Chapter 701: Cao Cao in Europe

While Liu Bei was captured by three local natives in Africa, Cao Cao led his European Front army close to the Roman-controlled region of Thrace, which later became Ukraine. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

From Qin Feng, Cao Cao learned. There were three major peoples in Europe who rebelled most fiercely against Rome: the Gauls, the Germans, and the Thracians.

The Thracians fought valiantly, so they were very popular mercenaries. Their hymns to war are especially impressive, with the Greeks likening it to the roar of a titan.

The Thracians had a hero, Spartacus. When the Romans invaded, they were captured and reduced to slavery. Later, Spartacus started a rebellion at the gladiator school and fled to Vesuvius to start an uprising.

Marx, the mentor of the revolution, called Spartacus "the great commander, the true representative of the ancient proletariat", and Lenin praised him as "the most brilliant hero of the greatest slave revolt".

The Gauls never gave up their resistance.

Later French territory was made up of Gallic regions. In the 1st and 5th centuries BC, Rome ruled almost the entire region of Gaul.

The rule of the Romans was the rule of slavery, the rule of colonies, which made the Gauls constantly revolt.

For Roman rule, the head of the Gallic tribe at this time, 'Wessengetrix', led the Gallic revolt.

By Caesar's time, the Germanic peoples had settled west of the Rhine and south to the Danube. The earliest large-scale battles between them and the Romans took place at the end of the 2nd century BC.

Eventually, the Roman Empire occupied a vast Germanic tribal area up to the Elbe River, which was incorporated into the empire and formed the Roman province of Greater Germania.

In the following decades, the Roman Empire and the Germanic peoples fought wars, and in the first century AD, the Roman Empire gradually pushed its borders to the east bank of the Rhine, thus strengthening the Roman Rhine-Danube border system.

After the second half of the 1st century AD, the Romans began to build a boundary wall on the east bank of the Rhine. This meant that the Roman Empire finally ended the war of conquest. The Roman Empire officially incorporated the Rhine and the Upper Danube into its empire and established two provinces: Upper Germania and Lower Germania. The capital of the former is Mainz, and the latter is Cologne.

But the Roman Empire failed to conquer all of Germanic territory.

There was no sign of **** rule among the Germanic peoples. The leaders of the various clan groups are only responsible for mediating disputes between clansmen, and this function of resolving disputes is confined to the same clan and cannot go beyond the bounds.

There did not seem to be such an organization as an arbitration group at the time. In fact, in times of peace, they did not have a centralized authority that could dictate and exercise authority to manage the affairs of all clans. In times of war, according to Caesar's writings, the Germanic peoples elected a number of joint commanders, who were collective leaders, and their power was limited to wartime.

This made it impossible for the Germanic people to oppose the Romans with the strength of the whole nation.

As Cao Cao's European Front marched along the northern coast of the Black Sea, the news that the mysterious Chinese Empire in the East and the descendants of the dragon were attacking the Roman Empire spread in Europe.

In order to allow Boss Cao to work smoothly in Europe, Mr. Qin specially gave Boss Cao a book of "Roman Language", which was actually written by Qin Feng. The book is a comparison table of Chinese and Roman. The words may not be complete, but the everyday vocabulary is sufficient. It is obviously not enough to have books, but fortunately, there are also translations of Rest and Kushan and Western Regions support.

When several languages are switched to each other, they can learn from each other, which is the only way to learn a foreign language at an early age.

Boss Cao learned a lot, and he couldn't learn for a while, but time didn't wait for anyone, so he handed over the books to Guo Jia. If this is an ordinary person, it is impossible to learn Roman in a short time, but Guo Jia is not an ordinary person, and the wisdom of the devil against the sky has allowed him to master a large number of Roman words in a month. Although he may not be able to say a complete sentence, a few simple words can be connected.

For Cao Cao, this is enough communication.

Outside the Thracian region, in the middle of later Ukraine, in front of a vast city in ruins, Cao Cao saw tens of thousands of Thracians, dressed in animal skins and full of hostile eyes. Meet the leader of the Thracians who is committed to reclaiming his homeland, a middle-aged man with a strong force.

With Guo Jia as the translator, the two sides were able to communicate.

"Spartacus? Isn't it already dead? "This was the first time that the Orientals had come into contact with the Thracians, and Cao Cao was full of doubts.

"I have inherited the will of my ancestors and led my people to fight against the Romans forever." Spartacus said.

Cao Cao also understood that this was in the endless struggle, in order to find hope, he changed his name.

"You are the descendants of the dragon from the east, attacking Rome?" Spartacus asked.

"Yes, come with us. We have a common enemy, a common goal, and we are friends. Cao Cao said.

Spartacus looked at the hundreds of thousands of eastern troops behind Cao Cao and said, "Although you have a strong army, the strength of the Romans is not what you can imagine. At one time, we also had such an army ....... ”

Regarding Spartacus's suspicion, Cao Cao did not care, but said more firmly: "Friend, as long as we are united, we will definitely be able to defeat the Romans." Uniting all the forces that can be united, Europe is the Europe of all the peoples of Europe. As long as the Thracians are willing to be friends in the East, tomorrow our coalition forces will enter your homeland. The Thracian flag will once again fly in its homeland. ”

Spartacus was quite moved, and his people were talking.

One of the leaders of the Thracian tribe stepped forward and said in a loud voice: "Orientals, forgive me for telling the truth, you will not be a match for the Romans, and we cannot gamble the lives of the last of our people." ”

"I'm afraid you're the only one who thinks so, right? Every nation contains invincible strength. Cao Cao said coldly.

"It's just empty talk, you can't get recognition." The leader looked at the army behind Cao Cao and said-for-tat: "The best sword also needs to be tempered before it can be sharpened. ”

Cao Cao said lightly: "But no matter how tender the thorns are, they can hurt people, how can this be explained?" ”

"It's ......." The leader was at a loss for what to do in front of Cao Cao's allegorical words, while the Thracians were moved.

"Never doubt the wisdom and strength of the Chinese nation, as well as our sword. They'll be ready to beat you at any time. Cao Cao said proudly.

The Thracians let out an exclamation.

Cao Cao took a step forward, faced all the Thracians, and said loudly: "I, the descendant of Huaxia and the descendant of the dragon, Cao Cao, will help you and regain your homeland." ”

Thracians, everyone moved.

After a while, Spartacus consulted with the respected leaders of the clans. Fifty paces away from Cao Cao, he gathered a pile of soil and stuck a peacock's feather on top of the mound. "Please shoot this peacock feather in half with an arrow, and prove your wisdom with your weapon."

"Let's witness the wisdom and strength of the Orientals." The leaders of all ethnic groups said in unison.

The Thracians will see.

Guo Jia frowned. Xiahou Yuan, who was good at shooting beside him, said: "This is not as good as a hundred steps through Yang, and it will be difficult for the lord." ”

Guo Jia shook his head and said, "Look at the stiffness of this feather stem, which can be compared to a wooden arrow, and it is in a loose mound. An arrow can only knock it down, but it can't be broken. ”

"Huh?" Only then did Xiahou Yuan realize the extremely high difficulty hidden in it, and exclaimed: "The poplar branches are easy to break, and this is only a hundred steps through the poplar, but I never thought of this." The Thracians deliberately stuck this feather in a loose mound of dirt to make it difficult for us! ”

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes, and when he opened them, he showed resoluteness. He stretched out his hand, and Xiahou Yuan hurriedly handed over his Falling Moon Bow, and said worriedly: "My lord, the Thracians are deliberately making things difficult, so it's better to let your subordinates come down." ”

Cao Cao signaled no, he took the bow and arrow, and the moment he bent the bow and arrow, everyone held their breath.

Huh~, an arrow rushes like a meteor.

Everyone looked at each other, and with a poof, the arrow shot out of the mound under the feather, and did not touch the feather on it.

The tens of thousands of people who watched were in an uproar, and everyone was amazed and disappointed. (To be continued.) )