Chapter 650: The Romans' Obsession
How Yinggao was arranged, Zhao Gang didn't know, but the Roman consul was receiving a steady stream of information, at the beginning, the people who reported said that the emperor of Daqin was not abnormal at all, and had been staying in the Seleuc realm safely, but the Roman consul didn't believe it, the more he sent back such news, the more he felt that Yinggao was fooling himself.
The Romans have a certain obsession, in their hearts, they only have their own share of attacking others, and no one else attacking their own share, and now they finally come to such a Great Qin person, and they still do not admit that the combat effectiveness of the Great Qin cavalry can catch up with their own cavalry.
Although they have been preparing according to non-defense, once there is a chance for them to get back face, it is the most important thing they want to happen.
The result that the Roman consul wanted did not make him wait too long, and after half a month, a news came to their ears, according to the scouts of several Romans, although the Great Qin people have always claimed that their emperor is still in Seleuc, but Yinggao, who used to basically visit the military camp every day or two, has not appeared for more than ten days.
This kind of detail is exactly what the Roman consul specially told his scouts to pay attention to, because he knew that Yinggao was a smart person, and smart people naturally had smart people's ways to do things, if he didn't pay attention to these details, it would be difficult for him to know exactly whether Yinggao had gone back or not.
"The emperor of Great Qin has not shown up for more than ten days, and I think he has already returned to Great Qin, for the sake of insurance, let the scouts observe for another ten days, if there is no movement of the Great Qin Emperor, we can take advantage of his difficult guards to launch a thunderous blow to the Seleucian's Great Qin cavalry."
The Roman consuls informed Zhao Hu of the news at the same time, and also expressed their own views, that is, this time to take advantage of Yinggao's absence to turn passive into active, once Seleuc or Philip V was taken, not to mention anything else, the scope of Roman control will be greatly increased, so that even if such a situation occurs in the future, they will definitely not be afraid of Yinggao.
"That partner of mine can only cause a certain amount of chaos in one county of Daqin, at most one county, although this kind of chaos seems to be able to make Yinggao's heart panic for a while, but it won't last long, so our battle should be faster."
Although Zhao Hu probably knew that Yinggao should have gathered all the main cavalry of Great Qin to the territory of Seleuc, but if a rebellion in Peixian really happened, there would really be no need for 108,000 men and horses, and if there were 30,000 or 40,000 people, it would be destroyed, but it was just that Liu Bang's name had a greater impact on Yinggao, and according to their previous plan, Zhao Gang would definitely not stay in Peixian and take those people to oppose Qin, he would withdraw at the right time, and then come to the boundary of Rome. So at that time, the remaining anti-Qin forces in Peixian County will just be a large number of ordinary people like Chen Sheng before.
"Good! Ten days later, if there is no other news, we will secretly send troops to carry out a sneak attack on Seleuc! ”
The strategy of the Romans here was quickly specified, and Yinggao, of course, was still in the city of Seleuc, to be honest, he didn't know what kind of decision the Romans would make, all he could be sure of was that many scouts from Rome were deliberately exposed by them, and at this time, if Zhao Hu thought that his strategy had succeeded, Rome would feel that Yinggao had quietly returned to Daqin.
On this day, Yinggao rarely summoned Xiang Yu and Philip V to his side.
Xiang Yu and Philip V thought that Yinggao should have sent troops a long time ago, but there was no movement for a long time, and they didn't know how long they had waited before finally summoning the two of them to their side.
"Your Majesty, have we summoned the two of us this time, is it that we are about to start a general attack on the Romans?"
After Yinggao introduced Xiang Yu and Philip V to each other, Philip V saw that Xiang Yu and Yinggao were the same, both of them were from Daqin, and he was an outsider in terms of appearance and language, so he knew that he must be the one who was even more untrusted, so he hurriedly took the lead in opening his mouth.
"This matter can also be said to be the same, but the Romans want to play with us, we can only play with them, this war, it seems that the Hun cavalry and the Macedonian cavalry are indispensable to the sincere cooperation, this time together, I want to arrange the respective tasks of this army."
As soon as Xiang Yu and Philip V heard this, they knew that the main event was coming, although the men and horses under their command were not as good as the people of Great Qin in terms of numbers, they were still very large forces, and they could undoubtedly play a very big role in the current slightly complicated situation.
Next, Yinggao had nothing to hide from the two of them, and forced him to go back what kind of strategy the Romans wanted to use, and he did the opposite, so that the Romans really thought that he had gone back and said everything.
Xiang Yu is nothing, he has long known that Yinggao doesn't know how many strategies are in Yinggao's head, he has suffered more than once when he was in Jiangdong, and in the face of an enemy like Yinggao, it is often when you think that you may have stabilized, in fact, the other party is stable.
But Philip V didn't know, after listening to Yinggao's strategy, he was completely glad in his heart that he chose to become an ally with Yinggao, if he and Yinggao were enemies, and the distance was so close, then he might not know how he died.
"Then I wonder how our forces will be distributed?"
Xiang Yu understood as soon as he heard it, since Yinggao may now attract the main forces of the Romans here, then this place must not be empty, but Yinggao's ultimate goal will definitely not be to fight the Romans to the death here, he will definitely turn another corner.
Yinggao glanced at Xiang Yu, smiled slightly, and said that Xiang Yu had followed him for so many years, and he really figured out his routine.
"Macedonia will divide the forces into two, one part will remain in the Seleuc, and be handed over to General Meng Tian and me to resist the Roman army that may come, and the other part will be led by you personally, combined with the Hun cavalry, the Great Qin cavalry led by General Han Xin, led by General Han Xin, will set off tomorrow at night and go straight to the hinterland of the Romans!"
After hearing this arrangement, Philip V and Xiang Yu glanced at each other, and at this moment they probably guessed Yinggao's ultimate goal.
Obviously, the number of men and horses who stayed in Seleucus this time was much less than that of attacking the Romans, which shows that Yinggao's idea is very clear, that is, this side can withstand the attack of the Romans, and the other side is to take most of the cities of Rome while their main forces are all dispatched.
And you must know that Yinggao himself stayed in Seleu, which has to be said that there is still a certain danger in it, the Romans are likely to send 200,000 troops, led by their consuls and the best generals, and the people and horses left in Seleu by Daqin plus the people and horses divided by Philip V are only a little more than 100,000 at most, which is at least double the gap, if Han Xin and Xiang Yu over there can really beat down the Romans' territory quickly as planned, it's okay to say, if not, Yinggao is going to suffer some crimes, once the Roman consuls know that Yinggao is still in Seleuc, they will definitely want to catch Yinggao at all costs.
"Your Majesty, if you arrange it this way, isn't it a bit risky, why don't you personally lead the troops to attack the chassis of the Romans, and the elite of the Romans may also be brought out by the Roman consuls."
Philip V obviously knew more about the fighting power of the Romans and the abilities of the Roman consuls, so he persuaded Yinggao not to take risks, once according to this arrangement, if Seleuc was defeated by the Romans, the consequences would be very serious.
But after listening to his advice, Yinggao just smiled and shook his head, and then said: "What we are going to attack is the land of the Romans themselves, their homeland, and what they are attacking is just the Seleu that our Great Qin has just occupied for a short time, even if the Seleu is attacked by them, what does it matter?" Besides, not all of my wars have been fought with fewer enemies, but aren't I still alive here? ”
After showing such self-confidence, Philip V naturally stopped saying anything, obviously, among the three armies, Philip V was the least believed by Yinggao, otherwise it would not be the army under his command that would be divided.
Han Xin and Meng Tian already knew about Yinggao's deployment, and the most worried about it was Han Xin, although it was already very stressful for him to lead the most important group of soldiers of Great Qin to attack the Romans with Xiang Yu and Philip V, but what he was really worried about was Yinggao who was left in Seleuc.
Although Meng Tian is a very strong and experienced general, but after all, there is no one else here except Meng Tian, according to Yinggao's statement, if the Romans didn't want to use Yinggao's absence to attack Daqin, he wouldn't have done anything in Seleuc, the enemy's thoughts, that's not something that any of them can guess, Yinggao is obviously preparing with both hands, Although once the Roman consul arrived at the Seleuche territory with his soldiers and horses, it would be very difficult for him and Meng Tian to act, but the action on the other side would be very simple.
According to Yinggao's previous assumption, once the Romans' lair is killed, they will definitely inform the Roman consuls of the news as soon as possible, and once the Roman consuls know that their lair is in danger, they will definitely not attack Seleuc again.
Of course, when things don't really happen, all this is just Yinggao's beautiful fantasy, war is the most impermanent, anything can happen, of course, Yinggao thought that this matter was stable, but fell into the trap of the Romans.
Both sides have been fighting hard for a long time, and finally it is time for a decisive battle, between Rome and Seleuc, there are hundreds of large and small forces, and they are also watching, witnessing the birth of a super power.
In fact, deep in the hearts of these forces, Daqin is already an outsider, and Rome is the old power in this land, so they still hope that Rome will win the final victory, if Daqin rules such a large area, all the other forces will become alien forces, and it is unknown what kind of way Daqin will use to deal with them at that time.
In such a situation, almost all the forces have chosen to be silent, for example, some of the marches near their cities, they are selectively regarded as if they don't know, because once they stand in line, there is no way back at all, once the forces they choose finally fail, they can only bear the fate of the country, the tone is like that, it is better to sit down and watch the play, whether it is Rome or Great Qin, it is definitely impossible to destroy hundreds of large and small forces one by one, All they want to pursue is to speak in this world.
On the night of the second day after Yinggao and them settled their own plan, Han Xin and the others took advantage of the night to set off with the army.
This was a decision made by Yinggao in order to seize the opportunity, because even if the Romans would not send troops, they would attack.
After Han Xin and the others left with the troops, Tian Yan, who had not said anything about this time to send troops, finally opened his mouth while he was alone with Yinggao.
"The king only left 100,000 horses here, once this Seleuc can't hold it, has the king ever thought of our back road?"
In this case, no one will dare to say it except Tian Yan, if Seleu really can't hold it, wouldn't it mean that Yinggao's strategy has failed?
"The way back? Even if we retreat to the Western Regions this time, it will be worth it to destroy Rome, but my safety will be handed over to you. ”
For Tian Yan's reminder, Yinggao was not angry, although he was still a little confident in this battle, but of course he couldn't help but arrange a back road for himself, if Seleuc really couldn't hold it, Yinggao would not have any hesitation, and there was an important force of Great Qin in the territory of the Peacock Dynasty, the water army.