Chapter 976

"Killed, all but some young women!"

"Two or three hundred thousand people, kill them all?"

The interlocutors were Julian and keshias, who had been with the army. They followed.

Previously, they knew that the Han Empire had won a great victory. When they arrived, they happened to see the tail of the massacre. After inquiring about the news, they knew that the Han army would continue to march westward and kill them if they could not carry prisoners.

"It's terrible!" Kexie yasna said for a long time: "but the competition between nations is so cruel. Isn't it?"

Persians have a long history. They can exist and have a strong period. Without exception, they are based on the sea of corpses and blood.

No nation in the world is an exception. In the process of growth, it must rise by stepping on the corpse of competitors. A pure nation can't survive in the competition at all.

As a matter of fact, every hand of the nation that still exists is covered with blood. It can be stuck in resisting invasion and killing the enemy, and more in the process of expansion. There will be no exception.

Compared with the Romans, the Persians understood the cruelty of competition more thoroughly.

After the rise of the Romans, they rarely encountered strong opponents. They stepped on one competitor after another until they became the well deserved overlord of Europe and Rome.

The Romans who did not encounter the Persians did not need to gather the strength of the whole country to fight against anyone. Basically, they achieved the goal of expansion or military attack easily or relatively easily.

The Persians will have more twists and turns. They easily defeated those competing nations in the process of the rise of West Asia until they expanded westward and met the Greeks who are also in the rise period. The two sides have been fighting with each other for thousands of years, and the bodies of the dead are enough to block the near coast of Syria.

The Greeks ended the glory of the Persians, and it was a blow that went straight into the abyss. Since then, for more than 500 years, the Persians have been living in the shadow of Greek descent. If Rome had not expanded eastward, the Persians would not know how long they would sink.

Since the Macedonian Greek King Alexander invaded the East, Alexander the great died before he had time to consolidate the fruits of the war. The Macedonians and Greeks who marched with him joined forces. First, they established the Seleucid Empire to rule Western Asia and some Central Asia for 248 years.

The demise of the Seleucid Empire was actually a carnival of Greek descendants, but the Persians finally seized the opportunity to grab some fruits.

The establishment of the Parthian Empire was still the ruling class of mixed descendants of Greek and other nationalities. At that time, those Greek descendants stayed in West Asia and Central Asia for too long and continued to intermarry with other nationalities. They merged into a new nation, the Parthians.

At the same time, Alexander the Great's eastward invasion not only affected the (ancient) Persians, but also had a great impact on central and South Asia.

Many years after the death of Alexander the great, including the fall of the Seleucid Empire, there are still many countries ruled by many Greek descendants in Central Asia and Northern South Asia.

In those times of alien rule, the Persians, as a conquered nation, must have suffered no less.

After rising again, the Persians settled the class that had oppressed themselves, which was a large-scale massacre process, so that the Persians regained the right to rule the land.

The Persians who regained their rule faced the same threat from the west, but changed from Greeks to Romans.

The Persians were still quite afraid of the Romans. They could not forget the scene of the Roman army sweeping Parthia, and took 120% of their strength to fight the Romans.

The two sides fought back and forth for land in this land of West Asia. I don't know how many Roman and Persian soldiers spilled blood on the battlefield. In the process, I don't know how many civilians were affected, not only Persian civilians, but also Syrians, Iraqis and Egyptians.

The war is ruthless. The Persians and Romans dare not say that they have not cleared the scene during the confrontation. Clearing the scene again and again is the slaughter of other ethnic groups. No one can tell how many people have been killed. Anyway, the number will never be small.

"In fact, it's normal..." Julian asked, "isn't it?"

If the Persians had a long period of decline under alien rule, the Romans had no such experience.

"That's right." Keshias did not think he was mocking: "you have conquered the Carthaginians, Gauls, Egyptians... There must be many similar scenes."

Julian also didn't think keshias was mocking. On the contrary, he thought keshias was praising.

The land is so large and the resources are so small.

If you want to get broader land and more resources, you don't have to go out and stroll around. Everything is your own, and you don't have to rely on force.

"We almost killed the Carthaginians." Julian spoke with pride: "the Carthaginians should be honored. They are the only people we think should be killed."

Carthage is indeed the strongest opponent encountered by the Romans in the process of their rise. The Romans themselves said that they respect the fighting and bravery of Carthage. In fact, the Romans fear that Carthage will have a chance to turn over.

"Like Gauls, they only deserve to be our slaves." Julian pulled his finger: "the Egyptians only gave us food, Syrians, Thracians, Iberians, Macedonians, Greeks, Germans, Celts, Saxons, Slavs... Ha ha."

Cassias was jealous that the Romans had conquered so many nations at this moment.

"What I know is that the Han people conquered and destroyed far more nationalities than we do." Julian looked at the Han Army that was packing up things and preparing to start again from a distance: "ghost Fang, dog Rong, Beirong, Baidi, Dongyi... I can name no less than 30 countries and nationalities that were destroyed by the Han ancestors in ancient times."

Kexiyas knew that Julian did not miss any chance to understand the history of the Han people, but he was surprised that Julian could say so many national names destroyed by the Han ancestors.

"Han people are called Xiongnu, and you are called xiongren. You should not be unfamiliar with this nation?" Julian received a nod from keshias and continued: "it is said that the Huns used to be a huge empire. The territory from the iceberg (Arctic) in the Far East to a place called Tianshan is all the pastures of the Huns."

"Yes, according to some of our records, when the Huns were the most powerful, they could invade the land of the Han people at will." Keshias recalled that he thought he should give a more intuitive data of Julian: "the Huns were able to assemble more than 500000 cavalry at one time."

The Huns called their cavalry the master of strings. What keshias said was not an exaggerated number, but a real one.

Julian's understanding of string controllers came from the Parthians and Persians. He knew that they were a kind of arms that could shoot arrows on horseback.

When the Romans first encountered the archers, they were beaten miserably by the archers. They fought with the archers for the first time, and two of the three legions were disabled. It was such a heavy loss that they changed their tactics that had been used for thousands of years, and then they had the tactical idea that the tortoise shell array was the king.

The Roman Legion accumulated experience, studied and improved from the battle of the Parthian Empire. Although they were mainly infantry, they were not afraid of any cavalry.

Julian heard that there were 500000 cavalry. Out of the Roman's fear of cavalry, he was not surprised at how many cavalry the Huns had, but at how many troops they could assemble.

"It took the Han people nearly 200 years to expel the Huns." Kexiyas understood that history: "after the defeat, the Huns were entrenched in our northeast for a period of time..."

"I know that." Julian cut off keshias's story: "the Parthians have hired Hun cavalry many times, and we have fought with Hun cavalry many times."

In those battles, the Romans seemed very relaxed against the Huns. They didn't know whether the Huns were so bad or whether the Huns were killed by the Han people if they could fight. Anyway, they didn't feel any pressure to fight with the Huns.

"...." keshias certainly knew that the Parthians had repeatedly hired the Huns to fight for themselves. He said sadly, "the Huns fought with the Romans just to get commissions, and there was no need to fight to death."

"Those Huns, are they on the black sea now?" Julian remembered one thing. The Han people mentioned that the Persians sent an invitation to hunt down the Huns who fled to the Black Sea. He didn't mention it to keshias or any Persian. He pretended to be curious and asked, "are the Huns at war with the Goths?"

"What we know is that the Huns have just been defeated by the Goths." Keshias thought there was no need to hide, and said: "the Goths defeated the Huns' invasion and suffered heavy casualties. They are licking their wounds now. Unfortunately for the Huns, the salmat and Slavs rushed up like wolves when they knew they were defeated."

In the past, the Romans did not pay attention to the Huns at all. They found that the Persians used the Huns as bait to invite the Han people to the west, so they had to pay attention to the Huns.

The Han people regard the Huns as their mortal enemies, or those who know where they are and will pursue and kill no matter how far away they are. The Romans did not understand why the Han people had to destroy all the Huns, but they could guess that the Persians attracted the Han people to the west to fight themselves.

If there is no follow-up, the Romans are really worried that the Persians will attract the Han people, but the Han fleet has arrived at Constantinople, and the military strength displayed by the Han people is so terrible. The Romans know that the Persians will not attract the Han people to the West now. On the contrary, Persians are the party most afraid of the Han people to the West.

"This time, the Han Empire went west to fight a country called Gaoche?" Julian knew that kjayas had urgently sent back the information of the Han Army's westward advance. He had no place to gloat and asked, "what country is that high car country and how did they provoke the Han Empire?"

"The Han people call the country in the west west the West Gaoche. They just destroyed the East Gaoche and Rouran in the East." Keshias said worriedly, "as you can see, the Han Empire only dispatched less than 40000 troops to easily destroy donggaoche, which had 200000 troops and 100000 troops, and easily solved the remaining enemy who had not been completely eliminated before. Xigaoche and donggaoche are of the same ethnic origin. The Han people should think that the sin of donggaoche should also be borne by the people of xigaoche."

A word suddenly appeared in Julian's mind. It was called "overbearing".

They just know the general situation and don't have all the information. Donggaoche and Rouran were really destroyed. The remnant of Tuoba chose to be attached, while the remnant of Murong ran West quickly.

"Wait!" Julian seemed to see something. He raised his hand in great surprise and pointed to the front: "that... No, not... The prince?"

Keshias looked in the direction of Julian and saw Liu Shen riding on a war horse.

In terms of age, 11-year-old Liu Shen is a child, but he has the height and physique of a teenager.

Of course, they know who Liu Shen is. Liu Shen appeared once or twice on several formal occasions and made a very formal introduction.

"How did he appear here?" Julian was surprised at first, then puzzled: "did the emperor of Han attach great importance to this war? Sent his own prince to supervise the war?"

Kexiyas was shocked. What he knew was the importance of the Central Plains Empire to the royal family. He racked his brains and kept remembering and thinking. He could think of only a few times that the prince of the Central Plains Empire went out with the army.

"We..." Julian hesitated. "Do you want to go and say hello?"

"It seems that he has concealed his identity." Keshias distinguished Liu Shen's dress and looked like a bodyguard of a big man: "I'd better not rush over?"

They were still discussing, but Liu Shen flattered them.

"Two." Liu Shen pulled the reins to control the speed of the mount. After saluting, he asked curiously, "Why are you here?"

Julian and keshias naturally made a grand return. After being asked, they looked at each other.

"With the permission of your emperor, come to watch the war." Julian hesitated and asked, "are you?"

According to the truth, all three people are the royal family of a country, but the same royal family can also be high or low.

Obviously, the Han Empire is the strongest in the known world. When Julian and keshias face Liu Shen, although they are much older, they have to show due respect.

"Watch the war?" Liu Shen nodded a little, didn't answer Julian's questions, and didn't say anything superfluous. He drank a "drive" and left.

Keshias and Julian were confused. They looked at Liu Shen and a group of Han Army Knights going away, took back their eyes, looked at each other, and continued to show a wry smile.