Speaking of Xiang Yu, the first impression that comes to people is that he is always brave and brave.
As a representative figure of the military situation, Xiang Yu's image has always been that of a fierce one.
Under this halo, many people will subconsciously ignore his character, which is headstrong.
No one could persuade Xiang Yu, not even Yu Ji and Fan Zeng.
If Xiang Yu had listened to the advice, he would have killed that second-rate son of Peixian County as early as the Hongmen Banquet.
Although forced by the situation, under the strong pressure of Li Yunze, he had to take the Jiangdong elders away from their homeland and make an arduous journey westward.
But in Xiang Yu's heart, he had no intention of being completely obedient.
When traveling westward, he paid great attention to collecting horses along the way. When wiping out barbarian tribes, he would also select warriors among them to join his army.
More importantly, the old and weak women and children walked to the north of the West Sea, but he himself led the cavalry to the south, maintaining close contact with the Qin army advancing westward.
His purpose is very simple, that is to find an opportunity to get a big vote!
How could Li Yunze's blood feud with Qin be resolved with just a few words?
The Qin army also sent cavalry to drive them away.
But there were fewer people sent, and they basically left without returning.
If there were too many, Xiang Yu would be running as fast as the wind, and he would not be able to catch up in this wilderness.
The Qin army was really harassed and annoyed.
In the end, the Qin army simply ignored it and marched westward into Parthia, which is what the Orientals call the Parthian Empire. Only then did Xiang Yu finally stop.
It's not that he didn't want to fight, but after crossing the vast wilderness and officially entering a civilized country, both the Qin army and Xiang Yu encountered powerful opponents.
The Parthian cavalry, both men and horses wearing iron armor, dealt a head-on blow to the Eastern Legion, which was mainly light cavalry.
After the Qin army's advance team lost more than a thousand people, they had to retreat temporarily.
It's not that the Qin army couldn't fight, but the wilderness, which was measured in units of thousands of miles, greatly restricted the Qin army's supply and delivery capabilities, and they couldn't gather a strong army.
People need to eat every day, but the transport teams that come over the mountains and ridges can at most deliver enough food and supplies to barely support 20,000 people.
There are still a large number of non-combatants in the Qin army, which greatly limits the Qin army's combat effectiveness.
As for feeding on the enemy, there were not many towns and villages in Parthia near the east, and they were very scattered. The supplies they looted were not even enough to send out troops.
In addition, Xiang Yu and his troops had been hiding in the dark and taking advantage of the fire to plunder. Both the Qin army and Parthia were plundered by him.
Meng Tian, who was leading the army, was very unhappy, but there was no good solution.
After all, the Qin army had too many horses and had to feed more food and grass. They could only grit their teeth and control some cities on the Parthian border and hold on to them.
The Parthians did not establish their country for a long time, that is, when Zulong first came to the throne. They betrayed the Seleucid Empire and established their own country.
However, as an emerging country, it is in a positive and upward trend.
Previously, the main force of the Parthians was in the west, facing the Seleucid army.
After the war broke out between the Egyptians and the Seleucids, Parthia was finally able to step aside to deal with the threat from the east.
Their king Arsasi conscripted men and horses from various tribes to form a large army with tens of thousands of people, and moved towards the east, preparing to wipe out the Qin army entrenched on the border.
Don't underestimate Parthia. Two hundred years later, they wiped out several Roman legions at once.
Moreover, Parthia has a lot of cavalry, especially those armored cavalry with both men and horses wearing iron armor, which has an astonishing impact.
In Arsasi's view, he had mobilized such a large army this time, which was enough to easily defeat the Easterners.
What he didn't know was that in the two years from when the Qin Army appeared to when he took his hands to gather his troops and then concentrated his efforts to attack the east, the Qin Army had undergone tremendous changes.
First, Meng Tian was ordered to return to Xianyang City to report on his duties, leaving his deputy Zhang Han to command the advance team.
Secondly, due to Da Qin's frenzied construction with almost no regard for cost, the average speed from Talas to this side was two miles per day, and it crazily extended to thousands of miles.
Although they have not yet reached Parthia directly, their supply capacity has been doubled.
The Qin State had strict regulations on railway construction. There was a beacon tower every thirty miles, and there was usually a village near the beacon tower.
Then there is a station one hundred and twenty miles away to refuel passing vehicles. Usually there is a town near the station.
A large station was set up three hundred and sixty miles away, and a group of warehouses were built to store supplies.
The extended train line will unload the personnel and materials transported from far behind into the station warehouse, and then transfer them to the four-wheeled carriage fleet.
As the distance of the supply line shortens, the transportation distance and time of the horse-drawn convoys are also reduced, and the food and grass consumed by the civilians transporting materials along the way are also reduced, and naturally more materials can be transported.
The transportation capacity of the logistics supply line has been enhanced, and the number of combatants on the front line will naturally increase accordingly.
Just like this time, Li Yunze followed the transport convoy to Parthia. This convoy had more than a thousand four-wheeled carriages, and there were tens of thousands of civilians and guards accompanying it. In addition, there was also a team of soldiers traveling from a distant pass.
Come, to replace the veterans who have served in the far west for several years.
A transport team of this size was unimaginable last year.
Li Yunze estimated that based on the current supply capacity, it should be able to support a frontline force of 30,000 to 40,000 people.
In a year or two at most, when the railway line is completely repaired, relying on the terrifying transportation capacity of the train, the scale can increase tenfold!
When the transport team arrived at the core city where the advance team was located, Li Yunze saw that the atmosphere here was tense and the Qin troops were coming and going in a hurry, and he immediately understood that a war was about to begin.
"Zhang Han has met Taifu."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! When Zhang Han saw Li Yunze, his expression was a little subtle, "The Tutor arrived just in time. The enemy chieftains and the barbarians are gradually approaching. Tutor Lao is here to command this battle."
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Hearing these unintentional polite words, Li Yunze immediately understood what he was thinking.
"I came here this time to explore the route along the way."
Li Yunze immediately smiled and waved, "As for the battle, since Meng Yi arranged for you to stay behind before leaving, you will naturally do it."
Zhang Han subconsciously raised the corners of his mouth and spoke modestly before finally responding with "reluctance".
In the Qin State of classical militarism, a general who does not want to command war is definitely not a qualified general.
Counting Arsasi's unluckiness, he had never thought that there was something called a train in this world.
He thought that the number of Easterners entrenched on the border was only about 10,000, so he felt that he had a sure chance of victory by mobilizing an army of 50,000 to attack.
But in fact, under the background of the Qin people's crazy railway construction, the size of the Qin army's advance team at this time was already close to 40,000 people.
Fifty thousand barbarians fought against 40,000 Qin army warriors, haha~~~
The battle between Parthia and the Qin army took place in the wilderness near a ruined city left by the Greeks.
When the two sides opened up, Li Yunze didn't pay much attention. He rode his horse to the ruins of the city and looked at the surrounding environment.
Collapsed houses, abandoned aqueducts, cobbled roads overgrown with weeds, and temples that had obviously been burned by fire, with only stone pillars remaining.
The Greeks followed Alexander's footsteps to the east, and along the way there were many cities built by Greek colonists.
But as Alexander's empire fell into ruins, these cities were gradually captured and abandoned, turning into piles of historical debris.
Li Yunze stretched out his hand to support the bare marble pillars, feeling the glory of a hundred years ago among the ruins of the temple.
And in the wilderness in the distance, flags were waving, gongs and drums were noisy, and a large battlefield with tens of thousands of people was astonishingly powerful.
The sound of horse hooves sounded, and Xiang Yu, who had grown a beard, rode over.
After not seeing each other for two years, Xiang Yu has obviously matured a lot, and his originally young face has become a bit more weathered.
Li Yunze, who had his arms crossed, looked at him and said, "Are you coming to see the fun too?"
Xiang Yu got off his horse and walked over, "You Qin people are at war, aren't you going to help?"
Li Yunze, who looked indifferent, shrugged, "I'm not interested in fighting. Really, I'm tired of it."
There is no doubt that Li Yunze is telling the truth. Li Yunze, who has fought countless battles in so many worlds, is really tired of it.
After all, I have used all kinds of postures and tricks, and I have been on all kinds of battlefields. I really have no interest in continuing to fight.
Xiang Yu's expression was a little strange. He didn't pay attention to whether Li Yunze was being silly, but asked in a deep voice, "In the past two years, a certain person has had many conflicts with the Qin army. Are you coming here to look for a certain person? Do you want to take action?"
Li Yunze was also amused by his words, "Are you suffering from persecution delusion? I'm just here to watch the battlefield, and you happen to be peeping here too."
"As for the conflict with the Qin army you mentioned, as long as you can keep going west, I don't care about anything else."
Li Yunze is not the Emperor of Qin, he has to take care of everything.
As long as the Qin army can go all the way to the west, as long as it can train Zulong to become the captain of the ball, this world journey will not be in vain.
As for other things, if you wanted to take care of them, you would have taken care of them long ago. Now, of course, you don't care about anything.
"If you can establish a foothold in the west, I will also benefit you."
The battle had officially begun on the battlefield in the distance. Li Yunze waved his hand to signal Xiang Yu to be silent. He looked around, found a tall pillar, jumped more than ten meters, and stood on the pillar of the abandoned temple.
Xiang Yu next to him almost had his eyes popping out of his head.
Jumping three feet high... He is indeed a monster!
An ordinary person would be considered outstanding if he could jump three feet. A height of more than three feet...
Forcibly suppressing the emotions in his heart, Xiang Yu turned his head and looked at the battlefield in the distance.
When he was young, he thought he was invincible, but since meeting Li Yunze, Xiang Yu has been forced to mature.
There is no way, the advantage that I am most proud of cannot be mentioned in front of others at all.
His eyes turned back to the battlefield.
When Arsace came, his faith was very strong.
Because he thought he had an advantage in numbers.
But when they arrived on the battlefield, they were shocked to find that the Easterners on the opposite side were not much less numerous than their own.
But even so, he still remained confident.
Because the Parthians had defeated the Qin army two years ago, and after the Qin army was defeated, they only made small-scale attacks and did not dare to send out large-scale troops again.
Of course, you are confident when facing an opponent who dares not fight.
The Parthians had a lot of cavalry. A large number of light cavalry and the core canned cavalry were the main force of the Parthians.
However, the Qin army also had a large number of cavalry. The Qin army's cavalry, equipped with three-piece cavalry suits, galloped across the battlefield and successfully restrained the larger number of Parthian light cavalry.
After a scuffle, both sides suffered a lot of losses.
But everyone knows that this is just an appetizer.
The real highlight was the canned cavalry, numbering two to three thousand in number, who began to line up and charge into battle, and the armored cavalry, whose entire bodies, including men and horses, were wrapped in iron armor!