Chapter 639: The Final Battle

After staying in the Yonggu Empire for more than two years, the princes and grandchildren of various countries returned to their countries one after another.

Spring is coming, and Gao Shun is ready to return east.

Due to the sufficient time, everyone was not in a hurry, so they only brought 500 high-ranking cavalry as escorts and slowly traveled all the way from the land.

First arrived at the location of Germany in later generations, here is the kingdom of Li Qiang's grandson Li Wende, referred to as Germany, now it has developed very well, the grain has been self-sufficient, the aquaculture industry has developed very well, the fishing industry has improved the life of the people, and it is very beneficial to improve the physique, but it is still much worse than the Yonggu Empire.

Li Qiang's grandson Li Wende inherited Li Qiang's characteristics, and even though Gao Shun had previously improved his intelligence, he was still good at martial arts and actively expanded his territory externally.

He had established a firm rule in the Danish region of later generations; Due to the influence of the North Atlantic Current, the climate here is warm in winter and cool in summer, which is very suitable for living, and fertile land has been developed here and livestock farming has been developed.

He often sent sailors, infantry, and cavalry across the strait to plunder the territory of later Norway and Sweden.

There lived a large number of barbarians, and it was from there that the Goths came out. During the Roman Empire, the barbarians traveled south to trade goods with the Roman Empire and plundered the southern coastal areas as pirates.

After Li Qiang's grandson Li Wende established a kingdom there, he terminated the barbarians and relied on the navy to annihilate the barbarian fleets and carry out counter-plundering against those barbarians; They plundered their cattle, sheep and other livestock, and plundered their populations to become slaves.

The northern peninsula has many harbors, long and narrow coastlines, and many places where landfall can be made, which makes the barbarians unable to defend themselves and suffer heavy losses.

Gao obedient to the system map, there are no red dots in the German jurisdiction; The barbarians within a thousand miles have avoided the coastal areas and moved inland to more difficult conditions, away from the coast; The place further north is not his territory, and cannot be viewed; Gao Shun was very satisfied with Germany's efforts and gains, and directly rewarded King Li Wende with 100,000 gold coins, so that he could increase his efforts to continue to fight against the barbarians.

Continuing to the east, there is the kingdom built by Sun Cheng's grandson, named the Kingdom of Heian, and he hopes that his descendants will be safe and sound, and the capital will be the location of Warsaw in the future.

The dividing line between Germany and the Heian Kingdom was the Oder River, which was now renamed the Onder River.

The two countries are sparsely populated and busy expanding their territory and fighting barbarians, but the banks of the Ande River in the interior are undeveloped, and even large areas of territory in the south are not developed.

Standing in front of the boundary monument between the two countries, Gao Shun looked at the map and found that the territory that had been safely increased a lot, and he was very happy in his heart.

In view of this situation, Gao Shun temporarily decided to add 20,000 junior infantry and junior cavalry to each country as citizens, plus their wives, to increase the number of 80,000 men in each country, and to give them enough food to eat for two years, as well as ox carts and other means of transportation, so that everyone could report to the two countries separately.

Sun Cheng's grandson grew up in the border area, heard and saw it, and had rich combat experience against the barbarians, knowing that taking the initiative to attack and constantly consuming the strength of the barbarians was far better than fortifying the city; Therefore, he also actively went out, and has conquered large areas of land on the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, and plundered a large number of barbarians as slaves; In the summer, they would also send out sailors to raid the coast farther north.

The barbarian natives here still live in a backward tribal state, and their strength is very weak and very easy to exterminate; However, the Heian Kingdom generally did not kill them all, but only plundered some young men as slaves, and robbed some young girls to come back to be concubines for officers and soldiers, hoping to increase the population as soon as possible.

The climate here is mild throughout the year, with no severe cold in winter and no extreme heat in summer, which is very suitable for living and has a good development momentum; Only the eastern and northern parts of the country have a slightly worse climate.

Arriving at Ping'an City, Gao Shun also rewarded him with 100,000 gold coins.

Gold coins are now in circulation in all Han Chinese countries, and each gold coin is worth a consistent copper coin, sometimes for 1,200 to 1,500 copper coins.

Subsequently, Gao Shun and the others advanced to the northeast, clearing out the large barbarians within thousands of miles on both sides of the way, and the scattered ones were not worth mobilizing.

When they arrived in Minsk, which was already the territory of Haibei, everyone turned southeast and went to the capital of Haibei, which was the kingdom established by Ma Gui's grandson.

With the Egyptian Empire as its backing, the development momentum of Haibei Kingdom is very good.

The further you go to the southeast coast, the better the development, and on the whole, it is the country with the best agricultural development among the kingdoms you pass by.

Gao Shun believed that the southern climate should be better for agricultural development, so the Han people finally gained a foothold in this land and met Gao Shun's expectations; For this, he rewarded the Beihai Kingdom with 60,000 gold coins.

Subsequently, Gao Shun passed through the Northern Wei Kingdom, which developed relatively slowly and had a colder climate, but did not expand inland, and built castles along the Volga and Caucasus rivers, for which they were rewarded with 100,000 gold coins.

For the Northern Liang Empire, Gao Shun also sent a high-level cavalry to escort 100,000 gold coins, and the cavalry was directly owned by the Northern Liang Empire.

Gao Shun believes that when these five countries continue to expand northward, there will be at least a few million square kilometers of territory, and they will definitely receive unexpected results.

When autumn came, everyone went directly to the northeast, straight to the territory of the Dayue clan, the Xiongnu and the Xianbei people.

Li Qiang, Ma Gui and others each led 3,000 high-level cavalry and 1,000 strong crossbowmen to kill the territory of the Kushan Empire in the form of a fan; Gao Shun and Gao Wei are ready to support at any time.

At this time, the Dayue clan of the Kushan Empire had less than 600,000 people; It turned out that the Lite people they enslaved had all become slaves of the Northern Liang Empire; A large part of the Dayue clan people have become accustomed to agricultural life and are reluctant to migrate, and they have also become the subjects of the Beiliang Kingdom, but because of the second-class people, they bear much higher taxes than the Han people.

Less than 600,000 people, distributed in the vast Kazakh steppe, very sparse.

Li Qiang and others strive to be wiped out every time, but there are still fish that slip through the net.

When the Han people attacked, the Dayue people were very frightened, they kept tolerating it, but the Han people still didn't let them go; However, it was difficult for them to gather all their people in a short time; The Han people came to kill on several sides, but they only actively attacked a few large tribes around them, and began to migrate northward, gathering their tribesmen along the way as they migrated.

According to their plan, they went to the Huns.

Even if they have a deep hatred with the Huns, but at present the Han people are their common enemy, and they must jointly resist, otherwise they can only exterminate the tribe in the north, and they have long heard of the ruthlessness of the Han people, and they have killed tens of millions of people just in the Rest Empire and the Roman Empire.

When the Huns heard the news, they were terrified and immediately gathered all their people; Under the pressure of extermination, as long as the clansmen who can get on the horse and can wield weapons, they will all be organized into an army.

This was not the end, they sent someone to inform the Xianbei people, and tried to form an alliance to fight the enemy together.

It's just that the Xianbei people have not yet been unified and are still in a state of fragmentation, but under the condition that the Han army is pressing, the Xianbei people first formed an alliance within themselves, which accelerated the integration of the forces of several large tribes to the Xianbei tribes.

At the same time, the news also received the news that some of the escaped Southern Huns in the northwest of the Han Dynasty were also going to war.

The nomads have a similar culture and the same life, and it is relatively easy to integrate, and in the face of external pressure, the nomads of the entire northern steppe are integrated.

Faced with this situation, Gao Shun smiled in his heart, this was exactly what he wanted, if he could defeat them at once, it would save him the trouble of looking for them everywhere, so he made everyone slow down the pace of the attack, leaving time for the nomads to form alliances and integrate internal forces, and named the upcoming war the final battle.

Li Qiang and others were full of confidence and very much supported Gao Shun's plan, hoping to solve the barbarians in the northern grasslands once and for all.

However, for the safety of the countries in the Western Regions and to prevent the nomads from jumping over the wall and attacking the Western Regions or the territory of Wei, Gao Shun sent Gao Wei to lead the high-level cavalry with weapons to return to Wei through Wusun State, and notified the vassal countries along the way to prepare for war and increase vigilance.