Chapter 501: Bad News Coming Successively (Second Update)
Needless to say, although the journey was smooth and smooth, and he did not encounter any enemy troops when he landed, and let the soldiers under his command rest on land for a short time, but when they rushed to the capital of the Peacock Dynasty, Sima Xin faced the biggest problem, that is, he did not know where the capital of the Peacock Dynasty was, let alone what direction the capital of the Peacock Dynasty was.
Under such circumstances, Sima Xin casually chose a direction to move forward, and in desperation, he could only let his soldiers study the language of the Mauryan Empire along the way, and see if he could find out where the capital of the Mauryan Empire was by catching some people in the Mauryan Dynasty.
But such a path is obviously relatively stupid, and Sima Xin chose the wrong direction at the beginning, when he finally studied the language of the Mauryan Dynasty for more than half a month, and finally was able to let the people of the Mauryan Dynasty understand what he meant, only to find that the direction he was going was not the direction where the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty was located.
So the journey of more than half a month was basically in vain, and after learning about it, Sima Xin began to adjust the direction, but during the time he was groping, Peng Yuedu had already defeated hundreds of thousands of Mauryan troops, captured dozens of warships, and made a lot of contributions.
What neither of them expected was that the 100,000 cavalry led by Xiang Yu and Han Xin, who were supposed to help them attract the attention of the Peacock Dynasty, turned out to be the closest force to Fahrenheit, the capital of the Peacock Dynasty, at this time.
After Han Xin explained Xiang Yu, in fact, all the plans of the two of them were already plans to go straight to the capital of the Peacock Dynasty.
In a short period of time, they took advantage of the fact that they were already able to basically understand the language of the Mauryan Empire, and the situation around the Mauryan Dynasty was already very clear.
Unlike the previous city that Han Xin brought down with 30,000 horses with the power of thunder, Hua's city, the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty, was a city that was very difficult to attack.
The biggest reason is that the scale of this city is very huge, according to Han Xin and Xiang Yu's guesses, it is likely to be much larger than Daqin's Xianyang City, such a large city, needless to say that Han Xin and Xiang Yu can also guess, the city wall is very thick, and it is almost impossible to steal such a city with a mere trebuchet.
Another point is that although they feel that although there are about 300,000 soldiers guarding Fahrenheit City, they may not be very elite in training, but one thing, almost all the people of the Peacock Dynasty know that the elephants with the strongest combat effectiveness in the Mauryan Dynasty are guarding the periphery of Fahrenheit City, and there are at least a thousand of them, which means that almost half of the elephants in the Peacock Dynasty are protecting around Fahrenheit City.
Before this, neither Han Xin nor Xiang Yu had any experience in fighting elephants, but they had all seen elephants, and they also knew that if an adult elephant really went berserk, a hundred sergeants would definitely be helpless.
Moreover, the surroundings of the capital of the Peacock Dynasty are protected by more than 1,000 elephants, and the number of elephants is too much, once they rush up, it is not the effect of one plus one equals two, and if a thousand elephants really rush up, these 100,000 cavalry will definitely not be able to stop it.
But even so, Han Xin and Xiang Yu still led their army to leave the first city they had captured in the territory of the Mauryan Empire in a quiet night after some discussion, and of course, this place was not abandoned by them.
Han Xin knew that this city was the closest city to Great Qin, and once Yinggao wanted to have some exchanges between Great Qin and the Peacock Dynasty in the future, this would definitely be an important hub place, and its role was very likely to be more important than the capital of the Peacock Dynasty today.
Therefore, Han Xin left 2,000 cavalry to guard here, and in Han Xin's opinion, the role that his 2,000 soldiers can play must be far greater than the more than 10,000 Mauryan defenders here when he came to attack here before.
Here Xiang Yu and Han Xin led the army slowly to the capital of the Peacock Dynasty, Hua's City, a city of this size, Han Xin and Xiang Yu both knew that they could no longer be as clear as before, this time they had to act together, these 100,000 cavalry, only when they were completely integrated together, could they play the maximum role, and the vanguard of 30,000 was okay in the face of the Mauryan Army, which was tens of thousands of people, but when facing an army of hundreds of thousands, even if the other party was not a well-trained sergeant, it would definitely be inadequate.
In this process, the relics of the Buddha almost did not stop doing a lot of his own treasure and Mei Ji's dream, he from time to time to get the first emperor's sword to play with, during the period kept praising how good this sword was compared to his own previous saber, obviously, in his eyes, this time Boluo Gyro and Xu Fu will bring him back more objects.
After Xu Fu and the others set off for more than a month, Sheri Yijia waited for a message, a news that sounded a little blindfolded to him, so much so that he repeated the news three times to the person who returned it, but still didn't say anything.
The person who reported the news was the sergeant who was preparing to go to Daqin on the beach before, and a team of people arrived in Fahrenheit City, claiming that there was a very important military information to report to Sheli Yijia. After seeing the relics, they were suddenly attacked in the camp by the sea, and then they were easily routed by a mysterious group of men and horses, 150,000 troops, dead and wounded, running and running, but they didn't even know where the enemy came from.
There is also news that after withstanding the attack, Xu Fu and the sailors from Great Qin he gathered all did not know where they went, and they did not find anyone in life or corpse in death.
"What? 150,000 troops, all scattered? ”
After a long time, the relics lost to Jia and remembered to ask, with an army of 150,000, he didn't know how long he hadn't used such a large number of men and horses, but this should have been a very easy and smooth expedition, but he died before he left the Mauryan Dynasty and even stepped on the warship, which was really something he couldn't understand.
"That Great Qin man Xu Fu, could it be a spy planted by some force in my Peacock Dynasty? He has already cooperated with others inside and outside, so that he can defeat all the 150,000 troops of my Peacock Dynasty. ”
Seeing that the relics were no longer speechless, a minister beside him hurriedly stepped forward to remind him. The 150,000 troops were all killed, but Xu Fu's group alone couldn't even find the corpses, so there was a great possibility that they were problematic.
"But that Xu Fu has gone nowhere, and this expedition is afraid that it will be difficult to continue!"
At this time, the relics still didn't think of anything else in their hearts, but they were unwilling to be unwilling for their beauty and treasure that they had no chance for Great Qin, but after asking a few of his advisors, their faces all showed a trace of worry.
"Sovereign, according to the words of these soldiers who fled back, the combat power of those invaders is very strong, and they can even be ten with one, which is so similar to the enemy encountered by the city lord who fled back from the border before, I am worried about whether this is a big move against my Peacock Dynasty......"
The Mauryan Dynasty has been stable for a long time, and its military strength is like an old lady's New Year, a year is not as good as a year, such a situation is seen by some of the close ministers of the relics, and now the dynasty suddenly encountered a force that can destroy a city in one night, and then appears in a force that can defeat all 150,000 troops in one night, they can't help but not be nervous.
"Then, according to your opinion, what should be done about this matter, and what if I send 100,000 horses to visit, and these 100,000 horses are all wiped out? Where can my Mauryan Dynasty send so many 100,000 troops? ”
He may not have realized that if he said such a thing, he would already be a confession to this mysterious army, but everyone has already entered your territory, and it is not a good thing for you to admit it at this time.
"Can the monarch send a team of cavalry to the city that was captured before to see what the other party is coming from, now the enemy is in the dark, I am in the light, and the sea is too far away, it is better to go to the city to see, if there is really a difficult army stationed there, I should prepare early!"
In fact, at this time, he still did not realize the seriousness of the problem, because he had been sitting peacefully in the position of this monarch for too long, so long that he did not know that the country left by the previous monarch would be unstable.
"Okay, for the time being, you will be solely responsible for this matter, and let me know as soon as there is news, aren't there still a lot of elephants in the barracks on the outskirts of Fahrenheit? If the other party is really tough, let the elephant out, I don't believe that even if those warriors are strong, they can still be as strong as the elephants of my Mauryan Dynasty? ”
The confident words of the relics did not make his advisers feel relaxed, because they knew in their hearts that over the years, because the relics had spent all the money of the dynasty on useless matters, the number of elephants guarding Fahrenheit City had been greatly reduced, and now it was worth a thousand, which was really different from the heyday.
After arranging these things, Sarija went to his palace to have fun like a nobody, while the advisors under his command had sad faces, and they all had a very bad feeling about this powerful and unknown enemy.
It was also at this time that the powerful and unknown enemy in their hearts was getting closer and closer to Fahrenheit, the capital of the Mauryan Empire.
If Han Xin and Xiang Yu wanted to, they could still get closer to Hua's City faster, but in order to prevent the cities along the way from discovering their traces, they could only disperse the 100,000 cavalry, led by Xiang Yu, Han Xin and Long He, specially selected secluded paths to march, and quietly approached Hua's City all the way, because of the particularity of the cavalry troops, and they really didn't have the equipment needed to attack the city for the time being, so Xiang Yu and Han Xin could only set a seemingly partial strategy, And the core of this strategy is not to be discovered by the other party.
In fact, in the armory of the city that Han Xin attacked before, there are still some siege and defense equipment, although it looks like it has been for many years, but it can still be used if it is simple to pack up, but if those equipment are to be transported to the vicinity of Fahrenheit City quietly, it is almost impossible, and in the end it can only evolve into a very tragic offensive and defensive battle, which is definitely what Han Xin and Xiang Yu do not want to see, so they temporarily gave up all the things that fell and went into battle lightly.
The first to arrive was still Han Xin, this time because they brought those who could almost act as translators, so they still didn't have the slightest pressure on the journey, Fahrenheit City is located in the lower reaches of a river that almost runs through the Mauryan Dynasty, and the biggest feature here is the abundance of water systems, which has created the characteristics of Fahrenheit City surrounded by mountains and green trees.
Such characteristics brought a good climate and fresh air to Fahrenheit, but at the same time, it also provided Han Xin and Xiang Yu with a lot of places to observe Fahrenheit City in seclusion.
From the structural point of view, Hua's city is like the city that was attacked by Han Xin, but the scale has expanded several times, and the biggest difference with that city is that there are several barracks of large scale scattered outside the city of Hua's city, the sergeants here are different from the sergeants in the previous city, they have to train every day, although the training intensity of Daqin's elite soldiers is incomparable, but at least they must know how to fight, the most important thing is that People have a numerical advantage.
Another point is that there are more than a dozen arrow towers towering around Hua's City, the scale of these arrow towers is also very large compared to the city that Han Xin shot down before, and these arrow towers are not empty, but each of them is garrisoned by soldiers of the Peacock Dynasty, Han Xin observed in the dense forest, and found that once he appeared with a large group of cavalry, if he reached a certain range of the arrow tower, he would almost definitely be observed by them.
In order to be safe, Han Xin, Xiang Yu, and Long Ji's three parts of men and horses were ambushed in different places, not only to narrow down the target and prevent detection, but also to observe Fahrenheit City from different angles to better find its flaws.