Chapter 453: The Second Wave of the West
The banner of the Blue Wolf Tribe.
Completely lost in the storm of the Bosbroses.
Helian Bi, the untimely Xiongnu hero, left this shijie with endless unwillingness and humiliation, although there are still some Huns who fled to the north, but if the Huns want to rise again, there is no accumulation of five or six hundred or even thousands of years, and it is not to think about it.
There is Daqin in the east.
There is Rome to the west.
On the Eurasian continent, the most extensive and developed civilization on the earth, Eastern and Western civilizations converged for the first time, and what is the result of this inevitable collision?
No one could have predicted it.
In September and October, after the Qin army occupied large areas of the Middle East and Central Asia, the Chang'an court immediately sent a large number of officials to follow up, and the cities of the enemy countries were renamed, the most famous of which were the seven great cities.
Peacock Villas is located at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains.
Chaotian City on the shore of Tianchi in the Ili Valley.
Sin'an Fortress in the valley of the two rivers.
The city of Siyon on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
The old city of the king of Bactria on the side of the Aral Sea medicine killing: Broken Leaf City.
On the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, near the ancestral birthplace of the Semitic people, the city of Dongyang.
Located on the Anatolian Peninsula, the city of Yanhuang.
These seven cities are like the Big Dipper, connecting the safety of the western border of Qin, and at the same time, it also protects the safety of the Silk Road between Eurasia, after the Qin army entered the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, the danger of the Silk Road at the eastern tip of Asia, which was full of dangers in the past, was greatly reduced, on the contrary, on the European continent, the war between the princes and kingdoms made the transportation of caravans very difficult.
The Roman Republic was the most powerful state on the European continent at this time, but it was still far from reaching the heights of the later Roman Empire, which crossed the Mediterranean and became the largest power in the West.
To the east of the Romans, the Thracians were still strong, while to the north, the Germanic tribes living in the icy jungles of the north were still strong, in the south. The Carthaginian leader Hannibal, who had failed twice, lost the real power to command the army, but he was still alive.
The Qin army's first westward expedition was fruitful.
The Great Qin army, which traversed the whole of Asia, reached the junction of the Eurasian continent with an unstoppable momentum, and the 250,000 troops stationed in such a vast area gradually showed the dilemma of tight troops.
Orient.
Chang'an City.
In the morning light, usher in the dawn of a new day.
This country, which was born on the ruins of war, did not deviate from its original development trajectory after Li Yuan left. Li Ye, a young emperor, has more gentle elements in his personality, and with the influence of civil officials such as Chen Ping and Ji Di, he also has the appearance of a virtuous king in terms of governance.
Of course, no one can predict how long this virtuous wisdom can last, after all, Li Ye is now only a nominal king, the real control of Great Qin. is still in Li Yuan's hands.
West.
On the Ba Bridge.
A pair of people were happily talking about something, and one or two of them were very excited, and they directly rolled up their cuffs and jumped on the stone bars leading the horses. He shouted loudly to the crowd.
"Saying that on this day, my Great Qin Heavenly Soldiers chased and killed the Huns very tightly, and suddenly a thunderstorm sounded in the sky, and after a while. Lightning and thunder roared, torrential rain roared, and Emperor Shenwu raised his head when he heard the sound. Shout, Ulna Lei Gong, don't hurry up and retreat! ”
Storyteller's nonsense.
Since Li Yuan led the Qin army to the west, one after another exciting good news has been transmitted, making the Qin people, who have always admired force, feel proud.
"Hey, did you hear that? The imperial court issued an edict to prepare to form the second batch of troops for the Western Expedition, and this time, our brothers can't pull it down anymore. ”
"Are you telling the truth?"
"This is still fake, a notice has just been posted at the city gate, I don't believe you can go and take a look-!"
The generals of the Qin army guarding the city gate watched the excitement and whispered that among these guards, the younger ones were the new pawns who had not gone through blood and fire, and they did not have a personal experience of Li Yuan's name, while those old pawns were all excited, eager to fly to the west with their wings.
On the castle tower.
Ma Jin, the captain of the Qin army, had a complicated expression, looked at the west, and muttered in his mouth, as a middle-level general in the army, he knew earlier about the imperial court's intention to form a second batch of western expeditionary troops, affected by the news of the Qin army's successive victories, this time, the imperial court decided to requisition and send 200,000 troops again, and reinforce the increasingly tense forward troops.
Ma Jin's name was not included in the troops of the first wave of the Western Expedition, on the one hand, the generals in charge of the selection were afraid that Ma Jin had family members in Guanzhong, and on the other hand, Ma Jin himself did not show much strong desire to participate.
Daqin has unified the whole country, and the war in the four realms has almost subsided, it is time to go home and live a comfortable life with his wife and children on the hot kang, and the person who has such an idea is not only Ma Jin.
Thinking about the dark nights of the past year, being able to hug his daughter-in-law's plump and sturdy body, and his strong and powerful brother galloping across the territory, Ma Jin felt that his choice was not wrong.
But now, he regretted it.
There is no doubt that he missed the most intense years of a man, and missed the opportunity to establish immortal deeds and achieve fame in history.
"Wuhou, do you remember me? Brothers, wait for me! When the sun set in the west, Makin finally made up his mind.
Ma Jin was not the only one who joined the second batch of Western Expeditionary Troops.
Gan Yong, a young general guarding in Chudi, was appointed as the vanguard of the second batch of Western Expeditionary Army, and he was accompanied by Yang Yu and Zhou Ping, who returned from Lingnan, these three young people from the pro-guard forbidden army, are now in their early thirties, and it is when Fang Gang is the strongest in blood.
If there are pioneers, there will naturally be commanders.
Meng Hu, the former court lieutenant in charge of the affairs of the Military Intelligence Department, was not surprised by everyone, and Li Ye, the crown prince of Qin, was appointed as the chief general of the Second Western Expeditionary Army.
Although Meng Hu has been out of the army for six or seven years, the Military Intelligence Department under his command has been paying attention to the changes in the military situation of the countries around Qin State over the years, and he should be the right person to lead the army.
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In the 11th year of the Qin calendar, October 10.
Meng Hu led the western expedition to reinforce the army in Leyouyuan, and the young king Li Ye, who took the power of the emperor on behalf of the emperor, Chen Ping, the prime minister, the imperial history Jidian, and a cadre of civil and military officials all came to see him off.
Great Qin's national prestige!
Under the banner of hunting, it shows an exciting and refreshing momentum!
With the follow-up of reinforcements, the Qin troops in the front, which had once shown that their momentum had been blocked, soon became active again, and the battle between Qin and Rome for the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea began. (To be continued......)