The Three Kingdoms

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Tianquan eight years, March [-]rd.

noon.

Bosphorus.

"Great Wu generals, follow my orders and cross the sea!"

Sun Quan climbed up and shouted, and with an order, a million troops marched towards the west bank of the strait.

In the strait that stretches for hundreds of miles, there are densely packed ships, including warships, wooden rafts, and bamboo rafts. Countless means of crossing the sea are emerging. Millions of troops form a majestic momentum, crossing the sea, and coloring the sea. Landing in Lacey Province...

[Text 480 Chapter [-] The Dormancy of the Roman Army]

The province of Thrace, which is a province connected to the east of the Roman Empire, is bordered by the Black Sea in the east, the eastern part of the Danube River in the north, the strait of the Aegean Sea in the south, and the Greek Peninsula in the west.

In 500 BC, the people who lived here were called Thracians, but in the first century BC, the Roman Empire conquered here and established the province of Thrace. A tribe here.

The territory of this province is not very vast, and its population is only a million people at most. Compared with the huge base of tens of millions of people in the Roman Empire, it can only be regarded as an ordinary province.

Most importantly, the terrain here is relatively flat.

There is no danger in military strategy.

Even if hundreds of thousands of troops are hoarded here, it is beyond the reach of Wu Jun's fierce cross-sea and landing attack.

The Wu army mobilized the main force of the two war zones, adding up to millions of soldiers. These soldiers were united and united, and they crossed the sea with an aura that could cover this place, but found that there was no obstacle at all, and they stepped on smoothly. On the land of this province.

At this moment, there is no sign of any soldiers and horses in the province of Thrace. The Crusaders and Parthians who had retreated from the Byzantine city-state to the province of Thrace had already moved westward more than a month ago. Withdrawing their troops, in the face of this situation, they were not willing to spend more main casualties, so they finally gave up Thrace, an undefensible territory.

Therefore, Wu Jun's battle of crossing the sea and landing this time was relaxed and happy.

On March [-], the main force of the Wu army's western expedition went ashore smoothly, and millions of soldiers landed safely in the province of Thrace.

On March [-]th, after two days of rest and reorganization, the main force of the Wu army's western expedition began to move forward with great speed.

On March [-], the Western Expeditionary Army entered the city of Thrace, the capital of the province of Thrace.

On this day, the sky was clear and cloudless.

At the gate of the city of Thrace, the governor of the province of Thrace, Benedia, a pure Thracian held the Roman flag of the governor's seal, followed by hundreds of imperial officials from the governor's palace, and three thousand Thracian soldiers who maintain order in the Thrace province.

"Benedia, governor of the Thracian province, is willing to surrender to the nobles from the east, please accept the surrender letter of our Thracians!"

He stood in front of Wu Jun, arched his hands, and spoke sincerely in Greek.

"surrender?"

In the center of the army, Sun Quan, who was riding his horse, had a playful smile on his lips: "This is the first time we have received a letter of surrender from the West, okay, that's great!"

The Easterners fought one bloody battle after another in the West.

In addition, the Roman Empire had already defined the Wu people from the East as demons through the declaration of theology, so as to arouse the fighting spirit of the people of the empire.

So Wu Jun has become notorious in the western land.

This way, they are all killed.

Go further and kill all the way.

It's not that there was no surrender, but the surrender of the Wu army was despised by the local Romans, which caused the isolation of the Wu army in the western land.

"His Majesty!"

Pang Tongce came up immediately, and said in a low voice: "The news from Jin Yiwei said that Benedia is a very complicated person. Although he is a pure Thracian, he has already been assimilated by the Romans. He should have a heart for Rome." , There are still millions of people in Thrace, and with his ability, he can still recruit [-] young men, but he surrendered without fighting, I'm afraid it's a fraud, I can't believe it!"

"Believe it or not!"

Sun Quan waved his hand, suppressed Pang Tong's voice, and said calmly: "What I want is to conquer this place, not turn it into hell. I am expecting that everyone here will submit to our Great Wu, whether it is true or not, He made a start and set an example for the governors of the provinces of the Roman Empire, so I must treat him favorably, this is a weathervane and a bargaining chip for us to conquer Rome!"

To conquer an empire, you must combine strength and softness.

A strong military is fundamental.

But just killing cannot make the Roman Empire completely surrender.

There were 5000 million people in the Roman Empire, and Sun Quan couldn't kill them all, and he couldn't kill them all. Therefore, under the guarantee of strong military power, he had to use gentle means appropriately to regain the hearts of the people and increase his influence.

"But……"

Pang Tong still hesitated.

"Pass down my imperial decree, put away the letter of surrender, and confer the title of Marquis of the fifth rank, Marquis of Thrace!" Sun Quan gave a clear definition for this matter.

Even Sun Quanming knew that Pang Tong's reminder was necessary.

But at this juncture, the decision can only be made in this way.

He wanted to give some hope to the trembling governors of the Roman Empire.

The system of the Roman Empire was deeply flawed.

The intensity of centralization is not as strong as that of the dynasties in the Central Plains of Asia.

In the empire, although there are many standing military forces, the local governor still controls the local military, holding the local military and political power in one hand, like a prince.

Therefore, in the previous battles of civil strife in the Roman Empire, the governors who stood out from all sides were the governors with troops.

As long as Sun Quan can let these governors surrender, then he has won half of the Roman Empire, the most important half.

So even if he didn't believe in Benedia's surrender, he still had to accept it.

"promise!"

A clerical staff officer immediately unfolded a golden silk script and wrote it with a brush, and then handed it over to Sun Quan to seal it, and the imperial decree came into effect.

After surrendering, this province will belong to the Great Wu Dynasty.

Sun Quan decided to rest for a day in Thrace.

Breaking out camps and rushing on the road for several days will eventually consume too much physical strength of the soldiers, and if the physical strength of a million-strong army cannot keep up, it will form intermittently, which is not good for marching.

And on this day, Sun Quan received a good news from the southern line.

"Report to Your Majesty, good news from the fourth war zone!"

In a boulder castle, Pang Tong hurried in, looking a little excited.