Chapter 676

In the age of wooden ships, if there was a war, there was no doubt that the most feared thing was fire attack.

Whether it is the fire attack on land or on the water, in fact, the fire attack is not so fun to turn. Neither weather nor geography is indispensable.

A strong wind suddenly appeared on the sea, which was also beneficial to the Han fleet. Originally, only some warships on fire rose up to attack the enemy, and the ships prepared behind launched the warship charge. If the wind direction did not change, the result of the battle had actually been shown. The difference was how many ships were lost by both sides.

"It's over." Huan Wen was not completely unfamiliar with water warfare. He saw that the fleet of Gupta side was in chaos under the attack of fireboats. After making comments, he continued: "go down the mountain."

The coastline began to have dense plumes of smoke rising into the sky. It was burning ships emitting thick smoke. The ships of both sides in the first battle position could be seen clearly from a distance.

Li mai not only let Pang attack behind him, but also the warships of his fleet continue to move forward, constantly compressing the activity space of the Gupta fleet. At the same time, the ships are crowded. Under the fire attack, the Gupta side is even worse.

There were so many ships burning that people in the rear could only see dense smoke. More and more ships on the Gupta side began to rush to the beach. Some abandoned soldiers and sailors, whether in small boats or swimming, also moved to the beach.

During the battle on land, the Han army kept pushing forward, and the consumption was about an hour and a half. The Gupta side was squeezed to the sea for about a mile.

The heavy infantry of the Han army were exhausted and had retreated to the rear. The shield soldiers organized the shield wall to advance slowly, covered by some close combat infantry, and a large number of crossbow men kept firing arrows behind the shield wall.

There were more than 15000 people in the small beachhead position, and some people continued to go up the beachhead, resulting in a phenomenon of crowded people. They were seriously killed and injured under the continuous coverage of the bow and crossbow men of the Han army. Too many people were bleeding, and the Yan red water collected by blood appeared on the ground and went to the sea.

Katluk Kapp had already landed. He stared at the sea for a while, turned his head and looked at the land. The arrows in the sky were like rain, and his ears were full of screams and wails. He closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and said, "ask the Han army for a truce."

There's no way. The sea war situation changes suddenly. The war on land has always been at a disadvantage, katruk Karp can no longer see the hope of winning the war. He is bankrupt when he breaks through the siege. He is facing unilateral killing on the beach. Support is no longer valuable. It's better for some singles to admit defeat.

When Si Hongzhuang saw aptra, aptra immediately knelt down and said a string of words.

After translation, Si Hongzhuang knew that the black charcoal in front of him came on behalf of Gupta's supreme commander in the battle and was looking for zanpute Warren.

"We admit defeat. Please order to stop the attack." Zanpt Warren's waist bent down completely: "please also introduce your general to discuss the ransom."

Si Hongzhuang smiled and said, "order your soldiers to lay down their weapons."

Zanpt Warren had nothing to show off. He said something to aptra. After aptra left, he said to Si Hongzhuang, "we are a civilized country and abide by the rules of war in the civilized world. Please also respect the rules of war in the Han Empire with a long history and civilization."

It should be said that the development time of a San civilization is not less than that of Zhuxia civilization. On the contrary, a San civilization has developed for a longer time than Zhuxia civilization. In fact, among the four countries known as the four ancient civilizations, Babylon in Cuba has the longest history, and then ancient Egypt. There is little difference in time between the three civilizations and the Zhuxia civilization, but the Zhuxia civilization is definitely no longer than the three civilizations. (FACTS)

Ancient Babylon was founded around 3500b.c. and is the oldest known civilization. The formal founding of the people's Republic of China took place in 2006 A.D. before that, it had invented words. As the oldest civilization, Babylon in Cuba has quite a few firsts (still proved by archaeological Texts), and even created a mythical building (sky garden), which was destroyed by Assyria.

At present, although there is still Egypt, it must be said that Egypt has long declined. After the Ptolemy Dynasty, Egypt is a civilization that has been conquered again and again. As an ancient civilization, Egypt lost its autonomy after being conquered by the Romans, and later became a colonial civilization. After the rise of the Arabs, it even fused the Egyptian civilization. As a civilization, Egypt has actually died, and there is no "corpse fraud" even in modern times.

The most brilliant period of a San civilization was in the age of Asoka (Peacock Dynasty), but a San was brilliant once, then fell into division and was killed by the Dayue people (kusana) conquest. After the collapse of the kusana Empire, it split into more than a dozen countries, large and small. Apart from the Peacock Dynasty of a San, the territory of the Sunda Dynasty is the largest. General pushiamito, who was also the founder of the Sunda Dynasty, killed prihadorada, the last king of the Peacock Dynasty during the military parade, and the Sunda Dynasty was established. (185 BC)

In fact, the xunga dynasty did not have a good scenery for a long time, and soon lost the two river basins. Even on the land of a San, it was inferior to the Baicheng Dynasty (fandaruo Dynasty), which was actually one of the vassals of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Almost at the time of the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty, no matter the Baicheng dynasty or the other countries, in fact, they also fell successively. The vakataga dynasty took the lead in the rise, and the Gupta Dynasty can only be said to catch up from behind.

There are many ups and downs of Zhuxia civilization. The Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty can be called the peak of civilization. After the chaotic war of the princes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the coexistence of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuxia civilization actually went to ruin in the civil strife. As a grave digger of Zhuxia, the crimes of Sima's family can't be put on Sima's head. The responsibility of each family is far greater than Sima's family, but who makes Sima's family a royal family.

If the history had not been changed by Liu Yan, the decline of Zhuxia civilization would have lasted for hundreds of years until Yang Jian established the great Sui Dynasty on behalf of Zhou. Although after the war in the late Sui Dynasty, Li Tang still stood in the east of the world after the establishment of Li Tang, but the glory of Li Tang did not last long. The war in Five Dynasties and ten countries completely changed Zhuxia civilization.

It is not nonsense to say that the wars of the Five Dynasties and ten countries had a far-reaching impact on the civilization of Zhuxia. It is precisely because the generals of the Five Dynasties and ten countries disordered the country that led to the suppression of generals after the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the generals did not think it was wrong to be suppressed. That is because they learned from the historical books that the generals of the Five Dynasties and ten countries were domineering.

Since then, the Central Plains Civilization only paid attention to military generals in the Zhu Di generation, and the subsequent emperors did their best to suppress military generals under the guidance of the so-called scholars. Even the status of the country's dying military generals has not been improved.

When it comes to the rules of engagement, in fact, since the end of the spring and Autumn period, Zhuxia civilization has no longer been a classical civilization and began to move towards the war road of "everything", while the remaining civilizations have more or less preserved the rules of engagement in the classical era, including that the defeated party can redeem his freedom with ransom as long as his status is high enough.

Si Hongzhuang is not from an aristocratic family. In fact, even the aristocratic family no longer talks about the rules of engagement, zanpute What Warren said about respecting the rules of engagement is basically useless.

As the Gupta side laid down their weapons, there was no doubt that the victory or defeat of this battlefield was displayed.

On land, the Han army gathered the prisoners and got the cooperation of Gupta. Even if Gupta cooperated again, it would not be over for a while. In the process, some funny things happened to the Han army. For example, some chadili of Gupta asked for treatment matching their identity.

"What is it?"

"We need comfortable accommodation and servants to serve life."

There's nothing wrong. Ah San's nobles are so proud and charming. They admit defeat and are willing to cooperate with being taken into custody, but they must have a comfortable house and have more people to serve.

The Han Army had so many requirements for the defeated. In addition to being funny, it was angry. The Zhuxia civilization had long ignored the rules of war. Only with the special permission of the general of the unified army, some defeated people would receive special preferential treatment, but it was usually an example.

"What?" When Huan Wen learned about the situation, he smiled bitterly at first, followed by a little annoyance: "at least 1700 so-called nobles protested and asked for the treatment of prisoners of war who met their status?"

A San's nobles are divided into classes, not official classes, but castes. Even if they are high castes, they also have a clear class. What class they should be cannot be overstepped.

Huan Wen was angry because the prisoners put forward so many and miscellaneous demands. If we subdivide the demands, we can definitely see the respective status of prisoners of war.

"1700 nobles?" Si Hongzhuang really didn't know in advance. He was stunned when he heard the data: "all the nobles of Gupta have come?"

In fact, 1700 nobles are nothing. As long as the a'san civilization is a high caste, they are all nobles. In their race, chadili is used to lead the army. There is really no lack of chadili in the army. The so-called nobles all over the country take "10000" as the basic unit.

Huan Wen was not a rigid person. He learned about a San's civilization and customs and knew a general situation. Although he was angry, he was more sad and laughing: "according to their habits, all the great men and gentlemen are nobles. Then, the great men have at least hundreds of thousands of nobles."

Back, catrook Kapp and others were taken to Huanwen.

"Our request is very reasonable." Katluk Of course, Karp was not abused, even because he was the top commander of Gupta's side. He reasoned and said generally, "we have given good treatment to your captured nobles."

Katluk Kapu said that the Han army went to the Gupta Dynasty and would be arrested for intelligence espionage. He particularly mentioned the treatment received by Li Ming after his capture. Huan Wen and other Han army generals were stunned when they heard that Li Ming was even arranged to live in the palace of Gupta.

Li Ming is only a team leader, and his title is the creation of the second-class baron. Although people like him are not as many as rotten streets in the Han country, there are hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands of people equivalent to him. In this way, after he was captured, he was well served and even lived in the palace of Gupta.

Zhuxia is a civilization of reciprocity. To put it bluntly, it is good face. Although Huan Wen doesn't know who Li Ming is, he knows katluk Kapp's identity would not talk nonsense. Although he was still unhappy, he ordered to give Gupta's nobles prisoners of war treatment matching their identity.

"Thank you for your civilized treatment." Katluk It is false for Kapp to say that he is not worried. It is also a temptation to strive for the treatment of prisoners of war matching his identity. He had got the desired result, was on the defeated side, and dared not disrespect in attitude. He had some conversations close to chatting, and did not find out why the Han army attacked the Gupta Dynasty, Later, it said, "according to the rules of engagement, each of our chadili will deliver gold of the same weight as our body to redeem freedom. I will personally deliver the treasure of a hundred carriages."

Huan Wen learned more or less from Si Hongzhuang that ah San lost the war and wanted to redeem freedom with gold. It's not impossible to consider it, for katluk Kapp was stunned when he mentioned the treasure of a hundred carriages to redeem his freedom.

"Rules of engagement?" Huan Wen loves gold, for catluk Kapp, of course, scoffed: "only big men can make rules."

Katluk Kapp frowned and asked, "so, how much do you want?"

What Huan Wen is struggling with is not how much ransom he will get, but how much money he will give to katluk After Karp's defeat, he repeatedly pretended not to see the past, and the response was a series of "ha ha" laughter.

"The wealth of a hundred carriages exceeds 200000 gold coins." Katluk Karp is a Brahman. Even if he is defeated, as long as he does not die, the ransom must match his status. He feels that the price he offered is very reasonable: "it's 200000 gold coins!"

The Gupta Dynasty had its own monetary system, which was divided into copper, silver and gold. The ternary system of this currency is actually more perfect than that of today's countries, and the Central Plains Dynasty is really backward.

Don't worry about how many copper coins for how many silver coins, or how many silver coins for how many gold coins, and so on. The coins of the Gupta Dynasty naturally have strong a San characteristics. The patterns are very beautiful. The weight of each gold coin is about 15g.

Put it simply, catrook Kapp will hand over a ransom of 200000 gold coins, each of which is 15g. 200000 gold coins are 15t, which is 15t gold.

Huan Wen displeasantly asked people to take catrook Kapp took it down and said angrily, "what's his attitude? Did we win or did they win?"

Si Hongzhuang did nothing else just now. He was calculating how much ransom the 1500 Gupta nobles could provide. The calculated data was at least 75 tons of gold, followed by katluk How much is Kapp's ransom.

"Uh...!" Si Hongzhuang said to Huan Wen with a slightly dull facial expression: "general, if they really pay the ransom, there will be 90 tons of gold..."

Huan Wen was just angry. He really didn't calculate. When he heard it, his mouth couldn't help opening wide.