Chapter 758: A New Chapter for China
The sky was gradually dawning, and the sea was still hazy, like a layer of silver-gray light veil.
A huge fleet of ships sails along the waterway from Bangka Island to the heart of the Sriwijaya Kingdom, and countless large and small ships are connected together, like a floating city on the sea.
The gentle waves crashed against the bottom of the boat, and there was no other sound, until a bird's cry broke the silence. But the coastline that could already be seen from afar, at this time, a fish's belly white floated in the eastern sky, and the sky and the earth gradually brightened.
The sun hadn't yet appeared, but the clouds were already covering the entire blue sky. Fang Tianding inadvertently caught a glimpse of a cloud, white and flawless, only the four sides were dyed red by the light before sunrise, just like a hidden dragon in the abyss, and the colorful glow with flying scales and claws was beautiful.
"After this battle, my Manichaeism will finally come out of the abyss and reach the blue sky."
Bangka Island has been taken by them effortlessly, and the power of Sriwijaya here is laughable. Ruan Xiaoqi deliberately let go of the two small dnahows, and after resting there for a while, the fleet headed straight at the mouth of the Musi River.
He believed that the sailors of the Srivijaya must have gathered at the mouth of the Musi River at this moment.
There are more than 200 sea ships of all sizes, although less than half of the professional warships are there, but there are twenty gunboats supported by Fang Tianding's cheap brother-in-law, which is a large force, and the rest are all troop carriers and transport ships, carrying 30,000 Manichaean elites.
At the mouth of the Musi River, the water army of the Srivijaya people is also black and oppressive, like a dark cloud covering the sea, and the sails are lined up, and they are mighty.
They had already received an urgent report from the fleeing sailors of Bangka Island, and during the time that the Manichaean army had been resting on Bangka Island for a few days, the Sriviya had gathered their main sailors and merchant ships of the Sriwijaya maritime merchants to the mouth of the Musi River. Ten percent of the surface power is coming, not eighty percent, but also seventy percent!
They did not dare to take the initiative to attack Bangka Island, the sea was vast, if the two armies crossed the sea, they could have taken back Bangka Island as they wished, but the Chinese army that took advantage of the weakness could also successfully seize the old port. This risk is something that the magnates of Sriwijaya cannot afford.
Therefore, the decisive battlefield of the two armies was only at the mouth of the Musi River.
Seeing the continuous sail shadows approaching, the Sriwijaya people reacted quickly. One by one, the warships pulled anchors and hoisted their sails, heading towards the incoming enemy.
Their strength is really strong, with the dhows from the heavenly people as warships, large, medium and small warships combined with the sea ships of the merchants, the number of as many as 200.
This is the reliance of the Sriwijaya people to dominate Malacca, even though the large spinnaker warships inside are less than one-third of the total number, but the total number of sailors and slaves is more than 20,000, which is definitely a powerful sea force in the world at this moment.
You see, this is an ancient kingdom that has existed for hundreds of years. Without a little reliance, how could the Three Buddhas have been able to survive several twists and turns for hundreds of years?
Hundreds of warships on both sides set sail and broke the waves, and in the eastern world, this was like a sea battle of unprecedented scale!
And history will inevitably be remembered for it.
Because of its significance, to put it bluntly, the significance of this battle is not weaker than the battle of Yanyun. It not only determines the ownership of the oriental sea power in the future, but also the first step of the Chinese nation to the south, the real first step.
Like the Battle of Cajamarca, the Spanish adventurer Francisco Pizarro, led his exhausted and weak invasion army of 62 cavalry and 106 infantry to defeat and capture alive the Inca Emperor Atahualpa, who was then leading 80,000 followers, in Cajamarca, the Inca Empire.
The same is true of the current battle of the Musi River.
Although Emperor Lu did not come in person, the chess and cards of both sides were on the bright side, and the successful 'sneak attack' of Fang La's army determined the inevitable outbreak of the Battle of the Muxi River.
In this battle, if the combined sailors of Manichaeism and the Qi army can successfully defeat the Srivijaya sailors, then everything that follows will be a matter of course. Soon, Fang La will step on the fallen body of the Three Buddhas and establish a new kingdom - the Ming Kingdom.
The Chinese have completely become the masters of Nanyang.
And if it were to be defeated, it would be ten million times more significant than the defeat of Francisco Pizarro. Pizarro was just a fanatic and illiterate, and his department was only an insignificant detachment, while the Fang La army was the 'main force'. His defeat will not only make Sriwijaya and other Nanyang countries sweep away their fear of China, and give a shot in the arm to all the Nanyang indigenous kingdoms, but also severely dampen the enthusiasm of the Chinese for Nanyang.
Therefore, Lu Qian went all out to support Fang La's army and drew twenty gunboats from the Nanyang Naval Division, which shows the great strength. Because this battle cannot be lost.
The lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, Lu Qian never wants to capsize in the gutter, he is not borrowing a knife to kill people.
And at the same moment, not only the history of China has been changed by Emperor Lu, but the history of the whole world will enter a new track.
At least in the next hundred years, it will be impossible for the Tianfang maritime merchants who crisscross the eastern seas to become the overlord of the entire eastern seas after the defeat of the Three Buddhas' expedition to Tianzhu and collapse.
Time is so ruthless, famous generals and virtuous ministers, emperors through the ages, the Central Empire, Xuan Xuan, no matter how powerful you are, you can't withstand the aging of the years. The now powerful Chola Empire is also on the verge of death after more than a hundred years, and the already vibrant Sriwijaya Kingdom is even more powerful after more than a hundred years, with flowers in full swing.
If it weren't for the national strength being so strong, the Three Buddhas would not have been fooled by the aristocratic monks who fled from Tianzhu to go on an expedition to Chuluo, to set things right, and to protect the Dharma and promote the Dharma for Buddhism. As a result, Srivijaya made two expeditions to Ceylon, which cost huge national and financial resources, not to mention, and was defeated by the regent of Ceylon, Virapahu, in the second expedition, and the country's strength declined.
The Tianfang, who sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, took the opportunity to replace the Chola and Srivijaya as the overlords of India and the seas of East Asia.
And when Zhao Song had reached the end of his rope, he stabbed the Han people in the back.
- Betrayal and surrender among the Han people in the late Southern Song Dynasty were also common, and you can't and have no absolute reason to demand that the Heavenly people must remain loyal. But it is infuriating that these believers of the true god betrayed and killed the Han people in return for their dedication to the Mongols when they were at their most critical!
Therefore, Zhu Hongwu's treatment of the Pu clan in Quanzhou is particularly relieving.
But now, in addition to the Srivijaya people who dominate Malacca, there is a new surface force in the East Asian Sea that can completely crush the Tianfang maritime merchants, which is the foreign sailors that Emperor Lu painstakingly established!
Now that the new hegemon has kicked the old hegemon from the throne, the Tianfang maritime merchants, whose strength is far from reaching its peak, can only choose to stand on the side of the Chinese, who have a stronger chance of winning, waving the flag and cheering, shouting six-six-six.
After all, if they want to make money from China, they can only stand on the side of the Chinese.
Although the old Zhao family is super incompetent in fighting, you can't deny the richness of Zhao Song. At this time, China was by no means the country with the highest GDP in the world in this era, and its wealth was even more of a giant [except China]. It also has the world's largest import and export trade volume, which is an astronomical amount for both imports and exports!
An open China not only has a huge amount of trade with its neighbors, but also communicates with Indian countries, Tianfang, and even Europe through maritime commerce. The amount of import and export trade every year is not countable.
Think about it, how much wealth can Tianfang people, who occupy the position of China's main import and export traders, earn from it every year?
I know why the Tianfang people can only follow China at this moment!
Although with the emergence of more and more Chinese maritime merchants, it may not be many years before a new rupture breaks out between the two sides. But that's also in the future, isn't it?
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He was one of the great generals of the Srivijaya Navy and was responsible for commanding a fleet stationed at the mouth of the Musi River. He was one of the most capable generals in Sriwijaya because he was stationed at the mouth of the Musi River with his army, not only to protect the security of the old port, but also to collect customs duties for Sriwijaya and even plunder goods at sea. How can you not fight like this? It has to be able to fight, and it has to win.
Therefore, the experienced Dhobira of this naval battle became the vanguard general of the Srivijaya Naval Army. Leading the thirty large and small spinnaker warships can be said to be a fist force of the Sriwijaya.
After Sanruan dominated the Fujian-Guangdong Ocean, the prestige of artillery spread to Sriwijaya, but the latter did not care at all. Sriwijaya doesn't know much about Middle-earth? During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sumatra had the Kingdom of Gandhary. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Southern Liang Dynasty [Xiao Yan], the king of Ganduri, Toli, was enshrined in the Southern Dynasty, and since then, the land of the Three Buddhas has never been severed from contact with China.
As soon as Zhao Laoda plotted to usurp the throne, the king of the Three Buddhas, Sili Daxialitan, received the news and quickly sent an envoy to pay tribute. In the sixth year of Xianping of Song Zhenzong, the king of the Three Buddhas set up a Buddhist temple to celebrate the birthday of Song Zhenzong, and Song Zhenzong gave the bell of "Chengtian longevity". So far, the Chengtian longevity bell is also the treasure of the Three Buddhas.
Casting a bell is a door technical work. Its thickness and size are the most direct embodiment of a country's metallurgical level. The Chinese are absolutely the first in the world in casting bells during this period.
In the memory of the Sriwijaya people, Middle-earth is rich and powerful, the land is large and rich, and the strength is far greater than that of Sriwijaya. Therefore, whether it is Li Tang, or the five dynasties of the remnant Tang Dynasty and the Zhao Song Dynasty, they are all in close contact with the Central Plains. Only the Zhao and Song dynasties sent envoys to pay tribute more than ten times. It is also closely related to the Central Plains that they are very clear about Emperor Lu's old background, and they also know that Zhao and Song have not stopped so far, so they did not pay tribute to Emperor Lu for the first time.
In this way, their cognition of Lu Qi is inevitably a little backward, and their memory of the Central Plains Dynasty is still more in the earlier Zhao and Song dynasties, and the old memories of Zhao and Song are involuntarily substituted into the new dynasty, or the old impression of China that has been formed for many years - that is, China has a sea but no defense, and all dynasties have not had a strong naval division to protect the sea frontier.
Therefore, when Tuobi Luo heard that the Ruan brothers and the sailors led by them dominated the Fujian, Guangdong, and foreign people, they all laughed. What a strange thing it must have been, the Buddha blessed him for not drinking water when he heard the news just now, otherwise he would have choked to death.
For a while, he even imitated the Ruan brothers' approach, because this was a good way to get money, but after the news was sent to the old port, his proposal sparked a big discussion, and there is still no definite conclusion.
Then, soon Tuobila felt a strong pressure, because the Chinese really set up a sailor, and the Chinese sailor directly occupied the Zengmu Island as soon as he came south. After learning the specific information, he wanted to tear Ketanagara and his entire family apart and feed the crocodiles. It's a pity that Jarrah at that time had already taken all his relatives to China.
After that, the name of artillery and the Nanyang naval division spread throughout the Nanyang.
There are those who have seen it, who directly portray artillery as the weapon of the devil, and exaggerate the rhetoric so that people subconsciously do not believe it after hearing it.
Now, as the commander of the Sailors, he will have to face the rumored weapon that only the devil can use—artillery.
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