Chapter 112 Wei Qing vs Sula

"Stop, who are you?" A group of Thracians stood in front of the Han army and shouted.

The Thracians wore simple furs, and some even surrounded the animal skin, which was not much better than the primitive people. The weapons in their hands were wooden sticks, stones, rough bows and arrows, and a small number of bronze weapons. As for iron weapons, there was nothing.

These Thracians were only a thousand people, but they were roaring like a mountain, as if they were not facing the Han army, but the lambs they were slaughtered.

We can't blame them. The Thracians are really a difficult bone. Even the Roman Empire is also a headache. They have never seen the Han army and thought that the Han army is as soft as the Roman army.

"Even they dare to block our way?" Gongsun He saw it, his eyes rolled, which was both funny and annoying.

Isn’t it a death to fight such a simple weapon against the Han army armed to the teeth? Gongsun He has seen so many people who are overestimating his abilities, but he has never seen such overestimating his abilities and doesn’t know what to say.

"General, set up a crossbow formation and kill them all!" The Han army soldiers immediately gave an angry idea.

"Return to the crossbow formation?" Gongsun He rolled his eyes and was very angry: "If you kill these people, you must use the crossbow formation. Look at your lack of hope! Pass the order, rush over and kill them all!"

It is not of the same level at all. There is no need to dispatch the most powerful offensive weapons of the Han army. There is no need to put out the crossbow formation.

"General, am I angry! They are so bad that they dare to stop us, hum!" The soldier was very disdainful.

"Another annoyed? Then kill them all! The Thracians did not shed tears without seeing the coffin. They still didn't know the might of the great man! Kill!" Gongsun He ordered loudly, waved his ring-headed sword and rushed out quickly.

"The Han army is mighty!" The Han army soldiers roared the battle roar, waved their swords, and rushed out like a wind-splash.

In the sun, the sword light flashed, and the dazzling sword light looked like a huge mirror, which was particularly terrifying.

The Thracians stared at the Han army rushing towards them in a daze: "Where are they from?"

"Why are there so many cavalry? Where did they get so many horses?"

Although China was not a nomadic people, it was the highest achiever of cavalry tactics during the cold weapon era, which was far beyond the West. Just like in the Han and Tang Dynasties, the study and luck of cavalry reached a peak, which made people look up to it. The reason why such achievements were achieved was that in the Han and Tang Dynasties, the court attached great importance to horse politics and the court mastered a large number of horses.

However, in the West, there were not many horses, and even in the Roman Empire, there were not too many cavalry. The famous Roman legion was mainly infantry, not cavalry.

During this period, the equipment of the Roman legion was made by the soldiers who served in the army. Rome did not have unified equipment. Because the horses were too expensive, only those rich could afford it, so there were very few Roman cavalry.

Knights are very noble, with their status and status far exceeding others. This is the Western tradition, and this is the reason. Now, when people mention knights, they think that they are so noble.

Everyone like the Han army could ride a horse and could fight immediately. In the eyes of the Romans and Thracians, it was unimaginable, unseen, and unheard.

Looking at the crowd of people, the Thracians turned pale and said in fear: "Where are they from?"

They don't understand this problem, and they don't have the chance to figure it out.

"No matter where he comes from, kill!"

"The Romans can't do anything to us. No matter where these people come from, they are not our opponents!"

The Thracians were really arrogant and rushed up with simple weapons. Their bravery was commendable, but on the battlefield, not only did they need to fight to the death, but also needed excellent equipment and advanced tactics. In these two points, the difference between them and the Han army was too big.

What greeted them was a shining sword light! Wherever the sword light passed, blood splashed and the corpse was everywhere.

This was a one-sided massacre. In just a moment, thousands of Thracians killed and injured more than half of the Han army, and the casualties of the Han army were negligible.

"Enclose them!" Gongsun He's veteran on the battlefield knew how to use these Thracians.

The Han army drove the Thracians together like sheep. They were all silent and did not dare to show up, for fear that one of them would be bad, which would make the Han army angry and kill them.

The Thracians were good at fighting. Since the Greek era, they fought for countless years, including Alexander the Great. However, their ancestors have never seen such a brave army. The Han army's rushing was not called rushing, it was the butcher killing pigs, and they had no power to fight back at all.

They were already brave and obedient as sheep.

"We are Chinese!" Gongsun He rode his horse, holding the blood-dropped ring-headed knife, and shouted loudly.

"Chinese?" A scream rang out.

Thrace was once a part of Greece, but later became part of the Alexander Empire. He was no stranger to China. It was the kingdom of gold and the kingdom that Alexander the Great dreamed of conquering. How could he not be shocked when he heard this?

"That's right! I'm from China!" Gongsun He understood their shock very much, and then said with certain words: "I'll let you go! Go back and tell your tribe members, and say that the Chinese are coming! If you want to fight with us, come!"

"We dare not do anything from China's generals! We dare not do anything from it!" After the interpretation, these Thracians had a surprisingly good attitude.

Gongsun He waved his hand and the Han army let go of a gap. The Thracians were frightened, lowered their heads and left carefully. After leaving for a distance, they ran away, for fear that the Han army would regret it.

These people went back and boasted the Han army as gods. The Thracians did not believe in evil and came to challenge them. The result was self-evident, with countless casualties. After several times, the Thracians became honest and did not dare to fight with the Han army again. They either fled far away or surrendered to the Han Dynasty.

The Thracians once opposed Greece and Alexander the Great. They conquered Greece and Alexander the Great, and now they surrendered to the Han Dynasty.

Without Thracian obstruction, the Han army advanced very quickly.

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"Damn Thracians, they always block us and prevent us from moving forward!" Sura rode on the horse, looked at the Thracians who were surging in the wind, and cursed loudly.

The Thracians were brave and good at fighting. Although the Roman Empire conquered Thracians, it would have been decades later. During this period, Romans had no choice but to use Thracians.

Sula recruited an army of 20,000 people and immediately led his army to set off. While advancing, he trained his army and found some small troops to fight a few battles, which was very smooth. Until now, his army has experienced the baptism of war, and there is still a little difference compared to the regular Roman legion, but it is not bad anymore. It is still okay to deal with the Thracians.

However, the Thracians were warlike. Although Sura was very talented and good at fighting, it was still very difficult. Until now, they not only did not pass Thracian, but the Thracians fought more and more.

Sura is not unfamiliar with the Thracians, but he just couldn't understand why the Thracians gathered more and more. The reason is very simple, because the Thracians could not defeat the Han army. Under the drive of the Han army, they rushed towards the west like a tide. When they happened to meet Sura, Sura was killed endlessly.

"Damn Thracians, when I defeat them, my army will lose its combat power. If I encounter the Chinese army, how can I fight?" Sula was very anxious.

His army was not a regular army, without excellent equipment, good training, and rich battlefield experience. He suffered a lot of casualties in the battle with the Thracians. If he continued to fight, his army would be disabled. At that time, if he met the Han army, he would have no choice.

Sula doesn't have to worry, because the Han army has arrived.

"Rumor!" Just as the two armies were fighting, a thunderous sound came.

"What is that?" Sula looked at the sound, and saw a dark cloud floating quickly.

"Thunder?" Today is a sunny day, and this problem does not exist.

"Are the Chinese already here? They are not so fast! Are they so fast on their legs?" Sula thought of the Han army, but couldn't believe it.

Although Rome was shocked by the combat power of the Han army, it was not well aware of the Han army and did not know that the Han army was much faster when they were armed with a war horse. Sula subconsciously thought about it in the style of the Roman legion. According to him, the Han army, like the Roman legion, had to march on two legs.

"The Chinese are here!"

"Escape quickly!"

"If you don't run away, you'll be dead!"

Just when Sula was in amazement, the Thracians heard a burst of exclamations, and then fled in panic. Just now, they were still fighting with the Roman legion and were indistinguishable. In a blink of an eye, they ran away like seeing a devil.

Sura saw it in her eyes and was shocked in her heart, and she couldn't help but guess: "The Han army is a god? Why did they make the Thracians so scared?"

During this period, although the Roman Empire had not conquered Thrace, it had fought many wars with Thrace and knew very well how difficult it was to deal with the Thrace. Such an opponent was so afraid of the Han army, and Sura really couldn't understand it.

A beautiful and smooth red waterline appeared in his vision. Sura's pupils shrank, and his eyes showed a horror, and he disappeared as soon as he appeared. He was a famous general and a famous figure in the history of the Roman Empire. Naturally, he knew that this was not a waterline, but an army moving.

Immediately afterwards, the waterline turned into a red wave, surging and magnificent, sweeping over, like a sea of ​​tides, with an unstoppable momentum.

"Is this the Chinese army? The Chinese army that made the Thracians frightened?" Sula was a little disbelief and confused.

"Why do they have so many war horses? One person is?" Sura was so surprised that she almost smashed her chin on the horse's back.

It is simply unimaginable in Western history that everyone has a war horse. It is not only unimaginable that the Roman Empire at this time, but also in the heyday of the Roman Empire. The Roman army was not without cavalry, but the Roman legion had few cavalry, which was far from the level of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

The reason why there were so many war horses in the Han and Tang dynasties was that cavalry was the first choice to deal with the nomadic peoples in the north. It was because the Han and Tang dynasties vigorously promoted horse administration and shepherded dozens or millions of war horses.

"If we had so many war horses, that would be great! I could conquer the world!" Then Sura's eyes were full of admiration and she was very excited.

Sula was a famous general, and of course he knew the importance of cavalry. The problem was that all the war horses in the Roman Empire would not have so many. If the Roman Empire could build a large number of cavalry and could conquer war-friendly cavalry, the Roman Empire would definitely be even more brilliant, and cavalry was the shortcomings of the Roman Empire.

This can be seen from the famous battles of the Roman Empire. In Roman history, there were not many cases of investing tens of thousands of cavalry at one time. Even the decisive battle between Caesar and Pompey, no tens of thousands of cavalry were invested on each side.

During the "Decisive Battle in Mobei", the Han Dynasty invested 300,000 war horses and 100,000 elite cavalry at one time. This was how terrifying it was. This was not the pinnacle. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the development of Chinese cavalry entered a golden period, and it could invest 300,000 to 400,000 cavalry combat at one time.

From this we can see that the Roman Empire was in the gap with China in terms of cavalry.

"Can you fight?" Sula immediately felt something was wrong. As a famous general, Sula would not know that with so many cavalry, can the army he temporarily pieced together withstand?

Sula's confidence weakened and her heart was filled with a stir.

"Rumor!" The sound of hooves like thunder sounded, and the Han army surrounded his left and right wings. It was clear that the Han army wanted to surround the Roman army, gather and annihilate it.

Although Sula was not afraid of the intentions of the Han army, because he was Sula and had extraordinary courage. He really wanted to fight the Han army and see how powerful the Han army was. If he didn't see it, he retreated directly, then it wasn't Sula, but a coward!

"Transmission: Arrange the Array!" With Sura's order, the Roman Legion began to array.

Just now, when the Thracians were fighting, the Roman legion was still intact. It didn't take much time to re-arrange it, and it soon became successful.

The Roman legion brought the square shield together to form a shield wall, and everyone, including Sura, was in the formation. The shield hand held the shield in the left hand and the spear in the right hand. If the Han army approached, the shield hand could stabbing with the spear.

There are also spear throwers who hold the spear tightly. If the Han army charges, they will throw spears to kill and injure the Han army.

The Han army surrounded the Roman legion but did not attack immediately.

Wei Qing, Gongsun He, Gongsun Jian, Zhang Tong and others rode out and looked at the Roman formation.

"What kind of formation is this?" This was the first time I saw the Roman army formation, and Gongsun He was a little surprised. The formation of the Roman legion was different from that of the Macedonian Fangdun, and it was a bit novel.

"Like a tortoise shell!" Zhang Tong's eyes widened, looked at it for a while, and a vivid metaphor came out.

Once the Roman legion formed a formation, it was no different from the turtle shell. The Roman soldiers were turtles huddled in the turtle shell.

"This is true. They are just turtles huddled in the turtle shell!" Wei Qing agreed with this metaphor.

"General Wei, how do you fight?" Gongsun Jian thought, and asked, "Do you have to set up a formation and shoot with a crossbow formation!"

"Yes, use a crossbow formation!" Gongsun He deeply agreed: "This kind of turtle shell-like formation can definitely be broken with a crossbow formation. They stood together densely, and the crossbow formation shot a large piece."

"No need!" The crossbow formation is the strongest killing move of the Han army. Once it exerts its power, it will destroy the world. However, Wei Qing has another way.

"Look, those soldiers have fearful faces and their morale is weak. Besides, these soldiers are not veterans. They should be on the battlefield for the first time. Their combat power is limited. It is easy to break the turtle shell." Wei Qing pointed a horse whip in his hand, looked at the Roman military formation, and immediately came to a conclusion.

Wei Qing's eyes were so vicious that he could see the weakness of the Roman legion at a glance.

"General Wei, how do you fight?" Gongsun He asked hurriedly.

"It's very simple. Just use cavalry to charge from all directions at the same time!" Wei Qing raised his eyebrows and ordered loudly: "Kill!"

"The Han army is mighty!" The Han cavalry roared at the battle roar and began to charge.

The Han cavalry was skilled in cavalry and shooting, and had been fighting for a long time. When this charge started, it had the power to destroy the world. The sound of hooves was like thunder, which made the earth tremble. In the swirling smoke, the Han cavalry began to greet with crossbows.

Under the attack of the crossbow, the Roman soldiers fell one after another, just like the pile of straw being pushed down by people, and there was a large piece of them all.

The reason why the Han army was so lethal was that the Roman legion was not just an infantry formation, but also a sea of ​​people. There were too many people, densely packed, and the crossbows were powerful, so how could there be no extremely high casualties?

The reason why the Roman legions were able to sweep across Europe and establish the Roman Empire was that their enemies were weaker than them, they did not have a large number of cavalry, nor did they have strong crossbows, and they were unable to attack long-rangely, and they mainly relied on infantry to attack. The nations, tribes, and their technology and civilization were not as developed as Rome, and their equipment was not as effective as Rome.

However, they encountered the Han army, with strong long-range attacks and brave close combat. The Roman legion was a joke in front of the Han army, and it was useless.

In history, the Roman Legion and the Han Army had a real battle, but because the scale was too small, the influence was not great, and there were not many people who knew it.

This matter starts with the top three giants of the Roman Empire. One of the top three giants Crassus failed in the Eastern Expedition, and he himself killed it. However, some Roman legions broke through the encirclement and escaped. The enemy pursued them relentlessly, and these Roman legions were desperate and fled desperately. At that time, they were only concerned about escaping and did not distinguish between east, west, and north, and actually fled to China. When they arrived at the Hexi Corridor, it was Qinghai and Gansu.

By this time, there were only a thousand men left in this Roman army. They had no way to make a living, they could only kill people and fight, so they started to hire mercenaries, fight for the Huns and fight against the Han Dynasty.

At that time, it was the reign of Emperor Yuan of Han. Although the reign of Emperor Yuan of Han was the turning point of the decline of the Western Han Dynasty from prosperity, it had not yet truly declined, and the mighty style of the strong Han Dynasty remained! The Huns had defeated the Han Dynasty and the Southern Huns had surrendered, but many Huns were still unwilling to accept and wanted to be enemies with the Han Dynasty.

Of course, the Han Dynasty would not tolerate the existence of the Roman legion. Chen Tang, a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty, led his army to wipe out. The Roman legion set up such a formation in an attempt to stop the Han army's attack. However, Chen Tang ordered the heavy cavalry to charge, and the Roman legion was rampant in Europe. When encountering the heavy cavalry of the Western Han Dynasty, they had no power to fight back and easily defeated the Han army. Nearly a thousand people were left in the end, with less than a hundred people left.

The Han Dynasty set a small piece of land for them, called "Li", and sent them agricultural tools to ask for the surviving Romans to farm. It was not until the Sui Dynasty was established that Emperor Wen of Sui believed that all the Romans had been assimilated, so the establishment of Li was abolished.
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