Huan Wen quickly received feedback from Yuan Qiao, and the first act after receiving the 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. That is to say, the construction of the water village is a bit slow.

The second batch of 20,000 follow-up troops arrived on the third day. They took over some areas captured by the first batch of troops, mainly highlands with strategic value.

The first batch of troops that landed swept around after landing. The main directions of expansion were east and north. They did not encounter tenacious resistance. It took only five days to go east and north with the landing point as the core. After advancing for more than 120 miles, the eastern part was blocked by mountainous areas before stopping, while the northern part stopped in a forest area.

The third group of follow-up troops arrived on the sixth day. It happened that Yuan Qiao returned to the barracks. The newly arrived fleet also unloaded troops through the built port. Their arrival increased the number of troops that landed on Gitanato to 12. ten thousand.

"Our front-line scouts have initially spied the enemy's intelligence." Huan Wen stood up and walked to the shelf where the mountains and rivers map were hung, and pointed to the eastern mountain area: "There are about 60,000 enemy troops here. They paused and relied on the terrain. The defensive posture of building fortifications."

Yuan Qiao looked at the relatively crude military map and nodded to express his understanding. He also saw Huan Wen's hand marking the northern area.

"Most of Ahsan's place is in primitive forests, almost undeveloped." Huan Wen's index finger clicked on the map, and some areas drew circles one after another: "A group of enemy troops have also appeared here, and the number should be the same. Around one hundred thousand."

The degree of development in the Gupta dynasty, especially the surrounding and coastal areas of the royal capital, is that the degree of development is very high, and the density of cities and villages is quite dense.

Gitanadu is a small country. The only highly developed area is the capital city of Satyr and its surroundings. The number of cities is very small, and if there is any, it is also a village-level gathering place. There may be people in most areas of their territory, but it is really almost barren, and this has also been confirmed from Misap.

"It is estimated that there are more than 170,000 enemy troops in the east and north?" Yuan Qiao attaches great importance to this intelligence, and said with some emotion: "The population of Jiduo seems to be very large!"

The population of the Gupta dynasty is indeed quite large, it should be around 20 million, but the vast majority are so-called untouchables.

The Han country is still unable to clearly distinguish the military structure of the Gupta dynasty. Furthermore, the enemy’s area is not easy to detect, and it is difficult to figure out how many of the 170,000 enemy troops that have been discovered are the Kshatriya army and how many are fate. The worthless untouchables are armed.

"We found elephant troops in the northern region." Huanwen had actually been mentally prepared for encounters with elephant soldiers. For this reason, he also specifically learned about it with Egutai Bachram: "The elephant soldiers in forest warfare are not easy to deal with. "

How could Ah San not have elephant soldiers? The history of their taming elephants can be traced back to ancient times. The Asan Dynasty that first used elephant soldiers in large quantities was the Maurya Dynasty. They defeated Alexander the Great on the Eastern Expedition by relying on elephant soldiers and forced the Greek-Macedonian coalition forces to withdraw from the Asan territory.

The Persian Sassanids also have elephant troops, but they are not comparable in number to the Gupta dynasty. Their elephant troops have repeatedly performed meritorious service in the contest with Rome. They are another army besides armored equipment and archers. trump card.

The Romans actually had their own elephant troops, and the history of using elephant troops was earlier than that of the Persians. They realized that the magnificence of elephant soldiers came from Carthage, and they had to know that Rome overthrew Carthage before becoming the overlord of the Mediterranean.

Carthage’s archers and elephant troops were very powerful. There were elephant troops in Hannibal’s expedition to Rome. After the long journey, the number of elephants surviving was scarce, but they still shocked the Roman army. It even destroyed the tortoise shell in Rome several times.

Although the Persian Sassanid has formed a partial alliance with the Han, the Persians will not really dig their hearts out. When Egutai Bachram introduced the elephant soldiers to Huan Wen, he said in a powerful way and said something to deal with. However, the elephant did not mention the fear of fire at all.

"So the Persians are not reliable."

Yuan Qiao did not feel that there was anything wrong. No one stipulated that allies must fully share information, just as the Hans would not tell the Persians the real operating methods and weaknesses of weapons such as crossbows. How could the Persians inform the weaknesses of the troops they depend on? ?

ally? It was just a temporary existence because of the needs of interests. Zhu Xia had already recognized this very early.

The truth is that after the Qin Empire swept the wasteland and Liuhe, the Great Unified Dynasty was established, and there were no allies in the Qin Empire.

Or it should be said that there have never been allies in the great unified dynasty in the history of Zhu Xia.

Allies are built on the basis of equal strength. Which of the Great Unified dynasties of Zhuxia is not a behemoth, and the surrounding strengths are basically hostile. Where can there be any allies?

Under the great unification of the dynasties of the summers, if there were any, it was also a vassal or a slave country, or the kind of vassal or servant country that was playful and had no extravagant hope to help.

Elephant soldiers generally refer to elephants controlled by humans, and elephants are usually very large. There are elephant soldiers who simply relied on the elephant’s ears with a rope, and there are also elephant soldiers who put on a basket and carry a few archers.

The size of the elephant on Ah San’s side is actually quite small. Basically, it only relies on the piercing of the elephant’s ear to get a control rope, and the driver drives the elephant to collide or trample.

In the past Carthage, their elephants were very large. According to some historical records in Rome, the elephants at the peak of Carthage were five or six meters high, and there were even seven-meter-high elephants. After the basket, in addition to the driver, it can also carry six or seven archers.

In contrast, the elephants on Ah San's side are generally about three meters in height, a few can reach four meters, and a few can reach five meters. They really can't be compared with Carthage, which is also playing elephant soldiers.

Huan Wen knew that the elephant was afraid of fire from the Romans who accompanied the army, and he also learned about the elephant's size, but the courage is small.

Rome now has no elephant troops, not that they do not have them in their territory, nor are they lacking the means (servants) to tame elephants. It is that the elephants themselves are a kind of delicate animal, and Rome has fallen into financial difficulties after being divided. No one of the three parties can afford to support a huge army of elephant troops, and the small number of elephant troops will not have any key effect.

"In terms of geopolitics, our alliance with the Persians is doomed to break. The difference is when we expand to their borders." Huan Wen is still quite interested in expeditions to Persia: "They also know this."

How the Persian Sassanian is also an empire, it will not be like some small countries that only think about the present without thinking about the future. Together with the Han country, they dealt with the Gupta dynasty, in order to cut off the long-range "blood replenishment" of the Gupta dynasty to Rome. In the process of the alliance, the Persian Sassan, with his political prestige, would think in a malicious direction for the two countries such as the two satraps and vagatoga, it would not be seen that the Hans monopolized the benefits of the Gupta dynasty.

The two Satraps and Vajdakars and the Gupta dynasty are connected by roads and borders. Compared with the Han country, which needs to transport troops tens of thousands of miles across the sea to fight, the advantage will not be only a little bit, no. Said to be wealth plunder, the amount of land occupied can be digested to the greatest extent.

"The Persians are very clever." Yuan Qiao can already predict one thing: "Once Gupta is destroyed, there will definitely be disputes between the big man and the two satraps and Vajdakka."

Before the war, the Persian Sassanids had already solemnly stated that they would not occupy even one inch of Gupta's land. Their advice was that in addition to the Persian Sassanids, the countries of the alliance camp would occupy them during the war, and those lands would be owned by the occupying powers.

It's not that Han Guo didn't see it through, but he didn't respond after seeing it through. The Persians wanted Han to conflict with the two Satraps and Vajdakars, but it was actually in the arms of Han. The Han army came to the Asan Continent, but it was not a Gupta dynasty that could satisfy their appetite, so look for them later. An excuse for starting a war is not as good as pushing the boat along the river.

"Wen really wants to see what choice the Persians will have at that time." Huan Wen doesn't care about how many enemies there are. The more wars he can make, the happier he will be: "If they choose to support those two small countries, Dahan can help Daqin. people."

Yuan Qiao and many of his colleagues actually agree. If Han is really going to choose a long-term ally, it is known that there is really no more suitable object in the world than Rome.

That is a matter of the location of the two countries. Han is in the East and Rome is in the West. The two countries also control all the land from the landing to the ocean, but in the middle is a vast and exaggerated continent. There is not much conflict of interest. At the same time, is it not a good choice for the two sides to form allies and expand towards the middle?

The view of alliance with Rome has long been mentioned to Liu Yan, and the supporting point is the above one. The doubt is that Rome will split on its own. If you really want to discuss the alliance, you will have to wait for the reunification of Rome.

Of course, if Han and Rome really form an alliance, the alliance relationship will only be maintained until the border between the two countries. There may be a few years of peaceful coexistence between the two countries. Then an unprecedented war will break out and the only one who will win the world island. Owner.

"We guess we won't live by that time." Huan Wen was obviously disappointed, but he quickly regained his spirit: "Our generation can lay the foundation for later generations, and it's the right time."

Yuan Qiao didn't think so far, focusing on the current war. He stopped talking and went to one side to watch the information that he had not had time to read in recent days, focusing on the war situation in the western part of the Gupta dynasty.

"The two Satrap and Vajdakars that are connected to the western border of Gupta are big countries that can send tens of thousands of troops." Yuan Qiao said while watching the intelligence: "They have already started attacking Gupta as agreed."

Huan Wen had seen the information a long time ago, or there would have been some of the above conversations.

Vajradja has long had border frictions with the Gupta dynasty, and the two countries usually have large armies on the border. Vagatoga's offensive against the Gupta Dynasty not only had to face the army of the Gupta Dynasty, but also had to fight one fortification after another.

The relationship between the two Satraps and the Gupta dynasty was not bad, and to some extent it was friendly, but this time the two Satraps did not care about friendship. It was precisely because the previous relations between the two countries were not tense that the Gupta dynasty only deployed a small number of troops on the border, waiting for the two satraps to suddenly turn their faces and deny them. No matter how fast they are, they will seem rushed. The two satraps started with cavalry and invaded within a hundred miles of the Gupta dynasty in just ten days.

"There will be a good show in the future." Huan Wen said maliciously: "Vajdagarah is advancing very hard, and the casualties must be very serious. They see their neighbors easily win one victory to another, but they are blocked. Any thoughts?"

"It is agreed that how many territories will be captured, and those territories will be owned by the country that has captured one side." Yuan Qiao thought about the other side: "In order to achieve balance, the Persians should support Vajradja."

"Inevitable." Huan Wen is not optimistic about the balancing policy of the Persians: "With the constant turmoil in Persia and the actual threat from the Daqin, how many troops can be deployed? Even if they can be deployed ~ www.mtlnovel. com~Presumably the Persians would not be willing to use their own army to help the frontiers and bloodshed of Vargadoka. Supporting equipment? I heard that Persia's finances are not optimistic."

If the Persians didn't want to be chess players and didn't conceal the weakness of the elephants, Huan Wen would not be so gloating. Since the Persians are not authentic, don't blame him for not being honest and wanting to watch allies' jokes. Besides, he didn't have much ethics at first, and if the Persians didn't mess up himself, he would want to stumble.

The two were talking. Someone outside told Kiyanush Alta Aldashir to come by boat and had sent his entourage to inform him that he would come to Huan Wen soon.

"Bet on five copper plates." Huan Wen's fingers tapped on the case table rhythmically: "He is here for help."

"Buy ordnance." Yuan Qiao said in a thoughtful manner and said slowly: "And I don't know if the country agrees?"

Kiyanush Alta Aldashir arrived at the Pingman Captain's Department from the mainland of Han country a month ago. He should have received any instructions from the country. It is very likely that Huan Wen and Yuan Qiao just said that they would support the army. The Kadaka matter. It is not impossible for him to go back soon after he left Han, but the current monsoon is obviously wrong, and it will take too long to go to Han, and it is the best choice to find Huan Wen.

It didn’t take long for Kianusz Alta Aldashir to enter the military account after being notified, and after a few polite words, he went straight to the subject. It really made Huan Wen and Yuan Qiao guess it. It’s a discussion. Purchased military equipment.

Yuan Qiao walked out, walked back soon, handed Huan Wen five copper plates, and then went to the side to stay silent.

Huanwen looked at Kianusz Arta Aldahir with five copper plates with an unpredictable face, and he was a little bit frustrated when he saw the latter.

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