Chapter 879: Rome's Little Move
Not long after, Rome held a public assembly that had not been held for many years. Although Nigel and others were very reluctant, they could do nothing about it as the trend of the times was irresistible.
The image of Ganasis had been extracted and played by the Roman guardians, and everyone was clearly aware of the coming danger.
Those who can reach the position of elder may be greedy or incompetent, but they are definitely not stupid.
A fool who has no sense of crisis can never reach the position of a elder. Even a pure militant can sense the crisis from Ganasis's memories.
Yes, Rome can still not care now.
The Roman Empire had only lost an emperor, and civil strife had not yet fully begun. The so-called turmoil was still limited to political games, and Rome's power had not yet been exhausted.
They still have the ability to intimidate others, but that is now.
Parthia and Great Britain are developing rapidly. Maybe they will not pose any threat to them in the next few years, but what about a few years later?
At the national level, three to five years is just a short period of time. Will they have to face their opponents in chaos after three to five years?
No, absolutely not. They are the beacon of Western civilization and they should be leading the development of the West.
Relying on his tough military style, Severus quickly established his authority, and at least on the surface, all Roman nobles declared their submission.
As a horse-riding emperor, Severus had all the common problems of generals, but this common problem was a good thing for an empire that was about to split, because at least the empire had a direction.
The first thing Severus did was to send troops eastward.
Ganassis, who was the first to side with Severus, quickly entered Severus ' circle. Severus also successfully distributed several legions according to the power distribution and sent them to reinforce Ganassis.
Ganasis led the second, fourth, sixth and twelfth eagle flags and a large number of elite foreign troops such as the Teutonic axe throwers and returned to the Mesopotamian territory.
Including the 7th, 9th and 13th Eagle Banner Legions under Ganasis himself, Ganasis now controls almost a quarter of Rome's top legions.
However, there is only one Royal Guard, and the rest are all double-talented legions. As for the huge barbarian legion, there is no need to elaborate.
Even though the combined strength of these barbarian legions could even overwhelm the Eagle Flag Legion, they were still not worth mentioning because they simply could not be combined.
Roman civilization divided the barbarians themselves. In addition, the barbarians came from various tribes and the ancestral civilization itself was not a monolithic entity. Roman citizens did not regard the barbarians as human beings, and the barbarians who became citizens did not regard the barbarians as human beings either.
They even persecuted the barbarians more vigorously than Roman citizens. After all, as long as all beings similar to him in the past were dead, it would be equivalent to cutting off the past and becoming a true Roman citizen.
Rome knew that Parthia was renamed the Parthian Empire, but they didn't care at all. After hundreds of years of beating Parthia, they had become accustomed to ignoring its power.
Back then, Ganassus almost broke into Ctesiphon with just some barbarian legions, and Rome didn't take Parthia seriously at all.
The reason for sending heavy troops was more to guard against support from the Han Empire, just like the Huns mercenaries in the past, but they were disgusted enough.
Every inch of land they conquered belonged to Parthia and had nothing to do with the Huns, and the Huns did not care about their conquests.
The Huns only sent troops to attack their isolated or weak legions, causing countless casualties. Even though those who died were all barbarians, this kind of attack mode that came and went like the wind and plundered made them sick.
Moreover, the Huns were shameless. The Huns' military soul led the royal guards to specifically attack the weak single-talent legions. If this is not shameless, what else could it be?
The fact that the Huns were destroyed by the Han Dynasty means that the Han Dynasty was stronger than the Huns, so they sent nearly a quarter of the Roman Empire's high-end forces to the east of Rome.
As for the remaining legions, except for a few legions stationed in the garrison area, the rest all headed north.
Now that the signs have been discovered, we must nip them in the bud. Great Britain is Rome's real enemy. It is a battlefield where barbarians cannot be used as the main force. That is the battlefield that Rome should be truly vigilant about.
As for the Parthian side, the worst that can happen is that we can use the barbarians to hold them back and fight a war of attrition.
The Parthians were pure garbage; this was the consensus in Rome, even Ganassis thought so.
There is no way. You will hardly have the slightest respect for any country whose capital can be reached by you and your few soldiers.
But no one in Rome knew that Parthia was no longer Parthia, but the Parthian Empire, the Parthia that had fought with Rome for hundreds of years.
After experiencing fierce battles with the Kushans and the Han Dynasty, and after inheriting a large amount of military and technological heritage from the Northern Huns, Volghise V forcibly integrated the Parthian nobles at the fastest speed, allowing Parthia to struggle out of the deep pit of treason.
Even by relying on crazy trade with the Han Dynasty, it had recovered some of its vitality in just a few years.
The biggest reason why Rome was able to fight against Parthia was that the Parthian nobles continued to sell out their country despite repeated prohibitions. The second reason was that all the domestic forces were used for war, which led to a vicious cycle in which they were unable to update and research new types of soldiers.
After fighting for hundreds of years, Rome learned all the things about Parthia, but they still stick to the same old ways.
Even when the barbarian system of Rome became the same as theirs, they still did not change, not because they did not want to, but because they could not. The former Parthian royal family had a hard time just blocking the attacks of Rome, let alone researching new things.
They can only hold on to what they are most familiar with and continue to squeeze the last value out of it. If nothing unexpected happens, nothing will change about them until the Parthian Empire is destroyed by Rome.
However, the legacy of the Northern Huns perfectly enabled Parthia to overtake others.
The Huns' technology tree is based on nomadism, and Parthia fits this perfectly. The same foundation and different paths, after integration, even produce an effect of one plus one being greater than two.
This is only part of the Northern Huns' heritage; the other part is the Northern Huns' talents.
The Mongolian aristocratic faction headed by Temujin has successfully integrated into Parthia and became one of the eight major nobles of Parthia. As for the disappeared noble, everyone tacitly ignored his existence.
Attila, at the moment of his death, left not only a wound on the will of the Han Empire with the will of the Xiongnu Empire, but more importantly, stole a part of the will of the Han Empire.
The imperial will of the Han Dynasty in this world can be roughly described as a collection of Chinese consciousness. The space-time cycle disrupted by Emperor Zhuanxu forcibly broke the vertical timeline into a horizontal one.
This is also the reason why later generals appeared in the Han Dynasty . At the beginning, they used the shell of the game to fool people, but when Zhuanxu woke up and found Chiyou's back-up plan in Guo Hao, he was too lazy to pretend and just started to do things perfunctorily.
This is also the reason why Yue Fei and a series of others keep reappearing.
And Attila took away the part closest to the Huns from the collective of Chinese consciousness.
This is also the reason why a series of well-known generals such as Temujin, Jamukha, Jebie, Haidu, Tolui, Hulagu, Wulianghatai, Batu, Kublai, Jochi, Subutai, Wang Baobao, etc. appeared in the Yuan Dynasty.
This is the part torn off from the Chinese consciousness, which made these Yuan Dynasty generals appear among the young descendants of the Northern Huns with nomadic people as their common point.
While Parthia was frantically suppressing internal rebellion, other celebrities emerged among the original descendants of the Northern Huns.
Shi Hu, Shi Le, Murong Ke, Murong Chui, Helian Bobo during the Eastern Jin Dynasty...
Li Yuanhao, Yeli Yuqi, Yeli Wangrong of Xixia...
Wanyan Gang, Wanyan Loushi, Jin Wushu, Wanyan Aguda of the Jin Dynasty...
Nurhaci, Dorgon, Duoduo, Oboi, Ajige of the Qing Dynasty...
It can be said that the quality of this group of descendants of the Northern Huns was incredibly high, let alone incorporating them into Parthia and restoring the glory of Parthia.
If they were given some time, without interference from other empires in the process, they would even be able to rebuild an entire empire, a super empire, on the resting corpses.
This combination would be a slap in the face even if the Han Dynasty were to run into it rashly, not to mention the Romans who had not yet figured out their minds.
Ganasis had no idea what they were facing. He was still immersed in thinking about whether he should destroy Anxi first.
Time goes back a little here, back to the time when the Western Regions were in turmoil.
As the Duke of a border county, Ganasis carefully chose to deploy a large number of men before launching a war against Parthia, and had them lurk in the trading markets of the four countries. They planned to cut off the trade between Parthia and other countries first, and then send troops to attack.
The trade market is a good thing, this is the consensus of the Roman senators. They can buy better silk at a price several times cheaper, and this alone is enough to make all the senators excited.
But now this trading market does not belong to them , but to Parthia, which is very bad, so they decided to stop this trading market first. There is no need for a trading market without Rome’s participation, and this kind of existence that aids the enemy needs to be eradicated as soon as possible.
As for the way to cut off, it is natural to use the most primitive and violent means to destroy this trading market. Terrorist attacks are a good idea.
Of course, Rome did not want to incur public anger. If it really angered the Kushans and the Han Dynasty, and the four countries formed an alliance to attack Rome, Rome would be in trouble. Attacking Parthia and Great Britain at the same time was already their limit.
And it was just a beating, which is far from killing these two countries.
The Parthian War alone lasted hundreds of years, and with the addition of Britain, there were even more variables.
It would be fine if the Han Dynasty was out of reach, but if the Kushans got involved, then the Romans would be left waiting for death. It's one against three, so forget it, people would really die.
Especially Rome is very weak now.
Except for the legions under Severus' own command, which had experienced many wars such as fighting against the beast tide in Africa, the other legions had not participated in a brutal war for a long time.
In the previous clashes with Great Britain, the fighting was limited to a certain extent and no brutal blows were used. It could be regarded as a process of continuous testing of the bottom line by both sides.
Although for ordinary kingdoms, this testing process was enough to destroy them several times, there was no large-scale fighting between the two sides.
Rome is warlike, but it is not driven by hatred and is not attracted by interests. It is totally not worth it for them to use a large amount of war power to fight against Great Britain.
Moreover, in the war with Great Britain, 99% of the deaths were Roman citizens, not those barbarians, and the Roman Empire was heartbroken.
They themselves were troubled by the problem of the number of barbarians, and used Parthia to deplete the number of barbarians and quietly balance the ratio between the two sides. As a result, after a few test wars, their ratio began to go out of balance, which was why they directly stopped the war with Great Britain.
The loss outweighs the gain, and you may even suffer the consequences.
It has to be said that Ganasis's methods were very good. Even Li Ru felt a little overwhelmed by Ganasis's thankless sabotage.
Destruction is always much easier than maintenance. This is because Li Ru has a good reputation and his methods are tough and sophisticated, otherwise it would be impossible to maintain stability.
Li Ru has been investigating who is so disgusting. It is obvious that the transaction is beneficial to all four countries, but he still wants to destroy this trading market with such reckless efforts.
Due to inertia of thinking, Li Ru didn't even think about Rome.
After all, the great Qin and Rome in the far west were too far away for the Han Empire. Even though Li Ru knew that there was such a country, and even though it was at odds with Parthia, Li Ru did not think about Rome.
Of course, the biggest reason is that Ganasi used the power that Rome had planted within Parthia.
So all the evidence points to the Parthian Empire, which happens to be the party that benefits the most from the trading market.
This kind of contradiction and sense of separation is what Li Ru cannot understand the most. For them, everything must have sufficient logic to filter out the clues. It is precisely because of this ability that they can become gods in the eyes of ordinary people.
However, when there are loopholes in the intelligence, this logic becomes a fatal loophole. It is not something that ordinary people can do to infer the complete truth out of thin air.
At least Li Ru, whose energy has been mostly occupied by trivial matters, can't do it.
Although Vogelius V reorganized the empire, there were still some traitors hidden among them, who had already completely turned to Rome.
In fact, Ganasis also received the news of the revival of Parthia brought by these people. However, the transaction between Parthia and the Northern Huns was confidential after all, and they were not clear about it. They only knew that during the long war, Parthia seemed to have revived, and new tribes had joined.
Ganasis simply ignored the news. To him, these traitors were broken-backed dogs. What did they know about war and strength? In the past few years, he was able to defeat Anxi. Now that his strength has greatly increased, he can still defeat Anxi even if Anxi really becomes stronger.
