There is a saying that every inch of mountains and rivers is an inch of blood, which is not only about the tragedy when encountering an invasion, but also about the blood to be shed when carrying out a pioneer.
There is a time when any ethnic group sings about generosity, and that is when the nation is invaded, the soldiers and the people rise up to resist, and fight the enemy one after another in order to prevent the loss of the land on which their ancestors have lived.
Territorial development has also been carried out in every ethnic group, and some ethnic groups have developed extremely difficult, not only to fight with the enemy, but also to fight with nature, almost every inch of land is watered with blood.
Throughout the long river of history, there have been countless wars fighting for living space, and under the cruelty of competition, I don't know how many nationalities have been drowned by the torrent of the long river of history, and they have disappeared in the real sense and become the nourishment for the growth of other nations.
If you don't want to disappear in the fierce competition, you must always maintain your blood, not only dare to fight hard when encountering invasion, but also show your fangs and dare to grab the land you can see.
Every nation has its own period of exploration and conservatism.
The nations of the pioneer period are the most aggressive, and they will invade any enemy they can see, and it is very likely that they will win again and again but lose all at once, that is, the people have not effectively digested the resources they have invaded.
Nation-states that stop pioneering and enter the conservative period are actually entering a period of weakness, and are usually constantly invaded by the surrounding alien races at this time, and if they fail to rise up and enter the pioneering period again, in fact, the nation-state has already entered the countdown to destruction.
"We did it in a planned way, not in one fell swoop."
Fu Wei will board the ship and leave the port tomorrow, and he needs to communicate closely with Si Hongzhuang: "The importance of this stronghold needs not be said, and I ask Zijun to get on the right track as soon as possible." ” Si Hongzhuang's response was solemn.
The Han State will establish a lot of strongholds on the side of Asanyang, with Si Hongzhuang's stronghold as the main base, and continue to expand to the periphery, and then set up many sub-strongholds.
The strongholds on the invasion route have many functions, and one of their main functions is to provide logistical support for the invading forces, so it is natural that the purpose of being a transit point is needless to say.
It is also a base for the repair and maintenance of the fleet, and even more so a port of call.
Another function is to serve as a cantonment point, so that troops coming from a long voyage can take a breather.
"Half a month later, the second fleet will depart from Panyu, and it should arrive here in about two months."
Fu Wei smiled and reminded: "Zijun's current urgency is to build a lot of hoarding warehouses. ” It took two months to get from Panyu to the current base of Gupta under the premise of a tailwind, and if it was a headwind, it would be longer, and it would take six or seven months to arrive It is not an exaggeration.
And that's with oars, not on the wind.
Fu Wei left the port this time to explore the surrounding area of this bay, at least to get a rough idea of the sea conditions first.
Waiting for the second fleet to come, it was also time for them to return to their bases to replenish fresh water and other supplies, especially all kinds of supplies that could provide vitamins.
Thanks to the natural deep-water port in the stronghold, ships do not need to stop far beyond the coastline, which is an excellent convenience for loading and unloading goods, and also indicates that Si Hongzhuang's construction of the port should be in the first place, or it is difficult to find berths without the fleet coming, which is unacceptable for a military port.
"I read the logs."
Si Hongzhuang was talking about the base's records of ship traffic, which were Zhang Li's previous achievements: "Unidentified ships have been found to be active in nearby waters many times. ” "Hmm" Fu Wei didn't have the right to look at the logs of the stronghold, so he asked, "What's the situation?"
"The sudden increase in the number of ships in this area of the Han should have attracted the attention of neighboring countries."
Si Hongzhuang is really not familiar with HNA, but it doesn't mean that he can't guess something: "Besides, we can't cover up our movements along the coast." ” The location they chose was on the southwestern coast of the Pyu Kingdom, and although this area was not part 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.
It seems incomprehensible that a strong country will radiate its influence to neighboring countries, and it seems that when a weak country is invaded by a powerful country from afar, it will ask for help from a regional power.
"For the time being, there are no non-ours ships approaching to observe."
Si Hongzhuang patted Wen Mu and said in an inevitable tone: "But that's something that will definitely happen."
The Navy may have a response" The navy of the Han State has not been built for many years, and compared with some nations and countries that have long played in the coastal waters, the Han navy is only in its infancy, and because there is no opponent at sea, it can be said that it is extremely inexperienced.
The so-called lack of experience is that the command system, including the center, does not have a good understanding of what naval warfare is all about, and how to operate in the waters that enter the sphere of influence of other countries.
Fu Wei blinked his eyes and said how to deal with it: "If you see it, you will capture one ship or sink one."
It's so simple and rude, it's a bit of a later war, but it's enough to show that the Han people who have just sailed have enough confidence in their own strength, that is, they will have a lot of 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 received was very domineering, but he did not hesitate at all: "The Great Han has the ability to destroy any enemy, whether it is on land or at sea" "Although it will startle the snake, there seems to be no better way."
Si Hongzhuang said a little helplessly: "Destroying the ships can have the effect of the fog of war, which is indeed better than them being able to detect the real situation." ” In fact, there are definitely not many countries that will enter this sea, and for the time being, it is the ships of the Gupta Dynasty.
However, this area of the sea did not have the maritime trade routes that the Gupta dynasty attached much importance to, and the most important thing for the Gupta dynasty was the route to Egypt.
The Gupta dynasty traded mainly with the Greeks and Egyptians under the rule of the Eastern Romans, but did not trade much with the Sassanids, with whom they had land routes.
What is the diplomatic relationship between the Gupta Dynasty and the Sassanid Dynasty, the Han side does not have official and accurate information, but it can be judged from the share of trade that the relationship between the two sides is definitely not much better, even if it is not incompatible.
The share of trade between countries will provide a lot of information, even if there is competition between the two sides, no one can help the other, everyone has a place that depends on the other, and the share of trade will account for a large share of the import and export of the two countries.
In such a situation, interdependent countries do not easily allow competition to turn into war.
Similar to the Celestial Empire and American imperialism In ancient times, state-to-state trade was not as complex as in modern times, and since the Gupta dynasty's share of trade with Eastern Rome was exaggerated to the point of exaggeration, and its share of trade with the Sassanid dynasty was pitifully low, it can be inferred about the relevant geopolitical relationship.
The Gupta Dynasty and the Central Plains Dynasty may have trade routes, but it is certainly lower than the trade with the Sassanid Dynasty, Si Hongzhuang's stronghold log talks about the appearance of unknown ships in this sea area, it is very likely that the number of Han ships in this sea area has increased, which has attracted the attention of the Gupta Dynasty, not because it is found that there is already a Han army stronghold here, let alone because the Gupta Dynasty's ships have gone to the Strait of Malacca and have no return.
In the final analysis, the current round trip of navigation is not so fast, but all those who cross tens of thousands of miles are basically calculated in years, and it is only nearly half a year for the Han army to master Malacca, and the Gupta Dynasty has not noticed the signs of the ships heading east, at least until next year.
As for the monsoon, so far not many people have noticed it, and ships sailing on the sea still rely on the power of human oars.
The staffing of a ship may be only 30 percent of the fighters, but the corresponding sailors will account for 70 percent.
Many countries also have one thing in common in terms of ship staffing, which is divided into warriors, sailors, and slaves.
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A warrior is naturally a force used to fight.
In addition to operating the ship, the sailors also participate in the fight when necessary.
Slaves existed as labor, that is, to row the oars of the ship to power the ship's movement.
With the forward base, Fu Wei's fleet could unload more supplies, only to keep what was needed for the voyage, so that the ships could run faster with less load.
After they left the port, they formed a formation of three ships and explored according to the pre-divided area.
The difference is that there are not as many islands as there are islands in the South 1 Sea, and it is impossible to easily discover the islands when you explore, so what you can do is record the basic sea conditions of the sea area.
"According to previous exploration intelligence, there is an island chain located in the Thirty-two Region of A."
Liang Min is the first mate of the flagship, and what he said is a kind of number of the navy's lattice map: "Other than that, nothing has been found in the surrounding three hundred miles." ” The so-called grid map is quite simple, it is a kind of modern tactical map.
The terrain of a certain area is divided into grids, the horizontal line has a prefix code, the vertical line also has a prefix code, the number of the first grid is naturally one, and the position is confirmed by the grid number.
Those who can play strategy games are no strangers to this kind of tactical map, which is used to inform allies where the enemy is.
In fact, the emergence of such tactical maps was originally used by artillery to make it easier to carry out covered shelling.
The Han navy used lattice charts instead of latitude and longitude charts, so no one in the Central Plains Dynasty had yet figured out the latitude and longitude lines Whether it is called latitude and longitude, latitude and longitude, or meridian, in fact, the East and the West have been doing related research since BC.
What the East made is the initial meridian, with the capital of the country as the center of the world, and then the location of the palace to determine the line, which is the origin of the Central Dynasty.
The first time a similar theory appeared in the West was during the Alexander period, which was earlier than the Central Plains Dynasty, and the relevant judgment was also based on the sunshine.
In fact, whether it is the East or the West, the preliminary theories of both have been proven wrong later, and the real mature longitude and latitude lines are only after the launch of the satellite.
The base of the Pingban Captain's Department was in Rangoon, which was not close to the Gupta Dynasty in the territory of Asan, and since his own ships to the Gupta Dynasty had not yet returned, it was difficult for Fu Wei to judge the distance between the two.
Sailing at sea is a very boring thing, but boring is not showing up, and not having a situation is a good thing.
The boring voyage makes time pass very slowly, and every day and night is a long ordeal, but Fu Wei would rather this torment last longer than encounter a storm on the sea.
The Han Kingdom called this area of the sea Ah Sanyang, which was a casual name for Liu Yan, and if no one corrected it, Ah Sanyang would really become the official title.
In fact, there are many ways to call this ocean, the Asan is naturally called the Indian Ocean, but the Westerners call it the Eritrean Sea.
Later, when the United Nations drew up the map, it recognized the name of this sea area as the Indian Ocean, because ancient India really has been crisscrossing this sea area, and it has been part of India's sphere of influence for thousands of years. can be swept across by a certain force for thousands of years, even if there is a fault line in civilization, as long as it does not stop going to sea, even if some information is lost, it will be quickly completed.
"We don't know what's going on there."
Kapil Marik is, of course, a third, a superior Kshatriya, but a minor nobleman.
He was instructed to find out the new situation in the southeastern seas, and for the time being, there were no reports of missing ships.
There is not much to say about the caste of Asan, the Sudra class will not be recorded in any dynasty of Asan, and only the class above Sudra is considered a national, so the population statistics of each dynasty of Asan are actually incomplete.
In the Asan dynasty, the Vaishyas were the only class qualified to do business, that is, they were responsible for the flow of national resources, and of course for trade abroad.
"Something strange has happened recently."
Dijankumar, who was also of the Kshatriya class, looked at the sea outside and said, "I haven't been able to see a single ship from the East for several years, but in half a year there are as many as thirteen bands of Eastern merchants coming from the sea. ” The Gupta dynasty was established in 320 AD, and today it is 348 AD.
They were founded on the ruins of the Kushan Empire, and the Kushan Empire has not yet perished, and there is also a Jitara Dynasty that survives in the Afghan region of later generations, but this Jitara Dynasty claims to be not the Otsuki clan, but the Xiaoyue clan.
The Gupta Dynasty, which has been established for 28 years, has been at war with neighboring countries in the past few years, and it is only in recent years that it has been relatively peaceful to engage in internal affairs, inheriting most of the navy of the Kushan Empire, and their use of the sea is beginning to reach its peak, mainly to carry out maritime trade.
Suddenly there was a shout outside, as if the lookout had spotted the ship.
"Who else is in this sea besides us" Kapil Malik shook his head at his deputy and said excitedly, "It seems that we are not running in vain again." ”: