When Liu Shen's troops drove to the battlefield of the Penchi River, the course of the battle was that the two divisions of the Han army were all on the other side of the river, and there were 20,000 Han auxiliaries, who set up camps against the water and entered the confrontation stage with the enemy army.
The anti-Han axis coalition was originally going to retreat, the Han army first sent cavalry to harass, and then the infantry of the Han army approached, and the other goal of the anti-Han axis coalition army was achieved.
The outbreak of the war had entered the twenty-seventh day, and the anti-Han Axis coalition had successfully forced the Han army, which was absolutely inferior in numbers, to cross to the west bank of the Penchi River, and it was certain that they would rely on their numerical superiority to try to defeat or annihilate the Han army.
On the 25th day, the anti-Han Axis coalition army carried out an offensive with 100,000 horses, which once made the Han army almost forced into the river, but fortunately, the Han army's cavalry troops took the risk to attack the general banner of the anti-Han Axis coalition army, so that the anti-Han Axis coalition army that had lost its command had problems with its own deployment, and the Han army was able to stabilize the front.
The cavalry of the Han army who ventured to attack succeeded in stabilizing the situation of the battle, and they did bear a great price, and only more than 1,300 of the 3,000 cavalry who launched the attack were left from the battlefield, and the loss reached this extent, in fact, this cavalry was basically considered useless.
On the 26th day, Li Kuang faced the more ferocious offensive of the anti-Han axis coalition and had to use firearms that had not been used.
It was a 75-millimeter bronze cannon used in 21 land battles, plus about 200 explosive packs, which forced the offensive of the anti-Han axis coalition to be contained, and the war entered the stage of confrontation.
There were not many firearms in the Anxi Prefecture, and the twenty-one seventy-five mm bronze cannons were all the long-range firearms striking force, and the five hundred explosives packs in reserve were consumed by two-fifths in one day.
Li Kuang originally planned to use firearms at the most opportune time to give the anti-Han axis coalition the biggest surprise, but the deterioration of the situation made the plan come to naught.
However, those firearms were also used at the right time, and they played a key role in stabilizing the battle line.
"The big man is really strong" Ji Hai knew the course of the battle, and said happily: "10,000 regular soldiers plus 20,000 auxiliary soldiers, against more than 200,000 enemy troops, they are not frightened at all, and they can still be pressed in place." ” "There are not enough cavalry in the Anxi Protectorate."
Xu Guang is older, has several years of military life, and has participated in many battles, and has his own vision: "If you can have a cavalry of about 10,000 people, the situation will be different." ” "Didn't we have more than 7,000 cavalry coming?"
Of course, Ji Hai knew the role of cavalry in the war: "The number is less, but there will definitely be troops coming later." ” In fact, almost a month has passed, and the center of the Han Empire already knows what is happening here in the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and the reinforcement of the Junjishan Captain's Department is an order from the center.
At the same time, the central center that received the report began to carry out partial mobilization on the fourth day, and on the twelfth day, troops were drawn to the Anxi Protectorate, and the reinforcements closest to the Penchi River had already arrived in Shule, even if it was four or five days at the latest, it would definitely be pulled to the battlefield to join the combat sequence.
The first to be mobilized were the 12 counties near the northwest, and then the entire Guanzhong entered a state of mobilization, not counting the standing army mobilized from other places, the mobilized county soldiers would reach 160,000, and all of them would be able to reach the front line within four months.
In addition to the Junjishan Captain's Department, a standing army stationed in Guanzhong will arrive within a month, in fact, this standing army has entered the jurisdiction of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and is included in the Shogunate battle sequence of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and they were placed by Li Kuang in the middle reaches of the Green Ridge River, probably near Shache.
The other three standing armies, the slowest of which will also join the battle sequence within three months.
The first batch of standing armies of the Han Empire to be put into the war, not counting the Junjishan Captain's Department, will be five, with 160,000 county soldiers, and between 140,000 and 180,000 servant troops from the Western Regions forcibly recruited in the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate, and the total strength of the first batch of troops to be put into the war will reach about 400,000.
This sudden outbreak of war was the first time in five years that the Han Empire once again exceeded the scale of 200,000 troops, and there were countless people serving the war in the rear, and it was definitely not as simple as trying to defeat the invading enemy army.
It can be said that although the Han Empire was caught off guard by the sudden outbreak of war, it also made the Han people who knew about the outbreak of war angry.
The Han people who have been moving from this victory to another victory, they really didn't expect that someone would take the initiative to attack themselves, for so many years, only they took the initiative to attack others, and the whole country fell into a state of feeling bullied, and the call that appeared was to fight, keep fighting, and penetrate to the place called Europa, and wipe out all the countries that dared to take the initiative to provoke wars.
The military, who originally thought they would have to endure loneliness, fell into a carnival when they learned that war broke out, they were really afraid of the days without war, knowing that once there was no war, they would lose their value.
Many military bigwigs have been transferred to civilian posts in the new institutional reform, and the military is actually in a state of hesitation, worrying all the time about the military's weakness.
They know very well that once civilian officials raise their heads, it will inevitably form a trend of suppressing the military, and stopping for the last three or five years will be a heavy blow to the military, and maybe being suppressed will become the norm, and eventually civilian officials will stand on top of the military's head and and pee.
No one expected that the war broke out so suddenly, and to say that the civilian clique was beating its chest and scolding that anti-Han axis of a few things, the military followed the scolding in their mouths, but they had countless praises in their hearts.
On the one hand, there is a "glass heart" attack among the people, and if there is no military action, they wish that fierce battles would break out all the time, so that the value of their existence will not be reduced but will be raised, and the officers and men of the military system will have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.
"I heard that there is a lot of excitement in China."
Ji Haile said hesitantly: "If war breaks out, there are still so many countries forming a coalition army, the army will definitely be expanded, how many people have the opportunity to step on the battlefield to obtain meritorious deeds, I don't know how many marquis will be produced, and how many people will get knighthoods and be promoted." ” There is no doubt about the importance of the title in the Han Empire, the battlefield is the best place for people with no special skills to get it, and some people will inevitably fall on the battlefield in the process, but for the vast majority of ordinary people, having a chance is the most important thing, and no chance will make people desperate.
Liu Shen himself was in the army, and witnessed the confusion and depression of the officers and men in the army who thought that there would be no war.
He clearly remembered that day, when all the soldiers who learned of the outbreak of war showed ecstatic expressions, knowing that they were going to the front as if they were rushing to a feast.
"Chief."
Xu Guang ignored Ji Hai, who was self-congratulatory, and asked in a low voice after approaching: "Du Hu asks if you would like to act as a garrison."
"Yes."
Liu Shen pulled the collar and said with a smile: "My father sent me to the army, which in itself means to increase my knowledge.
How could I give up participating in the big war?
” Liu Yan really made it very clear when he said goodbye to Liu Shen, after arriving in the army, Liu Shen can have his own choice, whether he wants to be a "good baby" purely gilded, or unwilling to be lonely and wants to experience the real military life, everything is decided by Liu Shen himself.
That is, the identity is special, or even the generals do not have the right to choose freely, Liu Shen is still young and does not understand, those generals who have been specially instructed are like Li Kuang, who knows very well that Liu Shen has the right to choose, is extremely headache at the same time.
Of course, if it is really dangerous, Li Kuangcai will not let Liu Shen come to it.
It's just that Liu Shen only arrived on the battlefield, and Li Kuang has enough knowledge of the war after repeated deductions, and it really didn't come to the time when Liu Shen needed to be particularly restrained.
Xu Guang stopped talking, he was not a hairy child anymore, and he knew very well that he must not instigate anything, and even act as the restraining person when necessary.
Not far away, it seemed to be Yang Rui passing by, and he put his eyes on Liu Shen and the others while walking.
"The offensive in the afternoon was our first appearance after entering the war."
Yang Rui's eyes no longer looked at Liu Shen's side, but stared at Qin Song and said solemnly: "What I need to see is to destroy the withering and decaying." ” In fact, Li Kuang didn't want the firearms unit of Junjishan's lieutenant department to go into battle so quickly, the problem was that the troops of the shogunate battle sequence of the Anzai Prefecture were too tight, and the original cavalry as a mobile force was abolished.
The enemy army is preparing a new attack, and they are camping with their backs to the Penchi River, and if it were not for the pontoon bridge connecting the east bank behind them, they would have played Han Xin's game.
Han Xin's last battle was to let the soldiers know that if they didn't fight hard, they would die, and to inspire the soldiers' determination to fight to the death.
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Li Kuang didn't need to do that, he was just worried that it would be difficult to control the situation after the enemy retreated, and that the enemy army with more room for detour in the summer would cause big trouble.
The anti-Han Axis coalition forces, which were overwhelmingly superior in numbers, were consulted by Malus and Elbata, and decided to let the troops of all ethnic groups under their command rotate to harass the Han army1 in a harassing nature.
Once the sun rose, every time a large and small group of infantry cavalry of various ethnic groups began to attack, basically they retreated without even touching the fence set up by the Han army, and there was no danger in the attack, but it made the Han army unable to relax.
"Today their reinforcements are over."
The expression on Elbata's face was extremely cautious: "Look at the banner, it's the Han army from Junji Mountain. ” Malus just knew what was going on, and he had heard from Elbata that the Junjishan Lieutenant Department was the first unit in the Han Empire's regular army sequence to be fully equipped with firearms, in addition to the Imperial Capital Praetorian Guard.
They didn't know what was so special about the Junjishan Captain's Department, how it could make the rulers of the Han Empire pay so much attention, but they knew what the firearms unit represented.
Just a day earlier, they had seized on a mistake by the Han army and had used firearms when they had driven the Han army on the west bank of the Penchi River to the east bank.
It was just the firing of twenty-one bronze cannons, in fact, the first wave of people killed by the bronze cannons would definitely not exceed 200 people, but the 10,000 anti-Han axis coalition forces that were attacking completely collapsed at that moment when they heard the sound of artillery, and the more than 80,000 anti-Han axis coalition troops waiting to attack behind them were even more chaotic.
Even if the Han army counterattacked and used explosives packs, the anti-Han axis coalition forces that died under the firearms that day would definitely not exceed 2,000 people.
"The deterrent power is too great," Elbata kept smiling bitterly, "The death of being hit by the bronze cannonball projectile is miserable, and the explosive bag makes people lose their bones." ” "It has to do with faith."
Malus also smiled bitterly: "Those barbarians are firmly determined that this is a means mastered by the gods, and even the citizens of Rome know what is going on, but they are extremely awe and fear in their hearts. ” Indeed, even if the current bronze cannon has a flowering shell, the power of a cannonball is just that.
Packets of explosives thrown directly are even worse than projectiles in terms of killing.
But they really caused a huge panic to the anti-Han Axis coalition forces, mainly because the anti-Han Axis coalition forces had their own sects and religions, and many of the aspects of their sects and religions that were going to die were very similar to the movements of gunpowder manufacturing.
"We know that it has nothing to do with the gods, but is just a weapon made by the supreme ingenuity of the Han people."
Elbata's face was gloomy: "But the people are often ignorant. ” "Only if we can defeat the Han army that uses firearms will we end their myth" Marus stretched out his hand and shook Elbata: "We put in the most elite troops to deal with the Han army's firearms troops" They all know one thing very clearly, there is really only one victory, even if it is only a small and insignificant victory, but as long as they can defeat the Han army that uses firearms once, even if they cannot completely dispel the "myth" of firearms by the anti-Han axis coalition forces, it will make the anti-Han coalition soldiers no longer afraid to face it with fear and awe.
The time came to noon that day, and the Han army's camp first sounded a gentle "dong dong" war drum, and then the sound of a set of drums replaced the sound of war drums.
Marus and Elbata, who had predicted for a long time, heard the sound of the drum kit, even if they had predicted that the Han army would be thrown into the firearms unit, their hearts were still pumping.
The Han army, whose uniforms were very special, began to leave the camp, they did not have armor, they wore crisp dark green new military uniforms, and carried flintlock pistols to form one queue after another in the step.
Liu Shen was in one of the queues, but instead of carrying a flintlock pistol on his shoulder, he held a short flintlock pistol in one hand and pressed the hilt of the sword at his waist with the other.
On the side of the anti-Han axis coalition forces, all kinds of drums and trumpets were also sounding.
This time, the first anti-Han Axis coalition troops came out of the camp was a patch of red, they were Roman legions from the far west, and after stepping out of the camp, they formed a group, and the officers kept repeating the words "glory of Rome" and the like.
The second group of troops from the Han Axis coalition camp was from the Sassanids, and several of them were first pouring out cavalry, then charioteers, and finally infantry on foot.
The two armies, which were separated by more than a kilometer, seemed to have reached a tacit understanding in an instant, and all kinds of drums and trumpets disappeared at the same time, and what remained was absolute slaughter
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