I'm lazy today, please forgive me, and some private exclamations in today's chapter, so don't blame you!

Although Pargodes temporarily received the amnesty of the royal capital and continued to lead his troops to confront Cambyses who raised the banner of restoration, his forces were severely reduced, and nearly forty percent of the soldiers were transferred back to the country to garrison, which made Pargodes not have much advantage in the face of Cambyses, and Pargodes could even foresee that the conquest that should have been decided in a war would become a protracted stalemate, and all this was what the Marshal of Great Qin in the east of them planned and expected, and it was obvious that he succeeded, Once again, Persia was mired in the same internal strife as before, only this time he had the upper hand.

No matter how Pargodes gritted his teeth and cursed Leon in the barracks, the situation still worked out step by step as Leon had planned. In the 30 years of Chengping, Daqin's army on the Silk Road was transferred back to China and dismissed, allowing the Persians to re-extract taxes from the Silk Road, and the national strength became stronger and stronger, in Li Ang's view, once the hegemonic country weakened or even gave up its hegemony, the consequences would be disastrous, just like the era in which he was once in, the United States, as the world's number one power, has always maintained their hegemony, no matter how loud and beautiful the human rights slogans in their mouths are, they have always been hegemonic countries.

Although many countries in that era believed that the hegemony of the United States was declining, and even thought that the war it launched was a stupid trick, in fact, the hegemony of the United States was still stable, and even if his motherland was rising, he had to play according to the world order formulated by the United States, and according to the rules set by the United States. In that war. His homeland is at a disadvantage, and the United States is squeezing his homeland with the rules it controls. The subprime mortgage crisis in the United States is that we Chinese are paying for them, please remember. It's not that our renminbi is appreciating, it's the dollar that is depreciating, and our dollar-pegged foreign exchange reserves have evaporated a lot, while our real purchasing power hasn't increased, and hopefully in my lifetime I'll see China beat the United States.

The bureaucracy, the comprador class of the new era. Unscrupulous traitor literati and scholars, destroying the little Chinese civilization that was left, Li Ang was very afraid at that time, if this invisible war finally failed, his motherland would become a yellow-skinned and white-hearted country, he didn't dare to imagine that, but unfortunately not many people took it too seriously, but some people and young people at the bottom could see it more clearly. But sometimes the power of matter is more powerful, and it quietly changes everything.

Leon once thought that maybe that wasn't a bad thing, as long as the country was strong. As long as the people feel happy, people like him should probably be called extremists. But when he was in this era, he saw how powerful Daqin was, and he understood, just like the words he had seen before, history is a bitch, whoever is strong enough can fuck it unscrupulously, in the heyday of Daqin's hegemony, Daqin annexed the whole of Southeast Asia, the rebelling natives were killed, and the living people were treated as slaves, and all this became a righteous act in Daqin's history books, and the power of the world is an axiom, before coming to Daqin, Li Ang once remembered the history of his motherland, He also believed that the prosperity of the Han and Tang dynasties made people from afar return, but when he came to Daqin, he found that everything was wrong, because the history books of Confucianism were written with their values, and they could not be truly fair and objective.

People can influence others, but the country can not influence other countries, and the nation cannot influence other nations, the erosion of civilization requires strong force to speak, just like the Han Dynasty had the Huns attached, they are indeed envious of the civilization and life of the Han Dynasty, but more importantly, they are afraid of the force of the Han Dynasty, without strong force, they will use their own swords to seize everything in the Han Dynasty. The integration of the country and the nation is often a road paved with blood, no one is willing to die, whoever is strong will continue to survive, and the weak will naturally be eliminated, everything is so naked.

Li Ang and Cao Anmin are close friends, from this Great Qin Emperor, he learned a lot of things, the inheritance of the Great Qin monarch, pay attention to interests, above all national interests, to a certain extent, they are more ruthless than the Legalists, in their eyes, their duty is to protect the country, if killing some people will make more people live, they will not hesitate to order to kill those people, whether they should die or not, in one hundred and fifty years, there are countless countries and nations that have been slaughtered by the Great Qin Army, Perhaps everything is like what the third monarch of Great Qin, the Emperor Wu who once wanted to become the supreme dictator, said after the Great Qin army suppressed the rebellion in Southeast Asia and killed nearly 600,000 natives, 'The soldiers of Great Qin have paid precious blood for these lands, and I will not let that blood be shed in vain, so as many people rebel, I will order to kill as many people as possible, and no one can stop it.' At that time, Emperor Wu followed the example of the first emperor of the pre-Qin and killed Confucian scholars from all over the country who accused the Great Qin army of being cruel and unkind.

Li Ang agreed with the ideals of Emperor Wu and the Great Qin Emperor, so he killed countless people in the northwest, despite being criticized by most of the literati in the world

Cao Anmin, the Great Qin Emperor, and many high-ranking ministers and families were dismissive, and they were as ruthless as Li Ang.

In the handsome tent, Li Ang, who was thinking about his past, was awakened by Li Cunzhi, who had entered the account, "What's wrong?" Seeing that Li Cunzhi's face was heavy, Li Ang's eyebrows were twisted together, and he took the battle report from the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate handed over by Li Cunzhi.

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On the northern front of the river, the Great Qin army suffered the biggest defeat and humiliation since the founding of the People's Republic of China, in a battle in which each side invested nearly 100,000 people, the Great Qin was defeated, although the Huns were only defeated, but they seized the important place to be decided in the battle, and what made Great Qin even more embarrassing was that since the founding of Great Qin, for the first time, there were large surrenders of Great Qin soldiers, and a full 30,000 soldiers were captured, although Emperor Taizu had 'in a desperate situation, soldiers were allowed to surrender. But in the past hundred and fifty years, in any war in the past, no Great Qin soldiers surrendered to the enemy, all of them fought to the death, until the last man, gradually, it became the tradition of Great Qin to fight to the death, you can imagine how shocking it was for Great Qin when this tradition that everyone was proud of was broken.

After reading the battle report, Li Ang could even imagine how angry Cao Anmin would become when he knew all this, as Cao Anmin, who was discouraged to restore the strength of the heyday of Great Qin's hegemony, would never accept such a defeat. "Save your wisdom and sharpen your ink." Putting down the battle report, Li Ang looked at Li Cunzhi, he had to say to Cao Anmin, this is his duty as a courtier, the soldiers who grew up in the Chengping era have less iron-blooded tyrants, even if they are well-trained, they need to go through battle formations in order to become the all-conquering Great Qin Army that swept across the continent in the past.

A month later, the battle report submitted by the Anxi Protectorate shocked the people of the world, since Emperor Taizu raised his army, the invincible Great Qin Army was actually defeated, and the once heroic and good at fighting, the unyielding Great Qin soldiers actually surrendered. It's nightmarish news, and no one wants to believe it, but it's true.

The defeat of the Great Qin Army this time can be said to have made the entire imperial court lose face, the only thing that makes the royal family and the family happy is that the 30,000 people who surrendered did not include the generals, and the generals above the guerrilla level, whether they were from civilian backgrounds or from families, would rather die than surrender, and after the surrender of their subordinates, they chose to cut themselves.

In the imperial study, Cao Anmin's face was pale, this time the defeat of the Great Qin Army brought him an indelible shame, in the pen of the historian, he will become the first emperor to suffer defeat since the kings of the Great Qin Dynasty, and the prestige of the ancestors and ancestors was folded in his hands.

"My face, Daqin's face, have all been lost by your Lu family." Cao Anmin almost roared and said, the face of the head of the Lu family standing below him was also difficult to see, Lu Yan, the governor of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, was his brother, as the supreme commander of the northern front, he must take responsibility, not only to the emperor, to the people of the world, but also to the ancestors of the Lu family, the Lu family since the ancestor Lu Bu, the prestige is famous, the ancestors who served as generals in the past generations have never damaged the prestige of the ancestor of Lu Bu's god of war, but now, the prestige of the seven generations of the Lu family has been ruined.

Cao Anmin calmed down, he looked at the head of the Lu family, who had never said a word, and said, "What I said just now is serious, this battle is not a crime of one person. Cao Anmin knew in his heart that the root cause of this defeat was the slack of military equipment in Chengping's thirty years, although he had worked hard after he ascended the throne, but thirty years of comfort had already made the Great Qin Army a human being, except for the troops led by Li Ang, the rest of the Great Qin's troops even if they were called elite, they had never killed anyone and seen blood, let alone those new troops who were hurriedly put into the northern front after the beginning of spring, which was exploited by the Huns.

In this battle, among the 100,000 soldiers on the Great Qin side, only 20,000 were the native troops of the Anxi Protectorate, of which only 8,000 were veterans who fought with the Huns last year, and the rest were recruited and trained last year, a new army of 80,000 people. Although the head of the Lu family also knew this, he still pleaded guilty to Cao Anmin and took the blame.

This defeat, not only the Lu family lost face, but the entire military and martial families of the Anxi Protectorate can be said to be shameless to their ancestors, the Zhao family, the Ma family and other families almost went crazy and stuffed the children of their own family and the branch family to the northern line, and they must personally wash away this shame. Cao Anmin issued an edict and took the initiative to take the responsibility for the defeat, but despite this, Lu Yan, the governor of the Anxi Protectorate, still submitted a petition and cut himself in the army.

After Lu Yan's death, almost all the people in the world hoped that Li Ang, the number one general in the world, would go to the northern front to sit in town, and in their hearts, only this killing god who could be compared with the Warring States Wu'an Jun Bai Qi could make the Great Qin Army regain its former prestige and regain this shame, but Chang'an was extremely silent about it, and no one knew the reason.