From Soldier To Emperor - Chapter 452

The territory of the Mongol Empire and the Ming Dynasty are separated by mountains and deserts. The only way to supply large troops is to take the Siberian Ice Field.

Of course, the so-called ice field does not freeze in all seasons, and summer is still suitable for the army to pass through.

However, Richard had already learned about the Mongolian Empire there through the spies sent to the Central Asian steppes.

It was a country ruled by centaur, and it was on the verge of the territory of the Kazakh tribe under the Mongol Empire. All the people were soldiers and all cavalry!

On the endless prairie, playing hide-and-seek with the enemy of the cavalry, Richard didn’t have that thought!

If the total war system is used to exchange large groups of cavalry, the cost is too high, and Richard does not want to play attrition.

In addition, when fighting the Mongol Empire with all cavalry, logistical pressure can be imagined. In an era without railways, there must be an advantageous cavalry force in order to ensure safety in logistics.

Richard knows about the centaur, it may not be difficult to defeat the nomadic cavalry, but he is not so arrogant to defeat the centaur!

The weapons of the total war system have not yet stretched the gap between the two sides’ weapons to such a large extent. If it is not for the flat prairie terrain, Richard is not afraid of the Mongol Empire.

So the first route to the west was abandoned by Richard.

The second route of the Western Expedition was taken by the Ottoman Empire. Through the Western Expedition, crossing a chaotic Gobi desert, you can reach the Afghan province controlled by the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire has implemented a provincial system for all its territories. It is not a provincial administrative region of Richard’s previous life, but a major provincial system similar to the governor’s district, similar to the regional system established by Richard.

Each province has a vast area. The chief governor of the province is the governor of the province held by the dark elf aristocrat, and below it is the common dark elf and human Pasha (called the human nobleman of the Ottoman Empire).

The Afghan province is also the farthest area that the Ming dynasty spies can detect, and it is impossible to move further west. The Ottoman Empire implemented a household registration checkpoint system, mainly to prevent human serfs from running around.

It’s a bit similar to the road guide system of the former Tang Dynasty. They are all aimed at confining ordinary people to their birthplaces, and it is best not to leave for the rest of their lives!

If you want to do business and travel, you need to obtain a certificate from the local Ottoman noble government. The audit is strictly not said, and you must report every place you go…

Obviously, this set of systems made it impossible for the spies of the Ming country to penetrate into the heart of the Ottoman Empire, even the core area of ​​the Afghan province!

Unless Richard spends several years slowly cultivating local informants, it is obvious that Richard does not have the energy…

The Afghan province is a mountainous region, but it is quite suitable for infantry troops to enter, but the Ottoman Empire is not a weak empire. It can be seen from the expeditionary forces of the Ottoman Empire alone. Not very weak, but with muskets and cannons, Richard was not sure that he could quickly level the Ottoman Empire.

In addition, the biggest problem is still logistics.

The establishment of logistics lines in the cultural deserts of the Western Regions to the west requires huge national support. The ability of the Ottoman Empire to establish a stable supply line does not mean that Richard can!

Ming Guo now looks like a strong foreigner and a strong player. In addition to the army, he needs to be short of anything!

Otherwise, Richard would not have to send all the prisoners to the no-man’s land to open up wasteland!

Supporting the expedition of tens of thousands of system troops has already made Mingguo strenuous. Richard’s troops are all firearmed troops. The logistics and ammunition supply must be stable. If cannon fodder civilians are needed again, the cost will be doubled!

Of course, if there is no third route to the west, perhaps Richard will bite the bullet and lead the system army to the Afghan provinces to try the level of the Ottoman Empire.

But now there is a better westward route before Richard, relying on the Southeast Asian peninsula to cross the western mountains and enter the Indian subcontinent!

That is a piece of scum land made up of fragmentary kingdoms!

However, this Indian subcontinent is being invaded by the Ottoman Empire. The Mughal dynasty, the original suzerain state of the Indian subcontinent, has been destroyed by the Ottoman Empire, so it will be broken into a land kingdom…

Therefore, the current Indian subcontinent is the weakest period!

Richard has forcibly recruited young men from the Southeast Asian peninsula for training, in order to prepare for entering the Indian subcontinent. Even the temporary collective farms where these Southeast Asian men are located are reclaimed on the border of the Indian subcontinent!

Not surprisingly in the 19th year of Ming Dynasty, the Southeast Asian peninsula without the threat of war ushered in a bumper harvest of food, which was enough to support Richard’s western expedition!

Now Richard does not have a strong navy, so he needs to pick a weaker player, so that he doesn’t need to send too many troops and can greatly reduce the cost of the expedition.

As the site grew larger and larger, Richard had already felt the difficulty of the expedition.

If there is no hard-working system and military support~www.mtlnovel.com~ Richard will not be able to expedition abroad!

Even if there is a systematic army, the expedition is a big burden for the current Ming country, after all, Ming country’s finances are really too poor!

Therefore, the weak Indian subcontinent became Richard’s best target for invasion.

As the Indian subcontinent was split into large and small kingdoms, the intelligence sent by the spies from the past far exceeded the investigations of the Mongol Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

Because of the Ottoman Empire’s invasion of the Indian subcontinent, the Brahmin dignitaries of the Indian subcontinent have united to form the Marat Alliance.

The Malat Federation includes parts of the northern part of the Indian subcontinent not occupied by the Ottoman Empire, the central part of the Indian subcontinent, and the Bengal area in the northeast of the Indian subcontinent.

Only the southern part of the Indian subcontinent did not join the Marathon alliance. After all, the southern Indian subcontinent did not have to face the threat of Ottoman invasion.

It can be said that powerful Tubang princes of the Indian subcontinent have joined the Marathon Alliance.

Under Richard’s order, the Ming Dynasty agents who infiltrated the southern Indian subcontinent got a great piece of information. The reason why the southern Indian subcontinent did not join the Marathon Alliance was mainly because the princes of the Tubang were indirectly by European colonists. Control it!

This is the first time Richard has received news from Europe!

Nowadays, the Indian subcontinent is mainly contended by three forces, the Ottoman Empire going south, the Marathon alliance in its homeland, and European colonists relying on coastal strongholds to erode in the south!

However, due to the strict management of the strongholds occupied by European colonists in the southern part of the Indian subcontinent, Mingguo spies did not find out which country in Europe was colonizing, and the Indian natives could not tell which country was in Europe…

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