sweeping the world

Chapter 1095

"The lights are dim... I can't get enough of it!"

Liu Yan traveled from 340 A.D. to the time when the status of the Han people was far inferior to that of beasts. It has been 26 years since then.

At the beginning of time travel, Liu Yan was 24 years old, and now he is 50 years old.His oldest son is 21 years old after the Chinese New Year, but his youngest son is only a few months old.

It has been 24 years since the establishment of the Han Empire. It stood up from the bloody storm, and its waist became straighter and straighter. It slaughtered the once mighty Jie tribe, defeated Xianbei, Qiang, Di and various Hu, and then recovered the ancestors. The old land of the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains.

Now there are no Jie, Xianbei, Bei, Qiang, Di, and Zahu within thousands of miles of the border of the Han Empire. They were either slaughtered, or merged into Han people, or became slaves.

The land belonging to the pre-Han was completely restored before the 16th year of Yuanshuo, and even the contemporary Han people have greatly expanded it.

The southwest peninsula has become a sacred and inseparable part of the Han Empire. Even Asan also conquered the Gupta Empire, and then swallowed up a small country or state every two years. Tuojia, two Satrapus perished in the 19st year of Yuanshuo.

Up to now, there are only some marginal and wild places in the Asan Continent where there are states or tribes, otherwise they all fell under the rule of the Han Empire.

The rule of the Han Empire in the Asan Continent was based on the enfeoffment of many vassal states, but the essence of the Ganges River Basin and the Indus River Basin were naturally owned by the state, and the rest of the places were exercised classical enfeoffment.

Counting the kingdoms, there are at least 72 kingdoms in the Asan Continent, and there are countless feudal states.The largest Hou State has tens of thousands of square kilometers of land, and the smallest fiefdom is only the size of a village.

There are Hous of the Hou State, they are actually not in their own Hou State most of the time, they will appoint their own heirs to manage the Hou State, and they either live in Chang'an for a long time, or go abroad to fight or perform official duties abroad.

The six years of foreign wars after the 17th year of Yuanshuo produced nearly twenty marquises, thousands of upper and middle princes, and countless lower princes.

Because it is entering into a war at the level of the national war, the war with the anti-Han axis headed by Rome and Sasanian, the Han Empire maintained a state of national mobilization in the first four years, and gradually slowed down from the fifth year Recruitment of troops.

Now, the standing army of the Han Empire has soared to 24. Except for the legions with special prefixes such as the Huben Army and the Habayashi Army, the organizational system of each standing army has increased from 5 to 8000.

Not counting the counties and counties in the territory, but only the number of soldiers in the standing army, the Han Empire had a field corps with a scale of nearly 23 in the 70rd year of Yuanshuo.

70万野战兵团之中，列装火器的部队从元朔17年的不到一万6000人，是增加到了12万7000人。

Among the 12 men, in addition to the artillery, there were as many as 7000 soldiers with flintlocks.

It took about six years for the Han Empire to equip four firearms troops.

At present, there is a plan for the restructuring of the army, but it has not been fully implemented. According to Liu Yan's plan, the new military system will not be implemented until the army is fully refitted.

The Great War has lasted for nearly seven years, and the larger battlefields are the Sassanian battlefield, the Roman battlefield, and the Asan battlefield.

The Sasanian battlefield has been advancing westward in a steady and orderly manner. There have been six large-scale battles. The following small and medium-sized battles are somewhat difficult to count. After all, encounters between scouts can also be regarded as small battles.

The other side of the Roman battlefield can only report to the mainland once a year. In the five years or so of fighting, there were only seven naval battles. In one of them, the number of warships invested by Rome exceeded a thousand. After that, the Roman navy completely withered. .

The battles on the Asan continent were more frequent than the Sassanian battlefield and the Roman battlefield, and the speed of advancement and expansion was also different between the two battlefields.The reason is naturally that the enemies facing the Tianzhu Protectorate's Mansion... are really not that good, and they are also easier to conquer.

Qian Jiantong only has two standing armies and less than 40 county and county soldiers in his hands, but he has nearly [-] Asan servants under his command, and the more he fights, the more servants he has under his command, and it has already become three major groups. The one with the largest number of troops on the battlefield.

The eastern part of the Sassanian is barren and hardly productive.In addition to the fact that the original land was not very good, the Persians destroyed as much as possible when they retreated. It is not possible to restore production in a short time.Furthermore, the Persians had already made preparations to evacuate the civilians, and the population was relocated before the development of the war situation was unfavorable to them.

The Western Expeditionary Corps not only had to fight against the Sasanian army, but also built long roads. The captured prisoners of war were basically consumed on road construction, and even the natives captured from the surrounding area were also thrown into the road construction army. The servants are selected from the Western Regions.

The Han Empire has always had a policy of reducing the number of people in the Western Regions. In the process, it is inevitable to suppress the rebellious Western Regions. After pulling out nearly 30 men as cannon fodder for servants, there are really not many adult men left in the Western Regions.Even the remaining ones are basically relatives of the Han people... that is, the Han people accepted the women from the Western Regions, and the families of those women became the household registrations of Guihuahu.

The environment on the expeditionary fleet was even worse. First of all, the people on Europa were too unfamiliar with the Han Empire, not only the Romans, but the natives in the western part of Europa had never heard of the Han Empire.

Rome has ruled Europa for more than a thousand years, and it is difficult for the threatening and aggressive native Europa people to grow up, especially the western and central regions of Europa that Rome values ​​most.

As an overlord that has flourished for more than a thousand years, the Romans are more ambitious than the Persians. They have lost a wide angle in the westernmost part of Europe. Many noble families have organized twelve counterattacks in three years, but they have failed even once. Force the Han army back to the sea.

The number of gunboats in the expeditionary fleet gradually increased to thirteen, ten of which were stationed outside the occupied area. Even if they were not anchored and immobile, they were still cruising within the sea area where reinforcements could be made within two hours.

There are ten gunboats, which means that the Han army on land can receive artillery support from the sea anytime and anywhere. In addition, in two or three years, the Han army on land has also established its own fortifications, and even built fortresses. There were no less than ten, one large military city, and the army itself had artillery units. Every time the Romans counterattacked, they would leave a lot of corpses, but they could not shake them at all.

When the nobles in the western part of Europa counterattacked, the Constantine family was not idle.

The Strait of Gibraltar is controlled by the Han army, which means that the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea has been blocked. Even if the Constantine family has no military wisdom, they should understand the consequences of a single entrance being blocked.

In the short period of two or three years, the expeditionary fleet has already messed up the entire Mediterranean Sea. Almost every day, there are hordes of Han warships criss-crossing the Mediterranean Sea, chasing and killing any ships that are not their own. Find a Roman coastal city that is under defense and land to fight and plunder.

In just two or three years, Rome couldn't even control Africa. If it weren't for the communication between the central and western parts of Europe on land, it is not known whether those places belong to the Roman Empire.

Rome naturally tried to drive the Han army out of the Mediterranean Sea. Some previously sealed warships were pulled out again, and they were building ships all the time.

Unfortunately for the Romans, not only were their warships inferior to the Han army, but the tragedy was that they were even inferior in number. It was completely unbelievable that Rome was fighting at home, more like the Han Empire home field.

The worst thing for the Romans at present is not only the loss of sea control in the Mediterranean, but also the inability of western Europe to drive the Han army that has landed into the sea, and then the Germans from Eastern Europe (actually Central Europe) are also coming to disrupt the situation.

The Germans have entered the stage of the rise of barbarians, and have previously established three countries.

The Franks controlled most of the territories of later Belgium and the Netherlands, and were the strongest of the three Germanic states.It's just that their country has not yet been recognized by the Romans, and is still regarded as part of the vassal tribe by the Romans.

Burgundy controls southern Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany (Cologne and the Rhine). They should be one of the three Germanic countries that has the greatest shortage of iron ore, and they are moving to the Franks and Alemannia. The sale of finished weapons and armor was also not recognized by Rome as a sovereign country.

The Alemanni control part of western France and some mountainous areas in Switzerland. They are the poorest of the three established Germanic countries but retain the most barbaric customs. They are still the most able to fight, that is, the people's livelihood is simply It's abysmal.At the same time, they are also the closest to Rome among the three Germanic countries, but they seek sovereign independence.

After the Han Empire marched westward, especially when the expeditionary fleet led by Huan Wen landed in the west of Europa, the three Germanic countries had many king-to-king communications. Even Alemanni, who was closest to Rome, thought that they were the most Favorable timing, even if it is not a direct war against Rome, is also a good opportunity for the Romans to recognize that they are a sovereign and independent country.

Of course, there is no such word as "sovereign independence" now. In fact, Frank, Burgundy and Alemanni no longer want to pay tribute to the Romans every year, and at the same time, they are no longer willing to accept the military command of the Romans. They want to have the final say on everything. .

The three countries united to communicate with the Romans, mainly to appeal to the Roman nobles in central Europe. At least they need to get the pass from the Roman nobles in central Europe, otherwise they don’t need to negotiate with Constantinople. .

The Roman nobles in central Europe gave a simple and direct reply to the three countries. They directly sent troops to teach them a lesson. The result was naturally a war.

The three countries have sent envoys to the Han Empire. They may not have learned other things, and the Han people will not teach anything in particular, but the Han people have specially taught this sentence "Without bloodshed, there will be no rise." Apparently they have I think the Han people are right.

If the ancient route of Egypt is not dug through, the only entrance to the Mediterranean Sea will be occupied by the Han Empire and cannot be taken back.If Egypt's estuary to the sea is re-dug, it will also face the navy with the absolute advantage of the Han Empire.It's the same no matter what Rome does.

The part about Africa can still be connected, but every time you practice, you have to go around thousands of miles of land.

Not only that, the Han army has already begun to increase its attack on the African part of Rome, and at the same time it is also supporting the spokesperson. I believe that it will not be long before Rome's territory in Africa will be lost.

The coastal cities in the Mediterranean were repeatedly harassed and looted by the Han army, and the once extremely prosperous maritime trade no longer existed.

The expansion of the source of troops for war requires money, and the armed soldiers also need money, and money is spent in various aspects.

Rome had just moved from fragmentation to apparent unity not long ago, and Constantius II actually didn't have much money on hand.

Then there was a bad start in the era of Roman officers. If you don’t have money, don’t say that the army doesn’t like you. Augustus, the nobles even look down on them, and Constantius, who is extremely short of money, dare not liquidate those nobles. Not even big businessmen dare to kill, and there is a church jumping up and down.

The Han Empire only sent an expedition fleet over, and the invasion could not be considered a formal large-scale invasion. As a result, Rome was left in such a disgraced state, which was actually beyond the expectations of Rome.

As a last resort, Constantius II called a council.

Because of the invasion of the Han army and the terrible situation in Rome, the nobles who had conflicts before gave the Constantine family face, even if they were not the head of the family, they would send their confidantes there.

That meeting lasted for nearly a month, and there were only two conclusions: Either the whole of Rome was truly united, especially willing to donate money as military expenses; armistice.

Obviously, donations are the worst choice for the Roman nobles. Only the nobles in western Europe who are actually threatened are more enthusiastic, otherwise even those Roman nobles who are being looted and invaded by the Han Empire’s navy have doubts.

What they are afraid of is that after the donation, the Constantine family still seeks a truce with the Han Empire. The money was indeed spent on the expansion of the Constantine family's army, and then used those troops to deal with them, in order to achieve at least the Caesar period. Unity of all Rome.

It is an obvious fact that it is difficult for a disunited Rome to compete with the Han Empire.

If we want to unite but are worried about the conflicts during the period of division, then we have only the second option left.

The envoys sent by Rome had already left Constantinople, and would go to Egypt, then turn to the peninsula, to seek the Han Empire Navy to send them to the mainland of the Han Empire, and then arrive in Chang'an.

(End of this chapter)