Chapter 611: A Flaw (Second Update)
But what Hu Hai didn't know was that there was a division of labor between Meng Tian and Han Xin, Meng Tian led his soldiers and horses to meet the enemy outside, while Han Xin stood on a high place, watching the enemy's movements.
"The other sergeants are all scattered and fled, among which I don't know how many people trample on each other, but this team of 10,000 people and horses saw that things were not good and withdrew directly in one direction, it seems that the backbone of the enemy in this battle is in the 10,000 army."
After Han Xin found out about this, he immediately sent a team of his own soldiers to see the situation of this 10,000 horses, and he believed that the flaw of the mysterious enemy that Ying Gao said should be here.
After a detour of I don't know how many roads, Hu Hai and Zhao Hu returned directly to their city with 10,000 horses belonging to them, and after arriving in the city, Hu Hai found that the messenger was already waiting for them in the city lord's mansion.
"How's this battle going?" After seeing Hu Hai and Zhao Hu, who were slightly embarrassed, the first sentence of the envoy turned out to be a slightly ridiculous tone.
"Everything you said is not true, if we hadn't withdrawn immediately, I'm afraid that we have been caught by the generals of Great Qin at this time, where are the elite soldiers you are talking about? Where do you mean that the inside and the outside are combined? Those 100,000 horses can't compete with Daqin's cavalry at all, if all your sergeants are at this level, I'm afraid it's meaningless to be 500,000 troops! ”
Although Hu Hai said this with anger, and what he said was very ugly, it was also a fact, the messenger had promised them before, although there were fewer people, they were all elites, and the other one was that there would be people in the territory of Seleuc, and they would be joined by them, so that Daqin's army would be tired of coping.
But these two most important conditions were obviously not met by the Romans, so that Hu Hai with 100,000 miscellaneous troops was killed in less than three days, and there was almost nothing left.
The envoy didn't have any angry expression after hearing Hu Hai's words, but slowly continued: "These two things are indeed not arranged by us before, but after this battle, your task can be regarded as a good completion, and your own men and horses have not suffered any losses, where do you get angry?" ”
"If my location and identity are exposed to the eyes of the Great Qin generals, this place will soon become a ruin, and you will naturally return to your own territory and everything will be fine, and you will naturally not be able to understand my suffering."
Hu Hai was obviously still angry, he knew that even if the person in front of him was just an envoy of the Roman state, his status in Rome would definitely not be very high, but it was very simple to kill him, or even to destroy his two small cities.
But he still said this, because Hu Hai wanted to see if his identity as the younger brother of the Great Qin Emperor was important to this invincible dynasty, and Hu Hai even made up his mind that if this envoy had ill intentions towards him, he might not be able to leave his own city.
"You won't be exposed until we send troops again, your identity is still useful to us, you are here, just wait for our news."
He was not angry at what Hu Hai said, but left directly with confidence.
"Childe, how credible are this guy's words?" After the Roman envoy left, Zhao Hu asked with a puzzled expression.
"Since he can easily mobilize 100,000 horses and don't care about the life or death of these horses, it is enough to show that their dynasty does have a certain strength, but according to the speed of their arrival, they should be quite far away from the Seleuc, so they did not hesitate to gather some men and horses with average combat effectiveness to test the combat effectiveness of the Great Qin cavalry, if my expectations are good, they did not take the combat effectiveness of the Great Qin cavalry in their eyes, thinking that these 100,000 troops plus the external peace can take down the Seleuc, I never thought that their Neiying didn't know when they were taken down by Han Xin, so they had a fiasco. ”
As soon as Zhao Cheng and Zhao Hu heard it, they knew that there must be nothing wrong with Hu Hai's analysis, but such an analysis problem also came out, although the messenger was croaking in cowhide, but it was obvious that he had to go back to report the news first, in case Han Xin and Meng Tian found Hu Hai's location first at this time, they would basically be finished.
"Childe thinks that this dynasty can really defeat Great Qin?"
"Naturally, they can't defeat Great Qin, the current Great Qin is not the Great Qin of the past, but they can't defeat Great Qin, but we can rely on their strength to take down the Seleuc, we don't need Great Qin, we only need a Seleuc, in a few years, who belongs to this world, it is not certain."
Hu Hai obviously already had a plan in his heart, but what he didn't know was that at the same time, Han Xin and Meng Tian also had some plans in their hearts.
"Did you really see 10,000 horses evacuated in an orderly manner?" When this hearty battle was over, Meng Tian returned to the city, and Han Xin immediately told him what he had observed.
"Yes, the initiator of this battle, thinking that in the escort of these 10,000 people, they may indeed be a combined army composed of many forces, but those 10,000 people must be the soul of this army, as long as we find the location of these 10,000 people, we should be able to surprise you."
"The search for Hu Hai has been unsuccessful before, that's because we have no trace, and now that this army is fleeing in a hurry, it is impossible to leave no trace of it, as long as we can find it, the follow-up matters will be easy to handle!"
Soon, Han Xin and Meng Tian reached a consensus, of course, they could also think that the previous 100,000 horses were very likely not the Romans mentioned by Yinggao in the letter, but whether they were sent by the Romans to fight the front station is a question that Han Xin and Meng Tian must understand, after all, they have already shown the true strength of the Great Qin cavalry in front of these horses.
Han Xin sent a team of his cronies to start searching in the direction of the 10,000 people who had fled, and this time Han Xin had a strong premonition that there would be a harvest.
100,000 people were killed in the attack on Seleuc, if the scale of these 100,000 people is used to attack other small forces, it will definitely have a very big gain, which also allows the surrounding forces to see the strength of the Great Qin cavalry again, the Great Qin occupied the Mauryan Dynasty, and now occupies the Seleucus, so from the perspective of ability, the rise of the Great Qin does not need any doubt.
After the storm, there was endless calm, and the traces of the 10,000 people were not so easy to find, and after searching for nearly two months, Han Xin and Meng Tian found that the 10,000 people were likely to deliberately detour to cover up their whereabouts.
If it was really related to Rome, according to Yinggao's words, Rome would definitely not have any scruples, so there was no need for them to make a detour to make Great Qin's cavalry not know where they were going.
So based on this detail, Han Xin judged that this group of men and horses was very likely not very far away from them, and it might even be an ally that Rome was looking for nearby.
Obviously, Han Xin thought that this was getting closer and closer to the truth, and he began to investigate within a certain range, he believed that there must be some clues for him to find this team of people, and after this team of people was found, it was clear whether this matter had anything to do with Rome in Yinggao's mouth.
At the same time, after such a long time, Yinggao also got the news this time, seeing that it was only a ragtag army of 100,000, Yinggao did not have as many as Han Xin and Meng Tian thought, in Yinggao's opinion, this is very obvious, that is, people look down on your strength a little, so I tried it first.
What he cared about was what would happen after trying this, Yinggao thought about it for a while, and then summoned Antiochus III to the Xianyang Palace in Great Qin.
During this time, although Antiochus III had no worries about his life for the time being, his life was definitely not good, he was imprisoned in the mansion assigned to him, except for a maid who took care of his daily life, there was no one else in the house, where did Antiochus III live such a life, so he was still very painful in thought.
This time he was summoned by Yinggao into the Xianyang Palace, Antiochus III's temperament has changed, and he finally knows now that his fate is in the hands of Yinggao, the Great Qin Emperor, and it is not that he can live if he wants to, and he can die if he wants to.
"Rome may have really taken action against our forces in Seleuc, but not in the way I imagined before, this time I called you to see your opinion."
Yinggao didn't talk any nonsense to him, but went straight to the point and told him what was happening in the Seleucian territory, and then waited for Antiochus III to speak.
"This is not unusual, such as Rome and Macedonia dynasties, they are surrounded by a lot of clusters, these dynasties are attached to their side to survive, and even many times in history because of them to avoid the death of the country, Rome has gathered 100,000 people, it is not surprising, on the one hand, they want to see if the cavalry of Daqin is as powerful as they sound, on the other hand, if the Romans have to send elite troops, most of them will know Macedonia, One bad one will provoke a war between the two empires, so the Romans must be very cautious about this matter. ”
Antiochus III no longer spared words like gold this time, but said his meaning for the first time, although he was also trying his best to cover it up, but Yinggao still saw that this guy had been alone for so long, and he was almost suffocated.
According to what Antiochus III said, the second point was not expected by Yinggao, according to Yinggao's understanding, the two great dynasties should be very restrained in using troops with each other, after all, once a large-scale war broke out, it is very likely that both sides will not be able to please the situation.
But if you think about it carefully, Yinggao also knows the key to this, who Rome attacks, Macedonia will not care normally, but Seleu can't, one is that Seleucia is an ally of Macedonia before, although it is now occupied by Great Qin, but in Macedonia's view, it is not Rome's turn to manage, the other is to attack Seleucus is to pass through the vicinity of Macedonia, as the two forces that have broken out in the war before, of course the relationship will not be good now, if Rome tens of thousands of cavalry to the vicinity of Macedonia, Philip V was afraid that he would not let them go, and Seleu would be the first to strike.
Thinking about it like this, Yinggao was really a little worried, and a somewhat bold idea appeared in his heart.
Philip V united with Antiochus III and a number of other powers, but was defeated in the Second Macedonian War, which eventually led to the fall of the Macedonian dynasty soon after.
This shows that in the current situation, Macedonia's strength is definitely inferior to Rome's, but they themselves should not know it.
"I'm afraid I'll have to borrow your hand in this matter!"
Yinggao looked at Antiochus III again and said with a slight smile.
When Yinggao said his request, Antiochus III also widened his eyes in disbelief, as if he was making sure to Yinggao that he had misheard the meaning of Yinggao's words.
"That's right, that's what I think, whether this matter is successful or not, it has nothing to do with you, you just need to write this letter, I think in your heart, there should be no good impression of Rome, right?"
Of course, Antiochus III knew that he actually had no choice, and if he didn't write this letter, there would be many ways for Yinggao to achieve his goal, so he nodded silently, and then began to write.
Through this recent war, Yinggao suddenly discovered that it was possible that Great Qin had developed to this extent, and that existences like Rome and Macedonia, which had terrified people in this era, were not invincible existences for Great Qin.
But even so, Yinggao still decided to use a little trick, although for Daqin, Rome and Macedonia are the same, they are all stumbling blocks on the way to dominating the world, but they can achieve the results they want at a lower cost, Yinggao is still not afraid of a little trouble in the process.
After Antiochus wrote this letter, Yinggao sent him back, and as a reward, Yinggao gave him a Meiji from the Huns, saying that it was to relieve Antiochus III's boredom.
Of course, Antiochus III knew what Yinggao's ultimate purpose was, when he became the next relic, and if he willingly became like that, it is estimated that he will be completely safe in the land of Daqin, but whether he can really become like that, Antiochus III's own heart is uncertain.