In order to reassure his generals, Constantius II clearly told them that Orleans would not be executed, and the reason why Orleans was imprisoned was because the Roman legions lost 30,000 troops, and this responsibility must be borne by someone, and Orleans, as the commander of the army, was the most suitable person, as long as he could capture Ctesiphon this time, Orleans would be acquitted and continue to serve as a general. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Seeing that Constantius II had no intention of executing Orleans, the Roman generals were immediately relieved, and made it clear that they would fight to the death with all their might, and break through the Persian capital Ctesiphon in the shortest possible time to win honor for the Roman Empire.

In the direction of Tianzhu, the soldiers and horses under the command of Hua'an successively broke through the city of Yucha Shiluo, the city of Kulu, the city of Macchia, the city of Hastinapu, the city of Mathura, and the city of Panchara, and the troops approached the city of Hua's city, and joined the 40,000 camel cavalry of the Song Cheng army near the city of Mara more than 100 miles west of the city.

The rapid advance speed of the Jin army surprised the Tianzhu Sea Protector, he did not expect that the Jin army's combat effectiveness would be so strong, and it would be able to attack Mara City, which was more than 100 miles away from Fahrenheit City in such a short time.

The fall of Mara means that the capital of Tianzhu, Hua's city, is completely exposed to the eyes of the Jin army and faces the attack of the Jin army at any time.

In order to prevent the Jin army from breaking through Hua's city, the Sea Guardian King hurriedly transferred all the eastern and southern legions back to Huashi City, preparing to fight the Jin army to the death in Hua's city.

Tianzhu can be regarded as a big country, there are many soldiers and horses in the country, there are more than 200,000, but in the process of resisting the Jin army, there have been 100,000 troops annihilated and captured by the Jin army, and the remaining soldiers and horses are only more than 100,000, and the king of the sea will gather all the remaining more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Tianzhu to do the final dying struggle.

However, the conceited Sea Protector King always believed that the reason why the Jin army was able to kill around Hua's City so quickly was because the Tianzhu soldiers and horses along the way were not Tianzhu's elite division, and the troops were relatively weak, if more than 100,000 elite Tianzhu troops were gathered together, they might not lose to the Jin army, especially Tianzhu's elite war elephant army, which was enough to block the Jin army's attack.

On the orders of the Sea Protector King, the elite soldiers and horses in the east and south of Tianzhu all returned to Fahrenheit City and stationed outside the city, waiting for further orders from the Sea Guardian King.

"Your Majesty, the Jin army is fierce, and our army must rely on the city to resist in order to be able to block the attack of the Jin army." A Persian minister suggested.

When the Sea Protector King heard this, he was very dissatisfied, and said loudly: "Shrinking in the city will greatly weaken the morale of our soldiers, besides, the Jin army can go all the way like a bamboo, it is completely advantageous in terms of strength, if our army fights to the death with the Jin army with the same strength, it may not lose to the Jin army." ”

"His Majesty the King is right, the main force of the Jin army is all cavalry, and it may still have an advantage in the west, but the area around Hua's City is not suitable for cavalry combat, and the Jin army and our army may not be able to take advantage of the decisive battle around Hua's City, and our army will definitely win." A minister chimed in.

King Haihu's confidence increased greatly, and he ordered loudly: "Pass the order, all the soldiers and horses will immediately assemble outside the city, and this king will personally lead the main army to take the initiative to attack the Jin army, so that the Jin army will know the strength of our army." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The generals of Tianzhu shouted their orders.

Subsequently, more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Tianzhu Gupta Dynasty, under the leadership of the King of the Sea Protector, left the city of Hua and rushed due west, and the King of the Sea Protector wanted to line up in the direction of the ferry twenty miles to the west, and completely block the attack of the Jin army.

The ferry twenty miles west of Hua's city is the only place for the Hua'an army to attack Hua's city, and the Ganges River where the ferry is located is very wide, for this reason, the king of the sea guards feels that as long as he holds the ferry and makes it impossible for the Jin army to cross the river, he can completely block the Jin army on the north bank of the Ganges, so that the Jin army from afar will gradually consume grain and grass, and when the Jin army is short of food and grass, he can cross the river and launch a counterattack.

Of course, the Sea Protector is still too underestimated the shipbuilding capacity of the Hua'an Army, in order to deal with various situations, the soldiers need to carry out various training, among them, building pontoon bridges and shipbuilding is a skill that must be learned, of course, this skill is not very difficult to learn, as long as you can learn the knowledge of shipbuilding for a few months at will, you can build a variety of simple accessories for the ship, and a small number of Jin soldiers who have undergone long-term training have the ability to build the core components of the ship, so that such a Jin army team can divide labor and cooperateLearn a wide variety of skills in a very short period of time, so that you have the ability to build ships quickly.

After leaving Mara City, Hua An led his army to Hua's city, but the scouts sent out earlier had already received news that the Tianzhu Sea Protector had personally led more than 100,000 troops to line up at the Ganges River crossing, and collected all the ships on both sides of the Ganges, and put these ships under the control of Tianzhu soldiers and horses, so that the Jin army could not cross the river.

Upon hearing this news, Hua An immediately consulted with his subordinates to find a plan to break through the Ganges River crossing.

"Your Majesty, according to the report of the scouts, the Ganges River is extremely wide, I am afraid that it is difficult to build a pontoon bridge, if our army wants to cross the Ganges, it must take a boat, and the Tianzhu army has collected all the boats on both sides of the Ganges, so it has caused great difficulties for our army to cross the river, if our army wants to cross the river, we must build our own warships, but to build a sufficient number of warships, it requires a lot of financial and material resources, and there is time, and the army's food and grass are only afraid of great pressure." A ministry general said.

Hua An frowned and thought for a while, and said: "Building a sufficient number of warships consumes too much of our army's resources, and it will make the whole operation protracted, this king will never be so stupid, if our army wants to cross the Ganges, it must rely on a large number of ships collected by the Tianzhu army." ”

"Your Majesty, those ships are all controlled by Tianzhu soldiers and horses, how can our army use them?" A Jin army general said in surprise.

Hua An smiled indifferently at the corner of his mouth, and said with a straight face: "If this king wants to get these ships, he will definitely be able to get them, and if the Tianzhu army doesn't give them, can we go over and grab them?" Ha ha! He laughed.

"The king is planning to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the Tianzhu army to secretly cross the river and rob the warships of the Tianzhu army." The general of the Jin army said in surprise.

Hua An nodded and said: "As long as our army is fully prepared, we can successfully snatch all the warships of Tianzhu, this is the most convenient way, which can allow our army to quickly cross the Ganges River, and defeat the main army of Tianzhu, and completely wipe out the Tianzhu Gupta Dynasty." ”

"Command, Your Majesty! What do you want us to do. ”

Hua An ordered: "Let the soldiers start building ships immediately, and build large ships and small boats, so as to confuse the Tianzhu army on the other side, and make them think that our army intends to build ships to cross the river, remember, the speed of shipbuilding should be slower, especially the big ships must be built very slowly, and small boats can be built faster and more, after all, some of our army's men and horses urgently need small boats to cross the river." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The generals of the Jin army shouted their orders.

Subsequently, tens of thousands of Jin soldiers began to build warships on the north bank of the Ganges River, and in a short period of time, dozens of small boats were built.

Hua'an sent scouts to the opposite shore in small boats to carefully probe the deployment of the Tianzhu army in order to grasp the enemy situation as accurately as possible.

The soldiers of the Jin army, who were responsible for detecting the enemy's situation, really lived up to expectations and collected a lot of information in a very short period of time, including the specific location of thousands of ships seized by the Tianzhu army, and this news made Hua An quite excited, and felt that it was really heaven helping the Jin army, so that he could succeed as soon as possible.

"Your Majesty, this is indeed a good opportunity! There are only 500 Tianzhu soldiers and horses responsible for guarding the warship, and if our army sends a small force to the south bank quickly, we can defeat these 500 Tianzhu soldiers and horses, so that our army can capture the warship controlled by Tianzhu soldiers and horses. Wang San said excitedly.

"Your Majesty, this mission is extremely important, and you can't send too many soldiers and horses, so you must all have the most elite men and horses." Song Cheng said.

Hua An nodded and said, "You are right, this is a godsend, we must not miss it, we must send the most elite soldiers and horses, and the soldiers who are the best at operating ships." ”

"Your Majesty, it is enough to send two thousand men and horses in the opinion of the last general, and the ships on the south bank will pick up the big ones." Wang San said.

Hua An thought for a while, and Zhengse said: "After nightfall, send three thousand men and horses, take three hundred small boats to quietly cross the river, and dock in the downstream direction, remember that you must not let the Tianzhu soldiers and horses on the other side find out, otherwise your efforts will be wasted." ”

"Your Majesty, three thousand men and horses crossed the river in three hundred small boats, and even at night it was easy to be discovered by the Tianzhu soldiers and horses, after all, this scale is too big for it not to be discovered." Song Cheng said cautiously.

Obviously, Song Cheng felt that the Tianzhu soldiers and horses on the other side were not stupid, and they would definitely strengthen patrols at night, and the army of 3,000 men and horses would quietly cross the river, which would definitely cause a lot of movement, so that it would be easy to be discovered by the Tianzhu patrol soldiers and horses, which would cause the Hua'an plan to be wasted.

Hua An frowned and thought for a while, and said: "In this case, the men and horses crossing the river are divided into ten groups, and each group of three hundred soldiers crosses the river in thirty small boats, and after docking, they hide in the grass on the opposite bank, and every two groups of soldiers and horses are separated by one moment, so that all the soldiers and horses can cross the Ganges River in more than an hour, and in addition, send another group of soldiers and horses to cross the river in the upstream direction in a small boat, so as to attract the attention of the Tianzhu soldiers and horses and cover the actions of the soldiers and horses downstream." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, in this way, the chances of success are greater." The generals of the Jin army hurriedly responded and immediately began to prepare.

It can be built quickly in a boat with ten people, after all, such a boat structure is very simple, there is no technical content, as long as there is wood, it can be built.

At nightfall, the Jin army had built more than 500 small boats, enough for Hua'an's soldiers and horses to cross the river.

Under Hua'an's order, 2,000 Jin soldiers took 200 small boats, lit torches, and marched to the south bank of the ferry in the upstream direction, beating war drums on the way, posing as a strong attack, while at the same time, the other 3,000 Jin soldiers took 300 small boats and quietly went to the opposite shore in ten batches, intending to rob the hundreds of Tianzhu ships on the opposite bank.

The Jin army suddenly attacked with drums at night, which made all the Tianzhu soldiers who were about to rest nervous, and immediately put on armor and ran out of the camp, and even the Sea Protector King was alarmed.

"Why is the sound of war drums getting closer and closer, can the Jin army fly across the Ganges?" The Sea Guardian King ran out of the tent in horror and asked in a loud voice.

"Your Majesty the King, don't panic, the Jin army attacked in a small boat, with only two thousand men and horses, and it is not an opponent of our army at all." A Tianzhu general who rushed down from the high platform hurriedly reported.

The Sea Guardian King's eyes widened, and he said angrily: "The Jin army dares to attack our army with only a few hundred small boats, this is also too arrogant, does the Jin army think that his two thousand men and horses can defeat more than ten thousand soldiers and horses in my Tianzhu?" ”

"Your Majesty is angry, the Jin army is just harassing our army, two thousand soldiers are coming in small boats, and our army can drive them back with just a burst of crossbow fire." A Tianzhu general said loudly.

King Haihu nodded, and said softly: "That's right, the Jin army just wants to harass our army, order the soldiers and horses in front to drive the Jin army back." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

At this moment, on the south bank of the ferry, in addition to the nearly 1,000 ships hidden by the Tianzhu soldiers and horses, there are hundreds of ships below the medium level that are placed in the Tianzhu army camp, in order to patrol the perimeter of the ferry and intercept the Jin army scout ships coming and going, but the light is dark at night, and the Ganges River is very wide, so the patrol effect is not very good, and the soldiers in charge of patrolling are too lazy to patrol, and gather at the ferry to rest, at this moment, after receiving the order of the sea protector king, five thousand Tianzhu soldiers immediately boarded these ships, And rushed towards the Jin army boat that was rushing towards him.

In surface combat, the most powerful weapon is naturally the bow and arrow, for this reason, the two sides have just come into contact with the continuous bow and crossbow shooting, and there are casualties among each other, however, the Jin army soldiers are well prepared, and have long expected this, so each soldier has prepared a heavy shield, and use the shield to cover the body, and fight and walk, and the Tianzhu army to maneuver, for the downstream of the three thousand men and horses to win the time to cross the river smoothly.

Under the cover of the upper echelons of the Jin army, the three thousand soldiers and horses downstream quietly crossed the Ganges River in ten groups, and quietly assembled in the hidden grass, and then quickly rushed to the location where the Tianzhu army hid a large number of warships.

There were only 500 Tianzhu soldiers and horses responsible for guarding these warships, and most of them were resting, so they were quickly wiped out by the 3,000 soldiers and horses of the Jin army.

After the soldiers and horses of the Jin army annihilated the guards of Tianzhu, they did not dare to stop at all, and immediately began to board the ship, and connected the smaller ships with the larger ships, and then manipulated the big ships to the north shore, so that the small boats also sailed to the north shore. (To be continued.) )