[Chapter Seventy-Six: Loyalty and Treachery, Rovinis]
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Shen Yun didn't see the battle situation in Shiliping (the place of the decisive battle of Hanyue) during the day, and Bai sat on Diao Dou for a day, and he got nothing but sweat and darkening skin. But when night fell, when Shen Yun got out of the fight, he was pulled by the limping Fang Cheng to the camp next doorβthe entire camp that could accommodate a song of people and horses was full of corpses! The corpse of the Han army!
Cai Badou, who was busy, glanced at Shen Yun and Fang Transcript, and his face, which was always with an honest and honest smile, was full of numbness and gloom.
"In one day of fierce fighting, our army lost 1,762 dead! You're just in time, help me! Cai Badou spoke very simply, stuffed a bundle of gauze and a bag, and then went to work by himself.
Corpse, Shen Yun is not the first time to see it, but it is really the first time to see so many corpses in robes at one time!
Many of the corpses were still fresh and hot, but the bodies were mutilated, and the horrible and disgusting sections of the wounds were even oozing blood beads......
"The bags were used to hold their nameplates, and the gauze wrapped their wounds. I don't want our robes to bleed when we die! They've flowed enough! Cai Badou's voice came slowly in the afterglow of the setting sun, with a whimper.
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Shen Yun didn't know how he helped Cai Badou finish this. He wanted to cry, he wanted to cry, but he couldn't. Looking at those faces that had lost their vitality but were still hideous, he would think of those robes that had died in front of the Yue's array a few days ago. At that time, it was urgent, but I didn't even have time to bring back the body......
Later, while eating, Zhang Mo suddenly ran to Shen Yun in a flash, called him to the side and whispered: "Go to Qu Chang's camp at night, he has something to say." β
In the tent, the fifth company was cold. He said to him in a tone without any emotion: "Today's decisive battle is actually a suspicious plan, and the palace marshal has decided to break through...... It's hard to bring wounded soldiers when you break out, but your and Fang Cheng's identities are important, so I want to ask you what you mean, do you want me to report your identity? If it is reported, you can have the right of first refusal, whether to act with our department, or follow the palace marshal!? Come to think of it, you only have one chance to choose......"
The words of the fifth company did not have any feelings, but the two eyes were ridiculously bright. stared at Shen Yun, as if he wanted to see him through!
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When I was young, the angle and perspective of distinguishing loyalty and treachery were very simple, good people are good people, and bad people are bad people. It can grow over time. After everyone's experience is enriched, they will find that the concept of loyalty and adultery in the previous concept can actually be converted into each other.
It's like hearing for the first time that "the main fighter may not be brave." The Lord and the One are not necessarily cowardly." The so-called loyalist. It's just a matter of looking at a person's attitude in the face of a decision.
On the first day of the fifth month of the Han Dynasty in 1003, the night. Cloudless, sparsely starred.
Shen Yun walked out of the tent of the Fifth Company, but the names of the two people kept flashing in his mind - Zhang Zizhong and Wang Jingwei!
Many people know that Zhang Zizhong is Shen Yun's original anti-Japanese hero in history, but does anyone know that he was once infamous as a "traitor"?
On July 7, 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident occurred. Japan launched a war of aggression against China. On July 29, the Japanese army occupied Beiping. At that time, the 29th Division of the 38th Group Army led by Zhang Zizhong was in Tianjin. In the face of the flames of the Japanese invasion, this future anti-Japanese hero became a cowardly egg at the moment - he disappeared outside the army contact for seven days, and did not order the army to resist at the most critical moment. Instead, he was busy with his own careful thinking, wanting to seize the supreme command of North China at that time. Three years later, in 1940, at the Hubei pumpkin shop, a shot from Nikodono and Fujioka with a bayonet made everything before him pure. Zaoyi would have fought, and he could have been unscathed.
And Wang Jingwei, the personable young assassin of the year, the hero of China, how many people have been inspired and inspired by the two famous poems "Draw the knife into a fast, live up to the head of the youth"? When he was on Lushan Mountain, when he and Chiang Kai-shek issued a righteous and strict anti-Japanese declaration, who would have thought that in just a few hundred days, he would become the chief of traitors! The free and easy back of "generous Geyan City, calmly being a prisoner of Chu" finally turned into a wisp of black smoke of history!
Heroes and traitors are just a few millimeters apart.
Why do you think about this? Why do you want to think about this?
Shen Yun's mind was in a mess.
Facing the eyes of the fifth company, Shen Yun only said one sentence: "I want to see the palace marshal!" β
A touch of disappointment flashed through the eyes of the Fifth Company.
"Okay, I'll arrange it for you tomorrow!" He used honorifics, but his voice became more and more indifferent.
Shen Yun didn't speak, and walked out of the tent in silence.
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At the same time, in the Yue's camp twenty miles away, Gongkun? Abbas is also patrolling the camp.
"Your Highness, this is the list of today's dead." A school officer handed Abbas a stack of books in order.
Abbas took it, and when he turned the first page, he saw the total number of casualties written on it: 2,164 killed, 651 seriously wounded, and 2,323 lightly wounded.
"From the 25th to the present, our army has suffered more than 6,000 casualties?" Abbas closed the book, frowned and asked the officer.
Although the school officer is only at the school level, he is not young, he is forty years old. He also frowned and sighed, "Not bad." In addition to the few casualties on the night of the raid, in the next few days of fighting, our army's casualties were not small! Among these more than 6,000 people, most of them are still the first batch of elite veterans who followed His Majesty! β
Abbas frowned deeply, his heart seemed to be pressed against a stone, and he said in a deep voice, "Does Slivensson know about this?" β
A mocking smile appeared at the corner of the officer's mouth, and he snorted coldly: "Why don't you understand?!" However, he didn't even look through the death list sent every day, but simply said that he knew. β
"Damn. That's how he treats our Yueshi warriors? Abbas looked angry, "Prepare the horses, I'm going to General Rovinis!" β
The school officer hurriedly stopped and said, "Your Highness, don't go, Your Excellency Rovinis also knows about it, Your Majesty and Lord Sdawang have given full authority for this battle." It's useless to go. β
Abbas stopped, the indignation on his face was irrepressible, and he threw the roster on the officer for a while, and said loudly: "Then go to Slivensson, and let the Seventh Legion go tomorrow!" If you want me to give another order, it's a no-brainer! β
Slivensson's tent stood at the very back of the Moon Clan's camp. The Yueshi people were originally Han troops, so the camp they set up was almost no different from the Han army. Even the furnishings in the big tent are not much different.
When Abbas walked into the big tent, Slivenson was discussing tomorrow's battle plan with the staff officers, and when he saw him, he smiled and said, "His Royal Highness is just in time, and I was about to send someone to inform you that tomorrow our Sixth Army will go west." Come here for the Fourth Legion! β
Abbas was stunned, he wanted to talk about it, but he didn't expect it to be brought up by Slivensson first, and couldn't help asking: "Whose decision is this?" β
Slivenson smiled, "Of course it's Your Excellency Rovinis's decision. β
Abbas's face slowed and he asked, "Why did Lord Rovinis suddenly give this order?" The two armies were deployed. What if the Han army seized the gap to break through? β
Sliverson walked around the sandbox and walked over to Abbas. Take his arm and sit down in front of the handsome desk. Someone sent two cups of tea, and then said slowly: "Just now I went to the big tent with Carlos, and His Excellency Rovinis thinks that the Han army has planned to fight a decisive battle with our army for ten miles, and the armies on both wings can slowly shrink to the south." In addition, our Sixth Army has been fighting many times in the past few days, and the casualties are not small. There seems to be a ......" At this point, he paused, and wanted to turn his head to ask the adjutant beside him a little embarrassed.
Abbas's face turned cold, and he said: "More than 6,000 people, the casualties of my Sixth Army have reached almost 30%!" β
Slivensson shrugged his shoulders. He took a sip of tea and said pleasantly, "Well, more than 6,000 people." Such a large casualty was exchanged for nearly 4,000 casualties of the Han army, and the result was not bad, plus the heavy damage inflicted on the rear division of the Han army led by His Excellency Rovinis, in the past few days, the Han army has lost at least seven or eight thousand, plus those foot soldiers who transported the baggage, there are tens of thousands. Therefore, His Excellency Rovinis wants to change the Fourth Legion, which has been on the west side, and continue to wear out with the Han army! β
Abbas said abruptly: "Isn't the Fourth Legion going to guard against the Han army in Feiyun Castle?" β
Slivenson smiled: "I received news today, the marshal of the Han army, Hu Gong, seems to be ready to retreat. The two infantry corps of the Han army have already returned to the north of Feiyun Castle for a hundred miles, and they must be able to advance to Feiyun Fort today. They should be to protect the right flank of the entire Han Northern Frontier Front, and support the Third Army Corps, which will not easily move south. β
Abbas glanced at Slivensson, got up from the front of the handsome desk, came to the sand table to look at it for a while, and then said: "The two infantry legions of the Han army have retreated, so the task of our sixth legion is to cut off the connection between these two infantry legions and the third legion of the Han army?" β
Slivensson also walked over and nodded, "Not bad." Our Sixth Army still has more than 20,000 people, and although it is not enough to attack the Han army's camp, it is not difficult to cover the battlefield and make the Han Army's Third Army know nothing about the entire Western Front battlefield. β
Abbas said: "It is not difficult to cover the battlefield, but if 20,000 men want to block the 150-mile-long front up the Baidraq River and down to Chagan Lake, if the Han army suddenly breaks through to the west, won't they let them escape?" You must know that the commander of the Third Army of the Han Army is the famous 'rabbit general' Hou Jian! β
Slivenson laughed, patted Abbas on the shoulder and said: "Your Highness is too worried, Your Excellency Rovinis has calculated accurately, we have only exposed the numbers of four legions, the Han army does not know that in fact, we have seven legions in Chaganhu, and today we only dispatched the same number as the Han army in Shiliping, so Hou Jian will think that our strength is so much." But starting tomorrow, His Excellency Rovinis will dispatch three times the number of troops to fight, and at the same time transfer the ninth and tenth legions in the Orkhon Valley, hahaha, then Hou Jian will find that his 'rabbit' can't run away even if he wants to! β
Although Abbas was very tired of Slivenson's smug look, he seemed to have forgotten the tragic situation when he was taken by a small group of Han troops a few days ago and fled in embarrassment. But he had to admit that Rovinis's command ability was indeed outstanding, at least not under Hou Jian.
Slivenson laughed for a while, pulled Abbas to sit down in front of the handsome desk, and said, "Your Highness doesn't have to worry too much about this war. His Excellency Rovinis is the 'Son of the Sun', and even His Majesty Augustus has praised him. Had it not been for the Governor of Mano's efforts to keep him, perhaps His Excellency Rovinis would have been transferred back to Rome as the Second Tribune. Don't you trust his judgment?! β
Speaking of Rovinis, Abbas fell silent. For this man, of course, he was convinced.
In fact, Rovinis' name spread throughout the Middle East a decade ago. Of course, it also includes the Xihai Prefecture and Dayue Prefecture of Dahan.
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This Rovinis, is it Roman Grifflus? The first heir to the Rovinis family, that is, the son of a noble family of the Han Empire. However, he has been in this life for a long time, he is forty-six years old this year, and he has been the heir for thirty years.
The Rovinis were the old nobles of the Roman Empire, and three of the sixty-three chiefs of the Senate were the Rovinis.
People who are not familiar with Rome may not quite understand what this means. Hmm, to put it another way, have you heard of "one door and three publics"? Occupying three chief positions in the Roman Senate is equivalent to having three dukes in one family in the Han Empire at the same time! This is an extraordinary existence in any country at any time!
In order to distinguish between these three seats, Augustus had modeled the virtual title system of the Han Empire. The three patriarchs were given the titles of "Guterus", "Elites" and "Gipurus". The Yulin Secret Guard of the Great Han Dynasty translated these three titles as "upper, middle and lower". In fact, the three Rovinis families are not subordinate and are all equal.
Rovinis, who appears in the Moon Army, is "Gipurus?" Rovinis of the "family." In order to highlight the dignity, the family will add "Jipurus" to the name when naming. Is the name of this generation of parents Kirtway? Gipurus? Rovinis. And this son is called Wales? Kotwig? Gipurus? Rovinis. He is the commander-in-chief of the Yue's encirclement strategy against the Northern Xinjiang Front this time, and he is also the supreme commander! (Damn, that's a long name.) It's hard to write - whining)
By the way, this Wales? Rovinis' name has the distinctly British pronunciation of "Wales" and his father's name. This is because the Welsh mother was the daughter of a nobleman in the province of Britannia in the Roman Empire (Note 1). And Wales himself is actually an Islamist!
It's hard to believe that a Roman general embraced the religion of an enemy country. In fact, this was very common in the Roman Empire. Rome itself was a country with no fixed religion. Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism (sinicization) of the Han Dynasty, Islam of the Caliphate, Sass religion of the Germanic people, Dhara religion in southern Egypt, and even the Sun Religion, which is not well known in South America, could all spread in the Roman Empire. This is one of the important reasons why the Roman Empire will eventually fall apart in that era.
Of course, the main religion promoted in the Roman Empire today is Confucianism (Romanization) of the Han Empire. Believers were spread throughout the Roman Empire (Note 2).
Wales? At the age of 46, Rovinis entered the Fascist University, the highest military academy of the Roman Empire at the age of 18 (Note 3), and was assigned to the Makrumu Regiment in the Egyptian province after graduating at the age of 22. The year 980 of the Han Dynasty is also the year 980 of the world era recognized by the Roman Empire. The Germanic barbarians invaded Rome in the south, and the Macliumu legion and the Roman Guards moved to the northern defense line. In that war, Wales rose to prominence, besieging 400 Germanic barbarians with 120 men and capturing 316 of them as slaves!
At the triumphal ceremony in 981, he was personally received by Augustus, awarded the "Clover Badge", and promoted to the rank of Thousand Men in the army (similar to the battalion commander of the Han Empire).
After Wales? Rovinis was transferred from the Markyumu Corps to the Guards Corps and continued to fight the Germans in the northern frontier. In 985, Rome decided to take revenge on the Germans and sent an army of 50,000 to advance to the city of Marco, the stronghold of the Germanic people in the northeast. Wales again? Rovinis, with a force of 1,000 men, surrounded and annihilated the soldiers of the two elite tribes of the Germans, and annihilated 6,000 of the enemy.
Of course, the Roman Empire did not win this revenge war in 985, and the 50,000-strong army lost its troops under the city of Marco, with a casualty rate of up to 20%, and finally returned in disarray. But also so does it seem Welsh? What a dazzling victory in Rovinis. In this battle, he was promoted to the rank of 10,000 Asi, which was extremely dazzling in the Roman army.
990, Wales? Rovinis was transferred to the province of Asia and became the first tribune under the command of the governor of Mano. And in 995, he took the initiative to attack, and had a brief military conflict with the caliphate in Damascus, surrounding the caliphate with more than 20,000 people with a force of 5,000 people, and finally the caliphate relented. It was agreed to cede several fishing grounds and salt mines in the southern part of the Caspian Sea, and the Romans withdrew their troops.
It can be seen that this Wales? Every battle Rovinis had fought before with less, and his record was as dazzling as the sun in the sky. And some Romans already called him "Son of the Sun"! It's almost the same as Achilles, the ancient Greek god of war!
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With the spread of Roman caravans, the daimyo of Wales, the son of the sun, spread far and wide. Abbas, of course, had heard about it a long time ago. Of course, if not Wales? With the arrival of Rovinis in person, his father would not be persuaded so easily to agree to this grand strategy of using Dihua City as a bait in a vain attempt to completely annihilate the Han Northern Frontier Front!
"It's a gamble! And our bet is not actually on these 1.2 million Yue's soldiers, but on Rovinis, the son of the sun! "Before the expedition. Zhang Sheng once said to Abbas, "Once the bet is won, it is impossible for the Han to pose a threat to the Yue clan in the next two years." If the bet is lost, our Yueshi can also take Xihai Prefecture as the foundation and rely on the power of the Roman Asian provinces to continue to deal with the Han people! So. When you go, you must follow the arrangement of His Excellency Rovinis! β
This is the only thing Zhang Sheng asks of Abbas.
Kungon? Abbas. Hehe. Presumably many people have guessed, yes, he is Zhang Xian, a classmate of the original Shenyun Imperial University! As the only one of Zhang Sheng's many sons who had studied at the Imperial University, Zhang Xian received special care from Zhang Sheng as soon as he returned, arranging to serve as a clerk in his own government and trying to get in touch with government affairs.
Soon. There was a plague in Otsuki Prefecture, then a rebellion, and then a rebellion of the rebellious people that swept through the north and south of Otsuki Prefecture!
To be honest, Zhang Xian did not agree with his father's rebellion at first. After all, Dihua City has a second-class legion, and there are countless people to support it, and it is impossible to conquer those chaotic people in Starwang even if there are many people.
But the development of things was beyond Zhang Xian's expectations. In the past few years as the governor of Dayue Prefecture, it turned out that Zhang Sheng had been preparing for a rebellion for a long time, not only taking advantage of his position to privately withhold a huge amount of materials and money and food, but also replacing countless generals and colonels in the second-class army, all of whom were henchmen from Zhang's mansion. Even the leader of the rebels is inextricably linked to Zhang Sheng. Especially Starwang, Zhang Xian couldn't believe it when he saw Starwang, he was actually his maternal uncle!
At this point, Zhang Xian understood that his father was the driving force behind the rebellion that swept Dayue State.
At this point, Zhang Xian, who knew the Han people well, understood that there was no turning back for their family. The Han Dynasty is extremely serious for the crime of rebellion, and the punishment of the nine clans is no longer enough to convict the Zhang Sheng family, and it may be okay to destroy the ten clans.
Of course, so far, the Yue Zhang family has thought of self-preservation! As for what Rovinis said to them: "Annihilating the northern frontier front of the Han can take advantage of the situation to march east or south, sweep the four states of the northern frontier of the Han Dynasty, and approach the defense line of the Great Wall...... The western front can attack Dunhuang, and then directly attack the two states of Yongliang, occupy Xi'an, and look down on Luoyang, the capital of the Han Emperor, so as to force the Han Emperor to surrender! β
Let the Emperor of the Han Dynasty surrender?
Even Si Wang, who was the most arrogant and least of the Han people in the Yue Dynasty, scoffed at this statement.
"It is impossible for the Han Emperor to surrender! It can defeat the Northern Frontier Front, so that the Han people dare not underestimate my Yueshi. Even if we give up Dayue Prefecture, as long as Emperor Han is willing to canonize Xihai Prefecture to us as a national territory, it is enough! At that time, our emperor will issue an edict to surrender himself to the king and guard the west for the Han emperor for generations! That's what Starwan said to Rovinis at the time. This is also the farthest goal that the people of the Yue Clan can think of at this moment.
In this regard, Rovinis asked disdainfully: "Why are you sure that the Han Emperor will not surrender?" With the loss of the Northern Frontier Front and the four northern prefectures, even if they have a population of hundreds of millions, they will be able to quickly gather troops to fight with me again? Not to mention that Rome is about to send troops, no matter how strong the Han people are, they will never be able to resist! β
At that time, Starwan and a kind of Yue courtiers looked at Rovinis with idiotic eyes, and were very suspicious of how such a Roman general, who did not know the Han Chinese, could get the title of "Child of the Sun"?
Of course, for Rovinis's question, Zhang Xian answered him very casually: "The Emperor of the Holy Ancestor of the Han Dynasty once said: After I die, the five of ministers, tribute, harmony, land cession, and indemnity are the emperor's ring!" Anyone who violates it can be punished by the descendants of the Han Dynasty! If there is a tragedy, the Son of Heaven guards the country, the king dies, and the offender is not allowed to enter the ancestral mausoleum! β
Luo Vinis, who obviously did not understand the broad and profound Chinese thoroughly, humbly asked Zhang Xian for the meaning of these words.
Zhang Xian explained indifferently: "The Han Shengzu said that all his descendants are not ministers, do not pay tribute, do not make peace, do not cede land, and do not pay compensation, if someone violates these five precepts, even if this person is the emperor, the Han people can also be killed in a group according to this edict of the Holy Ancestor." If the enemy soldiers come to the city, the emperor must also repay the country with death, and must not surrender or flee! Violators will not be allowed to enter the ancestral grave! β
Rovinis frowned at that time and said in an incredulous tone, "How could Han Shengzu leave such words? Doesn't this give the Han a reason to rebel? Even we Augustus had a time to pay tribute to the Germanic barbarian king Attilana! β
Zhang Xian snorted coldly and muttered in a voice that only he could hear: "So you Xiyi are not enough to compare with the Han people!" β
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Note 1: The Province of Britannia, now the United Kingdom. However, Ireland in the north is not included.
Note 2: Religious matters are always a bit complicated, just look at the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Middle East Peninsula. And the world described in this book has been intervened by the Han Empire, and the complexity is even more difficult to describe. It is estimated that if you explain it carefully, it may be tens of thousands of words. Here's a rough mention.,Wait for the opportunity in the future.,Write a free single chapter and put it in the work.γ
Note 3: Fascism here represents discipline and unity! It was only later that it evolved into the modern meaning of "dictatorship". The original pronunciation of fascist refers to the "bundle stick" in the hands of the tribune, which represents punishment. (To be continued......)