Chapter 1140: Song Cheng is defeated
The Tengupta Dynasty has a vast territory, and there are many small affiliated states around it, among them, some small countries are still very large, such as the Gandhara Kingdom in the northwest of the Gupta Dynasty, which is a very large kingdom, but it is much weaker than the Tengupta Dynasty, so it must be subordinated to the King of the Sea. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Gandhara has less than 20,000 troops, military strength is indeed relatively weak, but its economic strength and religious strength are very strong, especially religious strength is second to none, here is the birthplace of Buddhism, large and small Buddhist temples all over all the cities and villages of Gandhara, this is completely a country capital with Buddhism as a faith, from the king to the common people all believe in the Buddha Shakyamuni, and enshrine his real body in the most conspicuous position in the home, in order to obtain the blessing of the Buddha.
Gandhara has hundreds of cities, the capital is Fulousha, this city is the capital of the original Kushan Dynasty, and later the Kushan Dynasty collapsed, Fulousha became the capital of the Gandhara Kingdom, this historical city is quite large, the population is also very large, there are all kinds of buildings in it, among them, there are many Buddhist temples, which is enough to show that the residents in the city believe in Buddhism.
The large population and Buddhism mean that Gandhara still has a very good security environment, which also provides a reliable guarantee for its economic prosperity.
The people here live very comfortably, everyone is very happy, but behind this comfort and happiness there is a huge crisis, the weakness of military power is destined to make it difficult for Gandhara to be independent, the people of Gandhara are not capable of defending their own happy life, once the foreign enemy invades, they must bend their knees and submit in order to get a chance to continue to survive, and this will certainly damage the vital interests of the Gandhara people, at this time, Gandhara attached to the powerful Gupta dynasty, and allowed the Gupta dynasty to deploy troops and horses in the Gandhara country.
In the capital city of Bunsha in Gandhara, there were 20,000 elite soldiers of the Gupta Dynasty, and 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Gandhara Kingdom, with a total strength of only 30,000, and the strength of the rest of the cities in the Gandhara Kingdom was less than 10,000 together.
With such a weak force, it is natural that it cannot stop the attack of the soldiers and horses of the Hua'an Division, and more than 80,000 soldiers and horses of the Hua'an Division, with the Persian surrendered soldiers and horses as the vanguard, are slaughtering towards the Gandhara country.
The Gandhara kingdom was the only place for the Hua'an army to attack the Tianzhu Gupta Dynasty, so if you want to attack the Gupta Dynasty, you must first take the Gandhara Kingdom before you can cross the Indus River and continue to the capital of the Gupta Dynasty, Hua's city.
The Hua'an army was so strong that the Gandhara defenders along the way did not dare to resist at all, and all of them surrendered to save their lives.
In this way, Hua An's army was able to advance quickly, and within a few days he reached Fulousha City, the capital of the Gandhara Kingdom.
Seeing the Jin army slaughtering towards Fulou Shacheng, General Tianzhu stationed in Chengdu felt very nervous, he only had 20,000 elites and 10,000 affiliated Gandhara troops under his command, while the army led by Hua'an had more than 80,000 people, and the vanguard legion was actually a powerful war elephant legion, which made him really feel an unstoppable momentum.
The Hua'an army came too fast, and General Tianzhu naturally did not have enough time to prepare, and most of the main troops and horses of the Gupta Dynasty were around the capital Hua's city, far away from Fulousha, and there was no reinforcement in a short period of time, that is to say, General Tianzhu could only rely on the existing soldiers and horses for defensive operations.
Of course, General Tianzhu has another choice, that is, to abandon Fulousha City and lead the army to return to Hua's City, so that he and his soldiers and horses will not suffer losses, but this will give the entire Gandhara Kingdom to the Jin State, and he can't afford this responsibility, so he must stick to Fulousha City at all costs, and report the attack of Fulousha by the Jin army to the King of Haihu, and let the King of Haihu make a decision.
At a position three miles outside Fulousha City, the main force of the Jin army began to camp in order to allow the exhausted army to get a timely rest, and at the same time, Hua'an sent his subordinates to Fulousha City to persuade the defenders in the city to open the city and surrender.
Along the way, the defenders of all the cities in Gandhara chose to surrender, which made Hua'an and his subordinates have a habit of becoming accustomed to it, and felt that the defenders of Fulousha would also choose to surrender, but they obviously all guessed wrong, Fulousha's defenders were the generals of the Gupta dynasty, not the defenders of the Gandhara kingdom, not only did he not surrender, but also sternly questioned the subordinates sent by Hua'an, accusing the Hua'an army of invading the Gandhara kingdom.
Hua An and the generals under his command were surprised at first when they learned that the defenders of Fulousha refused to surrender, but when they heard that the defenders were the soldiers and horses of the Gupta Dynasty, they were completely relieved, after all, the purpose of their trip was to attack the Gupta Dynasty, and the generals of the Gupta Dynasty naturally would not choose to surrender.
"Your Majesty, there are not many defenders in Fulousha, and our army can capture it in one go." Wang San said loudly.
Hua An nodded and said softly: "The army has brought a lot of thunderbolts, but when attacking Fulousha City, this king does not plan to use thunderbolts, and these thunderbolts are all reserved for Hua's city." ā
"Your Majesty, even if there is no thunderbolt, our army is fully capable of breaking through Fulou Shacheng." Wang San Zhengse said.
Hua An smiled and nodded, "Okay!" Early tomorrow morning, with Persian soldiers and horses as the vanguard, we will storm Fulou Shacheng. ā
"Yes, Wang San, the last general will go and tell the generals." Wang San happily replied and left immediately.
Hua An walked out of the big tent of the Chinese army, looked at Fulou Shacheng in the distance, and said softly: "It's not that this king doesn't want to use thunderbolts, but he really can't bear to destroy such a good city, so let the Persians be cannon fodder!" What about 60,000 Persian troops in Mulu City? After speaking, he looked at Yu Chilan beside him.
Yu Chilan gently leaned on Hua An's side and said softly: "To be able to fight the world with the king, Yu Chilan's life is enough." ā
"Lan'er is a girl, why do you like to fight in the world? This is all a man's ambition! Hua An said with a smile.
Yu Chilan pouted, raised her eyes to look at Hua An, and said softly: "I don't know this myself, I like to follow my father to fight everywhere since I was a child, and I like everything that men like." After saying that, he smiled mischievously.
"Really? Anything that men like, Lan'er likes. Hua An smiled slyly.
"Hmm." Yu Chilan nodded affirmatively.
Hua An smiled at the corner of his mouth and said softly: "Men like to go to Junyue Building to find girls, do Lan'er also like it, if so, why do you need to leave Junyue Building?" There are so many girls there! ā
"Your Majesty, you are so bad and a bully." Yu Chilan said in a loud voice.
Looking at Yu Chilan's lively little appearance, it was hard for Hua An to imagine that she was once a female general holding a scimitar and galloping across the field, this contrast was too great, so that Hua An felt that this was not the same person.
Subsequently, Hua An took Yu Chilan, escorted by a group of personal soldiers, to surround a large circle outside Fulou Shacheng to enjoy the scenery around Fulou Shacheng.
Through a personal tour, Hua'an and his party really felt that the environment around Fulou Shacheng is very beautiful, like heaven, but unfortunately there will be a war here soon, and the destruction of war may completely destroy the environment here, so that the paradise-like scenery becomes hell.
After returning to the camp, Hua An asked Wei Chilan to return to the big tent and wait for him, and then led a group of his own soldiers to the garrison of the Persian surrender to inspect the state of the Persian surrender to make sure that they could be used as the vanguard to attack Fulousha City.
Since the surrender of the Persian troops to the Great Jin, they have never been abused, and there has been no shortage of food and drink, so they have a good impression of the Great Jin, and are willing to follow the Jin army to attack the Tianzhu Kingdom, for Hua'an to let them Persian surrender to be the vanguard of the army, they naturally have no opinion, after all, the Jin army can give them this kind of treatment The opinion is very good, and the Jin army has incorporated the Persian army, in order to let them rush to the front? Otherwise, what are they going to do?
Seeing that the Persian troops were still in good shape, Hua'an was relieved a lot, and decided that the plan to attack Fulousha on the second day would remain unchanged.
Just as the Hua'an Legion was preparing to attack Fulousha City after resting for the night, in the direction of Tocharo, the 40,000 camel cavalry of the Song Cheng Legion had approached the vicinity of the coalition army of the Broken Xi Division, and stopped for a short rest, preparing for a bloody battle with the enemy army with the same strength after resting well.
However, the enemy did not intend to give Song Cheng's army a chance to rest, and after learning that the Jin army's Song Cheng army had arrived not far from the camp, the Tianzhu general was eager to try and asked for his life.
At this moment, Tianzhu's 30,000 army was already ready, and Sha Xi naturally would not stop it, so he asked the Tianzhu generals to attack Song Cheng's army, while he led his troops and horses as backups, and at the same time took care of monitoring the Jin army in the city.
"General, the enemy army is coming towards our army camp." Not long after Song Cheng's army set up camp, the scouts sent out brought back very urgent news.
Song Cheng not only did not panic when he heard this, but was very excited, he did not look for the enemy army for a decisive battle, but the enemy army took the initiative to send it to the door, how could he miss such a good opportunity?
"Pass the order, and the army will immediately prepare for battle." Song Cheng gave the order to prepare for battle.
"General, our army is coming from afar, and the enemy army is waiting for work, and the decisive battle at this time is not good for our army!" The ministry general opened his mouth to persuade.
The general told the truth, at this moment, Song Cheng's army had just experienced a rapid march, the soldiers were very tired, and the enemy army had rested for a whole day, it was the time when morale was strong, and the head-on decisive battle was indeed not good for Song Cheng's army.
However, at this time, the camp had already been set up, and if it was to retreat, it would obviously be too late.
Of course, the generals did not understand Song Cheng's intentions, and Song Cheng wanted to use a deceitful strategy to introduce the attacking enemy army into the desert area, and use the camel's familiarity with the desert terrain to reverse the disadvantage of the soldiers' lack of energy.
"Stop talking nonsense, just obey the general's orders." Song Cheng ordered again.
"Yes, General." The generals received the order and immediately began to gather their troops and horses to prepare to meet the enemy.
When Song Cheng's army had not completely assembled its troops and horses, the Tianzhu army of 30,000 horses and horses killed Song Cheng's camp, and took advantage of this opportunity to immediately launch a fierce attack on Song Cheng's army camp.
The 30,000 Tianzhu army is all Tianzhu's elite soldiers and horses, and the combat effectiveness is relatively strong, for this reason, just launched an attack, it caused great damage to the Song Cheng army, and directly rushed into the Song Cheng army camp to attack the Song Cheng army soldiers in the camp.
After a period of fighting, Song Cheng had a relatively clear understanding of the combat strength and tactics of the Tianzhu army, and immediately ordered: "Retreat, the whole army retreats immediately." With that, he rode his horse and ran into the desert not far away.
When the camel cavalry of the Jin army heard the order, they all turned around and ran into the desert to avoid the blows of the elite army of Tianzhu.
The speed of the camel galloping on the flat ground is not as good as the Tianzhu war horse, for this reason, there are many fleeing Jin army camel cavalry were caught up by the Tianzhu cavalry and were killed, but more Jin army camel cavalry still successfully ran into the desert, and once into the desert, the speed of the Jin army camel cavalry occupies a great advantage, the camel's huge hooves are very suitable for galloping in the desert, and the narrow hooves of the war horse are very easy to fall into the desert, for this reason, just pursued less than ten miles, the Tianzhu cavalry was surprised to find, No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't chase down the camel cavalry of the Jin army, as if they were led by the nose by the Jin army, the camel cavalry of the Jin army was in front of them, but they always couldn't catch up, they were always a little bit close.
"Stop the pursuit, the whole army stops the pursuit." A Tianzhu general suddenly realized that something was wrong with the situation and immediately ordered the pursuit to be stopped.
Hearing the order, the Tianzhu cavalry began to slow down and slowly stopped.
"Why don't you keep pursuing?" A Tianzhu general asked suspiciously.
"In the desert, the war horse will never be able to catch up with the camel, and it can't be chased anymore, which is probably a trap." General Tianzhu said.
However, he understood too late, and just when he ordered to stop the pursuit, Song Cheng had already asked his camel cavalry to prepare their bows and crossbows and prepare to counterattack.
"Soldiers, rush up and shoot the enemy." Song Cheng gave a military order loudly.
When the camel cavalry of the Jin army heard the order, they immediately turned around and rushed forward, and shot the Tianzhu soldiers and horses with bows and crossbows.
Seeing that the Jin army actually launched a counterattack, the Tianzhu general was furious and shouted: "Rush up and attack." ā
Hearing the order, the Tianzhu cavalry launched an attack on the Jin camel cavalry who launched a counterattack, however, Song Cheng did not intend to fight with the Tianzhu army at close range, so the loss would be great, he let the soldiers under his command continue to release arrows, and when the Tianzhu cavalry was about to approach them, let the camel cavalry under his command immediately retreat, open a certain distance from the Tianzhu cavalry, and then continue to fire arrows.
The desert is the world of camel cavalry, and Song Cheng's army can arbitrarily control the distance between the camel cavalry and the Tianzhu cavalry in the desert, so that the Tianzhu cavalry cannot reach the camel cavalry, and the camel cavalry can kill the Tianzhu cavalry at will. (To be continued.) )