Volume 7 Chapter 12 Asking for help from the Ming Dynasty
If you want to say how miserable the early colonized countries were, digging a mine or something is actually nothing, it is common to be caught as a slave for no reason, and the worst thing is that no matter how honest you are, how obedient you are, endure torture, enslavement, and oppression, but the colonists still want to kill them, and often inexplicably their lives are gone.
Here we will talk about the illiterate adventurer Pizarro, who came up with a way to collect money after capturing the emperor of the Inca Empire, and asked the Incas to redeem their emperor by piling up a room 22 feet long, 17 feet wide, and 8 feet high. Despite being imprisoned, the Inca Emperor and his subjects obeyed his orders from prison, and Pizarro killed the Inca Emperor when a steady stream of gold from all over the empire filled Pizarro's treasury!
This is a true story, which illustrates the cruelty of the early colonizers from the side, so after the princely kingdom of Mysore was occupied by Konde and Shivera, the national mining was only the beginning, a small beginning, and countless pains and tortures were waiting for these Ah San.
For example, each person has to hand over 100 catties of iron ore per month, and the kingdom of the princely kingdom of Mysore has 500,000 or 600,000 people, and 100 catties per person is 50 or 60 million catties a month, and our Chongzheng Emperor didn't ask for so much iron ore, so why did Shi Vela let them dig so much?
Actually, this is a small trick played by Schvera and Comde, one hundred catties per person, they know that it is basically impossible, unless you happen to be on the edge of the iron mine, and the iron mine is particularly easy to dig, otherwise a family of five or six people is five or six hundred catties, where to dig. Can't dig it, okay, catch it, it's just an excuse to say that it's just an excuse to catch it and mine, but in fact, after it's caught, you're a slave, and you have to do whatever you want, or you will kill it directly! And there will always be a day when this iron ore will be dug up, and when the time comes, everyone will become slaves, this trick is not poisonous!
What are you doing with so many slaves? There are many things that can be done, iron ore does not need to be dug anymore, gold mines still need to be dug up, gold mines are really untenable, and they can still be allowed to farm, food, spices and so on are very profitable. As for where the land comes from, in such a big place, just draw a circle, and the civilians in the circle who know each other will get out of here, and those who don't know each other will directly take the land together, the early colonists are so barbaric!
Of course, these are all things for the future, and now Svera and Konde have just occupied the princely kingdom of Mysore, and there are still many things waiting for them to do, such as changing the law to rob, robbing the palace and robbing the ministers, robbing the ministers, robbing the merchants, robbing the merchants, and robbing the commoners, there is nothing faster than robbing the money.
There is one more important thing, and that is to deal with the crusade of the Mughal Empire.
Anyway, they so blatantly occupied other people's vassal states, why didn't the Mughal Empire react at all? Could it be that their original suzerain, the Mughal Empire, had fallen into decay? Of course not, as I said earlier, now is the time when the Mughal Empire is at its strongest.
Since the Mughal Empire was so strong, why not send troops to rescue it? Could it be that the top boss, Deccan Governor Aurangzeb, is a useless soft egg? No, on the contrary, this Aurangzeb is still a ruthless character, although he is only the third son of the current Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, he finally took the throne of the Mughal Empire, why? Because he killed his eldest brother, second brother and fourth brother, the old emperor Shah Jahan was also imprisoned by him to death!
Such a ruthless character is naturally not afraid of more than 10,000 Portuguese troops, and the reason why he did not come was only because he underestimated the strength of these more than 10,000 Portuguese troops, and it can also be said that he overestimated the combat effectiveness of the more than 30,000 indigenous troops of the princely kingdom of Mysore.
In his opinion, even if he led the elite of the empire to conquer the princely kingdom of Mysore, he would have to bring at least 20,000 horses and horses, and 10,000 horses would be enough to defeat such a large kingdom, and no matter how bad the combat effectiveness of the 30,000 indigenous army was, as long as they held the city to the death, there was really nothing they could do about 10,000 horses for a while.
He thought that the princely kingdom of Mysore could hold out for a few months at the worst, and even directly repelled the more than 10,000 Portuguese troops, so after receiving the news, he did not immediately mobilize people to go to reinforcements, but waited there, after all, the cost of the army to go out is very huge, and it is best not to go, in case the princely kingdom of Mysore can't withstand it, it is not too late for him to save it, so that he can save a few months of military expenses.
He didn't expect that the idiot of the king of the princely states would send all 30,000 horses to intercept the Portuguese army halfway, and he was beaten and annihilated! When he learned that the princely king had shamelessly surrendered, he began to gather his men and horses to prepare for the crusade, but this was only a few days later.
It may be hesitant to change to another prince, but Aurangzeb will not, he is such a ruthless person, he has never taken the initiative to slap others in the face, and he has never been slapped in the face so nakedly.
What to do? One word, dry.
The day after he received the news, he set off with 50,000 elite soldiers directly under him, of course, his power in the army is far more than these, he has been the governor of the Deccan over the years has subdued all the surrounding imperial troops, if he really fights with others, he can at least gather two or three hundred thousand troops, otherwise he will not be able to finally seize the throne of the Mughal Empire.
This time the enemy was only 10,000 Portuguese troops, and he thought that 50,000 elite soldiers under his command were enough, so he did not mobilize troops from other places to help.
So what are Kondde and Schvera doing? Although the princely kingdom of Mysore is only a vassal state of the Mughal Empire, it has a territory of more than 100,000 square kilometers, hundreds of thousands of people under its rule, and is also rich in gold, so the princely king is still very rich, and other jewelry, silver, and copper coins are not counted for the time being, and they have grabbed hundreds of thousands of taels of gold alone, and according to the value ratio of gold and silver to 30, these gold alone are worth tens of millions of taels of silver!
How do you divide so much money? It stands to reason that Schvilla contributed the most, and he should share the bulk of the money, but this is Comde's territory, and if it weren't for his good relationship, people wouldn't necessarily be willing to let you send troops to make money. Therefore, as soon as they discussed, they simply added two to five, and one person got half of it.
In the end, each of them shared nearly six million taels worth of gold, silver, and jewelry, and in the end, there were more than 100,000 taels of silver left, which they were going to give to Luo Siwei to thank him for helping them during this time.
Luo Siwei suddenly received such a large sum of money, the whole person was frightened, what are you kidding, although he is a general, his monthly salary is only a hundred taels of silver, so much money, he can't earn it in his life. He is not the kind of corrupt person, so at first he refused, but Shi Vera insisted on giving, he had no choice, so he had to accept it, it happened that Mysore was beaten down, and the New Year was approaching, he was about to pack up and go back to Daming, and then return to the capital and let the emperor decide.
Just as Comde and Schwila were about to send Luo Siwei and 200 Ming 'military advisers' back to China, the three traitors came to report, and the governor of the Deccan, Aurangzeb, led an army of 50,000 to kill them! This three traitors refer to the traitors and glory seekers in Ah San, it is not surprising at all, there are all kinds of birds when the forest is big, and there are so many traitors in the Ming Dynasty, and there must be more of the three traitors in Ah San.
Now Comde and Schwila are a little scared, this Mughal Empire is not an indigenous country, but a very strong feudal dynasty, their weapons are not very bad, armor, iron shields, bows and crossbows are complete, and even a certain number of muskets, these 50,000 troops are not joking, and the 10,000 recruits and 100 veterans under their command may not be able to do it!
What to do? They can only turn to Luo Siwei for help, they have participated in the war of millions of people, and the Houjin army, which is more powerful than the Mughal Empire's army, has been overturned by them, and he should be able to deal with this mere 50,000 horses.
Luo Siwei is preparing to go home for the New Year, he can't leave now, there is no way, the hands of the people are short, and the people have given so much silver, it is really unreasonable not to help. Besides, this Count Schwila is also a popular man in front of the emperor, if he leaves like this, the count will be killed by the enemy, and it is estimated that the emperor will definitely not spare him.
After listening to their description of the enemy army, Luo Siwei was not very afraid, the army of the Mughal Empire was equivalent to the Mongol army, if he had 10,000 elite Janissaries under him, he could directly rush up and kill them all.
It's not good to say that these 10,000 recruits and 100 veterans can't be said, if they can attack with a barrage, they have a chance of winning in the field, but the problem is that their muskets and artillery are bought from Daming, and they are only equipped with a base number of bullets and shells in total, and the barrage attack lasts for half an hour at most, and it is really impossible to say whether it can destroy 50,000 enemy troops, if the bullets and shells are exhausted and the enemy has not been destroyed, it will be dangerous. But if it is just to defend the city, there should be no problem, so Luo Siwei decided to defend the city of Mysore and wait for the enemy to attack.
Aurangzeb's army reached the city of Mysore the next day, and instead of rushing to attack the city, they set up camp three miles away to make siege equipment. Luo Siwei took a closer look with a telescope, the army on the opposite side was really unusual, at least the armor of those generals and the shields of the soldiers were not pierced by muskets, fortunately, he had ordered people to work together to move all a hundred howitzers on the city wall yesterday, otherwise this city would be a bit hanging when it was guarded.
There is nothing to say about this manufacturing siege equipment, anyway, it is nothing more than wells, ladders and siege vehicles, in this regard, the army of the Mughal Empire is similar to the Ming Dynasty, because they are originally descendants of the Mongols and Turks, and the tactics of war are extremely similar to the Ming Dynasty.
On the fourth day, Aurangzeb, who had just finished building siege equipment, launched a fierce attack on the city of Mysore, and Luo Siwei taught him a good lesson with artillery and muskets, and in the face of powerful cannonballs and dense bullets, his proud army was beaten to the ground, and after three days of attack, he could only climb the city wall, and was soon stabbed down by the Portuguese army above.
After losing nearly 20,000 horses, Aurangzeb finally could not resist the retreat, and Comde and Schvera were about to celebrate their victory, but the three traitors poured cold water on them very inopportunely. Only then did they know that the ferocity and cruelty of this Aurangzeb were not under them at all, this product ate everything, but he had never suffered a loss, and he had more than such an army under his command, he must have gathered a large army when he retreated, and when he came back, it was estimated that it would not be 50,000, at least 150,000, 200,000 or 300,000!
Schvera and Kondde were terrified, what are you kidding, these 50,000 troops alone have consumed half of their ammunition, and how can they withstand another 150,000!
In fact, when Luo Siwei commanded 10,000 recruits to easily defeat 30,000 indigenous troops, he already coveted the muskets and artillery of the Ming Dynasty, but after asking the price of Svera, he was a little reluctant, just this batch of guns costs eight million taels of silver, you must know that now the assets of his entire family are more than 10 million taels of silver, so he wants to wait, wait for a year or two in Mysore to buy it, but he didn't expect the Mughal Empire to react so quickly, and he didn't give him time to make money at all.
It's too late to say anything now, it will only take a month or two at most for people to gather a large army, and it will take so long to buy weapons from Daming, and it will be too late to recruit people and practice.
What to do? Is it going to go back like this? It was not easy to occupy such a large rich place, and he retreated like this, he was really unwilling!
He is unwilling, Shi Weila is even more unwilling than him, you must know that he promised His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire to send two million catties of iron ore a month, if he loses Mysore, where will he find so much iron ore!
At this time, he could only gamble, he asked Luo Siwei to help him write a letter, the content of the letter was very simple, that is, to ask His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire to send troops to help for the sake of the allies!