Chapter 613: The Price of Arrogance (Second Update)
These are the results that Yinggao originally wanted, Han Xin and Meng Tian naturally agreed, and such a big matter was decided.
Of course, in such a chaotic war, Yinggao will not forget Xiang Yu, although it seems a little impossible to let Xiang Yu take out an army of 300,000, but 100,000 elite Xiang Yu can still take it out.
By this time, Yinggao's perspective on war was completely different from before, because now their enemies were all very capable enemies, and it was absolutely unrealistic to want to win more with less like when Da Chen Sheng.
On the premise that everything has reached the best, the strength of the army is also very important, in the face of whether it is the Seleucians or the Romans, Yinggao is to require their side to occupy an absolute advantage in the army.
Yinggao knows that the most desperate thing is that the ability to fight alone is not good, but when you look up, you see that other people's troops are still more than you, I don't know how much, such a battle, no matter who you are, you don't want to fight, and Antiochus III, who was extremely strong before, was determined to surrender Daqin after experiencing such a state of mind.
It can be said that without the knowledge of the Romans, Yinggao had already laid a large net around the Seleuc, waiting for the Romans to come.
The birth of Great Qin, at this moment, the loss completely disrupted the original layout of this world, Yinggao knew that if his plan was all successful, Rome would slowly pass away before it developed, and it would be difficult to reach the grand occasion of the previous life, and Macedonia met Great Qin when he was going downhill.
It also takes time for the Romans to raise an army of 300,000, in fact, what surprised them the most was that Daqin was able to send 300,000 cavalry at once, this force was indeed a bit incredible in their eyes, but it was far from being really seen by the Romans.
There are too many allies for them, not to mention 300,000 people, if they speak, 6 or 700,000 will be made up, but what they didn't take into account is that among these hundreds of thousands of people, how many real elites can there be, and how many real elites can there be in the people of Daqin.
In fact, this misunderstanding of the Romans, Yinggao is also very common in later generations, when a newcomer just appeared on the stage, no matter how much talent he has, those so-called 'old qualifications' will not look at him with the right eyes, until one day, when they find that the other party is so powerful, they will never have a chance to turn over.
Yinggao also wants to let the Romans have no chance to turn over, but now is obviously not the time, not to mention anything else, just this battle, the Romans are just the attacking side that has crossed a lot of distance, Daqin is just the defensive side, and when Daqin really becomes the attacking side, people will not be in this position, and when it comes to life and death, no matter how ineffective the sergeant will burst out with great potential.
Of course, this situation is not what Yinggao needs to consider now, he has to protect Seleuc first, remove the hidden danger of Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng, and then think about the next step, although the powerful enemy has begun to come to the front of the stage one by one, but Yinggao still doesn't want Daqin to rush for quick success in this process, whether it is the Peacock Dynasty, Seleuc or the country that Daqin will occupy in the future, if they can't let their people think that they are a member of Daqin from their hearts, These places will definitely become a time bomb for Daqin in the process of continuing to advance, once there is a fire in the backyard, what awaits Yinggao is to waste all the previous achievements.
Therefore, after reaching a cooperation with Philip V, Han Xin and Meng Tian were not idle, just like when they were in the Peacock Dynasty before, they gradually transferred the officials and scholars of Great Qin into the Seleu city, and began to preach the Qin laws of Great Qin and popularize the language of Great Qin with the Seleucians.
Although the Seleucians had a certain hatred for Great Qin under the leadership of Antiochus III before, but now Antiochus III cooperated well with Yinggao in Xianyang City, so after Yinggao spread some news, such as some Seleu generals not only did not receive bad treatment after arriving in Daqin, but directly became officials of Great Qin, the people of Seleu gradually began to accept the fact that Great Qin had occupied the territory of Seleus.
Although the Seleucians are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, they are not as strict as the previous Peacock Empire, so for them, there are no-stirring sticks, and they recognize the speed of Great Qin even faster.
If the Romans and Macedonians had a good understanding of the Great Qin dynasty, they would not have looked down on the strength of the Great Qin so easily, but they did not, or even understand, the strategies used by the Great Qin in the Seleuc.
For Rome and Macedonia, their problem is that they are a little too arrogant, and if they are arrogant all the time, the final outcome will only make them fall heavily, this truth Yinggao knows, but Yinggao will not easily tell them.
At the beginning, Hu Hai and Zhao Hu left a heart eye when they retreated with 10,000 horses, and now it seems that the heart eye they left behind really saved their lives.
After a short period of searching, Han Xin's cronies did not find the city where Hu Hai and them were, Han Xin had already guessed that this was the enemy's intention to confuse them, but he really didn't think about Hu Hai's body.
And Hu Hai has really kept a low profile for a while since the Roman envoy left, after all, he had already appeared in front of the battle before, if he didn't hide it for a while, it would still be very easy to reach the ears of Han Xin and Meng Tian.
On this day, Hu Hai was figuring out how to recruit soldiers, and suddenly Zhao Hu entered his mansion and said a little eagerly: "Childe, the previous envoy has arrived again, obviously in their dynasty got new instructions related to us. ”
In fact, Hu Hai is very reluctant to communicate with the Roman envoy who looks like a high-ranking figure, he can't wait to hack the Roman envoy to death, but he can't do that, if he wants to really obtain a piece of land that he can completely control, now he really has to rely on the power of Rome, even if he can't finally cooperate with Rome to take down the Seleuc, Hu Hai also thinks that at least he has to take advantage of the chaos, and the two small cities will definitely not be able to support his dream of hegemony.
"Let's go, come with me and take a look, this guy is just a low-ranking official in Rome, let's not be so humble in front of him, since they want to take advantage of my identity, we naturally have to make more demands."
After Hu Hai told Zhao Hu, he took Zhao Hu to the room where the messenger was.
"My Roman consul has really decided to send troops to attack Seleucus this time, so doesn't Great Qin have 300,000 cavalry in Seleuc? Our Rome will soon gather 300,000 cavalry, and you need to take your own tens of thousands of horses to meet our men and horses, and finally attack the Seleucians with our men and horses, so that after the Seleu is defeated, you will be a very great one, and a piece of land in the Seleu will definitely be distributed to you as a reward, it is better than living in these two such shabby cities, right? ”
After Hu Hai heard these words, he was tired for a while in his heart, and there was nothing wrong with this at first glance, but Hu Hai thought about it carefully, but he found that the other party's origin was full of disdain for himself.
His own tens of thousands of troops are almost all of his own family foundation, if he really directly participates in the war, it is equivalent to going bankrupt to play this game with Rome, once the game fails, people in Rome are likely to lose 300,000 horses and people don't care, but Hu Hai's fate will be quite miserable.
Even if these things are aside, they really succeeded in taking the Seleucus from Daqin's hands, and they didn't say how many cities and how many people they would give Hu Hai, but they just perfunctory Hu Hai a few words, which Hu Hai couldn't bear in his heart.
"What Mr. said is extremely true, I will send at least 30,000 troops this time, and secretly observe the territory of Seleuc, once there is any change in the army of Great Qin, I will definitely inform Mr. as soon as possible, so that the 300,000 army can be prepared!"
Facing Hu Hai's smiling face, the Roman envoy felt quite good, but of course he didn't know what Hu Hai's real thoughts were.
Hu Hai thought that it would be best for the 300,000 troops of Great Qin and Rome to be a lose-lose result for the 300,000 army, because Hu Hai judged that Yinggao was going all out to capture the Seleuc, and now the 300,000 cavalry was all of Great Qin, if the 300,000 army was damaged, there would definitely not be such a large-scale soldier in either the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty or the territory of Great Qin, and it would be good for the rest of the men and horses to be able to protect themselves.
In such a situation, if the 300,000 troops of Great Qin and Rome were defeated by the 300,000 army, neither Great Qin nor Rome would have real hard power to occupy Seleucus, and Antiochus III and his cronies had all been imprisoned in Xianyang City by Yinggao, so Hu Hai could naturally lead his 50,000 or 60,000 troops to take over Seleu under such circumstances.
Although there must be a lot of variables in this, Hu Hai knows that the Romans want to let themselves be their eyes in this area, and there must be room for their own operation, he can't let the Romans' 300,000 army unknowingly come to the vicinity of Seleuc, he wants a head-to-head confrontation between the two armies, because only a head-to-head confrontation can maximize the consumption of troops, no matter whose troops are consumed, as long as the number of remaining people is less than 350,000 in the end, He could have stepped up and cleaned up the mess.
It can be said that from Rome, Macedonia, Great Qin, to Huhai, every force that knows about this wants to make things develop in their own direction.
But what they don't know is that such a large-scale use of troops has unwittingly become a new record for the use of troops in this land over the years.
They obviously didn't know that the Battle of Changping that took place in the Central Plains at the beginning, the result was that the 450,000 horses and horses of the Zhao State were almost wiped out, and the Zhao State was only less than 4 million people in total, even if it was the Qin State that won a big victory, the loss was more than 200,000, and a battle wore out 700,000 people in the Central Plains, in fact, from the later point of view, neither the Zhao State nor the Qin State was a winner in the real sense, if such a war happened three or four times, the Central Plains would be a Central Plains full of holes, Ten years is also difficult to recover.
And now they are facing such a situation, Rome, Great Qin, Huhai and Macedonia, and even the Xiongnu, the troops involved in this battle will be at least eight or nine hundred thousand, once this is a battle with heavy casualties, a large part of the best warriors in the world in this era will be lost here, this is destined to be a battle that will go down in history.
Far east, Yinggao had unknowingly become friends with Antiochus III, and from time to time he would summon Antiochus III into his palace and inquire about Rome and Macedonia from his mouth.
Antiochus III reached this point, although he was not afraid of death, but he didn't want to die anymore, and every time Yinggao summoned him to the Xianyang Palace for questioning, he would add something to his mansion that he should need.
From being a maid at the beginning, to being served with good wine and food, Antiochus III felt the beauty that he had never felt during this period of time, and he even began to feel that the life of the relics in Daqin was quite good.
On the other hand, he was still very reluctant to his homeland Antiochus III, and when Yinggao asked him about Rome and Macedonia, he would more or less reveal some Seleucus information to him.
Antiochus III also knew that if Rome really sent troops to attack Seleucus, even though the cavalry guarded by Great Qin in Seleu was very strong, but the loss was inevitable, and it was very likely to affect the people of Seleucus, those were his people, Antiochus III must have been unbearable in his heart, which was also one of the reasons why he spared no effort to let Great Qin and Philip V reach cooperation in this matter.
"Do you think that if Rome had sent two or three hundred thousand horses, how much would we have lost in the battle with them?"
"Rome has never sent such a scale of elites, according to the Macedonians, the combat effectiveness of the Roman cavalry is indeed strong, and I think it is at least similar to the part of the cavalry of Great Qin who can form formations."