The Mughal Empire has a tradition that there are often glitches in the succession of their throne. It is not as stable as the Ming Dynasty and belongs to the eldest son succession system.
It often happens that a son rebels against me, and his son overthrows me and seizes the throne. Shah Jahan did this.
Nowadays, although Shah Jahan is still in power and nothing can be seen, his three sons are naturally fighting for the throne of the emperor.
Aurangzeb led troops to conquer the Portuguese in Goa, and conquered the southern countries along the way. The momentum would definitely be huge. Moreover, Aurangzeb's military reputation has always been stronger than that of his two brothers.
This made the second prince Shashu Jia always afraid, and he also thought of ways to enhance his strength.
This time, he happened to be in the east of the empire. He was responsible for the success of the Governor of Bengal in conquering the Mughal Empire. In addition, the alliance with the Kingdom of Arakan was also one of his achievements.
Given this opportunity, he naturally wanted to regard the Arakan Kingdom as his ironclad ally. Therefore, after forming an alliance, he still wanted to win over the Arakan Kingdom and improve his personal relationship with the Arakan Kingdom.
Then Aurangzeb is now acting together with the Dutch to attack other countries, and he will definitely win the friendship of the Dutch. The Mughal Empire is weak in navy, almost none; if Aurangzeb has the support of the Dutch, he will be a
Replenish.
The advantage of the Arakan Kingdom lies in its navy. From this point of view, Shashuja also has to work hard to win over, so as not to be stepped on by Aurangzeb in the navy.
For this reason, he even stayed in Chittagong in the Arakan Kingdom and held banquets with everyone in the Arakan Kingdom every day.
As a neighbor of the Mughal Empire, the Kingdom of Arakan knew something about the situation of the Mughal Empire. Faced with the attraction of the princes of the powerful empire, they had no right to refuse, so they could only cooperate with Shashuja.
"One look at the Second Prince, he has a kingly demeanor, which makes people willing to date His Highness the Second Prince!"
"The second prince is wise and powerful, and you can tell he has the demeanor of Shah Jahan at a glance!"
"The second prince planned a strategy and defeated Dongwu's Ming army. Maybe the victory of surrender is already on the way!"
"The navy of Arakan is very powerful at first glance. Even the Portuguese have to serve you!"
"This bay is protected by your Arakan navy, so you can rest assured!"
"..."
There has been mutual exaggeration in business since ancient times. Shashuja and the important officials of the King of Arakan would always praise each other at every banquet.
At Shashuja's request, the Arakan Kingdom was also gathering naval forces, preparing to march eastward along the coastline and enter Dongwu from Daguang to cooperate with the Mughal Empire's army's attack.
However, the Arakan Kingdom is only a small country after all. Even during this historical period, which was the heyday of the Arakan Kingdom, it was still a bit scary for the Arakan Kingdom to face the behemoth Ming Empire.
The King of Arakan also had his own little idea. He just wanted to fight the Mughal Empire's army and the Ming Empire's army for a while longer. He would delay as much as possible, so that he could preserve his strength and be able to pick peaches.
Pick peaches.
However, due to the exchange of business blows, Shashuja was personally watching, and no matter from which angle he looked at it, he couldn't delay it for too long.
On this day, the navy of the Arakan Kingdom, no matter how procrastinated it was, had gathered from all over the country to Chittagong, a natural deep-water port.
Therefore, the King of Arakan invited Shashuja to inspect his navy, and then set out to attack Dongwu's Ming army.
Shashuja was of course very happy about this. This was one of his purposes here. By capturing Dongwu as soon as possible, he would be able to report victory to Shah Jahan as soon as possible, preferably before Aurangzeb captured Goa.
, that way the impression on Shah Jahan would be the best!
At the port, the Arakan Kingdom's navy has a total of about two hundred ships, large and small. Of course, most of them are actually small boats.
The sailors on the ship are not uniformed, they come in all shapes and sizes, wearing everything. You can also see that there are many red-haired and blue-eyed Westerners among the sailors.
Shashuja naturally knew that these Westerners were Portuguese employed by the Kingdom of Arakan.
When the Portuguese came to colonize the Bay of Bengal, they fought against the Mughal Empire and the Kingdom of Arakan, but failed to win. They came to seek wealth, and many of them left their official status or worked as pirates locally.
, or be hired by locals, anyway, they just want money!
It is also because of their existence that the naval strength of the Kingdom of Arakan has been strengthened, including naval warfare skills, artillery and muskets. Of course, these are still in the era when Western colonists used matchlock guns to colonize.
At this time, Shashuja saw so many fleets, at least the most ships he had ever seen. He was very happy and praised again. Then he looked at the King of Arakan and ordered: "Send out the entire army and defeat Dongwu's army."
Ming army, destroy Dongwu’s Ming army!”
When his navy heard the order, they all shouted under the leadership of the leader: "Defeat Dongwu's Ming army, destroy Dongwu's Ming army..."
This was ordered in advance. So many people shouted together, and the Arakanese people on the shore also shouted together. This momentum was very strong.
"Defeat Dongwu's Ming army, destroy Dongwu's Ming army..."
This voice spread far away, satisfying the King of Arakan and also satisfying Shashuja!
Subsequently, the Arakan Navy began to leave the port one by one and sail along the Galadan River towards the Bay of Bengal.
"I believe that the Ming army that has been defeated by our Mughal army will definitely be defeated when they see such a huge navy!" Seeing the navy slowly disappearing from sight, Shashuja said to the King of Arakan with a smile.
After hearing this, the King of Arakan felt proud and responded: "I'm not bragging. Among all the surrounding countries, my navy is the largest and the most powerful. The Portuguese came to serve me, and the Dutch passed by.
Don’t dare to provoke!”
Chittagong has gradually become a transit point for sea trade between the East and the West since hundreds of years ago, gathering Arab merchants, Persian merchants, etc. The same is true. There have been many wars around Chittagong. The Portuguese also coveted it.
But in the end it was the Kingdom of Arakan that took control of this place.
After hearing this, Shashujia smiled on the surface, but in his heart he was thinking: When I ascend the throne and proclaim myself emperor, I will send a large army to occupy this place!
Having been here for many days, he has naturally seen the prosperity of Chittagong.
If in the original history, after his younger brother Aurangzeb ascended the throne as emperor, he sent troops to capture Chittagong and took it for himself.
But at this time, at least on the surface, both parties are doing good to you and me, just like wearing a pair of pants!
Seeing that the last ship disappeared from sight, the King of Arakan turned around to invite Shashuja and continued to the banquet. While waiting for the news of success, he suddenly heard a "boom, boom, boom" sound coming from the outer sea.
As soon as you hear this sound, you can tell that it must be the sound of heavy artillery. There are very few heavy artillery in the Arakan Navy.
Hearing this sound, everyone was stunned and involuntarily turned their heads to look towards the sea.
What happened somewhere?
Did the navy who just went to sea encounter the enemy?
What kind of enemy could that be?
The Portuguese will probably not come again. The Dutch have good relations with the Mughal Empire and the Kingdom of Arakan, and they will definitely not open fire!
Then why is it firing? It’s a heavy artillery!
Ming army? How is this possible? They were all beaten by the Mughal Empire’s army on Dongwu’s side and had no power to fight back!
…
Question after question pops up in the minds of everyone here in Chittagong, but no convincing answer can be found!
No matter what happened, it must be related to the navy of the Arakan Kingdom!
King Arakan immediately became nervous. Those were all his warships, so nothing could happen!
So, after hearing him, he immediately turned around and ordered the generals around him: "Quick, send someone over immediately to see what's going on?"
"Boom boom boom..."
The rumbling sound of the artillery never stopped, and it could be heard that the sound of the artillery seemed to be getting closer and closer, approaching the mouth of the Galadan River.
King Arakan's expression changed, because he could hear the dense sound of this heavy artillery, which was obviously telling him that this artillery was definitely not from his fleet.
Because his navy does not have that many heavy artillery pieces at all!
In other words, it was the first time in his life that he heard so many heavy artillery sounds!
Everyone in Chittagong looked a little panicked. Even if they couldn't distinguish the sound of heavy artillery, they were still scared when they heard the sound of those artillery.
Some people have already begun to flee the port, but more people are still looking around at the port, trying to see clearly what is going on?
Before the generals around King Arakan could send their men out, they saw a fast horse galloping towards us on the official road beside the river.
Everyone's eyes were attracted by this fast horse. They knew that this fast horse must have brought back news about what happened outside the sea!
Shashuja also stared at the fast horse, with some doubts in his mind: subconsciously, he felt that it was probably the Ming army coming to kill him. However, thinking rationally, he felt it was unlikely. After all, the army of the Governor of Bengal, They are attacking the city of Ava. How could the Ming army abandon the city without saving it and come to attack Chittagong?
At this moment when they were all wondering, amidst the rumbling sound of artillery, the cavalry finally arrived at Chittagong. The messenger dismounted, dripping with sweat, his face pale, and out of breath, heading towards the King of Arakan. While running, he shouted loudly: "Oh no, the Navy of the Ming Dynasty is calling! No, the Navy of the Ming Dynasty is calling..."