Chapter 11: Thunder and lightning that strikes the West

"Damn Chinese! Damn Chinese!" Antioch VII frowned, his right hand clenched into a fist, and his back was blue with force. He kept paced back and forth, cursing hatred: "They fought but didn't beat them, and they didn't go. When will this be the end?"

Since Zhou Yang refused to retreat again and again, Antioke Seventh Emperor has not slept peacefully. As the saying goes, how can you let others sleep soundly when you lie beside the bed? Antioke wants the Han army to withdraw. However, Zhou Yang refused. Isn’t this his life?

He could not beat the Han army, but could not drive him away, and there was no chance to give gifts. The Han army was stationed on his border, which was a torture for him, tortured him from both physical and mental aspects.

Over the past period of time, he wanted to lead his army to attack him several times, but when he thought of the Han army destroying the Bendu Kingdom within one day, he couldn't help but feel cold in his heart and could not give orders.

Is it worth mentioning that the Han army's combat power was destroyed in one day? Even if they were regarded as gods by Alexander, the Great, was not so capable, so how could he dare to provoke him?

However, he was very unwilling to accept the Han army stationed in the Kingdom of Bendu and threatening his country. This torture is really hard to describe. It took only a few hours before Antioch VII seemed to have become a different person and lost a lot of weight.

"Report to the great king, the Han army is here! The Han army is here!" A minister rushed in anxiously and reported loudly.

"Han army is here? Here!" Antioch breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. It really made him feel uncomfortable when the Han army did not move. If the Han army moves, the pressure will be relaxed, and silence will be even more tormenting.

"Where?" Antioch clenched his fist and was quite excited: "I thought they wouldn't move!"

"The great king, there are so many Han troops! More than 100,000! It's overwhelming, and you can't see it at first glance." The minister became more and more nervous as he spoke: "It's like a tide, surging in the sea! That momentum is like a mountain collapse! It's so terrible! It's so terrible!"

"You coward!" Antioch was quite disdainful and had a smile on his face: "If the Chinese don't move, I don't know how to act. If they move, I know what to do! I will send an order to assemble the army, and I will fight to the death with the Han army!"

"Gum!" The ministers made strange noises in their throats, with fear on their faces.

"Great King, can we beat it?" Some ministers finally couldn't help but hesitate for a while, and asked.

"If you can't beat it, you have to fight it! If you can fight it, you have to fight it! The Chinese just want to force us to fight to the death! The Chinese don't even accept my generous retreat conditions! We have no way out, we can only fight for a fight!" Antioch was also a sensible person, and had an insight into Zhou Yang's intention.

So what can I do if I have insight? Isn’t it just dancing to Zhou Yang’s rhythm.

As soon as the order was passed, Antioch's army lined up, and Macedonian phalanxes stood on the ground, with neat formations, like rainbows and extraordinary power.

Under Zhou Yang's planning, Antioch almost transferred all his troops here. More than 100,000 troops were arranged into a huge army, which was very exciting. Antioch rode on the horse and rode his horse, and couldn't help but feel a little excited.

"Even the great Alexander the Great doesn't have so many troops, right?" Antioch couldn't help but be very proud.

When Alexander fought eastward, his army was very small, just 30,000 people, but there was no more than 100,000 troops.

"What's more, my Macedonian phalanx is not the idiot Mitradati, but it originated from the great Alexander! Humph, its power is much greater. Even if I can't beat you, I will let you know my power!" The founder of the Seleucid Empire, Seleucid, was a powerful general of Alexander, who was good at fighting and resourceful. The Macedonian phalanx he left behind was far beyond the Mitradati's phalanx. Antioch VII had a little more confidence, although he was not as arrogant as he could defeat the Han army, he could not defeat him, so he could bite off a piece of meat?

"Warriors: Our ancestors follow the great Alexander the Great and expedition to China!" Antioch became more and more excited as he thought about it. He drew out his short sword and kept waving it, and began to pre-war speech: "But the Chinese have lost their luck, and the great Alexander the Great has lost his way and has not fought to China! Now, the Chinese are sent to death by themselves, come to our country, and trample on our homeland? We must use our ancestors to kill the enemy with our sword and cut off the heads of the Chinese!"

"Cut off the Chinese's head!"

More than one hundred thousand Seleucid soldiers roared in unison, shaking the sky, and the ground was trembling.

The purpose of the Eastern Expedition of Alexander the Great was familiar to everyone as the people of the Seleucid Empire, a part of the Alexander Empire. It was a grand goal, inspiring and exciting, and these soldiers could not be excited.

"Full the unfinished cause of the great Alexander the Great! Comfort the great Alexander the spirit in heaven!" Antioch VII shook his wrist, and a beautiful sword flower appeared and roared.

"Full the unfinished cause of the great Alexander the Great!"

"Comfort the great Alexander the Great Spirit in Heaven!"

If the Han army was defeated, it would be that the great wish of Alexander the Great was fulfilled. This was too attractive to the Seleucid Empire, and all the soldiers used their strength to yell.

Listening to the soldiers' roars and looking at the red faces, Antioch was relieved: "It is impossible to beat them. Give the Chinese a lesson and talk to the Chinese again! By then, my conditions for withdrawal will not be so generous!"

The wise man of Antioch did not blindly put the passionate scene in front of him. On the battlefield, it depends on strength, not just morale, passion, although these are very important.

"Rumor!" Just as the Seleucid soldiers were roaring, a loud thunder sound came. The sound was very powerful. Even if more than 100,000 soldiers were roaring, it could not be drowned. Everyone could hear it clearly.

"Here you come!" Antioch opened his eyes wide and looked at the sound. He saw a red water line in the sky, beautiful and smooth, surging.

After a while, I could see more clearly, and countless Han troops lined up in neat battle formations. This was a red sea, with magnificent waves and an invincible momentum.

"Awesome! Awesome!" Antioch was not an incompetent person. He fought many battles with the Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Bendu, and Egypt. He was a good general. It was obvious at a glance that the Han army's formation was very impressive.

“…”

When the Han army got closer, Antioch was so surprised that he couldn't even speak, because the Han army's equipment was something he had never seen or heard of. Although he had put some effort into the Han army during this period, the information he had obtained was limited.

The Han army wore iron trousers and armor, wrapped in steel all over. The military formation was like a wave of steel. Facing the enemy with steel skin, Antioch was not sure at all.

"The rumors are not false, and rumors are not false!" Antioch heard that the Han army's armor was very good, but he didn't believe it because it required a lot of steel. Even the Seleucid Empire, a major Middle East power, gathered the steel of the whole country together, and there was not so much.

If he wanted his army to be wrapped in steel, it would take decades of steel to store it. This was a fantasy. He always thought it was an exaggeration. When he saw it today, he realized that this was not fake, but real.

"How big is China?" Antioch was confused again. Although he knew that China was very big, he didn't know how big it was. If he knew that the Han Dynasty was as big as dozens of Seleucid Empire, he would definitely faint, far beyond his imagination.

"Is that Mo Dao? How to use such a heavy knife? Cut it?"

"That's a powerful crossbow, nothing to be afraid of?"

Although the Seleucid Empire had never fought with the Han army, they still got some rumors about the Han army and knew that Modao was so powerful that it was extraordinary. It is said that Modao killed people, just like chopping melons and vegetables. It was powerful and powerful. No one could survive. I imagined them as magical and magical, and they were even more awesome than God. However, at first sight, it was far from what they imagined.

"The Chinese are wrapped in steel, can we fight?" The Seleucid soldier who was still very motivated just now couldn't help but feel excited.

No wonder they are, but their armor is too shabby compared to the Han army. The gap is so big, just like the difference between beggars and rich people.

The armor of Seleucid soldiers was mail, which was made of iron armor and copper armor, but it did not cover the whole body, but only covered the key points of the head and chest. That is, the head and face were exposed. Compared with the Han army only exposed one pair of eyes, the gap was very obvious.

The breastplate only protects the heart and back, and the difference is not small.

The most important thing is that the Seleucid soldiers were not as high as the Han army's armor rate. Many people did not have armor at all, such as spear throwers, and there was no armor, because wearing armor would affect them from throwing spears.

"Can you bite off a piece of meat from the Han army?" Antioch felt a little nervous, his previous confidence was insufficient.

"Master, how do you fight?" Li Guang was very upset: "This Antioch is too arrogant. What a bullshit Alexander's unfinished career! I want to teach him a hard lesson!"

Li Guang could hear the roar of the Seleucid soldiers clearly and was very angry.

"We must teach the arrogant boy a lesson!" Cheng Buzhi's eyes flashed with murderous intent.

"Since the Western Expedition, we have only fought one battle and destroyed the Bendu Kingdom in one day. Although we have already had a great reputation in the West, it is not enough, far from enough!" Zhou Yang's eyes flashed, his voice was calm, but he had a sense of power: "We will use Antioch VII to establish his authority! Kill all his troops and force him to surrender! If he does not want to surrender, kill it!"

Mitradati surrendered to the Han Dynasty, which gave Zhou Yang and the others great convenience. If Antioch could be forced to surrender to the seventh generation, the benefits would be obvious. Of course, if he did not surrender, he would not have so many concerns.

According to Zhou Yang's idea, the Han Dynasty wanted to build several more strategic bases in the West, and could not just have one Bendu Kingdom. To build a base, it was still the same rule, establish authority first and then give kindness. In this way, it would be proved that the West would not dare to move around.

"Okay!" Dongfang Shuo praised him loudly.

"In this battle, we don't need to defend, but attack directly, and destroy the Seleucid Empire in one go!" Zhou Yang raised his eyebrows and was full of murderous aura: "Flying General, you lead the cavalry to attack the left wing; General Cheng, you attack the right wing, surrounded the Antioch army, and then annihilate it! Take action ruthlessly, no one can escape!"

"No!" the two of them took the order loudly.

"Beat the drum!" Zhou Yang ordered loudly.

"Rumor!" The shocking sound of war drums sounded, shaking the ground.

"The Han army is mighty!" Amid the sound of the battle clamoring to the sky, the Han army began a massacre.

"Kill!" Antioch VII was still a brave man. When he had to fight, he chose to be brave.

Antioch VII knew that he could not win, but he had to fight because his country was so big and had no way to retreat. When the Han army did not accept the conditions for retreat, they could only fight.

The Seleucid soldiers were still the same old method. As soon as they rushed up, more than 100,000 troops rushed in like a tide. However, when they met the Han army, they collapsed like a storm hitting a solid dam.

With the equipment, tactics and combat power of the Han army, the Seleucid army could not withstand it. First, it cut off the retreat for Li Guang and Cheng Buzhi and surrounded them all.

Antioch was not worried about this, because even if he wanted to escape, he did not have much strategic space to use, and there was no place to escape. If the country was small, it would be a tragedy.

What shocked Antioch VII was that the combat power of the Han army far exceeded his imagination. The Han army's attack was extremely sharp and the Seleucid army could not resist it at all.

This is a massacre without any suspense. If you look from the air, you will see that the red waves first submerged the two wings and rear of the Seleucid army, and then rushed through the formation, dividing the Seleucid army into several parts.

Although the Macedonian phalanx was powerful, Alexander the Great created a myth with this formation. However, in front of the Han army, the Macedonian phalanx was nothing more than a piece of cloth, powerless, and the red waves quickly flooded the entire battlefield.

By the time the red waves stopped surging, the battle was over, the army of Antioch VII no longer existed, only thousands of people survived, the entire battlefield was filled with corpses, and the scent of blood was everywhere, and the smell of blood in the air made people feel stomach-blood.

"Vomit!" Antioch's stomach rolled, and he couldn't help but retching, leaned on the horse's back, and his face turned pale.

As a major country in the Middle East, Antioch VII fought many wars and cut down many heads. However, he had never seen such a tragic battlefield and had never smelled such a strong smell of blood. He could not vomit.

"Antou VII, tsk!" Antitou VII, who was vomiting, heard someone talking and looked up. Zhou Yang rode the Fengchasing Horse and had already come to him.

"Zhou Yang, you are so cruel! There are not many troops left for you to kill! You are a devil!" Antioch still had the courage, pointed at Zhou Yang and accused him loudly.

"I was originally a devil, a devil who killed people!" Zhou Yang was not angry, but smiled and said, "Antouk VII, do you know how many people I have killed? How much is this? Let me tell you, in the Battle of Dragon City last year, I killed nearly two million Huns, and that tragic scene was much more tragic than what you saw."

"Two million? You're talking big!" Antioch could hardly imagine. Two million, how many people would be? The total number of citizens of the Seleucid Empire was not much higher than this.

Although the Seleucid Empire had a large population, its citizens were not large, the same as the Roman Empire.

"He doesn't believe it yet? The small Western country has never seen the world!" Li Guang was a little funny and pointed at Antioch VII and said, "Andouk, do you know how old the great man is? If you don't say anything else, you just have a lot of words, and there are at least 40 million great man!"

"Fourty million?" Antioch's mouth turned round and turned into a circle.

The Seleucid Empire was a great power in the Mediterranean. Its heyday was only 30 million people. Now, it has passed its heyday and has a population of less than 10 million. The Han Dynasty was far from its heyday, but the population of 40 million was determined. This number was too huge, so how could Antioch not be shocked?

"Look at your unpromising look!" Li Guang cracked his mouth with disdain and cried out: "This is still the same as before. Now, the big man's mouth has counted 50 million!"

When Qin Shihuang unified China, China had a population of 20 million. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, many casualties were killed and injured. However, after dozens and hundreds of years of development of the Han Dynasty, there was no problem with 40 million people. In addition, Zhou Yang recovered Baiyue, pacified the Donghu, defeated the Xiongnu, destroyed the Western Qiang, and the Western Regions. The total population of the Han Dynasty exceeded 50 million.

The Kingdom of Bendu has not yet calculated it, and the small tribes and small countries have not counted it.

"How big is China?" Antioch was stunned for a long time before he woke up, but he said something stupid.

"How big is the Han Dynasty? You can go to the Han Dynasty and see it!" Zhou Yang understood Antioch's shock: "From the southmost point of the Han Dynasty to the northmost point, it is far more than ten thousand miles. From the east to the west, it is more than ten thousand miles. This is not the land we have captured now!"

"..." Antioch was shocked again.

There was only one country in the West at that time, that was the Alexander Empire. Unfortunately, this country only existed for a short time and fell apart. As for the Persian Empire, although it was a great power, it could not be compared.
To be continued...