Chapter 1094

The era of the Han Empire, the 25th year of Yuanshuo.

Just after the new year's Chang'an, the sound of firecrackers kept ringing at night in every square and Lu on the second day of the ninth day.

If you are on the high tower of the palace city and look at the whole Chang'an City, you will see a piece of bright lights. From time to time, fireworks will be shot into the sky from the ground in a certain area, and the subsequent explosion will show colorful colors.

Chang'an city now has more than 2.5 million residents. It surpassed Jiankang and Linzi in the 21st year of Yuanshuo and became the most populous city in the Han Empire. At the same time, it is also one of the most populous cities in the world.

In fact, even with the population data of 2.2 million in Jiankang and 1.4 million in Linzi, it is known that other countries in the world have no cities comparable to it.

At present, the fourth largest city is in sassanne. The population of taixifeng increased sharply in the 23rd year of Yuan Shuo of the Han Empire, reaching as much as 1.3 million.

The third largest city is Constantinople, the capital of Rome, with a population of about 650000?

The reason why the population of Sasan taixifeng increased sharply in a short time was that the Han army of the western expedition hit the MIDI Province, which is the central province of Sasan.

It took nearly six years for the Han Army to reach midi. Before that, the two sides broke out six wars with more than 500000 troops from the two camps.

In the six great wars, the Han army won four times, but also retreated twice.

Although the losses of the two active retreats were not too exaggerated, they were undeniable failures. For a time, the anti Han coalition forces thought that the Han Empire was no longer good, and gathered heavy troops to fight back like chicken blood.

The first small defeat of the Han army retreated directly to hunit territory. This time, several small countries attached to the Han Empire were unlucky. They were liquidated by the anti Han axis coalition forces and subjugated one after another. Naturally, some royal families escaped and were helped to recover by the Han Empire.

For the second time, the Han army took the initiative to retreat, but it set a layout. This time, it also wiped out 340000 troops with Sasan as the main force, of which the Romans left five full legions, a total of 30000 people.

During nearly six years of competition, as many as 360000 soldiers in the Han Empire camp fell on the battlefield forever. Although 190000 of them were servants in the western region alone, and 60000 or 70000 were killed in the battle with cannon fodder temporarily pulled from various countries, nearly 100000 Han soldiers fell on the road of the journey to the west, or were disabled and unable to continue to serve.

The anti Han axis is definitely much more miserable than the Han Empire. In six years, the Han army alone can count more than 800000 war results. Sassanne's own statistics of losses are much more, more than 1.3 million people.

There will be such a big gap between the statistics of the two sides. The Han army only counts the prisoners and the head level, while SA Shan counts the head after gathering the troops.

A war is not just a loss if you die on the battlefield. Some soldiers who escape and don't return to construction will also be summarized in the loss figure. Then there are some soldiers who can no longer fight because of their disabilities. They will also be regarded as part of losing combat effectiveness.

In the 21st year of Yuanshuo, the Han army destroyed the main force of the anti Han axis coalition in the east of Sasan and officially invaded Sasan on a large scale.

Before that, the front of both sides was actually around jilongpo.

In that case, the road from the mainland of the Han Empire to jilongpo has been under construction. Although the Han Army does not have to worry about the loss of food and some cold weapons, the supply of gunpowder must always keep up, otherwise the promotion 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 lose Sassanian's national strength.

In the past six years, the Han Empire did not do little to support the Arabs. That is, sassanne also knew the truth that it was necessary to be stable at the same time when conducting national wars abroad. Before, he had not killed all Arabs who dared to resist indiscriminately. The more the later the means of repression was, the more bloody it was.

In order to build a road from the mainland to the front line, the Han Army in the western expedition not only captured the enemy as much as possible, but also continuously sent troops to sweep around.

In just a few years, the surrounding areas in the shogunate theater of the western expedition have almost become ghosts. The local aborigines of the Han Empire camp have either run away or been caught.

Due to the effect of the move of the shogunate of the western expedition, the descendants of the northern Huns, including some tribes around the Black Sea, who should have been entrenched for more than 100 years, ran clean in just three or five years. As a result, it was clear that there were beautiful water and grass near the war zone, but it became a vast no man's land.

Not only the Han Empire is catching people, but also the anti Han axis.

The Han army arrested people to build roads. Otherwise, tens of thousands of people would be killed and injured every month. The more they die, the more they always have to fill the gap. Otherwise, when will the roads be built?

The reason for the anti Han axis to catch people is even simpler. They desperately need cannon fodder. Even if they just force the cannon fodder to rush forward, they can consume more gunpowder, arrows... And even strength of the Han army.

Two strong fight, the weak don't run is a brain problem, dead also deserve it.

The increase in the population of Constantinople in Rome was also due to the factors of the Han Empire. The expedition fleet led by Huan Wen first landed in the province of Mauritania in Africa. After completing its control of the region, it began to attack Europa in the 19th year of Yuanshuo, resulting in a wave of migration in the west of Europa in Rome.

In fact, the focus of Rome under the rule of the Constantine family is not on the Italian peninsula of Europe. Even Italy, a "place of prosperity", can give up, so Western and central Europe are even less important.

In Rome at this stage, Europa is not the same as the current Constantine family. Before the Constantine family civil war, Europa's Roman nobles bet on the opponent of Constantius II.

If this kind of thing happens in Zhuxia, waiting for the corner to drive out the final winner, these guys will be dead.

However, there are some differences in Rome. Betting on the wrong treasure is just to become a marginal family. They can even live very natural and unrestrained in their own control area. Several competing quasi Augustus get the final winner. They can not take them, either appease or ignore them, or they are undermining the rules formed in Rome for thousands of years.

Once the rules of thousands of years have been broken, the new augustus should face the siege of the aristocracy. It is estimated that his ass will roll out of office within a few days of sitting on the throne of Augustus.

That is the root cause of the Roman system. It is not only the state that has an army. Each family has its own private army more or less. Some powerful family private armies are even more than the standing army under the national establishment. It is difficult to be accurate in terms of combat effectiveness.

The ruling families of Rome, frankly speaking, are not the strongest nobles, but they have a unique title. They are not like the gradually constrained Zhuxia. In addition to the national army, even if someone is qualified to have private soldiers, the number of private soldiers is also limited to the minimum.

Any country is in the same situation. Whoever has military power has the right to speak. Without an army is wealth. No matter how much it is, it is only a fat pig to be slaughtered. Whether it will be slaughtered depends on the integrity of the ruler.

Huan Wen landed near the Strait of Gibraltar in the 18th year of Yuanshuo, but he did not choose to land from the Strait of Gibraltar. In fact, he landed from the southwest of modern Morocco.

Before the landing, there was no Roman garrison along the coast, but there were some local indigenous tribes.

As soon as the landing troops of the expedition fleet landed, they did not immediately pay force to the aborigines. They tried to make friendly communication. Unfortunately, the black millet over there was too ignorant and foolish.

Black millet found a strange race, and their first choice was to call people to fight.

A bunch of black millet without even a piece of cloth, only the first batch or leaves in the crotch to hide their shame, stone grass and cane shield in their hands, so "woo, Wow - Hey, hey!" Attack, then... Then become a body, or be captured.

The black millet on this side is still in an absolute primitive social state, living in a natural cave, or finding a natural cave to be in charge.

Farming or something? Black millet will never be willing to farm! Their food comes from nature and takes gathering and hunting as the main means to obtain food.

If it is difficult to get food from nature in the season, they are grabbing each other among tribes. It is not difficult to eat people when necessary.

Most of the black millet swear that they will never farm even after thousands of years. They still need to be raised by nature. If they feel that they can't live, they just cry to someone, which can always arouse some people's sympathy, donate goods and food, and then continue to rob them internally.

Some black millet were caught as slaves in the early years. Their genes were mutated. It may be that the slave life of their ancestors buried the gene of labor, but they don't like learning... Or the brain kernel development is too small to learn, so they are still a group of people who don't love learning.

The Han people brought by Huanwen found a characteristic of the local aborigines. Even if they were forced to work, they would be lazy if they caught the opportunity. The sun, whether they should still be lazy or continue to be lazy after being whipped for many times, would have little effect on setting an example to others, or even creating a reward system.

This discovery almost made the Han people who came to Africa despair. The reason why they didn't go to the Romans to work was that they didn't want to find a place to build a forward base first.

The captured black millet is so lazy that it is almost rotten. Should we do all the projects ourselves? How much time should that be a waste!

For a time, they all felt that the slave hunting plan in southern Africa was definitely the wrong decision of the Han Empire. Can't they find happiness for themselves by catching such lazy black millet that are not afraid of death?

What they don't know is that the same is black millet. In fact, some black millet are very hardworking. Although those hardworking black millet are small in brain... That is, they are simple in mind, but at least they are willing to work. Black millet in southern Africa and black millet in eastern Africa actually belong to the category that is still saved.

Huan Wen's plan was disrupted. It would have taken half a year to build the forward base, but it took nearly a year to look like it.

They delayed for more than half a year, during which they also encountered dozens of tribes of black millet to attack.

In fact, the joint attack of black millet had nothing to show off for the Han army. It was natural to win. It was a loss to destroy hundreds of black millet and kill one of its own.

In the 19th year of Yuanshuo, Huanwen left the necessary garrison before continuing to lead the fleet to the West.

They did not officially invade the Spanish province of Rome until the spring of that year.

This time, there was no longer no Maronite garrison. It can even be said that the Romans built magnificent coastal fortifications near the Strait.

Huan Wen attacked twice in total. He tried to find out that the frontal attack was difficult to overcome, and chose a detour in the back.

The first detour did not lure the Roman Navy. It was very easy to successfully land in the northwest of Portugal, but it encountered a very rapid counterattack by the Roman army.

Huan Wen chose to retreat to the sea again and led the fleet back to the forward base in modern Morocco.

When Huan Wen led his troops to the West for the second time, the Roman Navy appeared. The two sides fought a battle near the Strait of Gibraltar, which was absolutely an unprecedented naval battle for this era.

Of course, the final result of the naval battle was the victory of the expeditionary fleet. That is, some of the Roman Navy escaped without completing the total annihilation of the Roman Navy.

After the expedition fleet, it landed from the coast of modern Portugal under the resolution of Huan Wen, and once again had a fierce confrontation with the Roman army on the coast.

The last time the naval guns of the Han army were not powerful, and even no firearm troops were put into the battlefield. After only a small fight, Huan Wen returned to the sea with his people.

This time, Huan Wen came with the determination to make a foothold, and had personally observed the tactical methods of the Roman Legion and deployed a targeted artillery program.

It was a cruel scene in which the main guns and auxiliary guns of naval gunships roared in turn, and the Roman tight formation was torn apart in the gunfire. The tighter the formation, the more casualties.

It was just a coastal shelling with nearly 1000 caliber. There was no way to deal with the coastal defense base of YONGGU fortification, and there was no difficulty in dealing with flesh and blood.

After the shelling, the landing Han army launched an assault.

It is estimated that the Romans were stunned by the shelling and did not escape. The two sides carried out a round of one-sided killing and waited for the Han Army to bring some bronze guns to the land to join the shelling. Only the troops that Rome could retreat left their friends who could not be saved and fled in a hurry.

At present, the expedition fleet has controlled the Portuguese region and part of Spain. More importantly, the Strait of Gibraltar is also controlled by the Han army. It is equivalent to mastering the only natural Strait in the Mediterranean, which is the entrance and exit of the Mediterranean connecting the Atlantic Ocean.

In the 24th year of Yuanshuo, Rome once again sent a mission to Chang'an. It was time to calculate the date. They came to negotiate the terms of the armistice agreement.