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  Chapter 974 970 [The Sultan lying flat]

(I checked the map again. It’s a bit embarrassing. The cities of Tanjore and Madurai are not close to the sea, but they are located in the lower reaches of the two rivers, and there is still a distance from the mouth of the sea. The data map used by Lao Wang is wrong. Forget checking against modern maps, just make do with it.)

  In the world, there is something called "India Time". It is magical, mysterious and mysterious, unpredictable and elusive.

  Under the tandem of the Dutch, the various forces made an appointment to dispatch troops immediately after the rainy season.

  But after the rainy season, King Madurai began to gather troops. Orders spread to cities and villages, military nobles went about their affairs slowly, officers and soldiers slowly assembled. The harvest of summer rice is about to be delayed, and the grain must be harvested first.

  According to this speed, I am afraid that we will have to wait until late autumn to complete the assembly.

   The fastest move was the prince of Canmei City. These guys are nominally subordinate to Zhao Kuangchen, and their interests are at stake, so they are very motivated and busy working with the coalition forces to kill the Chinese.

  Whether it is Sun Kewang, an old thief, or Weng Yingqi, a general of the Datong Army, they have fought for half their lives, and now they are all wrong when they come to India!

  The imaginary situation never came.

  In this case, according to the wishes of the civil servants, it is most reasonable to clean up the princes of Canmei City first.

  Who would have expected that?

  As the saying goes, speed is the most important thing to fight.

  The infantry, cavalry, and naval commanders under Zhao Kuangyi's command, in order to buy more time, made preparations one by one during the rainy season. Farmers in the village community were flogged and braved the rain to gather towards Taiwu City, and more than 20 people even died of cold and fever.

  When Weng Yingqi brought his infantry and civilian husbands, landed on a sea boat, and then transferred to an inland river boat to arrive outside the city of Madurai, the sultans here were scared out of their wits.

   "How did the Chinese come here in less than half a month after the sun cleared?" Sultan Udaji was completely at a loss.

  This guy is young and energetic, and somehow he has some responsibility. He personally leads the guards to guard the city, and mobilizes the citizens to stand up together.

   As for Sun Kewang, all the cavalry under his command were lightly armored and rushed to the border with only dry food. When they saw the village community, they killed and robbed food, and looted several village communities in a row, but there was no sign of the enemy army at all.

  Before the event, the three generals Weng Yingqi, Sun Kewang, and Lin Chengzong repeatedly discussed and formulated a detailed plan.

  But their military plan, when it comes to the Indian battlefield, is completely like a joke, all predictions... all invalidated!

  Sun Kewang didn't care so much, anyway, he robbed villages all the way, and killed anyone who was dressed and lived in a good house. The more Brahmins and Kshatriyas he kills, the more chaotic the grassroots rule of Madurai will be, and it is impossible to send troops to attack Jin in the next few years.

  Murdering and looting all the way, Sun Kewang led the cavalry and ran to join Weng Yingqi's infantry, but the King Qin's army of Madurai had not yet appeared.

   "Fucking his mother, what the **** are you fighting?" Sun Kewang couldn't help scolding his mother.

Weng Yingqi was also a little speechless, pointing to the city and said: "It is scheduled, if the enemy does not send troops, we will besiege the city and fight for reinforcements. But the enemy's reinforcements have been delayed, so we are just wasting here? The time has dragged on for too long, too What if His Highness is besieged in Wucheng?"

   "How do I know?" Sun Kewang looked depressed.

   At this moment, an officer came to report: "Two generals, the enemy is going out of the city to fight!"

  Weng Yingqi and Sun Kewang looked at each other, at first confused, then overjoyed.

  Several city gates opened wide, and one team after another of the enemy troops left the city.

   There are even more than a dozen war elephants, and these things are actually kept in the city.

  Sultan Udaji also marched in person. The king was full of ambition and felt that he would win this battle.

  He has more than 600 musketeers, nearly a thousand elite infantry using cold weapons, hundreds of cavalry, and more than a dozen war elephants. The Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, and Sudras in the city also temporarily recruited some and organized an army of tens of thousands. In addition, there is also a navy in the lake, dispatching hundreds of inland river boats.

   On the Chinese side, only 600 infantry left the city. Of the remaining 400 infantry, 300 were left to defend the city, and 100 were scattered to manage the village.

  Another 300 cavalry units and 100 naval soldiers.

  The real soldiers are only these thousand people!

  The rest are all Sudra civilian husbands, and more than 2,000 people have been recruited. The tasks are to transport supplies, help build camps, help soldiers wash clothes, and so on.

   "How dare you come out." Sun Kewang smiled.

  Weng Yingqi said: "General Sun, I lead the infantry to stand firm in the camp, and you look for opportunities to go out and create chaos."

   "I understand." Sun Kewang smiled.

  The camp of the Jin army is surrounded by a small lake in the west and a tributary of the Waigai River in the south.

  The Madurai army either came across the river, landed by the lake, or circled along the shore of the lake.

  Sun Kewang directly led the cavalry to leave the camp, and ran downstream to cross the river, trying to detour to the enemy's rear to make a surprise attack.

  The only ones left in the camp were 600 army infantry, 100 navy soldiers, and the more than 2,000 Sudra civilians who had no combat effectiveness at all.

  The Madurai water army took the lead in launching an offensive, and hundreds of ships, large and small, came from the lake.

  There were only trebuchets and bows and arrows on board, and Weng Yingqi had six cannons under his command. Before the enemy ship entered the range of the trebuchet, the booming artillery sounded.

  When the enemy warship heard the sound of the cannon, it was so frightened that it quickly dispersed and approached the camp cautiously.

  Udaji bought a telescope from the Dutch. He carefully observed the situation in the camp and felt that he should not lose. He crossed the river with an army of tens of thousands and heaped the Chinese to death. The king didn't wait for the navy to make a contribution, so he ordered: "Except for the Sudanese Guards, the rest of the troops should cross the river in batches!"

  Madurai soldiers rowed over in a mess carrying countless small sampans.

  The artillery of the Jin army was firing at the enemy ships on the lake with all its strength, and could not spare the energy to bombard the troops crossing the river.

   Soon, two batches of enemy troops successfully crossed the river, all of which were temporarily recruited urban troops. The officers were from the Kshatriya caste, and the soldiers were Vaisyas and Sudras in the city. The officers were still fully armed, but the soldiers had all kinds of weapons.

  This kind of temporary troops had never fought a single battle. They had only been trained for ten days before they were taken out of the city by the Sudan to fight.

  If there were tens of thousands of troops stationed in the city, Zhao Kuangtang would have lost his mind and would have sent hundreds of people to besiege the city.

   The number of enemies who successfully crossed the river soon approached a thousand, but Weng Yingqi didn't pay attention to it, and even let the enemy troops come to fight more. In his eyes, what was in front of him was not an army at all, not to mention the lack of soldiers and armor. After landing, it was in chaos, and the Kshatriya officers could not even quickly form a team.

  Of course it was impossible to form a team. When the boats crossed the river, they floated in a mess, and after they landed, the formation was completely messed up.

  They organize their troops according to the blocks. A low-level Vaishya officer manages a bunch of Sudras he knows. These low-level Vaishya officers are then managed by middle and high-level Kshatriya officers. When forming a team, they basically didn't look at the flags, and first yelled to find acquaintances.

   The more than a thousand enemy troops who crossed the river first, waited for the second batch of soldiers to land ashore, but they had not yet fully formed the team.

  More than 3,000 people crossed the river, and the Madurai army finally moved. The team of more than 1,000 people circled to the east of the camp, as if planning to attack from both sides.

   At this time, if Sun Kewang's cavalry did not go downstream to cross the river, but came back directly to charge, they might be able to crush the enemy with a single encounter.

  Weng Yingqi said: "First post, second post, attack from the east gate of the camp!"

   Nearly two hundred musketeers set off immediately after receiving the order.

  They had already loaded the ammunition, left the camp, quickly finished their formation, and moved forward slowly listening to the whistle.

   There are more than a thousand enemies, and they are going around, and the formation is scattered when marching. Seeing the Han army coming, they hurriedly stopped and lined up, waiting for the battle with various cold weapons.

   "Bang bang bang!"

  The two sides drew closer, and the first row of 50 flintlock guns fired. Before the second row fired bullets, the more than 1,000 Madurai troops collapsed.

  The Kshatriya officers took the lead in fleeing, not to mention the temporary militia, even the Kshatriya officers had never been on the battlefield. Here, there has been no war for more than 30 years, and I can't even find a decent general!

   "On the bayonet!"

  The high-pitched and ear-piercing charge horn sounded, and less than 200 Han troops rushed to the river with more than 1,000 routs.

   "Three whistles, four whistles, come out from the south gate of the camp!"

  At this time, Weng Yingqi still kept the reserve team.

   The defeated soldiers who were hunted down by the first sentry and the second sentry had already caused a chain reaction before they even approached the river bank. At this time, more than a thousand enemy troops had completed their formation, and hundreds more had just disembarked. Seeing that the friendly army was fleeing, the soldiers who had just disembarked immediately fled by boat.

   Seeing this situation, the third whistle and the fourth whistle immediately seized the opportunity and didn't bother to line up. They formed a team of five nearby and rushed over with flintlock guns.

  The military organization of the two sides is far too different.

  The Han army can quickly form a team of five with just a few orders. As for Madurai's temporary army, the entire team has to work hard for a long time, and once it becomes chaotic, it will be impossible to command.

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

  More than 30 teams of five people approached and shot freely, then inserted bayonets and rushed forward.

  The 4,000 enemy troops who had crossed the river all collapsed within a few minutes. They didn't dare to fight the Han people, but they robbed themselves of boats fiercely. A large number of small boats were overturned, and many were trampled to death by the river.

  Seeing this, Sultan Udaji’s lungs almost exploded.

  He rushed to the river on horseback and yelled, "Come back, reorganize the river crossing! Don't just pass here, go downstream to cross the river first, form a formation before attacking the enemy's camp!"

  Sudan's personal guards hurriedly followed, and more than a dozen elephant soldiers stood by.

  The river surface has long been a mess, thousands of small boats are at a loss, and finally rowed to their own positions in a mess.

   "Da da da da!"

   In the midst of this chaos, Sun Kewang came with 300 cavalry. They took off all their armor, only wore single clothes and led the horse across the river, and then charged upstream regardless of life or death.

  By the river, nearly ten thousand enemy troops were in a mess, and even some soldiers hadn't returned from the boat.

   These guys had been startled for a long time. When they heard the sound of horseshoes, they turned and fled subconsciously. Sun Kewang's cavalry was still two miles away from them.

   "Array, array!"

  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 Guards and the militia keep a distance, and don't be swept away by the rout."

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

   This veteran will still fight. He led the cavalry to kill the defeated soldiers along the way, and escorted the king and the Sudanese guards from the battlefield.

  Sun Ke saw that the Sudanese Guards were still in chaos, so he 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.

  Udaji was not reconciled: "My Sudanese guard has more than a thousand 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 Guard has been frightened!"

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

  These Sudanese guards are all Kshatriyas.

  Usually bullying ordinary people is still practiced, but basically does not train much, and has never 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.

   Then go 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.

   About an hour later, the Sultan sent an envoy to seek peace.

  Weng Yingqi presided over the negotiations, signed an alliance under the city, and 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, the younger sister of Sudan, married Jin Wang Zhao Kuangyi 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 will compensate Jin State with 5,000 taels of gold and 10,000 taels of silver.

  Sultan Udaji searched for gold and silver throughout the city, 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. It seemed that he was going to lie flat for the rest of his life.

  (end of this chapter)