Chapter Eighty-Five: The Western Expedition I
The letter is also written by Liu De to Liu Xiu, who has just pacified the world and sat firmly in the position of the emperor, to the effect that Liu Xiu sent troops to attack Huaxia, they have contacted Rome, Anxi, Xiongnu and other countries, as well as Xianbei and Murowei people who are dissatisfied with China, jointly launched an attack on Huaxia, and at the same time organized a righteous army in Xingzhou, the center of Chinese trade, although Xianbei and the righteous army were defeated, but also seriously affected the national fortunes of China, at this time it was the weakest time for Huaxia, please Liu Xiu sent troops to attack Huaxia, and the occupied land belonged to the Han family, and at the same time shared the wealth of China with the Han family. kxs7.com also described the prosperity and wealth of China in the letter, and as long as Liu Xiu sent troops, the wealth of Huaxia could meet the needs of the Han family for a hundred years.
The conditions in the letter are very 'tempting', if it is replaced by Liu Xuan or the Red Eyebrow Army, they may launch an attack on Huaxia according to the agreement in the letter. However, Liu Xiu had learned the power of the Huaxia Army, and even had an 'elite' division trained by Huaxia officers, out of awe of Ouyang Xuan, Liu Xiu chose to 'hand' the letter to Ouyang Xuan. The letter also mentioned Liu De's contact information in Handi, which was actually in a mountain in Nanyang. The letter also describes the Romans' yearning for the wealth of China, and they are gathering a large army in the country to prepare for a long war against China.
With this letter, Ouyang Xuan finally had a clue to Liu De, and 'handed over' the letter to Zhong Zhao, who hurried back, and officially appointed Zhong Zhao as the Sima of the Intelligence Agency, which was directly managed by Ouyang Xuan, responsible for intelligence collection in Huaxia and Han Land, Rome, Anxi, Xiongnu and other places, and at the same time equipped the White Wolf Team to Zhong Zhao, this special team was Ouyang Xuan who had undergone special training and was responsible for combat missions behind enemy lines. Zhong Zhao gladly accepted the order, assembled his team of 100 people at the Guizhou base, and received the most advanced equipment, each with a pistol, a short knife, and a recoilless short assault rifle, as well as a special meteoric iron sword. Coupled with the equipment of the Yulin Army and an exclusive flying saucer, Ouyang Xuan believed that their current equipment was enough to run rampant behind enemy lines.
After dealing with domestic affairs, the troops stationed abroad were transferred back to the Xingzhou border pass to join the Yulin army, and at the same time, Zhao Yan, who stood out in the counterinsurgency, was transferred to the Muzhou border pass to resist the Xiongnu, waiting for the opportunity to send troops to the Xiongnu, giving the Xiongnu a fatal blow, and at the same time sending Xian Yushun as the deputy general of Zhao Yan to assist Zhao Yan, who was still a little immature and had little experience in the army, to jointly complete the task of striking the Xiongnu for the second time.
Ouyang Xuan was going to send troops from Xingzhou to attack the Anxi Empire and the Roman Empire, in the 29th year of the 'spring' day, after a winter of preparation and bloody fighting at the border pass, Huaxia successfully resisted the fierce Roman coalition army, as for the Huns had already retreated to 200 miles away from the border pass.
In the twenty-ninth year of A.D., in April of the 148th year of China, Ouyang Xuan officially announced to the world that because the Xiongnu, Rome, Anxi and other countries invaded the territory with troops, slaughtered the border people, and robbed the goods, they were thieves, and the Chinese Holy Emperor personally led 500,000 'elite' soldiers to crusade against foreign thieves and protect the border pass for a hundred years of peace. As the edict spread to Anxi, Rome, Xiongnu and other countries, except for the Huns, the other two countries only laughed at this, especially Pudava pointed to the Chinese envoy and said: "A group of yellow-skinned monkeys are not worthy to fight against my Roman Holy Empire, go back and tell you what holy emperor, don't always hide behind the city wall." If you want to fight, you can fight a decisive battle with me, and then talk about the crusade."
After listening to the envoy's reply, Ouyang Xuan just smiled and said nothing. On 18 April, Zhao Yan and Ouyang Xuan each sent 500,000 'elite' soldiers from Heyang Pass and Ouyang Xuan from Huangbei Pass, and gradually advanced westward. Ouyang Xuan's attack this time can be described as a 'fine' general, Li Mu, Peng Fei, Ling Huzhang, Huang Tingzhong, Hu Tan, Zhao Tuo, and Lin Qin are all here. () Even Hong Fang offered to travel with the army. Li Mu was appointed as the commander of the whole army and led the Chinese army, Peng Fei was the deputy commander of the hoplites, Ling Huzhang was the commander of the left army, Hu Tan was the commander of the right army, Zhao Tuo was the commander of the rear army, Lin Qin was the logistics governor, Huang Tingzhong was appointed as the commander of the Yulin army, and Hong Fang was appointed as the commander of the army. The configuration of Zhao Yan is also luxurious, Ouyang Duo almost equipped all the "fine" heroes of the Chinese military regions to the North Road Army, Ouyang Duo after the government affairs were 'handed over', he went to Heyang to meet with Zhao Yan in person, and drove the expedition in person.
Under the leadership of Tang De, the whole country began a new round of armament warfare, and the retired veterans returned to the army and were stationed at the border gates in various places, because of the Xingzhou rebellion 'chaos', which gave these veterans a layer of 'yin' shadow on their reputation, and Tang De just took this opportunity to give the veterans who were loyal to the country a chance to prove themselves. The border passes in various places have not been reduced because of the 'pumping' of troops, but have become stronger, so that the Xianbei people who were originally in the Han land and 'wanted' to move, could only look at the border passes and sigh and retreat into the mountains. According to the preliminary statistics of the Military and Political Yuan, Huaxia has nearly 10 million 'fine' strong troops, which surprised Ouyang Xuan and Ouyang Duo, who had already sent troops outside the customs. The two Chinese emperors were fighting abroad, and the national military power was temporarily 'handed over' to Tang De to manage and deploy, and at the same time was responsible for the supply of logistics materials.
Now Huaxia has three independent leaders, and if it is changed to another country, there will be the possibility that those who go out to fight will be overthrown by the defenders, but Ouyang Xuan and Ouyang Duo entrust him with full authority for the affairs of a country out of a high degree of trust in Tang De.
Ouyang Xuan finally met the Roman coalition army led by Pudava and the Gobi Desert after sending troops to the Imperial Monument Pass for hundreds of miles, and the two armies were arrayed, and with the orders of Ouyang Xuan and Pudava, the two armies launched an attack almost simultaneously. The Huaxia army was 500,000 strong, and Rome only had 100,000, but Ouyang Xuan only sent 100,000 people to the battle, and the rest were used as reserves. Among them were 20,000 light cavalry, 20,000 hoplites, 50,000 Yulin troops and 10,000 hoplites. The Huaxia army used heavy cavalry as the front arrow, light cavalry was responsible for the two wings, the hoplites were in the center, and the Yulin army followed the hoplites and launched a fierce attack on the Roman coalition army. On the wide frontal battlefield ten miles wide and five miles deep, the two sides fought each other. This time, Ouyang Xuan did not use artillery, in order to psychologically deter the Roman coalition army.
The Roman coalition army still uses the battle formation of hoplite and light infantry to cooperate with each other, in the place of two arrows, the heavy cavalry, take off the shield of aluminum and titanium alloy from the back, hold the "fine" steel saber in hand, protect the vital parts, the horse is covered with aluminum and titanium alloy armor, the whole heavy cavalry is like a galloping silver "color" dragon, but the arrow position of the arrow is a silver "color" armor, hanging an arm shield, holding a big knife Ouyang Xuan, behind him are fifty people wearing aluminum and titanium alloy armor' The guards, when entering the enemy's arrows, the arrows of the Roman legions fell like rain, whether they hit the shield or the armor, they all fell to the ground, and the spears thrown were also dissolved and invisible, Ouyang Xuan rushed to the front of the formation, there were several arrows hanging on the arm shield, and a javelin was still hanging on the upper part of the horse's forelimbs, Ouyang Xuan shook off the big knife in his hand, picked off the shield in front of the enemy's formation, and quickly killed the spearmen behind the shield. The strong impact and ultra-short distance of the crossbow arrows are simply not something that ordinary shields can resist, and the hoplites behind are also equipped with the same equipment, firing thousands of crossbows in front of the enemy formation. Suddenly, the front row fell, reducing a lot of trouble for the follow-up attack.
Ouyang Xuan drove straight into the sword with a knife, and the heavy cavalry behind them lined up like a mountain and a sea to kill into the enemy formation, and everywhere they passed was corpses flying sideways, under the leadership of Ouyang Xuan, the heavy cavalry was like a tank, quickly crushing all the enemies in front of him, when the hoplite phalanx behind them entered the enemy formation, there was almost no battle to fight, and they had to spread out to both sides, and the phalanx of 5,000 people continued to crush on both sides, and the Yulin Army and the heavy cavalry were like no one. The shields and spears of the Roman coalition were no match for the galloping hoplites and feathered armies. The kxs7.com heavy cavalry was led by Li Mu, Huang Tingzhong led the Yulin Army, Ouyang Xuan led the light cavalry, Peng Fei, Ling Huzhang, and Hu Tan each led an infantry phalanx and rushed to both sides. A group of light cavalry, led by a lieutenant, followed the hoplites to clear the remnants. It was almost a one-sided massacre, and the 100,000 Roman coalition troops didn't even 'survive' for an afternoon, they were annihilated in the Gobi Desert, and the Roman commander Pudava was directly beheaded by Ouyang Xuan. When cleaning up the battlefield, Zhao Tuo and Lin Qin looked enviously at the soldiers who had just experienced the battle, although all the Roman coalition troops were annihilated, almost all of them were incomplete, but the losses of the Huaxia army were almost negligible, only 100 people were killed and 1,000 people were injured. The wounded soldiers were escorted back to China, and the fallen soldiers were put in coffins and transported back to the Meritorious Pavilion in Xiagu for burial according to the national rites. As long as you return to Huangbei Pass, there will be logistics personnel sent by the Military and Political Yuan to take over.
These dead and wounded soldiers were all light cavalry, after this Gobi Campaign, Ouyang Xuan readjusted the future battle plan, and the light cavalry changed to cruising in the rear to cover the rear flank. This battle next door completely destroyed the will of Rome and the rest of the country, Ouyang Xuan's troops were divided into three routes, led by Li Mu all the way, leading 150,000 troops with enough artillery and rifles to attack the rest of the empire. Ouyang Xuan led the Yulin army and 100,000 horses, Lin Qin led the Huaxia army, Huang Tingzhong led the Yulin army to attack Rome from the southern front, and Peng Fei led 200,000 horses to attack Rome's Constantinople from the northern front, equipped with enough artillery and rifles. After the capture of Constantinople, he crossed the strait and attacked the rear of the Huns and Greece.
When Ouyang Duo and Zhao Yan led an army of 500,000 to fight on the Gobi Desert of Ouyang Xuan, they swept through the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea, and the northern part of the Black Sea to the Arctic Ocean. In order to ensure the safety of logistical support, Zhao Yan chose the strategy of establishing a logistics channel, and built a beacon tower and military station every 100 miles on the line of the Dnieper River from Heyang Pass to the northern part of the Black Sea, and each military station was made of earth and stones, and the garrison was 1,000 people, equipped with sufficient food and artillery fire, which was enough to cope with the impact of a 10,000-person team. There are also ten rangers of 5,000 men galloping back and forth along the logistical supply lines in the vast grasslands, protecting the safety of the entire supply line. In fact, Ouyang Duo and Zhao Yan led no more than 300,000 'elite' soldiers, and it was these soldiers and horses who swept across the Russian plain in three ways, and the front of the troops was directed at the lower reaches of the Istre River (Danube). In the south of the Danube River (Hungarian Plain), the Southern Route Army led by Ouyang Duo captured the Hudu of the Xiongnu and the corpse of the Dao Gao Ruoyu Shan Yu, as well as the Xiongnu Zuoxian King Wu Da Yu and a number of Xiongnu kings, at the same time Zhao Yan captured the Xiongnu left and right bone Du Hou and the right Xian Wang in the middle of the road, so far the Xiongnu war ended temporarily, Zhao Yan suggested that the Xiongnu Shan Yu should be enshrined to stabilize the stability of this vast grassland and ensure the smooth trade with Europe on the north road. But Ouyang Duo did not take this plan, but killed the Xiongnu Shan Yu and the left and right Xian kings, set up the son of the former Shan Yu, and the right bone Du Hou Duo Menger took Lati as the new Xiongnu Shan Yu, and Ouyang Duo presided over the succession ceremony with the Danube River, and the patriarchs of the Xiongnu tribes were also slaughtered, and the chiefs of the tribes were re-established by the Huaxia Army, and also participated in the ceremony. At the ceremony, Ouyang Duo ordered the capture of the Xiongnu Shan Yu and the kings, as well as almost all the officials of the Xiongnu army with more than 10,000 commanders, and the appointment of the remaining new officials was the matter of Xin Shan Yu. At the end of the war, three garrison cities were established along the logistics supply line according to the original plan, and the garrison was withdrawn to Kwantung after the garrison, but Zhao Yan's suggestion was to temporarily garrison the banks of the Istre River to counter Ouyang Xuan's attack on the Roman Empire. Because on the other side of the river is the Roman Empire, sending troops from here and attacking from the north and south can crush the eastern forces of the Roman Empire in one fell swoop.
When Ouyang Xuan saw the plan proposed by Zhao Yan, who Ouyang Duo had turned around, he excitedly smashed the desk with one palm, and shouted three times in a row: Wonderful. This is also the best strategic effect that Ouyang Xuan wants. In order to increase the strategic effect, Ouyang Xuan transferred half of the navy's ships to the 'Bo's Gulf and the Red Sea) to carry out fire strikes on the coastal cities of Anxi and Rome, and at the same time ordered all the marines to land in Anxi and Rome to attack the coast. After giving the order, Ouyang Xuan felt very regretful, if there was a Suez Canal, then Huaxia's fleet could completely control the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. But Ouyang Xuan was wrong, the Suez Canal was intact in this era, the shallowest water depth was ten meters, and the deepest place reached more than thirty meters, Ouyang Xuan attacked and advanced to the northwest along the Zagros Mountains, all the way in the territory of the Rest Empire, in the Zagros Pass Ouyang Xuan entered the two river basins to the west, and Peng Fei continued to the northwest into the territory of today's Turkey, the Eastern Province of the Roman Empire at that time.
After Ouyang Xuan entered the two river valleys, it was like a dragon entering the sea, running rampant, almost unstoppable forces, and everywhere he went, he opened the 'door' to welcome the surrender, there was no way, the 100,000 Roman coalition troops were destroyed in an instant in just one afternoon, which was an absolute fantasy on the European battlefield. After the end of the Gobi Campaign, Ouyang Xuan gave up the original land supply and solved it on the spot in the occupied area, and the insufficient part was supplemented by the flying saucer squadron of the Yulin Army, ensuring that the 500,000 army had no rear to fight at all. Therefore, the army was looted everywhere, this was Ouyang Xuan's order before dividing the troops again, and the Rest Empire and the Roman Empire could be sacked differently. Only rob those wealthy families who are anti-Chinese, hire pro-Chinese merchants as guides, and loot opponents. For such an order, the Chinese soldiers are a little resistant, and the battle in their hearts is to fight, not to be bandits, so these soldiers have maintained no crime from beginning to end, as long as they do not resist, they will not be killed. It was welcomed by the people along the way, and of course the most distressed were the best local administrative officials, who had to provide the food and grass needed by the army, which of course was naturally from the big families. When Ouyang Xuan heard a soldier's opinion on the looting order, he was also very ashamed. An edict was drafted and circulated to the whole army, praising the officers and men for their true military demeanor.
From the beginning of the westward division of troops, Ouyang Xuan noticed that the current soldiers are very concerned about fairness, and they are very repulsive to sneak attacks and hit-and-run guerrilla warfare. Very aristocratic and knightly.,It's very unaccustomed to bullying the weak.。 Even if you see the more bullying the less and bullying the weak on the streets of the occupied cities, they will go up, help the weak defeat the strong, and then quietly leave. Ouyang Xuan saw it in his eyes and was happy in his heart, this is the result of education, Zhao Yan also has this style, originally against the Xianbei people, it was completely possible to use sneak attacks or surprise attacks to reduce casualties, but Zhao Yan chose the same force to fight and kill, but at the same time, he also prevented being sneak attacked. Although the losses were slightly larger, this aristocratic and equal combat method effectively deterred the enemy. Including when sweeping the Huns, the same method was also adopted, which effectively deterred the Xiongnu tribes, and only then did the various departments look down on the wind.
This is Ouyang Xuan's advocacy of this mode of warfare, that kind of guerrilla warfare, sparrow warfare, and sneak attack warfare are understandable for those who are out of the weak, as a strong side, if you use aristocratic warfare, then you must guard against the weak side to adopt unconventional combat methods. This is also the Chinese education: to do righteous acts, we need to guard against unrighteous acts.
In the 29th year of AD, in October of the 148th year of Huaxia, after more than half a year of campaigning, Huaxia completely controlled the territory of the Xiongnu, Peng Fei's troops besieged Constantinople, and at the same time controlled the Black Sea Strait. Li Mu took control of the entire Resting Empire and captured the current emperor of the Rest, Albanda I. Ouyang Xuan marched all the way west, successively conquered the provinces of the Anxi Empire in the two river basins and the Syrian provinces of the Roman Empire, beheaded its governor, and then went south along the Mediterranean coast, occupying the Sinai Peninsula and Egypt. Therefore, after occupying Egypt, Ouyang Xuan killed all the officials and civilians from Rome, found the descendants of the Egyptian pharaoh among the people, and supported the more intelligent Aydra as the new elder of Egypt. In exchange, the Pharaonic ethnic group in Egypt agreed to make the Sinai Peninsula a military territory of China, allowing a permanent garrison of troops, and another clause of the agreement was that China was responsible for defending Egypt from threats and occupation by other countries, and at the same time was responsible for training the Egyptian army. After another attack by the navy, according to Ouyang Xuan's request, they finally occupied Djibouti, which was exported from the Red Sea, and moved the few indigenous people to the interior of Africa by giving them a large amount of food.
Now the strategic purpose of sending troops to China has been fully accomplished, and now the Roman Emperor, Tiberius, who has taken refuge in Capri, has sent envoys to prepare for negotiations, and at the same time there are envoys sent by the Roman Senate, and the two envoys met unexpectedly in Alexandria. After Ouyang Xuan's mediation, the two envoys finally reached an agreement and agreed to form a negotiation team to negotiate with the Chinese Empire and Egypt.
This time it was a multilateral negotiation between Huaxia, Egypt, Rome, and Anxi, and Ouyang Xuan was still a little uncomfortable, so he had to inform Huang Tingzhong and Hong Fang of the conditions, and the two of them joined forces as negotiators of the Chinese Empire. Ouyang Xuan ordered that ten gold coins be distributed to each soldier who went out to fight, and he shopped to his heart's content and brought back some exotic products for his family, which was Ouyang Xuan's reward for the soldiers who went out. Of course, the nearly 10 million gold coins naturally came from Ouyang Xuan's pocket, and the exception here was the Yulin Army, which had far more gold coins in their hands than this, so the moment Ouyang Xuan's order was issued, they gave those gold coins to the other soldiers, and asked them to buy some goods for the fallen soldiers to bring to their families. They had seen too much of these exotic things, and they weren't too curious. It's just a symbol of 'sex' to buy some special products, and their favorite thing is to travel around, enjoy exotic scenery, and explore the military value of professional habits 'sex'. There are Chinese troops stationed in Alexandria, Cairo, Port Said, Ismailia and other places, and a gold coin is equivalent to the income of an ordinary family for three years, and it is enough to buy a thousand catties of food. And these soldiers do not buy those more expensive items, but only like to buy some local handicraft specialties in the street markets of ordinary people. Of course, the worst is Ouyang Duo and Zhao Yan of the Northern Expedition to the Huns, they have almost nothing to buy, there are all the Chinese here, and they have to go to buy some specialties from the Roman soldiers and civilians on the other side of the Danube, and later formed a Roman specialty market on the south bank of the Danube, because the two countries have negotiated an armistice, and are negotiating, Zhao Yan also ordered the soldiers to cross the river to buy some things back. He was very strange about Ouyang Xuan's order, he didn't understand why he did it, and he also asked Ouyang Duo, Ouyang Duo was the same as him, he didn't know why, it was just a mechanical execution. But what happened next gave them a new understanding of Ouyang Xuan's order.
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