Huan Wen soon got yuan Qiao's feedback. His first move after getting the loyalty book 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 gitanado, and the port area has entered the final stage of construction, that is, the construction speed of the Shuizhai is a little slow.
The second batch of 20000 follow-up troops arrived on the third day. They took over some areas captured by the first batch of troops, mainly highlands with firm strategic value.
The first batch of landing troops swept around after landing. The main expansion direction was East and North. They did not encounter tenacious resistance. It took only five days to advance more than 120 miles east and North with the landing point as the core. The East was always blocked by the mountains, and the North was stopped in a forest area.
The third batch of follow-up troops arrived on the sixth day. It happened that Yuan Qiao returned to the camp. The newly arrived fleet was unloading troops through the built port. Their arrival increased the number of troops landing in gitanado to 120000.
"Our scouts at the forefront have preliminarily spied on the enemy's intelligence." Huan Wen stood up, walked to the shelf hanging the mountain map, and lit the area in the eastern mountain area: "there are about 60000 enemy troops here. They stopped to build fortifications according to the terrain and assumed a firm posture."
Yuan Qiao looked at the relatively simple military map, nodded to understand, and saw Huan Wen's hand drawing the northern region.
"Most of this place is a primitive forest area, which has hardly been developed." Huan Wen's index finger lit the map, and individual areas drew circles one after another: "there are also a number of enemy troops here, the number should be about 100000."
The development level of the Gupta Dynasty, especially the surrounding areas and coastal areas of the royal capital, is very high, and the density of cities and villages is very dense.
Gitanado is a small country. It can be called a highly developed area. It is only the king capital Sartre city and its surroundings. There are very few cities, and it is also a gathering place at the village level. The vast majority of their territory may be inhabited, but it is really almost wild, which is also confirmed by misap.
"It is estimated that there are more than 170000 enemy troops in the East and North?" Yuan Qiao attached great importance to this information and said with some emotion: "the population of Gupta seems to be very large!"
The population of the Gupta Dynasty is indeed large, it should be about 20 million, but the vast majority are the so-called Dalits.
The military structure of the Gupta Dynasty cannot be clearly distinguished from that of the Han Dynasty. In addition, it is difficult to find out how many of the 170000 enemy troops have been found to be chadili legions and how many are worthless Dalit armed forces.
"We found elephant troops in the northern region." Huan Wen was prepared for meeting elephant soldiers. He also worked with egutai for this purpose Bahram once understood: "elephant soldiers in forest warfare are difficult to deal with."
How could a San not have elephant soldiers? Their history of taming elephants can be traced back to ancient times. The first A.3 dynasty that used elephant soldiers in large quantities was the Peacock Dynasty. They defeated Alexander the great in the eastern expedition and forced the Greek Macedonian coalition to withdraw from A.3 territory.
There are also elephant troops in Sasan, Persia, which can not be compared with the Gupta Dynasty in quantity. Their elephant troops have made many achievements in the competition with Rome. They are another trump card in addition to armor, riding equipment and bow cavalry.
The Romans actually had their own elephant soldiers, and the history of using elephant soldiers was earlier than that of the Persians. They realized that the power of elephant soldiers came from Carthage. They should know that Rome turned Carthage over to become the overlord of the Mediterranean.
The archers and elephant troops of Carthage were very powerful. There were elephant troops in Hannibal's expedition to Rome, that is, after a long journey, the number of elephants survived was rare, but it still greatly deterred the Roman army, and even destroyed the tortoise armor array of Rome several times.
Although bossasan has formed a local alliance with the Han state, the Persians will not really dig out their hearts and lungs, ugutai When bakhram introduced elephant soldiers to Huan Wen, he talked about some powerful ways to deal with them, but the elephant's fear of fire was not mentioned at all.
"So the Persians are not reliable."
Yuan Qiao didn't think there was anything wrong. No one stipulated that allies must fully share intelligence, just as the Han country would not tell the Persians the real operation methods and weaknesses of powerful crossbows and other instruments. How could the Persians tell them the weaknesses of the troops they rely on?
Allies? It was just a temporary existence because of the needs of interests. Zhuxia recognized this very early.
The truth is that since the Qin Empire swept through the eight wastelands and six harmonies, the great unification Dynasty was established, and there were no allies in the Qin Empire.
In other words, the unified dynasties in the history of Zhuxia never had allies.
Allies are built on the basis of equal strength. The unified dynasties of all Xia dynasties are not behemoths, and those with similar strength in the surrounding areas are basically hostile. Where are any allies.
The Zhuxia dynasties under great unification should have vassal or servant States, or those who play with them and don't expect to help at all.
Elephant soldiers generally refer to elephants controlled by people. Elephants are usually very huge. There are elephant soldiers who simply rely on getting a rope on an elephant's ear, and there are also elephant soldiers with baskets and several archers.
A San's elephant is actually quite small. Basically, it only depends on the control rope punched in the elephant's ear, and the driver drives the elephant to collide or trample.
Once 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 even seven meters high. After loading the basket, in addition to the driver, they can also carry six or seven archers.
In contrast, the elephants on ah San's side are generally about three meters high, a few can reach four meters, and a few can reach five meters. It's really impossible to compare with Carthage who plays elephant soldiers.
Huan Wen knew that elephants were afraid of fire from the Romans who followed the army. He also knew the intelligence that although elephants are large, they are very timid.
Rome now has no elephant troops, not to say that there are no elephant troops in their territory, nor is there a lack of means (servants) to tame elephants. It is that elephants themselves are a delicate animal. Rome is divided and in financial difficulties. No one in the three parties can afford a huge elephant troops, and a small number of elephant troops can not play a key role.
"Geopolitically speaking, our alliance with the Persians is bound to break up. The difference is when we expand to their border." Huan Wen was quite interested in the expedition to Persia: "they also know this."
Persian Sassanian is also an empire. It will not be like some small countries only considering the present and not the future. They fought against the Gupta Dynasty with the Han state in order to cut off the Gupta Dynasty's long-range "blood supply" to Rome. In the course of the alliance, Persian Sassanian used his political prestige to pull the two satraps, vargadoga and other countries into the alliance. If he thought in a malicious direction, he could not see the benefits of the Han state's exclusive capture of the Gupta Dynasty.
The two satraps and vagadoga are connected to the Gupta Dynasty by land borders. Compared with the Han country, which needs to transport troops tens of thousands of miles across the sea to fight, it will not take only a little advantage, not to mention wealth plunder, but also how much land it takes can be digested to the greatest extent.
"Persians are very clever." Yuan Qiao can already foresee one thing: "once Gupta is destroyed, there will inevitably be disputes between the Great Han and the two satraps and vagadoga."
Before the war, Persian sassanne had solemnly stated that it would not occupy even an inch of Gupta territory. Their suggestion was that the land occupied by the allied countries in wartime was even owned by the occupying power except Persian sassanne.
It's not that Han didn't see through, but he still didn't give a response. The Persians wanted the Han state to have a conflict with the two satraps and vagadoga. In fact, it was the intention of the Han state. The Han army came to assan, which was not a Gupta Dynasty. It was better to push the boat with the water than to find an excuse for war.
"Wen wants to see what the Persians will have to choose." Huan Wen didn't care how many enemies there were. The more wars he could make achievements, the happier he would be: "if they choose to support those two small countries, the big man can help the people of the Qin Dynasty."
Yuan Qiao and many of his colleagues actually share the same view. If the Han state really wants to choose a long-term ally, it is known that there is really no more suitable object in the world than Rome.
That is determined by the position of the two countries. Han is in the East and Rome is in the West. The two countries also control all the land from land to ocean, but there is a vast and exaggerated continent in the middle. While there is no great conflict of interest, isn't it a good choice for the two sides to form allies and expand in the middle?
The view of alliance with Rome has long been mentioned to Liu Yan. The supporting point is the above one. There are doubts that Rome will split itself. If we really want to negotiate alliance, we have to wait until Rome is reunified.
Of course, if China and Rome really form an alliance, the alliance relationship will only be maintained until the two countries meet at the border, and they may live in peace for a few years, followed by an unprecedented war, which will win the only owner of the world island.
"We don't expect to live until then." Huan Wen was obviously lost, but he soon cheered up: "our generation can lay the foundation for later generations. It is also a time of life."
Yuan Qiao did not think so far, but focused on the current war. He stopped talking and went to one side to watch the information he had not seen in recent days, focusing on the war situation in the west of the Gupta Dynasty.
"The two satraps and vagadoga, which are connected to the western border of Gupta, are large countries that can send more than 100000 troops." While watching the intelligence, Yuan Qiao said, "they have started to attack Gupta as agreed."
Huan Wen had read the information for a long time. Otherwise, there would be no conversation above.
Vagadoga had border friction with the Gupta Dynasty for a long time. At ordinary times, both countries had large armies on the border. Vagadoga's attack on the Gupta Dynasty not only faced the army of the Gupta Dynasty, but also fought fortifications one after another.
The previous relationship between the two satraps and the Gupta Dynasty was ok, which was friendly to some extent, but this time the two satraps didn't care about friendship. It is precisely because the relationship between the two countries was not tense before 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 refuse to recognize others. Although the Gupta Dynasty noticed something first, it would be hasty for the Gupta Dynasty to mobilize troops no matter how fast, and the two satraps took cavalry as the first, Within ten days, it invaded the territory of the Gupta Dynasty.
"There will be a good play in the future." Huan Wen said maliciously, "it's hard for vargadoga to advance, and the casualties must be very serious. What would they think if they saw their neighbors easily move from one victory to another, but they were blocked?"
"What is agreed is how many territories to occupy, and in the future those territories will belong to the country of the occupying party." Yuan Qiao thought on the other hand: "in order to achieve balance, the Persians should support vagadoga."
"Inevitable." Huan Wen is not optimistic about the balance policy played by the Persians: "there are continuous riots in Persia and facing the actual threat of the Daqin people, how many troops can be transferred? Even if the troops can be transferred, the Persians must not be willing to use their own troops to help carve out land and bleed for the opening of the territory of vakatuga. Support equipment? It is said that the finance of Persia is not optimistic."
If the Persians didn't want to be chess players and didn't hide the weakness of elephants, Huan Wen wouldn't gloat so much. Since the Persians are not authentic, don't blame him for his lack of integrity and want to see the jokes of his allies. Moreover, he didn't have much integrity. If the Persians didn't screw up, he wanted to trip.
While they were talking, someone outside told kianush Alta Aldasher came by boat and had sent his entourage to inform him that he would come to Huan Wen soon.
"Bet five coppers." Huan Wen's fingers beat the table rhythmically: "he came to ask for help."
"Purchase of ordnance." Yuan Qiao made a thoughtful look and said slowly, "and I don't know whether China agrees?"
Kianush Alta Aldasher arrived at the pingman Colonel's headquarters from the mainland of the Han state a month ago. He should have received some instructions from China. It is very likely that Huan Wen and Yuan Qiaogang just said that they would support vargataka. It is not impossible for him to go back immediately after he left the state of Han, but the current monsoon is obviously wrong. It takes too long to go to the state of Han again. Finding Huanwen has become the best choice.
Not long, kianush Alta Aldasher looked like a dusty man. He entered the military account after being notified. After a few polite words, he went straight to the theme. Huan Wen and Yuan Qiao really guessed it. He negotiated to buy military equipment.
Yuan Qiao went out and soon came back, handed Huan Wen five copper plates, and then went to be silent.
Huan Wen played with five copper coins and looked at kianush unfathomably Alta Aldasher, the latter is a little worried.