Chapter 638: Strength Comparison
In such a situation, of course, the Romans can't be intimidated, especially when they have already suffered a big defeat because they went to attack Daqin, and that time the blow to the confidence of the Romans is still very big, so this time there is such an opportunity, although the previous attack on Philip V has caused the Romans to lose almost more than 100,000 elite soldiers, but they still want to try. Let's see who is more powerful between yourself and the Great Qin people.
The 100,000 horses of Daqin are completely the 100,000 people who will cooperate with the formation, and Meng Tian will take the most elite tens of thousands of these 100,000 people by himself, as the vanguard to resist the Romans in the front, Tian Yan was arranged by Meng Tian on one side, with his own use for the attack of the Romans.
For such an arrangement, in fact, Tian Yan is already very satisfied, although his personal ability and formation drills are already perfect, but after all, he is just a rookie who has not been on the battlefield, in this case, of course, he can't take the main striker to resist the enemy, so once he loses this time, he will have a great responsibility.
After Daqin's cavalry attacked, Philip V was useless for both Daqin and the Romans, and he also consciously did not send troops, but let the Great Qin and the Romans fight together, because even if he sent troops, the result would be exactly the same for him in the end.
On one side were the men and horses that had been prepared for a long time, and on the other side were tired and tired divisions, although both sides had good combat effectiveness, but the battle was a little longer, and the Romans were a little overwhelmed.
The Roman consul knew that if he had just come here with his men and horses, he would not have been afraid of these Great Qin's cavalry, and he was confident that his soldiers would be able to compete with at least these Great Qin's elite soldiers, but now, it was really not the case, and there were 100,000 Great Qin elite soldiers on the opposite side, if he had to fight with them, his own losses could only be greater.
Da Qin chose such a time, obviously premeditated, the Romans didn't believe that this was because Da Qin had just learned that they were attacking Philip V's territory, Da Qin was like a poisonous snake that had been waiting in the dark to peep, and finally it was the best opportunity for them to finally make a move, they didn't send troops for any other purpose, they just wanted to kill with one blow.
The Roman consuls, who had tried to meet without taking advantage of Great Qin's hands, saw the current situation and made a decision at that time, that is, to withdraw their troops.
It can be said that almost half of Philip V's territory has been taken by them before, and if no one else disturbs, it is not a fool's dream to take Macedonia, but everything is if, with Daqin, everything has changed.
Meng Tian had seen the ability of the Roman cavalry, but this time compared with the previous one, he found that the combat effectiveness of the Roman cavalry did not know how much stronger, obviously the Romans were not idle during this time, they spent their time on improving their ability, which was similar to Daqin.
It's Tian Yan, she really didn't expect that there would be cavalry in this world that is not worse than the trained Daqin cavalry, but the Roman cavalry appeared in front of him, the Romans are tall and have long arms, and they have a natural advantage in riding on war horses, in turn, Daqin's cavalry will have to make up for these shortcomings through formations, if Daqin's cavalry can't form and cooperate, these things are really hard to say.
Just as Tian Yan was looking forward to the second engagement, he found that the Romans' camp had withdrawn overnight, in other words, they had withdrawn.
"The consuls of Rome are really a genius, they have only fought once, they have probably found out our true strength, probably found that they could not capture the land of Philip V, so they hurriedly withdrew, this kind of ability, in our future fight with them, I am afraid it will be very difficult to deal with!"
Facing the Romans who had withdrawn quite far away overnight, Meng Tian let out such a sigh, he originally thought that the Romans would continue to try to attack a few times, so that he came out with an army of 100,000, which was equivalent to making the Romans pay the price of thousands more, which was not so obvious.
"If the general is confident, we will send tens of thousands of light cavalry to chase along the way, even if we can't cause them ten great damage, but we can follow and cover along the way!"
Tian Yan, who hadn't had enough of the war addiction, thought of this layer at that time, and then couldn't wait to mention it in front of Meng Tian.
After listening to Tian Yan's words, Meng Tian just smiled slightly, then shook his head and said: "Madame doesn't know, if your trick is used against those forces that are not very strong, it is normal, but this Roman consul will not give us that opportunity, if we really use light cavalry to follow and pursue, it will give them the opportunity to inflict greater casualties on us, as far as the current situation is concerned, people are likely to wait for us to do this." ”
Tian Yan understood as soon as he heard it, he still had too little experience in war, if Yinggao let him fight this war that seemed to be a very simple advantage, even if the cavalry of Great Qin were very brave and good at fighting, it was estimated that the losses would be very heavy.
This simple battle made Tian Yan deeply understand why Yinggao didn't let her go to the battlefield before, and the fact that she went to the battlefield is not something you can do with just one body of martial arts, let alone you can succeed by reading the war books and war books at home every day, this matter relies on years of experience formed on the battlefield.
Tian Yan knew that even if Yinggao believed in her and dared to let her lead the troops, but she could only make Daqin's cavalry suffer a very big loss, between her own wishes and the lives of Daqin's soldiers, Tian Yan certainly knew which one was lighter and which one was heavy.
With the withdrawal of the Romans, the war was basically over, and the remaining question was very simple, that is, how to fulfill what Philip V had asked for in tears.
Meng Tian and Tian Yan led the army to the gate of the city where Philip V was, Philip V was still very acquainted, he knew that his Macedonia was already overwhelmed, if he began to wonder if he could repel Daqin's soldiers and horses at this time, it would really bring disaster to Macedonia.
Philip V believed that Ying Gao let him know that he had personally arrived at the territory of Seleuc, there must be a purpose, how far away the mainland of Great Qin was from here, Philip V probably still knew, and the time it took for Ying Gao to come and go Philip V also knew, these are enough to show that Ying Gao took such a long time to come here, it can't be as simple as touring the mountains and rivers, what he wants is to personally command a decisive battle!
After Philip V opened the city gates, Meng Tian did not start to say anything to Philip V because of his great power, but only told Philip V that according to Yinggao, he should personally go to Seleucus to discuss with Yinggao how they should cooperate next.
This is already very much to give Philip V face, although Philip V is a little scared to go to the realm of Sailiu, but he must go, if he doesn't go, once he angers the Great Qin Emperor he has never seen, the consequences are unimaginable.
In this way, Philip V followed Meng Tian and Tian Yan back to Seleuc, in this process, Tian Yan finally intuitively knew how powerful Daqin was now, when they were in Daqin Xianyang City before, they didn't have an intuitive understanding of Daqin's strength at all, and they always thought that Daqin was about the same as before, but now a living Macedonian monarch who was more powerful than Antiochus III, who was captured by Yinggao, didn't even dare to let out a fart because he was so frightened by Daqin, finally let Tian Yan know that the current Daqin is different from the Daqin he has known since he was a child, what Yinggao has pondered over the years, the effort he has spent has not been in vain, and Daqin's real road to hegemony has already begun.
Indeed, the strength of a dynasty is probably reflected in two places, one is that the people are very happy when they live in it, and the other is that other dynasties are very terrifying when they know your name, and the current Great Qin obviously has these two points.
Yinggao waited for Philip V in the city of Seleuc, and although they had already exchanged letters with each other, they had not yet seen each other.
Meng Tian left several of his lieutenants and tens of thousands of troops on the borders of Macedonia, not because he was afraid of what happened to Macedonia, but because he was afraid that if he took Philip V to Seleucus, and then the Romans would turn over and kill him, then this matter would be a bit different.
When Philip V arrived in Seleuc, it was late at night, so he didn't see Yinggao for the first time, but the treatment he received was still relatively high, which made Philip V feel a little relieved.
The next morning, Philip V had barely slept because of what was on his mind, and when Yinggao sent for him, he had two very large dark circles under his eyes, as if he was waiting for fate to judge him.
In fact, as Yinggao, such a result is not what he originally thought, if Philip V can really give some strength, he can win at least one of these battles with the Romans, at least in the Mediterranean region to hold the Romans, Yinggao actually needs him as an ally very much.
But Philip V actually had four defeats in a direct dialogue with the Roman consuls, so that the Romans basically took him completely, and without the help of Great Qin, Macedonia must have been destroyed by the Romans now.
If Yinggao can't be stronger at this time, and directly let Philip V surrender to him, and then regard Philip V as an ally of his own, he can only wipe Philip V's ass every time, Macedonia at this time, in the strict sense, can no longer be regarded as Daqin's ally, but Daqin's oil bottle, instead of carrying a drag oil bottle forward, it is better to directly turn them into their own little brothers, and let them strictly follow their own ideas.
The two monarchs, who had been equal before, finally met on the territory of Seleuc, but the way they met was a bit peculiar.
"This is the first time that the Macedonian monarch has come to the territory of Seleucus, right? It's my first time here, so I'm here! ”
Yinggao saw Philip V's bitter gourd face, of course he knew what he was thinking in his heart, but he could only pretend that he didn't see it, and let Philip V sit down first with a smile.
Philip V knew as soon as he saw Yinggao's expression that people didn't want to say the ugly words first, if they didn't know how to lift, and they had to let people say it, I am afraid it would not be a good result for himself and Macedonia, and he would definitely not be able to beat the Romans now, if he couldn't be subdued in Daqin, whether he or the people of Macedonia, there would be no good results.
"The king laughed, if it wasn't for the king who came in time and sent General Meng Tian to rescue my Macedonia, now Macedonia has fallen into the hands of the Romans, and Daqin saved Macedonia from the crisis of destroying the country, we are naturally very grateful, so no matter what kind of requirements the king has for my Macedonia, we will definitely obey it."
Philip V said such a thing, which can be regarded as completely pulling his face down, and he has also played Yinggao's current position many times before, so he can probably know what Yinggao is willing to hear and what kind of words he is not happy to hear, and he is still experienced in this regard.
Sure enough, Yinggao smiled for a while when he listened to Philip V's words, and he still looked very satisfied.
"It's not that I'm playing tricks here, if you can defeat the Romans even once on Egyptian territory, Macedonia won't fall into such a situation, Meng Tian told me after fighting with the Roman cavalry that the strength of the Roman cavalry is much stronger than when they came to attack us before, which shows that the Romans have made a lot of progress during this time, but what about your cavalry?"