The Persian minister Paus led a delegation to the direction of Mulu City as fast as possible, preparing to officially represent the Persian Empire and negotiate with the Great Jin Dynasty about annexation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Paus was well aware of the burden he was shouldering, but he was an old minister with a lot of diplomatic experience, and he was confident enough to be up to the post, and he successfully reached a condition of annexation with the Great Jin Empire, so that Shapur II could eliminate the threat from the east.

Just when Paus was hurrying towards Mulu City, Hua An and his generals had already learned about the Roman Empire's dispatch of troops to Ctesiphon.

The scouts sent by the Jin army had already arrived in Ctesiphon, and even near Constantinople, the capital of the Roman Empire, there were scouts from the Jin army, so it was natural that they could get all kinds of information about the Roman Empire in the fastest time.

"Your Majesty, it turns out that the Great Qin Empire is not called Great Qin, but actually called Rome, what a strange name! I think Daqin is better. Wang San said jokingly.

"Yes! Aren't mules and horses, kings, livestock? It's funny that the country is named after an animal! Hahaha! One of the generals laughed rudely.

Hua An smiled and said softly: "Whether it's called Daqin or Rome, it's the same country, the name is just that, it's not very important, it's better to change the name to Rome in the future." ”

Obviously, Hua An didn't care much about the name of Great Qin or Rome, after all, no matter what the name was, the strength of the Roman Empire would not change in the slightest.

"Your Majesty, now the Roman army has begun to march towards the Persian capital Ctesiphon, and the main force of the Persian Empire has been wiped out by our army, I am afraid that Persia will not be able to resist the attack of the Roman army!" Wang San whispered.

"If you can't resist it, you deserve it, if the king of Persia chooses to belong to my Great Jin and not be an enemy of my Great Jin, there will be no such situation, and the country deserves to die!" A Jin army general gloated.

"Your Majesty, Persia is now in danger of losing its country, and our army can take this opportunity to march to Tianzhu in retaliation for Tianzhu and Tuyuhun's attack on our Tocharo." Song Cheng said.

"Yes! Your Majesty, the timing is right, it's time to send troops! "All the generals asked Hua'an to send troops to the Tianzhu Kingdom.

Hua An smiled at the corner of his mouth and said softly: "Don't worry, it's fast, it's fast." ”

"Your Majesty, what's coming soon?" The generals didn't understand what Hua'an was talking about, and they all frowned.

Hua An smiled, looked at the generals, and said softly: "Persia is facing a great disaster, and it will inevitably choose to belong to my Great Jin, this king is waiting for the Persian envoys, and it is estimated that it will be there soon." After speaking, he looked confidently at the generals.

When the generals heard this, they all looked at Hua An with incredible eyes, thinking that Hua An could come to such a conclusion based on speculation, which was really bizarre.

"Announce, Your Majesty, the Persian envoy Paus asks for an audience." Shortly after Hua An's words were spoken, one of his own soldiers rushed in and reported the arrival of the Persian envoy Paus.

Seeing that Hua'an actually had such an unpredictable prophetic ability, all the generals immediately cast envious and awe-inspiring glances at Hua'an, and felt that Hua'an's ability was not comparable to them.

Hua An smiled at the corner of his mouth, and said softly: "I have invited a Persian envoy." ”

Soon, the Persian envoy Paus was led by the Jin soldiers.

"Paus, the envoy of the Great Persian Empire, visited the king of the Northern Jin Dynasty." Paus bowed and saluted Huaan.

Hua An raised his right hand and said softly: "No need to be polite, please sit down!" After speaking, he gave the soldiers beside him a look.

The soldiers understood, and immediately moved the stool and motioned for Paus to sit down.

Paus looked at the Jin generals on the left and right, and said suspiciously: "King of the North, the generals are all standing, how can I, Paus, sit down alone?" This is rude. ”

Obviously, at this moment, the Persian Empire has reached a very critical moment, for this reason, the courage on the shoulders of Paus is very heavy, in order to complete his mission, he must be cautious in handling things, and must not have the slightest arrogance, after all, the Persian Empire is already very weak in front of the Jin army, as an envoy of the Persian Empire, he has no arrogant capital at all, and must bow his head and grovel to the officials of the Great Jin Dynasty in order to gain their mercy.

Hua An smiled at the corner of his mouth, and said softly: "You are a Persian envoy and a guest of this king, this king has been waiting for you for a long time, sit down!" With that, he waved his hand and motioned for Paus to sit down.

When Paus heard this, his heart was greatly surprised, Hua An said that he had been waiting for him for a long time, didn't he have expected that everything in front of him would happen? Could it be that the northern king of the Great Jin Dynasty already knew that Persia would choose to belong to the Great Jin, so he was prepared early, if so, the northern king of the Great Jin in front of him was too terrible.

"Paus is a courtier of a small country, and he doesn't dare to trespass, so it's safer to stand." Paus really didn't dare to sit down in front of the generals of the Jin army, so he excused himself.

When the generals of the Jin army saw that Paus was so timid, they all secretly laughed, and at the same time gave birth to a sense of pride, if they were not the generals of the powerful Great Jin Empire, but the generals of weak and small countries, Paus would definitely not be this kind of performance.

Seeing that Paus didn't dare to sit down, Hua An smiled at the corner of his mouth, got up from his seat, walked in front of Paus, and said softly: "Since the guests are unwilling to sit down, this king will also stand with you, come on, remove the stool!" ”

When the Jin soldiers heard the order, they removed the stool.

Paus looked up at Hua An, he was nervous, he was originally afraid of Da Jin, and now, Hua An had stood in front of him, which made him very nervous, but Hua An's expression was quite kind, so it made him feel a lot more relieved.

"The king of the north has an extraordinary bearing, and he deserves to be the hero of the world." Paus complimented inexplicably.

Hua An didn't care, smiled, and asked softly: "What is the matter with the envoy coming, tell me!" ”

"King of the North, the confrontation between my Persian Empire and the Great Jin Dynasty is completely beyond my strength, and now, His Majesty the King is very remorseful, wants to reconcile with the Great Jin, and agrees to all the original requirements of the Northern King, I don't know what the King of the North thinks?" Paus said nervously.

Hua An smiled at the corner of his mouth, looked at Paus, and said: "When this king originally put forward the conditions, Persia still had more than 200,000 elite soldiers and horses, and now Persia has not only halved the number of soldiers and horses, but also faces the threat of more than 100,000 troops of the Roman Empire, do you think the original conditions are still feasible?" Also, our army has fought several bloody battles with your Persian army, and has lost a lot of soldiers and supplies, will these be borne by my Great Jin? After speaking, he waited for Paus's answer.

When Paus heard this, he was shocked, and the worst was indeed expected by Shapur II, and the Jin army took the opportunity of the great crisis facing the Persian Empire to once again make even more demanding demands.

"The king of the north is angry, and the enemy of the Great Jin Dynasty is His Majesty the King was confused for a while, and now he is very remorseful, as for the losses suffered by the soldiers of the Great Jin, Persia is willing to compensate in full." Paus said hurriedly.

Hua An smiled, patted Paus on the shoulder, and said: "That's the best, you go back and tell Shapur II that my Dajin is tolerant and will not make particularly excessive requests, let him gather all his strength, rest assured and boldly defend against the attack of the Roman legions, this king will lead the army to conquer the Tianzhu Kingdom, and will definitely not take advantage of the fire to rob." He looked at Paus.

When Paus heard this, he was shocked, and hurriedly asked, "The Northern King wants to conquer the Tianzhu Kingdom?" ”

"That's right, Tianzhu is extremely disrespectful to the Great Jin, and this king will personally lead the main force to conquer Tianzhu, so that you can rest assured and boldly resist the Roman legions! Also, since you have decided to belong to the Great Jin Dynasty, which is a vassal state of the Great Jin Empire, if you can't stop the attack of the Roman legions, you can ask this king for help, and this king will definitely not die without help. Huaan Zhengse said.

When Paus heard this, he was in a good mood, and hurriedly saluted: "King Bei, rest assured, the Persian Empire will always be subservient to the Great Jin Empire and be the most loyal courtier of the Great Jin Empire." ”

Hua An smiled, looked at Paus, and said softly: "This king is about to lead the army to recruit Tianzhu, so he will not leave the envoys to dine here, it is rude, don't be surprised." ”

At this moment, Paus was eager to fly back to Ctesiphon immediately, and tell the Persian king Shapur II the good news of the Jin army's conquest of Tianzhu, where was he still in the mood to eat, so he hurriedly saluted and said: "The king of the north is really too polite, and the minister is in a hurry to go back, so he won't bother much, so he will leave." He took a few steps back and turned to leave.

Seeing that the Persian envoy Paus had left, Hua'an and all the generals under his command laughed.

"Your Majesty, Persia is so obedient to my Great Jin when it is facing a difficult situation, once its power becomes strong, I am afraid that it will still rebel!" A Jin army general spoke.

Hua An smiled: "This is natural, any force becomes strong, it will unconsciously give birth to a rebellious heart, so, if I want to control the Persian Empire, I must cut off his financial resources, so that they have no chance to be strong, so naturally there will be no strength to rebel against the Great Jin." ”

"The king's intention was to control the Khorasan region and collect customs duties from passing merchants in order to weaken the financial power of the Persian Empire." Hua An whispered.

Hua An nodded lightly, and said: "That's right, that's what this king means, Khorasan is an important area of the Silk Road, and it must be controlled by my Great Jin, and the customs duties of past merchants must also be collected by my Great Jin, so that my Great Jin will have enough financial resources to feed the soldiers and horses stationed in Persia, and even recruit mercenaries to enhance the strength of the Great Jin in this region." ”

When the generals heard this, they all nodded in approval and expressed support for Huaan's decision.

"Your Majesty, the soldiers and horses of the three armies are ready to set off at any time." A Jin army general walked in and reported loudly.

"What about the Persian army? Are they willing to play for the Great Jin. Hua An asked.

"Your Majesty, there are already 20,000 Persian soldiers who are willing to join my Great Jin, and in addition, there are 500 Persian animal tamers who are willing to serve the Great Jin." The general said truthfully.

Hua An was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "Okay, it's really good, let them all join our army and participate in the military operation against Tianzhu." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The general answered, turned and went to prepare.

"Your Majesty, with the help of five hundred Persian war elephants, the strength of our army has greatly increased!" Wang San said happily.

Hua An smiled: "Yes! The Persian war elephants are very powerful, and they can indeed help a lot, but there is also a war elephant army in Tianzhu Kingdom, and the scale seems to be five hundred war elephants, and the strength is comparable to our army! However, if you can see two war elephant troops fighting head-on, it will not be in vain! ”

"Your Majesty, this battle must be very exciting, and the last general must go to the war." Wang Shang Zhengse demanded.

Hua An nodded, and said: "Okay, there is no problem, you and this king lead 60,000 troops and 20,000 Persian troops, with 500 Persian war elephants as the vanguard, to march to Hua's City, the capital of Tianzhu Kingdom, in addition, General Song led 40,000 camel cavalry to Tocharian to prevent the soldiers and horses left behind by our army from being defeated by the Tuyuhun and Tianzhu coalition forces, and the remaining 20,000 camel cavalry are responsible for defending Mulu City, and are optimistic about the tens of thousands of Persian prisoners in the city." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the last will obey." Wang San and Song Cheng responded at the same time.

Subsequently, the various armies under the command of Hua'an and the attached Persian troops left Mulu City together and marched in the direction of Tianzhu and Tocharo respectively to solve the problem of Tianzhu and Tuyuhun as soon as possible.

After the Persian envoy Paus left Mulu City, he did not return directly to Ctesiphon, but immediately rushed to the camp of Palat's army to tell Palat the news that the Jin army was about to attack Tianzhu as soon as possible, and let Palat command 60,000 soldiers and horses to reinforce Ctesiphon, after all, if he returned to Ctesiphon first, he would report to Shapur II, and then Shapur II ordered Palat to lead troops to reinforce Ctesiphon, which would waste a lot of time, which would not be conducive to the Persian Empire's defense of the Roman Empire.

"General Palat, the king has decided to annex the Great Jin Empire, and I have also persuaded the Great Jin Empire to accept the annexation of Persia, and now, the main force of the Great Jin is about to conquer Tianzhu, and the general can immediately lead troops to reinforce Ctesiphon to resist the attack of the elite Roman legions." Paus looked at Pratt and said seriously.

Pratt frowned, and said, "I am a general, how can I move troops and horses at will without His Majesty's order?" You better hurry back to Ctesiphon and report to His Majesty the King! I, Pratt, must receive an order from His Majesty the King to mobilize a large army to reinforce Ctesiphon. ”

Apparently, Pratt did not believe Paus's words very much, and was afraid that he would be punished by Shapur II for his rash actions.

Seeing that Pratt actually didn't listen to his advice, Paus was in a hurry and scolded: "General Pratt, it's not wrong for you to obey His Majesty the King, but His Majesty the King asked you to defeat the main force of the Jin army, did you do it?" No, not only did you not do it, but you also lost nearly half of the soldiers and horses of our Persian Empire, and even the war elephant army was wiped out. You're afraid that His Majesty will kill you, right? (To be continued.) )