Chapter 47: Attack on Kushan
Luoyang.
Inside the palace.
The victory report from Sun Jian and his son Sun Ce in the Wakoku Islands was quickly delivered to Liu Xie through the Information Institute.
When he received the battle report, Liu Xie was not surprised at all that the father and son were able to take over the entire Japanese archipelago in such a short time.
It would be a joke if we can’t get it!
However, Liu Xie was a little surprised by what Sun Jian mentioned in the battle report.
"This Sun Wentai really knows what I mean!"
When Liu Xie saw that Sun Jian wanted to send the old, the weak, the women and the children in the Wakoku Islands back to the Han mainland and leave the young and strong behind, he couldn't help laughing.
However, he felt that what Sun Jian did was still flawed.
Because all actions that go against human nature will not last long.
It is simply impossible to leave only the young and strong and expect them to be obedient.
In that case, I'm afraid that stability will only be achieved through long-term suppression by force, which would be a naked act of slavery.
Liu Xie didn't want this.
Therefore, Liu Xie immediately approved a summons for Sun Jian; the children could be sent back to the Han homeland, but the women and the elderly did not need to be sent back.
In this way, they were still enslaved on the Japanese Islands...
No, only the young and strong people who voluntarily stay on the island to work will have hope and will not be without any psychological comfort after get off work.
He has his parents and wife by his side, and he works hard for his children far away so that they can receive advanced education from the Han people and make a name for themselves.
In this way, there is no need for high-pressure policies to ensure that the young and strong people on the Japanese islands will continue to work honestly.
Of course, if they stay on the Japanese islands for a long time, they will continue to have children and reproduce.
Later on, it will depend on your work performance to get a chance to send your child to Dahan.
Those who don’t have a quota can only stay and take over their father’s mining work…
This policy can be implemented not only in the Wakoku Islands.
This can be implemented in each country in the future.
In this way, within a few generations, no matter which country or ethnic group the descendants of, will only identify with the Han people.
By then, the earth will be a whole, a civilization.
After completing this series of instructions.
Liu Xie gave Sun Ce another new order, asking him to immediately set out south to Southeast Asia.
It is enough to have Sun Jian and his fleet guarding the Japanese Islands.
Sun Ce only needed to lead his fleet south and cooperate with other fleets that had already headed south to take over the entire Southeast Asia region.
Then, a supply station could be established in advance in the future Bangladesh region and South India through the Bay of Bengal.
After the army conquers Kushan, we will send troops south to completely open up the entire Indian region, and then the two sides will reunite.
In this way, the Han Dynasty no longer had to take the long and difficult route through the Western Regions to supply the front line.
Supplies can be delivered directly to Bangladesh and South India by sea.
After the supplies arrived in these two regions, they were transported north to Kushan and then further west...
After taking over Parthia, we can enter the Arabian Sea in the future, land there and build a supply station, and then cooperate with the army to move south to open up...
In this way, the logistics problems caused by the lengthening of the battle line can be solved by shortening the transportation time through the ocean.
After issuing this decree to Sun Ce, Liu Xie had nothing to do again.
In other words, even if he still wanted to do something, he had to wait until this expedition was over.
After all, this time the Han Dynasty wants to connect with the whole world, the entire earth.
Even though the Han Dynasty is currently very powerful, it still only has a population of around 200 million.
For this expedition, the Han Dynasty's population of about 200 million has already worked hard. If he still wants to do something fancy at this time, he might really hurt himself.
Therefore, the only thing he could do next was to wait patiently.
And this wait lasted for a whole year.
The time came to the 31st year of Jian'an, which was 228 AD.
The army, which had not sent back much battle reports for a long time, finally sent back the good news through satellite communications in the middle of the year that they had arrived at the Kushan border.
It can be seen that without sufficiently complete infrastructure, even if there were steam trains in this era, they would be no different from ordinary carriages.
Land transportation is really too difficult!
It took a year for the five vanguard armies led by the Five Tiger Generals to march to the border of the Kushan Empire.
Then, there is no suspense next.
The five vanguard armies have already arrived at the Kushan border, and it is only a matter of time before they take over the entire Kushan Empire.
After all, even during the most prosperous period of the Kushan Empire, it was impossible to withstand the technological crushing that spanned thousands of years.
What's more, the so-called Kushan Empire at that time had already reached the end of its rule.
Kushan border.
Inside the central camp of the five vanguard armies.
At this moment, the five generals Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and Huang Zhong also gathered together.
"What do you think?"
Guan Yu stroked his beautiful beard and was the first to ask everyone.
Since they are collectively called the five vanguard armies, they must be the first to fight the first battle.
However, looking at the map of the entire Kushan territory obtained from the Information Institute.
Guan Yu then felt that the five vanguard armies he and others were leading seemed to have too few people.
Each of their armies has only 20,000 men.
The five routes together only have about 100,000 people.
Although quality of soldiers is more important than quantity, an army of 100,000 equipped with a large number of sophisticated equipment such as guns and artillery is indeed invincible.
However, it is a bit unrealistic to want to cover 300 million square kilometers of Kushan with only people.
300 million square kilometers is already half the size of the most prosperous period of the Han Dynasty!
After all, after conquering a region, troops must remain behind to maintain local stability and rule the area.
Obviously, in addition to Guan Yu, other generals present also thought of this.
"Then we can only take these areas in the north first, and after the generals arrive, we can discuss how to take over the remaining areas in the south."
At this time, Zhao Yun said while pointing to the northern region of Kushan on the map.
"I have no opinion."
Upon hearing this, Huang Zhong immediately agreed.
"Then let's do as General Zhao wishes!"
Ma Chao also said.
After all, they couldn't just sit there and do nothing and wait until Lu Bu's central army arrived before taking action.
"Me too."
Everyone had no objections, so Zhang Fei naturally had nothing to say.
"Okay, then we will divide our forces into five groups and take over the entire northern part of Kushan first."
Everyone agreed, so Guan Yu no longer hesitated.
Afterwards, he randomly drew a line between north and south on the map, implying that the area north of this line would be their priority target for occupation.
(End of this chapter)
