The first thousand two hundred and eighty-seventh battle of the valley (1)
But the military minister would never have imagined that just when he was in high spirits.
An unprecedentedly large fleet has approached Quanzhou Port, led by fifteen blessing ships, fully loaded with soldiers and equipment.
This is a transport fleet composed of the Korean Fleet of the Han Dynasty, the Andong Fleet and the Yuanhai Whaling Fleet.
Within the next day, this fleet sent the three full-strength reinforcements of the Guarding Army, two additional Sima troops, and a cavalry captain from North Korea to the dock in Quanzhou.
The scene of more than 5,000 soldiers filing off the ships shocked all residents of Quanzhou.
They have never seen such a grand event:
Hundreds of giant ships docked one by one along the port and nearby beaches, laying down ladders and planks for landing.
Then, rows of Han soldiers lined up neatly and disembarked from the ship in an orderly manner.
After landing, the troops immediately began to form a team, and then assembled into combat units.
At the same time, a large amount of equipment was unloaded from the dock.
Bows, crossbows, swords and halberds were neatly piled up on the pier.
Countless leather armors were packed in large boxes.
Thousands of Mo Dao, which were flashing with cold light and could only be equipped by the Han army's field troops, were carried down.
Millions of arrows were piled up into hills on the dock.
Han Anguo stepped off the boat, stepped onto the land of the North with his riding boots, and took a deep breath of the Chinese air that he had not seen for a long time. His face showed a trace of excitement.
After assisting Liu Ming in North Korea for five years, he was finally able to escape from North Korea.
Looking back at the huge fleet behind him, Han Anguo sighed in his heart.
In the past, he had never thought that the dangerous ocean could actually become a smooth road for mankind.
But he knew that from now on, the large ship fleet would rewrite history.
This time, the whalers and civilian ships from Anton and North Korea that hunted whales in Yuanhaili, no matter how big or small, were all requisitioned by the Anton Protectorate, thus forming such a huge fleet.
It transported more than five thousand people at a time from Xinhua and North Korea to the land of Youyan, three thousand miles away.
But the time is only seven days!
The natural chasm in eastern Liaoning and western Liaoning no longer exists, and soldiers no longer need to trek for a month or even longer!
Not only that, Han Anguo also heard that in Qilu and Jiangdu, there were also fleets of large ships arriving at starry night.
"The Huns are finished..." Han Anguo sighed softly.
Of course the Huns will be doomed!
Because in the next three days, most of the escort army will be transported by ship.
At the same time, more than 800,000 shi of grain shipped from Andong and North Korea will also arrive.
Materials and personnel from Qilu and Jiangdu will also be shipped continuously.
The Huns would soon discover that the balance of power between them and the Han army would rapidly change.
The only pity is that the troops and horses of the two cuirass captains guarding the Yi army are all in Chang'an, and it is impossible to cross such a long distance.
If the Huns come again next year and the two cuirass captains who have completed their training are in place, this time the Huns may lose even their underpants!
Even so, Han Anguo felt that the Huns would not be able to eat this time and walked away.
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Yishi, of course, didn't know what was happening on the coastline thousands of miles away.
At this moment, he was proudly leading his cavalry through the Great Wall of China on the Han-Hungarian border.
Looking at the burning earth, Yishi felt extremely proud.
In the past few days, his troops fought a fierce battle with the Han army here. After paying the lives of thousands of slave soldiers and thousands of cavalry, Yishi finally seized the access to this rich world in the interior of the Han Dynasty. Important level.
The only pity is that the Han Dynasty people and Lou Fanren left nothing for him.
Not even a single abandoned corpse could be found on the battlefield, and the beacon fortresses inside and outside the Great Wall had been destroyed before the Han army retreated.
In the villages at the foot of the mountain, all the wells have been blocked by stones, and the Huns had to spend a lot of effort to even fetch water.
Fortunately, the Han Dynasty people did not poison the well water, which allowed Yi Shi and his army to barely drink the water.
But if you want to eat, you have to bring it from behind.
Especially table salt!
Yishi's army totaled nearly 30,000 cavalry and more than 10,000 slave soldiers.
There are so many people, not counting the amount of salt they eat and drink every day, the amount of salt they eat is incalculable!
The obvious truth is that if a horse cannot eat salt, it will have no strength, and if a human does not have salt, its hands and feet will become weak.
Even livestock understand this!
Don’t the wild horses on the grasslands and the goats in the mountains have to go into groups every once in a while, risking their lives to enter some salty places, and eat the sand to obtain salt sustenance?
And the problem lies precisely here.
The Xiongnu's salt production was very small...
Especially in Munan, except for a few natural salt ponds, there are few places where they can get salt.
And these few salt ponds obviously cannot supply the needs of the entire grassland.
Therefore, in the Han-Hungarian trade, among the top three commodities that have historically been traded, salt must be included.
But the problem is that since the new emperor of the Han Dynasty came to power, the amount of salt received from the Han Dynasty has been decreasing year by year.
This forced the Xiongnu to transport salt from Mubei and even the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions.
However, this is an extremely uneconomical and costly stupid solution.
It takes at least two months to transport a piece of rock salt from Mubei to Munan. If it is transported from the Western Regions, it takes at least three or four months.
Even if they were transported by slaves, the Huns would not be able to bear it.
What's more, it was virtually impossible to use slaves to transport salt.
Generally speaking, when the Huns transported salt from Mubei or the Western Regions, they used livestock, camels, or relied on migrating tribes to bring it.
However, even so, the price is very high.
The price of one stone of salt on the grassland has already exceeded that of two mares or cows!
Yishi's southern invasion took away almost all the inventory of the tribe and vassal tribes, but so far, these inventories have been basically consumed.
The army's supply of salt and livestock's brine began to be stretched.
In the past, this was not a problem for the Huns.
As long as they break into the Great Wall and conquer the Han army's cities, the army will immediately get enough salt, food, wealth and even slaves.
but now……
The Huns' cavalry scouts searched forward for fifty miles but found no one.
The Han Dynasty seemed to have made a large-scale retreat during the war.
They took away everything they could, and whatever they couldn't take away, they set it all on fire.
"These Han Dynasty people!" Yishi was extremely angry in his heart.
He didn't get much reward for taking down the Great Wall, and he didn't even see the corpses of his enemies.
The Han army retreated along the straight road one by one under the cover of cavalry. Before retreating, the Han cavalry launched a counterattack to confuse him.
But, it doesn't matter!
Yishi is now full of self-confidence. He is confident that since he can break the Great Wall, he can definitely break Juyang, the Han Dynasty county behind the Great Wall!
"It's just a matter of depositing the property with the people of the Han Dynasty first..." With this thought, Yishi rode a horse, took his own banner and tribal cavalry, crossed the pass of the Great Wall, and entered Shanggu County.
's hinterland.
Because Yi Shi knew that there was still plenty of time left for him.
Judging from past experience, at this moment, the reinforcements from the Han Dynasty are at most only some soldiers from the counties and counties near Shanggu coming to support.
The terrifying main field regiments of the Han Dynasty are probably still trudging through the mire and mud on the road.
To get here, even the nearest Flying Fox Army would need at least twenty days.
Deducting the time he wasted on the Great Wall, it would take at least ten days for the Han Dynasty's Flying Fox Army to reach Shanggu County.
These ten days were enough for him to sweep through the entire upper valley, even break through the county town, and then take countless spoils with him. Under the eyes of the Han Dynasty, he retreated alternately and withdrew from the Great Wall, leaving a mess of
The territory was left to the Han Dynasty.
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At this moment, the main force of the Loufan army, which had just retreated from the Zaoyang Great Wall to the vicinity of Juyang City, had just entered the camp and was preparing to rest.
Zhao Meng was riding a war horse with a sling hanging from his shoulders. His right hand was shot by a stray arrow on the Yangzhao Great Wall. The military doctor said that he needed to rest for at least half a month.
But Zhao Meng sneered, half a month?!
The day lilies are already cold!
Therefore, he didn't bother to listen to the military doctor's instructions. Despite his injuries, he still rode horses and trained like a normal person.
Such a little injury is nothing to him.
It's just pain, not a broken arm!
Once on the grassland, even though he broke his leg, he still had to go herding and hunting.
Otherwise you will starve to death!
Although there is no need to worry about starving to death now, Zhao Meng knows that if he goes to recuperate, he may not have anything to do with him in the future.
Because he saw the Divine Cavalry!
Just next to his camp, dozens of large tents stood in a row.
The camp is heavily guarded, with military patrols from time to time.
In some open areas inside, you can often see tall and tall Han soldiers, carefully wiping and maintaining their lances and armors in the sun.
That lance with a terrifyingly long handle and an astonishing sharpness fascinated Zhao Meng, and those armors shining brightly in the sun were like peerless beauties, attracting all his attention.
Like Zhao Meng, there are many, many people who are attracted by these equipments.
These soldiers of the Loufan Army gathered around the Cuirass Camp, like fans who have seen their idols, with stars in their eyes and full of admiration in their hearts!
The divine cavalry among the Huns and the breastplate of the Han army are the strongest and most terrifying invincible army in the world!
Since its appearance, the breastplate has never failed.
Even losses on the battlefield can only be calculated in tens of digits.
Most of these losses were not caused by the enemy.
There was even a cuirassier officer of the Han army who proudly promoted: "There is no army or weapon in this world that can defeat and threaten a charging cuirassier group!"
This may sound too arrogant, but it is precisely because of this that the cuirass troops of the Han army have become the biggest dream and the most desirable place for warriors in the world.
Even not only warriors, but also literati and poets also wrote poems and poems to express their ideals of being willing to wear breastplates.
However, the requirements for becoming a cuirassier are too demanding!
First of all, you must be at least eight feet tall!
I don’t know how many people with lofty ideals are stuck on just this one!
With a height of eight feet, even in the Han Dynasty, I dare not say that he is one of a hundred, at least he is one of fifty!
Then, there are also requirements for weight and riding skills.
Didn't you see, the Huyi Army had nearly 20,000 men, but after a lot of selection, only a thousand men were selected. Just like that, hundreds more were directly eliminated while training in Chang'an.
Those who are left behind are nothing but the backbone and the elite.
However, the good news for the Han Dynasty is that the next generation will definitely be taller than this generation, and much taller!
Especially the children of military families and landowning gentry.
Because their family is wealthy, they can eat fish salt from the sea, cheese and even beef from livestock every day!
In Chang'an, there are now many young nobles and powerful sons of the gentry aged fourteen or fifteen who stand out from the crowd. The proportion of giants is very high. Almost half of them will definitely be over eight feet tall when they reach adulthood!
But now, height and weight are still the biggest obstacles limiting the Han army's cuirass troops.
It took the Han family all the strength of the world for six years. So far, the size of the cuirass force is only between 7,000 and 9,000.
Among them, there are probably only five to six thousand people who have combat capabilities and can go to the battlefield to kill the enemy.
And here, there are almost 1,700 cuirassiers.
They are the subordinates of the two cuirass captains of the Flying Fox Army.
This number is just enough to organize a large cluster of breastplates to attack and charge into formation.
Zhao Meng licked his tongue and looked at these mighty knights with great envy.
He dreams of becoming one of them, even if it means cleaning for these great cavalry, the emperor's personal guards!
It's just a pity...
Zhao Meng knew that he had no hope.
He is too short, and compared to the physical fitness of these divine knights, he is also too thin.
but……
"Although I can't do it, my son can definitely do it!" Zhao Meng swore in his heart.
His wife just asked someone to tell him that he was going to be a father again!
This made Zhao Meng full of confidence. This time he would be able to give birth to a son who was upright and upright. He would be China and Zhu Xia's son when he was born!
Then, he will surely grow up healthily and happily, and eventually take over his mantle and become a warrior who opens up new territories for the emperor!
At this moment, suddenly, there was a noise in the distance.
Countless people were rushing to each other loudly: "General Chariot and Cavalry, the main force of Xiliu Camp led by General Dongchenghou Yi Zongyi has arrived in the south of Shanggu!"
Zhao Meng jumped up immediately after hearing this.
Righteous General!
The current god of war, the symbol of victory!
He actually came!
And it came so quickly!
Zhao Meng's first feeling was that Shanggu County was safe and the Huns were finished!
"It seems that this time the great Emperor of Han has appeared again!" Zhao Meng thought in his heart, he couldn't wait to follow General Yi to kill all the Huns and take back his homeland!
He will never forget the moment when he lit his home on fire with his own hands.
He also vowed to take it back and build his warm, safe, warm and happy home again.
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I've been running outside all day and my head is dizzy~
In the past two days, it is estimated that the update will not be stable~ Sigh~ The main reason is that my chair has not returned yet~ Because my lumbar spine and cervical spine are not good~
My back hurts a lot when I sit on a regular chair, and my neck feels uncomfortable~
Please wait patiently for a few days~ (To be continued.)
