Just as Zhao Qian returned, Zhao Kuo had already fought a great battle with Ashoka of the Mauryan Dynasty at Khyber Pass.

Both sides made a lot of preparations in advance in this war.

For Zhao Kuo, as long as the Mauryan Dynasty could be eliminated, the Khanate would be able to march towards Western Europe and Africa with great confidence in the future, and there was basically no need to worry about any decent opposition force in Asia.

Not only that, the South Asian subcontinent is a very abundant continent. Here they will obtain large areas of new arable land. The Han Kingdom will continue to move immigrants to this arable land in the future, making this place that can produce a lot of grain a new granary for the Han Kingdom.

As the saying goes, food is the most important thing for people. If a country and nation want to develop, they must obtain enough food. This is the most basic material basis.

Therefore, Zhao Kuo's goal is also very simple. Wherever there is good arable land, then the army of our Han Kingdom will go. There is no way. Who made no such excellent scientist as the Great Druid in the Han Kingdom to develop a grain-defying species such as hybrid rice?

On the other hand, Ashoka, the thoughts in his mind were actually much simpler. For Ashoka, he did not have any so-called sense of family and country. What he wanted to do was to maintain the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty hundreds of years ago. If feasible, it would be better to continue to expand this territory towards the north or the west.

But no matter what, under the combination of various factors, both sides finally came to this point of a decisive battle, and His Majesty on both sides were very confident that they would win this decisive battle.

Since the troops on both sides exceeded 200,000, it was a more troublesome thing to just assemble and find a suitable battlefield.

At this point, the Mauryan Dynasty felt that it had taken advantage of it.

Due to his outstanding performance in the past, the third prince became the candidate who could announce the war strategy to the various generals of the Mauryan Dynasty this time.

"You should also see that we are now occupying the mountain pass, so the situation is quite beneficial to us because we are in a situation where we can attack and retreat and defend.

This time we divided our troops into three groups to launch an attack against the invaders in front of us. If any failures occur, we will immediately retreat to the Khyber Pass and we can continue to defend here.

But I believe that with our warriors, we should not fail. So if we win, then you don’t need to stop your steps. You just need to continue leading the army you swung to advance to the north, driving the enemies in front of you out of this mountain range, and then returning with victory and triumphant return, then there will be countless fine wines and beauties waiting for you."

The pre-war mobilization of the third prince was quite tempting. At least many people's eyes lit up after listening to the third prince's words.

King Ashoka sat on the throne not far behind him, quietly listening to the words of the third prince, and nodded quietly unconsciously.

For Ashoka, the third prince's growth is actually very good. Now Ashoka already has the idea of ​​starting to retreat, because he feels that he has been fighting everywhere for so many years, but he has little time to serve the Buddha.

"Maybe after the end of this war, I should serve the Buddha and leave these ordinary things to the children to deal with."

Ashoka thought silently in his heart.

But no matter what, the war must be ended first.

So when the third prince arranged everyone properly, Ashoka issued an order calmly.

"Today, it is time for you to defeat the enemy under the brilliance of the Buddha. Go forward and defeat all our enemies and send them to hell. You will become the warriors of the Buddha, and after death, you will be taken to the Western Paradise and enjoy eternal glory."

After King Ashoka said that, everyone became excited. You must know that fighting for faith is definitely an extremely fanatical situation.

Many religions in history have been able to cultivate this kind of crazy picture, but they are not afraid of death at all. The combat power they burst out when fighting is extremely amazing.

Amid the sound of whimpering horns, the 200,000 troops of the Mauryan Dynasty launched a vast attack.

On the other side, Zhao Kuo smiled after watching the attack of the Mauryan troops.

For the account, he felt that there was no need to carry out pre-war mobilization. He waved his hand so calmly and said, "The musketeers lined up in front. This time we have to defeat their main central army first, and then the other troops directly encircled them from behind.

Remember, you must intercept these guys, otherwise it will be quite troublesome if you let them escape."

In this battle, Ashoka wanted to win, while Zhao Kuo envisioned that while winning, he would annihilate the most major forces of the Mauryan Dynasty as much as possible. In this way, he could conquer the entire Mauryan Dynasty faster and easier.

So under Zhao Kuo's order, 30,000 musketeers began to move forward slowly.

As a new generation general of the Mauryan Dynasty, this time the third prince was given an important task and led the central army of the Mauryan Dynasty to launch an attack.

Out of some uneasy thoughts in his heart, the third prince was also closer to the front line this time because he wanted to determine which Zhennan Pass had brought him the weapon he had experienced in the dream-pursuing performing class. Will it appear in the army of the Han Kingdom this time?

The third prince's eyes fell on the Han army opposite, and then his whole body seemed to be frozen instantly.

He clearly saw that there were thousands of soldiers from the Han Dynasty holding muskets on the opposite side, and the feeling was as if it was the feeling of fighting at Zhennan Pass.

"Can you say..." A very bad feeling suddenly entered the third prince's mind. He began to hesitate whether to issue an order to retreat immediately?

But the third prince immediately refused the reason. The reason for this decision was actually very simple. On the one hand, the elephant might have caused great losses to these raiders who did not seem to have enough armor protection.

On the other hand, everyone has just charged forward, and the third prince will immediately retreat. This is absolutely unreasonable within the Mauryan Dynasty and will definitely attract the anger of Ashoka.

So the third prince had no choice, and he issued an order very decisively.

"Let the elephants speed up their attacks, and must look forward to the true meaning of those enemies, and fight with them in close combat."

After so many days of fighting in Zhennan Pass, the third prince has actually discovered that these musket soldiers are an obvious disadvantage, that is, they can easily fail to exert it during close combat, because muskets are themselves long-range weapons, and long-range weapons are not good at close combat, which is a rule.

But the third prince didn't know that he actually knew too little about the Rockets.

The 30,000 musketeers of Feilin were not attacking, but Li Mu, the most senior general of the Han Dynasty who followed Zhao Kuo this time.

After seeing hundreds of elephants and rushing towards his musketeers, Li Mu did not have any anxious expression on his face, but instead raised the musket in his hand.

"Bang!"

After his life, the musket in Limu's hand vibrated significantly, and a bullet was shot out, accurately hitting a Mauryan soldier who was rushing to the elephant in front.

The video of the Mauryan Dynasty was originally responsible for guiding the elephant. After he fell, the elephant suddenly hesitated, but a few seconds later, the elephant became firm again and continued to charge.

But at this time, the bullets fired from dense muskets had arrived.

Countless bullets instantly covered these elephants. If it was just a musket, the damage it caused to the elephant was actually very limited. At best, it was equivalent to the feeling of a normal human being bitten by a mosquito.

But the problem is that this time, 30,000 musketeers were fired together, which was equivalent to 30,000 mosquitoes rushing towards these elephants at the same time. Imagine it and you will know that the damage it can cause is absolutely terrifying.

After just the first round of volleys, the elephants in front could no longer bear it and fell to the ground one after another, rolling up the shaking smoke and dust.

The third prince looked at this scene and felt like he fell into an ice cave.

You know, if even the elephants can't resist, the armor on other soldiers will definitely not resist these muskets.

The third prince once again thought of retreating, because in his opinion, it seemed that only retreating could maintain his strength to the greatest extent and think of some new ways again.

But the third prince had already said that suddenly hesitated again, because he knew very well that if he really retreated this time, then the next emperor of the Mauryan Dynasty would have nothing to do with him in the future.

On the other hand, if the third prince can reverse and win in such a situation, then the throne will definitely be a foregone conclusion for the third prince.

In just a few seconds, the third prince was still hesitating, but the musket kept firing.

One elephant after another fell down, and the third prince finally realized that he could not hesitate any more.

So he gritted his teeth and made his final decision.

"Let everyone rush up and speed up, and as long as we can fight these musketeers in close combat, we can achieve the ultimate victory."

For the third prince, he finally decided to take a gamble, because if he didn't gamble, he would definitely fail. Although the hope of winning is not high, there is still hope.

At this time, the third prince was actually like those gamblers. When they were holding up the bet, they knew the hope of winning. It was actually very small, but they just wanted to fight because as long as they won, they could get all the money and profits back.

Under the order of the third prince, many soldiers of the Mauryan Dynasty did not stop at any pace, but instead launched a charge more rapidly and resolutely.

Zhao Kuo stood on his chariot of the chariot, staring at this scene, and then shook his head gently.

"This kind of stubbornness is really the stupidest way."

For Zhao Kuo, he believed that every war was a process that required careful preparation, and was a machine composed of interlocking parts. It was not that you could win by relying on some blood and energy just to be reckless, especially when facing enemies that are stronger than yourself.

So when the third prince chose him not to retreat but to lead the army to rush forward, the end of this war was basically destined.

Under Zhao Kuo's gaze, the musketeers were still firing continuously. The dense bullets formed a firepower coverage net, covering all the charge routes of the entire central army.

This blind spotless design and coverage led to a situation where no soldiers from the Mauryan Dynasty were able to break through this line of defense composed of firepower.

All the elephants fell down, this is something that everyone can encounter.

The other Mauryan soldiers rushed up with a scream, and then as soon as they entered the fire net, they fell down in pieces like harvested mature rice.

This firepower king continued to continue. No matter how many soldiers of the Mauryan Dynasty rushed in, no one could leave and all fell there.

It was like a silent meat grinder, strangling all the Mauryan soldiers at a rapid speed.

Looking at this scene, the third prince's face inevitably turned pale. It was not until this moment that he realized that he had really made a very, very big mistake.

The third prince thought that he could continue to pay a certain price with the soldiers who were not afraid of death, and then rushed to the front of the musketeers of the Han Dynasty to carry out a close-range battle. In that way, he could make up for the damage that was killed by musket shooting with the advantage of close-range battle.

But the third prince was very wrong, because his Mauryan soldiers had no way to rush to the musketeers. After they had just entered the musketeers' firepower net, they had already fallen and died.

Moreover, judging from the current situation, even if all the soldiers of the Mauryan Dynasty were pulled up, it would be impossible to break through the firepower network of these 30,000 musketeers.

When the third prince's psychological defense finally collapsed, he gritted his teeth and wanted to let the Buddha appear, and immediately killed the pagans in front of him.

But unfortunately, the prayers of the third prince did not work. The Buddhas he believed in obviously did not intend to sacrifice his magical powers in this war. The soldiers of the Mauryan Dynasty who he returned were still suffering huge losses.

Suddenly, a general from the Mauryan Dynasty next to the third prince shouted.

"The troops on the front line have begun to collapse, Your Highness."

The third prince was surprised and subconsciously looked up, and found that the soldiers of the Mauryan Dynasty who were in the front began to flee in all directions.

This is actually a very normal situation, because these soldiers witnessed with their own eyes how the other soldiers in front of them were harvested by the monster-like musketeer in front of them. No one is a fool, and no one can continue to charge even though they know that they are bound to die.

So this is what is called morale. When morale is still there, even though everyone knows it is death, everyone may follow with enthusiasm, and the other soldiers will charge together. However, when morale is gone, looking at the hell of death in front of them, everyone is discouraged and chooses to escape and give in.

After discovering the Mauryan Dynasty in front of him and the soldiers began to flee, Li Mu also showed a victory smile on his face.

"If you want to escape, there is no such easy thing to pass the orders to me, and all the musketeers immediately pressed on the attack."

Originally, under Li Mu's order, the musketeers stood in place and kept firing bullets, but after hearing Li Mu's order, the musketeers began to attack one row after another.

The full pressure of the musketeers immediately gave the soldiers of the Mauryan Dynasty on the front line a greater pressure. They began to be forced to retreat continuously, and the extent of their collapse became larger and larger.

Several generals around the third prince also noticed that when the troops arrived, they no longer cared about the soldiers who had fled, but instead surrounded the third prince and wanted to take the third prince out of the battlefield with them.
To be continued...