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Grassland areas, only grazing!

Deng Youzhang's class teacher returned to Wangxiang City, and soon received a message from Li Luosheng from the north.The messenger said: "Governor, Li Zhi County has conquered the Maevatanana tribe. According to the chief there, along the Bezibuka River, you can go directly to the capital of the country of Yinmailina, and the big city with tens of thousands of people was built. By the river. By the way, Lizhi County thinks the name of the river is too awkward, so it will be renamed Beiqi River from now on."

"Understood," Deng Youzhang said, "When you go back to report, ask Lizhi County to hold a meeting in Wangxiang City before the rainy season, and say that all the city lords will come."

In fact, there is another river that can go directly to the capital of Yinmailina, and it is just beyond the village where they originally lived.

Deng Youzhang sent people to explore, and a small group of troops could pass along the river.But it is troublesome to bring luggage, because there is a section of the river that is very turbulent, and both sides are full of cliffs, and you must use trackers to row upstream.If it is too difficult for people to carry food, it is too difficult to walk across the mountains, and no one is willing to take risks.

In the next two months, the city lords of the seven cities, as well as the Zuo Erguan in the city, returned to Wangxiang City one after another.

Deng Youzhang said: "Brothers, you have all received my letter, which has already stated very clearly. The angel left in September last year, and the court estimates that it will send people next year. What do your majesty and ministers say? We definitely can't figure it out. Maybe, I will be replaced as the governor directly."

"The territory we've worked so hard to build, why should the country send someone to be the governor?" He Wenpeng sneered, "If the court changes the governor, I will be the first to stand up against it!"

Li Luosheng said: "To openly defy the monarch's order is absolutely impossible."

He Wenpeng asked, "Can you bear it?"

Li Luosheng said with a smile: "All the native tribes have already married us, and the native chiefs can only listen to us. How many people can the imperial court send? If the governor comes, it will be easy to make sacrifices. What should we do?"

"Yes, yes, that's how it should be!" Wang Yuan laughed.

These guys are already discussing how to use the governor.

Deng Youzhang said with a smile on his face: "Everyone, don't think about things so badly. The imperial court may not send a governor. But, even if they don't send a governor, they may send someone to supervise. After all, we have gold mines here. Before the imperial court sends people , we have to speed up the expansion of the site."

Li Luosheng asked: "You want to destroy that country of Yin Mailina?"

"Yes, after the rainy season next year, we will send troops to fight from your side," Deng Youzhang nodded, "I heard from the tribes who migrated here and there, there are countless people in the capital of Yinmailina. If there can support 5 to [-] People, it means that the farming conditions are better than ours, and the capital will be moved directly... No, the Governor's Mansion will be moved there. _o_m "

Relocating the ruling center is a must, otherwise it will only be a corner.

The city of Antananarivo is located on the central plateau of the island, where all the rivers originate.Build the Governor's House there, and as long as you can build strong inland ships, you can send troops in all directions along the river.

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Antananarivo.

The king had a long name and was called Andrea Mavajna Valona.

Compared with his subjects, the king's complexion is paler.Because he is of Arab origin, there are Arabic books in the palace, and they have even learned how to make paper.

There are even black slaves in this country, who were brought in by the Arabs to farm.

As for when the Arabs came here, some say it was the ninth century AD, while others said it was the thirteenth century.

But it's very interesting, they don't believe in religion, and they don't use Arabic in their daily communication.Arabic and Arabic writing, as well as Arabic astrology, were only used during sacrifices, and civilians were not allowed to meddle, and if found, they would be executed.

The architecture of this country is more interesting. The houses built by the people have a very obvious Southeast Asian style...

"Your Majesty, the outsiders from the west have occupied the Maevatanana tribe in the north." The minister brought news of the border.

The king...the name is too long, and it's called Andrea for short.The king said disdainfully: "The outsiders are not terrible. Decades ago, the Portuguese also landed in the east and built two fortresses, but they were driven away by my grandfather? Grandpa told my father, I My father also told me that the firearms used by outsiders will fail in rainy days. The storm god will bless us, as long as the enemy dares to come, we will fight in rainy days!"

The minister hesitated, and finally said, "Your Majesty is wise."

King Andrea added: "Compared to outsiders, it is the tribes in the country that make people feel uneasy. Why haven't the tributes from each tribe been paid this year? I just increased the tribute a little bit."

The minister said: "The tribute is still a little too much, but it can actually be reduced a little bit."

"I can't go any lower, I'm already very kind," Andrea said.

The king extorted violently, and in another time and space, directly split the country into four small countries.It was not until more than 100 years later that his descendants reunited and began to engage in maritime trade with India.Immediately afterwards, the son of the unifier expanded his power to the whole island and established the Kingdom of Madagascar.

Facing the expansion of the Chinese, the king did not take it to heart at all. He felt that he was invincible in the world - his world was the whole island.

In fact, neither King Andrea nor the Chinese expanding to the west were aware that there were other outsiders on the island.

The French have already come, and even earlier than the Chinese, they have established Dovan Castle in the southeast, and rely on the castle to continuously infiltrate and expand.But the number of French people is very small, and there are only more than ten permanent residents. Dofanburg is more like a supply station.

French merchant ships docked here, waiting for the trade winds to reach southern India.

That fall, a tribe in the south revolted, and nearby tribes responded.

King Andrea was furious, and gathered [-] troops to conquer, and personally led the troops to kill them.His elite troops have iron, not only copper as Deng Youzhang thought, and even this guy has a trebuchet unit.

For the native tribes, such a powerful army is simply irresistible.

The tribe that led the uprising, the nobles were slaughtered.Ordinary people, old people are all killed, young men, women and children as slaves.The rest of the tribes that responded, the nobles were also killed more than half, and then robbed the food, and the common people were expected to starve to death.

It is one of the most important grain producing areas on the island!

Another year later, before the officials sent by the imperial court arrived, Deng Youzhang led his army and set off.

They crossed the northwest grassland and came to Li Luosheng's Marenjia city to meet.There are more than 300 musketeers, 150 cavalry (adopted cavalry), 2000 cold weapon infantry (adopted son corps), and more than [-] indigenous auxiliary soldiers.

The northern tribes of Yinmailina country all surrendered because they were dissatisfied with the king's tyranny for a long time, and some even joined the Chinese army.

King Andrea finally panicked and ordered all the tribes to send troops.

Although this guy is brutal, the majesty of the king is still there, and more than 7000 tribal soldiers have been gathered one after another.He also recruited soldiers in the capital, and with the addition of his army directly under the Central Government, he managed to gather more than 2 soldiers.

Andrea told the ministers and tribal chiefs: "Don't panic, the outsiders are afraid of the rain, we just have to wait for the rain."

Everyone is speechless, your sister is raining in the dry season!

This is a tropical plateau climate, with very little rainfall in the dry season, and the temperature generally does not exceed 30 degrees. It is cool and dry, which is very suitable for war.

Under the king's insistence, Yin Mailina's army did not take the initiative to attack, and never thought of setting up an ambush halfway.They just stayed in the capital and waited stupidly, and asked the priests to pray for rain to give the Chinese army a hard job.

The priest is also a wonderful person. He knows what the king is thinking, so he naturally speaks according to the king's heart.

The priest used Arabian astrology to observe the sky at night, and communicated with the gods with human sacrifices, and then said to the king: "The gods have brought revelation, and the king's army will surely triumph."

Andrea asked: "Will you win in the capital, or send troops to win on the road?"

The priest was a little confused about what the king wanted, so he asked, "Does your majesty want to send troops?"

Andrea said: "The chiefs of the various ministries have been arguing for the past few days, and the quarrel has made my head hurt. I want to take the initiative to lead the troops to the north. You can calculate the date, which is the most suitable day for the expedition."

So the priest started divination again, and determined that it is best to send troops after seven days.

Neither the king nor the priest thought that they would lose, because they had never met an opponent on the island.

More than 2 indigenous soldiers marched to the north in mighty force.

The more than 7000 tribal soldiers came with their own dry food.They were heavily taxed by the king, and they were already in short supply of food, and they consumed a lot on the road and in the capital. They started to run out of food within two days of walking.

King Andrea is very interesting, he thinks it is too wasteful to provide rations to the tribal soldiers.But now there is a war and I have to give it, so let the minister who is proficient in mathematics calculate the ration of each soldier, and then provide the food and grass according to the minimum standard.

The minister in charge of distributing the grains deducted grain and grass behind the king's back, assuming that he would not starve to death.

This has not yet been fought, and more than 7000 tribal soldiers complained, and their morale plummeted after they were hungry and full.

Andrea thought she was smart enough to save a lot of food, so she ordered this method to be promoted.In and outside the city, he recruited many civilians as soldiers, and the rations of those militiamen were also distributed according to the standard of tribal soldiers.

The two armies met in a river valley. More than half of Yin Mailina's army was too hungry to move.

Chapter 1019 [New Guangcheng]

Deng Youzhang held up the binoculars and said to the generals around him: "The enemy's elite main forces are all gathered in the central army formation. The soldiers' weapons are spears, and those next to the commander are equipped with swords and shields. These elite formations are neat, and the rest of the troops It's a mess, standing crooked in place."

Xie Yuan left behind two binoculars, and He Wenpeng also observed: "It's still the old way, most of the enemy troops will be defeated in one blow."

The two armies are about to fight, and Li Luosheng actually has the time to talk about administrative issues: "This country is very similar to our system, only the name is different. If it is defeated, it can quickly take over the rural tribes."

The system of Yin Mailina Kingdom is infinitely close to that of South India, which is the one encountered by King Jin.

The land in the whole country is owned by the king and cultivated collectively by the village community.However, it still retains the shadow of tribal society. Many village communities are actually tribes, and the land is nominally owned by the king, but it is mainly the tribal chiefs who have the final say.

More than 7000 tribal soldiers, or village community soldiers, were half-starved and half-fed at this time, and were ordered by the king to move forward in batches.

They wore linen busts, which were in the style of Southeast Asia, and also a little like India.The soldiers wore head wraps on their foreheads, and some officers had leather armor, and they advanced in disorder with spears.

There is also a javeliner in the back row, holding a short spear and something like a mace pinned to his waist.

There were about 4000 tribal soldiers in the first batch of battle.The remaining [-] were moving towards the flanks, and they actually knew how to outflank.

King Andrea rides on a bullock cart, and the white zebu represents nobility.This guy felt that he had won, and he didn't even intend to let the elite join the battle. He sat there looking at the center of the battlefield, and said to his minister: "Our military strength is ten times that of the outsiders, and none of the enemies can escape."

"Your Majesty, outsiders need to be careful with their firearms," ​​the minister reminded.

Andrea said with a smile: "Let those tribal warriors consume the enemy's firearms. I will send troops to supervise the battle, kill the tribal soldiers who have fled back, and let them charge on the battlefield again. The enemy is only a little bit. After the firearms are consumed, It's easy to beat."

The king didn't regard the soldiers of the village tribe as human beings at all. In his eyes, they were all consumables.

He is already very benevolent, but the queen of Madagascar 200 years later, that is the real cruelty.The queen likes to keep reptiles, and she sleeps with her pet boa constrictor, and tens of thousands are put to death in the crocodile pond.The Queen has been in power for more than 30 years, and the population of the country has dropped sharply by 250 million (accounting for more than 50% of the total population), who died of massacres, wars, famines and plagues.

Of course, the queen didn't kill people randomly.

The targets of her massacre were all political enemies close to Britain and France, as well as people who converted to Christianity.In the villages infiltrated by the British and French forces, almost the whole village was slaughtered, and the British and French troops were defeated many times.

The tribal soldiers continued to advance in disorder, and the Chinese army launched several artillery pieces.

Deng Youzhang owned more than 30 artillery pieces, all of which were moved down from the wrecked warships.The large-caliber artillery has basically never been used, and the small-caliber artillery has been used for the first two years. Later, it was stored due to lack of gunpowder, but there are special personnel responsible for daily maintenance.

Before the iron ore was found, the iron cannonballs had been melted down, and all were forged into swords and spears.Anyway, cannonballs can be replaced by stones, without careful polishing, they can be stuffed into the barrel and fired.

This time, they also used stone bullets, and they were also gravel shot bullets.

When the tribal soldiers approached to a distance of about [-] meters, the Chinese gunner ignited the fuse, and with a few loud noises, countless broken stone goddesses flew out like flowers.

"what!"

The enemy yelled and screamed in terror, and many natives threw away their spears and ran away with their heads in their arms.

He was really running with his head in his arms, as if his hands could block the flying gravel.

"Cavalry chasing the enemy!"

Several officers of the Datong Cavalry Division, leading a group of novice adopted cavalry, galloped towards the defeated enemy.

These local teenagers adopted by the Chinese have been practicing riding for more than a year, and now they finally look like cavalrymen.However, the discipline was still not strict, and he ran without looking at his teammates at all, and forgot to use the physical fitness of the horse rationally, and swung the whip to accelerate as soon as he received the order to pursue.

After chasing and chasing, the cavalry unit was in a mess, and no one paid attention to the officer's orders.

Such a terrible novice cavalry, to the natives, is like a divine soldier.Even those who hadn't been defeated by the artillery, when they saw the cavalry rushing, they threw away their weapons and turned to run away.

The king sent several elite troops to supervise the battle, and the defeated soldiers who escaped first were beheaded by hundreds of elites.But they couldn't stop the momentum of the rout at all, and the few supervising teams were dispersed instead, and the militia recruited temporarily followed suit.

These soldiers have been deprived of military rations, and their stomachs are not full. They already lack morale. Who still wants to fight now?

"All troops charge!"

When the cavalry rushed not far away, Deng Youzhang ordered a general attack, and even the native auxiliary soldiers rushed up.

King Andrea, who had always had a playful attitude, finally couldn't laugh at this moment. He said to the generals around him: "Quickly go up!"

The indigenous generals lead the elite to march forward. These elites can eat enough every day, and they are invincible all over the island. It is estimated that the long-term victories have created high morale.Facing the situation where the friendly army was fleeing, they were able to form a formation and move forward, as if they didn't think they had been defeated.

But there were too many defeated soldiers, and the elite formation advanced more than ten cloths before being forced to stop and stand by.Even so, the formation was disrupted by the rout. Many elite soldiers were affected by the rout and were ready to fly away at any time.

Two hundred cavalry followed behind the rout, and a few teenagers rushed the fastest, leaving the friendly army and plunging into the enemy's formation.

Fortunately, the enemy's formation has long been disrupted, not only the command system failed, but also the morale gradually approached zero.

Deng Youzhang's adopted son, Deng Anshun, is now at the forefront.In his hand was a waist knife, forged by smelting cannonballs.

The elite enemy troops standing in front of him had spears in their hands.As long as you lift them all up, you can poke him over with random guns.But when those elite natives saw the cavalry rushing, their first reaction was to run away, because they had never encountered such a "monster".

The Portuguese fought against the natives decades ago, but there were not many arquebuses, and more than half of the Portuguese soldiers were still using cold weapons.As for the Portuguese cavalry, there were none.

Deng Anshun's blood was boiling, he didn't need to use any more force, he only needed to hold the knife diagonally downward, and use the charging speed of the horse to drag the knife to cut the enemy to death.

As more than 40 cavalry rushed into the formation, the indigenous elite finally collapsed.

"Come on!"

King Andrea urged the driver, who immediately pulled the reins and turned the zebu to flee.

Where can a bullock cart outrun a war horse?

Deng Anshun himself didn't know how many enemies he hacked to death, he just dragged his knife and rushed forward, leaving many rout soldiers behind.In other words, his front, rear, left, and right sides were all rout soldiers, and many rout soldiers even jumped into the river in fright.

There were corpses all along the way, and most of them were not beheaded, but fell down during the escape and were trampled to death by the rebel army.

"Quick, faster!"

Andrea kept urging.

The crazy cow actually runs very fast. Under the frenzied whipping of the opportunity, the zebu dragged the car and ran wildly.It's a pity that the road is rough, the quality of the car is worrying, and one wheel shakes out during the bumps.

The king fell from the chariot, his head was dizzy, and he struggled to get up, but was knocked down by the rout.Struggling to get up again, he was pushed away by a broken soldier, and was knocked down again while staggering, and then his back and legs were trampled by countless feet, and he didn't even know when he was trampled to death.

Tens of thousands of enemy troops were captured, another two or three thousand escaped, and the rest died on the battlefield.