The dawn of the light illuminated the earth, and in the great camp of Upper Persia, Cambyses listened to it, and his face was very ugly. The Qin army's sneak attack last night had cost him nearly 3,000 men, 1,300 people had been killed, and the rest had been wounded of varying degrees of severity, and they had no idea of the Qin army attacking at night.

Cambyses didn't rant at his generals to vent his anger, he just looked at the general of the scout battalion with a calm face, and his voice was stiff, "What about our scouts and ranger posts?" They were actually attacked by the enemy at night without warning the camp, are they all dead? ”

"Say!" Seeing that the scout general was about to speak and stopped, Cambyses's voice suddenly rang out, "Don't babble like a!" ”

"My lord, they are all dead!" The scout general's voice was bitter, "The scouts and ranger posts we arranged outside the camp were all killed, none of them were alive, last night's Qin ** regiment was too powerful, they didn't give our people the slightest chance to warn the camp." ”

The generals in the room gasped, and the scouts and rangers they had arranged outside the camp were no less than a hundred people, each of whom was a good player, but it was really unacceptable that they were all wiped out overnight. Cambyses listened to this answer, his face couldn't help but stagnate, and after a while, he came back to his senses, he thought of the fifteen thousand people sent out to attack the Qin ** weapon stronghold, and in an instant, he seemed to be ten years old, and sat down in the handsome chair, "Mendez, they're finished!" ”

Cambyses's whispers made the tent fall silent, in fact, their losses were not great after the attack last night, but the fifteen thousand iron cavalry sent out were the elite of the army, and they could not come back. The thought rose in the heart of every general. They knew that they had fallen for the tricks of the Qin people. Buried the 15,000 elite iron horsemen.

"Send out scouts, I want to know the details of our subway ride." Cambyses suddenly raised his head and looked at his men in the tent. "Fortify the big camp fortifications and give me hard training soldiers."

"Yes, sir." The deep sense of humiliation made every general feel remorseful, they regretted that they had underestimated the strength of the Qin ** regiment, and at the same time hated their own weakness and powerlessness.

In the winding mountain road, there is the victorious Great Qin Army. However, as the main general, Murong Ke had a frosty face, without any joy, he was very dissatisfied with the surprise attack last night, the resistance of the Persians exceeded his expectations, it was only a fierce battle for more than half an hour, he actually suffered nearly 300 casualties, you must know that they had the advantage, and cleared all the posts on the periphery of the Persians in their own scouts. When the gate of the opponent's camp was opened, they were actually blocked by the front camp of the Persians, and finally had to retreat in advance with reinforcements from the opponent's two flanks.

"The opponent has become stronger." Murong said secretly in his heart. His enemies were no longer the Hu people who only relied on brute courage before, but a great power like Great Qin. Their soldiers were equally well-trained and well-equipped, and they should not be underestimated. Thinking of the Haikou he boasted to Li Ang before leaving, Murong Kedi's face became hot, he remembered that Li Ang had told him not to underestimate the enemy, but he forgot it all.

"I wonder how the battle is going over there?" Murong Ke raised his head and looked ahead, he was afraid that he would not be able to return to the camp until evening, and it was estimated that everything would only be known until evening.

As a surrendered general, Mendes did not abandon his dignity, he insisted on being with his soldiers, rather than living in a camp prepared by Liu Yu for him, as the leader of the younger generation of the Mendes family, he has a long-term vision that is difficult for his peers to achieve, but he is still a little immature, Mendes has always thought that if he can resist the temptation of Daqin's ordnance, as long as he carries one or two hundred pieces and retreats in advance, then he will not be defeated and surrendered.

However, Mendez knew that he was just making excuses, but he still believed that most people would not be able to resist the temptation in the face of such a large number of fine weapons, and he could only say that his state of mind was not tempered enough. So when Mendes was taken by Liu Yu to see Li Ang, his face showed shock and disbelief for this Marshal of Great Qin, who was younger than himself, if he hadn't felt the chilling coldness on Li Ang's body, he almost thought that Liu Yu was lying to him.

'Whew! A tiger roar brought Mendez, who was a little distracted, back to his senses, and he looked at the black tiger lying next to the handsome chair in horror, and looked up at the terrifying owner of the creature, General Qin Zhengxi.

"General Mendes, I hope you can make your soldiers honest, to be honest I hate letting obsidian eat human flesh, but that doesn't mean I won't do that." Leon looked at the curly-haired, handsome-faced Persian general in front of him and said, of course, the second half of his sentence was to scare Mendes, in fact, he had never let Obsidian eat human flesh.

"I'm deeply sorry about what happened on the road, and I will restrain the soldiers." Mendez watched as he opened his bloody mouth under Leon's touch

The tiger hurriedly said, he didn't want those troublemaking soldiers to become the blood in the dark, "But I also hope that Marshal Li can keep his promise, your previous killings have made my soldiers full of fear and uneasiness towards you." Mendez shifted gears and talked about Leon's past killings of prisoners.

"General Mendes, I don't think you should believe the rumors." Looking at the persistent Persian, Li Ang laughed, "You can indeed think that I am a ruthless person, but you should also know that the guarantee of a Great Qin general is definitely stronger than any oath, since I said that I will not kill you, I will never go back on my word, of course, if you kill yourself, you can't blame me." ”

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"This time I will spare the Persian soldiers who tried to rebel, but next time they will not have so good luck." Leon's gaze forced Mendes, "I'll give you and your soldiers food, drink, and other things, but you'll have to pay for it." "Leon did not intend to raise these Persian captives for nothing, although they would be of great use in the future.

"That's acceptable to me." Looking at Leon who was gently stroking the black tiger, Mendes knew that he didn't have the capital to refuse at all, but he still wanted to know what Leon wanted to do.

"Even though we are hostile now, I think I will soon be fighting alongside you." Leon's answer to Mendes' question led the Persian into even greater confusion.

When Mendes left, Lin Fengshuang walked to her husband's side, "Do you really want to move the family here?" She knew that since her husband received the letter from Hedong, he had been thinking about using the west of Hezhong as the base camp for the family's westward expansion in the future, recruiting soldiers and people willing to migrate from this land.

"Jing Luo is worthy of the prime minister's material, and his idea is very good." Thinking of what Wang Meng said in his letter to himself after appeasing the Hedong Chamber of Commerce, Li Ang nodded, "The geographical location in the river is extremely advantageous, if I operate here, it will be much more convenient than in Chang'an, and now the war between Daqin and the Xiongnu can not be calmed down in a moment, and when the Persian affairs are settled, I have to go to the Xiongnu to let them know the military might of my Daqin." ”

"Don't you plan to go back to Chang'an to live?" Lin Fengshuang looked at Li Ang and knew his mind, Chang'an had always been a burden to his husband, and he didn't like those deceitful things.

"Since you're going to leave sooner or later, it's better to get used to it first." Li Ang was stunned by his wife's question, and then sighed after a while, "It's just that I'm a little sorry for Your Majesty." Although Li Ang promised Cao Anmin to go west in fifteen years, he knew that Cao Anmin had not let him enter the court in the future to help him fight against the great family.

"Okay, let's not talk about that, let's talk about the next military strategy." Li Ang's voice suddenly shook, and he talked to his wife about the next thing, "Helian and their 50,000 horses have arrived in Wanzhou at this time, so we will have more than 100,000 soldiers in our hands. ”

"In terms of troops, in fact, we are not short of people, we still have to wait for Bo Yuan's news." Lin Fengshuang walked to the sand table, his eyes fell on the royal capital of Lower Persia, the key to this battle was there, as long as Lower Persia swallowed their bait, then Great Qin could solve the western front of the river without much effort.

"I'm sure it'll be soon." Leon groaned, believing that the Persians would not be able to resist the temptation to unify Persia.

Thousands of miles away, in the Lower Persian royal capital, in a mansion chartered by Cui Hao, a secret agent belonging to the Anxi Protectorate accepted his dispatch, "I need you to blame the Manichaean people for the matter, can you do it?" "Cui Hao plans to send people with black hands to assassinate several powerful people in Lower Persia, so that the already fragile temporary alliance between Upper Persia and Lower Persia will be further loosened.

"Don't worry, my lord, I'll do it?" Liu Gang replied in a deep voice, he was originally a person from the Zhenfu Division, and then the Zhenfu Division was purged, and he was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate, he lurked in Lower Persia for twenty years, originally he thought that he would only receive the order of the Anxi Protectorate and then have nothing to do, and he died old, but he didn't expect that God did not abandon him, and he finally had a place to use this secret agent.

"Remember to be careful, it's not easy for you to operate here for 20 years, and there will be a place for you to use it in the future." Before Liu Gang left, Cui Hao carefully instructed again, Daqin's secret agents are divided into two kinds, one is the secret agent who keeps in touch with Chang'an, and the other is the secret agent like Liu Gang who has been lurking in the enemy country for a long time, and their existence is only known to the high-level of the secret agent system, sometimes, these secret agents can not receive orders in their lifetime and die of the enemy country, and they cannot return to their roots after death, but their names will be written into the Qin Tomb and Taimiao, but no one knows what kind of loneliness and patience are represented behind these names.