The Anshan Empire is located directly west of the Kushan Empire, with an area of about 3.5 million square kilometers, and the westernmost frontier borders with the Roman Empire's Antioch Prefecture, and is about 3,000 miles away from Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire.
According to the map before Liu Wei's crossing, the Rest Empire included Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and other Central and Western Asian countries in the 21st century, and was adjacent to Eastern European countries such as Greece and Bulgaria.
Nowadays, including the entire Indian Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula in Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and other countries, as well as the Philippines and Indonesian Islands, the western region of Japan has all been included in the territory of the Han Dynasty, and the Western Expeditionary Corps led by Wu Qi and Su Lie has entered Afghanistan and pointed to the entire Middle East region.
In other words, the 500,000 Han army led by Wu Qi was only one rest away from the Roman Empire, and the iron hooves of the Great Han Xiongshi were not far from Rome, which was enough to shock the princes of Rome Compared with the severe cold of the Han Empire, the climate in the rest of the country is slightly warmer, and only a thin layer of ice will form on the surface of the coldest Layue River, far from the point where the horn bow is uncontrollable, so when the East Asian region is dying down and recuperating, the war in the rest of the territory is still burning.
In the Battle of Camel Ridge a month ago, Wu Qi seized the opportunity of the intrigue between Alexander and Xiang Yu, took advantage of the loopholes of Su Qin and Pang Statistics, and unexpectedly led an army of 500,000 to pour out.
Almost all of the 80,000 horses led by Xiang Yu were annihilated in one fell swoop, and the two generals of Xianzhen and Wutu Gu were killed, resulting in a great injury to Xiang Yu's vitality and the loss of nearly half of the country's troops.
Xiang Yu, who had suffered heavy losses, hated and angered Wu Qi, but he also knew that he could not resist the imposing Han army with less than 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, so he had to retreat to Lanma Pass and summon Lu Wang to discuss countermeasures.
For Xiang Yu, Alexander is the enemy, and the struggle between Bactria and Babylon will sooner or later be divided, but Wu Qi, who is sitting on the benefits of the fisherman, is even more despicable, if he chooses between Alexander and Wu Qi to die first, Xiang Yu must choose Wu Qi In the Blue Horse Pass, Xiang Yu was discussing countermeasures with Lu Wang, Pang Tong and other subordinates in the Shuai Mansion.
Xiang Yu looked at Lu Wang, who had just arrived from Mulu City, the national capital, and said bitterly: "Father, the battle of Camel Ridge has made Gu unforgettable, and it has greatly damaged my vitality in Daxia, how do you think we should use troops next?"
"The matter has come to this point, we can only unite with Alexander to fight against the Han army, and wait until Wu Qi is repelled and the situation is stabilized, and then it is not too late to settle accounts with Alexander."
Lu Wang stroked his gray beard and pointed out the future strategic direction from the perspective of the overall situation.
Murong Ke next to him interjected: "In the battle of Camel Ridge, Alexander's 30,000 troops transporting grain were all wiped out, and Achilles, who came to reinforce, also suffered heavy losses, and lost the front-line fortress Shachecheng, the situation is not much better than our Great Xia."
I am afraid that I will not be able to resist Wu Qi by uniting Babylon, so I must send people to Ctesiphon to ask for an audience with the emperor, and contact the princes to reach a united front to jointly resist the invasion of the Han Kou."
In addition to the most powerful Babylon and Bactria in the entire Anxi Empire, the imperial court controlled by Emperor Vologis V also controlled 100,000 troops, and there were four vassal states in the territory, with a total strength of about 200,000, which was the strength of the entire Anxi Empire.
In the first battle of Camel Ridge, Wu Qi annihilated more than 70,000 people of the Great Xia army and nearly 50,000 Babylonian troops.
As soon as Murong Ke's words fell, Pang Tong flipped his nose and said unceremoniously: "It's useless, even the strongest Great Xia and Babylon in the rest of the territory can't stop the Han army, and counting on the little princes with ghosts in their hearts to fight against the Han army is simply a mantis arm as a car."
In order to stop the invasion of the Han army on Anxi, only the Roman Empire, which is controlled by Liu Bang, can hope to repel the Han army."
Lu Wang's head said: "What Pang Shiyuan said is extremely true, in today's world, only the strength and population of the Roman Empire can compete with the Han Empire.
Although the territory of Rome is now also divided by princes, at least the central court controls seven or eight hundred thousand horses, and can do the order and prohibition, and the military law is like a mountain, which is indeed more effective than the resting princes who have their own ghosts."
"But the capital of the Roman Empire is three thousand miles away from the west of rest, and then at least two thousand miles from the westernmost to the easternmost one, what reason does Liu Bang have to help us fight against the Han army?"
Yang Shilang stood up and questioned, quietly striking at the confidence of the Great Xia generals, only by making the soldiers of Great Xia lose confidence can it be possible to surrender to the Western Han Dynasty and make their undercover agents valuable.
Pang Tong glanced at Yang Yanhui and snorted coldly: "There is only one reason, if Liu Bang does not send troops to defend the enemy outside the country, then the Han army will be even stronger after it rests peacefully, and burn the war to Rome itself.
Therefore, as long as the civil and military forces of the Roman court were not a bunch of fools, they would definitely send troops to fight against Wu Qi together.
This is not to be bothered by General Muyi, you just need to fight on the battlefield, how to choose your own king and father to decide" Xiang Yu glanced at the full hall of civil and military with a pair of deep and dark eyes, and suddenly Yaqi was silent, and everyone held their breath and waited for him to speak.
"Speaking of uniting with Alexander, the mystery in the lonely heart has not been solved."
Xiang Yu stroked the thick beard under his chin with a puzzled expression, "Alexander used stones to disguise grain to lure our army to rob grain, while Wu Qi outflanked our army behind Huang Que, this ambush seems to be a trap set by Alexander and Wu Qi."
But why at a critical juncture, Alexander suddenly sent elite soldiers to help, Lone has been puzzled, can my father solve my doubts" Lu Wang signaled to Xiang Yu with his eyes that it was inconvenient for people to speak, and coughed: "Maybe Alexander's elite soldiers are here to ambush our army, but I didn't expect the Han army to attack, Alexander was afraid that his lips would die and his teeth would be cold, so he took the initiative to rescue our army." ” Xiang Yu sighed and waved his hand: "That's it, it's over, it's over, let's put aside the grievances with Alexander for the time being, and fight against Wu Qi together, and then settle accounts with Babylon after repelling the Han army."
Although Xiang Yu had already moved his mind to reach an alliance with Alexander, his arrogant personality doomed him not to take the initiative to send an envoy to sue for peace, so he decided to continue to wait.
Waiting for Su Qin's news, waiting for Babylon to send someone to sue for peace, and then pushing the boat down the river to ask to be the leader of the alliance, this is in line with Xiang Yu's psychological expectations.
When the military discussion dispersed and in the dead of night, Lu Wang came to Xiang Yu's marshal's mansion again to chat about some private words.
Xiang Yu ordered Yu Ji, who came from Mulu City with Lu Wang, to serve tea, sit down with the guests, take a sip of tea and ask: "Father Xiang gestured to Gu with his eyes during the day, I don't know what the intention is."
Lu Wang held the teacup in his hand and sighed: "Hearing the news of the defeat of Camel Ridge, the old minister couldn't sleep all night and made an in-depth analysis of this battle, and the conspiracy and trickery in it have basically been guessed nine times out of ten. ” Xiang Yu frowned and said, "Father Xiang, let's hear it, is this matter related to Su Qin, a dog thief?"
Lu Wang nodded and said: "Nine times out of ten, it was planned by Su Qin, and his original intention was to use the Babylonian army to lure our army to attack, and then report to Wu Qi, so that Wu Qi could attack our army and anger the king, so as to promote the alliance between my Great Xia and Babylon."
Xiang Yu gritted his teeth with hatred: "Sure enough, it's Su Qin, the dog thief, see if I don't break him to pieces."
Lu Wang shook his head and said: "Su Qin, this person, is insidious and ruthless, and will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals, but now is not the time to get rid of him." ” "Why" Xiang Yu looked angry, slammed his fist on the table, and shook a few cracks, "Su Qin, this dog thief, killed 70,000 soldiers of my Great Xia, even if he was broken into pieces, it would be difficult to vent the hatred of his lonely heart."
Lu Wang took a sip of the teacup and said: "Actually, Su Qin's original intention was not to let the king suffer a heavy blow, but just to provoke a conflict between our army and the Han army, but he didn't expect Wu Qi to use troops according to common sense and lead his troops to attack, so he persuaded Alexander to send troops to rescue our army."
The reason why Su Qin took such painstaking efforts was that there was only one purpose, in order to promote the anti-Liu alliance in his mind, the hatred between our army and the Han army had already been formed, and now it would be useless to kill Su Qin, so it was better to keep him running back and forth, promote the anti-Liu alliance, and jointly fight against the Han army. ” Xiang Yu looked angry and said hatefully: "Then let this despicable villain live for a few more days, and when the alliance is reached, it will be the time when Lone cuts off his head to pay tribute to the 70,000 undead."
Lu Wang sighed again: "Maybe this conspiracy is also related to Pang Tong, Shi Dakai and others."
Xiang Yu guessed that this conspiracy might be related to Su Qin, but he didn't suspect Pang Tong and the others, and at this moment, he couldn't help but show surprise when he heard Lu Wang's words: "What, Xiangfu thinks that this matter may be related to Pang Tong and others."
Lu Wang nodded solemnly: "Including Shi Yi, Pang Tong, and even Murong Ke and Mu Yi, these Han people, or the Hu people who fled from the land of the Han people, which one does not want to take revenge on the Han people I hope that the king You will lead your troops to counterattack the Han Empire Between killing Alexander and Liu Wei, these people will definitely choose Liu Wei without hesitation."
Xiang Yu suddenly had an epiphany: "So when Su Qin arrived, they found a common goal, so Pang Tong, Shi Yi and others colluded with Su Qin inside and outside to tease this king in applause."
"In order to force the king and the Han army to go to war, this is very likely" Lu Wang nodded solemnly.
Xiang Yu, who was furious, smashed his fist on the table again, and the huge force shook the wooden table to pieces: "These Han people are really hateful, they really live up to the trust of this king, I want to kill them to vent my heart." t1706231537: