The impression of inland people on the sea is always with sunshine and white clouds, coconut grove shadows, clear water and white sand, large areas of beautiful corals, lively and lovely tropical fish, and a variety of delicious seafood.

But for sailors sailing on the sea, the vast sea brings them only endless boredom, boring life, sharks and other fierce beasts in the water, reefs that may be encountered at any time, and more unknown dangers in the future.

A round sun did its best to spread its own light and heat, trying to make people feel their enthusiasm, and the white and bright sunlight almost made Yu Hao on the deck almost unable to open his eyes.

Even the sea surface sprinkled in the Western Ocean was divided into sparkling light by the waves, which made him feel very dazzling, the weather in the Western Ocean was indeed more sultry than that of the South Ocean, and at this moment Yu Hao was really looking forward to the typhoon that he had been avoiding, which would be cooler.

Fortunately, this time Yu Hao took a disguised armed merchant ship, not a Xia Jun's ship, so the life on the ship was still somewhat remarkable, and he picked up a water bag and poured it violently for a while, the water had a faint salty taste, and some salt was added to replenish the salt lost in the body.

"General, we will definitely be able to rush to Baranla before it gets dark today!" An intelligence officer disguised as a businessman smiled, "It's just that the weather in the Western Ocean is so unbearable that it will not cool down until the monsoon arrives for at least two months!" ”

"Don't delay the boat, just order to go down and prepare more saltwater mung bean porridge for the brothers on the deck, don't get heat stroke if it's too hot!" Yu Hao waved his hand and asked the intelligence officer to go about his own business, leaving himself alone, and looking up, he still couldn't see any shadow of the coast in the distance.

The weather is too hot, the water I just drank is instantly emitted, almost the sweat is evaporated as soon as it comes out, and a faint salty smell seems to be felt in the slight sea breeze, I don't know if it is the salt carried in the sea breeze, or the sweat traces left by the human body after sweating.

At this moment, Yu Hao really misses the winter of Zhenhai, and now it is just March of the thirty-fifth year of the summer calendar, and Zhenhai is still a piece of ice and snow, but it is located in the sea area of the mouth of the Ganges River in the northern part of the Western Ocean, but it is already a little unbearable hot.

If it weren't for the fact that the soldiers of the Second Fleet led by Yu Hao were already stationed in Nanyang, they would have been accustomed to the climate of Nanyang for more than ten years, otherwise at this time, let alone sailing under the sun, I am afraid that there are many people hiding indoors who suffer from heat stroke.

With the establishment of the second batch of vassal states divided by Wang Ze, another two years have passed now, and it is now the thirty-fifth year of the Xia calendar.

The Sui Empire, which had repeatedly encountered a wall in front of the Xia State and felt that its strength was not strong enough, was immersed in its own development, hoping that through development, it would show its might one day in the future and overthrow the powerful opponent of the Xia State.

The Turks, who were once the overlords of the grasslands and the number one power in the world, were even more miserable.

Since the defeat of the Xia State because of the attack on the Xia Kingdom, the strength has been greatly damaged, and then it has been divided into two parts: the east and the west; The Western Turks, under the leadership of Datou, lived a comfortable life on their own, but the Eastern Turks had to bear all the pressure.

When Dulan Khan tried to take advantage of the 300,000 Sui army led by Yang Shuang to attack Liaodong, he also took the opportunity to attack the Xia State to avenge the hatred of the Xia State, and even to raise his prestige, but unexpectedly, the 300,000 Sui army was inexplicably wiped out without even going out at his own doorstep.

So the Dulan Khan, who didn't have long eyes, was beaten under the attack of hundreds of thousands of Xia cavalry, and his nose and face were swollen, although the Xia State did not destroy Dulan Khan in some other plans, but Dulan Khan was defeated one after another, and he could only barely protect himself and almost lost the threat to Xia State.

Under such circumstances, Wang Ze ordered further strategic operations in the Nanyang region.

Different from the past, this time the Xia Kingdom's strategic activities were not carried out in the Nanyang Islands, but on the Indochina Peninsula in the later generations, from the Mekong River estuary in the east to the west, including the Chenla Kingdom, the Pyu Kingdom in the Yangon region in later generations, and even all the way to the mouth of the Ganges River, and to the south to expand to Xingzhou and other places occupied by the Xia Kingdom, which were the strategic targets of the Xia army.

Of course, Wang Ze didn't want the Xia army to occupy all this vast land at once, he only needed to destroy the organized state power in this land.

It is impossible for any nation to become strong in a situation where it is scattered.

After the Xia State purposefully destroyed those national regimes in advance, these peoples who had not yet had time to develop and perfect their civilization would inevitably fall into chaos, and then the Xia State could take the opportunity to encroach on their territory.

Xia has the best shipping conditions in the whole world at present, as long as Xia is willing to attack any coastal country by sea at any time, no matter how powerful the country is.

Even if it is a temporary defeat caused by some mistakes, the Xia army can use its huge fleet of sea ships to calmly evacuate the army, and after mastering the absolute sea control over all sea areas, the Xia State can be said to be in a situation where it can be attacked and retreated.

After conquering the local indigenous regime, the Xia State first chose a plain not far from the sea to establish a larger stronghold, and then gradually encroached on the wider area around it according to these strongholds.

Even the Xia army can further expand into the hinterland through some local rivers, lakes and other inland waters, so that it only takes a hundred years at most for the Xia Kingdom to completely occupy this fertile land.

The fertile land of the South Seas is already a well-known truth in the Xia Kingdom, after all, it has been in the South Sea Islands for many years, and the local natives are not even too lazy to cultivate, usually they only need to sow a handful of seeds, and they can wait for the harvest without caring about anything.

I have to say that the thirst for land of the Han civilization of agricultural culture is really terrible, even if the Xia State currently has fertile land that is enough to feed more than one billion people under the current productivity conditions, but when they heard that they would continue to attack the countries of the South Seas, the generals and people of the Xia Kingdom were still excited.

Based on the stimulation of these fertile lands, the armies of the Xia Kingdom are gearing up one by one, since His Majesty the Respected King has already set a strategic goal for himself, then the big guys are also divided into their own areas to work.

The Xia army did not feel embarrassed about attacking the only remaining countries in the South Seas, after all, everyone had already destroyed an unknown number of countries, and the more powerful countries did not know how many they had eliminated.

This time, the strength of the countries that everyone is facing is not very strong, the only trouble is that the cities and populations of these countries are extremely scattered, many countries are not so much a country, in fact, they are a larger tribe, and their country is even inferior to an ordinary town in Xia Kingdom.

It's like the country of Pyu in Yangon in later generations, which is already the only relatively powerful country in Nanyang after the fall of Zhenla and other countries, but so far he has only been established for one or two hundred years, and the population of the country is less than one million, plus the whole people believe in Futujiao, so their army combat effectiveness is not strong.

The biggest disadvantage of the country is that their capital is not only close to the sea, but also located at the mouth of the Irrawaddy River, after the Second Fleet Yue Haichao led the naval army and Wei Sheng led the 20,000 infantry army arrived, it only took ten days to capture the capital.

So a Xia city called Hekou was quickly established here, and a group of Xia exiles were sent here to enrich the local population as soon as possible.

Although there were still many remnants of the resistance army organized by the remnants of the Pyu Kingdom after the defeat, after losing the ability of the royal family to integrate, the resistance forces with different intentions could not fight together.

Therefore, their resistance can only be scattered, and they cannot form a strong resistance group at all, and their defeat is inevitable from the beginning.

As soon as he thought of this, Yu Hao felt unhappy for a while, compared to Yue Haichao and Wei Sheng's record of defeating the country of Bi after they followed the river and conquered five inland indigenous countries one after another, his record was a little far from that of the second stunned.

Although the other five countries that Wei Sheng and Yue Haichao destroyed were very small in scale, they were at least formal state power with a population of hundreds of thousands.

Yu Hao also knew that although they were still small in scale, as long as they were given the slightest opportunity, they would grow up as quickly as a small sapling in this tropical primeval jungle and become a powerful country.

If the Xia State ignores those small countries after destroying the Pyu State, and just takes care of their own farming and development along the coast, then it is likely to give these small countries a God-given opportunity, although the Xia State can still defeat these small countries, or even eliminate them, but it is better to destroy these small countries from the beginning.

Thinking of this, Yu Hao also felt that the combat methods of Yue Haichao and Wei Sheng could actually be adopted by himself, according to the division of the war zone, the area that Yu Hao and the two stunned people wanted to attack was a very important strategic place around the mouth of the Ganges River.

After occupying a territory at the mouth of the Ganges, Yu Hao could completely follow Yue Haichao and lead the 20,000 troops under the command of Er Zhizi to go upstream, attacking smaller countries more inland along the way, because the water volume of the Ganges River is larger, and slightly larger ships can completely sail into it.

Yu Hao could even use the weapons carried by the ships to assist the army in attacking the city.

But nothing in this world can be copied, and the situation around the mouth of the Ganges River and the mouth of the Pi Kingdom is not the same.

Because the Ganges River is an important node connecting the northern part of Tianzhu and overseas trade, it has been the foreign economic and trade center of the Eastern Tianzhu Empire for hundreds of thousands of years.

Therefore, the mouth of the Ganges River is very important to Dongtianzhu, both in terms of economic significance and other senses.

It is precisely by relying on the profits of the sea trade at the mouth of the Ganges River that Dongtianzhu can still fight with Beitianzhu and other countries in a decisive battle with Beitianzhu and other countries in terms of comprehensive national strength, and feed the huge army of more than 300,000 in its country.

Although the soldiers of the Xia Kingdom have always despised the combat effectiveness of the Tianzhu people, and even some radical young officers of the Xia Kingdom believe that one Xia soldier can be worth ten Tianzhu soldiers, and only one hundred thousand elite Xia soldiers can conquer the entire Tianzhu Continent within a year.

However, so far, most of the Xia soldiers are still relatively sensible, and Yu Hao knows that with the strength of more than 20,000 people just by himself and Liu Feng, who is stunned, he can't provoke Dong Tianzhu, who is still very powerful, so the strategy of the Ganges estuary is a lie.