665 [Battle of Country Destruction with Single Digit Casualties]
In the fifth year of Shaofeng's reign, in Johor, Nanyang, the navy visited the governor's mansion.
Wang Fang first went to visit Zhu Long, the admiral of the Ming Dynasty Navy, and then met the maritime merchants who helped Liaodong buy horses.
"If you want to raise horses in Tianzhu, you don't have to go far to buy them," said a maritime merchant. "Tianzhu produces two kinds of good horses, one is called Mawari horse and the other is called Katiawa horse. Both are good horses.
Excellent war horse."
Wang Fang asked: "Where are these two kinds of horses in Tianzhu?"
Another merchant replied: "They all come from the country of Jijirat. It is said that the ancestors of this country came from the grasslands and followed the Huns here thousands of years ago. Many people still retain the nomadic tradition."
Another maritime merchant said: "Brother Li probably doesn't know that the Kingdom of Jijirat is at war with the Mughals. More than half of its territory was annexed by the Mughals three months ago."
"Really?"
All the maritime merchants were very surprised and came up with ideas one after another: "Sir, this is a great opportunity. We can take advantage of the weakening of the Kingdom of Jijirat and occupy its elite land in one fell swoop!"
Wang Fang can use millions of taels of silver to go to Tianzhu this time, all of which are Wang Yuan's savings over the years.
However, even if you have to take action, you still know yourself and the enemy.
After detailed inquiries and comparison with the globe, I finally realized that this was an excellent opportunity for expansion.
Although three-fifths of the country of Jijarat was swallowed up by the Mughals, most of its pastures suitable for raising horses, fertile soil suitable for farming, and good ports suitable for maritime trade have been preserved. Most of its remaining territory
It is located on the Katiava Peninsula and includes the bays on both sides of the peninsula. Both bays are natural harbors.
As long as you conquer this small country, you can farm your own land and hoard food, raise your own horses and form a cavalry, and build your own ports to develop maritime trade!
Hearing that Wang Yuan's adopted son was ordered to go to sea to explore, the Ming Dynasty Navy was the first to agree to help, and would only help transport troops to fight at the cost price. Then, the Tianzhu Cotton Association also agreed to help, lending Wang Fang 5,000 fire rifle infantry and 3,000 fire rifle cavalry.
, Wang Fang is only responsible for the round-trip military expenses for the 10,000 Ananda indigenous servant army, and the Tianzhu Cotton Association will bear the wear and tear of the weapons.
After three months of preparation, more than 200 naval warships and armed merchant ships carried troops north from the western coast of Ananda, and the troops landed in Jijirat in three groups.
On the southern route, Wang Fang led his troops, entered Kemperd Bay, and captured Lothar, the country's largest port city.
The troops will be led by Hu Yuan on the northern route. This man is the cavalry general of the Tianzhu Cotton Association in Ananda. He has never fought any decent battles. He usually only bullies the local small nobles. He will land at the Bay of Kutch and then move down.
Formed a pincer offensive with Wang Fang's army, directly cutting through the entire peninsula.
In the middle, the troops were led by Lin Kai, who was an infantry general of the Tianzhu Cotton Association in the Ananda Kingdom and participated in the war to conquer the Ananda Kingdom. After he led his infantry to land, he went straight to the royal city of Dwaraka, not far from the sea.
If you can't defeat it, attack the city. If you can't defeat it, besiege the city and cut off the military connection between the king and the outside world.
The military operation was surprisingly smooth, mainly for two reasons.
First, the Jijrat Kingdom and the Mughal Empire have been fighting for three consecutive years, losing three-fifths of their territory. They are still at war, and the country's elite troops are concentrated on the northeastern front, and the southwest and rear areas are basically at a loss.
There is no decent army.
Second, Wang Fang sent troops too quickly and unexpectedly. How could the Sultan of Jijirat have imagined that there would be so many enemies on the sea? Moreover, although the distance for sending troops was long, if he took a sea ship to go north, he could finish it in a few days.
Arrive at the landing location.
"Boom boom boom!"
After several rounds of shelling by the Ming Navy, Lotar Port, which had only a few hundred soldiers guarding the city, directly chose to open the city gate and surrender to Wang Fang.
The largest port city in the country of Jijirat was easily defeated in this way.
Wang Yuan left three thousand Ananda servants to guard the city, and continued to advance with one thousand musketry cavalry and two thousand musketry infantry. All the surrendered defenders of Lotar City were taken away by Wang Fang, and thousands more were forcibly recruited.
Local people transported grain and grass.
Hu Yuan's army on the northern route was in a similar situation. The cities he landed and attacked were smaller. Not only were there few defenders, but many young and strong civilians were dragged to the front line by the king to fight.
By the way, the religious conflicts in the Kingdom of Jijirat are a hundred times more serious than those in the Ananda Kingdom to the south.
This place is ruled by the Sultan of the Green Religion, and castes have even begun to be divided among the Green Religion. Low-caste Green Religion civilians and Hindus are all extremely dissatisfied with the Sultan, and they have been vendetta against each other for many years.
At the same time, there are also ethnic conflicts. The descendants of the nomads who followed the Huns to invade India are hostile to the descendants of the local farming people. The Mughal Empire was able to annex three-fifths of its territory, and many of them had the help of the nomads in this country. These nomads
Most of them wanted to be young men. However, the young men soon discovered that the Mongols (Moguls), who also came from the grasslands, were even more cruel than the Sultan of their own country!
So it’s funny. The nomads who were willing to lead the way are now resisting the tyranny of the Mughal Empire. In another time and space, in a few years, they will be able to successfully establish a country and become independent from the Mughal rule.
Wang Fang and Hu Yuan's pincer offensive directly penetrated the entire peninsula, which can also be said to have penetrated the entire Jijirat Kingdom.
From the beginning to the end, there was no fierce resistance. First, there were no elite soldiers in the rear area. Second, the royal city was surrounded by the central army, and the entire country was unable to gather troops. The real elite soldiers were still fighting the Mughals on the front line.
If China encounters this kind of situation, no matter which dynasty or generation it belongs to, some heroes will emerge and spontaneously form a rebel army to fight against the invaders.
But that doesn't work here. They are used to being invaded, and even the rulers are former invaders.
The untouchables, who make up the majority of the population, are not qualified to fight by nature. They are rebels and are treasonous. The lower castes don't matter. Who rules is not ruling? The upper castes don't matter. As long as they don't receive orders from the king, they won't bother to fight the invaders.
Unfortunately, although the Royal City is not a coastal city, it is very close to the coastline. The Royal City was surrounded at the beginning of the war, and the Sultan was unable to issue military orders to the local area.
Everywhere Wang Fang passed along the way, whether it was a city or a village, they surrendered immediately as soon as the guns were fired.
Don't think it's incredible. When Babur invaded India, he only brought 1,500 defeated soldiers with him. He founded the Mughal Empire in a few years.
The Sultan still defends the royal city and refuses to surrender, but the elites on the northeastern border are panicking. Their food and grass can last for two months, but the connection with the royal city has been cut off, and the connection with most of the country has been cut off. From now on, they can only raise food and grass by themselves.
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As a result, tens of thousands of elite troops on the front line began to think about a very practical question: Should they surrender to the Mughal Empire or the new invaders behind them?
The answer soon came, and the answer was given in blood.
First, there was an internal conflict. The officers and soldiers who lived in the enemy-occupied areas and the officers and soldiers who lived in the rear area escalated from a verbal conflict to a physical conflict. The two sides quickly determined the winner, and the officers and soldiers who lived in the rear area achieved a decisive victory.
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Because some soldiers from the occupied areas had a bloody feud with the Mughal Empire, they refused to surrender to the Mughals, so they helped their comrades in the rear. After more than 60,000 elite troops fought among themselves, only three were left.
Although more than ten thousand people were lost, not all of them died. Some of them fled back to their hometowns, and some of them fled to surrender to the Mughals.
The remaining more than 30,000 troops all chose to join Wang Fang and never thought of returning to the army to drive Wang Fang out.
The Mughals' reaction was also amazing. They did not take advantage of the enemy's civil strife to immediately choose to attack on a large scale. Instead, when the enemy was in civil strife, they focused on taxation of the newly occupied territories and sent out a large number of troops to collect taxes by force.
Humayun, the second emperor of the Mughal Empire, became elated precisely because of his victory in the conquest of Jijirat. He was so satisfied that he no longer thought about military expansion, nor did he think about military expansion.
In order to govern the country, he focused on literature and art all day long, and did not even bother to care about the rebellion of his foreign generals. Soon he would be beaten away by the rebels, and he would live in exile in Persia for more than ten years before fighting back.
India is really a magical land. Historically, after Humayun was exiled to Persia, he returned to India to rebuild the Mughal Dynasty without borrowing many troops from Persia.
A Jijirat general knelt down in front of Wang Fang, kissed his boots and said: "Great Chinese general, on behalf of 35,000 soldiers, I loyally surrender to your command."
"Very good, please get up." Wang Fang said with a smile.
In fact, Wang Fang is still very confused now, or in other words, this war has always been confused.
From the time they led the troops to land to the decisive victory, the Han army and Ananda's servants suffered only single-digit casualties. One died of heatstroke, one fell to death from fright, one sprained his foot when getting off the ship, and several others became ill with diarrhea.
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What the hell is this called war?
Thanks to the invasion of the Mughal Empire, the Jijirat Kingdom not only transferred all its elite soldiers to the front line, but also recruited a large number of young men to go to the front line. Wang Fang wasted no time from beginning to end.
After the surrender of more than 30,000 elite soldiers of the Jijirat Kingdom, Wang Fang led the army to the royal city. The Sultan still wanted to resist, but was kidnapped by two or five young men in the city.
The Kingdom of Jijirat is declared to be destroyed!
The Sultan was executed by Wang Fang, and what followed was a large-scale religious vendetta. Hindu leaders incited military officers and civilians to raise butcher knives against countless Green believers. Green Christian nobles and officers were forced to resist, and the scale of the conflict continued to expand, even among those thirty thousand
Many of the elite soldiers who surrendered were killing each other.
Temples of the two religions were burned down every day, and believers of the two religions died violently every day. More than 30,000 surrendered elite soldiers killed each other, leaving less than 20,000 dead.
Religious conflicts that had been suppressed for more than a hundred years suddenly broke out!
These guys have no motivation to fight the invaders, but they are very motivated to kill the heretics.
Wang Fang was dumbfounded by this strange situation. At first he was afraid of resistance and riots, and wanted to suppress them but couldn't. Soon he discovered that no matter which religion he belonged to, they would not take action against the intruders, and the Han people
The military is very safe for the time being.
Then don't worry. When both sides are tired of killing each other, Wang Fang can step forward to clean up the mess.