The era of the Han Empire, the twenty-fifth year of Yuan Shuo.
In Chang'an, which has just passed the new year, there are constantly firecrackers in the second day of the new year.
If you are on top of the tower of Miyagi, you will see that the entire Chang'an City is brightly lit, and from time to time there will be fireworks shot into the sky from the ground in a certain area, and the ensuing explosion will show colorful bright colors.
Chang'an City now has more than 2.5 million inhabitants, surpassing Jiankang and Linzi in the 21st year of the Yuan Dynasty to become the most populous city in the Han Empire, and it is also the most populous city in the known world.
In fact, even with the population data of 2.2 million in Jiankang and 1.4 million in Linzi, there is no other country in the known world that can compare with it.
The current fourth largest city is in Sasanian, and the population of Ctesiphon increased dramatically in the 23rd year of the Han Empire, reaching 1.3 million.
The third largest city is Constantinople, the capital of Rome, with a population of about 650,000 The reason why the population of Sasanian Tessiphon increased dramatically in a short period of time was that the Han army of the western expedition reached the Medes province, which was the central province of Sasania.
It took nearly six years for the Han army to reach the Medes, and the two sides had previously fought six major battles in which the two camps combined numbered more than half a million troops.
In the six great wars, the Han army won four times, but also took the initiative to retreat twice.
Although the losses of the two active retreats were not too exaggerated, they were undeniable failures, which once made the anti-Han coalition forces think that the Han Empire was no longer good, and gathered heavy troops to counterattack like chicken blood.
The first small defeat of the Han army retreated directly to the territory of Hunit, this time several small countries attached to the Han Empire were considered to have fallen into blood mold, and were liquidated by the anti-Han axis coalition forces, and they were all destroyed.
The Han army, which took the initiative to retreat for the second time, set up a layout, and it was also this time that it annihilated the 340,000 army with Sassanid as the main force, of which the Romans left five full legions with a total of 30,000 at one time.
In the nearly six years of competition, as many as 360,000 soldiers of the Han Empire camp fell on the battlefield forever, although there were as many as 190,000 of them in the Western Regions alone, and 60,000 or 70,000 cannon fodder temporarily pulled from various countries were killed, but there were still nearly 100,000 Han soldiers who fell on the road to the west, or were disabled and could no longer serve.
The anti-Han axis was definitely much more miserable than the Han Empire, and in six years, the Han army alone was able to count more than 800,000 results.
The Sassanid side counted much more losses, more than 1.3 million heads.
There will be such a big difference in the statistics on both sides, the Han army only counts prisoners and heads, and the Sassanid nods after collecting troops.
War is not only a loss after dying on the battlefield, but also some soldiers who do not return after fleeing will also be included in the loss figure.
Then there are some soldiers who can no longer participate in the war because of their disabilities, and they will also be considered as part of the incapacitated combat.
In the 21st year of Yuan Shuo, the Han army destroyed the main force of the anti-Han axis coalition in eastern Sassanid and officially invaded Sassanid territory.
Prior to this, the battle lines between the two sides were actually around the vicinity of Kullong Slope.
The road from the Han Empire to the Kulong Slope has been under construction, and the Han army does not have to worry about the loss of grain and some cold weapons, but the supply of gunpowder must always keep up, otherwise the advance does not have strategic requirements.
At the same time, constantly bleeding the anti-Han axis is also one of the strategic requirements, and it is also necessary to deplete the national strength of Sasani.
In the past six years, the Han Empire has not done less to support the Arabs, even the Sassanid also knows the truth of conducting a national war abroad and maintaining internal stability at the same time, and has not indiscriminately killed all the Arabs who dare to resist before, and the more bloody the means of suppression are later.
In order to build a road from the mainland to the front line, the Western Expeditionary Han Army captured the enemy as much as possible, and at the same time constantly sent troops to sweep the periphery.
In just a few years, the periphery of the Western Shogunate War Zone was actually almost a ghost, and the local natives who were not in the camp of the Han Empire had either run away or been captured.
Affected by the move of the Shogunate to the west, the descendants of the Northern Xiongnu, who were supposed to be entrenched for more than 100 years before moving westward again, including some tribes around the Black Sea, ran clean in just three or five years, resulting in a vast no-man's land near the war zone, which was obviously rich in water and grass.
It is not only the Han Empire that is arresting people, but the anti-Han axis is also arresting people.
The Han army arrested people in order to get to build roads, otherwise tens of thousands of people would be killed and injured every month, and the more they died, they always had to make up for the shortfall, otherwise the road would have to be repaired until when The reason for the anti-Han axis to arrest people is even simpler, they desperately need cannon fodder, even if they just force the cannon fodder to rush forward, how can they consume more gunpowder, arrows and even strength of the Han army.
The two strong fight, the weak one doesn't run, or he has a problem with his brain, and he deserves to die.
The increase in the population of Constantinople in Rome was also due to the Han Empire, and the expeditionary fleet led by Huan Wen first landed in the Roman province of Mauritania in Africa, and after completing control of the region, it began to attack the territory of Europa in the 19th year of the Yuan Shuo, resulting in a wave of migration in Rome's Eurobasi.
Rome under the rule of the House of Constantine is actually not centered on the Italian peninsula in Europa, and even Italy, the "land of dragons", can be said to give up, so Western and Central Europe are even less important.
At this stage of Rome, Europa and the current Constantine family are not of the same mind, before the Constantine family civil war, Europa's Roman nobles are betting on the opponent of Constantius II.
If this kind of thing happened in Zhuxia, waiting for the final winner to be contested, these guys would definitely be dead.
However, in Rome it is a little different, betting on the wrong treasure is just becoming a marginal family, and even living an extremely chic life in their own control area, several competing quasi-Augustos have come up with the final winner, not only can they not do anything with them, either appeased or ignored, or they are breaking the rules formed in Rome for thousands of years.
Once thousands of years of rule are broken, the new Augustus should face the siege of the aristocracy, and it is estimated that the ass will roll off the throne of Augustus in a few days.
That was the fundamental reason for the Roman system, not only the state had an army, but every family had its own private army to a greater or lesser extent, and some powerful family private armies were even more than the standing army under the state establishment, and it was even more difficult to say accurately in terms of combat effectiveness.
To put it bluntly, the ruling family of Rome is not the strongest noble, but it is just a unique honorific title, they are not like the Zhuxia who has gradually been constrained, in addition to the army organized by the state, even if someone is qualified enough to have private soldiers, the number of private soldiers is limited to a minimum.
Any country is in the same situation, whoever has military power in his hands has the right to speak, and if there is no army, no matter how much wealth he has, he is just a fat pig to be slaughtered, and whether he will be slaughtered depends on the ruler's temperament.
Huanwen arrived near the Strait of Gibraltar in the eighteenth year of Yuan Shuo, but instead of choosing to land through the Strait of Gibraltar, he actually landed from a position in the southwest of modern Morocco.
Before the landings began, there were no Romans on that coast, but there were a few indigenous tribes.
As soon as the landing force of the expeditionary fleet came ashore, it did not immediately use force against the natives, but tried to communicate amicably, but unfortunately the black sea there was too ignorant and ignorant.
The Black Corn found out that a strange race had arrived, and their first choice turned out to be to call someone to fight.
A group of black corn millet who did not even have a piece of cloth on their bodies, their crotch covered only with the first batch or leaves, and with stone grass in their hands and rattan shields on their shoulders, attacked in a "woo-wah-he-he-hey", and then became corpses or were captured.
The black corn on this side is still in an absolute primitive social state, living in a natural cave, or finding a natural cave master.
Farming or anything is not willing to farm, their food comes from nature, and they use gathering and hunting as the main means of obtaining food.
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When it was difficult to get food from nature, they would be robbed of each other by tribes, and it would not be difficult to eat people when necessary.
Most of the Black Shu millet swore that they would never farm even after 800 years, and they still had to rely on their natural nourishment, and felt that if they couldn't survive, they would find someone to cry about, and they could always arouse some people's sympathy, donate money and food, and then continue to rob internally.
However, some of the black millet who were captured as slaves in the early years have been mutated in their genes, probably because the slave life of their ancestors has buried the genes of labor, but they don't like to learn or their brains are too small to learn, and they are still a group of people who don't like to learn much.
The Han people brought by Huan Wen discovered a characteristic of the local aborigines, even if they were forced to work, they would be lazy when they seized the opportunity, and they should still be lazy or continue to be lazy after being whipped many times in a row.
This discovery almost made the Han Chinese who came to Africa despair, and the reason why they did not go to the Romans was not to find a place to build a base for advancement.
The black corn caught is too lazy, lazy to the point of almost rotten, how much time should be wasted if all the projects have to be done by themselves For a while, they all felt that the slave hunting plan in southern Africa was definitely the most wrong decision of the Han Empire What they don't know is that it is the same black corn, in fact, there are still some black corn that are very hardworking.
Although those hard-working black corn are as small as their brains and simple minds, they are at least willing to work.
The black corn in southern Africa and the black corn in eastern Africa actually belong to the category that can still be saved.
Huan Wen's plan was disrupted, and it was supposed to take half a year to build the forward base, but it turned out that it took nearly a year to get a look.
They were delayed for more than half a year, and during this time, they also encountered dozens of tribes of the Black Shu River uniting to attack.
That joint attack of the Black Shu Millet was actually nothing to show off for the Han army, and it was natural to win the battle, and it was a loss to eliminate one of the hundreds of Black Shu Millet and one of its own people was killed.
In the nineteenth year of Yuan Shuo, Huan Wen left behind the necessary garrison troops before continuing to lead the fleet to the west.
They were the Spanish province that had not officially invaded Rome until the spring of that year.
This time it was no longer the absence of the Maro garrison, and it could even be said that the Romans had built imposing shore fortifications near the strait.
Huan Wen attacked twice in total, and found that the frontal attack was difficult to overcome, so he chose to take a detour.
The first detour did not lure the Roman navy, and it was very easy to successfully land in the northwest of Portugal, but it was met with a very quick counterattack by the Roman army.
Huan Wen chose to retreat back to sea and lead the fleet back to its forward base in modern Morocco.
The second time Huan Wen came with his army and continued to advance on the western route, the Roman navy appeared, and the two sides fought a battle near the Strait of Gibraltar that was definitely a great naval battle for this era.
Of course, the final result of the naval battle was the victory of the expeditionary fleet, that is, the total annihilation of the Roman navy was not completed, and some of the Roman navy escaped.
The expeditionary fleet was followed by a landing from the coast of modern Portugal by the resolution of Huan Wen, and once again there was a fierce confrontation with the Roman army along the coast.
The last time the naval guns of the Han army did not exert their might, and even no firearms troops were put into the battlefield, just a small fight, and Huan Wen took people back to the sea.
This time, Huan Wen came with the determination to make a foothold, and had personally observed the tactical tactics of the Roman legions, and deployed a targeted artillery plan.
It was a kind of brutal sight of the main and secondary guns of the sea gunboats roaring in turn, and the tight Roman formation was torn apart in the artillery fire, and the tighter the formation, the more casualties and miserable it became.
It was just a coastal bombardment of nearly 1,000 guns of different calibers and sizes, and there was no way to deal with the coastal defense bases of permanent fortifications, and there was no difficulty in dealing with flesh and blood.
After the shelling, the landed Han troops began to charge.
The Romans estimated that they were stunned by the artillery bombardment and did not flee, and the two sides carried out a round of one-sided killings, waiting for the Han army to carry some bronze cannons onto land to join the ranks of the artillery bombardment, and the troops that the Romans could retreat could not save the friendly troops and fled in a hurry.
The expeditionary fleet has now controlled the Portuguese region and part of Spain in later generations, and more importantly, the Strait of Gibraltar is also controlled by the Han army, which is equivalent to mastering the only natural strait in the Mediterranean, which is the entrance and exit of the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
In the twenty-fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Rome once again sent an envoy to Chang'an, and they came to negotiate the terms of the armistice
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