Chapter 1327: The Battle of Tianzhu begins
Some people are proud, and naturally some people are disappointed.
The Germanic dynasty's contraction of the defense line was originally an excellent opportunity for expansion for the Caesar dynasty, but Caesar had scruples and did not dare to swallow this fat mouthful.
What makes Caesar scruple is naturally the Great Xia who is eyeing him on one side.
In this battle in Europe, Daxia didn't make a move, and as soon as he made a move, he assisted the Azure Emblem to destroy the Spanish Dynasty, how not to let Caesar, who lived next to Daxia, be afraid.
Caesar was worried that he was busy attacking the Germanic dynasty here, and the Great Xia army came from the Mediterranean Sea and copied the backyard of the Caesar dynasty.
If that were the case, Caesar would have no place to cry.
It was precisely because of this that at the height of the war in Europe, more than half of the troops of the Caesar Dynasty stayed at home and did not dare to really give it a go.
The deterrence of Bactria relieved the Germanic dynasty of great pressure.
Otherwise, the blue badge would not have been so easily agreed to give up the Egyptian dynasty.
In fact, not only the Caesar Dynasty, but also the Arab Empire was also concerned about the existence of Bactria and did not intervene in it at all during the entire European war.
I don't know, I still think that the Arab Empire is a neutral dynasty, not the Silver Hand camp.
In fact, both the Arab Empire and the Persian Empire were in an awkward position within the Silver Hand, and they belonged to the kind of people who had little to say.
Based on this, the two dynasties were less enthusiastic about the European battlefield.
Among them, only the parties know about the cold and warm.
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June 27, Jingshi.
After the fall of the Spanish dynasty, Ouyang Shuo's attention had been diverted from the European continent.
A month has passed, and the three-way army attacking Tianzhu in the Great Xia plan has been quietly put in place, and the relevant materials have been deployed in place, just waiting for an order to start the battle to conquer Tianzhu.
During this period, the civil war in Tianzhu District also had new changes.
With the power of a million troops, the Ashoka Dynasty still showed strong lethality in the face of the increase in troops of the Mauryan Dynasty and the Gupta Dynasty, and the front continued to advance.
So far, the Ashoka dynasty has regained nearly two-thirds of its lost ground.
The Mauryan Dynasty and the Gupta Dynasty worked hard for more than half a year, and they were about to return it all, and they were overturned by the Ashoka Dynasty in one fell swoop.
Tianzhu's game of chess is really dazzling.
It was under such circumstances that Great Xia began a magnificent history of conquest.
On 1 July, the three legions of the Longxiang Army in the Great Xia Nanyang Theater brazenly crossed the border of Hetao Province and entered the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty, opening the prelude to the Battle of Tianzhu.
The four elite legions of the Praetorian Guard, followed closely behind.
Two elite divisions, one north and one south, fought against the border army of the Mauryan Empire in accordance with the established combat objectives, setting off the first wave of war on the border of the Mauryan Empire.
As soon as the news came out, Tianzhu was boiling!
If the previous Tianzhu District was a tug-of-war rally where you came and went, then with the sudden intervention of the Great Xia Army, the fragile balance was broken at once.
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Mauryan Dynasty, Bangalore City.
In the face of Great Xia's invasion, the Peacock King was neither surprised nor surprised.
In fact, since the Mauryan Empire lost the war with Great Xia for the kingdom of Pi in April of the sixth year of Gaia, it has never given up its vigilance against Great Xia for three years.
At that time, the total strength of the Mauryan Empire was around 900,000.
After the defeat of the war, fearing that Great Xia would counterattack the mainland, the Peacock King embarked on a frenzied conscription journey, and the size of the dynasty's army rose sharply.
The Peacock King was once a little reckless!
There is no way, the shock that Great Xia brought to the Peacock King is too great, and it must be done.
It was precisely because of the Peacock King's conscription at any cost that he was able to exchange for three years of peace on the border of the Peacock Empire.
Coupled with the annexation of a territory in the central region during this period, relying on the abundant population reserves, when joining forces with the Gupta dynasty to attack the Ashoka dynasty, the total strength of the Mauryan dynasty reached a staggering 1.7 million.
At the same time, the Gupta Dynasty had a total strength of only about 1.4 million.
That is to say, when the war broke out in the Tianzhu District, the strength of the entire Tianzhu District exceeded 6 million, and it was once close to 7 million troops, which was still the most powerful area except for the Huaxia District.
At that time, Tianzhu was beyond the covetability of Great Xia.
The one-and-a-half-year civil war was a veritable meat grinder, bringing profound disasters to the Tianzhu District, especially several fierce confrontations, in which both warring sides suffered heavy losses.
When Great Xia suddenly declared war, the total strength of the Mauryan Empire could reach 850,000, which was less than the 900,000 before the increase in troops.
Just from this simple set of figures, we can get a glimpse of the horror of protracted war.
Of the 850,000 troops of the Mauryan Empire, nearly 500,000 were deployed on the front line, supplemented by new recruits just recruited this year, to be able to block the Ashoka Dynasty's attack.
The problem with this is that there is a certain gap in border defense.
Even so, 350,000 elite troops were deployed on the border, and in the eyes of the Peacock King, it was still very certain to take advantage of the geographical advantage to block the Long Xiang army deployed by Great Xia on the opposite side.
It's a pity that outsiders only know that after the disarmament of Great Xia, the size of a group army has been sharply reduced from the previous 350,000 to 250,000, but they don't know the inner doorway.
How did they know that the overall combat strength of the Great Xia Army did not decrease but increased.
Up to now, the firearms penetration rate of the regular army in Daxia has exceeded 70%, which is the highest in the world; Strategic weapons such as heavy artillery, fighter planes, and battle puppets have been installed at the division and regiment level.
Just before the arquebus left the game stage, Great Xia was already in the elite troops, and began to install the latest generation of firing guns to replace the flintlock guns.
Such a Great Xia Army could not be compared to before.
Because of the asymmetry of intelligence, coupled with the addition of the Long Xiang army, it naturally caught the Mauryan Dynasty off guard, and in the first week of the battle, it lost four border cities.
The Peacock King was repaid, and he slapped the table angrily.
In one-on-one combat, even if the Mauryan Dynasty army occupies a favorable position, it is by no means the opponent of the Great Xia army.
Not to mention that heavy artillery has long become the standard in the Great Xia Army, the previously strong city is no longer an insurmountable moat, and with fighters, it can even offset the geographical gap between the offensive and defensive sides.
At the same time, the Great Xia attacked the two ace troops of the Praetorian Guard and the Long Xiang Army, and even if the Mauryan army was on guard, it would not be able to resist the westward advance of the Great Xia army.
For a time, the border of the Mauryan Empire was in an emergency.
The war was like a dark and boundless dark cloud, hanging over the entire Mauryan Empire, suffocating.
On one side was the aggressive Ashoka army, eager to regain lost territory; On one side was the menacing old enemy Great Xia Army, and the Mauryan Dynasty fell into an unprecedented crisis.
At this time, the Peacock King must have a trade-off.