"Sultan, leave quickly!" Two guards stood beside Said and shouted to him: "The Ming army has already entered the city. If you don't leave, it will be too late!"
Said stood in the room. He didn't make much move when he heard the guard's words. He just turned his head and looked out the window. With the sunlight from the sun that had just risen, he listened to the shouts of killing outside the window and looked at the rising stars.
Thick smoke billows.
The guards became even more anxious, and one of them couldn't help but said: "Sultan, if you don't leave, it will be too late!"
"What's the point of leaving the city of Delhi at this time?" Said finally answered. "The city of Delhi is about to be captured. Even if I escape, where can I go? The city under the rule of the Delhi Sultanate is still
Which one will not be captured by the Ming army? Sooner or later, they will die, within half a year of each other, why not die in a place I am more familiar with?"
The situation has deteriorated to the point of no return! After the Ming army used some method to knock down a city wall in the middle of the night yesterday, tens of thousands of Ming soldiers who had been prepared immediately rushed into the city from the ruins of the city wall. Some of them
They guarded a few relatively easy-to-pass places and lit torches to guide the companions who were coming in a steady stream; most of them divided into several groups and fought towards the city.
Said's reaction was not unpleasant. After seeing the collapse of the city wall, he immediately ordered all the soldiers to be mobilized to defend against the enemy. He decisively abandoned a large area to the east and sent his most trusted troops to attack with wood and stone.
They set up a defense line to block the Ming army's attack. However, Said's reaction was still a step slower than the Ming army's speed. As soon as the defense line started to be set up, the Ming army soldiers rushed over, and the leading hundreds of people immediately came from behind.
Take the fire gun and follow Qianhu's command to fire the projectiles. Although it's still dark at this time and you can't see clearly on the other side, the fire gun has no accuracy in the first place, so there's not much difference if you can't see clearly. Just point the muzzle forward.
With a loud noise, countless Indian soldiers fell to the ground, screaming in agony.
The soldiers holding spears immediately rushed over and stabbed many more Indian prisoners to death. After that, all the Ming army soldiers rushed forward and killed all the remaining Indian soldiers. The leader of the Qianhu family lit the wood used by the Indian soldiers to build a defense line and fired at the soldiers.
Fireworks were launched in the sky and then continued to rush into the city. The soldiers who had been awakened by Zhu Gaoxu and others had already rushed into the city and attacked in separate ways. Although the Indian soldiers resisted vigorously, the Ming army officers and soldiers were far outnumbered by the Indian soldiers.
Secondly, the Ming army was more prepared than the Indians. Thirdly, part of the Ming army looted the people in the city to use as shields, but many of the Indian soldiers were Delhiites who couldn't bear to attack. In the end, the Ming army captured most of the city.
The captive soldiers were separated into different places and were about to be completely annihilated by the Ming army.
"Although the Sultan and the Ming army are powerful, they are not invincible. There are still many cities under the rule of the Sultan, and the Ming army does not have enough troops to occupy these cities one by one. There are also Bahmani Sultanate, Firu
Zishah will not let the Delhi Sultanate perish and will definitely send troops to rescue it. Because the Ming Dynasty implements a discriminatory policy against the Tianfang believers, the Tianfang believers in North India will not do anything for the Ming Dynasty, and the situation is still likely to remain stalemate. Therefore,
Sultan, you must escape, because only if you escape can there be a stalemate, and no one else can take your place," the guard said again.
"Don't try to persuade me." Said just smiled and said: "The situation cannot remain stalemate. The number of soldiers in the Ming army is indeed insufficient, but they can recruit Brahmans to serve as their soldiers. Although the Brahmans are weak in war,
But it is still capable of maintaining public order, and the Ming army can liberate some of the soldiers stationed in the city to attack the city that does not obey the orders of the Ming Dynasty."
"Even Tianfang believers may not be able to do things for the Ming Dynasty. Have you forgotten how Hulagu led troops to attack West Asia more than 150 years ago? After the initial resistance, especially after the fall of Baghdad, many
The Tianfang believers expressed their surrender to the Mongols and turned their swords towards their 'brothers'? The Tianfang believers are indeed stronger than the Brahmans, but they are not completely willing to die."
"So as long as the commander-in-chief of the Ming army is willing, all the territory of the Delhi Sultanate will be occupied. If the Bahmani Sultanate is unwilling to surrender to the Ming army, or the Ming army is unwilling to accept the surrender of this country, it will be occupied by the Ming Dynasty in up to half a year.
The army will be destroyed unless the commander-in-chief of the Ming army makes a huge mistake. I will not bet on the commander-in-chief of the Ming army making a huge mistake. I would rather accept the fact of inevitable defeat and calmly welcome death in the city of Delhi."
"Sultan, even if the country cannot be saved, you are not necessarily going to die." The guard said with tears: "After escaping from Delhi, you can gather soldiers who are still loyal to you and flee westward to Persia; if the Ming army attacks
Persia, just flee to Baghdad. The Ming army cannot expand endlessly and will always have a safe place to stay."
Said did not speak anymore after hearing this, but just shook his head. His most trusted troops are all in Delhi. Even if he escapes from the city, he will be able to take away at most one or two thousand troops, or even only a few hundred. One thousand to
Two thousand people were enough for him to become a tribal leader, but not enough for him to establish another country. But he had already tasted what it was like to be the ruler of a powerful country and was unwilling to be reduced to a small tribal leader again. And he was already old.
Not young, he no longer has the vitality of his youth, and would rather die in the place he loves most.
The guards actually understood what Said was thinking, but the man only said it in order to persuade Said to escape. Seeing that he was determined not to leave, the guards looked at each other and could only keep silent and stop trying to persuade him.
But they did not give up and let Said escape. One of the leading guards said: "Sultan, you must escape! Since you don't want to, we have no choice but to send you out. What will you do after you leave the city of Delhi?"
We can deal with it, but now we can only do this." As he said that, he walked up and wanted to take Said away by force. Not only him, but several guards behind him also came up.
Although Said is also good at martial arts, after all, he is old and far inferior to these young men in their twenties. If he resists with force, he will definitely not be able to stop them from taking him away. But Said just took out a
After opening the cap of the small bottle and putting it to his mouth, the guards did not dare to move because they knew very well that the bottle contained poison.
"Sultan, why are you..." Before he could finish his words, Said interrupted: "I appreciate your kindness, but I will die here and will not leave. You are all still young.
, you still have a future, you don’t have to die with me, just run away. But don’t think about saving your family, and don’t think about hiding in the city. The Ming army will definitely massacre in Delhi City, and the possibility of being killed if you hide in the city is too high.
You must escape!"
"Sultan!" the guards shouted again.
"Hurry up and leave! If you delay for a while, you won't be able to leave!" Said said loudly.
Upon hearing this, several guards bowed to Said with the highest courtesy, turned and left the room.
After they left, accompanied by the cries of death, screams and begging for mercy from outside, Said turned around and took out a wine flask from a cupboard, poured a glass of wine into the glass, and drank the beef like this.
As he drank, he didn't care about the sound outside the house at all.
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Accompanied by several shrill screams, several Ming army soldiers wiped the steel knives in their hands and rushed to a room in a relatively remote palace. One of them wiped the steel knife clean, threw down his rags, and kicked
He opened the door of the house and said with a smile: "Although the Delhi Sultanate is not as powerful as the Timur Khanate back then, the palace is more luxurious than the Timur Khanate's palace. There are so many good things that even two eyes are not enough. This
Although the location of this room is a little out of the way, since it is in the palace, there must be many treasures. We have agreed that each person will have half of the things in the room, and we are not allowed to go back on it, no matter who slips up and gives away the priceless things.
No one else can regret it."
"Don't worry, I will never go back on my word. You make mistakes more often than me, so I take advantage of you." The other person smiled.
But the two soldiers who had already discussed how to distribute the treasures in the house were stunned when they opened the door. An old man who looked like he was in his fifties or sixties was sitting calmly at a luxurious table drinking wine and eating meat. It didn't look normal. And this
Although the old man's clothes looked very ordinary at first glance, the two soldiers who had already robbed more than a dozen people in the palace could feel that the clothes were definitely very valuable. Their entire net worth could not compare with them.
"Who are you?" one person asked in Urdu, which he had only learned the night before.
The old man didn't pay attention to their words immediately. He slowly swallowed all the meat in his mouth, picked up the wine glass and took a sip. Before the two Ming soldiers could no longer bear it and hacked him to death, he said in Chinese: "I am
Said, the king of the Delhi Sultanate, call your commander here, I want to speak to him!"
"He said he was Said, the king of the Delhi Sultanate? Is it true or false?" the Ming army soldiers couldn't help but discuss.
"It's true. He can actually speak Chinese! This is the first time I've seen an Indian who can speak Chinese so fluently. In addition, his clothes are also very gorgeous, so he must be Said."
"That's not necessarily the case. Being able to speak Chinese and having gorgeous clothes doesn't necessarily mean he is Said."
"Even if he is not Said, he must be a high official! Maybe he is Said's brother! Let's report it to the superior officer according to what he said. The reward will be indispensable. You stay here and I will tell Qianhu."
"Why don't you stay here while I tell Qianhu?"
"I can just stay here."
"..., I thought, I'd better kill him with one knife and divide the treasures in the house. We may not get much reward if we tell the superior, but we can't wander around the palace. I also want to try to steal a palace maid.
Well. Although these fair-haired Indian women are not very good-looking, they have fierce and big buttocks, and they also have a unique taste. If you stay here, the direct guards will have to maintain order in the palace after a while, and you will not be able to fuck the palace maids.
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"I think about women's vaginas all day long! If he is really Said, no matter how many free Indian women, the generals and His Highnesses will reward you! They are still virgins! Just stay here and I will tell Qian
household!"
After some debate, they finally decided what to do. One of them immediately ran outside, while the other held a knife in both hands and stared at Said in the house to prevent him from escaping.
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"No trace of Said has been found yet! The soldiers entering the palace won't just focus on looting, right?" Lan Zhen looked at the several commanders in front of her and said loudly.
"General Lan, the subordinates and others have already ordered us to search for older men in expensive clothes, but no one has sent a message saying that such a person has been found." A commander said.
"Yes, General Lan, the order has been passed down for a long time, but no one has ever said that Said was found." Several other people also said one after another.
Lan Zhen was about to say something else when suddenly the door of the room was pushed open and Zhu Gui and others walked in and said loudly: "General Lan, haven't you found Said yet?"
"No. The few guardsmen who entered the palace had already ordered them to leave, but no one found Said." Lan Zhen said.
"It's not like they only focus on looting, right? It's said that there are a lot of good things in the palace." Zhu Gui added: "It's better to send our troops from Tingfan into the palace to search, and ensure that Said is found."
Lan Zhen did not answer. The palace must not allow the troops of the vassal state to enter. This is the bottom line. A small part of the gold and silver treasures in the palace will be taken away by the soldiers, and some will be intercepted by the generals, but most of the good things.
As well as the gold and silver in the palace treasury, they must be put into His Majesty's inner treasury and must not be taken away by the feudal state.
"Sayed may not be in the palace, but may be hiding somewhere in the city. Soldiers should be ordered to search the whole city," Zhu Gaoxu said.
"Should we send people to search outside the city? Said may have escaped from Delhi." Zhu Zhen suggested.
"If Said has really run away from the city of Delhi, it will be bad." Lan Zhen said softly. Capturing the city of Delhi is a huge victory, but if Said cannot be captured, this victory will be much dim.
The city of Delhi is extremely vast, and it is already difficult to search the inside of the city alone. There are simply not enough people to search outside the city.
"Sayed must be in the city!" He suddenly said loudly: "Your Highnesses, please quickly order your soldiers to search the city. The soldiers of Qin Fan will search the west city, the soldiers of Ta Fan Ting Fan will search the east city, and the soldiers of Min Fan will search the east city.
Search the North City, and Heng Fan and the imperial troops search the South City and the Middle City."
"I will give the order immediately." Zhu Gaoxu was the first to agree. Zhu Gui originally wanted to say something, but seeing that Zhu Gaoxu had already agreed, he couldn't say any more, so he could only agree.
But just as everyone was about to send someone to deliver the order, suddenly the guard at the door opened the door, and then a man from a thousand families ran in, saluting and saying: "I found Said!"
"Have you found Said? Where is he?" Zhu Zhen asked immediately.
Only then did the Qianhu notice that there were so many princes in the house. He was immediately frightened and stammered: "There, there, in a palace within the palace."
"Which palace is it? Why don't you bring him here?"
"Everyone, Your Highness, Lan, General Lan, the man said, let General Lan go see him."
"You are already a prisoner, but you are still so arrogant! You actually asked General Lan to see him! You immediately ask your soldiers to trap him here!" Zhu Gui couldn't help but said. Several other princes also felt that Said was like this
This is too ignorant. It is best to let him know who should listen to whom now.
But after Lan Zhen thought for a moment, she said: "Since he said so, take me to see him."
"General Lan, this is not appropriate. The soldiers should kidnap him. How can you go to see him?" Zhu Gaoxu said.
"He is already dying, so what does it matter if I go to see him? Besides, I don't think he will surrender to the Ming Dynasty. If I don't go to see him, he might commit suicide. I still have a few questions to ask him.
, so I can only go to see him." Lan Zhen said with a smile.
"You are right. In this case, I will also go to meet the king of the Delhi Sultanate to see what he is like." Zhu Gaoxu rolled his eyes and said.
"Then I'll go and meet you too!" Several other princes also said.
"Okay, then let's all go see him." Lan Zhen said this, and suddenly laughed and said: "Sayed probably never thought that before he died, so many princes of the Ming Dynasty would condescend to see him.
he."
"According to what you said, he is going to die soon anyway, so it's no big deal to meet him once. As long as no one else knows about it afterwards," Zhu Jixi said.
"You are not allowed to leak it to others." Lan Zhen gave a few instructions to the guards, and then went to see Said with several princes. (To be continued)
