sweeping the world

Chapter 658 Meet and Say "Hello"?
Youdao is an inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood. It is not only about the tragedy of being invaded, but also the blood that needs to be shed when pioneering.

Any ethnicity has a time of generous elegy, that is when the nation is invaded, the soldiers and the people rise up to resist, in order to prevent the loss of the land that their ancestors have lived for generations, they fight the enemy one after another.

Every nation has had the experience of opening up territories. Some nations have found it extremely difficult. Not only do they have to fight desperately with the enemy, but they also need to fight with nature. Almost every inch of land is watered with blood.

Throughout the long river of history, there are countless wars fought for living space. Under the cruel competition, many ethnic groups have been submerged by the torrent of the long river of history, and disappeared in a real sense, becoming the nourishment for the growth of other ethnic groups.

If you don't want to disappear in the fierce competition, you must always maintain blood. Not only dare to fight desperately when encountering an invasion, but also show your fangs and dare to grab the land you can see.

Every nation has its pioneering period and conservative period.The nation in the pioneering period is the most aggressive. They will invade any enemy they can see. It is very likely that they will win continuously but lose all at once. That is because the nation has not effectively digested the invaded resources.

The nation (country) that stops pioneering and enters the conservative period is actually entering a period of weakness, and is usually invaded by surrounding alien races at this time. If it fails to rise up and enter the pioneering period again, the nation (country) will actually be The countdown to extinction has entered.

"We are planning to invade, and we don't want to do it overnight." Fu Wei will board the ship and leave the port tomorrow, and needs to communicate closely with Si Hongzhuang: "There is no need to say more about the importance of this stronghold. Get on track as soon as possible."

Si Hongzhuang responded with a solemn nod.

The Han Kingdom will establish a lot of strongholds on the Asanyang side, with Si Hongzhuang's stronghold as the main base, expanding to the surrounding areas, and then setting up many sub-strongholds.

The strongholds on the invasion route have many functions, and one of the main functions is to provide logistical support for the invading troops. Naturally, there is no need to talk about the use as a transfer station.It is also the repair and maintenance base of the fleet, and it is also a port of call.Another role is to serve as a garrison point, so that the troops coming from a long voyage can take a breather.

"After half a month, the second batch of fleets will depart from Panyu, and they should arrive here in about two months." Fu Wei smiled and reminded: "Zijun's immediate priority is to build more warehouses."

It took two months from Panyu to the immediate base of Diangupta under the premise of a favorable wind, and it would take longer if the wind was headwind, and it did not seem exaggerated to take six or seven months to arrive.And that's using a paddle, not relying on wind power.

Fu Wei left the port this time to explore the surrounding area of ​​the bay, at least to get a rough idea of ​​the sea conditions first.Waiting for the second batch of fleets to arrive, it was time for them to return to the stronghold to replenish supplies such as fresh water, especially for various supplies that can provide vitamins.

Thanks to the natural deep-water port in this stronghold, ships do not need to stop far away from the coastline, which is an excellent convenience for loading and unloading goods, and also indicates that Si Hongzhuang should put the construction of the port at the top of the list It is unacceptable for a military port that it would be difficult to find a berth without the fleet coming over.

"I read the log." Si Hongzhuang was talking about the records of the ship's traffic in the stronghold, and those were Zhang Li's previous achievements: "Unidentified ships have been found to be operating in the nearby waters many times."

"Huh?!" Fu Wei didn't have the right to read the stronghold log, so he asked, "What's going on?"

"The sudden increase in the number of Han ships in this sea area must have attracted the attention of neighboring countries." Si Hongzhuang is really not familiar with HNA, but it doesn't mean he can't guess anything: "Besides, we are on the coast. I can't even cover my movements."

The stronghold they chose was located on the southwest coast of the Pyu Kingdom. Although this area was not the territory of the Pyu Kingdom, who could guarantee that no savages would ask for help from the Pyu Kingdom in the face of invasion?
In this area, the Gupta Dynasty is the most powerful.A powerful country will definitely radiate its influence to neighboring countries. When a weak country encounters an invasion from a powerful country from afar, it seems not incomprehensible to ask for help from a regional power.

"For the time being, no ships other than ours have come to observe." Si Hongzhuang patted the document and said in a certain tone: "But that will definitely happen. Does the navy have a countermeasure?"

The navy of the Han Dynasty has not been built for many years. Compared with some nations and countries that have been playing in the coastal waters for a long time, the Han navy is only in its infancy, and because it has no opponents at sea, it can be said that it is extremely inexperienced.

The so-called lack of experience is that none of the command system, including the center, fully understands what is going on in naval warfare, and how to operate when entering the sea area within the sphere of influence of other countries.

Fu Wei blinked and said the countermeasure: "If you see it, will you capture one or sink one?"

It's so simple and rude, it's a bit of a taste of war in later generations, but it's enough to show that the Han people who have just sailed have sufficient confidence in their own strength, and they will have many more enemies for no reason, but they really don't care at all .

The word that popped out of Si Hongzhuang's mind was "Sure enough", and he faced Fu Wei with a speechless expression.

"Is there something wrong?" Fu Wei also knew that the order he accepted was overbearing, but he did not hesitate: "The big man has the ability to destroy any enemy, whether it is on land or at sea!"

"Although he can scare the enemy, it seems that there is no other better way." Si Hongzhuang said somewhat helplessly: "Destroying the ships can create the effect of the fog of war, which is indeed better than them being able to detect the real situation."

In fact, there are absolutely not many countries that will enter this sea area. At present, they are the ships of the Gupta Dynasty.However, this sea area does not have the maritime trade route that the Gupta Dynasty paid too much attention to. The most important thing for the Gupta Dynasty is the route to Egypt.

The main maritime trade objects of the Gupta Dynasty were the Greeks and Egyptians under the territory ruled by the Eastern Romans, and their trade share with the Sasanian Dynasty, which had a land channel, was not much.

As for the diplomatic relations between the Gupta Dynasty and the Sasanian Dynasty, there is no official official information from the Han Dynasty, but it can be judged from the trade share that even if the two sides are not incompatible, the relationship will definitely not be much better.

The trade share between countries will provide a lot of information. Even if there is competition between the two sides, no one can do anything to the other. Everyone has a place to rely on the other, and the trade share will account for a large share of the imports and exports of the two countries.In this case, interdependent countries will not easily allow competition to evolve into war. (Similar to China and the United States)
In ancient times, country-to-country trade was not as complicated as it is in modern times. Since the Gupta Dynasty had an exaggeratedly large trade share with Eastern Rome and a pitifully low trade share with the Sasanian Dynasty, we can infer the relevant geopolitical relationship.

There may be trade routes between the Gupta Dynasty and the Central Plains Dynasty, but it is definitely lower than the trade with the Sasanian Dynasty. The stronghold log in Si Hongzhuang's hand mentioned that there were unknown ships appearing in this sea area, which is most likely the Han Dynasty in this sea area. The increase in the number of ships in the country attracted the attention of the Gupta Dynasty, not because they discovered that there was already a Han army stronghold here, let alone because the ships of the Gupta Dynasty never returned to the Straits of Malacca.

After all, the current voyage is not so fast, but it is basically calculated in years for tens of thousands of miles, and it took nearly half a year for the Han army to control Malacca. The Gupta Dynasty did not notice that the ships heading east did not return. At least until next year.

So far, the monsoon has not been discovered by many people, and ships sailing on the sea basically still rely on human oars.A ship's manning may only be [-]% warriors, but [-]% sailors.

Many countries also have one thing in common in the staffing of ships, which are divided into soldiers, sailors, and slaves.Warriors are naturally the force used to fight.In addition to operating the ship, sailors will also participate in fighting when necessary.The existence of slaves is used as labor, that is, to row the oars of the ship, to provide power for the movement of the ship.

With the advance base, Fu Wei's fleet can unload more materials, just keep what is needed for this voyage, so that the ships can run faster with less load.After they left the port, they used three ships as a formation to explore according to the pre-divided areas.

The sea area on the Asan Ocean side is about the same size as the South 1 Sea. The difference is that the Asan Ocean does not have as many islands as the South 1 Sea. It is impossible to find islands easily when exploring. What can be done is to record the basic sea conditions in this sea area.

"According to the previous exploration information, there is an island chain located in the A32 area." Liang Min is the first officer of the flagship. There is no more discovery in Fangyuan."

The so-called grid map is quite simple, it is a modern tactical map.The terrain of a certain area is divided into grids. The horizontal lines have a prefix code, and the vertical lines also have a prefix code. The number of the first grid is naturally one, and the position is confirmed by the grid number.People who can play strategy games are no strangers to this kind of tactical map, which is used to inform the friendly side where the enemy is.In fact, the emergence of this tactical map was originally used by artillery to make it easier to cover bombardment.

The navy of the Han Dynasty used a grid map instead of a latitude and longitude map. Isn’t it true that no one in the Central Plains Dynasty has figured out the longitude and latitude lines until now!

Whether it is called latitude and longitude, latitude and longitude, or meridian, in fact, the East and the West were doing related research before BC.

What the East came up with was the initial meridian, with the capital of the country as the center of the world, and then the location of the imperial palace to determine the line. This is the origin of the Central Dynasty.

The first time similar theories appeared in the West was during the Alexander period, which was earlier than the relevant theories in the Central Plains Dynasty, and the relevant judgments were also made according to the sunshine.

In fact, regardless of whether it is the East or the West, the preliminary theories of both have been proved to be wrong later on. The real longitude and latitude lines are mature after the launch of the satellite.

The base of the Pingman Colonel's Department is in Yangon, which is not close to the Gupta Dynasty in Asan's territory. Since the ship from the side to the Gupta Dynasty has not yet returned, Fu Wei even has difficulty judging the distance between the two .

Sailing at sea is a very boring thing, but boring means that there is no situation, and no situation is a good thing.

The boring voyage will make time pass very slowly, and every day and night seems to be a long torment, but Fu Wei would rather this torment last longer than encounter a storm at sea.

The Han Dynasty called this sea area Asanyang, which was Liu Yan's casual name. If no one corrects it, Asanyang will really become the official name.In fact, there are many names for this ocean. Asan is naturally called the Indian Ocean, but Westerners call it the Eritrean Sea.

When the United Nations drew up maps in later generations, it recognized the name of this sea area as the Indian Ocean. That is because ancient India has really been in this sea area, and it has belonged to India's sphere of influence for thousands of years.

It can be ruled by a certain force for thousands of years, even if there is a fault in the civilization, as long as it does not stop going to sea, even if some data is lost, it will be replenished quickly.

"We don't know what's going on there." Kapil Malik is of course Asan, a superior Kshatriya, just a minor noble.He was ordered to figure out the new situation in the southeastern waters, and no reports of missing ships had been received yet.

I won’t go into too much detail about Asan’s caste. The Sudra class will not be recorded in the official household registration in any dynasty of Asan. Only the classes above the Sudra are considered citizens. Therefore, the population statistics of Asan’s various dynasties In fact, they are all incomplete.

In Asan's dynasty, only the Vaishya class was qualified to do business, and it was they who were responsible for the flow of national resources, and of course they were also responsible for foreign trade.

"Weird things have happened recently." Dirang Kumar is also a member of the Kshatriya class. He looked at the sea outside and said, "I haven't seen a single ship from the East in the past few years, but in half a year there have been as many as Thirteen strands of Eastern merchants came from the sea."

The establishment of the Gupta Dynasty was in AD [-], which is now AD [-].They were built on the ruins of the Guishuang Empire, and the Guishuang Empire has not yet perished. There is also a Jidoluo Dynasty lingering in the later Afghan region, but this Jidoluo Dynasty claims to be not the Da Yuezhi, but Little Yueshi people.

The Gupta Dynasty, which has been established for 28 years, has been at war with neighboring countries in the past few years. It has been relatively peaceful in recent years to engage in internal affairs. They have inherited most of the Guishuang Empire’s navy, and their use of the sea is beginning to reach its peak. Mainly Carry out maritime trade.

There was a sudden shout from outside, as if the watchman had spotted the ship.

"Apart from us, who else is in this sea area?" Seeing the deputy shaking his head, Kapil Malik said excitedly: "It seems that we didn't run in vain again."

(End of this chapter)