Chapter 510: The lips are dead and the teeth are cold
The food in the warehouse was piled like a hill, and weapons and equipment were everywhere. It is no exaggeration to say that it was enough for the Qin army to last for several years.
It's just a pity that the weapons and equipment are not used... The Qin army is all cavalry, and they are not used to and unable to use these heavy equipment that can only be used by infantry.
However, Shen Bing looked solemn after looking at the equipment.
Because these equipment are all made of iron, and the quality of the iron is still higher than the new iron made by Shen Bing... As mentioned before, the West Asian area entered the Iron Age hundreds of years earlier than the Central Plains, and the iron equipment at this time was already very Mature.
Shen Bing didn't think much and immediately ordered:
"Seal down the entire city's iron smelting workshops and prevent any blacksmith from escaping!"
Wang Ben responded and led the Shenwu Army to carry out the mission.
Later, Shen Bing realized that there was no need for him to be so nervous at all, because at this time, there were many people in Central and Western Asia who knew how to smelt iron and make ironware, which was very common for them.
The second thing Shen Bing did was to order Yan to lead the Pu Lei army to station outside the city.
This is not because there is no room for Pu Leijun in the city.
In fact, Homusan is a large city with a population of hundreds of thousands. It originally had 50,000 troops stationed in it, and it has always been the base for the Seleucid Empire's Eastern Expedition. Therefore, the military camp has redundancy and can garrison 70,000 troops.
But Shen Bing did not dare to station all the troops in the city.
The reason is very simple. The Qin army is a cavalry army and it is dealing with the Seleucid army.
Once the Seleucid army deployed the super long spear phalanx at the gates of each city, the Qin army's cavalry would not be able to leave the city. Therefore, the mobility of the cavalry would be useless, and it would be a matter of time before they were annihilated.
But it would be different if the main force is deployed outside the city. Supplies and drinking water can be supplied from within the city. Once attacked by the enemy, the cavalry will avoid and flee. Outside the city, the inside and outside should be combined to attack and defend, so that the city can be better defended.
At this time, Akefs was still on his way to reinforce Homusan. As soon as he heard that Homusan had been lost and heard the Qin army's arrangements, he sighed and ordered:
"Bypass Homusan!"
The subordinate asked in confusion:
"General, are we going to give up on Homsang like this?"
"Why not surround it and recapture it?"
"I heard that the city wall of Homusang has been blown down by the Silk Army. We can attack through the gap!"
Akefs shook his head and said:
"Even now, don't you know how powerful the Silk Kingdom's army is?"
"We may be able to attack through the gap, but we can't recapture Homusan!"
The subordinates were dissatisfied and asked:
"Why?"
Akefs replied:
"Because they arranged their main force outside the city, 30,000 cavalry!"
"Once we attack the city, or even if we surround Homusan, these 30,000 cavalry will cut off our supply lines and prevent us from getting food!"
"How many days can we hold on then?"
After hearing this, the subordinates understood what the problem was.
But someone asked again:
"General, we can order Patia and Dawan to deal with these Silk Kingdom cavalry!"
Akevus laughed:
"We can no longer order them!"
"Even if we don't leave, we might be killed by them!"
Akaeves is right.
It can be said that Anxi has rebelled against Seleucid.
In fact, no one else is to blame for this, but Akefus ordered them to rescue Homusan.
In fact, we know that Anxi was forced to become a vassal state due to Seleucid's power, and it was not willing.
On this basis, Anxi will definitely preserve his strength in battle.
In other words, the alliance between Parthia and Seleucid can only fight with the wind, but not against the wind.
However, Akefs sent Parthian to rescue Homusan.
The Anxi army rushed to Homusang and saw... there were more than 40,000 Silk troops, while Anxi army only had 50,000.
If this were to happen, even if we could win, it would be a miserable victory, not to mention that in most cases we would not win.
What's more important is that even if he wins the battle, it won't do any good to An Xi.
Not only are there no benefits, but there are also disadvantages... Anxi's strength was greatly reduced and he preserved Homusang for Seleucid. Wouldn't it allow Seleucid to enslave Anxi better?
Therefore, only fools would fight this battle.
Since this war is not fought, it means that Parthia and Seleucid broke up or became independent.
This is true for Anxi, and even more so for Dawan.
Now that the break has occurred, will Akevs have to worry about being pursued by the two countries?
This is indeed the case. The Parthian King also sent a ranger to follow Akevs all the way to avenge the humiliation of surrendering. However, it was difficult to deal with the super long spear phalanx, so he never took action.
On the other hand, the Parthian king immediately sent an envoy to Huo Musang.
What the messenger said was nothing more than that the reason why he formed an alliance with Seleucid before was because of Seleucid's coercion, and now An An is willing to form an alliance with Shen Bing to fight against Seleucid and so on.
As for Dayuan, An An promised to ask the King of Dayuan to hand over the BMW and send an envoy with property to the Central Plains to apologize for the previous interception of the envoy.
What King Anxi did was very smart.
On the one hand, this is because the Silk Kingdom's army is strong, and there are only advantages and no disadvantages to forming an alliance with Shen Bing, otherwise Shen Bing will definitely take the city of Anxi in order to better fight against Seleucid...
The three cities of Huomusang, An'an and Lan's are in a triangle shape. Only by taking An'an can Shen Bing surround the middle space and circle around.
But if An'an forms an alliance with Shen Bing, Shen Bing doesn't need to waste time and risk setting up a new enemy to conquer An'an.
On the other hand, King Anxi also knew the meaning of death of lips and coldness of teeth.
If Shen Bing can't defeat Seleucid in Huo Musang, then it will be An Xi's turn.
But if An An can become Shen Bing's pillar and backup and enable Shen Bing to block the Seleucid army... then An An can rest easy.
Therefore, forming an alliance will benefit Anxi without any harm, so why not do Anxi?
Shen Bing secretly thought that it was no wonder that after the collapse of the Seleucid Empire, the Parthian Order rose up and took over most of the Seleucid territory, and even suffered heavy losses against the Roman legions later on.
With such foresight and political skills, it would be difficult not to be strong.
Of course Shen Bing would not refuse.
Although the two countries were enemies not long ago, and the Qin army even besieged the city of Anxi, Shen Bing has seen too many things like "Chasing Qin and Mu Chu"... Countries cannot hold grudges, and if they have common interests, they should seize them in time.
But this alliance was not easy for Shen Bing.
Because Shen Bing knew that from now on, Huo Musang would become a battlefield between Seleucid and the Qin army.
Later, Shen Bing realized that he had thought wrong.
He had to face more than just the Seleucids... The artillery in the hands of the Qin army shocked the whole of Europe, which gave Ptolemy, Macedonia, and even the Roman Empire a sense of crisis similar to that of Parthia.
Therefore, the enemy Shen Bing had to deal with was much stronger than imagined.