Chapter 746

On the sea, there are countless ships in formation. From a distance, the column of ships can't see the end. A pair of sails cover the sky and cover the sun.

Li Mai is naturally on the flagship of the fleet. He stands on the edge of the window of the sparrow room (bridge) and looks at the invisible end of the fleet. He is full of ambition for being able to lead such a huge fleet at the same time.

The concept of the state-owned navy of the Han Dynasty was as early as the beginning of the founding of the people's Republic of China. At that time, the Han Army, which also claimed to be the Ministry of the Han Dynasty, had mastered the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, and repeatedly used the convenience of HNA to avoid the edge of Shijie Zhao army.

It was precisely in the early stage that they had enough knowledge of the sea and started the journey of opening up maritime aviation resources. That is, the seafood obtained from the sea every year supported meat supplies, enriched the military and civilian dining tables, and the military and civilian who received more nutrition were more healthy.

After nine years of Yuanshuo, the Han people were no longer limited to the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. They could see ships fishing and hunting at sea along the coast of the Han family's territory. For example, the sea area outside Yizhou also included the rising sea (i.e. the South 1 sea). Further away, there were fishing boats out of the island chain. Only catching small fish and shrimp was no longer enough for the Han people. Some fleets also deliberately killed whales.

The development and utilization of the sea opened another talent skill of the Han people, that is, how to eat seafood, and how to make the seafood transported further after treatment. After all, the price of selling seafood inland must be higher. If there is interest, someone will try every means, and all kinds of means have sprung up.

There is no doubt that the sea is a huge treasure house, which is not limited to marine products. In particular, the discovery of too many islands has increased the types of treasure houses, such as spices on Luzon and surrounding islands, pearls and corals rich in some sea areas, and open-pit gold mines on some islands. There are a lot of jadeite and other things that Han people prefer, but the value of gemstones has not been stimulated.

There are some things. During the Han people's exploration of the ocean, they went to more than one island and found that the wood used by the savages to build houses there is very precious sandalwood. The stones used as dining tables are simply jadeite or gem stones.

Savages naturally don't know the value of fragrant wood, have no values for jadeite and gemstones, and don't even know what's strange about golden gold, but the Han people know that it's fun.

Today's Han people still work directly. They really don't have the habit of exchanging worthless things with savages. If they can get one vote, they can directly use the knife. If they can't eat it for a time, they will call friends. If they can't even eat it, they will call the army. Many savage tribes that have no competition with the world withdrew from the world stage so early.

Too many examples of casually finding treasure aroused the enthusiasm of Han people to go out to sea to look for treasure. Even if only a few people can get rich, it really confirmed the rumors that there are treasure houses overseas, which naturally makes more Han people who want to get rich and have the spirit of adventure go out to sea.

Liu Yan's enthusiasm for folk going to sea is a happy attitude, even if this phenomenon is to increase the difficulty of the government's management of folk.

Why did all dynasties strictly control the exploration of the ocean? In fact, it is because of worry that too many people go to sea and go to places beyond their control. If too many people go to sea, it will cause population loss. You know, one of the evaluation of local officials' political achievements is the population. Again, the sea is a place full of wildness, and honest people will become fierce once they have the experience of living on the sea. After they get rich, they return to their hometown more difficult to control than anyone else.

The regime of each dynasty, they even control the scope of people's activities on land, how can they allow people to go to the sea?

Liu Yan is well aware of the truth that Tianyu will be blamed if he doesn't take it. He doesn't even restrict the flow of people on land, and it's even impossible to restrict going to sea. As for increasing the difficulty of managing the people, he doesn't want to be a "shepherd". On the contrary, he is eager to rule the people like wolves.

Even if a weak nation can exist for a while, it will be wiped out when it encounters a strong and cruel alien. It is not that the Han people have almost been wiped out.

At present, there are no decent forces on the sea. Any resistance will be easily crushed by the Han people. It's not so easy to quit when it's easy to return the sea to the hands of the Han people. It's not so easy to go again when others get the first hand.

Liu Yan, as a jumper, was not unaware of the Ming Dynasty's voyages to the West. He would not be soft when he could easily control the sea. He regretted only when he found that there was a threat at sea.

It can even be said that Liu Yan has a strong sense of urgency. His generation has a systematic cheating device, which the next generation of kings will not have. If they don't do more work while they are alive, they will be stupid to the extreme, or they won't be tough and open up when the "basic plate" is damaged.

Where did the huge fleet under Li Mai come from? Among them, 2000 warships were produced from the system, and the remaining 600 were painstakingly built and trained. He didn't know too many secrets. Before, he was confused that the Han state clearly had a huge fleet, why didn't he end the war with the Gupta Dynasty at the first time. Now, no matter how much confusion he had, he was full of thoughts of making achievements.

"Ah San was scared to death when he saw such a large fleet."

Naturally, Fu Wei also went to war. He was arranged in the battle sequence with the Persian fleet and led the fleet to the battle of eltaba Marcistius did not stay at his flagship, but got on Fu Wei's ship.

It is not clear whether the Gupta Navy will be scared to pee. Eltaba, who led 58 large and small ships, came here Mathistius was scared to pee when he saw the endless warships of the Han army.

Not only eltaba The Persians on the side of mycestius, Julian, the Roman centurion who was allowed to watch the naval battle Gaia was scared to pee, too.

There are more than 2500 large and small warships, not counting some necessary supply ships. Most of them are still big men equipped with bed crossbows. In the world known to the Persians and Romans, it is estimated that no one can come up with such a fleet except the Han state.

There are more than 1500 ships in the Gupta Dynasty, but most of them are refitted from merchant ships. There are only 400 ships that can really be regarded as war ships, not even war ships. The 400 can be regarded as regular warships. More than 200 were built after the Gupta Dynasty changed to the war system. In short, they were launched within a year.

The Romans dominated the Mediterranean. When the largest number of warships were in service at the same time, there were more than 400. Their warships were still of the same Greek style, that is, the calm sea in the Mediterranean was unreliable, so that they could sink to the bottom of the sea in case of larger winds and waves, let alone sail in an unstable sea.

The Persian marine fleet is not bad, that is, more than 300 ships in number. Their warship style is very similar to that of the Gupta Dynasty, and has some Greek characteristics. For example, they like to get some useless carvings and sculptures on the ship.

The large and small warships sent by the Han country to the expedition sequence randomly pulled out more than 2500. It makes no sense that there are no warships in China. The Romans and Persians can't imagine how many warships there are in the Han country. The number of warships in the expedition sequence alone is more than their combined number, or the fleet that has been tested for thousands of miles!

"They can deploy 300000 troops tens of thousands of miles away and send more than 2600 fleets on expeditions..."

"It's terrible!"

"The army is 300000, and the navy is at least 250000, which adds up to 550000!"

"It's terrible!"

At this moment, the Persian altaba Marcistius and Julian the Romans Gaihia forgot their hatred. If they could, they wanted to hug and warm up. All because the military strength shown by the Han country really scared them from inside to outside.

Fu Wei doesn't understand Persian and Roman, and the vast majority of Chinese people won't learn languages other than Chinese. For them, there is no language to learn except Chinese. It should be foreigners to learn Chinese. He couldn't understand what the two people around him were talking about, but he could roughly guess something from their faces. He didn't care what they thought.

Han people never hide their strength. For Han people, the views of different nationalities are never important. If it's irrelevant, Han people don't bother to see what others think of themselves. Once they have a relationship... For example, foreign nationalities show their teeth and don't mind teaching how to be a man with violence.

"The Han Empire is our ally!" Eltaba Mathisteus raised his chin to Julian as if he were cheering himself Gaihia said emphatically, "we have formed an alliance!"

Julian Gaia knew about eltaba What marcistius is showing off is that he doesn't have a special feeling.

Different from the Persians, the rise of the Romans has determined that the Romans will find allies, but they usually teach an alien a lesson and wait for the alien to yield before driving. The strength that lasted for hundreds of years gave the Romans enough self-confidence. It's good to have a strong ally, but if the ally is strong enough to threaten themselves, it's time to play a game to separate the master and slave first. There really won't be the mentality of Persians who think they can't hold their thighs at the first time.

The mentality of the Persians is completely understandable. Their competition with the Romans has been at a disadvantage for a long time. It is very rare to have an advantage. If they can't do it, they naturally hope to find help.

In the former Parthian Empire, they were constantly looking for allies before subjugation. Even unreliable Huns were hired. They knew that the strength of the Han Empire had been kneeling and licking.

For a long time, Persians had a residual thought that if the Han Empire had been willing to lend a helping hand, the war with the Romans would not have ended like that. This kind of afterthought lasted for hundreds of years. Needless to say, if we didn't meet the Han people, we pursued alliance to achieve our dream to some extent.

A burst of war drums came from nowhere. Fu Wei raised his telescope to observe.

Eltaba Mathistius immediately looked at the telescope in Fu Wei's hand. He was lucky to borrow it from Fu Wei. He not only felt strange about the telescope that could narrow the field of vision, but also knew the military use of the telescope. It was a treasure to anticipate the enemy's opportunities, not only on the sea, but also on the land. He already had the idea to get at least one telescope anyway. If legal trade can't work, use illegal means. The target has been selected, that is, the sworn enemy, the Persian altaba The telescope in marcistius's hand.

Eltaba Marcistius' telescope was neither stolen nor robbed. It was ergotel Bahram used 20 female slaves and 500 gold coins to buy the value of a telescope, a total of five.

Persians can buy it, Julian Gaihia can't buy it, and the reason is quite simple. Han and Persian sassanne are allies, but Han and Rome are not allies.

Of course, Fu Wei is not qualified to sell such materials as telescopes. It was Huan Wen who nodded, and Huan Wen was allowed in China.

The Han parliament agreed to sell telescopes to the Persians, mainly because the price offered by the Persians was high enough, and the Persians repeatedly showed their sincerity in alliance.

In fact, there is no technology lock for the telescope at all. When it is impossible to produce glass, it is nothing more than polishing the crystal. The secret of how to make it is clear at a glance unless there is no loss of the telescope. If there is a telescope that can be used for reference. In other words, it is impossible to keep the secret forever.

Fu Wei observed the flagship of the fleet, saw the raised flag and shouted to the chief officer, "enter the combat state!"

The huge fleet must be divided into queues, which is even much more complex than the arrangement of land warfare. The Han Army did not have sufficient experience in fighting large fleets. Li Mai used the land arrangement scheme for reference when arranging.

The huge fleet of 2650 ships is divided into two parts. A large formation of 1800 ships has been sailing in a circuitous way, and another formation of 850 ships has gone straight to the enemy's military port.

During the voyage, Li Mai just organized the fleet to sail, which was basically a finished large fleet formation, and six small fleets were cruising around.

Before the war drum was sounded, the small fleet outside had actually found Gupta's reconnaissance ship and launched a pursuit. Since the reconnaissance ship on Gupta's side was found, it indicates that Gupta's large fleet must be nearby.

The fleet that enters the battle state and so on is to scatter out one's own investigation vessels to find out where the enemy is, and then adjust the direction of the voyage.

At this moment, Li Mai is also observing with a telescope. He looked at the southeast, where a gray and black pillar of smoke was rising, indicating that another fleet had begun to attack, but it was not clear whether it was in the stage of naval battle or landing.