Chapter 1068

The sudden change of weather can not be controlled by manpower, at least not now.

The sudden army disrupted the rhythm of the Han Army and the Sassanian army. Because of this rainstorm, Sassanian didn't know that the Han Army had moved.

The fighting between Scouts is extremely fierce. In bad weather, Sasan's scouts want to go back in the rain. The speed will be more than three or four times slower than usual.

In this age, no one is willing to travel in the rain, and the army will not march in the rain except for the urgent needs.

The rain didn't turn smaller from the moment it began to rain, and the sky was constantly lightning and thunder. Occasionally, when lightning fell, a lonely tree was split. In an instant, there was a flash of strong light, and then thick smoke. The wood became scorched and burned at the same time.

The thunderstorm weather on the plateau is really dangerous. The height of the cloud itself is about 200 meters or even lower from the ground. Lightning occurs in the rubbing clouds. When they chop down, they chop what is higher. If there is metal attraction, they must chop again and again.

Li Jun received a report that 16 people were split by thunder, of which 14 were engineers who were setting up a camp, and the remaining two were soldiers who had nothing to die and put up spears.

This is not the first time Li Jun has encountered such a thing. When they fight on the grassland, if there is a thunderstorm, there will always be an accident that people will be split by thunder. The higher the altitude, the more dangerous people will be in thunderstorm. The correct way is to find a cave to hide, or no one can guarantee that it is absolutely safe.

"When will it rain?" Li Jun frowned deeply: "don't be the next ten days and a half months or longer..."

The Han army was an outsider and was not so familiar with the local climate. It had asked some locals who had defected, but because it was not their own relationship, the intelligence was not 100% credible.

Li Jun also knows that even if what the locals say is true, those locals just use their past experience to judge because they have lived here for a long time.

"Fortunately, the terrain is high." Gainie said happily, "otherwise such a heavy rain will soon lead to waterlogging."

For them, the only advantage of this rain is that they don't have to worry about the lack of water supply.

The water source in this area is not easy to find, and there is no water that can provide tens of thousands of people to waste. The nearest river to the camp is ten miles away. Even if it is only such a distance, it is not easy to replenish water every time.

Naturally, there is water in the army. It is basically some water sources packed in tight wooden barrels, but the time for wooden barrels to load water sources cannot be too long, otherwise the water will soon change its taste.

If conditions permit, no one will quote the water source with changed taste, and will not care about it only when it is unavoidable.

The rain was very heavy in the first three days and gradually turned smaller on the fourth day. The scouts braved the rain to investigate the surrounding areas and reported that some low-lying areas had become ponds. The water level of the river ten miles away rose to submerge the surrounding areas, making the river originally only ten meters wide close to 30 meters wide.

On the seventh day, the sky was no longer covered with dark clouds, but the dark clouds did not disperse, but finally we could see the sun.

"Seventy miles to the west of us, there is a Persian army of about 60000." Gainie said that the news had just been sent back: "I don't rule out that there are others behind, but..."

The reason why the scouts will delay so long is entirely due to the weather. In addition, the rainstorm weather for many consecutive days has not only made the land soft and muddy, but also completely changed the appearance of some places. For example, there are streams in places where there are no streams, and some places have simply become lakes with large area but very shallow water level.

The change of terrain makes those who have found out the route have to fumble again. The efficiency of intelligence spying will naturally be reduced, mainly because the return time is prolonged.

This situation will be the same not only for the Han Army, but also for the Sassanian army on the other side.

"It's not a good time to march now." Gainie smiled and compared a big circle to the sand table: "the land is soft and muddy, which affects more than our army."

After the rain, the ground will certainly change. It is not a problem for only one or two people to walk. As a large army, more people will trample on a road repeatedly, and it is inevitable that the road will become muddy.

Just riding or walking can overcome it. As an army carrying a large number of carriages, once the road becomes muddy, the probability of wheel trapping becomes infinite. If you really want to March forcibly, it's much more to walk five or six miles a day.

Affected by a series of weather, it was actually more favorable for the western expedition corps of the Han Empire.

The western expedition Corps did not intend to start a war with Sasan at this time. While taking a rest, it was also waiting for the follow-up troops. In addition, the partial division led by Dou a needed time to completely solve the Xigao car.

It is sassanne who cannot fight. They are the host and the party about to be invaded. They absolutely don't want to see that the Han army from afar has enough rest time to adapt to the local climate and explore more information, and then win allies nearby.

Of course, what sassanne should do now is to organize people to establish a defense line, but also to interfere with the unstable Han army.

Under this premise, if habibra did not think that the troops at hand were seriously insufficient, he would have wanted to take the initiative.

When they got the order to fight, they were trapped in the same place. They were depressed and disappointed when they were suddenly trapped.

"Long history." Li Jun asked, "if the cavalry attack, can you?"

Of course, gainie didn't want to stay in place and wait for the humidity on the ground to dissipate by itself, but he said, "it's no use if the quantity is small."

Li Jun's idea was to send out at least 3000 cavalry, and then let them divide into a large group of 1000 people to March. It was useless to hear that the number was small, and he knew that gainie also agreed to take action.

"Five thousand." Li Jun looked at gainie and asked, "how about it?"

Gainie thought about it and thought that five thousand was indeed a very appropriate quantity. While not carrying exaggerated materials, it could pose a great threat to the enemy.

"I'll lead the team myself." In fact, Li Jun is just trying to win the opinions of geinie. Geinie will take action whether he agrees or not, but just the number of troops sent out. He saluted to gainie: "the headquarters will be handed over to the chief historian!"

A series of military orders were issued, and a large number of light cavalry were assembled. When they learned that they were going to fight, everyone showed a relieved expression.

They had set out to fight fiercely, but they were forced to stay where they were during the march for 30 years. It can be said that they came on the spur of the moment and failed on the way.

Hiding in the tent for so many days, they were already bored. When they heard that they were called out, they didn't feel excited when they left the main camp. Some just felt that they didn't have to be bored in the tent all the time.

Soldiers need to tidy up their equipment and some tools that may be used, and horses need to feed forage and carry out necessary suit inspection.

From the order of Li Jun to the preparation of 5000 Knights half an hour later, the speed is actually very fast.

Four thousand light cavalry and one thousand bow cavalry are the troops selected by Li Jun. they are the standard one man and three horses. In addition to the main and auxiliary war horses, they are a pack horse carrying materials.

The army is divided into three groups, with 1000 knights on the left and right wings, and 3000 knights and more than 500 auxiliary soldiers in the middle army.

When they came out of the camp, the horse's hooves kept trampling. Almost four or five hundred rode past, and the soil on the ground had been trampled into mud.

The specially compacted walkways of the military camp are like this. You can imagine what the camp should be like.

Li Jun ordered: "line up in a vertical line and push forward horizontally!"

The officers and men shouted: "for the country's wings, such as the prosperity of the forest!"

Only two armies in the Han Empire had their own special battle signals. The Yulin army was the sentence "for the country's wings, such as the prosperity of the forest", and the other Huben army was "Peng Peng, with strong banners".

If the two armies were on the same battlefield and were ordered to attack together, they would shout "the son of heaven ordered me to fight in all directions!", It can be regarded as their unique welfare with special designation, and it is also a kind of pride.

The space occupied by a knight with his crotch war horse, together with his vice horse and pack horse, is about two meters.

Each knight is more than three meters apart from each other. Even if 500 knights are placed on each column line, the total length of the formation will exceed 2500 meters.

Some of the soldiers who were not ordered looked at paoze with envy as they were organizing their formation. Their vision was that many war robes were arranged from left to right to the end of the sky.

The troops began to move in the sound of a strong horn. When the land was trampled by horses' hoofs, each horse's hoof stepped down and stepped forward, and the ground could always sink into a horse's hoof pit of about ten centimeters.

In fact, people who know cavalry understand that once the ground is soft, don't drive the war horse to move with all your strength, otherwise the probability of losing the front foot is infinite.

If it hadn't been for that rain, or if the ground conditions allowed, seventy miles would have been only about two hours for cavalry who could march at normal speed.

But now, Li Jun calculates the speed, and it takes 70 miles to walk day and night!

As a general of the Yulin army, Li Jun was eager to fight, while Habib Rabbi on the other side was more anxious than Li Jun.

Habibila did not consider the impact of the terrain at all. After the rain stopped, he immediately ordered the removal of most of the camps, leaving only a part of the sick soldiers.

In a sudden rain, there were nearly 4000 patients in Sasan, and hundreds of people had died in a high fever.

On the other side of the Han Army, although they set up camp as soon as possible and made ginger soup urgently, more than 300 people still got wind cold. What they are better than Persians is that they are properly handled and have mature means of traditional Chinese medicine. For the time being, no one has died of wind cold.

Before contact with the fighting, Habib had no 5000 people on his head. In addition to the sick, 1000 people were left in the camp for care.

When the Sassanian army pulled out, the marching speed of walking and riding was not fast. It became slower due to the influence of the terrain. It was much more to walk five or six miles a day.

Two troops marching at turtle speed found each other's presence two days later.

Naturally, Li Jun could not March day and night. He walked for a day and seven hours. More than 40 people were lost due to various accidents, but the loss of horses reached 537.

In terms of scouts, it was the Yulin army that took the lead in discovering Sassanian army.

Habib Bula on the Sassanian side learned that the existence of the badminton army was about four hours late.

They will meet so soon, but also thanks to the bright sun in the past two days. Although the sun does not dry the ground thick, at least it will not become muddy when trampling.

Waiting for Habib Bula to get the news of the Han Army ahead, a dark shadow appeared on the horizon in less than an hour.

"Stop!" Habibra was startled to see that the dark shadow on the horizon was so long. He confirmed to the scout, "how many Han troops are there?"

The Scout said with less certainty, "look at the length, it should be twenty or thirty thousand?"

In fact, he didn't dare to get too close to the Han army. Even if he was far away, a team of 13 people got rid of the pursuit of the Han Army scouts and returned to the camp with only four people left.

This group of badminton troops has elongated the marching formation. The thickness cannot be seen under the sight of the same height, and then the dust and smoke trampled by one person and three horses will be thicker.

Upon hearing that there were twenty or thirty thousand, habibra's face stiffened for a moment, and then shouted, "organize a blocking formation!"

This Sassanian army lost 5000 combat power because of a rain, and there were two or three thousand people on the March. They were not all dead. They were suddenly ill or missing. They lost about 8000 combat power before they opened with the Han army.

However, as a Persian, habibila has long been used to losing some combat effectiveness before fighting. This situation of the Persians is really an old history, and there is nothing to make a fuss about.

Persians have a history of sending 300000 troops. They haven't fought with the enemy yet. Waiting for the commander-in-chief to send some troops, they are frightened to find that there are less than 200000 left.

Sashan's infantry got the order and began to work nervously. They carried some anti horses, but lost most of them on the March. They were pulling up the remaining anti horses. The soldiers with long weapons stood side by side under the cry and whip of the officer, and then let the long weapons out obliquely.

Li Jun has seen the Sassanian army opposite, and he can see it very clearly because of the telescope.

"About 50000?" Li Jun looked down at the ground, especially at the place where the horse's hooves trampled behind him, and shouted to the messenger next to him: "order the left and right wings to launch an attack!"

The art of war of the various Xia dynasties says that the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road.

They did not meet the enemy by accident, and the battlefield was not a narrow road, but Li Jun found the other party a little confused!