Chapter 1: Where are the Romans?
Zou Kun frowned tightly: "I only have one question now, that is, how do we get to the underworld?" How do you discuss this matter with Jizo King Bo? β
Jia Qing thought about it, and turned his head to look at Qingtou's adoptive father: "That, you should know how to go down, right?" β
He shook his head: "How can it be so easy for people in the yang world to go down to the underworld, and you are going to find the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth, that is not an easy lord to find, you should change the other way." β
Zou Kun thought for a while: "There is someone who can help us, but we have to find him, but we have to find him first." β
"Who? Who are you talking about? β
Zou Kun probably told him about the rhubarb, and Jia Qing thought about it carefully: "Then how can I find him?" β
"I'm afraid there's only one way, and that's to ask the witch."
When she found the witch, she was cooking something in a cauldron from a Western witch movie, and Zou Kun frowned slightly after reading it: "What? Planning to combine East and West? β
The witch sneered, and the expression on her face was extremely coquettish: "It's just that I occasionally get a parchment scroll of the era of the law and study it, but their things are really troublesome, and they want to find all kinds of strange materials, you said that I should go and find them?" β
Jia Qing looked at her things: "Are you still missing a wizard's cane?" And that spell or something? β
The witch thought about it: "You say, do the wizards of the West still have a heritage?" Shall I go and talk to them? β
Zou Kun was stopped by her words: "There is just one question, that is, how to communicate with language?" β
The witch tilted her head: "This is a troublesome matter, by the way, what are you doing to me?" β
As soon as Zou Kun said the matter, the witch nodded: "Okay, I'll help you make a divination." β
After speaking, the witch took out a pair of turtle shells, put three copper coins in them, shook them, and the copper coins fell out of the turtle shells, and the witch looked at the hexagram: "Hey, it's a big show, the future is bumpy and difficult, you need to be cautious!" β
Zou Kun was a little angry: "Hey, can I still not know the bumpy road ahead?" We've all been done all the way, I'm here to ask how to solve the problem! β
The witch's face darkened: "I'm a witch and not a prophet, how do I know where to go to help you find that broken dog?" You have a way to solve it yourself. β
Zou Kun also knew that he was too anxious, and couldn't stop sighing: "Xiaoru, Xiaoru, where are you?" What shall I save thee with? β
The witch looked at the sad appearance of the two, and was a little unbearable: "Actually, you don't need to be like this, the hexagram is just to say that the road ahead is bumpy, and it doesn't mean that you can't find it; I think why don't you accompany me to find a wizard in the West? It is said that everything is sold there, maybe you can find fire snow lotus seeds, and what crystal ball or something, maybe you can find Nie Qianru through the crystal ball. β
The two of them also paid attention when they thought about this: "Then, do you know where their wizards are in the West?" β
When this sentence came, the witch asked: "I think, at least it should be a Western country, right, let's go find it first." β
At this time, Jia Qing was reading the witch's book, and after reading it for a long time, he began to ask, "Where did you find this book?" Are you sure she's a book for witchers? β
"Of course, I bought this one at a great price in the ghost market, and it cost me a lot of money, and the text on it is a very difficult text to understand, it should be very ancient, I used witchcraft to roughly translate part of it, and I have tried some of it, I can be very sure that this is a wizard's book."
Jia Qing looked at the two of them with wide eyes: "I think, I know where we can go to find wizards in the West." β
Jia Qing cleared his throat: "You see, there is a badge on this book, this badge is the style of ancient Rome, in 36 BC, in order to fight against the Northern Xiongnu Zhizhi Shan Yu, who was the enemy of the Western Han Dynasty, the Western Han sent 40,000 troops to the west. When the army arrived at Zhizhi City (in present-day Kazakhstan), they were surprised to find that there was a peculiar mercenary army among Zhizhi Danyu's troops. Until the war? After the fight, the soldiers of the Western Han Dynasty learned that these soldiers were actually from a distant and strange country, that is, the Romans. "In 53 B.C., Crassus, one of the three giants of the Roman Empire, led the First Roman Army to attack the Parthian kingdom in Central Asia (Chinese history books call it rest, located on the Iranian plateau).
The Parthians put up a desperate resistance. In May, the Roman expeditionary force entered a place called Kale, where they were ambushed by the Parthians. Facing the Parthian army that was pressed by the darkness around him, Crassus, who was unwilling to sit still, desperately broke through. After a fierce battle, the Roman legions completely collapsed, and Crassus ordered his men to flee for their lives. As a result of the war, the commander Crassus was executed by the Emperor of Rest pouring gold juice down his throat.
After the Battle of Calle, the Roman Empire stopped invading Parthia for the time being. In 20 B.C., the two countries made peace. However, when the Romans offered to repatriate all the Roman soldiers captured at the Battle of Calle, something perplexed them. When they counted the number of prisoners of war, they found that there were only a few hundred. However, the news they received before was that many soldiers of the First Legion had not actually died in battle, and both the Romans and the Parthians were in confusion for a while.
Later, historians finally solved the mystery. It turned out that more than 1,000 Roman legionnaires broke out of the siege. Their only option to survive was to avoid the Parthian blockade and continue eastward. In the end, this Roma first? The remnants of the legion broke out of the Parthian border and into the basin of Central Asia.
And there, scattered are small countries like Kangju and Otsutsuki. As a result, the warlike Roman soldiers were accepted as mercenaries by these small states.
After arriving in Central Asia, these Roman soldiers remained independent! If there are no major changes in the way they fight and the way they live, they are likely to gradually take root here. However, at this very moment, a war changed their fate again.
Some of the Roman soldiers who were exiled to Central Asia defected to Kangju, and the other part served as mercenaries of the Otsuki clan. In 40 B.C., there was an uprising in the country of the Otsuki clan! Chaos, one of the five vice-kings, Guishan, started a war and appointed himself the king of the Otsuki clan. The four defeated vice-kings fled east to the Hexi Corridor in the Western Han Dynasty with their armies and subjects, including those of the Romans. There, these Roman soldiers were properly housed. The Roman soldiers who defected to Kangju were not so lucky, as they were drawn into the war between the Northern Xiongnu and the Western Han army.
The whereabouts of these Roman troops remained a mystery until much later, in the 1980s, when Gansu researcher Guan Heng visited the nearby village of Zhilai, now known as Lijing, near Yongchang County, Gansu Province, where most of the residents were elderly with brown or yellow hair and even blue or gray eyes. These villagers are also discriminated against because of their peculiar appearance.
"Book of Han" records: in 36 B.C., the Western Han Dynasty to protect Gan and prolong life, deputy general Chen Tang led the army to attack the Xiongnu Zhizhi City, and found that the Zhizhi City adopted the defense method of "there is a heavy wooden city outside the earth city", and the Huns sent a strange-looking army to put out "more than 100 infantry people sandwich the door fish scale Chen [array]". Guan Heng and Chen Zhengyi believe that this is the unique defensive and offensive formation of the Roman army, and the "Jiamen Fish Scale Chen" is the tortoiseshell formation frequently used by the Roman army, so the Huns sent a suspected ancient Roman army at that time. The Book of Han also records that the Han army won a great victory, "one hundred and forty-five people were captured, and more than a thousand people were captured", and all the captives may be brought back to the Han Dynasty. It has been speculated that the word "lijing" may have been a variant of the Greek word "Ξ±Ξ»eΞΎΞ±Ξ½Ξ΄p?Ξ± (Alexandria), and that it was also a name given to the placement of captives.
According to Western historical records, in 53 BC, Crassus, one of the three giants of Rome, decided to expand the scope of power to the east and personally led 7 legions to conquer the Sabbatical Empire. The Roman army began with repeated victories, but was ambushed by the Sabbatarian army at the Battle of Calais, suffering heavy casualties. Crassus's eldest son led the First Legion to break through the blockade of the Sabbatarian army (one says that Publius was captured and later escaped with the First Legion), but the First Legion did not return to Rome and was missing. In 20 BCE, Rome signed a peace treaty with Sabbat, and the Romans demanded the repatriation of prisoners of war from the Battle of Calais, only to learn that the First Legion had disappeared.
Although these things are only speculation, one thing is certain, and that is that the ancient Roman army disappeared when it was close to the territory of the Western Han Dynasty in China. β
The witch frowned: "You said it for a long time, what does it have to do with my book?" What does it have to do with Xiwu? β
Jia Qing looked at her with a smile: "Don't worry, you always have to let me show off, in fact, I don't know where this army went, but you look at the back of this book." β
So saying, he turned the parchment roll over, and saw that on the back of the parchment scroll was a wolf, and under the wolf there was a laurel wreath made of olive branches, and under the laurel was a hand.
"This is the symbol of the Roman legion, and this symbol means that they are a main legion, which means that the original owner of this book was a wizard who served in the Roman legion."
The witch nodded: "It's not a strange thing for wizards to serve in the army, Chinese and Western wizards are all good at healing, it can be said that witchcraft is the origin of healing, so this matter makes sense, but this can only mean that the owner of this book is related to the Romans, right?" β
Zou Kun looked surprised: "Yes, yes, it's useless, we still can't find where the wizard is." β
Jia Qing shook his head: "No, no, no, although we don't know where the wizard is, I think I already know where this legion disappeared, and I believe that the descendants of this wizard still retain the ability of the Western Witch, which is in China." β
Zou Kun paused slightly: "Why are you so sure?" β
"It doesn't matter if you're sure of these things, what matters is how we find this legion, and I'm sure we'll be able to find Xiwu."
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