At that time, the Roman Empire only conquered the Mediterranean coast, with a vast territory of more than 5 million square kilometers, but Gao Shun's goal was not only that, he wanted to conquer more territory.

The war lords Egypt and other North African provinces increased in area by only one million square kilometers.

After thinking about it for a long time, I felt that the territory was long and narrow, but there was no depth, and the same was true of the Roman Empire.

For this reason, Gao Shun temporarily gave up his territory in Spain and Gaul, and decided to defeat the Roman Empire's armies in Asia first, and conquer its territory in Asia. In this case, the Arabian Peninsula will be surrounded on all sides, which will increase a lot of territory, which is much stronger than the war-collar strip territory.

Gao Shun estimated that the territory of the Arabian Peninsula, the territory of the Egyptian Empire, and the Western Wei Empire, which was established on the territory of later Turkey, would cover an area of far more than 5 million square kilometers, meeting the conditions for further upgrading.

As a result, Gao Shun prepared for Xiang Rong's son to establish a state on the territory of later Turkey.

The reason for this is that Gao Shun was mainly worried about the dispersion of forces, so it was better to concentrate his forces and lead the Roman Empire's territory in Asia first.

At that time, the essence of the Roman Empire was in Asia, with a population of half of the total population of the Roman Empire, contributing a large amount of taxes to the Roman Empire; If it conquered its territory in Asia first, it would be a heavy blow to the Roman Empire, severely weakening its strength and facilitating other territories in the future.

If the Sabbatarian Empire were to control the Roman Empire's territory in Asia, it would be too large to be easily controlled, and it would be better to establish a new state.

There is also an advantage, that is, after conquering Asia and other territories, it will open up a convenient passage with the northern barbarians and strike at the North African barbarians; Due to the presence of the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, it was easier to defend against the northern barbarians.

And the attack on the barbarians in Europe will make the Xiongnu and Xianbei people in the northwest of Wei quickly move west to fill the gap, and no longer threaten the frontier of Wei.

Xiang Rong also supported this suggestion, after all, Gaul and Spain were isolated in the west, which was not convenient for communication with other countries, and the population was small and the development was slow, so it was not as good as Asia Minor.

There were now three Roman legions stationed in Syria, and the soldiers who had fled from the Palestinian provinces formed an auxiliary legion; In Asia Minor there were six Roman legions.

The plan formulated by Gao Shun was to take Xiang Rong as the main commander, lead Feng Yong and others, a total of 30,000 high-ranking cavalry and 30,000 high-ranking infantry, and 5,000 crossbowmen, to launch an attack on the Roman Empire from Haidong County and go straight to Damascus; Gao Shun only followed, and he would build the city along the way and destroy the remnants of the resistance.

Li Qiang, Fang Liang, and Cao Shan led their armies from the city of Ctesiphon in the Sabbath Empire, and attacked the three vassal states of the Roman Empire, Armenia, Iberia, and Albania, respectively, and after eliminating the three vassal states, they launched an attack from east to west.

Zhou Fei and Zhao Xiong returned to Ctesiphon ahead of schedule, led their troops to attack the northwest, and went straight to the city of Antioch. ，

Gao Wei's navy was dispatched, ready to stop the reinforcements of the Roman Empire.

Ma Gui and Sun Cheng sat in charge of their respective empires and maintained stability within the empires.

The sudden strength of the Han Chinese made it impossible for the officers and soldiers of the Roman Empire to resist at all.

The current Roman Empire is a behemoth, the troops are scattered and stationed in various places, and it is impossible to assemble at all, and even if it can be assembled, how can it be Gao Shun's opponent? They didn't know that Gao Shun could fight violently, exchange a large amount of supplies, and didn't need logistics at all.

The Roman legions in the province of Syria were easily wiped out.

The three vassal states of the Roman Empire were also in ruins, and the Roman Empire was too busy to support them.

Six corps of the provinces of Asia Minor quickly retreated, three to Constantinople and three to Ankara.

Li Qiang and others besieged Ankara, and Zhou Fei and Zhao Xiong went straight to Constantinople.

Gao Shun later took over the administration of various places, appointed Taishou and Du Lieutenant, and arranged garrisons and other work.

With several times the superior forces, plus sharp weapons and crossbows, the Roman legions in the two places were easily defeated, and Gaoshun easily led the provinces of Syria and Asia.

For the sake of the stability and unity of the three countries, Gao Shun divided the border line for the three countries.

The county of Huandong, as well as the Red Sea coast, all the way to the kingdoms of Himrayar and Hadaramau, were owned by the Egyptian Empire, whose main responsibility was to defend against the Roman invasion from Spain, as well as to prevent the rise of nomads on the Arabian Peninsula and to suppress the Roman navy in the Mediterranean, with the direction of development being the coastal areas of Africa.

According to later maps, a county was established in the Kingdom of Jordan and belonged to the Egyptian Empire.

The territory of the kingdoms of Nan'an and Miska in the Persian Gulf was owned by the Sabbath Empire, and within the Arabian Peninsula, it was divided equally between the two kingdoms; The Northwest Territories, Mosul, and the South were owned by the Sabbath Empire.

The main responsibility of the Sabbatical Empire was to gradually eliminate the alien races within its jurisdiction, and to the northeast of the territory of the barbarians, where their main direction of development was to develop; Work with the Egyptian Empire to prevent the rise of nomadic peoples in the interior of the Arabian Peninsula.

The three small kingdoms destroyed by Li Qiang and the others were owned by the Western Wei Empire, and the Roman Empire's territory in Asia, such as the provinces of Syria and Asia, was owned by the Western Wei Empire.

The main responsibility of the Western Wei Empire was to defend itself against the Roman Empire, as well as the barbarians in the region north of the Caucasus Mountains, where they were also expanding.

In this way, the Western Wei Empire, with a territory of more than one million square kilometers, rich Syria and Asia, and many developed cities, was very strong enough to stand up to the weakened Roman Empire.

In this way, the relationship between the three countries will not cause conflicts over territory, internal wars will be avoided, and alliances can be formed and united with the outside world.

For the capital of the Western Wei Empire, Gao Shun originally planned to be located in Constantinople, but everyone disagreed, and finally, referring to the example of the Egyptian Empire, Constantinople was used as a port city, and the capital was set in Ankara, which was inland.

Ankara's location at the center of the empire makes it easy to support the Quartet while also reducing external threats.

Ankara is an old town that was built at a great cost by Goshun.

Fortunately, there is infrastructure left over from the Roman Empire, for example, just roads, which saved a lot of construction costs.

At this time, the reason why the Roman Empire was so honest and did not fight back was mainly because of their internal instability, nearly ten emperors were killed in a row, nearly ten emperors were replaced every year, and they lost Asia and Africa, and their finances and taxes were greatly reduced, and they were unable to go on expeditions at all.

What Gao Shun and the others didn't know was that the Roman Empire was now in a period of "third century crisis", otherwise, Gao Shun would definitely increase his offensive efforts, wipe out the Roman Empire in one fell swoop, and take on the heavy task of eliminating the barbarians in the north, instead of being so cautious.

The more countries were established later, the larger the territory and the stronger the strength, Gao Shun equipped each new empire with 50,000 high-ranking cavalry and 50,000 high-ranking infantry; There were 100,000 junior infantry and 100,000 junior cavalry scattered all over the place; There were also a large number of pikemen as citizens to dilute the local natives.

But the more countries are built, the greater the threat.

Each has its own pros and cons, Li Qiang, Feng Yong and others can't be envious.

So far, Gao Shun has established a total of twelve kingdoms and empires, and the second son of Li Qiang and Ma Gui and one of Gao Shun's grandsons are respectively kings or emperors in various places; The rest of the grandchildren who have not yet been arranged are several grandsons of Gao Shun and the grandsons of others.

Everyone is very grateful to Gao Shun for such an arrangement.