Chapter 523: The War in the South Seas (3)

I don't know when the Chinese dynasties paid attention to killing prisoners.

Especially the Han dynasty after the Sui and Tang dynasties, they were even more afraid of killing prisoners, but after the establishment of other foreign dynasties, they never paid much attention to it, as if the lives of the Han people were not human lives, and the lives of other foreign races were more valuable and more valuable.

After hundreds of years of war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in fact, Confucianism has been greatly declined, although Kuai Yue was not influenced by these ideas, but he also felt that so many young people could be sent to other places to be used as slaves.

With the passage of time, the slaves of various ethnic groups captured in the early Xia Kingdom either died of exhaustion or were pardoned as civilians for merit, resulting in fewer and fewer slaves, and the shortage of slaves in the Xia country became larger and larger, otherwise the trade of Kunlun slaves would not have been so hot before.

"General, what a good labor, it's a pity to kill!" Kuai Yue looked at the prisoners of war in front of him with a reluctant face, although the price of the Nanyang natives is not high, but the number is not large, how can the nearly 20,000 prisoners of war in front of him be worth the price of thousands of Kunlun slaves.

"Must be killed!" Fang Lei shook his head and said, "Lao Kuai, don't always get into the eyes of money, the Charentra people killed thousands of us Han people at the beginning, if we can't give them a great deterrent, there will be such a thing in the future, this time I want them to know, kill me, and repay a thousand!" ”

"In addition, you have to know," Fang Lei said with a serious face, "Now that we are deep into their territory, whether it is logistics or other aspects, we are very passive, we don't have so much manpower and energy to take care of these people, it is likely that one negligence is a big disaster!" I must be responsible for the safety of our more than 20,000 soldiers! ”

Fang Lei wanted to kill these prisoners of war, not because he was bloodthirsty and brutal, but because he only had 20,000 people in his hands at this time, and he was operating in the territory of the Charentra Kingdom, if he didn't kill these prisoners of war, it would greatly affect the next actions of the Xia army.

Although Fang Lei also knew that killing these prisoners of war was likely to cause those soldiers in the Charentra Kingdom to resist desperately next, and it would attract a large degree of attention from the Charentra Kingdom, but in order to achieve the strategic purpose of the Xia army, Fang Lei had to kill these prisoners of war.

Of course, Kuai Yue, as the deputy general of the avant-garde, also knew this, and he could only shake his head and watch those prisoners of war all killed, it seems that the future battle will be more careful and take more effort.

But what Kuai Yue never expected was that killing so many Charentra prisoners of war not only did not make the Charentra defenders in the two cities behind fight desperately, but they had fled without a trace before the Xia army attacked the defenders of these two cities.

Even because of the Xia army's brutal slaughter of the Charenterans, it also won the welcome and support of a large number of indigenous tribes around the Charentrats who were hostile to the Charenterans.

After all, the Chalientra Kingdom is not a native of Java Island, no matter what they do, it is a relic of the Funan Kingdom after all, if there is no Xia State to intervene, they can slowly develop into the first unified power on the island, but now after the Xia Kingdom intervenes, the situation is immediately different.

The indigenous tribes of the eastern part of Java probably belong to the ancestors of the Madura people, because they were conquered by the Charentra Kingdom for a relatively short time, and the blood feud between the two sides has not yet dissipated, and they are very hostile to the Charentra Kingdom that enslaved them.

At present, they are at a disadvantage, but they have only maintained a certain degree of submission to the kingdom of Charentra, but they have not yet fully accepted their rule, and they have not been able to deal with the Javanese in the west for a long time, let alone have just been defeated.

After seeing that the seemingly powerful Charentra army was quickly wiped out by a third party with a devastating force, they were unwilling to submit to the Charenterra Kingdom, so they did not hesitate to run to hug the Xia army's thighs, intending to gain the support of external forces.

No matter how different human civilizations are, the ways of expressing kindness seem to be the same.

Kuai Yue looked at the indigenous tribes that kept pouring in from all over the place, as well as the increasing number of various labor food, gold, and silver in the barracks, and even the various beauties offered by hundreds of indigenous tribes.

Of course, Fang Lei will not refuse these innocent indigenous tribes, although he led 20,000 soldiers to land, there are still 20,000 sailors in the rear base, and a large number of Han people who continue to migrate to Coral Island, but it is a good thing to have more cannon fodder troops after all.

Under the temptation of Fang Lei's promise that these tribes could all establish their own countries with the support of the Xia State, in just half a month, he received the support of more than 100 surrounding tribes, and he also had an additional servant army composed of more than 50,000 strong indigenous youths, plus the Xia army's own strength actually had an army of 70,000 or 80,000.

The only thing that makes Fang Lei a little regretful is that most of these indigenous tribes also have contradictions between them, so Fang Lei can't mix them all, and in the end he can only organize as many as twelve armies according to the affinity of the indigenous tribes.

Leading these servant armies were more than 3,000 Xia Army soldiers drawn out by Fang Lei, with the leadership of these Xia Army soldiers, the servant troops finally had initial combat effectiveness, and Fang Lei also took advantage of the situation to launch a larger-scale attack on the Charentra Kingdom.

As early as the end of the Western Han Dynasty, there were a preliminary civilization countries established, and there were already a large number of settlements on Java Island at this time, and the population also belonged to the countries with a relatively large population in Nanyang, with about four or five million people. Hua Heng College

Although the island is densely covered with volcanoes and the transportation is poor, it is much better than the rainforest environment of Borneo, and the Charentlantras and tribes close to the Charentra Kingdom have become the trophies of the indigenous servants, which greatly stimulates the combat effectiveness of these servants.

With the continuous progress of Fang Lei's offensive, the intensity of the offensive is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more ambitious indigenous tribes have also joined the ranks, since there is a chance to stand up for themselves, who doesn't want to be the boss themselves, so Fang Lei's tribal armed forces are further expanding.

Although these indigenous tribes also have grudges against each other, after Fang Lei took out military law to kill several indigenous tribal chiefs who fought in private, all the chiefs became good soldiers who obeyed military law, not to mention the biggest enemy of the Charentra Kingdom in front of them.

Fang Lei led the army to rush all the way, only picking up the largest city in front of him to attack, and all the other small and medium-sized cities were thrown to those servant armies to attack, never turning back.

Such a rapid advance has set off a lot of momentum.

When he led the army to attack the vicinity of Yogyakarta in later generations, nearly half of the eastern islands of Java Island were in chaos, and the local Charentra defenders, not to mention counterattacking, were already very good to be able to hold their own station, and where did they have the energy to counter the continuous offensive of the Xia army.

Therefore, at this time, the defenders of Charentra in the east sent a steady stream of letters of help to the capital of the Charentra Kingdom, but at this time, the Charentra Kingdom could no longer take care of these newly conquered territories, because Cao An led the Blue Wolf Army and suddenly landed from the west of Java Island.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, while the attention of the Charentrats was all attracted by Fang Lei, Cao An led the Blue Wolf Army from Bolimbang to quickly land on the western part of Java Island, and then conquered a number of coastal cities.

The western part of Java Island is different from the eastern part of the island, which has been the core area of the Charentra Kingdom for decades, and it is very close to the Charentra Kingdom, so the Charentra Kingdom can only defeat the Blue Wolf Army first, and then attack Fang Lei's avant-garde army.

While the Chalitra Kingdom stepped up the formation of a new army, it also urgently recalled the naval army that had originally joined forces with the naval forces of the Zhenla Kingdom and the Dead Kingdom of Sri Buddha to fight against the Xia army.

Unexpectedly, when this relatively powerful naval force withdrew, it encountered the Xia Army's First Fleet in the waters northwest of Java Island, and the two sides launched a huge naval battle with nearly 1,000 warships in a sea area 50 miles northwest of Java Island.

Of course, this figure is the number of all ships, including large ships and boats, but there are already more than 400 large warships on both sides, which can be regarded as a large-scale naval battle.

In order to be able to concentrate their forces to break through a country, the Xia army first used the Second Fleet to defend against the naval armies of the Lost Kingdom of Sri Buddha and the Kingdom of Chenla, and then used the Han Chinese armed forces in the Lost Kingdom of Sri Buddha to contain their army.

Only then did most of the forces of the South Seas be concentrated in the direction of the Charentra Kingdom as much as possible, so that with the front and rear attacks of the avant-garde army and the Blue Wolf Army, and the indigenous tribal armament set off by Fang Lei, the Charentra Kingdom was no longer a concern.

After the collapse of the Charentra Kingdom, the death of Sri Buddha can quickly follow in its footsteps, and in the end, the only remaining Zhenla Kingdom is still strong, but it can only be supported alone, which is the ultimate strategic goal formulated by the Xia Kingdom after a long time of fighting in the South Seas.

King Bachbabanan of Zhenla had already entered middle age at this time, but he could still see the direction of the situation clearly, and he quickly saw the plans of the Xia Kingdom, of course, he could not sit back and watch the Xia Kingdom first wipe out the Chalientra Kingdom and the Death Kingdom of Sri Buddha.

At this time, although the navy of the Zhenla Kingdom was pinned down by the Second Fleet of the Xia Army, the infantry army also had great strength to support the Sri Buddha Death Kingdom, and he was ready to attack Manraka and Xingzhou in the Xia Kingdom along the Malay Peninsula in the later generations, and then support the Sri Buddha death from there.

However, at this time, in the direction of the Great Sui Rinan County in the northeast of the Zhenla Kingdom, an army of tens of thousands of people unexpectedly appeared, and there was a faint posture of taking advantage of the situation to attack the Zhenla Kingdom, which made the Zhenla Kingdom, which was far inferior in strength to the Great Sui Kingdom, hesitate.

Could it be that the Sui Empire united with itself and other countries to attack the Xia State was fake, but the Sui Empire also wanted to meddle in the situation in the South Seas? After all, the wealth of the South Seas is unparalleled.

The Bavabanan king hesitated and finally delayed the dispatch of troops, and a Xia army had already occupied the isthmus on the peninsula, which was the main route for the army of the Zhenla kingdom to move south.

After two days of fierce naval battles on the sea, all the ships that the Charentra Kingdom had worked hard for ten years to imitate the style of Xia ships were lost.

Immediately after that, Fang Lei left a part of his soldiers and led the indigenous coalition army, which had swelled to 100,000 people, to continue to sweep the Charentlantras along the way, but he himself took the other 15,000 soldiers by boat to the west to join Cao An.

Facing the tall and well-armed Xia army, the soldiers of the Charentra Kingdom were not opponents at all, and soon nearly 50,000 Xia troops approached the capital of the Charentra Kingdom.