Compared with Jiangdong, which is warm and cold at first, Jiaozhou at this moment is already full of green trees and the red sun is scorching.
Sun Quan and Zhou Yu led the army to trek thousands of miles in the early autumn of last year, and broke through the encirclement of the Han army under the response of Pei Yuanqing.
Sun Quan and Zhou Yu arrived in Jiaozhi with a tired division to meet with Meng Tian, the general of the Guishan Army, Meng Tian appeased him, and ordered Sun Quan and Zhou Yu to garrison at the foot of Liangshan Mountain, echoing with the 120,000 Taiping troops led by Wei Changhui and Li Xiucheng, shocking the Han army three hundred miles away, making the army nervous and uneasy, and then launching a general attack on the Han army after the arrival of domestic reinforcements.
There are more than 40,000 soldiers and horses under Sun Quan's command, and the grain and grass have been basically burned by Wu Qi and Huo Qubing when Cangwu broke through.
Due to the butterfly effect of Liu Wei's crossing, not long ago, Wang Ben led 150,000 horses to march into the hinterland of India, pushing the territory of the Kushan Empire southward by at least 1,000 miles, leaving only the remnants of the Mauryan Empire led by Caesar to survive in southern India.
Just when Wang Ben was marching south, Meng Tian led 100,000 horses all the way east to the territory of Nanyue, rescued the remnants of the Taiping army of Wei Changhui and Li Xiucheng, who surrendered, and the nobles of the Lin Yi Kingdom, and pushed the territory of Kushan to the east for nearly 3,000 miles, making the territory of the Kushan Empire expand at least three times, and it was close to the divided Han Empire and the weakening Rome.
The reason why the Kushan army was invincible all the way was not only because the domestic environment was relatively stable, with a population of up to 10 million, and more than 500,000 men with armor, but also because the opponent was vulnerable.
Wherever the armies of Meng Tian and Wang Ben went, most of the people they met were tribal natives, and only a few kingdoms with a population of more than 500,000 people; Not only is the armor rare, but also the weapons are very scarce, and when they met the powerful Kushan army, they collapsed at the first touch, making the Kushan army invincible and sweeping the entire Indochina Peninsula in a short time.
The Indochina Peninsula is high in the north and low in the south, including Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries before Liu Wei crossed; The northern plateau is steep and densely jungled, but it is much flatter than it was 2,000 years later, and the trees are not as dense, making it difficult to march as it was during World War II.
After the Kushan army swept through north-central India and the Indochina Peninsula, Yingzheng sent Li Si, who had an internal affairs ability of up to 102, to govern the town.
After Li Si arrived, he showed his skills, and in just one or two years, he managed this wild land in an orderly manner, set up county and county governments in various places, appointed officials, reclaimed wasteland, built roads, provided strong logistical support for Meng Tian's invasion of Han, and ensured the supply of grain and grass.
Although the land of Indochina may seem wild, it has an equally long history, with humans appearing in the Paleolithic Age.
Later, in 600 B.C., the Dongshan culture appeared, and a large number of bronzes, pottery, spears, short swords, axes, arrows, ploughshares, and shovels were excavated in later generations, indicating that the Indochina Peninsula at this time already had the civilization of the Shang and Zhou dynasties in China and had gotten rid of the primitive life.
After arriving in Indochina, Li Si sent officials to count the population while governing the local area, and finally confirmed that the total population of the entire Indochina Peninsula and the north-central region of India exceeded 3 million, which could provide sufficient logistics for Meng Tian's Eastern Expeditionary Army.
It can be said that Meng Tian's unscrupulous expedition to South Vietnam relied on the strong support of Li Si.
On weekdays, internal affairs officials seem to be inconspicuous, but they are the type who listen to thunder in a silent place, if there is no Li Si, an internal affairs madman, as a backing, I am afraid that Meng Tian will have run out of food and grass long ago.
If Liu Wei did not have Xun Yu, Wang Meng, Zhang Juzheng, and Changsun Wuji, a large group of domestic strongmen, he would not have the strength to go to war on all sides, and in the case of a war on all sides, the grain and grass can still operate freely, which is the important role of internal affairs talents.
Ying Zheng is still the Qin Shi Huang who is determined to be in all directions, and seeing that Li Si and Meng Tian have gained a firm foothold in the Indochina Peninsula and even in the south of Jiaozhou, he ordered Wang Ben to march east from northern India to aid Meng Tian, and after more than two months of trekking, he has now arrived at Xianlu, which is 600 miles away from Jiaozhi, and is pressing towards the territory of the Han Dynasty.
Two months ago, Wu Yunzhao led his troops to patrol, and met Cleopatra and his entourage of more than 100 people plus Joan of Arc who passed through Liangshan, so he sent someone to interrogate and found clues, Cleopatra and others failed to break through, most of them died on the spot, and the remaining more than ten people were all captured, only Joan of Arc broke through the siege and went north in blood.
Although Sun Quan, Zhou Yu and others did not know the writing of the Peacock Dynasty, the Guishan soldiers under Meng Tian were adjacent to the Peacock Dynasty, and naturally there was no shortage of people who knew the letters.
Under the translation of the Kushan civil officials, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu learned that this woman had a strange name, and that she was the sister of Caesar, the leader of the remnants of the Mauryan Empire, and that she had come to the Han to marry Liu Wei, and then to obtain the support of the Han to expel the Kushan army from India and restore the former glory of the Mauryan Empire.
"Haha, it's really the road of heaven and earth, God help my Sun family" Sun Quan was overjoyed after listening to the translation of the Guishan civil official, as if he was in a desperate situation.
"Immediately send someone to escort this Cleopatra to Jiaozhi and hand it over to General Meng Tian for merit" After Sun Quan had just made a decision, he immediately shook his head and vetoed: "No, no, no, we have made such a great contribution, how can we give a piece of the pie to Meng Tian We should send someone to secretly send this beautiful woman to Fulousha, the capital of the Guishan Kingdom, to this general with the same name as Qin Shi Huang."
As soon as he thought of sending this beautiful woman out, Sun Quan felt a heartache.
Sun Quan has grown so big, and he has seen a lot of various beauties, but he has never seen a woman who looks so charming.
This woman called Cleopatra has long brown hair, exotic braids, beautiful facial features, and a charming appearance, which can charm people with just one look.
The skin tone is somewhere between white and yellow, and it makes you feel comfortable at a glance.
The slender and graceful, convex and backward figure will speed up the blood flow every time Sun Quan sees it, and his heart is as itchy as a cat scratch.
"If the country is in hand, why worry about no beauty" Sun Quan, who was at the end of his rope, also knew that now was not the time for pleasure, so he could only endure the pain and cut his love, and ordered his subordinates to secretly send Cleopatra to Fulousha, the capital of Guishan, and hand it over to Yingzheng to invite merit.
But Cleopatra was a woman with an intelligence of 93 after all, so she snorted coldly and reprimanded: "You stupid Han people, do you know that you have ruined the general's plan" Under the translation of the Guishan civil officials, Sun Quan had a direct conversation with Cleopatra: "You don't bewitch the general here, I captured the woman who married the Mauryan Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, and dedicated you to the general Yingzheng, this should be a great achievement, how can you destroy the plan."
Cleopatra said disdainfully: "Do you know that this is the secret plan of the great general to send me to pretend to be Caesar's sister, go to Jinling to confuse the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and steal the confidential information of the Han Dynasty, to help you capture the entire Jiaozhou, and then march to Yangzhou and Jingzhou." ” "A bunch of nonsense" Sun Quan sneered, "What you wear, use, and bring are all items from the Peacock Kingdom, and your letters, your envoys, and your seals are all genuine products of the Peacock Kingdom, it's really cunning to try to deceive me."
"Stupid" Cleopatra replied to Sun Quan with an even more contemptuous sneer, "If you can't even fool you, how can you fool the civil and military officials of Jinling, and most of the things I brought with me were seized from the Peacock Country, which was originally true" Sun Quan smiled disdainfully: "The carving insect skill also wants to hide from me" Cleopatra replied to Sun Quan with an even more disdainful laugh, laughing while lightly undressing Luo Shang, preparing to undress, and teasing in a magnetic voice: "What a stupid guy, no wonder you are chased by the Han army like a lost dog Since you are so confident, then come and sleep with me, or kill me, and see what you can get, General Yingzheng will reward you or let Meng Tian cut off your head" Sun Quan was deterred by Cleopatra's method of retreating as advance, but he didn't dare to make a presumptuous, so he could only send someone to imprison Cleopatra and discuss countermeasures with Zhou Yu.
Cleopatra's acting skills are realistic, and her rhetoric is impeccable, Zhou Yu can't make up his mind for a while, so he can only suggest that Sun Quan first entertain Cleopatra, and send someone to secretly rush to Fulousha, the capital of Guishan State, to investigate and see if what this woman said is true or false, after all, the Guishan Army is the last hope of the Sun family to turn the tables, if it destroys Yingzheng's plan, the Sun family will no longer be helpless.
The reason why Sun Quan didn't send someone to ask Meng Tian was that he was worried that what Cleopatra said was false, so he had to hand over the person to Meng Tian, and the credit would become Meng Tian's.
Moreover, Cleopatra insisted that this was Yingzheng's secret plan, and only a few people knew about it, and even Meng Tian did not inform him, so it was in vain to ask.
It was the combination of these two concerns that made Sun Quan dare not act rashly against Cleopatra, so he could only send a few handmaidens to entertain her, imprison them in the barracks, and wait for the messenger to Fulousha to send back the news.
It's just that Sun Quan's envoy has been gone for more than a month, and there is no reply until now, and he doesn't know whether he is dead or alive, which makes Sun Quan depressed, so he can only send the envoy to Fulousha again.
In the early morning of this day, the dust suddenly rose in the south, and a group of 50,000 soldiers and horses came under the banner of "Pei", Sun Quan and Zhou Yu hurriedly greeted Dazhai and greeted Pei Xingyan, the general of Guishan, who had arrived in commanding the troops.
Pei Xingyan returned the salute and said: "General Wang Ben's army has passed through Xupu, and it is estimated that it will arrive in Jiaozhi in five or six days. ” t1706231537: