Minnagara, the largest port city on the southwest coast of the Kushan Empire, is also one of the largest ports on the entire Indian Ocean coast.

It is a local province controlled by the Kushan clan of the Kushan Empire, and it is also the closest province to the Western Governorate that is loyal to the royal family.

Rudradaman was the governor of Minagara, from where he had sent off the Empire's prime minister a month earlier.

The Prime Minister traveled by sea to the territory of the Indians in the southeast, and it is said that he was entrusted with an important mission by King Bota.

Although the Prime Minister did not say it explicitly, Rudradaman knew that the big boxes that the Prime Minister loaded on the ship must have been to bribe and buy the Indians.

The Indians of the South are a strange race, and you can fight him to the death, or you can pay them to do anything.

In fact, it is easier to get to the land of the Indians by land, but there is a western viceroyalty in between, and the Scythians are not honest at all, and if they pass through them, they will be kept and swallowed up by you.

Therefore, the prime minister of Kushan would rather suffer from the wind and waves, but also seek stability, Rudradaman also sent several naval ships to escort him, the Scythian naval army is a joke, even merchant ships can't be built, let alone warships.

In this Indian Ocean, except for the navy of the Sabbatarians, the navy of the Kushan and the Indians is quite elite, but they are all guarding their own coasts, and they are not ocean-going navies.

Rudradarman was able to become the governor of Minaggara because he was one of the few noble generals in the Kushan Empire who knew how to fight water.

In fact, he has long been dissatisfied with the naval army under his command, the ships are outdated, the equipment is backward, he has long wanted to move firearms and artillery to the warships, but now the tonnage of these warships is too small to withstand the recoil of the artillery.

Wanting to build new and larger warships, but lacking funds, His Majesty the King invested all the limited financial revenues of Kushan in the replacement of the army, and all firearms were given priority to the various divisions of the army.

He only got a small number of muskets and cannons, and if the guns were mounted in the bow and stern, he would not be afraid of recoil, but what was the use of installing two guns on a ship?

In fact, he has realized that if the artillery is installed, it must be installed on the side side, on both sides, so that the firepower can be guaranteed.

He also drew a sketch of this kind of artillery warship, and with Kushan's shipbuilding skills and experience, there was no problem at all in building a larger ship.

The reports of the unfavorable battles of the Kushan army came one after another, and Rudradaman was also a person who understood, he had already seen that the Han army was so strong, if it did not get outside help, the Kushan Empire might not last long.

He is not worried about his future, no matter who controls the Kushan Empire in the future, he only needs to control all the forces in Minagara, and sell it at a price when the time comes, but his dream of building artillery warships does not know when it will come true.

While he was standing on the balcony of the Governor's Palace overlooking the entire Minaggara Harbor, suddenly, he saw the entrance to the harbor in the distance? In the watchtower, there were sailors waving flags and blowing horns.

Immediately, his subordinates came to report that a large fleet of dozens of large ships had been found in the southeast direction outside the port, and it was heading for the port.

The patrol boats patrolling outside the harbor have already met them, and it is believed that they will soon be able to identify the other side.

Rudradaman was not worried, for in the nearby seas, the only people who could send a large fleet were the Indians, but the Sabbatarians were engaged in a protracted war with the Romans from further west.

I'm afraid their navy won't come so far, but the Indians are very likely, could it be that the prime minister brought back reinforcements?

The more Rudradaman thought about it, the more he felt that his judgment was correct, and he immediately rode to the dock to see if his judgment was correct for the first time.

Soon the speedy patrol dinghy came back, and the news came that it was indeed a fleet of Indians, who, led by several Kushan warships, had set sail from Pune, bypassing the ports of the Western Viceroyalty, and were heading directly for Minagara.

The Indians were as greedy as ever, a huge sum of money, a dazzling pile of jewels, and they sold their army to the Kushans, completely forgetting that a few years ago they had fought to the death with the Kushans.

The convoy was only loaded with the vanguard of the Indians, while the rest of the Indian army marched overland.

Rudradaman immediately arranged for men to clear a large open space from the dock, enough for these Indian transports to dock at the same time, and time was precious, and the king of Wave was eager to see them.

Just as the Indian fleet was approaching the dock in Minagara, ready to unload, outside the bay? The watchtower suddenly sounded a horn, which was the sound of a warning horn, and then the beacon fire of the alarm was also lit!

Rudradaman wondered, where is the enemy here?

He rode to the hill on the south side of the harbor, which was the commanding height of the entire Minaggara Harbor area. The watchtower was built there.

He ran to the top of the hill, and the sentry hurried up to meet him, showing him the way.

He saw that from the same direction of the sea to the south, a large white sail appeared, these sails were very large, obscuring the sky and the sun, and they were all snow-white, which he had never seen before.

Although there are all kinds of sailing ships in the countries of Ansab, Kushan, and India, there are no such large sails, let alone white ones.

Soon the huge hull under the sail also appeared in view, with a beautiful streamlined shape and huge volume, which made people admire.

Rudradaman was an experienced veteran navyman, and he could tell that these sailing ships of unknown nationality were at least five hundred tons, or even higher.

Compared with the naval warships of several countries in the Indian Ocean, these galleons can be called giant ships.

Finally, when he got closer, he saw the flag fluttering at the top of the mast, and the red flag had a large bird on it, spreading its wings, and stepping on a round of the sun under its feet.

Although he hadn't seen it, he had heard that the military flag of the Han Empire was such a pattern, and this was the navy of the Han Dynasty.

Oh my God, they were able to sail across the oceans, from thousands of miles away.

Their warships can withstand the storms of the deep oceans, and their navigation skills are so advanced that they won't lose their way.

However, seeing these behemoths, he was also somewhat relieved, if there was any country's navy in this era that could achieve such miraculous results, I am afraid that only the Han navy in front of him would be the one in front of him.

Moreover, the appearance of these galleons is so similar to the artillery warships he envisioned, he is still only in the dream stage, but the Han people have already built them, and I am afraid that there will be no artillery on such a huge warship, which is the firearm invented by the Han people first.