Ten years ago, Ran Min divided the eighteen vassal states in one go, and made the eighteen adult princes establish a state in the four directions, or in Liaodong, or in Mobei, or in Wadao, or in Yizhou, or in Zhuyazhou.

Later, Ran Min divided sixteen vassal states into Australia and other parts of the American continent, and asked him to lead his army to conquer those places.

The power of the vassal states is not large, but the territory is vast, and the military strength is maintained at more than 30,000 all year round, and in some remote areas, such as various places on the American continent, there are at least 50,000 soldiers and horses, and some areas where rebellions are frequent are also similar.

With the existence of these vassal states, the empire did not have to go on expeditions, and sent troops and horses from the Central Plains to go on expeditions.

It is worth mentioning that in this decade, feeling the strength of the Great Wei Empire, the Langyazhen, Panpan, Arakan, and Pi kingdoms in Southeast Asia, and even the Malay countries such as Daruman and Gutai near the Java Sea all expressed their attachment to the empire and were successively incorporated into the Wei Empire's Annam Protectorate and Yizhou Protectorate.

If Ran Min wants to send troops overseas, to conquer other countries, to conquer other places, he must choose a direction. There is basically no territory to expand in the east and south, and if it goes down, it will go to sea, so the direction of expansion of the Wei Empire is only west and north.

To the north is the Siberian Ice Sheet, which may be inhabited by indigenous people, but it is definitely not suitable for outsiders.

However, the Siberian ice sheet has many mineral resources, and its reserves of oil, natural gas, and coal are huge, and it is said that the resources of Siberia are close to two-thirds of the total resources of the red superpower!

But even so, Ran Min has not yet made his mind to this barren land for the time being, because no matter how rich its underground resources are, it cannot be developed at all with the current conditions of the Wei Empire.

Therefore, Ran Min immediately set his sights on colonizing the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa.

Although it is impossible to dominate the whole world, it is always possible to conquer, right?

So in February of the twenty-fourth year of the emperor's reign, Ran Min drove a personal expedition and dispatched 150,000 Praetorian Guards, including the left and right Xiaowei, the left and right Wuwei, the left and right Yulin Guards, and the left and right Qianniuwei, as an expeditionary army, and at the same time dispatched 100,000 servant troops who had long been stationed in Baoji, Sun Bo, Zhangxiong and other countries to march to the Nibora and Gupta dynasties in the south.

It is worth mentioning that these 100,000 servant troops have undergone special training and can withstand the highland climate there.

Ran Min, who is already over half a hundred years old, is of great significance to conquer the Gupta dynasty.

This time, the Wei Empire did not have the intention of ruling the South Asian subcontinent, nor did it want to engage in any colonization, but the conquest of Chiguoguo!

An army of 100,000 servants, led by Li Nong, used as bait and entered the Nibora region, which then attracted the Gupta army's troops to rush to reinforcements. And taking advantage of this time, Ran Min personally led a full 150,000 iron horsemen, day and night, over the Himalayas, into the territory of the Gupta Dynasty.

Along the way, the Wei army burned, killed and looted, and did all kinds of evil.

There was no way, this time the Wei army had no logistical supplies, and only brought dry food for a few days, and everything needed was taken from the local area.

The sun is shining and the sky is clear.

After three consecutive days of marching, the iron cavalry of the Wei army came to the bottom of Hua's city.

Fahrenheit is the capital of the Gupta Dynasty, Fahrenheit is about 15 kilometers long and 2.8 kilometers wide, surrounded by wide moats, and has 570 towers and 64 gates.

By about 600 BC, many towns had been established on the Gangetic plain. North India was divided into sixteen small kingdoms, which eventually united into a heavenly kingdom called Magadha.

The king of Magadha, Chandragupta Mori, founded the Mauryan Empire, who ascended to the throne in 321 BC. His grandson, Ashoka, finally unified all of India.

Fahrenheit, the capital of the Mauryan Empire, was a metropolis located on the banks of the Ganges River.

After Emperor Ashoka became a Buddhist, he developed his own views on how the people should live and behave, and enacted this set of ideas into laws to guide the people. His beliefs and laws are inscribed on rock faces and pillars all over India.

At this moment, Ran Min was napping in the carriage. Living in the deep palace all the year round, Ran Min has already become pampered, and he is about to march and fight for a while, but he still can't do without the carriage.

"Your Majesty." At this time, Sima Xu's voice sounded outside the carriage.

"Huh?" Ran Min opened his eyes and casually lifted the curtain of the carriage.

"Your Majesty, the vanguard army has arrived at Fahrenheit."

"How's it going?"

"The poisonous man is still cowering in Fahrenheit, not daring to fight. However, the minister believes that as long as we pull the red-clothed cannon under the city of Fahrenheit, it will not take a day or two to take the capital of the Gupta Dynasty! ”

Hearing this, Ran Min was noncommittal, and then got out of the carriage and changed into a mount, Fire Dragon Moxibustion.

Ran Min had three mounts in his life, the red horse Zhulong and the fire dragon horse passed away one after another, and the fire dragon moxibustion of this divine horse was his third mount.

On the side of the road where the Wei army was marching, there was a rushing river, which was the Ganges.

The historical status of the Ganges River is similar to that of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River in China, and it belongs to the "mother river" of the Indians.

She fed the land on both sides of the river with abundant river water, gave the people along the shore the convenience of boats and the benefits of irrigation, and alluvized the fertile soil into the vast Ganges plain and delta, where the industrious people of the Ganges River valley worked and lived for generations, creating the famous Indian civilization in the ancient history of the world.

The Ganges, as the Indian people call it the "Holy River" and the "Mother of India", is home to numerous myths and religious legends that make up the unique customs on both sides of the Ganges. In Hindu mythology, Ganges was a goddess, the princess of Himawalt (meaning Snow King) who descended to mortal earth to nourish the earth and save the people.

The goddess is the daughter of the Snow King, and her hometown is in the ethereal kingdom of ice and snow in the Opposite Gate Mountain, which echoes the Gangotli Glacier on the southern slope of the Himalayas, the source of the Ganges, and is more mythical. Gamr means "cow's mouth" in Hindi, and the cow is regarded as a god in India, and the water of the Ganges River is a clear spring spit out from the mouth of the god, the ox, so it is considered holy.

In this way, the Wei army crossed the Ganges River and came all the way to the city of Fahrenheit.

"Fire!"

"Boom! ……”

In the sound of artillery fire in the sky, the soldiers of the Gupta Dynasty who were hiding behind the city walls trembled, thinking that it was the thunder that had descended, and that the god of thunder was angry and wanted to punish them for poisoning them.

Ran Ke drew his sword from its sheath, sat on horseback and pointed at the head of the opposite city of Fahrenheit, and shouted: "Brothers, the time has come for you to make meritorious deeds!" Kill me with me! ”

"Kill!"

Under Ran Ke's example, countless Wei soldiers braved the rain of arrows to advance quickly, they set up ladders, crossed the wide trenches, and climbed up to the top of the city, and met the enemy in short combat.

The soldiers of the Gupta Dynasty were stubborn, and there were not many who were fully armed, and more soldiers were still wearing simple leather armor or cloth armor, and the weapons in their hands were varied, and their mental head was okay, but their faces were yellow and thin, and they looked similar to refugees.

How can such an army win a war?

"Hold on! Resist! ”

It was the king of the Gupta dynasty, Shamadhara Gupta who shouted.

This king is one of the most accomplished monarchs in the history of the Gupta dynasty.

After the third century AD, the Kushan Empire gradually declined, and the northwestern and northern regions of the subcontinent were divided into many small states. These small states were partly unified by the Gupta dynasty, while partly were wiped out by the Bada (White Huns) in the north. At that time, the Sri Gupta family, a small monarch in the upper reaches of the Ganges, grew stronger, subdued the nearby small kingdoms and called themselves "Maharaja", which means king of kings.

Sri Gupta grandson, Chandragupta I, the power of the more powerful, about 308 years, Chandragupta married the famous local tribe Liche princess Kumarativi as his wife, Licha clan ruled the city of Fahrenheit and the surrounding area, Chandragupta inherited the city of Fahrenheit due to marriage, so that the Gupta family strength greatly increased.

In 320, the year Ran Min was born, Chandragupta I established the Gupta Dynasty and set the capital at Vaishali.

Shamadharagupta was the son of Chandragupta I, and during his reign, he began to expand outwards on a large scale, conquering the upper Ganges and the eastern part of the Indus Valley, then returning to the east, conquering the lower Ganges and the delta, and finally moving south, reaching Orissa and the eastern Deccan Plateau, and even the great South Indian kingdom of Pallava also submitted to the Gupta dynasty and paid tribute, and its power reached Sumatra and Java.

Shamadaragupta was a man of all letters and martial arts, known as "Kaviraja", that is, the poet king.

Looking at the fierce artillery fire of the Wei army, as well as their unstoppable siege soldiers, Shamodharagupa saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart.

"Your Majesty, something is wrong! Three gates on the west side of the city have fallen! All of them have opened several gaps by enemy artillery! ”

"What?" Shamadharagup was angry and said angrily: "Hurry up and send someone to block it!" Don't let the Wei army rush in! ”

"Yes!"

The red-coated cannon is not omnipotent, although the Wei army has the red-coated cannon, and the soldiers are also fearless of death, fiercely attacking Hua's city. But after all, Hua's City is an ancient capital of hundreds of years, the city is high and deep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so the Wei army can't beat Hua's City for a while.

When night fell, the Wei army withdrew its troops.