The Romans lost.

Of the five Roman soldiers on the island of Kral, four were killed on the beach, and one panicked and tried to swim across the sea to escape, only to drown in the sea due to physical exhaustion.

Pelius's face stiffened.

He never imagined that the strong Gallic warriors would be defeated in this squad competition, and the cunning and shamelessness of the Qin people made him speechless. Cao Xin, who is five big and three rough and kind-hearted, is a disguise, and Pelius was deceived by his face from the beginning.

In desperation, Pelius had to order more than 490 soldiers under his command to drop their weapons, take off their armor, and then leave in disarray.

Cao Xin's victory in the competition, his heart was very happy, and the great meritorious service of Zhidu was greatly rewarded, according to the meritorious service conditions of the military lord system, Cao Xin ordered Bazhi to be a lieutenant colonel in the army, leading a team of 3,000 elite soldiers composed of special forces, the main task of this army, is to exercise the ability to survive in a harsh environment.

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The Romans retreated.

This is good news for the Qin army on both sides of the Bosburs.

Troy.

Located at the easternmost end of the strait, an abandoned port city, the former city of heroes, sits at the foot of the gentle Castle Hill from the Dardanelles to the north and the peninsula of Asia Minor to the west. It controls the Dardanelles Strait and is the passage of almost all merchant ships between the Aegean and the Black Sea.

Such an important place gradually declined in the long years after the Greco-Persian War.

Heroes of Troy.

Hector, Paris, and Nestor have all turned to dust, and even the impregnable walls that once formidable the Greeks are in ruins. As for the beautiful Helen who triggered the Trojan battlefield, she has long since turned into a pile of white bones and skeletons, and she is buried in the ground of Greece.

The sixteenth year of the Great Qin calendar, March.

This forgotten place, with the arrival of the Qin army. It's not the same at first.

A team of soldiers of the Qin army built houses and set up tents in the ruins here, and they slept in the open air, and they paid silently

In order to build a Mediterranean fleet belonging to the Qin State.

To gain a foothold in the Mediterranean.

It doesn't work if you don't know how to boat, and in history, whether it's the Persians, or the Macedonians, or the Turks, they are invincible on land. But it was never able to truly incorporate the Mediterranean into its territory, and only the Roman Empire did so.

The Roman fleet could cross the entire Mediterranean, attack Carthage on the southern coast, attack the Egyptians in the southeastern corner, and even their fleet left the Strait of Gibraltar and began to move north to the English Islands.

For naval battles.

The Qin people have always been not very good at it, and the old Qin people who started from the inland of Guanzhong. The familiarity with the boat is far less than that of horseback riding

This is not because the Chinese people have a fear of the sea, but Qiaqia is a Chinese dynasty, and most of them are initiated from the north. Very few southern statehood states.

The big husband immediately built the country.

Learning naval warfare and shipbuilding was a must-do for the Qin people, who today built a commercial port with the Jews in the Haifa Bay area. And in order to compete for hegemony in the Mediterranean, the Qin army needed a military port as its home port. After some investigation and investigation, he served as the general of the Qin army in Troy City. It is Li Yuan's most trusted Gan Yong, and his lieutenants are the two great thief generals who used to dominate Juyeze: Hu Yu and Luan Bu.

Hu Lu and Luan Bu had an outstanding performance in pacifying the southern war, but then with the fall of South Vietnam, they also lost their usefulness, at the beginning of the westward expedition, in the face of the vast desert, these two robbers who were accustomed to fighting in the boat chose to follow the old master Peng Yue in the south of the Yangtze River to enjoy Qingfu.

However, it is different from Peng Yue, who is nearly sixty years old.

Luan Bu and Hu Yu are in their prime, and they want to eat and wait for death all day long, which is really wronged, this time, the Qin army recruited troops for the second time, and the two Kwantung generals who were unwilling to be lonely decided to come forward again.

The sea and the lake.

They both belong to the waters, but there are also many differences, such as wind and waves, such as the reaction after drowning, and such as the manipulation of the boat, these questions are placed in front of the three Qin army generals, making them frown one by one. This time, although Cao Xin made the Romans retreat with interest, there is no guarantee that next time, the decisive battle between Daqin and Rome will come.

At the same time, in addition to the Great Qin generals from the Central Plains and Kwantung, there was also a familiar and surprising figure in Troy.

The Greek scholar Gemisius also came to Troy with his disciples, according to him, to excavate and investigate the ruins of the ancient city, but as Gemetheus made more appearances at the newly built docks, these scientific elites from ancient Greece began to join in the construction of the new fleet.

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Another direction.

In the desert between the two river basins and the Red Sea, groups of Qin cavalry were rapidly marching southwest, their target was the Sinel Peninsula on the shores of the Red Sea.

As the central city of the western Qin state, Xin'an City had an unshakable status, and in order to give the city a sense of security like the Chang'an area, Li Yuan decided to open up a new corridor in the southern area. This corridor, along the Persian Gulf, stretches along the Yemen Sea and the Red Sea, and the Qin army's front also began to touch the north coast of Africa.

Ahead of the Romans, the rich Mediterranean coast of Africa was an important decision made by Li Yuan after learning of the crisis in Constantinople.

Since sooner or later you have to fight to the death with the Romans, you must be prepared first, Egypt's Nile River has been the birthplace of civilization since ancient times, with enviable wealth, this has always been the place where the Romans have been thinking about it, and for the current Qin State, the occupation of Egypt is equivalent to guarding the gateway to Xin'an, and if this point is lost, then the Roman army can start from the Nile at any time and march along the Sinai Peninsula to Haifa Bay and the Euphrates River.

Of course, there is another reason why Li Yuan decided to fight on multiple fronts, and that is that the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt is now at its weakest.

Take advantage of your illness to kill you.

Li Yuan would not make the foolish mistake of Song Xianggong's selflessness and waiting for the enemy army to cross the river, and this time he decided to lead the army to conquer Egypt. A few days of comfort have long made this horse god king tired of it, although there is a little beauty Yan Feng to relieve his boredom, but it is not Li Yuan's style to waste his days every day.

In this expedition to Egypt, the Qin army was divided into two routes, led by Li Yuan, starting from Xin'an City, crossing the Saudi Peninsula in a straight line and marching to the Sinai Peninsula; The other division, commanded by Li Zhongxiang, led a mixed army, mainly Jews and supplemented by Qin, to march along the Mediterranean corridor of the Dead Sea to Egypt.

The Second Route Qin Army was huge, claiming to have 200,000 troops, and the news reached Alexandria, the capital of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, which immediately frightened Ptolemy V, who had not been in power for a long time, into a cold sweat.

The young king of Egypt, now only eighteen years old, ascended to the throne at the age of five, but the real power was in the hands of the court's ministers, and it was not until last year, when he married Queen Clepaotra I, that he used the queen's liliang to eliminate the dissidents.

Egypt was in civil strife for more than a decade.

The situation in China is also getting worse, not only is agricultural production stagnant, but also the science and technology of civilization, which has always been proud, is gradually declining.

The Qin State had entered the Iron Age, the Romans were walking on the highest peaks of the Bronze Age, and the Egyptians were still stuck in the period of time when primitive pottery and bronze were alternating between pottery and bronze, and many soldiers in the Ptolemaic army still used wooden sticks and bone spears, and although bronze weapons were also available, only those officers could enjoy this special treatment.

Such a disparity under the liliang gap.

The encounter between the Qin army and the Ptolemaic army was of no narrative value, and in the eastern part of the Sinai Peninsula, Li Yuan's 30,000 cavalry defeated Ptolemy's nearly 50,000 troops with a single charge, and then the Qin army pursued the defeated army from Sinai all the way across the Nile until the capture of Cairo.

Cairo of this era.

Not yet the capital and largest city of Egypt, it was only a burial area where the pharaohs of the ages were buried, and because of its location on the lower Nile plain, it gradually became a gathering place for inhabitants to trade goods, and it is not surprising that such small cities are dotted along the Nile. (To be continued......)