Sweep the World - Chapter 1102 : What to do if you can't beat it

"The lights are dim...I can't see enough anyway!"

Liu Yan traveled to the age of 340 AD when the status of the Han was far less than that of the beasts. Twenty-six years have passed since then.

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

It has been twenty-four years since the establishment of the Han Empire. It has stood up from a **** storm, and its waist is getting straighter and straighter. It has slaughtered the once invincible Jie tribe and defeated Xianbei, Qiang, Di and all kinds of hus. The old land of the Xian Han in the Central Plains.

Nowadays, there are no Jie, Xianbei, Bei, Qiang, Di, and Zahu within a thousand miles of the border of the Han Empire.

The land belonging to the pre-Han had been completely recovered before the 16th year of Yuanshuo, and even the contemporary Han people had undergone a great expansion.

The Southwest Peninsula has become a sacred and inseparable part of the Han Empire, and the Asan side also attacked the Gupta Empire. After that, it swallowed a small country or a state every two years, and it was destroyed in the 19th year of Yuanshuo. Gaduoga, Yuanshuo, two satraps perished in twenty-one years.

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

The rule of the Han Empire on the three continents was based on the enclavement of many vassal states, but the elite areas like the Ganges River Basin and the Indus River Basin were naturally owned by the state, while the rest of the land was under classical enclavement.

Calculated by the Hou Kingdom, there are at least 72 Hou Kingdoms in the Asan Continent, such as Fengyi and so on. The largest Hou State has an area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers, and the smallest Fengyi is just the size of a village.

The princes of the Hou state, they are not in their own Hou state most of the time. They will appoint their children to manage the Hou state. I either live in Chang'an for a long time, or go abroad to fight or perform official duties abroad.

In the six years following Yuanshuo’s seventeenth year of foreign wars, nearly twenty marquis were produced. There were thousands of upper and middle princes, and countless lower princes.

Because it is entering the national war level war, the war against the anti-Han axis led by Rome and Sassan, the Han Empire maintained a national mobilization state for the first four years, and it gradually slowed down since the fifth year. Recruitment of troops.

Nowadays, the standing army of the Han Empire has soared to twenty-four. Except for legions with special prefixes such as the Huben Army and the Habayashi Army, the formation of each standing army has increased from 15,000 to 20,000. Eight thousand people.

Excluding the county soldiers in the territory, it is only the number of soldiers in the standing army. In the 23rd year of Yuanshuo, the Han Empire had a field corps of nearly 700,000 people.

Among the 700,000 field corps, the number of troops with firearms increased from less than 16,000 in Yuanshuo's seventeenth year to 127,000.

Among those 127,000 people, in addition to the artillery, there were as many as 85,000 soldiers with flintlocks.

It took about six years for the Han Empire to be able to arm up four firearms troops.

The current military restructuring has a plan, that is, it has not been fully implemented. According to Liu Yan's plan, the new military system will not be implemented until the military is fully refitted.

The Great War lasted for nearly seven years, and the larger battlefields were the Sassanid battlefield, the Roman battlefield and the battlefield of the three continents.

The Sassanid 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 not well counted. After all, the encounters between scouts can also be regarded as small-scale battles.

On the other side of the Roman battlefield, it was reported to the mainland once a year. During the five years or so, 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 was completely withered. .

The wars on the Asan Continent are more frequent than the Sassanian battlefield and the Roman battlefield, and the speed of advancement and expansion is also different between the two battlefields. The reason is naturally the enemy that Tianzhu Protectorate faces...It's really not very good, and at the same time it's easier to be conquered.

Qian Jian has only two standing armies and counties and counties with less than 50,000 soldiers in his hand. However, his subordinates have close to 400,000 Asan minions, and the more minions he subordinates, the more minions, which has already become three major battlefields. The one with the most troops under the organization.

The eastern part of the Sassanids is barren and there is almost no production area. In addition to the poor original land, it was the Persians who destroyed it 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 civilians, and the population moved away before the development of the war became unfavorable to them.

The Western Expeditionary Corps not only had to fight against the Sassanian army, but also had to build long roads. The captured prisoners were basically consumed on the road construction, and even the indigenous people caught from the surrounding areas were also thrown into the road construction army. His servants were selected from the Western Regions.

The Han Empire has always been a policy of reducing the number of people in the Western Regions. In the process, it is inevitable that they need to suppress the rebellious Western Regions. After pulling out nearly 300,000 men as servants, there are really not many adult men left in the Western Regions. The remaining ones are basically Han relatives...that is, the Hans accepted the Western Region women, and the families of those women became the household registration of Hu Hua.

The environment on the expeditionary fleet is worse. First of all, the people on the Europa side are too unfamiliar with the Han Empire. Not only the Romans are unfamiliar, but the native natives of Europa have never heard of the Han Empire.

Rome has ruled Europa for more than a thousand years, and it is difficult for the native people of Europa, which is threatening and able to fight, to grow up, especially the Europa and the central region that Rome attaches the most importance to.

As an overlord who has prospered for more than a thousand years, the Romans have a higher spirit than the Persians. They have lost a wide angle in the westernmost part of Europa. Many noble families have organized twelve counterattacks in three years, but they have not been able to do it once. Force the Han army back to the sea.

The number of gunboats in the expeditionary fleet gradually increased to thirteen. Ten of them were fixed in the open seas of the occupied area. Even if they were not anchored, they were cruising in sea areas that could be reinforced within two hours.

There are ten gunboats. It is quite that the Han army on land can get sea artillery support at any time and anywhere. In addition, the Han army on land has also established its own fortifications in two or three years, and even fortresses have been built. There were no less than ten, a large military city, and the army itself had artillery units. Every time the Romans counterattacked, they would leave a corpse on the ground, but there was no way to shake them.

When the nobles of the Europa group counterattacked, the Constantine family was not idle either.

The Strait of Gibraltar was controlled by the Han army, which meant that the entrances and exits of the Mediterranean had been pinched. Even if the Constantine family had no military wisdom, they should also understand what the consequences would be if the only entrance was blocked.

Within a short period of two to three years, the expeditionary fleet has already disrupted the entire Mediterranean. Almost every day, there are hordes of Han warships crisscrossing the Mediterranean, chasing and killing any ships that are not ours, from time to time. Find a defensive city on the coast of Rome to land and fight and plunder.

It was only two or three years. Rome couldn't even control Africa. If it weren't for the communication with the central and western parts of Europa on land, I would not know that those places would not belong to the Roman Empire.

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

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

At present, the worst thing for the Romans is not only the lack of sea dominance in the Mediterranean, but also the failure of the Eurobras to drive the landing Han army into the sea, and the Germans from Eastern Europe (in fact, Central Europe) are also coming to disrupt the situation.

The Germans are entering the stage of the rise of the barbarians, and three countries have been established previously.

Frank, controlling most of the territories of Belgium and the Netherlands, is the strongest country among the three Germans. It's just that their country has not actually been recognized by the Romans, and it is still regarded as part of the tribe by the Romans.

Burgundy controls the southern part of Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany (Cologne and Rhine). They should be one of the three Germanic countries that lack iron ore, and they are in favor of Frank and Alemanni. The sale of finished weapons and armors is also not recognized as a sovereign country by Rome.

Alemanni controls part of the western part of France and some mountainous areas in Switzerland. They are the poorest of the three Germanic people who have established a country but retain the most barbaric customs. They are the most capable of fighting, that is, people’s livelihood. It's terrible. 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 the expeditionary fleet led by Huan Wen landed in the western part of Europa. The three Germanic countries had conducted multiple king-to-king communication. Even Alemanni, who was closest to Rome, believed that they were the most A favorable time, even if it does not directly go to war on Rome, is 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". In fact, Frank, Burgundy, and Alemanni do not 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. Everything they want to have the final say. .

The three countries united to communicate with the Romans, mainly to appeal to the Roman nobles in central Europa. At least they need to get the level of the Roman nobles in central Europa, or else they don’t have to negotiate with Constantinople. .

The Roman nobles in central Europa responded to the three countries very simply and directly. They sent troops directly to teach a lesson, which naturally led to war.

But the three countries have sent envoys to the Han Empire. Perhaps they have not learned other things, and the Han people will not teach anything in particular. However, the saying "No rise without bloodshed" has been specially taught by the Han people. Obviously they I think the Han people are right.

If you don't dig through the ancient route of Egypt, the only entrance to the Mediterranean is occupied by the Han Empire and cannot be taken back. If Egypt's estuary is reopened, it will also face the navy that the Han Empire has absolute superiority. It is the same no matter how Rome does it.

The part about Africa is still accessible, but every time I practice I have to travel thousands of miles of land.

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

The coastal cities of the Mediterranean have been repeatedly harassed and looted by the Han army, and the once extremely prosperous maritime trade no longer exists.

Expansion of the manpower in the war requires money, and armed soldiers also spend money, and money is being spent on various aspects.

It didn't take long for Rome to move from a divided state to an apparent unity, and Constantius II actually didn't have much money on hand.

Then there was a bad start in the Roman officer era. There is no money, let alone the army, you are Augustus, the nobles also dislike it even at a glance, and Constantius, who is extremely short of money, dare not liquidate the nobles. Even the big businessmen did not dare to kill, and there was a church jumping up and down.

The Han Empire merely sent an expeditionary fleet over, and the invasion could not be regarded as a formal and massive invasion. As a result, Rome was made into such a gray-faced appearance, which was actually beyond Rome's expectations.

As a last resort, Constantius II called a meeting.

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~www.novelbuddy.com~ even if the paternal master did not go there, they would send their confidants.

That meeting lasted for nearly a month, and only two conclusions were reached: Either the whole of Rome should be truly united, especially willing to donate money for military expenses; or Rome would propose conditions to the Han Empire before it could be saved. armistice.

It is more obvious that donating money is the worst choice for the Roman nobles. Only the Europas aristocrats who are actually threatened are more enthusiastic, otherwise even those Roman aristocrats who are being looted and attacked by the Han Empire will have doubts.

What they fear is that after the donation, the Constantine family still seeks a truce with the Han Empire. The money is indeed spent on the expansion of the Constantine family’s army, and then the army will be used against them to achieve at least the Caesar period. All-Rome unity situation.

It is a fact that the disunity of Rome cannot compete with the Han Empire.

If you want to unite and worry about the contradictions during the period of division, that means there is only a second option left.

The envoys sent by Rome had left Constantinople a long time ago, and would go to Egypt, then transit 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.