April 19. 癸巳月. Ding Weiri.

This expedition was quiet, and it was a bit rushed to avoid the typhoon season in June every year.

In more than two months, Gan Tang carried out a large-scale renovation and repair of the 'Prince of Xiangyang', not only replacing the sails on the ship, changing the hard sails into soft sails by Western craftsmen, but also installing more than 40 guns on the second floor of the ship, and changing the previous artillery erection on the deck to the second floor of the cabin, which is more conducive to the protection of the gunners.

At a moment in the afternoon, the auspicious time had arrived, and nearly 300 soldiers of the Fujian Navy Division who had survived the hundred battles wrenched iron anchors weighing thousands of catties, and hundreds of sailors from various countries raised the sails of the ships with twelve masts.

Coupled with a helmsman team composed of more than 100 people, this giant ship slowly sailed away from Quanzhou Port and slowly sailed towards the depths of the sea.

As soon as Gan Tang on the ship got on the ship, Hu Ye summoned the generals of various departments, although these people only accounted for a small half of the major fleets, but most of them belonged to the herald system of the navy.

They were tasked with commanding and issuing orders during the march of the army, and while they were not yet separated, they had to determine their respective tasks and operational regulations.

By the morning of the next day, the 'Prince of Xiangyang' had already arrived at the port of Xiamen, and 50 merchant warships of various countries, which had already formed a marching formation, were parked side by side on the sea.

The warships of various countries that had received the order were already waiting here, and Gan Tang ordered the generals and captains of the warships to hold the last large-scale meeting here before the expedition, and Gan Tang sent the battle plan of the entire navy to each commander and captain.

The meeting lasted until the evening, and after a night stay in Xiamen, Gan Tang did not sleep all night, met with every general, and personally issued a combat mission.

Some of the ship's food, grass and ammunition were also transported to the warships by small boats, and the army continued to set off.

When the sky was shining again, all the fleets set sail and set anchor and rushed out to the open sea.

"Your Highness, only when you come to the sea do you know the insignificance of human beings, and I never imagined that one day I would be able to see such a wonderful scenery."

Grace said with a smile: "Zhiqing, I have never seen the sea, so I have so many feelings." Although I was born in a royal palace, I have always been exposed to the sea since I was a child, but I prefer a quiet mountain dwelling. ”

Wanyan Zhiqing always felt that she couldn't see enough of the scenery in front of her, and when she looked at the boundless sea, she felt that her mind was also open-minded, and all her troubles disappeared.

As the head coach, Gan Tang occupies the entire fourth floor of the 'Prince of Xiangyang', and covers the deck with a cloth curtain to enjoy the warm sunshine of this early summer.

And with the shield of the curtain, he was not afraid to see the naked appearance of those sailors.

In this era, clothes were precious, sails at sea were prone to sweating, and almost all sailors were just a pair of calf pants and even worked bare-bottomed.

Except for the slower speed of the boat, Gan Tang lying on the recliner wore sunglasses specially made for him by craftsmen, which was really not much different from later generations

The Yellow Emperor calendar 4326.

Ten years have passed since the Battle of Zhennanguan in the Central Plains, and the north and south have been at peace for more than ten years.

And in the middle of the East and West, like the Yellow River and Yangtze River basin in China, the rich water resources of the Nile River nourished a group of hard-working and kind people, giving birth to the ancient Egyptian civilization and the ancient Babylonian civilization.

Julius Caesar of the Roman Empire destroyed ancient Egypt, and the rise of the Green Religion founded by the Prophet Muhammad in Jerusalem gradually imprisoned people's minds, and Jerusalem, as the crossroads of the Middle East and Europe, is also the holy city of Christianity.

In an era of material scarcity and technological backwardness, the corrosive effect of religion was incomparable, and at first the Green Sect had a certain advantage in the competition for the congregation, and before 1096, the two major sects were bounded by the Mediterranean.

In 1096, the Roman Catholic pope gradually eroded his territory and launched a war against the countries bordering the Mediterranean in the name of recovering the land occupied by the invasion of the Arab Green Religion.

Before Muhammad designated Jerusalem as the holy city, Jerusalem was the birthplace of the Catholic Infant Jesus, and then the holy city belonging to the Roman Catholic Church fell into the hands of the Green Church, and many crusades were carried out.

The Crusades were not only against the Green Religion, but also against sects that conflicted with their own religions, such as the Byzantine Empire, which believed in Orthodox Christianity, and after nearly two hundred years of war, the Crusaders established more than a dozen Catholic states in the eastern Mediterranean, the largest being the Kingdom of Jerusalem, in addition to the Duchy of Antioch.

Naturally, he was praised throughout the Catholic world, praising Christ as a god, and influencing the situation on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and in Western Arabia.

If a sect can survive for thousands of years, it must have its strong vitality, and the shamanism of the original oriental steppe has rapidly weakened under the attack of Buddhism and the Green Religion, and the world's most powerful country, Dayan, is also facing these two religions, and internal contradictions have gradually arisen.

The eastern forces of the Yan State with the Great Khan Helian Muye took Buddhism as the state religion.

The Abbasid Kingdom and the Kingdom of Egypt, with Baghdad as its capital, practiced open doctrines, while the Timurid Khanate, which was mainly established by Helian Desire, practiced a doctrine of doctrine and its ideas were more radical.

The Yellow Emperor calendar 4325.

In order to solve the problem of lack of food and other materials in the north, Helian Muye, the Khan of Yan Guotian, held a great court meeting in Luoyang, the capital of the country, in early July.

After several years of arduous negotiations, under the mediation of Hanchen Zhang Yu, nominally, the divided Yan Empire was once again united.

This time, Helian Xianghai and Helian Zhushan not only wanted to sign a tripartite agreement, but also discussed the westward advance of the army with the Great Khan Helian Muye.

The content of the agreement mainly included two things, one was to establish a relatively independent state in the Pamir Plateau ruled by Helian Xuhai, and the other was to serve the Emperor of the Great Yan Empire as the Heavenly Khan, nominally under the jurisdiction of the Emperor of the Great Yan Empire.

The same was true of the kingdom established by Helian in Western Asia with Shamalachan as its capital.

At this great court meeting, the Heavenly Khan Helian Muye announced the national policy of invading the west.

The army of Yan is divided into two routes, the army of the west road is led by Helian Xuhai, Wan Yanlie is the deputy commander, Yan sent 30,000 iron cavalry, and after arriving in Munich, it converges with 50,000 Helian Xuhai and the elite soldiers are the main force, and the west attack on Abbas, the day of the expedition is arranged on the first day of October, and it is expected to take three months to attack Baghdad.

On the same day, the Northern Route Army, with Helian Zhushan as the main commander and Murong Xuzhong as the deputy commander, set out from Samarkand and attacked Istanbul at the same time.

If the battle goes well, the first phase of the offensive will be concluded between the summer and autumn of next year, and then Helian Zhushan will personally lead the two armies of the two lines to march slowly but surely westward to conquer the city.

The iron cavalry of the various tribes of the steppe will roam left and right, sweeping, and the two armies have more than 300,000 servants each driving ox carts to loot and transport supplies.

Although this expedition of the Yan State is not a national force, after all, the troops that can be sent are limited, and they are mainly cavalry.

But for the Three Kingdoms, this can definitely be regarded as a national war, if the Western Route Army can extend the Timurid state to the entire Middle East, it can unify the Green Religion, expel Catholicism from West Asia, and keep Central Asia out.

In the tripartite plan, first annex the Ottoman Empire, then continue to move westward, extend the territory to the east coast of the Mediterranean, and then continue to attack westward, but no longer occupy the land, mainly to plunder, after robbing enough supplies, and finally use all your strength to deal with the world's most powerful opponent, the Great Xia Empire.

On the first day of October, when the snow had begun to fall in Mobei, and in Tehran, it had just come out of the hot summer, and Wan Yanlie had already led the vanguard of the army from Tehran to the Persian Gulf in advance.

He didn't dare to wait until the weather was cool in December before setting off, as a veteran of a hundred battles, for fear that the war would be unfavorable or the road would be dangerous and delay the trip.

Although the weather is still hot, supplies for the guards along the way have been in place. Their 30,000 steppe iron horsemen only need to carry weapons and travel lightly, and the hot weather will not be an obstacle.

Behind it was an army of 350,000 led by the commander Helian Yuhai himself, of which there were only 50,000 soldiers.

The other 300,000 people were convoys of Jurchen, Khitan, Bohai, Xi, Tibetan, Han, Warat, and Tatar.

"Marchia, Marchia is here."

Wan Yanlie raised his head from the paperwork in front of him and asked, "Isn't Dashuai hunting in the suburbs today?" Malkiel didn't have a past? ”

"Dashuai has just come back, His Majesty has hunted a few wolves and a bear, and is going to roast bear meat at night."

Wan Yanlie smiled, although there are bears here in Persia, but only in the north, the climate here in the south is hot, even if there are bears, I am afraid that the tribes here deliberately caught and released them.

However, he has no intention of exposing this, as long as the handsome man is happy, it is better than anything else.

He got up and walked out of the handsome case and personally greeted him outside the door.

As the Grand Imam of the Green Church, Malkir hated the new Green Religion formed by the misinterpretation of the teachings by Abbas and other state religions in the church, combined with Western Catholicism and Confucianism in Bactria.

Many years ago, he sent his cronie Pu Shou Geng to the East, contacted the powerful Great Xia to send troops, and saw if it was possible to help him restore the unity of the sect, but he knew that the Great Xia was defeated under the attack of the grassland army, and then with the efforts of Pu Shou Geng, he took the right to master the overseas trade of Great Xia as the domestic response of Yan, and in exchange for the most important chess piece placed by the Yan Empire in Great Xia, Yan promised to help it expel the white Westerners and unify the teachings.