Chapter Forty-Six: The Capture of the Island of Cyprus

Soon Xu Ding and the others landed in the west direction, and it was exactly what the scout said.

After arriving on the island, they first set up camp and opened up a garrison, which not only prepared for the camp of the army, but also opened up the town for the resettlement of the people in the future.

Then the army divided into directions to reconnoitre, opened roads, repaired roads and paved bridges, and marched towards the central plains.

Along the way, the place to see surprised everyone, because this island is huge, except for the north and south are mountainous areas, the entire central part is full of fertile plains, once reclaimed, can feed many people, there are a lot of places to settle and build cities.

"If Zinong sees this, he will probably go crazy." A fertile land without belonging is a good place for the people to control the fields.

"Lord, such a good place, I guess anyone who sees it will be crazy." Dahan is based on agriculture, no matter who sees this, they will go crazy, including Zhang Fei and Guan Yu and others are also excited and happy.

Xu Ding nodded and said: "Okay, don't get excited, the farther you go, the more you go, the more you will probably meet the alien race, don't be surprised when you see those people, don't panic, tell the soldiers, these alien races are a little different from what everyone thinks, they may be blue-eyed, yellow-haired, and white-skinned, so don't be too surprised." ”

"It's the lord!" Everyone replied, but they were more curious, listening to what Xu Ding described, they felt that these alien races were a bit like monsters.

Soon a messenger came from the rear, and the person was sent by Lu Qian.

It means that they have gone to the east, and have found a lot of colored people, and are closely watching.

Xu Ding told the news to everyone, and everyone was ready to fight with a roar, and he had been paving roads and repairing bridges in the mountains for so long, so he was not in a hurry.

Soon the army built the road to the east, and the scouts discovered the Semu people that Lü Qian had said.

These settlements were not very populous, but they built castles, which were very different from the square city structure in the Han Dynasty, they were mostly built on the mountain, once arranged in steps, and the buildings were quite high, with round arches or spires, full of exotic style.

Looking at these people's clothing and relatively revealing, the arms and shoulders of both women and children are exposed, and even many men are naked with their upper bodies, while exposing their legs below the knee, but all of them are extremely strong, and their weapons are mainly round shields and short knives or javelins.

"Proper Roman style!" Xu Ding personally came to investigate and said to everyone:

"Once the battle is engaged, tell everyone to be careful, although these aliens look barbaric and unruly, but the fighting style is a bit strong, especially those wearing red clothes, this is their most elite army."

"It's my lord! We remembered. ”

Zhang Fei and the others looked at each other's physique, looking at the appearance of their own soldiers, and had to admit that the other party was quite strong, such a person was a good soldier with a natural body, so they didn't dare to be careless.

After finding out the number and distribution of the Romans in the vicinity, he went back and discussed the plan, and the army was divided into three groups to clean up the Romans on these islands.

Before the operation, Xu Ding explained again: "By the way, if you encounter someone who can be captured alive, try not to kill it, we need such a prisoner." ”

Soon a large army was dispatched to attack the Roman natives.

The Romans were a little stunned when they saw the Han army.

Where did this army run out, how come there is no news at all.

When they took up arms to resist, they were even more confused.

Because the army of the Han Dynasty was extremely disciplined, and the team combat cooperation was good, coupled with the strong crossbow, the range of the Han bow was long, even if the Roman warriors were strong, under the condition that the number and weapons were backward, they could only be killed or wounded and captured one by one.

The plan was sufficient, it was another surprise attack, and the weapons were superior, and soon Xu Ding and others attacked all the Roman settlements in the east.

Of course, there were also fleeing Romans who tried to slip away from the sea, but were also captured by Lu Qian's sailors.

"Bingfujun, a total of 328 enemies were destroyed in this battle, and 2,412 were captured."

Xu Dingding nodded and asked with concern, "What are the casualties of our army?" ”

"Back to Fujun, our army has injured twelve people and killed two!" The officer of the loser count replied.

"Give preferential treatment to the casualties, let them sum up their experience, and at the same time erect a monument and write down their names, so that those who come after them know that they have paid for it for future generations." After listening to the officer's answer, Xu Ding then gave another order.

Hui Guan was stunned for a moment, and then replied with excitement in his eyes: "It's the prince!" ”

"My lord! This group of aliens we have captive, I can't understand what they are saying, how can we drive this! Zhang Fei asked bluntly.

In his mind, how good it would be to kill these people directly, it would be convenient to save trouble.

Other people also mean the same, according to the thinking logic of the big man, the hearts of non-my race must be different, and it is better to kill them if they keep them.

Xu Dingdao: "It's okay, I still have a lot of use for them, let's go, let's go and have a look, I think I should be able to understand what they say." ”

"Ugh! The lord still understands the words of the barbarians! Zhang Fei and the others were shocked again, Xu Ding would still have these things, what did he not know.

Sure enough, Xu Ding came to the place where the captives were staying, and the simple pronunciation said a sentence, and the originally quiet captives immediately rang and got up one after another, talking nonsense.

Guan Yu clenched the big knife and swept over, and asked, "What did the lord say?" ”

Xu Dingdao: "They said why do they want to attack them, they want us to let them go, otherwise the army of the Roman Empire will come, and we will die an ugly death." ”

"Humph! A group of ignorant barbarians, just a little Roman. Guan Yu snorted coldly, he didn't take the so-called Roman Empire in his eyes at all, and he wielded his knife to cut these captives without saying a word.

Xu Ding said with a smile: "Yun Chang is not like this, speaking of which, this Roman Empire is really not weak, a distant country in the west of my Han Dynasty, when the Western Regions were traded, my Han Dynasty also had a trade with its country, and its country was in the West just like we were in the East, and there were also many vassal states, but now it seems to be weak." ”

"Western countries?" Everyone didn't understand.

However, I heard that it is west of the Western Regions, and it feels quite far away at that time, after all, the Western Regions are a wild land in the eyes of the Han people.

Xu Ding didn't explain too much to them, and then continued to communicate with the group of captives to find out the situation of Rome, and at the same time told these Romans that they were too far away from Rome, and that their island had drifted to the Han Empire, and now the island was officially taken over by the Han Dynasty.

"How is this possible! How could our island float to the east, this could not ......"

Hardly a Roman believed Xu Ding's words, after all, it was a bit of a fantasy.

"Whether you believe it or not, this is a fact, it is impossible to change, and I just tell you, after all, you are all invaders in the eyes of my Han, and you are all alien races that can be destroyed, and now you only have two choices, one is surrender, and the other is death!" Xu Ding didn't bother to explain too much to them, because this was something that he couldn't explain.

If it were him, he wouldn't believe that an island in the Mediterranean Sea suddenly crossed the border to the eastern sea of the Han Dynasty, which is even more exaggerated than the legendary moving mountains and seas.

Surrender or die!

No!

We are proud Romans, how can we surrender to the yellow-skinned Han Chinese.

Xu Ding's words aroused the emotions of more than 2,000 Roman men, women, and children at once.

"So, you're trying to die." Xu Ding sneered, and pointed to the right captain of the palace guard, Dian Weidao:

"My Han has always been a state of etiquette, pay attention to the virtue of a good life in God, give you a chance, who doesn't want to surrender can find my guard captain to fight alone, the winner I can let him go, and as a guest, if you fail, then I'm sorry, you can only die."