Chapter 629 The First World War Changed the Pattern
In this case, after a long time, the one who suffered the loss was naturally Philip V. Moreover, the Romans originally used a gradual approach. At the beginning, they used their allies to consume the other party's physical strength. When the war was almost over, they used Roman elites to fight Philip V.
Finally, the balance of victory began to gradually tilt towards the Romans. When Philip V discovered that he could no longer gain any advantage from the Romans, he knew that this time he did not scare the Roman consuls, and the Qin and the Huns did not give him enough troops. Therefore, compared with the last war, Philip V also knew that this was a battle of changing soup without changing medicine.
But under the gaze of the Qin Dynasty and the Hun cavalry, Philip V did not want to stop trying it as briefly as last time. He always felt that he was confident that he could turn the tables in the later stage. In other words, he always felt that he could successfully fight back.
As a result, this war changed from a war for Egypt to a war between Macedonia and the Romans to determine life and death. The Roman consuls had never expected that Philip V would have such obsession on Egypt's land.
Although he had already seen that if they fought to the death, the Qin Dynasty would be able to reap the benefits in the end, because Philip V kept attacking and the Romans did not want to give up Egypt, their casualties were rising.
In the end, Egypt was still the same Egypt. Philip V's plan completely failed. Because the food and grass could not be supplied in time, Philip V finally made the decision to withdraw his troops after paying nearly 100,000 lives.
The 50,000 people from the Qin and the Huns finally returned only more than 20,000. After all, this was an extremely arduous battle. In the process of both sides not giving in to each other, time passed with the casualties of the soldiers.
"We have defended Egypt and the Mediterranean territory, and we will obey our Rome in the future!"
After returning to the capital of Rome, the consul said this to the Senate, but there was no happier on his face, because he knew that his real enemy might have changed from Philip V to a more terrifying person.
These two wars have proved one thing, that is, the Romans must be much stronger than the cavalry under Philip V in terms of combat effectiveness, but one thing he could not control was that after a period of time, Philip V might become the dependent of the Qin Dynasty like the Huns. In this case, it would not be easy for the Romans to gain a great advantage in them.
But at least these two storms have passed by the Romans safely. What they have to do is to make their troops more and more powerful during this period to deal with the more fierce war that may come.
"Will Philip V give up on capturing the Mediterranean?" The Roman Senate was still very shocked by the news. In their eyes, Philip V was still the biggest enemy of their Romans.
The consul thought about it and did not say anything about his thoughts, because he knew that speaking out how great the Qin Dynasty would be to Rome would not make these guys in the Senate feel any special. After all, these things still have to rely on themselves.
In fact, as the Roman consul expected, this battle has actually changed the power structure of the world invisibly.
Originally, it was a two-man run between Rome and Macedonia, and the Romans were still slightly stronger than Macedonia. However, at this time, the Romans were no longer afraid of Macedonia. Even if there were only two of them, Rome could almost destroy Macedonia with their back teeth, but the problem is that Macedonia is no longer just Macedonia.
Behind them were the Great Qin and the Huns. Of course, the Romans saw that the strength of the Great Qin and the Huns did not need to be weak in Macedonia. Moreover, no one knows where the Great Qin is. In other words, you don’t know how much hidden strength they have. They are still playing with you now with the people from the Mauryan Dynasty and the Seleuvian territory.
Indeed, this time the Qin Dynasty was to see how powerful the Romans could burst out when facing Philip V, who had attacked with all their might.
Ying Gao's head was unknown how much time it had accumulated in later generations to reach its current level. As early as when he received the letter from Philip V, this plan had already formed in his heart.
Using only 30,000 Qin cavalry to exchange for major casualties between the Romans and Macedonians was actually the only purpose that Ying Gao promised Philip V this time.
Ying Gao knew that even if he did not agree to Philip V's incident, he still could not change the fact that Philip V wanted to attack Egypt. However, if he did not send troops, Philip V would withdraw his troops once he found out that he could not take down Egypt. However, if he had 50,000 allies there, Philip V would definitely be unable to hide his face.
This is undoubtedly a psychological battle between Ying Gao and Philip V. Of course, Philip V would not notice it, because Ying Gao was speculating on the development of the subsequent plot, while Philip V played to see if Ying Gao could really send troops to help him.
As a result, Philip V was very embarrassed after losing. He had already taken the 50,000 troops of the Great Qin and the Huns to Egypt with full confidence. He originally wanted to let the Great Qin and the Huns see the combat effectiveness of their soldiers and see how the Romans survived at their feet.
But now it seems that things are completely contrary to their wishes. Ying Gao said clearly in the letter that the 50,000 troops sent by himself and Xiang Yu were to help Philip V fight this battle. Now the battle is obviously defeated, so of course they cannot continue to stay and help Philip V do anything else. So after the war ended, they went back to Seleuth.
Philip V knew that he was very passive at this moment. If he won, the Qin and the Huns would not lose much. He would give the Qin and the Huns a little bit of benefits and would be done. But now it is obviously not the case. Not only did he not get any benefits, but he also lost a lot of people to help.
He knew that in this way, he obviously had to apologize to Ying Gao, and it was not enough to just apologize in language and letters. He had to take some practical actions to allow the Qin and the Huns to continue to maintain such a relationship with him.
Otherwise, once the Qin and the Huns broke off diplomatic relations with them and let the Romans know, their lives would obviously be very sad, and they would be very likely to be captured by the Romans in the near future.
The result of the war was immediately conveyed to Meng Tian's ears with the soldiers returning. Meng Tian was also very surprised. He actually didn't think that Philip V was a man who dared to send troops without any confidence, but Philip V still sent troops, and such a thing happened.
At first, Meng Tian thought that Ying Gao had made a mistake in his judgment, so he hurriedly informed Ying Gao of the news here. After all, Ying Gao was still very far away from Serei, and he couldn't know what was happening here.
The news was indeed quickly passed to Xianyang City and into Ying Gao's ears. However, Ying Gao's reaction was not what Meng Tian imagined, and all this was expected by Ying Gao.
Of course he knew that the Qin Dynasty would lose some people, but if these people did not lose now, they would only lose more when they actually started a war with the Romans. Ying Gao was indeed very stingy with the lives of his cavalry, but he could not just look at the present.
The only difference between this and what Ying Gao had imagined before was that with these 50,000 elite soldiers, Philip V could gain a little advantage in the battle with the Romans. Even if he didn't take down the entire Mediterranean, he should take down Egypt, right?
But now it seems that in the history of the previous life, Macedonia was basically destroyed by the Romans, even if it was destroyed by the Romans, it was still very consistent with the current facts. Although these two forces seem to be not much different in strength, the truth is that Philip V really couldn't beat the Romans when he was fighting a tough battle.
Although the strength may be a little bit worse, it is ultimately reflected in the outcome of the war, one is victory, one fails, one continues to be king, and the other becomes a world of world in history. No matter what dynasty, this is the same. The success of the king and the defeat of the enemy is the enemy.
Of course, Ying Gao would not sigh for Rome and Macedonia. Now Philip V is trying hard to form an alliance with him because he has a very powerful enemy, Rome. If one day Rome is gone, Philip V will immediately turn against Qin and become enemies. There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. Ying Gao has long been prepared for this situation.
Ying Gao knew that Philip V's letters must be coming soon. This defeat caused a lot of losses to the Qin and the Huns for no reason. Philip V must have something to say, otherwise it would be very difficult for him to send troops with the Qin in the future.
Sure enough, after just a few days, the envoy from Philip V also arrived at the territory of the Qin Dynasty. Although this war had actually been a long time since this time, Ying Gao knew that without his reply, Philip V would definitely not take any next action.
In the letter, Philip V did not evade responsibility, saying that his estimate of the enemy was a little insufficient. He did not expect that the Romans would actually lead the 200,000 troops to attack for a small Egypt. Although he also tried his best, because the enemy was cunning, the battle still failed. Philip V promised Ying Gao that he would definitely compensate them in other ways for the losses of the Qin Dynasty and the Hun cavalry.
At the same time, Philip V also vaguely proposed that if Ying Gao and the Huns could give him more people, the outcome of this war would definitely be different.
He thought Ying Gao would not know that this battle was actually defeated because his supplies could not keep up with the Romans. After all, the soldiers of the Qin and the Huns were placed aside by him and did not mix with his own soldiers.
But Ying Gao must know these things sooner or later. The deputy generals who led the elite soldiers sent had already rushed to Xianyang City after reporting to Meng Tian. Although the distance was far away, Ying Gao knew that he still needed to control the major matters himself.
The situation is now very obvious. Philip V will definitely have no choice but to deal with the Romans for a while. After all, he did not even take down Egypt, which was protected by the Romans, let alone attack the Romans' land in the near future.
For Rome, Ying Gao also believed that they would not feel that they had the strength to destroy Macedonia because of this victory, because it was obvious that Macedonia and the Qin Dynasty had formed an alliance, and the target of the alliance was the Romans. In this case, unless the Romans had the ability to solve all Macedonia and Qin Dynasty, they would definitely not act rashly.
Neither side dared to move, and reacted that Ying Gao was giving him a chance. After all, the Qin Dynasty could only send troops to attack their place through Seliu's territory. There were only 100,000 troops in Seliu. Anyone would see that at least at this stage, Ying Gao had absolutely no possibility to send troops to attack any decent forces.
What Ying Gao wanted to do was nothing more than keep their ideas like this, and what he wanted to do was to gradually play the role of Seleu, a bridgehead. Seleu was different from the Mauryan Dynasty. The Mauryan Dynasty provided Ying Gao with a large amount of resources and population, which was a great supplement to the internal affairs of the Qin Dynasty, but Seleu provided the Qin Dynasty with a large number of possibilities for the military.
Without Seleu, the Qin Dynasty would not have been able to contact Philip V. Without Seleu, the Qin Dynasty would not have had any chance to send troops.
So although Ying Gao asked Han Xin to return to the Qin Dynasty before, he just kept Meng Tian there, which was just a situation for outsiders to see.
Chapter completed!