Da Qin: Destroyed the Xiongnu at the beginning

In the past, Scipio thought that the reason why Rome was so backward and chaotic was because he, the supreme consul, had no right to speak, did not dare to implement many laws and measures that were beneficial to the state, and a group of nobles who held the real power of the country were too selfish and greedy.

But since marrying Daqin, his status in Rome has been much higher, and he has decision-making power that other nobles can't compare, and many things in Rome are basically his final say, and the whole Rome has almost become his hall.

The code of laws and regulations that he wanted to implement before was now vigorously implemented in Rome, and under the deterrence of Great Qin's extreme strength, those greedy and selfish nobles could no longer stop him.

Scipio felt like he had even seen the future of Rome flourishing!

But the result didn't seem to be the same as he had imagined.

Under the implementation of various new legal codes, on the surface, although the people of Rome said that their lives had indeed improved, pregnant women and children had nutritional subsidies, and there were rewards and subsidies given by the state for childbirth, and the people were happy and praised the good of the new legal code.

But correspondingly, the financial pressure on their Rome has also increased greatly, and if it were not for the huge taxes paid by the previous nobles, I am afraid that their Roman finances would have collapsed long ago.

And this is only temporary, because Scipio has found that since the abolition of the tax exemption rights of the nobles, their assets in the commercial part of the business, which is subject to a large amount of taxes, have directly led to the nobles paying less and less taxes, and even within a few days, the taxes have been reduced to less than half of the original amount!

"917" is undoubtedly an extremely dangerous signal.

According to this trend, I am afraid that it will not be long before the tax revenue that the state can collect will break the original pretense of breaking the balance between income and expenditure.

If there was no help from outside, such as the Roman aristocracy, Rome's finances would have collapsed completely because of Scipio's policies that benefited the people!

However, Scipio knew in his heart that the Roman nobles had long hated Scipio because of his abolition of the tax exemption, and that it would be good not to fall for him if they heard the news of the imminent collapse of Rome's finances, let alone provide any assistance.

Therefore, at that time, Scipio's new policy had to be terminated early due to lack of funds.

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, how can the people be willing to let them live the original hard life after experiencing the benefits of the new deal?

Once the New Deal is forced to stop, it will inevitably cause widespread chaos at the popular level, and even various protests against the state.

This was undoubtedly a very big blow to both the people's trust in the country and Scipio's prestige in Rome.

Now, because Scipio was busy with Roman internal affairs all day long and neglected the management of military outstations, the Roman garrison was overwhelmed by carelessness, and the Roman defense line was also occupied by Carthage, and the entire southern region of Rome was directly threatened by the Carthaginian army, and the people were in danger.

The occurrence of these kinds of events made Scipio feel unprecedented pressure and confusion.

Scipio imitated the various legal policies of Great Qin, believing that Rome could gradually revive like Great Qin, and rise from all the nations of the world to rebuild the glory of the Roman Empire.

But who knows that since the release of his new policy, the situation of internal and external troubles in Rome has not changed in the slightest, and even intensified the contradictions between the people and the state.

This made him wonder if Rome really had a future.

Maybe it's just that his ability is too poor, after all, compared to the Fusu prince of Great Qin, he is as small as the candle flame under the bright moon, especially after the implementation of the new Roman policy, Scipio has a deeper understanding of this.

The same policy code, under the leadership of the prince of Fusu, the Qin State was able to rise rapidly, achieve a win-win situation in the economy and people's livelihood, and various agricultural technologies were also flourishing, making Great Qin the world's first power, and it was almost a big level higher than other countries, enough to make people feel suffocated and unsurpassed!

However, under his leadership, it was not the same as the cat, Rome did not show any signs of economic recovery, but their own country's finances collapsed first, and the Roman army also had a big problem with the neglect of supervision, allowing Hannibal to find an opportunity to defeat it in one fell swoop.

This caused Scipio to fall into deep doubts about himself, and even to lose his way completely.

The archon Hu Cong, who was standing next to him, seemed to see something, and his expression instantly became serious.

"Your Excellency Scipio, due to the occupation of the Roman line by Carthage, the situation of our Roman army is now very awkward. "

"Therefore, I think that instead of being sad and blaming yourself here, it would be better for you to come up with a solution first, for the Carthaginian army is now eyeing a large part of my Roman land, and may at any moment launch an attack on my Roman land. "

"We can afford to wait, but the Roman inhabitants who have lived around the line for generations can't afford to wait!"

The voice of the consul's subordinate suddenly became stern.

Hearing this, Scipio was shocked, and the expression of regret on his face changed and changed, and a feeling of shame immediately surged into his heart.

"I'm sorry, I lost my temper just now, you are right, now is the critical moment of my Roman army, as the supreme consul of Rome, I should not be so decadent. "

"We should not waste time in self-blame and remorse, but immediately come up with a good solution to solve the problem we are facing. "

Scipio bowed deeply to his consul, Hucong, to express his gratitude to him for awakening him.

And with a bow, the expression on Scipio's face also changed from the original remorse and confusion to firm again.

So after sorting out the thoughts in his mind, he began to say in a deep voice:

"I've thought about your question many times after I learned that my Roman garrison had been served in a pot. "

"First of all, the families of the soldiers who died in the line of defense are given death pensions, after a defeat, the soldiers in the army must be depressed and remorseful, and the emotions of the soldiers in the army are the most important. "

"It is also strictly forbidden for the army to clash head-on with the Carthaginian army, let alone leave the country, and rush directly to try to retake the territory of the front. "

"This is an extremely dangerous act, and we have been defending this line long enough by the Roman army, and I believe that I need not say much about it, and the soldiers in the army know it very well. "

"If it's just like this, it will be like a headless fly, and it won't do anything at all except to increase casualties. "

"And the number of our regular Roman army is not very large, and a random death is a loss for the Roman army, and this loss is meaningless, very unworthy. "

"Therefore, until we have figured out Hannibal's marching strategy, we must not act recklessly, let alone organize any combat activity to retake the defensive line by virtue of the whim. "

"The most important thing we should do now is to immediately organize men to help the Roman people around the defense line and in the hinterland to evacuate quickly, and immediately move to a safe place to take refuge, after all, only when the people are not around here, we can fight the Carthaginian army without any worries. "

"In addition, in addition to resettling the people, the army also sent a number of spies to the Carthaginian army, so that they could blend into the Carthaginian army, inquire about the next movements and intelligence of the Carthaginian army, and it is best to find out Hannibal's strategic preparations, so that it is convenient for us to deal with the attack of the Carthaginian army in the future. "

"Now that the situation has gotten so bad, I have to be careful. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

"After all, we don't have the advanced and sophisticated equipment of the Great Qin army, not only the defense is amazing, but the combat effectiveness is extremely strong, if our army forcibly attacks the city, we can only let the Carthaginian army consume in vain, and finally be defeated by them in one fell swoop. "

Scipio sighed.

After all, their Rome had personally fought with the Great Qin army, and Bliss commanded a Roman army of 300,000 at the beginning, intending to capture the Seleucid kingdom in one fell swoop, but was easily defeated by the Qin army that rushed to support, and only used tens of thousands of cavalry!

The 300,000 Roman army was against tens of thousands of Great Qin cavalry.

With such a huge disparity in numbers, no one could have thought that the Roman army would lose before the start of the war, not to mention that Rome at that time could be described as high-spirited, fighting the Seleucid kingdom in the east and the Carthaginian army in the west, it can be said that the iron hooves of the Roman army almost spread all over the entire Western Regions, and it was quite the posture of a king of war.0[]

However, after a sudden contact, the Roman army that used to be proud of its might was like a clumsy elephant in front of the Great Qin Iron Cavalry, every step of the move would be guessed, and then under the attack of the Great Qin Iron Cavalry, the combat power was gradually differentiated, and finally it was eaten away little by little.

The Roman army, which was known as invincible, was almost powerless to resist in front of the Great Qin Iron Cavalry, and was played around under the control of the Qin army.

The occurrence of this result shocked the whole of Rome and even the world at once!

Although in this war, in addition to the cavalry of Daqin, there were many soldiers of the Seleucid Kingdom, but most of them were mainly infantry, and they could hardly be called any combat effectiveness in front of the Roman cavalry.

As a result, this classic battle of winning more with less let the world know that the powerful and unrivaled military strength of Great Qin has also become a pain in the hearts of every Roman, and Scipio is naturally very impressed by this.

However, regarding this matter, since Scipio was already a high-ranking Roman at that time, he looked at it from a different perspective than ordinary commoners.

He knew very well that the reason why the Qin army was able to create such a brilliant record was not only because of the superb command skills of Fusu and Meng Tian, but also because of the Qin army's sophisticated and advanced weapons and armor.

Before doing anything, we should pay attention to the principle that if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and this point is especially important for the army in war.

Although Rome has said that there are some rudiments of smelting iron, the technical strength is extremely low, and the quality of the smelted iron tools is basically inferior, and it can only be said that when used as weapons, it is better than bronze.

Moreover, the efficiency of their Roman iron smelting was very low, and a large factory with hundreds of people working all day may produce only a little more than a hundred pieces of usable iron tools, and they may even have less than a hundred pieces of iron if they are unlucky.

Therefore, when the Roman army was fighting, most of the soldiers used bronze weapons, and only a small number of high-ranking officers could use iron weapons.

The armor was even more outrageous, many of the high-ranking officers of Rome did not even have iron weapons, only bronze armor, and the lower status was a combination of leather and bronze, and the lowest-ranking soldiers simply wore a thin layer of cloth armor, only some key parts were covered with tougher leather, and the defensive effect was almost zero.

On the other hand, on the Daqin side, with the technology provided by Fusu, not only the iron-smelting technology has been quite proficient, but also considerable progress has been made in the 2.9 aspect of steelmaking.

The purity of the steel smelted is extremely high, and it is the best choice in terms of quality, and Fusu has further optimized the method of smelting steel on this basis, so that the process of smelting steel has become much more streamlined at once, which has greatly improved the efficiency of smelting steel in Daqin.

Therefore, the armor of the soldiers of the Qin army is almost covered with iron armor, and the spear weapons in their hands are mostly made of steel, not to mention the equipment of senior generals.

You know, there is a big gap between bronze and iron, bronze is not only bulky but also very fragile, and there is no comparison with steel that is hard enough and very tough.

And the density of bronze is greater than that of steel, which means that under the same volume, bronze armor is much heavier on a person than steel armor on a person, which undoubtedly has a great impact on a person's flexibility in battle, not to mention the cavalry that has always taken flexibility as an advantage, this effect is almost fatal!

Therefore, the huge gap in equipment made the combat effectiveness of the Roman army and the combat effectiveness of the Qin army suddenly widened.

Basically, as soon as the two sides came into contact, the Qin soldiers were unscathed, while the Roman soldiers were already covered in bruises, and there were even many casualties.

In addition, there is the magic of the prince of Fusu.

Although there were only tens of thousands of people in this Great Qin Iron Cavalry, their combat effectiveness was extremely strong, and they easily broke their Roman army of 300,000!