Chapter 365: Germans



In these four years, the Tang state, which occupied the land and annexed Asia, finally consolidated its rule, while the rising Arabs were wiped out by Leon's bloody methods, because of the headhunting order, millions of Arabs were killed after the war, their heads were exchanged for bounties, and with the fall of the Arabs as the main nation, Islam had not had time to expand its influence and disappeared in the long river of history.

In Egypt, in order to prevent the Arab elite troops from returning to the peninsula, the Thornface army built an impenetrable defense line with their flesh and blood, and in the six-month bloody battle, together with 30,000 tomb guards and Egyptians, they blocked the crazy counterattack of the Arab elite, and the price they paid was the death of the entire army. When Leon learned of this from the messenger of the Egyptian Tomb Guards, he stayed alone on the walls of the western city all night.

In the case of unsuccessful breakthrough and heavy casualties, the remnants of the elite troops left by the Arabs in Egypt began a desperate destruction, and finally the nearly 70,000 elite Arabs who were dispersed killed nearly a million Egyptians in less than a year, and everywhere they passed, like locusts crossing the border, there was no grass, and the originally rich Egypt became dilapidated in a few years, which also led to the defeat of the Arabs on the peninsula by the Tomb Guard and the Jews, and the Egyptians who had become nothing in the war entered the peninsula and launched bloody revenge.

In these four years, in addition to the Egyptians and Arabs, the coastal areas of the Persian Gulf under Leon also lost a large number of people due to Arab retaliation, and those civilian mercenaries who set foot on the peninsula because of headhunting orders. According to Wang Meng's statistics, more than 15 million people died in this war, of which the Arabs only seemed to have a few remote tribes of a few hundred people, and the population of Egypt dropped sharply from nearly 10 million to less than 6 million, of which the young and strong suffered the greatest loss, and the only better ones were the Jews, who only lost nearly 500,000 people. However, the Jewish population was already small. 500,000 is enough to hurt its vitality. As for the main force of the battle against the Arabs, the Great Qin Tomb Guarding Legion, it also suffered heavy casualties, and the original 150,000 elites of the four major capitals of the protectorate finally survived less than 60,000 people.

In the Tang Kingdom, it did not look dilapidated due to the loss of a large number of young and strong men in the war, for the families of the civilian mercenaries who died on the peninsula. In addition to the bounty they had left behind, Leon also gave a bereavement pension and built a temple to lay his ashes for posterity to pay homage to, so that those who lost their loved ones were grateful to Leon because they felt that they had not been treated unjustly.

At the same time as losing a large number of people. The Qing Zhuang who migrated from Great Qin to Tang poured into the areas under Li Ang's rule. For this reason, Cao Anmin even did not hesitate to use coercive means to force every family with more than five men to have a man to move to the Tang Kingdom. Thought it was the foundation of the hegemony of the Great Qin.

Under this order, within four years, nearly five million young and strong men of the Han nationality entered the various places belonging to the Tang State, married those foreign women, and established families, and their arrival greatly accelerated the speed of the sinicization of the various ethnic groups in the entire Tang Kingdom, and was not resisted by all ethnic groups, because those young and strong men of the Han people brought a lot of land skills that they did not have, and the families of the women who married them could be converted into Han household registration according to the decree formulated by Wang Meng, and enjoy all kinds of benefits that were not originally available. Under such a general trend, many people are counting on themselves to be able to recruit a Han son-in-law, or find a Han daughter-in-law, but the number of women in the population of Daqin migrating to the Tang State is very small, and most of these women are finally married to loyal foreign soldiers under Li Ang.

With the help of the relocated Han people, various techniques unique to the Great Qin were brought into the Tang Kingdom, and many porcelain, fine cloth, and paper that were originally only affordable to the rich and noble, began to enter more people's homes, which was one of the reasons why the original ethnic groups had a favorable impression of the influx of Han people, who had no idea that only fifty years later, the integration they took the initiative to ask for made them forget the original history and culture, and were regarded by their descendants as legends and stories.

For the change of the Tang Kingdom, Constantine saw it, but there was no way, the Germans in the western provinces after getting the equipment provided by Leon, the military strength was not inferior to his legion, if it were not for these barbarian tribes not to be subordinate, I am afraid it would only become more troublesome, in this case, even if he wanted to attack the Tang State, he was powerless, at most he was like Leon, issued a headhunting order, and let Christianity call on fanatical believers to go to Asia Minor to wreak havoc, but it was no one else who guarded Asia Minor, It was Chen Qingzhi and Ran Min, the two generals who were known as the wise and brave of the Tang State only under Li Ang, Chen Qingzhi was good at using troops and guarding the important areas along the coast of Asia Minor without leakage, and Ran Min and the Spartans who converted to Protestantism in the Tang State hunted every Roman who entered Asia Minor like a demon, leaving no living mouth in their hands, and the most odious thing is that sometimes these two people would deliberately

They entered Asia Minor, killed the local peoples in order to provoke hatred against them, and then encouraged them to cross the Aegean Sea and enter Greece to take revenge.

After four years of tossing, many Greeks fled one after another, entered Asia Minor, and sought refuge from Chen Qingzhi and Ran Min, and Chen Qingzhi would select people with skills from the fugitives to send them to Xijing, and the rest of the people were incorporated into the army by him for training.

In the end, Constantine had to give up the idea of treating others in the way of others, after all, he now has the ability to attack Asia Minor, and there are few Han people living in it, even if he kills more, I am afraid that Li Ang, the murderous demon king, will not frown.

Like Constantine, Julius's life was not very easy, although he suppressed the Germans in the western provinces, but he was more worried, because from the information he received, the Tang State not only provided weapons to the Germans, but also sent missionaries, and there were Tang officers to help the Germans command the battle, and his plans were sabotaged by those Tang officers several times, so that the Germans could not be completely eliminated.

Although Julius tried several times to cut off the Tang State's way of transporting weapons to the Germans through Asia Minor, Chen Qingzhi completely annihilated the attacking troops several times, so that he did not dare to act rashly, so that the war dragged on for more than three years.

Although the progress is slow, but Julius through the migration of the population of the western provinces, to achieve the goal of clearing the wilderness, has now made the Germans can no longer cause substantial losses to it, Julius believes that victory is not far from him, but for this victory, he has no way to rejoice, but like drinking a glass of bitter wine, his enemy, got the most precious time, now the Tang State has stabilized, the war preparation has been completed, the two countries are now evenly matched, or Rome is at a disadvantage.

Behind the Tang State, with the support of the Great Qin Empire, the Tang State, which had a large Han population, only needed a few years to make the original Persia and Asia Minor prosperous again, and the economic strength of the Tang State surpassed that of Rome, and the only thing they could use was the weakness of the various ethnic groups in the Tang State, with the loss of a large number of people in the entire Asia Minor and the original Persian region, and in the long run, the Tang State assimilated by the Han people will become stronger and stronger, The only chance for the Romans was to destroy the Tang before the empire could take shape, otherwise the Romans would disappear from Europe.

Thinking of this, Julius's heart felt like he had been cut by a knife, as a soldier watching the country in trouble, but he was powerless, making him hate his own incompetence.

The Germans killed countless Romans in the long four-year war, and most of the bounty they received from Leon with the heads of the Romans was exchanged for sharp weapons produced by the craftsmen of the Han people in the Tang Kingdom, in other words, Leon almost didn't pay much money to let the Germans drag the Romans for him, and now he was ready for war, so he decided to abandon the Germans and let the Romans destroy the Germans.

So from the fourth year of Julius's arrival in the western provinces, the Germans began to be unable to get any ordnance and equipment from the Tang State, nor could they get the support of grain and grass, and the original staff officer corps was also recalled, everything made the Germans believe that the Tang State was going to make a move against the Romans, which made the Germans very excited, and they believed that soon the Roman legions on the border would be recalled, and they would become the masters of the Western Province.

The Germans planned to take advantage of the fire to rob, but unfortunately they did not know that in the eyes of Leon, they were more deserving than the Romans, as the ancestors of the countries of Western Europe in later generations, in Leon's eyes were more evil than the Arabs, the ancestors of the British, French, and Germans were all tribes among the Germanic barbarians, as a Chinese, he would never forget the humiliation brought to the Chinese by the Western European powers, Leon always believed in a word, no grudges, countries that do not know revenge will sooner or later forget the shame, and then go to meet the next shame, Historically, the Chinese have forgotten again and again, and then been hurt again and again, if this is the case, then it is up to him to cut it all off with his own hands.

So the Germans became victims, and they lost the support of Leon, and they were defeated in several offensives instigated by Julius, and because they had formed a mortal enmity with the Romans under the instigation of Leon's headhunters, Julius did not want to leave such a scourge again, so he carried out a genocide against the Germans, and like the Arabs, the rising Germanic people suffered a devastating blow.

When the Romans dealt with the Germans, Leon did not trouble the Romans, but only focused on training the navy, because the capital ships he purchased from the mainland of Great Qin had already been launched, a total of five giant warships of the same class as the Water Dragon Yin, which would reach the Persian Gulf in half a year, and at that time, it would be the beginning of the final war between him and Constantine.