Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Originally from Rome, Calfos has a prominent background, and his family is one of the few families that currently hold real power in Rome. His family existed hundreds of years before the city of Rome was founded, and has been one of the most influential families in the city.

The Calfous family participated in the unification of the Italian peninsula, and later experienced the creation of the "Twelve Tables", and a certain generation of family heads witnessed the birth of "Roman law". Together with other families, they worked together to purge the Italian peninsula of the Greek city-states and natives, and finally accomplished this feat around the third century BC.

Today, Rome is the largest power on the Mediterranean, but it still has Massalia, Mauritania, Numidia, Carthage, Epirus, Aetolia, Macedonia, ...... And so on and so forth.

The Second Punic War began in 219 BC and had to be halted in 205 BC because a guy named Hannibal first raided the Spanish peninsula, then went so far as to bypass the Italian peninsula and land in the Balkans, emerging from the most unexpected position of the Romans, and quickly conquering the tribes between the Pyrenees and the Ebro.

The Roman Republic was frightened to death by the sudden appearance of Hannibal in the Balkans, especially Hannibal who had gained the refuge of the local tribes in Illyria and was replenished with troops. They then crossed the Alps and launched a sudden and fierce assault on Rome from the north.

It was a military miracle, and in 218 BC Hannibal led a Carthaginian army from New Carthage, Carthage's base in Iberia.

They marched along the coast in a north-northeasterly direction. At the Ebro, Hannibal divided his army into three.

It took Hannibal a few weeks to conquer the various tribes between the Pyrenees and the Ebro, either by military or diplomatic means, but in these battles the Carthaginian army was severely reduced.

In the Pyrenees, he stationed some Iberian soldiers who did not want to leave home in these newly conquered territories, and handed over Iberian military power to his brother Hasdruba. Subsequently, he led about 50,000 infantry and 9,000 cavalry into Gaul.

In order to avoid fighting Rome's allies along the coast, Hannibal chose to march inland. In Gaul, he diplomatically allowed the Carthaginian army to pass through the area, but in the Rhône valley there were battles between the Carthaginian army and the Alobrozhye tribe.

If the Second Punic War is really to be explained in detail, the length will not be small, and in general, the Second Punic War has not actually ended, and the two sides only took a halftime pause because they shed a little too much blood and could not hold on.

The Roman Republic found some patterns in some of Hannibal's actions, and Hannibal repeatedly used successful diplomacy to gain allies, and Carthage's lack of military strength after the sea crossing was largely compensated.

It was because Hannibal had so many tribes that he was able to fight the Roman army for a long time while he was far from his homeland. During this period, the tribes that were co-opted by Hannibal were not without betrayal, but on the whole, the advantages still outweighed the disadvantages.

The Roman Republic was inspired by this, and they began to work on rallying more allies, and the Second Punic War had entered a kind of proxy war, with both Rome and Carthage providing money and weapons to support their allies in shedding blood.

Because Carthage was the first to woo in, most of the tribes in the Balkans belonged to the camp of Carthage, so Rome also fought the "Battle of Illyria", and finally gradually took back the initiative.

In order to be able to gain the initiative further, Rome not only attacked the Illyrians, they originally wanted to force Macedonia to their side, but what they did not expect turned into a war with the Macedonians.

New battlefields require new allies, the Romans are becoming more and more skilled in diplomacy, and Rome has more wealth than the Carthaginians, and a new type of economic war is being fought fiercely on the "battlefield" to win more allies.

The use of wealth to gain allies was not only for Rome to execute in the Balkans, the Romans also used this economic war in Central Asia, they succeeded in co-opting the Seleucid Empire, and unfortunately failed to win Parthia as expected, all because Parthia thought that Bactria should be understood, but the two countries had new ideas because of the need for a series of considerations for the East.

"This time we need to see for ourselves if there is such a country in the world." Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers wielded a horsewhip, and they were a team of five hundred. He waved it a few times, then pointed to the east with his horsewhip and said, "If there really is such a country, we will see it in about ten days." ”

It took about eight months for the Roman army to travel from the Mediterranean to Central Asia, and they are now in Afghanistan, which is now in the territory of Bactria, and will soon enter the sphere of influence belonging to the Kangju state.

Along the way, Kirusrivi. Luce. Scipio. Calvers found that the time was really large, and even though they had bought enough horses in Parthia and had been riding horses on their way east, they had not reached the so-called end of the world for nearly five months.

Once, the Romans thought that the Seleucid Empire in the east was the end of the world, and then they knew that it was not like that, and that there was also the province of Bactria to the east of the Parthian province that originally belonged to the Seleucid Empire, and there was a country called the Mauryan Empire to the south of the province of Bactria.

The Mauryan Empire was also a very large country in the description of the Seleucids and Parthians, where Alexander the Great was sadly defeated, and it seemed that it had extraordinary national strength and an army that seemed to be relatively good at war?

If the Romans looked at the Mauryan Empire that way, and ignored it because the Mauryan Empire almost did not intervene in Central Asia, they knew that there was a country called the Han Empire in the far east, then it was a bit of a concern.

How did Parthia and Bactria describe the Eastern Empire to the Roman Republic? According to their description, the Han Empire in the East should be a heavenly kingdom of God, not a secular world, all because the Han Empire was huge and frighteningly populous.

If it's just because of the huge territory and large population, in fact, most people don't think it's so scary, for example, the Mauryan Empire is a country with a vast territory and a large population, but no one will be afraid of the Mauryan Empire, because the Mauryan Empire is very much like a silent country like a sunset, the Mauryan Empire is too conservative and not aggressive, no one will provoke it, but it is really not terrifying.

The Han Empire in the East was different, it was an empire that was built in less than 20 years, and it was a rising country, a country that was highly aggressive and expansive. Such a country is very dangerous, any land that is looked at, they are eager to be able to occupy, and any country that is known is facing a high probability of being invaded.

The Roman Republic was so far from the East that contact was almost impossible, so there was no possibility of conflict. Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calpheus's trip to the East was a curious act of the Roman Empire, and they simply wanted to see what it was like to be able to make the two monarchs talk about what a changing state looked like. As for cooperation? Because it is so far away, there are so many countries and forces isolated in the middle, and there seems to be nothing to cooperate with between the two sides.

Out of the borders of Bactria...... No, to the east of Bactria, the environment has become extremely dry, the Gobi is everywhere, and there are naturally fewer towns.

"Parthia and Bactria have already hailed the country called Kangju, and they will help us with the necessary supplies along the way." Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers tried his best to maintain the elegance of the Roman aristocracy, but with the dust and dry weather, it would be hellish to be elegant.

The Romans didn't know that Kangju had not had a good time lately, that Kangju had been too caught up in the affairs of the Western Regions, and that as the war on the other side of the Empire was going well, more and more attention had been turned to the Western Regions, and Kangju had begun to perceive the danger.

Indeed, the emperor had gradually accepted the submission of the Jituo Xiongnu, and asked the Northern Expeditionary Corps to supervise the Jituo Xiongnu to lead the people out of Junji Mountain, and then took over Junji Mountain, taking about 100,000 Xiongnu women and children as hostages, and let Jituo lead the Xiongnu cavalry and the Donghu people to start a big battle in the northeastern grassland.

The emperor accepted the submission of the Xiongnu after a long period of hesitation, and finally accepted it for a relatively simple reason, that is, the empire encountered the most stubborn resistance of the Xiongnu in the direction of Junji Mountain.

Speaking of which, the tribe of the Xiongnu, a tribe on horseback, they played mountain warfare after getting off the horse, but it was not bad at all, and it was also because of the error in the initial war deployment of the empire, the northern corps was mainly cavalry in the early stage, and it was already lost to wait for the infantry corps to be transferred in place.

Considering that the expulsion of the Huns for migration can also achieve the goal, and because the Donghu people have repeatedly provoked the empire, it is also a pleasant thing to let the enemy and the enemy fight and bleed, and sit next to the play by yourself.

Donghu didn't know what the situation was, they failed to take Wolf Juxu Mountain under the premise of having an advantage in troops, waiting for Ji Tuo to lead the army to support, Donghu was defeated with superior forces, which made the empire look down on the Donghu people who seemed to be very powerful but were actually strong in the middle.

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. It was already autumn when Kalvers arrived in the territory of Kangju, and he saw that the Kangju country was full of war.

"So, the two forces called Wanguo and the Xiongnu, they are gradually retreating?"

"Yes, master."

"Then, the army of the Eastern Han Empire is following and killing?"

"Yes, master."

"But what does this have to do with Kangjuguo?"

"Master, Kang Juguo has been supporting Wanguo, Xiongnu and other forces to get along with the Han Empire. In addition, the Wanguo people will not retreat into the territory of Kangju after the defeat, but the Xiongnu led by Mao will definitely enter the Kangju country, and Maodun's reputation is very bad, and the preparation of Kangju is not for the army of the Han Empire, but for the defense of Maodun. ”

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers laughed, something like this happens more or less in every corner of the world, supporting a certain force to go to war with another power, and then the object of the former support comes to invade, Rome has been late to a similar loss, but that time Rome blocked it and exterminated the betrayed force.

The empire turned its attention to the Western Regions, and the first manifestation was that the general Meng Tian finally did not have to do anything anymore, he was not so willing to deal with the Wusun people, and he took it upon himself to wage war against the repeatedly provoked Wan Kingdom and Mao Dun.

In other words, since the last time they fought independently against Ding Ling and Hujie, the Wusun people have indeed gained advantages again and again in the six months since the war started, which makes them more determined that relying on Wusun alone can defeat the alliance of Ding Ling and Hujie. The reversal of the situation was after the Yueshi people joined the war, the Yueshi people formed an alliance with the Ding Ling people and the Hujie people, and the northwest of Wusun was garrisoned by the imperial army, but it did not prevent the Yueshi people from making a detour to meet with Ding Ling and Hujie in the north of Wusun.

The empire only promised the Wusun people to help extinguish the rebellion in the northwest of Wusun, and Meng Tian really helped Wusun extinguish the rebellion, but ...... The Western Expedition Corps is really not so conscientious, they will only arrest those who can be arrested, and if they can't be arrested, they will just expel the matter, who makes the Wusun people so inauthentic, worried that they will snatch the spoils of war so obviously.

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. When Calvers met with the Parthian and Bactrian envoys in the country of Kangju, he said in a tone full of emotion: "The whole world is at war! ”

Indeed, Rome fought Carthage on a large scale, with Macedonia and a number of small states in addition to Carthage, and then the Seleucid Empire began its crusades against Parthia and Bactria, two secessionist states. Now, Kiruslivi. Luce. Scipio. Kalvers also knew that there was a behemoth in the far east that was waving its teeth and claws.

"We don't have any way now, once the Han Empire in the east invades Kangju, we can only be forced to accept the facts." Miratus, who had been on an expedition to the East and had seen the power of the empire in the East, was very depressed and said, "I only hope that the Han Empire will be a country that keeps its contract, as it is rumored." ”

Indenture? The last time Parthia, Bactria, and the Empire signed a letter similar to a memorandum, which indicated the boundaries of their spheres of influence, and according to the agreement, the empire's sphere of influence did not include the Kangju state.

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers smiled and said, "Now the opportunity to confirm whether the Eastern Han Empire is really powerful has come. He turned to the people from Rome and added, "The really strong party knows how to defend its credibility." If the Han Empire did not know the value of credibility, even if they could be strong for a while, they would inevitably weaken at a very rapid rate. ”

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