The next day, Ran Min began to lead his army to break out of the encirclement.

Although Ran Min is the king of a country, it is not good to risk his life, but he is not taboo about this kind of thing at all, but because of his perennial comfortable life, he just wants to use his blood to warm up the martial style in his bones.

So Ran Min personally led 30,000 iron cavalry to fight a bloody road, and let the rest of the troops rush out with the wounded and sick first.

"Kill!"

Ran Min faced the most courageous army among the poisonous people, except for the Gupta Dynasty.

This is the army of Western Satrapp!

The soldiers and horses of Western Satrap are different from the soldiers and horses of the other poisonous states. More than a third of the country's soldiers were equipped with full armor, especially their cavalry, with the most heavily armored cavalry.

They wore triangular hats on their heads, all of them were sturdy bearded men, wearing thick armor, all men and horses were wearing armor, and they either held spears or sharp swords in their hands, and they did not fall behind at all in the fight with the sharp soldiers of the Wei army!

"Poof! ……”

Ran Min waved the double-edged spear in his hand, driving the mount under his crotch, the Fire Dragon Moxibustion, to gallop quickly, rushing left and right to kill, and there was no enemy under his command.

But all the enemies within a foot of him were assassinated under the horse, trampled into a mass of flesh by the iron hooves of the war horse!

Bloody, floating in the air, this "deadly" smell of blood made Ran Min's spirit very uplifted, he was like beating chicken blood, the double-edged spear in his hand was wielding more and more vigorously, and more and more enemies were killed by him!

"Whoa!" But no matter how brave the Wei army was, his arms were numb after chopping, and the number of poisonous people around him did not decrease at all, but increased more and more.

Looking at the mound on the opposite side, a large group of poisonous iron cavalry galloped forward, shaking the swords in their hands, and their eyes flashed with murderous light like hungry wolves.

"Give it to me!"

The fighting intensified.

In the face of tall and burly enemies, the soldiers of the Wei army were not intimidated at all, because compared to their stature, because they ate and drank well all year round, they were as good as these Scythians from the Western Satrap Kingdom, and compared to their strength, maybe the Wei people were superior!

Not to mention flexibility.

Every time three or four Scythians die, the Wei army will kill a soldier!

Soon Ran Min led the army out of the encirclement, but Sima Xu, who had fought bloodily around him, brought him bad news.

"Your Majesty! Oh no! The poisonous man suddenly cut off the waist of our army and is raiding the troops with the wounded and sick! Lord Qin is still inside! ”

"What?!"

As soon as he heard that Qin Mu was still in danger, Ran Min was anxious, although he had already fought his way out of the encirclement, he couldn't leave Qin Mu inside!

So Ran Min raised the bloodstained double-edged spear in his hand again, turned his back to the tens of thousands of Wei soldiers behind him, and said loudly: "Soldiers, our comrades are still inside!" I will never give up on a single soldier, nor will I give up my wounded and sick robes! Follow me! Kill back! ”

"Kill!"

With Ran Min, the emperor's leading soldier, the iron cavalry of the Wei army suddenly shouted, and then rushed into the formation of the poisonous man with murderous spirit, and continued to fight with it, while constantly crushing the enemy in front.

If you look down from above, you can see that hundreds of thousands of people are fighting and messing around in the vast wilderness.

Although there are many poisonous people, they are fighting separately, and they can't completely unite to kill the Wei army, and there are even many poisonous soldiers who are afraid of death, but they just ran around for a while, dangling a shot, and hitting soy sauce!

Ran Min quickly rushed to the location of the wounded and sick, and Qin Mu had already been protected. But Ran Min was still not at ease, so he directly picked up Qin Mu, put him on his mount, and rode the same horse with him!

"Rush out with me! Kill! ”

Ran Min showed extraordinarily brave martial arts, and the Wei soldiers present were all infected by his bravery, and they all guarded him fearlessly and fought their way out of the encirclement together.

At night, Ran Min found that his arm had been slashed with a sword, and the bones were injured, and the gloomy bones were still bubbling with flesh and blood, which looked really scary.

This was all caused to protect Qin Mu, which made the latter very moved, and he couldn't help but burst into tears.

The Wei army entered Harald City, so Ran Min ignored the injury on his arm, and convened the generals to discuss and assign the generals what they should do.

Sima Xu said again: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that our army must not go to war in the past few days. His Majesty should know about the daytime battles, and there are also armies that can fight among the poisonous people, such as the army of the Western Satrap Dynasty that His Majesty encountered, and its heavy cavalry is very powerful. ”

"Oh? Is it really the army of Western Satrap? ”

"Yes. Your Majesty, the minister also has a certain understanding of the country of Western Satrap. The situation is complicated by different cultural customs, different races, different values, and even the entire South Asian subcontinent! ”

"Tell me about the West Satrap Kingdom."

"No!"

Sima Xu said eloquently: "The Western Satrap Dynasty, also known as the Western Viceroyalty, was a local Scythian power located in western India, and its sphere of influence extended from the mouth of the Indus River to the east to the central Bandara region. To the north it includes the famous ancient city of Ujain, and to the south it reaches the Nabada River, which covers all of the Malwa Plateau. However, because his ruler's title was the Western Governor of the Kushan Empire, he received a seemingly inferior name. ”

"Oh? This kingdom of Western Satrapp is still related to the Kushan Empire? ”

Kushan Empire, of course Ran Min has heard of it.

This empire was founded by the tribe of the Daiyue clan's Wuxi Marquis, Guishan Xihou.

By the 60s of the first century AD, the Kushans had ruled Sogdiana, Bactria, Kabul, Tanchasera, Gandhara, Zobin, and possibly Western Punjab. Later, during the reign of the unknown king Sauter Mags, the Kushan expanded westward to Herat, taking control of the entire Hejian region and entrapping Kangju and Dawan.

In 90 A.D., King Kushan was rejected by Ban Chao because of his request for the Han princess, and sent his deputy Wang Xie to lead an army of 70,000 to attack Chao, but he was defeated by Chao and sued for peace.

Ban Chao has never known the name of King Guishuang, and only calls him "King of the Moon Family". At the beginning of the second century, Yan Zhizhen ascended the throne and conquered the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent again, expanding his sphere of influence in Central Asia to Khorezm and annexing Sistan, forming a huge empire in Central Asia.

The empire stretched from Patna in the east to Dakhrat in the west, to the Nabada River in the south, and to the Aral Sea in the north. The capital was moved to Peshawar.

You must know that the Kushan Empire reached its peak under the rule of Kasserga I and his successors, with a population of more than 1 million soldiers and more than 200,000 soldiers, and was considered one of the four great powers in Asia and Europe at that time, alongside the Han Dynasty, Rome, and Anxi.

With such a flourishing empire, how could Ran Min not know?

When Sima Xu heard this, he lowered his eyebrows and replied, "Yes." Your Majesty, for many, the Cypriots are not a household name, but they are also a very legendary nomadic people. They were the Asian branch of the first nomadic overlords, the Scythians, and at one time caused great problems for Cyrus and Alexander the Great, who invaded their domains. But they were also defeated and fugitives, and under the pressure of the Yueshi people who moved west, they had to choose to leave their homeland. Eventually, he took over the magpie's nest and established his own poisonous Scythian state, the Western Satrap Dynasty (Western Viceroyalty). ”

"But now the kingdom of Western Satrapp has declined. The strength of the Western Governorate is undoubtedly impressive. But like almost all foreign races who forcibly break into foreign worlds by force, as their strength weakens, the invaders will eventually melt into the sea of natives! ”

"After the death of Rudradaman (Rudra Daman I) in 150 AD, the Western Viceroyalty embarked on the same path that led to the demise of their predecessors."

"Foreign military defeat is the first symptom of a nation's prosperity and decline. The Satavahana (Hundred Riders) succeeded in recapturing the economically important region of the Konkan Coast (Gongan Plain) shortly after the death of the great Scythian governor. This undoubtedly caused the descendants of Rudra Daman (Rudra Daman I) to lose a considerable degree of trade wealth! ”

Not only that, but with the demise of powerful kings, the struggle for power within the dynasty replaced the unity of the past. Civil wars became the norm in the mid-II to the third centuries. Many local forces have been able to gain traction. By the beginning of the third century, Euzja had lost control of the Malwa Plateau and most of Rajasthan, Kuchi and northern Gujarat because of the central court in the capital. The new kings were powerless to stop it. ”

"Their authority had fallen so bad that between 295 and 348 A.D. no ruler dared to mint any coins bearing the title of Grand Governor."

Hearing this, Ran Min nodded and said, "You know quite clearly. ”

The backwardness of the Scythian culture was also exposed in the course of its decline. These nomadic peoples, who originated from the steppes of Central Asia, were originally barbarian warriors who admired primitive shamans.

But in the process of migrating to Afghanistan and northwestern India, they first embraced the local Greco-Iranian civilization and then gradually Indianized.

In the process, although they abandoned the primitive and backward ruling methods of their ancestors in order to adapt to the conquered land, their vigorous wildness was also extinguished, and they gradually became unenterprising.

Over time, the style of numismatic circulation in the Western Shoroyalty became increasingly Indianized. The Greek-Iranian deities that had been in India during the Scythian era were slowly replaced by the Indian Shiva and Buddhas, and even the Greek characters carved on the seals were unrecognizable.

A country mired in a long period of civil strife and increasingly cut off by Indian culture seems to be not far from extinction.