Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 1130 Blade of the Empire
Chapter 1142 Blade of the Empire

The Sassanian Empire and the Roman Empire signed an armistice agreement, and the liberated Western Front Legion began to rush to the east to help. The Sassanian Empire swept away to the east with more than 40 strides.At this time, Samadhara Gupta assembled eight of the fourteen Akshoshini in the central army of the Gupta Empire, plus a huge tribal army and servant army, totaling more than [-] troops. The troops were divided into two groups, of which Along the way, troops were sent from Bihar State, and their swords pointed at Xinzhou, the newly established state of Wei State.The other route is from Uttar Pradesh to South Chuzhou.

Once the conspiracy of the Gupta Empire succeeds, the situation of Wei State in Anxi will not be passive and can be described.It is very likely that Xinzhou and Chuzhou will be lost. If Wei Guo does not respond in time, even Tingzhou may be in turmoil.

"When you travel south, you think about Dao Wang, but you don't hear much about Liu Kun from the north." This is a poem written by Li Qingzhao, a famous talented woman in Chinese history. There are two historical figures in the poem, Dao Wang and Liu Kun. Wang Dao contributed a lot to the establishment of the country in the south of the Yangtze River.Of course, Liu Kun is also a great man. He has been trapped in Jinyang for 14 years and held high the banner of resistance under the siege of Hunhu.When the situation in Wei State was reversed, the great people began to show up one by one.

The first to attack was Uncle Xie Xuan, the governor of Xinzhou.Xinzhou is a newly acquired land of the Wei State, and the people of all tribes and ethnic groups have not yet been fundamentally returned to their hearts.The Gupta Empire had a certain ruling foundation in the Xinzhou area.When it was learned that the 30 troops of the Gupta Empire were coming from the north, the whole state was shaken, and many tribes and counties had the idea of ​​defecting to the enemy.In particular, there are very few Han people in Xinzhou, the number is less than one percent.

At this time, Xie Xuan issued an order to invite the leaders of various tribes to come to participate in the hunting operation. These tribe leaders are all grassroots. Although the soldiers of the Gupta Empire went north, the strength of Wei's army is obvious to all. Before the situation is clear, no one dares to place a bet lightly and make a statement easily.This is an opportunity for Xie Xuan to take advantage of.There are more than 180 leaders in more than 100 tribes, large and small.Each person leads more than a hundred or hundreds of guards, which is tens of thousands of horses.Including Wei Guo's army stationed in Xinzhou, there are a total of 6 to [-] horses.

At the beginning, the hunt was also very exciting, and suddenly one day, everyone arrived at the gathering place of Vasara.This Vastu was once one of the ancient countries in Indian history, and it was once named Kalinga (English: Kalinga) for Kalinga.Comparable to present-day Orissa.The capital Dantapura.During the period of King Ashoka of the Maurya Dynasty, Kazuka was destroyed by King Ashoka and incorporated into the kingdom of Magadha.Later, the Mauryan Dynasty perished, and Karavega regained its independence. When Khāravela was in power in the middle of the second century AD, the country was powerful; he had expeditions to Magadha, Andura and other countries.However, with the rise of the Gupta Empire, the Gupta Empire slapped Karma to death with one slap.The Kyaja people who were exterminated again claimed to be Vasara people, and established the Vasira Tribe, located in Yueshi County in the south of Xinzhou (this is Liu Kun's watchword).

Xie Xuandao: "Now that you have arrived at the territory of the Vaira tribe, where is the leader of the Vaira tribe? Now that you have come to your land, as a landlord, it is not justified to be a landlord!"

For a long time, no one responded.At this time, someone said: "The leader of the Piluo tribe did not go to Dadu to protect the invitation."

"It's really unreasonable!" Xie Xuan said angrily: "Xuan was appointed by the emperor as a herdsman to represent the emperor, and the Piluo tribe dared to look down on the emperor, how could he be tolerated?"

At this time, the population of the Vaira tribe was very small, less than 3000 households, barely able to make up 3 people.But the young and strong army will never exceed [-] people.At this time, there are definitely more than [-] tribal leaders and followers following Xie Xuan.At this moment, the leader of the Sadakani tribe, who had a feud with the Vasara tribe, said: "Great Protector, your servant is willing to crush the Vasira tribe for you."

You must know that this Sadakani tribe is the former Andura Kingdom.The country was destroyed by King Piluo more than 100 years ago.Of course, the strength of the Sadakani tribe is even worse than that of the Vaira tribe. They only have more than a thousand households and a population of less than 4000.

"Quite!" Xie Xuan said coldly: "If you dare to disobey the order of the guardian of the capital, it can be regarded as a rebellion. You can take away his wealth and people to fill the ranks!"

Hearing this, these tribal leaders sighed. You must know that Viro was once one of the overlords in the northern part of ancient India, and he accumulated amazing financial resources, especially the Prajna Temple located in Yueshi County. The Buddha statues are all made of gold. of.The Buddha's eye is a precious gemstone used.Once the Piluo tribe in Yueshi County is attacked, the benefits can be imagined.

Following Xie Xuan's order, more than 100 tribal leaders rode their horses and swung their whips, and led their personal guards to rush towards the Piluo tribe. They killed everyone they saw and robbed everything they saw.Faced with dozens of times the superiority in human power, the resistance of Vasarabe was like a small chess piece thrown into the sea.As expected, Xie Xuan kept his promise, and Xie Xuan didn't take any money from the attack on the Piluo tribe.And the various tribes divided up the property and women of the Piluo tribe according to how much they contributed, and everyone was happy.From then on, Xie Xuan led this mob to go around in circles in the southern part of Xinzhou. As long as he arrived and did not participate, he ordered the leaders of the tribe to attack the tribe and confiscate the property and territory of the tribe.The population of women in their prime of life is all divided up.In just over twenty days, Xie Xuan led these people to wipe out dozens of tribes that did not listen to the call.Facing the huge benefits of massacring clans and tribes, these leaders also regretted that they brought too few people.So they sent people back from time to time to bring the young and strong warriors of the clan.

In this way, Xie Xuan's troops are also rapidly increasing.By the time the Gupta Empire army arrived at the southern border of Xinzhou, Xie Xuan already had 10,000+ troops around him.In fact, these tribal leaders are not very knowledgeable. No matter how smart they are, they can’t play against Xie Xuan. Xie Xuan took advantage of the supercilious gap of the Gupta Empire’s army and led the 10,000+ army to bypass the Gupta Empire’s Northern Expedition. Swing into the Gupta Empire Bihar, Odessa, and even approached the Gupta Empire Central State.

Xie Xuan's policy is actually very simple, it's just a swap.Anyway, the population of Wei State in Xinzhou is not large, and they are all vassal tribes.Once the Gupta Empire started killing in Xinzhou, the Gupta Empire lost the possibility of ruling Xinzhou.

In addition to Xie Xuan's outstanding appearance, the other one who has emerged is the eldest son of the emperor, Ran Yun.Ran Yun and Ran Ting took two completely different paths. Ran Yun abandoned literature and went to martial arts, and joined the army.After several years of experience, Ran Tan has become a county lieutenant in Hanxin County.Hanxin County is the upper county of Chuzhou, with [-] counties, and Ran Yun has [-] troops from [-] prefectures under his command.Liu Ke transferred the Anxi Army to support Nanli. As a result, the coalition forces of the Sassanian Empire and the Gupta Empire made a big circle and attacked the hinterland of Chuzhou in Wei State.Facing the enemy's strength and our weakness, many counties and counties quickly fell.After Ran Yun received the emergency, he turned the parts into wholes and gathered the people and supplies of the thirteen counties of Hanxin County into the county. Fifty thousand troops.Although the soldiers of the government soldiers are older than the regular army, and their equipment is slightly poorer, in fact, the soldiers of the government soldiers have more combat experience.So the coalition forces of the Sassanid Empire and the Gupta Empire met under the city of Hanxin.

This bloody battle that shocked the Wei State lasted for 83 days. The soldiers and civilians of Hanxin City died in the battle with more than 2 people, and more than [-] people were injured. More than [-] corpses were thrown down.By the time Wei Guo's reinforcements arrived, there were less than [-] people in Han Xin City.Almost all the troops were killed, and even young women and children aged twelve or thirteen took up arms and went to the battlefield.

However, the good luck of the coalition forces of the Gupta Empire and the Sasanian Empire came to an end. With the successive arrival of reinforcements from the State of Wei, especially the reinforcements from the Zhenxi Army and Tingzhou, the morale of the counties in Anxi was greatly boosted. , launched a counterattack one after another.

In March 54 of the Yellow Emperor era, the second battle of Talas broke out. Liu Ke led the main force of the Anxi Army with more than 400 troops to block the retreat of the allied forces of the Sasanian Empire and the Gupta Empire on the west bank of the Hengros River. More than [-] national reinforcements launched a fierce attack on more than [-] troops of the Sasanian Empire and the Gupta Empire.In particular, Zhenxi arrived with [-] [-]mm howitzers and more than [-] rockets.Because Wei Guo's technology was more advanced at this time, and nitrocellulose explosives were adopted, the power of Wei Guo's rockets was even more amazing.

In just one day, the Wei State Federation Army fired more than 6000 artillery shells and more than 4 rockets at the coalition forces of the Sasanian Empire and the Gupta Empire. However, the coalition forces of the Sasanian Empire and the Gupta Empire lost the will to resist.

As the coalition forces of the Sasanian Empire and the Gupta Empire lost their will to resist, Wei State began to shrink the encirclement.Facing the siege of the Wei State Federal Army on foot and cavalry, the space for the joint forces of the Sasanian Empire and the Gupta Empire was gradually reduced.Unwilling to fail, Bintosara Gupta, the commander of the coalition forces of the northern governor of the Gupta Empire, desperately suppressed the retreating soldiers of various ministries, beheaded the generals who were afraid of the enemy, and barely stabilized the morale of the army.However, the confidence that the coalition can persist is because both the Gupta Empire and the Sassanian Empire are fighting against the Great Wei Federal Empire. Not only Samadhara Gupta led the army to help, but Shapur II also led the Sassanian Empire The soldiers of the whole country came to help.As long as they persist until reinforcements arrive, the coalition forces still have hope of turning defeat into victory.

However, in response to that sentence, the ideal is very full, but the reality is too skinny.

On March 1000th, [-] in the era of the Yellow Emperor, on the sixth day after the coalition forces were besieged, a huge convoy of over [-] heavy-duty horse-drawn carriages arrived at Shuijian City.And after a short rest in Shuijian City, they began to march towards Talas.After the huge convoy arrived at the barracks of the Great Wei Federation Army, these accompanying craftsmen immediately began to assemble it.

Because there is no internal combustion engine, Wei Guo's hot air balloon cannot turn flexibly, and can only rely on the wind direction to fly. Where it can fly depends on God's mood, which is very tricky.In military applications, hot air balloons have always been criticized by the military.But the Royal Academy of Sciences has been working hard to improve hot air balloons, and has achieved impressive results.

Because alchemists in Chinese history liked to add things indiscriminately, one of Yang Xi’s apprentices, Zhou Xuanzhi, unintentionally corroded asphalt with sulfuric acid and obtained relatively light helium.As a result, Wei Guo made a great breakthrough in manufacturing airships.Compared with hot air balloons, helium airships not only stay in the air longer, but also because helium is an inert gas, it is not easy to chemically react with other gases, and the safety factor is very high.However, at this time, the State of Wei had not found a way to produce helium industrially, and the cost of producing helium by indigenous methods was very high, so there was still a long way to go before Wei State's airship was put into civilian use.

However, this does not prevent Ran Ming from creating a heavy-duty airship for aerial bombing.After seven days of intense work, sixty heavy-duty airships completed all preparations before takeoff.This kind of airship is very huge. First of all, it is more than 64 feet and three feet in length, longer than the largest ship in Wei's active service, and its diameter is as high as five feet, three feet and six inches. It is inflatable and hardened, and the volume of the entire airbag exceeds 340 thousand cubic meters.However, the load capacity of this airship is also quite amazing.The maximum ceiling is [-] tons, and even with the safe bomb load, it can carry [-] jin.Even if a heavy bomb weighing fifty catties is used, a full [-] bombs can be carried every time it is lifted into the air.

However, this kind of airship is still not a finished product. First of all, it has no power and relies on the wind to fly. It is only equipped with a human-adjustable tail, which can fine-tune the direction of the airship.

"Southeast wind level four, safe!"

"Attention bombers, our estimated ceiling is 580 meters, and we can stay in the sky above the enemy camp for two and a half minutes, and each of them will quickly drop bombs according to the assigned square!"

"Observers pay attention to observe the bombing effect!"

Following Xu Yuan's order, sixty behemoths began to slowly rise into the sky.These sixty airships were all covered by the painter's giant monsters, one by one, they rushed towards these Turkic people with their teeth and claws.Although the coalition army has a large number of people, the two countries are essentially barbaric slavery countries with backward culture and awe of ghosts and gods. Therefore, when they saw the monsters rushing towards them, they all backed away in fright. People even worshiped the airship devoutly.

Wei Guo's explosives have basically replaced black powder and adopted relatively safe yellow powder.In comparison, even if black powder is manufactured in the form of purified pellets, its power is only equivalent to one-eighth of that of yellow powder.Fifty catties of xanthate explosives can produce 500 million joules of energy, and once it explodes within a radius of 50 meters, no grass will grow.

These airships don't care how pious these coalition soldiers are, anyway, as long as they reach the sky above them, they drop the bombs.Although Wei Guo's bombs are dropped by manpower, they are not picked up by people and thrown down. Instead, each one is hung under the gondola of the airship. Under the action, it falls quickly, and during this process the bomb safety is opened, the bomb will pull the leading detonator in the first time, and after three to five breaths, it will explode.

The power of each bomb will not be weaker than the heavy howitzers of later generations. If [-] bombs are dropped, the result can be imagined.At this time, Wei's artillery, ballista, rockets, and eight-ox crossbow also began to make up for the camp of the coalition forces of the Sasanian Empire and the Gupta Empire.Under the multiple alliances, the coalition forces of the Sasanian Empire and the Gupta Empire soon collapsed.

Within two quarters and a half hours, 54 bombs weighing fifty catties were thrown over, and within two quarters and a half hours, the Wei Guo [-] [-]mm howitzer also fired nearly [-] rounds of shells.The rockets were the fiercest, more than [-] rockets were thrown out.

After half an hour, the battle ended.Big pits can be seen everywhere in the camp of the coalition army, there are stumps and broken arms everywhere, intestines and internal organs can be seen everywhere, and there is an indescribable stench in the air, which makes people want to vomit.Even the coalition soldiers who were a little farther away from the big pit, although they couldn't see any scars all over their bodies, and their faces were pale and bleeding from all their openings, they didn't know whether they were dead or alive?
Soon, the survivors of the coalition forces on the battlefield were all disarmed and escorted by Wei soldiers to the bank of the Talas River. These coalition soldiers, whether they were Persians from the Sasanian Empire or Indians from the Gupta Empire, watched They all looked very embarrassed, and they knew without asking that these must be the coalition soldiers captured in World War I just now.

"General, our army captured 11 people in this battle, including some wounded, who lost the possibility of treatment. We will give them a happy time out of humanitarian considerations. These prisoners, may I ask you How will the general deal with it?"

Liu Ke said to the messenger: "This campaign, the Sassanid Empire and the Gupta Empire are fighting against our Great Wei Federation Empire without declaring war and adopting despicable and shameful sneak attacks. Our Great Wei has a total of hundreds of thousands of people (most of them are from Chuzhou) and the people of various tribes in Xinzhou) died, and this general cannot be blamed for death. Once this general closes his eyes, this general will dream of countless innocent eyes. It has been said that the territory of Great Wei is sacred and inviolable, any army that sets foot on the territory of Great Wei without permission, there is only one end waiting, and that is death."

The lingering sound of the word "death" was still there, and the soldiers of the Wei State who were guarding the prisoners raised their horizontal knives and slashed at them. Before the coalition prisoners could react, their heads fell to the ground, and then their heads were kicked into the river.Of course, the coalition soldiers who had been frightened mad by Wei Guo felt that death was their best result.

(End of this chapter)