Chapter 415: Surprise Couriers and Cross-Latitude Strategy

According to the original history, Baba should not have launched an uprising at this time, but after Suning came to this time and space, he has extended his influence beyond the Han Dynasty, and the current Persian Empire has long been fragile to the point of being unbearable, if he does not seize such an opportunity, I am afraid it will be difficult but there is a better choice.

It is only to show that he has a different understanding of this point, and he thinks that Babak, who is starting the uprising now, obviously needs his own support more, otherwise, he will not be able to overthrow the comrades of the Resting Empire as he did in the original history, knowing that it will be thirty or forty years later. So he sent a steady stream of secret patronage to the princes of the western Iranian plateau, hoping that this would strengthen him and cause him more trouble for Vologis V.

Although Babak had instinctive worries about the prime minister from the East, he still accepted the sponsorship of the other party, after all, his ambitions have extended to the throne, and without these sponsorships, it may be difficult to realize his dream.

It's just that he also knows in his heart that if he ascends to the throne, then he must drive the forces from the east out of the Persian Plateau, and even out of the Khorasan region, so that the territory that originally belonged to the Anxi Empire will completely fall into his hands, and even he wants to take the part of the Kushan Empire that Suning controls into his own hands.

Because they had spent the territory there with the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty, a treacherous fellow, launched an attack when they were in turmoil and took away half of the Kushan Empire's territory that should have belonged to the Rest Empire.

For most of the Persians, they hoped to punish the group of Han Empire soldiers who did not have faith with their practical actions, but unfortunately, their courage on the front line did not receive a positive response from the other side. However, this is also good news for Babak, as long as the main force of the imperial army is still fighting on the eastern front, then he, the prince in the west, has a better chance of making waves.

Besides, the empire is already incorruptible, how can such an army fight for the glory of the Persians? If one day he is called the emperor of Persia, he will personally lead the elite of the empire and educate the people of the Han Empire who do not know what to do.

Yes, in Babak's view, what carries the hope for the future of the Persian nation is not the Dying-Rest Empire, but the new kingdom that he is about to establish.

Zhou is what this surprise courier with high hopes for Suning is thinking. In fact, he has already found a lot of initiative, at least the governor of the neighboring province who he hated is not paying attention to himself now.

But he still has no intention of starting an uprising, although many things are ready, especially the aid he secretly received from Suning, which has filled all the warehouses he can find, but he also hopes that more things will continue to be delivered, and he also needs to make the emperor feel that he is very loyal, even if the war on the eastern front lasts for several years, he will not rebel in the west, if he can successfully create such an illusion, it will be an excellent cover for all his future actions.

As a result, he did not launch a rebellion in the southwest of the Persian Plateau as Suning expected, so that the Persian emperors, who were fighting on the front line, had more confidence to deal with Suning in front of him.

Suning quickly and reluctantly confirmed this, but he was more fully prepared for the upcoming battle, and a steady stream of materials had begun to be transported from the Guanzhong region through the endless track, across the Western Regions, and by the way, the ore raw materials and some special products there were also pulled to the Hezhong area.

The current Hezhong region has become a key defensive area for the Han army, as it is the gateway to the Western Regions and an important hub connecting the southern occupation areas.

Here, Suning also concentrated a large number of elites on his hands, most of the generals, including Wei Qing and Huo Quzhi, were concentrated here, and the garrison commander here was served by Chen Qingzhi.

At the same time, Bai Qi's deployment on the southern front had also achieved basic results, and in addition to the construction of the navy, he also pulled up an army composed of local natives.

The loyalty of this indigenous army is relatively guaranteed, because in the previous turmoil, those disloyal natives have basically died under the butcher's knife of Bai Qi, although his behavior has caused widespread dissatisfaction at the top, and even some Western summoners from later generations, under the inspiration of humanism, launched a continuous public opinion condemnation against him. But Suning knew that it was not easy to fight abroad, so he acquiesced to his behavior. At least from the perspective of existing history, the territory that Bai Qi now occupies, in the 5000-year history of China, has never been subordinate to the central court, and he now has the emperor's soul flag, and he is not too worried in the country, and he can't get the support of those big families, but it should be noted that Cao Cao, who also has a soul flag, is likely to bring a lot of trouble to himself in the next few years, however, the current Cao Cao is still inseparable from his own support, I am not, he needs a lot of materials on the battlefield on the Western Front, I'm afraid that some of these materials will also be sold into Cao Cao's hands, of course, this kind of economic trade similar to the original book is relatively fair to all princes, and Sun's rather than disrupt the historical process of the Kanto region because of a few small money.

However, the historical process of these countries on the Western Front, Suning does not care about it at all. Even the Roman Empire, which is far away on the Mediterranean coast, is ready to change their development process appropriately, in the original history, the Roman Empire and the Sabbath Empire will start a fierce competition for the Mesopotamian Plain in the next few years, but Suning has sent to the Roman world, and they will persuade the emperor there to compete with the fragile Sabbatarian Empire as soon as possible, because the current Sabbath Empire has put its main force on their eastern battlefield, that is, including the Khorasan region, and the Central Plain, In the area of Great Xia City and the Balochistan region, here, the Han Empire also gathered 3/4 of their elites, ready to wait for the arrival of the other party.

If such an opportunity is not well grasped, the Roman Empire will most likely lose the best opportunity to become strong, you must know that of the four great empires of the world during this period, only the Roman Empire finally survived until the third and fourth centuries AD with its own democratic system.

The other three empires, including the Han Empire, were to fall in the coming third century AD.

In other words, Suning knew very well that the corruption and floats within the Roman Empire were not much better than those of other empires, and they all faced a common problem, that is, the accumulation of historical problems caused by the founding of the country for hundreds of years.

If this historical problem continues to ferment and brew, any empire can only fall apart, including the few little bastards who are now alive and kicking around in India.

In other words, Suning has always wanted to let Bai go to India to walk around twice, no matter what way he used, as long as the rich and vast land was included in the Yanzhong, you must know that later India can convert 52% of the territory into arable land The terrible existence, although its territory is only 2 million square kilometers, but it has more than one million square kilometers of arable land, which is also unimaginable by the Celestial Empire, and you must know that the Celestial Empire in the 21st century, the arable land occupancy rate is only 7%,

In other words, the cultivated land area of the Celestial Empire is only six or seven hundred thousand square kilometers, and if there are still people who do not envy that piece of land, it is really ignorant of the people's suffering.

What's more, India is located in the tropics, with very good rain and heat conditions, if it can be in its own hands, it will be of great help to increase grain production and harvest.

It is foreseeable that in future battles, a protracted war that lasts for a long time will become an important choice for them. In this way, the solidity of logistics support has become an important reference indicator.

If you want logistics, you have a stable output capacity, and it is not enough to rely on the Guanzhong region alone, and even the Western Regions and Hezhong regions, which are relatively poor in natural resources, are not enough to meet Suning's requirements, so you must have rich logistics sources to ensure that there will be no rout due to food shortages in the course of the war.

So the Indian region has naturally become one of Suning's important targets, but unfortunately, after the most basic understanding, Bai Qi decisively gave up the plan to attack the Indian countries in the south, and he gave Suning only one explanation: it was too hot.

It is true that India is a very good arable land, but the rainy and hot conditions there also became a difficult obstacle for the military invaders, and Alexander once abandoned the conquest of the Indian plains because of the obstruction of the new Kush Mountains and the extremely poor sanitation and climate problems there. It was not until after 1600 that the Mongols slowly moved south to rule the region and established the Mughal Empire.

By the time they founded the country, the Yuan Dynasty had already fallen, in other words, it took hundreds of years for them to extend their rule over the hot regions of India after they reached Central Asia.

It was one of the most feared armies in human history, and it took so long. It is no wonder that Bai Qi would give up his strategic intention to go south.

But Bai Qi naturally gave up, but Sima Cuo, who was also from the Qin State and had made outstanding contributions to the rise of the Qin State, was not prepared to give up the southern countries so easily.

One point that needs to be paid attention to by Suning is that this benevolent brother clearly pointed out that if he wanted to go east to Hanguguan to unify Liuhe, he must first take the granary of Bashu, and Zhang Yi, a famous historical figure who disagreed with him at that time, was even squeezed out of Qin because of this.

And later it turned out that his strategy was extremely correct, just relying on the food supply in the Guanzhong region, it was difficult for the Qin State to maintain its own strategic deployment for a long time, but after having the country of abundance, they could use their troops for a long time.

From your point of view, the expansion of the dimension will undoubtedly enrich their food sources and product conditions, because that means that they will occupy more favorable rain and heat conditions, of course, such vertical expansion must have a certain horizontal territorial depth as the basis, otherwise the territory that is too narrow and long will be cut off from it, and in history, among the countries that have successfully interpreted this tactic, the Qin State is undoubtedly one of the luckier ones, because they have the famous Kuoshan and Hangu Pass in history in the horizontal strategic direction.

So, after they occupied the area with higher grain production, the long-term military struggle had a logistical foundation and guarantee, and if Suning wanted to copy this one and use it against the Sabbath Empire, he would need one person to lay enough granaries for him, and the small Sindh and Punjab now seemed to be not enough. After all, their area is too small, and they are a little close to the front line, if it weren't for Bai Qi, a fierce general, who was in charge of guarding the town, Suning would definitely have some concerns, but if he could bring all the Ganges River valley under his rule, then a granary far away from the Rest Empire, relatively safe in location, but more extensive in area, and more desirable in terms of output would appear in Suning's system.

And there is no need to hesitate when it comes to the choice of this person.

This is also the steady deployment he had to make after the failure of the speculative plan of the surprise courier. In the foreseeable future, the Persian plateau will waste the main strength of the system. Even the battle situation in the Central Plains may not attract enough attention from him, but the battle in India may brew even greater surprises in the future.

In addition to providing vital food supplies for the Western Front, India's west coast could provide enough ports for Suning to trade in the Arabian Seas.

Trade in this sea area only reached its peak after the 11th century, and was inextricably linked to the later Song trade, but it is undeniable that even if he did not have much trade now, it did not prevent Suning from organizing a naval army to attack from unexpected directions of the enemy, and as for the distant Roman Empire, it could also communicate through the shipping routes here.

The east coast of India also has a similar use, and although the Bay of Bengal is not large, it will provide more resources for Suning in Southeast Asia. What's even more exciting is that if the Indian region completely falls into Suning's system, then its tentacles will be able to follow Myanmar and enter the Yunnan-Guizhou region in the future.

Tell me, many years later, Suning's army suddenly appeared behind Liu Bei from the south, how would the big-eared thief, who was famous in history, feel?