Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

Li Mu's order was quickly passed on to General Sima Shang of the Central Army of the Han Dynasty.

Sima Shang was squinting his eyes at this moment, looking at the approaching Seleucid giant shield phalanx not far away.

After hearing Li Mu's order, Sima Shang also laughed.

"Come on, pass the order down and bomb with grenades!"

After Sima Shang's words fell, many musketeers of the Han Dynasty took out grenades one after another from behind.

With the technology of explosives and muskets, it is not so difficult to make grenades.

During the Han Kingdom's expedition this time, each musketeer was assigned five grenades.

Five grenades per person, which is obviously more precious, so basically, everyone's grenades have never been used in previous battles.

Now is the time when these grenades come in handy.

Looking at the giant shield soldiers who were still approaching, Sima Shang directly pulled out the lead wire of the grenade in his hand without thinking, and threw it out forcefully.

"Go away!"

Amidst Sima Shang's roar, hundreds of grenades were thrown out and landed in front of, at the feet of, and behind the giant shield soldiers.

For these grenades, the giant shield soldiers didn't know how to react.

Before they had time to react, the grenade exploded.

"Boom boom boom!"

The explosion of one grenade may be okay, but the explosion of hundreds or thousands of grenades together is truly earth-shattering.

The next moment, many giant shield soldiers fell into a pool of blood.

The real damage of the grenade is not actually the explosion, but the fragments that are ejected after the explosion.

These fragments can easily penetrate a person's body, causing huge injuries and even directly killing people.

The shields of giant shield soldiers may be able to defend against bullets in front, but for grenades that cover the rear, feet, and cover a wide range of 360-degree damage, a mere giant shield standing in front of them seems so powerless.

With just one round of grenade throwing, huge gaps appeared in the formation of the Giant Shield Soldiers, which was originally as neat as the Great Wall.

But the Musketeers of the Han Dynasty still have a second round.

Then came the third round.

Fourth round.

After the fourth round, Sima Shang looked around and found that there were almost no giant shield soldiers who could continue to stand in his sight.

The situation of being bombed by grenades, even if it is not as tragic as the [-]th hell, is actually almost the same.

Sima Shang nodded in satisfaction, then roared.

"What are you still doing, what are your guns for?"

Only then did the musketeers come to their senses, and they all raised their muskets.

When the first row of giant shield soldiers that could withstand the damage had been destroyed, the soldiers of the Seleucid Empire who rushed up from behind were just targets for the Musketeers of the Han Kingdom.

Considering that the Seleucids rushed up in an extremely dense formation, the Musketeers were very happy, because they only needed to shoot anywhere 180 meters ahead to hit the Seleucid soldiers.

Amidst the banging of muskets, rows of Seleucid soldiers fell down like wheat harvested by a sickle.

The musketeers of the Great Han Kingdom were well-trained, and the musketeers who had fired did not move on, but stood on the spot to change bullets.

The musketeers in the rear who hadn't fired bullets passed the musketeers who were changing bullets and stood in the first row, followed by shooting and standing to change bullets.

In this way, the Musketeers of the Great Han Kingdom were always shooting and changing bullets, forming a perfect fire coverage network.

Under this perfect firepower coverage, the Seleucids lasted less than 15 minutes.

No way, who can continue to charge forward after seeing the friendly troops in front being slaughtered mercilessly and without any power to fight back?

Seleucid's central army quickly disintegrated.

The news immediately reached the Seleucid Emperor Antiochus III.

Antiochus III was a little speechless.

Although he had already shown his level as much as possible and made all the preparations possible, the Musketeers of the Great Han Kingdom only needed to take out a new grenade, and they could easily destroy all the efforts of Antioch III.

At this moment, Antioch III suddenly fully understood what Zhao Kuo said yesterday.

This is the gap between the Han Kingdom and the Seleucid Empire!This gap is actually a gap in all aspects, a gap of completely different levels between the two countries, and it cannot be reversed by Antiochus III alone.

Antiochus III suddenly felt extremely powerless in his heart, and he let out a long sigh.

Around Antioch III, all the Seleucid generals were also silent.

Originally, I thought that I could play a game with the Han Kingdom, but I never expected that I would be defeated so easily!

Chapter 1228 The Demise of the Seleucid Empire

Although this war is not over yet, at this moment all the Seleucid generals clearly know that the ending is already doomed.

Now many musketeers are slowly but unstoppably advancing towards the position of the Seleucids, and the defeat of the Seleucids has come at a countdown-like speed.

All eyes fell on the young Emperor Antiochus III, and they waited for His Majesty the Emperor to give an order to retreat or escape.

In the current situation, there is actually no essential difference between retreating and escaping.

Antiochus III took a deep breath, many thoughts flashed through his mind, but in the end these thoughts were not expressed at all.

He just said a word in as calm a tone as possible: "Send the order, all soldiers and horses should retreat."

In the more than 20 years of the young emperor's life, he has actually fought some battles, big and small, but he has actually only encountered two situations where he announced his retreat.

The first time was when I was fighting Zhao Kuo, and the second time was when I was fighting Zhao Kuo.

The retreat after the failure of the first battle caused the Seleucid Empire to lose the Western Regions, so what will the Seleucid Empire lose with this second retreat?

At this moment, no one wants to know the answer to this question. After hearing this order, everyone scrambled to retreat.

The terrifying musketeers, who looked like the god of death, were about to arrive, so if you didn't want to escape at this time, you would have no other way out except to be killed by the Han country or be captured by the Han country.

Just as the emperor retreated with his generals, the 30 soldiers and horses of the Seleucid Empire on the entire battlefield completely collapsed.

It was so difficult for these Seleucids on the plain to escape, and the sound of musket guns behind them was still ringing non-stop. To the Seleucid soldiers, every gunshot was like the bell of death. The sound kept ringing.

For the people of the Great Han Kingdom, the current situation is of course happy, very happy.

Zhao Kuo looked at the battlefield in front of him where the winner was clearly determined, and said to Li Mu with a smile, "Remember to send an order to our soldiers not to chase too far, otherwise there may be trouble."

To put it simply, Musketeers are invincible when fighting in a group, but they are not so powerful if they are alone, especially when they are attacked by others. Ordinary people are no different.

Of course Li Mu also knew about this situation, and he nodded his head immediately after hearing Zhao Kuo's words to express his understanding, and at the same time he did not forget to express his emotion.

"Your Majesty, our musketeers are good at everything, but we are really not very good at chasing and killing the enemy."

For Li Mu's happy complaint, Zhao Kuo naturally laughed it off.

There is nothing perfect in this world. Zhao Kuo already knew this. Since Musketeers are so powerful, there are some small and innocuous shortcomings, which are of course nothing.

At this point, the battle has basically come to an end.

In this war, the strength of the Han Kingdom was actually only 20 at a disadvantage. However, when facing the 30 Seleucid Empire army, the soldiers and horses of the Han Kingdom easily defeated the opponent.

This also shows one point, that is, in this era, the number of soldiers and horses can no longer be equated with quality. For Musketeers, let alone 30, even if it is an army of 50 or even 80, 100 million, in The Musketeers are also vulnerable in front of them.

According to subsequent statistics, in this war, the Han Kingdom killed more than 20 soldiers of the Seleucid Empire and captured nearly [-] soldiers of the Seleucid Empire. It was definitely a huge and brilliant victory.

After this great war, the Seleucid Empire completely lost any power capable of resisting the Han Dynasty. Although nearly two-thirds of the entire Seleucid territory remained, it was actually no different from being undefended. up.

Later that day, Zhao Kuo led an army into the city next to the Caspian Sea.

"Hikaton Biller?

The name is too mouthful.

From today onwards, it is called Hai'an City! "

After Zhao Kuo's words, this name, which was originally full of strong Greek style, immediately transformed into a Chinese style perfectly.

For Zhao Kuo, this is also something that must be done in the conquest. After all, the Han people are the real conquerors. How could it be possible to retain the original name that sounds like a Greek? This is quite nonsense.

After entering Coastal City, Zhao Kuo did not pursue immediately, but began to send various envoys to persuade the governors and officials from all over the Seleucid Empire to surrender.

In Zhao Kuo's persuasion letter, there are actually not many reasons or means of wooing, but a very simple sentence.

"Surrender, or die."

Now that the main force of the Seleucid Empire has been wiped out, and the Han Kingdom has gained such a huge advantage, Zhao Kuo has no need to win over the local officials and nobles of the Seleucid Empire. .

To put it bluntly, even if the Seleucids did not want to surrender this time, there are many other Seleucids who want to surrender to the Han Kingdom and become officials in the Han Kingdom.

The current Dahan Kingdom is in a truly dominant position. Zhao Kuo is not worried at all that no one is willing to work for the Dahan Kingdom. After all, Nightingale City has wasted so much money from the Dahan Kingdom in the past few years. You have to make some achievements, right?

Things really went as expected by Zhao Kuo.

In the following days, many cities in the Seleucid Empire began to choose to surrender. This title was almost like a contagious virus, and it swept through many places in the Seleucid Empire at once.

After Zhao Kuo rested in Coastal City for three days, he set off leisurely.

Along the way, many cities of the Seleucid Empire fell upon hearing the news, and occasionally there were one or two cities that wanted to resolutely resist.

But in front of the explosives and musketeers, these cities seemed so weak and powerless in their resistance.

Zhao Kuo also expressed emotion about this.

"When a country is not strong enough to protect its citizens, the more heroic the citizens are, the more incompetent the rulers of the country will be."

Beside Zhao Kuo, Li Mu also had his own opinion after hearing this sentence.

"I think it's really not that the Seleucids don't work hard, it's that our Han country is too powerful, and His Majesty is too wise."

Putting this sentence in the ears of others, it must be out-and-out flattery, but when Li Mu said it and heard it in the ears of the other generals of the Great Han Kingdom present, these generals of the Great Han Kingdom agreed , nodded one after another.

Because that's what they really think in their hearts.

Is there any more wise ruler in this world than Zhao Kuo, the emperor of our Great Han Kingdom?

At least in the eyes of the generals of the Han Kingdom, it absolutely does not exist.

After hearing Li Mu's words, Zhao Kuo was a little dumbfounded, shook his head and said, "Actually, it's hard to say about this kind of thing. The reason why the Seleucids suddenly fell down in mood is mainly because they have no real meaning. The people on the earth took root in this land, and did not integrate their culture with this land.

This is also a good thing for us, since so many civilizations are in fierce conflict in this land, it means that no civilization can settle down in this land for a long time.

In this way, our Chinese civilization can hopefully replace all civilizations and become the real master of this land. "

For Zhao Kuo, occupying land is indeed a commendable thing, but just occupying land is not enough.

This is like saying that in the era of the Tang Dynasty, Central Asia at that time was once occupied by the Tang Dynasty, but the problem was that the Tang Dynasty did not spread the civilization of China to this land, which led to the After the case of the Tang Dynasty left Central Asia and the Western Regions, this place completely lost the shadow of Huaxia Ming.

For Zhao Kuo, such things must be prevented. What Zhao Kuo has to do is to plant the seeds of Huaxia Ming directly on this land. The people on the land will still regard themselves as Chinese people.

Under such circumstances, Huaxia Mingcai can truly take root and sprout in this land, and gain long-term vitality.

If one day the entire Chinese civilization can spread to every corner of the entire earth, then even the entire earth will still have many, many countries in the future, but everyone thinks that they are descendants of the dragon, and they all feel that they are descendants of China. For Huaxia Ming, it was also a huge and incomparable victory.

Under the command of such a policy, the 20 troops led by Zhao Kuo can be said to be invincible in the Seleucid Empire.

The Seleucids had no way to stop Zhao Kuo, so the question is, where did their emperor, His Majesty Antiochus III, go?

Antiochus III had actually been on the run the whole time.

After fleeing Hai'an City, Antiochus III once wanted to go to Antiochus, his capital.

But at this time, a very unfortunate news came, that is, after the generals of the Seleucid Empire stationed in Antioch City learned that Antioch III had suffered an unprecedented defeat on the front line, they immediately He surrendered to the Ptolemaic army outside the city.

Thus, the capital of Antiochus III disappeared.

In desperation, Antiochus III could only flee south to the city of Babylon.

The city of Babylon is a city with a very long history, and it once had the famous Sky Garden of the World Miracle.

Decades ago, this place used to be the capital of the Alexander Empire. Unfortunately, with the sudden death of Alexander the Great, it soon became a battlefield for various successor princes.

By the time the Seleucid Empire acquired this city, it had already been poisoned into a mess, and now it is only a second-rate city in the Seleucid Empire.

But even so, Antiochus III still wanted to rely on this place as a base to continue looking for opportunities.

It's a pity that Zhao Kuo won't give him this chance.

On the tenth day after Antiochus III arrived in Babylon, Zhao Kuo also led an army and arrived here in mighty force.

After besieging the city of Babylon, Zhao Kuo thought about it, and sent a general who had surrendered from Seleucus into the city with a letter of persuasion.