At this time, Ran Liang had already led his army to defeat the Huns tribe, his former allies.
And they conquered a large area of land from the Aral Sea to the Caspian Sea, and the local Khorezm, Huns, and Nyssa people all surrendered one after another.
Ran Liang's strong attack immediately caused the Sasanian Dynasty to make the most fierce counterattack.
The newly appointed Sasanian king personally led an army of 100,000 servants, and divided the troops into three groups to attack Ran Liang's territory.
At the same time, the Sassanid counterattack in the east soon left the kingdom's western frontier empty.
The Roman Empire, an old enemy, had just been reunified under Constantine I.
The Roman Empire's ambitions for Sasanian Persia certainly would not let them let go of this opportunity.
Emperor Constantine I, who was sitting in the east of the empire, quickly sent envoys across the Caspian Sea, arrived at Ranliang's territory, and conveyed his proposal to form an alliance with him to fight against Sasanian Persia.
However, Ran Liang did not have the authority to respond directly to the invitations from the Roman Empire's envoys.
Because the person proposed by these Roman Empire envoys was the monarch of the Han Empire, not a feudal monarch under the rule of the Han Empire.
Therefore, when Ran Liang offered prisoners to Luoyang this time, he also sent someone to inform Liu Yu about this.
Historically, the Han Empire and the Roman Empire were the two supreme beings at the east and west ends.
However, these two empires rarely communicated directly, and they only speculated on each other's beauty in fantasy.
Now that he finally had a real opportunity, Liu Yu certainly didn't want to give up.
However, Liu Yu was not very interested in the alliance's attack on Sasanian Persia.
Not to mention whether the Roman Empire had an advantage over Sassanid Persia, the Roman Empire's consistent tendency to treat its allies made Liu Yuti uninterested.
The expansion of the Roman Empire can be said to be a history of divisions, alliances, and fights with a group of allies.
Except for the many barbarian allies when the empire died, all the Roman allies in the early and mid-term were eaten by him one by one.
Liu Yu quickly formed an envoy team, which also served as a caravan, heading to the Western Regions and going directly to the Roman Empire as an envoy.
Regarding the candidates for the chief and deputy envoys, Liu Yu chose his nephew Liu Xun as the chief envoy and "alchemist" Ge Hong as the deputy envoy.
The territory that Ran Liang had established was really too big, and Liu Yu already felt that it was necessary to entrust another clan to the Western Regions.
As the emperor's nephew Liu Xun who once led the army in battle, he was naturally the best candidate.
Not only is there no hidden powerful clan, it can also revitalize Han culture in the local area.
Moreover, as a child of the royal family, he was bound to receive more attention from the Roman Emperor Constantine I.
As the deputy envoy, Ge Hong was also assigned multiple tasks by Liu Yu.
Not only was Ge Hong asked to lead people to record and map the wind and geography along the way, he was also asked to search extensively for books, picture books and translators within the Roman Empire.
Of course, as all technical secrets of the Han Empire, they must be kept secret and the accompanying personnel must be monitored.
After two full months of preparation, a delegation of more than a thousand people set off westward in a mighty manner.
at the same time.
As the middleman, the great Han Pingxi Wang Ranliang was having a hard time at this time.
The city of Bhanla.
Since the Sasanian Persian army began to counterattack, Ran Liang took the initiative to retreat from some territories.
However, the fierce offensive of Sasanian Persia soon expanded to the city of Bhanla.
This is the center leading to the river area, so Ran Liang naturally cannot give up.
However, these Sasanian Persian fronts arrived too quickly.
The troops sent out by Ran Liang have not yet withdrawn.
At this time, there were less than a thousand soldiers in the city, and the rest were all servants.
These servants and horses can defend the city well, but it would be a disaster if they went out to fight in the field.
Therefore, Ran Ling personally led the guards out of the city to counterattack, first to dampen the vigor of Sasanian Persia, and then he could calmly defend the city.
Outside Bhanla City.
Facing Ran Liang who came out of the city to fight, the Sasanian Persian forward generals did not pay attention at all.
He ordered the army to rest in place to replenish its strength, and only sent five hundred Sasanian cavalry to attack.
Five hundred Sasanian cavalry were full of confidence and rushed towards Ran Liang's formation.
"kill!"
"Kill!"
Following roars in Persian, five hundred armored cavalry armed with long spears rushed over diagonally from the front.
"Hold! Hold!"
Ran Liang held a spear and raised his arms in the array and shouted.
"Ding!"
"Ding!"
With a soft sound, swarms of feather arrows hit Ran Liang.
Because the armor and stomach worn today are complete, these feather arrows caused no other damage at all except causing a sound.
These troops of the Western Han Dynasty quickly completed their defense and had an immovable momentum.
The five hundred Sasanian Persian cavalry were not to be outdone, and they all rushed towards them with swords and guns raised high.
The rumble of horse hooves came like thunder.
"Kill the thief!"
Ran Liang roared loudly, and hundreds of elites behind him also roared in unison.
"Kill the thief!"
"Kill the thief!"
Finally, five hundred Sasanian cavalry rushed in towards Ran Liang's formation.
"Hehe, just a few hundred Orientals will definitely be defeated in one attack!"
The Sasanian general watched the battle from a distance, already planning to win easily.
"boom!"
As the first sound of horses colliding came, the Sasanian cavalry clashed with the elite soldiers of the Han Dynasty!
"kill!"
Ran Liang held a spear, passed through the shield bearers in the front row, and stabbed a Sasanian cavalry fiercely.
The momentum of this Sasanian cavalry was blocked by a thick shield as tall as a man in front of him. He was so anxious that he had no way to dodge.
The Sasanian cavalry waved their spears and slashed at the swords coming from the left and right. They did not notice Ran Liang's spear at all.
"puff!"
With a soft sound, the spear bit the Sasanian cavalry in the face like a poisonous snake.
"ah!"
The cavalryman let out a miserable cry and waved the spear in his hand crazily.
However, although the movements under the severe pain were still fast, they had lost their accuracy.
A Han soldier on the left swung a long ax and hit him in the neck.
The Sasanian cavalry stopped all movements in an instant and fell off his horse with a thud.
A large amount of blood spurted out from the half-cut neck.
It was like a fountain, splattering blood on Ran Liang's face.
"Hugou, take your life!"
Ran Liang continued to wave his spear, and saw cold light flying, and blinded the eyes of a Sasanian cavalry mount.
The injured horse went completely crazy, raising its front legs and swinging its body wildly.
The Sasanian rider on the horse looked panicked and tried hard to pull on the reins, trying to control the furious horse.
However, everything is in vain.
The horse leaped high and knocked the cavalryman off his horse.
"Kill the thief!"
A sword shield man in the front row had quick hands, eyes and hands. He leaned down and jumped forward, looking at the cavalryman's face with the sword in his hand.
"Clang!"
This Jurchen cavalry was indeed experienced in the battlefield, and he immediately raised his long knife to block.
Song Jun's sword shield hand didn't hesitate at all when he saw this, and immediately slashed with his sword again.
The Jurchen cavalry was half lying on the ground, trying to block it while waiting for an opportunity to retreat.
Unexpectedly, just halfway through the movement of his hand, he suddenly felt a heartbreaking pain in his calf.
"ah!"
A scream came out of his mouth unconsciously.
It turned out that a Song Army chief axeman on the other side wielded a long ax and chopped off half of the Jurchen cavalry's calf.
The tight chain mail could not stop the heavy long axe.
Taking advantage of this moment, the long swords of the Song Army's sword and shield soldiers also immediately chopped down, and the Jurchen cavalry screamed with one blow.
"Kill the thief!"
With roars one after another, the Song infantry relied on the large shields and spears in the front row to intercept the menacing Jurchen cavalry head-on.
After the cavalry lost their momentum, they immediately fell into a disadvantage in the fight.
Seeing that the situation was not good, a large number of Jurchen cavalry turned their horses and retreated to the rear, planning to charge again.
"Fire the arrow!"
When Wang Zhen saw this, he immediately roared and issued an order.
The Song Army's crossbowmen, who had been prepared long ago, immediately fired their crossbows at the retreating Jurchen cavalry.
Although the Jurchen cavalry are covered in armor from top to bottom, the protection behind their horses is the weakest.
The powerful and heavy Song Dynasty Crossbow can fire enough arrows to cause damage.
"ah!"
"hiss!"
With a burst of people roaring and horses roaring, the retreating Jurchen cavalry left another casualty.
Wanyan Zongbi, who was watching the battle from a distance, was completely shocked by the scene in front of him.
"How is this possible? Are the people of Song Dynasty actually so bloody?"
Wanyan Zongbi's impression of the Song Army had never been so bloody.
Even though he lost to Zhao Ji, King of Jin of the Song Dynasty last time, Wanyan Zongbi felt that he was tricked by the opponent. It was not that the Song army surpassed him in terms of courage and bloodiness.
However, the hundreds of people in front of Wang Zhen blocked the charge of the Jurchen cavalry.
Wanyan Zongbi had to exclaim in surprise as he showed his extremely tenacious spirit.
"Marshal, Sahonin is back!"
A general next to him said.
Sahenin is the Jurchen general who just led five hundred cavalry to attack.
Wanyan Zongbi's face was gloomy.
That Sahenin ran over with a dissatisfied look on his face, dismounted from his horse and kowtowed to apologize.
"Marshal, the general just underestimated the enemy. Marshal, please give the general 300 more men. We must kill all the Song troops in front of us!"
In the previous confrontation, Sahenin lost more than a hundred people at once.
For the Jurchens, this was already a major failure.
"Sahenin! I will give you 500 more people, plus the more than 300 people now, to eat these Song troops in one go, otherwise, I will kill you!"
Wanyan Zongbi pointed the riding crop in his hand at Sahening and said viciously.
Sahenin was not panicked at all.
"Marshal, don't worry. If I don't kill all these Song dogs, I will come to see them myself!"
After saying this, Sahenin went to greet five hundred Jurchen soldiers.
at the same time.
On the top of Taiyuan City, Jin Wang Zhao Ji and the Song troops and civilians guarding the city were all aroused by the battle just now with great enthusiasm.
"Haha, this Wang Zhen finally has some blood in him!"
Zhao Ji couldn't help but praise when he saw that Wang Xun led his army to block the Jurchen charge and killed several times the enemy with very low losses.
"Your Highness, Wang Zhen, these elite soldiers, although they are unruly and rebellious, are still good soldiers." Cheng Yaojin agreed from the side.
"Your Highness, look, the Jurchens are coming back again." Zhang Yi suddenly pointed in the distance and said loudly.
I saw a large number of soldiers and horses moving back and forth in the Jurchen array.
"Come here, beat the drum for me and cheer up the Song Dynasty warriors below the city!"
Upon seeing this, Zhao Ji immediately gave orders to the trumpeters on the top of the city.
"Dongdongdong!"
As waves of loud war drums sounded, the people on the top of the city who were helping in the battle also let out rounds of cheers.
"The Great Song Dynasty is mighty!"
"Kill all the wild dogs!"
Luoyang.
In the back garden of the imperial palace, there are many pavilions, flowers, birds and strange stones.
It is definitely a rare and wonderful place in the world.
The Yulin guards on the periphery are guarding the safety of this place with three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry.
Liu Yu was lying leisurely on the recliner, holding a glass of wine in his left hand and holding a blue-eyed beauty from the Western Regions in his right hand.
While he slowly sipped the beautiful women and fine wine, he watched a group of children playing and playing not far in front of him.
Another group of palace maids and eunuchs stretched out their hands to protect the children nervously.
"Your Majesty, the news came back from the Blackwater Protector's Mansion. Yin Xian, Duan Pixi and Duan Wenyang have already expanded the territory for three thousand miles. They have conquered more than 100,000 savages and obtained more than 100,000 gold and gems. two!"
A female imperial official next to her was holding a pile of memorials and reading to the side.
"More than three thousand miles?"
"Too little. Such a small area is not even as good as Dongping Prefecture. And the gold obtained is too little. These Yin people's survivors have accumulated more than 100,000 taels of gold for thousands of years. Either the Yin tribes are too Poor, or Yin Xian and the others have not found a place that is truly rich in gold."
Liu Yu was very dissatisfied with the return from the Blackwater Protectorate.
The expansion speed of these Han army soldiers in the New World was really too slow.
It took several years to expand to less than an area of the Liaodong Peninsula.
Although there are scattered tribes of local Yin Shang survivors, they have to chew the bones one by one.
It's more because the Han soldiers are still too kind in their hearts.
Many people have truly regarded the Yin Shang tribe as their blood compatriots.
In particular, the Duan Pixi brothers formed large-scale alliances with many Yin and Shang tribes in order to emphasize their Han identity.
This caused the tribes that were hostile to them to unite against each other.
"Give Yin Xian an order. This is too slow. And what's the progress of educating the Yin tribe?" Liu Yu asked again.
"Your Majesty, this memorial says that Yin Xian and his men have conquered thirty-six tribes and clans, large and small, and have all given them Han surnames. They have also clarified the clan laws. There are already many young people here. Serving in the army and educating the Yin people were very successful."
Nonsense.
Could it be okay?
Under the intimidation of these Yin tribe thugs, all the tribesmen who resisted had their scalps scalped by men, and the women were snatched away to work as cattle during the day and as horses at night.
No matter how powerful your tribe is, as long as it is targeted by these people, it will either be destroyed or submit.
"I will give orders to Yin Xian and others, and then send ships to continue southward along the coast. When I encounter a suitable place, I will camp on the beach and build a city. Then I will cooperate on the road to let the local Yin tribe quickly expand southward. Don't be too entangled in it. Inland." Liu Yu said.
The White Cow City that Yin Xian and the others used as their base camp, judging from the map sent back by those Tai students, should be on the northern coast of the border between the United States and Canada in later generations.
Whether it is climate, land, or mineral resources, there is a very big gap compared to the regions further south.
If you want to expand quickly, you must expand southward.
Only the west coast of America can be considered truly fertile soil.
The gold, land and other wealth there were enough to allow Yin Xian and the others to expand rapidly.
Most of the first-generation versions of the new crops that Liu Yu wanted to find were only grown south of here.
"Your Majesty, Yin Xian and others also reported that many of the local Yin tribes suffered from serious diseases and plagues, and many young people suffered heavy casualties, resulting in a shortage of troops in their hands. Your Majesty also requested that you send some more young people to supplement them."
"What? A plague?"
"Yes, this memorial says that these Yin tribes have been plagued by severe diseases and plagues recently, and those who suffer from them die immediately. It is almost rare that decoctions can cure them." said the female officer.
"What about our soldiers?"
"Our soldiers don't seem to have any impact. It may be a serious disease of the local Yin people."
When Liu Yu heard this, he had roughly guessed it.
No matter how you guess, you can already guess it.
Most of the terrible plagues that these local indigenous tribes encountered were pathogenic bacteria and viruses brought by Yin Xian and others.
Because of the closed nature of the New World, the local tribal people have almost zero resistance to many common diseases in the world island.
A simple soldier, for the Han people in the Central Plains, is nothing more than a day's sleep.
But for them, it almost cost their lives.
"Many Yin soldiers are the most loyal and reliable, but they also suffered a lot of casualties in the plague. That's why Yin Xian and others want your Majesty to send more sergeants to supplement them."
"Sergeant? There cannot be any additional sergeants. Now the big man himself is not strong enough and cannot be sent abroad anymore." Liu Yu shook his head.
However, Yin Xian and the others only have a strength of more than 10,000 people. If they want to continue to expand, they will definitely not be able to just capture the local women of the Yin tribe to reproduce. Without ten or twenty years, there will be no sudden growth. of.
"However, although there are no sergeants, I can send some talents to them."
Liu Yu suddenly said with a smile.
"The talents His Majesty mentioned are to send students?"
"No, it's enough to have those Tai students collecting and drawing in Dongshengzhou. What I want to give them is some other talents."
Dongshengzhou, Bainiu City.
After several months of expansion, White Bull City's coastal facilities finally have enough berths.
Not only can it be used for parking, but it can also be loaded and unloaded unimpeded.
"Brother Yin, what did you bring this time?"
As a large ship approached the berth, Duan Wenyang personally led his elite troops to greet it.
The fleet led by Yin Xian, the governor of Blackwater, conducted exchanges.
In order to ensure the safety of navigation, this fleet can be said to be extremely cautious.
As a result, it often takes half a year to go back and forth.
Every time I come back, the supplements I bring are extremely precious.
Yin Xian smiled when he saw Duan Wenyang.
"Haha, General Duan, I have brought some good supplements this time!"
"Oh, what is it?" Duan Wenyang asked.
"Don't you always complain about the lack of manpower? This time I brought back three thousand men, all of whom are in their 10s and 20s!"
"What, really?"
Duan Wenyang immediately became happy.
In this new continent, there has long been no such thing as Han people, Xianbei people, and Hu people.
Compared with the large number of Yin tribes, their Han identity is quite solid.
If you want to control the tribes of the Yin people and maintain your status as a master, you must ensure that you have sufficient force.
One of the cornerstones of having sufficient force is having enough people.
"Three thousand sergeants, Your Majesty is really generous!" Duan Wenyang said with a smile.
"Sergeant? No, no, no, it's not a sergeant, I mean three thousand men." Yin Xian immediately shook his head.
