After the Persians realized that no matter what they thought, they would be destroyed by the Han Empire sooner or later, they said they wanted to give up their reason, all for the sake of death and anger. When they die, they can make the Han Empire realize their will to die and fear. Persians feel that only in this way can they live.
With such a clear understanding, from Shapur II to people with lofty ideals, they all worked hard, planned with 100 times of effort and enthusiasm, and worked hard to make the plan more perfect.
When a country begins to want to do something with a will to die, the energy burst out is absolutely beyond imagination.
Shapur II said to Constantius, sassanne, don't look after your back. We just want to concentrate on fighting for the old life with the Han Empire. It's best for you to form an alliance in good faith. You're willing to stab us. We're dead. It's definitely your turn next.
Seriously speaking, the Romans are not as urgent as the Persians. Rome is too far away from the Han Empire. One is in the east of the world island, and the other is in the west of the world island. When the Han empire goes to war with Rome, those countries between the two countries must be gone.
Although the heart is not so urgent, the Romans are still quite unhappy with the "natural" requirements of the Han Empire. They simply don't treat Rome as an empire.
For a long time, Roman talents were the domineering party, taking whatever they wanted from the surrounding countries and tribes. Suddenly, they became the "natural" object. At the same time, they didn't respond. At the same time, an unprecedented sense of humiliation also rose to their hearts.
If the Romans can become the overlord nation, there must be wise men with long-term vision. Their advice to Constantius is that even if they do not want to fight a life and death war with the Han Empire, they should not indulge the Han Empire. Since sassanne wants to fight with the Han Empire, it would be a right choice to complete the Persians, Rome should also be involved.
This time, as the direction of the first war, Sasan alone sent 60000 troops to hunit.
The 60000 Sassanian troops were originally stationed in various provinces in the East, accounting for 60% of the troops stationed in the east of Sassanian.
Shapur II did not pour out the troops stationed in the eastern provinces. The main reason was that the Arabs danced too happily, needed to leave the necessary suppression forces, and then pulled strong men against the Arabs.
In addition to 60000 troops from sassanne and 60000 troops from Rome, among the first wave of troops to fight against the Han Empire, there are only less than 40000 hunites, and the rest are the troops of neighboring countries and tribes, and even 5000 descendants of northern Huns from the far northwest.
With a total of 240000 troops, the anti Han axis alliance only prepared food and grass for three months, so it headed east.
As long as it is an army combined by multiple forces, although they are coalition forces, they will not cooperate closely with each other. It is normal for some foreign troops to enter hunnit territory to burn, kill and loot. Even the armies of different countries have not done a battle before fighting with the Han army.
Along the way, because the Han people built a considerable number of fortresses, fortresses and beacon towers, 240000 troops scattered more than 45000 miles away from the Han territory.
"Most of them just make up." As the supreme commander of Rome in this eastern expedition, marus looked at the so-called friendly forces on the left and right sides: "needless to say, the host hunit people have experienced heavy losses last time, and the 40000 people gathered up this time are even old, weak, women and children. The cavalry who call themselves Huns are really useful."
The people who call themselves the Huns are the descendants of the northern Huns. They will come to wade in the muddy water. First, they are unable to continue to advance westward in the near future, and then they hear that the enemies of their ancestors are marching westward. In order to be curious about what the enemies of their ancestors look like, come and have a look.
The Huns did not have their own characters, but they had a long-term entanglement with the first Han Dynasty. The later the hundred year war, the Huns became more and more aware of the power of the first Han Dynasty. It was a human instinct for the weak to learn from the strong. In fact, their nobles could basically write Chinese characters, leaving some records.
In the relevant records, the northern Huns had to describe the part of hatred. Almost how badly they were beaten, the more space to describe the strength of the Han people.
After so many years, less than three of the descendants of the northern Huns still recognize Chinese characters. They are all elderly people with the identity of shaman.
It has been too long. Many descendants of the northern Huns have never heard of the encounter of the ethnic group in the East. Only those in power will inherit that history from generation to generation.
It is precisely because the history is so long that many things have not been forgotten and become a horror story. When the northern Hun leaders of this generation had just been defeated in the West and wanted to lick their wounds, the Persians suddenly came and talked about the Han people marching West. In view of nothing and not how many troops to send out, they simply had the idea of bringing 5000 cavalry to have a look.
Eltaba was deeply impressed by what marus said. Except for the troops of sassanne and Rome, only the Hun cavalry really looked like they could fight. The rest could even paddle... Not possible, but absolutely drown.
"So didn't we arrange for those wastes to stay and besiege the Han army we saw along the way?" Altaba felt that the Romans were quite sincere about Rome's willingness to send two regular legions to participate in the war: "the first batch we have to face is less than 15000 regular troops of the Han Empire, and we may have to add no less than 50000 auxiliary troops of the Han people."
Altaba didn't talk about the servants of the western regions who joined the army.
Last time, Li Kuang pulled up 250000 western people to join the army. After repeatedly exploring intelligence, countries found that as long as western people without Han supervision, even those western people's weapons and equipment were good, they were still easily pressed on the ground by hunnites.
The people of the western regions can only play their combat effectiveness when they are led by Han people, but most of them are reflected in the premise of burning, killing and looting. The scene of the confrontation between the two armies is still terrible.
"I heard that the Han people have been implementing the reduction policy in the western regions?" Marus felt that it was necessary for Rome to learn from the Han people: "most of the women in the western regions have become the women of the Han people. The men in the western regions were either thrown into the battlefield or captured in the hinterland of the Han Empire to become labor?"
"Of the 250000 western people who invaded hunit last time, less than 130000 ran back." Altaba didn't know how to evaluate those western people. Even burning, killing and looting could have such a big loss: "maybe the western people are really useless. There is no cover up behind the Han people. They are indeed wantonly reducing the number of men in the western regions."
Marlus subconsciously touched his chin.
After the civil war, the native population of Rome has been greatly reduced, but the influx of foreign nationalities into Rome has soared. It is not the appearance of being a slave, but the current situation of living in Rome as a free man.
The number of citizens in Rome has always been small. The population of Roman ethnicity was only more than 20 million at the most.
Constantius became the unique Augustus. He heard that the Han Empire would conduct a population census every three years. He thought it necessary to find out how many citizens and ethnic groups there were in Rome. He also did it in the 15th year of the new year of the Han Empire.
The census conducted in Rome did not get the cooperation of local nobles. It was not only the door lords, aristocratic families and giants of Zhuxia who hid the population in the world, but those who could bring benefits by hiding the population.
Constantius worked hard to do one thing. He spent a whole year before and after. The data he got was full of water, but he also had a data.
In the 16th year of the Han Empire, Constantius got the data that the number of citizens in his country reached 1.87 million, but the ethnic group was only about 7 million.
Roman citizens are potential sources of soldiers, or they join the army to become citizens, or their ancestors have long obtained citizenship.
Constantius didn't know whether to laugh or cry in the face of the census data. 1.87 million citizens represent the number of soldiers that can be recruited. The key is how the ethnicity is only 7 million?
The reason is that Roman citizens have their own welfare even if they do not enter the army, but the ethnic part needs to pay taxes, resulting in the abnormal data of so many citizens.
According to Constantius' guess, not only the number of citizens has water, but also the ethnic groups must have more water. He made a compromise calculation by himself. The number of people who can really be recruited as soldiers will not exceed 400000, and the number of ethnic groups will not be less than 20 million.
Due to the long-term use of slaves in Rome, there should be about 45 million slaves in the country. The number of free people who did not belong to slaves and settled in Rome should not be less than 20 million.
If that data were true, Rome would be an exaggeration with a population of nearly 100 million, but in fact it would not be useful. On the contrary, it was an extremely dangerous signal for Rome.
"So Augustus is already considering introducing new policies to attract free people to become soldiers." Marus said these were a signal: "we are the first Roman army coming eastward, and there will be the second and third... We will not stop sending when necessary."
Altaba is not very excited. The troops forcibly organized should not expect how high the combat effectiveness can be, and even the combat will will will definitely be negative.
What will the forces that are forced to organize do? It probably means that when driving to the battlefield and letting the Han people kill those guys, they consume some strength, damage some military equipment, consume Han people's military grain, and so on.
Isn't Sasha doing something similar? For example, the main forces used Arabs as cannon fodder, and even some small tribes in the territory did not let go.
Sassanne even made preparations for the most critical situation. After the war officially broke out, the next policy is to let the whole country enter the mobilization moment.
"It will actually be very useful." Marus said mysteriously, "the strong will crush the vegetable chicken for a long time, and the strong will become the vegetable chicken after a long time."
There has been such a situation more than once in the history of Rome. It is clearly an elite army. It has fought with chicken like enemies for a long time. The longer the time is, the more the elite Roman Legion is behind it.
It's definitely not that an elite regiment loses the relationship of soldiers in the battle. It's rolling and winning again and again. It doesn't suffer much loss. It's just that the more it hits, the more it becomes a chicken, and the later it is simply abandoned as a whole.
It was the first time eltaba heard such an argument. As soon as his eyes lit up, he said, "is there any evidence?"
Marus said that altaba believed it or not. Anyway, he kept driving away cannon fodder for the Han Army to kill. Rome and Sasan would pull as much cannon fodder as they died. In the end, he would be able to prove the correctness of his statement.
"I will advise your majesty." Eltaba took great interest in the back: "if that's true, it's worth sacrificing more people."
Sassanne is well prepared to die a million Persians on the battlefield. Even Persians can die a million. How can non Persians in sassanne not die more? They will also be dead. If they can lower the level of the Han Army, they will play an unexpected role.
"Of course, you can't do that in the first stage." Marus was still quite rational: "according to your investigation, the current troops of anxidu guard house will not be too many. They haven't listed and loaded many firearms. They have a good chance to kill into the territory of the Han Empire."
However, eltaba said, "the Chinese's hegemonic thinking is doomed that when they know that we invade, they will choose the battlefield outside the national border. Unfortunately, although the Chinese are hegemonic, they are cautious, and we have been exposed. If we can ambush..."
As a buffer zone, there are some mountains within 300 miles, more flat terrain.
The vegetation on this side is not dense, and the woods are generally not much wider. Moreover, even if they can hide soldiers in the woods, they dare not do that.
The Han Army had a criminal record of large-scale arson. Listening to Ding Ling, the Han people once ignored arson on the grassland. It was a terrible scene with hundreds of fires on the grassland, resulting in the direct reversal of the Rouran tribal alliance, which had a good relationship with the Han people.
Eltaba's guess is not wrong at all. Li kuangzhen, who knows that the enemy is coming, did not choose defense because he has few troops on hand.
"Intelligence from the reconnaissance cavalry ahead." Eltaba handed out the report: "Anxi Duhu has reached the West Bank of the Pinchi river. He has brought two divisions and 30000 Han auxiliary soldiers."
"A division of the Han Empire is about 5000?" After reading the information, marus had to be convinced of the arrogance of the Han people: "they must know that we will not be less than 200000, and dare to use 40000 people to fight us?"
Eltaba said with an exclamatory expression, "because they are Chinese."