The expeditionary fleet entered the Arabian Sea and reached the waters of Trakutaka, but Huan Wen still had to reach the shore for replenishment.
The huge fleet went all the way to the west, the route was not too far from the land, and all the way was almost under the attention of various countries, and it was not the first time that countries had seen such a huge fleet.
The last time Wang Meng returned from Europa, the size of the fleet was actually larger.
Trakutaka is a country that split from the Baicheng Dynasty, and there are some records of facing the Han people in their history, which led them to check the few records after they came into contact with the Han people, and after reading them, they chose to show their deferential side to the Han people as soon as possible.
This time, the Romans and Persians took the lead in forming an anti-Han axis, and it was not that Trakutaka was not uncontacted, but they immediately arrested the Persians who came to contact and handed them over to the Han Empire within a concession in their own country.
"It's a country that's both rich and poor."
Yuan Qiao already knew about the situation in Tracutaka: "They are not short of precious metals, but they are extremely short of ordinary metals. ” This is not a contradiction, as there are some places where there are gold and silver mines, but no iron or copper.
Trakutaka was also a Mauryan Empire's territory, and he learned and popularized metal smelting techniques.
After the collapse of the Mauryan Dynasty, they immediately established their own country, and it was only after more than two hundred years that they were destroyed by the Baiyan Dynasty.
Before the Hundred Vehicles Dynasty was replaced by Vagathaga, the rulers of this land were the Apilas, and the Trakutaka was established by waiting for the Apila rule to be overthrown.
The Apilas were actually a tribe of the Serbs and Indians, who rose to power and occupied the northwestern part of the continent, and the latter tribes split into six states on their own.
The headquarters still uses the name of Apila, and currently occupies a large territory in the northwest of the Asan continent.
Trakutaka overthrew the Apilas in this area, and another part of the Apilas formed the two Satraps with other Serb branches.
After more than a hundred years of evolution, the two Satraps slowly became a new Serb tribe.
They had long been in alliance with the Apila of their own tribe, working together against the southward expansion of the Persian Sassanids.
Before the Han appeared on the stage of the Asan Continent, Trakutaka was actually a vassal of the two Satraps, and it was only because of the appearance of the Han that they changed a thick thigh.
The current situation is that Trakutaka is in the camp of the Han Empire, and then it is sandwiched by two breads from the angle of the two Satrap and Vagathaga, and to the south is the walled Rowan Dharaja.
"So no matter what, we need to do something."
The last time Yuan Qiao landed on the shore, he was received like a state guest, and he had a conversation with the king and his ministers in Tracutaka: "In terms of attitude and practical deeds, they chose to stand firmly on the side of the Han Dynasty, and we cannot fail to express it. ” Huan Wen was still very satisfied with the deference of the king of Trakutaka, such as sending ten chests of gold bars, two chests of gems of various colors, and no less than thirty exotic beauties.
With the king's sensibility, and then Trakutaka took a firm stance and supplied the entire expeditionary fleet with fresh water, food, and related or unrelated supplies free of charge.
"The fleet had plans to land in that bay at Kutch Bay."
Huan Wen spread out the map and looked at it, and pointed to the southeast of the peninsula salient: "They are fighting here now", and he pointed to the peninsula salient again: "We will land here according to the original plan." ” The expeditionary fleet has received the news that Ran Min has returned to China by boat, and there is no need to avoid suspicion or avoid participating in any bullshit, and the battle plan formulated before can be carried out again.
Huan Wen still hopes that he can have the experience of landing operations many times before arriving in Europa, which can be regarded as an experience The season of the year had entered the summer, and the climate on the part of the Tlacutka was extremely hot, and only a small part of the expeditionary fleet had gone ashore, and these men were again ordered back to the ship, and the day later they were sent north by the kings of Tracutaka.
"The land was all red, and the vegetation looked all yellow."
Liu Ming has gone ashore, and he can be regarded as seeing the difference between foreign lands thousands of miles away: "It's like this in autumn, can you imagine how high the temperature is."
In addition to the east and south, the central, northern, and western continents of the Three Continents are like melting pots in summer because of their latitude.
The Han people specially learned that every spring because of the rainy season everywhere will be flooded, but in the summer because of the heat will kill a lot of people, no matter how you look at it, it does not look like a good environment.
The people of the expeditionary fleet more or less benefited from the Tracutaka, the upper echelons of the fleet received at least a box of gold bars, and the ordinary soldiers had more food than they had never seen before.
A box of gold bars is 20 sticks, and when melted into gold coins, it looks like about 90 gold coins, and with the purchasing power of the locals, it is not a problem to support a middle-class family for three years.
The middle-class families of the Han Empire had total assets of about 300 gold coins in terms of financial resources, but most of the middle-class families were mostly real estate, and it was difficult to maintain 30 gold coins in terms of flowing funds.
Liu Ming obtained ten boxes of gold bars and five boxes of gems as a chief, but there were no exotic beauties.
He knew why, and when he revealed his presence to the expeditionary fleet, he was reminded by the nimble guards that it was to reassure the retainers of Tracutaka.
As the number one power in the known world, a prince goes out with the army, and the Han people will be proud when they know it, and the foreigners will be stunned and shocked when they learn about it.
Such a powerful country, even if it is just a prince who can no longer be taken seriously, has the most noble blood on its body.
Such a person was sent to the battlefield, and then saw that the Han Empire had not reached the point of exhaustion at all, then it would be unreasonable to think that such a country was not strong.
The expeditionary fleet's resting waters in Tracutaca were not too far from the two Satraps, and their arrival was immediately known to the two Satrap spies in Tracutaka.
Even if these two Satrap spies knew, they wouldn't be able to send the news back in a moment, and it was estimated that by the time they sent the news back, the war would have already broken out.
In fact, there was no need to wait for the news to be sent back, the expeditionary fleet appeared in the coastal waters of the two Satraps with a swagger, and the first area to be discovered was immediately a burst of chickens and dogs.
None of the two Satrap ships attempted to stop them, but instead the two Satrap ships, which had been at sea, docked in fear to take refuge.
"Is there anything worth attacking on this coastline?"
"The city, called Surat, is the largest city in Kempard Bay of the two Satraps in this bay."
"Then let's play a round first."
"No" The gunboats in the fleet, breaking away from the large formation, began to approach the coast, they slowly turned into a battle line, and then the bronze cannons on the ships began to sound.
Surat was a city with a population of about fifty or sixty thousand people, and was previously one of the main trading cities with the Gupta Empire, with a well-equipped port.
The first to be shelled was the port, which had been in chaos for a long time before the shelling, and I don't know how many people had died in the stampede before the attack could be launched.
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Amid the roaring shelling, the shelled port burned at a very rapid pace.
It is not surprising that Liu Ming looked at the port that began to burn, most of the buildings there are easily burned timber structures, and then there are too many kinds of cloth, even if they are not particularly suitable for incendiary bombs, just some solid bombs, destroying buildings and smashing all kinds of things will inevitably cause fires.
After two rounds of shelling of the port, the gunboats began to attack the city.
The city of Surat is full of Asan's character, with earthy yellow walls in the shape of four corners, some of the highest points of the mountain look of various depths of manors and temples, and some areas look beautiful and more areas are chaotic.
The first attack of the gunboats was not to look like the city where the dignitaries lived, but to attack the chaotic area.
Eleven gunboats, sixty-six bronze guns of large caliber, the maximum caliber reached three hundred and twenty millimeters, and the rest did not fall below two hundred and twenty millimeters.
Medium-caliber bronze guns, which consisted of one hundred and fifty mm and one hundred and eighty mm, had a total of three hundred and thirty guns, but only fifteen of each of them were fired on the lateral side of the gunboat.
The gunboats did not have less than one hundred and fifty mm caliber bronze guns.
The expeditionary fleet was naturally happy to see its gunboats venting their vitality, and the personnel who were not on duty were talking about how powerful their gunboats were, and guessing how miserable the enemy who was shelled was.
"That's it."
Huan Wen put down the binoculars in his hand and said with great satisfaction: "The three rounds of artillery bombardment have completely caused chaos in a city, and if you send troops to land again, it will not be difficult to capture the city." ” After only three rounds of shelling, as many as 693 ammunition were fired.
That's not a lot, especially for a city, but it's incomparable.
There will not be many people who die directly from the shells, most of the shells hit buildings.
There were no fewer people who died in this shelling, but most of them died from the collapse of buildings and the ensuing fire, and then from their own pushing and trampling, or from fratricidal fighting for a way out.
Yuan Qiao was still holding a telescope to watch: "Where did they get the courage to dare to go against the big man?"
Huan Wen thought of something, and said with less certainty: "Liang Jingru" "Ah" Yuan Qiao didn't know some of the stalks of the core ministers, and asked curiously: "Who?"
Huan Wen smiled reservedly.
There are some things that require identity and status to a certain extent, such as the contact time with the Son of Heaven, and how casual the Son of Heaven will be when he contacts himself.
After three rounds of shelling, the gunboats were ordered to begin to rebuild, the Han army had no intention of landing at all, and the fleet swaggered back against the background of a fire on land.
During the expeditionary fleet's voyage to the salient of the peninsula, it passed through areas with cities along the coastline, and Huan Wen would let more or less gunboats go to bombard.
Huan Wen didn't mean anything else, but he used this behavior to announce the arrival of the expeditionary fleet and give the two Satraps the greatest terror.
"We have an abundance of shells and gunpowder."
Yuan Qiao was still very much in favor of the artillery bombardment of the two Satrap cities along the route: "They didn't know where we really attacked, which was conducive to the next landing operation. ” They were going on an expedition to Europa, and they might just bring a little gunpowder and cannonballs, and they would definitely have to carry enough, but they couldn't master the method of making them, and they would get a batch of supplies a few months apart.
The expeditionary fleet arrives at a cape area and is confronted with a pristine environment.
"We're going to land here" Liu Ming looked at it, there was still a red land over there, and he couldn't see too many other colors: "It's so desolate" The promontory, as the locals call Duvalka, has no cities within a radius of tens of miles, just a few villages scattered around.
It is not more than 200 nautical miles from Persian Sassanid in terms of sea area, but it is nearly 700 miles away by land.
"The paperwork for the Tenzhu Shogunate should have arrived."
Huan Wen touched his chin and asked, "The official document to the Western Shogunate should take half a year."
The expeditionary fleet was in a unique position, not only to cooperate with the Tianzhu shogunate to attack the two Satraps, but also to plan the military operations of the Western shogunate against Persian Sasani.
Their final destination was Europa, and the time given by the center was indeed extremely lenient, and it was given unlimited rights to go to war.
The so-called unlimited right to start war means that Huan Wen does not need to be confirmed by the center who wants to attack along the way, and at the same time he can freely carry out military operations as he deems necessary.
"Control the ocean" Huan Wen was extremely happy: "It is equivalent to controlling the initiative." ” During the fourteenth year of Yuan Shuo, Huan Wen knew the importance of the sea, and he found that attacking from the sea, as long as those countries had coastlines, they were within the range of attack, and the difficulty was whether the navy of the Han Empire could find a route.
For the current members of the anti-Han axis, it is unfortunate that the Han Empire has mastered the route from the sea to their coastline, and it is not that the Han Empire's navy has not yet arrived, but that the Han Empire feels the need to attack from the sea.
Landing and controlling Cape was not a difficult task for the expeditionary fleet, and they were able to land and occupy it with great ease, as well as to explore the interior and coastline as necessary.
On the seventh day after their landing, the Han army on the periphery sent a report to Huan Wen, and the kings of the two Satraps sent envoys to discuss surrender: