Another general persuaded the person who spoke before, and he knew that although his little partner had a low emotional intelligence, his combat effectiveness was very strong. Although the archon said that Daqin's cavalry was not very capable, the official who had been tracking Daqin's situation told them privately before they set off that Daqin's cavalry should not be underestimated, especially since they would have a one-man formation for a team, and it would be really tricky to join forces.

In this way, this general, who has a more cautious personality, has a careful eye, after all, the enemy also has nearly 300,000 men and horses, in case the combat effectiveness is really strong, and they are traveling long distances, it is not possible to achieve very good results.

Hu Hai was really quite punctual, according to the time that the messenger told them, it was not early at all, and it was not late at all, and he arrived with his 30,000 horses.

After arriving, Hu Hai saw that the sergeants brought over this time were much more regular than the last time, but the hundreds of thousands of people in front of him were still dressed in everything, and at first glance they were miscellaneous troops, like cannon fodder.

The 100,000 men and horses of the Chinese army are brightly dressed and armoured, and they come with great confidence at a glance, and Hu Hai can also see from the sidelines that these are the real elite of the Romans, and if they want to defeat the Great Qin people in Seleuc, the main thing they have to rely on must be this team of men.

"Since you have already arrived, then let's set off quickly, otherwise once the Great Qin people see the clues, our surprise attack will not be so simple, now we must at least take a city first, otherwise how can we make them panic?"

After Hu Hai arrived, a Roman general arranged him to the position of the rear army, and they thought that Hu Hai and the 30,000 shrimp soldiers and crab generals under his command would definitely not be useful at all, so it was better to help show the way or something.

Hu Hai was also happy to do so, he silently followed the large army and quickly marched in the direction of Seleuc, but he didn't know what to think in his heart.

The place where they had set out was a day away from Seleuc, and there were no decent forces around, which provided a good convenience for the secrecy of their march

The reason why the march was set at this hour was because according to the speed of their march, it would be ten in the middle of the night when they reached Seleucus, which was of course the best time for a sneak attack, and the Romans, although they were a little arrogant, still had a lot of experience in this area, otherwise they would not have won the final victory in the war with Hannibal.

But when they set off for most of the day, Seleuc received a message from a Seleucian to a general under Han Xin's command.

It was a letter with a passage written in the language of the Mauryan Empire, and after Han Xin and Meng Tian found the right person to translate it, they all showed surprised looks, because the letter was written on nothing else, but the Roman army would be in the city within a day.

In fact, Han Xin and Meng Tian had already learned from Philip V that the Roman army had rushed to Seleuc, and their estimated time was exactly these two days, but this news was undoubtedly more accurate, and what surprised them was nothing else, it was that they had no other allies at all except Philip V and Xiang Yu, and it was impossible for someone who had such a deep understanding of the enemy to report to them.

"Could it be that Xiang Yu made a move ahead of schedule?"

"It won't be Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu should be waiting on the border between the Seleucians and the Mauryan Empire at this time, just in case of emergency, and he knows that this matter has not been long ago, and it is impossible to blend into the ranks of the Romans."

After Meng Tian and Han Xin made several guesses, they basically denied all of them by themselves.

But not being able to guess who this person is does not affect the accuracy of this news, if there is no news from Philip V before, Han Xin and they really can't believe it, but now that the two sides are confirmed, the accuracy of this news must not be a problem at all.

Knowing the direction and approximate time of the enemy's coming, it was of great significance to Han Xin and Meng Tian, who had an army of two or three hundred thousand, and would definitely not let the enemy soldiers come to the city.

And they both knew that if they had not made an alliance with Philip V and that letter, the enemy would have attacked them by surprise.

The two quickly made a plan, this first battle must let the enemy know the power of Daqin, in other words, that is, to face the enemy head-on, the enemy wants to raid them, then they will give the enemy an ambush, on the one hand, it can catch them off guard, on the other hand, after this battle, you can know the enemy's true ability, and prepare for other battles in the future.

In fact, there was not much time left for Han Xin and Meng Tian at this time, they organized some people, and Meng Tian took them out of the city to ambush, and Han Xin answered them in the city.

This period of time in Seleuc was like heaven for Meng Tian, who had been guarding Shangjun all the time, he already thought that this was the end of his life, but he didn't expect Yinggao to send him to the Mauryan Dynasty, and let his war career rejuvenate a second spring.

At the beginning of the war against Seleuc, although Meng Tian served as Han Xin's deputy, but when it really came to war, Han Xin, as the commander of this time, had to sit in the city even if he wanted to go out again, and almost every time he led a large army to rush outside the city, it fell on Meng Tian.

And in these wars, whether it was facing the Seleucians, or the army sent by the Romans to test later, Meng Tian let them know the strength of the Great Qin cavalry, and this time it was very likely that the real elite of the Romans was faced, although Meng Tian was a little nervous, but he was still very excited.

If he can defeat the cavalry of the Romans this time, then even if he is too old to fight by the time Da Qin really wants to attack Rome in two years, there must be a lot of credit to him.

Taking advantage of the night, Meng Tian took 100,000 of the most elite men and horses out of the city, according to the direction of the Romans, they would definitely choose to attack in this city, which had been judged by Han Xin and Meng Tian a few days ago, and they had arranged guards for this city for several days.

In fact, the Romans did not realize that in this day and age, you can be ambitious, but you must be strong enough to support your ambition.

Great Qin has ambitions, so Great Qin will capture the Mauryan Dynasty and Seleucus before and after, but Great Qin has always been doing what he can, and the war against the Peacock Dynasty Great Qin has been preparing for two years before the final decision.

And the attack on Seleuc was also successfully taken by Han Xin after preparing for a short time in the territory of Great Qin and the territory of the Mauryan Empire.

During this period, although Yinggao knew about the existence of Macedonians and Romans, and knew that their strength was very strong, he never sent people to inquire about them, not because Yinggao did not have that ambition, but because Yinggao understood that even if he knew the news of other people at this time, he had no way at all, and he couldn't do anything about them.

One of the truths that Yinggao knows is that when your strength really reaches that level, just like the current Great Qin, it will naturally attack their doorstep, and then the only way left for them is to surrender and die in battle.

However, the Romans obviously didn't know this truth, or they thought that they already had that kind of ability, so they not only sent people to observe the movements of Great Qin, but also sent a large number of soldiers after discovering that Great Qin might develop into a force that posed a threat to them.

Of course, there is a basis for all this they have done, that is, Daqin's ability and the combat effectiveness of the army will definitely not be able to catch up with them, and they want to destroy Daqin before Daqin has really developed, at least let Daqin only occupy the Peacock Dynasty at most, and there can be no other advances.

Of course, they didn't know that Great Qin had united everything they could unite and prepared a big net for their army, which was waiting for them right here.

"The city twenty miles ahead is the Seleuc, and judging from the current situation, the generals of Great Qin are really defenseless."

The two generals with the Roman army saw that the territory of Seleucus was about to reach, and sent a small group of scouts to spy on them, and found that the other party was really not on the city wall, and the two generals judged that their surprise attack still had a very good chance of success.

"I'll take a team of men and horses to attack first, and if I can break through the city gate directly, you can wait and follow closely."

When the Roman general who looked down on Hu Hai a little bit saw this situation, he wanted to attack it himself.

"No, I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of just in case, we have to let those guys who are not good at combat effectiveness go to test it first, if we really catch Daqin's generals off guard, we will go to capture the city gate again, otherwise once there is any change in this, our losses will be very heavy."

I have to say that there are still some very powerful people among the Roman generals, which is why the Roman consuls sent the two of them together, and the abilities of these two generals are quite complementary.

If he really did what the first person did before, he might have breached the Seleuche city in the first place, but once he was ambushed, the consequences would not be good, although the general who persuaded him did not believe that they would be ambushed, but the instinct of years of fighting still made him not agree with his companion's slightly impulsive decision.

Under such circumstances, the two of them first called out a general who was not a Roman, and asked him to take his 50,000 men to attack the Seleucian gate as quickly as possible.

And at this time, Hu Hai and his 30,000 men were still following the rear army, seeing that there was no movement in the city, and he couldn't help but mourn for the 50,000 people for a few minutes in his heart, the decision of the Romans was what he wanted to see.

After all, the result Hu Hai wants is to lose both, and the premise of both defeats is that the Romans first use useless soldiers to attack the city, and when Daqin's elite soldiers come out, it must be a battle between the tip of the needle and Mai Mang, which is the scene Hu Hai wants to see.

After the raid was arranged, the unlucky general with 50,000 men rushed over directly, while the rest of the men and horses followed closely behind him.

Soon they came to a place not far from the city, and the 50,000 horses and horses went to the city gate without any pause.

The silence above the gates and walls made them think that their raid had been successful, but it was clearly not the case, and in the last three seconds, an arrow flew out of the city, striking one of the horsemen in the cheek.

The screams echoed in the night sky, and it was very harsh.

"It's not good, the Great Qin people in this city are prepared, let them withdraw quickly!"

The general was still very glad for his previous decision, if it was his Roman elite cavalry, it would not make much difference in the face of arrows.

A scream was followed by a lot of screams, and the 50,000 people faced the arrows flying rapidly, and it was called a miserable, they were all Great Qin's Qin crossbows, but if they were shot, there was basically no possibility of survival.

"Quickly inform them that we should retreat first and then discuss this matter in the long run, thinking that our 300,000 army has a very large footprint, and it has been detected by the enemy, and it is impossible to surprise it, and we have to think of some other methods."

After a little deliberation, the two generals made the decision to withdraw.

The 50,000 people lost thousands in an instant, and the rest fled in all directions among the arrows, and after hearing the order to withdraw, they hurriedly fled backwards, and in the process of escaping, they were still shot by arrows.

When they had all retreated to safety, and the Roman generals ordered the horses to be turned, all of a sudden, there was a rumbling sound from both sides, which the experienced generals could hear at once, the sound of horses' hooves galloping.

"We've been ambushed! Prepare to meet the enemy! ”

At this point, even if they couldn't believe it, they had to believe that it had been proven that not only had their surprise plan failed, but that they had fallen into the enemy's encirclement.

Meng Tian's choice of the timing of the attack was simply to the point of perfection, it was when the enemy's cavalry was turning their horses' heads and preparing to go back, at this time the formation was very scattered, coupled with the panic caused by hearing the enemy's horse hooves, these cavalry were very passive.