Chapter 643: A Seed
Although Xiang Yu was also very curious about Yinggao's next move, without Yinggao's notice, he didn't dare to act rashly, and could only continue to develop internal affairs on his own territory.
Xiang Yu at least has one thing that is relatively reassuring, that is, Yinggao's forces have hit this time, and Yinggao has not simply adopted a one-size-fits-all approach to many large and small forces around Yinggao, but as long as they do not oppose Daqin, most of the forces have been retained.
For those strange forces Ying Gao and is so tolerant, for the Xiongnu who attacked this place together, Xiang Yu believes that Ying Gao will not come back at this time, not to mention that the Xiongnu still have a standing army of 200,000 for Daqin to deploy, this number of elite soldiers in the battle with Rome Xiang Yu believes that it can still play a very big role.
Facts have proved that Xiang Yu's idea is completely correct, when Yinggao arranged everything in Seleuc, Xiang Yu received a letter from Yinggao, and the content of the letter was naturally to invite Xiang Yu to Seleu to discuss the plan.
Ying Gao didn't say it directly, but Xiang Yu knew that at this stage, there was only one thing that Ying Gao was worth discussing with him, and that was the war with the Romans.
Xiang Yu naturally arrived at Seleu as soon as possible, in fact, according to Xiang Yu's thoughts, he was really not very willing to participate in the war for hegemony in Great Qin, and the knowledge after rushing out of the Western Regions over the years let Xiang Yu know how short-sighted he was before, and the first twenty years of his life were almost spent on wanting to help overthrow Great Qin and help Chu restore the country.
When he saw the world outside the Central Plains, Xiang Yu finally knew how worthless his previous dream was, and at the same time, the current strength of Daqin also made him realize that the process of pursuing strength is endless, and this era already has Daqin, Macedonia, and Rome, and the biggest achievement in his life is to stand with them, and the blood required for this process is not known how much.
The number of meetings between Xiang Yu and Yinggao can actually be counted with one hand, but Xiang Yu doesn't know why, every time he sees Yinggao, it's like seeing an old friend of his own for many years, Yinggao always seems to be able to know what he thinks in his heart, and he can also provide what he needs most at the moment, which is a very key reason why Xiang Yu has not torn his face with Yinggao for a long time.
Of course, Xiang Yu doesn't know what kind of temperament he has, Yinggao knows it very well, Yinggao makes every decision against Xiang Yu, and what he says at every meeting, it is all tailor-made for Xiang Yu.
Xiang Yu is a figure that Yinggao focused on studying Chinese history in his previous life, which has also become a key reason why Xiang Yu can live until this time, if Yinggao didn't think that Xiang Yu's previous life was a very tragic figure, he didn't make good use of the resources in his hands, and he didn't get any good results, Yinggao would not try to get Xiang Yu's life back on the right track in this era.
"Shan Yu must have known what I meant by letting you come here this time, right?"
After Xiang Yu arrived in Seleuc, he still saw Yinggao with a smile on his face, Yinggao prepared a table of wine and food for Xiang Yu alone, and then he only took Tian Yan to accompany Xiang Yu.
"That's natural, the king staged a drama of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight before, and directly forced the Macedonians to withdraw from the ranks of the hegemony, and the Romans will not be as strong as before after losing hundreds of thousands of people, since the king is here at this time, of course, there is only one purpose, that is, to destroy Rome and let Daqin stand in this world."
After listening to Xiang Yu's words, Ying Gao nodded again and again, indeed, what Xiang Yu said was very right, and this situation is not only Xiang Yu can see, even Philip V and the Romans must have seen it, so now there is a famous brand between Daqin and the Romans, Ying Gao is clearly going to beat you, but when to fight, how to fight, it is up to the Romans themselves to master.
"Yes, but the Roman cavalry seems to be stronger than our cavalry, if the king wants to attack Rome, not only must he have an advantage in terms of troops, but also have a full grasp of the strategy, and he will attack with all his might, if he fails, it is very likely that he will be counterattacked by the other side!"
Although he knew that since Yinggao had decided to attack, he must have been completely sure, but since Xiang Yu was here, he naturally wanted to say everything in his heart.
"The matter of war, naturally, there is no certainty, and I naturally don't want to be the attacking party, but now that the situation has reached such a point, if we let the Romans leave it alone, their development will definitely be very rapid, and once the Romans attack us, I will be beyond the reach of Xianyang, so we might as well take advantage of the fact that the Romans have just lost hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, and they will not be able to recover their vitality within a year or two.
Xiang Yu knew as soon as he heard it, Yinggao is obviously the lesser of two evils, Daqin has not stopped progressing, and the Romans are the same, and the difference between Daqin and the Romans is that Yinggao will not easily leave Xianyang City, where he has been living, but the Roman consuls can personally lead troops to the battle, whether it is Macedonia or Seleucus or the Mauryan Dynasty, he can take his own men and horses to attack in place.
If the Romans sent troops, Meng Tian with 100,000 and 200,000 people might not be able to withstand it, and it would take a long time for Daqin's reinforcements to know the news, and it would take a long time for the cavalry in Daqin to support the Seleucid territory.
The result of this is that once the Romans have a successful first battle, they will defeat the defenders and reinforcements of Great Qin one by one. Although Great Qin still has the last pass of the Western Regions, the huge territory of the Peacock Empire, Great Qin, has been in business for a very long time, and there are many Great Qin people and generals and officials, especially the young people who have stood out through the imperial examination in the past two years.
As for the various forces outside of Seleuc, including Macedonia, Yinggao had no interest in personally managing it at this time, otherwise Philip V would not have been able to return to his original place. The reason why Yinggao did not manage these places was not that he was not interested in these places, but because the population of Great Qin and the number of officials, generals, and sergeants could not support Yinggao's control of such a large area.
For Ying Gao and Great Qin, defeating the Romans does not mean that they can completely control this world, but it means that there is no force that can compete with them at this time, which is enough for Great Qin, as long as they are smart enough, no force can appear and threaten them.
"In this case, I have more Huns, but the 200,000 elite soldiers have not been easily disbanded, these soldiers are still training as in the homeland of the Huns before, their combat effectiveness can only be stronger than before, not weak, with our 200,000 elite soldiers, I think it will be easier for the king to fight with the Romans."
Although Xiang Yu didn't say too much, he was also very proud, Xiang Yu had seen through the observation during this period of time, as far as the small forces around the Seleuc, if he took the 100,000 cavalry of the Huns, he would basically be able to see one and destroy the other.
But Xiang Yu has never done that, he did not exterminate any forces outside his territory, of course, not because those forces saw the demeanor of the Hun cavalry, but because he wanted Yinggao to take a look, he did not have any ambition to dominate, since one-third of the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty and part of the territory of the Seleucus could fully meet the requirements of the Huns, he did not think about some other things.
But Xiang Yu still really wanted Yinggao to take a look for himself, the cavalry under his command was still very strong, and it was not that he had stopped making progress without any war over the years.
"If there are no 200,000 elite soldiers of Shan Yu, I would not dare to go directly to Rome, and I hope that Shan Yu will personally lead the army and my Great Qin cavalry to go out together."
In fact, this is really one of the main purposes of Yinggao, the Hun cavalry is indeed powerful, and the dragon and Ji Bu under the command of Xiang Yu are also good generals, but they lead the troops and Xiang Yu personally leads the troops to go out to the battle, Yinggao dares to say that the team that Xiang Yu personally led the troops must be several times higher than the combat effectiveness of the team that led the troops to the expedition.
After hearing this, Xiang Yu glanced at Yinggao, and then smiled slightly: "Since the king has personally gone to a barren place like Seleuc in order to attack Rome, I naturally can't watch from the land of the Peacock Dynasty, I and General Han Xin have already joined forces to send troops once, and there is no problem with cooperation, and the king can wait for good news in this Seleucid land at that time." ”
Xiang Yu agreed to this matter with almost no effort, which made Ying Gao breathe a sigh of relief, the bosses on his side were basically Han Xin and Meng Tian, plus Xiang Yu, Ying Gao was sure to surpass the Roman consuls in the configuration of generals.
The Romans sent troops to be different from Daqin, the consul was the only main general, and the rest of the generals would obey his dispatch, which naturally had great benefits, and the execution of the soldiers would be first-class, but at the same time there were disadvantages, that is, once the Roman consul gave a wrong order, it was difficult for anyone to correct him, and in such a war, a small mistake was often fatal.
And on Daqin's side, Han Xin, Meng Tian and Xiang Yu are equivalent to triple insurance, Ying Gao doesn't believe that if the three of them lead the troops at the same time, there will be a time when they can make mistakes together, if it is really because of such a thing that Daqin loses in this battle, it can only be said that the Roman consuls have crushed them no matter which aspect, you can't win such a war, you can only hurry back to keep safe.
After Xiang Yu agreed to Yinggao's conditions, it seemed that Yinggao's previous conditions had all been met, and now what he was waiting for was when Han Xin would be able to send news and open up a way to attack Rome.
But what Yinggao didn't expect was that when he was ready to confront the others, the Romans began to play some tricks.
After Zhao Hu turned over, it took him about a month to find that the Roman consuls did trust him, and he really wanted to know as much as possible about Daqin through his own mouth, including Daqin's training methods and some things about Yinggao.
On this day, when the Roman consul was asking Zhao Hu how some of the Yinggao were annihilated by his enemies in the territory of Great Qin, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Zhao Hu's head.
Zhao Hu thought of a person, and thought of what Zhao Cheng said to him at the beginning.
Before Zhao Gao died, he did entrust Zhao Cheng's safety in Xianyang City to Zhao Hu, but in addition to Zhao Hu, there was also a cronie of Zhao Gao who was still alive in this world, and like Zhao Hu, he was also according to Zhao Gao's last wishes and obeyed Zhao Cheng's command.
Because this person and Zhao Hu were both rescued by Zhao Gao, they have always been called brothers, Zhao Hu is a brother, this person is a brother, and this person was also given the surname Zhao by Zhao Gao, named Zhao Gang.
Zhao Hu knew that Zhao Gang was also a capable person, and he might be a little worse than himself in kung fu, but unlike Zhao Hu's image of standing in the crowd, Zhao Gang was the kind of person who gave birth to the appearance of ordinary people, and he was much better at hiding than Zhao Hu, so he was sent by Zhao Cheng to inquire about the news in many places outside Xianyang City.
It was Zhao Cheng's strategy that succeeded, and when they went from Xianyang City to other places, Zhao Hu learned that Zhao Cheng had sent Zhao Gang to do something, but Zhao Cheng didn't tell Zhao Hu what this matter was at that time.
It wasn't until they were about to leave for the Peacock Dynasty that Zhao Cheng told Zhao Hu that Zhao Gang was sent by him to approach the newborn child of Liu Bang who was let go by Yinggao, this child, like Zhao Cheng, is a person who has a blood feud with Yinggao, Zhao Gang's task is to approach this child as a common person, and let him know this when he grows up, in Zhao Cheng's words, this child is a seed.