The strategy of the navy's westward expansion was set by Sun Quan himself, and as early as last autumn, he had already drawn up a plan for the South China Sea army to force the strait of Malacca on the Jinfan and Gan Ning.

Based on his own memory, Sun Quan drew a map of the world as a reference for the navy's westward expansion.

However, his memory of the world map was not very clear, and he could only draw a rough outline, and in one, the map of later generations was somewhat different from the terrain of today.

Therefore, even if the South China Sea army held the map drawn by Sun Quan, when they forcibly crossed the Strait of Malacca, they took a lot of wrong roads and spent a lot of effort.

It wasn't until early March this year that the Nanhai camp came back.

Gan Ning personally led the army, forcibly crossed the Strait of Malacca, and directly entered the Arabian Sea from the Bay of Bengal, and also discovered the Indian territory in Sun Quan's impression.

At this time, India was the main region of the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty.

In fact, the Western Regions only refers to the regions west of the Han Dynasty, and the most contact of the Han Dynasty is naturally those countries in the later Indian region.

In this area, the strongest empire is the Kushan Empire, and the target of the Southern Navy is the Kushan Empire.

In this critical period, the chaos in the Central Plains is imminent, and Sun Quan put Gan Ning, a handsome talent, and Zhou Tai, a tiger general, together with hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and horses, in the South China Sea, but he didn't let them open up the wasteland.

An aboriginal in Australia, who is still in a tribal state, naturally can't use Gan Ning and Zhou Tai to guard with more than 100,000 elites.

Sun Quan's goal was to surpass Genghis Khan and become the first emperor in history to rule this earth, while the immediate goal of the Southern Navy was to advance westward into Kushan.

In this era, Sun Quan's greatest enemy was not Cao Cao, but the Roman Empire.

The Roman Empire is now at its peak, and it is historically an empire that is not inferior to the Han Dynasty. Neither the population nor the soldiers and horses are under the current Central Plains.

Moreover, the navy has a long way to go west, and if you want to swallow the Roman Empire, you need to take it step by step.

At least to unify the Central Plains, Sun Quan has the ability to start a war with Rome, otherwise only half of the country's heritage. Even if you reach Rome, you may not be able to stand firm.

Before entering the Roman Empire in the west, Sun Quan also had to make some moves, he first had to pull out two obstacles, one was the Kushan Empire, and the other was the Rest Empire.

Today, the East and the West combined, there are many small tribes and small countries, but it is the four empires that really dominate the world. Naturally, the leader was the Han Empire, and then the Roman Empire.

The Han Dynasty and Rome dominated Europe and Asia, and there were two more powerful empires in between, namely the Kushan Empire and the Sabbath Empire.

The Han Empire has now completely collapsed, the Central Plains is in a state of chaos, what is the state of the Roman Empire, Sun Quan can't remember, it is too far away. I can't inquire.

As for the Kushan Empire and the Sabbath Empire, these two empires are not small in size. It can pull out hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, but compared to the strength of Rome and the Han Dynasty, the difference is too far.

After the Southern Navy forcibly crossed the Strait of Malacca, it directly bypassed the Bay of Bengal, and the first thing it faced was naturally the Kushan Empire, and the only way to conquer the Kushan Empire and the Sabbath Empire was to conquer the Kushan Empire. They were able to fight all the way along the Persian Gulf to Rome.

However, Sun Quan had such a strong ambition in his heart, and Pan Feng, Ju Yi and others were a little incomprehensible.

Maybe in their hearts, except for the Central Plains, the others are barbarian lands. There is no cause for concern, because they are simply unaware of the vastness of the West and the strength of the Roman Empire.

"King, now that the Central Plains have not yet been unified, Cao Cao and others are eyeing each other, Wu Guodang should concentrate all his strength and step on the Central Plains, why do you care so much about these barbarian lands?"

Pan Feng looked at Sun Quan, frowned thickly, and said in a deep voice.

The main force of the more than 100,000 troops in the South China Sea battalion, in his opinion, is just to rest and recuperate in the South China Sea, and as long as the Central Plains war starts, it will be immediately transferred north.

Now that the center of gravity of the Southern Navy has moved westward, he somewhat does not understand it in his heart.

"The Land of the Barbarians?"

When Sun Quan heard this, he smiled a little self-deprecatingly, and his eyes swept over: "Do you think so too?" ”

I am afraid that he is the only one in the world who values the Roman Empire.

"Which is more important than the king, they have discovered a continent, and they will take it, no matter how big it is, can it be bigger than Australia?"

Ju Yi said in a low voice: "Why use a large battalion of soldiers, that's more than 100,000 elites!" ”

Sun Quan was silent for a while, and only then did he raise his head, he glanced at Zhou Tai, and said lightly: "Youping, you tell them about the current situation of the Southern Navy!" ”

"No!"

Zhou Tai nodded.

He must let these dirt buns see the vastness of the world, the vastness of the world, and don't stare at his own one-third of an acre all day long.

"Have you ever heard of Ban Chao?" Zhou Tai looked at a few generals, and said a good word in his heart, and then asked in a deep voice.

"Ban Dingyuan?"

When several generals in the hall heard this name, their expressions were solemn and awe-inspiring.

Ban Chao, the Marquis of Dingyuan of the Han Dynasty, once sent an envoy to the Western Regions, in the shock of the Western Regions for decades, he is a military strategist, but also a famous diplomat, in the Han Dynasty is a civil and military all-round talent and a famous celebrity.

In the past, in order to deter foreign races, Ban Chao threw his pen into the army, in this era when scholars are tens of millions of times more noble than the big soldiers, but many commanders and generals are respectful.

In the hearts of military men, he has a revered status.

"General Zhou, what does this have to do with Marquis Dingyuan?"

Pan Feng looked at Zhou Tai and asked with some puzzlement.

"The empire we discovered, after verification, we learned that it was called the Kushan Empire, of course, it also has a name, the Great Moon Clan!"

Zhou Tai on the sand table, spread out six or seven volumes of detailed marching maps, and then spliced together, he pointed to the location of the new marching map, and said: "We take the sea route, along the South China Sea and westward, naturally you are somewhat intuitive to perceive our route, but as long as the chart is drawn, in comparison with the map of the Han Dynasty, in fact, we are going around from here, here in the Western Regions!" ”

"The Western Regions?"

Everyone's eyes lit up slightly.

They are naturally no strangers to the Western Regions, Zhang Qian's Silk Road, Ban surpassed the Western Regions, so that the Western Regions have a lot of records in Middle-earth.

"It turned out to be the Western Regions!"

Ju Yi's expression moved slightly. Said: "There are indeed many countries in the Western Regions, and the so-called thirty-six countries of the Western Regions existed in the past, but according to historical records, it is difficult for us to walk over on land, even if we go through Liangzhou, there is a desert as a natural danger. It is not advisable to march in large numbers! ”

"But now we have the sea route!"

Zhou Tai said proudly: "The sea route can be directed, my Great Wu's warship is the best in the world, after landing by sea, we can conquer the entire Western Regions!" ”

"Youping, let's talk about the Kushan Empire first!" Sun Quan's instructed.

"It has been recorded in historical records that the king of the Yue clan wanted to ask for the princess of the Han Dynasty, but was rejected by the Marquis of Dingyuan, and finally the army came to attack. 70,000 lions, rushing forward, but were defeated by the Marquis of Dingyuan with 30,000 elite soldiers in the Western Regions! ”

Zhao Yun's eyes flickered, and his deep voice seemed to be a little natural to himself: "Could it be that this Dayue Clan is the so-called Kushan Empire?" ”

"That's right!"

Zhou Tai nodded, he stretched out his hand, and continued to spread out a few very detailed marching maps, and said, "At the beginning of March, this sea area where our warships have passed. When we discovered this kingdom, we sent out scouts. A lot of people were arrested, and the language barrier wasted a lot of our time. ”

Regarding this point, Sun Quan spent a lot of effort, and specially asked Jinyiwei to send people to Xiliang, Dunhuang and other places to find someone who could communicate with the Kushan Empire.

"However, the Kushan Empire has a lot of records of the Great Han, and finally let us communicate, and we used some means to let the Kushan people draw the general terrain of the Kushan Empire for our scouts. In comparison with our Central Plains region, it has become the current map. ”

Zhou Tai pointed to the map and said, "This is just a scribbled map, we will spend at least half a year to probe it!" ”

"Isn't the proportional proportion of the territory on this march map a little exaggerated?"

Pan Fenghu's eyes widened, and he said, "This is at least the territory of one Wu State, and it can even be said that it is another Central Plains!" ”

"General, the scout battalion of the Southern Navy will not be careless in this regard!"

Zhou Tai said unhappily: "For this detailed marching map, we not only sent scouts, but also invited a few Confucian scholars who were familiar with historical records to help, and turned out all the records and historical records about the Western Regions.

It took a month to draw the most detailed map of the distribution of forces so far. ”

"It should be the so-called barbarian land that we underestimated!"

Zhao Yun thought about it, looked solemn, and sighed.

"According to our preliminary detection, in addition to the Kushan Empire, there are dozens of small countries around, the population of this area has strengthened, and it will not be under our Wu State at the beginning, and the Kushan Empire is not independent, it is also adjacent to this empire in the west, we just know that this empire is called the Rest Empire, and other empires that we can't detect for the time being."

Zhou Tai's eyes burst into a scorching light, and he said: "But the only thing that is certain is that the Western Regions will not be the Far Western Territory that we have seen, and there is still a world that we can't know!" ”

Pan Feng, Zhao Yun, and Ju Yi listened to Zhou Tai's narration, and their expressions became a little solemn, saying a thousand ways and ten thousand, in this era, it is about population.

Only with a population can there be soldiers and horses, and only with a population can there be a labor force.

The prosperity of Wu is definitely not because it has the broadest territory, but because it has the largest population, but now the population of Wu is only a little more than 10 million.

Before the collapse of the Han Dynasty, there were about 50 million people, but since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, in the past ten years, the world has been plagued by wars, countless casualties, and today, it is remarkable to have a population of 40 million.

A Western Regions, with a population of tens of millions, and such a large territory, is indeed worthy of Wu Guo's big fight.

"Did you hear me clearly?"

At this time, Sun Quan looked at a few people with a pair of amber crystal eyes before asking, "What do you feel in your heart?" ”

"The West is big, the world is big, we seem to be a little sitting in the well and watching the sky!"

Ju Yi muttered.

"Our eyes are only on the Central Plains, and we really want to ignore the world!" Pan Fenghu's eyes flashed with a hint of essence.

"That's right!"

Sun Quan said in a deep voice: "If Lone tells you and others that this vast world, on the westernmost side, still hovers over this empire that is on par with the former Han Dynasty, do you still think Lone is making a big fuss?" ”

"Is the king talking about the Great Qin Kingdom?"

Zhao Yun squinted his eyes slightly, and said: "According to historical records, in the ninth year of Yongyuan, the Marquis of Dingyuan sent Gan Ying to envoy Daqin in the Western Regions, but Gan Ying did not arrive in Daqin and returned from the West Sea!" ”

"It's the Roman Empire!"

Sun Quan said lightly, in this era, there are indeed some history books that record the Roman Empire as the Great Qin State in the extreme west!

"The Roman Empire?"

Several generals in the hall looked at Sun Quan's face in an instant, with doubts, puzzlement, and some disbelief.

"You remember, the Roman Empire is the biggest enemy of our Wu Kingdom in the future, and it is also the empire that Gu wants to conquer the most, if we want to dominate the world, we must step through the territory of Rome!"

Sun Quan's calm voice revealed a trace of scorching aura that they all felt.

The conquest of the Roman Empire is the biggest ambition since his rebirth, an ambition that has been born since he went to sea in the past, and at this moment, he showed it unreservedly in front of Zhao Yun and a few others. (To be continued......)