At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 459: Unfriendly First Contact and Opening the Door
September 15th, the eighteenth year of the Han calendar.

Twelve ships were sailing slowly along the South Asian continental line. Most of these ships were sturdy ships with a toll of more than 3,000 tons, and the main ship was a 10,000-ton ship.

This journey to Sindhu can be said to be the biggest adventure in Hu Hai's life. In unfamiliar waters, unfamiliar kingdoms, and unfamiliar civilizations, he naturally had to spend the greatest cost to protect his own safety. And on the sea, nothing could be more reassuring than a sturdy ship.

After returning to the Han Dynasty, Hu Hai took out a loan to purchase this ten-thousand-ton sea-going ship, and rented six sea-going ships. He bought a large amount of silk, porcelain, tea and other goods, and returned to Korea again. Zhang Buzhi provided five hundred soldiers, ten cannons, including a 100-man musketeer team, and became the armed force of the fleet.

Looking at the boundless sea, Hu Hai, wearing shorts and short sleeves, hid in the shade of the main ship and slumped on the bamboo bed.

"What the hell is this place? Why does it feel even hotter than Nanzhong?" Hu Hai said, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

Zhu Pei was dressed similarly to Hu Hai. He said helplessly, "I have asked the captain. There are no obvious currents in this ocean, and the wind direction is not conducive to sailing. Our sailing speed is extremely slow."

Hu Hai said: "Come and get Master Jiumolu."

Zhuzi said: "Yes!"

Soon, Master Jiuma Luo was brought in by Zhuzi, and the master said in Chinese with a dissatisfied look on his face: "What do you want to see me for?"

Although Jiumalu was a monk, he was also a scholar with a strong learning ability. Not only did he learn Chinese in half a year, but he even learned Chinese characters in less than a year when Hu Hai led the fleet back to Korea from the Central Plains. He was already able to study the Four Books and Five Classics of the Han Dynasty independently. Of course, his favorite subjects were geometry and navigation. He could actually use the stars in the sky to locate the position of a ship on the sea. For Master Jiumalu, this was a genius idea.

He finally understood why the big man's posters were so developed. It turned out that the captain of the big man didn't worry about getting lost at sea at all.

During this period, he has been teaching himself Han mathematics, geometry and other knowledge. He even found that the numbers used by the Han people clearly have the shadow of their civilization. He believed that the scholars of the Han Dynasty had also come to his civilization and brought the numbers of their civilization to the Han Dynasty.

He originally wanted to go to the Han Dynasty from Han to visit the Han Dynasty's capital Chang'an and exchange knowledge with Han Dynasty students, but he was forced by these powerful people to return to his hometown. It's not that he didn't miss his hometown. Jiuma Luo was a senior monk with a high position and power. If he hadn't had no choice, he would not have fled to Nanzhong.

Because of the influence of the time traveler Xu Fan, the Dayuezhi people migrated westward decades earlier and learned the military technology of the Han Dynasty. They learned the three-piece set of cavalry, which greatly increased their strength.

At this time, Sindhu was at the end of the Maurya Dynasty. Even if the Yuezhi did not come, the dynasty would have collapsed in a few decades. The Sindhu people did not have much fighting power, and the end of the dynasty was the period when their fighting power was the worst.

As a result, the Yuezhi people swept across the land of Sindhu and were unstoppable. They directly destroyed the declining Maurya Empire and occupied the entire northern Sindhu.

However, in the south of Sindhu, there was a panic among various forces. Among them, Hua You, a general of the Maurya Dynasty, led a group of troops to occupy the southern city of Sindhu of the Maurya Dynasty, and other city lords also declared themselves kings. As a result, the barely unified Sindhu was shattered in an instant.

In order to develop their own strength, these generals in the city annexed other small cities. It can be said that the entire southern Sindhu was in a state of war every day. In this chaotic end times, the rich temples became the target of the army. Master Kumarajiva had his temple robbed, so he had to flee. In the end, he escaped to the Kingdom of South Korea by accident.

Hu Hai was dissatisfied and said, "We have been sailing for so long, why haven't we seen Sindhu yet? According to what you said, we should have seen this continent long ago."

Jiuma Luo said calmly: "According to my location last night, we are very close to my hometown. And don't say Shentu, that's just the barbarians' transliteration, and it's a very bad one. My hometown should be called Tianzhu."

After Kumarajiva learned Chinese characters, he realized that Sindhu was a very difficult name, because the Chinese character for "poison" did not represent a good meaning, so he changed the name of the area where his hometown was to Tianzhu.

Jiumo Luo's contemptuous look made Hu Hai furious. What's so arrogant about you, a charlatan? My father killed more than 300 people like you at one time.

"If you don't see the mainland tomorrow, I'll throw you overboard to feed the fish."

Jiuma Luo sneered, "I am a guest of the Duke, not a guest of a merchant like you. In our Tianzhu, you are not even worthy to appear in front of me. Even if you appear, you must bow your head and salute me."

Kumaro's two years in Korea were not in vain. He had already gained a general understanding of the country of Han. A few decades ago, this civilization was still in a period of seven kingdoms contending for hegemony. In the end, a powerful monarch named the First Emperor annexed the six kingdoms and established an unprecedented country. This civilization called this the Great Unified Dynasty.

This made Kumaro very fascinated. You know, even the most powerful Maurya Dynasty in India only unified the northern continent, and there were still several separatist countries in the south.

Of course, there were also things about the Han civilization that he couldn't understand. That powerful country called Qin was said to have millions of brave warriors, but it was destroyed in a very short time.

More than a decade ago, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty led hundreds of slaves to overthrow the Qin Dynasty, which had a million soldiers, and established the current Han Dynasty.

This was something that was difficult for Kumaru to understand. A rebellion of several hundred slaves could actually overthrow a powerful dynasty.

It is already difficult to understand why the Shudras rebelled. What is incredible is that they actually succeeded. This is not the case in myths, but it is actually true in the Han civilization.

The establishment of the Han Dynasty seemed full of sins to Kumarajiva, but he admired the Emperor of the Han Dynasty very much. According to the information he had, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty was once a monk. After being captured by the Qin Empire, he led 800 slaves to rebel and then founded the extremely powerful Han Dynasty.

The sense of immersion is too strong. Jiumalu has fantasized more than once that if he could also lead hundreds of slaves, unify the entire Indian region, and establish an unprecedentedly powerful dynasty, what a prosperous scene India would be at that time.

The reason why Jiumaro was so arrogant towards Hu Hai was because he knew Zhang Buzhi's identity. He originally thought that Han was just a small country of barbarians. Later, when he got intelligence from the Han Dynasty, he knew that Han was actually one of the principalities of the Han Dynasty, and its status was only lower than that of the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

The Emperor of the Han Dynasty learned that the First Emperor had no subordinates and suffered a demise, so he granted fiefs to his subordinates and established vassal states. Korea was one of the vassal states under the Han Dynasty, and it was the largest duke. Jiuma Luo thought he was a guest of the future King of Korea, so how could a merchant like Hu Hai shout at him?

Hu Hai stood up angrily and said, "You have lost your own country, what is there to be proud of? If I have to despise you, it is me who despises you. My Han Dynasty defeated the Yuezhi and forced them to flee westward, while the Yuezhi destroyed your Peacock Kingdom. This shows the difference in your strength."

Zhu Pei held Hu Hai and said, "Boss, forget it."

Hu Hai was the backbone of this fleet, but South Korea also sent 500 soldiers, who were the military forces on the ship. These soldiers were not only fully armed, but also carried 10 cannons. You must know that this unfamiliar sea area is not the safe South China Sea. Without sufficient military force, they dare not come to do business.

In fact, in the past two years, many merchant ships have encountered inexplicable accidents, and the court has found that more than a dozen shipwrecks were caused by pirates.

The pirates were naturally their peers who thought that doing business was too hard, so they simply started this kind of business without any capital. However, this behavior increased the cost of sailing. Originally, everyone was trying to reduce the number of people to sail and get as much profit as possible.

But after this happened, the captains not only increased the number of sailors, but also had to carry swords, spears, halberds, and even bows and crossbows, which greatly increased the cost of maritime trade. For the safety of the South China Sea, the court increased the intensity of the crackdown on South China Sea pirates. The South China Sea Fleet and the North China Sea Fleet even formed regular cruise fleets.

Zhu Pei felt that Jiumalu was Zhang Buzhi's guest and it was not easy to offend him. Moreover, when they went to Sindhu, they still needed Jiumalu to act as an interpreter. Otherwise, how could they do this business?

This was their first time in Sindhu, and they did not speak the language, so they needed Jiuma Luo. At this time, the sailor standing on the main mast finally saw the coastline vaguely with an eight-fold telescope.

The sailor shouted excitedly: "We have seen the mainland."

Hu Hai excitedly ran to the bow of the ship, then picked up a telescope to watch, and soon he saw the coastline.

The other sailors cheered too. Even if they only counted Korea as the starting point, they had been sailing for three months. If they counted from the starting point, they had been sailing for almost four months. Such a long time at sea was a torment for everyone. The most important thing was that they didn't know the purpose of this voyage. This unknown was the most tormenting part for them. Now they could finally go to land to rest.

Half a day later, the human eye could see the coastline even without a telescope, and they could also see a huge port city on the coast.

Jiuma Luo said with a complicated expression: "This is the Tanmosudi Port of our Tianzhu, the most important foreign trade port of Tianzhu, and also one of the most prosperous cities of our Tianzhu.

But at this moment, dozens of ships appeared in the port. Compared with the Han ships, these were like babies, but these ships were moving very fast. Wu Hai could see from the telescope that the Indians seemed very excited, and everyone was waving swords.

But this scene made Hu Hai a little confused. He asked Jiuma Luo: "You Indians are so hospitable. One guide boat should be enough, right?"

Jiuma Luo said bitterly: "These people, as you Han people say, come with bad intentions."

No one in this fleet knows the nature of the Indian nobles better than him. They usually cheat and deceive each other. At that time, the Maurya Empire still had a little order that could restrain them. But now South India is in flames. Those Kshatriya lords are short of military funds. They even dare to attack temples. What else can they not dare to do? Now such a large trade fleet suddenly appears. How can those Kshatriya lords let it go?

Hu Hai understood what Jiuma Luo meant and laughed angrily: "You Indians are so brave? Why were you beaten like dogs by the Yuezhi people?"

The defeated general of the defeated army actually wanted to attack him. What's more important was that the ships sent by these Indians had only about 300 ships, which were not on the same level as Hu Hai's fleet. The difference in the hull alone should have made these Indians understand the gap in combat power between the two sides. If Hu Hai didn't know their battle records, he would have really thought that the Indians were very good at fighting and very brave.

Hu Hai said: "Tell the other captains that these people are Indian pirates, defeat them. Go full speed ahead and test the power of our steel cannons."

Hu Hai's fleet quickly changed its formation, and Hu Hai's main ship accelerated forward. When it was 2-3 miles away from the Indian fleet, the ship began to turn, and the muzzles of its cannons and crossbows began to point at the Indian ships.

The two ships were getting closer and closer, and the Indians seemed not to understand why the other ship was facing them sideways.

Instead, they thought that this situation was in their favor. As long as they could get close to the ship and climb onto the enemy's ship, they could kill all the enemies and seize the enemy's huge ship. Hu Hai's ship, which weighed tens of thousands of tons, made these Indian pirates extremely excited. They thought it was a trophy sent to them by Brahma. Countless people took up their grappling hooks and prepared to hook them onto the ship's bow.

Looking at these reckless pirate ships approaching, Hu Hai sneered, "Fire!"

"Bang, bang, bang!" Five cannons opened fire. Because they were too close, two shells hit the target, directly breaking the two pirate ships into two and sinking them.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Dozens of crossbows on the side of the ship also fired at the Indian pirate ship. These crossbows did not shoot crossbow arrows, but crossbow arrows filled with gunpowder. When these crossbow arrows hit the pirate ship, they exploded one after another, causing heavy casualties to the pirates on the ship.

Hu Hai's ship opened fire at full force and directly stunned thirty Indian pirate ships. After less than half an hour of fighting, there were only ten Indian pirate ships left. The remaining pirate ships either fled or lowered their sails and surrendered to Hu Hai's fleet.

The pirate ship was blocked by five ships in the fleet and had no choice but to lower the sails and surrender to Hu Hai. After a naval battle, Hu Hai and his men lost nothing but captured twenty small boats.

Then Hu Hai and his men captured several Indian commanders, asked Jiumolu to translate, and asked them why they attacked their ships.

The reason was not much different from what Jiumalu just said. After the fall of the Peacock Kingdom, the lord of the city of Tamosui proclaimed himself king, and then began to recruit soldiers and horses, wanting to expand his territory. Recruiting soldiers and horses was the most expensive, and now he was fighting fiercely with the two city lords.

At this time, the lord of Tammosudi City suddenly discovered that a huge fleet had arrived at his port. Without thinking twice, he immediately sent out his own fleet, wanting to seize the fleet and use the fleet's cargo to supplement his military expenses.

Hu Hai laughed angrily and said, "I wanted to do business with you fairly, but I didn't expect to come to a den of robbers. Since you don't want to drink the toast, don't blame us for being rude."

Hu Hai called Zhang Yong, the captain of the fleet, and said, "These Indians have no intention of doing business. They just want to kill people and rob goods. Since that's the case, we won't be polite to them. With our firepower and manpower, we are enough to capture this city. It's just right that we can also have a stronghold in India."

Hu Hai believed that tens of thousands of Dayuezhi cavalry could sweep across India for thousands of miles. This time he only brought 2700 men with him, so it would not be excessive to allocate 1000 of them to occupy a city in India.

Zhang Yong hesitated and said, "This kind of robbery is not good."

Zhang Yong is Zhang Liang's confidant. After Zhang Liang surrendered to Xu Fan, the servants he trained were integrated into the Han Dynasty. Those who have made military achievements have now become captains and commanders of the Han Dynasty. They are Zhang Liang's base in the Han Dynasty's military.

Zhang Yong was unlucky. He became lame in a battle and had to leave the Han army and become a retainer of the Zhang family again. But even after retiring, he still retained the military discipline of the Han Dynasty. He instinctively opposed such acts of looting.

Hu Hai said: "How can we call this robbery? These Indians sent a fleet to attack us, which is to declare war on the Han Dynasty. For pirates who dare to attack the Han Dynasty, should we tolerate them? Of course, we should wipe them out completely."

Zhang Yong thought about it and agreed with Hu Hai's statement. The majesty of the Han Dynasty cannot be challenged. Since these Indians dared to rob, they must bear the consequences.

Then the fleet quickly approached the port of Tammo Sudi, which was already filled with troops. The Indians seemed unconvinced and planned to continue teaching Hu Hai and his men a lesson on land.

When Hu Hai saw this scene, he sneered repeatedly, "Boom, boom, boom!" The cannons and crossbows on the ship opened fire one after another, causing the bodies of the Indian soldiers to fly everywhere, and the scene was littered with broken limbs and wailing.

The soldiers who were not injured were stunned by this scene. The Han artillery directly shattered their three views. They thought that the enemy had weapons of gods and they were not able to resist at all. The soldiers fled the battlefield one after another, and the people in the port were also scared and fled.

The Han fleet bombed for an hour, and then Zhang Yong led the soldiers to land on this unfamiliar land. Then, under the guidance of Jiumo Luo, they found the city lord's mansion.

At this time, the walls of the City Lord's Mansion were full of trembling Indian soldiers. Zhang Yong did not show them any courtesy and directly pulled the cannons here. Ten cannons bombarded the city wall in less than an hour. Then he led his troops into the City Lord's Mansion. No one dared to stop Zhang Yong's army along the way.

At this time, the city lord was already scared to death. He never expected that the enemy he offended this time would be so powerful, no different from the legendary gods. He took his guards, called his wife and children, packed up his gold and silver treasures and prepared to run away.

However, they were blocked by soldiers led by Zhang Yong, and all of them were caught red-handed without letting any one go.

The siege ended here. The Indian soldiers were frightened by the artillery and did not dare to fight against Zhang Yong's army. The Korean army captured a city with zero casualties, which can also be said to be the destruction of a country.

(End of this chapter)