Chapter 624: A Complicated Situation

Under such circumstances, these young men were sent to Seleucus by Yinggao, and they all went with a mission, and their task was to see if the forces around Seleucus were honest and whether they were in collusion with the Romans.

In the end, Yinggao decided not to attack those forces for the time being, because he didn't want to spend all his troops on these forces, and he believed that when his Great Qin was really strong enough, these forces would definitely kneel and beg him to surrender.

And in such a discussion, Yinggao has already made it clear that the Romans are the enemies of Daqin, and there is no need to say anything, if you meet the Romans, it will be one word, do!

Needless to say, it was Xiang Yu, Yinggao specially instructed these young people that Xiang Yu and the Huns under his leadership were allies and friends of Daqin, if anyone provoked Xiang Yu's Huns without any reason and destroyed the relationship between Daqin and the Xiongnu, then he would really be severely punished by Yinggao.

As for Philip V, who cooperated well with Daqin in the battle against the Romans, Yinggao did not make a clear statement, according to Yinggao's assumption, if it is not involved in the problems of the Romans, Daqin and Philip V still have nothing to do, and when it comes to the problems of the Romans, he can discuss with Philip V again, after all, in this world, there are no eternal friends, but only eternal interests.

These young people finally took the teachings of the Great Qin Emperor himself, some were alone, and some took their families to Seleu, which was very far away from Great Qin, and they knew that although Seleu was far away from Xianyang City, but when they arrived at Seleuc, they could directly become officials with similar functions as the county order, and the city and people they managed were much more than the county order of Daqin.

Not only that, because of the lack of officials in the Seleu and Peacock Dynasties, there was only one number one official in each city, and the military and political affairs were grasped, although there may be a 1,2000 Great Qin army in the city, and most of them were used to maintain order, but this kind of experience was precious to the young people who had just been excavated by Yinggao from the imperial examination, they were not stupid, and they all knew that if they could make achievements in such a position, The next step for Yinggao is to delegate more important things to do.

When these young people set off full of hopes and dreams, the hinterland of the Roman dynasty, two identities knelt in front of the Roman consul, and the scene seemed a little awkward.

Aren't these two people the generals who were sent by the Roman consuls to the Great Qin Territory to attack the Great Qin before, and now that the two of them have suffered defeat, they already know what kind of outcome awaits them.

In fact, these two people are also unlucky enough, it is a very bad thing to lose in the battle to capture Daqin, but because the elite army has not lost too much, they still have a lot of hope in their hearts.

But an incident occurred on the way back to make them even more passive, and the initiator of this incident was none other than the former enemy of Rome, Philip V.

It turned out that when Philip V joined forces with Yinggao and decided to deal with the Romans, he had already decided his follow-up plan, Philip V knew that this was just the battle that Daqin wanted to repel the Romans, as long as the Romans retreated, with the current situation of Daqin, he would definitely not chase to the death, and Philip V knew as soon as Yinggao wrote him the letter that Yinggao, the monarch, must be a very intelligent monarch, and he wanted to fool Daqin's cavalry to follow him to chase the Romans. Inco will definitely not agree.

Therefore, in the joint battle with Daqin, Philip V sent out not the most elite team under him at all, but a second-rate team, and the number was not as good as the 100,000 suggested by Yinggao in the letter, of course, these details would definitely not have been noticed by Han Xin and Meng Tian that night.

After defeating the Romans, the team sent by Philip V did not return to Macedonia, but pursued the Roman team not far away.

Of course, the Romans didn't know that the group of men and horses was Philip V's men, and they thought that Daqin's men and horses were still chasing, but fortunately, the speed of the chase was not fast, so the Romans were just running forward, hoping to get rid of them when they fled to a certain distance.

However, the fast horses sent by Philip V's men and horses while chasing the Romans reported to the Macedonian elite soldiers who had already laid an ambush on the possible route, and the escape route of the Romans was no longer a secret in the minds of Philip V's elite generals.

So the Romans, already exhausted from running, suffered a heavy blow, and 100,000 of Philip V's elite soldiers rushed in unsuspectingly.

At this time, the Romans did not think of this at all, and second, the men and horses sent by Philip V this time were really elite, and they were no worse than the troops they encountered in Seleucus before.

After this raid, the Romans knew what it meant to be painful, and the two battles not only caused the loss of most of the soldiers and horses sent by the forces that accompanied them on the expedition, but also caused the Romans to lose as much as half of their own soldiers and horses.

This fiasco caused the Romans to lose not only their own elite soldiers, but also the disappointment of those forces attached to them.

This loss combined with the previous loss of 100,000 people, the losses brought by the Romans to their allies alone were as much as 200,000, of course they did not want this to happen again, because once or twice their allies would not say anything, but if it was suitable for three or four times, they would not be so silent anymore, they would let the Romans know their dissatisfaction, and even some forces far away from the territory controlled by Rome itself would take the opportunity to break away from the control of the Romans. The worst one is to defect to Philip V.

And such a big pot didn't have to fall on these two generals who led the troops, who were now kneeling in front of the Roman consuls, and obviously knew their fate.

"Why can't you get a decent victory with so many of my Roman soldiers, although the results of our first Macedonian war were not good, but we have never let the Macedonians take much advantage, why are you so beaten by Philip V and discarded their armor? I'd like to save you both, but when I get to our Roman Senate, the weight of my words depends on what I can come up with! ”

The consul hated these two generals he personally chose a little bit of iron, and he had a lot of hopes for these two people at the beginning, but these two people brought him a result that he had never thought of, because of the Roman system, although he was an archon, but there was actually a Roman senate on his head, although the senate almost never asked about ordinary things, but after such a big defeat, it was obviously no longer an ordinary thing.

"My lord, those cavalry of Daqin are really very violent, and they don't know why they formed an alliance with Philip V, and there is also a team of 100,000 cavalry who don't know where they came from, but they are also very good at fighting, when we attacked the city of Seleu for five days, it was a little tired, they suddenly came to sneak attack, although we have struggled to resist, but if we don't withdraw, these horses are estimated to be unable to keep, although we also want to fight, But once the two of us are killed in battle, there will be no one to bring back the news of what happened to Seleucus, and we will return with life and death on the line, and we will not have any worries regardless of the attitude of the Senate. ”

"You were attacked by Philip V again when you returned?"

"Yes, but later the two of us analyzed, Philip V's attack on us should be unknown to the Great Qin people, because the men and horses who attacked us later were all Macedonian cavalry, and there was no shadow of the Great Qin cavalry, but at that time we were already physically and mentally exhausted, so we did not form an effective resistance, and the losses caused by Philip V's sneak attack were not much more than the losses we formed in Seleu, so it can be seen that Daqin may only be for defensive purposes for us, But Philip V is taking advantage of this opportunity to cooperate with Great Qin to greatly reduce our strength, if this situation continues, we are very likely to have a big war with Philip V in the near future, you still have to prepare early! ”

As soon as the consuls heard this, they knew that although the two generals had lost the battle, what they were saying now was their heartfelt words, and if they hadn't said what they wanted to say, they might have stopped running halfway through, and they would have fought directly with Philip V's men until they ran out of ammunition and food, but they knew that if they really did that, they would have fallen into the hands of Philip V.

"You don't have to worry about this matter, when you get to the Senate, I will personally inform the elders of your situation, but what the final result will be, I can't guarantee it, Rome has won so many battles that I don't know if these people can afford to lose."

The archon sighed and waved his hand slightly, letting the two generals take the lead.

In fact, this matter has failed to this extent now, he, the person who is now in charge of the power of Rome, still has a very big responsibility, although he has known about the rapid development of Daqin early, but he did not pay too much attention to Daqin, and until before sending troops, he also took it for granted that Seleu would definitely be able to be taken by them, and he also thought that they would definitely be able to make Philip V very uncomfortable by taking Seleuc.

But he just didn't think that Philip V would know about his action, let alone that his action was not hidden from people at all, not only did they know about his plan, but also completely defeated them by uniting with Philip V in other ways.

From this point of view, the Roman consuls knew that Great Qin was definitely not a force to be underestimated, and now that he was so complete, he not only became a complete enemy with Great Qin, but also pushed Great Qin to the side of Philip V.

This is definitely a very detrimental thing for the long-term development of Rome.

In this case, the consuls themselves did not know if the old guys in the Senate would embarrass themselves, and it would undoubtedly be even more difficult to keep their cronies under such circumstances.

But the reason why he was able to become the consul of the Roman generation, and before he encountered Daqin, he was still very convinced by the Senate and the generals under his command, so this time, he still wanted to fight for his two generals who were considered cronies.

In fact, at this time now, this consul still regards his biggest enemy as Philip V, and he even believes that this time it is nothing more than because Philip V and Daqin have united, so he will have this defeat, as long as Philip V is taken down first, Daqin is still not worried, as for the cavalry of Daqin and the cavalry team that he didn't know where Daqin found it from before The generals under his command told him have very strong combat effectiveness. He's completely forgotten about it in the back of his head.

He was still sending people to keep an eye on Seleuc, because Da Qin had now completely occupied Seleu, and if Da Qin wanted to make any more moves, he would definitely start from this place in Seleuc.

At this time, the Seleuc has returned to calm, Meng Tian in accordance with Yinggao's requirements, in the Seleuc, the Mauryan Dynasty and the Xiongnu near the junction of the construction of a large camp, this camp is stationed in 100,000 troops, can completely radiate to the Seleuc and the surrounding forces, but also know the movements of the Huns all the time, although the Seleuc one-third of the territory has been given to the Xiongnu, but now the forces involved are more and more, Yinggao must know the movements of the Huns.

And a few months later, more than a dozen young people from Xianyang City came to Seleuc, which greatly alleviated the problem of the shortage of Great Qin officials in Seleuc, Yinggao used the same strategy in the territory of the Peacock Empire and Seleuc, not to give the locals a chance, but the number one and the army must be the Great Qin people!