"Kill, all but some young women were killed!"

"Two to three hundred thousand people, kill them all if you say they kill them?"

The people in the conversation were Julian and Xias who had been with the army, and they followed behind.

The two previously knew that the Han Empire had won a big victory. After they arrived, they happened to see the tail of the massacre. They found out that the Han army was going to continue marching westward, and they were killed if they could not carry any captives.

"It's terrible!" Xias snarled for a long time: "But the competition between nations is so cruel. Isn't it?"

The history of the Persians is very long. They have been able to exist and have had a period of prosperity. Without exception, they are built on the sea of ​​blood.

No nation in the world is an exception. In the process of growing up, it is bound to rise by trampling on the corpses of competitors. Pure good nations cannot survive competition at all.

In fact, it is like that. The hands of all the nations that still exist are soaked in blood. They can be glued while resisting invasion and killing enemies, and more often are glued during the expansion process, without exception.

Compared with the Romans, the Persians had a more thorough understanding of the cruelty of competition.

After the rise of the Romans, they rarely encountered tough opponents. They stepped on one after another until they became the well-deserved overlord of Ou Rome.

They did not encounter the Romans before the Persians. They didn't need to gather the power of the whole country to fight anyone. Basically, it was easy or relatively easy to achieve expansion goals or military strikes.

The Persians will be more tortuous. They easily defeated those competing nations in the process of the rise of West Asia, until they expanded westward and met the Greeks who were also in the rising period. The two sides struggled with each other for thousands of years, and the bodies of the dead were enough to block the coast of Syria tightly.

The Greeks put an end to the glory of the Persians and hit the abyss with one blow. For more than five hundred years since then, the Persians have been living in the shadow of the Greeks. Had Rome not expanded eastward, the Persians would not know how long they would sink.

Since the Macedonian-Greek King Alexander invaded eastward, Alexander the Great died of illness before he could consolidate the results of the battle. The Macedonians and Greeks who accompanied him on the east march united, and first established the Seleucid Empire to rule West Asia and part of Central Asia for as long as two hundred and four. Eighteen years long.

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

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

At the same time, Alexander the Great’s eastward invasion not only affected the (ancient) Persians, but also exerted a great influence on both Central Asia 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 Greek descendants in the Central Asian part of Asia and the northern part of South Asia.

In those times when they were ruled by foreign races, the Persians, as a conquered nation, certainly did not suffer less.

After their re-emergence, the Persians liquidated the classes that once oppressed them. It was a large-scale slaughter process that allowed the Persians to regain the right to rule over the land.

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

The Persians were still quite upset with the Romans. They could not forget the sight of the Roman army sweeping Parthia, and they used 120% of their strength to fight the Romans.

The two sides fought back and forth over this piece of land in West Asia. I don’t know how many Roman and Persian fighters have been bloodied on the battlefield. In the process, I don’t know how many civilians were affected. Not only the Persian civilians, but also Syria. People, Iraqis, and Egyptians.

The war is merciless. The Persians and Romans dare not say that they have not cleared the field during the confrontation. The clearing again and again is the massacre of other ethnic groups. No one can tell how many people were killed. Anyway, the number is. Absolutely not less.

"Actually it's normal..." Julian asked rhetorically, "Isn't it?"

If the Persians have been in a period of decline under alien rule for a long time, then the Romans have not had this experience.

"That's right." Xias didn't think he was mocking: "You have conquered the Carthaginians, the Gauls, the Egyptians... There must be countless similar scenes."

Julian also didn't think Xias was mocking, on the contrary he thought Xias was complimenting.

The land is so big, and the resources are so few.

If you want to get a wider land and more resources, you don't have to go out and stroll around all your own things, and you don't have to rely on force.

"We almost killed the Carthaginians cleanly." Julian said with a proud expression: "The Carthaginians should feel honored. They are the only people we think should be killed cleanly."

Carthage was indeed the strongest opponent encountered during the rise of the Romans. The Romans themselves said that they respected the fighting and bravery of the Carthage nation before they carried out the massacre. In fact, the Romans were afraid that the Carthages would have a chance to stand up. .

"Like the Gauls, they are only worthy to be our slaves." Julian held his finger: "The Egyptians only ration us to grow food, Syrians, Thracians, Iberian people, Macedonians, Greeks, Germans, Celtics, Saxons, Slavs... huh."

Xias was jealous at this moment that the Romans had conquered so many peoples.

"What I know is that the Han people have conquered and wiped out far more peoples than we have." Julian looked at the Han army who was packing up and preparing to reopen: "Gui Fang, Dog Rong, Bei Rong, Bai Di, Dongyi...I can name no less than thirty countries and nations that were destroyed by the ancestors of the Han people in ancient times."

Xias knew that Julian hadn't missed any chance to learn about the history of the Han people, but he was still surprised that Julian could say so many names that were wiped out by the ancestors of the Han people.

"The Han people are called the Xiongnu, and you are called the Huns. You should be familiar with this nation, right?" Julian got a nodded response from Xias, and continued: "I heard that the Huns were once a huge empire. The icebergs in the far east (the North Pole) to a place called Tianshan are all pastures of the Huns."

"Yes, according to some of our records, the Huns can invade the land of the Han people at will when they are the most powerful." Xiasi recalled and felt that a more intuitive data from Julian should be given: "The Huns were able to gather for a while. More than half a million cavalry."

The Huns referred to their cavalry as the string-controllers. The 500,000 yuan mentioned by Xiasi is not an exaggerated number, it is a real thing.

Julian's understanding of the string-controller came from the Parthians and Persians, and he knew that he was a unit capable of shooting arrows on horseback.

When the Romans first encountered the archers, they were actually beaten badly by the archers. They played against the archers for the first time, and the three legions were maimed. It was such a heavy loss that allowed them to change the tactics they used for thousands of years, and then they had the tactical thinking of the tortoise formation as king.

The Roman legions have accumulated experience from the battles of the Parthian Empire. After continuous research and improvement, although they are the main force of infantry, they are completely unassuming cavalry.

Julian heard that there were as many as half a million cavalry. Out of the Romans' uneasy attitude towards the cavalry, he was surprised not by how many cavalry the Huns had, but by the fact that they could assemble an army of 500,000.

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

"I know this." Julian cut off Xias's statement: "The Parthians hired Huns cavalry many times, and we have had many battles with Huns cavalry."

During those battles, the Romans seemed very relaxed against the Huns. They didn't know whether the Huns were so bad at first, or whether all the Huns could fight were killed by the Han. Anyway, they didn't feel the pressure of fighting with the Huns.

"..." Of course, Xias knew that the Parthians had repeatedly hired the Huns to fight for themselves, and he said bitterly: "The Huns and the Romans only went to war to get commissions. There is no need for a deadly fight."

"Those Huns, are they on the Black Sea right now?" Julian remembered one thing. The Han mentioned that the Persians sent an invitation to chase and kill the Huns who fled to the Black Sea. He didn't mention this to Xias or any Persian, pretending to be curious: "The Huns are at war with the Goths?"

"What we know is that the Huns have just been defeated in the hands of the Goths." Xias thought there was no need to conceal it, and said: "The Goths frustrated the Huns' invasion and suffered heavy casualties. They are all licking now. Wounds. Unfortunately for the Huns, the Salmats and Slavs pounced on them like wolves after knowing that they had been defeated."

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

Regarding the Han people's view of the Huns as their mortal enemies, they were the kind of mortal enemies who knew where they were, no matter how far away they were. The Romans did not understand why the Han had to eliminate all the Huns, but they could guess that the Persians attracted the Hans to go west to fight against themselves.

If there is no follow-up, the Romans are really worried that the Persians will attract the Hans, but the fleet of the Hans has been opened to Constantinople, and the military strength displayed by the Hans is so terrifying. The Romans know very well. Not only will the Persians no longer attract the Hans to go west, on the contrary, the Persians are the one who fears the Hans going west the most.

"This time the Han Empire moved westward to fight a country called Gaoche?" Julian knew that Xiasi had urgently sent the information of the Han army westward to the country. He had no place to gloat and asked, "What kind of country is that Gaoche country, and how did they provoke the Han Empire?"

"The Han people call the western country Xi Gaoche. They just wiped out the Dong Gaoche and Rouran in the east." Xiasi said anxiously: "You have also seen that the Han Empire only dispatched less than 40,000 troops. Easily eliminated the Donggao Cha with 200,000 soldiers and horses and one hundred thousand soldiers and horses, and easily solved the remnant enemies that had not been completely wiped out before. Xigao Cha and Donggao Cha are of the same ethnicity, and the Han should be regarded as the sin of Donggao Cha. Xi Gaoche people should also bear it."

A word suddenly appeared in Julian's mind, and that word was called "dominant".

They just know the general situation, and do not have all the information. Donggaoche and Rouran were really destroyed, and the remnant Tuoba chose to attach, while the remnant Murong quickly moved westward.

"Wait!" As if seeing something, Julian raised his finger to the front in surprise: "That...isn't it...that prince?"

Xiasi looked in the direction Julian pointed, and saw Liu Shen riding on the horse.

Calculated by age, the eleven-year-old Liu Shen is a child, but he has a juvenile physique.

Of course they knew who Liu Shen was. When meeting Liu Yan on several formal occasions, Liu Shen appeared once or twice and had a very formal introduction.

"Why did he appear here?" Julian was surprised at first, and then puzzled: "Does Emperor Han take this war very seriously? He sent his own prince to supervise the battle?"

Xiasi was shocked. What he knew was that the Central Plains Empire valued the royal family. He racked his brains to remember and think about it, and he remembered that the Central Plains Empire's princes had gone out with the army only a few times.

"We..." Julian hesitated extremely: "Should we go over and say hello?"

"It seems that he has concealed his identity." Xiasi distinguished Liu Shen's outfit, and looked at the guard who looked like a certain important person: "Should you not rush over?"

They were still discussing ~lightnovelpub.net~ but Liu Shen came to them with a horse.

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

Julian and Xias naturally returned their salutes, and they looked at each other after being asked.

"With the permission of the emperor of your country, come to watch the battle." Julian hesitated for a moment and asked: "What are you?"

According to the truth, the three people are all the royal family of the same country, but the same royal family will have high and low points.

Obviously, the Han Empire is the strongest in the known world. When Julian and Xias faced Liu Shen, even though they were much older than Liu Shen, they had to show their due respect.

"Watching the battle?" Liu Shen nodded, did not answer Julian's question, let alone say anything extra, and left with a "drive".

Xiasi and Julian were stunned, watching Liu Shen and a group of Han knights keep moving away, and then turned back their gazes and gave each other a wry smile.