Perhaps unwillingly, or perhaps his confidence was boosted after a small victory, Fu Wei chose to hang far behind the remnants of the Gupta Dynasty that had left in defeat.
Two battle formations from different civilizations, they fought all day in the Bay of Bengal region, from the easterly part of the later islands near Sri Lanka to the northerly area at the end of the battle.
After nightfall, Fu Wei thought that the enemy army would control the lights, but what he didn't expect was that the enemy army did not do that.
"It's still a trap."
Chen Tan didn't think there was anything complicated: "This area should be not far from their homeland, leaving a light for us to continue to follow, hoping that we will continue to follow." ” Fu Wei walked to the table where the charts were placed, marked the charts with his own hands, and ordered: "Give up following and correct the route according to the original plan" During the day's fighting, their three ships were not damaged, and if they were not damaged by arrows, there was no need to return to the stronghold.
A hasty encounter, almost a whole day of confrontation, the formation in the combat state did not even have time to eat, after the combat state was lifted and changed to a vigilant patrol, the fatigue of the whole body immediately hit, and many people did not even eat and fell asleep directly.
On the side of the three remaining formations of the Gupta Dynasty, Pical Malik really wanted to attract the Han fleet to follow, but since the Han fleet was under light control, none of them could be sure whether the other party was following or not.
"It's just a small attempt, and it doesn't matter if you don't follow it or not."
Pical Marrick shrugged his shoulders in the face of Dijean Macul's question: "The loss of four ships is nothing to us, fortunately the loss of only four ships has made us realize that there is a new threat. ” Whether it was during the Kushan Empire or the establishment of the Gupta Dynasty, Ah San Yang has always been Ah San's ocean, and no one has ever been able to take away control of this ocean from Ah San's hands.
Pical Marrick really didn't take the loss to heart, and after they entered the harbor and docked, he even went to have a little drink in a very good mood, and reunited with Dijan Macool the next day before going to see his boss.
"You're saying that yesterday we encountered a fleet of ships that they had never seen before, and they attacked immediately without any intention of communication."
Katruk Kapu was a Brahmin and, of course, a nobleman.
He is not an obese and hateful appearance, on the contrary, he looks like a middle-aged uncle with a very aristocratic temperament and full of prestige.
In fact, most Brahmins were very self-disciplined during the Kushan Empire and the Gupta Dynasty, believing that they were the chosen people, who were more noble than countless people from the moment they were born, and received a systematic education from an early age, including literary knowledge and martial arts used in combat, and more emphasis on management.
On Ah San's side, Brahmins are only divided into two types: nobles and monks, and the nobles are not all equal, and it is necessary to distinguish the upper ancestors of the blood surname to distinguish who is superior.
Ah San has recognized the existence of "states" since the Mauryan Dynasty, and every Brahmin of the high gate is actually the heir of the "king of the state", and gradually evolves into the manager of society.
Ah San's clothes look very colorful, as long as he is allowed, he is never willing to have only one color of cloth on his body, and he is never willing to lose his fashion if he can wear more gold utensils, and all kinds of pendants such as rings and necklaces will be inlaid with gemstones.
Katruk Karp was the same as above, the sun shining with the reflection of gold and precious stones, and staring at the two men who came to report in confusion: "They have clearly stopped our ships to surrender, and the other side is still carrying out an unhonorable massacre" Maybe it's nonsense, but it's definitely true, Europa under the rule of the Romans, the countries on the side of Asan, including the Sassanid Dynasty, they were far more warlike than the Central Plains Dynasty at this time.
That is, under the premise of being noble enough, he feels that there is no possibility of winning a battle, and there is no hope of escape, and surrender is not a shameful thing, but on the contrary, he agrees to redeem his life by ransom after surrendering.
Naturally, the people who were protected by the rules were limited to those who were noble enough to pay the ransom, and the rest were to die, usually slaves.
"Yes, I swear to the goddess."
Pikalmarik is a Kshatriya who is qualified to swear to Lord Shiva, one of the supreme gods of Asan, and the castes below Kshatriya do not have such qualifications.
"They are definitely a highly civilized country, but their behavior seems extremely barbaric," he swore with confidence. ” When Picalmarik swore an oath, he tapped the red mole on his forehead with his right hand, but it was not a mole, it was a decoration that Kshatriyas were eligible to put on it.
After tapping with his right hand, he raised his hands high and then spread them downward, and his legs were slightly crossed and bent downward, which was a very religious etiquette.
"I'll take care of it."
Katruk Karp didn't bother to ask Kapil Marik how much his formation had lost, he just nodded repeatedly, and then said like a handout: "Once the information is useful, you will be duly rewarded." ” The social system of Ah San is not simple, they accept the hereditary official position, but the central government has never had too much control over the locality, and there is a king with a supreme ruler, but there will be countless state kings below.
Under their social system, they can organize their own armed forces as long as they have enough status, but everything from the salaries of the personnel to the equipment they are equipped with is privately funded.
In the performance of national tasks, the amount of losses that are reported is generally based on conscience, and whether or not they will be compensated later is another matter.
So, Picard Marik only needs to report how many high-caste people have been lost, and he needs to pay those who sacrifice high-caste benefits.
It is only natural that those of the lower castes, including those who have lost their ships, should not pay their bereavement.
If the state does not replenish the warships, he will lose the command of a few ships at most, and whether he will supplement them later depends on his financial resources.
In the whole process of the report, Dirang Makul exists as a background wall, although he is the same Kshatriya, but after the family is broken, he does not have his own armed forces, because the Makul family and the Marik family have been friends for generations, so they can get a position in Picard's battle formation, and they do not have the right to speak directly to the Brahmin of Katruk Kap.
The two men were led out of the palatial mansion by a large group of servants, and when they reached the street, they stood still.
Dijrang Macur wanted to ask for a long time, but he knew how to read the occasion: "Why don't you tell another layer of speculation" "Do you mean, they may be from the Far Eastern Continent" Pical Malik said with a funny look on his face, shrugging his shoulders, "We don't have evidence, and Karp won't believe that conservative country would come from all over the world."
Even if it's really from the Far East, don't you think it's better not to talk about it?"
Dee Jean Macul was stunned and confused, completely unable to understand what Pical Malik meant.
"My brother, our ancestors have long said that the country belongs to the state, and the family belongs to the family."
Pical Marik looked like a teacher: "The Marik family has done their duty for the country in that fight, and I have reported the facts that I know.
Now I have to think about what the Malik family will gain from this unprecedented event. ” It is not only the families of the Central Plains who will put the interests of the family in front of the country, it is the family of any country in the world, and they will consider the interests of the family first, and then the interests of the country.
The Malik family has been on the side of Cuttak for hundreds of years, and the longer it is, the more intertwined the relationship with the local families becomes.
Picard had already told Dijan Macul that there were some merchants from the East on Cuttack's side, and he thought that there must be a connection between them, and perhaps it would be an opportunity for the Marik family to regain the opportunity to regain silk from the East.
The overland Silk Road had been broken since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Sassanid and Gupta dynasties were able to obtain a small amount of goods from the maritime Silk Road, but not at all from the west of the Sassanid Dynasty.
The Maritime Silk Road was not prosperous, and it can even be said that only a very small number of Gupta merchants would go to the territory of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty by sea, which allowed the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to often receive some countries that did not exist at all.
The number of tributes recorded in the history of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is not small, and under the premise that the north of the Yangtze River has almost completely fallen, those who come to pay tribute are basically by sea, and the names of the countries reported are strange.
The face of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has long been trampled on the ground, and it will not investigate whether there is that country at all, and will receive it cautiously every time, and give several times the return of the tribute, so as to prove that it is still the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and there are still a group of younger brothers who are willing to come to greet them.
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"Isn't that country oppressed in the south by the nomads of the north?"
said Digrang Macul, who knew some information, but it was definitely outdated.
He speculated: "Could it be that they have resolved the external crisis and returned to their previous strength" It seems that this is the only way to explain it, otherwise a country facing an external crisis will not have enough power to protect itself, and how can there be that force to expand externally.
The Gupta dynasty still knew that there was once a powerful empire in the East, and that that powerful empire was finally overthrown in civil strife, and it was rarely concerned about what happened after that, after all, the two sides were too far apart.
"No matter what becomes of the East, I really can't think of anyone who can reach our oceans but them."
Picard Macri stopped in the street and said with a smile: "But that's the big man's business, what we need to do now is to find those oriental merchants." ” Cuttack was somewhat of a good city in the Gupta Dynasty, and it is unclear what the population was, because the Gupta Dynasty, like the Kushan Empire before it, did not treat untouchables as human beings, and only recorded the household registration of people above the Shudra.
Just off the coast, there were several foreign trading ports where immigrants landed, some of whom would go to the capital of the Gupta dynasty of Fahrenheit, while others would sell and purchase goods from the city and go to sea.
There are still a lot of commodities produced by Asan, but the largest export share is pigments and metals, and the export of high-quality steel is the most profitable.
Of course, they don't sell steel directly, they make it into weapons, and they don't sell weapons of that standard, they sell them as luxury goods.
As a local snake, it took Pical Malik nearly half a month to collect information about the Eastern merchants, which is enough to show that the Han people in the Gupta Dynasty were very careful.
"They weren't in Cuttack, the last one left was seven days ago."
Dee Jean Macool's employment with Pical Malik was not just for military purposes, but more like an assistant in normal times.
He had to wonder: "I must have known that someone was looking for their information before leaving." ” In the past half month, the news of more unknown fleets has increased on Sanyo, and Katruk Karp has also asked Pikar Malik many times because the losses on the Gupta Dynasty's side have increased repeatedly.
As the top local administrator, Katruk Karp paid attention to it, and the first thing he did was to check the port ships, and really seized a ship from the Han Kingdom and detained some crew members, but the rest of the Han ships left the port early.
Picard Marik had been to the prison to see the detained crew members, and he had brought an interpreter with him, as was the case with Katruk Karp, who had very limited information.
"I have spread the word about the detention of the vessel, and I believe that someone will be in contact soon."
Picard Malik at least knew that there was a unified country in the East, and the name of the country was still the extremely prestigious Han, and he could not tell the difference between the current Han and the Han during the Kushan Empire, but he knew that Katruk Karp decided to go to Fahrenheit with his detainees just because he heard the name of Han.
Of course, Ah San knew about Xianhan, after all, the powerful Guishan had suffered losses on the Xianhan side many times in a row, and the nobles of the former Dayue clan suffered great shame because of the matter of asking to marry the princess of the Han family, although it didn't matter what happened to Ah San in the south, and even used this matter as a joke, but at least he knew who was not easy to mess with.
"The lord of the city invited me to go to the capital with me."
Picalmarik pointed to the butler who was standing quietly next to him, and then said to Dijan Macul, "I have decided to go with the lord of the city to see the king, if anyone really comes to contact me, I need you to contact him." ” Di asked Marcul to agree, but then he said in great confusion: "Why does the city lord attach so much importance to the other party's country name just when he hears it?"
At this moment, Picard Marik had a sense of superiority, all because he knew a lot of information, and said with emotion: "Because Han represents strength and prosperity, and the destruction of countries and countless clans, not only the city lord will pay attention to it, but I believe that the king will not dare to be careless." ”: