Country and Beauty

There were more than eighty thousand Qin Army infantry, artillery personnel, and cavalry, there were a total of three thousand cannons, wutong tank s, and fire dragon carriages. This included up to one thousand six hundred cannon ammunition supply vehicles, two thousand waiting crossbow arrow supply vehicles, and more than one thousand two hundred canned fire oil carts. These vehicles amounted to six or seven thousand of them, and with the addition of food and infantry crossbow supplies vehicles, the entire troop alone had ten thousand vehicles, and the weight of various supplies was more than two thousand tons. And there were more than twenty thousand of them.

Originally, 95% of the journey for Meng Tianhu's army was covered by the Qin Army's transport ship, so it did not take too much effort, but it was different after they landed. It rained heavily for several days, making the floppy Ganges area extremely muddy. With one leg, the mud on the ground covered the ground, and it did not amount to much, those cumbersome cannons and wutong tank s, the moment they entered the soil, directly sank into the ground half a wheel, unable to move.

On average, they would need two of the horses pulling the vehicles. Now, with the help of a few soldiers, they still wouldn't be able to move forward. The large army of over eighty thousand soldiers, after landing on the shore, had used nearly four hours to advance, the light infantry soldiers had only advanced a few miles, but the cannons, wutong tank, and other supplies and vehicles behind them could not move at all. In just four hours, they had advanced two to three miles, it was as if they were snails crawling on the ground.

Such harsh weather was fatal for Qin Army who relied on airships to scout their surroundings. Under such terrible weather, even the future generations of fighters would not be able to successfully take off from the ground, let alone the airships of this era.

Meng Tianhu was now extremely anxious. According to the intelligence received beforehand by the staff officers, they had estimated that the Gupta's cavalry would arrive at the ambush location tomorrow afternoon, and there were still 13 hours until the ambush location. According to their current march speed, the light infantry might be able to reach the ambush location, but for the transport troops and all kinds of heavy equipment to reach the location, they did not even need to think about it.

Although the Qin Army was well-trained, and could be said to be an elite warrior who had gone through countless battles, under such circumstances, the entire troop was in chaos. Looking at the endless army, Meng Tianhu almost cried, what should he do?

Right at that moment, Meng Tianhu suddenly saw a commotion in the line. A food truck that was loaded with food was knocked onto the ground due to the wooden wheel being broken, the six stones worth of food was directly dropped into the mud, a group of soldiers were busy picking up the mess. The transport unit that was in charge of delivering the grains had a large number of Indian slaves, all of which Jia Lituo had specially sent over to please the Qin Army. All of these slaves were physically strong.

The situation was quickly made clear, this was the chaos caused by the Indian slave's slip up, causing the horse to be shocked and confused, and at that moment, the Indian team that was in charge of the slaves were rushing out. Without needing the Qin Army to do anything, he first aimed the horsewhip at the few slaves that made a mistake, whipping them as she pressed them into the mud, then commanded the other slaves to replace the wheels with new ones and then reloaded the food.

Looking at this scene, Meng Tianhu's heart completely froze. According to this situation, the damage suffered on the fifty li of muddy road was not small, and because the heavy rain had increased the weight of the Qin soldiers's armor, the burden of the troops had multiplied, and the body of the Battle Nation would also be affected by the rain. Most likely, the impact would be from cannonballs, or else even if they were to be transported, they would become a pile of useless scrap iron.

At this moment, the entire army seemed lifeless. Every single soldier had a question in their mind: if they were to march in such harsh weather, even if they barely reached the designated position, would they still be able to fight?

Meng Tianhu knew that this wouldn't work, so he ordered a halt in their advance to rest on the spot. He returned to the temporary tent and looked at the map. The ambush location was at the Rajmahar hills, which was the only way for the Gupta's cavalry to enter the Eternal River Plains. It was also the only suitable location for an ambush. Entering the Eternal River Plains, the average altitude here is only 18 metres, it was simply endless, tens of thousands of soldiers trying to hide their location was almost impossible, even if they could, it was difficult to prevent the Gupta scouts from finding out, the key to the infantrymen's ability to restrain the cavalry was sudden strikes, once you lose your advantage, you would lose your chance of winning, even if you had a stronger fighting ability, other people would not be able to beat you, wouldn't they run? Don't expect a man's legs to catch up with their four legs. Even in such bad weather, the cavalry's fighting capacity is greatly reduced, but the cavalry is still a little faster than the infantry.

Meng Tianhu's mind worked quickly, he recalled his own knowledge, and tried to find a way to counter the enemy. Suddenly, a thought flashed in his mind. He seemed to have grasped something and wanted to carefully grab hold of this light. However, this thought came and went even faster.

At that moment, a "report" came from outside the tent.

Meng Tianhu was furious. He had only just thought of a way out, but was interrupted instead, it was as if he was in bed with someone at the height of his power. Meng Tianhu said snappily. "Come in!"

It was a tall man. He was dressed in bright armor and his body was covered in mud. Water droplets were hung on his face. It was unknown whether it was sweat or rain.

Ran Min said in an equally unkind tone, "Could it be that General Meng has thought of a plan to defeat the enemy?"

Ran Min was Xie Fei's adopted son, so even though he was not his biological son, his position was still there. If Ran Min became an adult, he would inevitably get the title of a duke, and might even become a duke, or even a prince.

Meng Tianhu asked in confusion: "What do you mean by that, Academy Officer Ran?"

Ran Min said: "Don't you know that time is of the essence? Why did you order the army to stop moving forward, and why did you give up such a great opportunity to annihilate the enemy? "

Ran Min's fiery temper angered Meng Tianhu, and he said to Ran Min: "Regarding my family's matters, I have my own decisions to make. Even if it delays the military's opportunity, I have my own family to report to His Majesty!"

Ran Min was not used to Meng Tianhu's forceful attitude, but in order to defeat his opponent, he endured it. I have a plan that I can use to defeat my enemy. It seems like I have overdone it. "

Hearing that, Meng Tianhu immediately put down the airs: "Isn't this family on fire, how can they have any plan to destroy the enemy, can speak of defenseless." Ran Min coldly spat out a word of "water". After he finished speaking, he no longer spoke. They coldly waited for Meng Tianhu's reaction.

Meng Tianhu was trying to tell him that since forcing an attack was not possible, he might as well take the water attack. There was a historical matter of Guan Yu drowning the seven armies and breaking all the rules, so Meng Tianhu knew Ran Min's plan.

Unexpectedly, Meng Tianhu was not happy at all. Instead, he said worriedly, "Since ancient times, heroes are ruthless. This plan might be good, but Rajmahar has around four to five hundred thousand citizens. Once this water attack is carried out, I'm afraid that there will be many more lonely ghosts."

Ran Min did not turn around, and indifferently said: "General Meng, have you killed too few people? He only knew what he wanted. To do something big, how could he be merciful enough? Even if we were to fight him after he died, we were the ones to choose... "General, I really don't know how this Meng family's invincible reputation came about 鈥?

Ran Min sneered, "General, I wonder when your heart has begun to soften. To be merciful to your enemies is to be merciful to yourself. General Meng is extremely admirable to me! "

Towards Ran Min's sarcasm, Meng Tianhu only laughed it off.

Seeing Meng Tianhu's attitude, Ran Min became even angrier, but he had no choice. At this moment, a voice broke the awkward silence.

"I support Academy Officer Ran's idea!"

Meng Tianhu didn't even need to turn his head to know that the person who had just spoken was the cunning Huan Wen.

Huan Wen laughed: The Ran Academy Officer is a good idea, we can make use of the Ganges Water Gap to cause chaos, which can slow down the speed of the Gupta's cavalry's assault, and can also allow our army to reach the designated location quickly with the help of a small boat, it is killing two birds with one stone.

Meng Tianhu replied with a question: "If Vikramaditya were to see the raging flood, wouldn't he take a detour? This will make the hard work of our army go down the drain! "

Huan Wen shook her head slowly and looked at Ran Min: "It shouldn't be, if we take a detour, we will need to travel a few hundred kilometers. At the moment, what kind of concept is that? In addition, if he advanced lightly, the supplies she brought would be very little. If she took a detour and the war failed to reach its target, then he would lose her only chance of winning. Now, the time has come for Vikramaditya to choose otherwise.

Maybe Meng Tianhu didn't trust Ran Min, but he trusted him very much. He knew that they had already established a deep understanding of each other after traveling for thousands of miles from Korean Peninsula to the Indian subcontinent, and fighting side to side with him.

Just like that, the Qin Army's naval vessel that was preparing to leave could only continue to dock at the dock. The various supplies and vehicles that were unloaded previously were all reloaded. Just like this, from start to finish, with a distance of less than twenty kilometers between the front and back, Qin Army took nearly a day to complete the boarding of the new ship.

At this time, the instruments responsible for laying the explosives placed more than two thousand pounds of gunpowder on the river bank.

Near midnight, Meng Tianhu gave the order to start the explosion.

With a huge explosion that shook the earth, a gap nearly a hundred meters wide appeared on the banks of the Ganges River in the Rajmahar section. Huge waves several meters high rolled towards the plains in the east with the force of a landslide. This boundless force of nature, this raging flood, swept away all obstacles, villages, and small towns along the way.

The flood alone was enough to kill hundreds of thousands of people in India and leave nearly a million homeless.

At the same time the gap opened, more than four thousand small boats carrying more than eighty thousand Qin soldiers s rushed towards the east, following the waves of the flood.

This night was destined to be extraordinary. Sleeping until midnight, Vikramaditya suddenly woke up from his sleep. At this time, the Gupta Army's camp in the rain was in chaos. Not long after, Vikramaditya, who was anxiously putting on his clothes, finally received the report from the guards "Ganges Cave?"

Vikramaditya's first reaction was to take a detour, but before he could give any orders, he suddenly threw his head back and laughed loudly, "The heavens are on my side, the heavens are on my side!"

The surrounding guards were at a loss. They didn't know what kind of madness was going on in Vikramaditya, but since he had reached his limit and there was a flood ahead, how could the heavens still help him?

The Vikramaditya laughed, "Our army has been on the offensive and we did not have any siege equipment. If we cannot take advantage of the situation and take down the Eternal River Plains' main town, Khorajjo (which means coconut in Sanskrit), then we will have to attack as soon as possible. "Now that the flood is raging, it just so happens that we can cross the walls of Kukulajo City. It will be beneficial for our troops to seize Kukulajo City quickly!"

"But the flood was so great that our army could not reach the Kjulahoe!"

Vikramaditya revealed a smile that he had not seen in a long time: "Haven't you experienced floods? Look, no more than three days. The flood will go away, it belongs to the Gupta Empire, and it will never be lost! Warriors, you have built your career and you are right in front of us. Work hard for the tomorrow of Gupta Empire! "