"I can't get enough of the lights."
Liu Yan traveled to the years in 340 A.D. when the status of the Han people was far inferior to that of wild beasts, and twenty-six years have passed.
At the beginning of the crossing, Liu Yan was already twenty-four years old, and now he is fifty years old.
His eldest son was 21 years old after the Chinese New Year, and his youngest son was only a few months old.
It has been 24 years since the establishment of the Han Empire, which has risen from a bloody storm and straightened its waist, slaughtered the once invincible Qian, defeated the Xianbei, Qiang, Di and all kinds of miscellaneous Hu, and only then did it recover the old land of the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains.
Nowadays, there are no Qian, Xianbei, Bei, Qiang, Di and Zahu within thousands of miles of the border of the Han Empire, and they are either slaughtered cleanly, or they merge into Han people, or they become slaves.
The land belonging to the pre-Han dynasty was completely recovered before the sixteenth year of the Yuan Shuo, and even the contemporary Han people have greatly expanded.
The Southwest Peninsula has become a sacred and inseparable part of the Han Empire, and even the Asan side also attacked and destroyed the Gupta Empire, and then swallowed a small country or state every two years, and in the nineteenth year of Yuan Shuo, it destroyed Vagatha, and in the twenty-first year of Yuan Shuo, it destroyed two Satraps.
Up to now, there are only some marginal and wild places in the Asan Continent where there are states or tribes, otherwise they all fall under the rule of the Han Empire.
The Han Empire's rule in the Asan Continent was based on the division of many vassal states, but the elite areas such as the Ganges and Indus valleys were naturally owned by the state, and the rest of the country was exercised by classical feuds.
In terms of the Hou States, there are at least seventy-two Hou States in the Asan Continent, and there are countless such as feudal towns and so on.
The largest marquis has a land area of tens of thousands of square kilometers, and the smallest fiefdom is only the size of a village.
The princes of the Hou State, in fact, most of the time they are not in their own Hou State, they will appoint their own heirs to manage the Hou State, and they will either live in Chang'an for a long time, or go abroad to fight or go abroad to perform official duties.
In the six years of foreign wars after the seventeenth year of Yuan Shuo, nearly 20 marquis were produced, thousands of lords and middle lords, and countless lower lords.
Because it was a war at the level of a national war, a war with the anti-Han axis led by Rome and Sasansan, the Han Empire maintained a state of national mobilization in the first four years, and gradually slowed down the conscription of troops from the fifth year.
Today, the standing army of the Han Empire has increased to 24, and the establishment of each standing army has increased from 150,000 to 28,000, except for the special prefix of the Huben Army and the Yulin Army.
Not counting the county soldiers in the territory, only the number of soldiers in the standing army, the Han Empire had a field corps of nearly 700,000 people in the 23rd year of the Yuan Shuo.
Among the 700,000 field regiments, the number of troops equipped with firearms increased from less than 16,000 in the 17th year of Yuan Shuo to 127,000.
Of the 127,000 men, 85,000 were armed with flintlock pistols, in addition to artillery.
It took about six years for the Han Empire to arm four firearms units.
According to Liu Yan's plan, it is necessary to wait until the army is fully redressed before the new military system can be implemented.
The Great War lasted for nearly seven years, and the larger battlefields were the Sassanid Battlefield, the Roman Battlefield, and the Azan Continent.
The Sassanid battlefield has been advancing westward in a steady and orderly manner, and the major battles have been carried out six times, and the following small and medium-sized encounters are not easy to count, after all, the encounters between scouts can also be regarded as small encounters.
On the Roman side, there was only one report to the mainland once a year, and in the five years or so, there were only seven naval battles, one of which the Romans put in more than 1,000 ships, after which the Roman navy was completely withered.
The battles on the other side of the Asan Continent were more frequent than those of the Sassanid battlefield and the Roman battlefield, and the speed of advancement and expansion was also different between the two battlefields.
The reason is naturally that the enemies faced by the Tianzhu Protectorate are really not very good, and at the same time, they are easier to conquer.
Qian Jiantong only had two standing armies and less than 50,000 county and county soldiers in his hands, but he had nearly 400,000 Asan servant soldiers under his command, and the more he fought, the more servant soldiers he commanded, and he had already become the one with the largest number of troops under the establishment of the three major local battlefields.
The eastern part of Sasanian is barren and produces almost no productive areas.
In addition to the fact that the original land was not very good, the Persians destroyed as much as possible when they retreated, and it was not possible to restore production in a short period of time.
Then there was the fact that the Persians had long been prepared to evacuate the civilian population, and the situation of the war had moved away before the tide of war turned against them.
The Western Expeditionary Corps not only had to fight against the Sassanid army, but also had to build long roads, and the prisoners of war captured were basically consumed in road construction, and even the natives captured from the surrounding areas were also thrown into the road building army, and the servant soldiers under their command were selected from the Western Regions.
The Han Empire has always had a policy of reducing the number of men in the Western Regions, and in the process, it was inevitable that the people of the Western Regions who resisted would be suppressed, and after pulling out nearly 300,000 men as cannon fodder for servants, there were really not many adult men left in the Western Regions. is the rest of them, which are basically relatives of the Han people, that is, the Han people accepted the women of the Western Regions, and the families of those women became the household registration of naturalized Hu.
The environment on the side of the expeditionary fleet was even worse, first of all, the people on the side of Europa were too unfamiliar with the Han Empire, not only the Romans, but also the natives in the part of Europasia who had never heard of the Han Empire.
Rome has ruled Europa for more than a thousand years, and it is difficult for the menaceous and combative native people of Europa to grow, especially in the western and central regions of Europa, which Rome values most.
As a hegemon that had flourished for more than a thousand years, the Romans had a higher morale than the Persians, and they lost a wide angle in the far west of Europa, and many noble families had organized twelve counteroffensives in three years, but they failed to force the Han army back to the sea once.
The number of gunboats in the expeditionary fleet gradually increased to thirteen, ten of which were fixed in the open sea of the occupied zone, cruising in the sea area that could be reinforced within two hours, even if not at anchor.
The existence of ten gunboats is quite a fact that the Han army on land can get artillery support from the sea anytime and anywhere, plus in the past two or three years, the Han army on land has also established its own fortifications, and even no less than ten fortresses have been built, a large military city, and the army itself has artillery units.
When the nobles of the Eurobasi Department counterattacked, the Constantine family was not idle.
The Strait of Gibraltar was controlled by the Han army, which was equivalent to the entrance and exit of the Mediterranean Sea being choked, and the Constantine family no longer had military wisdom, and they should understand the consequences of a single entrance and exit being stuck.
In a short period of two or three years, the expeditionary fleet had already stirred up the entire Mediterranean, and almost every day there were groups of Han warships crisscrossing the Mediterranean, chasing and killing any ships that were not on their own, and from time to time they were looking for a defensive Roman coastal city to land and fight and plunder.
In just two or three years, Rome couldn't even control Africa, and if it weren't for the fact that there was still communication with central and western Europa on land, I didn't know if those places belonged to the Roman Empire.
Naturally, Rome tried to drive the Han army out of the Mediterranean, and some of the previously mothballed warships were pulled out again, and they were building ships all the time.
Unfortunately for the Romans, not only were their ships inferior to the Han army, but tragically, they were not even as good in number, making it impossible to believe that Rome was fighting at home, more like the home of the Han Empire.
At present, the worst thing for the Romans is not only the loss of sea dominance in the Mediterranean, but also the inability of the Eurobasi Department to drive the Han army that has landed into the sea, and then the Germanic people from Eastern Europe, in fact, Central Europe, also come to disturb the situation.
The Germanic peoples had entered the stage of the rise of the barbarians, having previously established three separate states.
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The Franks, who controlled most of what would become Belgium and the Netherlands, were the most powerful of the three Germanic peoples.
It's just that their country has not yet been recognized by the Romans, and is still part of the tribe that the Romans regard as vassals.
Burgundy, on the other hand, controlled southern Belgium and the regions of Luxembourg, Cologne and the Rhine, and was probably one of the three Germanic states with no shortage of iron ore, selling finished weapons and armor to the Franks and Alemanni, but was similarly not recognized by Rome as a sovereign state.
Alemanni, who controlled parts of western France and some mountainous areas of Switzerland, was the poorest of the three Germanic peoples who had established the country, but who had retained the most barbaric customs, but they were still the most capable of fighting, that is, the people's livelihood was simply terrible.
They were also the closest of the three Germanic states to Rome, but sought sovereign independence.
After the Han Empire moved westward, especially the expeditionary fleet led by Huan Wen landed in the west of Europa, the three Germanic states had many king-to-king communications, and even Alemanni, who was closest to Rome, thought that it was the most advantageous time for them, even if it was not to directly wage war against Rome, it was also a good opportunity for the Romans to recognize them as a sovereign and independent state.
Now, of course, there is no such thing as "sovereign independence", in fact, the Franks, Burgundy and Alemanni do not want to pay annual tribute to the Romans, and at the same time they are no longer willing to accept the military command of the Romans, and 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 to get the pass of those Roman nobles in central Europa, otherwise they did not have to negotiate with Constantinople.
The Roman aristocracy in central Europa replied to the three countries simply and directly, sending troops directly to teach them a lesson, and the result naturally led to war.
The three countries have sent envoys to the Han Empire, and other things may not have been learned, and the Han people will not teach anything in particular, but the saying "there is no rise without bloodshed" has been specially taught by the Han people, and it is obvious that they think that the Han people are right.
If the ancient route to Egypt had not been dug up, the only entrance to the Mediterranean would have been occupied by the Han Empire and could not be taken back.
If Egypt's access to the sea was re-excavated, it would be faced with the Han Empire's absolute superiority in navy.
It means that Rome is the same no matter what it does.
The part of Africa is still connected, but every time you practice, you have to go around thousands of miles of land.
Not only that, but the Han army has begun to intensify its attack on the African part of Rome, and at the same time it is also supporting the spokesman, believing that it will not be long before Rome's territory in Africa will be lost.
The coastal cities of the Mediterranean were repeatedly harassed and plundered by the Han army, and the once thriving maritime trade no longer existed.
The expansion of the war costs money, and the armed soldiers also cost money, and all kinds of things are being spent.
Rome had just moved from a state of division to a semblance of unity, and Constantius II did not really have much money on hand.
Then there is a bad start in the era of Roman officers, there is no money, not to mention that the army does not bird you what Augustus, the nobles are also disgusted even by a glance, Constantius, who is extremely short of money, does not dare to liquidate those nobles, even the big merchants dare not kill, and there is a church jumping up and down.
The Han Empire only sent an expeditionary fleet over, and the invasion could not be regarded as a formal large-scale invasion, and as a result, Rome was made into such a disgraced appearance, which was actually unexpected by Rome.
As a last resort, Constantius II convened a council.
Because of the invasion of the Han army and the terrible situation in Rome, the nobles who had conflicts before gave face to the Constantine family, even if they were not the head of the family in person, they would send henchmen there.
That meeting, which lasted for almost a month, came to only two conclusions: either there was a real solidarity in the whole of Rome, and in particular a willingness to contribute money for military expenses; Either that, Rome proposed a conditional truce to the Han Empire before it could be saved.
Obviously, donating money was the worst option for the Roman nobles, and only the nobles of the Eurobasi Department who were actually threatened were more enthusiastic, otherwise even the Roman nobles who were being sacked and raided by the Han Empire's navy were suspicious.
What they feared was that after the donations, the Constantines still sought an armistice with the Han Empire, and that the money was indeed spent on the expansion of the Constantine family, and then used those troops against them, so as to achieve at least the all-Roman unity of Caesar's time.
It is a fact that a disunited Rome could hardly compete with the Han Empire.
If you want to unite but have concerns because of the contradictions in the period of division, that is equivalent to leaving only the second option.
The Roman envoys had already left Constantinople and would travel to Egypt and then to the peninsula to seek the Han navy to send them to the Han Empire proper, and then to Chang'an
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