Chapter 446: Who Hires Your Soldiers, Hires Your Country—1

The news from Armenia excited the entire Roman Empire. Suning, who was resting in Shattered Leaf City, also quickly learned the news and transmitted it back to Liangzhou, which quickly sparked extensive and heated discussions.

No one including the old courtiers of the Han Dynasty could not help but be proud of this great achievement, because they had once again made contact with the legendary Great Qin Empire, which had tried to send Gan Ying to the distant place where they had started, but in the end they had not succeeded, and now they had finally fulfilled the wish of their ancestors to send this powerful empire to the peak of civilization once again on the verge of death.

I believe that such a miraculous scene, even later historians cannot perfectly analyze the reasons.

However, this place called Armenia seems to be too close to the Anxi Empire, and it is easy to be attacked by the enemy, but this time, the army of the Han Empire has extended its tentacles to the northwest of the enemy, and I believe that the emperor of the Anxi Empire will find it difficult to accept such a reality, after all, his family is likely to usher in a passive situation of attacking from both sides from today. And in Suning's opinion, the emperor of the Roman Empire, Severus, no longer needs to worry about being used, because the Han Empire now has the ability to attack on both sides with his own strength, even if he is not involved, it will not be too difficult.

So even the old bureaucrats in the state system have guessed that Suning is not only within the Roman Empire, at least the envoy who is negotiating, will not continue to be in a passive position in this regard. If the Han Empire could really launch a two-sided attack, then for the Roman Empire, it would undoubtedly be impossible to explain to its subjects if it missed this opportunity to bite a piece of meat from the Empire of Sabbatation. You know, this is a great feat that even the great Emperor Trajan could not accomplish, and if Emperor Van Virou continues to be indifferent, it will really not be a generation of heroes.

As they had predicted, Emperor Saverus was in great trouble, and in the emissary's repeated statements, he discovered that the initiative of the Han Empire had become more and more apparent, and that he had even received letters from officials in the Armenian provinces, full of local officials' trust in the military capabilities of the Han Empire. And the deep friendship they have established with those generals of the Han Empire these days, and even some of them advocate for each other, saying that the other party is very confident, some generous and stubborn friends. At the same time, he relayed the promise that these so-called friends had brought to His Majesty the Emperor, that in the attack from Armenia and its vicinity, if there was any gain, he would give some of it to the Roman Empire, and if the Emperor did not wish to accept it, he would also take the opportunity to send troops to the plains of Mesopotamia and use his Roman phalanx to champion a wider land.

In the process of this exchange, more and more officials of the Roman Empire felt the new breath from the Han Empire, and they accepted some new concepts, such as labor creates wealth, and the wealth created by labor must be guaranteed by law, and at the same time, land means hope means the depth of civilization development, so even a desolate place is worth buying the flag of the empire, even if this set of rivers and rivers has been silent for many years, but he will always remind the young people of the empire, This is your glory, if you lose it, you will use your own blood to wash away the shame, if it is maintained, and even this frontier area will be transformed into the hinterland, then there will be the envy of future generations of glory and glory.

Of course, the Roman Empire's desire for land did not need to be explained by the generals of the Han Empire, even if the desolate land had meaning for them was still a question worth discussing, but it was undeniable that the fertile land of Mesopotamia could never be easily handed over to the people of the Han Empire.

Emperor Severus already knew that the ambition of the Prime Minister of the Han Empire was definitely not a small number, so he had to prevent direct conflict with the other party as much as possible. At the very least, it should not be used as a tool for the other party's expansion, but if the other party can still expand effectively without his own help, then he needs to actively open up a buffer area for the empire. It's like the Red Empire during World War II. Knowing that the German fascists had enough strength to hypnotize the waves, the most active defense they could make was to control the other half of Poland into their own hands.

Therefore, he immediately agreed to the envoy's request, but he emphasized that he could only start a foreign war after the end of the civil war, at least the place controlled by the Syrian governor and I happened to be an important pivot for his eastward attack, so it was impossible for him to agree to any military mutual assistance without ending the civil war.

Of course, this is very satisfying, and even she offered to be willing to trade arms with the Roman Empire, and at the same time, if the Roman Empire needs, they can also attack the barbarians in the north of the Roman Empire from the northern front, so that the Han Empire will be able to win more geographical ties with its friends, and at the same time, it can effectively reduce the threat of friends, so that they can be invested in the war that is also very beneficial to the Han Empire earlier. This proposal immediately sparked a wide discussion within the empire, and no one thought that the Han Empire, far to the east, had the strength to deal with the barbarians in the north, knowing that the distance between the two was enough for the world's most elite army to travel for more than two months.

The Imperial Elite, who did not have a full understanding of the shape of the Earth and certain mathematical laws, such as the Great Circle, would obviously not have imagined that a guy named Zhao Chongguo would suddenly appear from his station in the area where the Germanic people were active a month later. Although it was only a small battle, after a battle, it was almost a hasty retreat to the Volga valley, but it is undeniable that the great shock brought by this battle made the entire Germanic people aware of the threat of a powerful empire in the East.

In fact, after the initial success of Suning's cherished plan, they organized a large number of nomads to carry out arduous long-distance combat training, although the results achieved were really unsatisfactory, but as far as the current situation is concerned, under the condition of full preparation, it is still easy to knock the enemy thousands of miles away.

Although the battle became very embarrassing because of the unfamiliar geographical situation, the basic political purpose was achieved, at least in front of the Emperor Severus, the envoy could once again brace his neck and proudly declare that their Han Empire had enough military strength to protect the military security of their allies, but for the elite of the empire, having the strength to fight against the barbarians was tantamount to an even more terrifying existence, because they could drive the barbarians away at any time and break the distant place, Personally threatening the northern frontier of the empire, although there are civilized countries, it is unlikely that they will do such a brazen thing, but capable countries certainly have such rights. Therefore, some of the conspirators who have experienced the empire have to worry that similar things will happen to the prime minister of the Han Empire, after all, in the previous disputes, he used another trick of sophistry and sophistry to deceive the Rest Empire, an ally at that time.

But the Ulu Emperor had no other choice, because the elites of the empire had analyzed it very clearly, and the other side had enough ability to threaten the security of the northern frontier of the empire. So if he doesn't agree to the other party's request, then the empire will have a stronger opponent, which is not a good thing for the empire that is currently in the midst of civil strife.

Therefore, the wise emperor asked the envoy for the quotation at the first time, and the messenger soon handed over the letter brought by sea to the wise emperor, but the wise emperor, after seeing this wise letter, obviously showed a very angry expression.

Because Suning's request in the search obviously showed the wisdom of the Oriental Prime Minister, he actually offered a very generous price, asking the Roman soldiers who were participating in the counterinsurgency war in the country to fight with him, yes, the Han Empire, which has an extremely rich talent reserve, actually thought of using money as a bargaining chip to let his allies send a large number of mercenaries to help them fight on the battlefield in Central and South India, which undoubtedly means, Soldiers who go there will be in a pessimistic situation of death and death. And all this simply because the country to which they are loyal needs money, this bastard thing.

It is a great irony that the loyalty of the soldiers of the Empire can be measured in terms of money. But the prime minister of the Great Han who was in the eastern land of the hospital obviously didn't hear his inner roar, and even if the other party was close, he didn't dare to roar out.

Therefore, the choice he can make is to agree to the other party's request, and send his own soldiers to the opponent's territory to fight at a price that is stable enough, and it is reported that the other party has prepared enough weapons and equipment and sufficient medical support to deal with this military cooperation that has traveled thousands of miles.

Emperor Severus can only hope that the so-called medical security of the other party can effectively ensure the safety of his soldiers, if this sentence is just talking, then he believes that his soldiers will be very likely to die in a foreign land, you must know that Alexander the Great did not launch a large-scale conquest of the place called India, although after the end of the Hellenistic era, there were also many Greeks who stayed in Central Asia, launched a long-term invasion of Northwest India, and established many principalities, But unfortunately those countries are very loose and simply unable to resist the local princely states, as for the more extensive countries in the central and southern Indian Ocean, they are even more unable to deal with, if it were not for the glorious examples left by the Hellenistic era, they may have been wiped out by the other side long ago, in fact, this part of the Greeks also disappeared into later history, but the current Emperor Severus does not know.

So an army of newly recruited soldiers from the Janissary Sister's framework, as well as some of the intellectual elite, was stopped from standing up, and they would go to India in a few months to help their allies, the Han Empire, complete the conquest of a city called Magadha.

This was their original intention, and it was said that they had to start from the sea, first from the Mediterranean Sea into the Bosphorus, and then the creek across the entire Heihe region to a place that the Han Dynasty called Sevastopol, and who knows why they gave this place such a complicated name. At least none of the intellectual elites who followed the army could understand the secrets, but when they got there and asked the local Han Dynasty soldiers about this issue, they were surprised to find that it was not only themselves who knew nothing about it, but even those Han Dynasty soldiers did not know why the Prime Minister had chosen such a complicated name for this place.

According to the introduction of the soldiers of the Han Empire, in the places they thought were the Central Plains, the place names there were very elegant, at least after they came up with a few place names, the Roman intellectual elite, all felt new and yearning for them, anyway, it was not like such a complex and despicable place that was annoying.

But there are many place names that they hate, after landing from here, they entered the Volga River valley, and then followed the route of the northern column, advancing in reverse, until the big Broken Leaf City, until here, the so-called Central Plains breath appeared in the first place, but what is the meaning of the ground leaves? Even the soldiers of the Han Dynasty couldn't guess the truth.

Well, here they were personally received by the Prime Minister, and they were given armor and sharp swords so hard that they felt dwarfed by the Roman armor they carried with them.

After bidding farewell to the young commander, the Imperial army continued southward and quickly reached the designated battlefield, where they were full of nasty names, albeit in a completely different style, but still did not make people feel new and desirable.

The Magadha city in the Ganges River valley has delayed the southern expeditionary army for more than a year. Even the most famous god of war seemed helpless in the face of this fortified city, but fortunately, their commander did not want them to move too fast at all, but wanted them to carve every inch of land with the traces of the Han court, which was strong enough. So they simply brought up numerous castles around the city, as if waiting for the day when the enemy would rout on its own.

It was the arrival of mercenaries who seemed to have changed their original deployment.