King Sengtu, please tell me, why don’t we go to Penang and come to Mrauk U? "
In the palace of Mrauk U City, Li Jicheng, the grandson of the Dashun Emperor, was smiling with a smile on his face as he asked a question to Seng Tuo Dammo who was being led to him.
This question is not easy to answer. If you answer it incorrectly, you may get "collapsed" - use a gun to collapse the frame!
Li Jicheng's words were translated into Portuguese by Li Anna and relayed to Sengtuo Dutanmo. Moreover, the little beauty added one more sentence - the king must answer well and must not anger the grandson!
How to answer this! Sangtama Tutanmo thought: You treacherous robbers have already taken away my country, do you still want me to say good things to you?
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and he wanted to curse loudly. At this moment, the crying voice came again. When he turned his head and looked at it, he immediately lost his temper. It turned out that his entire family had been brought over, and it looked like the whole family was going on the road together!
"His Royal Highness Taisun is here to save Mrauk U City and the Arakan Kingdom..." The King of Arakan was so anxious that he really held back a correct answer!
"Win! I'm here to save Arakan!" Li Jicheng smiled, "Who is Er Renyi! Mr. Fan, what do you think?"
Bruce Van Diemen snorted and asked the Arakan King in Portuguese, "Your Majesty the King, what disaster has your country and Mrauk-U encountered? So much so that the Dashun Empire needs to send troops to save it?"
King Arakan glared at Bruce angrily - Dashun Bandit's question is already difficult to answer, you add another question! Do you have any conscience?
Li Anna had already translated Bruce's words into Chinese. Li Jicheng smiled and nodded: "Mr. Fan asked a good question. King Sengtuo, please answer it well!"
If you don't answer well, you will still be "collapsed"!
Sangthadutam thought hard and thought of Aurangzeb!
"It's all Aurangzeb's fault!" King Arakan gritted his teeth and said, "This despicable and shameless tyrant launched a sneak attack on the peace-loving Kingdom of Arakan..."
Aurangzeb was wronged! Although he was a tyrant, he never made a sneak attack. He always put his slippers on the back of a gorgeously decorated elephant, and then sent people to lead the elephant to where it was about to be captured. Go and persuade the attacking country to surrender. Throwing away the slippers and killing the elephant (the elephant is innocent) means resistance, while kneeling to welcome the slippers means submission.
But Aurangzeb's slippers were not sent to Arakan... In fact, Aurangzeb was not in India at all during this period, but was recruiting troops in Samarkand. By the way, he was considering whether to give the slippers to King Jungar. Sengge sends it over!
"Yes! Yes! It's just that the Ao Shi cloth is not good!" Li Jicheng smiled, "King Seng Tuo, don't worry, our Dashun Dynasty is here to keep it and not call it Ao Shi cloth and take away your kingdom."
This is a true statement!
The kingdom of Sangtudhama was taken away by Dashun, and it was too late for Aurangzeb to seize it.
"King Sengtuo, why don't you quickly thank His Majesty the Grand Sun for your kindness!" Li Anna finished translating Li Jicheng's words and added another sentence herself.
After hearing this, Monk Dutanmo quickly knelt on the ground and bowed to Li Jicheng.
Li Jicheng laughed loudly: "In that case, then issue a decree to let the entire Arakan Kingdom know that our Dashun Tianbing soldiers are the reinforcements you invited...to help you quell the chaos and resist. It belongs to the Mughals! Just say that there is a big chaos in the city of Mrauk U. There are rebels who colluded with Oshabu to start a rebellion and took control of the palace. They also issued orders in your name and prepared to turn Arakan into the territory of the Mughals. !
So you sent an envoy to Sha Lian Mansion and invited the benevolent and righteous teachers of Emen Dashun to help quell the chaos. Now the chaos has been settled, but the Mughal army has come to Arakan. In order to prevent the people of Arakan from being massacred by the Mughals, you resolutely defected to Dashun, professed your vassalage to the Dashun dynasty, and asked for the title of military envoy of Arakan.
Mr. Fan, look at what we say, can the people here in Arakan believe it? "
Bruce Van Diemen just smiled coldly: "How can the Arakanese do this if they don't believe it? Can they still rebel against your Great Shun Dynasty?"
Li Jicheng nodded: "That's right! I don't think they dare to fight back. At most, they dare to be angry but dare not speak out!"
Bruce added: "But after taking over the Arakan Kingdom, your Dashun will be bordering the Mughal Empire... The Mughal Empire is the overlord of Tianzhu, with three out of four parts of Tianzhu and half of it." In the land of Samarkand between Afghanistan and the Western Regions, the emperor Aurangzeb of his country is known as the conqueror of the world, and he is a rare hero in the world!
And in Arakan, many people are looking towards the conqueror of the world and looking forward to his army coming! "
The small country of Arakan is a "struggle zone" sandwiched between the Buddhist kingdom in Southeast Asia and the territory of the Tianfang Sect in South Asia. The situation is very complicated. If we want to briefly summarize it, it is that "Tianfang Sect is on the offensive strategically, and Buddhism temporarily has the upper hand tactically." However, the struggle between the two major religions is not very fierce all the time. If that were the case, life would be impossible. At least before external powers intervene, the Kingdom of Arakan can still remain calm.
If the Dashun Empire did not take the initiative, then the Mughal dynasty in western Arakan would probably not take action easily. But now that Dashun has taken action, will the conqueror of that world still sit idly by?
The troubles in Arakan may have just begun!
Li Jicheng frowned and stroked his beard: "Oh, it seems like I've stung a hornet's nest on my forehead... What should I do?"
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"How can this be done well?"
The same question is being asked in the royal palace of Johor.
The person who asked the question was Prince Ali, Temenggong of Johor. Temenggong is the name of an important minister with military power in various sultanates along the Strait of Malacca. The name sounds very scary.
Now there are more than one Temenggong gathered in the Johor Palace. Not only the Temenggong of Johor, but also the Temenggong of the exiled Pattani Sultan, as well as the Sultan of Aceh, the Sultan of Perak, and the Sultan of Kedah. Temenggong—the most powerful people here in the Straits of Malacca are all here! And they didn't come alone, they all came with some of their own troops.
Among them, Johor Temengong's soldiers and horses were the largest, with 5,000 people! The Temenggong of the Sudan of Aceh brought 2,000 people, the Temenggong of the Sudan of Perak brought 3,000 people, the Temenggong of the Sudan of Pattani also brought about 3,000 people, and the Temenggong of the Sudan of Kedah brought the least people. , only 1,000 people.
In addition to these fierce men, there is also a European named Frederick Coit. He is a senior employee of the East India Company and the governor of Malacca City. Now he has received orders from Batavia. Bringing 3,000 indigenous mercenaries to the Johor Castle.
At the same time, he was also the immediate superior of these Tianmenggongs and was responsible for commanding them to resist the Ming army.
The Ming Dynasty's army is now landing on Temasek Island and the north shore of the Johor Strait. The landing site is about a hundred miles away from the Johor Castle. Moreover, several villages and towns have been captured. The small number of Johor troops stationed there fled and the news of the Ming army's arrival was brought back to the Johor Castle.
This scared a group of "strong men", and they all looked at Frederick Coit, waiting for him to make up his mind.
Coit is a Swede, but he is not an officer of the powerful Swedish Army. He is just a businessman who knows a little about military affairs. And his military knowledge told him that none of the fierce men in front of him could fight... If he really relied on them, he would be dead.
Fortunately, Bruce Van Diemen has gone to Burma to mobilize reinforcements, and the 15,000 Dashun troops who can really fight should have arrived on the Malacca Peninsula!
"Don't be anxious!" Frederick Coit said to the "strong men" in the local language of Malacca, "The East India Company has invited 20,000 elite soldiers from the Dashun Empire in the north (he is a profiteer, of course) To exaggerate a bit), they have arrived in Penang and will soon come to rescue the Johor Castle. So as long as we hold on to the castle, we will be invincible!"
"Very good!"
"Thank you God..."
"Now we are saved!"
The fierce men all breathed a sigh of relief, but Frederick Coit looked solemn and said: "It will take at least 10 days to walk from Penang to here. During this period, we must defend Johor City... Now I will start to set up defenses, I hope you can obey the order and fight hard!"
