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Chapter 519: Occupying India

(Note: The appendectomy surgery that was performed on May 6 was just discharged from the hospital today and was still in sedation. I can't sit for a long time. I'll update this section first! Let everyone wait for a long time!)

The war elephants lost their calm in the violent explosion, and they began to run around in a hurry, trying to escape from this place that made them feel scared.

Indian soldiers sitting on the back of elephants were shaken down from time to time. The place where they once thought they could attack the enemy from a high position was now a place of death.

The front army of the Indian Sunga army collapsed, and the war elephant of King Puciamida was located behind the entire elephant herd. According to the normal combat order, his place should be very safe, and there is no need to worry about being attacked by the Qin army's light troops. However, the fear of the elephant herd was like an infectious disease, and it quickly spread from the front line to the back formation.

Puciamido's sitting elephant was an eight-year-old male elephant. The most majestic war elephant also did not escape the instinct of animal instinct. After seeing his friends scattered one by one, it had howled a few times to try to call back its subordinates, but then, when the explosion of the Lei Army increased a while that day, the male elephant suddenly fell into 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 Pusiamido and others. If its brave behavior was in the animal world, it could be understood as a move to protect the weak, but on the battlefield between the two armies, the head elephant's charge was more like a suicide operation.

Tragic loneliness moving forward.

There was no fighting spirit of the elephant group. They were completely scared in this killing that they had never encountered before. After being hit by five couch crossbows and more than ten heavenly thunder, the unyielding elephant fell to a place only a hundred steps away from the Qin army's infantry formation.

As for Puciamido, the founder of the Xunga Kingdom, had already swallowed unwillingly before the heroic elephant fell. He was shot by the Qin army's crossbow that was shot like a locust. He was high and could indeed have an advantage, but also because of his high position, Puciamido became the target of the Qin army's crossbowmen.

Battle of Daro.

With the collapse of the war elephant troops, the collapse of the 100,000 Xunga coalition forces were less than themselves in trampling on each other and escaping each other, but their equipment, morale and combat power were far stronger than theirs. However, there were not many Xunga soldiers who died on the battlefield, only about 10,000. The failure of the Indian army was mainly due to loose discipline and national laziness, which made them pay the price.

After Puciamido died in battle, his friend on the other side of the Indus River did not assume the responsibility of follow-up command. He was good at making a plan but not good at military affairs. He fled south regardless of his own. Then, the coalition forces of various tribes from the Deccan Plateau had no fighting spirit and began to leave the battlefield in batches.

Li Yuan rushed his troops across the river and ordered all troops to continue chasing the fugitive enemies. Four days later, Daluo City was occupied by the Qin army. About 3,000 defenders in the city surrendered under the leadership of their friends. In the following month, under the pursuit of Han Xin, Feng Tang, Qiu Lijin and other Qin generals, they swept across the entire Indian Peninsula.

In the face of the power of the Qin army, Baicheng, Mocha, Chedi, Mogado and other small countries sent envoys to request to join the Qin army. The example of the Xunjia Kingdom was in front of them. In addition, they were afraid of the mysterious weapons used by the Qin army on the battlefield. If they had the slightest resistance, what awaited them would be the thunder fire of the Qin army.

The Battle of the Indian Peninsula lasted for a full half year and finally ended with the Qin army's great victory. In this South Asia war, a group of young generals emerged, among which Feng Tang, the advanced general of the Eastern Route Army, was the most eye-catching. At the same time, the meeting between Li Yuan and Han Xin also resolved the differences within the Qin army on the future new direction.

When the hot summer passed and the winter pace came, Han Xin led the Northern Army to return north. With a new goal, he must seize the time to go deep into the barren land in eastern Siberia to find the strait that Li Yuan mentioned that could lead to the new continent.

The access to the Bering Strait has always existed from Asia to America. However, before the Qin army was interested in it, the main contact between the original indigenous people in this place. Now, it is easy to imagine how difficult it is to pass through an army on the frozen ocean ice.

Qiu Lijin, a native of Wuhuan, and Yang Yu, the Qin general, were appointed as the provincial magistrates in the southern and northern parts of the Indian Peninsula. Li Yuan had a deep intention to arrange these two Qin generals with completely different backgrounds.

Qiu Lijin made great contributions in this southern expedition, not only because his Wuhuan army took the lead in breaking the Solomon Pass, but also because in the subsequent sweep, the Wuhuan people fully demonstrated the bloody methods of other Xiongnu tribes. As they advanced, the Indians' bodies almost filled the Ganges.

The Wuhuan tribe was a different tribe of the Xiongnu and the ancestors of the Xianbei and Rouran grassland tribes. Their continued existence in the north was always a huge threat to the Qin State, which was determined to explore and stabilize the grasslands. Compared with the untamed grassland nations, Li Yuan hoped that the new Qin immigrants who migrated from the Hetao and Youyan areas could gradually occupy the prosperous Beihai and Hannan River areas, thereby eliminating the internal troubles of the Qin State.

Although Qiu Lijin was a little reluctant to Li Yuan’s arrangement, he finally accepted it happily after thinking about it for a while.

In order to compete with the will of Emperor Shenwu, Qiu Lijin really didn't have the courage. Besides, although he had to leave his place of residence, the Indian Peninsula was also really good.

The continent with abundant resources, countless slaves to be driven, as well as rare gems, gold, silver, ivory and other rare things from the underground, all satisfy Qiu Lijin. After most of his life, he was able 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 personal general who came from a personal military camp, was located in the Indus River Basin, which was closer to the southern line of the Silk Road, and the races of people living in this basin were more complicated. Li Yuan sent Yang Yu to guard here, on the one hand to prevent the Wuhuan people and Indians, and on the other hand, to restrain the Persian, Tuqiang and other extra ethnic groups.

Tu Qiang, that is, the Tubo people on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, were still in a primitive state during the Qin Dynasty. However, their figures had appeared from time to time in the southern end of the Silk Road and the Pamir Mountains, and launched attacks on caravans from time to time. Yang Yu's mission was to protect these caravans from being robbed by Tu Qiang.

October.
Chapter completed!
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