Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2750 The rise of Darius, the fall of the Parthian Empire

Chapter 2746: The rise of Darius, the fall of the Parthian Empire

After Xuanzang's master and apprentice left, Spartacus was also sent out of the country.

It won't work if you don't give it away. If Tang Seng and his disciples don't kill killers, the country's own people can't deal with Spartacus at all.

Spartacus took the map that Xuanzang left him, and planned to reverse Xuanzang's westbound route and go to the Great Qin Empire in the far east, but he didn't expect that an accident happened not long after he arrived in Persia.

Today's Persian Empire is not the same as the Persian Empire in history.

The Persian Empire in history was established by the first emperor Cyrus II in 550 BC, and reached its peak in the hands of the third emperor Darius I, becoming the first empire in the history of the world to span Asia, Africa and Europe. empire.

Passed down to 220, that is, in 330 BC, Persia suffered successive defeats in the war with Macedonia, and finally perished in the time of Darius III.

The Persian Empire in history has passed 500 years ago, and the founder of the Persian Empire today is Darius I, the third strongest emperor of the Persian Empire.

Darius I was not only the great monarch of Persia, but also one of the famous politicians in the history of the world. He came to power when Cambyses II died violently. He succeeded to the throne at the age of 28, but what he took over was a mess .

In less than a year after he succeeded to the throne, Darius I launched [-] major battles successively with the strategy of defeating them one by one. Developed into a big country spanning three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe.

After Darius was born, like Alexander and Spartacus, he was also implanted into his offspring by the system.

But his luck was much better than that of Spartacus. Not only did he not reveal his identity, but he got mixed up in the political circles of Rome, relying on the blood of Rome to strengthen himself and seek a chance to restore the country.

Darius was not the only one who sucked the blood of Rome but wanted to smash Rome's pot. Alexander and Napoleon were the same.

Darius, together with Alexander, Napoleon, and Caesar, was once known as the "Four Heroes of the Empire", but he was much more low-key and tolerant than Alexander, knowing what should be in the limelight and what should not be.

Condémaux, Pertinax, and Julianus, the three Roman emperors died one after another. Rome first split rapidly and almost fell apart, and then the newly succeeded Severus suppressed the contradiction and forcibly maintained it. Surface peace and unity.

At that time, Alexander chose to rebel immediately, while Darius, who was equally ambitious, chose to stand with Severus.

The reason why he made such a choice is because Darius knew from the very beginning that with Alexander's temperament, it was absolutely impossible to watch Severus gradually integrate the major internal forces of Rome through political means, so he would definitely follow his patience. He couldn't help rebelling against Rome one step ahead of him.

The purpose of Alexander's early rebellion was to intensify the internal contradictions in Rome and let the already dissident Roman provinces become independent, so as to form a situation of separatism.

Rome has a total of 52 provinces, and after Alexander, the boss, took the lead and declared independence and established a country, ten provinces immediately declared independence.

The Macedonian War of Independence ended with the victory of Alexander and the defeat of Rome, and more than half of the provinces declared independence.

Alexander's goal was also achieved. He succeeded in tearing Rome apart by himself.

Darius' goal has also been achieved. As the No.1 general of Rome, Alexander is in control of Rome's largest province. Once he rebels, he will definitely attract Severus' full energy.

With Alexander at the front, fighting Rome to death, Darius naturally hid behind to take advantage of it.

Darius, under the banner of a loyal Roman minister, led an army to crusade against the three provinces in Eastern Europe that had declared independence, and wiped them out and occupied them with lightning speed.

After occupying the three provinces of Eastern Europe, Darius was full-fledged and wanted to continue to fight for hegemony in Europe and completely occupy the Eastern European region, but Severus no longer trusted him, and the rest of the separatist forces were also on guard against him.

In addition, the situation in Europe at that time was too chaotic and there were too many strong players. Whether it was Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Darius was not sure of victory.

In order not to waste his hard-earned capital, Darius decided to let the major powers in Europe consume each other first, while he led his army to attack the weaker West Asia region, and then counterattacked back to Europe after the power was strong enough. .

Darius' decision was naturally extremely correct. Although the intensity of the melee among the Western princes was not as strong as that in the East, it was not much worse.

The three provinces of Eastern Europe are also barren lands. It is indeed a bit too difficult to rely on these three provinces to dominate Europe.

It just so happened that the Parthian Empire, the overlord of West Asia at that time, fell into civil strife. Vologassis VI had only succeeded to the throne for four years, and his younger brother Artaban IV immediately raised troops to fight against him. Call you to die.

The four strongest countries in this era are Dahan, Rome, Anxi and Guishuang, but coincidentally, all four countries have turned from prosperity to decline.

Dahan and Rome collapsed because of internal conflicts, while Anxi declined because of the rise of Guishuang.

In this civil war between brothers in the Parthia Empire, the younger brother finally had the upper hand, but the older brother was unwilling to be thrown away from the throne, and in a panic, he wanted to attract external forces to check and balance his younger brother, and the Roman warlord who ruled the three provinces of Eastern Europe Darius is naturally the first choice.

Seeing that Vologassis VI stretched his hips so much, as the orthodox emperor of Anxi, he lacked none of the military power, political power, and righteousness, and even he was not as good as his younger brother. Darius was naturally happy in his heart, after all, Vologassis VI If it is really Ming Jun, then there is no room for him to use his skills.

At the cost of ceding half of the province, Vologassis VI agreed to the employment of Vologassis VI, and led [-] elite soldiers into Parthia to fight against Artabanus IV.

But just like Dong Zhuo's entry into Luoyang, it's easy to invite over, but difficult to send him away.

Although his younger brother, Aldaban IV, was stronger than his elder brother, how could he possibly be Darius' opponent?

In the duel with Darius, Aldaban IV was repeatedly defeated, and a large number of territories were occupied by Darius.

The elder brother didn't expect Darius to be so powerful, and his younger brother was powerless against him, so he felt jealous and planned to join his younger brother to deal with Darius.

But at this time, Darius' coquettish operation came. He actually accepted the canonization of his defeated younger brother, and publicly announced his withdrawal from Rome and joined the Parthian Empire.

This frightened the elder brother, so he had to try his best to win over Darius to prevent Darius from falling completely to his younger brother.

In this way, Darius changed from a Roman to a Parthian, and the conflict between him and the two brothers became a political struggle within the Parthian Empire.

In the early stage, Darius took Zhu Yuanzhang's script of "accumulating grain and slowly becoming king", but in the middle stage, it became Liu Bei's entry into Shu, relying on the two brothers to make a fortune, constantly accumulating political capital, but in the end it was It is Dong Zhuo's way.

Dong Zhuo's road was not easy, but Darius's political methods were much stronger than Dong Zhuo's, so he really made it through this road.

Darius relied on a coup d'état, first killed his elder brother, but dumped the blame on his younger brother, killed his younger brother openly, and then first made his elder brother's son emperor, and then abolished his younger brother's son as emperor, in order to seize power. The military and political power of the Parthian Empire, and finally completed the usurpation.

The rest of the world, which was already declining in the west, could not stand the toss of Darius. It soon split and entered the era of separatist regimes, and finally formed the political structure of five empires, nine kingdoms, and thirteen small countries.

If Anxi hadn't also had a 'Uncle Liu' who led the remaining forces loyal to Anxi and kept its territory in West Asia, the Anxi Empire might have been completely wiped out.

Anxi's "Uncle Liu Huang", also known as the founding emperor Arshak, is naturally extremely strong in his abilities and wrists.

But faced with such a festering and complicated situation, even the founding emperor was powerless to recover. He could only lead the remnants of his forces to retreat to West Asia, lingering on his last breath, waiting for an opportunity, intending to make a comeback.

After Darius became emperor, he led his army to expand eastward and reached West Asia, and established the Persian Empire with a total population of 500 million across the three major regions of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and West Asia. The well-deserved hegemony in China.

On the contrary, it was Alexander who was the first to oppose Rome. After the Macedonian War of Independence, although he also expanded his territory, he soon became weak and fell into the quagmire of the European War. He has not further expanded his sphere of influence for a long time.

Of course, although Alexander was overtaken by Darius, who came from behind, the establishment of Macedonia was very stable and there were no major hidden dangers.

Unlike Darius, although the territory is large and the population is large, there are great hidden dangers inside because of the coup d'état and the usurpation of power.

However, Darius's political methods are clever, and if he is given enough time, he will naturally be able to eliminate these hidden dangers, but his strength and domineering have also aroused the fear of other forces.

The other four major empires in West Asia, Guishuang, Timur, Saman, and Seljuk, although they also have conflicts with each other, have formed a consensus on suppressing Persia.

Although Persia's strength is strong, but after all, the country is still short, the background is insufficient, and the internal hidden dangers are not small, so it is naturally impossible to be the opponent of the four empires. If one is not careful, it may face the danger of subjugation.

In order to divide the four empires, Darius chose to take the initiative to cede land to make friends with Timur and Saman, and isolate Guishuang, which ranked second in strength.

Under the uneven distribution of benefits, conflicts arose among the four countries, which also allowed Darius to stabilize the good situation and win a precious breathing opportunity.

Darius now needs time to sort out the interior to digest the huge territory he has swallowed. Naturally, he is the last thing he wants to start a war with Guishuang and other forces.

Guishuang wanted to go to war with Persia, but he didn't dare to go to war with Persia alone, but he was worried about winning over the other three major powers. After all, apart from Seljuk, Timur and Saman were too close to Persia. If you are cheated, you may not be able to win if you don't unite.

In this way, under the mutual check and balance of the five major countries in West Asia, they have entered into a strange peace.

Originally, all of this had nothing to do with Spartacus. After all, he was just a passing passenger. He was neither prepared nor able to participate in the affairs between the five major countries. He didn't want to cause trouble, but the trouble came to him.

In the Persian slave market, Spartacus accidentally came across the old department that unified the uprising, and learned that after the uprising was suppressed by Caesar, many people were sold to Persia as slaves, including his second wife Mira .

Naturally, it was impossible for Spartacus to ignore the old department, and only after he desperately rescued the old department did he know that Mira had been resold to the Guishuang merchant.

After his mother, wife and daughter were raped to death, the reason why Spartacus was not driven mad was largely because of the comfort of rice grains. After escaping and revenge, the two became husband and wife naturally, but they lived happily. The days are so short.

After the rebel army was suppressed by Caesar and Hercules, Spartacus thought that Mira had died in the rebellion, but he did not expect that Mira was lucky enough to escape, but unfortunately fell again. into the hands of slave traders.

Mira is the last relative of Spartacus in this world, so naturally it must be saved.

Spartacus intercepted and killed more than a dozen groups of Guishuang slave traders and rescued nearly a thousand slaves, but not only failed to find Mira, but also alarmed the high-level leaders of the Persian Empire.

After all, in addition to thousands of Guishuang's slaves fleeing, many Guishuang merchants died in Persia, and some of them were nobles of Guishuang.

If this matter is not handled properly, it may intensify the conflict between the two countries, and then detonate the war between the five Central Asian countries.

Now that the whole country of Persia does not want to fight, it can only capture the escaped slaves and hand over the troublemakers to the Guishuang Empire to calm the diplomatic turmoil.

　The branch line about the West and Journey to the West is over, and then return to the main line war

　　
　
(End of this chapter)