In the end, Marcus and the last of his legions boarded the Roman warships waiting on the coast, leaving only 4,000 Roman warriors in the city who had volunteered to stop the enemy.

As the sky grew brighter, the Han-Polish coalition army, sensing that the atmosphere in the city was not right, launched a general attack, and tens of thousands of coalition soldiers attacked at the same time.

Soon, the walls of Nicaea were lost, and the surviving 3,000 Romans retreated into the city and engaged in a brief but fierce street battle with a coalition force ten times their size.

The grenades and explosives that Marcus left behind for them killed and injured several times as many coalition officers and soldiers as they were.

When the warriors of the coalition army had gone through a lot of hardships and slain the city of Nicaea and rushed to the coast, they were surprised to find that only the tents that the Romans had not taken away were left on the huge coast, and a mess of camps.

However, in addition to the thousands of Roman defenders who fought to the last of the annihilation, the tens of thousands of Roman troops that had been surrounded were gone.

The allied soldiers with good eyesight could faintly see many dotted white sails on the sea in the distance, and they were moving away.

This is the famous Nicaean Retreat in history, which is regarded as a classic case by many military textbooks in later generations, and Marcus became famous in World War I and became one of the most famous generals in the middle and late Roman Empire.

When Lü Kang received the battle report, it was also unbelievable that the Romans were so efficient and that so many people were willing to make sacrifices.

At the same time, he was also surprised by the strong strength of the Roman navy in the Mediterranean, and before the Han navy entered the Mediterranean, it seemed impossible to cross the strait and attack the Roman Empire mainland on the European continent.

Leaving behind the aftermath of the army to clean up the battlefield of Nicaea, Lü Kang's army turned to Egypt in the southwest, the ancient and mysterious African continent, and the ancient and mysterious ancient Egyptian civilization.

Egypt did not have that many Roman legions, so there was no need for a large number of Han troops, and Lü Kang asked for the garrison of Damascus from Ardashir I.

Most of the troops of the huge Han Empire Expeditionary Force will rest here, and those who should be rotated back to China will be rotated back to China, and those who should be replenished will be replenished.

Until Egypt was occupied and the Grand Canal was dug as demanded by Lü Bu, the Han army would not launch an attack on the Roman Empire itself.

Lü Kang mobilized four divisions of the Haotian Army, the first, second, third, and fifth, and in addition to the fourth division being rotated back to China, he also mobilized the Rong 1st Division, the Special Operations Division, the 1st Cavalry Division, the 2nd Cavalry Division, the 6th Division, and the 7th Division, and ten divisions formed the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.

He personally served as the commander of the Egyptian expeditionary force, and Ma Chao and Sima Yi all went with him.

Fa Zheng stayed in Damascus and was responsible for coordinating a series of issues such as army mobilization, logistics and supply, base construction, and equipment production between the Han and Persian Empires.

The Han had already set up a military repair shop in Mosul to produce ammunition that was very expensive and to repair damaged guns.

The Persian Empire had just been established, and in addition to cooperating with the Han army and the Romans, it was often necessary to mobilize troops to strike at local forces in order to consolidate the dominance of the central power.

In addition to purchasing equipment from Dahan, they also introduced Dahan's production technology and production equipment to produce some simple ammunition, grenades and other firearms on their own.

The military factories of the Persians could even assemble breech-loading rifles and mortars on their own on the basis of the parts and components provided by the Great Han.

As the founding monarch, Ardashir I had his own ambitions, and he was much more diligent and enterprising than the monarchs of the Rest Empire.

He even established a strategic alliance with Maggs of the Kushan Empire, in addition to determining the spheres of influence and borders of the two sides, and even helping Mags fight against opposition forces at home.

In recent years, as the strategic focus of the Han Empire has shifted to West Asia, its attention and investment in Central Asia have shrunk greatly.

In addition to maintaining the necessary garrisons in the Sogdian Governorate, all garrisons in Kushan had been withdrawn, leaving the Kushan war entirely to Maggs herself.

In addition to helping Mags in terms of equipment procurement and training of new troops, the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Han Navy in Minaggara was left to provide the greatest help to the naval blockade of the areas controlled by the Polish rebels.

In addition to fighting guerrilla warfare against the more powerful Mags's army, he also actively cooperated with other local forces in Kushan who opposed Mags.

He even put aside his old suspicions with the Indians bordering him, formed an alliance, and exchanged advanced firearms technology for a large number of Indian soldiers.

Of course, behind the situation of Guishuang's pool of troubled waters, there may not be no shadow of the Intelligence Department of the Han Empire.

A divided civil war is definitely more threatening than a united and united Guishan, and the political skills and minds of Lü Bu and the high-ranking officials of the Han government are already very mature.

In addition to a cadre of military generals under the General Staff Headquarters of the National Defense Forces, Lu Bu also had a large number of civilian officials from various government ministries subordinate to Shangshutai.

In the process of unifying the Three Kingdoms, a large number of famous people who were captured and surrendered had already held important official positions in the central government.

For example, Xun You, Mao Jue, Zhuge Jin, and even Lü Meng, they were all impressed by the powerful central power, Lü Bu's clever political methods and far-sighted strategic vision, and they were willing to be used by Lü Bu.

Moreover, the territory of the Han Empire established by Lü Bu was unprecedentedly huge, from the coast of the East China Sea to the Gobi of Central Asia, from the northern steppes to Zhuya Island in the South China Sea, and even the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the southwestern barbarians to which Faqiang belonged had surrendered.

In the surrounding areas of the entire Han Empire, except for the Wu State which was cowering on the island of Yizhou, no force dared to be hostile to the Han Dynasty, and even Rinan, which was controlled by Liu Bei, bowed down to Lu Bu and only sought a place to live.

Lu Bu's vision is very high now, except for the Roman Empire in the far west, there is no country and force that can be regarded as an opponent by him.

He did not exterminate Liu Bei and Sun Quan, the remnants of the forces that had been driven to the ends of the earth.

In any case, they are also Han people, and they are also spreading Han culture, so let them train those Nanyang barbarians!

The main energy of the Han Dynasty was now spent on the war with the Roman Empire, followed by the vigorous development of the Han Empire's navy, and all the coastal shipyards were doing their best to produce newer and larger warships.

Lu Bu thought very clearly, since it was to fight on the mainland of the Roman Empire, and it was in the vast Mediterranean, how could it be done without a strong navy to escort it?

Now that the strength of the two armies is not much different, the war potential of the Roman Empire is gradually being revealed, after all, the battlefield is on its doorstep, and there is no need to go on expeditions like the Great Han.

The supply of soldiers and equipment is very convenient, and the Roman Empire has dominated the entire Mediterranean for hundreds of years, familiar with geography, familiar with the time, and has a strong navy.

They just haven't seen the Han Navy yet, and if they have dealt with it once, I'm afraid they will soon close the gap between the two sides.

What they lack is only strategic vision and advanced awareness, but not the ability and technology of industrial production.