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The commander-in-chief of the Madurai army is a veteran who fought in the Nayak Civil War.

Seeing that the temporarily recruited army was unable to command, he immediately rushed to Udaji: "Your Majesty, let the Sudanese Guard and the militia keep a distance, and don't be swept away by the rout."

Udaji said in a panic: "You have full command!"

The veteran still knew how to fight. He led the cavalry to kill the routs along the way, and escorted the king and the Sultan's guards from the battlefield.

Seeing that the Sudanese guards were still in chaos, Sun Ke simply ignored them and continued to kill nearly ten thousand defeated soldiers.Three hundred Han cavalrymen killed nearly ten thousand routs, some ran towards the city, and some were so frightened that they jumped into the river.

On Weng Yingqi's side, more than 400 infantrymen were already crossing the river in small boats.

"Your Majesty, go back to the city and stop fighting!" said the veteran.

But Udaji was not reconciled: "My Sudanese guard has more than 1000 people, hundreds of musketeers, and elephant soldiers who have not been dispatched. Even if the militia collapses, we still have an advantage over the enemy's forces!"

The veteran said: "Your Majesty, your Sudanese Guards have been frightened!"

Udaji turned around and saw his guard soldiers, all of them turned pale with fright.

These Sudanese guards are all Kshatriyas.

I usually bully the common people, but I basically don't train much, and I haven't really fought a war.Seeing that the battlefield is full of routs, even if they have the upper hand, they dare not go up to fight at all.

"Go back to the city!" Udaji gritted his teeth and said.

The king ran quickly with his guards, but Sun Kewang's cavalry was separated by the rout, and they couldn't chase after him for a while.He simply chased the rout soldiers back to the city, but saw that the gates of the city were closed tightly, and even the rout soldiers were blocked outside the city.

Going around to hunt down the sultan, the sultan has returned to the city with his guards, leaving only a dozen war elephants wandering around the battlefield.

The entire army on the main battlefield collapsed, and the Madurai navy also retreated.

After about an hour, the sultan sent an envoy to ask for peace.

Weng Yingqi presided over the negotiations and signed an alliance under the city. The two sides bargained. Madurai would rather pay more money and food than be a vassal state of Jin.

The content of the treaty is as follows:

First, within ten years, the two countries will maintain peace.

Second, Sudan's younger sister, married Jin Wang Zhao Kuangchen as his concubine.

Third, the Jin State dispatched troops this time, and the Madurai State will bear all the military expenses.

Fourth, the Madurai State compensated Jin State with 5000 taels of gold and 1 taels of silver.

Sultan Udaji searched the whole city for gold and silver, and finally sent the Jin army away. He stood on the city wall at a loss, and he didn't even understand how he was defeated.

By the way, Sudan's sister was directly taken away by the Han army.

It wasn't until several days later that the King Qin's army from Madurai arrived one after another.The local nobles, all extremely loyal and brave, clamored to kill and avenge the Sultan.

Sudan looked at these guys and wished he could chop them all off with a knife.

After thinking about it, I felt dull again.

The young sultan returned to the palace and began to indulge in pleasures, and it seemed that he was going to lie down for the rest of his life.

Chapter 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.

Jayaraman, the Tamil prince in Canmer City, had already rebelled.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 Kuangchen 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, the village nobles still support Zhao Kuangtang very much.

In the face of 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's land is occupied by these guys, and there is almost no resistance.

As for the kingdom of Mysore in the west, the king personally marched, leading an army of [-] across 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, hurry up and send troops!" Peshra knelt down and cried.

Peshla, the prince of the western border city, fled all the way to Taiwu City, crying and begging Zhao Kuangchen 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 kidnapped the nobles' wives and daughters!"

Peshla, a prince and nobleman, originally didn't intend to get involved, 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 loot, 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, 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 city 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 2000 people in the city were captured and used as slaves to transport the looted goods 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 the Islamic military nobles, he even converted to Islam for a time.After securing the throne, he attacked the Islamic nobles and became Hindus 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 good relations 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?"

Dawdya laughed loudly: "Is he frightened by the rebellious nobles? I want to beg me to withdraw the troops quickly so that I can calm down and put down the rebellion."

The envoy said: "Please make a price, His Majesty of our country will satisfy 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 20 suvarnas (nearly 3 tons) of gold. If the gold is not enough, I will use food and goods to pay for it. Send 5 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 messenger made a embarrassed expression: "20 suvarnas are too much, is 3 ok?"

"Do you take me for a beggar?" Dawdya sneered.

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

Dawdya said: "Then you go and come back quickly."

After seeing off the envoy sent by Zhao Kuangchen, the king was in a great mood, and even had the idea of ​​annexing the state of Jin.

But 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.

After 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, don't attack the city again, and try to rob all the villages and communities around!"

More than ten days later, Dodo Wodeya received news that the noble Wang Gong of the Jin Kingdom was gathering troops.

These local nobles were frightened by the atrocities in Mysore, and in order to keep their property, they followed Zhao Kuangchen's call one after another.

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 10 Suvarna gold. This is my bottom line. No less!"

At the same time, Da Vodeya regrouped the troops that had been scattered to rob, and planned to destroy the noble coalition forces here first.

Weng Yingqi's infantry and Sun Kewang's cavalry marched along the river for dozens of miles, and then moved away from the river to go 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 harder it is to raise food. Those villages are robbed by the enemy country, and they will be blackmailed by their own king's army.

By next year, there will be a famine in the western part of Jin State, 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 [-] 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, so he rested for a while a few miles away, and then went straight to Adul Town under the leadership of his guide.

The guide was 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 few hundred slaves, a small army guarded 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 100 Han soldiers, there were more than [-] 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 in this way, and there were only a few hundred cavalry, and they quickly pulled out one food transportation station after another.

And the king of Mysore in front, just gathered 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 several thousand, or there may be tens of thousands!"

"Nonsense, there must not be several thousand, otherwise we would have been discovered long ago. Don't move forward, everyone will fight back with me!"

"..."

The spies who were 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 him.

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

Chapter 972 [Eat the tail]

The rice fields by the river have been harvested, and all the food has been robbed by the Mysore army.

Thousands of the allied forces of the nobles of the Jin State were killed and fled in all directions.

Dawdya, the king, does have two brushes.The coalition forces of the nobles of the Jin State hesitated to move forward, so he simply withdrew his troops while the food road was cut off, and sent the vanguard to rush back, trying to open up the food road behind him.At the same time, he lured the noble allied forces to chase after him, and led the main force to kill them all.

"No need to chase!"

The coalition forces of the nobles were defeated for dozens of miles, and Dawdya felt safe, so he led the main force back to open the food road.

His large army is too bloated, the boats in the river and the ox carts on the shore are full of goods.And it is mainly food, because it happens to be the harvest season, and they can plunder rice everywhere.

Even if the food road is cut off, the Mysore army is not short of food.

It's just that the marching speed is very slow. In order to protect these goods, they can only advance twenty miles a day.

"Da da da!"

The vanguard sent a few cavalrymen back to report: "Your Majesty, the warehouse of Arum Babur was burned, and the food, spices, cotton cloth... were all burned to ashes, and even the gold and silver were melted all over the ground. yes."

Da Da Wodeya was full of anger when he heard that, he snatched all these goods with his own ability!

After thinking about it, Da Wodeya planned to speed up the march.Anyway, the coalition forces of the nobles of the Jin Dynasty were destroyed, and there would be no more danger. It was enough to leave 3000 people with slaves to transport supplies, and the rest of the large force went all out to chase down the enemies who blocked the food road.