Three Kingdoms Eschatology

But he had no time to think about it, because he had already seen a large number of eagle flags with red borders and white backgrounds with golden patterns revealed in the flying dust in the distance. "Array! Prepare to fight!" The general ordered loudly.When most of the [-] troops under his command set up a huge army formation on this flat and sparsely vegetated wasteland.The opponent also stopped moving, and immediately arranged an army formation not far away!

The dust flying in the air became less and less, and the chief general of the Perugia Army discovered that there were many ostriches among the soldiers who were forming the formation.These ostriches were being driven to the rear of the opponent's army, and the few soldiers who drove the ostriches were actually riding ostriches!Only then did the chief general suddenly realize why the opponent came so quickly.

Soon, the Lord comforted Ben's restless heart.Because he found that the opponent's strength was far smaller than his own.Compared to his own huge army formation that was mile wide, the opponent's phalanx group that was at most two miles wide seemed very small.

The chief general couldn't help but sneered in his heart and said, even if you can guess my intention, it's a pity that there are too few troops, so we can only deploy so few people to intercept my army.No matter how good your armor is, you can only die in front of my army.Thinking of this, he waved his hands confidently: "Pass my military order, the whole army will attack. Surround them all!"

One of his commanders quickly reminded: "Our supply team pulling the ballista is still in the rear, and they haven't followed up. Should we wait for them?"

The general said disapprovingly: "What are you waiting for? We have at least four or five times their strength, so what kind of ballistas do we need? That would be too time-consuming. Let's attack now, so as not to have long nights and dreams. Besides, the other party doesn't seem to have set up ballistas."

It is not unreasonable for him to be so confident that he can surround and wipe out Douglas' troops.Follow common sense on the battlefield.After the two army formations with huge disparity in strength and frontal width collide together, the side of the large army formation will soon wrap up the opponent like a giant python, and can completely "digest" the opponent within an hour.

Chapter 1116

Amidst the sound of rumbling drums, the army formation of the Perugia Grand Army began to slowly advance towards the opponent.The cavalry on the two wings rode out first, and outflanked the opponent's army.But Douglas' five platoons remained motionless, crouching behind the shield wall.

When the distance between the two sides is almost twenty battles.Douglas shouted loudly: "Hit!".The crouching soldiers in the second row of his army stood up and fired rows of crossbow guns at a low angle from individual ballistas.

These crossbows rushed towards the enemy's formation with a howling sound of piercing through the air. In an instant, the sound of bones and flesh being broken and the large shield being pierced by the crossbows were heard in the formation of the Perugia Legion.Then came yelling and wailing of pain.In the blink of an eye, two or three hundred soldiers in the front of the center of their army had been injured or killed by crossbow guns.

The archers and crossbowmen of the Perugia Legion also counterattacked.The distance of twenty battles is within the maximum range of ordinary crossbows.However, it is impossible for a bow and crossbow arrow to penetrate the Roman shield at this distance.

What's more, there were not many crossbowmen in the Roman legion, and there were very few archers mainly composed of Syrians.Therefore, the threat these arrows posed to Feng Yujun on the opposite side was negligible.And the javelin, the projectile weapon commonly used by the Roman Legion --- only a very small number of people can throw it twenty battles away.Therefore, a situation has formed in which the rebels can only be beaten but cannot fight back effectively.

The chief general of the Perugia rebels naturally understood it immediately, and shouted loudly: "Come on! Go forward ten more battles, and we will win! We must fight to the death to advance the distance of ten battles."

However, just less than two seconds after the second row of Douglas's army finished shooting, the third row stood up again and fired a row of crossbow guns in unison again.Two hundred or so rebel soldiers were thrown to the ground like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.Less than two seconds later, the second row got up to shoot again.The fourth and fifth rows were still holding individual ballistas, squatting motionless on the ground.

The rebel general opened his mouth in surprise.He had long heard of the power of the individual ballista equipped by Feng Yu's army, but now the weapon he saw with his own eyes was far more powerful than he had imagined.

Now he regretted not bringing out the scull shield.But this is an encounter battle, who would carry a heavy and difficult scull shield with the army during the march?He regretted it again, and launched the attack in a hurry without waiting for the rear army to pull the ballista's baggage team up.Otherwise, it would be better to use two hundred large and small ballistas to focus on the enemy's formation for a while.But now I don't regret taking the medicine.

The center of the army formation was blocked, and the two wings were forced to stop advancing in order to maintain the formation.However, the outermost cavalry did not appear behind the enemy's formation as expected.The rebel general in Perugia saw that it was impossible to go on like this, so he hurriedly ordered: "Send the order quickly, the soldiers and horses on the two wings don't care about the square formation in the center. Continue to move forward until the enemy is surrounded! Send the order again and pull the ballista As soon as the baggage comes up, immediately set up all the crossbows in front of the formation!"

He believed that his military strength was five times that of the opponent's. Even if the central phalanx was blocked by the opponent's projectile weapons for more than ten battles, he could still rely on this absolute superiority of troops to surround the opponent tightly.Although the opponent's individual ballistas were fierce, he heard that although these ballistas could fire continuously, they could only fire five rounds at most, that is to say, this rate of fire could not be sustained.

So the rebel general still believes that he will wipe out the opponent, but now he is very strange where his cavalry went?How did he know that the cavalry several miles away on the two wings were being hunted down one by one by the opponent's hundred longbow chariots.

These cavalry fell into the dilemma of chasing but not being able to catch up, and fleeing but not being able to escape.Some of their commanders and centurions saw that the situation was not good, so they simply ignored these longbow chariots like dog skin plaster, and continued to attack the side and rear of the opponent's infantry phalanx despite the continuous casualties.

When they reappeared in the field of view of their commander and behind the enemy's formation, there were not many of their cavalry with their men and horses intact.

In Feng Yujun's army, Douglas shouted hoarsely: "The enemy is coming! Formation! Formation!", and the commanders and centurions under his command also followed him and shouted one after another.

Their army formation, which was less than two miles long, curled up and coiled together like a big python in a short time.Then their crossbow guns continued to shoot rapidly and intensively at these rebel warriors who were close to them.Those war cavalry never expected to escape the sniper attack of the enemy's longbow chariot, but they still fell under the intensive fire of individual ballistas of the opponent's infantry.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the hundreds of surviving rebel warriors in the back knew that they would die if they got close, so they rode their horses and fled away into the distance.They didn't know that their chief general's eyes were about to burst into flames.However, his infantry formation had already completed the encirclement at this time, encircling it from all directions.He said bitterly: "I want to see how long you can shoot this damn thing in your hands!?"

Because he was far away, he didn't see the opponent's army. In the fourth and fifth rows that had not moved, he quietly changed positions with the soldiers in the second and third rows.The latter had already fired five rounds of the crossbow in the magazine, and stepped back to load a new crossbow into the magazine.Each of them carried fifteen crossbows, which meant they could fire two more rounds of ten.

The rebels shouted and rushed from all directions. Anyway, they had already surrounded the opponent, and they no longer cared about the formation.On Douglas' side, the density of crossbow guns has become much sparser because the previous concentrated shooting has been changed to shooting in all directions.As a result, although the rebel army continued to suffer a large number of casualties, the surging "tide" of the crowd was getting closer and closer to Douglas' circular army formation, and the crowd was getting denser and denser.

"Greek fire from the ballista!" Douglas yelled again, hundreds of fireballs rushed from the center of his army formation into the air, and then scattered towards the dense crowd of rebels around them like a celestial maiden scattered flowers. A sea of ​​flames of different sizes ignited again.Many rebel soldiers were burned by the flames, and even more were blocked by the flames.They screamed and wailed, crowded together, and the crowd that had originally gathered in the Central Committee dispersed a little.

The general of the rebel army opened his mouth wide again. He obviously didn't notice that the other party had set up a ballista. How did these fireballs come out?In fact, these Greek fire bombs were thrown from portable ballistas.

At this time, the crossbows of the rebel army were also set up at close range in front of the formation, and the rebel general shouted angrily: "Quickly let the soldiers in front disperse, we want to concentrate the bombardment..."

Before he finished speaking, he found that not far away, several ballista players beside the ballista that had just been erected fell to the ground inexplicably.When I looked carefully, I found that there were four or five feet long arrows stuck in their bodies.They were sniped and killed by longbow chariots a hundred battles away.Then, the rebel general heard the thunderous sound of horseshoes behind him.His face suddenly turned pale, because he remembered the heavy cavalry with horse armor on the other side.But now there is no cavalry in the opponent's army.Then the sound of galloping horses behind this can only come from this iron cavalry!

Chapter 1117 Throat Throat

An eagle flew over the wilderness near Perugia. It looked down at the land, and was surprised to find that there were as dense crowds of ants gathered on the ground.The people in the middle gathered into a group, surrounded by a dense circle of people.

It's just that the circle of people around kept falling down.Then came a cavalry team galloping from a little distance away. Although there were hundreds of these cavalry, they seemed insignificant in the huge crowd, but the light reflected from their armor made the eagle feel dazzled.The cavalry cut into the ring-shaped dense crowd like a steel dagger, and strangled them mercilessly.Dead bodies and wounded soldiers could be seen lying on both sides of the path they galloped on.The screams and howls of those wounded soldiers could be heard clearly at a height of nearly ten thousand feet.

The chief general of the Perugia rebel army watched the lives of his soldiers being continuously harvested by the enemy's flames, crossbow spears, long bows and heavy arrows, and giant horses and iron hooves, anxious and angry.

His lieutenant general had already persuaded him: "General, we can't stand it any longer, so let's order the withdrawal! We can only withdraw to the barracks first." But he understood that it was too late to withdraw now.Not to mention withdrawing, it is impossible to withdraw troops and reorganize the formation. As long as I show my intention to retreat, the enemy troops who have shrunk their defenses for a long time will immediately launch a pursuit.The little morale left by one's troops will be exhausted immediately, and the entire army will fall apart and scatter in all directions.Even if a small number of them can escape back to the barracks, it is impossible for such a small number of people to hold on.

The rebel general, who knew that his side would inevitably be wiped out, lost his mind.His eyes were red, and he roared bitterly: "Kill! Kill me!" After saying that, he whipped the horse, and took the lead to go forward to fight for his life.

At this moment, a loud bang was heard, and a figure flew past his eyes.Then he saw the soldiers in front of him fall to one side like a wave.It turned out that the enemy's heavy cavalry rushed near him.

A centurion under his command, who was standing on the ground on foot, stabbed a nearby tall horse with a dagger, and the tip of the sword curled up when he heard a jingle.Then Tianling Gai was hit with a mace and fell straight to the ground.The horse's iron hooves directly trampled over the centurion's body, only to hear the crackling sound of bones and flesh shattering, and the centurion had turned into a pile of tattered flesh and blood.The chief general gave a loud shout, and stabbed the enemy cavalry fiercely with the spear in his hand.The enemy cavalry hadn't taken back the mace in his hand, and had no time to dodge, and was stabbed in the chest by a gun.Under the resistance of the armor, the spear still pierced half a foot, killing him on the spot.

Before the general could close his gun, he heard a pop in his ear, and he saw the front half of a big arrow protruding from his chest.When his body fell from his mount, the entire rebel army in Perugia collapsed.Almost all the soldiers ran aimlessly, they only had one thought, which was to escape from this hellish battlefield, the farther the better.

The soldiers under Douglas' command were about to pursue, but he said, "Except for the one hundred longbowmen on the longbow chariots left behind, all the cavalry and longbow chariots were chasing, so that they would be scattered as much as possible so that they could not regroup. .The rest of the people hurry up and prepare to transfer. Hurry up and bring those ostriches back. We must hurry up!"

A sounding arrow with a trail of smoke soared into the sky, and after nearly an hour, the small group of soldiers who had taken the ostrich and the baggage cart to the distance drove the ostrich group back again.At this time, thousands of soldiers under Douglas also recovered some crossbow guns from the enemy corpses all over the ground, and regrouped.

Douglas also ordered: "It is inconvenient for the baggage truck to pass through the mountain road, so stay here and meet the cavalry and longbow chariots who have completed the task. We take out all the crossbows inside and take it with us, and the rest No. We will rush to Bologna immediately with light clothes, and follow the route of the Gaul rebels in the south of the mountain!"

Three thousand infantry sergeants immediately took out more crossbow guns from the baggage cart, mounted on the back of the ostrich, and galloped mightily towards the central mountain range in the northeast.

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The mountain city of Bologna is a fortress with few civilians.To some extent it is more important than Florence's strategic position.Because Florence is located at the exit of the valley, if strict precautions are not taken, a small group of troops can still bypass Florence and enter the valley.But Bologna is stuck in a narrow throat in the valley, and it can be said that one man is in charge of the other.

It stands to reason that if the Shannan Gaul rebels occupy this place, they can achieve the goal of keeping the throat with a small number of troops and keeping the enemy out.But they were too greedy, and when they occupied Bologna, they came up with the idea of ​​Florence.

Being able to occupy more territory is secondary. What is more important is that occupying Florence not only achieves the goal of "defending", but also facilitates "attacking" when the time is right in the future.In addition, it might be possible to use this as an opportunity to incorporate Perugia's legion that does not belong to its own forces.In the end, their main force did not return to Turin as planned, but continued southward, preparing to make persistent efforts to capture Florence.

There are not many defenders in Bologna at the moment, only one brigade with about 500 troops is left to garrison.The army went south, and Bologna became the rear.The characteristics of the terrain made it impossible for the Alexander army who intercepted their main force to avoid the main force across the mountains and attack the city of Bologna at the other end of the valley.As for Alexander disregarding Florence, it is even more impossible to divide his troops from other places to the other side of the valley.This is the reason why the Shannan Gaul rebels only stayed in this city with such a small force.

The sky in the mountains is very dark early, and it is pitch black just after the sun sets.The top of the city of Bologna was lit up with the light from the torches, and there were more than thirty sentinels on duty sparsely distributed on it.They were in groups of two or three, holding torches and casually dangling on the city wall.

None of them noticed that there were more than a dozen pitch-black iron claws on the edges of several battlements along the city wall.A dozen of Douglas's elite scouts were quickly climbing towards the top of the city along the rope behind the iron claw.

The two defenders turned around while chatting, preparing to walk back along their patrol route.But they found two or three figures in front of them, and a soldier said, "Brother, you have gone wrong. This section is our patrol. Hey, why don't you light the torches..."

Before he could finish his sentence, an arrow shot through his chest.The companion beside him was shot from the eye socket into the head by the arrow.Both of them fell to the ground before they could hum.At the same time, scouts from several other places also climbed to the top of the city one after another.At the head of the city, the defenders were attacked and killed more than a dozen people in the form of cold arrows, throat cuts, and broken necks...

Chapter 1118

At the head of the city of Bologna, by the time some defenders noticed something was wrong, there were already more than a dozen cold corpses on the ground in the corridor above the wall.Just as a sentry uttered two words at the top of his voice: "There are enemies...", a heavy arrow whizzing from below the city pierced his chest.

Dozens of longbowmen below the city fired their arrows at the same time, and shot towards the places with the light of torches.They are good archers, and many people kill one person at such a short distance, so it is almost useless to miss.The remaining [-] defenders fell to the ground one after another in a very short period of time, and the torches in their hands fell far away.

There was only one left-handed pawn, because he was holding the torch in his left, so the arrows passed by his left side.This soldier happened to be a recruit, and his mouth opened wide in shock from the sight in front of him.When he came back to his senses and was about to shout, a scout rushed behind him and stabbed the dagger into the back of his head and neck.

More and more ropes were hanging from the city wall, and more and more soldiers climbed to the top of the city wall.When more than 100 Douglas soldiers gathered on the wall, they were still discovered.A guarding centurion on duty in the city tower looked out to see if any sentries were lazy, but found that there were no lights on the top of the city...

In the city of Bologna, the rebels rushed out of the city tower or the houses near the city wall with their weapons in a panic, and rushed up to the city head.However, as soon as he rushed to the corridor at the top of the city, he was attacked by dense crossbow spears.In such a narrow space at the top of the city, one can imagine the power of hundreds of individual ballistas fired in turn.Row after row of rebel soldiers fell in a pool of blood.Not long after, they were shot and killed more than a hundred people, including two centurions.

Seeing the corpses all over the ground in front, the remaining soldiers fled towards the city without any fighting spirit.Feng Yujun's soldiers continued to chase and shoot, and the body pierced by the crossbow gun kept rolling down the stairs of the city wall.

When the gate of Bologna opened, the soldiers who poured into the city realized that the city was empty, and the rebels had escaped from the gate on the other side.Douglas didn't bother to chase them, he just seized the time to arrange the defense of Bologna city.

What surprised Douglas was that two days had passed, and the rebels who attacked Florence had not been driven to the city of Bologna as scheduled.Fearing that something might happen, he quickly sent scouts to investigate.

It turned out that Alexander's legion was one step too late.When they rushed to enter the south gate of Florence, the Gaul rebels from the south of the mountain had just entered the north gate of Florence.In this way, the towns each occupying half of the two sides launched a fierce confrontation.Fierce street battles broke out in the streets and alleys of the city every day, and the cavalry outside the city often encountered slashing and fighting while patrolling around the city.

The rebel general didn't panic when he learned that his back was cut off. He simply made up his mind to deal with Alexander's army in Florence to the end, waiting for the reinforcements from behind to recapture Bologna and come to support him.While telling the news that the entire army will be blocked and the rear route cut off, he promised generous rewards to boost the morale of the soldiers.A considerable proportion of the soldiers in the Shannan Gaul army came from the Gaul barbarians, and they were often transferred to the far Germanic border provinces to fight against the Germanic barbarians, so their combat effectiveness is actually not trivial.The battle between them and the extremely elite Guards was at a stalemate for a while.

The generals at all levels of the Alexander Guards, as well as Quintus, were confident that they could easily drive the rebels back into the canyon.So much so that they believed that in order to cooperate with Douglas, it was necessary to deliberately delay the defeat of the rebels.But now it seems that whether the rebels can be defeated is a problem.This was really slapped in the face.

On this day, Alexander and the generals of the Guards were sitting in the military tent and discussing endlessly, but they still couldn't come up with a feasible solution to the stalemate.Just when they were at a loss, a soldier entered the account and reported: "Your Majesty, Douglas's platoon messenger is here."

Alexander blushed. A few days ago, he learned that Grasse had successfully defeated the rebels in Perugia, and had succeeded in capturing Bologna in a detour.Now, he thought that Douglas was waiting in a hurry, and sent someone to find out when the rebels could be driven into the canyon.

Alexander then perfunctorily said to the commander: "No, you just ask the messenger to tell Douglas, and you will see the result of the battle within a few days. If there is still a stalemate, he can decide whether to stay or retreat."

The soldier was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately explained: "Your Majesty, the messenger also brought some troops and a message from Douglas, saying that he has a strategy to help His Majesty defeat the enemies of Florence."

Upon hearing this, Alexander quickly said, "That's it, then let the messenger come to see me quickly."

It turned out that Douglas, who had learned of the stalemate in the battle in Florence, was dispatching the iron cavalry and longbow chariots that had completed the pursuit mission to Florence, and at the same time he asked the messenger to bring twenty longbowmen to Alexander.

Although the number of troops Douglas reinforced Alexander was small, it played a vital role.Dozens of longbowmen occupied various commanding heights in the city, divided into two squads, and carried out uninterrupted precision sniping against the rebels day and night.When those longbow chariots came to Florence, more longbowmen joined the brutal street fighting in the city.Outside the city, the light cavalry of the rebels were completely crushed by the opponent's heavy cavalry and longbow chariots.In addition, the rebels had been cut off for a long time and had no food and grass supplies.The rebel general was forced to order a reduction in the supply of daily meals, which led to a sharp drop in rebel morale.

Finally, the rebel army in Shannan Gaul began to collapse.At first there were only a few deserters, and then more and more, and in the end, a whole group of people fled collectively.Alexander seized the opportunity and urged the whole army to launch a general offensive.The remaining [-] rebels retreated to the valley northeast of Florence like a flood that broke the embankment.Their chief general also disappeared in the rebellion.Thousands of rebels who had discarded their armor and armor rushed to the city of Bologna, only to find that the fortress had changed hands. Now they were unable to advance, and they were chasing troops when they retreated. They had no choice but to surrender to Alexander.It would be better to be a prisoner of war slave than to be buried in this wilderness.

Alexander's army, which entered the northern plains of the central Apennines, did not give the Shannan Gaul rebels a chance to breathe. After joining forces with Douglas's Feng Yujun, they continued to march northwestward.It took less than two months to invade Turin, the capital of Shannan Gaul.In this process, Feng Yujun commanded by Douglas still played a vital role.Since then, there have been no forces rebelling against Alexander in the entire Apennine Peninsula.

Chapter 1119

Sicily, Palermo Governor's Palace.Dian Qing walked quickly to the hall with a few steps, saw a man in a red robe and armor with his back turned to him, and saluted him: "My lord..."

As soon as he said two words, the man turned around, Dianqing was stunned for a moment, and then he shouted in surprise: "Brother Zilong, you are here too? When did you arrive?"

It was Zhao Yun Zhao Zilong, the leader of the founding eight tiger generals of Daliang, who came.Seeing that it was Dian Qing, Zhao Yun said pleasantly, "Brother Dian Qing, we haven't seen each other for more than two years. I never thought that you would be the first old acquaintance I met here."

"Two years is not too long. It is far behind when we left the Central Plains. When did we leave the Central Plains? Hey, I even forgot the year name at that time."

Zhao Yun smiled slightly and said: "Don't talk about the year name at that time, I don't know which year to use now. The Central Plains is now the eldest son of the Holy One ascending the throne, so the year name must have been changed long ago. Lianghe Prefecture and Persian Prefecture still use it. His majesty's reign name at that time."

"The calendar used here is the Julian calendar, and the year is counted in AD. This year is AD 228."

Zhao Yun immediately asked: "AD? Is AD the year name of the Roman emperor?"

Dian Qing shook his head and said: "In the early years, and even now, the rest of Rome still uses the year when a king ruled seven or eight hundred years ago as the starting year. But AD is the birth date of the founder of a religion—Jesus. Years. Because there are a large number of religious believers in Sicily, the lord said that this year should be used as the beginning of the year. Moreover, the beginning of the year is also easy to remember for the history of the Central Plains. Because it happens to be the time when the Eastern and Western Hans alternated. The lord also It is said that sooner or later this chronology will become a unified and common chronology for all people in the world.”

Only then did Zhao Yun suddenly understand and nodded: "I see."

The two exchanged a few more pleasantries before they got down to business.Only then did Dian Qing know that Zhao Yun had come by sea from Wuci Port in Lianghe Prefecture under Feng Yu's order, and had only arrived in Palermo this morning.Dian Qing noticed that Zhao Yun's hair had started to turn gray, and sighed, "Hey, my lord is also right. At Brother Zilong's age, it should be time to return home and enjoy the rest of his life. Even if they are called, they should call some younger generations. "

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yun felt slightly displeased when he heard this, and continued, "Brother Dianqing is not much younger than XX, if you can come, why can't I?"

Dian Qing said dumbfounded: "I...I am different from you. My life was saved by the Lord back then, and I will be with the Lord all my life. For me, I have no impression of my hometown anymore, and there is no such thing as returning to my roots. I don’t return to the root. So I brought all my family members here, and my family is here. In the future, unless the lord wants to go to a far, far away place, I will be buried here in Rome when I am buried in the future.”

Zhao Yun laughed and said, "It's the same for me. My family members were originally placed in Lianghe Mansion. This time, we brought them together to the Great Qin Kingdom. Besides, some old brothers will also come here, so it will be a little later than me. However, you have misunderstood one thing. We did not come under the stress of the Holy One. His edict to the generals stationed in Lianghe Prefecture, Persia Prefecture, and Tianzhu Prefecture is to come if they want to, and those who are willing to return to their hometowns to retire. .”

Seeing Zhao Yun mentioning Feng Yu, Dian Qing remembered his business here, and said quickly: "Zilong, the lord has orders. Here we can only call him the lord at most, and we can no longer call him the sage. In fact, here , except for the servants in the mansion and me who call him the lord, everyone else calls the lord the official position in the Roman kingdom. By the way, how long have you been waiting here? Why didn't the lord come out."

Before Zhao Yun could answer, an attendant from the Governor's Mansion came out from behind and said, "I just learned that the Governor-General left the mansion early in the morning and went to inspect the Sicilian Academy."

Dian Qing patted his thigh and said: "Hi! My lord always likes to hang out with those old masters! I have something important to report to him. Let's go, let's go to the university to find my lord." He pulled Zhao Yun walked out of the gate.

When they found Feng Yu at the University of Sicily, Feng Yu was discussing scriptures with a group of natural science scholars in a large classroom.In fact, what Feng Yu presented were some knowledge points that he had learned in the classroom in his previous life and could now be kept in his mind.Although this knowledge is fragmented, it may play a huge role in enlightening these scholars.

Feng Yu was also very pleasantly surprised to see that it was Zhao Yun who came.But before he had time to exchange greetings with Zhao Yun, Dian Qing hurriedly said, "My lord, I came to you to report something important. Alexander detained Douglas!"

Dian Qing originally thought that Feng Yu would be shocked by the news, but Feng Yu seemed indifferent to it, and said indifferently: "Let's talk about it in detail. What does it mean to be detained? Is it to stay under the command of His Majesty Alexander, or should he be detained?" Get up. If it’s the former, it’s no big deal. This Douglas was originally sent by Alexander to my side, so it can be regarded as returning to the original owner.”

Dian Qing said: "This...Of course it means staying in office. He has made such great contributions, why should he be imprisoned? However, Alexander also sent our nearly 5000 troops, including riding ostriches and longbow chariots. , heavy cavalry, and even all kinds of ballistas were organized into his guard regiment. He did it all! My lord... My lord, are you not in a hurry? This is a letter he sent to the lord. "

While talking, Dian Qing presented the letter to Feng Yu. Feng Yu took it and saw that Alexander was very polite in the letter.It explained that I urgently needed to improve the level of weapons and equipment and the quality of soldiers, so I temporarily included the soldiers and horses sent by Feng Yu to Apennines.In addition, he begged Feng Yu to get him a large number of sophisticated weapons, including individual ballistas.Of course, these are not free, but willing to spend a lot of money to buy.I just want Feng Yu to find a way to find a way.

Feng Yu returned the letter to Dianqing after reading it, and ordered his attendants to prepare pens and ink for him, and began to write a reply to Alexander.Dian Qing glanced at the letter Feng Yu handed back to him in doubt and said in surprise: "What? They still want us to get them a lot of equipment of the same level as our army. This, my lord, you also agree to them? "

Feng Yu said with a chuckle: "Of course, why not make money if you have money? And I have a condition here, which is to ask him to issue an imperial decree to designate the Suez Canal as a special canal area within [-] miles on each side. It is garrisoned by the Sicilian Legion. Only in this way can the east-west waterway be guaranteed. Otherwise, how can these ordnance be transported in conveniently?"

In the early years when Liang State assisted Rome in the war against Macrinus, according to the agreement between Liang State and Alexander, the Suez Canal was temporarily managed by Liang State for several years.But now the canal has been returned to Rome, and it is shared by the provinces of Egypt and Judea.

Chapter 1120 Unique advantage

As soon as Feng Yu finished speaking, Dian Qing exclaimed: "Master, but in this way, our army will lose its unique equipment advantage in Rome. How will you realize your plan and great cause in the future?"

At this time, the few of them were on the top floor of a two-story building built on a high platform at the Sicilian Academy.Here you can overlook the whole cabinet of the Sicilian Academy and a workshop area not far from the academy area near the sea. In addition, the newly built Sicilian Library is also nearby.

Feng Yu opened the window, pointed to the scenery outside and said: "This university needs a lot of financial support, and the various industrial and commercial owners in that workshop area also need to inject a lot of money. In addition, they also need a market. We will try our best to provide They create these conditions. Later you will know that the unique equipment advantages we temporarily lose are nothing compared to the value they create. And they will bring greater advantages to our military. That will be epic , an epoch-making leap forward.”

Dian Qing and Zhao Yun couldn't understand Feng Yu's words anyway, so of course they didn't know how to respond, so they could only stand there in a daze.Feng Yu thought to himself, not to mention Alexander, but the governors of other provinces, including those rebels, as long as they are willing to buy, we will sell.There is no reason not to do business. This business can not only be done by Sicilian officials, but also small and large workshops in Sicily can make money as long as they have the ability.

Feng Yu's reason for thinking this way is also very simple.Sicily has little arable land, and it is impossible to develop and grow by relying on agriculture alone.Moreover, Feng Yu insisted that agriculture should continue the large manor economy, but the labor force was changed from slaves to hired workers.With excellent farming equipment, such a farm does not need many hired workers.Therefore, the employment of most of the labor force still needs to be solved by the industrial and commercial industries.Feng Yu's tens of thousands of slaves and prisoners of war who are serving in the army will be pardoned and become free men in a few years as promised.So now the top priority is to grow these workshops and firms.As for the legion's equipment advantages, Feng Yu believes that in time, after the university's basic science system is fully established, coupled with the prosperity and competition of the industrial and commercial industries, there will be more and more modernization, and modern weapons and equipment will appear one after another.

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Suez Canal.More than [-] Viking ships and scorpions passed by in file, drawing a track on the calm water.

After a while, the thirty ships landed at the mouth of the river near the end of the Red Sea.Some soldiers and generals jumped out of the boat one after another.They are all Feng Yu's generals.

In order to improve the equipment level of his direct lineage, Alexander agreed to Feng Yu's request after some hesitation.In the form of government decrees, a certain area along the canal was divided from the Egyptian province and the Jewish province, and handed over to the Sicilian province for management.

The current Jewish province is still cautiously maintaining neutrality. The warlords entrenched in the province are weak and can only find political balance among the surrounding strong neighbors and survive in the cracks.And although the canal is between Egypt and the province of Judea, each province governs one side of the river.But the actual control of the canal was in the hands of Governor Aurelian of Egypt, and the taxes usually collected from merchant ships on the canal also went into the treasury of Egypt.It has no real rights and interests in the Jewish province.So the governor of Judea saw Alexander's decree, and although he was reluctant, he followed it.

Aurelian in the Egyptian province, although he had a large army, could have supported himself.But he has his own plans and long-term goals. According to his own plan, he must now show his loyalty to Alexander.In addition, he himself needs these sophisticated weapons and equipment from the East.Take the individual ballista as an example, although Egyptian craftsmen have been able to imitate most of the parts, but some key parts, especially the strings made of rubber materials, are not. How can it not be imitated.This thing can only import finished products from the East, not even raw materials such as rubber.In order to get the seedlings of the rubber tree, he spent countless money and was cheated countless times, but in the end the bamboo basket fetched water in vain.Not to mention the process and method of making the rubber.So when Aurelian saw the decree from Alexander, he agreed without hesitation.

Among the soldiers who disembarked from the ship were Han Chinese and Persians accounted for a considerable proportion, but there were very few soldiers of native ethnicity.This is actually Feng Yu's intention.The leader of the general is very heavy, but he is a big man with a white beard.This person is Dian Wei, his younger brother Dian Qing is in Sicily, after Feng Yu's summoning order, he naturally rushed over with his family.At the moment, Feng Yu appointed him as the governor of the Canal District.Let him lead four brigades, a total of [-] soldiers and horses, to guard the canal area.They have already set up a fortress at the Mediterranean exit and the middle section of the canal, and will set up the last fortress at the junction with the Red Sea.

The soldiers were busy building the temporary camp, while Dian Wei was sitting on a chair under the awning, squinting his eyes to sweep the river.From time to time, huge merchant ships pass through the river. When they reach the temporary lock checkpoint, they will be released after paying a tax.In less than two hours, Dian Wei found that a dozen merchant ships passed by.Dian Wei secretly thought, no wonder the lord Feng Yu wants this set of canals, it turns out that this is a cash cow.

At this moment, Yiqi galloped along the bank of the canal.Dian Wei took a closer look and saw that it was his messenger, thinking that there must be something important happening in such a hurry.Sure enough, Ling Bing jumped off his horse in front of him and said, "Report to the Consul..."

Dian Wei waved his hand and said: "What consul, I'm not used to hearing it, you better call me General."