Liu Dou has changed.

He worked as a coolie on the construction site at the mouth of the Cross River for less than a year, and then spent three or four months in Lin'an City and Jiangdu City. It's an eye-opener, I have eaten good things that I have never eaten before, I have earned wages that I couldn't imagine in the past, and I have seen many enchanting women who people can't help but want to get close to......

I ate meat, made money, and met many beautiful women. It should be a good thing, but Liu Dou is getting more and more depressed in his heart.

In the words of later generations, his happiness became less and less.

Liu Dou is not happy.

Because while eating meat, he knew that there were many delicious foods in the world that he could not eat in his life. As he made money, he found that others had ten or a hundred times more money in their pockets than he did, and it came easily—at least not from exhaustion.

What makes him most distressed is that those beautiful women have to spend money to get close, and the money in his pocket can only be exchanged for a few nights of love...... This is still the price of being close to the least beautiful and oldest of all beautiful women!

So Liu Dou didn't feel a little happy, and he also understood why the landlords in his hometown, Popi Li and Lai Toad, went to join the army.

Because joining the army is the only way for a bitter man like him, who has nothing but strength, to get ahead.

If Liu Dou was still farming in his hometown and hadn't come out to open his eyes, then he wouldn't have used his brains to join the army at all, he would only honestly farm, pay rent, borrow usury to marry a mother-in-law, and then use his own life and his son's life to pay off the debt of Hades that he will never be able to pay off......

For most of ancient China, the life of poor peasants seemed to be like this. There is only a small part of the time, such as the great rule after the great chaos. Because the population was lost in the chaos, the land appeared relatively rich. The emperor in power was not confused, so that the peasants at the bottom could take a breath. That's the case with the Northland now. However, Jiangnan was too civilized because Chen Dexing's army fought too civilized, and did not suffer most of the casualties, so the low-level peasants there were particularly miserable. If you want to get ahead, you have to leave your homeland.

Therefore, Liu Dou, who became very unhappy, had long had the idea of joining the army. Today's quarrel with his younger brother just helped him make his final decision - instead of being dragged to death by his confused brother, why don't you just go to the army and fight, maybe you can mix up as a person?

"If I go, I'll die. Or you'll be able to live a good life! Liu Dou repeated this sentence in his heart, got out of the coolie camp at the mouth of the cross river, and strode towards Kaifeng City, which was dozens of miles to the west.

There, a new, bitter but promising life awaits him!

And at the same time, thousands of miles away on the island of Southern Java. Splashy Li and Lai Toad, two poor men in Taizhou who took the lead in joining the army in search of wealth, were fighting with the soldiers who were "like tigers and jackals". However, there was no steel sword that could cut the two of them to pieces, and steel was so precious to the natives of Java that they were reluctant to use it even on the blade. It's all wrought iron, uh, it's not wrought iron, it's just rotten iron knives. Cutting on the steel armor of Splash Peel Li and Lai Toad, a few gaps can immediately collapse.

But even with such a rudimentary weapon. The resistance of the Javanese people is still very stubborn!

Chen Shengren miscalculated again! Tran Tak Hing, who did not know much about the history of the world in the 13th century, certainly did not know that there was a rising kingdom on the island of Java at this time, the New Koshari Kingdom. This kingdom arose in East Java and had recently eliminated the kingdom of Kengari, which had entrenched itself in the western part of the island of Java under the leadership of King Gengalo. It was the time when the country was at its peak.

Moreover, the king of the new Koshari, Gengalo, and his heir, Ketanagara, can be called heroes. After the unification of Java. The two are ambitious and have their sights on Srivijaya, who controls the Strait of Malacca. However, the national strength of Sriwijaya in the 60s of the 13th century was not weak. Historically, Sriwijaya was completely weakened after the failure of the expedition to Ceylon.

Therefore, Gengalo and Ketanagara were not in a hurry to make a move, but waited patiently for the opportunity. On the one hand, the country was reorganized and the army was trained to prepare for invasion.

However, the development of events was unexpected, and the Chinese conquerors from the north suddenly went south, overwhelmingly subdued Sriwijaya, turned Sriwijaya into their protectorate, and also gained a stronghold in the Strait of Malacca, and stationed a huge fleet!

Gengalo and Ketanagara once sent warships from the New Koshari Kingdom to attack Chinese warships posing as pirates to test each other's reality. But they were shocked by the fact that those ships had weapons that seemed to have magical powers! When used, it roars like thunder, and it is indestructible, and even the strongest Javanese warriors are vulnerable to this weapon......

After a few temptations, the princes of the new Koshari kingdom soon realized their situation—now was not the time to think about expansion and hegemony, but about how to defend the island of Java.

The enemy from the north is too strong to be defeated by the new Koshari. What the new Koshari has to think about now is how to protect itself!

There weren't many options that Gengalo and Ketanagara could think of, nothing more than to submit to the strong and strengthen their defenses. Ketanagala himself visited Temasek several times to meet with Tran Temasek, offering generous gifts, wanting to "manage" the land south of Bo Ni Island (Borneo north of Java) for the Ming Emperor, and willing to pay a generous annual tribute. However, he was sternly rejected by Chen Defang - of course he had to refuse, Oceania is also south of Boni Island!

After failing to claim the title, Genalo and Ketanagara had no choice but to manage to strengthen their defenses. It is obviously impossible to defend against the enemy at sea, so the only way to defeat the invaders on land is to find a way.

There are two ways to do this, one is to break the caste restrictions and recruit soldiers from among the untouchables of the island of Java, which was also conquered by the Tianzhu Aryans and embraced Brahmanism. According to the rules, only Kshatriya castes can be used as soldiers, but in this way, there are not many troops in the whole country, and they can't defeat the Ming army at all. So Gengalo and Ketanagara took the initiative to break the old rules, and recruited and trained an army of 100,000 untouchables in the past two or three years.

In addition, Gengalo and Ketanagara organized an elephant army of 300 Javanese elephants to resist the invaders.

The second is to build cities and store grain in various parts of Java Island to make preparations for long-term persistence. Java is one of the best agricultural areas in the world because of the fact that volcanic ash from volcanic eruptions fertilizes the land and is located in the tropics, where rainfall is very abundant. Enough to support a large number of people and cities, it has always had many cities, but there are not enough tall and strong walls. Now, under the urging of King Gengalo, a "city-building fever" has suddenly arisen in various parts of Java, and in just two years, dozens of cities have newly built walls.

Now, these tall walled cities were the biggest obstacle to the conquest of Java by the three feudal clans of Song Fuxia.

Under the city walls, there were heavy casualties!

However, it was not the soldiers of the San Francisco who died, but the people of Java.

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A large crowd of the indigenous people of Java was finally driven to the left of the city of Majapahit. The Han soldiers who escorted them were all dusty and tired. Splash Plum is one of them.

The spear company he belonged to the First Brigade of King Fu's Guards -- the army established by Chen Huaiqing currently has no divisional establishment, that is, eight brigades of less than 4,000 men combined, plus some artillery, sappers and a small number of cavalry, to form the Fu Wang's Guards.

And the 1st Brigade is the elite of them. Chen Huaiqing's definition of elite troops is that everyone has steel armor. The first, second, and third brigades of King Fu's army are all configured in this way. Therefore, he can work harder, and he is always sent out by Chen Huaiqing and Chen Defang to carry out dangerous tasks.

Puppylee's company and a platoon of archers had just completed a dangerous mission to capture at least 1,000 adult Javanese natives and loot at least 100 stones of rice.

Of course, it is not easy to rob people and things, and now the resistance of the Javanese people is very fierce, not only the various cities are stubbornly holding on, but there are also many Javanese militia activities outside the city. These shirtless Javanese men with Paran machetes are quite brave. They are familiar with the terrain and are accustomed to maneuvering in jungles and muddy land. When they see a small group of invading troops, they will not hesitate to attack.

They were ambushed three times along the way, and each time thousands of Javanese attacked them!

As a result of the attack, they quickly gathered 1,000 Javanese natives, as if they were still somewhat wealthy. However, the search for rice took a long time, and I wandered around for several days without yielding a harvest. The Javanese hid all their grain. Every village they found was empty, and there wasn't a grain of rice. In the end, it was through the torture of the captives (there were Javanese-speaking Chinese merchants accompanying them) that they found a forest where the Javanese hid their grain.

So when he returned to the city of Majapahit, he was already staggering in his walk - the climate in Java was so hot that people were particularly prone to fatigue, and he marched for five or six days without a single good night's sleep...... Because they could be attacked at any time by ten times their number of Javanese. While there are usually no casualties from an attack of that magnitude, it can be very torturous to be on high alert at all times.

"I'm dying of exhaustion and heat, and I really want to find a cooler place to sleep well for three days and three nights. Think about it, it's really good when you were a bastard in Duqiao! How happy and comfortable it was......"

Splashy Li walked with a spear in his hand, thinking about the easy and happy days of the past in his heart. At that moment, someone suddenly shouted.

"The brigade commander has an order, tell you to prepare to go out, the battle ahead is tight, there is no time to give you a little respite, immediately drive these natives to carry the soil, fill the trenches and attack the city!" (To be continued......)