Fu Qin starts with a plan

Chapter 642 War is imminent

Because of the unfavorable handling before, coupled with Daqin's arrogant behavior in Xibal City.

Facing Scipio's making things difficult, Marcus felt angry and dared not vent his anger.

Fortunately, Scipio didn't care too much about his gains and losses.

After learning about the situation from Marcus, within ten days of arriving at the Southern Governor's Mansion, he arranged a military operation.

At this time, the moon is dark and the wind is rushing.

In the mountains north of the city of Sibal, a Roman legion of more than [-] people came here quietly.

With his upper body bare, Laelius looked at Sibal City, which was only thirty miles away from him, his eyes were gloomy like water.

As the direct lieutenant of Scipio, he is also a famous titan in Rome.

However, he is not very satisfied with his current position.

At first, Scipio sent him and Masinissa to pursue Syphax, a follower of Hannibal.

The two men divided into two groups. They were not lucky enough to choose a route that did not meet Syphax.

In the end, it was Masinissa who came out on top.

Masinissa thus obtained the right to rule Numidia and became the lord of a country.

In the subsequent Battle of Zama, Masinissa led the Numidian cavalry and made repeated military exploits.

In contrast, Laelius' record is a bit lackluster.

This time, Laelius took a deep breath and won the right to the first battle with Scipio when he used troops against Great Qin.

Scipio has promised him that as long as the battle goes well and the Qin navy is wiped out, Laelius will be the ruler of the Sipar Peninsula.

Not far from the foot of the mountain is the fortification built by the Great Qin Navy.

At this time, in the slave camp behind the fortification, it was pitch black.

It seems that the slaves who have been tired all day have already rested.

However, Laelius knew that all this was an illusion.

Two quarters of an hour later, the Roman slaves would set fire to the slave camp, inciting the slaves to flee.

When the time comes, he will lead his army, rush down the mountain, and wipe out all the marines stationed in Sibal City by the Qin Navy.

As Scipio's lieutenant, Laelius is not as brainless as he appears on the outside.

He made full preparations for this battle.

He knew that the Daqin Marine Corps was not large, less than 1 people.

Those yellow people who are not tall can't be the opponents of the brave Roman warriors.

The numerical advantage of the Daqin army did not pose any threat to him at all.

At this time, a fire suddenly broke out in the slave camp.

With the help of the wind, the fire quickly burned into one piece.

Seen from the mountain, the raging fire seemed to dye half the sky red.

Raelius was shocked, he raised his huge battle axe, screamed strangely, and rushed down the mountain first.

Of the 7000 legions, 2000 of them were auxiliary soldiers recruited from Roman dependent areas.

These auxiliary soldiers were originally hopeless civilians in their own country. Many of them voluntarily joined the army because they wanted to gain military exploits to get rid of their tragic fate.

Therefore, every time a war is fought, these people are the most active and brave.

When they were about to rush to the destination, two thousand auxiliary soldiers had already rushed to the front.

They screamed, holding all kinds of strange weapons, and rushed into the slave camp.

However, when they entered the camp, they found that the slave camp was empty without a single person.

After discovering this, Laelius' expression changed.

"Retreat! Retreat!"

He gave orders loudly, pumped his horse frantically, and wanted to evacuate the slave camp.

However, because it rushed too fast.

Not only the [-] auxiliary soldiers, but also nearly [-] regular troops of the Roman Legion have also rushed into the slave camp.

By the time Laelius realized something was wrong, it was too late.

boom!
boom!
boom!
Successive explosions sounded from the ground.

All the gunpowder bombs that Qin Jun had buried in the camp in advance were detonated.

In an instant, the slave camp covering an area of ​​more than ten miles was completely submerged in a sea of ​​flames.

The marines ambushing in the south of the slave camp, under the leadership of the commander Zhou Bo, all rushed forward.

On the fifth day of April in the second year of Qin II, Rome unannounced war against the Qin Navy stationed in Sibal.

The First Army under Scipio attacked the Marine Corps camp in the city of Sipar, but was ambushed instead.

After a night of fierce fighting.

In this battle, Roman Titan Laelius was beheaded by Zhou Bo, the commander of the Marine Corps.

His 7000-man army was wiped out.

But then the two complete legions under the governor's mansion in the south of Rome rushed to Zhou Bo, making it impossible for Zhou Bo to hold on to his position and could only retreat while fighting.

When Zhou Bo led the Marine Corps to fight hard in Sibal City, the battle on the sea had already begun.

At dawn, two Roman naval legions launched a fierce attack on the Great Qin Navy from the sea.

In this battle, the Roman commander Scipio once again showed his superhuman military ability.

He used nearly two hundred unmanned sailing ships as bait, and consumed a large amount of gunpowder weapons carried by the Daqin Navy.

Subsequently, more than [-] five-row oar warships, carrying more than [-] Roman soldiers and nearly [-] auxiliary soldiers, a total of more than [-] troops, rushed towards the warships of the Great Qin Navy.

In this battle, the two sides fought extremely fiercely.

Obviously, before the war, Scipio mistakenly underestimated the combat power of the Qin Navy after losing the advantage of gunpowder weapons.

After paying the price of more than [-] lives, the Roman five-row paddle warship finally approached the Daqin Navy warship.

Using the crow suspension bridge, the Roman Navy dropped nearly [-] soldiers on the Daqin Navy warships, and the two sides launched the most tragic hand-to-hand combat.

This battle lasted until the afternoon and sunset.

Wang Li, commander of the Great Qin Navy, was worried about the arrival of Roman reinforcements, so he decisively ordered a retreat when he had a clear advantage.

They received the marines who were still fighting here from the seaport of Sibal City, and then calmly left from the southern sea.

This battle almost dyed the sea surface of the West Bar Peninsula red.

According to post-war statistics, after a day and night of fighting, the five legions that participated in the battle in Rome had a total of nearly 3 casualties.

The legion led by Laelius was wiped out, and the two naval legions lost nearly 2 people.

The least casualties were the legions of the two southern Governor's Palaces.

However, their casualties were entirely due to the lack of effort in the battle, not how powerful they were.

After the war, Scipio, who had always been gentle, ordered the execution of the commanders of the two legions in a fit of rage.

On the surface, Rome seems to have achieved its strategic goals in this battle.

They drove away the Great Qin army entrenched in the West Bar Peninsula and regained control of the West Bar Peninsula.

But anyone with a discerning eye knows that this battle was actually lost by Rome.

Nearly 6 people from the five legions participated in the battle, and the Great Qin Navy killed more than 3 people with less than [-] casualties.

Moreover, the commander of the Great Qin Navy has remained sober during this battle.

He didn't love to fight, and left immediately after gaining a certain advantage.

This made the two supporting naval regiments arranged by Scipio useless at all.

As for Rome regaining the Siberian peninsula
It is said that this peninsula is the traditional sphere of influence of Rome, and Rome should not be too dominant in controlling such a subsidiary city-state close to the mainland.

What is there to be proud of after paying such a high price, but only getting back what belongs to you?
Because of this, Scipio was furious.

Previously, when facing the invincible Hannibal, he fought more battles with less.

However, this time more than 6 people were mobilized to participate in the battle, and they faced the Daqin Navy with an absolute advantage, but they still lost.

It is not that Scipio has never suffered a defeat, but he has never been so aggrieved by losing.

However, the war started, and the situation simply did not allow Scipio to spare time to mourn the spring and autumn.

On April [-]th, the Great Qin's Western Expeditionary Army suddenly crossed the Black Sea and landed at the port of Sinop in the north of Bithynia, a vassal state of Rome.

It took less than half a month for the vanguard army led by the famous general of Great Qin to penetrate Bithynia.

Scipio mobilized 25 Roman legions with nearly 30 people and rushed to Bithynia.

At the same time, the whole army of the Great Qin Western Expedition attacked and also entered Bithynia.

In this small country, the two sides have nearly 50 soldiers.

The war is about to start.

When the war in Europe was slowly kicking off, the country of Great Qin was singing and dancing.

After experiencing a spring rain that lasted for more than ten days, the whole Guanzhong seemed to have been washed from head to toe, glowing with vitality.

I don't know why, Daqin seems to have never encountered any decent disasters in the past few years since Zhao Kun came out.

Even the previous heavy snow didn't have much impact on the people.

In the past, there was no surplus food in the people's homes, and people might starve to death when encountering slightly bad weather.

However, the people in Daqin are worried about the fact that there is too much food at home.

Some people even wished for more natural disasters because the grain could not be sold at a high price.

However, these dark-minded people are destined to not be able to wait for what they expect.

This year, from the beginning of spring, everything in the whole of Daqin has been going smoothly.

Even the weather during this farming season is in a mess.

In the Daqin Academy, Yuan Li was walking towards the Confucian Academy with a book under his arm.

Along the way, many students smiled and saluted him when they met him.

Since the last time when dealing with the Bendu Kingdom, the academy launched a debate, and Yuan Li's point of view coincided with Zhao Kun's final decision.

After that, Yuan Li became famous in the Great Qin Academy.

At the beginning, many people were still a little unconvinced, thinking that Yuan Li, a student of the Academy of Sciences, could be proficient in political affairs.

His point of view before must have been deceived.

Then disciples of Confucianism, Law School, famous scholars, Mohists, etc., took turns to debate Yuanli.

However, under their offensive, instead of "revealing their true colors", Yuan Li refuted them all into silence.

The Daqin Academy is a place that most respects knowledge.

As long as you have enough ability, you can be respected here regardless of your background.

Since then, Yuanli has become famous in the Daqin Academy.

Some good people even made a special list, counting the outstanding scholars of the Great Qin Academy.

Yuan quinoa topped the list.

In the past few months, Yuan Li's life can be said to be extremely chic, and the smile on his face has hardly stopped.

However, at this time, his face was full of anxiety.

The classmates saluted him, but he also nodded hastily and walked away quickly.

Even Yuan Li had an angry face.

This surprised the other students.

Yuan Li is a bold person by nature, easy to make friends with.

Therefore, he is very popular in the Great Qin Academy.

He would take the initiative to salute people when they met each other, and it was rare to see him so ignorant of etiquette.

Everyone is very curious, and those who have nothing to do will follow along spontaneously.

After a while, Yuan Li followed a large group of people, and came to the Confucian school in a mighty way.

At this time, dozens of Confucian students were reciting the Book of Songs aloud in the courtyard.

This kind of morning reading activity is also one of the characteristics of Confucianism.

Seeing a large group of people walking in, they all stopped, looking curiously at Yuan Li and the others.

Yuan Li's eyes scanned the crowd, and after recognizing the target of the trip, he rushed out with a single stride.

"Liu Cai, thanks to you claiming to read the books of sages, how could you do such a nasty thing."

Yuan Li grabbed a young scholar in his twenties by the collar and yelled at him.

As soon as the sound came out, the scholars around were in an uproar.

The young scholar who was grabbed by Yuan Li was named Liu Cai, a member of the clan of the late Han King Liu Bang.

This person is also a celebrity in the Daqin Academy, the most outstanding disciple of Confucianism.

Liu Cai studied under Fuqiu Bo.

Before Liu Bang died, Zhao Kun promised him that he would not harm his tribe, and Zhao Kun did not make an oath.

As long as the members of the Liu clan abide by the law, they can live in Daqin safely.

And the Great Qin Academy did not treat them differently, as long as the members of the Liu clan could enter and approach the Great Qin Academy by their own ability, the Great Qin Academy would still admit them.

Although Liu Cai entered the Daqin Academy and was criticized by many teachers and students, Kong Yu, who was then the Daqin sacrificial wine, still gave his full support.

In fact, the teachers and students of the Daqin Academy criticized Liu Cai not only because he was a member of Liu Bang's clan, but also because he was a disciple of Lu Ru.

And Zhao Kun himself judged Lu Ru more than once.

Everyone thinks that His Majesty hates Ru Ru today, that's why the Academy deposed all the scholars from Lu.

Because of this, it is extremely unique that Liu Cai, as a disciple of Fu Qiubo, a great Confucian in Ludi, was able to enter the Great Qin Academy.

Everyone rumored that Liu Cai was able to pass the examination entirely because of His Majesty's grace.

The implication is that he is the one who walks through the back door.

There are even some people who say that Liu Cai has privately broken up with his teacher, Fuqiu Boen, and he is a big unfilial person.

When applying for the Daqin Academy, because the Ludi students regarded it as their last chance, they were all very nervous and studied hard all night.

But at that time, Liu Cai was visiting relatives and friends, drinking and having fun all day long.

Therefore, after Liu Cai passed the exam, the people who slandered him the most were those former classmates.

As the person involved, Liu Cai can be said to have suffered a lot.

Liu Cai asked himself that he had been diligent since he was a child, and had always been determined to study.

Moreover, he has a flexible mind and likes to get in touch with new things very much.

When he was in Ludi, he was an outlier in the eyes of his classmates.

In fact, Liu Cai knew very well the reasons why students from Ludi failed the rankings.

(End of this chapter)