Although Wu also blocked the waterways of the Yangtze River with mines, so that the Han navy could not advance from the mouth of the Yangtze River to the waters of Jianye, the waters of Guangling and Dantu were under the control of the Han army.

And it was difficult for him to move an inch, so Lu Meng asked Lu Xun to build a new shipyard in Panyu, Nanhai County, reorganize the new fleet of the Soochow Naval Army, and use new technologies to build new ships.

A large number of capable sailors were drawn from the original navy as the team of the new fleet.

Lü Meng has been appointed by Sun Quan as the new governor of the three armies of Eastern Wu in accordance with Zhou Yu's will, and has the power to supervise the Chinese and foreign military.

He inherited Zhou Yu's transformation of the Eastern Wu army, in addition to the comprehensive replacement of muskets, the establishment and training were also adjusted, fully drawing on the successful experience of the Han army.

In Shu County, Lujiang, a Soochow Military Academy was set up, which recruited cadets from both the army and the navy and taught the corresponding courses.

The textbooks they use are actually based on the textbooks of the Central Army Military Academy and the Central Naval School of the Han Army, but they are all simplified.

Because they don't have the solid basic education of the Han Dynasty, ordinary people can't read at all, let alone understand arithmetic and geometry.

There are even very few teachers who are suitable for teaching students, so it is better to say that it is an officer school than a soldier school.

However, it is better than nothing, having a military school is always a kind of progress, after all, in the era of firearms, you can no longer use the old things to educate and train.

What Lu Meng is most worried about now is not the reform of the military academy and the army, but how long Lu Bu can give them peace, and these reforms and changes will take time to digest.

At present, the Han army and the Wu army basically follow the national border line divided by Huaishui and the Yangtze River, and the border between Jingzhou and Yangzhou is the national border in the west, extending to Jiaozhou in the south.

For the Han army, the national border was much shorter than that of the Three Kingdoms period, after all, there was one less Wei State.

Many of the former counties, such as Dong County, Tai Shan County, Lang Xie, Dong Hai, Hanoi, and Henan, suddenly changed from the border to a safe interior, but saved a large number of troops for the National Defense Force and stationed them on the new national border.

Lu Bu is still practicing a conscription system, not a compulsory military service system, and I am afraid that he will have to wait until the whole country is unified before he can change the conscription system.

The war between the Haotian Army and the Xiangcai State was not smooth, the cold weather and the guerrilla nature of the nomads made the war progress very stalemate.

Whenever the Haotian army advanced into their homeland, their main forces would disperse and flee further north into the grasslands and deep mountains and forests.

And when the Haotian army withdrew, they would emerge like tenacious weeds again.

At the beginning, they would still be fooled, Sima Yi used grain and grass as bait to lure and annihilate the army of Xiancai, probably killing and wounding more than 20,000 people.

However, from then on, the people of Xiangcai no longer believed in any tricks of the Han army, and insisted on focusing on me, which was guerrilla warfare.

Zhang Liao and Sima Yi thought that it would be a great waste to spend the elite of the Han Dynasty on this kind of war, and they called on the slave privateers on the grasslands under the jurisdiction of the Beiting Protectorate to continue their work on the grasslands of the Xiancai people.

Only these more ruthless privateering and bounty hunters are suitable to deal with the guerrilla fighters.

Fa Zheng had also returned to Guishan City from Chang'an, where he was overseeing the fulfillment of the treaty of alliance with the Anxi Empire, the Han Empire was helping the Anxi Empire build their own military factories, and the first production equipment for muskets and bullets had already been shipped to the Anxi Empire.

The military factory was chosen in their old capital, Susa, which is also considered to be the origin of the resting royal family.

Craftsmen and skilled workers from the Han Dynasty also arrived in Susa, where they were working intensively on construction and assembly, and began to train the locals in how to use the equipment and combine it with their hands to make muskets and bullets.

Another 100,000 flintlock pistols and 2 million rounds of ammunition had been traded to the royal family and some local authorities in the Sabbatarian Empire, with the royal family having the lion's share.

The army base in Khorezm has also been completed, and the newly established Third Garrison Division of the Western Regions Protectorate has been sent to Khorezm to station, so that the Han has garrisons in Khorezm and Kangju.

Negotiations with the Resting Empire were still ongoing, and the French insisted that a military base be established on the leased land of the Resting Empire.

Otherwise, the Silk Road is so long, and when there is a real need for armed protection, the transfer of troops from Dawan and other places will not quench the thirst of the near, and the caravans of the Han Dynasty are more and more, and they are getting bigger and bigger.

While continuing to expand the Silk Road on land, more and more Han merchant ships, with the help of advanced navigation technology and the excellent performance of galleons, are constantly exploring to the West.

Because to the east is the vast Pacific Ocean, along the coastline can only go north, it is an undeveloped wilderness, and the whole of Siberia and Sakhalin are deserted, so there is only south to west.

To the south and west, you can follow the coastline of Vietnam, and of course it is now called Jiaozhou, which is both safe and profitable, and the barbarians on this side are very fond of everything in the East.

When the maritime merchants of the Han Dynasty arrived in the Malay Peninsula, they found that it had become a unified kingdom called Funan, and the royal family's surname was Fan, which was usurped from the hands of the Kai royal family of Funan, and had a little Indian blood.

The Han merchants were welcomed by the Funan royal family, in fact, at the beginning of the founding of the Funan Kingdom, they took the initiative to get in touch with the Eastern Han regime at that time, and paid tribute, and were canonized.

It was only later that wars were frequent, the Eastern Han Dynasty weakened, transportation was interrupted, and the two countries had been cut off for a hundred years.

I heard that the Central Plains Dynasty has replaced the Liu regime of the Eastern Han Dynasty with a new ruler, Lu Bu, and the country is strong, and a maritime trade route has also been opened.

The Funan royal family decided to continue to pay tribute to the new Central Plains Dynasty, and they had already tasted the sweetness of trade and cultural exchanges with the Central Plains civilization, which led to the development of their production, economy, and social civilization.

And now, although the land transportation is still not very smooth due to the war between Soochow and the Han Dynasty, there is still unimpeded travel on the sea route, and no one has set up obstacles on the sea route except for their opponent Lin Yiguo.

The war between Funan and Linyi was fought and stopped, the two sides were evenly matched on land, and the sea was the world of Funan's naval army.

Although Soochow's new navy had already appeared along the coast of Jiaozhou, they did not block maritime trade between the regions, because they themselves benefited greatly from it.

Through Funan, the maritime merchants of the Han Dynasty also learned that further west, they could reach the seaports of the Kushan Empire and the Indians by sea, and even further west they could reach the ports of the Sabbath Empire.

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