Wang Zheng was so confused that his head exploded. He did not accompany him to Tianzhu, but went with Ning Botao to receive the navy halfway.
Wang Yuan had an order, and the Tianzhu Navy was under the full command of Ning Botao, but the personnel and materials needed to be controlled by Wang Zheng.
Although Wang Zheng had more than thirty physics disciples around him, the accounts of the Ming Dynasty's Xihai Navy were too messy. Firstly, the navy was involved in business, secondly, it managed the northern part of Ceylon, and it also owned colonial ports in India and the Persian Gulf.
The mountains of account books made Wang Zheng dizzy, and it took him a month to sort them out.
Alas, it would be great to stay in the Ming Dynasty, reciting poems, composing poems, listening to music and having fun all day long. How come you are unlucky enough to win the lottery and come to Tianzhu to be the heir apparent?
"Captain, urgent military situation!"
A naval officer rushed to Ning Botao's temporary residence.
Ning Botao said: "Send it up."
The military report was not only sealed with fire paint, but also affixed with a bird feather. Sure enough, there was urgent military information.
Ning Botao opened it and took a look, and immediately went to contact Wang Zheng.
"Your Majesty, there is a battle." Ning Botao handed over the military report.
Wang Zheng was shocked after reading this: "Send troops to rescue my father quickly!"
This military report was not sent by Wang Yuan, but from the colonial port of Goa.
In this six-nation coalition, Bijapur is one of them. As it happens, Portugal owns three colonial ports in Bijapur: Basin, Bombay, and Goa. These ports were first handed over to the Ming Dynasty, and now they were transferred to Ningbo.
Thao accepts it with full authority.
A few days after Bijapur sent troops, all three major ports learned the news. They notified the Tianzhu Navy and Wang Yuan in Peiyang at the same time.
There is little information in this era. Until now, the sultans of the six countries did not know that Tianzhu had changed its king. They thought it was a puppet regime controlled by the Tianzhu Cotton Association.
Ning Botao shook his head and said: "The capital is too far away and rescue cannot be carried out. Moreover, we are mainly based on the navy. The first thing we must consider is to use our own advantages."
Similarly, Ning Botao did not know that the name of the capital had been changed to Peiyang by Wang Yuan.
Wang Zheng was not stupid and asked: "Sending troops from the sea?"
Ning Botao nodded and said, "Yes."
"Where to fight?" Wang Zheng was not familiar with Indian geography.
Ning Botao asked someone to bring a map, pointed to the northeast and northwest, and said: "Divide the troops into two groups. Attack the country of Bijapur in the northwest, land from Basin, Bombay, and Goa, and then send 500 people to harass Ahmad.
The Debigal Kingdom then detached a few warships and headed to the Golconda Kingdom and the Suryavamusha Kingdom in the northeast. This partial division mainly focused on bombarding coastal ports, and also only sent a few hundred soldiers to land and harass."
A total of six-nation coalition forces, according to Wang Yuan's idea, asked Ning Botao to attack the two northwest countries.
Ning Botao was so ambitious that he actually attacked the four countries in the northwest and northeast at the same time. He actually only had eight warships available. As for the other warships, they were all going to sea to do business, and some were transporting supplies and immigrants.
The military situation is urgent and there is no need to delay.
Ning Botao immediately requisitioned the merchant ships in the port, and the reward was to exempt them from entry tax for one year.
Six warships and seven merchant ships headed for the port of Goa in the northwest.
Two warships and eight merchant ships headed toward the coast of Golconda in the northeast.
By the time Wang Yuan's order was sent to the naval headquarters, Ning Botao had been at war for many days, mainly because of the poor traffic conditions in Tianzhu!
Wang Ji is doing business in the Persian Gulf. Since he wants to be king in Denmark, he must first accumulate some gold and silver for himself. He borrows a thousand taels of gold from his elder brother Wang Ce, buys spices, transports them to the Persian Gulf, and sells them to the Portuguese or Persians.
It will be all right.
As for the European aristocratic children, they have stayed in Luzon. They do not want to suffer in Tianzhu.
Wang Ji returned from selling spices in the Persian Gulf and purchased a batch of ivory and Persian specialties. On the way, when he was supplying and repairing ships at Kachin Port, he happened to encounter Ning Botao's fleet and was forcibly requisitioned.
Including Wang Ji's broken ship, twelve more merchant ships were requisitioned.
When they arrived at the port of Goa, Ningbotao had seven warships and thirty-five merchant ships of various types under his command.
Wang Ji disembarked with his sailors. There were a total of 450 Han musketeers and 80 Japanese musketeers. They went to Japan to recruit ronin, and they were all equipped with new firecrackers, but Japanese ronin still used to bring a samurai sword.
Ning Botao led 1,000 gunmen and 200 artillery.
In addition, there are also private armed forces of other maritime merchants, totaling 1,400 gunmen and more than 2,900 cold weapon sailors.
There were 2,000 troops garrisoned at Goa Port, leaving 500 to guard the fort, and the remaining 1,500 to fight with Ningbotao.
Goa is the main landing site. After all, there are more than 4,000 artillery soldiers, more than 300 artillery soldiers, and 3,000 cold weapon infantry. Most of them are Han Chinese, and there are also a few Japanese, Portuguese and Arabs. They were all captured by the Han people.
Sailors hired by merchants.
In addition, 500 naval troops landed from Bombay and 500 naval troops landed from Bassain, not to kill but to harass.
Zhou Fei said: "Sir, we are all soldiers, but there are not many auxiliary soldiers and civilians."
Wang Ji smiled and said, "Let's grab it."
A miscellaneous force of nearly 8,000 people set out from the port of Goa with only a few days of food.
Soldiers are expensive and fast, and it is difficult to recruit transportation troops at once. Moreover, with transportation troops, more food needs to be prepared, and you will have to find time to collect food and grass.
Within half a day, they encountered their first town.
An Indian Green Religion nobleman came on horseback and asked from a distance: "Who are you?"
The accompanying officers at Goa Port stepped out from the crowd and said, "Ahmed, long time no see."
Seeing an acquaintance, the Green Sect noble felt a little relieved and asked: "Li, where are you going to attack?"
The Goa port officer said: "Bijapur City, quickly prepare some food for us and find some people to transport our baggage."
"Okay," the Green Religion noble said, "As long as you don't plunder my land, I will meet all your requirements, but the food needs to be paid according to the price."
Ning Botao asked: "Who is this person?"
The Goa port officer said: "His name is Ahmed. He is a big nobleman nearby. He has always had trade relations with the Goa port."
Goa was the residence of the Portuguese Governor-General of India, and the Portuguese had operated it for more than 30 years. The food, meat and vegetables needed here were brought and sold by the nearby Green Religion nobles.
When the Portuguese were there, the Green Religion nobles were close to Portugal.
The navy of the Ming Dynasty took over Goa, and the Green Religion nobles became close to the Ming Dynasty.
It's nothing more than profit. The nobles only have money in their eyes, and they don't care about the life or death of their own sultan.
This guy's territory is in the coastal area, and the maritime trade is controlled by foreigners. He makes money by selling supplies to the Port of Goa. He would rather his Sultan die than have any problems with the Port of Goa. After all, the Sultan will only tax him.
, but the Han Chinese in Goa Port can help him make money.
The situation was so strange that Ning Botao took more than 7,000 people and landed in the rear to attack Bijapur.
Unfortunately, the landing place was still its own colonial port. The Green Religion nobles near the port were actually willing to provide food and auxiliary troops to transport food.
Unfortunately, the foreign auxiliary soldiers were not very useful. Someone tried to escape that night, but Ning Botao ordered more than ten Liwei to be killed.
There was no resistance along the way. In order to attack Tianzhu, the Sultan mobilized almost all his troops.
Three days later, Ningbotao led his troops to Baja, which is the third largest city in Bijapur.
"Dang-dang-dang-dang!"
The bells in the city rang loudly, the city gates were blocked, and the enemy finally stopped fleeing.
Wang Ji came to Ning Botao: "Teacher, even if the defense is empty, this city may not be easy to attack."
"If you don't fight, just grab food." Ning Botao said.
Although the walls of Baja City are high, the city area is very narrow. It is estimated that there were not many people when the city was first built.
With the growth of social population, a large number of people live in the city. Residential buildings are all around the city. Street markets have been formed, and there is even a large market outside the city.
Ning Botao ordered: "Leave two thousand reserve troops, prepare artillery, and the rest of the troops will disperse to grab food!"
These more than 7,000 people are purely a makeshift army, most of them are sailors at sea.
They may not be good at fighting, but they are definitely experts at robbing things.
"Boom boom boom!"
The only artillery fire kept firing, not at the city wall, but at the residential buildings outside the city.
The smart ones hid in the city long ago, but the slow ones couldn't escape because the city gate had already been closed. As the cannonballs fell, the residential areas outside the city were filled with mourning, and a large number of foreign people fled in panic.
The 80 Japanese ronin under Wang Ji put their muskets on their backs, drew their samurai swords, and rushed forward. They cut down people when they saw them, and entered houses when they saw them. Every so often, everyone was covered with trophies.
Ning Botao sent out only a dozen cavalrymen to observe the situation outside the city, and found that the city gate was still closed.
The army in this city has long been sent away to fight by the Sultan. It is not easy to hold on to the city. How can they still have the courage to go out of the city to meet the enemy?
After burning, killing and looting for half a day, Ning Botao ordered the troops to retreat and set a fire before leaving.
The residences outside Baja City and the large market outside Baja City were completely burned to the ground.
There is no other way. Ning Botao goes deep alone and does not bring enough supplies. He must cause destruction along the way. If the residences and large markets here are burned down, the city of Baja will fall into complete chaos. It is impossible to recruit troops temporarily. If Ning Botao
If you continue to advance, you will avoid threats from behind.
Stealing food, killing people, setting fires, the three steps are repeated continuously.
A month later, Ning Botao had almost reached the capital of Bijapur. He also encountered resistance on the way. They were all Green Sect nobles who showed up with private armed forces. They were beaten to pieces by a shot of muskets.
"Something's wrong!"
As he walked, the closer he got to the enemy's capital, Ning Botao found that it became harder to grab food.
Wang Ji said: "There are still talented people in this country, who can actually strengthen the walls and clear the wilderness."
To maintain a strong wall and clear the country, it is simple to say that everyone wants to achieve it, but few people can achieve it. This requires super strong execution ability, and the person who orders it must also have enough prestige.
Ning Botao said: "Don't go any further, go somewhere else."
Since the enemy had secured its walls and cleared the country, its plan to attack the capital directly could only be temporarily abandoned.
Otherwise, Ning Botao's miscellaneous army will be hungry before they reach their destination.
The capital of Bijapur State, Bijapur City.
"Your Highness, the enemy is heading north."
A beautiful woman was listening to the report of the sentry. When she heard that the enemy had changed their march route, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Send a few more messengers to urge the Sultan to withdraw his troops as soon as possible!"
This woman's name is Chand Bibi. She is the prince and concubine of Bijapur. She is talented, beautiful and proficient in many languages.
Not only that, she is also the princess of a neighboring country (the Sultanate of Ahmed Negal). This time her home country also sent troops to attack Tianzhu.
The Sultan led his troops outside, and when the prince heard that the enemy was coming, he was so frightened that he didn't know what to do.
Chande Bibi stood up as a princess and gave an order to make everyone obey, and quickly strengthened the walls and cleared the country. No matter whether they were nobles or civilians, they must either obey and move away, or be directly punished for treason!
Ning Botao never imagined that his plan to feed war with war and seize the enemy's capital would be sabotaged by a woman from deep within the palace.
Historically, Chand Bibi is a heroine in India.
After the death of her husband, the powerful ministers were in power and the country was in chaos. She killed a regent, defeated a regent, imprisoned a regent, and overthrew three consecutive regents. If a woman could not be a sultan, she would definitely become a sultan.
Queen.
After restoring order to the country, her mother country fell into chaos again.
Chand Bibi immediately returned to the country and, as the eldest princess, quickly stabilized the domestic situation. Then she served as regent, using diplomatic means to unify the three sultanates and jointly repel the invasion of the Mughal Empire.
Afterwards, Chand Bibi was falsely accused by ministers of surrendering to the enemy and treason, and was hacked to death by the angry people. The Sultan she supported was also captured by the Mughal Empire, and the power of the country was stolen by a general who was born as an African slave...
Ning Botao felt embarrassed in front of this heroine, which was actually not a shame.