Generally speaking, although Lu Ren has made Ma Chao attack repeatedly on land, the overall scale is relatively small, and the main army that has been assembled in Yangon has not moved. Therefore, strictly speaking, Lu Ren did not launch any offensive, because after all, Guishan was a major power in Central Asia at that time, and it was never wise to venture into an all-out war with it.

Therefore, Lu Ren is currently using the word "drag" in land warfare, first concentrating the main forces in the Yangon area, tightening his fingers and clenching his fists, so as to build Yangon into a solid bridgehead.

There are two major advantages to using Yangon as a bridgehead, first of all, in terms of strategic location, although Yangon is at the doorstep of the southeast of the Kushan, due to the geographical location and the political form of the Kushan Empire, it is actually difficult for the Kushan side to gather heavy military groups in the Yangon area. Even if the heavy army group was reorganized, based on the terrain of the Yangon area and the way of fighting at that time, it was actually difficult for the heavy army group of Kushan to be used.

On the other hand, on the other hand, the city of Yangon was built very tall and strong, and the total strength of the army and navy currently assembled in Yangon was more than 70,000, and as long as the terrain was properly used, it was easy to form a situation in which more people could fight less. In addition, Lu Ren has an absolute advantage in the navy, and Yangon's status as a port town is also conducive to Lu Ren's good at sea and land coordination tactics. In short, as long as there are no accidents, with the existing conditions, Lu Ren dares to say that he can easily beat the invading enemies of Guishuang.

Then in terms of logistics, Yangon has the Sichuan-Burma passage connecting the southern and central regions by land, and there seems to be no need to explain more by sea. In short, Lu Ren has a safe and smooth logistics channel, which is enough to support the smooth progress of Lu Ren's current "procrastination".

In terms of the art of war, Lu Ren has achieved "the first is invincible". And Lu Ren's current "dragging" is of course purposeful, otherwise wouldn't it be a waste of money, food, and military strength?

Take the assignment of Ma Chao's repeated sorties, compared to the full-scale war with Guishan, Ma Chao's small-scale sorties can only be regarded as small fights, but Lu Ren also hides very insidious means in it, which is actually Lu Ren using non-military means to attack Guishuang. And once these hidden insidious methods are fully successful, it is likely to cause great damage to the entire pattern of Guishan.

In addition, Lu Ren is only making a small fuss now, and there is also a very important purpose, that is, to use political and diplomatic means to make there always be a dispute within Guishan about whether to fight or make peace with the Han side. Here is still the same sentence, there are many people in Guishan who do not want to start a war with the Great Han and Lu Ren out of consideration of their own interests, and Lu Ren takes advantage of this. As long as there is such a controversy within the Kushan leadership, it will be difficult for the Kushan's military power to concentrate. And then to a certain point, it will be conducive to Lu Ren's next series of differentiation, co-optation, and various breakthroughs.

To put it bluntly, if Lu Ren rashly launches a full-scale offensive against Guishan, the most likely result will be that the entire Guishan will respond to the battle in unison, which is extremely unfavorable to Lu Ren. And Lu Ren chose the word "drag" at this time, so on the surface, it is easy to think that Lu Ren is maintaining a restraint, and further speaking, it will make people think that Lu Ren doesn't seem to want to make a big deal out of trouble, so as not to make the situation out of control when the situation is out of control. As for the sorties that Ma Chao was sent to do...... Most of them will also be considered by Guishuang as a gesture for Lu Ren to deal with the Han court. All in all, it is to make some people within Guishan think that there is still a possibility of peace talks with Lu Ren, so as to slow down and contain the pace of Guishan.

However, I want to say here that when formulating this strategy, Lu Ren's heart was actually a little panicked. Lu Ren has always learned a lot of strategic ideas from historical materials, and the strategic thinking he is using for Guishan now is actually ...... In fact, it is a reference to a series of methods used by the island countries to play against China before the full-scale invasion of China.

To put it bluntly, the island countries at that time were already preparing for a full-scale invasion of China, that is, considering that if the matter came too directly, it would be easy to trigger the resistance of the whole Chinese people, and they would not have good fruit to eat, so they played a lot of tricks and feet, and took advantage of the warlord disputes within China at that time as much as possible. Among the warlords at that time, there were indeed many who fell to the side of the island country and became traitors. When the time was ripe, the island countries launched a nationwide war of aggression against China.

Lu Ren is a person with an angry plot, so he is very sad about this humiliating history. But Lu Ren also admits that aside from personal emotional factors, in terms of strategic significance alone, these tricks played by the island countries are indeed very successful. And to be a man, we must know how to be ashamed and courageous, effective and useful things, we should learn to use them when we should learn to use them, and blindly say what "shameless" is pedantic!

Don't go too far, Lu Ren is now using these tricks on Guishuang's body. And according to the return of the detailed work arranged by various places, the Guishan side has also fallen into the situation that Lu Ren envisioned. As for what will happen next, it depends on how Lu Ren's secret operation here goes.

And at this time, I have to mention one more thing, that is, after Lu Ren officially made the edict of Emperor Liu Xie, and Lu Ren issued an edict, Guishan was of course like a great enemy. It is said that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, although the Eastern Han Dynasty court was already stormy at this time, but after all, Yu Wei was still there, not to mention the defeat of the Western Regions countries in Liangzhou, and Lu Ren's strength in the Yangon area, which also showed the Yu Wei of the Han Empire. In other words, Lu Ren's actions on Yangon's side also have a bit of a "besiege Wei to save Zhao" flavor.

Therefore, in order to deal with the "family disaster" on Lu Ren's side, Guishan had to interrupt their original support for the Western Regions countries at the beginning of the twenty-eighth year of Jian'an, and to put it bluntly, the money, food, and military supplies originally provided to the Western Regions countries were gone. And the countries of the Western Regions have already lost the war, and now they have lost the support of Guishan in the dark, how can they still be able to withstand the two-sided attacks of Liu Bei and Cao Pi?

Therefore, in the spring of March of the 28th year of Jian'an, Liu Bei and Cao Pi made an appointment to launch a decisive battle against the Western Regions countries and won successive battles, and by the end of April, the Western Regions countries had been completely driven out of Liangzhou, and their respective gains were also extremely rich. It's just that next, Liu Bei and Cao Pi will make some trouble in the cool land, so it's hard to say. And for Lu Ren, as long as he drove out all the countries in the Western Regions that had committed the border, it was enough, and afterwards the dispute between Liu Bei and Cao Pi, Lu Ren didn't want to care, and he really couldn't take care of it.

Well, now it should be said that there is no war between Lu Ren and Guishuang, but it does not mean that Lu Ren has no movement in other regions. In fact, another reason why Lu Ren is not going to a full-scale war with Guishan now is that he has to avoid a two-front war, and at the same time temporarily stabilize Guishan, he will first settle some potential threats, lest these guys suddenly jump out and make trouble......

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To the south and east of the Indian peninsula was a large island, later Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka may be a bit unfamiliar to many people, but if you mention "Ceylon", which often appears in the "Age of Discovery" series, most people will immediately understand what it is.

Sri Lanka, the full name of the modern world: the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, is a tropical island country located in the Indian Ocean. In ancient China, it was once called the Lion Country, the Shizi Country or the Sinhalese.

Sri Lanka's economy is dominated by agriculture, and the country's most important export is Ceylon black tea, which is one of the top three tea producing countries in the world, so the domestic economy is heavily affected by tea production.

In addition, Sri Lanka's biggest advantage lies in its mining and geographical location, it is a gem-rich island, one of the world's top five gem-producing countries, and is known as the "gem island". Therefore, in the early stage of the economy, the mining industry has many advantages in its initial development, and the annual export value of gemstones can reach 500 million US dollars, and rubies, sapphires and cat's eyes are the most famous.

Sri Lanka, which means "Promised Land" or "Land of Light and Abundance" in Sinhala, is known as the "Kingdom of Jewels" and "the Pearl of the Indian Ocean" and is considered by Marco Polo to be one of the most beautiful islands.

Historically, the Sinhalese migrated from India to Sri Lanka around the 5th century BC.

In 247 B.C., Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan Dynasty of India sent his son to the island, and the Sinhalese people abandoned Brahmanism and converted to Buddhism, and around 311 BC, the tooth of the Buddha was introduced to Sri Lanka from India.

Around the 2nd century BC, the Tamils of South India also began to move in.

From the 5th century to the 16th century, there were constant wars between the Sinhalese and Tamil kingdoms, until the Portuguese fleet landed near Colombo in 1521......

The latter thing has nothing to do with Lu Ren, but at the point in time that Lu Ren is now in, Sri Lanka ...... This place is still called Ceylon, anyway, at this time, the power here in Ceylon is the Sinhalese Kingdom, which is one of the city-states on the Indian side at that time.

In the previous battle of Yangon, several city-states on the Indian side more or less sent troops to follow the Sabbath fleet, meaning that they wanted to come over to the troubled waters and touch a handful of fish, and even made a lot of quite excessive demands to Lu Ren under their own high esteem. And the final result was that Lu Ren refused all of them, and out of strategic considerations, he blacklisted all these three city-states.

Unfortunately, Ceylon is also one of the blacklisted, and even Lu Ren feels a little funny until now, what is the reason why this kind of city-state that was not in the flow at that time actually had so much courage to run to ask for benefits from himself? If you want to ask for a little more suitable benefits, Lao Tzu should only spend two dollars to buy a less obedient little brother, but you are too greedy for meow, right?

I don't want to say much about this, anyway, the wrong judgment made by those three city-states gave Lu Ren an excuse to use troops against them justifiably. Therefore, although Lu Ren did not make any movement against Kushan on the land battlefield, the navy had already sent it, and the first target of attack was Ceylon.

In fact, from a military point of view, taking Ceylon first is also in line with Lu Ren's current strategic needs. Let's put it this way, Lu Ren's forces in the Central Asian battlefield are relatively limited, the total number of navies is only about 20,000, and the Jiangdong disciples of Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang are only 25,000. And the 25,000 navy must be left in Yangon to assist in the defense, and the result of Lu Ren's discussion with Gan Ning, Chen Li, and others is that at least 8,000 navy must be left in Yangon, so the actual number that can be sent out is only 17,000, including Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang.

With a force of 17,000, if it is a direct attack on the land area of the Indian Peninsula, it will be more or less insufficient, and once those three city-states join forces to counterattack, I am afraid that the situation will not be very good, and if it is not good, Lu Ren will have to transfer troops from Yangon to reinforce it, which is not something Lu Ren wants to see.

Looking at Ceylon under this premise, we can understand Lu Ren's intentions. Ceylon's geographical location is separated from the Indian peninsula by a strait, which is conducive to the play of Lu Ren's absolute superiority in maritime strength, in short, with the navigation technology of the three city-states at that time, there is basically no way to cross Lu Ren's sea defense line, and Lu Ren can completely control the Ceylon region with a relatively limited naval force.

After controlling Ceylon, in addition to deterring the A-3 city-states at that time, and even launching an attack on any of the A-3 city-states at will, the biggest purpose was to block this key sea passage and make it impossible for ships on the Sabbath side to pass through. You must know that with the navigation conditions at that time, even if Lu Ren, who was extremely strong at sea, or Wan'er helped open the rest of the golden finger, he did not dare to easily bypass Ceylon and go directly to the destination, which was too risky.

Finally, on an economic level...... Hehe, Ceylon's agricultural foundation is good, and with a little care, not only can the 17,000 navy be self-sufficient in food and grass, but maybe they can also go back to support Yangon. Ceylon's tea production is good, which can completely increase Lu Ren's trade income; Then there is the gem mine of Ceylon, there is no reason not to dig it well.

These things are here, only to say that the navy sent by Lu Ren is led by Huang Zhong, and Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang also brought the five thousand Jiangdong disciples to help in the war. And when this seventeen thousand navy really hit Ceylon...... Well, in Sun Shangxiang's words, it is "tasteless".

Think about it, how much strength could the three city-states have at that time? In terms of troops, it may be okay, how to say that there are twenty or thirty thousand, but their weapons and equipment are compared to the guys in the hands of the soldiers under Lu Ren, I am afraid that they can only be described by the word "burning stick".

Seventeen thousand navies, hundreds of warships of all sizes, and several rounds of shelling along the coast, the soldiers and horses of Ceylon were so frightened that they ran away, and there were even incidents in which the elephants turned around and trampled on their own soldiers because they were frightened. Then Huang Zhong led the army to land, a small number of muskets and a rain of arrows were released forward, and the Ceylon side basically had no idea of fighting again, because the difference in strength was too far. So the final result was that after Huang Zhong and the others abused a few small battles, the king of Ceylon simply surrendered. In the face of such an opponent, he really can't stand up......