Chapter 529 New Enemy
The Seleucid dynasty did not have a profound history like the Mauryan dynasty. When the Qin soldiers stepped into the territory of the Mauryan dynasty, the dynasty had only been established for more than a hundred years. However, if we were to take strength, the Seleucid dynasty of this period would definitely be stronger than the Mauryan dynasty.
The Seleucid Dynasty and the Great Qin, one in the northwest of the Mauryan Dynasty and the other in the northeast of the Mauryan Dynasty. If the Great Qin did not take this large area of the Western Regions as its own and did not open up mountains to attack the Mauryan Dynasty, the Great Qin and the Seleucid Dynasty would not have met in this era, let alone know their existence.
But because of the Mauryan Dynasty, this delicate balance between the three dynasties was broken.
Moreover, Ying Gao, who did not know much about world history, only knew the name and geographical location of the Seleucid Dynasty. What he did not know was that the monarch of the Seleucid Dynasty at this time was less than forty years old, and Antioch III, and this man had been preparing for the Eastern Expedition almost since he ascended the throne at the age of eighteen. Once the Eastern Expedition reached its end, it would be a large tract of territory in the Western Regions shared by the Qin and the Huns.
If the Qin Dynasty didn't care, and if the Western Regions were so big that it was empty, Antioch III would not have any interest in the Western Regions even if he was on the edge of the Western Regions.
But now it is different. The Western Regions have become a golden channel. Both the Qin and the Huns attach great importance to a golden channel. Once this cold and barren land is occupied and developed, it will naturally cause considerable changes to the fate of several dynasties that were originally divided by it.
Ying Gao's actions seemed to be pushing a bunch of dominoes, and many of the things that followed were not easily controlled by him.
When the northeast of the Mauryan Dynasty was almost in the hands of the Qin army, many people of the Mauryan Dynasty naturally fled to the west of the dynasty, and the west was a place that was not yet touched. Although there were many defenders in the city here, although they had the idea of regaining lost land, when they heard that the combat effectiveness of the Qin army had reached a certain level, almost all of them gave up the idea of resisting and huddled in a place that was not taken down and lived in a worry.
However, the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty fell and the capture of the Mauryan monarch Sharishuga was not a secret. This incident was spreading rapidly on the remaining land of the Mauryan Dynasty.
The Seleucid Dynasty had signed a peace agreement with the Mauryan Dynasty many years ago, and their monarch was expeditioning the east with all his might. Under normal circumstances, he would never pay attention to the Mauryan Dynasty behind him, because the Mauryan Dynasty had not taken the initiative to invade them since its establishment.
But as the movements in the Mauryan Dynasty became increasingly louder, even Antioch III did not focus on the Mauryan Dynasty, some news also came into his ears through various channels.
At the beginning, what he heard was a team of people from unknown places that were invading the northern part of the Mauryan Dynasty. At that time, his idea was that as long as the Mauryan Dynasty did not think that this team of people was sent by him, because he did not believe that a dynasty that had been standing for unknown periods would be defeated by a team of invading men so easily. In his eyes, the Mauryan Dynasty had always been like a big brother.
But the following news made him feel a little unbelievable. The team of men and women didn't know what was going on and directly attacked the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty.
And when he thought about whether he would send an envoy to the Mauryan Dynasty to see what was going on, the news he received had turned into a Mauryan capital. The capital of the Mauryan Dynasty was captured by an army from somewhere. The Mauryan monarch Sharishuga fled in a panic to another city.
After that, the news became that the Mauryan monarch Sharishuga was chased to a hiding place and broke through the city gate. I don’t know if it was dead or captured alive by others.
Such news was passed on to the Seleucid Dynasty one by one. Their initial thought was very shocking, and they were very afraid that if such a army from heaven really attacked the Mauryan Dynasty, would their dynasty be affected in the next step?
But after this initial idea passed, they found that there was no other news after the news that Sharisauga was captured. This made Antioch III decide to send a small army to the Mauryan Dynasty to take a look and investigate to what extent the current Mauryan Dynasty has been occupied.
At this time, it was when the team of men came back that Antioch III was asking about the team of men.
"What? Those who attacked the Mauryan Dynasty did not continue to move forward, but occupied the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty. After the capture of the Sarika, they stopped?"
"Yes, I heard the words of the defeated soldiers of the Mauryan Dynasty. They were just tens of thousands of brave and combat-ready alien cavalry. It was just that the Mauryan Dynasty had not systematically trained its own troops in the past few decades, and even forgot about how to manipulate elephants. In this way, many cities were attacked by the aliens. However, the aliens were limited after all, so they did not dare to pull the front line too long. The remaining soldiers of the Mauryan Dynasty were afraid of the combat power of the aliens, so they did not dare to regain their lost territory."
When Antioch III heard this answer, his eyes shone brightly. He slapped the table in front of him and said to the officials in front of him: "If I had known that the Mauryan Dynasty was weak and so on, why did I still struggle to fight eastward? I was afraid that the large area of the Mauryan Dynasty would have fallen into my hands long ago. How could such a foreign race that emerged from somewhere have taken the lead?"
Antioch III was different from Ying Gao. He was one of the best warriors in this dynasty. Whenever there was any major battle in the dynasty, he would personally take on the battle and lead the warriors of the dynasty to fight.
At this time, the sergeants of the Seleucid Dynasty were much stronger than those of the Mauryan Dynasty. What Antioch III said was not false. After all, in his eyes, the alien soldiers who attacked the Mauryan Dynasty must have no idea which small dynasty that had previously been attached to the surrounding areas of the Mauryan Dynasty. After discovering that the Mauryan Dynasty was just a strong man on the outside and fought in the middle, he finally couldn't help but send troops.
"Your Majesty, it's still not too late for us to send troops to the Mauryan Dynasty at this time. The alien race only occupied less than half of the Mauryan territory because of insufficient troops. It just took the city of Hua. At least a large area of land close to our dynasty has become a homeless land. Why don't we send troops to take it down?"
Antioch III was not a brave but unscrupulous person. After one of his generals made such a proposal, he thought for a moment, then frowned and said silently: "If this is the case, it would be equivalent to declaring war with the dynasty that captured the Mauryan Dynasty at this time. Should we first look at the details of that dynasty? After all, the strength of which can send tens of thousands of troops to attack the Mauryan Dynasty must not be underestimated!"
"Your Majesty knows that if the dynasty takes the entire Mauryan Dynasty into its pocket, wouldn't we be even more passive? Our dynasty is connected to the Mauryan Dynasty. At that time, they are at a high morale. How can we not bring war into our dynasty? It would be better to start at this time and use the large tract of the Mauryan territory as a buffer, not to mention that the Mauryan Dynasty's territory is very rich!"
"That's true. Our soldiers are all warriors who have been through the battlefield for a long time. They may not be as brave as those cavalrymen of foreign races. Maybe we will defeat them again at that time, and the entire Mauryan Dynasty will belong to us!"
Soon, more and more generals came forward to suggest that Antioch III send troops. In addition, Antioch III was also very jealous of the land of the Mauryan Dynasty. Finally, he could not resist the persuasion of these people and nodded slightly.
At this time, Peng Yue, Sima Xin and Long Qi also set up defenses around the city of Fahrenheit according to the instructions of Xiang Yu and Han Xin before leaving.
Although many scouts were sent to observe the situation within the Mauryan Dynasty, they did not observe the cities at the junction of the Mauryan Dynasty and the Seleucid Dynasty. Therefore, Peng Yue and others naturally had no idea about Antioch III's decision.
Under such circumstances, the first situation beyond Ying Gao's expectations slowly began to appear. What Ying Gao didn't know was that his real hell pattern since this era was slowly coming towards him.
Ying Gao is now just a young man of twenty-six or seven years old in his later generations. His successes over the years have not made him realize that it is impossible for him to go all things at his pace before the whole world is controlled by him. There are empires in this world that need truly powerfulness, and not all of them are like Sharishuga who are scattered and waiting to die.
This time the battle to attack the Mauryan Dynasty was actually like a great fortune for the Qin Dynasty. In this world, there is only the Mauryan Dynasty that is not worthy of its name, and there is no other one.
At this time, Ying Gao naturally knew nothing about the possible changes. What he was thinking about was to quickly see how many of the more than 100 people who participated in the second round of exams in Xianyang Palace that he personally gave the questions were available.
On this first night, Ying Gao persisted until it was about to dawn for another two hours before he fell asleep in his bedroom under Lu Jia's persuasion. At this time, Xiao He had already fallen asleep with the answer from a candidate.
This situation lasted for two days. In the early morning of the third day, Ying Gao finally finished reading all the answers to more than 100 candidates. Even though he was not very concerned about whether his writing style and writing were beautiful, he was probably browsing the thoughts that these candidates wanted to express, these three days almost exhausted his energy.
In the end, there were twenty answers in Master Ying, two of which were placed in front of Ying Gao, while the other eighteen were behind.
Looking at Sun Yue's name on the answer above, Ying Gao couldn't help but smile with a understandable smile on his face. He thought to himself that Sun Yue was really smart and obviously hadn't forgotten the few words of encouragement he said in front of her back then. Of course, Ying Gao would like to use such a person well.
Another name is Cai Yin.
This person is the only one among these people Ying Gao thought it was extraordinary. The only drawback is that this guy is at the age of the guy who came in with a line.
However, although he was a little older, Ying Gao keenly discovered that this person must have the ability to take charge of a county and had a very good control over Ying Gao's psychology. After analyzing the two questions in an easy-to-understand manner, he actually was not much different from Ying Gao's original intention.
According to Lu Jia's answer after reading Cai Yin's answer, Cai Yin must be stronger than he was when he first entered Xianyang City, which is undoubtedly a very high-level evaluation.
As for the remaining eighteen pieces, they were all rough jade in Ying Gao's eyes, and they needed to be polished and used. They were almost all talents, but they had almost no experience. If they were asked to manage something directly, they would have to make a joke.
But what Ying Gao needed at this time was such a talent. Before these old guys in the Qin Dynasty grew old, what Ying Gao wanted to train was the direct troops he personally selected.
Three days later, all the candidates appeared above their actions, waiting for Xiao He, who is the official in charge of the school exam, to announce the final result.
"Sun Yue, Cai Yin..."
Twenty names were read from Xiao He's mouth. Obviously, these twenty people were the final answer to the first imperial examination. Sun Yue's name suddenly appeared in the first place. Although everyone didn't know what the order actually represented, their eyes almost all fell on this beautiful woman. Although they vaguely knew that she seemed to be the daughter of a county magistrate, no one doubted Ying Gao's choice. Of course, there must be envy.
"After the above twenty people returned to the inn, we will wait for your summons tomorrow. The rest will be escorted back to their own county by my Great Qin Guard. The names of you have also been recorded by us. If there are some vacancies in the county, we will recommend them like the local county magistrate.
Although the people who were not selected were very disappointed, when Xiao He said this, they suddenly felt that the result seemed to be good.
Chapter completed!