Destiny Only Han

Chapter 808 Liu Ying: Moving forward, our steps are sonorous!

Changxin Hall.

Passing through the main hall with simple decoration, there are only couplets such as "the first out of the common things, Xianning of the world" and "the merits and ambitions, and the industry is diligent" hanging on the pillars, and bypassing the screen to the west, there is a very Postmodern style living room.

On the opposite side of the leather sofa and coffee table, there are several telegraph machines emitting a little red light and ticking non-stop.

On the other side, Han Xin, Cao Can, Wang Ling, and Li Shang each occupied one side of the long table, directing more than a dozen Lang officials from military families to stack sand tables in a hurry.

Although the sand table they deduced through exchanges with Fan Kang is far from the actual terrain of the battlefield, this kind of classical warfare in the cold weapon era has a high tolerance for battlefield command.

After all, in the era of cold weapons, the efficiency of killing people on the battlefield is too low, and soldiers need to fight in formations.

Therefore, the smallest unit commanded is generally a thousand-man team, and there is no such thing as a machine gun team going five meters forward...

Liu Ying lay paralyzed on the sofa with one hand resting on her chin, suddenly blessed to the heart, and suddenly a wise saying from a military strategist resounded.

Know yourself and the enemy, and you will be safe in a hundred battles!
Now when it comes to knowing the combat power and tactics of the Han army, no one in the whole world can surpass the four people over there, but they only know themselves and don't know the enemy, so they need to introduce foreign aid.

So Liu Ying beckoned: "Where is Hannibal?"

Han Tan thought for a while, then bowed and said, "Your servant remembers that he was sitting with those savages, just outside the hall of Xuanshi..."

Liu Ying nodded: "Send someone to find him, and find two more clever translators."

The Bank of China who was guarding the door said that he would not wait for Han Tan's order, and immediately turned around and rushed away.

It has to be said that talents are talents. Bank of China said that not only is he very clever, but Liu Ying can understand what Liu Ying wants with almost one look in many cases, and even though he is walking in small steps at the moment, the hem of his clothes hardly moves, but The speed of movement is not inferior to the speed of ordinary people running!

Liu Ying pulled her crown aside casually, and Ge You collapsed on the big and soft leather sofa. After thinking about it, she still didn't cross her legs.

It's just that he is very relaxed and confident, but Han Xin, Li Shang and others who are busy next to him are not so comfortable.

Thousands of miles away, they have never had the experience of commanding thousands of troops to fight based on imagination alone.

Especially thinking that because of their mistakes, tens of thousands of people died in battle, even Han Xin's head was covered with fine beads of sweat.

After a while, Hannibal walked in from the outside with a dazed face, first bowed to Liu Ying awkwardly, and said in a stiff tone, "Greetings, His Majesty the Emperor..."

Liu Ying was slightly taken aback.

Although Carthage is an African country, its population is not black, so a foreign old man with brown hair and deep eye sockets is wearing a quaint Hanfu. This style of painting is really a bit crooked...

But it doesn't matter anymore.

"Sit." Liu Ying nodded lightly: "I came here because the Han army was fighting the Roman army in Asia Minor, so I asked you for advice and to help judge how the Romans would fight."

Hannibal was overjoyed when he heard that.

He will never forget the humiliation brought to him and his country by the Romans, and now it is time for revenge!
Well, he has full confidence that Han will surely defeat Rome!
If it is said that in the past he still had some resentment about being 'sold' to the Han by Antiochus III, and he was a little bit unwilling, but when he boarded the warship of the Han Kingdom, especially when sailing all the way to the east, he saw that the coast of the ocean was everywhere. It is the port and agricultural reclamation point of the Han Kingdom, and the merchant ships of the Han Kingdom shuttle back and forth on the sea. The unwillingness in his heart has dissipated, and it is replaced by a strong curiosity.

Then, he followed Wu She to Panyu Port.

To be honest, it was a prosperity he had never seen before. Such a bustling scene of thousands of ships, deliveries and returns, had never been seen in Greece, Rome, or even Carthage, which paid special attention to commerce.

It wasn't until he went north along the Chi Road and arrived at Chang'an City, which was said to be a hundred times better than Panyu, that he understood the word 'strong man' that Wu She kept repeating for the first time.

Here, there are too many shocks!
Here, too, there are too many mysteries!

Whether it is those electric lights that can emit dazzling light when connected to a dark wire; or those steam barges that emit black smoke and can go upstream without oars; The steam train roaring like a world-destroying behemoth is something he doesn't understand, but he is extremely shocked.

Especially when he heard that those things were made by the young emperor lying on the sofa at the moment, it made him feel extremely afraid of Liu Ying.

Because it is the power of God, and now the power of God is brought to the world by the young emperor of the Han Dynasty, teaching all ordinary human beings to know and control this power!
It is recorded in Greek mythology that Prometheus, the fire-stealer, created human beings, enlightened human wisdom, and gave the fire that brought light and warmth to human beings.

But Zeus was furious, chained him to a rock in the Caucasus Mountains, and ordered a hungry eagle to come and eat his liver every day, and his liver always grew back after being eaten alive by the eagle. This pain will last for 3 years!
Now, the young emperor has done the same.

But not only did God's punishment not come down, but she has the supreme power in this world, and even the gods are jealous of the incomparable power!

So, what is a mere Rome?

The Romans were, to use a new term he had learned, 'jumping clowns'...

So Hannibal began to translate his knowledge of the Roman Legion, especially Lucius Cornelius Scipio, to the person who hastily stacked sand tables and marked the positions of the two armies in detail. Han Xin and others spoke up.

..............................

Mrs. Fan stood on the cloud car, looking at the telegrams that the telegraph operator handed him one by one in a daze.

so much?
Really, he just mentioned something casually, but he didn't expect that his emperor's cousin would take it seriously, not only captured Huaiyin Hou, but also captured Cao Xiang and Qu Zhouhou, the famous generals of several generations...

It's not bad, the key is that those old guys really treated him as a naughty boy!
Although he was born late, did not go out with the army, and did not live a real military life, but who is he, his father is Fan Kuai, Fan Kui of Hongmen Banquet Savior!
The important thing is that the Shiqu Pavilion, which is like a forbidden place for others, is completely open to him, that is, the National Archives that records the history of various archives. After all, his aunt is the Empress Dowager of the Empire, and his cousin is now the Emperor of the Empire!
Therefore, he had read the war history recorded by historians in Shiqu Pavilion since he was a child.

Although historians know little about soldiers, there are records in the archives of the comparison of the strength of the two sides, food, grass and other data.

The important thing is that there are many surveying and mapping talents in the Han Dynasty, so the battle drawings drawn are very accurate.

And he only needs to find the person in charge of commanding the battle with the map and related records, and then he can roughly understand the whole story of the whole battle!

Although there is a lot of bragging in it, at least the process is pretty good.

Therefore, although he has never been on the battlefield, he has a lot of experience in how to arrange troops, how to allocate troops reasonably, and how to match the length of crossbowmen, swords and halberds. Naturally, he doesn't need those old guys to point fingers.

But there is a saying in the military strategists, soldiers, the great affairs of the country, the place of death and life, the way of survival, must be investigated!

So, he began to direct the entire army to line up according to the telegrams sent by the old guys...

"I've been thinking about your broken elephant..."

"At what age are you still using traditional elephant soldiers to fight?"

Hearing the neighing of elephants, Fan Kang couldn't help curling his lips and muttering softly.

However, he looked at the Roman legion on the opposite side through the telescope, and his heart was immediately relieved.

Among the Roman army, there were also elephants...

And they are bigger than the ones on their side, and there are many more than the ones on their side!
There are only twenty war elephants on their side, but there are at least two hundred on the other side!
"It's broken..." Antiochus III couldn't help but sigh.

His eyesight is excellent. At this moment, the breeze is not dry on the battlefield, the sun is shining brightly, and the weather is clear. He can see the war elephant standing quietly in the Roman legion, but it brings great oppression to ordinary people!
"Damn the Numidians!" Antiochus III punched the railing with an angry face.

After all, there are two main sources of war elephants in the Mediterranean region. One is the elephants he traded from the previous Mauryan Dynasty, and the other is the ones that the Numidians captured from the farther south of the mainland and sold them to Rome and Egypt. elephant……

"Otherwise, retreat first." Antiochus III stared at Mrs. Fan who kept giving orders.

"Are you kidding me!" Mrs. Fan raised her head suddenly after hearing what the interpreter said, "It's all over. If we retreat, believe it or not, the recruited tribal soldiers will collapse immediately?"

"At that time, I will definitely order the Han army to retreat, and you only have one option to surrender to the Romans!"

"Well, by the way, what happened to your Macedonian ally across the sea after they surrendered to the Romans?"

Listening to the translator's words, Antiochus III's face turned red and turned pale.

After all, at his age, his oldest grandson is about the same age as Mrs. Fan, so being ridiculed by a grandchildren in various ways is unbearable to anyone!

But if you can't bear it, you still have to bear it!

What Mrs. Fan said is quite right. If this battle is lost, not to mention the complete shattering of the dream of rebuilding the Alexander Empire, even the rich and affluent Asia Minor Peninsula will fall into the hands of the Romans!
The important thing is that if he is defeated, those Hebrews in the country will definitely rebel again!
Well, those guys go around saying that Zeus, Hera and other gods do not exist, and there is only one god they made up in the world!

So for these heretics, crucifixion is naturally the best...

And not only the Hebrews, but the Canaanites who control Jerusalem will also inevitably seek independence, and his empire will fall into pieces by then!

and so.

war?

fight!

That's the worst possible outcome.

The big deal is just like what a Han businessman suggested to him when he was defeated by the Romans for the first time, evacuate the treasury, move eastward with his cronies and tribes, and live as a residence in the Han country...

So Antiochus III stopped talking and forced himself to trust Mrs. Fan unconditionally.

Without the chattering fly beside him, Mrs. Fan's command gradually changed from unfamiliar to proficient, and she also became clean and confident when giving orders.

And what he was holding in his hand at the moment was a telegram that had just been sent from Chang'an City.

The guy named Han suggested that he hand over the most elite silver shield infantry and spear phalanx to the command of Seleucus, the son of Antiochus III, as for the camel cavalry and scythe chariots conscripted from other parts of the country and the like are deployed away from the infantry phalanx.

After all, the cavalry of the Romans was just that. A frontal battle alone was not enough to defeat those slippery rangers and the rampant and invincible scythe chariots.

But Mrs. Fan did not intend to follow his advice.

He looked through the binoculars again at the formation of the Romans on the river bank, and decided to adopt the method his father would tell him every time he was drunk.

It was a battle when his father followed his uncle to fight the world. At that time, the Han army, which was still the Chu army, set off from South Korea to destroy Qin through Wuguan, but encountered the Qin army led by Nanyang County Guard on the way.

A big battle erupted immediately.

Naturally, the Han army won a complete victory!
And the loser is now Jijiu, the proctor of the Imperial Grammar University, Guannei Hou Huanjuan.

Therefore, Mrs. Fan plans to imitate his great uncle, the emperor, and also use that kind of tactics to defeat the enemy in the far west of the empire!
What made him feel that he could use slash tactics to create a local advantage, and then sweep the entire battlefield, was the five thousand Han veterans he recruited!

Most of these people have experienced the brutal Chu-Han War!
Although most of them are over 35 years old, when it comes to killing skills and judgment on the battlefield, they are far inferior to those young recruits!
Especially when they wear plate armor that looks like an iron can!
Now that the national strength of the Han Dynasty is prosperous, and the metallurgical technology is unprecedentedly developed, a set of plate armor with excellent workmanship, including the fingers wrapped, is only worth four to five thousand yuan, which is the price of half an adult slave!
These veterans who own a large number of slaves overseas even have dozens of different styles of plate armor in their collections!

And Mrs. Fan specially asked them to wear a Seleucid burqa over the plate armor, one to block the sun, but the most important thing was to catch the Romans by surprise!
Therefore, Fan Kang naturally would not use the banner of Han to command them.

beep!beep!beep!
When the horn of attack sounded, [-] Han infantrymen with long spears, crossbows slanting across, and long knives in their waists began to advance.

Advance with them, there are a full [-] Seleucid silver shield infantry and spear phalanx.

Just according to the tactics discussed before the battle, the silver shield infantry and spear phalanx gradually slowed down, making the battle line a diagonal line.

As a result, Lucius Cornelius Scipio, who commanded the infantry in the Roman legion, showed a lot of disdain on his face.

"A diagonal array?"

"I really don't know how to live or die!"

(End of this chapter)