After the Persians realized that no matter how much they confessed, sooner or later they would be defeated by the Han Empire, they said that they would give up their reason and fight to the death.
With such a sober understanding, from Shapur II to the people with lofty ideals, all of them worked hard to plan with a hundred times the effort and enthusiasm, and worked hard to make the plan more perfect.
When a country begins to want to do something with a will to die, the energy that bursts out is absolutely beyond imagination.
Shapur II said to Constantius, Sassanid don't take care of the back, we just want to concentrate on fighting with the Han Empire, you are sincere and sincere alliance is of course the best, it is not good to be false and the snake intends to stab the knife, we are dead, and it will definitely be your turn to die next.
Seriously speaking, the Romans really did not have as much urgency as the Persians, Rome was too far away from the Han Empire, one was in the easternmost part of the World Island, and the other was in the westernmost part of the World Island.
Although they were not so urgent in their hearts, the Romans were still quite unhappy with the "natural" demands of the Han Empire, what to lease ports, what land concessions, and simply did not treat Rome as an empire.
For a long time, the Romans were the tyrannical side, taking away from the surrounding countries and tribes, and suddenly became the object of "taking it for granted".
The advice they gave to Constantius was that even if they did not have to fight a life-and-death war with the Han Empire, they should not indulge the Han Empire so much, since the Sassanids wanted to fight the Han Empire, it would be a right choice to fulfill the Persians, and Rome should also be involved.
This time, as the first direction of the war, Sassanid alone sent an army of 60,000 to the Hunnit.
These 60,000 Sassanid troops were originally stationed in the eastern provinces, accounting for 60% of the eastern Sassanid garrison.
Shapur II did not pour out the garrisons of the eastern provinces, mainly because the Arabs were dancing too happily and needed to leave behind the necessary repressive forces, and then they were going to pull the strong Ding against the Arabs.
In addition to the 60,000 in Sassanid and the 60,000 in Rome, the Hunnites were less than 40,000 in the first wave of troops that were going to the Han Empire, and the rest were troops from neighboring countries and tribes, and even 5,000 descendants of the Northern Huns from the far northwest.
With an army of 240,000 troops, the anti-Han axis alliance only prepared food and grass for three months, and then marched to the east.
As long as it is a multi-force alliance, although they are coalition forces, they really will not cooperate closely with each other, and it is normal for some foreign troops to enter the territory of Hunit to burn, kill and loot, and there are even armies of different countries who have not fought with the Han army before they have done a fight.
Along the way, because the Han people built a considerable number of fortresses, forts and beacons, the 240,000 army was still more than 50 miles away from the Han border, but 40,000 or 50,000 were scattered.
"Most of them are just made up."
Malus, as the supreme Roman commander of this crusade, looked at the so-called friendly forces on the left and right: "Needless to say, the host Hunnites, they have suffered heavy losses last time, and this time the 40,000 people they have put together are even the old and weak, women and children.
The ones that can really be of some use are the cavalry that call themselves Huns. ” The people who called themselves the Huns were the descendants of the Northern Xiongnu, and they would come to wade into troubled waters, first, because they were unable to continue to advance westward in the near future, and then they heard that the enemy of their ancestors was marching westward, and they came to find out what the enemy of their ancestors looked like.
The Xiongnu did not have their own writing, but they had a long-term entanglement with the Han Dynasty, and the more the Hundred Years War went to the later period, the more the Xiongnu realized that the Han Dynasty was strong, and it was a human instinct for the weak to learn from the strong, and their nobles actually basically wrote Chinese characters, and they left some records.
In the relevant records, the Northern Xiongnu inevitably want to describe the part of hatred, almost how badly they were beaten, and the more pages to describe the strength of the Han people.
After so many years, there are actually less than three people left among the descendants of the Northern Xiongnu who still recognize Chinese characters, and they are all elderly people with shamanic identities.
Time is really too long, many descendants of the Northern Xiongnu have never even heard of what happened to the ethnic group in the east, and only those in power will be passed on from generation to generation that history.
It's because it's so long that a lot of things don't become some horror story if they are not forgotten.
The leader of this generation of Northern Xiongnu had just experienced a fiasco in the westward march and was about to lick his wounds, when the Persians suddenly came over and said that there were Han people advancing westward, in line with nothing to do anyway, and not how many troops to be dispatched, he simply came with 5,000 cavalry to take a look.
Eltaba was convinced by Malus's words, except for the Sassanid and Roman troops, there was really only that Hun cavalry that looked like they could fight, and the rest of the rows were probably not possible, and they would definitely drown.
"So didn't we arrange for those wastes to stay behind and besiege the Han army we saw along the way" Eltaba felt that the Romans were still quite sincere about the Romans' willingness to send two regular legions to participate in this war: "The first batch we have to face is less than 15,000 regular troops of the Han Empire, and we may have to add no less than 50,000 Han auxiliaries. ” As for the Western Regions servant army or something, Eltaba didn't talk about it.
The last time Li Kuang pulled up 250,000 servants from the Western Regions, and after repeatedly investigating intelligence, various countries found a fact, that is, as long as there were no Han people in the Western Regions, even if the weapons and equipment of those Western Regions people were not bad, they were still easily pressed to the ground and rubbed by the Hunnites.
The people of the Western Regions can only exert their combat effectiveness when they are led by Han people, but most of them are reflected in the premise of burning, killing and looting, and the scene of the confrontation between the two armies is still rotten.
"I heard that the Han people have been implementing the policy of reducing the number of people in the Western Regions" Malus felt that it was necessary for Rome to learn from the Han people: "Most of the female Western Regions became Han women, and the male Western Regions were either thrown into the battlefield or captured to become laborers in the hinterland of the Han Empire."
"Of the 250,000 people from the Western Regions who invaded the Hunnite last time, less than 130,000 ran back."
Eltaba didn't know how to evaluate those people from the Western Regions, even the work of burning, killing and looting could have such a big loss: "It may be that the people of the Western Regions are really useless, and the Han people no longer have any cover behind, and they are indeed unscrupulously reducing the number of men in the Western Regions." ” Malus subconsciously made a gesture of touching his chin.
After the civil war, the population of Rome itself has been greatly reduced, but the influx of foreign races into Rome has increased dramatically, not the appearance of being slaves, but the status quo of running into Rome and living as free people.
The number of citizens of Rome has always been small, and the population of the Roman ethnicity was only about 20 million at its peak.
Constantius became a unique Augustus, he heard that the Han Empire would conduct a census every three years, and thought it was necessary to find out how many citizens and ethnic groups Rome really had, and he also did it in the fifteenth year of the Han Empire.
That time Rome conducted a census without the cooperation of the nobles from all over the world, and it was not only the lords, families and powerful people of Zhuxia who would hide the population, but those who could bring benefits by hiding the population would do it.
Constantius worked very hard to do something, and it took a whole year to get a lot of data, but there was also a data.
In the sixteenth year of the Han Empire, Constantius obtained data that the number of citizens in his country reached 1.87 million, but the ethnic group was only about 7 million.
Citizens of Rome were potential soldiers, or they themselves joined the army and became citizens, or their ancestors had already acquired citizenship.
Constantius didn't know whether to laugh or cry in the face of the census data, 1.87 million citizens represented the number of soldiers that could be drafted, and the key was how the ethnicity was only 7 million The reason is that the citizens of Rome have their own benefits even if they do not enter the army, but the part that belongs to the ethnic group needs to pay taxes, which makes the data that there are so many citizens, but the ethnic group seems so abnormal.
According to Constantius's guess, not only the number of citizens has water, but the ethnic group must have more water.
He calculated that the number of people who could actually be recruited as soldiers would not exceed 400,000, and the number of ethnic groups would not be less than 20 million.
Due to the long-standing use of slaves in Rome, there should be about 40 or 50 million slaves in the whole country.
The number of freedmen who were not slaves and who settled in Rome should not have been less than 20 million.
If that data is really that, Rome is an exaggerated existence with a population of nearly 100 million, but in fact it is really useless, on the contrary, it is an extremely dangerous signal for Rome.
"So Augustus was already thinking about new policies to attract freedmen to become warriors."
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Malus said that these were a signal: "We are the first Roman army to come east, and there will be a second and a third group that will not stop when needed." ” Eltaba is not very excited, and the forcibly organized troops, don't expect to have a high combat effectiveness, and even the will to fight will definitely be negative.
What will be the effect of those forcibly organized troops, which is probably to drive them to the battlefield, so that the Han people can consume some strength, damage some military equipment, consume Han military rations, and so on when they kill those guys.
Isn't the Sassanid doing something similar, such as mainly forcing the Arabs to be cannon fodder, and even some small tribes in the territory have not been spared.
The Sassanids were even prepared for the most critical of the situation, waiting for the war to break out, and the next moment the policy was to bring the whole country into a moment of mobilization.
"It's actually going to be useful."
Malus said mysteriously: "The strong have been crushing rookies for a long time, and the strong will become rookies after a long time." ” There has been such a situation more than once in the history of Rome, it is obviously an elite army, and it has been fighting with a rookie enemy for a long time, and the longer the time, the Roman legion that was still the elite before, and the more rookie itself will be.
It's definitely not the relationship between the elite legion that loses soldiers in battle, it's that it has repeatedly crushed and won, and it hasn't suffered much loss, but the more it fights, the more rookie it becomes, and the more it gets to the back, it's simply abandoned as a whole.
It was the first time Eltaba had heard such an argument, and his eyes lit up and he said, "Is there any evidence?"
Malus said that Eltaba loves to believe it or not, anyway, he keeps driving cannon fodder to let the Han army kill, and as many cannon fodder as there are dead cannon fodder, Rome and Sassanid will bring as much cannon fodder as they want, and in the end they will definitely be able to prove the correctness of their statement.
"I would suggest it to Your Majesty."
Eltaba was very interested in the back: "If that's really the case, no matter how many people are sacrificed, it is worthwhile." ” Sassanid is ready enough to kill millions of Persians on the battlefield, even the Persians can die a million, how can the non-Persians in Sassanid not die more as they will die, if the level of the Han army can be lowered, it can be regarded as those dead people play an unexpected role.
"Of course, you can't do that in the first phase."
Malus is still quite sensible: "According to your reconnaissance, the current strength of the Anxi Protectorate will not be too much, and there are not many firearms installed, so there is a good chance that it will be able to enter the territory of the Han Empire." ” Eltaba said: "The domineering thinking of the Han people doomed them to choose the battlefield outside the borders when they learned of our attack.
It's a pity that the Han people, despite their domineering, are not cautious, and we have been exposed.
If only an ambush could be carried out."
Within 300 miles of the buffer zone is some mountainous terrain and more flat terrain.
The vegetation on this side was not dense, and the woods were generally not very wide, and even if they could hide in the woods, they would not dare to do so.
The Han army has a history of large-scale arson, listening to Ding Lingren's story, the Han people once ignored the arson on the grassland, which was a terrifying scene of fires for hundreds of miles on the grassland, which caused the Rouran tribal alliance that had a good relationship with the Han people to jump back directly.
Eltaba's guess was not wrong at all, Li Kuangzhen, who knew that there was an enemy attack, did not choose to defend because he had few troops at hand.
"Information from the scouts ahead."
Eltaba handed out the report: "The Anxi Duhu has arrived on the west bank of the Penchi River, and he has brought two divisions and 30,000 Han Chinese auxiliaries. ” "A division of the Han Empire is about 5,000 people" Malus had to convince the domineering of the Han people after reading the information: "They must know that we will not be less than 200,000, and they even dare to use 40,000 people to fight against us" With an exclamating expression, Eltaba said, "Because they are Han Chinese." ”: