In addition to Zaras's cavalry, there were also Egyptian silver shield soldiers who came to the east with the delegation. More than 200 people with the giant iron armor surrounded 120 Chu soldiers with only Muzhu. The victory or defeat was not difficult to predict. Neacas's appearance stopped this action, causing the approaching soldiers to stop. With the torch, Crimenides' voice came from behind the crowd: "Nacas, you will definitely be deceived by them!"

"No." Neacas turned his head and looked at the Bear Cypress, who also walked out of the curtain, and replied loudly so that everyone could hear it. "The generous Cypress has promised all the conditions, and," he looked at the Greek soldiers around him again. "To thank you for your escort along the way, when you deliver the ransom, you, each of you, can get six thousand dramars, six thousand dramars! One tarrant!! The officer can get three tarrants!"

Neacas, who did not want the situation to get out of control, announced a huge bounty, which was almost equivalent to the salary of these Greek soldiers for ten years. Xiong Jing laughed at this. He didn't care about money, he had money.

"Soldiers, cheer!" Neacas waved to the soldiers around him. "Thank you for the generous King Chuni!"

"Ah..." Everyone cheered, including the one hundred and eighty knights, and some even bowed slightly to Xiong Jing, who was already standing beside Neacas. Going to the east was a chore, and a bounty of a Tarant could make them remember their wonderful memories for the rest of their lives.

As the soldiers cheered, Crimenides couldn't help but sigh. He knew that his plan had failed. Even Nearcas, the Egyptian envoy, did not care whether King Chuni would become enemies with Egypt again after returning to Chuni. How could these soldiers who could get a bounty of Tarant care? They cared more about how to get the money, right?

"Please go to my tent immediately to register your names, and then go back to the camp to sleep," Neacas took advantage of the victory and left, and then left. The soldiers around him followed him closely, evacuating one by one.

"Da Ao?" Lu Yangyan and others breathed a sigh of relief. If they really wanted to fight, there were only a few more than 120 people on their side who could escape.

"The Baidi people have already agreed to the redemption." Xiong Jing spoke to Lu Yangyan and others, and also to the soldiers approaching. "If there is no accident, we can all return to the country in three years, but this trip will go to the sea of ​​the earth and the capital of Baidi."

"How about Da Ao, what about Loulan? How can the Baidi people be trusted?" Lu Yangyan was immediately anxious. He didn't believe in the Baidi people very much.

"Loulan is a territory of Yuezhi. How can the King of Loulan help me?" Xiong Jing denied his previous plan. Crossing Wushaoling is the Hexi Corridor. The Hexi Corridor is already the sphere of influence of Yuezhi. In the sea of ​​death, Loulan, who really wants to help himself escape, can be imagined. "The Baidi people have more trust than the Qin people, and we are determined to fight to the death, what do they get? This is like a battlefield. When a corpse is established, you will die. The Baidi people would rather get my ransom than fight to the death."

Xiong Jing explained to Lu Yangyan and to the gathered artillery soldiers. He continued: "After the vows with the Baidi envoy tomorrow, we will go to Xizhou together and re-take the journey of Duke Mu's journey to the west, or you can see the Queen Mother of the west of the sand sea. If you have a letter from your family, you can write it overnight and bring it back to Chu tomorrow. Quan Bi, Zhaoli..."

"I am here." Quan Feng and Zhaoli stood up and went out for a greeting when they heard Xiong Jing's call.

"Tomorrow, you two will lead a few riders back to Chu to send me news. One branch heads north, crosses the Tianshan Mountains along the west bank of the Yellow River and enters the grassland, goes east through Donghu to Korea, and then boards a boat to Xinying; the other branch heads south, goes south from Qiang to Shu, and then goes from Shu to Sichuan to Taijun County. If the south county and Jiangdong has been lost, then go south from Qingyang to Baiyue to Panyu..."

Xiong Jing's words made the cannon soldiers feel at ease, especially when they heard Xiong Jing would be with them in front of Egypt. The soldiers quickly returned to the camp. Ordinary Chu soldiers needed to find someone to write letters on their own, and each of them could write letters on their own.

Xiong Jing also wants to write a letter. After the oath tomorrow, he will send a message to the State of Chu. He is worried that he will make mistakes on the way and divide the news into two routes in order to ensure that when the monsoon turns this winter, Xinying can send boats and oars and arrive at Suez Bay, the northernmost end of the Red Sea next spring and summer.

In addition, the flintlock feasibility test must be started immediately, or even the Minnie gun test - the rifle can be pulled out by boring the barrel. The manual lathes that pull the rifle may appear in the fifteenth century (the recorded rifle appeared in the fifteenth century), and the boring machines that boring the rifle appeared in the eighteenth century. The rifle is much older than the boring boring boring. However, due to difficult loading, the rifle was only used for hunting for two or three hundred years. It was not until the emergence of the Minnie bullet solved the loading speed problem that the rifle was used on a large scale.

Juti Mansion was able to pull out rifles very early, but for gunpowder made of impure saltpeter, rifles are harmful and useless. Even if they are cleaned up after each launch, the incompletely burned residue will still block the rifle, making loading more difficult. In the era of flintlock rifles, the residue left after the ground is burned is very small or even negligible.

At the same time, the early rifle was not easy to be rigged, and there were no familiar craftsmen, and the scrap rate remained high. In the war with the Qin people, the Chu army had more than enough artillery artillery in the early stage, so the production of artillery was insufficient; the demand for artillery suddenly increased after the Battle of Daze, and there was no time or need to rifle. After the migration to Penglai, the boys had at least eight years before they grew up. These eight years were enough for the Chu army to reform the military system and produce useful Minni rifled guns.

When Xiong Jing carefully drew the Minnie bullets with three rings of air closure on Chu paper, Crimenides had just left Neacas' tent. He did not change his mind because of Neacas' "achievements" he achieved, but instead deepened his worries. The vision of the navy general was far more sensitive to technology than the civilians. When Neacas was complacent about obtaining the cast artillery technology, he was vaguely afraid that the Chueni Navy would rule the world's oceans in the future.

The Greeks have always believed that the sea surrounds the land, and Crimenides deeply believed it. When ships of the known world still had to sail along the coast, the Chuni people in the east had already crossed the ocean surrounding the world and appeared outside the stone pillars of Daheracles. Of course, as Neacas explained, imprisoning or killing Chuni could not change this. He had his own heir, whose heirs had inherited the throne. Perhaps imitating the Chuni warship could improve the situation of the known world.

Sleepless overnight. Xiong Jing wrote two news articles, especially the technical part to draw detailed drawings; Neacas drafted the treaty signed the next day and reported his gains to Alexandria on papyrus. He almost completed his mission to the East. The only thing he did not complete was that he did not know how the ship set sail from Egypt arrived in Chuni, communicating with the known and unknown worlds;

Crimenides was full of worries, but he could not eliminate them. He could only call a maid to forget them. The Greek soldiers in the camp were as sleepless as the Chu artillery soldiers, and they talked loudly about how to use the Tarrant silver after getting it.

The next morning, the sun rose, and everyone's face was deeply tired. Both sides confirmed that the terms on the Chu paper were completely correct, so they signed a blood contract on a small hill in Dangyang: Xiong Jing signed his name on the papyrus for the first time and put a private seal on his penis, while Nearcas smeared the blood of animals on his lips for the first time. The soldiers on both sides cheered without surprise, one for the bounty of the Tarant, and the other for seeing hope of returning to his hometown.

"What I say is in the news." Zaras provided eight Sogdiana war horses, Quan Feng and Zhaoli each brought a knight back to Chu.

"Yi." Quan Feng and Zhaoli saluted each other. "I will definitely fulfill my mission!"

Of course, Xiong Jing knew that as long as they had a breath, they would never insult their mission. "Tell me to Empress Ao: Wait for me to return to Chu."

"Now!" Xiong Jing Wuxia wrote a stingy love words on Xunwen, all of which were government affairs and military affairs. Thinking of his wife, he was very excited, but he could only put all his feelings into these four words.

"Go." Xiong Jing said to the two. He watched them get on the horse, and watched Zhaoli take a knight and one horse from the original road to cross Wushaoling to Qiang land; Quan Bi turned to the east, and after finding the Yellow River channel, he would go north along the river channel and head to the grassland. The mission also continued north along the gullies, and the remaining veins of Wushaoling were the Loess Plateau, and it was easier to move forward to it.

Xiu Tu is the Wuwei of later generations, and it is also the royal city of the Xiongnu King Xiu Tu in the Han Dynasty. At that time, the Xiongnu had driven away the Yuezhi and occupied the Hexi Corridor. Xiu Tu's Xiu Tu was not the Xiongnu King's name Xiu Tu, but his royal city was built in Xiu Tu. When the delegation arrived at Xiu Tu, there was no city in the area, only a large zodiac named Xiu Tu Ze and a shepherd who grazed around the Da Ze.

Xiu Tu, Hunxie (Zhangye), Jinquan (Jiuquan), Guazhou (Dunhuang), and traveled westward for two thousand miles along the four oasis of the Hexi Corridor. When they were about to arrive in Dunhuang, they saw the sea-like desert and the poplar forest in the desert. They walked for more than two thousand miles for more than a month, and it was April. If it was in Chu, the spring was about to end and early summer was about to begin, but in the desert Gobi, spring seemed to have just begun. As long as there was water, there was also a lot of greenness in addition to cattle and sheep.

On one side is the yellow desert and on the other side is the green oasis. This contrast makes people feel the preciousness of water. More than two months after the operation, Xiong Jing finally didn't have to lie on the carriage or stretcher anymore. He refused the old horse provided by Neacas and walked along with the cannon barracks. In contrast to the fact that he felt his life disappearing little by little when he was bleeding inside, he is now feeling his body is getting stronger little by little.
Chapter completed!