Sweep the World

When it comes to technological products, no matter how high the price is, it is a good thing that the seller is willing to sell the kind of science and technology that others have but they don't have.

There is no saying that “the first-class powerful countries sell their standards, the second-tier powerful countries sell their brands, and the third-tier countries sell products.” In fact, if the Han Empire hadn’t appeared in their field of vision, the Han army could threaten their safety anytime and anywhere. The international arms market became prosperous, and it was only in the eighteenth century.

"They don't sell the blueprints of warships in batches." Flavis first talked about the basis of buying and selling in order to prepare Julian enough. Sure enough, he saw Julian's surprised but distressed expression, and he smiled bitterly and said: "It can't be the whole set, but only the styles that the Han Empire is willing to sell. The price is not exaggerated, they are worth that. price."

Julian took a deep breath and asked repeatedly: "How much?"

"It's not simply a monetary quotation." Flavis felt that those ancillary conditions were the most important: "Political conditions are involved."

The response from the Ministry of Rites to Flavis was a series of requests, including the full conversion of Roman marine ships to Han Empire standards.

In addition to the standard setting of marine ships, even the Romans’ own shipyards were required to have Han officials to supervise the shipbuilding process. The reason given was that although the Han Empire sold blueprints, it was absolutely unwilling to see it once. The emergence of products.

It was a good thing for the Romans to have technical-skilled officials from the Han Empire to come to "check in". Although they thought the conditions were weird, they were willing to accept it.

For families like Valentinianus, where more than 60% of industries are shipbuilding, the Han Empire also proposed that the conditions for opening a shipyard in Rome were a terrible one.

Once there is a shipyard of the Han Empire in Rome, and the Roman family who has not waited for the blueprint to fully understand the technology, it is estimated that there will not be much market share left.

"It is true." Julian said with his own understanding: "We bought ships from the Han Empire, and one of the reasons they raised the price was that the delivery was far away."

Flavis believes that Julian has not grasped the key point. It is that their local shipbuilding families are facing the upgrading of shipbuilding technology. While production is stopped, Han Chinese are entering the market. Normally, they can use various methods to prevent them. There is no feasible means to stop it if there is a shipyard in Rome.

"If the shipyard opened by the Han Empire is willing to recruit Roman workers, it is not an unacceptable thing." Julian is thinking from the overall situation: "We desperately need their help to keep up with the pace of the times. Compare that. To catch up, economic sacrifices can be made temporarily."

From the perspective of the overall situation, Flavis knew that Julian's statement was extremely correct, but Julian was a royal family, and they were just nobles.

The nobles of Rome do not need to fully cooperate with the royal family, and nobles who do not go with the royal family are not even qualified nobles in Rome.

The royal family ruling Rome can be changed again and again, but the interests of the nobility cannot be compromised. This idea has existed in Rome for thousands of years and will continue to exist.

At present, there is already a concept of market share. In the thousands of years of pioneering history, the Romans were fighting purely for land at the beginning. Later, they gradually realized that even if they did not occupy the land, just occupying the market was a victory.

"Our technology completely lags behind the Han Empire, and we have no competitive ability." Flavis must be more clear: "Assuming that funds can be paid, Constantinople is also willing to accept the Han Empire's ancillary conditions. . It will take us at least three to five years to fully understand those technologies, and there will be a gap in three to five years."

Julian understood a bit, but he still didn't understand why Flavis' reaction was so big.

"During the period of time, including our Valentiniannus family, we will purchase ships from the Han Empire. But if you go all the way to buy them, your Highness should understand the difference between buying them in your own home." Flavis Feeling that I have said it very clearly, I stopped to let Julian digest it for a while, and then continued: "When we buy goods, there is a kind of stickiness. It is to buy goods from a certain merchant, as long as the goods are not too inferior. With the premise that I feel good, the next time I want to buy similar products, I will still go to that one."

Listening to such a straightforward description, Julian first thought of buying a certain product that he thought was good, but it really formed a kind of inertia. The next time he wanted to buy similar products, he thought of that one. At the same time, he also understood that not everyone has the ability to travel thousands of miles to the Han Empire to buy, but going to the door of the house couldn't be more convenient.

"For some reasons, we have accepted the Han Empire's proposal to lease the port." Flavis was actually one of the people who opposed the port lease in his heart but shut up. He knew Julian was too. He sighed: "For thousands of years, Rome has never been like this...", without saying the word shame, he modified it a little: "So rational. It is the reality that forces us to be rational. Once we are irrational, There may be any fire on the coastline."

Julian knows one thing deeply. Compared to other countries, the length of the port leased by Rome to the Han Empire is not high. The rent can even be said to be considerable, but it is a fig leaf.

The imperial navy of the Han Empire entered the Mediterranean, and the huge fleet reached Constantinople, which was a shock to the Romans that could hardly be described in words.

What barbarians once burned Rome or rioted slave armies threatened Rome, compared with the fleet of the Han Empire directly under the capital of the country, it is nothing.

"If it's only the threat from the fleet, we can't make that kind of concession." Flavis is not the ruling core class of Rome, but he has a brain: "It is the gunpowder weapon that really makes Augustus gritted his teeth. "

There were more than 10,000 Romans who saw the power of the Han army using gunpowder weapons on the Asan battlefield.

The tragedy that happened in the Gupta Empire was written back by the Romans who personally watched the battle. Anyone who saw it felt that the writer must have a bad brain at first. How could there be such an explosion in the world? Weapons of volcanic eruption.

If one or two people describe it as spreading rumors, then tens of thousands of people who wrote the same distant knowledge must be facts, and it is hard for people not to believe it.

The Han Empire had the most powerful navy in the world known today. Julian and others also reported to Constantius II that the Han Empire’s navy also included weapons called artillery, and even described artillery warfare. A scene of a ship bombarding a coastal city.

At this point, not only did Constantius II nod his head facing the port lease of the Han Empire, even if he did not nod, many Roman nobles would compel him to agree. The imperial gunboat drove to the edge of its own city.

Judging from the example of the Han Chinese who dared to riot in Constantinople with only a few thousand people, the probability of the Han Chinese being upset with gunboats bombarding coastal cities is almost as high as ninety-nine percent.

"So we can't tolerate our rejection." Julian knew exactly what kind of embarrassment Augustus was in, and wanted to share the pressure for him and obtain the understanding of the domestic aristocracy: "You came to the Han Empire in person to understand the current situation. Maybe you can write to your friends and tell them what happened."

Flavis nodded and agreed. As for whether he would do it intentionally, even he himself was not sure.

"We followed the Han people all the way to the north and have entered the grassland..." Julian looked around and said not so sure: "After entering the grassland, we continued to walk north for more than two hundred miles, and we saw post-war relics along the way. The traces of the fall, but I didn’t see the war. Do you think they don’t want us to see it?"

From entering the grassland to continuing on for more than two hundred miles, for the vast grassland, it is not at all deep, I can only say that it is a little nod.

Their current location should be the original border between the Han Empire and the Rouran tribal alliance, and the places that left the traces of the fighting should be small-scale contact wars. Judging by the traces left, they will soon be separated. Victory, no fleeing and chasing.

"From the fact that we have been marching, we can see that the Han army did not find an opportunity to put the firearms into combat." Flavis looked thoughtful: "The firearms of the Han Empire rode carriages and horsebacks when marching. , Does not seem to represent their ability to conduct short-distance maneuver operations?"

The Romans were an empire-level country, but they were actually not so familiar with the vast range of battles on land.

This is related to the fact that the Romans mainly relied on the Mediterranean for maritime transportation and delivery of troops for thousands of years. Most of the time their troops did not need to make long marches on land. They sailed in the Mediterranean by ships to transport their troops close to the battlefield. Land on the coast of the country.

In contrast to the Han Empire or the Sassanids, the Roman army had very few animal power, and there was no large-scale cavalry unit.

Once the Roman legions needed to march long distances on land, the troops basically relied on the two legs born by their parents to drive their way. Their marching speed was also world-renowned. It was because of this shortcoming that they were caught by the Parthian Empire at the beginning. Opportunity, also achieved the prestige of the Parthian Empire's archers and armored cavalry.

At the current stage...or the stage of fighting with the Sassanids, the Roman legionnaire’s ground marching speed still has not improved, but they adopted a cautious attitude of infantry battalion, and at the same time formed their own cavalry. Every battle is inevitable. The cavalry of the vassal races was levied to help the battle.

Something special happened that day. When the sun was still in the middle of the sky, the team stopped.

Julian invited Xiasi to look for Director Liu, and got the answer after asking.

"Our troops enclosed a part of the enemy at a river beach about thirty miles ahead." Director Liu knew only this: "General Zhengbei believes that the battlefield can be handed over to the firearms."

The two crooked nuts who got the reply returned to their team.

"You might have guessed it. The firearms of the Han Empire can only fight positional warfare." Julian thought this was good news: "It seems that this new type of unit has some big flaws?"

Flavis shook his head and said, "It's not a defect that you can only play positional warfare."

Julian froze for a moment, then smiled bitterly after reacting, "Indeed."

In any war, isn't the final victory determined by multiple battles of positions?

For example, nomads like to fight raid and guerrilla warfare, and winning many times is only to achieve the effect of destruction. If the main force of the enemy is not defeated on the front battlefield, tickling is tickling, it is only uncomfortable and not fatal.

It has never been heard that harassment and guerrilla warfare can determine the success or failure of a national war.

The best way is to have troops that can withstand the frontal battlefield, coupled with friendly forces attacking behind the enemy, the combination of the two becomes an effect of one plus one greater than two.

To say a thousand words and ten thousand, in fact, if the frontal battlefield can't stand it, defeat is only a matter of time.

"The battlefield situation is changing rapidly." Director Liu saw that there were too many crooked nuts going to the battlefield: "Each country can only go to five people at most."

It turned out that only the Romans and Persians followed the north. The Ministry of Rites felt that one country was to see it, and there was no difference between multiple countries. To show it, simply let people from more countries see it, and organized envoys from various countries in Chang'an to go north. They completed their rendezvous east of Yinshan Mountain and north of Shengle.

The firearms troops were pulled out, and observers from many countries were mixed in the troops and marched forward.

The closer you are to the battlefield, the more and more obvious the traces of the battle can be seen, and you can even see the scene of the Han army cleaning the battlefield.

It wasn't until the road was blocked by a river that the firearms got out of the van and abandoned their horses.

The river blocking the road is not deep, and the deepest wading is only to reach the waist, and the river does not appear to be turbulent.

"The front is the encircled grassland army?" Julian got on the land again and pointed to the front: "Is it possible that the scale is less than 40,000?"

The firearms troops came to the north of the river ~www.wuxiamtl.com~ and soon after another rapid military order, they began to be yelled out, and the queues were sorted according to the establishment.

If you look down from a high altitude, the battlefield is a land sandwiched between two rivers, and the space is about thirty miles in radius.

"The enemy was forced to squeeze into a half-curve of the river." Director Liu could reveal more information: "They were completely panicked and rushed into an area with turbulent water."

The firearms marched in formation, with the musketeers in the front and the horse-drawn artillery in the back.

The left and right wings on the battlefield are the other Han army units that have been engaged in combat a long time ago. They formed a pincer-shaped encirclement posture, giving way to the south.

The encircled grassland coalition forces seemed to have lost their effective chain of command. As soon as they saw a gap to the south, they rushed out of a group of people. In this regard, Li Tan's attitude was to choose to let it go.

It is not easy for Li Tan to encircle the enemy to this place. He believes that if the firearms troops can defeat even small enemy forces, then there is no need for the big man to engage in any firearms troops, or that firearms troops. All of the officers deserve to die!