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  Chapter 969 965 [Everyone is silent]

  Sun Kewang received the news, a little moved, but also a little hesitant.

  He is in his forties, his son has given birth to a lot, and he has a lot of land in the mountains of Taiwan. Although being poor is a little poor, he is the boss here, and he doesn't want to make trouble anymore when he is old.

   But that is the founding of the country, once successful, he will be the hero of the founding of the country, not better than being a village head in Taiwan?

  After thinking about it for a month, after the Lantern Festival, Sun Kewang set off with his second son.

  Waiting for a few days in Guangzhou, Jin Wang Zhao Kuangyi came, and 300 retired cavalry had also arrived. Although they are retired cavalrymen, their war horses come from Nanjing Racecourse, and they are all selected from the best of the best. Moreover, the armor is complete, and the whole body armor is scary.

   There are also doctors, craftsmen, veterinarians and other personnel, and a few low-level officials who volunteered to go to sea.

  As for Zhao Kuangtang's classmates, there were six of them, and among them was Wang Chongxi, who ate badly and went into the water together.

  The three dilapidated warships are Zhao Kuangchen's naval team. Most of the sailors, sailors, and handymen are Dan people recruited from the coast.

  The crowd arrived in Guangnan Province, a thousand Datong troops boarded the ship, and five naval warships escorted them. When they arrived in Palembang, they were joined by two more warships, accompanied by more than a dozen merchant ships. These merchant ships were loaded with grain and spices. The grain was for King Zhao Kuang of Jin, and the spices were shipped to Ceylon to be sold to the Dutch.

   When passing through Malacca and Chittagong, two warships joined each other and sailed to Tanjore.

  When the ship sailed to Maisuli Badam, the Dutch discovered them. In the end, near Pulicat Port, the Dutch fleet came to intercept, but did not choose to go to war, because the Dutch fleet lacked certainty of victory. Zhao Kuangchen was escorted by eleven warships, three old-fashioned warships given to him by the emperor, and more than ten armed merchant ships accompanying the army for trade.

   When the two sides negotiated, Zhao Kuangtang didn't say where he was going, but only said that the Dutch fleet could follow, and he would know what the Chinese army wanted to do when the time came.

  When passing by the capital of the Jinji Kingdom, Zhao Kuangyi docked for supplies, and sent several envoys into the city by the way to communicate with King Jinji.

  A few years ago, a fleet of envoys passed by here. King Jinji was very discerning and sent several female slaves to the Chinese envoys.

  This country will be Zhao Kuangyi's neighbor in the future, so we can build a good relationship first. Because even if it wants to expand, it is not to fight the Jinji country, but to bully the weaker Madurai. After taking Madurai, they went to attack Mysuru, which was a Hindu country ruled by the sultan, and no one would come to help there.

  King Jinji didn't ask where they were going, thinking they were visiting Europe again.

  Hearing that the Chinese prince had arrived, King Jinji was very happy, and warmly invited the prince to the banquet. After the banquet, he gave Zhao Kuangyi two female slaves.

  The Dutch fleet followed them all the way to Tanjore, and then the commander was dumbfounded.

   "Boom boom boom!"

   Not only Chinese warships fired at the city wall, but even the accompanying armed merchant ships threw shells at the city (Chinese armed merchant ships can be equipped with up to six artillery pieces, and the caliber of the artillery is also limited).

  This port city obviously has no defenses.

   Discovering the arrival of the Chinese fleet, they thought they could do business, and opened up the port to collect port taxes.

  King Ashwin, who was as fat as a pig, was having fun in the palace when he suddenly heard the sound of rumbling cannons. He started to fight in a panic, and asked, "Did the Dutch call?"

   Soon, a minister came to say: "Your Majesty, it is China and the Netherlands who have jointly called!"

   The Dutch fleet watching the battle was mistaken for an accomplice of the Chinese fleet.

   "Run!" Ashwin was so flexible that he ran like a rolling ball.

  The minister quickly shouted: "Your Majesty, the army should be summoned to defend the city. I have gathered a group of soldiers, but many nobles are fleeing, and the soldiers are also fleeing. You need to appease me at this time!"

   "The Netherlands and China are difficult to deal with alone, let alone the two come together, we can't defend the city," Ashwin shouted anxiously, "Where is my horse? Bring my horse here."

   This king is purely useless, and was destroyed by more than a thousand exiled remnants in history. Those remnants of defeated generals, who didn't even have heavy firearms, captured the city with almost no decent resistance.

  Sun Kewang was landing with 300 cavalry, when he saw the city gates were wide open, and countless soldiers and people were fleeing.

  The battle has just started, and the siege battle is already over?

   "Take off the heavy armor and charge with me!" Sun Kewang made a decisive decision and ordered the cavalry to take off the heavy armor, so as to increase mobility.

  In such a situation, heavy cavalry is useless, and light cavalry can exert more combat power.

   After tossing for a while, the infantry was already running forward, and Sun Kewang led the cavalry to catch up quickly.

   Three hundred cavalry rushed to the nearest city gate, hacking and killing those who stood in the way. But there was chaos at the city gates, which had long been blocked by crazy crowds. Sun Kewang led his cavalry around the city, and even passing through two city gates was blocked by traffic.

   As far as the third city gate, there were no refugees there, but there was an army.

  But the princes and ministers wanted to escape, but they were reluctant to part with their belongings, so they asked private soldiers to guard the city gates, hacked and killed all the people who dared to approach, and then transported the wealth and goods out.

  Seeing that Sun Kewang led his troops to kill, the servants and infantry there dispersed in a hurry.

   Upon seeing this, the princes and ministers took their private cavalry and ran away, not even caring about the wives and children behind them.

  Sun Kewang chased after those cavalrymen. This guy has not forgotten his cavalry and archery skills. He hit the enemy cavalry in front with one arrow. I don't know if he hit it by luck.

   After chasing and killing for several miles, the enemy cavalry didn't resist, they only knew how to ride their horses and run wildly.

  These fleeing aristocratic cavalry, a total of only a hundred or so. Scattered and fled in various directions, Sun Kewang only killed dozens of riders, and then turned to kill towards the west of the city.

  King Ashwin was blocked by the fleeing people, let the palace guards kill him indiscriminately, and finally rushed out from the city gate.

  At this time, a thousand large synchronous soldiers had already entered the city, and under the leadership of the merchants who had been to the city, they went straight to the direction of the palace. When they reached the gate, the king had already run away, leaving only some court servants who took advantage of the chaos to grab things.

  Sun Kewang was intercepting and killing the fleeing nobles in the west of the city, when he suddenly saw an army approaching.

   That was the king's palace guard, and they were pulling more than 20 carts of goods.

  King Ashwin saw the Chinese cavalry, and suddenly lost his mind, and shouted: "Block the enemy."

   Then, with more than a dozen court knights, they ran away on horseback. The rest of the court pawns stood there in a daze, not knowing whether to run away, chase the king, or risk their lives to block the enemy.

  Sun Kewang led his troops to kill them. These court soldiers all knelt down and begged for mercy.

   Seeing this situation, Sun Kewang didn't bother to pay attention, and led his troops to chase the king. After they left, those court soldiers stood up one after another, swarmed to grab the king's treasure, and then took off their armor to flee in all directions.

  Suddenly, Sun Kewang rode back in 20 divisions, and those guys stopped running away, and took the initiative to put the treasure back in the carriage.

  Although the king's mount is a steed, but it is too fat, purely based on weight, he is considered a heavy cavalry. Sun Kewang soon caught up, and the court knights ran away one after another, leaving the heavy cavalry king struggling there.

  Sun Kewang didn't know that this was the king, but he must be an important person in this scene, so he was captured alive immediately.

   "It's so easy to expand the territory?" Zhao Kuangtang stood at the gate of the palace, always feeling that he was dreaming.

  The commander-in-chief of the Dutch fleet at the port appearance battle also put down the binoculars at this moment, and muttered to himself: "It is so easy to take down Tanjore?"

  The Netherlands also has a colonial port in the country of Tanjore, which was snatched from Portugal, and it is the Naga Patam port that the Portuguese value most. When I married a princess from afar, other ports were willing to dowry, but this port refused to hand over.

  After seizing the port of Portugal, the Netherlands did not expand, but negotiated with King Tanjore, forcing him to hand over the country's commercial privileges.

   Knowing the target of the Chinese, the Dutch fleet left immediately and ran to report the situation to the governor.

  A few days later, the Governor of the Netherlands sent an envoy to negotiate as the protector of Tanjore.

  Zhao Kuangyi’s foothold was not stable, and he was unwilling to provoke the Netherlands. The two sides quickly reached an agreement:

  First, do not cancel the commercial privileges of the Dutch in Tanjore.

  Second, Chinese businessmen have the same privileges as the Dutch.

  Third, Naga Patam Port is still ruled by the Netherlands.

  Wang Chongxi is now Zhao Kuangtang's counselor: "Your Highness, we will have a war with the Netherlands sooner or later, and we must ask the Celestial Empire to send troops to help."

   "I know, now we have to occupy the entire territory of Tanjore." Zhao Kuangtang said.

Wang Chongxi said: "The richest land along the river must be controlled in our hands and given to officials and soldiers as rewards. All the landlords there will be killed, and the common people will be tenants for those who receive rewarded land. As for the farther places, send people to the nobles Send a decree to the landlords that as long as they serve the new king, everything can go on as usual."

  Zhao Kuangtang nodded: "I think so too. When the city is stable, I will send troops to occupy the fertile land along the river."

  These two are kind enough. In another time and space, the thousand remnant soldiers came to kill them, but they turned the land that was harvested twice a year, even the landlords and farmers into slaves. Moreover, they have been slaves for generations, and did not "turn over" until the British came.

   Ceylon Island.

  The governor of the Netherlands, Joan Matesolko, who successfully negotiated, was not happy at all.

  Tanjore is the state closest to Ceylon. Once the Chinese immigrate here calmly, they will be able to cross the sea and directly kill the Governor's Mansion in the future.

   But he dare not go to war, even if he can defeat the Chinese navy, with the current poor infantry in the Netherlands, can he take down the tall and strong city of Tanjore? Chinese soldiers are not cowardly Tamil soldiers.

   A few days later, Zhao Kuangyi sent someone to send a diplomatic document and formally informed the Governor of the Netherlands: The Kingdom of Tanjore will be renamed the Kingdom of Jin from now on, and the king will be His Royal Highness King Jin of China. The capital, Tanjore (Tanjavur), was renamed Taiwu City.

  Governor Joan was very speechless. If he knew that Tanjore could be conquered easily, he would have sent troops to occupy it long ago.

   But who would have expected it?

  The city walls are tall and strong. There are more than 2,000 defenders in the city, as well as muskets and artillery. Tens of thousands of people can be recruited to defend at any time. The king actually abandoned the city and fled!

  The governor didn't expect it, and Zhao Han, who was far away in Nanjing, didn't expect it either. He thought he would experience a fierce battle.

  India region, excellent matching mechanism, the further south you go, the weaker your combat power is.

  (end of this chapter)