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Chapter 690 Limited Alliance

Today’s Persian Sasanian is indeed on the road to expansion under the rule of Shapur II. The new round of war between Persian Sassan and Rome started in [-] AD. The pretext for the war was that Shapur II believed that Rome slandered He persecutes Christianity.In fact, Shapur II was really persecuting Christianity. If history did not change, Shapur II would completely ban the spread of Christianity in [-] AD.

Rome is in a weak state at this stage, especially after Constantine the Great, the first baptized Augustus of Christianity, died of illness ([-] A.D.), Persian Sassan just found a lame reason to go to war with Rome , and Rome itself broke out a war of seizing the emperor, so that there was a one-sided scene in the war between Rome and Persia Sassan.

In some respects, it was the Guishan people and Arabs in the Persian Sasanian territory that saved Rome. The reason was that large-scale rebellions broke out in Syria and Iraq, which caused the Persian Sassanian to lose control of the above two areas, and was once ruled by the kings. Tantius counterattacked.

Last year (AD [-]), the Persian Sasanian army and the Roman army fought in Iraq. The two sides fought very bloody in Sinkara. It is gratifying that it occupies a lot of territory.

At present, the battle to seize the emperor in Rome is still going on, and the term "four emperors co-ruling" has come into being. However, this second "four emperors co-ruling" is much better than the first "four emperors co-ruling". "Much bloodier.

"So... that so-called Roman envoy can only represent Constantius?" Lu Yi met Chianush Arta Ardashir the day after the formal establishment of diplomatic relations. I learned about the current situation in Rome: "Can't fully represent Rome?"

"They really didn't explain it." Chianush Arta Ardashir also described some of the current situation in Rome, so as not to tell Lu Yi, for example, Constantius was one of the most powerful in seizing the emperor. The strongest one is also the one who is most likely to win the battle of seizing the emperor: "A person who can only represent certain provinces cannot represent the entire country."

It must be said that Lu Yizhen did not know what was going on in Rome. Most of his understanding of Rome came from Liu Yan's storytelling, referring to the dictation of some Gupta prisoners of war. Those Gupta prisoners of war never mentioned that civil strife was breaking out in Rome.

Chianush Arta Ardasil said that those were naturally to lower the Han Empire's impression of Rome, and it would be better if it could make the Han Empire feel cheated by the Romans.He himself would not say that his country is also breaking out of internal rebellion, especially the Arabs in the western provinces have the most fierce resistance. Compared with the Guishan people in the east, they are simply scabies.

How far did the Arabs revolt against Sasanian rule?It was the Persian Sasanian who directly lost control of multiple provinces, but the Arabs did not establish a country. On the contrary, the various tribes went their separate ways.

So the earth seems to be in a daze. Several great empires are far away from each other, but in many cases there is chaos. The difference is that in some countries internal conflicts and conflicts between nobles broke out together, while in some countries it was only unilateral.If you look through the history of the world, you will find that there are so many similar situations that it is hard to understand how countries that are so far apart can "infect" each other.

"Thank you for your envoy's message." Lu Yi did attach great importance to Chianush Arta Ardashir's reminder, and even really felt disgusted with the Roman envoys.He raised the wine cup to invite Kianoush Arta Ardashir to drink together, and after putting down the wine cup, he said: "Big Han and Persia indeed have a long history of friendship, and in view of this, we should cooperate more closely. "

This is exactly what Chianush Arta Ardashir wanted. After discussing with his think tank, he believed that it was impossible to form a comprehensive alliance with Han immediately. The more rational and correct way is to start prosperity. If it is allowed, it will form military cooperation in a certain part.

The current main military target of Persian Sasan is of course their western provinces, which urgently need to suppress the Arab rebellion.

The Arabs can only cause trouble to the Persian Sassanid. After the Romans got involved, they have been supporting and guiding the Arabs. As a result, it will be really difficult for the Persian Sasanian to extinguish the rebellion for a while. The weak Rome will still have legions from time to time. Approaching, every time the Persian Sassanian wants to fight but retreats, it is difficult for the Persian Sassanian to take it lightly. Fortunately for the Persian Sasanian, although the Kushan people rebelled, they are completely weak chickens.

The Han Kingdom is currently marching again to the Western Regions, but the footsteps stopped when they reached Shanshan. Kianoush Alta Ardashir understood this, compared the map and found that the eastern province of Persian Sassan is far away from Han The army is too far away, not to mention the Western Regions in the middle, and the Huns are firmly in the middle.

It is not easy for the Persian Sassanids to join forces with the Han army in the east. Even if the Han army is willing to advance westward, considering the relevant terrain restrictions, the Han army will have to face the desert to block the way. Even if it successfully crosses the desert, it will not be easy. It is necessary to bump into the Hunnites who are not weak at the first time.

In fact, the Persian Sasanians did not want Han to expand to Central Asia too much. What they wanted was to have a country in the middle of Han as a buffer. The paradox was that they wanted Han to join the war against Rome.Wanting the Han army to join the war against Rome is a longing that has existed since the time of the Parthian Empire. It was because the Parthian Empire really couldn't stand it under the internal and external troubles. what happens.

The current Persian Sasanian is a bit bad, but his old opponent Rome is even worse. Everyone thinks that they can get external help to gain an advantage, so that they can deal a heavier blow when the opponent is bad.They will attach great importance to the Han Kingdom. First, the reputation of the Han people is loud enough. Second, the Han Kingdom is far enough away. Even if the Han people really set foot in Central Asia or Europe and Rome, it is impossible to stand firm, and there is no real threat.

On the premise that gaining friendship will be a huge boost and there is no real threat at all, forming an ally with such a country is beneficial and harmless, no matter how slim the chance is, it is worth a try.

Chianush Arta Ardashir tried again and again but did not get any valuable reply. He still kept trying again and again, waiting for Lu Yi to make a formal response. He was really pleasantly surprised.

"Xindu!" Chianoush Arta Aldashir tried to calm himself down, and said according to the strategy he had thought up before: "The war broke out between the Han Empire and Xindu, and it is also beneficial to us to attack Xindu. It is absolutely possible to start a military cooperation there now!"

Lu Yi was very satisfied with Kianoush Arta Ardashir's words. At least the Persian in front of him was not shameless enough to use the words of helping Han, but clearly stated that both sides were beneficial.

Of course, the war between the Han Dynasty and the Gupta Dynasty is still going on. According to intelligence, the Gupta Dynasty is planning a second large-scale attack. The number of ships assembled in Cuttak has once again reached [-], and the Gupta Dynasty is still trying its best to build warships. At the same time, the Gupta Dynasty also started its own mobilization.

The Han army in Asanyang, the army is still stationed in the Pingman Colonel’s Headquarters for adaptive training, and there is no plan to land on the mainland of the Gupta Dynasty in a short period of time, and the navy is still used to carry out frequent raids, cutting off Gupta first The dynasty’s maritime trade, looking for opportunities to attack or even annihilate the Gupta dynasty’s navy, put landing operations on the agenda.

In view of the fact that the sea strength of the Gupta Dynasty was not weak, the Han Dynasty repeatedly sent reinforcements to the Pingman Colonel's Department. Almost all domestic non-systematic navies were transferred there, and Liu Yan built a considerable number of system docks around the Pingman Captain's Department. And began to manufacture warships, but the system warships will not immediately join the battle against the Gupta Dynasty navy.

Because the sea power of the countries surrounding the Zhuxia civilization is too weak, the Han people actually have no experience in naval warfare, and more Han people fight inland rivers by themselves, but the experience in water warfare in inland rivers does not use the sea at all.The Han Navy needs to accumulate more maritime combat experience, and blocking the Gupta Dynasty to gain experience will be a very worthwhile thing to do.

In addition, the Han Kingdom also knew that the Gupta Dynasty had sufficient reserves of troops. Ah San's clamor to organize several million troops was more of a joke, but it seemed that it was really possible to organize one million troops at one time.The strength of Ah San's 100 million army can only be known after fighting, but it is difficult for Han to project more than 100 troops.

The invasion of the Gupta Dynasty by the Han Dynasty was a cross-sea battle. Although Liu Yan's relationship did not rely on cross-sea supplies to a large extent, the projection of troops was really a big problem.

The Gupta Dynasty should have a population of more than 2000 million, and the armed Asan will not be less than 40. They will not let the coastline be foolish to let the Han army land, and they will definitely deploy defense lines along the coast.

Huan Wen is now observing the possible landing sites based on the deployment of the Gupta Dynasty. His idea is very simple. To see where the Gupta Dynasty has the strongest deployment of troops, it must be a suitable place for landing.

It must be said that although they are all coastlines, not any place can be used as a landing point, not to mention the coastal reefs, and the seabed extension is also a reference.

There are many coastal areas where the extension of the seabed is exaggerated. Whether it is high tide or low tide, the draft of the extended water area will not be too deep. The position where a sea-going ship with a draft of several meters can approach may be a kilometer from the land. There are places far away, and similar areas are not suitable as landing points at all.

Even during the Second World War, so many technological products appeared, and there were special equipment for charging the beachhead, but landing was still a huge trouble. Think about the landing on the coast where the enemy is sticking to it, in the era of cold weapons What should it look like? It should be that the landing party has to wade through the water and move with difficulty, and also suffer endless arrow attacks, and fall into pieces in the seawater to become corpses.

"Of course we can cooperate." Lu Yi admired Chianush Alta Ardashir's 'sensibility' very much, and the military cooperation between the two countries is really only with Ah San: "Yes Tell me about your proposal?"

Kianush Arta Ardashir was clearly prepared. He first talked about the geopolitics of the Gupta Dynasty, including the fact that the relationship between the Gupta Dynasty and Vagathaka was not good, and then the relationship between the Gupta Dynasty and the surrounding countries. The relationship between the two small countries will be summarized later: "The Han Empire's cutting off the maritime trade routes of the Xindu people certainly has an effect, but it cannot prevent Xindu from continuing to trade with neighboring countries. It will affect their finances, but it is not enough. fatal."

Then again, although Han’s break-up attack cut off the maritime trade routes of the Gupta Dynasty, it was really not for this purpose. It just wanted to destroy more enemy ships. If Nush Arta Ardahir didn't mention it, Lu Yi didn't realize it.

Of course, Zhuxia civilization has the concept of economic warfare. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, economic warfare has been carried out quite a few times, but it has been ignored after waiting for the unification. Even if there is some commodity restriction on the grassland nomads. It must not be an economic war.

Lu Yi didn't understand economic warfare, but he wasn't stupid. He understood it after listening to Chianush Arta Ardashir, but he didn't intend to start with economic warfare.

The reason why the Han State invaded the Gupta Dynasty was for food in the final analysis, and it was not with the intention of fighting the war of annihilation from the beginning.This time the war was a war of conquest. To put it bluntly, it was fought until the Gupta Dynasty succumbed and was willing to accept the conditions offered by the Han Dynasty, mainly for the purpose of extorting food.

Of course, Lu Yi didn't need Chianush Arta Ardahir to say those words.

"Please believe me, although the Xindu people are not strong in war, it is very difficult to destroy them at once." Chianoush Arta Ardashir was carefully observing Lu Yi's expression when he spoke. Yi frowned and explained: "Xindu is a country with a population of 3000 to [-] million. Because of the prosperity of foreign trade, they are very rich in the country. There are no obvious internal conflicts. When encountering a crisis, they can unite and resist."

It is really not that easy to destroy a country, especially not a small country with a narrow land and few people.The demise of a big country is usually due to internal and external troubles, powerlessness to resist externally, and difficulty to appease internally, so the country perishes under internal and external difficulties.

"Before coming to the Han Empire, we specially invited the Serbians (Liangsatrapu) and Kushan people (Jidoruo Dynasty)." Kianoush Arta Ardasil saw Lu Yibu He said with a smile: "One of them has a border connection with Xindu in the northwest, and the other can affect many countries even though it is separated from Xindu by several countries."

(End of this chapter)