"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

"What's so urgent?"

"All our troops have withdrawn to the shore."

"Why did you retreat to the shore? Have you captured those Song people?"

"No, Your Majesty, we did not defeat the Song people. The soldiers were frightened back."

"Why?" the King of Bo Ni asked angrily.

"The Song people's ships can thunder, and they can also use thunder to bombard our ships."

"This...this..." The king of Boni Kingdom was shocked, "This is impossible."

"It's true, everyone has withdrawn now."

While he was talking, someone else ran in from outside in fear.

"Your Majesty, the Song army is coming to kill us."

"Ah!" The king of Boni was frightened and panicked, and the ministers were also frightened and at a loss.

"How many Song troops are coming?"

"have no idea."

"Where are our people?"

"have no idea."

Li Kun was originally just preparing to put pressure on the Bo Ni Kingdom, but he did not expect that the battle would go so smoothly. It was much smoother than he imagined.

Not one of the Boni warships was lost, but all of them withdrew to the port, and the soldiers fled ashore one after another.

There is currently no military defense in the port.

Li Kun initially sent an envoy to prepare for talks, and the one he sent was Liu Xiang.

Liu Xiang ran to the city and discovered that rumors were spreading everywhere in the city.

And the rumors were so outrageous that people were panicked.

Liu Xiang walked halfway and thought about it. Now that the two armies are fighting, the situation is unclear. What if he goes to the palace and is beheaded by the other party in anger?

So Liu Xiang went back and said to Li Kun: "Shangguan, there is no military defense in the city. The common people think that we don't need to waste time, so they directly send troops to the palace to prevent the king of occupying the city from escaping."

"No military defense?"

"No."

Li Kun left 100 people on the boat and brought 500 people into the city by accident.

In this age of weapons, things are indeed different.

Let’s talk about the famous Battle of Malacca in official history. The Portuguese only had 700 soldiers. They came from afar and defeated the Kingdom of Malacca with 20,000 soldiers.

Of course, when Portugal began its Age of Discovery, it already had heavy artillery and matchlocks.

The firearms of the Song Army were several generations more advanced than those of the Song Army at this time.

Even so, it is enough to illustrate the impact of iterations of weapons technology on war.

At this time, neither Li Kun nor Li Bao, who was still on the sea, realized that the Song army, which had mastered artillery and muskets, had already left the armies of the Nanyang countries far behind in terms of strength.

In other words: they don't know how powerful they are.

After Li Kun led 500 people into the city, he did not stop them.

The Boni Imperial City was smaller than a small county town in the Song Dynasty, but it had a wide variety of commodities and abundant food.

There are all kinds of fruits, fruit wine, and medicinal materials.

The people of Song Dynasty did not expect that such a small place could have so many commodities.

For the people of the Song Dynasty who valued commerce, this was simply a treasure trove.

It wasn't until they approached the palace that they encountered some resistance sporadically, but they were quickly killed.

Next, the gate of the palace was opened, and when the king of the Balni Kingdom went out, the Song army was fully armed and ready for a bloody battle with the Balni Kingdom.

As a result, the king of Boni surrendered directly and welcomed the Song army into the palace with a very humble attitude.

Until this moment, Li Kun himself was still a little confused, and Liu Xiang was also confused.

While the King of Balni Kingdom humbly entertained the Song people, he also began to order people to urgently send letters of request for help to the Three Buddhas.

The Balni Kingdom thought that when Srivijaya came next, they could kill the Song people, but in fact, the Balini War basically came to an end here.

Just when the Bo Ni Kingdom was progressing very smoothly, Li Bao's main fleet was approaching the ancient Siam Kingdom.

The ancient Kingdom of Siam was hundreds of miles north of Lingga.

This small country was a tributary of Srivijaya. It did not have much of an army, and even the iron industry was very weak. The size of its royal city was not as large as that of Bo Ni.

In the Song Dynasty, the population of any county town overwhelmed the population of its royal city.

The reason why no big cities were born in the South China Sea countries does not mean that their actual population is not large.

In fact, the population of the South China Sea is very large.

Because the natural gifts here are so good, you can survive without farming.

Don't call mom when you are hungry, just climb up the tree and pick fruits to eat.

Moreover, the products are abundant, and there is no need to worry about drought when farming.

The reason why there is no big city is that the management level here is too low. If the population exceeds 10,000, it will be difficult to manage it.

After all, there is only one Srivijaya in the South China Sea.

Under such circumstances, Li Bao arrived in ancient Siam on the evening of the 30th day of the first lunar month.

On the first day of February, it took just an hour to land in the ancient Siam Kingdom amid self-doubt, and another day to get all the weapons.

This "thrilling" armed attack shocked and shocked all the Song troops.

The plan of boarding a ship and killing people that had been arranged countless times in their minds became out of reach on this warm afternoon.

So far, the Song Army has only attacked two very weak places in the South China Sea and has not yet stirred up any storms.

The trade routes of the countries in the South China Sea are still calm and busy.

Large quantities of goods are still transported across the vast ocean to their designated locations.

However, on February 15th, a letter asking for help from the Balni Kingdom to Jambi, the royal city of Srivijaya, was placed in front of King Srivijaya.

"King Bo Ni said that the Song people captured his royal city?" King Srivijaya said to his prime minister.

Srivijaya is an autocratic monarchy and believes in Mahayana Buddhism. Naturally, it has a prime minister and a complete bureaucracy.

This is where it's powerful.

Srivijaya was probably founded in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. After the founding of the country, with its strong energy, it began to fight and conquer everywhere.

By the end of the Tang Dynasty it had reached its peak.

By the Song Dynasty, the power once entered Mayi (central Philippines) in the north.

The most important thing is that Srivijaya controls the strategic points between the east and the west.

There are several wealthy places in the world in this era.

The first place is of course the Song Dynasty, and the second place is probably Tianzhu. After all, the climate is so good.

The third place may be Rome, which is the Eastern Rome in history.

The declining Arab Empire and the Seljuk Empire, which was about to decline at this time, are also considered good.

The Arabs, on the other hand, traveled in the eastern and western seas, transporting goods back and forth for these countries.

A large amount of goods need to pass through the hands of Sriwijaya, and it makes a lot of money.

If you have money and want to control the situation, of course you have to prepare an army.

King Srivijaya and Prime Minister Srivijaya, who had hundreds of warships in their hands, learned that the Song Dynasty had captured the capital of King Bali, and they first doubted its authenticity.

After carefully interrogating the person who sent the message, it was confirmed that the Song Dynasty had indeed captured the Balni Kingdom. They were shocked.

The prime minister said this: "Your Majesty, we have no enmity with the Song Dynasty and have quite a lot of trade relations with the Song Dynasty. Why the Song Dynasty invaded the Balni Kingdom without any reason, I can't understand."

"It may be related to the fact that we have lowered prices and collected money in recent years," King Srivijaya said.

"Are you saying that the people of Song Dynasty are dissatisfied with the price of silk and ceramics that we have suppressed for them?"

“I’m not happy with the tax collection either!”
Chapter completed!