Capital Datang

In January of the 19th year of Zhenguan, Li Zhen and Li Yun on the island of Ceylon set up an army and landed through the area called Rama Bridge by the locals, which is later Adam Bridge. The so-called Rama Bridge actually refers to the area between Ceylon Island and A series of coral reefs and shoals between the continents of Tianzhu, nearly [-] miles wide, can be passed by rowing boats. It was from here that the Tamils ​​on the mainland arrived at Ceylon Island.

After passing through the Rama Bridge, it is the Tamil Nadu state of India in later generations. The main race is the Tamils. Now it is mainly ruled by the Pallava Dynasty. It is only worth mentioning that the Pallava Dynasty ruled here. It is only in name, the dynasty is divided into countless small states, and the wars between each state are endless, which is more "chaotic" than the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods in the history of the Central Plains.

The first opponent that Li Zhen and the others faced after they landed was a small state located in the eastern coastal area. This small country is called the Kingdom of Jola. Yu people occupy a long and narrow coastline, and at the same time have a certain influence on the central hilly area of ​​​​Tamil Nadu. There are two relatively large port cities built on the coastline. One is called Chola City, which is also theirs. The capital city, and the other city is called Sanga City, which is comparable in size to Chola City, and 80% of the country's population is concentrated in these two cities.

For this kind of city-centered city-state country, Li Zhen and Li Yun have summed up their experience on the island of Ceylon. For example, the previous Tamil Kingdom and Sinhala Kingdom, as long as their capitals are occupied, the entire country will be destroyed. It can be regarded as annihilated, so after Li Zhen's army landed, they immediately sent troops to the city of Chola.

Li Zhen and Li Yun had 500 Musketeers in their hands.And the artillery force of 1 people. Originally, Datang's firearms force had more than 540 people.But Li Zhen and Li Yun's strength is limited, even if Li Shimin lends them all.They don't have that many firearms for the troops, so they borrowed so many for the time being, and the rest can be rotated.Capital Datang [-]

The artillery unit has more than 100 cannons. Although the power of the cannons in this era is limited, there is no city wall in the whole of Tianzhu that can stop the salvo of so many cannons. The city of Chola is just a small state. In the capital city, the city wall is not much thicker, so it was fired several times.The walls of Jorah collapsed.

The Kingdom of Chola is also a country composed of Tamils. It has a very close relationship with the Tamil Kingdom on Ceylon Island. When Li Zhen and Li Yun destroyed the Tamil Kingdom, many nobles in the kingdom fled to Chola by boat. In the Kingdom of La, everyone in the Kingdom of Chola knew about the army of Li Zhen and Li Yun. They knew that this foreign army was well-equipped and very fierce. The Tamil army with the same number was no match for the other party at all.Not to mention that there are only six to seven thousand defenders in the King City of Jola.

The 7000 Tamil defenders faced more than [-] grassland cavalry, and the city wall was broken, so there was no danger to defend.Faced with this desperate situation.The Kingdom of Chora wisely chose to surrender, and as a result, Li Zhen and the others easily took the city of Chora into their hands.

Immediately afterwards, the two separated a part of the cavalry with King Jorah's order.The other Sanga city was taken down very easily, and then Wang Xuance and others immediately referred to Li Yin's method of governing the colony.Combined with their own situation, they began to carry out a series of reforms and governance on the Chora Kingdom.This place will become their bridgehead for encroaching on the Tianzhu continent.

Li Zhen and Li Yun occupied the Chora Kingdom, and finally had a foothold in the Tianzhu Continent, but the other surrounding kingdoms would definitely be panic-stricken after hearing the news, although their relationship with the Chora Kingdom is not very close Well, some of them are even feuds, but after all, they are all Tamil countries, and they all believe in Brahmins. They used to be regarded as internal struggles, but now there is an external force intervening, and they are not Brahmins, so Naturally, they would not look at it stupidly. Now that these surrounding states are colluding with each other, they are likely to launch an attack on Li Zhen and Li Yun, who have not yet gained a stable foothold.

For Li Zhen and Li Yun's performance, Li Yin was not too surprised, and Li Yin was not even worried about the connection between their neighboring countries.In history, Wang Xuance turned the whole of Tianzhu upside down by relying on more than ten thousand troops borrowed from Tubo and Poroni. In addition, Li Zhen and Li Yun made perfect preparations and had fifty thousand grassland cavalry in their hands. And powerful firearms troops.It can be said that with this army alone, if occupation is not considered, they can bloodbath the entire Tianzhu Continent in the shortest possible time.

However, Li Zhen and Li Yun did not come here just to preach force, what they want is complete occupation and rule, to annex the entire Tianzhu completely, and establish their own dynasty and country.Therefore, it is impossible for them to be like Wang Xuance in history, who destroyed countless countries regardless of their disregard, but they could only retreat afterwards.

"It's easy to conquer a place, but it's not an easy task to firmly control a place in your own hands and turn the subjects there into your help. Everything depends on your own ruling methods! "

This is a sentence that Li Yin sent to Li Zhen and Li Yun afterwards. There is an essential difference between Li Yin and Li Zhen and Li Yun, that is, Li Yin can immigrate from the Tang Dynasty, and the main ethnic group in the country is still The Han nationality is the main one, and other ethnic groups are supplemented.But Li Zhen and Li Yun are far away in Tianzhu, and there are not so many Han people in the Tang Dynasty who can immigrate, so under their rule, the local ethnic groups in Tianzhu must be the main ones, and they want to rule in such a place without ethnic foundation. This requires Li Zhen and Li Yun to have higher ruling methods, otherwise they will be kicked out sooner or later.

However, Li Yin has no time to pay attention to Li Zhen and Li Yun's rule over Chorabang, because at the same time that Li Zhen and Li Zhen sent troops to Tianzhu, the situation in the Straits of Malacca also changed, and the existence of the Lion City has become serious. The economic interests of the various kingdoms along the coast of Malacca were only deterred by the powerful naval power in Li Yin's hands at the beginning, and they dared not make any changes at all.

However, as the port of Lion City became more and more prosperous, more and more seagoing ships were willing to berth in Lion City, which made the various ports headed by Mo Luo Youcheng increasingly depressed, and never returned to their former prosperity.For this situation, countries such as Mo Luoyou can bear it at the beginning, but as time goes by, they can receive less and less taxation, and the pirates sent secretly are constantly wiped out by the Lion City Fleet. Drain their finances even more.

As the saying goes, seizing people's wealth is like killing parents. Under the intolerance of these countries, Mo Luoyou finally took the lead and began to secretly form an alliance, preparing to gather everyone's strength to wipe out the Lion City in one fell swoop.However, the news quickly reached Li Yin through Wu Meiniang's intelligence system.

For the actions of small countries like Mo Luoyou, Li Yin has long been on guard. Even if he can't allocate too much power now to completely wipe out the small countries of Jinzhou like Mo Luoyou, he would have sent people to control the whole of Malacca. In your own hands, where do you need to work hard to build the Lion City?

However, although he didn't have the power to take the initiative to clean up, he came up with a passive method, that is, when the Lion City was being built, he would wantonly tease the repairs of Mo Luoyou and other countries, cutting off their source of sea economy. He will send troops to attack, but there is a strait in the middle, so the opponent must go out to the navy, and then he can just use the navy to wipe them out at sea, and now it is exactly as he expected.

It was also a plan that had been made before, so when Li Yin received the information that Mo Luoyou and the others were about to move, not only was he not surprised, but he was also very happy. He even ordered Lu Qing in the Lion City to strengthen the suppression of the Strait of Malacca and completely Eliminate the pirates supported by several countries, so as to further anger Mo Luoyou and other countries.

After receiving the order, Lu Qing naturally did not dare to be negligent, and he organized the [-] main warships into ten suppression fleets to carry out a new round of suppression of the entire Strait of Malacca. As a result, not only many pirates were eliminated, but even Mo Luoyou and others were eliminated. The navy that occasionally goes out of the country, when encountered by them, cannot escape the fate of extinction.

This series of moves by the Lion City has made the security of the Strait of Malacca soar. The maritime merchants who come and go know that this is the credit of the Lion City, so more sea ships are willing to berth at the port of the Lion City. The ports of countries such as Moluoyou have completely lost their sources of tax revenue.

Under such circumstances, led by Marayu, supplemented by the increasingly powerful Srivijaya and other countries, 19 warships were assembled at the port outside the city of Marayu, with more than [-] soldiers. Zhenguan launched an attack on the Lion City in May of the [-]th year, and the governor of the Lion City, Lu Qing, used [-] main warships and hundreds of auxiliary ships to meet the enemy.

Originally two thousand versus twenty, there should be no suspense in this war, but naval battles are not won by numbers. Most of Mo Luoyou's warships are more than ten paces, at most thirty paces long. Compared with the main battleships that are over a hundred paces, they are like toys. Even without using the cannons on the ship, they can smash each other into pieces just by bumping into each other.Capital Datang 540

What's more, Lu Qing and the others have hundreds of auxiliary warships, most of which are much larger than the opponent's main warships. Some of the auxiliary warships are even equipped with artillery, and their attack power is only lower than that of the main battleships. , so Lu Qing and the others are full of confidence in this war.

Countries such as Mo Luoyou also know that their disadvantages in the performance of warships are irreparable. Even if they have an absolute advantage in the number of warships, they have no confidence in defeating each other in naval battles.But knowing this, they didn't intend to fight each other head-on at sea, but came up with a plan to break up, using half of the warships to hold back Lu Qing's navy, and the rest of the warships went straight to Lion City , and strive to capture the Lion City in the shortest possible time. Without the stronghold of the Lion City by then, no matter how powerful Lu Qing's navy is, it will be useless. (to be continued...)