Chapter 232: Roman Origins
Yang Shuang was indifferent to the complaints about the loot.
It's not that he is hard-hearted, but that the Han people in the northern part of the Great Sui are still living in fire and water, how can he have such a big heart to care about thousands of miles away, maybe yes, maybe not.
The two looked at each other silently for a long time.
When the crimson morning sun rose, the endless cavalry group in the distance gradually revealed its hideous faces.
Yang Shuang suddenly woke up.
Many!
It's just too much.
Even in the face of the 100,000 Western Turkic army, his face did not change, and his heart couldn't help but speed up at this moment.
The cavalry of Sha Bolu was far more powerful than the two divisions of Apo and Datou.
Aside from the common control strings in the grasslands, there are hundreds of very familiar war equipment behind them.
Bed crossbows, trebuchets!
It is worthy of the existence of a stalemate with the Great Sui for several years.
Originally, Yang Shuang thought that the other party was like the Central Turks, all of them were cavalry who came and went like the wind and left after plundering.
I never thought that Sha Bo had an infantry corps.
The sturdy physique of those who manipulate the equipment is far beyond the labor of their own side to fuse the souls of the people.
They have fat heads and big ears, their backs in the cold, their bodies bound by belts or metal chains, their heads wrapped in red scarves, their waists spanning short blades, and their bodies are full of fierce atmosphere.
Naturally, an army of 300,000 would not be crowded together.
Opposite the Western Awa army were only 100,000 cavalry, and the rest were infantry.
Part of it stood in the south, and part of it gathered under the high slope where Yang Shuang was.
As for the group of sentry riders who had just rushed over, they had already been crushed.
When Yang Shuang saw the appearance of the Sha Boluo Infantry Corps, he was even more shocked in his heart.
If you say, the number of armor soldiers in the Great Sui Frontier is a bit unbelievable, as high as 50,000.
The eastern Turkic armored infantry can make people feel hopeless.
200,000 infantrymen were all in armor!
This armor is not leather armor, but armor.
Although people cannot be disguised, in the war-torn Northland, the combat strength of an army is still judged by the degree of well-equipped.
After all, it is impossible for a team mixed with water to survive here for long.
Yang Shuang's scalp was a little numb.
No wonder, no wonder the Great Sui war against the steppe was difficult to win for a long time.
There are many war horses, and they have the advantage in speed.
The infantry is elite, attacking and defending the city, they are no longer at a disadvantage.
With the war equipment that the Central Plains relied on to survive, they now have even more fearlessness.
At the same time, a thought suddenly popped up in Yang Shuang's heart.
Apo is going to finish the calf again!
The western head is indeed tough.
While resisting Sassanid Persia, on the other hand, guarding against the Roman Empire, and the Xiongnu in the northwest, there were constant wars, so that the western Turkic strong generals poured out.
But it is impossible for Datou to transfer the elite back and lend it to Apo.
Therefore, the 200,000-strong army of the Western Turks may have been just a slave army mixed with herdsmen, extensions, and attachments.
Moreover, Apo's revenge is certainly strong, but how can the borrowed army fight for him as a stranger?
Coupled with the method of military formation that Sha Boluo learned from the Central Plains, it is estimated that there will be a river of blood!
No, maybe a unilateral massacre!
Yang Shuang couldn't stand it anymore.
In the steppe civil war, it is best to be stalemate, even if it cannot be stalemate, it cannot be one-sided.
Otherwise, how would the Central Plains reap the benefits of the fisherman.
But at present, there are no soldiers in his hands, and Yang Shuang is a bit of a clever woman who is difficult to cook without rice.
It is estimated that even if the 2,000 iron cavalry assembled after the bloody battle in Yangguan are put into this battlefield with a force of up to 500,000, there will not be much splash.
"That's the big picture!" Yang Shuang sighed.
What thousands of horsemen break through thousands of enemies, one level blocks 100,000, only on such a battlefield can a general's ability to lead troops be cultivated.
Flags, drum orders, formations, deployments, and the time difference caused by slow information transmission all need to be taken into account.
"Shhhh What a big spectacle! ”
The same stunned booty Mu Ran was stunned for a long time, and after being awakened by the sigh, he was a little disapproving.
Yang Shuang squinted and felt that this person was as cheap as Niu Er, and if he didn't look for a smoke, he was a little uncomfortable.
The latter's body stiffened, and he said: "Three hundred years ago, Da Dan Yu heard that the west was fertile and the grassland was fertile, and decided to move west again. Passing through the Caucasus, at a time when the Great Qin Empire was thriving, with 300,000 iron-clad soldiers, they dispatched 500,000 troops to form a defensive line to prepare to defeat the Xiongnu army. But when a million iron horsemen overturned the Caucasus, the group of noble knights who seemed to be mighty and howled for glory immediately collapsed! ”
In addition, a large number of Alans and Sarmatians joined the army of Dadanyu, and the number of troops once exceeded two million. Those countries that have not yet entered the war zone are directly frightened to move the whole country westward. For example, the Goths, Da Shan Yu didn't think about whether to continue to go south, thousands of miles away, they had already run to Constantinople, and directly destroyed the Great Qin Empire, which is now the Roman Empire. ”
Yang Shuang, who was a little ignorant of Western history, instantly knew what the loot was talking about.
The former glory of the Roman Empire, the Roman legions!
Three hundred years ago, it should be the period of the Xiaoice River. At that time, not only were the Xiongnu migrating westward, but the colder also prompted the Germanic people to migrate southward on a large scale in order to survive.
Maybe it's a historical coincidence, or maybe it's a subtle change that no one knows.
The Goths, who had just reached the full level of the jungle in the south, were a little weak-hearted, panicked, and fled without a fight, in the direction of the unsuspecting Roman Empire.
The Goths were threatened with death and directly took their full level to the extreme, and then, under the attack of three sides, the overwhelmed Roman Empire collapsed.
Suddenly, Yang Shuang was a little enlightened.
The Huns, Germans, and Goths carried the Franks, Vandals, Burgundians, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Alemannes, Lombards, and the Angles, Saxons, etc., who ran out of the Roman Empire along the way, and kept forming a migration wave, pouring into the future of Britain, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, etc., is it possible, is this the darkest Middle Ages in Europe?
Wars broke out, so that the reorganized Western Roman Empire collapsed again after a short period of existence, and only then did the Eastern Roman Empire, which is now mixed with various races.
Among the Han elites, the first two were Great Qin, and the latter was Fu, that is, the future Byzantine Empire.
"Did those Huns who ran into the Great Qin Empire never come back?" Yang Shuang thought of the Huns, who didn't seem to be strong now, and his heart moved, looking at the spoils of war.
"Huh? How do you know? The traitors took with them nearly half a million cavalry, as well as a very large number of slaves, and later they became princes, counts, and even senators in the Roman Empire. ”
Yes!
Yang Shuang understood.
It was once said in middle school history books that the Eastern Roman Empire was the oldest monarchy in Europe, and even the rising "Amen Pope" failed to control the emperor.
The reason for this may be the merit of the Hun traitors who fled from the east and always believed that military power was the most important.
From this point of view, the Western Turkic Datou was not unaware of the existence of the Xiongnu, otherwise how could he choose to cooperate with Rome and jointly send troops to Sassanid Persia?
I am afraid that the Hun traitors in the Roman Empire have already negotiated with Datou to deal with the primitive Huns in the north.
Thinking of this, Yang Shuang, who was threatened by the Turks in the east and west, and had sacrifices who wanted to capture him alive, breathed a sigh of relief, at least, at present, the Great Sui would not be immediately attacked by the Huns.
However, how to deal with the sacrifices that come out from time to time is another big problem.
Woo woo woo ~~~~~~~~
In the midst of cranky thoughts, one east and one west, two melodious and vicissitudes of trumpets sounded.
"Here we go!"