Shamadharagupta came, and came with a mighty army.
The 80,000 Praetorian Guards belonging to the Gupta royal family were left behind to guard the city of Fahrenheit, and the remaining 60,000 were brought by Shamadharagupta, who were 30,000 cavalry, 8,000 chariots, 2,000 elephants, and 20,000 infantry.
The rest of the army, belonging to the Kshatriya legions, amounted to 120,000, 70,000 from the allies, and the rest were armed by the untouchables.
The Kshatriya legions were also divided into different types of troops, with almost 40,000 cavalry, 12,000 chariots, and the rest were infantry.
The eight allies of the Gupta dynasty gathered 30,000 cavalry, 2,000 chariots, 500 elephants, and the rest were infantry.
A full 10,000 people is boundless, and 300,000 people seem to be a dense patch of the earth, not to mention horses and other animal power, carriages and mule carts.
If there is a big plain, so many people are pulling up in the dark, and there are military flags fluttering everywhere, which looks extremely magnificent.
"It's like a moving forest" Marcus had never seen so many people marching together, and couldn't help but be shocked: "In the history I know, only Darius of Persia has gathered so many troops and marched into battle. ” Cambyses's face darkened when he heard this.
Darius no matter how many generations he had, as long as the Europa people mentioned Darius, there was a black history about the Persians.
Who allowed the ancestors of the Persians to fall at the feet of the Europa again and again?
The Romans rarely used more than 100,000 troops to fight, and usually less than 50,000 were able to defeat the surrounding barbarians.
Especially after the Romans gained hegemony in the Mediterranean, the 50,000 or so troops were only used when they were fighting with the Persians, and dealing with other barbarians was basically just a legion with some vassal barbarians.
Coincidentally, in recent decades, the Persians have rarely used more than 100,000 troops to invest in a single battlefield, and the largest number of troops invested in a single battlefield in ten years is the battle for Syria with the Romans, but it is only 87,000, and there are still 13,000 from the number of 100,000.
It's not that the Romans and Persians don't want to gather most of their armies to fight, it's that Rome has just come out of civil strife, Persia is simply still in civil strife, the Romans don't have the money to arm too many troops, and the Persian armies need to be scattered around to maintain stability or suppress rebellions.
"Shamodhara Gupta really came in person."
Julian was a little melancholy: "The Seris really want to use their existing army to fight a decisive battle with so many faith troops" On the side of Ah San's military camp, knowing that after Shamodharagupta personally arrived at the battlefield, the cheers were wave after wave, and it was a bit of a military morale boost.
On the other hand, the Han army seemed very quiet on their side, and they didn't even shoot arrows, but they didn't see the fortifications or anything.
Originally, the number of Ah San who confronted and fought with the Han army was more than 300,000, even if it lost 60,000 or 70,000, there were still about 250,000 left, and the newly promoted Ah San army that arrived on the battlefield had 300,000 to say the least, adding up to at least 550,000 troops, and behind it was a steady stream of Ah San troops.
"The Han Empire has two standing armies here, 60,000 elites who have gone through a hundred battles."
Ksiaias more or less wanted to speak for his allies: "There are also 40,000 county soldiers who will never lose to Gupta professional soldiers, and 100,000 Japanese servant soldiers who will not spare their lives when fighting. ” It's okay if Ksiaias doesn't say it, but when he says it, it makes more people feel empty-hearted.
It is a well-established fact that the Han people can fight in the known world According to the Romans themselves, there is no reference value between the Han and the Romans one-to-one, and the difference between the same class of troops and those without weapons and armor is one thousand upwards, and the collision will be the victory of the Han Chinese.
The Persians, on the other hand, admitted that a thousand Han troops needed at least 3,000 Persian soldiers to compete with them.
So after research, 10,000 Han soldiers are at least worth 50,000 Kshatriya soldiers, and the words of the untouchables have always been given to people 60,000 elite professional soldiers of the Han army were equivalent to 300,000 Kshatriya legionnaires, and then the Kshatriya legions of the Gupta dynasty were by no means as many as 300,000 soldiers.
Therefore, Julian was not worried about whether the Han army could win, but how to face such a powerful Han people.
The Persians were more troubled, who were surprised by the strength of the Han on the one hand, and feared the strength of the Han on the other.
The Persians like the Han people to be powerful, once they pull the Han people together and can't get along with the Romans, can they beat the Romans in minutes In the same way, if the powerful Han people are not willing to be friends with the Persians, even if the Han people do not collude with the Romans, both the Romans and the Han Chinese can beat the Persians Ksiaias found something and said in surprise: "There is a cavalry team holding the banner of King Gupta coming, it should be King Gupta who invited General Huan Wen to talk in front of the battle." ” Julian said with a blank face, "Shamadhara has been expanding since he became king, conquering three times the size of his country. ” The Ah San cavalry had a big heart, and they stopped directly about 100 meters away from the Han army camp, and they didn't think about it at all if the Han people didn't pay attention to the problem of shooting arrows directly.
Soon the Han army reacted, and a cavalry of the same number as the Ah San cavalry left the camp, and the two sides were about five meters apart to deliver messages.
"Shamodhara, who can govern a weak Gupta into a strong country, he will not fail to see reality."
Julian looked faintly at the Gupta banner waving in the wind in the distance: "He must be thinking about how to end the war with dignity." ” As a Europa, I have never rejected the first admit that I can't fight, and I will slowly develop in the last wave, as long as I can survive, then it means that everything is still possible.
Julian is taking on the role of Shamodhara Gupta with the thinking of the Europa model, and he thinks that the Gupta Dynasty really has to choose such a way first, and it is absolutely impossible to stumble to the Han Kingdom.
There is one thing that Julian doesn't know, Shamodhara Gupta really wants to go on the first wave, and even the reason has been found, according to the modification of Han culture, it is "able to stretch and bend" or "hard-working people, the sky is not bearable, lying on the salary to taste the gall, three thousand Yuejia can swallow Wu." ”。
The two waves of cavalry who delivered the message before the battle responded one after another, and it was not long before bursts of war drums and trumpets appeared in the camps on both sides.
The gates of the frontal battlefield of the Han army were opened, and teams of soldiers left the camp in an orderly manner.
The Gupta Dynasty was very miserable, the camp had long been destroyed, and there was no need to go through the barracks gate at all, and soldiers could be provided everywhere to go out of the camp.
The formation is not a matter of time and a half, and the amount of time spent depends entirely on what kind of formation is to be arranged, as the spectators Julian, Ksiaias and other foreign visitors, they are watching the formation of the two sides from an appreciative perspective.
It took about an hour and a half, and the Han army took the lead in arranging the formation, with the infantry in the center and the cavalry on both wings.
"What are those things?"
said Flavies, pointing to some of the big ones covered with wooden boards, "it looks like even the horses are having a hard time pulling, and there is no doubt that whatever they pull is heavy." ” Slightly in front of the core of the Han army's infantry formation, there were nearly 100 rectangular-looking large wooden boxes, each about five meters apart, arranged in three rows of front, middle and back, especially not far from them, there were all stacked boxes and some round rollers.
Flavis naturally didn't get an answer, suspecting that he had hidden remote equipment such as bed crossbows, but he wondered why there were so many bed crossbows, car crossbows, and catapults in the camp, so why they were specially arranged in a place further ahead.
The Gupta Dynasty was still busy arranging troops, and I didn't know if the Asan were showing off or shocking, and the front row in the center was a war elephant that looked very large, but they all painted the elephant's skin white, and put on armor such as rattan armor, metal armor, and leather armor.
I don't know if the war tower with a human on the back of the war elephant is intentional or just like that, it looks like a gorgeous style.
"At least two thousand war elephants" Cambyses's expression was very serious: "This war elephant army alone is enough to sweep through any small country in the surrounding area, even if we encounter it, it will be very troublesome."
The Romans had not dealt with the war elephant army for a long time, but as the children of the nobles, they had to learn some Roman history, and they had encountered war elephant troops in Roman history, and almost every time they fought extremely hard to win.
"Alexander the Great's expedition to the East was met with the war elephants of the Xindu people, and the army lost the confidence to continue the eastward crusade."
Malus was of Greek descent: "The Emperor of the Pressure Mountain had only a few dozen war elephants, and his soldiers were reluctant to fight any more. ” The Gupta Dynasty put out more than just war elephant troops, behind the war elephant troops were dense chariot troops, and on both flanks were more cavalry, which was very gorgeous purely in terms of lineup.
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On the battlefield, the sound of drums, horns, elephant chirping, and horse neighing rose and fell with each other, Huan Wen rode on top of the majestic war horse and was protected by the knights of the guards and slowly moved forward, while Shamodharagupta stood on the battle tower and was protected by the war elephant, and the two stopped when they were three meters apart.
"Han generals from the Far East, you have brought bloodshed to this continent, and you will eventually spill your own blood on this land."
Shamodharagupta looked at Huan Wen and advised, "Go back, it's still too late for you to go back now" There is a dedicated interpreter present who will translate the conversation out loud.
When Shamodharagupta finished speaking, first the guards around him cheered loudly, and then all the Asan on the battlefield cheered, making it difficult for the translator to let Huan Wen hear his translation.
Huan Wen came to confirm that Shamadhara Gupta had arrived at the battlefield in person, and he was particularly close to the front of the battlefield, but he didn't care what the other party wanted to say or said.
"That's it" Huan Wen nodded to Shamodharagupa with a happy smile on his face: "Then I'll go back."
Without giving Shamodagupa more time to react, he turned his horse's head and shouted "ride", and galloped back neatly.
Shamodharagupta was really stunned, he didn't even react himself, and the responsible guards shouted to hurry back.
On the other side, the artillery blocked by the wooden plank had already revealed its true body to adjust the angle of fire, and Huan Wen was galloping back while waving his hand and shouting: "Open the cannon, open the cannon, fire the cannon immediately":