For a long time, Syria has been fought back and forth between the civilizations of Europa and the Middle East.
Thousands of years ago, it was the ancient Egyptian civilization and the Babylonian civilization that fought for Syria, and then the Greek city-states and the Persian Darius fought for Syria, but later it became Rome and Parthia fighting for Syria, and now it has become Persian Sassanid and Rome fighting for Syria.
"For a long time, we controlled Syria."
There was no pride on Marcusmarca's face, not because he cared about the Persians, but because Rome's control over Syria was not very good now: "Two powerful empires were in internal trouble at the same time, allowing those little fleas to set foot in the arena." ” Mosen Hadidan glanced at Marcus Marca and couldn't help muttering: "It's not your connivance yet, one day the grave you dug will lie down on itself." ” Marcus Marca dismissed Mowson Hadidan's words as a curse of no choice.
In fact, it's like that, when everyone can't do anything, can't you just use your mouth to curse the enemy with vicious language, although the curse won't have any effect, but at least you can cool yourself up.
Marcus Marca didn't know a point, Mosen Hadidan was not wrong, it's just that the Arabs buried the Persian Sassanid first, and then they couldn't get along with Rome, but at that time Western Rome had fallen, and only Eastern Rome and the Arabs began a centuries-old grudge.
The Arabs are never weak, it's just that they can't be united on their own.
As things stand, Arabs are a few million, if not a few million, and they are a very strong force to be able to unite, but they choose to fight each other to the death.
When they were united to some extent, they created a powerful empire that spanned three continents: Asia, Europe, and Africa, and at one point a stomp of their feet could make the whole world tremble.
No kidding, Li Tang on the Zhuxia side lost the Western Regions after the rise of the Arab Empire, and indirectly made Tubo stronger, but then the Arab Empire itself fell apart, and Tubo suddenly collapsed, but in this way, Li Tang's territory also shrank to the east again and again, and the influence of Yi 1 Si 1 Lan 1 religion once even spread to Bashu, such as the Western Regions, Qinghai and Hexi, which is simply Yi 1 Si 1 Lan 1 The influence of the religion has been passed down to later generations.
Now even the Romans and Persians, even the Arabs themselves, do not believe that one day the Arabs will create a huge empire, let alone imagine that one day the Arabs will want to conquer the whole world with a scimitar in one hand and a book in the other.
Under Cai Mian's arrangement, Erben had already been let go by looking for a chance, and the Han people had already been in contact with Ibn Abdul, but they hadn't talked about anything for a while.
Wang Meng will not personally meet with Ibn Abdul, not even Cai Mian, but will only send the middle-level entourage of the envoys.
It's not that Wang Meng and others are arrogant, it's something that is decided under unequal prerequisites, what kind of treatment you should get with what kind of strength, that is the eternal truth.
They have entered the borders of Syria, which differs from Iraq in that it may be close to the coastline, and there are far more rivers in Syria than in Iraq, and there is more greenery in it.
"It used to be a rare granary, but now it's barren everywhere."
Valolius pointed to the plains: "Whether it is the Arabs or the Syrians or whatever, they have their own reasons for being weak, and they are better at destroying than building. ” It was rare for Mausonhadidan to share the same opinion with the Romans on this point, and sneered: "They are just some uncreative people, otherwise they would not have been a vassal people for thousands of years." ” The Han people did not know about this place, and had no say in those matters, but it is indeed clear from some one-sided accounts that at least so far no one in this land has been able to govern the land except the Romans and Persians.
"It's that they simply can't make their own decisions."
Dou Ah pursed his lips and did not lower his voice: "The nation that can exist must have its advantages.
The place is being fought back and forth, when will it be the turn of the locals to govern themselves" The closest one is Marcus Marca who can understand Chinese, but he has no meaning to translate at all.
In his opinion, it is not the point that Dou'a is reasonable, but the point is that the attitude of the Han people towards Arabs or Syrians is very strange, and it should not be purely out of sympathy.
Entering Syria, which was dominated by Roman control, the Persian Sassanids naturally did not send too many troops, but symbolically sent 2,400 men to escort them all the way.
Perhaps the Persian Sassanids wanted to show that they were still strong, and among the two thousand four hundred, there were five hundred armored horsemen, and six hundred archers, and the rest were all retinues except for the head and the dancers.
In contrast, the Roman army that entered Iraq was about 5,000, but by the time it reached 12,000 in Syria.
According to the current Roman army, it is divided into various arms, the light infantry corps is generally about 1,000 to 2,000 people, and then the Guards infantry corps is about 2,500 people.
The other cavalry was only brigade formation, and the javelinmen were battalion-based, usually temporarily assigned to a light infantry regiment or a guards infantry regiment.
Therefore, the establishment of any legion in Rome was not fixed, but was only distinguished because of the difference in numbers.
If you look at the number of troops sent by Rome to escort them, it is six legions, but in fact, there are only three legions, all of which are serious Guards infantry regiments, and the other is two brigades of cavalry with a total of 2,000 men and six battalions, and there are also two javelin battalions and three archery battalions with a total of 1,100 men, and the rest are some auxiliaries and the like.
Twelve thousand men speak of the structure of the Roman army, but in fact there were nearly 20,000 vassals.
For example, a savage wolf soldier from Germania, a grenadier from Visigoths, and even more cavalry.
Not only did they have to fight hard before the Romans in wartime, but they also had to send people to obey the command of the Romans in peacetime to do some miscellaneous things such as eating, drinking, and Lazar, which was equivalent to playing the dual role of cannon fodder and people.
This large contingent of three imperial ranks caused a stir in the surrounding region, including Syria, and the most obvious reaction was that the weakened forces or individuals began to flee, and some came with various gifts.
"At the time of Sassanid, the Persians tried to flex their muscles."
Dou'a chuckled a few times, he was indeed surprised by the large number of armored cavalry equipment in Persia, and he was also impressed by the archers, but the Persians could not handle the rest of the troops except these two.
He looked at the surrounding Roman army and continued: "When we reach the territory of the Great Qin people, they will naturally show us their strength. ” The Han Chinese have discovered that if the trump card of the Persians is armor and cavalry, then the trump card of the Romans is the heavy infantry.
That was their conclusion after careful observation, not just the equipment of the Roman hoplites.
In short, the Romans have always planned around heavy infantry, from equipment to arrangement, and any branch of the army except heavy infantry is subordinate.
"Listening to the Great Qin people themselves, what we see is not the complete face of their legion."
Cai Mian actually didn't understand what the Romans meant by that: "They made special arrangements for us, saying that they were going somewhere to see their reorganized legions. ” Wang Meng knew a little more, the Romans did have the intention of showing them strength, and planned military operations before their arrival, constantly squeezing the hostile forces that resisted Roman rule, forcing them to squeeze into a city, and even allowing those hostile forces to continue to strengthen the city walls, in order to attack the city to show the Han people what a Roman-style war was.
The Han State also did a similar thing, that is, when the envoys of Rome and Persia and other countries went to the Han Kingdom, in addition to letting them know the vastness of the territory of the Han Kingdom, they also deliberately brought some people to the battlefields in certain places to watch how the Han army fought against the enemy army, but those people did not catch up with the war against Murong Yan Kingdom, first watched the final battle of the grassland, and then watched the war between the Han State and Gupta the most.
The communication between countries must show their muscles first, and it is naturally best to be able to intimidate the other party, and they can occupy more voice in the process of communication.
Even if you don't paralyze the other side and make the other side understand your own strength, that is the basis for equal dialogue, after all, no strong country wants to listen to the nonsense of a country whose strength is equal to that of its own village.
The Han people, whether they were guests to the Persians or the Romans or anything, went either way, where they were going, and if they didn't understand the geography, they just followed.
Of course, the Romans, who have become hosts, will still inform Wang Meng where he is going, or what position they are currently in, but there is usually no difference between saying and not saying, and the Han people also know a place name, and the direction or something has a rough judgment, and there is no more rest.
On the twenty-fourth day after entering Syria, the deepest impression of the Han people on Syria was that most of Syria was plain, and they agreed that this kind of terrain was too suitable for cavalry.
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The time entered twenty-five days, and because it was night, they were led to a camp, and all the Han people, including Wang Meng, did not see clearly what was going on around them.
The people who waited for the sun to rise the next day also woke up, and when they came out of the wooden houses built by the Romans, and when they looked to the northwest, they saw a city with a square wall.
Under the cover of the city walls, you can't see what is going on inside the city, and the perimeter is covered with dense tents, shacks, and messy things, and from a distance, the people there are also densely packed, and you can see a variety of flags.
Outside of the chaotic area, they also built fences, earthen walls, fences, and other defenses, and even saw digging a ditch about a dozen miles long and twisting in a large circle.
It's not just that, but the outer surface has been dug up a lot, and each one is not the same length or straight, and it looks like it has been tossed by earthworms.
Wang Meng was invited to a high ground to see the situation on the Roman side.
The camp they were staying in was supposed to be the main camp of the Roman army, and there were actually a number of smaller camps around it, scattered around and fortified on the high ground and the like.
"We have seven regiments, fourteen brigades and twenty-one battalions here."
Marcus Marca didn't say how many people there were, but introduced who were the people who were surrounded, and then said to Wang Meng: "For today, we have been busy for nearly four months. ” The advantage of Dou'a and the high ground is in the overall situation, and it is preliminarily judged that Rome should have dispatched 50,000 or 60,000 people, and those unknown forces besieged should not be less than 70,000 or 80,000 or more.
He whispered his judgment to Wang Meng.
Later, Marcus Marca himself said the number, and the troops concentrated by Rome were actually more than 80,000, but there were only 30,000 Roman soldiers among them, and the rest were warriors of vassal races.
He also told Wang Meng that the number of enemy troops surrounded exceeded 100,000, but he also said that the composition was very mixed, and that there might be only 30,000 or 40,000 people who really had combat effectiveness.
Wang Meng didn't understand what the Romans were going to do, and before he could ask, he didn't know where a sound like a trumpet came from, he subconsciously looked in the direction where the voice came from: "You are going to attack" "Just a warm-up."
Marcus Marca played the role of a guide well, pointing to the slowly advancing Roman army: "The Han Chinese have seen how we fought in Gupta, but there are too few of them.
You should see what happens to our soldiers once they reach a certain number. ” The Roman army that was marching towards the battlefield should have five or six thousand people, and from a distance, it turned out that most of them were infantry, each infantry was holding a tower shield in one hand and a short sword in the other, and any infantry was wearing heavy armor with multiple layers of links like leather shrimp, and I don't know if it was a bag or a specification, and there was a red cloak in each of the individual queues.
The movements of the Roman army caused confusion among the besieged forces, and from a distance it seemed that people were surging, and the sound of horns, war drums, gongs and other musical instruments was frequently heard in the noise.
The advancing Roman infantry stopped at the sound of a trumpet, the gates of several camps were opened, and some behemoths pulled by animal and human power were pushed out, which were many kinds of military equipment, the most common being stone-throwing carts, and some of which were unrecognizable to the Han Chinese.
Marcus Marca proudly said, "What you are about to see is the complete Roman legion." ”: