In the heavy snow in December, before the New Year's Pass, Wang Meng returned to Chang'an, in addition to meeting the emperor, another point is to cash out all the remaining properties with Triste, and take them to the border of the river, after meeting Trist in a hurry, Wang Meng took the token of the black lance dragon Xiaowei given to him by Li Ang and entered the palace, if he did not see the emperor before the New Year's Pass, it would be delayed for a while.

In the gentle imperial study, Wang Meng saw the emperor, just as Li Ang told him, as the emperor, Cao Anmin was majestic but not domineering, and he was a promising monarch. After relaying Li Ang's words to the emperor, Wang Meng didn't say anything more, just quietly waited for the emperor's inquiry.

After a long time, Cao Anmin looked at Wang Meng, his face was a little gloomy, although Li Ang stayed in Daqin according to his wishes, but after all, he still did not want to stay in Chang'an, but he knew in his heart that Li Ang did not want to return to Chang'an, firstly, because he did not want to make it difficult for him, and secondly, he did not want to be involved in the collapse of the family. "Li Qing's meaning, I understand, you step down!" Cao Anmin waved his hand at the king.

"Whoa!" Wang Meng looked at the emperor who was a little distracted, and respectfully withdrew from the imperial study, he didn't expect the friendship between the emperor and the lord to be so deep, even he was a little envious.

As the heavy study door closed, in the imperial study, looking at the quiet emperor, the young prince stood beside him, pulled his sleeves and asked, "Father, Master, won't he come back?" ”

Hearing the prince's voice, Cao Anmin, who was sitting in the chair, picked him up. "yes. Your master, he won't go back to Chang'an! Cao Anmin remembered the past with Li Ang, and suddenly laughed, as an emperor. To be able to get a confidant, it can be regarded as a consolation in life, think about his father and the chief executive, Da Sima changed from a young acquaintance to a later monarch and minister, or never seen again, like this. Until he died, he would always remember that there was a friend, a friend who never disobeyed him.

"Father, if Master doesn't come back, can I go to see Master when I grow up?" The prince's voice pulled Cao Anmin back from his thoughts, and looking at his son with blank eyes, Cao Anmin laughed, "Of course you can." Our Daqin has a rule, the prince will go to Longcheng to guard the tomb when he reaches the age of fourteen, and his father did not go to it back then, so he will not let you regret it for the rest of your life like your father. When you are ten years old, your father will send you to your master. ”

"I can't bear my father." The prince hugged Cao Anmin. Pitifully said, "Let's go together then!" But it made Cao Anmin laugh out loud and was pleased.

After Wang Meng left the palace, he went to the mansion of the chief and the great Sima according to Li Ang's wishes, and told them that he did not want to return to Chang'an, and only then did he return to the manor outside the city, where the last group of orphan soldiers were making preparations, and a few of the remaining broken guards planned to take them on a winter march and go to the river, which could be regarded as honing them.

In the cold wind, looking at the silent manor, Wang Meng's face was sentimental, although he had not been under Li Ang's command for a long time, but here he felt like he was at home when he was a child, but he didn't expect that he would leave in just over a year, and never come back, he was really a little reluctant.

"Say, where is the Lord Guild setting up our home?" Triste's voice suddenly sounded, this man with Roman blood is now gray, and he no longer has the demeanor of a two-knife ranger when he followed Li Ang, thinking of the bits and pieces over the years, Trist looked reluctant.

"I think it's going to be a nice place." Looking back at Trist, Wang Meng smiled, and then asked, "Prince An Changsheng, how sure are you that you can let him leave with us?" I've heard that he's married to a Han wife now. ”

"It's not a problem to let him go to the river with us, but if you want him to do what the lord wants, I'm afraid..."

"As long as he's willing to go with us to the river." Wang Meng saw Trist shaking his head, knowing that there were some things that could not be forced, but even if An Changsheng had no ambition, some things were also involuntary, and he couldn't help anyone at all.

At the last great court meeting before the New Year, Cao Anmin circulated the report presented by the Anxi Protectorate and the Beiting Protectorate, which caused an uproar in the court, the northern line of the river, the army of nearly 400,000 in Daqin is now only equal to the 600,000 army of the Huns, according to the current situation, the Huns who built fortresses in the area occupied by the river are planning to stalemate, according to estimates, this battle has not been worked for several years, it is difficult to distinguish the victory and defeat, and the western front, the general Li Ang of the expedition to the west divides the Persians with a strategy, so that it is infighting, However, it is still not easy to withdraw troops, and in the north, although the rebellious Western Turks have been suppressed, there are still Hu people who are in turmoil, and there is a suspicion that there is the support of the Huns behind them, and it is also necessary to increase troops.

These border wars made everyone realize that the price of Chengping for thirty years was a large-scale war, and what Great Qin stopped fighting in exchange for the expansion and coveting of other countries, the foundation of hegemony has been shaken, and now it is time to revitalize the prestige of Great Qin, there is almost no obstacle, Cao Anmin's expansion request was approved by the Legalist cabinet, and Great Qin will once again restore the size of the million-dollar army in the heyday of hegemony, or even larger, re-send troops to garrison the Silk Road, and build a fortress group integrating attack and defense in the annexed Turkic homeland, Beware of the Huns.

Looking at the Manchu Dynasty's ministers who demanded to fight for martial arts, Cao Anmin fulfilled his father's deathbed vow that he would make the Great Qin Empire the powerful military empire it used to be, and that peace was only a preparation for the next war. Cao Anmin understood that his enemies in life would be the re-emerging nomads in the far north, the re-flourishing Xiongnu Empire, who were obsessed with returning to their holy mountain, Wolf Juxu Mountain and the northern sea of the Holy Lake, that is, Lake Baikal, and that the war would continue until the Great Qin completely exterminated their bloodline and turned all the nomads into Han Chinese, and to the west, the powerful enemy who would take the opportunity to overthrow the hegemony of the Great Qin, the Roman Empire would be his friend to deal with, and he believed that he would do better than anyone else.

In the Weiyang Palace. Several ministers from great families after Cao Anmin mentioned Li Angdi's exploits. The joint name was asked for the seal by Li Ang, which surprised many ministers, although Li Ang and Guo. The Zhou family is a good friend, but at the moment, the families of these people have no friendship with him, and at this time, they ask for the seal for Li Ang, and there must be an inside story. For such a situation, the officials with family backgrounds in the six ministries of the three provinces were all tacitly acknowledged, and the retainers sent by Li Ang entered and exited the palace. The Governor's Mansion and the Great Sima Mansion had made it clear to the royal family and the family that he would not return to Chang'an, and for those interest groups that regarded him as enemies, Li Ang had already made concessions, and they should have reciprocated, after all, their original intention was only to not want a new family to appear in Chang'an City that would disrupt the balance.

Many Legalist factions come from important places and have many ministers

But they still didn't expect that the ministers who represented Ang's hostile family interest groups asked for the title of Duke of Guo for Li Ang. Although it is not unusual for Li Ang to receive this title based on his exploits since he joined the army, it would be acceptable if the emperor said it, but now it is Li Ang's opponents. This can't help but make their imaginations come to mind.

After Cao Anmin listened to the Duke of Tang Kingdom requested by the ministers of the family for Li Ang, he looked at the ministers who were whispering in the Weiyang Palace. opened his mouth and said, "Do you have any objections?" ”

The emperor's question was brief, but there was an unquestionable flavor in his tone, since even those families who were hostile to Li Ang took the initiative to ask for a seal for them, the ministers of the full hall naturally would not be bored and do that thankless thing, and they were all in agreement at the moment.

After the Great Dynasty Meeting, Cao Anmin met the chief of Zhishi and the Great Sima in the imperial garden, and the reason why those family interest groups that had been hostile to Li Ang asked for a dignitary like the Duke of the Kingdom for Li Ang was that they were pressured by the military and military families headed by the Great Sima and the chief executive, and they had to pay the corresponding price for the action that they had planned to assassinate Li Ang, and at the same time they had to give an explanation to the emperor.

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Although he no longer asks about the world, the things that Li Ontuo Wang Meng relayed have to make Da Sima and the chief pay attention to it, a killer organization controlled by the family group, and it is even likely that there are other shady deeds, all of which are intolerable to them, and such an organization obviously violates the bottom line of the country.

"This matter is not over, although Li Qing does not intend to pursue it, but I must investigate, this is not just for Daqin." Cao Anmin's gaze was a little murderous, although the monarchy of Emperor Great Qin was restricted to a certain extent, but when he encountered such a thing, he couldn't turn a blind eye.

"Your Majesty, our military family will do our best to investigate this matter, no matter who it is, we must pay the price for it." After the chief and the big Sima glanced at each other, they said in a deep voice to Cao Anmin, they hoped that the emperor would hand over the matter of investigation to them, they didn't believe in Jinyiwei and Dongchang, after all, Dongchang was in the hands of the royal family, and there were many children of the family in Jinyiwei, and it was inevitable that the news would leak.

"It's good that this matter will be troublesome for the two of you." Cao Anmin nodded, he also knew the disadvantages of Dongchang and Jinyiwei, but there was no way, according to the ancestral system, there must be people from the royal family and the family in Dongchang and Jinyiwei, so as not to become the emperor's tool and lose the balance and balance, but Cao Anmin had one thing that he did not explain to the chief and the big Sima, that is, he had a hidden team of people trained for him by Li Ang on hand, and he planned to let those people investigate in secret, as the emperor, he couldn't listen to and believe partially, and no one could guarantee that the chief and the big Sima were not selfish, When the time comes, they will not frame the person who is opposed to them.

It can be said that Li Ang has foreseen such a situation since he knew that the organization that wanted to kill him, so he made up his mind not to return to Chang'an, so as not to fall into a fight, in fact, he hoped that the interest group behind the organization knew the advance and retreat, and bowed to Cao Anmin after he made concessions, but it was obvious that he only guessed half of the right at this point, and that interest group did return his concessions under pressure, but they did not bow to Cao Anmin, and Cao Anmin did not intend to let them go like this, It is clear that Chang'an will eventually blow a storm, and as for the final outcome, it all lies with the interest group itself.

After Wang Meng returned to Chang'an, the most important thing was to preach among the 80,000 Han people who were willing to follow Li Ang, and he also made it clear to the emperor and the cabinet for this purpose, so this Protestantism, which later swept the West and pressed Christianity to the point that it could not hold its head up, was quietly practiced among these 80,000 people. A complete set of religious explanations and rituals was prepared for secular matters. It is more detailed than the time when Christianity was flourishing in Rome.

Based on Taoist and folk myths and legends that have been passed down since ancient times, Wang Meng reformulated the genealogy of the gods for Protestantism, due to the flourishing of Christianity in Rome. Wang Meng considered the benefits of monotheism, so he revered the legendary groundbreaking Pangu as the supreme god of Protestantism, and named him the father of all gods, the father of all things, and other gods that had been passed down since ancient times became the guardian gods under Pangu. As a result of raising the status of Pangu to the Supreme High Father. This greatly facilitates people's faith, and they no longer need to worry about the complicated lineage of gods.

Just when Wang Meng was busy preaching in Chang'an, Li Ang, who was far away in the river, also made missionary a top priority, and the Protestants first preached among the 50,000 Hu people who migrated to Tibet, Turk, Tiele, and Uighurs, showing strong adaptability. For the religiously religious Hu people, they originally only had primitive totems and ancestral beliefs, and the existence of the Great Qin Land made the Futu Sect, which should have been very active in this era, still limited to the territory of the Kushan Dynasty. External influence was minimal, with the Mughal Murves and Uighurs taking the lead in converting. Immediately after that, the Tiele and Tibetan people and the Turks also converted one after another, and in less than a month, all 50,000 Hu people converted to Protestantism and called themselves Han people, but out of the tradition of respecting heaven and earth, they changed the name of God the Father to Heavenly Father, to which Li Ang acquiesced.

After the conversion of 50,000 Hu people one after another, Leon began to preach to the more than 100,000 Persians who had been annexed, he thought it would be very difficult, after all, most of these Persians believed in Zoroastrianism or Manichaeism, but he did not expect that these Persians would soon convert to Protestantism under the persuasion of the missionaries left behind by Wang Meng and the devout believers among the Hu Han people, and their reason was very simple, their country had abandoned them, and the god they believed in did not save them when they were in the most trouble, and it was obvious that they did not believe in the true God, and Leon, who gave them food, shelter, and a stable life, believed in the only god in heaven and earth.

After knowing the reason for the conversion of the Persians, Leon couldn't help but secretly say that the people in this world really seek advantage and avoid harm, no wonder after the Arabs invaded Persia from the peninsula in history, the Persians died out and merged into the Arabs. However, he still rewarded the conversion of the Persians, he exempted the Protestants from slavery, recognized them as Han people under his rule, and gave them justice and protection as long as they obeyed the laws of the Great Qin, and under such an order, the Persians, who were still somewhat hesitant, immediately converted to Protestantism, and almost a winter, the 100,000 private troops and 150,000 Han people under Li Ang's command all became Christians. Although there were still mottled impurities in their beliefs at this time, Li Ang believed that over time, they would naturally become devout believers, and religious fervor needed to be cultivated, which was naturally driven by interests, and Li Ang would definitely launch a westward expedition in the future.

For more than 100,000 people to become Protestants, Cambyses was helpless, it was he who ordered to snatch these people's winter food, and single-handedly forced them into the arms of Great Qin, although all this was due to Li Ang's strategy He had to do it, but it was done

But the Persians will not agree that in their hearts, they are undoubtedly and demons

After the beginning of spring, the envoys of Chang'an came to the river, they brought an edict conferring Li Ang as the Duke of Tang, and greeted the officials up and down the river in Tangzhou. In this way, after the first great change in history 150 years ago, the power of the second change began to brew in the central and western part of the river.

With the support of Li Ang and Daqin, Cambyses recuperated for a winter and returned to their homeland with an army of 230,000, and as a response, Li Ang sent Murong Ke with an army of 50,000 to attack the royal capital of Persia, so in March, the urgent messengers of the royal capital of Lower Persia continued to set off to the front, disrupting all the deployment plans of Lower Persia.

"Damn, this is clearly a deliberate gesture." After reading the urgent order sent by the royal capital, Pargodes fell to the ground, and after breaking through their defensive line, Daqin's army slowed down its march, which was simply deliberately done to show the timid ministers in the royal capital, in order to mobilize them to return to China, he was almost certain that as long as the army on his side was withdrawn back, the damned Qin people would definitely retreat immediately.

"Marshal, the order of the royal capital has to be obeyed!" Although they knew what Pargodos was referring to, the generals in the tent persuaded them one after another, after all, unless they rebelled. Otherwise, it would be impossible to sit idly by and watch the king's orders not to obey.

"No, I can't. It is not easy to let Persia be unified, and we can't just be under the despicable means of the Qin people. Pargodes calmed down, and then looked at his most important lieutenant. Xerxes, you bring 50,000 people back to the royal capital, you don't have to rush too much, make the marching scene as big as possible, and then call it an army of 200,000 to the outside world, understand? ”

"Yes. My lord. Xerxes strode out and commanded, knowing that Pargodes was not going to ignore the ministers of the royal capital, and decided to concentrate on dealing with the army of Cambyses, the famous general of Upper Persia, who had returned home and routed their 30,000 men to the west, and raised the banner of restoration.

In a small town three hundred miles away from the capital of Lower Persia, Murong Ke was stationed with 50,000 horses. It seems that there is no plan to move any further, but from time to time a cavalry team of 1,000 people is sent to the cities on the outskirts of the Persian royal capital to show off their military might, and scare the nobles and ministers in the royal capital. Pargodes thought that the ministers of the royal capital were cowardly, and he misunderstood them. After all, the Lower Persians had long been prepared to guard against Great Qin and stationed heavy troops on the border. But it's a pity that they transferred the elite to Upper Persia, so although the number of troops on the border line seems to be frighteningly large, but in fact they can not fight much, the Lower Persians originally expected to be able to hold the border by virtue of their numerical superiority, but they forgot that most of the troops they were stuffed in the border were farmers and herdsmen who were temporarily forcibly recruited, these people could not be regarded as soldiers at all, at most they seemed to be a little more numerous, and they were just brave, and once they encountered a real battle, it was difficult to count on them.

Faced with such a line of defense, Murong Ke directly chose the easiest place to attack, captured it, beheaded nearly 10,000 defenders, built several Jingguan, and then let his cavalry carry the rest of the people to provoke and demonstrate in the place where the rest of the Persian army was stationed. Such a move frightened the Lower Persian defenders who were almost a rabble, of course, there were also some bloody warriors among so many people, these people often couldn't stand the provocation, and led the army to attack from the strong fortress, and the result was that without exception, all of them were wiped out in the field battle, and at this time, the cavalry sent by Murong Ke would follow Murong Ke's order, in front of those Persian soldiers in the fortress, cut off the heads of those Persian soldiers who dared to come out to fight them in the field, and made a demonstration in Beijing.

Under this terrible and bloody blow, the morale of the Lower Persians was low, and the farmers and herdsmen who had been forcibly conscripted were in panic, and after Murong Ke sent people to surrender and kill all the rebels, the morale of the Lower Persians was close to collapse. At this time, Murong Ke once again chose a place to attack, but before the battle, he sent an envoy to persuade him to surrender, but the Persian generals in this place refused to surrender, so after the breakthrough, Murong Ke fulfilled his words, and all the Persian soldiers were beheaded and made into Jingguan. So when his troops pointed at a nearby Persian defender, before his envoy could be sent, the Persian generals of the defenders surrendered directly, and Murong spared them, so that the Persian army, which was more than seventy percent of the forced farmers and herdsmen, broke up almost immediately, and almost all of them fled back to their hometowns.

In such a stark contrast, something terrible happened, the defense line of the Lower Persians began to crumble, almost wherever Murong Ke's army appeared, the Persian defenders surrendered, and then collapsed, and in less than a month, the 200,000 Persian defenders almost escaped, which made the king of Lower Persia tremble.

In fact, Murong Ke originally wanted to destroy the useless defense line of the Persians with a little bit of face, but Cui Hao was his staff officer with the army, and as a result, he came up with this poisonous plan, for Cui Hao, it was his main purpose to make those Persian soldiers fear Great Qin like a tiger from now on, and to bring this fear to all parts of Lower Persia.

"Mr. Cui, let's be here, don't do anything?" After being stationed in the town for some days, Murong Ke couldn't help but think quietly, but he found Cui Hao, although Cui Hao was his staff officer in the army, he was still used to calling him sir.

"Pargodes sent 200,000 troops back to help, how can he have nothing to do?" As the head of Li Ang's intelligence department, Cui Hao naturally learned the news from the spies arranged in Persia.

"Two hundred thousand." Murong frowned, although he had previously broken the army of 200,000 in Persia with 50,000 people, but he knew in his heart that the so-called army was just the goods of the rabble, which was completely different from the elite transferred back from Upper Persia, and he didn't have the ability to eat 200,000.

"Don't worry, general. In fact, it is only 50,000 horses. On par with our army, it was nothing more than Pargodes falsely claiming 200,000. Seeing Murong frowning, Cui Hao smiled. He handed him the information that the agent had sent back to the ground.

Murong Ke was called one of the most skilled generals under his command by Li Ang, and he had his own ability, and when he saw that the Persian army that returned to help was only 50,000, he immediately set out to annihilate them. Cui Hao's eyes were vicious, and he saw through his mind at a glance, and he smiled on his face. In his heart, he secretly said that Pargodes was old and dizzy, and making such a stupid move was simply self-defeating.

Looking at the map and comparing the route of the Persian army of 50,000 in the upper and lower parts of the intelligence, Murong Ke sneered, falsely claiming that the 200,000 army wanted to scare him, which was really wishful thinking. If it weren't for the intelligence, it is estimated that he would not dare to make any big moves, but for now, he has decided to eat these 50,000 people.

"It looks like the general is ready!" Seeing Murong Ke sneering at the map. Cui Hao said on the side, his gaze fell on the narrow canyon passage on the map that Murong Ke had seen God before.

If these 50,000 people come quickly. I can't help them, but slowly, I can only say that they are looking for their own death. Murong Ke glanced at Cui Hao and muttered to himself.

Dorcas Canyon, this is the Persian name for this narrow valley road, at this time Xerxes who falsely claimed that the 50,000 Persian cavalry of 200,000 troops were passing through this narrow valley road, for the sake of prudence, Xerxes sent a lot of scouts, and the formation was also kept very tight, but he didn't know that outside the valley mouth in front, Murong Ke had been waiting with his 20,000 cavalry for a long time, but in order not to startle the snake, the men and horses he brought were waiting in a place ten miles away from the valley mouth.

"It looks like their forward force is almost there, and the big force is not far away." Looking at the Persian scouts who appeared at the mouth of the valley, Murong Ke muttered to himself, and then looked at the soldiers beside him, "Give me an order, the whole army will mount a horse and assault and seal the mouth of the valley." ”

Soon, the earth shook, and when the Persian scouts saw a large puff of smoke and dust rising in the distance, they knew at once that they had met the enemy, but before they could react, they broke through the ground and fell on them with a dense array of arrows, and at last only half of them were spared, and retreated back into the valley in disarray.

After receiving the scout's return, Xerxes did not hesitate much, and immediately asked the rear team to turn to the front team, intending to retreat, but what made him desperate was that their back was also blocked, Hu Luguang took 10,000 light horses, one person and three horses, and ran sleepless for several days, sparing a big circle, before arriving in time.

Xerxes who was blocked in the canyon was in danger, and there was inevitably panic among the soldiers, but Xerxes could be favored by Pargodes, and he had something special, he relied on his ordinary prestige to suppress the fear of the soldiers, and he himself thought about it carefully, and felt that although he looked in danger at the moment, he didn't have to worry too much, the Qin ** team blocking his back road must have spared a big circle, he believed that Pargodes would soon know about them, and sent reinforcements over, When the time comes, the siege will be lifted.

Xerxes thought really well, but he ignored one point, what he wanted, how could Murong not think that Murong Ke didn't plan to block him and his 50,000 horses in the canyon to trap them, because he couldn't afford it, Hu Luguang's men and horses would be known by Pargodes sooner or later, at most five days, Pargodes's reinforcements would be killed, and they would not be trapped at all, Murong Ke's real killing move was water attack, if Xerxes looked carefully at the map, he would find that Hu Luguang blocked his canyon thirty miles away, There was a big river in the upper mountain range, and it only took three days to block the river, and when it rushed down, his 50,000 horses would be almost dead.

After blocking Xerxes's back road, Lyuguang immediately sent two thousand soldiers to build a dam upstream, at this time it was the time when the spring snow melted, the river rose very fast, originally thought that it would be full in three days, but in two days, it was full, Hu Lyuguang would not stay with Xerxes to be flooded, on the third night, he took advantage of the dark night to evacuate, until dawn, Xerxes's scouts did not find out that something was wrong, but Xerxes did not care, he also thought that Pargodes's reinforcements arrived, The Qin army, which blocked his back road, hurriedly withdrew for fear of being caught in a trap, and as a result, he took 50,000 horses out of the canyon, not knowing that he was not far from death.

When the sun rose, a great roar sounded in the east, and the 50,000 Persian soldiers who had just come out of the valley were immediately frightened by the sight before them, and the flood that came from the sky swept away everything that stood in its way, and roared towards them. Xerxes froze at the unstoppable flood, and it was not until his own soldiers mounted him on his horse that he came to his senses and fled with the chaotic soldiers to the ravine behind him.

When they heard the huge roar, the reinforcements sent by Pargodes stopped, they knew that they were too late to rescue Cambyses and them, in fact, when Hu Luguang led the men and horses to the canyon two days later, Pargodes received the news, at first he didn't care, but when he saw the map, he understood Murong Ke's calculation, he immediately sent cavalry, one person with two horses, towards the direction of the canyon, hoping to have time to destroy the Qin people's water attack plan, but they were slow after all.

After a day of raging, the water gradually dissipated, but by this time most of Xerxes's 50,000 people had died, and only a few hundred were still alive, not including Xerxes, a rising star who was favored by Pargodes, who died in the water attack of Murong Ke.

After the defeat of Xerxes and the 50,000 army, Cui Hao revealed his vicious scheme comparable to that of Jia Xu, the poisoner of the Great Qin when he founded the country, and he ordered his spies in Lower Persia to make a big show that Murong Ke flooded the 200,000 Persian army, so that Pargodes was in a dilemma, if he did not admit that Murong flooded the 200,000 army, he had to explain to the Lower Persian king that he only sent 50,000 reinforcements but falsely claimed to be 200,000 troops, but if he admitted, the morale of the Lower Persian army would undoubtedly be a huge blow.

Pargodos was faced with the most difficult choice in his life, Cui Hao's poisonous plan made him taste what despair is, if he concealed it, how could he face the 50,000 dead people and the people of Lower Persia, if he didn't hide it, he would inevitably be considered by the king as ill-intentioned, and it was a small matter to be deprived of military power, and if he didn't do it well, he would even lose his head.

"That group of waste, if someone bypasses it, the king will not dare to send troops to stop it." In the tent, Pargodes cursed in his mouth, his heart was full of resentment towards the generals of the defenders of the several cities with heavy troops near the royal capital, if it weren't for these incompetent fools who allowed Murong Ke's cavalry to pass through their defense area and block Xerxes's path, things would not have become so out of control.

Cui Hao never thought that he could get Pal Godes down with such a little trick, and things were as he expected, Pal Godes finally admitted to Wang Du that he only sent 50,000 soldiers but falsely claimed to be 200,000, but at the same time he sent an urgent letter to Wang Du, saying that Cambyses's recovery was great, and how critical the situation was now. No matter how stupid the king and ministers of Lower Persia were, they knew that this was Pargodes protecting themselves, but it would be taboo to change the battle, and they could only continue to let Pargodes take the military power against Cambyses. Cui Hao didn't care about this, Pargodes wanted to atone for the crime, but unfortunately once the rift existed, it would be difficult to repair it again, sometimes there were more rumors, people would believe it, not to mention the Lower Persian king and those noble ministers who had long had a heart for Pargodes.

Pargodes's fate is no longer within his own control, as long as Cui Hao feels that the time is right, this famous general in Persia will only have a way to fall, thinking that back then, the famous general Li Mu at the end of the Warring States period was not unjustly killed like this, thinking of this, Cui Hao showed a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth, what about the famous general, it is not to die at his hands.