Chapter 329: Truth Within Range (2)

When hundreds of thousands of troops gathered in Punggara, the clouds of war once again loomed over the whole of India.

Everyone knows that a large-scale war is about to begin.

War is one of the most evil forms of conflict in the world in the eyes of lovers of peace.

War is a way to realize the value of life and occupation in the eyes of soldiers.

War is an alternative political tool in the eyes of politicians.

Whatever war may be, its very nature has determined that there is no such thing as justice or evil in war itself.

At that time, the North Delhi Sultanate, in their eyes, the Ming Dynasty was an evil invader, and the Ming Dynasty launched a shameless war.

From the position of the Ming side, the purpose of attacking North Delhi is to obtain more resources, whether it is material resources or human resources, so that their motherland Daming can become stronger, and can make the people of the Ming Dynasty and their compatriots live better, so this is a just war.

Looking at the problem from different standpoints, there will always be different conclusions.

If we insist on right and wrong, then backwardness and weakness are the original sin.

As the Sultan of North Delhi, Nasir al-Din Mahmud Shah now also has such a feeling that "if you are backward, you will be beaten".

Born in one of the "Forty Military Groups", Mahmud was baptized by the beliefs of the Turkic military aristocracy at an early age, and was a fanatical Green Christian, who at the age of seventeen independently led the army to suppress a Hindu rebellion in the Jagil region, slaughtering thousands of people before and after.

He firmly believed that only war could enable the Green Religion to defeat the chaotic cults of Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity.

Engaging in internal construction like his father, Firuz Shana, and playing with softness will not be able to realize this great ideal.

So, when the army of the Timurid Khanate moved south from Samarkand, Mahmud chose to support him as if he were a traitor, believing that Timur, who possessed such fanatical ideas as himself, would become a great leader of the Green Religion and kill all the other infidels.

He shamelessly knelt in front of the cripple and surrendered to him, betraying the overall interests of the forty military groups behind him.

The Forty Military Group referred to here is the predecessor of the Delhi Sultanate, that is, the forty military nobles from the Turks, who led their tribes to India hundreds of years ago and started a bloody campaign of conquest and religious propagation.

Indigenous Indians who were unwilling to convert and convert to religion were slaughtered or burned to death, and through this intimidation and coercion, a large number of Hindu first-class castes and second-class castes converted to the Green Religion and became the first to become the world.

Relying on the submission of this group of former landowners, the Forty Military Group ruled the whole of Delhi and its surrounding areas, forming the Delhi Sultanate.

Over the next few hundred years, the Delhi Sultanate expanded to the time of Ashoka, who was joined by the Mauryan Empire.

But with the death of Tughluk, the decline of the Tughluk family, the disintegration of the forty military groups, each of which was divided, and the Tughluk dynasty passed to his Mahmud generation, and the entire Delhi Sultanate was like the late Eastern Han Dynasty in the Central Plains.

Although there is no external trouble for the time being, the internal situation is the combination of princes and wars.

Mahmud himself was confident that he would put down the rebellions in these provinces, and he was confident that he could do better than Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, but he had to face a huge external threat that he did not encounter in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty:

Da Ming!

The fall of the kingdom of Zhangpur dealt a heavy blow to the Delhi sultan, and he had to pull down his face and invite the leaders of the other families to discuss the major matter of resisting the Ming Dynasty.

But Da Ming left after Zhang Pur's captivity.

"This Ming comeback invasion is larger in scale, and it will definitely be more threatening than the last one."

Mahmud pinched his eyebrows, he had a hunch that if he could not cope with the past this time, then it would be the day of the demise of his Tughluk dynasty.

"Our Tughluk family is dead, and as part of the Delhi Sultanate, neither can your family die well."

In Panibat, Mahmud convened a congress with all the descendants of the Forty Military Group.

"The Delhi Sultanate was established by our ancestors together, over the years, although we have some internal contradictions, and we have changed the sultan several times, but this position has always been our families take turns to sit, today the invasion of the Ming Dynasty is imminent, the ferocity and brutality of the Ming Dynasty, Zhangpur is a living example.

Our heads will be cut off and become the merits of the one-eyed general of the Ming Dynasty, our concubines will be divided among the military attaches of the Ming Dynasty, and our children and grandchildren will become the slaves of the Ming Dynasty.

There is a saying in the Central Plains, called brothers are outside the wall to resist their humiliation, and today, it is time for us to join forces. ”

"Need us old brothers now?"

The governor of Jagil smiled disdainfully and sneered at Mahmud: "Don't you have that lame man as a backer? Now that the Ming invasion is under our noses, what's the point of you not sending someone to Samarkand to ask for help and find us? ”

"Timur Khan died a few years ago."

Mahmud was not at all annoyed by this ridicule, and at this time he was still able to restrain his temper.

"Don't think that I summon you as a humble begging, does it matter whether you send reinforcements or not? The pros and cons are on this bright side, and if you are not willing to support me, it is just that I will go to Allah before you. ”

is about to die in the country, and you are still worried about the factions here?

"Your jealousy or resentment towards my Tughluk family, when the war is over and the Ming people are repulsed, our forty families can open a public trial, if half of them have opinions, it's a big deal that I, Mahmud, will give up the position of the Sultan, and the Delhi Sultanate will elect a new monarch."

Mahmud's proposal was full of sincerity, and it could be regarded as heart-to-heart, and the governors of dozens of provinces all nodded their heads after looking at each other.

Anyway, everyone is ***, they are green cultists, and they have been unanimously watching and helping each other on major issues of right and wrong for hundreds of years, and there is no reason to stab each other at this time.

"Can this battle not be fought?"

The Governor of Bombay made a somewhat dampening proposal, and in the face of the Ming Dynasty, this Turkic descendant was still a little trembling, after all, he was a little terrified at the thought that this country called the Ming Dynasty was established by destroying the Mongols.

That is the Mongol Empire that conquered the entire continent, and even such a powerful country was destroyed by the Ming people, even if they joined forces, they would definitely be able to fight?

"If you fight, you may not lose, but if you don't fight, everyone here must go to Allah, the children of the big guys, they are all slaves of the country."

Mahmud glanced around and said coldly: "The Ming Dynasty has wiped out the entire Zhangpur, hundreds of thousands of Zhangpur people have been taken captive, and more have been slaughtered, and millions of corpses have filled every corner of Zhangpur.

Now, their country has digested these hundreds of thousands of slaves, and their appetite and greed continue to increase, this time they are here again, we will never stop if we are not destroyed, the stupid Bahmani monkey still thinks that the Ming is here to help them.

As everyone knows, after we are destroyed, none of the large and small states in the south will be able to escape!

Now, do you also want to replace reason with monkey thinking?

What is peace? Peace is only the charity of the victors and the strong, but it will always be the luxury of the weak, the Ming is unwilling to give peace, then we can only rely on ourselves to fight! ”

It has to be admitted that Mahmud's encouragement has played a role, and dozens of governors present have expressed their full support.

"As long as we are united under the blessing of Allah, then we will surely win this great patriotic war!"

Mahmud stood up and raised his arms and shouted, with a fanatical expression: "Call and mobilize every Dosti, tell them that Allah is with us, and that every inch of North Delhi will be a tomb for the Ming people!" ”

"Allah is with us!"