Dozens of long oars rowed together, pushing a large galley to meander north, stirring up white waves and a huge red-bottomed wave on the Hooghly River waterway from the Bay of Bengal to Sadgaon Port (upstream of Kolkata). The big flag is fluttering in the autumn wind.
It was the harvest season on both sides of the Hooghly River, and the endless plains were covered with a rolling golden sea of rice, which seemed to show the fertility and richness of the Bengal plains to the foreign conquerors.
"The morning seeks promotion, the evening seeks harmony. It is difficult for poor people to survive these days. Open the door early to pay homage to King Chuang, and the disciplines are happy for everyone. Kill cattle and sheep, prepare wine and slurry, and open the city gate to welcome King Chuang. When King Chuang comes, he will not pay... ..."
The song "Welcome the King of Chuang" came from the embankments on both sides of the Hooghly River and reached the ears of Emperor Li Jicheng of the Indian Dashun Empire who was sitting on the deck admiring the rich scenery on both sides of the river.
What? Li Jicheng has arrived in India? Isn't he in charge of the military in Dali? Why did another Li Jicheng appear on the Hooghly River?
How many Li Jichengs are there in this world?
Of course there is only one real Li Jicheng...the Li Jicheng who is marching towards Sadgaon Port, an important commercial port on the Hooghly River.
He led the 100,000-strong Dashun Chao Expeditionary Force a month ago, sailed across the sea in hundreds of paddle boats, and arrived at the estuary of the Hooghly River. The army rested for more than ten days near the mouth of the Hooghly River, and by the way captured several coastal defense fortresses of the Timur Dynasty. Then they moved forward by waterway and headed for the commercial city Sadgaon Port in the middle reaches of the Hooghly River.
Different from the previous invasions of India, this time Li Jicheng did not make a small fuss, but also came to invade India. A total of 80,000 land divisions and 20,000 naval divisions were mobilized, and hundreds of galleys were built and collected. They also sold iron to buy a large amount of muskets, artillery and gunpowder, and fully armed their army... .The savings accumulated through years of robbing India have all been spent in one go. This time, the effort to "immigrate to India and become the emperor" will fail. Haha, there is no need for Zhu Hexing to call, the Dashun Empire will collapse on its own!
Dashun, a feudal military empire, was most afraid of failure in its external expansion - robbery was not a completely costless business, so it was possible to lose money.
If the robbery fails, the bandit group may also go bankrupt!
This is also the reason why the Dashun Empire has neither made an expedition to the north nor moved eastward in recent years, but has only been robbing India - robbing India is profitable!
Since the Li Jicheng who appeared on the Hooghly River is real and unique, then the Li Jicheng who appeared in Dali is certainly a Xibei.
In the past few years, Li Jicheng has focused exclusively on India and has not invested much capital in Yunnan and Sichuan - this is also determined by the current terrain of the Dashun Empire. From southern Sichuan and northern Yunnan in the northern territory of Dashun to Li Jicheng's ruling centers of Haidu, Mrauk U and Jida, it is four to five thousand miles away! And they are mainly overland, and there are also large sections of mountain roads... Normal marching would take more than a hundred days to complete this journey (mountain roads are not easy to walk!), and you must rely on supplies along the way.
It's okay to have a small number of people, but if an army of 100,000 marches north and south, it will destroy all the villages and towns along the way!
I think back when soldiers from Dashun Prefecture moved south to Myanmar, I don’t know how many indigenous villages and cottages were “eaten away”!
Nowadays, most of the cities, towns and villages in those places have been given to the soldiers who came to settle in the south... Li Jicheng's army can't eat them up no matter what! Therefore, it is impossible for Li Jicheng to massively reinforce Yunnan.
But he can't ignore Yunnan, otherwise Dashun's rule in Yunnan will soon collapse!
If Dashun's rule in Yunnan collapses too quickly and Zhu Hexing's preparedness is not used, he will definitely take advantage of the victory and advance into Myanmar...
By then, can Li Jicheng really ignore his home base and enter India in a big way?
So Li Jicheng used a clone plan to attack the east and attack the west!
Of course, it's not really a clone, but a substitute! Since Li Jicheng became a "filial son", the internal struggles in Dashun became more intense (in fact, since the loss of Sichuan, the internal struggles in Dashun have gradually become more intense). Li Jicheng, who was afraid of being assassinated, secretly selected and trained several stand-ins a few years ago and asked them to appear in public for him.
Now these stand-ins are coming in handy... Li Jicheng is really good at two things!
Therefore, before Li Jicheng personally led his army to conquer Bengal, he asked Luo Hu, a veteran of the four dynasties, to bring a stand-in of his own, pretending to be the emperor of Dashun who was driving the expedition himself, and recruited 10,000 old and weak remnants, pretending to be one hundred thousand, and waved The army went north to Yunnan to resist Zhu Hexing - it turned out that there was no lure for the enemy to go deep, it was just an empty plan!
Luo Hu, who is in charge of Dali, does not have many troops at all. Even if you count the various local snakes in Zhongdashun in Yunnan (some of them are chieftains who have taken refuge in Dashun, and some are chieftains who developed from the farms of Dashun princes), The total strength is only 60,000 to 70,000, and many of them have already secretly communicated with the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Luo Hu had no choice but to raise Li Jicheng's flag and use various means to delay Zhu Hexing's advance.
At the same time, Li Jicheng himself quietly went to sea and attacked the mouth of the Hooghly River without firing artillery. There were also Indian agents in Haidu. Of course they knew that Ming Dynasty and Dashun were fighting in Yunnan. When the news came back to India, Aurangzeb thought that there was no serious problem on the eastern front for the time being, so he mobilized a large army to fight against Mysore!
As a result, the mouth of the Hooghly River was empty, and Li Jicheng succeeded with one blow!
Now we have to wait for the Sadgaon Port to be established, and the Dashun Dynasty will have a firm foothold in Bengal... And by going all the way up the Hooghly River, we can reach the Ganges. We only need to build forts along the Hooghly River. , deploy naval forces, and pull the defense line all the way to the confluence of the Hooghly River and the Ganges River. Then most of Bengal east of the Hooghly River will be the territory of the Dashun Dynasty of India.
And Li Jicheng, who has invaded India several times, has long known what this magical land is about... The untouchables in India do not need to be liberated at all, they need to atone for their sins - they were guilty in the past life, and they have become what they are in this life. Untouchable. If they are not allowed to make atonement for their sins, they will not even be able to become untouchables in their next life. How can this be possible?
So Dashun Dynasty should not liberate them at all!
As for the Chamindars, Jagirdars and Brahmins who oppressed the untouchables, they were not the enemies of the Dashun Dynasty... They were tax collectors and helped the Dashun Dynasty or other foreign regimes collect taxes.
How can a prince have the right to eliminate tax collectors?
"Here are the people coming." Li Jicheng, who already knew how to conquer India, heard the Dashun soldiers advancing on foot from both sides of the strait sang the song "Welcome the King of Chuang" (this song is equivalent to the national anthem of Dashun), so he summoned the messenger The imperial edict said, "Tell them to stop singing... The people here in Tianzhu want to atone for their sins. We have to let people atone for their sins! And we have to pay for the food. Those Chaimindars, Jagirdars and Brahmins all pointed out They live on the tax farm, but if they don’t pay the grain, they will be killed? Killing cows is even more unacceptable... How can they kill cows? Cows are their gods and cannot be killed!"
While Li Jicheng was talking, a small boat from the upper reaches of the Hooghly River came up. An officer from Dashun jumped from the small boat onto Li Jicheng's big boat. After a while, Li Jicheng's military officer Song Yaowen came to Li Jicheng's side happily with the military report he had just received.
Song Yaowen smiled and said: "Your Majesty, I am so happy! Gao Yidao and Luo Ke's vanguard army has captured Sadgang Port..."
"Okay!" Li Jicheng clapped his hands and laughed loudly, "What a success! With this Sadgang, we can gain a firm foothold in Bangladesh... By the way, we need to change the Sadgang. My name. Military advisor, think about it, what name would be more auspicious?"
"Your Majesty, there's no need to worry about this. Of course it's the Xitian Mansion!" Song Yaowen said with a smile, "Isn't this where Tang Sanzang went to Xitian to learn scriptures?"
"Okay!" Li Jicheng nodded, "Well, now I'm in charge of Xitian!"
