"Welcome King Chuang, refuse to pay for food, divide fields, abolish caste..."
In the neat and loud slogans with a hint of Qin opera, Sima Yong, a second-generation soldier from Liuba County, Hanzhong Prefecture, and more than a dozen of his colleagues, vigorously shook the oars and rowed a sampan forward. Passing through the morning sea fog, you rush to the beach in the Paradpur subdivision of the Kutak region of Orissa province under the rule of the Timur Empire in India.
The landing place Song Yaowen chose for the Dashun Expeditionary Force was the delta of the mouth of the Mahanadi River in Orissa Province—this is a land that is extremely rich!
Generally speaking, estuary deltas formed by the impact of sediment carried by a large river are very rich, and this place is no exception. Since it was conquered by Emperor Akbar more than a hundred years ago, it has been the second richest place in eastern India after Bengal. In the delta of the mouth of the Mahanadi River, there are more than two hundred Jagir and Chamindar territories, each of which is a small purse of Emperor Aurangzeb!
And Sima Yong and his colleagues came all the way across the sea to steal the money in these small wallets. Although robbing money is an ancestral skill of Sima Yong and the others, this is the first time they have done it, and it is still a bit nervous going abroad to rob money.
After all, the country of Tianzhu looks quite big from the map, and many people were sent to Sima Yong's army (company) to serve as guides and missionaries (not to the soldiers, but to the Sudra untouchables in Tianzhu). Ahmed Jalali, a native of India, said that the Tianzhu Empire is considered to be at the peak of its national power, with strong soldiers and horses, and is very difficult to fight.
So it's best to sneak ashore and catch them off guard!
Li Jicheng and Song Yaowen obviously had this plan, so they did not dare to launch a landing in broad daylight, and they did not dare to follow the advice of military adviser David Jones and sail the warship directly into the Mahanadi River in broad daylight - David Jones. Jones' suggestion actually makes sense, because fifty-five galley warships and 5,000 elite soldiers are enough to conquer the entire Kutak region.
The Indian Timurid Empire's troops in the entire Orissa province were simply not enough to defeat them, and it was not possible to mobilize troops from Bengal or from Japur and Golconda (located on the Deccan Plateau) overnight. of.
With the response speed of the Timurid Empire in India, no troops would arrive within a month!
However, Li Jicheng and Song Yaowen, who had guilty consciences, ordered the fleet to float on the sea near the mouth of the Mahanadi River for most of the day, and only approached the beach in the dark in the middle of the night. Then in the morning, they put down fifty-five sampans and took eight hundred Two suicide fighters armed with flintlocks and bayonets were sent to the beach together with a dozen Banyan missionaries (who were also guides and translators) recruited from Chittagong.
With a muffled sound of "bang", Sima Yong's sampan was the first to hit the beach. While the sampan was still shaking, the young second-generation soldier had already shouted loudly, raised his bayonet and loaded his flintlock, jumped off the sampan first, and fell in with a plop. Waist deep in the water!
The water depth was completely beyond Sima Yong's expectation. When they were training in Chittagong, they took a sampan to the beach during the day when the visibility was good. When they boarded the beach, the water depth was at most knee-deep. But now they passed it for some unknown reason. waist.
In addition to the water being deeper than expected, the wind and waves on the sea were also a bit strong today.
Before Sima Yong could raise the flintlock gun in his hand, a wave hit him, soaking him all over... The "Made in Holland" gun he was holding in his hand was shipped from Foshan. The flintlock gun was also wet, and I don't know if it can still be fired?
More soldiers plopped into the waist-deep water. Some of them, like Sima Yong, did not expect the water to be so deep, and they did not even raise their flintlock guns, so they were soaked by the waves that followed. Drunken chickens, the flintlock guns in their hands also turned into drowned guns. Some people were more lucky and raised their flintlock guns in time, and then shouted: "Welcome King Chuang, don't pay for food, divide the fields, abolish caste..." ....”
Shouting slogans, these drowned soldiers of Dashun began to cover their heads, pass through the morning fog on the sea, and wade towards the beach.
Sima Yong also shouted slogans, but he did not move forward immediately. Instead, he found the Fan named Ahmed Jalali.
This guy is of Persian origin and is in his 30s. He has been doing business in Bangladesh, Orissa, Arakan and Myanmar for several generations, and he is also very talented in languages. I could speak Persian, Urdu, and Oriya since I was a child. Later, because of Dashun's entry into Myanmar and the opening of Salian Port, I also learned Chinese.
When Li Jicheng invaded India to recruit translators and guides, he was the first to sign up - this was an opportunity to make a fortune!
He had seen Dashun's military strength in Burma, Arakan, and Chittagong. Such an army might not be able to defeat Aurangzeb when it invaded India, but it would be ruthless to seize a fat and oily territory in eastern India. There is no problem in getting a lot of money.
Moreover, these people in Dashun Dynasty don’t understand India at all. Just look at the slogans they put forward and you will know how unprofessional they are!
Why don’t you pay grain, divide the land, abolish castes... Why did you come to India if you don’t allow grain to be paid?
The division of land is even more strange. There is no private ownership of land in India. India implements a land taxation system. The land of the Timurid Empire was divided into tens of thousands of Jagir and Chaidamingra - Jagir was originally linked to military service, and the government The military system and the chivalry system were somewhat similar, but by the time of Aurangzeb, they were reduced to a tax-farmer system like the Zamindars. What kind of land is this? We can’t do without tax collectors, right? Dashun is a foreign political power. It is unfamiliar to India. How can you search for it without tax collectors?
There is also a useless caste... What is this for? Isn’t this nonsense! Only people who don’t understand India at all would think so!
So Dashun is a layman who doesn't understand India at all. As an India expert, Ahmed Jalali feels that he has an obligation to help Dashun's army invade India in the right way!
India is a good place and it is easy to invade, but you can't do whatever you want!
"Old Jia, follow me!"
Sima Yong is the platoon leader of Dashun's Changzheng Mansion. He has to watch this Ban man and not let him run away. It is best not to let him be killed by the Tianzhu people.
"Okay, okay, let's go together to conquer India for Emperor Dashun!" Jalali is a Persian who is very eloquent. If Li Jicheng heard this, he would definitely like it in his heart.
Sima Yong was not as optimistic as Jalali. He was now walking through the water and in a sea of mist. He was worried about a large group of heavily armed Indians standing on the beach!
Because the number of Dashun troops who landed in the first wave was not large, only 800 people, and because it was too dark and the wind and waves on the sea were a bit strong, these sampans spread out widely when they rushed to the beach, and the 800 people were divided into Dozens of squads could only fight on their own. Many of them had their flintlocks soaked by the sea water and could only use bayonets to fight the enemy. What was even worse was that none of the Dashun officers and soldiers who landed were wearing armor and only had Bu Yi, let alone the Tianzhu people's muskets, even if they encounter their archers, they will suffer heavy losses!
Before setting off, Sima Yong had been notified that there were a large number of Jagir territories belonging to Rajput knights near the landing site, and that there was also a Rajput cavalry stationed in Kutak, the capital of Orissa Province.
In addition, a castle was built in Paradpur, less than 15 miles away from the landing site, and a small number of local infantry from Orissa Province were also stationed.
If the Tianzhu people discovered the landing fleet at sea during the day yesterday, they would be in big trouble!
Bang bang...
Just when Sima Yong was on tenterhooks, two gunshots suddenly came from the front!
Could it be that the Tianzhu people were firing?
Sima Yong's heart was already in his throat, but he did not dare to slow down at all, and instead accelerated forward.
If someone fires at him on the beach, the only thing he can do now is to rush forward with his bayonet-mounted rifle! His father Sima Yu taught him: The soldiers of the government will advance but not retreat. Even if they die, they will die on the way to attack!
Just when Sima Yong was so nervous that his body was a little stiff, he suddenly heard the man behind him speaking in a very relaxed tone.
"Sima, don't be afraid, this is Tianzhu!"
