Cao Cao turned his head to Cui Yingying beside him and said, "Yingying, you can also go play!" ”

"But!"

Cao Cao held Cui Yingying's slender hand and patted it, and said with a smile: "Go!" Don't work too hard! ”

Cui Yingying pursed her red lips and said distressedly: "Your Majesty is hard!" The concubine is not hard, the concubine must serve His Majesty! ”

Cao Cao couldn't help but be moved, and gently hugged Cui Yingying, "Since that's the case, then you can go to the 'Tongtian Pavilion' with me!" ”

Cui Yingying nodded happily. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The so-called 'Tsutenkan' is actually the National Library, 'Tsutenkan' is on the side of the Imperial Garden, it is a separate courtyard, in the middle is a four-storey wooden building, very majestic, around the wooden building is the garden scenery, the environment is quiet; In addition, there are maps and sand tables for each area. The 'Tongtian Pavilion' of the Great Wei Empire is definitely the richest and most comprehensive library in the world, so it is called the 'Tongtian Pavilion'.

Cao Cao, accompanied by Cui Yingying, went straight to the fourth floor. The structure of the fourth floor is the same as the other three floors, and the whole floor is a large and spacious space, in which there are only columns, no wall separation, and many bookshelves for storing materials.

An official hurriedly greeted him and saluted: "Weichen greets Your Majesty!" ”

Cao Cao nodded and asked, "Is what I want you to do is done?" ”

The official replied: "It's done!" ”

"Bring it to me!"

"Yes!" Immediately, the official ordered his subordinates to bring up many components of the sand table, and then everyone formed a huge sand table with these components.

This sand table is very large, the largest sand table in the past is a sand table that reflects the whole picture of the Great Wei Empire, the length and width are five by two meters, and the sand table in front of you is at least ten by five meters in scale, there is a majestic and magnificent mountain momentum.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, what is this?" Cui Yingying asked with a surprised expression.

Cao Cao smiled: "This is a sand table!" ”

"The concubine knows! But, where does this reflect the topography? Cui Yingying looked dazed.

Cao Cao glanced at the official on your side.

The official immediately explained: "Niangniang, this reflects the whole world!" ”

Cui Yingying couldn't help but be shocked, "The whole world!?" ”

The beautiful eyes glanced at the sand table, and saw that the endless continent was wrapped in a circle of water.

Cui Yingying was not very sure and said: "Is our Great Wei Empire in the east of here!" Finger pointed to the area east of the sand table.

Cao Cao smiled, "Yingying, you are so smart!" ”

Cui Yingying smiled happily.

Cao Cao looked at the sand table and said, "Our Great Wei Empire is in the east of this continent!" Where the sun rises! But that's not all! Now the central location and southeast of the entire continent are also under our control! ”

Turning to the official, he said, "Mark the borders of the spheres of influence to the west and north of the empire!" ”

The official answered the promise and immediately ordered his subordinates to plant black dragon flags on the western and northern borders of the empire.

Cui Yingying exuded surprise, "Your Majesty, the land controlled by our Great Wei Empire is so vast!?" ”

Cao Cao clenched his right hand into a fist and said at the same time: "One-third of the entire world is in our palm!" ”

Turning his head to look at Cui Yingying, who was excited, he smiled and asked, "Yingying, what do you think?" ”

Cui Yingying shook her head and said excitedly: "I don't know!" It's just, just proud! ”

Cao Cao laughed.

Looking at the condensed mountains and rivers in front of me, imagining the vast forests, grasslands and cities, I can't help but feel excited. Cao Cao sighed: "All this is like a dream!" This is my world! ”

Cao Cao turned his head to the official and said, "Ship this sand table to the Qianqing Palace!" ”

"Yes!" Officials clenched their fists in agreement.

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A few days later, Zhao Yun and the others received a flying pigeon from Cao Cao.

Zhao Yun smiled and said, "Your Majesty agreed to our suggestion!" It's time to act! Plus, Your Majesty lets you decide for yourself how to build a naval base! In other words, you can decide where to build a naval base according to the actual situation, without asking! ”

Zhou Tai and Gan Ning couldn't help but show a look of joy. Zhou Taidao: "Now I'm waiting for the intelligence ahead!" ”

Gan Ning said impatiently: "I don't think it's necessary!" Even if there were indigenous forces there, they wouldn't be very powerful! Our military can easily solve the problem! Don't delay! ”

Zhou Tai didn't hesitate and looked at Zhao Yun. Zhao Yun thought for a moment and said, "What Xingba said is not unreasonable! All right! Act now! ”

Gan Ning grinned, clenched his fists and promised loudly.

Early the next morning, the 30,000 officers and men of the 7th Army Corps, which had been prepared, left the Persian Gulf with the main fleet of the navy and headed for the Aden area at the southern mouth of the Red Sea.

At this time, the Romans were building artillery batteries in the northern straits of the Red Sea, and a large number of spies were operating within the control of the Wei army.

The huge Wei fleet reached the Aden region at the southern outlet of the Red Sea.

At this time, there was still no news from the spies who had gone to this area to investigate in advance. Something seems to be wrong!

Gan Ning waited in the open sea for two days, but there was still no news from the spies.

Gan Ning decided not to wait any longer and sent an army vanguard of 3,000 men to land.

Three thousand troops landed on the beaches of the Aden region and did not meet any resistance.

The 3,000 vanguard troops immediately set up guard posts and defensive lines on the high ground around the landing area.

An hour later, the Wei brigade began to land.

However, at this moment, a large area of woods in front of the beachhead seemed to be 'alive', and then countless people rushed out of the woods and rushed straight towards the landing position of the Wei army, wielding primitive weapons such as wooden sticks and stone axes in their hands, screaming strangely, and their heads were scattered, like a group of wild beasts, these people were covered in ****, only the important parts were wrapped in bark, and their faces and bodies were painted with oil paint.

The defensive front on the high ground directly ahead of the Wei army was the first to find the impact.

The defensive front of more than 500 Wei soldiers was crumbling under the onslaught of tens of thousands of barbarian troops.

In fact, the situation was not as dangerous as it appeared, and although the impact of the barbarian army was fierce, it was difficult for them to achieve results in the face of the well-established defensive front of the Wei army.

One after another, the barbarian army fell into the trench in front of the Wei army's front, and the barbarian army that passed through the trench and fence was successively cut to the ground by the Wei army's spears and swords.

This did not make the barbarians flinch in the slightest, and the barbarians still howled like wild beasts, rushing forward without fear of life and death, looking extremely crazy.

Gan Ning, who was watching the battle on the flagship, breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay!" These barbarians are fierce, but they are very stupid! ”

He ordered the officers on the side: "Let General Zhou Tai lead the cavalry team to attack!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the officer pointed to the beachhead and shouted: "Look, General! ”

Gan Ning looked in the direction of the officer's finger and saw thousands of behemoths howling and rushing towards the Wei army's position.

"Elephants! I didn't think there were elephants here! Gan Ning was slightly surprised.

In fact, the Wei army had seen this kind of behemoth a long time ago, not only had it, but also fought with the army composed of such a behemoth.

At that time, the Wei army was beaten by the elephant army, the cavalry was not the opponent of such a behemoth at all, and the invincible hoplites did nothing against it, but later the Wei army attacked with crossbow arrows, and the elephant army, which had been invincible before, was crushed in an instant.

Gan Ning immediately ordered: "Let the battleship bombard!" ”

"No!"

Several of the battleships closest to the shore slowly turned their bows and turned their sides in the direction of the enemy.

Knock knock knock!

The huge roar continued to sound, countless tongues of fire erupted from the gunboat's side, and then the elephants in the army were filled with smoke and dust, and one elephant after another screamed and fell down, the scene was really spectacular.

After two rounds of shelling, the elephant army was completely disorganized.

The elephants roared and scurried around, ignoring the shouts of their masters, and the savages were trampled by their own herds, and their flesh flew and screamed one after another.

In the blink of an eye, the barbarians, who had been very crazy, completely collapsed, and fled in all directions like headless flies.

At this time, Zhou Tai led three thousand light cavalry to kill.

Three thousand light cavalry bit the barbarians and chased them all the way to the edge of the woods, until they killed the opponent all over the field.

Descending from the heights, I saw that the grass and sand were densely covered with barbarian corpses, among which there were many elephant corpses, and the elephants that were not dead were lying on the ground and struggling.

The scene was very shocking.

Afterwards, the Wei army counted and found that there were more than 10,000 corpses of barbarians, and dozens of prisoners were captured, and the casualties of the Wei army were incredibly small, with less than 300 dead and wounded!

In the evening of the same day, the Wei army landed in its entirety, and immediately set up a complete circle of defensive positions along the highlands and hills on the periphery of the beachhead.

The Great Tent of the Wei Army.

"Xingba, the situation is a little unexpected! I can't imagine that the strength of the brute army here is not small! Zhou Tai was a little worried.

Gan Ning smiled: "What are you worried about? There are a lot of people! But the combat power is too bad! ”

Zhou Taidao: "Today's events show that there are many indigenous people here! We cannot solve problems by force alone! Our main mission is to build a base here in order to take on the Romans in the future! ”

Gan Ning frowned and nodded, "Youping, what do you think we should do?" ”

Zhou Taisi pondered: "Your Majesty has long said that for this kind of tribe, there should be both grace and power!" Today's battle has shown them our military might! The next step should be to take gentle measures! ”

Gan Ning knocked on his forehead, looking like he had a headache. "Youping, I'm not good at this kind of thing! You have an idea! ”

Zhou Tai smiled bitterly: "If you're not good at it, I'll be good at it?" ”

Then he thought: "We have 'sir' in the army, let them give it a try!" What do you think? (To be continued.) )