Chapter 364: The Fate of the Thorn-Faced Army
The city of Jerusalem, the highest place in the minds of all Han people, the city enshrines the heroic souls of the Qin soldiers who died on the battlefield in the past 150 years, as well as the emperors of the Great Qin, although the Dragon City is far away from the Great Qin itself, but the status is much higher than Chang'an, because the Dragon City is a symbol, representing the strongest martial arts of the Han people since the Han Dynasty, the reason why Emperor Taizu built the Qin Tomb in the Dragon City is to let future generations dare not forget the hegemony left by their ancestors, and at the same time, the Han people know that in the far west, there is a place where their ancestors are buried, They must keep the glory of their ancestors.
The Tomb Guarding Legion, the strongest legion of the Great Qin Empire, forty years ago, it was this 100,000-strong army that withstood the onslaught of the million-strong army of the Romans, until the arrival of local reinforcements, and finally won the victory in that war, but now, forty years of peace has made this peerless army lose the iron-blooded murderous spirit that looked down on the world in the past.
On the school field, there were soldiers standing neatly, but in Cao Huang's eyes, these elites mobilized from the local capital were not even as good as the firehead army in the Tomb Protector Army forty years ago, shaking his head, Cao Huang walked off the parade platform, only the remaining generals looked at each other, I don't know how to make this more than seventy-year-old governor unhappy.
Forty years ago, Cao Huang was just a lieutenant from a royal family in the Tomb Guarding Legion at that time, and now he is the Grand Governor of the Tomb Guarding Legion, with more than 100,000 soldiers in his hands, all of whom are the elites of the four major capitals, but as long as he has 10,000 comrades back then, he can beat these more than 100,000 elites all over the ground to find teeth, and now the whole of Asia is in turmoil. However, the Tomb Guardian Legion was stationed in Dragon City and did nothing, which made Cao Huang, an old man who had experienced the most glorious era of the Tomb Guarding Legion, gloomy.
Outside the Dragon City, Cao Huang and Li Ang rode side by side, galloping through the wilderness, and after a long time, the old man stopped his horse and jumped off his horse. Leon handed over the horse to the ground behind him. Chao Cao Huang said. "The governor should be strong and strong, and Qingyuan admires it."
"After all, he is no older than you." Cao Huang sighed, he knew that in the horse race, the amazing junior beside him had left his hand, and he was worthy of being the person favored by the royal family.
"Now that the troubled times in Haixi have appeared, I am afraid that they will not be able to stop in the past few decades. You need to pay more attention to your body. Cao Huang suddenly said, he is a veteran general who has accumulated many years, and he has an old eye, and he can see through Li Ang's problems at a glance.
"Let the governor worry." Li Ang's voice was indifferent, he had been seriously injured several times in his early years, and later practiced extremely domineering kung fu, but it didn't matter now, but it would be difficult to talk about it in the future. But he's always been a light-hearted man. Never took it to heart.
"Although the Tomb Guardian Legion is not as good as it was then, it is not a problem to deal with the Arabs, and now their strength has been greatly reduced. If I can't win, I don't have to be the governor of the city. Cao Huang sighed in his heart when he saw Li Ang's calm face, but he also knew that the juniors in front of him were the same as his old friends who had died, and they were all people who didn't take death seriously.
"From then on, the governor will have to worry more about the affairs of the peninsula." Seeing Cao Huang agree, Li Ang saluted.
"Rest assured, in three years I will destroy the Arabs." Cao Huang patted Li Ang on the shoulder and said, "You just give me a good beating of those Romans, these things that don't know how to be good are just underbeaten, and if you don't beat them, you won't have a long memory." The old man, who had participated in the Great War that year, looked at Leon as if he had seen himself and his companions in the past.
"yes, it will." Li Ang replied lightly, he actually liked the old man in front of him who had experienced the war, when they were young, it was the heyday of the hegemony of the Great Qin, and the Tomb Guardian Army broke the army and destroyed the country in Asia at every turn.
"In the past forty years, my Great Qin has withered the stars, but I didn't expect that there would be a character like you, and it was finally Emperor Taizu who appeared." Thinking of the exploits of the juniors in front of him since joining the army, Cao Huang laughed, the Great Qin Legion was rampant in the world back then, and its might was spread all over the world, relying on the famous murderous name, at that time, which general was not a murderous demon king like Li Ang, and the soldiers were also iron-blooded and ruthless, and those who committed the crime of strong Qin were killed without forgiveness, which was never an empty word.
"I know that some people in the country say that you are cold-blooded, but you should just be a fart for those people, although the people who killed the city and I slaughtered by me and others back then were not as good as you, but there were many of them, and they were still talked about."
"The governor speaks, and he has been taught." Li Ang didn't know that in the past forty years, Cao Huang's past comrades have left one after another, and he is also very lonely, but those juniors from the local area are not to his liking, in his hands, he has driven away many young generals who have high hopes in the country, and later this old man directly played in the country, he only needs the most ruthless people, and the others come as many as they want, but despite this, this old man still protects the four capitals
The elite is not satisfied.
In the past few years, Cao Huang has not heard much about Li Ang, and he is very concerned about this cold-blooded and ruthless junior who fought in the war, because he can see the shadow of his past self and those companions from Li Ang, and unconsciously, he regards Li Ang as a kind of sustenance, and after the real meeting, Li Ang did not disappoint him.
"Okay, I won't say anything else, you are now the king of a country, and you have a lot of things to do, so after paying homage to Emperor Taizu and the other ancestors tomorrow, you will go back!"
On the second day, Li Ang, who came in the name of worship, accompanied by Cao Huang, entered the Qin Mausoleum with the accompanying generals to worship the heroic souls who died in battle. When Li Ang stood in the vast hall, looking at the names engraved on the black boulders around him, his always calm face was no longer calm in the past, he knew that those names represented a once fresh soldier, they set foot on the battlefield for the country, and laid down the huge territory and the hegemony of Great Qin, they interpreted what it is to truly defend the country, not to be a pawn on the frontier, but to use the sword in their hands in a foreign land, to kill those potential enemies in the future, a country cannot be strong forever, Therefore, it is necessary to weaken other countries, or even eliminate them, so that even if the country is weakened, the other countries will be weaker and will never be able to threaten their own country.
"That's what you think too, right?" Li Ang's eyes fell on the spirit card in the middle of the row of tablets placed in the center of the main hall, which was the spirit card of Emperor Taizu of Great Qin, the person who changed the history that Li Ang knew, and around him was the spirit card of the generals who followed him to the west and conquered thousands of miles away.
Li Ang knelt in front of those spirit tablets, and like everyone who could enter this hall, he asked Emperor Taizu and the heroic spirits of those dead soldiers to protect the hegemony of the Han people forever. The generals who followed Li Ang each buried their heads deep in the ground, in front of them, were sleeping millions of army souls, they had once ruled the world, killed countless people, even if they died, they were still protecting Daqin, they seemed to be able to hear their roaring and roaring on the battlefield in their hearts, and saw them stepping on the enemy's mountain of bones and cheering in victory.
Outside the Valhalla, there are the thorn-faced troops under Li Ang, they are kneeling on the ground, looking at the black palace in front of them, the blood in their chests is boiling and rolling, this is the burial ground of the Great Qin Army, now they are not worthy of entering, they can only enter if they atone for their sins with death.
After some time, Leon walked out of the temple, looked at the kneeling thorn-faced army, and shouted, "Go to Egypt to find the destination you want, and my promise will never change." "The Thorn-Faced Army has long been determined to live and die, and they just want to die on the battlefield to atone for their sins.
"Thank you, the king!" After listening to Li Ang's chanting, the thorn-faced soldiers kneeling on the ground shouted in unison, and they thanked Li Ang for giving them the opportunity to atone for their sins with death, so that they could be buried in the Qin Mausoleum after death.
The next day, Leon returned to Xijing with his generals, while the Thorn-faced Army embarked on a journey to Egypt with 30,000 Tomb Guards, who wanted to stop the more than 200,000 Arabs in Egypt after the Tomb Guards launched an attack on the Arabs on the peninsula, and must not let them return to the peninsula.
Half a month later, Li Ang, who returned to Xijing, would always look in the direction of Egypt from time to time, the people of the Thorn Army were all good soldiers, but they had to redeem themselves with their lives for the experience of being captured, the glory of the Great Qin Army was a sin that they could not bear in their hearts, in fact, the world had forgiven them, but they themselves could not forgive themselves, maybe death in battle was really their best destination.
When the Thorns set foot on Egyptian soil, the Romans cut off aid to the Arabs, and the Germanic barbarian armies forced them to bring back the forces they had originally used to threaten the Dragon City, while also guarding against a possible attack by Leon. After removing the threat from the Romans, Cao Huang personally launched an attack on the Arabs with a coalition of 70,000 mausoleum guards and a coalition of Jews. At this point, the entire strategic posture planned by Leon was basically completed, using the Germans to hold back the Romans, using the most direct means to solve the Arabs, and restoring order in Asia, and the next thing he had to do was to prepare for war, train the navy, and fight with the Romans.
When the Tomb Protector joined the war against the Arabs, Constantine in Rome understood Leon's intentions, but he had nothing to do, because the Germans were no longer the original poorly equipped barbarian army after receiving the ordnance provided by Leon, and his real allies, the Huns, were suppressed by the Great Qin on the northern border, and they had no extra troops to help him clear out these Germanic barbarians, so he could only rely on himself.