The Seleucid Empire fought with Parthia and Bactria again, and the forces used in that war were 200,000 cavalry in advance, and Parthia and Bactria jointly dispatched 250,000 cavalry, and the two sides fought a life-and-death contest on the long national border.

The war broke out against the backdrop of Seleucus' recent victory in Syria against the Ptolemaic dynasty and then felt the need to turn around and deal with the two rebel forces that had split off.

Antiochus III of the Seleucid Empire, after mobilizing 200,000 foot cavalry, felt that it was not enough, and after a closer conscription, he sent 120,000 reinforcements to the Eastern Front.

Parthia and Bactria were a little frightened.

Previously, the Seleucid Empire had carried out wars to extinguish rebellions, but because the Ptolemaic Dynasty had been involved in the strength of the Seleucid Empire, the use of troops on the Eastern Front had always been a relatively embarrassing posture, which allowed Parthia and Bactria to succeed on their own~.

After Parthia and Bactria succeeded in establishing themselves on their own~, they tried to attack other provinces of the Seleucid Empire, but the results were not good at all.

Finding that the offensive to the west could not be successful, Parthia and Bactria left the necessary defensive forces on the western front, and the two countries turned to the east for expansion. They defeated several tribes in the east successively, and were able to expand their territory, until they expanded to the edge of the Western Regions, that is, the border line of Kangju and other countries.

The eastward march of Parthia and Bactria had the great effect of forcing some of the defeated tribes to flee. This, combined with the deliberate displacement of indigenous peoples by both countries, has resulted in hundreds of thousands of indigenous people fleeing.

This group of forced fugitives was like a gang of locusts, destroying and destroying everywhere they went, and tribes, tribes, and even countries were swept away and then coerced, so that the ranks of the fugitives grew again and again.

Parthia and Bactria succeeded, easily gaining large tracts of land by driving away the fugitives, and their desire to expand increased as a result. They also found a large land in the east, where the country was small and weak, and they thought that they could easily conquer it with only a few tens of thousands of troops, and the only obstacle was to solve the seemingly not weak Zhaowu Jiu surname first.

Just as they were about to attack Kangjuguo, Kangjuguo showed submission.

Kang Juguo had to be subdued, their population was smaller than the number of fugitives, and they couldn't stop the fugitives, and then the fugitives were followed by the elite armies of the two big countries, no matter how you look at Kang Juguo, there was no chance of winning.

With the weakening of the Kangju kingdom, the road to the Western Regions of Parthia and Bactria was thus cleared, and all that remained was to drive the fugitives into the Western Regions again, and use the large number of fugitives to disrupt the small countries and make the region unstable.

Any country that is in turmoil will become weak, and conquer it will be easy, and in fact such things have been proven to be true time and time again.

The 70,000 or 80,000 combined forces of Parthia and Bactria easily entered the borders of the Western Regions, and they were greeted by one subjugation after another, including the Scythians in the Northern Sakya region and a tribe called the Yue Clan, who had been calling for a halt to retreat from the fighting.

The war between the Yueshi and the Scythians is not known to many people, but it does not mean that the scale of the war between the two sides is small, and it is only because that area is wild that not many people pay attention to it.

Parthia and Bactria easily entered the Western Regions, making them proud and complacent, and even a little unpopular, but this time they hit an iron plate, that is, the Wusun people, the overlords of the Western Regions, took on their responsibilities as allies of the Western Regions and sent troops to resist the invasion of Parthia and Bactria!

Long before the invasion from other places, the Wusun people actually had a lot of internal troubles, that is, the nobles within the huge tribal alliance of Wusun began to become arrogant, because the obedience of the tribes, city-states, and kingdoms in the Western Regions became arrogant.

It is usually a process for a powerful country or power to be weakened by a foreign invasion, and it may also burst out with amazing energy under the invasion of a foreign enemy. If the country or power is weakened by internal decay, it is actually extremely difficult to reform and become strong again.

Why? It is nothing more than the absence of a crisis that leads to the lack of attention to corruption, or the fear that reform will lead to greater self-weakening, and the reluctance to correct it.

Usually they are ruthless or feel that it is unnecessary, and they will be corrected by the invasion of foreign enemies, because they feel a real threat and understand that if they do not change their mistakes, they will lose the guarantee of continuing to survive. It was not entirely for nothing that Wusun had become the long-standing overlord of the Western Regions, and they made certain changes and then gathered their forces to take on Parthia and Bactria.

Fortunately for the Usun, they met an enemy who was even more proud and complacent than themselves, because of the enemy's contempt, they won the war and drove out the enemies who invaded the Western Regions. However, an easy victory is also a misfortune for the Wusun people, because the easy victory makes the Wusun people feel that they are still extremely strong, and they do not need to change their extravagant lifestyle, and they think that they are still strong enough not to make any changes, because changes are superfluous.

Defeated Parthia and Bactria, they were as stunned as if they had been knocked with a stick, and they were incredulous that there were forces in the East that could defeat them.

In many cases, defeat was a good thing, especially for Parthia and Bactria. They woke up again because of the defeat, but it was Wusun who added arrogance to the victory.

After a long period of success and defeat again, Parthia and Bactria stopped their march into the East and turned to a cautious exploration of the East.

Wusun? Parthia and Bactria soon learned what kind of existence Usun was, and that Usun had a population of nearly one million and nearly twice as many slaves, and was the undisputed overlord of that region in the Western Regions.

No country that can become a regional hegemon lacks its foundation, and it is unwise to easily provoke such a country. Parthia and Bactria instead sent peace envoys, whose original destination was to go to the royal court of Usun to obtain an understanding of the previous war, and there was no shortage of intent to go deep into Usun.

The Parthian and Bactrian envoys in the name of peace entered Usun, and what they saw did not correspond to the one-sided information they had previously learned.

Yes, Wusun has a large population and a vast territory, and Wusun is still the existence of the overlord in the Western Regions, but Wusun is not as strong as Parthia and Bactria imagined, it should be said that because of the internal decay of Wusun, it is still a little weak.

Parthia and Bactria began to understand that it was their own pride and complacency that led to the defeat of their army in the battle with Usun, believing that it was not impossible to defeat Usun if they became cautious.

Perceiving that they could defeat the Parthia and Bactria, their country itself was once again brewing an eastward crusade, but a new discovery made them stop preparing for war against the East, that is, the envoys sent out found that the East was far beyond the Western Regions, and that there were powerful nomads such as the Xiongnu and Ding Ling in the steppes of the East, and even more terrifying, an unimaginably powerful country also existed in the East.

Knowing that Parthia and Bactria sent back the news of the existence of the Empire, what did the two countries look like when they saw the information? Their first reaction was that the envoys were lying!

Yes, that's right, exactly! Arshak II, the monarch of Parthia, and Etidemus I, the monarch of Bactria. Dios, the two agreed that the information sent by the envoys to return home was simply ridiculous to the point of being a fantasy.

How could there be a country so vast that the territory of Parthia and Bactria combined was at least three times the size of the two countries? What is the most ridiculous thing about the two monarchs? It was that empire was not only vast, but it seemed to have a population of nearly 40 million, and the number of troops in the country reached 3 million!

An army of three million? It's just so funny! Arshak II and Ethydemus I. In a conversation with Dios, they thought in a tone and face that they thought were absurd, that no country in the world could arm three million people, not even that country with a population of 40 million.

Do you know what it costs to arm an army of three million?

Do you know how huge an army of three million is?

Do you know how much military rations are needed to feed three million soldiers every day?

Do you know how many countries have three million soldiers?

So be it, Otidemus I. Dios and Arshak II found it ridiculous, and there was a real reason for that. They believe that such a country can never exist, and if there is a god kingdom of some god, it should not appear in the human world.

A series of news about the fact that there was a Parthia and Bactria in the East, three times the size of the land, almost five times the population of the two countries combined, a "kingdom of God" that should not appear in the world, for a long time in the two countries was a kind of joke among the nobles before and after meals.

It wasn't until the kings of the two countries sent envoys again, and then sent back the news again, that the previous news, which had been dismissed as a ridiculous joke, was confirmed to be true!

Because he felt that the first envoy could not be trusted, Euthydemus I. The second legation sent by Dios and Arshak II contained royal families, and they were all members of the royal family who could be trusted, but they were required not to reveal their identities for fear of being kidnapped or losing face.

The news was confirmed that the "Kingdom of God", which should not exist in the human world, really existed, and that was the second delegation of envoys to the far east, deep and arrived in the capital of that empire, and saw it with their own eyes along the way!

Otidemus I. Dios and Arshak II repeatedly confirmed, especially after summoning the first envoy to return, and after detailed questioning, it was finally determined that such a state did exist. At that moment, not only the two monarchs were stupid, but all the nobles who heard the guarantee of the accuracy of the news were also stupid.

"If there really is such a country in the East, we should not be hostile to it. We should do everything we can to befriend them, and the Alliance's partition of the Western Regions is the beginning of showing goodwill! ”

Otidemus I. Dios and Arshak II crackled their calculations, and they did not consider their ideas ridiculous, for the alliance between Parthia and Bactria was unbreakable, not only based on the independence of the two countries from the Seleucid Empire, but also because the two countries had been united in their expansion. They firmly believe that only the same interests can come together, and that is a universal axiom that has been proven again and again!

In addition to the necessary convergence of interests, the monarchs, nobles, and officials of Parthia and Bactria, who repeatedly consulted, that such a convergence of interests alone was not sufficient, that reciprocal trade relations should be established, and that what could be peacefully obtained from the other side should not be subject to violence.

It has to be said that Eutydemus I. Dios and Arshak II were wise monarchs, and they knew how nations should get along with each other, especially with a powerful country that could not be provoked. However, something happened that they found incomprehensible and confusing!

The empire refused to invade the Western Regions with Parthia and Bactria, and forcefully informed that the Western Regions were forbidden by the Empire, and that once Parthia and Bactria tried to enter the Western Regions, then the Empire was in a de facto state of war with Parthia and Bactria.

Otidemus I. Once again, Dios and Arshak II felt ridiculous, they knew that the empire was incomparably powerful, but Parthia and Bactria had no real border with the empire! Warring? So how to conduct the war? Is it the imperial army that marched tens of thousands of miles to distant Central Asia to fight a war that spanned tens of thousands of miles and could not be guaranteed logistics?

"The emperor of the Eastern Empire is sick, and he is definitely not lightly ill!"

The above is the thoughts of the vast majority of people in Parthia and Bactria, who even want to find the most powerful doctor, and then protect themselves to go to the Eastern Empire to treat the Emperor of the Eastern Empire, who is not lightly ill!

But then Parthia and Bactria thought they should take it seriously, because the empire marched into the steppe and could pursue its enemies for nearly 10,000 miles, showing an ability to wage war from a distance.

If they only knew that the empire had the ability to wage long-distance wars, Parthia and Bactria would not be so nervous, they also knew that the empire had marched into the Western Regions, and as soon as it was dispatched, there were nearly 100,000 cavalry, and there would be a steady stream of reinforcements behind. In this way, they should consider whether the threat of war issued by the emperor, who was very ill, could really happen...... (To be continued.) )