More than ten days after the Jingnan Army occupied Qunu City, the Zhenyi Women's Battalion and the Flying Falcon Regiment arrived one after another.

This bustling city, there are dozens of stone temples, and it is the largest commercial city in the northern region of India, although it has been looted by the sectarian army, but after all, the heritage is still there, and it is the fief left by the Emir of Ghaznavid to his mistress, so it is still some of the population left, and the Jingnan army occupies it, and the people who fled around it are gradually returning.

On the west side of the Yamana River, the longest tributary of the Ganges, the main manor of the former kingdom of the Magdala has been renamed Hexi Fort.

The Virgin Battalion and the Falcon Regiment are stationed here.

There are more than 400 war elephants in the Falcon Regiment, and the entire legion has also expanded to 3,000 people, of which more than 1,000 are added to the mud Bora ghost soldiers.

Speaking of which, as long as the Mumballa ghost soldiers are used properly, they are still very brave and loyal, and the British Empire has a Gurkha mercenary regiment all year round.

The Jingnan Army had already advanced westward to the city of Delhi.

If the Ghaznavid legions were to go east, Delhi would be a must-pass if they were to bypass the Thar Desert.

The Hexi Fort, where Lu Ning is located, is on the eastern edge of the Thar Desert, hundreds of miles to the south.

Nowadays, the Thar Desert is not as serious as the desertification in later generations, there are many oases in the desert, and the entire Thar Desert area has been home to large and small city-states since ancient times.

Jesmere, in the heart of the desert, is even known as the City of Gold.

Aishwarya's native kingdom of Shasi, a city-state union in the western Thar Desert, was destroyed by the Cult Army.

In fact, because the sect army expanded more rapidly than in history, some of Lu Ning's strategic intentions became less logical.

For example, after the Jingnan army entered northern India and gained a firm foothold to make the southern region province a place of support, it should have gone south, cooperated with the naval army, and forced the Chola Empire to allow Qi merchants to dock in its ports, continue to sail west into the Arabian Sea, or trade with them locally, in short, trade freely, not as it is now, Qi merchant ships can only trade with the imperial merchants designated by the Chola Emperor, and Qi merchant ships cannot go west after docking through their ports for supplies.

But now? Can only focus on the sectarian army that fought against the eastward invasion? The dispute with the Chola Empire can only be dealt with later.

Lu Ning recruited many more slave mercenaries? It is also to establish another force that can support the fierce war as soon as possible.

If is it possible? He led the 3,000 falcon regiment south to respond to the sailors.

While Lu Ning was reconstructing his strategy in the Indian subcontinent, Emir Ghaznavid's letter was delivered to Delhi, now known as the city of Flying Sands.

The emir's envoy accused the Qi State of attacking and occupying the city of Qunu? It was a great offense to the kingdom of Ghaznavid.

Jing Si's negotiator said, Qunu City is the hometown of Tianzhu? And the kingdom of Ghaznavid plundered most of the city's inhabitants and wealth to the west? His appointment of Muqta is simply not legitimate.

The two sides exchanged words for several days, and finally it was generally agreed that the two sides would use the Thar Desert as a barrier and go north to Delhi? South to the old land of the Ring Sun Empire? Non-aggression.

Obviously, the Ghaznavid emir Alp was dying of old age, temporarily losing his former ambitions, and his sons were engaged in fierce debates not only for the position of emir, but also over the concept and position of the kingdom's governance? Such as his eldest son, who is also the crown prince Subuk who can gradually compete with him? He proposed the concept of calling himself the Sultan and no longer swore allegiance to the Caliph in Baghdad.

Is it for these reasons? Ghaznavid's emir Alp was a special agent, and he did not want to break out into conflict with Qi for the time being.

And? Is he about the sudden appearance of the Qi people in the northern region of India? Extremely shocked.

Even think that the Qi people have swallowed the land of Tibet in the past? Coming over Mount Kinabalu (Himalayas).

For Jing Si, it also understood that the Emperor did not think it was a good idea to clash with sectarian armies with fanatical religious beliefs.

At present, the Great Qi has occupied all the strategic positions of the sect's troops entering the central and southern Tianzhu land, and it is necessary to deal with the many political regimes and intricate relationships in Tianzhu land.

Moreover, if the Jingnan Army fights fiercely with the sect army in the western part of the Southern Regions Province, it is difficult to guarantee that the rear will not catch fire, after all, it is all the territory that has just been occupied, and it will take time to digest it.

Not to mention, once the Chola Empire, which is powerful in the south of the Tianzhu Continent, reaches an agreement with the Qi people, the merchant ships of the Qi State can sail the Tianzhu Ocean, not to mention, even the naval army can reach the western coast of the Tianzhu Continent and threaten the important trading ports of the Ghaznavid Kingdom.

Therefore, the two sides tentatively reached a peace agreement in the present sense after testing each other.

Perhaps the most important one for Alp's agents was the unconditional release of his captured mistress, Qi negotiators.

After the agreement was reached, Lu Ning immediately left the Zhenyi Female Battalion and only led the Falcon Regiment south.

After all, in southern India, camels are not suitable for fighting and riding, and if they are forced, they will be sick.

On the contrary, on the shore of this desert, the camel musketeers are so powerful that they will inevitably surprise the world, even if these five hundred musket camels are all female soldiers.

Of course, the Zhenyi women's battalion will not encounter the enemy at all, and the small city-states in the Taal Desert are not worth mentioning, and the Jingnan army can support them on the left.

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The giant elephant hissed, hundreds of elephants, walking together, it was really intimidating, I was afraid that there would be no 10,000 well-trained legions to fight, and the miscellaneous soldiers would be brave and scared away when they saw it from afar.

Of course, these guys are too good to eat, and the mountains and forests along the way have suffered, and the scattered villages don't need to donate much food, and many times, they can guide the abundant water and grass.

Lu Ning is also very complacent about the giant elephant army that he trained every day when he is bored, and the elephant's IQ is really too high, after being in it for a long time, he feels like a group of children, and he is the king of children.

On this day, they arrived at the land of Morawa, the southernmost part of the former Ring Sun Empire, and further south was the Deccan Plateau.

This is a slightly northern region of central India, and the whole central part of India is full of various small regimes, the so-called "country" of three villages.

Further south of the land of Morawa is the newly restored kingdom of Zaroch, with Kalliani as its capital, and this Kalliani is near Mumbai in later generations.

Lu Ning's first target in the south was to cover the kingdom of Louqi, although it was not prepared to really encroach on its territory like the Southern Regions, but the seven islands of Mumbai would be a good supply point for the Great Qi Sailors on the west coast of India.

At the same time, it is also prepared to go south to the Deccan Plateau and even cooperate with the sailors to create pressure on the Chola Empire.

The lord of the Morva, frightened by this human-like giant elephant army, led his relatives and slaves out of the castle early to greet them.

He also heard that the Qi people had established a province in the Southern Regions, and they bowed down to greet them with the most solemn local rituals, and swore allegiance in the name of Shiva to serve and be loyal to the Great Qi from this day forward.