"I haven't seen Yousi, I can't wait!" It wasn't too far away, standing on the outer edge of a small mound with a deep ravine below it, and a plain beyond. Xia Yang finally restrained his stiffness and began to plead, he knew some about the trial.

"I'm Yuji!" A mage holding a wooden slab looked at Xia Yang with cold eyes. "But he has already accused the traitor, saying that you tried to flee before the war, and there are things such as cakes and sauce as evidence."

"Why?" The fox baby was a little unhappy when he heard this, and the Chu paper fan in his hand fanned a few times and looked at Li Mu.

Hu Shang has always been a friend of Zhao rather than an enemy of Zhao. Although silk could not be sold now, the Zhao State still welcomed Hu merchants. And Zhao Guo also wanted to buy a batch of horses - in terms of horses, Chu was stingy, Qi and Zhao both asked Chu to sell one or two male stallions purchased from overseas, and Chu was unwilling to live or die. Without selling stallions, the two countries want to send their female stallions to the state of Chu for breeding, but the state of Chu is also unwilling. In the absence of any choice, the two countries could only seek Hu Shang in the west.

For the sake of Maxima, Li Mu suppressed his unhappiness and said: "If you don't believe it, you can go to the army and the camp to have a look." ”

"Since the general has allowed it, the villain will enter the camp to take a look." Nanito was originally a merchant of the Yan Kingdom, and he was still in the Yan Land after the fall of the Yan Kingdom. Although the Sogdian merchants came from various families, they formed a network of business between the families.

"Are there no bodies in the ambush?" After Nanito left, the fanning fox remembered something.

"No bodies found." Fa Li called out the news that he had only gotten this month, and he searched the ambush place, where there was no trace, only some crossbow arrows shot by Zhao Jun who had fallen in the grass.

"It has to be." The fox baby's Chu paper fan is fanning faster and faster. "Everyone in the world knows that the Qin people were promoted to knighthood by beheading, but the Six Kingdoms are not like this. The Qin army intercepted and killed, although it had a military order, it did not change the nature of beasts, so everyone in the caravan was beheaded. Afterwards, the armor was seized, and the corpse should also be hidden, if it is not hidden, it will be known at a glance that it was done by the Qin army. ”

The fox baby nodded again and again. Except for a few people such as Babaka, Aristotle IV, and Zaras, who fled back to the city of Marakanda, the entire caravan seemed to have disappeared into thin air. This could not have been done by the Huns, Donghu, Yuzhi, and Wusun, first, they didn't have crossbows, and second, they couldn't have buried all the corpses so meticulously.

Either Zhao or Qin, this is Maracanda's judgment. The difference is that the resentful Aristotle IV is convincing King Diodortos II and the governor Eutidemus to launch a retaliatory attack on Zhao. The temple's chief priest, Kang Motian, demanded that the Sogdian merchants in East Asia first find out the truth of the matter, and then discuss how to demand compensation from the murderer.

"If I, Zhao Guo, do it, I must change the normal state and behead it, and there is no need to hide and bury the corpse." The fox baby didn't know the situation thousands of miles away, he just used common sense to infer what the Qin State would do, and what the Zhao State would do. He finally said: "This Qin State wants to destroy me. ”

The word Maxima suddenly woke up his hair, he was only thinking about the 20,000 sets of armor, and he didn't think of the more than 1,000 horses that the caravan brought when it came. In terms of motivation, there is no need for Zhao State, who can buy huge iron armor, to snatch the armor of the caravan at all, and the real suspicion is that the Qin State, intercepting and killing the caravan can not only snatch the armor, but also cut off the thousands of miles in the river to transport it into the four countries of Kwantung.

"See the arrows?" It took a long time for Nanito, who had been looking around the storehouses of the Zhao army's military camp, to return.

"There are no two-winged arrows." The two spoke in Sogdian, and Nanito specially brought back a few arrows from the Zhao army, which were not the four-edged iron heavy arrows of the Chu State, or the three-edged bronze crossbow arrows of Qi Wei, and there were no two-winged arrows like the ones in their hands.

"Great Shogun......" At this time, all the generals in the shogunate rushed over when they heard the news, and Ma Wei found something with a two-winged arrow.

"Although this arrow is my Zhao arrow style, its feather is wrong." Ma Wei pointed at Ling Yu and said. "This sparrowhawk feather!"

The feathers of the arrows are very important, and the eagle feathers, horned eagle feathers, sparrowhawk feathers, goose feathers, and goose feathers are from good to secondary. The eagle arrow flies much faster than the eagle arrow, and the arrow body will automatically correct after flying more than a dozen steps, and the wind resistance is also strong. The worst goose feathers and goose feathers were not careless when they shot arrows, and they were crooked to the side when the wind came. Located in the northern frontier, the annexation of the Yan State of Zhao has a unique advantage in the arrows, although I dare not say that the arrows are all carved feathers, but the worst is also the horned eagle feather, never used the sparrowhawk feather.

"Woohoo! This arrow can prove that this matter was done by the Qin people. The fox baby grabbed the arrow in Ma Wei's hand and shouted. Our army's arrow is not a eagle feather, that is, a horned eagle feather, but this arrow is a sparrowhawk feather, why?

Our army's arrows are extremely thin, and the arrows shot cannot be reused. Qin Jun used my Zhao Jian's body to glue Qin Guo's Ling, and wanted to accuse me. Horned eagle sparrowhawk, its feathers are similar, but after shooting out, it can be seen that it is different, and this Qin people are careless. ”

"In the name of Zeus, Chuni must perish!" Aristotle IV looked hideous, and the blood vessels in his forehead burst out. Months of anger had made him scream, but as a courtier, he could not be too presumptuous in front of King Theodorus II. This contradiction made him even more anxious, and he seemed to have incarnated as Achilles.

"Bachelor, I don't think so." The chubby Theodorus II was drinking Cypriot wine, and his expression was like that of a lake in spring compared to Aristotle IV, who was covered in fire. "The Sogdians believe that the arrows belonged to the Chenni, that the Qini had intercepted their caravan, and that ......" Theodotus II drank the wine from the silver cup before continuing: "The warriors who have hurt us, Dicaeupolis, and the poor soldiers. ”

"No, Your Majesty. These are all lies, and the Chuni and Zhaoni people premeditated all this. Aristotle IV had already preconceived notions, and he would not forget the words of the cavalry general who pursued him and Zaras until his death. Upon his return to Bactria, he questioned at least ten Sogdiana merchants, all of whom said that it was a Chuni language meaning 'the enemy cavalry had fled'.

"Bachelor, we can't do anything." Theodotus II had long heard of Aristotle IV's evidence, but the Sogdiana merchants provided new evidence of the feathers of the arrows. After the last merchants returned to Maracanda before the onset of winter, evidence of missing weapons and armor of the caravan was found in the territory of Zhoni.

These evidences are contradictory and do not point clearly, but on the whole, the majority of the Sogdianas believe that the Cheni did this, as they could not obtain the Chuni armor, nor did they want to see the Chuni get the Sogdiana noble horses, and the Chenni, who were allied with the Chuni, had no incentive to do such a thing; The Greeks, on the other hand, mostly believed that Dicaeupoli had his head cut off by a Zhoni soldier at the behest of Zuni and buried in a place where no one could find him.

East Asia was thousands of miles away, and it was impossible for Bactria to send troops to retaliate. In addition, because of Seleucus's trade with Chuni, at the same time that they obtained huge iron weapons and armor, the commercial tax also rose sharply. Perhaps Seleucus II would soon send his large army to attack Bactria.

Discouraged by the words 'nothing can be done' from Diodotus II, Aristotle IV continued: "In view of the situation facing the kingdom, we must send a second caravan as soon as possible to bring back more weapons and armor. ”

"Your Majesty, this is impossible! You can't do that. "Aristotle IV did not expect the king to think like this. He suddenly remembered a suggestion from the governor Eutydemos.

"We have to do this, Bachelor. Otherwise, the kingdom will cease to exist. Theodorus II emphasized. We also need to meet with the Pani as soon as possible, and we will be able to defend Bactria only by uniting the Pani of Parthia. ”

Theodorus II's honesty chilled Aristotle IV, who had been full of hope before he came. He had been a teacher of Theodorus II, but this teacher-student relationship was not enough to convince Theodorus II to send an army to launch an army similar to that of Alexander the Great in East Asia.

This is what Aristotle IV really hoped in his heart. But there are no more Alexandrian-like heroes in the whole known world, and all kings are like jackals that are messed up after the death of a lion, vying for the prey left behind by the lion. Only Chuni was like Macedonia a hundred years ago, with a young king determined to conquer the known world, a group of nobles who swore allegiance to him, a workshop that smoked day and night to make countless weapons and armor, and a huge ship that could connect the whole world......

As if in a dream, it seemed that overnight the Armaments Division had an innumerable amount of gunpowder at the disposal of the artillery. At the same time, a new, larger and longer cannon was also produced by Jutiefu.

At this time, the secret of gunpowder was well known, and the various departments of the Great Sima Mansion gradually learned that the Great King had made a new weapon that could rival the power of thunder. However, there are still many controversies about the use of this new weapon.

The first is that it is somewhere between a trebuchet and a ballista, making it a meatless and discarded weapon. However, when the artillery was charged four times and fired the shells 1,200 meters away, the artillery suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Of course, more than 1,200 meters is not an effective range, and the effective range is less than half of the farthest range, only a few dozen steps farther than a trebuchet, but this is enough. Although the trebuchet fires a hundred kilograms of stone projectiles, the trebuchet is difficult to move and cannot fight in the field; Although the crossbow can also fire stone projectiles of about five kilograms, it cannot throw stone projectiles more than a thousand meters away.

Artillery has become the best weapon to replace trebuchets and crossbows, and when to install them has gradually become a menstrual topic in the Great Sima Mansion. It's just that before the discussion of the Great Sima Mansion was finished, the king had already ordered the Jutie Mansion to build more than 200 cannons, and it was unthinkable that these cannons were actually mounted on the sea boat.