Chapter 501: The Battle for Solomon's Pass

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The Mauryan Empire ceased to exist, and the short-lived unified dynasty gradually lost its vitality after the great conquest of Emperor Ashoka.

The last king, the Giant Carriage King, was ambitious, and in the prime of his life, he was ready to establish his position through a battle against Qiang Qin, but his dreams, his life, and his children and grandchildren were all turned into sorrow in a conspiracy.

After Psyamita and his friends assassinated the giant chariot, they washed the important cities of the Magadha Kingdom such as Hua's City, Qunu City, Jung Bo City, and Kulu City, and the Sunga people's butcher's knives fell again and again, each time accompanied by the tears of pain and despair of the Magadha people, however, what is surprising is that such a massacre, if it were replaced by other peoples, would have been exposed and fought to the death, but the Magadha people because of their belief in Buddhism, they regard this suffering as the salvation of the sins of the past life.

Buddhism.

The real originated in Nepal around the ancient country of Kapila, founded by the prince of this small country, Siddhartha Gautama, Bodhidharma Patriarch is called Buddha in the Buddhist scriptures, the story of his abandonment of the throne and becoming a monk has also become a good story for generations of believers in Buddhism, but to be honest, in India, a small country with many forests, the kingdom is precarious to be a prince, it is really not as promising as a monk.

Bodhidharma knots relics and manifests the true spirit, its teachings, can always give people hope, let people look forward to beauty in fantasy, anesthetize their souls in the chanting again and again, this self-anesthesia will cover up the good and evil in the human surname, good people hope that the good deeds they do can be passed on to the next life through the gods, and those who do evil hope to exchange for inner peace through repentance again and again, in the later period of Ashoka's reign, the spread of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent reached its peak.

However, the forbearance of the Magadha did not quell the power struggle on the Indian peninsula, and the rise of the Sungas was accompanied by countless intrigues and tricks, and the assassination of the giant chariot made a considerable number of small countries sympathetic to the Mauryan Empire.

The existence of the puppet king of the giant car.

Whether it is useful or not, at least one thing is certain, that is, the tribes still have nominal respect for the Mauryan Empire, and they can still obey the orders issued by the giant chariot to send troops to various ministries, and now, what is Psyamito? And that poor friend who can only calculate others, a complete villain, how can he lead us?

With different thoughts, more than a dozen large and small tribal groups, such as the Baiyana, Andara, Harappa, Veda, Ashta, and Kalinga, have declared their independence from the Mauryan Empire, and they are carefully protecting their own territory in anxiety, for fear that one of them will be caught and negligent by a neighboring opponent and take away the place where their ancestors live.

In such a difficult situation, the Indians were like a plate of scattered sand, unable to gather much resistance, which was undoubtedly bad news for staunch anti-Qin factions such as Psiamida and Chayou.

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Internal friction among Indians.

For the Qin State, which was attacking on a large scale, it was good news worth celebrating, but in Li Yuan's eyes, the Indians were at best a bedbug, jumping out and disgusting a few times when others were not paying attention, whether it was Psiamido, Chayou, or Sri Li, they were not powerful opponents. Even the resurrection of Ashoka, who is revered as the god of war by Indians, is treated the same.

The frog at the bottom of the well.

No matter how loud it is, it's just a frog.

In the eighteenth year of the Great Qin calendar, in mid-January.

Brave the bitter cold and snow, Chulikin's 5,000 Wuhuan soldiers suddenly appeared in the Bamiyan Valley, and this army from the far north was like a ghost, and before the Indian soldiers could react, they had already climbed the ruined walls of Bamiyan. The soldiers of the Sunga Kingdom guarding Bamiyan were hiding in a warm house with a charcoal fire, and they could only sigh at the cold and snowy weather outside.

Chu Lijin went on a killing spree.

It had been nearly a decade since the Wuhuan had slaughtered the city as they did today, and they kept setting fire to the houses where the Sungas were hiding, burning their opponents to pieces of charcoal. What makes people feel strange is that these soldiers under the banner of the Qin army are wearing leather robes sewn from fish bones on the grassland, and they also wear plush fur hats on their heads, no matter how you look at them, they are different from the people of the Central Plains in the Eastern Soil.

After recovering the lost territory, Han Xin's Northland Army continued to move south, and finally joined the eastward advancing Qin troops in the Balochistan area.

Checkmate!

Feng Tang's military position is only a military captain in the Qin army, and he is not far from the lowliest general among the generals, and what is Qiu Lijin's identity, Mo said that the former Xiongnu Zuoxian King, even now he is also the leader of the Wuhuan tribe, and all the subordinates under his command add up to 30,000 people.

To please a rising star like Feng Tang, Qiu Lijin's meaning is very clear, he wants to use Feng Tang's mouth to say a few words for the Wuhuan tribe in front of Li Yuan. Unlike Han Xin, Qiu Lijin hated Li Yuan, a powerful emperor who single-handedly created Great Qin and personally beat the Xiongnu to the brink, on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was afraid of it.

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Mount Suleyman.

The barrier mountain range between Balochistan and Sindh is a place where forests are rare due to the hot climate, replaced by bare rocks, and even foraging birds are nowhere to be found.

After the two armies of the Qin state converged at the Baloch Branch, the main problem they faced was how to cross the Suleiman Mountains and defeat the Sunga army guarding the Solomon Pass.

Solomon.

This name is very loud in the Jewish Bible, he is the second king of the Davidic dynasty, during his tenure, the Jewish kingdom through repeated trade, developed into a great power across Asia, Africa and Europe, after King Solomon, the Jews gradually lost their proud civilization, and finally reduced to a weak people who were bullied.

In order to resist the attack of the Qin army, Psyamitu sent a force of 2,000 men, guarded by his brother Sha'ou, who was not a lot of men, but it was enough for the rugged and inaccessible Suleiman Mountains.

The eighteenth year of the Great Qin calendar, February.

Li Yuan held a military meeting in Sutar, a small city in the Balochistan region, to discuss how to break through the defense line of the Indians and what countermeasures to be taken against different kingdoms after entering the Indus Valley.

"Your Majesty, I believe that I have received this edict, and I am grateful to the battle of the Southern Expedition, and I am willing to be a pawn for the army!" Han Xin's ruddy face showed a heroic expression.

"The general said that he laughed, you just want to be a pawn, and you have to ask all the generals here if you agree? Feng Tang and the others have been envious of the general's achievements for a long time. Li Yuan waved his hand and said with a smile.

Hearing Li Yuan say this, Feng Tang, Yang Yu, Zhou Ping, and the younger generation of generals also nodded frequently, for them, the battles of those generals during the Unification War were the driving force to encourage them to move forward, and among these generals, Han Xin, who gradually became one person and above all generals, is undoubtedly an important one.

"Well, the situation at the Solomon Pass, I believe everyone already knows, only if we break through there, it is possible for us to appear in the hinterland of the Indians, if we can't cross the pass, then our previous achievements will be in vain, because as soon as we retreat, the Indians will come back again."

"Therefore, capturing the pass is a top priority, what do you think about how to break the enemy?" Li Yuan said that the Persian Plateau and the Pamir Plateau were mostly barren land, and it was impossible for the Qin army to stay here for a long time, but the Indus Valley was not, where it was a natural granary that could provide sufficient food for the army.

In the face of Li Yuan's question, the generals looked at each other one by one, speechless for a while, the steepness of Solomon's pass, they have really seen it these days, and even Qiu Lijin, the old guy, led the Wuhuan people to attack once, but the result was a loss of troops and defeat.

A sheep intestine trail, passing through the crooked bare mountains, the Indians occupied the commanding heights of the pass, and the Qin army could not defeat the opponent in a place where it was difficult to breathe unless they could fly in front of the pass at once, and the few people who opened the road first had the courage to block ten or one hundred.

"Your Majesty, Mount Suleiman is not the only one that can be passed through the Solomon Pass, we can choose to take a detour, although it will take a little longer, but at least it will make the Indians feel that it is useless for them to stay there, and we can appear behind their backs at any time and cut off their supply money-!" Han Xin pondered for a while and said.

"A detour? The general didn't know that except for the Solomon Pass, although there were other trails, none of them were suitable for the army to cross, and besides, the distance was more than twice as farther? Feng Tang asked puzzled when he heard Han Xin say this.

"Haha, the general has a new idea, why don't you tell me about it?" Li Yuan's eyes lit up, and he asked Han Xin with a smile. For this kind of battle situation where the enemy is blocked in the pass, Han Xin's whimsical ideas in military affairs can indeed make people feel refreshed.

"Your Majesty, ladies and gentlemen, I mean that we can make a clear detour to paralyze the enemy, and then send a surprise army to lurk in the mountain col at night, and when the enemy is trapped, then launch a fierce attack and break through the pass in one fell swoop, how about it?" Han Xin walked quickly to the sand table that the staff officers had already set up, pointed to the terrain around Solomon's Pass, and analyzed. (To be continued.) )