County soldiers are a very special existence in Chinese civilization, and almost all dynasties have county soldiers.

Generally speaking, the county soldiers are not purely defensive troops, they usually have to take on the task of being dispatched by the county lieutenant to maintain law and order, and even when it is difficult to settle some bandits by luring and seeking thieves, they also need to participate.

If we think that the county soldiers are a purely defensive force because they are carrying out tasks such as quelling bandits in various counties and counties, this understanding is very wrong. More often than not, the state will mobilize county soldiers to participate in some border conflicts, and when the country wants to launch a major war of the nature of a national war, they will first be concentrated in a certain place, integrate and practice and devote themselves to a certain battle.

Of course, because the territory of the Chinese dynasties was relatively large, not every county soldier was eligible to be mobilized to participate in the national war. Every historical dynasty has a few places where soldiers are more brave in battle, and all dynasties will recruit or recruit more soldiers from those places that produce elite soldiers.

The county and county soldier system of the empire was inherited from the pre-Qin, in fact, if the history had not been changed, the county and county soldier system of the previous dynasties was also inherited from the pre-Qin, and it would be gradually replaced by the government military system and the box military system.

The gradual change of the county soldier system is subject to some historical lessons, such as the war in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the county soldiers of each county are the main force on which the princes relied, and the later dynasties summarized that they could not let all localities have an army, and the army should be concentrated under the control of the central government.

In fact, there is no possibility of perfection in any system, because the planner of the system is a person, and the implementation of the system is also a person, and the government military system was quite good at the beginning of being activated, but then it became an unbearable mess, and the box military system that came from the reform of the government military system also encountered a similar situation.

The Empire was a state that practiced a system of county soldiers, but in some senses. Recently, in fact, it has been moving closer to a similar system of the government military system, after all, the army's military resources no longer come from the compulsory conscription system, but are carried out by recruitment.

Because there is no obligation to serve as a soldier, the channels for relying on local conscription to become a pawn are cut off, so the county soldiers in the counties of the empire are actually from the second-line troops who have been withdrawn from the logistics line.

The imperial military has always been short of battlefields, some main battle corps have been in a state of conquest for a long time, and second-line troops are occasionally transferred to the battlefield to perform some non-major combat missions, so that even second-line troops have relatively sufficient combat experience.

"There are not many thug slaves alive......" Pang Lin had been observing the emperor's face, he knew that the emperor originally wanted to stay with his single father for a while, but he would temporarily change his itinerary because of an accident here.

Single fathers are not a well-known place. The reason why Lu Zhe chose to go there is very simple, just because Lu Pheasant's hometown is there.

The hometown of Lu Pheasant's family is indeed a single father, and the Lu family is because Lu Pheasant is unwilling to marry, and after shirking the marriage, I don't know whether it is for fear of retaliation or for reputation considerations, and the family moved to Pei County, Surabaya County.

This time, Lu Zhe didn't have any plans to go to a single father, but Lu Pheasant begged hard, and Lu Zhe didn't think that going to a single father would affect anything, and agreed to Lu Pheasant's desire to return to his hometown.

Presently. Lu Zhe brought some people to the mine on the outskirts of Suiyang, but Zhao Wan and many concubines stayed at the single father.

Starbamis, who led the riot, was soon brought in, and he kept charging at the front line, and the county soldiers and public security forces who came to suppress it had a tacit understanding that they did not choose to shoot and kill. However, his limbs were repeatedly attacked by arrows before he was able to survive.

This is a middle-aged man who is 1.65 meters tall, has blonde hair, and has aqua blue eyes. Because he was going to be escorted to the emperor, this guy was freshened up and put on a decent white robe. If you look at it according to the aesthetics of later generations, it looks actually quite handsome. The wounds on his limbs had stopped bleeding and were simply bandaged, and at this time he was being sandwiched by two armor soldiers left and right, kneeling in front of Lu Zhe in a kneeling position.

“Thrace？”

"Huh?"

“ρ?κη？”

“να?。”

Lu Zhe spoke English earlier, but he made a mistake, and now no one uses English at all. Later, he spoke in Greek and asked Spartamis if he was a Thracian, to which Spartamis replied "yes".

Greek is currently the prevailing language in the Mediterranean, and it doesn't matter if the ethnic groups of the most remote areas, including those who have traveled for a long time, cannot write Greek, but at least they can speak in basic terms.

It was not surprising that the Emperor spoke a language they did not understand, and they knew that the Emperor had a close attendant from distant Egypt to Ptolemy, and that the Emperor was a studious man who was good at digging for useful knowledge, so it was only natural that he could speak some language that they did not understand.

They know that the empire is very strong and will continue to be strong, but in fact, there is no idea of "I am ****" or "central country" in Chinese civilization. Similar ideas need a process of formation, such as constantly winning great victories in foreign wars, destroying countless races or countries, and some intentional propaganda, in order to cultivate the ambition of "Lao Tzu is the best in the world".

Regardless of whether the idea of a "central state" is good or not, it can at least improve the morale of a nation, but if it becomes corrupt, the consequences will be far more serious than imagined. For example, he is no longer standing at the top of the world, because the idea of "Lao Tzu is the best in the world" is not enterprising, and then he was beaten all over his head, and his head is about to become "Sakyamuni" and he still does not repent.

Lu Zhe wants the national idea to be militant, not to cultivate a wrong idea that no one is in sight, so it is very necessary to understand the world and recognize the world, and in the process absorb the advantages of other races into his own advantages, which is also the reason why Xiao He proposed to let various schools be happy after a long trip.

Spartamis didn't know that the person in front of him was the emperor of the Eastern Empire, but he could see that Lu Zhe's status was very high, even if he was a governor of the Eastern Empire...... Oh, he thought that the county guards were similar to the governors of Parthia, and he didn't know so well that the county guards of the empire only governed the localities and did not have the power to mobilize armies.

Greeks are currently the ruling class in many places, not only in the Greek peninsula, but also in Central Asia, where the ruling class is actually predominantly Greeks, so it is natural that Greek thought also occupies the mainstream of thinking in the Mediterranean and even Central Asia.

Spartamis was trying to show the fearlessness of a warrior. He even thought that as long as he behaved bravely, he would be appreciated by the noble man in front of him.

In fact, Spartamis was doing things according to the Greek way of thinking, including his instigation of slave revolts in the same mines, all in order to attract important people from the empire.

According to Spartamis's original plan, he would lead a group of slaves to defend the mine after eliminating the mine's overseer, and the longer he could hold out, the better, and it would be best to kill and injure more troops who came to suppress him.

In Greek thought, a leader who can unite a group of people. In particular, this leader has extraordinary force, and any master should take the ultimate goal of achieving the service of such a person, to show his benevolence and generosity, or to appreciate talent.

In fact, there are similar examples in Chinese thinking, that is, the superior appreciates certain people, and after punishing them, he strives for the warriors to serve him, so as to avoid their offense, and at the same time, he can increase his prestige with such behavior, and at the same time, he can attract more people to come and serve.

Spartamis's plan was mistaken at the beginning. About two or three hundred of them were from the Mediterranean or Central Asia, and most of them worked with him for Maudun, who were later pushed out as cannon fodder and then surrendered to the Imperial Army as prisoners of war.

Except for about 300 ethnic groups from the Mediterranean or Central Asia. The other more than 1,000 people in the mine were grassland Hu people captured by the enemy army in northern Xinjiang, and about 200 people were of the Baiyue ethnic group who had been enslaved for a long time.

Spartamis succeeded in taking advantage of the slackness of the mine overseer to launch the first wave of attacks, when he killed six samurai in the first wave and tried to kill the others. He imagined that the sudden riot of the mine overseer should have been stunned and did not happen, and the samurai did not turn and run away after being stunned, but the samurai shouted and called for their companions who were not on duty. At the same time, a counterattack was launched.

Everything seems to be at odds with what was planned and imagined, and when Spartamis assumed that other slaves would join the rebellion did not happen, or it should be said that fewer people joined the rebellion than expected, and most of the slaves hid far away, even if Spartamis was invited in the half-baked imperial dialect, or even coerced in the more unfamiliar steppe language, those who should have stayed away still watched coldly, and even the slaves stood on the side of the mine warriors to attack him.

Nearly 600 of the more than 300 people who revolted with Spartamis at the first moment, the mine warriors and the few slaves who sided with the Empire, were killed in the fierce battle. These rioters also miscalculated the speed of the reaction of the Imperial army.

Spartamis had learned about it before the riot. The information he learned was that the elite army of the empire, that is, the national defense army, was on the border of the empire, and the more elite forbidden army would only stay by the emperor's side as a guard force, and the local garrisons were the country's second-line troops and some guys called public security.

In Mediterranean culture, there is no concept of national defense forces, forbidden armies, and county soldiers, and they do not even have a fixed national army, and every time they need it, the king rules the nobility, and then the nobles gather private armies, and finally concentrate into a temporary army that obeys the king.

At present, there are really very few countries in the world with national armed forces, such as China, which has a large number of troops since the Shang generation, and Spartamis does not understand Chinese civilization and Chinese culture, so it can be said that his plan was based on an illusory delusional premise from the beginning.

The warriors of the mines and those involved in the attack on Spartamis soon withdrew from the mines, and the only provenance of the mines was firmly blocked with the many others who came later.

Suiyang is the capital of Dang County, and there is a county soldier of two thousand stationed on the edge of Suiyang City. In a normal sense, the county soldiers did not need to do much, and the troops who had just retreated from the battlefield in northern Xinjiang to the interior had not yet mentally come out of the wartime state, and when they received the order, they were assembled at a rapid pace, and the officers of the county and county soldiers and the commanders of the public security forces at all levels quickly came up with a plan after understanding the terrain of the mines.

In addition to the county soldiers, there are also public security officers subordinate to local officials, and these public security officers are actually groups that have retired from the army and have been reverted to the local government to maintain law and order. The number of public security is not much, but in terms of quality, it may be slightly higher than that of the county soldiers composed of second-line troops, and a large number of arrows are prepared, and the plan to shoot mainly with archers is proposed by a person who retired from the army and held the highest official position in Suiyang City.

Bows and arrows are very effective against enemies who are not wearing armor, this is basically a common sense, except for the necessary melee troops, the soldiers or police who can be equipped with bows and arrows are basically a hand, and they have the joint permission of the county commander and the county guard to open the arsenal, and the next scene is really a massacre.

Lützer's Greek is of course derived from Maurius. Yadi learned Greek mainly by reading some books, after all, Greece is really the cradle of Western civilization, and there are many theories that are not available in China and are very useful.

The emperor of his own country had been speaking to the rebel leader in a strange-sounding language, and the emperor would sometimes even laugh heartily, and some people who could not understand could only stand there in a daze and a little puzzled.

Lu Zhe was just asking Spartamis about the situation on the Mediterranean side, and he learned from Spartamis that Macedonia had been weakened in an all-round way and that Athens was slowly rising. He also learned from Spartamis about the Roman Republic and the Carthaginians fighting in Spain, and about the bloody battle between the Ptolemaic Empire of Egypt and the Seleucid Empire in Syria.

Of course, Lu Zhe would have asked Spartamis how he came to the Empire, and asked some about Spartamis's experience under Maudun.

Spartamis answered these things one by one with a very respectful attitude, and he was still looking forward to the old man in front of him to solicit him, but he saw this old man stand up and say, "Okay, that's it." After saying that, he turned around and left.

"No, there must be something wrong, even if I don't show heroism enough, but I still show the qualities of an officer......"

Spartamis wanted to shout to stop Lu Zhe, but as soon as he spit out a beginning, he was punched heavily in the abdomen, and he was not able to say anything until Lu Zhe's figure disappeared. (To be continued.) )