Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Caracalla began a babbling speech.Chen Tiao's translator was attached to his ear, translating in a low voice.Caracalla was explaining to the elders the purpose of Liang Guo's envoy's mission to Rome, and repeated Chen Tiao's reason why Rome should form an alliance with Liang Guo and conquer Sassanid yesterday in his own words.In the end, he expressed his own opinion -- he believed that the Roman Empire should have taught Sassanian a lesson long ago, and regained the lost territory in the Syrian province.

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Tiao heard the buzzing of discussions coming from the main hall.Caracalla took two steps back and sat down on the throne.

At this time, an old man with a gray beard came down from the front seat. Chen Tiao thought that he saluted Caracalla like the etiquette in the Central Plains, and then expressed his opinion to Caracalla.Unexpectedly, when the old man came to the center of the field, he turned around without saying a word, pointed his butt at Chen Tiao and others, and of course Karikala.

When Chen Tiao frowned and wondered why this person was so ignorant of etiquette, the old man had already started chattering to the hundreds of elders in the hall, walking back and forth non-stop while talking, his tone fluctuating, ups and downs , like singing a poem.

Through the interpreter next to him, Chen Tiao knew that the old man's point of view was that he agreed with the alliance between Rome and Liang, but he strongly opposed the conquest of Sassan.The reason is that there are droughts and floods in several provinces, and the treasury has not enough money and food to afford the expedition.

The old man returned to his seat after speaking, but another person came down. Chen Tiao took a closer look and found that this person was about 30 or [-] years old.Only then did he understand that although this institution is called the Senate, the "senators" in it are not necessarily the elderly.The young man also began to speak passionately, accompanied by strong body language.Through the translation, Chen Tiao knew that this man was a main fighter, and he strongly supported the war against Sasan, not only to recover all the fallen areas of the Syrian province, but also to fight Taisifeng.

In this way, the elders present debated for almost two hours, during which many elders repeatedly asked Chen Tiao various questions.

The last senator who spoke was the dean of the Senate, but he did not express his attitude, but asked Chen Tiao: "If Rome and Liang are united and conquer and destroy Sasan, how should the two countries divide Sassan?" Shan's current territory. Please tell us about your requirements. Note that you have to ask us for a 'reserve price' to facilitate our subsequent judgment and voting."

Chen Tiao was prepared for this question, and replied: "As long as the two countries jointly attack and destroy Sasan, no matter what the actual control area of ​​​​the two armies is, the territory that originally belonged to your country along the Mediterranean Sea will definitely still belong to your country. It will be occupied by our army at that time, the same is true. As for the rest of the land, whoever occupies it first will belong to whoever it is.”

The dean nodded, and facing the high platform where Caracalla was sitting, he said: "The first citizen of the empire, His Majesty Caracalla. According to the imperial law formulated by the Citizens Assembly, you have the absolute right to form an alliance with any country, but you To use the treasury to launch a non-defensive war abroad, you must get the vote of the Senate. So if the alliance agreement you reached with Liang Guo includes war behavior, it needs to be voted by our Senate."

Caracalla said calmly, "Then let's start voting." As his words fell, the attendants in the Senate immediately began to prepare.The dean shouted loudly: "All the elders of the empire here, now we will initiate a vote on whether or not His Majesty Caracalla will agree with Liang Guo on the joint conquest of Sasan. Please vote prudently and responsibly for the future of the empire." ticket."

Then, he first asked the elders who agreed to raise their hands, and then asked those who disagreed to raise their hands, and those who did not raise their hands were regarded as abstentions.Those senatorial attendants with small notebooks and charcoal pencils were busy counting the numbers.Then check with each other and report to the dean of the Senate after the preparation is correct.

Finally, the dean reported the results: "Out of the 290 elders in the court, 93 six actually attended today, 170 voted in favor, [-] three voted against, and [-] abstained."

Chen Tiao, who was surprised by the other party's way of discussing matters, was shocked when he heard the translator finish translating this passage, and said in his heart, most people objected. Could it be that his trip is going to fail?

At this time, Caracalla stood up and said, "One hundred of my votes are in favor!"

The dean of the Senate immediately announced.His Majesty Caracalla, who has 190 votes, agreed with the resolution, so the Senate passed the resolution with 170 three votes in favor, 34 three votes against, and [-] votes against.In favor of His Majesty Caracalla negotiating with Liang Guo and reaching a resolution to jointly send troops to conquer Sassan.

As soon as his words fell, the elders stood up again and raised their hands in salute, and Ula Hula shouted.After Caracalla gave them a gift in return, everyone withdrew from the lobby one after another.

Chen Tiao breathed a sigh of relief, but the next arduous task was to negotiate with the Roman Emperor Caracalla.Of course, Caracalla would not negotiate with Chen Tiao himself, but sent an official representative instead.

After nearly a week of negotiations, the two sides finally reached an alliance agreement.Although many changes have been made to the frame template that Feng Yu made for Chen Tiao before, there is no big difference.

The biggest difference is that when Sassan was defeated, the Mediterranean coast and the two river basins belonged to Rome regardless of the actual control area of ​​both sides.The rest will belong to whoever occupies it.Chen Tiao actually retreated to the bottom line given by Feng Yu, because he was eager to return to Feng Yu in a hurry.

Chen Tiao, who had reached an agreement, left the city of Rome on the same day and headed eastward on a sea boat...

Chapter 853 He is here

In the spring of the fifth year of Wenzhi, Xihekou City.The city, named after the estuary of a great western river, is already surrounded by camps and flags.Nearly 3 regular regiments of the Liang Army, with a total of more than [-] soldiers and horses, have gathered here.Also in Mulu City thousands of miles away, Liang Jun also assembled eight legions with a total of more than [-] soldiers and horses.

On this day, on the open space outside the city that was temporarily opened up as a school field, the sound of the soldiers' training shouted and shouted shook the heavens and the earth.Several senior generals of the Liang Army who had assembled here were talking with each other while walking and inspecting the training of the soldiers.There are two brothers Dianwei and Dianqing, as well as Zhao Yun, Zhou Yu, Gao Shun, Wei Yan, Meng Huo, Tai Shici, Zhang Ren and more than ten generals.These people were all good generals of Daliang, and now even the youngest is almost forty years old.

Originally, veteran Huang Zhong also insisted on coming to this distant battlefield.He was practically too old to mount and charge.But Huang Zhong said that he could still shoot the bow and shoot the arrow. The most elite of the army under his command could penetrate the Yang camp with hundreds of steps, and without moving their nests, they could wipe out thousands of cavalry before the enemy cavalry came near him.But Feng Yu was afraid that his old bones would be lost in a foreign country and he would not be able to return to his hometown, so he flatly rejected his request.But he agreed to his son Huang Xu to take over his position, and led the army to travel thousands of miles to Xihekou.

At this time, Meng Huo said to everyone: "Now, our army at the mouth of the West River alone has assembled 7 horses. But why hasn't the imperial court appointed us a commander? When will we be able to enter the Sassanid Kingdom?" Hinterland?"

His question immediately resonated with everyone.Wei Yan also followed suit: "Yes, logically it shouldn't be. Generally speaking, a commander should be appointed before this kind of large army expedition is assembled, so as to centralize the dispatch of various matters and avoid causing chaos. But now, tens of thousands The army is all gathered here. But they are separate camps, there is no leader and commander, and only the local guard Yan Huai coordinates and settles down. In this way, let alone the expedition to Sasan, even if we stay in place for a long time, we will be in chaos There is chaos."

Zhao Yun said at this time: "What kind of person is the Holy Majesty, there must be a reason for him to do so. As courtiers, we don't need to figure out his thoughts, just do our duty."

When everyone saw what Zhao Yun said, they stopped talking about it.Dian Qing followed the trend and changed the topic to another place.At this moment, Tai Shici exclaimed: "Look, there is a fleet of ships coming from a distance, and there are quite a few ships, covering the sky and covering the earth."

Everyone followed the reputation, and sure enough, a large number of ships appeared on the southern skyline of the sea.Huang Xu asked nervously, "Could it be an enemy ship?"

Wei Yan smiled and said: "Don't worry, it can't be an enemy ship. Brother Lin Tao's fleet is not a vegetarian. If it was an enemy ship, they would have discovered it long ago, and the warships in the port would have been dispatched long ago. What's more, if an enemy ship appears, the largest It may also appear in the west and north, but the south is the rear of the poisonous body controlled by Liang Guo."

Zhang Ren was still puzzled and said, "But most of the ships of Lin Tao's Western Fleet are gathered at the mouth of the West River. Where did so many warships come from?"

Wei Yan continued: "It's easy to guess, it must be the other overseas naval forces of the Holy Admiral. If someone's guess is correct, it must be the Nanyang Navy of Brother Gan Ning."

More than half an hour later, warships and warships sailing from the south docked one after another, and all the generals gathered at the port to welcome them.After inquiring from the soldiers who had landed earlier, it was indeed Gan Ning's Nanyang Fleet.But more details, these grassroots soldiers will not know.

They suddenly discovered that on one of the largest multi-masted galleons, a huge dragon with teeth and claws was embroidered on the huge triangular sail.Everyone was startled, it must be known that this dragon case graphic is not available to just anyone, it is a crime of disrespect.Wei Yan was the first to exclaim: "Who is so bold! This is a capital offense. Gan Ning is going to cause a catastrophe."

But then, they immediately understood, knelt down together, and began to shout long live.Because the person who got off the gangway took the bright red canopy, although the person under the canopy was fully armored, everyone recognized that this person was Feng Yu, the emperor of Daliang.Previously, each of them could never have dreamed that Feng Yu would come to this place thousands of miles away to personally conquer.So in the Kyushu of the Central Plains, who should handle the government affairs?If His Majesty the Emperor is not in Chang'an, will the nine states of the world be in a state of chaos?

"The generals are flat!" Feng Yu, who walked to the pier, said to the worshiping crowd.At this time, he was still immersed in the dizziness of the ten-day sea trip. Even if he was standing on land, he still felt the ground swaying.

When everyone got up, Zhao Yun still couldn't help but asked cautiously: "My lord, why did you go to such a place thousands of miles away to come to this place of transformation? There are so many good ministers and powerful generals in the court, you can appoint one person as the commander-in-chief." .You leave now..."

Feng Yu raised his hand and interrupted Zhao Yun's words: "Zilong doesn't need to say much. I know what you are worried about. It must be because I am thousands of miles away from the mainland, and I am afraid that there will be changes in the court. But you don't have to worry about these, my The eldest son has already passed the year of crowning the crown, and I have named him the crown prince. Now the Central Plains and Kyushu are peaceful, and there are not many bandits in the mountains and seas. It is enough for the prince to sit in Chang'an and supervise the country, not to mention the left and right prime ministers Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong There will definitely not be any major turmoil in assisting the government. On the contrary, this Persian battle has used one-third of the world's soldiers and armour. Bao, Sassan might even cross Congling and attack our ambassador's residence in the Western Regions. The consequences would be disastrous at that time. Therefore, I was worried, so I personally marched and marched."

After hearing these words, Zhao Yun and others seemed to be very reasonable, but this reasoning was not so strange.They opened their mouths, but no one continued to question in the end.After all, Feng Yu is the emperor, so it is inconvenient to ask.

In fact, if the real reason why Feng Yu worked so hard to come here is revealed, it will look very absurd in the eyes of others.The reason for this is actually very simple, that is, Feng Yu is tired of his life as an emperor.He is over forty at this time, and he has long lost interest in low-level life pursuits such as delicacies, beautiful women and beautiful women.He also visited the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains many times during his marches, wars and inspections.There are no decent entertainment activities in this era, and those operas are of no interest to people like Feng Yu who have experienced modern entertainment.In the end, only being in the field himself could relieve him of this boredom.What's more, as a person of two lifetimes, if he didn't personally go to the land outside the Kyushu of the Central Plains to experience it, wouldn't he be blind for this lifetime.

Chapter 854

After Feng Yu came to Xihekou, he prepared to swear in his master and go out.It was three days before the scheduled expedition date, and Feng Yu, surrounded by all the generals, came to the coast to watch the naval drill.

Hundreds of large and small warships selected by Gan Ning and Lin Tao's fleet operated on the calm sea according to the set script.But I heard the sound of conch horns sounding in the distance.A few more tiny black dots emerged from the skyline.Gan Ning and Lin Tao, who accompanied Feng Yu to observe the soldiers, changed their expressions.The two looked at each other and asked in unison, "Is this your arrangement?"

After both of them knew that the incoming ship was not part of the exercise, they hurriedly reported to Feng Yu: "My Majesty, there is an attack from an unknown ship, please enter the city first to avoid it, Your Majesty."

Feng Yu was not in a hurry, he set up a pergola and looked towards the western sea horizon, and said calmly: "Don't panic, there are not many ships coming, it seems that there is only one unknown ship, and the rest of the ships should be our own."

Lin Tao and Gan Ning also looked over.The ships were already close enough to be seen clearly.Sure enough, it was his two galley warships in charge of guarding the high seas chasing a ship with a somewhat exotic style.That ship was extremely fast, but it was still a little slower than Liang Jun's galley warship.

Without waiting for the Liang Jun warships participating in the exercise, they intercepted them head-on.The unknown ship was overtaken by the two chasing galleys.People on the shore could see with naked eyes that Liang Jun soldiers jumped onto the unknown ship.Afterwards, these boats sailed towards the wharf at the mouth of the West River together.No need to guess, this boat has been captured by Liang Jun.

When the boat reached the shore, Liang Jun soldiers escorted several people to Feng Yu and others.Everyone took a closer look and found that these captives had dark skin and strange appearance. They were obviously not of the same race as the Sassanids, Romans or even Guishuang.Even compared with those Negrito people with the same dark complexion in the south of Shendu and the southeast islands, their facial features are much more three-dimensional and distinct, and they are not of the same race.And those Negritos, in their primitive state, could not build such ships.

It was Lin Tao's subordinates who escorted them.Seeing that Feng Yu was also nearby, the leading general Liang Jun hurriedly kowtowed first.Feng Yu waved his hand and said, "There is no need for red tape in extraordinary times."

The general then reported to Feng Yu and Lin Tao: "Significantly, General. When we were patrolling the open sea, we found that this boat was heading towards the mouth of the West River. We immediately started chasing and intercepting it. Who knew they Ignoring the warning, they refused to stop the ship. We didn’t know what their intentions were, so we had to blow the conch horn for warning. They were still there, but they were still chased by us in the end. These people were the leaders of the ship, and we escorted them down first.”

Feng Yu nodded and said, "Interrogation!", Liang Jun immediately asked these people.Who knew that these people were like deaf-mute, obviously they didn't understand Chinese.Liang Jun also found several translators in the army, and questioned them in Zhuluo, Guishuang and Persian.They still couldn't understand, but they understood that the other party was asking a question, and they babbled loudly that Feng Yu and others couldn't understand.Dian Wei said anxiously at the side: "Damn, you must be pretending to be stupid and pretending not to understand us. They won't be honest if you don't give them a hard time!" After finishing speaking, he ordered the soldiers torture them.

Seeing what these people were anxiously trying to express, Feng Yu quickly stopped Dianwei and said, "Wait a minute, they seem to have something to say to us." Then Feng Yu ordered the soldiers to untie them.

As soon as a man who looked like a leader regained his freedom, he danced and gestured.He stamped his feet and pointed to the boats parked on the shore.Then he pulled the sleeve of a soldier to go to the ship.Seeing this, Feng Yu asked, "Is there anyone else on board?"

"My Majesty, there are still some sailors on board. But we have already tied them up firmly."

Feng Yu nodded and said: "Detain everyone on board, and he seems to want to lead us to get something or meet someone. You just follow him. If they fall into such a situation, they won't be able to play What a trick."

"No!" Lin Tao's general made a promise, and led the soldiers to escort the black man onto the boat again.After a while, more than 20 sailors with the same dark skin were brought down, but then they carried down another man with disheveled hair and ragged clothes on a stretcher.

Feng Yu was the first to recognize this person and exclaimed: "Chen Tiao!" Then everyone recognized that this person was really his colleague, Daliang's intelligence director Chen Tiao, but they didn't understand why he fell into such a situation.Chen Tiao also saw Feng Yu and the others at this time, and burst into tears...

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More than 20 days ago, Chen Tiao hurried eastward with the alliance agreement signed with Rome.He first arrived in Alexandria, Egypt, then turned overland and walked through the Isthmus of Sinai, which is hundreds of miles long, to the shore of the Red Sea.Although this journey is long, it is still in the territory of the Roman Empire after all.So Chen Tiao was able to go all the way unimpeded by relying on the seal talisman and the customs clearance disk issued by the Roman government.

But when he boarded a sea boat with a dozen personal guards on the Red Sea, the next journey was not so smooth.This is beyond the borders of Rome, but Sasanian influence has not involved here.There are many Bedouin nomadic tribes living in the thousands of miles of desert wasteland along the coast of the Red Sea.According to the original meaning of Bedouin, "Bedouin" means "nomadic people on the wasteland".

Since they are nomads, they must have the habit of plundering.For passing merchants, they will not collect taxes, but they will rob them of passing merchants and take them into slavery.Chen Tiao naturally knew this, so he deliberately avoided traveling by land as much as possible, and boarded a boat that had been prepared long ago as soon as he left the Isthmus of Sinai.The ship was found by Chen Tiao's men from the kingdom of Axum on the south coast of the Red Sea.

The ship sailed southeast on the surface of the Red Sea, but the ships of the Kingdom of Axum were also galleys, which were not suitable for ocean voyages.After paddling for a day, paddlers need to stop at a fixed point to rest.

Unexpectedly, something went wrong on the first night of camping on the beach by the Red Sea.When Chen Tiao woke up, the entire campsite was already in flames, and all the tents were on fire.On all sides are Bedouins riding camels and holding machetes.Chen Tiao's dozen or so guards resisted desperately, and in the end they were outnumbered and almost all died in battle.Chen Tiao and some sailors from Axum were captured by the Bedouins, burned the boats, and escorted them to the oasis camp in the desert.

Naturally, the Bedouins looted all the belongings on the ship, including the belongings they carried with them, the most important of which was the alliance agreement signed with Rome.

Chapter 855 The Great Shame

Chen Tiao is not a person who is afraid of death. Thinking about avenging his old master in Hanzhong, he dared to assassinate his enemy alone among thousands of troops.How could he be willing to be captured without a fight and be captured by these Bedouins.

But when he was preparing to die with the enemy, he thought that he had not yet passed the news of the alliance agreement with Rome to Feng Yu.This task has not been completed, and he cannot die yet.So, during this hesitation, the back of his head was hit hard by the handle of the knife, and he passed out.

When Chen Tiao woke up, it was already dawn the next day.Taking advantage of the morning light that just emerged from the horizon, Chen Tiao realized that he was in an oasis full of palms and sand date trees. What caught his eyes were the camels and sheep raised by the Bedouins, and the care of these Livestock slaves.

After Chen Tiao struggled, he realized that his hands were tied behind his back and his feet were tied to a wooden pole.There was not only one person tied to the wooden pole, but also a row of black sailors from Axum who were on the same boat.

At this moment, there was a crisp snap, and a whip was whipped on Chen Tiao's body, and the piercing pain came quickly.The beating man was a big bearded Bedouin man, who was still yelling at him, probably warning Chen Tiao to be more honest.Then, driven by the Bedouin, the captives of this pole were taken to the open space in the oasis.

Hundreds of Bedouins, both men and women, had gathered here, and the women's faces were still covered with veils.Under the scolding and whipping of the Bedouin thugs, Chen Tiao squatted on the ground together with the black prisoners.

Chen Tiao looked around carefully at this time, only to find that there was a wooden table in the middle of the open space.What was piled up on that table was the belongings they had looted last night.At this time, I saw an old Bedouin man, stepped onto the wooden platform, picked up a piece of fur and muttered something, and people from the background responded loudly one after another.

After thinking about it, Chen Tiao knew that they were auctioning off the looted goods.Sure enough, after several offers from people, the fur was finally bought by a middle-aged Bedouin who "paid" for some shells.

In fact, this Bedouin tribe is not doing an auction, but just a form of loot distribution.They have not yet developed to the level of civilization that requires commerce within the tribe.They just allocated different numbers of shells with special marks to each household in the tribe according to their seniority.

These shells are the bidding chips of each household in the distribution of stolen goods.If these shells are not used up this time, they can be kept until the next looting.Every time they plundered, hard currencies such as gold and silver were kept by the tribal chiefs. If some urgently needed supplies were really unavailable, they would use these hard currencies to buy them.The rest of the items are not distributed in this way to each household in the tribe.

As time goes by, there are fewer and fewer items on the table.Chen Tiao's heart tightened suddenly, because he saw the old man holding a parchment in his hand and shouting.Chen Tiao struggled to stand up, and said loudly: "Do you know who XX is? Do you know that this object is a letter of credence signed by Daliang and the Roman Empire. Either of these two countries can kill you all... "

Before he finished speaking, the leather whip was whipped at him.And those Bedouins didn't even look at him, probably they've seen too many scenes like this.Chen Tiao squatted down helplessly on the ground again. At this time, the old Bedouin yelled several times but failed to auction off the parchment, so he had to hand it over to the chief sitting behind him.The chief was obviously illiterate, at least he didn't know Chinese characters or Latin, so he glanced up and down the parchment before asking his servants to put it away.

After all the goods are "auctioned", the next step is to allocate slaves for auction.A black man was first brought to the stage by Bedouin thugs, and the old man in charge of the auction began to shout.From time to time, he patted the black man's chest muscles and chattered. Soon the black captive was sold out.

Finally, when Chen Tiao came on stage.Chen Tiao was stripped of his shirt, and escorted to the wooden platform with his upper body shirtless.The old man in charge of the "auction" patted Chen Tiao's chest habitually, feeling something was wrong.Looking at Chen Tiao again, he couldn't help frowning, knowing that this "goods" won't fetch a good price.Because although Chen Tiao is Daliang's intelligence director, it is not a common setting in the movie---some kind of martial arts master.He wasn't even a general who practiced martial arts every day, so his body and physique were naturally not as good as those of the black sailors.

Sure enough, although those Bedouins cast curious eyes on Chen Tiao, after all, most of them have only seen white people and black people in their lives, and have never seen people of yellow race.But the old man shouted several times in a row, but no one answered the price.Such "goods" cannot do heavy physical work, and it is not a woman to be a slave girl.No one will waste the shells in their hands because of curiosity.

In the end, Chen Tiao could only be the same as that piece of parchment, reserved for the chief to use.After the spoils sharing meeting was over, Chen Tiao was taken to the chief's tent again, and with him were five or six black captives who had been photographed by the chief.On the way, Chen Tiao kept trying to communicate with the chief who was not far away from him, but the chief turned a deaf ear to him, and all he got in return was a burst of whips.

Chen Diao was escorted to a shack made of branches and settled down next to a sheep pen.He thought that today's suffering was over, but when he was lying on the haystack and was about to fall asleep, he heard screams like a pig being slaughtered from outside.This sound came not only once, but one after another.Chen Tiao's heart suddenly became tense.

Finally, what he was worried about happened. Two bearded bearded men broke in and dragged Chen Tuo out.Chen Tiao originally thought that he was going to perform a "surgical operation" such as wearing a lute bone to prevent him from escaping.

Unexpectedly, he was firmly tied to a wooden table, and his mouth was tied with a cloth belt so that he could not shout.Then his trousers were pulled down, and a Bedouin grinned grinningly with a half-foot-long scythe in his hand.Chen Tiao immediately understood what the other party was going to do, and struggled desperately, but the other party had already cut off his lifeblood with a knife.Chen Tiao let out a scream and passed out immediately.

It turned out that the Bedouins were used to castrating all the male slaves they captured.Prevent them from committing adultery with female slaves and even family members.

When Chen Tiaoyou woke up, knowing that he had suffered such a great shame, he was ready to die.But he thought that he hadn't been able to pass the news of the alliance with Rome back to Daliang, and if he died like this, if no one passed the news back to the court, his great revenge would not be avenged.

So he finally endured the humiliation and survived the humiliation.But unexpectedly, things soon ushered in a turning point.

Chapter 856

On the third day after Chen Tiao came to the tribal camp, the wound on his crotch was still not healed.He was lying on the hay mat, with a pottery bowl containing half a bowl of jujube paste next to his head, his eyes stared at the dome of the branch shack like a dead fish, and he didn't know whether it was day or night outside.

Suddenly, he seemed to hear the noise from outside.The noise became louder and louder, and then turned into the sound of fighting.Chen Tiao's heart moved, and he sat up enduring the pain in his crotch.At this time, the sound of fighting became very intense, and it was also mixed with the sound of a lot of horseshoes running.The ground seemed to be trembling slightly.The sound of weapons colliding and screaming, and the sound of people shouting and neighing seemed to be heard outside the shack.

After about half an hour, the voice gradually subsided.But with a sudden puff, a lance pierced into the shack, almost stabbing Chen Tiao.Then the cavalier picked it up vigorously, and the whole shack was picked up and flew out.A knight on a tall horse appeared in Chen Tiao's eyes. Chen Tiao, who hadn't seen the sun for a long time, was blinded by the strong light and couldn't see the other person's face clearly.Immediately, two infantry rushed over and set Chen Tiao up.

At this time, Chen Diao could see clearly that the other party was dark-skinned, but his facial features were sharp and angular. Needless to say, he was from Axum.Chen Tiao was carried before the generals of the Axum army.

Fortunately, Chen Tiao knew a few words of their language because he had to pass through the kingdom of Axum on his mission to Rome and hired ships there.

Chen used simple words combined with gesticulating body language to barely communicate with the other party.

Only then did I know that the other party was ordered by King Axum to attack the Bedouin tribe on the northeast coast of the Red Sea.Because in recent days, they have harassed the Axum kingdom on the southwest coast of the Red Sea too frequently, which made the king of Axum very angry, so he sent thousands of troops across the sea to encircle and attack the Bedouin tribe near the Red Sea coast.

At the same time, the other party also knew that Chen Tiao was the envoy of Liang Guo from the east, and he also visited Rome and signed an agreement with Rome.Soon they seized the parchment agreement in the chief's tent, and some of them knew the Latin and Roman text on it, which confirmed what Chen Tiao said.

Seeing this, the black general knew that the matter was of great importance, and immediately ordered Chen Tiao to be escorted to Axum, the royal capital on the other side of the Red Sea.After all, even if he doesn't know the Liang Kingdom, he does know the importance of the nearby Roman Empire.

After Chen Tiao arrived in Axum, the king heard about the incident and knew that it was related to the relationship between Axum, the Roman Empire and the legendary beam.So they sent a special boat to escort Chen Tuo back to Xihekou on the other side of the ocean.

When the ship reached the mouth of the West River, it was spotted by Liang Jun's patrol ships and intercepted.It's just that the black sailors didn't know the identity of the other party and thought they were pirates.And Chen Tiao's injury has not recovered, lying in the cabin.Unknowingly, they rushed towards Xihekou desperately, but Liang Jun thought that the other party was an enemy ship with some ulterior motives, thus the scene Feng Yu saw was staged.

Waiting for Chen Tiao to cry and tell his story.Feng Yu and the generals behind him turned pale with anger, Dian Wei and Wei Yan clenched their fists.Dian Wei was the first to shout: "This is really a shame, what kind of Bedouin aliens dare to insult my Daliang envoy like this, this tribe should be slaughtered." Everyone echoed.

Chen Tiao also cried to Feng Yu: "Your Majesty must be the master for your ministers. If you don't avenge this great enmity, even if Chen Tiao dies, he will have no face to face his ancestors under the nine springs."

Feng Yu said solemnly: "If I don't repay this hatred, how can I still be qualified to be the emperor of Liang. Don't worry, Chen Qing, I will kill your enemies to avenge my love and shame Liang."

Chen Tiao continued: "But when the Bedouins of this tribe saw the fierce attack of Axum's army, they abandoned the oasis and fled in panic. living in the water and grass. There is no fixed place to live, and the minister has not been able to find out which tribe they are in a short time..."

With a sneer, Feng Yu interrupted him and said, "If that's the case, I don't care which tribe he is, I will take revenge on all the Bedouins!"

At this moment, Wei Yan took a step forward, kowtowed in front of Feng Yu and said, "My Majesty, I am willing to lead five thousand soldiers across the sea, sweep across this nomadic Bedouin land, and kill them all!"

Feng Yu shook his head and said, "That piece of land is far bigger than you thought, almost as big as the poisonous land, and it is full of deserts. Five thousand soldiers and horses are definitely not enough. It's not that five thousand soldiers and horses can't win the battle, but rounding up Can't stand these Bedouins who run away when they can't beat them. Not to mention five thousand soldiers, even if our [-] troops go there, it may not be effective, and the [-] troops need to obtain lasting supplies in this desert. difficulty."

Dian Wei anxiously said: "Then... Your Majesty, don't you want to avenge brother Chen Diao?"

Feng Yu's face sank and said: "Since I said that I want to avenge this, of course I have to. But the first thing we need to do now is to defeat Sasan. After defeating Sasan, we can not only concentrate on dealing with this Beidu people, and the Mesopotamia of the Sasanian can also serve as our land base for conquering the Bedouins.”

Chen Tiao reminded at this time: "However, Your Majesty, I have agreed with the Roman Emperor that after the defeat of Sasanian, the Mesopotamia, including Taixifeng City, will be returned to Rome."

Feng Yu nodded and said: "Don't worry, I have been convincing the world since the troubled times at the end of the Han Dynasty. Naturally, I will not break my promise to my allies. However, there is no clear time when the two river basins will be returned to Rome. I will use a year or so to wipe them out. Bedouin, the Roman emperor would be unreasonable. Besides, the encirclement and suppression of Bedouin is also to clean up his troubles in Rome, so they should be happy before it's too late."

After hearing Feng Yu's words, everyone nodded in agreement.

The day when the army officially set out for battle will come soon.In the [-]-strong army, except for Zhang Ren who led the troops and horses of the army to guard Xihekou to prevent the Guishuang princes from changing and Sassan to attack from the sea, the rest of the troops were all in formation.

Feng Yu stepped onto the high platform and personally presided over the swearing-in ceremony.Then Kosak, who was captured earlier, was carried to the stage to perform the sacrificial ceremony before leaving the army.The executioner raised his knife and cut off Cossack's head, pouring all the blood from his body into the large wine vat in front of the battle flag.

This vat of blood wine was diluted into dozens of other large vats, and then the [-] soldiers filled the blood wine in their portable containers and drank it all at the sound of orders.With the sound of war drums, the [-] troops marched towards Suguan one after another.Three days later, the forward troops arrived at Pangpo City, where Liang Jun was at the forefront.