Chapter 524: The War in the South Seas (4)
"Don't go against the Han Chinese! Especially those Han people from the East China Sea! ”
Kunda, who was in his thirties, suddenly heard in his ears the advice of his father Mo Lida before his death, and he seemed to have seen the heroic scene of the first Han attack on Bolin State twenty years ago, so he frowned.
When Zhou Qiang and Sun Xing first attacked Sri Buddha and died, Kunda was only fourteen years old, and he still can't forget the rain of arrows when the Xia army attacked the city, and there seemed to be a large black cloud in the whole sky, and the shock of that scene was unforgettable.
I don't know how many people were killed by the Han people's arrows, and finally Sri Buddha surrendered to the Xia kingdom, and even the king seemed to become a puppet.
"Father, although the strength of the Han people is so strong, no matter how brave the elephant is, it is impossible to defeat the siege of a group of jackals!" Kunda muttered, "There are so many countries attacking the Han Chinese this time, if we Sri Buddha can't seize the opportunity to fight, I'm afraid we will have to be slaves for them forever!" ”
The son of a small merchant in the kingdom of Sri Buddha, Kunda chose to become a warrior instead of inheriting his father's family business, and after the age of eighteen he joined the Praetorian Guard of King Phiyvarman, and eventually became the personal guard of King Phiyavarman's second son.
When the kingdom of Chenla, the kingdom of Charentla, and the kingdom of Pandya were in contact with each other, the king of Phiyavarman had just died, so the second prince took advantage of his father's new funeral and the country's instability to come out and seize power.
The new king, who had fought hard against the Xia war, soon died in the turmoil, and it was unknown who killed him, but the second prince, who had incited hostility, became the new king of the kingdom of Sri Buddha, and Kunda became a leading general as his confidant.
After seizing the power of the country, King Sri Buddha seems to be able to launch a revenge action against the Han people in his own land, expelling all the Han people and seizing all the wealth they have created over the years.
How could the Xia army sit and watch such a king who was extremely hostile to the Xia Kingdom sit in a stable position, and it was impossible to watch those Han people being persecuted by the deceased Sri Buddha, and soon Bolin State was occupied by the Nanyang garrison led by Zhou Qiang, and then the arrival of the Blue Wolf Army broke off the idea of the second prince to seize the city.
After many failed attacks, Kunda and other generals fled to the safety of the forest with his new king, and since he no longer had the strength to recapture the capital, he had to look forward to the defeat of the Xia army in other battlefields.
The strength of the Han people is indeed strong, they admit this, but Kunda and the others know that it is not only themselves who will deal with the Xia Kingdom this time, but even the Pandia Kingdom in the West, Ceylon in the Lion Country, and even Persia, a powerful country in the West, are involved.
If it weren't for the addition of these powerful countries, they wouldn't dare to make bold attempts to deal with the Xia Kingdom.
The situation was exactly as they expected, the Xia army was a little overwhelmed by the battles in the South and Western Oceans, and finally had to concentrate their forces to attack the Charentra Kingdom, and the Han army in Sri Buddha's country had almost completely withdrawn.
However, to the disappointment of Kunda and others, although the main forces of the Xia army in the kingdom of Sri Buddha had all gone to attack the kingdom of Charentra, the strength of the Han people in the country of Sri Buddha alone was no longer something they could deal with.
When Cao An and Fang Lei launched a large-scale offensive against the kingdom of Charentra, a war was also going on in the kingdom of Sri Buddha, which was not very fierce but extremely large-scale, and the protagonists of the war were not the armies of both sides, but the people of both sides.
Strictly speaking, it was a war of great scale between the militia of the people of the Xia Kingdom and the army of the deceased country of Sri Buddha, and the entire battlefield ran from Haitou (Sabang) to the entire island of Sumatra, but now this island has been called Jinzhou because of the excessive production of gold.
At the beginning, because of the long-term strategic advantage of Xia over the countries of Nanyang, the Second Fleet and Zhou Qiang, the chief general of the Nanyang garrison who had been stationed in Nanyang for a long time, did not pay good attention to the signs of turmoil at the beginning, and when they paid attention to it, the incident could not be ignored by them, and the result of the incident made them even more angry.
However, Zhou Qiang's anger was far greater than that of the Han people whose relatives were persecuted, especially those Han people who escaped from the Zhenla Kingdom and the Charentra Kingdom, and they took the initiative to join the Nanyang Garrison, so that the number of the Nanyang Garrison Division quickly increased to 40,000 and became the Nanyang Garrison.
But before the Nanyang garrison launched an offensive, the Han people of Sri Buddha's deceased country had already spontaneously organized themselves to start a big war with Sri Buddha's deceased, and no one knew that this would be the beginning of a war that would last for twenty or thirty years.
The number of Han Chinese in the country after Sri Buddha's death was the largest number of Han Chinese in the entire Nanyang except for the Xia Kingdom's own territory, and the number of Han Chinese accounted for more than 10% of the country's total population.
Moreover, the Han people lived in the local area and received full military training, so after the local Han people initially suffered some losses, they quickly spontaneously established a strong garrison, and after many offensive and defensive battles with the army of Sri Buddha, they quickly grew up and defeated the rebels of Sri Buddha's country.
As soon as she remembered the battle at that time, Kunda couldn't help but clench her fists.
Originally, I suggested attacking the places where the strength of the Han people was relatively weak first, so that not only could I obtain a large amount of Han wealth, but also obtain certain weapons, in addition, the Han people in these places were weaker and could not resist at all, and I had the greatest chance of waiting for others. Yunnan
However, the new king and other generals were discouraged by their fortunes and insisted on attacking the more powerful cities of Sumatra and Bolim.
Because of the important geographical location of Sri Buddha's country in the maritime trade between the East and the West, almost more than ninety percent of the merchant ships passed through here, so the Han people living in this country were concentrated in two places.
One place is the port area not far from the national capital Bolimbang, where nearly 80,000 Han people live in the city and the surrounding large seaport area, and the other is called Sumatra, which is the place near the sea in Banda Aceh.
Because Sumatra and Haitou are both important seafaring strongholds in the westernmost part of the South Sea, the first or last port of call for ships traveling between the East and the West on the Xiaohai (Bay of Bengal) can be regarded as a seafaring place here.
In this context, the region of Sumatra soon prospered, and before the turmoil, more than 100,000 Han Chinese settled here, and the total number of nearly 150,000 people in Haitou almost became a county of the Xia Kingdom in Nanyang.
In fact, almost more than eighty percent of the population of these two places are Han Chinese, and they also have a complete administrative structure and military guard force, except for the fact that they have not officially obtained the local administrative name of the Xia State, everything else is no different from the local counties of the Xia State.
With a large number of Han Chinese settling in such an important seafaring place for twenty years, the wealth created is of course unparalleled, and it is normal for the new king and the generals who are hostile to the Han to aim here, after all, the impact of capturing this place is even greater.
However, they ignore the power of the Han people themselves.
Today's Han people in Nanyang are not scattered Han people in later generations, they all live under the organization of the Xia State, and even the Han people in Nanchen quickly found the organization and accepted the leadership of the Xia State regime.
Therefore, when the rebels of Sri Buddha's country attacked, more than 40,000 rebels were attacked by nearly 50,000 Han militia forces, which made Sri Buddha feel aggrieved that even the militia weapons were many times better than theirs.
Not to mention that they were attacked by a large number of gunpowder weapons, where is this still militia arming!
In the past, in order to protect the Han people who had passed away, the Nanyang garrison had already conducted military training of different degrees on the Han people near Bolimbang and Haitou under the order of Wang Ze, and there were about 5,000 local National Guards, and as long as they were young men and women, they were all trained in military affairs.
Therefore, after the attack of Sri Buddha, although they suffered massive losses at the beginning, they quickly reacted and quickly assembled an army of tens of thousands of people, and in turn expelled the indigenous tribes within a hundred miles of Sumatra and Bolim State.
In order to retaliate for the bullying and massacre of the Han people by Sri Buddha, they even began to carry out extreme organized massacres of more indigenous tribes around them, so that some tribes that had no hatred for the Han people were also involved, and they also began to resist the killing of the Han people.
As a result, the war between the two sides became more and more intense, but the Han people eventually had more advantages, so they could protect themselves well as long as they had their own strength.
After the Han people gained the upper hand, Kunda and these people were saddened, although the number of people in the country of Sri Buddha was as high as nearly two million, but they were scattered over the entire Jinzhou area of more than 100,000 square kilometers, and these people still had various contradictions with each other, and could not be fully united.
On the other hand, although there are only 200,000 Han Chinese, there are more than 1.5 million people in the entire Nanyang, and the Han people in the country where Sri Buddha died are all living in groups, and there is a complete government organization, so they can easily defeat and exterminate the natives.
The only thing to be happy about is that the Han people are not good at activities in the jungle after all, and as long as the natives can escape into the jungle, they can escape the killing of the Han people, and even teach the pursuing Han people a lesson.
Kunda was thinking about the current situation in Nanyang with distress, and on the other hand, he was thinking about what he should do next.
"Since the Han people don't want to leave, then let's attack Temasek, which they occupy!" The second prince had long been dissatisfied with the Xia kingdom for taking away Temasek and other places from the hands of Sri Buddha, and relying on these strategic places, Sri Buddha was able to obtain a large amount of taxes.
If the Xia Kingdom can be defeated and a large number of prisoners can be obtained, will the kingdom of Sri Buddha be able to become a normal country from the beginning? You can even regain the land you lost in the first place.
With this in mind, they began to travel north, hundreds of miles to the north, separated by a narrow strait, and could easily enter Temasek, which was occupied by the Xia Kingdom.
There are large mangrove forests growing along the coast, which can provide good cover for their sneak attack, and there are also thousands of Han people living on that coast, in case they can't cross the sea to attack, they can also take these Han people out of anger to retaliate for the attack of the Xia State.
"I'm doing this for the future of Sri Buddha's country!" Kunda knelt down and bowed to his father, who had already passed away, "Although this time it is likely to fail, I don't regret it!" The gods will not watch their children suffer! ”