Chapter 204: Is this all the empire is?
In fact, the Holy Roman Empire in this world has more problems. The problems brought about by the population explosion are simply overwhelming. The poor Roman Senate and the Council of State are almost the same, working overtime all day long.
There was no way. Who wouldn't be anxious seeing the Holy Roman Empire on the brink of war? The Roman upper class who knew about the situation kept it a secret, and even the Senate collectively used secret methods to restrict the flow of information.
It is precisely because of this that the Parthian War and the Roman War were so fierce, all because of the dirty politics behind the scenes.
Even when Rome was playing the game of tanking on the Parthian battlefield, sometimes it would even find a barbarian citizen who was promoted to be the battlefield commander, and then deliberately tank to cause the failure of the war, and then directly behead the barbarian commander to thank Rome, and then happily accept the property left behind by the barbarian commander.
Pompeianus even mastered the essence of public opinion guidance without any guidance. He carried out false propaganda in Rome, advocating that the barbarians were free to join the Parthian battlefield and could be promoted to Roman citizens on the spot as long as they made military achievements.
Then they promoted the welfare of Roman citizens, which was all empty talk without any substance, like everyone could become the first citizen of Rome, and that Roman citizens would have glory for life.
Have you heard of Pertinax? No?
Okay, listen to me blow it for you!
As the son of a slave, he was lucky enough to become a citizen and join the army, then joined Rome's war against Parthia, won countless military merits, and finally became the first citizen directly based on his military merits.
Of course, Pompianus never mentioned what happened to Pertinax, how many military achievements Pertinax had made, or how many unexpected factors were involved.
I'm just telling you anyway.
Barbarian!
Go fight! Go make achievements!
The position of first citizen awaits you!
The barbarians of this era had no way out. Either they went to Great Britain or to the Holy Roman Empire.
So, under the temptation of a series of citizen benefits listed by Pompianus, countless barbarians who did not want to go against Great Britain ran to the battlefield where Rome was fighting against Parthia.
However, what will be the fate of the stragglers who join the battlefield of the empire? It will be nothing but death. If even one out of ten thousand survives, it will be a pity for their ancestors to have their graves filled with resentment.
Then Pompianus caught up with typical crazy propaganda, which made the barbarians even more excited, but in fact the ratio of barbarians to citizens was constantly shrinking. The process was very slow, but the Roman upper class was deeply encouraged.
Beat him, beat him like this, if you don’t beat him you are not a human being.
If it weren't for the fact that the British Empire's national strength was a little bit excessive, Rome would have planned to continue to play badly on the second battlefield.
Unfortunately, the British Empire is not an existence that can be easily manipulated by the Parthian Empire or the Holy Roman Empire. If they are not careful, even Rome might be in trouble.
The Romans' calculations went smoothly and in fact they achieved their goals.
Then...the Han Dynasty entered the scene and everyone ascended to heaven together.
The Four Heavenly Kings of Xiliang led a total of 10,000 troops as the vanguard and ran directly to the battlefield.
To be honest, although Li Jue and his men acted unreasonably all the time, their strength was truly hardcore. It was no wonder that they boasted every day that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry were invincible on the plains, because they were indeed good at fighting.
Li Jue was a man who was always afraid of chaos in the world, so he treated all the troops he met on the road as enemies and started killing them.
No matter whether they were Parthian rebels, Parthian rebels, or European barbarian armies, any enemy that appeared within their sight would be hacked to death.
By the way, these are not regular troops, but only small groups of roving soldiers. When they encountered the Western Liang Iron Cavalry led by villains like Li Jue, they were in a terrible state.
The only barbarian army they encountered didn't attack them for some reason, so they rushed up and chopped them down, directly sending this barbarian army of about 4,000 people to heaven.
"Why weren't they on guard?" Li Jue asked puzzledly while touching the corpse. In such a chaotic battlefield, someone actually saw strange cavalrymen and was not on guard, and then was directly defeated and wiped out. This was simply unbelievable in the Central Plains.
Guo Si didn't understand, but that didn't stop him from showing off. "Maybe he was frightened by the might of our Xiliang Iron Cavalry, just like those Wusun scum before."
Fan Chou and Zhang Ji immediately seconded the proposal, saying that this might be the characteristic of that place, with all kinds of novices there.
Li Jue shrugged his shoulders to express his helplessness. The people outside were not as evil as the general said. How could such losers be considered opponents worthy of serious treatment? Even if such losers had a hundred more legions, they would not be afraid.
In short, this is not in the Central Plains, and on the battlefield, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry have no moral constraints. They are evil to the end. No matter who you are or what forces you belong to, they will kill you all as long as they are sure of it.
In fact, it was the bad luck of this European barbarian. On this broken battlefield, except for the Romans whose hair was black, everyone else had colorful hair.
The European barbarians had never heard of the existence of the Han Empire, so they naturally thought Li Jue and his men were Roman legionaries. After all, they looked very good at fighting and had black hair, so they were definitely not from the Parthian Empire.
To be honest, only barbarians could do such a thing. They were careless and caught off guard. Any cultured imperial army should at least send scouts to confirm it first.
Then the barbarians suffered from their lack of culture. Their infantry was crushed head-on by the Western Liang cavalry when they were off guard. Half of them were killed on the spot, and the rest were unable to fight back in the chaos and were killed by the Wusun cavalry .
The Wusun cavalry that followed had lost nearly a thousand people, a quarter of their troops. According to their previous habits, they would have collapsed long ago. Even if they had fought more times along the way, it would have been the same. With a total loss of a quarter, they should have collapsed no matter what the reason.
But this time the Wusun cavalry did not do that. With the support of the Xiliang cavalry, they found the will to fight. They fought at least twenty battles along the way. Especially after killing the barbarians, they thought they had defeated the Parthian army. After all, there were Parthian people all the way.
The sense of accomplishment from defeating the Parthian regular army, coupled with their successive victories in battles, actually made the Wusun cavalry truly double-talented.
There is no way, a big shot once said.
Training troops? What kind of troops should we train?
As long as you keep winning, you will naturally become a good soldier.
The same was true for the Wusun cavalry. After winning more than twenty battles along the way, they began to become arrogant and called themselves scouts of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry, and regarded themselves as regular troops of the Han Dynasty.
In fact, it is true. The double talents are the backbone of the Han Dynasty's regular army. After this Wusun cavalry picked up the fighting spirit, it really has double talents.
As for Wusun's talent effects, the first talent is Eagle Eyes, and the second talent is Speed.
Needless to say, after all, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry only used them as scouts and to reap the leftovers, after all, the speed of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was too slow.
