that is, to negotiate the purchase of military equipment.
Yuan Qiao walked out, quickly walked back, handed Huan Wen five copper plates, and then went to the side to be silent.
Huan Wen played with the five copper plates and looked at Kianush Arta Ardashir with an unpredictable expression, and the latter was a little furious
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