After receiving the order, Huo Zheng and others immediately took action, the radio receiving station in Stan City has been established, and there is a fixed communication time every day, so this order was transmitted to Stan City only a few hours later, and then it was delivered to Liu An's hands on the same day.

After receiving Huo Gang's order, Liu An was a little amazed, his leader was still so like a god, even he didn't know that Zhao Qi had gone to Aden, but from the leader's order, he knew that Zhao Qi had taken Aden.

Speaking of which, are they going to enter Africa at such a fast pace?

The leader's order only said that they could march into Africa, but how to march and how to occupy it were their business, and the military department gave a detailed policy later, considering the current maritime transportation strength of the Han Dynasty, the advice given by the military department was that Liu An would send a force of 3,000 people in batches, and then consider expanding the scale after waiting for the merchant ships to deliver enough supplies.

Liu An pondered for a moment, according to the current situation, he could only send a thousand people over for the first time, the first is that the ships can transport limited personnel, and the second is that the supply of these personnel is also a huge problem.

And Liu An considered that the personnel he transported would not directly land on the African continent for the time being, but go to Aden Island first, since Zhao Qi had already taken Aden Island, then Aden Island was within their control, and they could hoard personnel on Aden Island first, and then carry out a springboard strategy.

After thinking about it, Liu An also directly issued an order, and the four merchant ships that happened to transport the supplies came back first, and the materials loaded this time can be changed, although the strategy this time is not in a hurry, but they go a day earlier, so the foundation can be laid more solidly.

Of course, Zhao Qi didn't know about the changes in this regard, but they were still probing the island.

By the time Liu An and the others set off here, Zhao Qi had already explored the situation on the island, and there was really no survival on this island, but the island was full of strange plants and animals.

But Zhao Qi didn't let anyone move these things, no one knew what they were, so it was better not to alarm them, as for the village, they had already inspected it, and there were no corpses or anything like that in the village, which meant that the village was considered abandoned, and although the houses and the like were scattered, they were all normal, and they were not subjected to any external forces.

This means that the original residents of this place have voluntarily abandoned this place, and the houses are all made of stone, and all the houses may seem to be at least more than a hundred years old, because some of the wooden furniture in these houses has rotted into a bad shape, according to the degree of decay, it is estimated that it is at least more than a hundred years.

That is to say, the island has been abandoned for too long, no one has been on it for a hundred years, and they have found some wild crops near the village, and there should be people who have grown food in these places, but that's all.

As for the exploration of other places in the middle of the island, Zhao Qi and they understood why this island was abandoned, there is a small mountain range in the center of this island, the highest altitude should be more than 1,000 meters high, and the rest of the place is mostly hills.

There is no shortage of fresh water on the plains, but the land is so barren that it is almost impossible to survive growing food.

If you are simply fishing, there is no good port wharf nearby, and according to Liu Heima's observation of this island, this island should have a lot of seasons with a very bad climate, so the residents here have no way to live.

Not far from them is the mainland, and the continent is obviously more selective, no matter what, it is always much stronger than them here, and it is estimated that this is one of the reasons why these people retreated.

Figuring out this, Zhao Qi was a little happy, the area of this island was larger, he thought that there would be more residents on the island, but he didn't expect that there would be no one living on this island, which means that it would be effortless for them to take this island.

Anyway, at present, there are almost no people who can take this island, as for Egypt in ancient times, forget it, Egypt has been extinct for hundreds of years, and the current Egypt is not a civilization from Egypt more than a thousand years ago.

So they don't have the right to claim the island.

After finalizing these, Zhao Qi released the golden eagle and then asked the golden eagle to transmit the information, the first to be transmitted to Liao Kang on Xizhou Island, and the later information was transmitted by Liao Kang to Zizhulin Port and even Datang.

During this time, they may need to stay on this island, but there is no one on this island, which means that they don't have to leave everyone behind, Zhao Qi left a merchant ship, and then mobilized 100 more soldiers from that merchant ship, and then their merchant ship sailed directly to the Aden Peninsula.

Now that they have come here, they must go to the Aden Peninsula to have a look, Zhao Qi and their speed is not slow, but this time he is not going to go too far, he is just going to go to the Aden Peninsula close to their position to have a look and observe.

Zhao Qi and their speed was very fast, and in more than a day, they had already seen the continent in the distance, but this time, unlike on the island of Aden, they saw a small city on the shore that was not too big, and they also saw the port.

However, the port was very rudimentary, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was a dock, but there they saw some ships docked that were obviously not fishing boats, which meant that there were still merchant ships coming and going.

"Lean over and get all the warriors to change their armor and weapons." Zhao Qi pondered for a while and gave the order directly, anyway, let's go over and contact it first, they have powerful enough weapons on the ship, not only the armor weapons of the Xuanwu Army soldiers are all carried.

Although their merchant ships did not have guns like the sail battleships of later generations, they installed six huge bed crossbows on the deck, and the military bed crossbows made of new materials were undoubtedly powerful, and the bed crossbows alone could shoot directly through the ships on the docks.

So with such force, Zhao Qi naturally would not be afraid.

Zhao Qi is not afraid, but the people in this small city are completely in a commotion, there is no way, for this era, the huge body of Zhao Qi's merchant ship Blackwater represents the deterrent power of terror.

They have never seen such a huge ship, although the ship is different from the combat power, but this is a port, there are merchants coming and going, so their news is naturally not so congested, of course they know that to be able to build such a huge merchant ship, it is definitely from a powerful country.

But neither the Persian nor the Byzantine Empire near them seemed to have such terrifying merchant ships, and even the largest merchant ships were estimated to be one-third the size of this one, or even smaller.

No matter how much they stirred, the big ship in the distance had begun to gradually approach in this direction, and the merchants in the several merchant ships docked here also ran from the small town to the dock after receiving the news.

When they arrived at the dock and saw the terrifying figure on the sea in the distance, the merchants were also a little frightened.

"It's okay, it's okay, don't be afraid." However, when one of the merchants in the crowd saw the merchant ship in the distance, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and spoke loudly.

"Rulas, why do you say don't be afraid, you know them?" A somewhat muffled voice came from behind and asked.

Hearing this voice, the crowd on the dock immediately got out of the way, and a middle-aged man walked through the crowd under the escort of a group of guards dressed simply, he glanced at the merchant ship in the distance, took a deep breath and spoke.

"Venerable Lord of Dera, I don't know them, but I know what country they come from." Ruras hurriedly spoke.

"Oh? Tell me about it. ”

"They come from the Han Empire, a powerful empire in the East, although the Han Empire is a very powerful country, but they will not invade others casually, they are very disciplined." Ruras spoke quickly.

"Oh? The Han Empire? Isn't the country of the East called Sui? The city lord of Dera frowned and asked with some confusion.

"Lord of Dera, Sui has been more than twenty years ago, and now the country on that land is called Tang, but the Tang Dynasty is still more eastern, and the Han Empire is between Persia and the Tang Dynasty, they have completely replaced the original Turkic people, and all the Turkic territories have become the territory of the Han Dynasty." Ruras spoke quickly.

"What?!" Della was taken aback.

Although he was called the noble lord of Dara, he knew that it was just the flattery of Rulas, a small merchant from Byzantium, who would not have called himself that if it weren't for the gold he could earn or what he wanted to buy in the city.

Although he controlled a city, he had an army of only a few hundred men, and none of them had any effective weapons, which meant that the place was very barren, surrounded by many tribes, and there was not much land suitable for farming.

Otherwise, they would not be able to exist alone, although Della controlled the city called Alura, but he was not too overly over-minded, he knew that the lords of many of the larger cities around him could destroy him, and as for the Byzantine Empire, it was a country that he could not offend.

Because he has merchants here, he also knows some information about the world, so he knows the power of the Turks!