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Chapter 1094 Yuanshuo 24 Years
The era of the Han Empire, the 25th year of Yuan Shuo.

In Chang'an, where the new year has just passed, firecrackers are constantly ringing out in every square and house in the second year of junior high school at night.

If you are on the high tower of Miyagi, looking at the entire Chang'an city, you will see bright lights, and from time to time, fireworks will be shot from the ground to the sky in a certain area, and the ensuing explosion will show colorful bright colors.

Chang'an City now has more than 250 million residents. It surpassed Jiankang and Linzi in the 21st year of Yuanshuo and became the most populous city in the Han Empire. It is also one of the most populous cities in the known world.

In fact, even with the population data of Jiankang's 220 million and Linzi's 140 million, there is no other city in the known world that can match it.

The current fourth largest city is in Sasanian territory. The population of Taixifeng increased sharply in the 23rd year of Yuanshuo of the Han Empire, reaching 130 million.

The third largest city is Constantinople, the capital of Rome, with a population of about 65?

The reason why the population of Sasanian-Taixifeng increased rapidly in a short period of time was that the Han army in the western expedition had reached the province of Medes, which was the central province of Sasanian.

It took nearly six years for the Han army to reach Midi. The two sides had previously fought six battles in which the two camps combined had more than 50 troops.

In six unprecedented battles, the Han army won four times, but also retreated twice.

Although the losses of the two voluntary retreats were not too exaggerated, they were undeniable failures. At one time, the anti-Han coalition forces thought that the Han Empire was dead, and assembled heavy troops to counterattack like chicken blood.

The Han army, which was defeated for the first time, retreated directly to the territory of Hunnite. This time, several small countries attached to the Han Empire were unlucky and were liquidated by the anti-Han Axis coalition forces. Naturally, it was later helped by the Han Empire to restore the country.

The Han army, which took the initiative to retreat for the second time, set up a layout. It was also this time that it annihilated a 34-strong army with Sasanian as the main force.

In the nearly six-year battle, as many as 36 soldiers from the Han Empire camp fell on the battlefield forever, although among them there were as many as 19 servants from the Western Regions alone, and the cannon fodder temporarily brought from various countries also died in the battle. Sixty thousand or seventy thousand, but there were still nearly one hundred thousand Han soldiers who fell on the road to the west, or were disabled and could no longer serve.

The anti-Han axis is definitely much more miserable than the Han Empire. In six years, the Han army alone can count more than 80 victories.The Sassanid side reported much more losses, more than 130 million headcounts.

There will be such a big gap between the statistics of the two sides. The Han army only counts the prisoners and heads, while the Sasanian nods the heads after gathering the troops.

War is not only a loss if you die on the battlefield. Some soldiers who escaped and no longer return to the army will also be included in the loss figure.Then there are some soldiers who can no longer participate in the battle because of disabilities, and they will also be regarded as part of the loss of combat effectiveness.

The Han army wiped out the main force of the anti-Han Axis coalition forces in the eastern part of Sassanid in the 21st year of Yuan Shuo, and formally invaded Sasanian territory on a large scale.

Prior to this, the battle lines of the two sides actually revolved around Jilongpo.

It would be that the road from the mainland of the Han Empire to Jilongpo has been under construction. Although the Han army does not have to worry about the loss of grain and some cold weapons, the supply of gunpowder must always keep up, otherwise the advancement does not meet the strategic requirements. .

At the same time, continuous bloodletting of the anti-Han axis is also one of the strategic requirements, and it is also necessary to deplete Sasanian national power.

In the past six years, the Han Empire has done a lot to support the Arabs. Even Sassan knows the principle of maintaining internal stability while conducting national wars. Before that, all Arabs who dared to resist were not killed indiscriminately. The more bloody the means of repression.

In order to build a road from the homeland to the front line, the Han army in the Western Expedition was to capture as many enemy troops as possible, and at the same time, it was constantly sending troops to raid the surrounding areas.

In just a few years, the surrounding area of ​​the Western Expedition shogunate has almost become ghosts and ghosts. The local aborigines who are not from the Han Empire camp have either run away or been captured.

Affected by the Western Expedition to the Shogunate, the descendants of the Northern Huns who were supposed to occupy the shogunate for more than 100 years before moving westward again, including some tribes around the Black Sea, ran away cleanly in just three to five years, resulting in a clear Although the aquatic plants are fertile, it has become a vast uninhabited land.

It's not just the Han Empire that is arresting people, the anti-Han axis is also arresting people.

The reason why the Han army arrested people was to build roads. Otherwise, tens of thousands of people would be killed or injured every month.
The reason for the anti-Han axis to arrest people is even simpler. They desperately need cannon fodder, even if they just force the cannon fodder to rush forward, they can consume more gunpowder, arrows... and even strength of the Han army.

Two strong men are fighting each other. If the weak one doesn't run away, there is something wrong with his brain, and he deserves to die.

The increase in the population of Constantinople in Rome was also due to the factors of the Han Empire. The expeditionary fleet led by Huan Wen first landed in the Roman province of Mauritania in Africa. The attack was carried out, causing a wave of migration to the west of Rome's Europa.

Rome under the rule of the Constantine family actually no longer focused on the Italian peninsula of Europa. Even Italy, a "land of dragon prosperity", could give up as soon as it said it, so Western Europe and Central Europe seemed even less important.

In Rome at this stage, Europa and the current Constantine family are not of one mind. Before the Constantine family civil war, the Roman nobles of Europa bet on the opponent of Constantius II.

If such a thing as a wrong bet happened in Zhuxia, waiting for the final winner, these guys would definitely die.

However, things were a little different in Rome. Betting on the wrong money meant becoming a fringe family, and they could even live an extremely comfortable life in their own control area. Several competing quasi-Augustuses came to the final winner, not only You can't do anything to them, either to appease or ignore them, or else you are breaking the rules that Rome has formed over thousands of years.

Once the thousands of years of rules are broken, the new Augustus will face the siege of the aristocratic class. It is estimated that the ass will roll off the stage in a few days after sitting on the throne of Augustus.

That is the fundamental reason caused by the Roman system. It is not only the country that has an army. Every family has its own private army more or less. Some powerful family private armies even have more than the standing army organized by the state. In terms of combat effectiveness It is even more difficult to say accurately.

To put it bluntly, the ruling family of Rome is the strongest nobleman, but they just have a unique title. They are not like the gradually restrained Zhu Xia. Except for the army organized by the state, even if someone has enough qualifications to own private The number of soldiers and private soldiers is also limited to a minimum.

The situation is the same in any country. Whoever has military power has the right to speak. If there is no army, no matter how much wealth there is, it is just a fat pig waiting to be slaughtered. Whether it will be slaughtered depends on the integrity of the ruler.

Huan Wen arrived near the Strait of Gibraltar in the 18th year of the Yuan Dynasty, but he did not choose to land from the Strait of Gibraltar, but actually landed from the southwest of modern Morocco.

Before the landing began, there were no Roman garrison at all on that stretch of coast, only some local indigenous tribes.

The landing troops of the expeditionary fleet did not immediately use force against the natives as soon as they landed, but tried to communicate in a friendly manner. It is a pity that the black sorghum over there is too ignorant and ignorant.

The black sorghum found out that a strange race came, and their first choice turned out to be to call for a fight.

A group of black sorghums without even a piece of cloth on their bodies, their crotches are only covered with leaves or leaves, holding stone grass and rattan shields in their hands, then "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!" ...then to become a corpse, or to be taken captive.

The black sorghum on this side is still in an absolute primitive society, living in a natural cave, or finding a natural cave to be the head of the house.

farming or something?Black sorghum would never be willing to farm!Their food comes from nature, and they mainly obtain food through gathering and hunting.

If it is a season when it is difficult to obtain food from nature, they will rob each other among the tribes, and it is not difficult to eat people when necessary.

Most of the black millets swear that they will never farm even after 800 years. They still have to be raised by nature. If they feel that they can’t survive, they will find someone to cry. It can always arouse some people’s sympathy and donate money. Donate food or something, and then continue to rob internally.

On the contrary, some black millets who were captured as slaves in the early years had their genes mutated, probably because the slave life of their ancestors buried the genes of labor, but they didn't like to study...or their brains were too small to learn, and they were still a Help groups who don't like learning very much.

The Han people brought by Huan Wen discovered a characteristic of the local aborigines. Even if they were forced to work, they would be lazy and sit in the sun when they had the opportunity. After being whipped many times in a row, should they still be lazy or continue to be lazy? Even coming up with a reward system didn't have much effect.

This discovery almost made the Han people who came to Africa desperate. The reason why they didn't go to the Romans to do it was not because they wanted to find a place to build a forward base.

The black sorghum caught is too lazy, so lazy that it is almost rotten. Do you have to do all the projects by yourself?What a waste of time!

For a while, they all felt that the launch of the slave hunting program in southern Africa was definitely the worst decision of the Han Empire. Wouldn’t it be fun for them to catch such lazy black millets who were not afraid of death and return them as slaves?
What they don't know is that the same is black sorghum, but in fact there are still some black sorghums who are very hardworking.Although those hard-working black corns are as small-minded...that is, they are simple-minded, but at least they are willing to work.The black sorghum in southern Africa and the black sorghum in eastern Africa actually belong to the category that can still be saved.

Huan Wen's plan was disrupted. Originally, it took half a year to build the advance base, but it turned out that it took nearly a year to take shape.

They were delayed for more than half a year, and during this period, dozens of tribes from the Black Shushu joined forces to attack.

That joint attack by the black sorghum was actually nothing to show off to the Han army. It was a matter of course that they won the battle. It was a loss to eliminate hundreds of black sorghum and even one of their own killed in battle.

In the 19th year of Yuanshuo, Huan Wen left behind the necessary garrison troops before continuing to lead the fleet to the west.

They did not officially invade the Spanish provinces of Rome until the spring of that year.

This time, it was no longer that there were no Maro people stationed there, and it could even be said that the Romans built a magnificent coastal fortification near the strait.

Huan Wen attacked a total of two times. He found out that the frontal attack was difficult to overcome, so he chose to detour later.

The first detour did not lure the Roman navy, and it easily and successfully landed in the northwest of Portugal in later generations, but encountered a counterattack from the Roman army that responded quickly.

Huan Wen chose to retreat to the sea again, and led the fleet back to the advance base in modern Morocco.

The second time Huan Wen led his army and continued to advance to the west route, the Roman navy appeared, and the two sides fought a battle near the Strait of Gibraltar that was definitely a unique naval battle in this era.

Of course, the naval battle ended with the victory of the expeditionary fleet. Even though the complete annihilation of the Roman navy was not completed, some of the Roman navy still fled back.

Following Huan Wen's decision, the expeditionary fleet landed from the coast of modern Portugal, and once again had a fierce confrontation with the Roman army on the coast.

The last time the naval guns of the Han army didn't show off their power, and even no firearms troops were put into the battlefield. It was just a small fight, and Huan Wen led his people back to the sea.

This time, Huan Wen came with the determination to gain a foothold, and had personally observed the tactics and tactics of the Roman Legion, and deployed a targeted bombardment plan.

It was a cruel scene in which the main guns and secondary guns of the sea gunboats roared in turn, and the tight Roman formation was torn to pieces in the gunfire. The tighter the formation, the more and more miserable the casualties were.

It was just a coastal bombardment of nearly a thousand calibers of different sizes. There was no way to deal with the coastal defense base of Yonggu fortifications, but it was not difficult to deal with flesh and blood.

After the shelling, the landing Han army launched a charge.

The Romans were probably stunned by the bombardment and did not flee. The two sides carried out a one-sided killing. Waiting for the Han army to move some bronze cannons to the land to join the ranks of the bombardment, the troops that could retreat in Rome were left behind and could not be rescued. The friendly army fled in a hurry.

The expeditionary fleet has already controlled the later Portuguese region and parts of Spain. More importantly, the Strait of Gibraltar is also controlled by the Han army, which is equivalent to mastering the only natural strait in the Mediterranean Sea, which is the entrance and exit from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

In the 24th year of Yuanshuo, Rome once again sent an envoy to Chang'an, and they came to negotiate the terms of the armistice agreement.

(End of this chapter)