Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 1129 Conspiracy Can Only Be Conspiracy

Chapter 1141 Conspiracy Can Only Be Conspiracy
Just when the Wei State formed an army to attack the Sasanian Empire, the Sasanian Empire took the lead in declaring war on the Gupta Empire.And made substantive actions.At this time, the boundary line between the Great Wei Federal Empire and the Sasanian Empire was the Caspian Sea. The Wei State used craftsmen to open up two ports and docks on the east coast of the Caspian Sea to manufacture warships in the inner lake.Nearly 20 large and small warships have been produced one after another.These warships made the Great Wei Federal Empire the de facto master of the Caspian Sea.However, the retreat of the Sasanian Empire was not without reservation. They established a resistance front in Baku in the northwest of the Caspian Sea.The newly established headquarters of the Eastern Army of the Sassanian Empire was established in Baku. The entire Eastern Army of the Sassanian Empire has 14 troops, of which 1000 are elite cavalry units, and a total of about [-] people formed a heavy armored army. infantry regiment.This is the trump card army used by the Sassanid Empire to restrain the Mo Dao Army of Wei State.

In fact, a 20-foot cavalry army is guarding the west of the Caspian Sea. It is not easy for Wei Guo to break the Caspian Sea defense line of the Sasanian Empire.It was after the Sasanian Empire and the Gupta Empire became hostile, the Eastern Army, whose main force had been gathered in Baku, began to move. They moved from Baku in the north to Babol in the south bank.

The Gupta Empire expressed strong dissatisfaction with the provocative actions of the Sasanian Empire.As the Sasanian Empire gradually went south, Bintou Shala Gupta, the northern governor of the Gupta Empire, played more aggressively. He assembled almost all the troops of Uttar Pradesh and joined a large number of tribal servants, with an army of more than 50 cavalry. .Bintou Shaluo Gupta's handwriting is not small. His 50 army includes more than 15 chariots and more than [-] war elephants. As for the cavalry, there are also a lot of cavalry, reaching [-].Bintosara Gupta once again proved one thing, that is, a lean camel is bigger than a horse.

In order to quickly bring the Gupta Empire and the Sasanian Empire into war, General Liu Ke of Anxi ordered the various ministries of Anxi not to overly stimulate the two sides.And give up the defense zone, let the two countries have a head-on confrontation!
Liu Ke was filled with information about the battle between the two sides: "The Sasanian cavalry attacked like a wave, and the Gupta Empire lost on foot and cavalry, and turned to flee. The Sasanian Empire cavalry went on to kill, and the Gupta Empire suffered heavy losses. The dead bodies spread for more than ten miles. Flow like a river!"

"Bintosara Gupta shrunk his troops and used chariot formations and Gupta's longbows to form a hedgehog formation, so that the Sasanian cavalry had nowhere to bite the hedgehogs!"

"The Gupta Empire counterattacked with war elephants. The Sasanian cavalry was defeated and fled. The Gupta Empire army beheaded tens of thousands and captured a lot."

"The Sasanian Eastern Legion used infantry to intercept the Babol River to store water, and lured the war elephants of the Gupta Empire to attack. They suddenly released water and flooded the three armies, causing the Gupta Empire to be defeated!"

"Unwilling to fail, the Gupta Empire set up an ambush in Semunan, used its chariots to trap a part of the Sasanian cavalry, and then adopted the method of attacking alternately regardless of casualties, beheading many of them."

Seeing these battle reports, Liu Ke burst into laughter in his heart. "Let's fight, fight, it's best to beat out the dog's brains."

However, Liu Ke did not realize that he was actually deceived by the Gupta Empire and the Sasanian Empire.

The two sides used more than 70 troops to conduct a joint exercise. In fact, both sides are slavery countries, and they have a lot of slaves in their hands to consume. They used real corpses to co-act this scam.The real scene on the battlefield is like this, the Sasanian cavalry said: "We are going to charge!"

The Gupta Empire army said: "Come on!"

The cavalry of the Sasanian Empire galloped like thunder.The Gupta Empire army used the Gupta longbow to shoot at the Sasanian cavalry desperately with arrows that had their arrows removed. Of course, even if they hit the arrows, this kind of arrows would not hurt anyone. Of course, being shot would definitely hurt.And the Gupta Empire army will soon use their methods to soothe the wounded hearts of the Sasanian cavalry.There were thousands of slaves bound hands and feet on the position, and the cavalry of the Sasanian Empire rushed in and slashed and killed.

The battlefield scenes performed with blood are much more vivid and real than the battlefield scenes in later dramas. If it is a real drama, there will be no smell of blood in the air, and it will definitely not be able to deceive the elite scouts of Wei State.If there is no tragic scene of blood flowing into rivers and corpses strewn across the field, the scouts of the Wei army cannot be deceived.It's just that the price is not small.In order to deceive Liu Ke, the two sides sacrificed nearly [-] slaves and a large amount of equipment.

Liu Ke believed that the two countries were fighting to the death, and also believed that they were not acting one way on the surface, but on the other side.It's just a pity that although Liu Ke carefully scouted the battlefield where the two sides were fighting, the Sasanian cavalry were not vegetarians. They were also desperately driving the scout cavalry from the State of Wei, and as a result, the scout troops on both sides also suffered heavy casualties.After suffering hundreds of casualties from the scouts, Liu Ke made a decision that he regretted and withdrew the scouts from Wei.Because he felt that there was no need to sacrifice the soldiers of Wei State for the information.

As a result, Liu Ke made himself blind.Just when Liu Ke rejoiced that the snipe and clam fought for the fisherman's benefit because of the bloody battle between the two sides, the elite Sasanian cavalry attacked Nanli Port (Krasnovodsk (now called Turkmenbashi).

Nanli Port is a port city established by the State of Wei in the south of the east coast of the Caspian Sea, and it is also a place where the shrunken version of the 2000-1000-ton "first boarding warship" is produced.Wei Guo stored a large amount of timber and grain in Nanli Port, as well as supplies for the Caspian Sea Fleet.For such an important frontier base, Wei's defense is not slack, but the defenders are an elite main regiment and a cavalry battalion.However, the troops of the Sassanid Empire attacking Nanligang amounted to more than [-] cavalry, and there was also a Gupta infantry consisting of more than [-] Gupta war elephants.and Greek ballista accessories loaded with more than [-] war elephants.

Facing the charge of a hundred times the enemy's cavalry, five or six hundred Wei cavalrymen lasted for less than half an hour before they were all wiped out.Of course, they also bought precious time for the defenders of Nanli Port, giving the defenders a chance.However, this time the Gupta Empire and the Sassanid Empire came prepared, and naturally they would not give the defenders another chance to hold back.

In front of nearly [-] heavy armored soldiers, they raised their heavy shields high to attract the arrows from Wei Guo's crossbows. At the same time, a large number of craftsmen began to quickly assemble the crossbows.Although the Sasanian Empire did not have gunpowder as a weapon of mass destruction, they did have an earth bomb.They fired a red-hot stone bullet from the assembled ballista. Once this stone bullet hits the city wall, it will be torn apart, forming a rain of stone sparks that radiates twenty or thirty square meters.

However, the defenders of Wei State piled up a lot of gunpowder on the city wall, but these gunpowder were detonated by fragments of stone bombs, forming a circular explosion.As a result, nearly one-third of Wei's defenders were scrapped by being piled in gunpowder bombs.At the same time, the heavy infantry of the Gupta Empire and the Sasanian Empire launched siege battles bravely.

In the process of defending the city, crossbow arrows are the most effective means of killing, but crossbow arrows are not omnipotent, at least they are powerless against heavy armor.Crossbow arrows are as powerless as iron cans. In fact, horizontal knives and long spears are also powerless. In order to resist these humanoid tanks, many soldiers of Wei State took grenades and died with the heavy infantry.Despite heavy losses, Nanli Port finally fell after a day and night of hard fighting.An infantry regiment and a cavalry battalion, nearly [-] infantrymen were killed in battle, and [-] were injured on the spot. The others were either seriously injured and captured, or were hurriedly taken away by the Caspian Sea Fleet to the battleship and headed for the depths of the Caspian Sea.

However, Liu Ke's passive situation is irreversible.When Liu Ke was about to send troops to recapture Nanli Port, the Gupta Empire and the Sassanid Empire began to prepare an ancient tactical feast for Liu Ke, "surround the spot to fight for aid!"

With the fall of Nanli Port, more than half of Wei Guo's more than 700 troops stationed in Nanli Port were killed, and the rest were no more than [-].Among them, more than [-] artisans, together with more than [-] slaves, and a large amount of supplies from the Caspian Sea Fleet all fell into the enemy's hands.Although Nanli Port is just a small port, but because it undertakes the logistical task of the Caspian Sea Fleet of the Great Wei Federal Empire, the fall of Nanli makes the situation in Anxi, Wei State very cumbersome.

In the age of sailing, although ships sailed without the aid of coal, heavy oil or other fuels, sailing ships needed a lot of supplies every time they went to sea.Like the bottom of a sailing ship, every six months or a year, it is necessary to go ashore to remove parasites or sundries on the bottom of the ship. These parasites not only affect the speed of the ship, but also have a bad impact on the safety of the ship.Even if the sailing ship has sufficient drinking water and food, the ship cannot drift at sea for a long time.

Long-term immersion in lake water and sea water can easily cause water leaks on ships. At this time, it is necessary to brush tung oil to prevent cracks and use asphalt to plug leaks.Although asphalt is worthless in later generations, at this time, unless it is an oil refinery, the transportation cost alone is very staggering.However, these things are nothing in Wei, especially Nanli and Heizhi are huge oil fields.Although Wei Guo established Nanli Port, Chuxi Port (near Aktau City, Mangistau State Government, Kazakhstan) and Heizhi Port (now Atyrau) on the east coast of the Caspian Sea.However, both Chuxi Port and Heizhi Port are small ports, they only have the function of supplying fresh water and food, and they do not have the ability to repair ships. Therefore, without Nanli Port and Nanli Shipyard and Repair Plant, Wei Guo’s Caspian Sea Fleet cannot be maintained. And maintenance, there may be no problem in a short period of time, but if the ship is not maintained and maintained for a long time, the Caspian Sea Fleet will be considered useless.

Liu Ke attached great importance to the strategic position of Nanli Port. After he learned that Nanli Port had fallen, he immediately ordered the No. 40 Fourth Division of the Infantry and the Eighteenth Cavalry Division of the Anxi Army.In addition to the Anxi Chuzhou Prefecture Bingshisanfu, a total of more than 20 troops marched towards Nanligang.However, when the reinforcements of the Anxi Army entered the Red Water Plain, more than [-] miles southeast of Nanli Port (the free translation of the name Kyzyl-Su in later generations, meaning "red water"), they encountered about ten thousand Sasanian Empire and The allied forces of the Gupta Empire are ready.In fact, with the ability of Wei's army, it is very easy to break through the formation of these mobs, but it is getting dark at this time.A large-scale battle involving more than [-] troops, night battles can be avoided if they can be avoided. After all, at night, small-scale night attacks can be done, and large-scale battles, regardless of coordination, are a very big problem.Wei's reinforcements were setting up camp, and Bintosara Gupta had obviously learned his lesson. He knew that Wei's army was powerful, and he didn't intend to fight directly with Wei's army. He took advantage of the large number of people and strength, and began to surround Wei's army. The camp digs trenches.

Of course, it is impossible for 10,000+ people to act together without alarming the Wei army.When it comes to city attack and defense, the Han people think they are number one, and no one dares to think they are number two.Don't look at the spectacular cold weapon battlefields filmed in Europe and the United States in later generations. In fact, wars in ancient Europe were not like that at all.If the Europeans were really as good at defending the city as they boasted, it would be impossible for the Hun King Barambo to make the Roman Empire lose its temper.Wei Jun just watched the coalition forces of the Sasanian Empire and the Gupta Empire dig trenches like a joke.Regardless of whether they were combat soldiers or auxiliary soldiers, they all went into battle together and worked all night. After dawn, they might not have the strength to hold their weapons. At that time, the Wei army could easily make a breakthrough across the board.

The camp set up by the Wei army was more than a dozen miles around, and the coalition forces surrounded the Wei army camp and needed to dig a trench with a circumference of no less than thirty or forty miles. Such a project could not be completed in a day or two.They worked all night, and if they can dig out three feet, they are considered amazing.

A trench with a width of more than one foot and a depth of less than three feet naturally cannot stop the Wei army, but if fierce fire oil is burned in the trench, it will be fatal.Wei Guo occupied the east coast of the Caspian Sea, and the biggest gain was that he obtained two oil fields that were easy to exploit.Among them, the vicinity of Heiju City is a self-spraying oil field.The Nanli Oilfield is relatively difficult to exploit, but the deep well technology in Wei State has developed well, and the Bashu Salt Well has a depth of more than 100 meters.Wei Guo dug more than 50 oil wells in the Nanli area. Using animal power and wind-powered screw pumps, more than [-] catties (about [-] tons of oil) can be extracted every day. After refining, these oils will be transported to Wei Guo for consumption.

There is no way, with the development of Wei State's economy and technology, Wei State has already made full use of the night time.In this way, the consumption of oil lamps will increase exponentially.The oil in Wei State and Indochina Peninsula can no longer meet the consumption.However, because Wei Guo did not have the oil and gas pipeline technology of later generations, it could only adopt cumbersome methods to transport by land, so the cost remained high.There are about six or seven thousand tons of refined light oil stored in the refinery in Nanli. These oils were obtained by the coalition forces of the Sasanian Empire and the Gupta Empire. The commander of the coalition forces Bintosara Gupta used these light oils against the Wei army.

The 20 Wei State was trapped in Hongshuiyuan by Bintou Chaluo Gupta. Although this Wei army is well equipped, it does not have much supplies. They only have half a month's supplies. If they are used sparingly, they can last for [-] days, or one One month, beyond this time, there is no need to fight, and these Wei soldiers will starve to death.Moreover, light oil will produce poisonous gas and thick smoke during the burning process, and the Wei army in the encirclement becomes very dangerous.

If there is a problem with the [-] Wei army, Ran Ming will definitely not let Liu Ke go, even though Liu Ke is Ran Ming's apprentice.Liu Ke hurriedly mobilized other departments of the Anxi Army to support Nanli, hoping to rescue the [-] Wei troops.It's just that since then, Wei Guo's situation in Anxi has become more passive.From the west of Talas, in a huge area of ​​more than [-] miles from east to west, and more than [-] miles from north to south, there is no longer an organized Wei army.Just when Liu Ke personally led the army to support Nanli.

(End of this chapter)