"Killed, all but a few young women" "Two or three hundred thousand people, if you say kill, you will kill them all" The people who spoke to him were Julian and Xeias, who had been with the army, and they followed behind.
Previously, the two knew that the Han Empire had won a great victory, and after they arrived, they happened to see the tail of the massacre, and they inquired about the news that they knew that the Han army was going to continue to march westward, and they were killed if they could not carry prisoners.
"It's terrible," Ksheias snorted for a long time, "but the competition between nations is so cruel.
Isn't it."
The Persians have a long history, they were able to exist and have been strong for a long time, without exception, on the sea of corpses and blood.
There is no nation in the world that is an exception, and in the process of growing up, it is bound to trample on the corpses of competitors and rise, and a pure and virtuous nation cannot survive in competition at all.
In fact, it is like that, every nation that still exists has blood on its hands, and it can be glued to the enemy in resisting invasion, or more in the process of expansion, and there will be no exceptions.
The Persians had a better understanding of the brutality of competition than the Romans.
After the rise of the Romans, they rarely faced tough opponents, and they stepped on one competitor after another, until they became the undisputed overlords of Euro-Rome.
The Romans, who had not encountered the Persians, did not need to gather the strength of the whole country to wage war against anyone, and basically achieved the goal of expansion or military attack with ease or relative ease.
The Persians were a little more tortuous, easily defeating rival nations in their rise to Western Asia, until their westward expansion met the Greeks, who were also on the rise.
The two sides have been entangled in each other for thousands of years, and the corpses of the dead are enough to seal the coast of Syria.
The Greeks put an end to the glory of the Persians and struck a blow straight into the abyss.
For more than 500 years, the Persians lived in the shadow of the Greeks, and if it had not been for the Roman expansion to the east, the Persians would not have sunk for long.
Since the invasion of Alexander by the Greek king of Macedon, Alexander the Great died of illness before he could consolidate the results of the war, and the Macedonians and Greeks who accompanied him in his expedition united to establish the Seleucid Empire to rule West Asia and part of Central Asia for 248 years.
The fall of the Seleucid Empire was actually a carnival of the descendants of Greece, but the Persians finally seized the opportunity to grab some of the fruit.
The Parthian Empire was founded by a mixture of Greek and other ethnic groups as the ruling class.
The descendants of Greece had been in West and Central Asia for too long, intermarrying with other peoples, and they merged into a new people, the Parthians.
At the same time, Alexander the Great's eastward invasion not only affected the ancient Persians, but also Central and South Asia.
Many years after the death of Alexander the Great, including the fall of the Seleucid Empire, the Central Asian part of Asia and the northern part of South Asia were still dominated by many countries ruled by many Greek descendants.
In those times of foreign domination, the Persians, as a conquered people, must have suffered no less.
After the resurgence, the Persians liquidated the class that had oppressed them, and it was a process of mass slaughter that allowed the Persians to regain the right to rule the land.
The Persians, who had regained their dominance, also faced a threat from the west, but changed from Greeks to Romans.
The Persians were still quite frightened by the Romans.
They could not forget the sight of the Roman army sweeping through Parthia, and they used 120 percent of their strength to fight the Romans.
The two sides fought back and forth for land in this part of West Asia, and it is not known how many Roman and Persian warriors spilled their blood on the battlefield, and it is not known how many civilians were affected in the process, not only Persian civilians, but even more miserable Syrians, Iraqis and Egyptians.
The war is merciless, the Persians and the Romans dare not say that they did not carry out the clearance during the confrontation, and the clearing again and again is the slaughter of other ethnic groups, and no one can say how many people were killed, anyway, the number will definitely not be small.
"Actually, it's normal," Julian asked rhetorically, "isn't it?"
If the Persians had a long period of sinking under alien rule, the Romans did not.
"That's right."
Xeias did not feel that he was mocking: "You have conquered the Carthaginians, the Gauls, the Egyptians, there must be many similar scenes. ” Julian also didn't think that Ksieias was mocking, but instead thought that Ksiaias was complimenting.
The land is so big, and so are the resources.
If you want to get a wider land and more resources, you don't have to go out and walk around casually, and you don't have to rely on force.
"We almost killed the Carthaginians."
Julian spoke with a proud expression on his face: "The Carthaginians should be honored, they are the only people we think should be killed. ” Carthage was indeed the most formidable opponent encountered by the Romans during their rise, and the Romans themselves said that they respected the good fighting and bravery of Carthage as a nation before they carried out the massacre, but in fact, the Romans were afraid that the Carthaginians would have a chance to turn over.
"Like the Gauls, they are only worthy to be our slaves."
Julian wrenched his fingers: "The Egyptians are only worthy of growing food for us, Syrians, Thracians, Ibilisians, Macedonians, Greeks, Germans, Celts, Saxons, Slavs, hehe." ” At this moment, Xeias was jealous that the Romans had conquered so many peoples.
"What I do know is that the Han people have conquered and exterminated far more peoples than we do."
Julian looked at the Han army from a distance who was packing up his things and preparing to start again: "Ghost Fang, Dog Rong, Beirong, Bai Di, Dongyi, I can name no less than thirty people, those are still the countries and nations that were destroyed by the ancestors of the Han people in ancient times. ” Ksiaias knew that Julian had not missed any opportunity to learn about the history of the Han people, but he was still surprised that Julian could name so many ethnic groups that had been wiped out by their Han ancestors.
"The Han people call them the Huns, and you call them the Huns.
You should be familiar with this people," Julian received a response from Ksiaias, and continued: "I heard that the Xiongnu used to be a huge empire, and the territory from the iceberg arctic in the far east to a place called the Tianshan Mountains was full of Xiongnu pastures. ” "Yes, according to some of our records, the Huns could invade the land of the Han people at will when they were at their strongest."
Ksiaias recalled for a moment and felt that Julian should give a more intuitive figure: "The Huns were once able to gather more than half a million cavalry. ” The Huns called their cavalry the man who controlled the strings, and the 500,000 that Ksiaias said was not an exaggeration, it was real.
Julian's knowledge of the String Keeper came from the Parthians and Persians, and knew that it was a class capable of shooting arrows on horseback.
When the Romans encountered the archers in the early days, they were actually beaten badly by the archers.
They fought against the archers for the first time, and two of the three legions were disabled, and it was such heavy losses that made them change the tactics they had used for thousands of years, and only then did they have the tactical idea that the tortoiseshell formation was king.
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The Roman legions were the main force of infantry in the Parthian Empire, and after continuous research and improvement, they were not afraid of any cavalry at all, although they were the main force of infantry.
Julian heard that there were 500,000 cavalry, and because the Romans were not afraid of cavalry, he was surprised not by how many cavalry the Huns had, but by the fact that they could gather an army of 500,000 people.
"It took nearly two hundred years for the Han people to expel the Huns."
Ksiaias knows that history: "After the defeat, the Huns were entrenched in our northeast for a while" "I know that."
Julian cut off Ksiaias's account: "The Parthians hired Hun cavalry many times, and we have had many battles with the Hun cavalry. ” In those battles, the Romans seemed to be very easy against the Huns, they didn't know if the Huns were so bad in the first place, or if the Huns were killed by the Han people if they could fight, anyway, they didn't feel any pressure to fight with the Huns.
Of course, Ksias knew that the Parthians had repeatedly hired the Huns to fight for themselves, and he said sourly: "The Huns went to war with the Romans only for a commission, and there was no need to fight to the death."
"Those Huns, they are now on the shores of the Black Sea," Julian remembered one thing, the Han Chinese had asked the Persians to send an invitation, that is, to hunt down the Huns who had fled to the shores of the Black Sea.
He did not mention it to Ksiaias or any of the Persians, and pretended to be curious and asked: "The Huns are at war with the Goths" "What we do know is that the Huns have just been defeated at the hands of the Goths."
Believing that there was no need to conceal it, Ksiaias said: "The Goths thwarted the invasion of the Huns, and they themselves suffered heavy casualties.
They were now licking their wounds, and it was more unfortunate for the Huns that the Sarmats and Slavs, knowing that they were defeated, pounced on them like wolves. ” In the past, the Romans did not pay attention to the Huns at all, because they found that the Persians had used the Huns as bait to invite the Han Chinese to move west, so they had to pay attention to the Huns.
Regarding the Han people who regard the Xiongnu as mortal enemies, or the kind of mortal enemies who know where they are and will hunt down and kill no matter how far away they are.
The Romans did not understand the idea of why the Han Chinese had to destroy all the Huns, but they could guess that the Persians had attracted the Han Chinese westward in order to fight against themselves.
If there is no follow-up, the Romans are really worried that the Persians will attract the Han Chinese, but the fleet of the Han people has sailed to Constantinople, and the military strength shown by the Han people is so terrifying, and the Romans know very well that the Persians will not attract the Han people to the west now, on the contrary, the Persians are the side that is most afraid of the Han westward.
"The Han Empire's westward advance this time is to fight a country called Gaoche," Julian knew that Ksiaias had urgently sent back the information about the Han army's westward advance.
He didn't have much to gloat about, and asked, "What kind of country is that Gaoche country, and how did they provoke the Han Empire?"
"The Han people call the country in the west the Xigaoche, and they have just destroyed the Donggaoche and Rouran in the east."
Ksiaias said worriedly: "You have also seen that the Han Empire only dispatched less than 40,000 troops, and easily eliminated the Donggaocha, which had 200,000 soldiers and horses and 100,000 soldiers and horses, and easily solved the remnants of the enemy that had not been completely destroyed before.
Xigaoche and Donggaoche are the same ethnic group, and the Han people should think that the sins of Donggaoche should also be borne by the Xigaoche people. ” A word instantly appeared in Julian's mind, and that word was "domineering".
They only know the general situation, but they don't have all the information.
Donggaoche and Rouran were really destroyed, the remnants of Tuoba chose to be attached, and the remnants of Murong saw the opportunity to flee westward.
"Wait" Julian looked up in surprise as if he saw something, and pointed to the front: "Isn't that, isn't that the prince?"
Ksiaias looked in the direction that Julian was pointing, and saw Liu Shen riding on a war horse.
In terms of age, eleven-year-old Liu Shen is a child, but he has the height and physique of a teenager.
Of course, they knew who Liu Shen was, and when they met Liu Yan on several formal occasions, Liu Shen appeared once or twice, and had a very formal introduction.
"How could he be here" Julian was first surprised, and then puzzled: "Does the Emperor of Han attach great importance to this war?"
Kesias was shocked, what he knew was that the Central Plains Empire valued the royal family, racked his brains to keep recalling and thinking, and could remember that the prince of the Central Plains Empire had gone out with the army only a handful of times.
"We" Julian hesitated: "Do you want to go over and say hello?"
"It seems that he has concealed his identity."
Kesias distinguished Liu Shen's outfit and looked like a guard from a big man: "It's better not to rush over."
They were still discussing, but Liu Shen came over to them.
"Both."
Liu Shen tugged on the reins to control the speed of the mount, and after saluting, he asked curiously, "Why are you here?"
Julian and Xeias naturally returned the salute solemnly, and after being asked, the two looked at each other.
"With the permission of the Son of Heaven of your country, come and watch the battle."
Julian hesitated for a moment and asked, "What are you?"
Logically speaking, all three of them are the royal family of a country, but the same royal family will also be high and low.
It was obvious that the Han Empire was the strongest in the known world, and when Julian and Xeias faced Liu Shen, even though they were much older than Liu Shen, they wanted to show the respect they deserved.
"Are you watching the battle" Liu Shen nodded, didn't answer Julian's question, and didn't say anything superfluous, and left with a shout of "drive".
Ksiaias and Julian were a little dazed, watching Liu Shen and the Han knights continue to move away, retracting their gazes and glancing at each other, showing a wry smile
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