"Conquer the king, refuse to pay grain, divide the land, and abolish caste ......"

Amid the sound of neat and loud slogans, Sima Yong, a second-generation soldier from Liuba County, Hanzhong Prefecture, and a dozen of his comrades shook their oars with all their might, rowed a sampan forward, through the fog of the early morning sea, and rushed to the beach of the Paladepu sub-district of the Kurtak region of the Odisha province under the rule of the Timurid Empire in India.

Song Yaowen's choice of landing site for the Dashun Expeditionary Force was the delta at the mouth of the Mehanadi River in Orissa Province - a rich territory!

Estuarine deltas are generally very rich in the mud and sand carried by a large river, and this is no exception. Since its conquest by Akbar the Great 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 Mehanadi River, there are more than 200 Jagil and Chamindar territories, each of which is the purse of Aurangzeb the Great!

And Sima Yong and his comrades, who traveled thousands of miles across the sea, came to snatch the money in these small wallets. Although grabbing money is Sima Yong's ancestral craft, this time it is the first time to do it, and it is still going abroad to grab money, which is still a little nervous.

After all, the Tianzhu Kingdom is quite large from the map, and it is sent to Sima Yong's government army (company) to serve as a guide and missionary (not to the government soldiers, but to the Shudra untouchables of Tianzhu). Jalali said that this Tianzhu Empire is also at the peak of national strength, with strong soldiers and horses, and it is very difficult to fight.

So it's better to sneak ashore and catch them off guard!

Li Jicheng and Song Yaowen obviously planned to do so, so they didn't dare to launch a landing in broad daylight, let alone listen to the military adviser David . Jones's opinion, in broad daylight, drove the battleship directly into the Mehanadi River - David. Jones's suggestion actually made sense, because fifty-five galleys and 5,000 men were enough to conquer the entire Kutak region.

The Timurid Empire of India had insufficient forces in the entire province of Orissa to defeat them, and it was not possible to mobilize troops from Bengal or from Jabr and Gorkunda (on the Deccan plateau) overnight.

With the speed of reaction of the Timurid Empire in India, no army will arrive for a month!

However, Li Jicheng and Song Yaowen, who were thieves, still ordered the fleet to float on the sea near the mouth of the Mehanadi River for most of the day, and did not approach the beach until midnight, and then laid down fifty-five sampans at dawn and sent 800 daredevils armed with flintlock pistols and bayonets and a dozen Fanren missionaries (who were also guides and interpreters) recruited from Chittagong to the beachhead.

With a muffled sound of "bang", Sima Yong's sampan was the first to hit the beachhead. While the sampan was still shaking, the young second-generation soldier had already let out a loud shout, raised his bayonet, and the flintlock pistol loaded with ammunition jumped off the sampan first, and fell into waist-deep water with a thud!

The depth of the water was completely beyond Sima Yong's expectations, and when they were training in Chittagong, they all rode sampans to the beach during the daytime with good visibility, and when they climbed the tidal flats, the water depth was at most knee-deep, but now they don't know what is going on, but they are over the waist.

In addition to the water depth exceeding expectations, the wind and waves on the sea today are also a bit strong.

Before Sima Yong could raise the flintlock pistol in his hand, a wave hit him, pouring him all over his body...... The "Dutch-made" flintlock pistol he was holding in his hand was also wet, and he didn't know if it could still be fired.

More soldiers jumped into the waist-deep water, some people, like Sima Yong, did not expect the sea to be so deep, and did not even raise the flintlock pistol, so they were poured into a soup chicken by the waves that followed, and the flintlock pistol in their hands also became a soup gun, and some people were lucky, raised the flintlock pistol in time, and then shouted: "Meet the king, do not pay for food, divide the land, and abolish the caste......

Shouting slogans, these Dashun soldiers began to cover their heads, through the morning mist on the sea, wading towards the beach.

Sima Yong also shouted the slogan, but instead of moving forward immediately, he found the man named Ahmad. The people of Jalali.

The guy is of Persian descent, in his 30s, who has been doing business in Bangladesh, Orissa, Arakan and Burma for generations, and has a talent for languages. When he was young, he could speak Persian, Urdu, and Oriya, and later learned Chinese because of the entry of Dashun into Burma and the opening of the port of Salem.

When Li Ji became a translator and guide for the invasion of India, he signed up as the first one - this was an opportunity to make a fortune!

What is the military strength of Dashun, he has seen it in Burma, Arakan, and Chittagong, such an army invades India, and may not be able to defeat Aurangzeb, but it is no problem to take a fat piece of territory in eastern India and fish hard.

Moreover, these people in the Great Shun Dynasty don't understand India at all, just look at the slogans they put forward, you can know how laymen!

Why not pay grain, divide the land, and abolish castes...... Why are you coming to India if you don't let me pay food?

The division of land is even more strange, there is no private ownership of land here in India, India implements a land package tax system, and the land of the Timurid Empire is divided into tens of thousands of jagil and Qaidamin - Jagil was originally linked to military service, and the government military system, knight system is a bit similar, but in the era of Aurangzeb, it was also reduced to a tax package system, just like Chamindar. What kind of field is this? You can't do without a tax collector, right? Dashun is a foreign regime, and you are not familiar with the place in India, how can you loot it if you don't have a tax collector?

There is also an abolition caste...... What is this for? Isn't that nonsense! Only someone who doesn't understand India at all thinks so!

So Dashun is a layman who doesn't understand India at all, as an Indian expert, Ahmed. Jalali felt that he had an obligation to help the Dashun army invade India in the right way!

India is a good place and it's easy to invade, but you can't just mess around!

"Lao Jia, follow me!"

Sima Yong is the platoon commander of the Dashun Long March Army, he has to watch this person, he can't let him run, and it's best not to let him be killed by the Tianzhu people.

"Okay, okay, let's go together to conquer India for the Son of Great Shun!" Jalali is a very talkative Persian, and if Li Jicheng hears this, he will definitely like it to the heart.

Sima Yong was not as optimistic as Jalali, he was now walking across the water, walking in a sea fog, and he was worried that there was a large group of heavily armed Indians standing on the beach!

Because the number of the first wave of landing Dashun troops was small, only 800 people, and because the sky was too dark, the wind and waves on the sea were a little big, so these sampans were very spread out when they rushed to the beachhead, 800 people were divided into dozens of squads, and they could only fight on their own, among them, there were many people whose flintlock pistols were wet by the sea, and they could only fight with the enemy with bayonets, and what was worse was that the officers and soldiers of Dashun who landed were not wearing armor, and they only had cloth clothes on their bodies, not to mention the muskets of the Tianzhu people, even if they met their archers, they had to suffer heavy losses!

Before setting out, Sima Yong had been informed that there was a large number of Jagil territories belonging to the 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 Paladep, less than 15 miles from the landing site, and a small number of local infantry from Orissa Province were stationed.

If the Tianzhu people had discovered the landing convoy at sea during the day yesterday, it would have been a big trouble!

Woo Woo ......

Just when Sima Yong was worried, two gunshots suddenly rang out in front of him!

Could it be that the Tianzhu people are firing?

Sima Yong's heart had already risen to his throat, but he didn't dare to slow down a little, but accelerated forward.

If someone were to fire at him on the beachhead, the only thing he could do now was to pick up his rifle with a bayonet on it and rush forward! His father, Sima Yu, taught him: The soldiers of the government have advanced and retreated, even if they die, they must die on the way to attack!

Just when Sima Yong was so nervous that his body was a little stiff, he suddenly heard the person behind him speak in a very relaxed tone.

"Sima, don't be afraid, this is Tianzhu!"