People all over the world are looking forward to Li Ang going to the northern front to sit in town, no matter how much he slaughters the Huns, no one will dare to jump out and say half a word, but Cao Anmin can't do this, Li Ang is now the respect of the country, if he defeats the Huns again, how should he be rewarded, and the family of Chang'an will not agree. Thinking of this, Cao Anmin's eyes fell on the piece in his hand, which was written to him by Li Ang himself, and it was the words he stated that made him finally dispel his thoughts.

The army needs to be tempered by iron and blood, the soldiers who grew up from the Chengping era do not experience cruel battlefields, how can they become a real invincible legion, the glory of the ancestors should not be a burden, but an inspiration, this defeat may be a good thing, and the Daqin Legion that rises again will become faster and more terrifying. This is what Li Ang said to Cao Anmin, and he is the only one in the world who dares to say such things on Cao Anmin's head. Putting down the chapter, Cao Anmin looked in the northwest direction, sighed leisurely, and then asked the inner servant to issue an order to summon the military and military high-ranking men in Beijing to enter the palace, and he had to convince these people if he wanted to set a big governor who could fight for the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

In the Weiyang Palace, the heads of the 17 military and military high-ranking families of the Western Army were all sitting silently, and the defeat of the Anxi Duhufu not only made them lose face, but also was laughed at by the people of the world, and what was even more embarrassing was that they lost the prestige of their ancestors, and they did not have the face to see the ancestors of the past dynasties after their deaths. Everyone's faces were as cold and hard as iron, and they knew that it would never be a good thing for the emperor to summon them. All are ready to be reprimanded. But to their surprise, after the emperor arrived, although his face was not good. However, he did not reprimand them, but wanted to discuss with them the question of the selection of the governor of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate. "Tang Guogong went to the concert and recommended to me the captain of the Dragoon Army as the governor of Anxi, what do you think?" Cao Anmin said his candidate, although Li Ang did not go to the northern front, but he pushed his friend Ma Jun out. Out of understanding Li Angdi, Cao Anmin has already decided on this candidate in his heart.

Listening to the name of the emperor, the seventeen heads of the family were all in their hearts, Ma Jun, this name is not too unfamiliar to them, after all, since the Huns invaded Hezhong, he has been the strongest among the children of the Western Army family, and has fought with the Huns several times. He hasn't suffered a defeat yet, but he is always younger, and he is just a school captain, and the most troops he led were only 50,000 people to the Xiongnu border for a sneak attack. burned the grain and grass of the Huns, and never fought a major battle of more than 100,000 people. And at present, there are more than 300,000 troops on the entire northern front, and with his qualifications, I am afraid that he will not be able to suppress it.

Among the seventeen family heads, Ma Jun, who was in the same vein, was the first to speak, "The minister has no objection." Although he knew that once Ma Jun became the governor of Anxi, then the branch where Ma Jun was located would inevitably overshadow his family, but he had to agree, because compared with the interests of the entire Ma family, the family is really not counted, if he does not agree, how will the Ma family view the family, once the time is separated, the family will still decline, it is better to send a favor to Ma Jun, and only want to keep the status of one of the three major bloodlines of the Ma family in the future, and there will always be a comeback.

Seeing that the Ma family agreed, the rest of the family heads agreed after thinking about it for a while, firstly, they did not want to go against the emperor's wishes, and secondly, since they were recommended by Li Ang, the reincarnation of Bai Qi, they always had something extraordinary, and the most important thing was that Ma Jun was also a child of the Western Army, and he was regarded as his own person.

On the second day, Cao Anmin and the appointment of the military hall announced to the world, which was unexpected, the emperor and the imperial court actually handed over the heavy troops of the northern front to a young lieutenant with little seniority, which made it difficult for them to accept, but they forgot that Li Ang, who was known as the first general in the world, was younger, but this time Li Ang failed to serve as the commander of the northern front, and there were some voices that were unfavorable to him. For a time, this kind of voice was also popular among the literati who were not accustomed to Li Ang, and they wrote articles in the Di newspaper to belittle Li Ang, believing that even if Li Ang went to the northern front to take control, he might not be able to defeat the Huns.

In Chang'an City, Wang Meng arranged the migration of 80,000 Han people, and at the same time, Triist was also stepping up to sell Li Ang's remaining property and exchange it for gold baht, planning to escort it to the river.

But they don't care, it doesn't mean that no one will care, at least when Cao Anmin saw the article in the newspaper, he was already not in a good mood, he became more and more disgusted with these limbs are not diligent, the five bodies are not firm, but the self-evident and elegant literati, Chengping for 30 years, Confucianism is used to a group of literati who can do things with poetry and words, all day long and every day than whose articles are better, who paints good paintings, and the atmosphere of the world has been broken, after Cao Anmin ascended the throne, he dismissed the ruling Confucianism to seventy-seven eighty-eight, but he forgot that this group of people like to moan without disease, A literati scholar who flaunts a talented and beautiful woman, at this time, this group of people said that Li Ang's name did not match the truth, didn't they just point their noses and scold him for not knowing people, how could Cao Anmin let go of this group of people.

So in just a few days, in the green buildings in Chang'an City, the number of ordinary *** literati who often come suddenly dropped sharply. Cao Anmin didn't plan to learn from the First Emperor, he just asked Jing Zhaoyin to find these people impassionedly, and went to their mansion to get people from the articles on Bingge. Didn't you say that you want to serve the country and come to be a scholar and a marquis? Now that the opportunity has come, the northern front has suffered a defeat and is short of people, so you will go to the frontier, serve the country well, make meritorious contributions, and the court will give you the title of Marquis of Ten Thousand Households.

Jing Zhaoyin grabbed according to Cao Anmin's will, and the literati and scholars who were usually good at speaking for seven or eight hundred times were all stuffed into the barracks. Cao Anmin was intent on sending these people to death, and naturally he didn't bother to let them train, so he directly followed the reinforcements of the Chang'an Protectorate to the northern line of Hezhong, he wanted to see how these people could settle the country by mouth.

The Emperor's Deeds. The major families are in the eyes. The atmosphere in Chang'an was suddenly purged, and those military and military families were better, but the children of those civil and official families were unlucky. year

The children of Pingsuli and those literati who have friends with Qinglou have been revitalized by the martial arts tradition that the elders have thrown away for 30 years, this time it is no longer to practice those fancy and beautiful swordsmanship, but to invite someone to teach actual swordsmanship, and the juniors who have already had some weakness are miserable, and they have no time to go to the Qinglou Chu Pavilion to linger.

When the news of what happened in Chang'an reached Li Ang. Along with Cao Anmin and Juntang, there was also an edict signed by Cao Anmin and Juntang, asking Li Ang's 70,000 men and horses from the original Anxi Protectorate to immediately march west and garrison Jerusalem in Dragon City. After receiving the edict, Li Ang immediately asked Li Cunxiao to send the edict to the front, it turned out that since receiving the battle report of the defeat on the northern front, Li Ang immediately realized that after this defeat broke the myth of the invincibility of the Great Qin army, it would definitely stimulate the ambitions of the Romans and prompt them to challenge the hegemony of Great Qin in the Mediterranean. Therefore, he put the 70,000 people of the Anxi Protectorate into Murong Ke's sequence early and stationed them in Persia, firstly, to contain them, and secondly, as long as the will of Chang'an arrived. They could immediately rush to Jerusalem, the city of the dragon.

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Two days later, Li Cunxiao rushed to Murong Ke's camp. Because Li Ang's order to Murong Ke was to contain the Persians and prevent them from increasing troops to Pargodes, he did not make any big moves except for sending a small group of cavalry to harass him during these days, and after seeing the edict brought by Li Cunxiao, he couldn't help but hold him and asked, "What else does the grandfather command?" "Since Li Ang was crowned the Duke of Tang, all the generals under his command have been called like this to show respect.

"My father-in-law said that 70,000 soldiers and horses will also need some time to take care of it, and General Murong can beat the Persians and tell him the truth of spending money to eliminate disasters." Li Cunxiao has been following Li Ang for a long time, knowing that Li Ang has never talked about benevolence, righteousness and morality when facing the enemy, let alone the despicable means, as long as there is benefit, he will do it.

"Grandpa, I understand." Murong Ke was idle and had nothing to do, and at this time, Li Ang clearly allowed him to attack the royal capital of the Persians and extort money from them, and he was naturally happy. From the next day, Murong Ke released the four heavenly kings of Helian Bobo, Yuan Ying, Xue Andu, and Er Zhurong, and nearly 40,000 cavalry invaded the area near the royal capital, forcing the Persians to send them out of the city.

After several days of large-scale harassment, the Persians finally couldn't help it, and released the iron cavalry of the royal capital, hoping to prevent Helian Bobo from destroying the vicinity of the royal capital, and more and more civilians flocked to the royal capital in the past few days, and the nobles and ministers in the city were afraid that Murong Ke was planning to drag down their grain and grass, and they did not have the intention of being able to win, and the victory of the Huns on the northern front made them feel that the Great Qin army was not invincible, so the momentum of the main battle faction in the royal capital rose, Silenced the opposition.

After Li Ang became the Duke of Tang Guo, the army under his command officially became his personal army, although the number was a little larger, but it was obvious that they were no longer part of the Great Qin Legion, so Helian Bobo and they naturally would not follow the tactics of the Great Qin Legion in the past to engage head-on and crush the enemy. They sent 10,000 cavalry to ambush in the selected location, and the remaining 30,000 people fought a decisive battle with the iron cavalry of the royal capital out of the city in the main force, and fled after half a day of fierce battle, because the Great Qin army had never had a precedent of defeat, and the commander of the iron cavalry of the royal capital also took it for granted that Helian Bobo they were really defeated by their own side, and he would be like the general of the Huns, to obtain a great victory, so he commanded the whole army to pursue, and finally ambushed, the whole army was annihilated, and the iron cavalry of 70,000 people was beheaded after 20,000, and the rest all surrendered.

This defeat immediately made the main battle faction in the royal capital fall from the clouds to the trough, Bandas XVII forgot about the fact that he promised the main battle faction to send the royal capital iron cavalry, and directly put all the ministers of the main battle faction in prison, and ordered that without his order, no Persian army should take the initiative to provoke the Great Qin army, for Bandas XVII, as long as the current situation is maintained, after Pargodes destroys the remnants of Cambyses, he will be able to negotiate terms with Great Qin, truly unify Persia, and call the emperor, So after suffering a big loss again, he was sure that the victory of the Huns was just a bargain, and if he let the murderous demon king he faced, Tang Guogong of Daqin, go to the northern front, he believed that the Huns won the battle of the land. It will end with them all being decapitated. Thinking of this, Bandas XVII was angry for a while, if he could. He really wanted to invite Li Ang, the god of killing, to the Huns, as for his side, it would be better for any marshal to come to Daqin, the fear caused by that Jingguan to the Persians was really terrible, thinking of the generals who fled back from the border at the beginning of the year to tell those who built a mountain of earth with human heads, Bandas XVII couldn't help but shudder.

Just when the Persians were in a state of panic. The envoy sent by Murong Ke arrived, and the intention of this envoy was very simple, among the 50,000 royal capital iron cavalry who surrendered, there was no shortage of nobles and officers and generals from large families, and the benevolently Great Qin Tang Guogong decided to give them a way to live, as long as their families were willing to pay for redemption, they could return safe and sound, of course, if they were unwilling. Their heads will be cut off and a fourth temple will be built to stand in Persia to fulfill their reputation as unyielding in death.

Under such a naked threat. How dare the families of those officers and generals say a word, in fact they don't even dare to bargain. And the envoy sent by Murong Ke, who turned out to be a horse thief Turk, announced the list of all the officers and generals brought by the post house where he stayed, including the 20,000 Zhongdi officers and generals who were beheaded. It can be said that there is Cui Hao, a ruthless poisoner, and things like this are always arranged to maximize benefits, everything is clearly priced, and the absolute fair price is listed according to the rank and bottom of the Persian army, but this falls in the eyes of the Persians, but it is a torture and ravage, of course, Cui Hao never does meaningless things, in addition to making money, he wants to hit the morale of the Persians to the greatest extent, so that they are afraid and afraid, and when they hear the names of Daqin and Li Ang in the future, they dare not have other ideas. In the end, from all the Persian captured officers and generals, Leon received an income of nearly 10 million gold baht, which made him sigh that Persia was indeed rich.

Almost all the Persians believed that after these captured officers and generals were released, the 50,000 ordinary soldiers would be killed.

Fishy Jingguan, but they miscalculated again, Li Ang asked Murong Ke to release the soldiers, and returned the bodies of those dead soldiers, of course, their armor, weapons and horses were offset as food expenses.

"Mr. Cui, what do you mean by grandpa? 50,000 people were used as slaves, or if they went to do some hard work, they were just put back for nothing, it was not worth it! In Cui Hao's tent, Murong Ke looked puzzled, in his eyes, Li Ang had always been decisive in killing, especially for the main force of the enemy, if he couldn't take it for his own use, it would be all killed, and he had never let go of such a thing as a prisoner.

"Murong, do you know what is the difference between you and your grandfather?" Cui Hao did not answer, but asked Murong Ke a question.

"How can I compare to my grandfather!" Murong Ke didn't know about Cui Hao's problem, so he always respected Li Ang as a celestial man, and he used soldiers to deal with things, and he was also a learned Li Ang.

"In terms of the use of troops alone, you are on a par with your grandfather and General Chen, and you may even be half a line higher than your grandfather and General Chen in the use of cavalry, but in terms of the overall situation, you are much worse." Looking at Murong, Cui Hao said with some regret, "Killing those 50,000 soldiers can certainly intimidate the Persians, but it may also arouse their hearts of resistance." Speaking of this, Cui Hao paused before continuing, "These 50,000 people have been here for these days, watching their officers and generals being ransomed, but no one has paid attention to them, and they must have a grudge in their hearts, and they are afraid of us like tigers, let them go back, just like Murong You let go of those surrendered troops when you broke through their border defense line earlier!" ”

"What Mr. Cui said is indeed reasonable, but these 50,000 people are not those farmers and herdsmen, and I am afraid that after returning home, they may not be able to disturb the morale of the Persian army." Murong Ke frowned, he also had his thoughts.

Seeing that Murong Ke was still worried, Cui Hao didn't say anything, some things can not be understood by talking, he just said, "Murong, you still want to think about it, how to attack the city, scare Bandas XVII, let him get the money out as soon as possible, the Anxi army's itinerary can't be delayed, and after they go west, we will go back to the army river." ”

"This is easy to do, tomorrow let those Persians taste the power of ballistas and ballistas!" Speaking of siege, Murong Ke's eyes lit up, the craftsman that Li Ang brought back from the Foundry Division of the Ministry of Industry was powerful enough, after his modification, the power of the ballista and the crossbow car was much greater, I believe the Persians would be very surprised by this.

Ballista, the ancient Greeks reached the pinnacle of siege weapons, although its manufacturing principle is not too difficult, but several important components, such as the bracket and torsion spring require precision casting technology and complex mathematical formulas, in the western expedition one hundred and fifty years ago, the Great Qin Legion got the production technology of the ballista from the Greeks, after the improvement of the Mo family, the firing range is longer, and the unique catapult of the Great Qin formed the heavy firepower weapon of the Great Qin Legion when attacking the city, although it is not as famous as the strong crossbow of the Great Qin, but it is also famous, In the thirty years since Chengping, the Great Qin Army does not seem to have used these heavy siege weapons. Now Murong plans to let the Persians learn from the past, let them know that it is not safe to hide in the fortified city, maybe a huge rock will fall from the sky and be smashed into meat sauce.

Rows of giant catapults and ballistae were placed outside the range of the heavy defensive weapons on the Persian city walls, and the Han veterans under Murong Ke's command skillfully operated the catapults for the final calibration, although those Hu comrades had learned from them how to operate these heavy siege equipment, but few of them could figure out the mathematical formulas and calculation methods that the Han soldiers wanted them to understand, so there were very few Hu people who cooperated with the Han soldiers to fiddle with these terrifying weapons.

On the city wall, the generals of the Persian city defense army looked panicked, one by one, as if they were facing a great enemy, no one expected that the Great Qin Legion, which had just released 50,000 prisoners, would immediately kill the city, and also put on a siege posture, looking at the huge catapults in the distance, they shuddered in their hearts, in the mouths of the 50,000 captives, the Great Qin Legion was as strong as the devil, and it was not an enemy they could defeat.

On the position where Daqin placed siege equipment, Li Ang was also there, and after Feng Siniang and Lin Fengshuang returned to Chang'an to pick up their precious children, he was able to come to the front line in person. Looking at Li Ang, Murong Ke had no regrets, he had waited for a long time for the right to fire at the scale of thirty heavy catapults and one hundred ballistas, but now he could only watch from the sidelines.

Without giving the Persians much time to prepare, Leon gave the order to open fire, "Three rounds, fire!" Following his order, Huang Yuan calmly reported several sets of numbers, and then the torsion spring made of animal muscle suddenly loosened from the tight state, and the huge rock was thrown into the sky, smashing into the Persian wall along the elliptical parabola in mid-air.

In the loud noise, thirty boulders smashed the Persian city wall into a blur of flesh and blood, almost all the soldiers were frightened, they had never seen such a scene, but in the old man's story, they heard that the black terrorist army used this weapon that could easily destroy the city wall when destroying the city, they used to think that it was just a legend, but now they have seen it with their own eyes, no one can describe the shock and panic in their hearts.

"Shoot back, shoot back!" The officers who were the first to come to their senses shouted, and the stunned Persian soldiers came to their senses, and with their fear, they operated the trebuchets on the city walls and began to return fire at the position where Leon was in the distance.

Looking at the boulder that had fallen a hundred paces away in front of him, Li Ang looked at the Persian city wall in the distance, shook his head, and then looked back at Huang Yuan, "Use the ballista to knock out their fixed catapults." ”

The ballista has a complete aiming system, which is much more accurate than the catapult, and with the command of Huang Yuan, the arrow god, the accuracy of its firepower has reached an almost terrifying level, and the whistling stone projectile smashed the catapult on the Persian city wall, but in a short moment, all the catapults on the head of the Persian city were dumbfounded. And Li Ang also ordered to stop the bombardment, the whole heaven and earth were terrifyingly quiet, the Persian soldiers who were still alive on the city wall were as demented as if they were enchanted, and there were not many of them dead, but the horror caused to them by Daqin's heavy weapons was engraved into their hearts like a nightmare.