The first thousand nine hundred and eighty-two chapters zip test by the way to destroy a kingdom
As the earliest overseas territory of the Tang Empire in the Indian peninsula, Gohe State was also relatively close to the mainland. Therefore, even after the Tang Empire later took control of Ceylon Island, the development of Gohe State was still very good.
After all, Ceylon Island was positioned as a military base in the overseas territories of the Tang Empire.
Previously, it was even partially localized.
However, the localization of Ceylon Island has not affected the development of Gohe State itself. After all, the positioning of the two is different.
The island of Ceylon is now treated as a native land and is now even a railway. The island of Ceylon is full of people from the Tang Dynasty, but there are no temporary residents, and there are no indigenous people.
As for Gehe Prefecture, it is still just an ordinary overseas territory. You can still see many temporary residents in Gehe Prefecture, and you can also see a lot of indigenous people.
The overall development is also based on agriculture and indigenous trade.
So far, the entire area under the direct jurisdiction of Gehe Prefecture is more than 70,000 square kilometers. However, there are not many people from the Tang Dynasty living in these more than 70,000 square kilometers, only a few hundred thousand.
Overall, the population density is relatively low.
In the area beyond 70,000 square kilometers, there are numerous indigenous kingdoms.
Among these many local indigenous kingdoms, some were puppet kingdoms supported by the Tang Dynasty, while others were indigenous kingdoms that the Tang Dynasty was too lazy to pay attention to, and some were indigenous kingdoms that naively regarded the Tang Dynasty as their enemies.
The Kingdom of Carlo is such an innocent kingdom.
In fact, the rise of this kingdom did not take long, only four or five years in total. However, it continued to expand in these four or five days, and the territory it ruled gradually expanded from a few thousand square kilometers to more than 50,000 square kilometers now.
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In other words, the rise of the Karo Kingdom is inseparable from the efforts of the arms merchants of the Tang Dynasty, because the weapons used by the armies of this kingdom, like the weapons used by the armies of other kingdoms in India, are exclusively supplied by the Tang Dynasty.
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In order to make money, the arms dealers of the Tang Dynasty created troubles all over the world. In order to let the Kingdom of Carlo buy more arms, they constantly encouraged the Kingdom to start wars.
However, the continuous war victories have made the people of the Carlo Kingdom feel a little swollen.
Last year, he wanted to renegotiate some tariff issues with the Tang Empire. Naturally, the people at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Datang Empire didn't bother to pay attention to him.
Then at the beginning of this year, some special taxes were implemented in their territory, and special taxes were levied on Datang's export commodities.
They don't explicitly levy tariffs, they just levy taxes on sales and other aspects.
However, the merchants of the Tang Dynasty got pricked!
After several conflicts, these Tang businessmen directly brought a group of indigenous mercenaries over to protect their own interests.
As a result, the indigenous mercenaries they hired were not very effective and could not defeat the Carlo Kingdom's army.
As a result, there was also an explosion in the Carlo Kingdom, and several Tang Dynasty business houses that were causing trouble were immediately sealed.
But if you do this, it will directly make the matter bigger.
Directly sealing down the merchant houses of Tang Dynasty merchants and hindering normal trade is not allowed by the Tang Empire.
The Tang Empire had countless colonial merchant houses all over the world. If every indigenous kingdom dared to seal them down, that would be fine.
Well, after a brief negotiation with them, the Imperial Indian Affairs Office didn't bother to talk anymore, and directly issued an official document requesting the army's cooperation.
At this time, the 18th Division sent troops to the Carlo Kingdom.
The Carlo Kingdom covers an area of only tens of thousands of square kilometers. Although it is said that their army has a large number of troops, tens of thousands of them, but how can I say that an indigenous kingdom of this size has never been taken seriously by the Tang Army.
If there were no special circumstances, it is estimated that the 18th Division would just randomly send a battalion, and then carry the river warships over there. If there was a casual battle, the whole country would probably surrender.
But this time, Major General Tian Qinyun thought of taking this opportunity to conduct a long-distance armed training and live-fire exercise!
Well done, he treated the dispatch of troops to the Carlo Kingdom as an armed training and live-fire exercise.
This cannot be said to be arrogant, it is just the fact!
The 18th Army Division is one of the dozens of standing divisions in the empire. When the entire division is full, it has more than 18,000 men. It will also be supported by the inland artillery fleet.
If a fight really breaks out and the logistics support is sufficient, this 18th Division can sweep across the entire Indian Peninsula!
Therefore, Major General Tian Qinyun is really not arrogant!
He simply wanted to conduct an exercise to test the actual combat performance of the Joint Type II rifle.
After all, he was instructed by his superiors to conduct actual combat tests on the rifle and report potential problems so that design improvements could be made.
Major General Tian Qinyun still attaches great importance to this task.
After all, he was already a major general in the army, and he was also the commander of the main infantry division. With a bright future, he could barely be regarded as a mid-level general within the Tang Army.
He is naturally clear about the Joint Type II rifle. This time, he is preparing to build a main rifle that can withstand the test of time.
If nothing else goes wrong, the Joint Type II rifle and its improved versions will be equipped with troops for decades, and the number of early-stage equipment alone may reach millions.
Naturally, there cannot be any neglect for this kind of main equipment of the entire army. All kinds of preliminary testing work must be completed and the defects that should be improved must be improved. Only in this way can serious defects be avoided after large-scale equipment, which will lead to
The embarrassment of disassembly.
After Tian Qinyun had the idea of arming training, he made an explanation with the friendly forces also stationed in Gehe Prefecture, namely the 23rd Marine Regiment, and asked them to take on the defense of Gehe Prefecture first.
As for the 18th Division itself, it began to advance westward under the cover of the river battleship force.
The journey of hundreds of kilometers was not a short one. Part of the area they passed was a puppet kingdom controlled by the Tang Dynasty, and there was also a neutral kingdom with little sense of existence. However, this did not affect the advance of the 18th Army Division.
The Army's 18th Division marched westward along the river, protected by river warships along the way, and followed by dozens of river transport ships full of debt and various supplies.
In this scale of westward expansion, there will be no unsighted indigenous kingdoms who will jump out and say anything. Everyone will honestly welcome and send off the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
After marching for more than half a month, the 18th Army Division finally arrived at the edge of the area controlled by the Kingdom of Carlo.
At this time, the people of the Carlo Kingdom finally panicked and sent people to plead for mercy, but Tian Qinyun was still too lazy to pay attention to them.
Tian Qinyun, a dignified major general of the Army of the Tang Empire, led his troops to perform tasks. Is it possible that he would still be influenced by these indigenous people?
joke!
Furthermore, if you, the Carlo Kingdom, want to seal down businesses, you can seal them, and if you want to arrest people, you can arrest them. Who the hell gives you such courage!
This time, in addition to armed training and live-fire testing of new rifles, the 18th Army Division will also replace a group of rulers for the Carlo Kingdom.
After all, before the 18th Division went out for the expedition, the Indian Affairs Office had even prepared the new king, and now he is coming with the people from the 18th Army Division.
Just because the people of Carlo Kingdom are suing for peace, we can't stop changing the king!
Therefore, Tian Qinyun ignored their request and continued to lead the army westward.
Tian Qinyun didn't care much about fighting along the way. After all, there wasn't much fighting.
There were several times when the indigenous army tried to resist, but as soon as the artillery unit opened fire, the opponent basically collapsed.
When they reached the opponent's so-called capital, Tian Qinyun felt that it was not possible to continue like this.
Now that we have reached the capital, it is estimated that this time the armed training will be over after this battle.
but!
The infantry unit of the 18th Division actually did not fight a few serious battles. Each time, the opponent collapsed after the artillery fired, leaving no time for the 18th Army Division to carry out standard tactical actions.
What were the standard tactics of the Tang Army?
Naturally, it's infantry and artillery coordination, roundabout attacks and the like.
In short, when fighting, the artillery fires first. After the artillery hits the enemy's forward position, the artillery fire is extended, and the infantry rushes up to occupy the position.
However, this tactic conceived by the generals of the Tang Dynasty has existed on paper for many years!
because!
So far, no indigenous army can withstand the bombardment of the Tang Army!
This was the case when we fought against the Ottomans in Egypt, and it is the same now in India.
The generals of the Tang Army felt that the only ones who could really use a complete set of tactics for the army were the Tatars.
The Tatars were smarter and built dense fortresses and trenches on the eastern front.
When Datang's artillery bombarded them, they all hid, and when Datang's infantry rushed up, they still hid.
They waited until the Tang Dynasty's troops rushed to a distance of tens of meters before they would come out and fire with muskets. Then instead of holding on, in many cases they would directly launch a counterattack and engage in hand-to-hand combat.
Although their casualties would be very heavy, it has to be said that this was the only way they could cause effective casualties to the Tang Army despite their backward weapons.
The Tang Army was unwilling to engage in close combat with these Tatars, so most of the time the infantry would not charge forward, but would bombard them with artillery from a distance and use rifles to kill them from a distance.
As a result, the current war between the Tang Dynasty and the Tatar Kingdom on the Eastern Front is about to turn into a positional war like World War I.
Of course, it was not because of how strong the Tatar Jin Kingdom was that it was like this. In fact, in the eyes of the generals of the Tang Empire Army, what they did was nothing more than a waste of a few more heavy artillery shells.
However, these shells are too expensive!
The upper echelons of the empire are not willing to support the army to launch the third Western Expedition now. They think that it is good as it is now, and they just need to maintain pressure on the Western Front.
The most critical point is that the Tang Empire hopes that the Tatar Kingdom and European countries will continue to fight.