Zhao Qian's speech was obviously approved by many Carthaginians.

But to be honest, considering the existence of Wang Jian and the five thousand musketeers, whether there is any Carthaginian approval is actually not too important.

Since a new king has been produced, a celebration banquet is naturally indispensable.

At the banquet, Zhao Qian looked at Hamilka, who had been recognized as the Chief Minister of Carthage by him, and could not hide his doubts.

"Old Ha, you said before that you didn't want to be loyal to our Han Kingdom. Why have you changed your mind now?"

Zhao Qian is not a fool, of course he can see that Hamilka definitely played a very important role in the process of Carthaginian allegiance this time.

Hamilka smiled after hearing Zhao Qian's words, as if she had thought that Zhao Qian would raise such a question.

"I'm going to say that my Majesty has always been loyal to Carthage since the beginning, but the entire country of Carthage has joined the Han Kingdom together, right?"

Zhao Qian was stunned for a moment, then smiled and shook his head: "You old man, you are really a slippery person!"

Hamilka also laughed out loud, and then responded seriously: "Actually, I did not have such an idea at the beginning, or until the decisive battle broke out, but... to be honest, that war changed everything."

Of course, Zhao Qian knew that Hamilka was talking about the decisive battle on the coast yesterday, and said, "So, did you decide after you truly saw the power of the musketeers?"

Hamilka nodded seriously and said, "Murchants... are the most terrifying military I have ever seen. I can't think of what kind of military troops in this world can withstand the power of this musketeer.

From that moment on, I knew that the Carthaginians either died under the muzzle of musketeers, or they could only join the Han Kingdom and become part of the Han Kingdom."

Zhao Qian smiled and raised his wine glass: "A very wise choice."

Hamilka also raised his glass and said seriously: "I hope it's not too late for us Carthage to join."

Zhao Qian laughed and said very seriously: "It will never be too late to join."

Just when Zhao Qian completely conquered Carthage, a war was also preparing to break out in the eastern Mediterranean, thousands of miles away.

There is a sea area in the northeast of the Mediterranean Sea. The Balkan Peninsula in Europe and the Asia Minor Peninsula in Asia are across the sea. This sea area is the homeland of the Greeks, who affectionately call this sea area - the Aegean Sea.

Xiang Yan stood on the deck of a large ship and stared at the Aegean Sea in front of him.

Behind Xiang Yan, hundreds of large ships were storming, crossing the Aegean Sea and heading towards Greece in the West.

The Han Dynasty's actions of asking Carthage for ships were actually just a kind of unconventional formation. In fact, long after Zhao Kuo personally conquered the Seleucid Empire, the shipyards among the two cities of Alexander and Antioch had been operating with all their strength for the moment.

With the overflowing manpower and material resources of the Han Dynasty, when Xiang Yan was planning to cross the Aegean Sea with 50,000 musketeers, he already owned a total of 500 large and small warships.

At this moment, an alarm sounded.

"It's the enemy's warship!"

"It's a fleet!"

Xiang Yan looked into the distance and saw a fleet appearing in his sight on the distant sea.

Xiang Yan's mouth twitched slightly and gave the order calmly.

"Prepare for the fight!"

The distance between the two fleets began to quickly get closer.

Xiang Yan did not panic at all, but issued orders in an orderly manner.

"The musketeer is ready to fire."

"Be prepared for the grenade, but you have to wait until close to throw it out, don't throw it into the sea, do you understand?"

Xiang Yan was full of confidence because his fleet not only had bug-level weapons such as muskets that surpassed the range of all contemporary weapons, but also had grenades such as killing weapons to deal with ships.

The ships of this era were all made of wood! Soon, a naval battle between the two sides broke out.

Greece was a coalition force, composed of various Greek states, the Kingdom of Antico and the Kingdom of Macedonia further north.

Although there are many of these countries, they are actually the same size as Egypt, so their warships are only more than 200, not even half of Xiang Yan's side.

But the Greek coalition was still full of confidence, because in their opinion, the Aegean Sea was their homeland and they would definitely win! This idea soon proved to be a very stupid idea in the subsequent naval battle.

Just as the Greek fleet commanders were still ordering the archers to apply tinder oil to the arrows and ignite them, the musketeers of the Han Kingdom were already firing.

This sudden fire caused heavy losses to the Greek archers. Many archers were killed just after igniting the arrows. The falling tincture oil ignited their own ships.

The range suppression of the musketeers exerted absolute power at this moment. The Greek archers could hardly raise their heads. Only a few people shot arrows in a scattered manner. Among all the arrows, there were only two or three that could hit the target, and they could not pose any threat at all.

This scene looked at the Greek commanders, which naturally made them feel in a bad mood, so they issued the next order very quickly.

"Get close to those ships from the Han Kingdom, jump onto their ships, and fight them with swords!"

The Greek commanders were also very clear about it. If you can't fight from a long range, you will have close combat. You soldiers from the Han Kingdom all come from land. You can't be your opponent when fighting in close combat on the ship, right?

But ideals are beautiful, but reality is very cruel.

Just as the Greek fleet pioneer ships approached the ships of the Han Kingdom, the musketeers of the Han Kingdom threw out the grenades in their hands.

"Boom boom boom!"

Explosions rang out one after another, and the Greek naval soldiers who had not had time to jump over the ships to the Han Dynasty were blown to death by grenades on their own ships.

Grenades and musket suppression made it impossible for Greek naval soldiers to organize a large-scale jetty battle.

Soon, these Greek vanguard ships ignited a raging fire, and many Greek naval soldiers screamed in despair in the sea of ​​fire, accompanied by the ships sinking into the sea.

Xiang Yan looked at this scene and the smile on the corner of her mouth became stronger and stronger.

"What a group of brainless idiots. How could the Han Kingdom, the world's most powerful country, be defeated by you barbarians!"

The 500 fleet of the Han Dynasty moved forward in a mighty manner. The sea wherever it passed was filled with thick smoke and fragments of many Greek ships. There were many Greek naval soldiers on the sea holding wooden boards and calling for help. Then they were salvaged by the ships of the Han Dynasty behind and became prisoners on the spot.

The naval battle had just been going on for an hour, and all Greek ships found something wrong and turned around and fled.

It’s not okay if you don’t run away, this battle is really impossible.

The level of fighting between the two sides is not at the same level at all, just like a group of adults walking around and children who just know how to walk. How do you think this is a fight?

So the subsequent battle turned into the Greek fleet running away in front, and the Han fleet kept chasing after it.

This pursuit took more than a day to chase.

At noon the next day, a piece of land appeared in front of Xiang Yan, and there was also a city on this piece of land.

Xiang Yan took out a compass, took out a navigation map and compared it for a while, and finally came to a conclusion.

“This is Athens.

Athens is a very famous city and also the most core city of Greek civilization! If Sparta represents the courage of Greek civilization, then Athens concentrates the wisdom of the entire Greek civilization.

A general came quickly and asked Xiang Yan for instructions: "General, what should we do next?"

Xiang Yan laughed: "What should I do?

Of course, it is to kill this general on land and occupy this city!"

For Xiang Yan, this conquest of Greece, Macedonia and other places was not a very difficult conquest.

Having weapons such as musketeers and grenades is simply a dimensionality reduction attack! So Xiang Yan doesn’t need to be careful. All he needs is a bold attack and a quick victory! Under Xiang Yan’s order, many ships of the Han Kingdom leaned on the dock.

At the beginning, a group of Greeks planned to resist desperately, but when the sound of muskets rang out and all the Greeks died on the pier, all the Greeks ran away in an instant, and there was no one except the corpse.

Seeing the numerous Han musketeers swarming out of the ships and embarking on the land of Athens, Xiang Yan even yawned.

"This kind of war is really boring."

Fifty thousand musketeers are definitely an oversupply for a city like Athens. You should know that Athens today is no longer the Athens in its heyday. The ruling center of the Aegean Sea has been transferred to Macedonia. It is just a city with a long history, but that's all.

That night, Xiang Yan had already stepped into the mansion of the Governor of Athens.

Here, hundreds of Athenian officials knelt on the ground tremblingly, waiting for Xiang Yan's ruling on their lives.

Xiang Yan's big golden sword sat down on the seat that originally belonged to the Governor of Athens and asked casually: "Where is the Governor here?"

Xiang Yan's personal guard captain replied: "He has already burned himself to death."

Xiang Yan exclaimed and said, "I'm pretty strong. Don't make things difficult for his family, just send them to the Western Regions."

After a few seconds, Xiang Yan turned his eyes to the Athenian officials in front of him and slowly spoke: "Are you all willing to surrender?"

Naturally, some people translated this sentence to these officials.

An official mustered up his courage and said to Xiang Yan: "Of course we can surrender, but we also ask the Han Kingdom to ensure the safety of our personal and property, and to be able to send gifts from those who are unwilling to surrender."

Xiang Yan laughed directly, then pulled out the pistol at her waist.

After a gunshot, the official was killed on the spot.

Xiang Yan blew the smoke from the mouth of the pistol, put the pistol back to his waist, and said coldly: "Now, I really dare to talk nonsense in front of this general, huh?

You must remember that it was our great Han Kingdom that conquered this place, and you shameful losers either surrendered or died, and there was no qualification to negotiate with us!"

After this incident just now, everyone realized the majesty of Xiang Yan, the conqueror.

When everyone is in the right position, everything is very easy to handle.

As usual, there is still a team of officials around Xiang Yan. This team of officials will quickly take over the entire city of Athens, and in the next time, follow the advance of Xiang Yan's army, slowly bringing all the conquered territory into rule.

For officials of the Han Dynasty, these things are almost commonplace, and everyone is very skilled.

Of course, after these officials entered, they had to win over a group of local people, kill a group of local thorns, and finally all of them were appeased and began to assimilate, but these had nothing to do with Xiang Yan.

After occupying and Athens, Xiang Yan quickly divided his troops into three groups and completely occupied the entire Greece in just half a month.
To be continued...