Chapter 509: Occupation of India
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The herd lost its cool in the violent explosion and began to run around in a hurry, trying to escape from the terrified area. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info.
From time to time, the Indian soldiers sitting on the backs of elephants were knocked down, and the place where they once boasted of being able to strike at the enemy from a high altitude was now a place of death.
The front army of the Indian Sunga army collapsed, and the war elephant of King Psyamidus was located in the rear of the entire elephant herd, according to the normal battle order, the place where he was should be very safe, and there was no need to worry about being attacked by the Qin army's light soldiers, but the panic of the elephant herd was like an infectious disease, and it quickly spread from the front line to the rear.
The seated elephant of Psyamito was an eight-year-old bull elephant, and the most majestic war elephant did not escape the drive of animal instincts, and after seeing its companions scatter one by one, it also howled a few times to try to call back its men, but then, when the explosion of the thunder army was louder than a while, the male elephant suddenly fell into a rage.
The head elephant stared at the blood-red eyes, and began to rush towards the Qin army like crazy, completely ignoring the orders of Psyamidus and others, its brave behavior, if it was in the animal world, could be understood as a move to protect the weak, but on the battlefield of the two armies, the head elephant's charge was more like a suicide action.
Tragic loneliness forward.
Unable to arouse the slightest fighting spirit of the elephant herd, they were completely frightened by this slaughter that they had never encountered before, and after being struck by five couch crossbows and more than ten heavenly thunderbolts, this unyielding male elephant fell only a hundred steps away from the Qin army's infantry formation.
As for the founder of the Xunga Kingdom, before the male elephant fell, he was infinitely unwilling to swallow his breath, he was shot by the crossbow of the Qin army that shot like a locust, and he could indeed have an advantage, but in the same way, it was precisely because of the high position that Pusiamituo became the target of the Qin army's crossbowmen.
Darrow fights.
With the collapse of the war elephant army also came to an end, the 100,000 Xunjia coalition army, in the trampling and fleeing of each other, was defeated by the Qin army, which was smaller than their own in number, but far stronger in equipment, morale, and combat power, but there were not many Xunga soldiers who really died on the battlefield, only about 10,000 people. The defeat of the Indian army was mainly due to loose discipline and national laziness, which cost them.
After the death of Pssimitus, the poor friend on the other side of the Indus River did not take on the responsibility of follow-up command, he was good at power and not good at military affairs, regardless of his own personal first to flee south, and then, the tribal coalition from the Deccan Plateau was even more demoralized, and began to leave the battlefield in batches.
Li Yuan waved his division across the river, and ordered the troops to continue to pursue and kill the fleeing enemy, four days later, the city was occupied by the Qin army, and the defenders in the city surrendered under the leadership of the poor friends, and in the following month, under the pursuit of Han Xin, Feng Tang, Qiu Lijin and other generals of the Qin army, they swept the entire Indian peninsula.
In the face of the prestige of the Qin army, small countries such as Baiyan, Mocha, Chedi, Magadha and other small countries have sent envoys to ask for the Great Qin, and the example of the Sunga Kingdom is in front of them, coupled with the fear of the mysterious weapons used by the Qin army on the battlefield, if they have the slightest resistance, what awaits them will be the thunder and fire of the Qin army.
The battle of the Indian Peninsula lasted for half a year, and finally ended in a complete victory for the Qin army, in this South Asian war, a group of young generals emerged, among which Feng Tang, the advance general of the Eastern Route Army, was the most eye-catching, and at the same time, this meeting between Li Yuan and Han Xin also resolved the disagreement within the Qin army about the new direction of the future.
When the hot summer passed and the footsteps of winter came, Han Xin led the Northern Route Army to return north, and with a new goal, he had to seize the time to go deep into the barren land of eastern Siberia to find the strait that Li Yuan had mentioned that could lead to the New World.
From Asia to the Americas, the Bering Strait has always existed, but before the Qin army became interested in it, it was mainly a primitive indigenous population, and now, it is difficult to imagine how difficult it is to pass through an army on the frozen ocean.
Qiu Lijin, a native of Wuhuan, and Yang Yu, a general of the Qin army, were appointed as the governors of the provinces in the southern and northern parts of the Indian peninsula respectively.
Chulijin contributed a lot to the southern expedition, not only because his Wuhuan army took the lead in breaking through the Solomon Pass, but also because in the following sweep, the Wuhuan people fully demonstrated the bloody methods of the Xiongnu tribes, and on the way they advanced, the corpses of the Indians almost filled the Ganges.
The Wuhuan tribe is another part of the Xiongnu people, and it is also the ancestor of the Xianbei, Rouran and other grassland tribes, their continued existence in the north, for the Qin State that aims to open up and stabilize the prairie, has always been a huge threat, compared to the untamed grassland peoples, Li Yuan hopes that the new immigrants of the Qin State who migrated from the Hetao and Youyan areas can gradually occupy the abundant Beihai and Hannan River areas, so as to eliminate the internal troubles of the Great Qin.
Although Qiu Lijin was a little reluctant to Li Yuan's arrangement, after thinking about it for a while, he finally accepted it happily.
Competing with the will of Emperor Shenwu, Qiu Lijin really didn't have the courage, and besides, although he had to leave the place where he lived, this place in the Indian Peninsula was really good.
The abundant continent, countless slaves to drive, and rare things such as gems, gold, silver, and ivory from the ground all made Qiu Lijin satisfied, and after fighting for most of his life, he was satisfied to have such a place to retire and enjoy the rest of his life.
Unlike Qiu Lijin, who was stationed in southern India, Yang Yu, a pro-military battalion-born general, was stationed in the Indus River Valley, which is closer to the southern route of the Silk Road, and the races living in this basin are also more complex.
The Tuqiang, that is, the Tubo people on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, this plateau people were still in a primitive state during the Qin period, but their figure has appeared from time to time in the southern end of the Silk Road and the area of the Green Mountains, and from time to time launched attacks on the caravans, Yang Yu's task is to protect these caravans from the raids of the Tuqiang.
October.
Li Yuan led the main force of the Eastern Expeditionary Army to return to Xin'ancheng, and in the farther west, the final decisive battle with Rome was coming, and for Qin, it was the most important battle that would determine the rise and fall of the Qin state. (To be continued.) )