The fleet soon arrived at Kizil Port. At this time, Ma Lin, Cen Shen, Xi Yuanjing, who had completed the mission in Hainan Prefecture, and Naren Xiaofeng, who had just entered Baku Port, and Feng Ce, the commander of the Navy Camp, had been waiting for a long time.

Sun Xiurong decided to travel directly across the Caspian Sea, which is 500 miles wide, to Baku City, and then go to Hainan Prefecture when he comes back (Tubasidan).

At this time, the Caspian Sea had officially entered winter, but the temperature in the southern waters was above zero degrees in winter, but the wind was extremely strong, and the northeast wind from Siberia roared violently. If a flat-bottomed slave ship like the Xhosa and the cannibals would definitely not dare to cross the Caspian Sea. Only when designing, the Broken Leaf Army ship, which had a draft of ten feet in consideration (full cargo, and when empty, it was used to use a ballast stone) could barely pass through it.

As mentioned earlier, the Sailye Army had horse ships that specialize in transporting war horses. Each horse ship could carry two hundred war horses. Following Sun Xiurong, there was a whole guard camp of 500 people, plus the entourage of 11 Renyongdu and Ma Lin, Cen Shen, and Xi Yuanjing. Finally, Feng Ce's half fleet and five large ships were able to load everyone.

Needless to say, the stormy waves along the way were, riding on the strong northeast wind, driven by three rows of cross sails full of wind on the three masts of the warship, the fleet sailed at a speed of about thirty miles per hour. This is unique in today's world. Whether it is the Khanate of the Xhosa, the Great Eater Kingdom, the large slave ships of the Roman Kingdom, or the merchant ships raised high at both ends, they can only sail along the coastline and cannot cross the ocean.

"King", since he traveled to this era, Sun Xiurong had not taken a sea boat. His experience was still at the last life when he set out from Hokkaido, Japan and crossed the Pacific Ocean along the 42nd degree north latitude warm current. He was now on the "sea boat". He was naturally a little excited, and Feng Ce explained beside him.

"The Khosa people docked a large number of slave ships in their capital Baicheng, near the Derbint port near Hainan Prefecture, and the Astra port at the mouth of the Attila River. Each place has as many as thirty ships. Their slave ships are even longer than the largest warship in our country and can carry thousands of people."

(White City, Makhachkara, Astra Harbour, later generations of Astrakhan)

"When our country took over Hainan Prefecture, the Kossa once assembled hundreds of slave ships in Derbint, and countless clutches on both ends. They were obviously planning to make ill plans. However, when they saw that our ships could cross the Caspian Sea safely, they stopped and later fell into a defensive attitude in important ports."

Since taking over the two ports of Baku and Batumi, although most of the territory of Azerbaijan in later generations belonged to the new Grand Duchy of Armenia, the ships of the Sabrene Army were able to sail roughly to the west and reach the west coast of the Caspian Sea after departing from the Port of Kizil.

As early as the Song and Yuan dynasties, ships could start from Chaozhou with compass and compass and arrive in the Philippines in a rough direction. After the experience of the Daxia Kingdom in the last lifetime, the Sacred Ye Army naturally mastered the technology of the Daxia Kingdom.

However, things like navigation clocks and sextant cannot be made by Sun Xiurong alone. They could only be completed with the assistance of the Dutch in the last life, and they could only explore slowly in this life.

Even so, the sailing technology of the Sailye Army is still in a state of full-scale crushing.

The voyage of 500 miles was smooth wind and the speed was thirty miles. It was just a day and night. When the first ray of sunlight shone in through the gaps in the cabin in the morning, the fleet had already arrived in the waters near Baku!

When Sun Xiurong came to the deck, he immediately felt the strong wind. It was said that the meaning of "Baku" means "City of Wind" in Persian, which made him truly appreciate it.

In the telescope, a white castle stands on the north side of the coast!

"The King", Naren Xiaofeng introduced, "It is said that the city of Baku was built by Greek Jews at the beginning, but was just a small fort that facilitates trade. Later, it was acquired by the Persian Empire and immediately expanded it. It was built with stones, with a radius of about ten miles."

"In the past, when the Great Cannibals were under the jurisdiction of the Khosa people, the naval base that would deal with the Xhosa people was also located here, and the port was expanded. You see, the bay there is more than ten miles long, and multiple ports can be set up. After my country accepted it, it expanded again with cement. At present, the Shang Port is still on the south side of the castle, while the military port is on both sides."

"There were more than 10,000 households in the castle, and there was a military camp, which could be stationed in 10,000 people. Before the Great Food Kingdom occupied this place, the entire Azerbaijan believed in Zoroastrianism, and some believed in Christianity, Nestorians. Since there were Romans to the west and Xhosa to the north, after the Great Food in black rose, all the pagans who remained there would be killed."

"A large number of residents who believe in the Great Food and Education have been moved from Persia, and large Great Food and Education temples have been built. Look..."

Looking along his fingers, I saw the spire of the pine (minaret) in the middle of the white castle looming.

"When our country took over, all the residents inside believed in the Great Food and Education. After discussing with Ibrahim, they were moved to Tabriz, so the entire castle was empty."

"According to the agreement between our country and the Grand Duchy of Armenia, after our country leases Baku City, the area of ​​100 miles around the castle is within the lease. In this way, the entire peninsula where Baku City is located is under the jurisdiction of our army."

"There are a large number of lakes near the castle, including freshwater lakes, saltwater lakes, and oil lakes called Greek fire by people here. Before our country entered, the Romans and the great cannibals began to mine tinder oil. By the way, in addition to tinur oil, there are also natural asphalt lakes like Atlau, but the scale is not as large as Atlau."

"In the north of Baku City, there is a small town, called Sumgate, a port and a place of integrated castles, but the scale is smaller than that of Baku City."

"After our army entered, I brought a regular battalion into Baku City, and another regular battalion entered Sumgate City."

"Originally, my country had five naval camps in the Caspian Sea, two in Atlau and three in Hainan Prefecture. After taking Baku, there was only one in Atlau. The remaining two were stationed in Hainan Prefecture, and two were moved to Baku Port."

"How many large ships can be parked at a time in Baku Port?"

Sun Xiurong asked suddenly.

Naren Xiaofeng felt a frightened in his heart, and he naturally knew what he meant. The king was preparing to attack the Khanate of Xhosa.

Hurry back: "There are 100 berths in Shanggang and 30 military ports. If all the big ships are parked, all the Ye Army will be shipped at one time. The people and horses that dock at five camps are mainly occupied by war horses."

"There are at least 15,000 war horses in the five camps. If the pack horse is added, there will be more. This requires at least 80 large ships, and the remaining twenty large ships can carry 20,000 people."

"Where is the castle?"

"Originally, Baku City was the advance base for the Great Cannibal to attack the Khonsa Khanate. Together with Sumgate to the north, it could station 20,000 troops. The Great Cannibal used to occupy the mainland, and they also had a large castle in Zhanjia City. The three places could gather 30,000 field troops."

"If the Xhosa crossed the Caucasus Mountains, they would be extremely tired. The great cannibals could rely on these castles to wait for their work, and to attack the Xhosa, along the coastline, by land, or from the sea."

Sun Xiurong nodded, "Five regular battalions are enough. Atlau, Bai Xiaode can also attack by land. There, ten regular battalions, fifteen regular battalions, nearly 50,000 people can be dispatched at one time, which is enough to suppress the Xhosa people..."

As he was talking, black smoke soared into the sky outside Baku City in the camera.

"King, you can see the oil lake everywhere outside the city. The wind here is extremely strong and extremely dry. If you are not careful, it will cause a raging fire. Once it is burned, there is no other way except to cover it with a lot of soil and stone."

As he spoke, the fleet slowly sailed into the port.

At this time, all the sails were lowered. They only rely on many river oars controlled by pulleys and winchs. Under the shaking of the river oars, under the command of the rudder, and under the leadership of a clutch that came out to greet them, the ships stopped one by one, one by one, against the dock.

At this time, the Sabrei Army Navy had used mats made of rough glue that were separated from the wharf and the ships. In the past, for all ships in this world, docking in the port was an extremely dangerous task, especially in the Port of Baku, which was incredibly windy. Their impacts between the ship gang and the wharf were mostly made of circles made of strong flexible reeds and vines, and such circles were changed every other month.

The cushion made of rough glue from Shattered Leaf Army, similar to later tire-style cushioning, can be used for several years, and the cushioning performance is much better than the circles made of pure plants.

"King"

After getting off the boat, the castle was a straight road about 300 meters, obviously using asphalt. Ten black four-wheeled carriages unique to the Great Qin Kingdom had already been parked there. Sun Xiurong, Jinsi Kaiya and Sun Zhaoyong got on a carriage together.

Such a carriage also uses wheels made of rough rubber. The so-called rough rubber is vinyl made of asphalt extract, fish glue and gum. In the country of Daxia, natural rubber from South America was used to make rubber tires. However, in this life, according to Sun Xiurong's idea, it is unlikely that he will go to South America, so he can only strive for excellence on rough rubber.

Even so, this kind of wheel is much more comfortable than wooden wheels. With the blessing of asphalt roads and the use of four-wheeled carriage springs, you can hardly feel the special bumps when sitting inside.

After a while, a typical Persian castle gate appeared in front of them about three meters high.

In the evening, in the former Governor's Mansion, a beautiful building built surrounded by gardens, Sun Xiurong and Ma Lin and others had dinner together and immediately had a meeting overnight to discuss the current major events.

"King"

It was naturally Ma Lin who reported it.

"Acquiring news based on Bai Jieyou..."

"Where are people who are idle?"

"He now followed the Jewish caravan to the Roman capital, a place called Constantinople."

“How did you get there?”

"After our country took over the Batumi Port on the east coast of the Black Sea, we were very tolerant of the residents and merchants there, so we could naturally take the Jewish merchant ship directly to Constantinople in the south coast of the Black Sea."
Chapter completed!