At this time, the mouth of the Don River was located in the later city of Rostov-on-Don, not Azoo. It took another four hundred years to form due to the impact of the Don River mud and sand. There was naturally no Rostov-on-Don. At this time, the mouth of the big river was all over the river and swamps, and it was not suitable for human habitation.

However, when approaching the Sea of ​​Azov, a section of the Don River suddenly widened, almost one mile, with a depth of more than ten meters, and a length of four or five miles. The two banks are covered with shui willows, oak trees (called oak trees in Europe), and birch. Further down there is a section of about a few miles long and several miles wide, with several swamps in the Don River branches.

Compared with the Dnieper River in front, the conditions of the Don River are a little worse, but since the nearest part is hostile or unknown range of forces, it is impossible for Sun Xiurong to reach the Dnieper River in one step, so he ordered the construction of temporary camps and ports on the north bank here.

When the Guard Army and the Lieutenant Army arrived here, the Mazar people, who were originally nomadic and fishing and hunting, fled in all fear.

There are three battalions, each with a light infantry battalion with baggage and engineering soldiers. This is one thousand people. In addition to the two powerful crossbow battalions they prepared, there are two thousand engineers who can immediately put into intense work.

What we need to explain here is that there are two groups of people in the Qin army's powerful crossbow camp. One group of strong crossbows that use three stone power is actually a compound crossbow, and the other group of single crossbows that use two stone power.

(These two types of crossbows are standard configurations for the Tang Dynasty soldiers)

However, no matter which crossbow is used, after using auxiliary devices such as pulleys, the Qin army actually realized that they could bend the strings while standing - that is, the way they stepped on the crossbow in the Song Dynasty in later generations, using their feet to step on the crossbow body, using their arms, waist and abdomen, they could clamp the crossbow strings to the position of the hanging knife.

If there is no pulley setting, a strong crossbow with three stone power needs to sit down, pedal the crossbow body with both feet, and then exert force on the string. In this case, it will definitely be much slower than standing and much less safe.

Therefore, in the camp of the Lieutenant Army and the Guard Army, a thousand crossbow soldiers were actually divided into a strong crossbow camp and a single crossbow camp. The camp head with engineers and baggage was naturally the single crossbow camp.

Of course, once a war occurs, the strong crossbow battalion and the single crossbow battalion can also be mixed with each other and alternately cooperate to fight.

Since the founding of the Great Qin State, Sun Xiurong has established the Great Qin State Officer School in Kangcheng, specializing in cultivating various officer talents. Later, considering the navy, he moved the officer school to the Port of Babole north of Surrey, the capital of Hainan Prefecture on the south bank of the Caspian Sea. Based on the current population size and conditions of the Great Qin State, it is impossible to set up various schools in a category, and only comprehensive schools can be established.

At the Daqin Officer School in Babole Port, there are majors such as infantry, cavalry, baggage, engineers, staff, and reconnaissance. The semester is three years, and they are all selected from the teenagers who graduated from the five-year school.

To this day, the Great Qin State has been awe-inspiring with its great martial arts and a very high status for soldiers. As soon as the officers' school in Babole was established, people flocked to it. In the end, they recruited a thousand people, including seven hundred army and three hundred navy.

After graduation, these people will be assigned to various regular battalions of Qin army as team chief (company commander) or above. Although Sun Xiurong traveled through time in later generations, he still followed the Tang military system/official system. He implemented a generous salary system for civil and military officials above a certain level. Not only did they have enough salary to respect the world, their families also had land and real estate, and real estate could be awarded. After transferring, they could also go to the village chief or township chief. The most common ones were to work as yamen runners in various cities. Middle and lower-level officials were naturally flocked to them.

The Babole Port School has not yet graduated. The engineer officers of the three major camps have obviously graduated from the original Kangcheng Officer School. They have received a complete set of training on fortifications, architecture, ports and bridges. Of course, they are based on the knowledge of Daxia Kingdom in the past life left in Sun Xiurong's mind, mixed with some experiences of craftsmen in the present.

The reason why this section of four or five miles long river surface was formed was that the terrain on both sides of the lower reaches suddenly increased, causing the river surface to begin to narrow again, which in turn left this section of river surface in a semi-static state, which was extremely conducive to the construction of a port.

Speaking of which, when Sun Xiurong first saw the willows and oak trees on both sides of the Don River, his eyes lit up. In the last Daxia Kingdom (the seventeenth century, now the eighth century), because the Cossacks had already entered a large number of land and the Mongolians cut down a lot here, there was nothing else on both sides except weeds and reeds. But now it was a thousand years ago, and the situation was naturally very different.

The so-called construction of a port is actually very simple. As Sun Xiurong’s three camps of personal guards, even if he carries a hundred horse boats, he cannot carry a lot of cement at any time. Therefore, the old method is still the same - cut down the tall and straight water willows on the shore, and choose to be straight about ten meters.

Since the growth of ash willows is usually about 30 meters, it is still easy to choose a piece of wood with a diameter of about ten meters, then sharpen one end, and then use every ten special horse boats with a hanging boom device on it, and combine two such horse boats together to let them lift the pile hammer together.

A pile driving hammer drives a series of water willows into the river channel, each of which goes into the river channel about one foot deep. Then, a simple dock with a depth of about seven meters will be formed on the shore, and the wooden piles will be connected by cross-wood to maintain their stability.

Ash, one of the best ship materials in the former ship era, is extremely resistant to temperature difference and corrosion. Oak tree (oak tree), and its effects are similar to those of Ash.

There are two types of water beads, oak trees, teak trees, and the three best ship materials in the former ship era. How can Sun Xiurong not be overjoyed?

It is still summer now, underwater and on water, and there are special operations horse boats. It took three days for the simple pier to be built. In the past few days, all the ships have been anchored on this semi-quiet river.

Three days later, the shore was cut down and a camp about five miles long and three miles wide was arranged, Bogda Camp, Bogra and Aslan Camp, and Sun Xiurong's personal guard camp was among them.

There was also a squadron following the fleet, and the leader was Li Simu. In the past few days, the fleet has not been idle. After they entered the Azov Sea, they poked about two hundred miles to the north and south sides of the ocean.

In fact, as the real overlord of the Azov Sea, the Goths on the Taurus Peninsula had ports and fleets in Mariupol and Yesk in later generations. However, since they saw the huge fleet of the Qin people, the fleets in both places hurriedly retreated to Kerch Port.

Arriving on the north shore of the Azov Sea and suppressing the Goths was obviously one of Sun Xiurong's targets. At this time, the Taurus Peninsula was the largest gathering place for the Goths driven out by the Vikings and the Huns. In addition, some nomadic tribes attached to the Goths, Dingkou was nearly one million, and both agriculture and animal husbandry were prosperous. If you seize it by force alone, it would still take a lot of effort.

In addition, the northern coast of the Sea of ​​Azov is close to the North Caucasus, which always shocks the Xhosa people there and can support Bai Xiaode who is besieging the city of Xhosa (Stavropol) and Yuanfeng in the port of Taman at any time.

Of course, this is not the most important purpose of Sun Xiurong.

Two days later, a team of cavalry came from the west, with about 300 people, all of which were neatly dressed. They were all tall and tall horses with yellow-brown skin, and they were Mazar!

When approaching this place that was recently named Tianjin Port by Sun Xiurong, the leader of this cavalry, the great chief of the Mazar people, was also a little nervous.

Among the major nomadic tribes in Eastern Europe, the Mazar people are known as the most concentrated descendants of the Huns. It is obviously not easy for such a tribe to gain a foothold in Europe, because the influence of Attila's Hun Empire on Europeans was too far-reaching.

However, after the Hun Empire was resolved, the Mazar people not only gained a foothold, but also occupied the most high-quality grasslands in the Dnieper River and the lower Don River at this time, showing their uniqueness.

This unique feature is that they have gradually transformed from the original nomadic, fishing and hunting tribes to nomadic, settled and agricultural.

The premise of this transformation is that the fertile land in the lower reaches of the Dnieper River. If it were still in the Ural Mountains, it would be obvious that it would be difficult to transform into settled agriculture. Like the Indians, the way of burning all the way is obviously not as good as a simple nomad.

However, the black soil here is too fertile and the rainwater conditions are moderate (300-500 mm). It will neither cause waterlogging due to too much precipitation nor drought due to less precipitation.

(The author's note: Nile civilization, Yellow River civilization, Persian civilization is roughly the same)

As long as you are not a fool, dredge the tributaries of the Don and Dnieper Rivers, which are as numerous as cows, so that they can satisfy the irrigation.

With settled agriculture, people who have peace of mind to build weapons, make clothes, and grow food, and the powerful cavalry that already exist, can naturally stabilize their existing territory.

Of course, in later generations, when the Great Liao Dynasty emerged, the nomadic tribes originally in the Kazakh grasslands were oppressed west again. Under the chain reaction, the Pecheneg people in the southern Russian grasslands advanced westward, and then the Mazar people were forced to move westward, and eventually arrived in the Hungarian area in later generations and became the ancestors of the Hungarians.

Along the way, Sdymo thought: "I have given up the vast land on the west bank of the Dnieper River to the Great Qin Kingdom. Now that their king has arrived here in person, do you want to completely annex our troops?"

At this time, the Mazar people still believed in the primitive shamanism (Ural shamanism). They had to wait a hundred years for them to convert to Christianity. This was also the main reason why Sdymo decided to surrender to the Great Qin State when he learned that the Great Qin State had just hesitated slightly when he attacked the Khanate of the Khanate.

Because, from this time, he also learned something from the Jewish merchants spread all over the north coast of the Black Sea - "The king of the Great Qin Kingdom was an extremely wise shaman. Compared with all tribes that believe in immortality, only he has a complete set of examples of believing in this religion, rituals, and text content."

"That's not all. This great king also combined Eastern Buddhism, Taoism and shamanism all over the dark forests. Polytheism created the Tiandaoism. According to himself, the so-called Tiandaoism is a religion that respects heaven and earth and nature, and a religion that deeply integrates with everything in the world."

Regarding this, Sdymo, who was originally very respectful to the Khanate, became even more eager for the entire Khanate after converting to Judaism.

However, the Mazar people were in the Dnieper River at this time, and there were still 20,000 to 30,000 tents in the middle and lower reaches of the Don River, and they were not tribes that could be tampered with at will. Since Sun Xiurong summoned him, there was obviously a big deal to discuss.

"What will happen?"
Chapter completed!