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Chapter 333 Game outside the battlefield

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    The news that Princess Jiangdu was canonized as Princess Anyang spread out of Dunhuang the next day and spread all over the world.  Perhaps the title of the princess was the same as the queen but slightly lower than the queen. It was quite useful in various countries. Soon many kings surnamed Liu announced that they had conferred the title of princess on a certain beloved woman.

    On the tenth day after the official marriage between King Anyang and Princess Jiangdu, all the officials from Anyang Kingdom with more than a thousand stones came to Jingyang Palace.  This time not only several generals stationed on the border showed up, but also the Queen Wuya and Wusun Kunmo Xutuomi of the Northern Huns, as well as Cai Mei, the left prime minister of Dawan.

    Wearing imperial robes, Huo Guang sat high on the throne. Looking at the nearly a hundred people in the hall, he couldn't help but feel a surge of pride in his heart.  Now he can finally say that he has powerful generals like clouds and advisors like rain.

    "Dongfang wins, Gaoyou." Huo Guang sat steadily, a majestic voice came from his mouth, and first called two names that were not well-known in Anyang Kingdom.

    "The last general is here." Two young generals came out and knelt down on one knee.

    Dongfang Sheng is the eldest son of Cangwu Lord Dongfang Sheng. This is a person Huo Guang knew as early as Chang'an, but Dongfang Sheng was only a four or five-year-old child at that time.  However, Dongfang Shuo, who passed down his family with poetry and calligraphy, did not teach his son to become a great scholar. Instead, when he was in Hanoi County, Dongfang Sheng followed Li Ling in wielding swords and guns, and later he grew up to be a military commander who charged on the battlefield.

    As for Gao You, he is the eldest son of Gao Wushi who inherited the title of Lord Yancheng.

    "I will appoint you two as the vanguard, each leading five thousand elite cavalry. The first battle with the Parthian heavy armored cavalry will be left to you two!" Huo Guang's majestic voice continued to sound.  Today is the day before the official departure of the Anyang national troops from the two passes.

    However, with the passage of time, the original generals of Anyang Kingdom, such as Zhao Ponu, Fu Luzhi and others, have aged. Even Li Ling, the number one general under Huo Guang, is now not as healthy as he was a few years ago.  These people are barely capable of being generals and commanders, but they are somewhat incapable of serving as vanguards.

    Fortunately, the Anyang Kingdom does not have no successors. Gaoyou Dongfang Sheng and the two are the two young generals after Shangguan Jie and Li Ling. There are also some young generals. As long as time passes and the baptism of several wars, they may stand out again.  Several current and future celebrities.

    "The last general takes orders." Gaoyou and Dongfang Sheng responded with fists clasped.

    "Dongfang Shuo" Huo Guang called Dongfang Shuo's name this time.

    "I'm here." Dongfang Shuo is over fifty years old, but he seems to be very good at maintaining his health. He still doesn't look old. His general appearance is even the same as it was a few years ago. On the contrary, Huo Guang looks the same now.  Dongfang Shuo is similar in age.  Nowadays, the Dongfang family is also a first-class big family in Hexi. The family not only has a prince like Dongfang Shuo who is in charge of the first courtyard, but also a senior general like Dongfang Sheng. At the same time, some of the family's children also serve in the military or yamen.

    "You will lead 50,000 infantry and set up defenses on the west bank of the river, and you will be in charge of Wuwei." Huo Guang's order was to let Dongfang Shuo lead the troops again.  Huo Guang knew that Dongfang Shuo was good at guarding, so he assigned him a defensive task.  There is no clear explanation for this mission, but everyone in the palace knows that Huo Guang asked Dongfang Shuo to take charge of Wuwei to guard against no one else. It was the Han general who was brought out by Dongfang Shuo, Yangwuhou Wang Yuanyou, and Yangwuhou's subordinates.  An army of 60,000 troops stationed in An Ding.

    Now there are 250,000 troops in Hexi, of which there are about 180,000 cavalry, and the remaining 70,000 are infantry. This means that Huo Guang only left 10,000 people to guard each of the two passes, and then asked Dongfang Shuo to set up defenses.  Fifty thousand were in Wuwei County, and almost all the rest went out to fight against the Parthian Empire.

    "Du Yannian, you stay in Dunhuang and are responsible for the dispatch of food and fodder for the army." Huo Guang continued to make arrangements.

    "I obey the order." Du Yannian also stood up to accept the order.

    "The soldiers of the Northern Xiongnu and Wusun are the left and right wings, and Guqin leads an army of 100,000 people as the central army. In this campaign, we will fight all the way to Ctesiphon, the capital of the Parthian Empire. Our western ally Sulla has already begun the Eastern Expedition, and in the past  For more than half a year, the armies of the Parthian Empire have been defeated step by step." Huo Guang stood up and said that he had received news from Sulla a few days ago, and Rome's huge eastern expedition had already begun a long time ago.

    Under the leadership of this most outstanding commander in the West, with the young Caesar as the vanguard, he used his heavy infantry phalanx to defeat the powerful Parthian cataphracts again and again. Now the supreme ruler of Rome is about to defeat Parthia.  The capital of the empire, Ctesi, was sealed.

    "I obey the order" Everyone in the hall stood up, including Wu Ya and Xu Tuo Mi.

    One day later, a mighty cavalry team came out from Yangguan, aiming directly at Puchanghai, the forefront of the Parthian army.  This time Huo Guang took Dongfang Sheng and Gaoyou as the vanguard and let their cavalry directly confront the Parthian armored cavalry.soldiers, and he was surrounded by Li Ling, Bai Zheng, Huo Tang and others. As for Zhao Ponu and others, they were left to garrison at the two passes.

    The left wing of the 100,000-strong Hexi Central Army was 30,000 Wusun cavalry led by Xu Tuomi, while the right wing was 50,000 Hunsun cavalry led by Gou Lian, the first general under the Queen of the Northern Huns.

    Because of Sulla's Eastern Expedition, the war on the western front of the Parthian Empire broke out again. Europazo's 250,000 troops in the Western Region were forced to withdraw another 100,000.  Now Eurobazo's Eastern Expedition Army was numerically inferior to Huo Guang's army.

    In the northeastern part of Puchang Sea, there is a landform composed of gypsum mud and salt-alkali. The salt crystals reflect the sunlight and form dots of silver light, like scales and armor. From a distance, they look like white dragons swimming in the sea of ??sand.  And Eurobazo chose the battlefield on this silver-white land known as the White Dragon Pile.

    This was a battle destined to be engraved in history, and the fighting lasted for three days and three nights on this silver-white land.  Hanyang Steel, a new type of weapon, appeared on the battlefield for the first time. Its excellent material and leading-edge forging technology maximized the sharpness and strength of the weapon.

    For the first time, Anyang's cavalry faced off against the Parthian armored cavalry on the battlefield without falling behind.  Without the decisive role of the armored cavalry, An'an's cavalry archers and servants were unable to stop Huo Guang's army.  Three days later, the silvery white dragon pile was completely stained red with blood, and corpses and broken weapons and armor were scattered everywhere.  The total number of troops invested by both sides in this battle exceeded 300,000, and the number of casualties on both sides reached nearly 100,000.  Regardless of the scale of the battle or the number of casualties, this battle has become a classic battle throughout the ages.

    ¡°As for this battle, which can be called a classic, its real classic is not the number of people and the scale.  It's because this is a real frontal decisive battle, without much strategy. It is completely a frontal charge of the cavalry, and at the same time, it is coordinated with the competition on the two wings, including the long-range suppression of the bow and arrow phalanx, and the long-range volley of the ballistae.  This is a head-on duel that relies entirely on strength and war technology. Countless cavalry formations and varied small-scale tactics were all used vividly in this battle. A large number of tactics were used like textbooks.  to future generations.

    This is a battle that has been prepared for several years and consumed countless strategic materials.  When Eurobazo's tens of thousands of armored cavalry were annihilated, and nearly 50,000 horse archers and servants were wiped out, he knew that the balance of the war had tilted towards Huo Guang.  Imperial Prime Minister Ourobazo reluctantly issued the order to withdraw to the west, and once again ceded the Western Region that had been ruled for two years to Huo Guang.

    In this battle, most of Huo Guang's 10,000 elite soldiers equipped with Hanyang steel weapons and light armor were killed. At the same time, nearly half of those excellent weapons were still damaged. After all, no matter how sophisticated the weapons and armor were, they still remained.  In the category of cold weapons, high-intensity use still cannot avoid damage.

    In addition, among Huo Guang's 180,000 cavalry, as many as 40,000 were killed in battle. Although more than 20,000 of them were cavalry from the Northern Huns and Wusun, this also made Huo Guang feel distressed for a long time.

    War is always cruel. No matter how well-prepared you are, you will inevitably pay a price.  The bones of 100,000 people were buried in the White Dragon Pile, making it a famous place of terror for later generations. Even adventurers more than two thousand years later claimed that they would hear killing cries and screams like those coming from ancient battlefields.  The terrifying sound of the wailing souls.

    A few days after the Battle of Bailongdui, Huo Guang led his army on a mighty journey to regain the Western Regions.  This should be regarded as his second conquest of the Western Regions, but this time it was a little different from the way Bai Zheng conquered a few years ago.  This time Huo Guang also issued another order, which was to destroy all the classics of the Western Regions conquered along the way, and even began to forcibly implement the policy of converting to Yi language.

    The foreign culture that was originally as bright as the stars in the Western Regions was brutally destroyed by Huo Guang. All the characters and patterns engraved on the buildings were scraped off. Even the vessels with characters engraved on them were recast or destroyed directly.  go.  Within three months, all the people in the Western Regions changed their original clothes into Han-style cross-collar clothes, and also required that everyone can only speak Chinese after one year.

    This was a barbaric cultural destruction, but a cultural invasion was completed in a very short period of time.  A large number of Huo clan disciples were sent to the Western Regions. While managing these places, they also barbarically instilled Chinese characters and language into the Western Regions.

    This barbaric method naturally attracted resistance from the indigenous peoples of the Western Regions. However, after experiencing the first attack by Bai Zheng, the Western Regions suffered from the enslavement of the Parthian Empire for two years.  The population dropped sharply, and even many ordinary people began to become numb.  This situation actually made it easier for Huo Guang to implement cultural changes. Under the shock of the rolling heads of people, the numb people in this already anxious land began to numbly accept different cultural indoctrination.

    JustAfter the Battle of Bailongdui, Dongfang Shuo also came to Wuwei County with 50,000 Hexi infantry, and with him was Anyang Crown Prince Huo An.

    The west bank of the river is now covered with camps, stretching for more than ten miles, like a barrier blocking the river.  On the east bank of the river, there are also camps spread for more than ten miles. They are the Yangwu Army under the command of General Yangwu Hou Wang Yuanyou of the Dahan Army.  The day after Dongfang Shuo and Huo An arrived on the west bank of the river, Marquis Yangwu also arrived from Chang'an and was sitting in the Chinese army's tent with a sword and a golden horse.

    "General, Prince Anyang and Lord Cangwu Dongfang Shuo appeared on the west bank of the river, as if they were observing our army's camp." An officer who looked like a captain in the Yangwu Army walked into the Chinese army's tent and knelt on one knee before Yangwu.  Hou reported in front of him.

    This army was brought out by Wang Yuanyou. Not long ago, Emperor Liu Jin gave this army the name "Martial Army".  The commander-in-chief of this army, Wang Yuanyou, also likes to have his officers and soldiers call him general instead of marquis.

    "Then I should go meet them too!" Wang Yuanyou moved, and the armor on his body creaked. He just stood up casually, but it was as thick as a mountain bulge.

    On the east bank of the river, Wang Yuanyou, surrounded by a large number of military officers and officers, stood at the original ferry. This was the narrowest place in this section of the river. The two banks were separated by less than a hundred feet. Across the not-too-turbulent river, people on both sides were  Can clearly see each other's every move.

    "Mr. Dongfang, that is the flag of Yang Wuhou. Is the man in silver armor leading it the same as Yang Wuhou?" Huo An stood next to Dongfang Shuo. He saw a huge handsome flag with the word "Yang Wu" embroidered on it.  The flag came out of the central military tent and finally stopped at the east bank ferry. Among the crowd, a general wearing silver armor stood out.

    "It's him we haven't seen him for a few years, but he is becoming more and more famous." Dongfang Shuo stood on the west bank ferry, the river wind blew his beard and hair flying, making Dongfang Shuo not look like a military general, but like a military general.  Literati and elegant guests overlooking the river.

    "The king ordered you to station on the west bank of the river. If Marquis Yang Wu crosses the river, do you have any good ideas?" A little Hun girl in a white dress walked out from behind Huo An. She raised her head curiously and asked Dongfang Shuo in front of her.

    "Nianjun, Mr. Dongfang should be the person who knows Marquis Yangwu best in the world. I must have already had a countermeasure." Huo An said with a natural smile on his face as he looked at the Hun Saint beside him.  In just a few days, the two seemed to be very familiar with each other.

    "His Royal Highness, you are ridiculous. It is not Yuanyou's decision to cross the river or not. And our place is not actually the real battlefield" Dongfang Shuo's voice seemed a bit messy in the wind, but his eyes remained on  On Wang Yuanyou's body.

    "Not here? Where is that?" Huo An frowned slightly. He could tell from Dongfang Shuo's words that their confrontation with Wang Yuanyou on both sides of the river seemed to be just an illusion.  And the game behind this seems to involve more people, not only his father and the Emperor of Han

    On the east bank of the river, Wang Yuanyou also saw Dongfang Shuo and others. His eyes only stayed on Huo An and Nianjun for a moment, and then he kept looking at Dongfang Shuo.  When Huo An asked Dongfang Shuo where the real battlefield was, Wang Yuanyou bowed to Dongfang Shuo from a distance across the river.

    "In Yonghe Hall" Dongfang Shuo spat out a few words lightly. When he saw Wang Yuanyou bowing, he also symbolically raised his hands to the other side. His body was straight but he did not bow.

    When the Battle of Bailongdui ended and Huo Guang continued to advance westward, troops were also arrayed on both sides of the river.  Zhao Yinhua, dressed in pink and white clothes, came to Anyang Palace alone and walked straight into the Yonghe Hall where Princess Liu Xijun lived.
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