On the sea, countless ships marched in formation, and from a distance, there was no end in sight to the columns of ships, and a pair of sails covered the sky.

Li Mai was naturally on top of the flagship of the fleet, and he stood at the edge of the window of the bird room (bridge), looking at the fleet that could not be seen at a glance, and at the same time, he was full of emotion and ambition that he could lead such a large fleet.

The concept of the Han navy was as early as the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, when the Han army, which still claimed to be the Han Department, had already mastered the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, and repeatedly used the convenience of the navy to avoid the edge of the Shijie Zhao army.

It is precisely because of the early understanding of the sea that the journey of opening up the resources of the sea has begun, that is, the seafood obtained from the sea every year supports the supply of meat, enriches the dining table of the military and civilians, and also makes the military and civilians more healthy by absorbing more nutrients.

After the ninth year of Yuan Shuo, the Han people went to sea not limited to the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, and the coastal areas of the Han family territory could see the fishing and hunting ships, such as the sea outside Yizhou, which naturally included the rising sea (both the south 1 sea), and the farther ones had fishing boats out of the island chain, and only catching small fish and shrimp was no longer satisfied with the Han people, and some fleets also deliberately went to hunt whales.

The exploitation and utilization of the sea has opened up another innate skill of the Han people, that is, how to eat seafood, and by extension, how to make seafood can be transported further after processing. After all, the price of selling seafood to the inland must be higher, and if there is a profit, some people will find ways to find it, and all kinds of means will spring up like mushrooms after a rain.

The sea is undoubtedly a great treasure trove, not only in terms of seafood, but also in terms of the variety of treasures that have been discovered on too many islands, such as spices in Luzon and the surrounding archipelago, pearls and corals in some seas, and open-pit gold mines on some islands. There are a lot of jadeite and other things that the Han people prefer, but the value of gemstones has not yet been stimulated.

There is a certain thing, when the Han people explored the sea, they went to more than one island, and found that the wood used by the savages to build their houses was very precious sandalwood, and the stones used as dining tables were simply jade or gemstone rough stones.

Naturally, the savages don't know the preciousness of fragrant wood, and they don't have any values for jadeite and precious stones, and they don't even know what is so strange about golden gold, but the Han people know that those are all good things.

Nowadays, the Han people are still relatively straightforward, they really don't have the habit of taking some worthless things and savages in exchange, and they can directly operate the knife with a vote, and if they can't eat for a while, they will call friends, and if they can't even call friends and friends, they will call the army, and many savage tribes that have no quarrel with the world have withdrawn from the world stage so early.

There are too many examples of treasures that can be found casually, and they have aroused the enthusiasm of the Han people to go to sea to hunt for treasures, even if only a few people can make a fortune, but it does confirm the rumors that overseas is full of treasures, and it is natural to let more Han people who want to get rich and have an adventurous spirit go to sea.

Liu Yan's enthusiasm for the people to go overseas is a happy attitude, even if this phenomenon makes it more difficult for the government to manage the people.

Why did dynasties tightly control the exploration of the oceans? In fact, it is because of the fear that too many people go to sea and go to places that they can't control. If too many people go to sea, it will cause population loss, and one of the things that evaluates the performance of local officials is the size of the population. Moreover, the sea is a wild place, and even the honest people will become fierce once they have the experience of living on the sea, and they will return to their homeland after making a fortune more difficult to control than anyone else.

The regime of each dynasty, they even control the range of activities of the people on land, how can they allow the people to go to the sea?

Liu Yan is very clear about the truth that if Tianyu does not take it, he will be blamed, he does not even restrict the movement of people on land, and it is impossible to restrict access to the sea. As for making it more difficult to manage the people, he didn't want to be a "shepherd", on the contrary, he longed for everyone under his rule to be like a wolf and a tiger.

Even if a weak nation can exist for a while, it will be wiped out if it encounters a strong and ruthless foreign race, and the Han people are not without the experience of being almost wiped out.

At present, there is no decent force on the sea, and any resistance will be easily crushed by the Han people, and it is not so easy to do it when it is easy to return the sea to the hands of the Han people, and it is not so easy to wait for others to get the first hand and then go.

As a traverser, Liu Yan didn't know that the Ming generation went to the Western Ocean, and he would not be soft when he could easily control the ocean, and he would regret it when he found out that there was a threat at sea.

It can even be said that Liu Yan has a strong sense of urgency, his generation has the system as a cheat, and the next generation of kings will not have it, if he doesn't do more while he is alive, he will be stupid, otherwise he will not be tough and open up when the "basic disk" is destroyed.

Where did the huge fleet under Li Mai come from? Of these, 2,000 ships were produced from the system, and the remaining 600 or so were painstakingly built and trained. He didn't know too many secrets, and he was puzzled before why the Han Kingdom obviously had a huge fleet and didn't participate in the war with the Gupta Dynasty in the first place, but now he has more confusion and is full of thoughts about making contributions.

"Ah San should be scared when he sees a fleet of this size."

Fu Wei naturally also went to war, he was assigned to the battle sequence with the Persian fleet, and led the fleet to participate in the battle. Marcistios did not stay at his flagship, but boarded the ship of Volvix.

It is not clear whether the Gupta navy will be frightened and pee, and it is not clear whether Eltaba led fifty-eight large and small ships to come. Marsistius was frightened when he saw the boundless ships of the Han army.

It's not just Eltaba. The Persians on the side of Macistius were allowed to observe the naval battle by the Roman centurion Julian. Gahia was scared to pee too.

That's more than 2,500 warships of all sizes, not counting some necessary supply ships, most of which are still large men equipped with bed crossbows, and in the world known to the Persians and Romans, it is estimated that no one can come up with such a fleet except for the Han Kingdom.

There were more than 1,500 ships on the Gupta Dynasty's side, but most of them were converted from merchant ships, and there were only 400 ships that could really be regarded as warships, not counting big warships. The 400 ships that can be regarded as regular warships, and more than 200 were built in a hurry after the Gupta Dynasty switched to the war system, and to put it bluntly, they were launched within a year.

The Romans dominated the Mediterranean, and there were more than 400 warships in service at the same time on the entry, and their warships were still in the same vein as the Greek style, that is, the calm sea in the Mediterranean Sea was a little unreliable, unreliable enough to sink to the bottom of the sea in the face of larger winds and waves, let alone sail in a sea that was not calm at all.

The Persian marine fleet was not bad, even in number, there were more than 300 ships. Their ships bear a high resemblance to the Gupta ships, and have some Greek features, such as a penchant for carvings and sculptures that don't have any purpose on their ships.

The large and small warships sent by the Han State to the expeditionary sequence casually pulled out more than 2,500 warships, there is no reason why there are no warships in the country, the Romans and Persians can't imagine how many warships there are in the Han State, just the warships of the expeditionary sequence are more than the number of them combined, or the kind of fleet that has been tested by thousands of miles!

"They can deploy 300,000 land forces tens of thousands of miles away, and they can also send more than 2,600 fleets on expeditions......"

"It's horrible!"

"The army is 300,000, and the navy is at least 250,000, which adds up to 550,000!"

"It's horrible!"

At this moment, the Persian Eltaba. Macistius and Julian the Roman. Gahia forgot about their hatred, if they could, they would love to hug and keep warm, all because the military strength displayed by the Han State really scared them from the inside out.

Fu Wei does not understand Persian and Roman, and the vast majority of Han Chinese do not know how to learn languages other than Chinese. He couldn't understand what the two people around him were talking about, but he could roughly guess something from the faces of the two of them, and he didn't mind what the two of them were thinking.

The Han people never hide their strength, and for the Han people, the views of different races have never been important, if it has nothing to do with the Han people are too lazy to see what others think of them, once it has a little relationship...... For example, the alien tooth does not mind violently teaching how to behave.

"The Han Empire is our ally!" Al Taba. As if to cheer himself up, Marcistios raised his chin to Julian. Gahia, emphatically said: "We have formed an alliance! ”

Julian. Gahia knew about Eltaba. What Macistius was showing off, it just didn't have a very special feeling.

Unlike the Persians, the Romans had already decided that the Romans would look for allies, but they generally taught a foreign race a lesson and waited for it to submit before they were driven. The strength that lasted for hundreds of years gave the Romans enough self-confidence, and it was naturally good to have a strong ally, but this ally was so strong that it could threaten him, so he should fight a battle first, and there was really no Persian mentality that he wanted to hug his thighs at the first time when he felt that he couldn't do it.

The mentality of the Persians is completely understandable, they have been at a disadvantage in the competition with the Romans for a long time, and it is rare to have an advantage, and the premise of not being able to do it is natural to hope to find helpers.

In the past, the Parthian Empire, they were constantly looking for allies before they died, and even the unreliable Huns were hired, and they knew the strength of the Han Empire.

The Persians have always had a residual thought, thinking that if the Han Empire had been willing to lend a hand, the war with the Romans would not have ended like this. This kind of remnant thought lasted for hundreds of years, and it would be needless to say that if you didn't meet the Han Chinese, you would have pursued an alliance to some extent to fulfill your dream.

I don't know where the sound of war drums came from, Fu Wei raised his binoculars to observe.

Al Taba. Macistios's gaze immediately looked at the telescope in Fu Wei's hand, he was fortunate enough to borrow that thing from Fu Wei's hand, and he was not only surprised by the telescope that could narrow his field of vision, but also knew very well the military use of the telescope, which was simply a treasure to anticipate the enemy's opportunities, not only on the ocean, but also on land. He already had the idea that he would have to get at least one telescope anyway, and if legal trade didn't work, then use illegal means, and the object had already been chosen, that is, the sworn enemy of the Persian, Eltaba. The telescope in the hand of Marcistios.

Al Taba. The telescope of Macistios was not to steal or rob, it was to Ergutai. Bahram bought a telescope with twenty slave girls and five hundred gold coins, for a total of five.

The Persians could buy it, Julian. Géhia couldn't buy it, and the reason was quite simple, the Han and the Persian Sassanids were allies, but the Han and Rome were not allies.

Of course, Fu Wei is not qualified to sell such materials as telescopes, it is only because Huan Wen nodded that there is that thing, and Huan Wen has been allowed by the country.

The Han Dynasty agreed to sell telescopes to the Persians, mainly because the Persians offered a high enough price, and then the Persians repeatedly showed their sincerity in forming an alliance.

In fact, the telescope has no technology lock at all, and when it can't produce glass, it's nothing more than polishing the crystal, and the secret of how to make it is not lost unless there is no telescope to lose out, and if there is a telescope to refer to, how to make it is a clear thing. In other words, it's impossible to keep a secret forever.

Fu Wei observed the flagship of the fleet, saw the raised flag, and shouted to the first mate: "Enter the combat state!" ”

The huge fleet is bound to be divided into queues, and it is even much more complicated than the layout of the land battle, and the Han army does not have sufficient experience in the battle of the large fleet, so Li Mai borrowed the land layout plan when arranging.

The huge fleet of 2,650 ships was divided into two parts, 1,800 ships formed a large formation that was sailing in a roundabout way, and the other formation of 850 ships was heading straight for the enemy's military port.

During the voyage, Li Mai only sailed the fleet in formation, which was roughly a large fleet formation in the shape of a finished zigzag, and six small fleets were cruising around the periphery.

Before the drums of war were beaten, the small fleet on the periphery had actually discovered Gupta reconnaissance ships and launched a pursuit, since the reconnaissance ships on Gupta side's side were discovered, it also indicated that Gupta's large fleet must be nearby.

The fleet that has entered the combat state is waiting for the scattered reconnaissance ships to find out where the enemy is and then adjust the direction of sailing.

At this moment, Li Mai was also holding a telescope to observe. He looked in the direction of the southeast, where a gray and black pillar of smoke was rising, indicating whether the other fleet had begun to attack, but it was not clear whether it was the naval battle phase or the landing phase.