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Chapter 975 – 971【Foreign Enemy Invasion】

Chapter 975 971【Foreign Enemy Invasion】

When Weng Yingqi, Sun Kewang, and Lin Chengzong returned to Taiwu City with their goods, food, and the princess, it was already the season of harvesting summer rice.

The Tamil Maharaja Jayaraman of Kanme City had rebelled a long time ago. But this guy didn’t dare to kill them directly, but went to attack the northern villages, forcing those Brahmins and Kshatriyas to make trouble together.

The village nobles who had surrendered to Zhao Kuangyi were somewhat reluctant to rebel. After all, the new Han king did not interfere with the northern region. As long as he did not evade taxes too much, he would not bother to collect them by force. Village nobles could embezzle more food than before.

This is a good king, and the village nobles still support Zhao Kuangtang very much.

Facing Jayaraman’s soldiers, nobles from all over the world had to obey. On the contrary, those Sudras who worked part-time were very happy. They did not have stable jobs and were temporarily recruited as soldiers. Although they were not paid, at least they had some rations every day.

In this way, the Tamil prince Jayaraman pulled out an army of tens of thousands. Due to the astonishing momentum, the prince of another city in the north also led his troops to join the rebellion.

A quarter of the country is occupied by these guys, and there is almost no resistance.

As for the kingdom of Mysore in the west, the king led an army of 20,000 troops through the mountain pass and quickly occupied a quarter of the country in the west. These guys had a good idea. The time when the army crossed the border coincided with the grain harvest season. It was obvious that they were here to grab the grain!

“Your Majesty, send troops quickly!” Peshra knelt down and cried.

Peshra is the prince of the western border city. He fled all the way to Taiwu City, crying and begging Zhao Kuangyi to send troops.

Zhao Kuangchen asked: “You said that after the Mysore army occupied the city, apart from looting property, they just tore down the city walls?”

Peshra said: “They not only looted goods and demolished the city walls, but also took away the nobles’ wives and daughters!”

Peshra, a prince and nobleman, originally didn’t intend to meddle, but only wanted to keep his own territory. The Mysore army passed around the city, and when Peshra relaxed his vigilance, he suddenly came back and broke the city in one fell swoop. Peshra fled with more than a dozen noble knights, and his family was all captured.

Zhao Kuangchen inquired about the process in detail, and asked the man to go down to rest.

Wang Chongxi guessed: “The Mysore army obviously didn’t want to expand the territory by doing this. It was purely here to plunder, otherwise it would be impossible to tear down the city wall in a hurry.”

Ma Fei looked at the map in front of him. This map was very simple and was found in the Tanjore Palace: “According to the local nobles, the territory of Mysore has expanded three times in the past ten years. Today, the country Already surrounded by mountains, the whole country is a big basin. If they don’t expand, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, they will be very safe. If they continue to expand, they will fall into years of foreign wars. Unless the king of this country wants to put us and The state of Madurai is completely destroyed, otherwise he will not annex new territories.”

Guan Xian said: “Then let them continue to rob, and let’s quell the civil strife first.”

“Yes, we need to pacify the civil strife first,” Wang Chongxi said, “these people robbed and killed along the way, and demolished the city walls everywhere. The nobles in the western part of our country, no matter how wimpy they are, will be forced to resist. The more fierce the Mysore army robs, the more local nobles will be.” More heart towards the imperial court. And the rebel army in the north treats the nobles kindly, coercing the local nobles to join the rebel army, that is our confidant’s trouble!”

Zhao Kuangchen asked: “What do the three generals think?”

Weng Yingqi said: “I agree with the views of the two gentlemen, we should first pacify the civil strife in the north, and then deal with the foreign enemies in the west.”

Sun Kewang had a different opinion: “The rebel nobles in the north are nothing more than a group of local chickens and dogs. They haven’t fought for many years, and there are not many elites. Most of the soldiers are farmers recruited temporarily. And after so long, the delay Not daring to go south, they have been harming the place. On the other hand, the Mysore army in the west, this country has tripled its territory in more than ten years, and they are all veterans who have been on the battlefield.”

After thinking carefully, Weng Yingqi said: “That’s right, the rebellion in the north can be resolved easily. At this time, we should deal with the strong enemy first. When we defeat the strong enemy, those rebellious nobles in the north may be the ones who hear the news.” Infighting.”

Hearing what the two generals said, Wang Chongxi also began to understand it in this way, and added: “You can send envoys to contact the Mysore army, and make a look of fear. Tell them, we must first quell the civil strife, Let them set a price, how much gold and silver they are willing to withdraw.”

“Wonderful!” Guan Xian said with a smile, “Knowing that we must quell the civil strife first, and blindly seek compensation for peace, the Mysore army must be even more arrogant. Unprepared, we have already secretly killed them, and we will surely be able to catch them by surprise. !”

Ma Xuan added: “Along the way, we used both kindness and power to intimidate the local nobles, saying that the Mysore army would tear down the city walls and rob the villages. Let the princes who escaped from the west go and speak out in person, and the nobles from all over the country will surely join the army. Etc. The local aristocratic army is slow to kill, and the attention of the Mysore army will also be on the aristocratic army. The Han army will take a detour and go to other places to carry out surprise attacks in secret!”

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“Boom!”

Another wall of earth and stone was torn down, a large number of urban residents fled, and the city has been robbed and riddled with holes.

More than 2,000 people in the city were captured as slaves, and the looted goods were transported to the rear. At the mountain pass at the junction of the two countries, there were more slaves, and the goods robbed from all directions were transported to the valley pass to be piled up, and then passed through the valley and then transported back to Mysore.

The name of the king of Mysore is Dadwaraja Wodeya, and this person belongs to an abnormal succession. Two years ago, his uncle king died of illness, and this guy staged a coup to seize the throne.

In order to win over Christian military nobles, he even converted to Christianity for a time. After sitting firmly on the throne, he attacked the Christian nobles and became a Hindu again, which won the support of the majority of Hindu nobles.

With good political skills and good military capabilities, this king is considered a powerful figure in India.

“The king from China wants to ask for peace?” Dota Wodeya asked with a smile.

The envoy was a Tamil nobleman, who nodded and bowed at this moment: “My Majesty said that he is willing to have a good relationship with your country forever. The mountains between the two countries are natural barriers. He has no intention of expanding westward, and your country has no intention of expanding eastward. In this case , Is there any unresolvable conflict between the two countries?”

Da Da Wodeya laughed loudly: “Is he scared by the rebellious nobles? I want to ask me to withdraw the troops quickly so that I can calm down and put down the rebellion.”

The envoy said: “Please make a price. Your Majesty will satisfy you as much as possible, and all the treasures that your country has robbed can be transported away.”

Dawdya said: “If you want me to retreat, I want 200,000 suvarnas (nearly 3 tons) of gold. If the gold is not enough, I will use food and goods to pay for it. Send 50,000 suvarnas first. , and pay the remaining ten years. If you dare to default in any year, I will lead my troops to kill again!”

The envoy made a embarrassed expression: “200,000 Suvarna is too much, is 30,000 okay?”

“Do you think I’m a beggar?” Dota Wodeya sneered.

The envoy could only say: “I must go back and ask His Majesty for instructions.”

Da Wodeya said: “Then you go and come back quickly.”

After seeing off the envoy sent by Zhao Kuangtang, the king was in a great mood, and even thought of annexing Jin.

However, he can still restrain himself, because if he cannot annex quickly, he may face the invasion of other neighboring countries. The two countries in the rear, Clady and Golkonda, are not vegetarians, and they will stab the chrysanthemum of Mysore when they get the chance.

Thinking carefully for a while, Dota Wodeya ordered: “Except for the king’s personal guards, the rest of the troops are thrown out. The enemy city has already prepared, so don’t attack the city again, and try to rob all the villages and communities around!”

After more than ten days, Da Da Wodeya received the news that the aristocrat Wang Gong of the Jin Kingdom was gathering troops.

These local nobles were frightened by the atrocities in Mysore. In order to keep their property, they followed Zhao Kuangtang’s call.

Dawdya thought he was asking for too much gold, so he sent an envoy to take the initiative to negotiate: “Tell the king from China that he can withdraw his troops if he wants, but he must give 100,000 Suvarna gold. This is my bottom line. No less!”

At the same time, Dodo Wodeya regrouped the army that had been scattered to rob, intending to destroy the noble coalition forces here first.

Weng Yingqi’s infantry and Sun Kewang’s cavalry advanced along the river for tens of miles, and then they moved away from the river and prepared to circle around. I didn’t bring any food, and the cannons were left behind, and the villages were ordered to provide food along the way. The farther you march, the more difficult it is to raise food. Those villages and communities are robbed by the enemy country, and they will be blackmailed by their own king’s army.

Wait until next year, there will be a famine in the western area of Jin, and I don’t know how many people will starve to death!

Sun Kewang’s cavalry walked the fastest, and after a few days, they went around to Adul outside the mountain pass. This is a border town, and now it has become a material transfer station. All the goods robbed by Mysore are gathered here to be transported back.

Thick smoke rose outside the town every day, and the bodies of the people who starved to death and the slaves who died of exhaustion were moved outside the town and burned.

About 2,000 enemy troops are stationed here, all of them are elite, responsible for guarding the property.

These guys, don’t even bother to set up camp.

It is true that their dispatch of troops went too smoothly, the main force had already fought there, and this place belongs to the absolutely safe rear. They arrested the residents of the town and used them as slaves to deliver supplies, while they themselves lived in houses in the town. Some soldiers were also sent to patrol, but not to warn the enemy, but to prevent slaves from rebelling or fleeing.

Sun Kewang didn’t even bother to cover his whereabouts. He rested for a while a few miles away, and then went straight to Adul Town under the leadership of the guide.

The guide was that Peshra, whose city was taken, his treasures emptied, his wife and daughter robbed. Now full of anger, he is absolutely loyal to Zhao Kuangtang, as long as he is not allowed to die, he can do whatever he wants.

In broad daylight, hundreds of cavalry trotted over, and the slaves transporting goods along the way just looked at them blankly.

For every hundreds of slaves, there is a small army guarding them. The army does not need much, a few soldiers can manage hundreds of slaves, and these slaves have no courage to resist.

The Mysore soldiers who were in charge of escorting the goods thought it was their own cavalry. It wasn’t until Sun Kewang ran past them that he realized something was wrong, but apart from blowing the horn, there was no way to report back to the town.

Most of the two thousand enemy troops stationed in the town enjoy themselves in the town, and only a few hundred people really do things.

In addition to the 300 Han soldiers, there were more than 100 noble cavalry who followed Sun Kewang and rushed to the outside of the town.

In broad daylight, the enemy general was not even wearing armor, and was drinking with a group of noble officers. Hearing the shouts of killing from outside the town, they stood up drunk and waited until they were sure that the enemy was coming before they hurriedly ran to look for their armor.

No soldiers were lost, and the town was taken.

Sun Kewang said to Peshra: “You organize all the people here (enemy slaves) into an army and let them guard the property. The rest of the nobles follow the enemy’s grain road and fight back with me!”

The food road of the Mysore army was cut off like this, only a few hundred cavalry, quickly unplugging one food delivery station after another.

The king of Mysore in front of him just gathered up the looting army and wanted to destroy the aristocratic coalition army of Jin.

“Your Majesty, there are enemies behind us, and the grain transportation channel along the river has been cut off!”

“How many enemies are there?”

“I don’t know, there may be thousands, or tens of thousands!”

“Nonsense, there must not be several thousand, otherwise it would have been discovered long ago. Don’t move forward, everyone will fight back with me!”

“…”

The spies in charge of observing the situation immediately went back to inform the coalition forces of the nobles, saying that King Jin’s army had won and that the Mysore invaders had completely fled.

The local nobles were inexplicably excited, leading the army to chase after them.

After chasing for dozens of miles, he was killed by the king of Mysore…

(end of this chapter)