The third confrontation between Qin and Hungary.

The direct opponents are: Li Zhongxiang, Luo Jia VS Helian Bi.

No matter from which point of view, the importance of this third battle, although important to the powerful Qin State, is no longer a matter of life and death.

The Qin armies of the Western Expedition were marching westward along the Silk Road, and the city-states of the Western Regions along the way opened their city gates to welcome their strong friendly neighbors from the East with the most deferential attitude.

The Huns were defeated by the Qin State and the Western Regions coalition forces in Tianchi, and the new Dadan Yu Helianbi was discredited, and only led 40,000 cronies to flee all the way west, and successively escaped out of the borders of Wusun and Daxia, and entered the territory of peace before he began to relieve his breath. Luo Jia's army pursued all the way, if it weren't for the appearance of the resting army on the border line, the vanguard Cao Xin was afraid that he would have been chasing Helian Bi to the end of the west.

That's it.

The prestige of the Qin state in Central Asia rose all of a sudden, and the tribes of Wusun and Daxia, who were destroyed by the Huns, were very grateful for the arrival of the Qin army, and the slaves who were lucky enough to escape a life from the battle of Tianchi lost all their wealth, and their only hope for life was to hope that the Silk Road would be reopened, and then bring rolling wealth.

Under such a mentality, the spread and promotion of the Heavenly Master Dao, a sect from the East, in Central Asia was surprisingly fast, and Zhang Liang, the great Heavenly Master, also followed the footsteps of the Qin army's westward expedition in due course, and every lecture he gave benefited the Taoists a lot, and he admired the Eastern civilization even more.

The first day of June.

Li Yuan's army entered the Aral Sea and merged the Aral Sea basin to which the former Wusun and Bactria belonged into Ili County, becoming the thirty-third county of Qin.

At the same time, the confrontation between the Anxi army and the Qin army on the border began to be broken, and under the influence of the instigation of the Zhongxing theory and the destruction of Wusun and Bactria by the Zhongxing Dynasty, the king of Anxi united three or four small states in the Persian region further west, plus the remnants of Helianbi's defeated army, to form a huge coalition of more than 250,000 troops. Prepare to deal with the Qin army's western expedition.

Two hundred and fifty thousand.

This number is the most powerful military liliang in Central Asia after the Persian Empire and the Macedonian Empire, and if there is a wise and decisive commander with military talent to command, he may really be able to block the Qin army, but it is clear that King Sabbath does not belong to this category of elites.

Seven days.

The main force of the 150,000 Qin army, plus about 50,000 Wusun and Daxia auxiliaries, began to launch an attack on Anxi, and the two sides launched a series of battles in the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus. But it's a pity that the advantage of the Qin army in Jishu is too great.

Thunder appeared in the Western Battlefield.

Tall chariots, moving wooden turrets, and desperate infantry in heavy armor all appeared on the battlefield without stopping, making the Sabbats, Persians, and Seleucids who were still in the Bronze Age feel extremely desperate and dazed.

After more than ten days of fierce fighting, the army retreated to the Caspian Sea line, losing more than 30,000 able-bodied soldiers.

"The Qin people are not people, they are gods, and they are messengers sent down by the gods!" Just when the rest soldier was suspicious, the Heavenly Master Dao came with a spirit that made people confused and unable to resist. While the poor people are suffering from innate inequality, the Heavenly Master Tao puffs up the resentment they have deposited in their hearts.

Rest in peace from internal and external troubles.

Externally, it was invaded by a strong enemy, and many cities were lost in successive battles, and many cities were occupied by the rebels inside. In just one month, the once powerful state of Anxi was facing the dilemma of breaking the country, and in early July, the Zhongxing Bank, who had always been trusted by the king of Anxi, led more than 20,000 troops to follow the Huns and fled further west. The rest army, which had lost the support of its allies, was suddenly in turmoil, and in desperation, the rest king had to shrink the remaining 80,000 remnants of the army in Fandou City to hold on.

However. In front of the Qin army, which had the weapon of thunder and gunpowder, the defensive advantage of the bluestone city wall no longer existed, and Fandou City could be held for a few days, and even the king of peace had no confidence.

July 10th.

The city of Fandou, which had been besieged for half a month, was broken by the Qin army, and the king of peace was defeated and self-immolated, and the entire city was turned into a ruin under the power of the explosion of the Qin army's thunder.

Rest was destroyed by the Qin army.

August.

The remnants of the Xiongnu swept across the Anatolian Peninsula, crossed the Eurasian Strait, and began to continue their offensive towards the Thracians on the opposite side.

On the one hand, the Huns were chased by the Qin army and fled in all directions, and on the other hand, they enjoyed the pleasure of conquering the West, and in this alternation of pain and happiness, they obtained territory, wealth, and gold coins from the Westerners, and then gave them to the Qin army that was closely pursuing behind them.

The rest of the people still made a little noise, but the ancient kingdom of Sethiam fell silently, this short-lived kingdom established by Alexander the Great of Macedon, its own foundation was unstable, after being repeatedly killed by the Xiongnu and Qin armies, it was suddenly shattered, and the country fell apart.

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Great Qin marched westward.

Successively defeated the powerful countries in Central Asia and the Middle East, and drove the Huns away like a group of people who begged for food everywhere, and what made people even more confused was that although the Huns could not defeat the Qin army, they won repeatedly in the confrontations with Persia and Seleucus, the so-called powerful countries in Central Asia and the Middle East.

The Seleucids experienced this Yellow Peril the most, occupying the Anatolian Peninsula, where the original Persian Empire was located, and they were beaten by the Huns of Helenbi, and almost did not even have a foothold on the Asian continent.

This unusual military situation was transmitted back to the eastern Mediterranean coast further west by some merchants and intersperse from the west, much to the shock of Sipis, the consul of the Roman Republic, who had already extended the Shili range to the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.

Around the Mediterranean, there are many countries founded by the ancient Greeks, ancient Egyptians, Carthaginians, Macedonians, Gauls, and Romans, and these countries have risen and fallen with each other in the long course of history, sometimes you appear, and sometimes another country has ascended to the most powerful position.

The period from 200 BC to 200 AD was the most glorious and proud era for the Romans, who came out of the Apennine Peninsula and gradually conquered Gaul, Macedonia, Carthage and other powers, and began to touch the Shili range to the Greek peninsula.

In terms of the historical status of consuls, although the abilities and merits of Sipis the Younger cannot be compared with Caesar and Ottavian, who single-handedly created the empire, at this time, the Roman consuls who had just defeated Hannibal, an old rival, in the Third Punic War were in high spirits.

After the Romans defeated Carthage again, the great commander Hannibal was abandoned by the Carthaginian nobles and had to retreat to Perry, a small city on the north coast of Africa, and Sipis's strategic goal also shifted eastward to occupy Greece and Egypt, two ancient civilizations.

The Qin people from the far east suddenly appeared in the field of view of the Roman Empire, which was a great threat.

The city of Rome.

Colosseum.

A brutal tear between slaves and slaves is being staged, gladiatorial slaves. Usually played by slaves and prisoners of war, this brutal bloody killing between people was the favorite entertainment of the Roman aristocracy of this era. Obviously, at this time, the Roman greats would not have imagined that a hundred years later, among the gladiatorial slaves, there would be a heroic figure that made them fearful - Spartacus.

The famous Roman general Sibius and his mistresses enjoyed the show in the palatial box, but his face was a little unpleasant.

In the war between Rome and Carthage that lasted for more than 300 years, the battle of wits between Sibia and Hannibal is a rare classic in Western military history. Fabian's delaying tactics prevented Hannibal from defeating the Romans at his strongest, giving Sibia a chance to take revenge.

In Rome, as the Carthaginians had become twilight, the struggle for the actual power of the Senate between Sibia and Fabian, between the young freshman shili and the conservative shili, gradually began to heat up.

Fabian did not want to give up the position of consul, but the real power of the army was held by Sibia and his allies, if the Roman army continued to win, Fabian, the consul without military power, would one day be replaced by Sibia, and in history, after Sibia's successful conquest of Egypt, Fabian had to give up the position of consul.

The Qin army invaded westward.

Fabian found a way to deal with Sibia, and yesterday the Senate, which he presided over, formally resolved to send an army of 50,000 men to assist the Greeks in resisting the barbarians from the east.

The man appointed commander of this Roman army was none other than Sibia, who had just defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama, and Fabian's purpose was clear, on the one hand, to divert Sibia, so that the prestige of Sibia would not threaten his position, and on the other hand, to allow the Roman general to stabilize the allies in the East.

However, for the emergence of a new enemy in the east, Sibia felt a little dazed and unfamiliar, how could the Qin State in the East, the country that produced silk, travel thousands of miles and come to the Mediterranean Sea, this expeditionary Qin army, isn't afraid of defeat, not afraid of dying in a foreign land, and the bones can't even return home?

What did the soldiers of the Qin army think.

Sibia had no way of knowing, and he couldn't have guessed that behind the Qin army, there was also a road-building army of about 200,000 people.

Among them, there were prisoners of war from Anxi, Xiongnu, Persia and other countries, convicts from the Qin state, and many auxiliary soldiers recruited from various counties. These men followed the Qin army all the way, extending the Silk Road all the way west to the end of the sea. (To be continued......)