After Shen Bing won the battle, he immediately wrote a letter to Lan, asking Fusu to take Princess Ziyang back to the sandbank.
Unexpectedly, Fusu's Confucian pedantry came back at this time, and he wrote back:
"Knowing that the general is deeply surrounded by enemy troops, how can Fusu leave the general in danger and return alone?"
"General, don't talk too much. Fusu will advance and retreat with the general."
"General, just give it a go and fight in Homusang. The Lan family has its own principles of Fusu!"
Shen Bing couldn't laugh or cry when he saw these words. Fusu didn't know that he would not only be unable to help in Lan's family, but would also restrict Shen Bing in everything.
However, Shen Bing knew that if Fusu believed that Huo Musang was in danger, no matter how much he tried to persuade him, it would be useless, so he said nothing more.
What Shen Bing didn't expect was that this move was a mistake, otherwise it would really be a bad thing.
Of course, Shen Bing did not expect that Princess Ziyang would be confused among them.
At this time, Princess Ziyang was enjoying herself in the Lan family:
"As soon as I arrived at the front line, I received a battle report of the front line's triumphant victory, and they defeated more with less!"
"Shen Bing really deserves his reputation."
"But what is that matchlock?"
"Why have you never heard of it before?"
Of course, no one can answer this question, because the matchlock is a secret weapon, and not everyone knows about it even Huo Musang, let alone the Lan family.
But Princess Ziyang understood immediately:
"It must be another new thing invented by Shen Bing. Let me go and have a look!"
She really wanted to go to Huo Musang. If Fusu hadn't stopped her, she would have thrown herself into a trap.
Therefore, when Shen Bing wrote a letter asking them to return to the sandbank, Princess Ziyang was not willing to agree. She also spoke a lot of righteous words to Fusu, which only frightened Fusu into being stunned for a while, and she naturally did not agree in the end.
The Seleucid coalition forces opened in disorder.
Although this battle did not shake the foundation of the Seleucid coalition, it frightened Marcus, Hector and other generals.
In this battle, the Silk Army defeated the greater number with a small number, and killed more than 4,000 Roman soldiers at a very small cost.
The victory of the arquebusiers must have been at a small price, since they did not even come into contact with the enemy.
If there were any losses, it was that several people were injured by the javelins thrown by the Roman soldiers. In addition, the heavy cavalry and light cavalry suffered some losses while chasing the enemy.
All these losses added up to only a hundred people.
But what really frightened them was the appearance of a new weapon called the "matchlock" on the battlefield.
Marcus found Hector immediately:
"I think you already know, General Hector, the people of Silk Country are much more powerful than we thought!"
Hector nodded solemnly. His eastern position was right next to the battlefield. After the battle began, Hector and his men rushed to the battlefield to watch the battle, so that he could be prepared when facing the enemy in the future.
Therefore, he had witnessed the entire process and of course knew the terrifying weapons of the Silk Nation Army.
After thinking for a while, Hector said:
"We can be fooled, Marcus!"
Marcus was stunned for a moment, and then he came to his senses:
"Are you saying Akevus knows this?"
Then Marcus shook his head:
"No, I don't think so."
"If he knew that the Silk Army had such more terrifying weapons, he would not have thought that we could surround Homusan."
Hector frowned and said:
"Perhaps this is his purpose, to let us die here while he attacks Lan's City to cut off the supplies of the Silk Nation people."
"I guess the equipment of the Silk Nation people must be transporting something, such as those things that emit smoke."
The smoking thing Hector was talking about was gunpowder.
This is correct, because iron products were not uncommon in Central Asia and Europe at this time, and could be replenished locally.
But gunpowder is something that is not available here, so the Silk Kingdom army should be transported from the Central Plains.
This is related to the supply issue.
So Hector's hypothesis can be established: Achaeus knew this danger, but deliberately let the Roman and Macedonian armies consume the silk country's gunpowder here, while the Seleucid army did safer work: cutting off
The enemy's supplies were finally reaped.
Marcus hesitated, but he quickly thought of a way:
"We should get Akevus back, Hector!"
Hector immediately understood what Marcus meant, and he nodded:
"Yes, we should let Akevus come back to face the current crisis together!"
So Akevus received a message.
In fact, that is not intelligence, but an accusation:
"You lied to us. The Silk people don't just have firearms that can throw big iron balls five hundred meters away. They also have a personal weapon that fires small iron balls that can penetrate shields and kill them.
soldiers!"
"If you and your army don't come back to fight the enemy, then Homusan will be handed over to Seleucid!"
Along with the letter, there was an iron bullet with bloodshot eyes.
Akevs took a look at the iron bullet and felt more and more that this battle was not as simple as imagined.
In fact, if the enemy has such a weapon, they should attack the Lan clan in two groups to cut off reinforcements and supplies that may come from the Central Plains.
But the current situation makes it impossible for Akefus to do so.
Because they were suspicious of Akevus's command and true intentions, if they did not return to Homusan to join the battle... the Roman and Macedonian armies were likely to withdraw from the battlefield, and then Ptolemy would follow closely, and the alliance would be over.
collapse.
This was unacceptable to Akevus, because it meant that Seleucid would face the terrifying Silk Army alone.
So Akevs did not hesitate and ordered: "Return to Homusan."
Akefs joined the siege of Khomusan that night, and he personally explained to the generals who arrived:
"I swear we didn't know the enemy had this kind of equipment before this!"
"In fact, we still don't know. The only thing I know about it is this iron ball."
As he said this, Akevus took out the iron bullet he had received.
"So, what are you going to do?" Hector asked: "I mean how are you going to solve this problem? The enemy can easily shoot our soldiers from a hundred meters away, but we can't do anything about it."
Akevus thought for a while and replied:
"Maybe we can build trebuchets, lots of trebuchets."
This defensive thinking is correct, because if the enemy's matchlocks line up to fight against the Seleucid coalition, the long range of the trebuchets can kill the musketeers beyond our own infantry.
The problem is... Shen Bing's musketeers are not just infantry, they are also cavalry.