Chapter 856

"Wang Meng will arrive today?"

"General, the fleet has reached 'Dingwu'."

Now Huanwen is full of spirit. He led his army across the sea, destroyed gitanado in half a month, and occupied all the coasts of the Gupta Dynasty in four months. There are many generals who conquered the city and destroyed the country in the history of various Xia dynasties, but no general has done such a great cause of crossing the sea and destroying the country as he did.

Dingwu was the first area where the Han army landed in gitanado. There were only some small fishing villages there. In order to better land the troops coming across the sea, Huan Wen ordered to build a military port on the first landing, followed by a barracks, which was slowly expanded into an important military town.

As the Han Army captured the coast of the Gupta Dynasty, especially ketak, the largest port of the Gupta Dynasty, the military status of Dingwu, located in gitanada, has been reduced again and again, but it still has great political significance.

Zhuxia is very particular about its geographical location. Once it is built by the army, there will basically be a word "Wu" when naming it.

Throughout history, there are too many places with the word "Wu" in Zhuxia, especially in the spring and Autumn period.

At that time, all princes paid attention to spring ploughing and autumn war. Every place where the army went, it was necessary to build strongholds, ranging from large to small. Some were built hastily, while others were built on a permanent scale.

Because it was built to garrison troops, it was basically named "Wucheng". As a result, when you spread out the maps of the spring and Autumn period, all the maps were named "Wucheng".

The Eastern Han Dynasty is the tail of the classical military of Zhuxia. Although there are still some traces of the classical era in the later dynasties, some traditions have disappeared. For example, after the Western Jin Dynasty, the outward expansion of Zhuxia no longer appeared "Wucheng", and even lost the old tradition of building cities and towns everywhere the army went.

The decline of "Wucheng" shows a serious problem. Looking at the changes in the size of the territory of each dynasty, we will find that the territory of Zhuxia before the Eastern Han Dynasty was increasing even if it expanded slowly, and it was still firmly controlled (not taken away by other countries) until the demise of the dynasty.

Losing the old tradition of building "Wucheng", it is as powerful as Yang Sui and Li Tang. The real situation is that the Sui Army (Tang Army) came. This land is sui soil (Tang soil). However, with the departure of the Sui Army (Tang Army), the land has become owned by other nationalities (other countries).

The local administrative unit "Jimi district" was initiated by Yang Sui. The so-called "Jimi district" means that the place on the map nominally belongs to Yang Sui's territory, but in fact it only has a name. Whether those who really control the "Jimi district" are willing to obey the emperor's orders is another matter. They usually listen to the tune and don't listen to the announcement with benefits.

Later Li Tang learned from Yang Sui's policy, especially to carry forward it more vigorously. In short, whether the "Jimi district" is willing to listen or not, he wants a letter of allegiance from a place to bring a piece of land into Li Tang's territory openly, so that Li Tang's territory Map looks so large.

The sentence "the strength of the country is not dangerous in virtue" has been mentioned by countless people. Although people's hearts are important, they are changeable. They love each other one moment and become enemies the next. When they don't pay attention to national defense, they will win the hearts of the people again, but they can't escape the fate of destruction.

Qin had the danger of Hangu pass, which had a foothold in the Northwest for more than 800 years. It was by virtue of the danger that the first emperor swept through the eight wastelands and six harmonies.

Why has Guanzhong always been the land of hegemony? It's because there are mountains, rivers, terrain and dangerous passes in Guanzhong. You can attack and retreat and defend. You won't lose at one time. You'll lose even your underwear.

History has also proved that any expansion without the construction of YONGGU towns is a children's play of our advancing and retreating the enemy and our retreating the enemy. Fortunately, the old Zhu family finally picked up the tradition of the classical military era of Zhuxia. Every expansion to a place is the construction of a military fort and the stationing of troops, so that the Han people no longer have to experience the embarrassment of advancing and retreating, Only then did there be such a big country that Manchu Qing could "inherit" the old Zhu family.

"Your Majesty said, 'because of the country and mountains, you have both morality and insurance'." Huan Wen is now standing on the newly built YONGGU camp land: "aggression is like fire, immobility is like mountain, nothing is like gradual progress."

Countless military examples have repeatedly shown that when the national strength is sufficient, nothing is more secure than establishing garrison points in an occupied area and continuing to advance faster or slower.

When the Han army came to the a'san continent and swallowed gitanada as a bridgehead to officially march towards the Gupta Dynasty, it was best to have A-San's already built cities on the march route. In places with dangerous terrain, they would build permanent barracks no matter how difficult the conditions were.

Any country or nation will choose to take risks only when its strength is inferior to that of others. Whoever really has absolute strength will take unnecessary risks. The military commander with a slightly normal mind will choose to be steady.

Therefore, there has always been a phenomenon that there are many generals in weak countries and no illustrious generals in strong countries.

The country is so weak that it can't play the opponent without taking the wrong edge. I succeeded and became famous, and the country also had a chance to breathe. Failed... Die and perish.

The country is strong and can easily pile up the enemy country with resources. Anyone will say that even a pig can command and win, that is, no matter how perfect the commander's command can be, it will inevitably be obscured by the strong strength of the country.

Huanwen now has important people, materials and whatever they want. It's quite pleasant to live a small life.

The fleet sent to Rome will pass through the A3 continent. The central side means to let the Romans and Persians land. See how the Han army is squeezing the Gupta Dynasty step by step.

Huan Wen's decision to the center is to raise his hands and feet in favor. There is nothing more worthy of showing off than letting foreigners see how powerful they are. It happens that the Gupta Dynasty has gathered more than 100000 troops to get involved again, and a new war will break out.

Whether in terms of official position or title, Huan Wen is much higher than Wang Meng, and he also belongs to the uncle generation in age. But just because Wang Meng is an angel, Huan Wen should greet him in ketak even if he is pretending.

"Once the largest port in Gupta, now..." flavis looked at the land. The city was still that city, but the flag on the head of the city became the side of the Han country: "it belongs to cyris."

Ketak, a coastal city, is quite famous in sassanne and Rome. Many goods from the a'san continent are shipped here and sold to sassanne or Rome by sea. Countless a'san told or showed off ketak's prosperity to the Persians and Romans, making it very famous.

"Look over there!" In front of Julian's finger, the wall there collapsed for a long time, and several huge pits can be seen from a distance: "the cyris must have used that weapon!"

It's gunpowder, but Julian can't guess in what way. He only knows that there will be terrible destructive power after thunder. There is no word "explosion".

Ketak has changed from a civilian port to a military port. When it will be converted to a civilian port must be appropriate for the Han army. In the port, rows of warships are berthing against each other. Initially, it looks like a ship has been built on the sea. If a ship wants to enter the port, it has to sail in the channel let out by the berthing ship.

Some large warships attracted the attention of the Romans and Persians. They had never seen a large ship with a length of more than 100 meters. They could not understand what the long pipes at the bow and stern were, let alone what the buildings connected by the pipes were.

At present, there are only 20 gunships in the whole Han Dynasty, ten of which joined the war against the Gupta Dynasty. However, before they could participate in the sea battle, the Gupta navy was completely annihilated, and the latter was used for shelling coastal cities.

The gunboat was reduced to shelling the coast when it participated in the war for the first time. It did not show its heroic posture in the naval battle, but it still showed its ferocious side. The direct consequence was that the Gupta Dynasty continued to give up the sea turtles and shrink inland.

The Romans and Persians crowded on the deck were like Grandma Liu entering the garden. They were dazzled. It was the first time they saw so many warships berthing side by side. It was clear that the number of warships berthed here might not be as large as that of their own country, but these warships were able to sail in the ocean.

"A warship takes 100 soldiers, and only the ships moored here need 100000 soldiers!" Julian kept sucking back the air: "what we see is fifty legions."

Of course, not every ship needs 100 soldiers. The standard configuration of small warships, including sailors, is 28, the number of medium warships has increased to 80, and the number of large warships is nearly 200. When needed, they can carry more people.

How many legions are there in Rome? Including the private troops of various families, there will be no more than 200 legions. Take the standard configuration of 2000 people in each legion, that is, 400000 soldiers (field soldiers).

"Fifty legions, no matter when, are enough for us to fight all over the Mediterranean coast." Flavis is not wrong. Rome often did not reach the number of 50 legions, but beat the invincible hands in the known world: "we only used 38 legions to destroy pattia, including the baggage regiment and the barbarian Legion."

Alexander. The strength of the Roman Legion under Severus was 6000 per legion, three times that of the Roman Legion under Constantius II.

The baggage regiment in Rome is not a group of miscellaneous soldiers to maintain logistics. On the contrary, the soldiers of the baggage regiment are all war veterans, and their combat effectiveness is stronger than the Roman Legion named guards, but the strength of each baggage regiment generally does not exceed 1000.

The barbarian legions under the command of the Romans had different forces.

Alexander, for example The ninth Spanish legion, which was quite famous in the Seville era, was actually recruited from various barbarians, with a maximum strength of more than 10000.

In addition, the Macedonian, Germanic, Celtic, Saxon and many other legions under the command of the Romans have less than 1000 troops and more than 50000 troops

The Romans and Persians who stood on the deck to watch the Han fleet had only one thought, that is, after returning home, they must make a big appeal for increasing military strength. Otherwise, if the Han country intends to invade, only the naval strength of the Han country will be enough to drink a pot for themselves.

Of course, not all ships of the envoy fleet will enter the port. Wang Meng's ships, including those carrying distant guests, will enter the port and stop. As long as the other ships are parked outside the port, they will either go to Malacca first.

Wang Meng saw Huan Wen from a distance. He didn't dare to hold up the slightest. After the ship docked, people stepped up when they got off the land.

"I've seen angels!" Huan Wen took the lead in saluting for the sake of Wang Meng holding the angel Festival. There was no slightness in his attitude. He respected the authority on behalf of the son of heaven. He waited for Wang Meng to return the gift and put away the angel Festival. Then he smiled and said, "JINGLUE looks energetic."

"I've seen xinpinghou!" Wang Meng saluted and greeted respectfully. He glanced at Julian, keshias and others who followed him off the ship. After introducing them one by one, he complimented: "how fast the general's strategy is."

"Ha ha ha!" Huan Wen looked very happy, but the scene words were to say: "relying on the divine power of the son of heaven and the life of the soldiers, we can achieve a little."

Julian just knew who the Han General in front of him was and how many rights he had. It was said that he was also the head of a family with a long history. He had been looking at him curiously.

Huan Wen is now in power and belongs to the establishment under his command. There are 80000 slave troops and slave armies, and there are more than 3000 ships the size of the Navy. It can be said that he has the military power that can easily destroy most known countries.

Naturally, they couldn't stand at the dock and talk all the time. They got on the prepared vehicle and went to the city to stay.

"There are only four generals like Huan Wen." Julian did his homework: "Huan Wen is not the most powerful general. It is said that a general named Xie an is leading a large army to fight in the Old Northwest of cyris, a general named LV Tai is responsible for fighting in the northeast of cyris, and a general named Li Tan has been leading an army to fight in the North of cyris. Each of their generals at the level of" levy "commands an army of no less than 200000."

The Romans who had just learned that there was such a thing were stunned. The four "Zheng" level generals in the East, South, West and North combined were 800000 troops. There must be other levels of generals in the state of Han. How many troops should there be?

But they didn't know that Julian was talking nonsense. Except for some special cases, such as the outbreak of the national war, or it was like the end of the war in the north, Li Tan had only one army and a part of the border army, which was almost 20000 troops.

"It's said that there are not only generals of the four expeditions, but also four towns, Siping and four Fu, as well as riding generals, Hussars generals and generals..." Julian seemed to deliberately frighten his companions in the same car and said, "can you imagine how many troops cyris has?"