Chapter 786: Sevenfold City

The city wall of the capital city of the Zhuyuan Kingdom is no more than seven feet high, which is not as high as the courtyard wall of the Yang family, and Yang Yi almost can't believe that this is the capital of the Zhuyuan Kingdom that unified the entire South India.

Perhaps they spent all their financial resources on expanding their armies, and Prolari I had 40,000 or 50,000 war elephants, each seven or eight feet high, carrying huts on their backs, and the warriors fought with bows and arrows from afar, and spears at close range, which was second to none in all Indian countries.

Perhaps it was precisely because they were the most powerful country on the Indian continent that the kings of the Zhuran Kingdom disdained to build high walls, but if the kings of the Zhuran Kingdom really adhered to such ideas, it was not necessarily wrong. If the military is strong, is it necessary to build high walls? If the battle is defeated, as it is now, what is the use of the highest walls?

However, I heard that the castle is divided into seven cities, and these seven castles are absolutely unique in other countries. The first and second cities are private residences, and there is a water around the city to isolate them. The third and fourth cities are government offices. The fifth and sixth cities are royal palaces. The seventh is the royal palace.

After Florari I learned that the army was defeated, he did not immediately abandon the capital, which is where the ancestral society is located, and it is also the lifeblood of the Zhuyuan country, if you give up in a hurry, it is equivalent to losing the lifeline of the Zhuyuan country to others.

He immediately sent messengers to the defenders in various places, and ordered the local officials and generals to lead the army to the king, and he himself was also clothed all over, and personally went to the city to supervise the battle, and there were more than 10,000 defenders in the city, and it was very weak to defend the four cities;

Prolori I immediately recruited the young men of the city, but all those over the age of sixteen and under the age of fifty went to the city to help defend the city, and tens of thousands of men, although most of them did not even have weapons, but they stood on the city with great strength.

In addition, the king personally supervised the battle, and the army's morale, which was panicked by the defeat on land and water, also stabilized a lot.

Regarding what Prolari I did, Yang Yi can only be said to be courageous.

Yang Yi asked the gunboats to block the north gate, and then used 10,000 Sinhalese horses to guard the west gate and the south gate, and the intention of catching turtles in the urn could not be more obvious. Everything was arranged, and the siege was being prepared, but Prolari I sent an emissary asking for negotiations.

The messenger's name was Jajachun, and as soon as they met, he asked: "I have no grievances with you in the distant future, and there is no enmity in the near future, so you have come to attack our country."

"Wrong!" Yang Yi pinched his chin and interrupted Jaja Jiachun with a smile, "During the reign of Rajendra I, he sent tens of thousands of troops to invade the Three Buddhas, everywhere he went. Burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil have brought heavy disasters to the people of Srivijaya, and now I am on the order of King Sriwijaya Puluo to go on an expedition to the country to punish the murderers. Shen Zhang is righteous and famous. ”

"At the beginning, it was the Three Buddhas who invaded our country first. The first king of our country sent troops to attack Srivijaya. ”

"That's because you attacked the Sinhala first, the subject of the Srivijaya first. It is an indisputable fact that the countries around them have all suffered from the aggression of the country, and it is an indisputable fact that Prolori I sent you just to delay the time. Do you think Captain Ben is foolish? You don't talk nonsense, go back immediately and tell Prolari I, I will give him a cup of tea, and let him go out of the city and surrender immediately. I will spare his life, treat the people of the city well, if he is determined to resist, when the city is broken, all those who resist will be killed! ”

"You"

"Don't leave you, there's only one tea time, hurry back and let Prolari I get ready."

After Jajachun hurried back to the city, Meng Yunshan asked with a smile, "Does the captain think Prolari I will surrender?" ”

"Less nonsense, prepare for the siege."

"Whoa!"

It's evening, and there are at most three hours before dark, so it's not fun to enter the city after dark, if you wait until tomorrow to attack the city and you're afraid of long nights, it's better to enter the royal city early to rest and be stable.

A cup of tea kung fu, very quickly.

In fact, Yang Yi didn't expect Prolari I to surrender at all, after a cup of tea, the gunboats at the north gate were the first to attack, the city wall of Thanjavur was only one mile away from the Cauveri River, and the gunboats' scattered shells could cover an area of more than a mile in the city, and the twelve guns on the side roared at the same time, and countless iron beads roared towards the city with a dead roar.

At the same time, a fierce attack was also launched outside the east gate, and under the cover of five hundred flintlock muskets, Ozawa Saburo's servant army held shields, carried long bamboo rafts, and carried explosive bags.

This time with Yang Yi out, these servant troops not only shook their prestige, but also made a fortune, and they used to have few opportunities to perform in front of their masters, but now they finally have the opportunity to perform, and they all rushed quickly.

The chirping bullets hit the head of the city, so that the soldiers defending the city could not afford to lose their heads, and the things used to defend the city such as rolling stones and trees could only be blindly thrown downwards in an attempt to block the Japanese servant army, Ozawa Saburo only paid the price of about 20 casualties, and successfully delivered the explosive package to the city gate.

Soon there was a loud bang outside the city gate, boom! A ball of fire rose into the sky, and at the same time, the entire east gate was blown to pieces, and the billowing dust mixed with gunpowder smoke soared into the air twenty or thirty feet high, forming a strange mushroom cloud.

The defenders of the city were killed and wounded all over the city, and their bodies were charred black, and those who were a little farther away were also deaf and dizzy.

Prolari I let the young men in the city go to the city, which was not wrong, although these young men have not undergone military training, if they fight with the traditional cold army, in the case of superior numbers, they will definitely play a big role, but at this moment, these young men have become the booster of Prolari's fiasco.

Under the violent explosion, the young men defending the city had never seen such a terrible firearm, and they were the first to break and flee, and soon turned into an avalanche, and even the regular army in the city also fled in a panic.

As a sign of loyalty, Saburo Ozawa led his army of servants to rush into the city first, cutting people at sight, showing their teeth and claws, the ferocity of these Oriental samurai was vividly displayed in front of the weak, and the sharp katana slashed heads to the ground and rolled around, and the frightened rout was scattered.

Yang Yi also immediately led the army into the city, and his 1,500 men were not like Ozawa Saburo's people rushing and killing indiscriminately, but with a platoon system, where there were many defeated troops, they would kill wherever they wanted, and each platoon had to cooperate with each other. The flintlock musketeers rushed in with a whole battalion and rushed straight to the palace.

This evening, the whole city was full of shouts of killing, although the frightened soldiers of the Zhu Yuan Kingdom had completely lost the courage to resist, Yang Yi and the others still spent two full hours, until the second watch, the city was really cleared;

Prolari I was also caught by Saburo Ozawa from a farmer's cowshed, and proudly escorted to Yang Yi to ask for credit, Yang Yi immediately gave him a reward from one of the concubines of Prolari I, and promised another reward later, so happy that Saburo Ozawa kowtowed again and again, and pulled the concubine away.

Prolari I is nearly fifty years old, with an ordinary figure and an ordinary appearance, the kind that can't be found when thrown into the crowd, he has already changed the king's clothes on his body before hiding in the cowshed, if it weren't for those concubines secretly confirmed, Yang Yi really couldn't believe that such an ordinary little old man was the king of Zhuyuan Kingdom.

Yang Yi didn't insult him much, Yang Yi didn't have any hatred with him, and Zhu Yuan Guo did not offend the Great Song Dynasty, this time it was purely his bad luck, Zhu Yuan Guo was favored by Yang Yi, as a springboard to control India step by step in the future.

Of course, we can't say that, we were ordered by the king of Srivijaya Puluo to avenge the invasion of Srivijaya by the kingdom of Srivijaya.

Yang Yi stayed in the palace that night, and did not say anything all night, and the next morning, outside the city, there were successively the army of the king of Guoqin, Yang Yi asked an official in the city to carry out the will of Providery I out of the city, and let the thousands of troops outside the city who arrived first to Qin Wang lay down their arms and surrender, or obediently return to their original station, waiting for the next will.

The generals who led the troops did not listen, Yang Yi was furious, and personally led 500 flintlock pikemen out of the city and defeated these thousands of men and horses. Later, the army of King Qin, who arrived later, learned that the capital had fallen, and the army of King Qin, who arrived first, was defeated again, so they stopped at Liude Town, fifty miles away, and did not dare to approach the capital again.

Yang Yi was not in a hurry to go to the expedition, but asked the Sinhalese general Hunuer to send envoys to contact the Indian countries, especially those that had been invaded by the Registered States, and asked them to send envoys to Thanjavur as soon as possible.

After doing this, Yang Yicai sent Shi Ran to lead 6,000 men, Yang Jiajun 2,000, and Sinhala 4,000 to press Liude Town, and at the same time took Willa I, the second son of Prolari I, to ask him to surrender.

Now it has been discovered that the town of Liude has gathered more than 50,000 Qinwang troops, and it is Jaffna who jumped all the way back from the Pauk Strait to preside over its affairs. Jaffna had tasted the benefits and disadvantages of the Yang family's firearms, and knew that he was ten times the strength of the army, and he did not have the slightest certainty of victory when he attacked the capital, so he remained unmoved.

Shi Ran's 6,000 soldiers and horses stopped ten miles from Liude Town, and sent Vegaya to surrender. Vejaya was escorted outside the camp in Jafsz, and saw the flags fluttering in the camp, which seemed to be solemn, but the confusion and uneasiness in the soldiers' demeanor could not be concealed.

According to Yang Yi's teaching, Vejaya shouted to the Jaffna camp: "General Jaffna, according to the will of my father, give up resistance, the capital has fallen, Captain Jack promises, as long as you give up resistance, I will treat you well, as long as we sign some agreements in the future, let us resume our rule, you provoke resistance, there is no benefit to the country or the people, Captain Jack has sent an envoy to contact the Quartet countries, if you continue to resist, it is likely to attract the Quartet countries to send troops to attack together, At that time, we are afraid that the country will be carved up by all countries."

Vegaya's words made Jaffna silent for a long time, fighting, and there was no certainty of victory, dragging it on, the surrounding countries had been invaded by the Zhu Yuan country before, even if Captain Jack didn't send a messenger to contact, the countries would definitely take advantage of the fire to rob, and then attack inside and outside, which one could they take care of?

The king and ministers were captured, the capital was also occupied, and the morale of tens of thousands of Qinwang's army was low, and they had no intention of fighting.

Vegaya continued to shout, "General Jaffna, your family is fine, Captain Jack didn't embarrass them, but if you continue"

Jaffna barely heard what Vejaya was saying next, and he felt only a wave of dizziness in his head. (To be continued......)