Destiny Only Han

Chapter 831 Liu Ying: Who said that those who stand in the light are heroes...

Egypt, Italian city-state allied camp.

As the sun set and the light rain fell, Marcus Polchius Cato, the commander of the coalition forces, left here and returned to the Roman camp in the south, escorted by a dozen cavalrymen.

At this moment, his heart was full of unease, and the beating frequency of his heart also accelerated.

Today, when he came to the camp of the Allied Forces, he originally wanted to meet with Tullius, commander of the Roman fleet that blocked the Mediterranean Sea, and discuss the next battle plan.

After all, the Roman Legion has been in Egypt for too long, and the Gauls and Germans in the north are ready to move again. It is said that they have started to hook up with the Carthaginians who have been defeated by Rome!
Therefore, if the delay continues, I am afraid that Rome will catch fire in the backyard.

Therefore, when Cato was going to take the initiative to attack, he naturally needed the assistance of an invincible fleet across the sea. When they were fighting the enemy, the fleet loaded with some legion soldiers and landed from the enemy's rear.

But he waited for a day, but did not wait until the Roman fleet arrived at the port here.

And this is very abnormal!
The reason is very simple. The power of the galley is mainly by paddling, and each layer of oar seats is higher than the next layer, so the length of the oars of each layer of oar seats is increasing.

And the longer the paddle, the heavier it is.

In order to maintain the consistency of paddling rhythm, heavy oars must require more effort to master than light oars, and the higher the oar from the water surface, the more people are required to operate it.

This leads to the cramped interior space of the galley, coupled with technical limitations, the limited volume of the ship, and since paddling is the main output power, every increase in volume requires a corresponding number of oarsmen, which is The space for storing materials is even more stretched.

But the most important point is that such a small environment carries so many sailors, the cabin is not only full of strong sweaty smell, even mixed with feces...

After all, modern capitalists know how to limit the length and frequency of workers' toilet time, let alone the ancient slave society.

Therefore, slave oarsmen often solve the excretion problem in the cabin, and then slowly clean the cabin after landing...

This also led to the length of one voyage of the galley, which is about half a day.

And Cato knew very well that the fleet that had set off for Athens to replenish its supplies before January should have returned to the port here long ago!
But he waited for a whole day, but he didn't see the fleet at all.

This made him can't help but recall the rumor a few days ago. It was a businessman from Antalya who said that on the sea road coming here, there were many pieces of wood floating around, and there were countless fishes chasing them. Floating Corpse...

At first, he and his general guessed that the Roman fleet should have discovered the Seleucid or Macedonian fleet, and those ship fragments were naturally left by the other party...

But now, Cato had a frightening thought in his mind.

Those, could they be the Roman fleet?
No, it must not be!
Cato shook his head vigorously, trying to get rid of this thought, but this horrifying thought, like a gangrene, took root in his mind.

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At the same time, the Roman Senate.

Although it was getting late, the quarrel that started at noon here still did not stop.

Compared with Cato's guess, they already knew the news of the defeat of the Roman fleet off the coast of Athens.

After all, the sea is vast, and the Han army's expeditionary fleet with only eleven warships is not enough to wipe out the Roman fleet with more than 300 warships.

Naturally, many people took advantage of the chaos and fled back to Rome.

As for the fact that they fled back to Rome instead of going to Cato, the reason is also very simple.

On the Apennine Peninsula where Rome is located, the straight-line distance from the nearest port to the city of Athens is only more than 600 kilometers, and it takes at least a thousand kilometers to reach the Sinai Peninsula where Cato is located from Athens!

Therefore, it is the dove faction dominated by Flaminin that now has the upper hand in the Senate.

Well, it's not really dovish.

Flaminin's consistent focus has always been on Gaul and Germania in the north, and Carthage and North Africa in the south. As for the east, including Greece, in his opinion, it is enough to maintain the status quo.

After all, the war between Rome and Carthage has not been over for a long time, and it is time to recuperate.

It would be unwise to fall into the quagmire of the war in Asia at this time!

Even if Egypt is out of Rome's control, as long as an agreement can be signed to ensure that Egypt must sell a certain amount of grain to Rome every year, then everything is within an acceptable range.

Anyway, Carthage and Macedonia paid Rome a large sum of war indemnities, which was enough for all the Romans to lie down and eat for ten years!

Therefore, Flaminin's point of view was accepted by many members of the Senate from the very beginning.

After the death of the Scipio brothers one after another, Flaminin even took over the political power they left behind, especially after he married Scipio's daughter who had just grown up, the two families became one family...

But there is no way, for most Roman citizens, Flaminin's words are like farting, the stinking kind!

Rome can achieve today's achievements, relying on the spirit of all citizens never give up!

Like elephant wars.

Well, it was the Pyrrhus War. In this battle, Rome expelled the Greek forces in the southern part of the Apennine Peninsula and Sicily. During this period, King Pyrrhus of Epirus used war elephants, so there was an elephant war. nickname……

And when Pyrrhus led the army to gallop freely on the Apennine Peninsula where Rome is located, he also left behind the saying "if there is another such victory, no one can go back to the country with me" in successive victories. Famous words, and finally fled back to Greece in despair.

The same was true of the subsequent wars between Rome and the Carthaginians.

They were beaten by Hannibal with countless casualties, but it was Hannibal who was defeated and fled in the end, and it was Carthage who ceded land and paid compensation, so that all Roman citizens had endless free bread!
Therefore, when the Roman citizens encouraged by the opposition gathered around the Senate and uttered deafening swear words, Flaminin knew he had lost.

Today, not only was he unable to stop this war that was bound to fail, and he was unable to save those young people who should not have died in Egypt, but he also personally ruined his own chance to run for the consul!
Flaminin stood on the stage, facing the mocking or sympathetic eyes, he let out a long sigh:
"The person who ridicules the most is often the one who is ridiculed the most; whoever laughs at me today, someone will laugh at him tomorrow..."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked out of the Senate without looking back, facing the Roman citizens who asked him to come out for trial, leaving only a hunched and desolate back for everyone present.

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Egypt, Arish city.

An autumn rain that lasted for nearly half a month finally stopped two days ago. Today the sky is clear and the sun is shining.

Although the Greeks have not yet arrived, they handed over all the materials in the large warehouses left by the Romans in Athens and in warehouses scattered throughout Greece to the Han fleet, and they also collected a thousand talents of silver coins as The cost of rewarding the army...

Well, a Tarrant is a unit of weight. One Tarrant is about 32.5 kilograms, and the silver coin of a thousand talents is 32.5 tons. The weight of silver even exceeds the war reparations that the Qing Dynasty gave to Britain in the First Opium War... …

Of course, this amount of money is nothing compared to the war reparations that the Romans received from the Carthaginians and Macedonians.

After all, when Scipio captured the city of New Carthage that day, he obtained 600 talents of gold coins in the treasury of the Carthage Fund at one time, that is, 19.5 tons of gold...

Therefore, when the navy's victory came, the army red deer in Arish City couldn't sit still.

March!

decisive battle!

This is the voice of every Han army.

Especially in the special geographical environment of the Sinai Peninsula, when the sun is exposed for half a day, the muddy road becomes no longer muddy, and the damp bowstring becomes dry.

Therefore, the coalition forces of Han, Seleucid, and Macedonia set out immediately.

The cloud of war once again shrouded the Roman legion camped against the river.

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Chang'an City.

The autumn day is short, although the bell tower has sounded seven times, the inner gate is wide open, the city flag is flying high, and the road is full of bustling people, but the sky is still gray,
Of course, it is also possible that the billowing smoke from the power plant caused the smog at this moment...

When many low-ranking officials lined up for the security check and went to work before entering the Changle Palace, the main gate of the palace suddenly opened, and a group of servants wearing high mountain crowns galloped out on horseback, and then scattered in all directions.

The high mountain crown was originally the crown of King Qi. After Qin destroyed Qi, in order to show conquest and humiliation, he licensed the crown to the servants around him to wear it.

The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and naturally inherited this system of clothing.

But this is not important, what is important is that all kinds of speculations suddenly sprouted in the minds of those officials who witnessed the scene at this moment.

But soon, they reached a consensus amidst the discussions.

Today's Han Kingdom is peaceful all over the world, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the industry is booming. Especially the establishment of the Beiting Dufu Mansion and the Western Region Duhu Mansion have made everyone have not heard the sound of swords and soldiers for many years.

And they knew very well that the empress Taishang led the female family members of the palace to Lishan to soak in the hot springs, and the empress was naturally not in Changle Palace, so naturally it could not be that the empress was about to give birth...

Of course, the day is not right...

So rule out the impossible, and the rest is obvious.

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Changxin Hall.

Liu Ying leaned on the sofa, holding a small half bowl of steaming red dates and millet porridge in her hand, quietly watching more than a dozen Langguans busy setting up the sand table.

And on the dining table opposite him, there was Liu Bang, who was holding a bowl of mutton in a water basin, and was whistling from time to time.

Eating like this early in the morning, no wonder the old man still beat me so vigorously... Liu Ying shrank back and continued to suck her millet porridge.

Liu Bang put down the bowl and wiped off the red oil on the corner of his mouth:
"If we install a radio station in Han Xin's house, don't we need to wait now? Naigong understands that the richer he is, the more he lives outside the city. It's the opposite of what he used to be... These guys Living so far away, going back and forth is too time-consuming!"

"Huh? That's right!" Liu Ying nodded.

The 'yes' he said didn't mean the radio station or the rich people living in suburban villas, but the telephone, to be precise, a wired telephone.

At this time, it is unreliable to build a communication base station, but the difficulty of fixed telephone is not so great.

After all, before Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone on March 1876, 3, Miss Evie had already enlightened Bell...

Well, it is also said that Antonio Meucci, who immigrated from Italy to the United States, was the inventor of the telephone...

But no matter what, this kind of simple communication equipment is not too problematic in today's Han Dynasty. After a little effort, Liu Ying has a complete set of drawings in his hand, so he just needs to reverse the process from the result.

Liu Ying silently kept this matter in her heart, and was going to wait until the most important matter was over before going on to other things.

When Liu Ying had finished her breakfast and was lying on the sofa with Liu Bang on the left and right to digest, there were bursts of hurried and messy footsteps outside the Changxin Hall. A muffled sound on the wooden floor.

As Han Xin, Li Shang and the others filed in, Liu Ying still maintained a slumped posture, but waved her hand to signal them to sit down by themselves, and at the same time asked Han Tan, who was by his side, to send the message from Mrs. Fan Send the telegram.

"Don't panic, they haven't lit that day, and you still have about an hour and a half."

Hearing Liu Ying's words, Li Shang lowered his head and flipped through the telegram. At the same time, he was lost in thought against the sand table. Han Xin rolled his eyes invisibly and suppressed the resentment in his heart.

He had just fallen asleep when the servants in the palace rushed into his house.

After all, at the end of this year, the students of the first crash course in the Lecture Hall attached to the Royal Army Officer University are about to graduate. As an honorary professor, he has to speak on stage, and at the same time, he has to write infantry textbooks. He is extremely busy every day...

The important thing is that this kind of thing seems to him to be a waste of time...

But there is no way, Liu Ying is not only the emperor, a friend, but also his future in-laws, so he naturally cannot refuse Liu Ying's call.

Well, he gave birth to a prostitute daughter in the second year of Dasheng, and now he is waiting for Liu Ying to give birth to a prince, and then give his daughter the title of princess concubine.

After all, close relative marriages such as aunts and cousins ​​are no longer popular among the aristocratic circles of the Han Empire, so Zhu Lu was excluded, and Lu Yu was the princess of King Yan. Among the remaining kings with different surnames, such as King Han, King Liang, and King Changsha They have all been passed down to the second generation, and naturally they have lost the qualification to marry the royal family.

Therefore, whether it is from the promise Liu Ying made after she was drunk, or the seniority, Han Xin will do his part in the competition for the crown princess!
Therefore, when the sun gradually rises and the light shines on the earth, three sets of twelve different battle plans are freshly released, some of which made Hannibal sweat coldly while shouting in his heart, Rome, you will not die. kind……

(End of this chapter)