Chapter 417: Sticking the Persians to Our Battlefield
Vologis V finally realized Suning's power, which made him have to reassess the situation of the war, and now all the forces in the country are ready to move, if he misses on the battlefield, then the princes from all walks of life will set off a turbulent rebellion in the country, and those careerists represented by Babak will definitely not make the royal family happy.
In order for the empire to remain in the hands of their own people, Vologis V had to make every step of the way on the front lines, and if he made a mistake, he would bring irreparable losses.
However, as long as the news of the defeat does not reach the country, those people will not be able to blatantly start a rebellion, because they are also very afraid of the army in their hands, although the logistics supply of this army has become more and more difficult, especially in the Persian plateau, the difficult mountain roads and relatively low production have made his foreign expansion war encounter severe challenges, if it was the powerful Persian Empire a few hundred years ago, then their tentacles of conquest could extend to the Mediterranean coast, but now, The only important export area they had at their disposal was part of the valley of the Two Rivers, which, for the past few decades, had been in vogue because the Roman Empire had ambitions for that land.
Moreover, after a few hundred years, it would take some production across the entire Persian plateau to transport grain to the battlefields in the east, which was undoubtedly a very painful thing for the Persian people, who were already burdened with a huge burden of labor, and even he, the emperor, knew very well that if he dared to give such an order, it would only hasten the rebellion in the country. Even those people will not wait for the news of their defeat to come back, and they will set off a storm when they are forced to do so.
So now he is actually in a bit of a dilemma, if it weren't for Suning, a foreign invader, so that she could take the name of righteousness to worry about an army that can fight habitually, I'm afraid his criminal is not as good as now, from this point of view, in fact, he should thank Suning.
It's just that this kind of thing is originally a mutual use, and only those who can sort out the interests can really grasp the opportunity. The current Persian emperor thinks that he has a very thorough understanding of the situation at home and abroad, and on the one hand, he must not inflict a heavier burden on the people at home, otherwise those who are already ambitious will definitely use this as an excuse to overthrow his rule. But he is also facing a very difficult war, and the losses caused by this war to the country need to be borne by its people. And once defeated, it will directly let those careerists see the opportunity, so that a vicious circle will be formed, he can neither afford to fight, nor can he afford to consume, he can only win this war to have a chance of victory, and must achieve a large victory, can not cause too many casualties, otherwise he will not have enough armed forces to deter the rebel forces in the country.
Such an embarrassing situation made it difficult for the emperor to sleep, but his ministers quickly came up with another strategy for him, that is, to take the initiative to negotiate peace with the Han Empire, and then lead this newly formed army to return to the Persian plateau and directly participate in the counterinsurgency war.
But the emperor was a little dissatisfied with the minister who made this suggestion, for no other reason, and a suggestion like me that was able to jump out of the cage should have been put forward a long time ago, why has it been put up until now.
It was that cart that was also very innocent, because at the beginning of the war, the balance of power between the two sides was not like this, you must know that Suning at that time was quite well prepared, and heavy troops were deployed on the front that stretched for thousands of miles, and there were not many empires themselves that could do this. If you retreat rashly at that time, you will definitely be pursued by the enemy on all fronts. Even if the Persian side proposed peace talks, the prime minister of the Han Empire would not easily agree. Because he knew that his defense line was impregnable, and he had spare strength to attack, who would give up the war resources that had been mobilized with great difficulty and choose to negotiate and negotiate in such a situation.
However, the situation on the part of the Han Empire changed after it was launched, because they suddenly carried out a southern expedition, so that their forces appeared weak on the defensive line, if it were not for those wires and fortresses, I am afraid that the Persian side would have broken through this weak defensive line, but even so, they are no longer as solid as they were at the beginning of the war, and they have spare strength when attacking, because even if the Persians start to retreat now, With their current forces, they could not have much advantage in the pursuit, but on the contrary, the Persian viziers seemed to be able to lose to the Persians in the fierce battles in the field if they dared to leave their defenses, as they had considerable experience in this area.
For the past 1,000 years, the vast area from the Greek Aegean Sea to the River Plains has been alive with traces of Persian battles. They consider themselves proud of this, although they have also been defeated by the Greeks in the past, and even the small Greek city-states will spread their colonies from the western side of the Persian Plateau to the eastern side of the Persian Plateau, and the area where Suning is now stationed is a base of the Greeks.
This feat is very shocking in history, and it is also very easy for some history lovers in later generations to ignore, no one would have thought that the small Greek city-states would contain such a strong fighting power, in fact, this may be the emancipation of the mind to bring people a bonus, institutional advantages, so that the Greeks are more loyal to their own country, rather than human slaves, but not necessarily willing to die for their slave owners.
Thus, when the war-torn Greece was united by a city-state called Macedonia, this force with unlimited potential turned into the first huge empire in human history, and Alexander the Great used his crusade to show the world how fragile the kingdom established through a backward and ignorant system was.
The Greeks also used such brilliant achievements to set such an example for the later Arabs, otherwise, it would not have been possible for the nearby communities of Europe to import the Greek culture originally in southern Europe from the Arabs at the time of the Crusades, and when those people got the writings of Aristotle and others, they were all regarded as treasures, and it was from that time that the barbarian Christian countries slowly appeared the light of civilization, and before that, their system was also quite backward, This group of their achievements in the Eastern Crusade can be seen, you know, when Alexander the Great was in the Eastern Crusade, but he kept moving his battle flag to the vicinity of the Indus River, if it were not for the obstruction of the Xindu Kush Mountains, I am afraid that most of India would have become his territory After all, before him, because the ancient Aryans had already entered the northern part of India along this route, and even this group of Aryans crossed Xinyu into the Central Plains, if it weren't for the fact that Fu Hao, the wife of Wang Wuding, would have beaten this group of people solidly, They were martyred, and perhaps Alexander the Great would also know the route to the Central Plains, but according to the level of the Qin Empire at that time, it was still unknown whether he could stop the lord of the Greek city-state.
But even so, the Persians still broke free from the rule of the Greeks, and they used their tenacious fighting spirit and cultural heritage with their own national characteristics to once again establish a new country, including the Persian Plateau, which is like the Chinese civilization, which is often affected by foreign races, although there are few, but can still rely on the profound cultural heritage, to ensure the inheritance of civilization and brew a new regime at any time, but Persia, an ancient civilization, seems to only have something to be proud of militarily, And he did not like Greece, the era of prosperity in culture and education, but his opponent China, but in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a rich cultural foundation of a hundred schools of thought, although a hundred schools of thought, which did not last long, was replaced by the deposition of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the exclusive respect for Confucianism, but it is undeniable that these hundreds of years have been enough for those learned intellectual elites to explore the basic idea of the survival of the regime.
As a result, more advanced systems began to appear on the land of China, so the phenomenon that defeated the old Persian empire in those years was about to appear again.
It was still the advanced that liberated the free mind and gave them a stronger will to defend their homeland and country. Under such inspiration, the most powerful imperial Khan in history appeared, and when other empires were dying because of weakness, there was a guy called the Roman Empire who chose to survive, and this guy called the Han Empire chose to die alone.
How can such a bloody country fall behind others in such a thing as war, not to mention that their advanced culture and system are far from staying in the military aspect, whether it is in culture and medicine, as well as other factors such as architecture, which are closely related to war, so that they all have advanced knowledge and concepts, which allows them to analyze the behavior of war from more angles, and enrich the means of war, and improve the winning rate of war. This was obviously an unthinkable social act for the Persian Empire, which would only fight with slaves.
So when they faced this war with the Han Empire, they underestimated the strength of their opponents at the beginning.
Even without the existence of Suning, the Han Empire would not necessarily lose to the Persian Empire in this time and space, but the two great empires were too far apart, after all, in the original history, there was also a Kushan Empire in the middle, and it was a powerful empire established by the minority expelled from the Han Empire.
Because destroyers have been staged many times in world history like dominoes, for example, the guy called the Xiongnu, who was once expelled by the Han Empire and left the eastern tip of Asia, they walked west step by step along the land line of communication, and unknowingly destroyed the Western Roman Empire, and the Eastern Roman Empire also persisted for more than a thousand years before going to extinction, and it was the Turks who were driven out by the Tang Empire who destroyed them.
In other words, before history entered the modern chapter, the armed forces of Chinese civilization have been driving the development of world military history, how did they do it? A comprehensive understanding of war, of course.
Fighting a war is about making money, not just by relying on how much you say, whether the equipment is advanced or not? Governing a country is a very systematic project, far from being as simple as the Persians imagined, although they also did a lot of brilliant feats in their heyday, but it is undeniable that the Han Empire has always been good at this.
What's more, now they have a guy called Toyota, this guy has brought more advanced things to this country from the historical time and space he is familiar with, although the territory controlled by Song Qing is not the entire Han Empire, and he can't concentrate all the production factors of the entire Han Empire and unify them into a powerful war force, but with the policy resources he has now, it is enough to deal with the empire in front of him, because the total area of land he now controls has exceeded that of the Roman Empire. Not to mention the unification of armed forces like this, not to mention the Central Plains, even if they push their own ice to the valley of the two rivers, or even more distant under the city of Rome, it cannot be regarded as an empty talk.
Since they have such a strong strength, how can they easily make peace with some people? So when the Persian attendant appeared outside Suning's tent, the family of the Han Empire did not have time to meet this person, but sent him back as he was, but the Persians would not give up the sincerity of the negotiation They thought very clearly, the negotiation was just a pretense, what they had to do, take advantage of this opportunity to slip away, flee to the Persian plateau of their community, and the complex terrain and landforms of Sister Ping would resist collectively, and as long as they could deter the rebellion of the princes there, they will be able to obtain enough wealth in a steady stream, because those of them have hoarded enough money for the rebellion, and if they can get that, the various dilemmas that the empire is facing now will be alleviated.
But they seem to have forgotten about the chicken feathers that the Han Empire had in their hands. How could those schemes that had appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period be familiar to the Persians? Thereupon. , I wish you to soon see through the other party's plan, and know that they are just in the dark of no time, so without waiting for their retreat, a large-scale pursuit will take place