sweeping the world

Chapter 1004 Attacking Han Worldwide ([-])

"The Han Empire is too powerful!"

"We're completely behind Siris."

"The Han Empire's application of gunpowder has just begun. Now they have begun to deploy firearms, and they may deploy three legions within five years."

"Yes. Siris has conducted firearms application tests in the north. The weapon types have been finalized and have entered the mass production stage."

"With the same weapons, we may be able to compete with the Han people on the battlefield. Even if the quality of the army is not as good as the Han people, they send out one legion, and we use three legions to offset the disadvantage. Once the Han people fully equip themselves with firearms, according to our observers The information sent back shows that it is no longer the number of people that can easily regain the disadvantage."

Here in Syria, two men in white robes are talking face to face in a kneeling posture.

Take a look at the place where the meeting took place. The two people who don’t know the location and don’t look at the conversation, just look at the layout is a very common Han courtyard, and the furniture style is also the type that is common in the noble families of the Han Empire.

The sun in summer is always hotter than in other seasons. The weather in Syria is extremely hot in summer. If a pool of water is exposed to the sun without rainfall, it will evaporate completely in a short time.

"Have you mastered the construction of ocean-going warships?"

"not at all."

"That……"

"If you are one step behind, unless you start a new era, you will always be one step behind no matter how you catch up. If you learn how to build ocean-going warships, you will definitely lag behind the Han Empire in terms of performance, and may even be more than one generation behind. Spending a lot of money to build fundamental The warships that cannot compete with the Han Empire, Rome is not so rich."

"I understand. You are starting a big project on the Strait (of Gibraltar) just to block it."

"Yes. No matter how hard you try to catch up, you can't surpass the battleship. Looking at the naval battle between the Gupta Empire and Siris, it is far more difficult to overwhelm quality with quantity than land."

"We also have related plans for shoreline defense."

"It's useless. In the war between the Han Empire and Gupta, a ship called a gunboat was used. It can carry out coastal bombardment on the land near the coast. The coastline defense will only have one result."

"Your land shore-based defense chain?"

"It's just a necessary measure. The only thing that can have a defensive effect is the depth of the inland defense. It's just that we all know one problem. The defense is too passive. We can only choose the invasion route that the enemy must pass through to deploy."

The place of conversation is a villa on the coast. When the courtyard looks north, you can see the Mediterranean Sea.

It was not a port, and about a dozen large and small ships anchored at a position about 300 meters close to the coastline. Their sails were not lowered, and they looked like they would move again at any time.

On the wading line of the gray-yellow sandy beach, nearly a hundred small boats arrived on the sandy beach. Sailors in brown linen stayed near the small boats, and Roman soldiers with bright red cloaks gathered together.

Around this type of villa, there are Roman soldiers on alert to the north, and Persian soldiers on alert to the south.

"Only by taking the initiative to attack can we win this war."

"There is a buffer zone more than [-] miles deep between Seres and Hunnit. There is also a buffer zone of more than [-] miles between Seris and Gaoche. The eyes of the Seres people have never stopped looking westward. There is a slight movement in the high car, but it cannot escape the monitoring of the Siris people."

"There won't be any temptations this time. The Hunnites know very well that if they don't fight hard, their country will be destroyed. The Dingling people also know the seriousness of the situation. They have the strongest determination, but they just don't trust that we also have the determination to die if we don't win."

"I understand your concerns. Rome is the farthest from Seris, and you will indeed worry about Rome's determination. We have assembled [-] legions in Asia Minor, and we can march eastward anytime and anywhere."

"This time we completely let go of the west, and the Hunnites came out like Gaoche. We believe that Rome is aware of the strength of the Han Empire, and that Rome's alliance is full of sincerity."

The conversation stopped again.

Nowadays, a Roman legion ranges from 2000 to 5000 people, and the first-level legion is 5000 people. However, there are only eighteen first-level legions in Rome, so the maximum number of thirty legions is 10.

Rome will not send all the first-class legions out of the country. It will inevitably leave the necessary legions to defend the Germans in Europa. Being able to mobilize nine first-class legions has shown the greatest sincerity.

In addition, the Roman Legion is notoriously short-legged. Even if they march at full strength, it will take at least two months to enter the border of Persia from Asia Minor, and at least half a year to reach the territory of Hunnite.

"The Han Empire wanted to carry out comprehensive castration of slaves."

"Yes, the news is correct."

"It's terrifying."

"Before we all agreed that the Siris wanted to plunder the world, and we knew that their desire to expand had no bottom line. Now we are clear that the Siris cannot tolerate other ethnic groups."

This time it was the Roman Augustus Constantius who came to Syria himself.

In order not to attract attention, Constantius did not make any big moves at all. He embarked from Constantinople with only twelve ships and [-] guards.

Since it was Constantius who came in person, it must be Shapur II who came to meet with Persian Sassanid in person.

Some time ago, both Rome and Sasanian had withdrawn their troops from Syria, and countless armed forces emerged there. Those armed forces kept announcing which place they owned, and Syria was divided into countless large and small pieces of control. areas, and at the same time these controlled areas are at war with each other.

This land did not have peace because Rome and Sassanid gave up. On the contrary, it fell into greater chaos.

When the Romans and Persians seized control of Syria, although they were not moderate, they rarely carried out large-scale massacres.

Waiting for all kinds of messy armed forces to confront. They are all of the same lineage, but they have far more brutal behavior than the Romans and Persians. In less than two years, I don’t know how many villages have been ruined. Then you can find piles of dead bones left behind after the massacre near the village.

Under the cannibalism, there were originally more than 200 million people in the land of Syria. Only two years have passed, and I don’t know if there are 100 million people left.

In addition to the people who died in the melee, those armed forces continued to sell people, and young women were the most trafficked. There is no doubt that whether the buyers were Han or not, most of the people behind were sent to the mainland of the Han Empire .

"Every day ships full of slaves leave the port, and they sail to the east."

"It's the same on our side. What's a little good for Rome is that most of the people who were escorted aboard were Germans, Celts and Saxons."

The Han Empire leased ports and concessions from various countries, and some ports and concessions have entered the stage of opening, and those places have become one of the more lively areas in the local area.

Rome and Sasanian, which also exist as empires, are the first time they have faced the act of ceding land without going through war. This alone is enough to make them hostile to the Han Empire.

It's not just hostile to leaders who have a long-term vision. They also need to consider the future, and the conclusions they draw are not much different. One day the Han Empire will not be satisfied with renting land, and war must be inevitable.

"The sea trade with Seris has only been going on for four years. Our domestic gold coin holdings have experienced an unprecedented decline, and transactions between nobles have been bartered. This is a situation that has never occurred in Rome."

"Is it that exaggerated? Thousands of years of accumulation, just four years, right?"

"There is no exaggeration at all. Ships of silk, porcelain, and tea were transported to various ports in Rome, and the ships were filled with gold coins and returned to sea. For the Seres, Rome had no commodities of interest except slaves. "

"Trade deficit. I learned that term by accident."

Shapur II said that "trade deficit" is pronounced in Chinese, and then explained it in Persian. When explaining, it is not just the pronunciation of one word, but a long string.

Of course Rome also had its own products, but as Constantius said, the Han people really didn't like any Roman products.

Facing the hard-selling by Roman merchants, the Han people looked at the various shapes of pottery with a look of disgust, and looked at various sculptures including figures and animals with a look of bewilderment.

During Rome's exchanges with the Han Empire...or business exchanges, the only thing that can earn a lot of gold coins is water conservancy technology.

In fact, the Han people were very happy to hire relevant talents from Rome, but they really didn’t know what kind of talents they should hire. I heard that the Romans were very good at water conservancy, so they hired a lot of talents for water conservancy.

The bathhouse culture of the Romans is almost famous all over the world. At present, there are more than 1000 Romans with related professions running around the Han Empire. They designed canals and irrigation systems for various places, and then designed indoor bathhouses for those who can afford it. .

For example, in Chang'an, the Han people had built a park sprinkler system before, but it was obviously not as professional as the Romans, and it was redesigned and rebuilt later.

"Persia's trade deficit with the Han Empire is not much better than Rome. The only thing we can attract the Han people is the carpet."

Shapur II and Constantius looked at each other, with nothing but embarrassment and helplessness on their faces.

"The Serisians are happy to harvest our gold coins, but they are only willing to sell luxury items."

"Yes. We understand how important gunpowder and firearms technology are. It is normal that the Han people are unwilling to sell them, but they have even blocked our papermaking technology and printing technology."

In fact, unlike the blockade of gunpowder technology, papermaking and printing were not only available to the officialdom. Rome and Sassanid still obtained papermaking and printing.

Although the technology has been acquired, they found that there are so many different methods for the same papermaking and printing, and it still takes time to conduct various verifications and choose the most suitable method before popularizing it.

"We have been patient and stopped obtaining gunpowder through unofficial channels after just one trial."

"Isn't it precisely because of the tolerance and compromise we showed that the Han Empire turned its energy to the country?"

"That's the only place we've done it right."

"It can only be like that. Once there is no end and no scale, there is more than a [-]% chance that the Han people will choose to launch a war."

"It is indeed something that the Siris people can do. When they face challenges, whether it is their emperor or their civilians, they are all too violent."

"In our records, the Han people are a very graceful nation. They pay attention to etiquette and politeness. We also have some records that you won't believe. When faced with offenses hundreds of years ago, the Han people would feel offended. The offense is because the offended person is not civilized enough, and the Han people will send out businessmen to teach the offended person to enter civilization."

"It's... unimaginable, it surprised me."

Has that ever happened?I don’t know when the Persian records are talking about, but the above mentioned dynasties up to Zhuxia, whether it was the Western Han Dynasty or the Eastern Han Dynasty, or were in the stage of civil war, or even the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it seems that the first choice to be offended It’s all a fight, right?

"Those ethnic groups who were taught, without exception, later became members of what the Han people call 'Zhuxia'."

"It's terrifying!"

"This war is actually saving Rome. Are your nobles in Rome starting to be Sinicized?"

"Learning the civilization of the advanced side is our strength. We used to be fully Hellenized, but we are still Romans."

"It's different. Believe me, any nation that learns Chinese culture will eventually become part of the 'Zhu Xia' among the Han people, and then become Han people."

At this point, the Japanese stood up and expressed their dissatisfaction.

Then, after waiting for a certain period of time, they were obviously Han Chinese, but because of their political achievements, many people waited for their household registers to find out that they were expelled from the Han Chinese and became a new ethnic group that they had never heard of.

"We have experienced darkness and know that light is precious. Persia has been fully united, and we are going to carry out a thorough holy war!"

"Jihad? You got that word from the Arabs, didn't you?"

"There's nothing funny about it. We're too close to the Han Empire to have any other options."

"So... have you contacted the princess who married in the past?"

"No contact at all."

Constantius was surprised by the determination shown by Sassan. He would ask such a question, knowing that if he could get in touch, even if there was only a ten-thousandth chance of success, he would try to make Emperor Siris die on his bed. .

The Romans have the same consideration for this point, especially Helena has given birth to a baby boy with the blood of the Han emperor.

If the whole world unites to defeat the Han Empire this time and can gain an advantage, there is almost no possibility of completely annihilating the Han Empire. However, as long as the advantage can be gained, there are countless operational possibilities.

"Despite the greatest determination, I'm still not sure where to go."

"The worst result will not be worse than the future result."

(End of this chapter)