It’s too late to review the manuscript, so I’ll post it first and then revise it.

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After the battle outside Yanmen Pass, Yantou trusted Huang Shaohong more and more. Although the recommendation of Huang Shaohong as his deputy had not yet been approved by the court, he had already left many things to the latter's management.

For example, Yan Tou found it troublesome to lead Yanmen soldiers to drill and build the city, so he left everything to Huang Shaohong.

Huang Shaohong lived up to his trust. Not only did he train his troops well, he also developed a new set of city repair methods from the Romans, which improved the progress of the project.

Huang Shaohong took over the responsibility of training the troops, which was in line with his wishes, because he knew that when Lucrez and others arrived at Yanmen Pass, it meant that the army of the Roman Prince Tibes was about to arrive.

This matter cannot be solved by handing over Lucius and the little prince. In the original plot, Lucius used this as an excuse to actually control the Silk Road, the trade route connecting the East and the West, otherwise he would pursue

Why use hundreds of thousands of troops for a few hundred people!

So, I still have to give it a try in the end.

When Huang Shaohong took over the responsibility of military training, he first passed on the training method of Ming Jin Zhuang Gong in the Chinese martial arts. If the Zhuang Kung Fu is practiced well, it is very effective in improving a person's strength and endurance in a short period of time.

In addition to pile skills, Huang Shaohong also added riding and shooting training.

In later generations, the Mongolian cavalry was invincible across Europe. Jebie and Subotai led an expedition to Europe with 25,000 men and killed 170,000 European soldiers and surrendered more than a dozen countries. They relied on the flexibility and maneuverability of cavalry and archery.

Therefore, Huang Shaohong felt that if a similar team could be trained in a short period of time, then a hundred thousand Roman troops would be of no use.

Putting this matter in any era, Huang Shaohong would dare to think so, it would definitely be an unrealistic fantasy, but in the Western Han Dynasty, this is definitely something that can be achieved, because in this era, the Han Dynasty had the most powerful cavalry in Chinese history.

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Even more powerful than the Mongolian cavalry of later generations!

Decades ago, under the leadership of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che, the Han Dynasty established the most powerful elite cavalry regiment in the world at that time. They rode Dawan horses and used the best weapons. They were led by Huo Qubing and Wei Qing to attack many times.

The Huns fought three cavalry battles and won all of them!

More than 300,000 Huns were killed, captured, and surrendered, accounting for one-third of the Xiongnu population.

The Xiongnu Empire, which had dominated the desert north for hundreds of years, completely collapsed, and finally had to move westward under the continuous attacks of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Now, just a few decades later, the training methods used by Wei Qing and Champion Hou are still used here. The cavalry are still riding the best Dawan horses, and they are still using the best weapons and equipment in the world.

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In Huang Shaohong's eyes, the only difference between these frontier cavalry and later Mongolian cavalry was the guerrilla tactics of retreating when the enemy advances, advancing when the enemy retreats, and harassing the enemy when stationed.

Therefore, when Huang Shaohong trained his cavalry every day, in addition to training the accuracy of cavalry shooting, he also focused on training the cavalry's ability to command and control, and to advance and retreat like the wind.

Although Yantou didn't know what Huang Shaohong did every day, he didn't bother to ask out of trust. He just pretended that his mind hadn't grown up yet and said to the mouse: "Let him toss it around!"

In addition to military training, Huang Shaohong also purchased a large amount of sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal from merchants of various ethnic groups. Based on his memories, he began to study the formula of black gunpowder that he had learned in school.

He originally had no money to buy these things, but he made a lot of windfall by capturing Lu Kuisi and the young prince Luo Ma. When Yan Tou rewarded his brothers, Huang Shaohong got a big share. Now that he was rich, he also

So I started to think about studying gunpowder.

Seven days later, the imperial court's commendation arrived at Yanmen Pass. Yantou was promoted to "Zhonglang General" for his merit and was transferred to Chang'an Yulin Middle School as deputy. Huang Shaohong captured the enemy leader, and for his first merit in the battle, he was promoted to Yanmen Colonel, replacing Yantou.

Supervise the construction of the city.

In fact, Huang Shaohong was barely promoted to deputy captain based on merit, and it was even more impossible to be directly promoted to captain.

But building the city is a hard job. If you can't complete it on time, you will be punished and imprisoned. Yantou was sent to build the city because he offended others. This time, he made great achievements, and his superiors exempted him from this hard job.

However, no one was willing to take over as the overseer of the city construction, so it fell to Huang Shaohong, who was recommended by Yantou as the deputy captain. It may be that the superiors felt that it was a bit unfair for him to take over such a hard job after his meritorious service, so they simply gave him up.

He was promoted to another level, became a deputy, and became a full-time school captain.

Yantou was overjoyed and felt very sorry for Huang Shaohong. He originally wanted to take credit for him, but in the end, he turned against him. After a farewell meal and numerous instructions, he left Yanmen Pass with his soldiers in tears.

, went to Chang'an to take up a post.

Yantou didn't know that taking charge of Yanmen was in line with Huang Shaohong's original intention and allowed him to do whatever he wanted.

On this day, someone sent an order from the prefect of Bingzhou, ordering the school captain Huang Shaohong to repair the city wall within fifteen days, otherwise all the slaves who built the city would be executed, and the supervisors would also be arrested and prosecuted.

When Huang Shaohong saw this and recalled the plot, he knew that the Roman prince was coming soon.

He was not worried about repairing the city. With the participation of the Romans, the city was almost completed. It would be completed in two or three days, not to mention fifteen days.

At this time, his trouble was not to repair the city, but to finally face Rome's 100,000 troops.

‘clang’

That day, when Huang Shaohong was adjusting the proportion of gunpowder, the door was pushed open by someone outside, and Huo An barged in.

The mouse stood aside and said, "Shao Hong, I can't stop him!"

"It's okay, Uncle Mouse, go and do your work, I'll talk to him!"

Huang Shaohong smiled and waved his hand to let the mouse go down, and then asked Huo An to sit down on the bench opposite.

"Master Captain, I want to talk to you about Lucius. That child is a young prince of Rome. Because he was killed by his brother, he wanted to go to Parthia to recruit soldiers. We big men have always been particular about turning enemies into friends.

Maintaining peace and coexistence, I think we..."

Huang Shaohong frowned and interrupted him directly: "Do you think you, Huo An, should be allowed to be the captain of Yanmen?"

After he finished speaking, Huo An was immediately embarrassed: "That's not what I meant!"

"Then what do you mean? Now that the imperial court knows that I have 800 Roman prisoners, what do you think when you ask me to let them go? Besides, you didn't ask, why did they come to attack Yanmen Pass when they were not going to the Parthian Kingdom?

What do you mean?"

Huo An was a little at a loss and said: "They are here to save the child... Sir Captain, if you do this, you will destroy the good situation of peaceful coexistence in the Western Regions!"

"Without strong force to deter, how can we maintain peace and coexistence?" Huang Shaohong slapped the table:

"Huo An, let me tell you, the reason why the Western Regions have the current situation of peaceful coexistence is that my great Han generals, General Wei Qing and General Huo Qubing, led the troops to defeat them with swords and guns. Do you think peace depends on your mouth?"

Huo An's face turned red and his blood vessels protruded, because he was a Huns.

Huang Shaohong's next words made Huo An explode. He only heard the former say: "Huo An, you are prepared. I have sent someone to bring your wife to Yanmen!"

Huo An suddenly stood up and punched Huang Shaohong condescendingly: "What do you want to do?"

Huang Shaohong was sitting on the bench. He didn't even dodge. He only stretched out one hand to grab Huo An's fist, and then pressed it down. The former Western Region Protector knelt in front of him, unable to even fight back.

No.

Huo An was shocked. He had never fought against Huang Shaohong, and he knew that Huang Shaohong was powerful, but he never thought that with his refined martial arts skills, he would not be able to make a move in front of others. In despair, he cried out sadly: "No harm to my family..."

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Huang Shaohong said with a smile: "Who wants to harm your family? Just sit back and listen to me start from the beginning!"

After he finished speaking, Huo An took two steps back, his feet softened, and he sat on the bench again.

Huang Shaohong didn't have any scruples at this time, and directly revealed the story of Huo An's "Yinpo" colluding with the Roman prince Thebans to occupy the Silk Road, conquer Bingzhou, and become the prefect of Bingzhou.

After hearing this, Huo An didn't believe it at all: "No way, now our Han Dynasty is very powerful..."

Huang Shaohong stretched out his hand to interrupt him: "Because of this, the border fortress is peaceful and the number of troops stationed there is extremely limited. Take Yanmen Pass as an example, including the prisoners of war, there are only three thousand people..."

"If Rome raises troops to attack and capture Yanmen with lightning speed, it will be ten and a half months before the imperial court sends troops. By then, even if we don't die in battle, losing Yanmen will be a capital crime!"

After Huang Shaohong finished speaking, he was still dubious when he saw Huo An, so he said directly: "Go and ask Luques if they asked the eldest prince Tibes to chase them all the way!"

Huo An got up and hurried out. After a while, the mouse guarding the door came in: "Shaohong, are you okay?"

"It's okay, it's just that Huo An has to come over in a while, so don't stop him this time!"

Sure enough, within less than a meal, Huo An pulled Lu Kuisi in and said to Huang Shaohong: "Master Colonel, you are right. Lu Kuisi and the others came here probably because their enemies were interested.

For it!"

Huang Shaohong didn't talk nonsense with him, and said directly to Lucas: "If Tibes comes to attack, I want to fight him to the death, and I need your help. If I defeat Tibes, I will cure your little prince's eyes and help him."

See the light again!"

Even without Huang Shaohong's promise, Lu Kuisi would agree to this matter. Tibes is also the mortal enemy of him and the little prince. Now that Yanmen Pass is guarded like a natural chasm, how can he not do it?

After confirming the alliance with Lucis, he said to Huo An on the side: "I heard that you have a lover from the Southern Huns, and I need her help!"

"You misunderstood...We are innocent...Okay, I know what to do!"

Under Huang Shaohong's scorching gaze, Huo An could no longer explain. He could only nodded and agreed to go to the Southern Huns for help.

Huang Shaohong explained again: "There is one more thing. If the other ethnic groups in the city are afraid that the people's hearts will be unstable if a war breaks out, I will leave it to you to handle this!"

Huo An nodded and agreed without thinking. This was his job.

In the days that followed, Huang Shaohong continued to drill his soldiers. The difference was that this time there were 800 Roman soldiers led by Lucius to cooperate with the drill.

Huang Shaohong used the tactics of cavalry and guerrilla shooting, randomly sending one hundred cavalry to fight against eight hundred Roman soldiers. The weapons used by both sides were wooden weapons stained with paint. As long as they hit the enemy, they would leave color.

At first, Lu Kuisi and Huo An, who were watching the excitement, shook their heads and laughed, thinking that Huang Shaohong was joking, but when the fight started, they were both shocked beyond measure.

The one hundred cavalry selected by Huang Shaohong each carried several pots of arrows, and then divided into two teams to flank the eight hundred Roman soldiers from both sides.

One group rode up first, ran into a short distance, shot arrows, and then ran away. When the Roman soldiers started to pursue them, the second group pursued them and fired arrows behind them to harass them.

This situation made the Roman soldiers unbearable. Lucius immediately divided his troops into two groups. As a result, the Roman horses were not as fast as the Dawan horses and could not catch up. He really experienced the classic guerrilla warfare of later generations.

sharp.

When Huang Shaohong announced that he was stopping, all the cavalry on Lucis's side were wiped out, and the infantry became a living target. The large shields were all covered with small dots of ink dye shot by arrows.

After the first battle, both Luques and Huo An were convinced, but they still had some concerns. Although this tactic was good, when the manpower was limited, the arrows carried and the number of times the bow could be fired were extremely limited.

These cavalrymen may be able to use this tactic to "fight ten against one", but if the enemy attacks with tens of thousands of troops, it may be difficult to defeat them.

Huang Shaohong smiled and said: "Don't worry, I still have a secret weapon!"

Huo An asked with a black line: "Don't tell me, it's just those bottles and cans you asked people to collect?"

"Ask whatever you want, you will know when the time comes!"

In fact, Huo An was right. Huang Shaohong had already studied the proportion of black powder and tested an earth mine. He had people buy bottles and cans to make earth bombs.

In addition, he also used the full strength of the city defense captain to open the arsenal and ordered people to move out all the iron caltrops used to defend the city and prepare to add them to the earth bombs to increase the power of the explosion.

Don't doubt that there was no caltrop in this era. According to records, it existed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, so Huang Shaohong took it out and used it.

At this time, he had prepared more than a thousand earth bombs. Although they were not many, when used in conjunction with other defensive methods, they would definitely give the Roman army coming from afar a big surprise.

More than ten days later, the scouts came to report that traces of the alien army were found ten miles outside the city. There were at least tens of thousands of enemy troops!

While Huang Shaohong ordered people to light the beacon tower, he sent several scouts out of the city at the same time to poison nearby water sources as quickly as possible.

Then he immediately led his cavalry to attack. At this time, he had integrated the three to four hundred cavalry under Lucrez, and barely managed to collect more than two thousand cavalry.

Taking advantage of Tibbs being unprepared, Huang Shaohong led his cavalry to charge forward with two rounds of arrows, killing hundreds of the opponent's men and then turned around and retreated.

Thebans was furious and immediately let the Roman cavalry pursue him, but he fell into Huang Shaohong's trap.

The Roman side had come a long way and were exhausted, and the horses were not as good as the Dawan horses, so they had no choice but to follow the Han army and eat ashes.

When the Roman cavalry couldn't catch up and turned back, Huang Shaohong led the cavalry and turned around and fired another shower of arrows.

This was repeated two or three times, and the cavalry on the Roman side had suffered nearly 2,000 casualties, while Huang Shaohong's side had not even one injured.

When the horse leaped into Yanmen Pass, all the cavalry cheered at the same time.

Huang Shaohong laughed loudly and gave the order at the same time: "Close the city gate and prepare to defend!"

Tibes's army had just arrived at the city, and he was originally planning to play some tricks and tricks. He was waiting for his ally "Yinpo" to come and deceive the pass, and then offered Yanmen Pass with both hands.

As a result, spies came to report that the surrounding water sources were suspected to have been poisoned. Don't ask them how they knew, the fish were floating up, and they were not blind!

The Romans themselves could barely carry enough water for two days, so Thebes decided to make a quick decision and began to attack the city.

But they came all the way and didn't bring any large-scale siege weapons. They could only keep the large group of people out of the range of the arrows, and then let the tortoise-shell formation of the infantry legion protect the wood and rush to the city gate.

In this kind of offensive, Huang Shaohong didn't even bother to use rolling logs and stones, but directly poured the hot golden juice down. What kind of tortoise-shell array can hold bows and arrows, but can't hold dung soup.

Sure enough, Thebes' first wave of offensive failed.

Immediately afterwards, Thebes asked people to dig tunnels on one side, and on the other side, he asked people to use local materials to make ladders and prepare for a full-scale attack on the city.

Early the next morning, the Romans' general attack began. Dozens of ladders were carried by the infantry legions and rushed towards the city wall.

Huang Shaohong planned to let them climb for a while first, so he did not use earth mines, but chose a relatively gentle rain of arrows, rolling logs and rocks, and hot golden juice to entertain the guests.

In this way, the Romans suffered numerous casualties.

But the Roman side had an army of 100,000, and the advantage was too obvious. Just when someone was about to climb up the city, Huang Shaohong lit an earth mine and threw it towards the city.

There was a loud "boom" and the caltrops exploded. The ten-meter radius below the ladder was cleared. There were broken arms and limbs everywhere, and the ladder was also broken.

Huang Shaohong saw that the density of the Roman soldiers below was ready to be used up, so he called to the dumbfounded Huo An, Lu Kuisi and others: "Throw it away, waiting to give birth to a child for the Romans!"

"Oh!" Huo An took an earth mine and threw it down, directly killing a Roman soldier.

"Light it on fire and throw it away!" Huang Shaohong almost vomited blood because of this guy's anger. He personally demonstrated a 'bomb' and killed a piece of it.

Dozens of ladders were blown down in the blink of an eye, and the Romans left nearly tens of thousands of corpses behind.

The trumpet sounded, and the Roman soldiers began to retreat. Huang Shaohong immediately took his cavalry out to pick up opportunities, killing them all the way. In the end, the Romans left 20,000 corpses behind, and retreated thirty miles to find water.
Chapter completed!