Just when he was asleep and overwhelmed, a news that was right for you reached the capital of the Empire.

The news was so shocking that the entire elite, including the Senate, went crazy, and they never imagined that the Han Empire, which had just relied on sea routes to communicate and trade with them, would actually send their tentacles to Armenia.

Almost 80 years ago, in the last ten years, the greatest Roman emperor Trajan, after defeating the Sabbatical Empire several times in succession, brought Armenia, which was still a protectorate at that time, into the empire's territory and set up a province there, and now 40 years later, Armenia has been attacked by the Sabbatarian Empire, but the Roman Empire still held it at the cost of the death of an emperor.

Although it has remained at the forefront of the confrontation between the Roman world and the Iranian world since then, so long since the last large-scale war made them somewhat ignore the situation on the border, so that when Suning's army appeared there, almost all the Roman Empire elite wondered how the prime minister of the Han Dynasty did it.

In fact, when a similar report appeared in the official newspaper of the Han Dynasty, anyone with some geographical knowledge would be surprised to ask, why is the empire so powerful?

Suning also wanted to know why the Liangzhou system under his leadership had erupted with such an energy, and also to know that they were now at war with the Rest Empire, and they simply could not extend their sphere of influence to the northwest of the Iranian plateau.

But there is a boring guy who has proved his ability to Suning, not all strategic deployments need to be planned for a long time, and not all military operations must be like boys, step by step. At least on the bitterly cold northern front, a large-scale long-distance rush does not need to be prepared for too long.

Because they can use the sheep along the way as their own food, they don't need to carefully carry out hygiene and epidemic prevention work every step like the soldiers of the Southern Expedition. You must know that in the past two years, the expenditure on health and epidemic prevention supplies on the battlefield in India has exceeded 1/3 of the military spending.

The two commanders who led this northern column had never seen anyone able to fight a war like this.

Yes, in their opinion, this is a bad war that cannot be worse.

According to their ideas, tiny India simply can't stop them, maybe two years is enough time for them to make two circular tours around India.

Of course, such a statement, if known to all, would have been spurned by the famous generals of the Southern Expedition, but now they may have the courage to say it, because they have done something that shocked us, so that everyone in the system knew their names.

These are two names that should not be ignored because they are called Guo Kan and Zhao Chongguo,

Guo Kan is a descendant of the famous general Guo Ziyi in the Tang Dynasty, but he is a general who served the Mongolian regime, and the Zhao Chongguo behind him is actually impossible to be strange to every Han Dynasty person, but his brilliant deeds have disappeared without a trace more than a hundred years ago, and this summoned Zhao Chengguo can only be known to everyone in the name of an imitator.

But even so, they still fought a series of shocking tough battles.

First of all, in 189 AD, when Suning's Western Expedition achieved the latest stage of victory, they became an important force of the Northern Expedition Lingding people, and after that battle, they did not return with the large army, but continued to embark on the road of the Western Expedition.

Guo Kan understands the terrain of this region, and Zhao Chongguo has never been a person who lacks courage, so the two of them cooperated and complemented each other, and soon added a heavy record to his military merit book.

When they marched westward like Subutai and Jebe, perhaps they would not have imagined that one day they would attack Armenia in the Caucasus.

Yes, they had been on the shore of Lake Baikal, that is, the place where Su Wu was shepherding sheep, and they had been repairing for a full year, and they had even prepared to open it up as the most distant pasture of the empire, but the war between the Han Empire and the Anxi Empire that broke out next made them feel the need to make a detour to the rear of the Anxian Empire, and they even pounced on the hinterland of the Iranian plateau along the Caspian Sea in this lifetime.

But the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea was too close to the front of the two armies. Although most of the soldiers of the Rest Empire have been sent to the front line, there are still some people here to prevent the attacks of the northern barbarians. Therefore, when their group of people who did not have the advantage of strength tried to attack from here, the other side immediately sent a large number of troops vigilantly, although it was not enough to pose a threat to them, but it obviously sabotaged their motion to surprise attack.

Fortunately, the Han Empire was already strong at that time, and at least they did not need to risk a pointless surprise attack, so they began to retreat north, and continued to move west along the coastline of the Caspian Sea, and finally from the east coast of the Caspian Sea to the west coast of the sea, which was made up of an intricate mountain landscape.

The Caucasus Mountains are part of the Eurasian dividing line, and you go to tell Lu Yun's posture that has blocked the spread of civilization for thousands of years, so that its north and south sides often have different ideologies.

This is the case today in the geopolitical arena of the twenty-first century, where Armenia is a country that embraces Christianity and was even the first in the world to establish Christianity as a single religion. But this approach did not bring them peace, or rather an extremely tough response in itself, so they have been the target of competition for most of the past 2,000 years of history. The history of being divided between Turkey and Iran twice illustrates this point very well. At the same time, they are also the weakest part of Christendom, bordering the Arab world. Because Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey around him all have more or less territorial and historical contradictions with it.

Of course, in this timeline, that situation may not happen again, because Zhao Chongguo's army has crossed the Caucasus Mountains and successfully made contact with the officials of the Roman Empire in the Armenian provinces.