Three days later, a total of 30,000 troops arrived in Dayuan and soon surrounded Jidongcheng.

At this time, Jiang Hu was stationed in Jidong City, with five thousand Qin troops under his command.

The king of Dayuan was dead, and Daqin came to revenge them. Although the people of Dayuezhi had left when they came, Jiang Hu obviously did not intend to withdraw his troops. After all, it was not acceptable to cross mountains and rivers. Moreover, Dayuan has abundant water and grass, fertile land, and developed farming and fruits and vegetables. The wheat, as the staple food, is much better than the Daqin harvest, and the climate is much better than the Western Regions. Therefore, Jiang Hu found that he liked it, so he stationed and organized Dayuan subjects to restore the royal city to produce and save himself. At the same time, he also sent a large number of scouts to investigate the situation from all sides, and roughly explored the adjacent Kangju, Anxi and the Daxia capital, which had been captured by the Dayuezhi.

Antioch III led a large army to come suddenly. Jiang Hu, who received the news, did not arrange an army to fight, but ordered the Qin army and Dayuan soldiers to retreat to Jidong City to defend. Therefore, Antioch III quickly surrounded Jidong City, but soon found that the Great Qin dragon flag was flying above Jidong City. Now Antioch III became even more angry, thinking that the Qin army attacked his troops.

"Tell me, did the Qin army attack you?" After surrounding Jidong City, Antioch III called the general who had pursued Li Shun's delegation and shouted loudly.

"No, Your Majesty, it shouldn't be the Qin people who attacked us. The weapons of those people were very simple, similar to those of the northern grassland barbarians. They were carrying a large number of livestock and tribe members at the beginning. Look at the Qin army on the city walls, they were definitely not from the same group!" The general shook his head and denied.

"Didn't you say that those people were attacking Jidong City when they came?" Antioch yelled in anger.

"They were indeed attacking Jidong City at the beginning, but they were definitely not the Qin army on the city. They had very diverse races, including the Seeds and Kangju people..."

"How could this happen?" Although Antioch was angry that Li Shun's delegation had abducted Asia, he also knew that Asia himself hated him very much.

Because he had carefully investigated in the capital in the past few months, all those who had contact with Asia were arrested and strictly interrogated. It was roughly clear that Asia did want to escape, and secretly joined a caravan of Daxia. Someone in this caravan witnessed joining the Daqin delegation outside the city. Li Shun delegation did not necessarily know that Asia was hiding in the caravan.

But no matter what, Asia left with the caravan and walked thousands of miles. The delegation had no reason to recognize Asia because he had already learned that Asia had had secret contact with Li Shun alone. I don’t know whether the two had an affair, but it must be related to Asia’s escape.

Now that the Qin Dynasty has occupied Dayuan, it is very likely that the Qin delegation has crossed the snow-capped mountains and plateaus to return to Daqin, or it is in the city of Dayuan.

After thinking about it, Antioch III decided to force the Qin army in the city to hand over the delegation of Li Shun, and must bring Asia back, otherwise once the news spread, he would soon become a joke for countless countries in the East and the West.

At this time, Jiang Hu on the city also learned from the Dayuan subjects that the well-equipped and well-trained army in front of him was the Ariesan. Through the telescope, the guy in the middle who was wearing shorts and the bird feather crown should be the head coach of the Ariesan.

If there are five thousand to three thousand, Jiang Hu will still have to consider it if it is a plain fighting, but now he has the advantage of Jidongcheng. Jiang Hu believes that the Anxi people cannot take advantage of it at all. Moreover, Jiang Hu is actually very excited. He heard that Anxi is a Western power, and the Hou Qinghe also reminded him that the Anxi people's strength is no less than that of the Great Qin. He met him just now, so he wanted to consider the Anxi people's strength in order to accumulate more experience for the Great Qin to conquer the West in the future.

After surrounding the Jidong City, Antioch III sent a translator to express his request loudly to the city, and Jiang Hu was confused after listening to the translation of the translator.

When Li Shun's delegation was on a mission to the West, he knew that he had arranged five hundred soldiers to escort Li Shun's delegation to cross the Pamir Mountains, but today he heard from the Anxi people that Li Shun's delegation had abducted the fiancée of King Anxi. What a fucking joke? Is Li Shun so awesome?

However, Jiang Hu knew that Li Shun had not come to Dayuan and did not return to Daqin. Therefore, in order to make this matter clearer so that he would not make the Dayue people a foolish battle, Jiang Hu still asked the translator to tell Antioke III that they had not seen Li Shun's mission yet. As for the accusation of cheating Antioke's fiancée, he would not admit it. Instead, he warned Antioke III. As the Great Qin mission, Li Shun was ordered by the Emperor of the First Emperor to go on a mission to rest in peace and bring exquisite gifts for friendship and trade. Now Antioke inexplicably pursued the Great Qin mission and caused the disappearance of the Great Qin mission. If the Great Qin mission had three strengths and two weaknesses, the Great Qin would inevitably launch a army to conquer the peace and so on.

The people of the Qin Dynasty would not admit defeat in such matters as war, and naturally they would not give in even more when they quarrel. At worst, they would just fight. Therefore, Jiang Hu's tone was also very aggressive.

After hearing Jiang Hu's solemn statement and warning, Antioch vomited blood three liters, and directly ordered the army to form a shield formation to start attacking Jidongcheng. As a general of Qin who had been trained and grown up in the war, Jiang Hu was not only brave in combat but also familiar with military tactics, and calmly commanded the Qin army and Dayuan soldiers to defend the city and fight back.

The arrows on both sides were covered with locusts. After three consecutive days of fighting, Antioch could no longer withstand it.

The food and arrows he brought from afar were not enough. After consuming most of the arrows in three days, the city wall remained unmoved, and hundreds of people were killed and killed. So, under the persuasion of a group of ministers, he had to temporarily withdraw his troops and retreat and send envoys to the city to inquire about the situation.

After inexplicably fighting with the Anxi people for three days, hundreds of soldiers in the Qin army and Dayuan were also injured and killed hundreds of people, which was completely thankless. Jiang Hu was relieved when facing Antioch's surrender, and told the envoys that the person who attacked them was the Dayuezhi people and now they have captured Daxia. If they want to take revenge, go quickly. Jiang Hu also solemnly warned the Anxi people that no matter what the truth is, Li Shun's delegation must not make any mistakes, otherwise it will provoke a war between Anxi and Daqin.

After receiving the reward from the envoy, Antioch thought about it and decided to withdraw his troops and go to trouble the Dayuezhi people first. He also guessed that Li Shun's delegation was most likely to go to Daxia first. If this was the case, perhaps this trip would be able to find Li Shun's delegation and then capture Asia back.

After Antioch III withdrew from the army, Jiang Hu quickly wrote this situation and the disappearance of Li Shun's delegation into a memorial to arrange for the messenger to send it to Xianyang as soon as possible.

This was already the third wave of messengers he sent after he arrived in Jidong City.

It took more than 12,000 miles from Dayuan to Xianyang, and it was necessary to cross the snow-capped plateau and cross the vast Gobi and deserts thousands of miles across the Western Regions. After all, the reply from Xianyang was about to wait for at least half a year later.

If Li Shun and others were unlucky, they might have lost all their bones in half a year.

But at this moment, Jiang Hu did not dare to send troops to Dayuezhi or Anxi to find out the whereabouts of Li Shun's delegation, so he could only send some soldiers to put on makeup and follow the caravans in Dayuan to Daxia, Anxi and Yindu to inquire about the situation.

One month later, it is July.

Autumn has begun in the Western Regions and other places, northwest of the Qin Dynasty and Guanzhong, especially in the Western Regions, as if the smell of winter began to appear in an instant. The desert was windy and sand, and the lush color of the weekdays began to wither and wither in a few days.

A Dayuan caravan returning from Daqin crossed the rugged and difficult Palaciori before the autumn. When they returned to the Dayuan royal city with a large number of bad enamel products, they realized that their king had died. A Daqin army had been stationed in the city. Now Dayuan has no king and has been temporarily taken over by the Daqin army. The Qin general Jiang Hu is waiting for the order of the Emperor of Daqin to completely occupy Dayuan or re-enthrone a Dayuan king to surrender to Daqin and become a vassal state.

There is no chance to resist, because the Qin army has completely taken over the royal city, and all the ministers of Dayuan have to obey Jiang Hu's arrangements. Fortunately, the military discipline of the Daqin people is quite strict. Apart from patrolling cities and nearby villages and towns, at most, they can eat for free and prostitutes. Compared with the cruel and barbaric Dayuezhi people, they are simply angel-like existences. Therefore, all the Dayuan people do not hate the Daqin army. On the contrary, many people are very happy to have the protection of the Daqin people. After all, the Dayuezhi people have retreated less than three months ago. The scene of the bloody and cruel massacre in the city is still fresh in many people. Moreover, there has been news from the Daxia Kingdom that the Dayuezhi has completely captured Daxia and slaughtered more than 100,000 people. The king of Daxia and countless noble civilians were killed, and blood flowed into a river and piled up like a mountain.

Compared with the experience of Daxia, because of the existence of Daqin, Dayuan was preserved and not destroyed.

In order to repay the brave soldiers of Daqin, the people of Dayuan not only brought a large amount of food and clothing to the military camp, but also many unmarried girls or widowed women took the initiative to come to the military camp to find a soldier of Daqin to be their husbands.

After a massacre in the Dayuezhi, almost 20% of adult men in the royal city and nearby towns were slaughtered, and nearly 20,000 soldiers were all massacred. Now Dayuan is in a situation where there are more women and fewer men.

Jiang Hu also turned a blind eye to such things.

After consuming sand and soil for three years in the Western Regions, these Daqin soldiers accumulated a lot of negative emotions, and many gradually became tired and dissatisfied. If they could start a family and have children in Dayuan, they might not be a means to stabilize the morale of the army.

He no longer cared about the enamel equipment incident that had worried Jiang Hu before, because he had received an urgent letter from his brother Jiang Pu to send his servants. The enamel incident had been resolved. He just needed to wait for the emperor's arrangements and wait for news to cooperate with the court in military reform.

Jiang Pu did not write the specific content of the military system reform very clearly, but there were rough signs, that is, the scope of conscription and service methods would undergo tremendous changes, and ordinary soldiers over thirty years old would retire.

And now, among the 10,000 pawns under Jiang Hu are over thirty years old.

From the abolition of the Northwest Army seven years ago to the present, these tens of thousands of people have almost never been replaced.

After serving for a long time, arduous battles and being stationed in the Western Regions far away from their homeland for several years, both soldiers and generals have been suppressed to the extreme. The reason why the army still has strong combat effectiveness is the strict laws and military disciplines of the Qin Dynasty.

These elite barons participated in dozens of wars conquering the Huns, Yuezhi, Wusun and the Western Regions tribes, and all of them accumulated a lot of military merits. If these military merits were able to fulfill their military titles and rewards after retirement, then everyone would be satisfied.

But what made Jiang Hu worried was that according to his elder brother Jiang Pu in his letter, this military system reform will abolish the current 20-level military merit award system. Therefore, how these soldiers' titles and rewards are fulfilled after retirement is still a mystery. In addition, when the enamel incident was extremely furious, the final outcome may be that all soldiers' military merits will be offset. Then, after retirement, these soldiers will have no land and real estate as rewards, which is extremely unfair to the soldiers who fought for the Qin Dynasty to expand their territory.
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