Chapter 678: Learning from Zhu Yunqi, the Delhi Sultanate is destroyed
In Zhu Ying's opinion, it really shouldn't be too simple to deal with these so-called things when Ming Dynasty has an absolute advantage.
Zhu Yunwen didn't know how to use the power in his hands at all.
Such a small matter, let alone a department like Jinyiwei, even some corrupt officials can easily complete it.
Zhu Ying naturally didn't know, and even Lu didn't think of any good solution.
Lu is somewhat smart, but after all, he has never been an official, so he doesn't know many things clearly.
After Zhu Yunwen listened to his elder brother's words, he resigned and went to find Song Zhong.
"Messenger Songzhen, I leave this matter to you."
Zhu Yunwen bowed his hands and briefly told the whole story before saying.
He knew that his elder brother had asked him to follow him and learn from him. In fact, he also wanted to know how to break the current situation.
When Song Zhong saw King Wu bowing, he quickly stepped aside and replied: "King Wu is too polite. This is just the duty of an minister."
Zhu Yunwen asked curiously, "I don't know what the Governor of Song Town plans to do. Can you tell me a few things first?"
Song Zhong was slightly embarrassed.
This is not the right way, but just by listening to Song Zhong, he understood how to deal with it.
For these matters, Jin Yiwei is a professional counterpart.
In the final analysis, it is just a way to bully men and dominate women.
It's really embarrassing to talk about these methods in person, after all, everyone usually acts in secret.
But since the grandson has explained it, there is nothing to say.
"His Royal Highness King Wu has lived in the palace for many years, so he is naturally rare in these ninth-rate methods. In fact, it is relatively simple to say. It is just relying on power to repair these nobles first, and after making them pay a sufficient price, they will know what to do.
How did you choose?"
"As the saying goes, the king of hell is easy to mess with, and the devil is difficult to deal with. Now just do some things like the devil."
Song Zhong's words were still rather euphemistic, which made Zhu Yunwen unable to clear up the confusion.
"Can you please ask Governor Song to be more specific?" Zhu Yunwen asked again.
Song Zhong had no choice but to speak openly: "These nobles of the occupied city have been in power for a long time, and they will definitely commit crimes. We only need to seize these handles and we can easily force them to submit."
"When encountering those who are ignorant, they will be interrogated according to the law. These people who have been pampered for a long time can be forced to use some torture and they will naturally become docile."
"The interests of the nobles are not as important as their own safety. As long as a group of nobles are rectified, most of the nobles will be obedient. We don't need to worry about them joining forces."
After listening to this, Zhu Yunwen suddenly realized that it could still be like this.
Then someone asked with some doubts: "I'm afraid it will be very troublesome for us to check their evidence. With so many people, how much time will it take."
Song Zhong smiled sadly and said: "We don't need evidence, we just need a roster. If we arrest these people and torture them in prison, they will tell them all the evidence and their crimes."
Regarding the matter of turning into a move, Song Zhong, as the envoy of the Jinyi Guard Town, has already trained his skill points to the full level.
Zhu Yunwen opened his mouth slightly. Song Zhong's words really opened a new world for him.
Then he shamelessly asked: "Wucheng is my vassal state. There is no problem in doing this, and others will not say anything. But what should we do in other parts of the Champa Kingdom? My brother's intention is to open the entire Champa Kingdom."
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"If we send people to other cities, the nobles there will naturally not be willing to stop us."
Song Zhong heard this and said directly without thinking: "It's easy to handle. Then we can just find some excuse to frame them and force them to surrender."
"Don't worry about setting up schools for now, let's focus on other aspects. These nobles themselves are not monolithic and can easily compete for their own interests."
"We can definitely catch a group of them, collect a group of them, and finally attack a group of them again to disintegrate them from within."
"When the time comes and we bring up the matter of setting up a school, it will be a matter of course."
This method is based on the disparity between upper and lower levels. At present, Ming Dynasty is fully capable of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.
In fact, to disintegrate the alliance of nobles, all we need to do is find some traitors who occupy the city and arrange it.
In the following days, Zhu Yunwen followed Song Zhong around.
We can't take action now, it's the Chinese New Year after all, so we just need to collect information.
It's not too late to take action after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
But in comparison, Timur was not so particular.
Growing up in the Middle East, he had no concept of celebrating the New Year.
It was not a problem for Timur to conquer the Sultan of Delhi himself.
After all, the Sultan of Delhi had no chance of resisting Timur.
But the insects from the east made him feel a little bored.
Otherwise, within this half month, the Sultan of Delhi's royal capital would have been captured.
Currently, 200,000 troops are besieging the city under the walls of the Sultanate's capital in Delhi.
"After the city is defeated, tell the soldiers that they will slaughter the city for three days without sealing the sword."
Timur looked coldly at the Mongolian, Tubo, and Han soldiers on the wall and said.
These people have caused him a lot of losses recently.
The royal capital of the Delhi Sultan has a history of hundreds of years. It is very different from ordinary local cities. It has strong walls that are difficult to overcome.
Besieging a city is no simple matter, especially for such a high wall.
Even if the artillery bombardment continued, it still stood firm.
Currently, the artillery inventory of Timur's army is running low, which makes Timur very angry, so he can only continue to send slave troops to consume them.
In fact, Timur's army itself was not good at siege warfare.
The most elite ones under his command are cavalry rather than infantry. If they were on the plains, they could easily destroy the Sultan of Delhi, but unfortunately not.
However, although there are some troubles, the Delhi Sultan has no foreign aid. Fifty thousand soldiers are a lot, but it is impossible to save the Delhi Sultan.
Timur is now forcibly recruiting the entire Delhi Sultanate in order to attack the city. All the young men must be incorporated into the slave army, and then used as cannon fodder to consume the Delhi Sultanate.
The powerful offensive has no intention of stopping. No matter how many people die, it doesn't matter. They are all Delhi Sultans anyway.
"What are they shouting?" Deputy Commander Zhou Cheng couldn't help but ask.
He was a little puzzled. Looking at Timur's army below, he suddenly became very excited, and he didn't understand what it meant.
As the commander-in-chief, Wang Jinyi said angrily: "I don't understand the Turkic language. How do I know what to shout?"
After that, Wang Jinyi asked someone who knew Turkic language to translate.
The soldier said timidly and tremblingly: "General, they said they would massacre the royal capital in three days before the city was broken."
After hearing this, Wang Jinyi was furious: "You are not the son of a man, but you still want to massacre the city. You simply don't take us seriously.",
Zhou Cheng said quietly: "We may not be able to hold on much longer."
As soon as these words came out, Wang Jinyi suddenly lost his temper.
Because the situation in the Sultanate of Delhi is so bad now.
In fact, in terms of the offensive of both sides, defending the city has a great advantage.
In the city, plus Wang Jinyi's 50,000 troops, there are a total of 160,000 troops in the city.
Timur's own army numbered around 200,000, and including the slave army, the number was only 500,000.
This is not much, especially for a royal capital like Delhi Sultan. Let alone a few months, even half a year is no problem.
However, the problem lies in food reserves.
Originally, the food in the city could last for more than half a year, but seven days ago, some soldiers in the city suddenly rebelled and secretly burned all the food reserves. This caused the besieged Sultanate of Delhi to suddenly go out of control.
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There is no possibility of reinforcements from the Sultan of Delhi.
In order to block the Delhi Sultan's reinforcements, Timur also sent a large army to attack the Eastern Chagatai Khanate during his personal expedition. The country was already overwhelmed with its own affairs, so how could it possibly come to support the Delhi Sultan.
Now the entire territory of Delhi Sultanate has basically been put into Timur's hands, which means that the royal capital is the last isolated city in the country.
In addition, most of the food was burned, which means that the demise of the Delhi Sultan has become an established fact.
Now it's just a fight between trapped beasts, a final struggle.
"The Sultan of Delhi is about to end. Look at those distinguished ministers. They don't even think about how to defend. Instead, they are clamoring about how to surrender."
"A few days ago, if our soldiers hadn't been alert, the traitors in the city would have secretly opened the city gate."
"The destruction of the royal capital is inevitable. Timur asked his troops to shout like this just to stimulate the courageous people in the city. They will definitely become more crazy. This means that we are under attack from both inside and outside."
"With the current situation, I think we are worthy of the one hundred thousand taels of gold. After all, we are mercenaries."
Having said this, Zhou Chengcheng couldn't help but spat: "Damn it, sometimes I feel that we are the people of the Sultan of Delhi. Look at those soldiers, they have no intention of fighting for their lives."
Almost all of the soldiers in the royal capital of the decadent Tughluq Dynasty are just fake, and they have long lost the bravery they had in the glory days of the Tughluq Dynasty.
On the contrary, it was a miscellaneous army recruited from Tubo and Mongolia, and every one of them was brave and not afraid of death.
Wang Jinyi said helplessly: "You are right, we should think about ourselves. I suspect these idiots will cooperate with Timur to attack us secretly."
"Then Mahmoud is totally seeking death on his own. He has already found out who the traitor is, and he even talks about letting it go for the time being because of old feelings. Doesn't this encourage them to betray him?"
"There's no way to save it. Let's just find a time and we can break out at night."
"This Timur seems to know some art of war. If there is only one missing, let's go directly from the north gate."
Zhou Cheng thought for a while, hesitated and said, "Now that we have decided, should we get some benefits?"
"Anyway, in the end, Timur will be better off than Timur. It's better to be better off than us."
Wang Jinyi heard this, with a bit of hesitation on his face: "Will it affect the reputation of Ming Dynasty? This will not be worth the gain. After all, we are mercenaries."
Zhou Cheng suggested: "Perhaps we can convince Karamo. The guards in his hands will probably be liquidated by Timur. It is better to follow us."
"At any rate, there are more than 4,000 people. We have lost so much now, so we can still replenish some."
There were originally 50,000 people, but after several months of fighting, only more than 30,000 were left, with tens of thousands of losses.
The Karamo that Zhou Cheng was talking about was the commander of the imperial guards of Mahmud, the monarch of the Tughluq Dynasty, and could be regarded as a truly combat-effective team in the royal capital.
Wang Jinyi thought in his mind.
If Karamo takes action and seizes the wealth in the royal capital, it will basically not have any impact on the reputation of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, it was one of their own who did it.
Karamo will definitely have nowhere to go in the future and can only return to Uzang with him.
After returning, most of the Mongolian and Tubo soldiers will leave. After all, they are only following temporarily.
But here in Karamo, there is a high possibility that they will always be with them. After all, the Delhi Sultan has been destroyed, and they are all homeless wanderers.
They can even be incorporated into the Ming Dynasty's system.
Returning to the Ming Dynasty with thousands of elites, the meritorious service is not small.
Moreover, most of the wealth in the royal capital will fall into his own pocket.
"Okay, I'll do as you say. I can't leave the city now for fear of something unexpected happening, so I'll leave it to you to convince Karamo."
Zhou Cheng nodded: "Don't worry, I've had a drink with Karamo before. He is not a native noble. He was promoted later. He already has resentment towards these nobles in the city."
"Now that there is such an opportunity, I believe he will not refuse it."
After finishing speaking, Zhou Cheng left with dozens of people.
The shouts of Timur's army had a great impact on the Delhi Sultanate.
Only the capital of the Delhi Sultanate was left, which meant that its collapse was just a matter of time.
Many people have long thought of surrendering.
When Zhou Cheng arrived at the palace, the place was already very noisy.
"I have long said that there is no need to struggle in vain. How many civilians and soldiers have lost their lives in the war now are in vain. Those outsiders are completely untrustworthy. They just want to gain their own interests."
"Yes, these foreigners are from the Ming Dynasty, and most of them are Mongolian soldiers and Tibetan soldiers. The Ming Dynasty will not send troops to assist us at all, it will just act in the name of others."
"If we don't surrender, Timur will really massacre the city. You know, how many cities have been massacred by Timur. Even if we surrender, the Sultan of Delhi will still need our help to govern. Timur will not always be here.
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"For us, it is just a temporary rule by Timur. The Sultan of Delhi will eventually return to the country again."
"I suggest that maybe we can take the heads of those foreigners as a gift to Timur, so that Timur can feel our sincerity."
In the palace hall, the situation was already one-sided because Timur called for massacre of the city.
Mahmud, who was sitting on the throne, seemed to be speechless.
However, listening to the discussions of the ministers, Mahmud was also a little confused.
Maybe it was a wrong decision to give 100,000 gold to Wang Jinyi?