Some Chinese sailors had already gone ashore and were talking to the Portuguese about supplies.

The sudden appearance of the Hindu rebels frightened the Portuguese into hiding in the castle, and the Chinese crew also retreated to the ship in an orderly manner under the cover of the army.

"Dada-da-da!"

Then hundreds of light cavalry appeared, and these light cavalry were too light. Except for a few officers wearing armor, the rest of the soldiers were wearing cloth clothes, but their complexions were relatively fair.

An Indian cavalry made up purely of landlords and yeoman farmers!

The 24-year-old Chhatrapati Sivaji, who was not afraid of the Portuguese in the castle, rode around the castle to the pier and asked, "Are you Chinese envoys?" ”

The goods were spoken in Marathi, and no one in the Chinese delegation could understand them.

Sivaji rode to the castle again, and shouted inside: "Come out a man, I will hire him as an interpreter!" ”

The Portuguese really came out, and after receiving the translation fee, Xi Zizi ran to contact the Chinese.

Zhang Ruifeng and Lu Tianxiang were quite curious, and felt that this leader of the Indian rebel army was very special, so they stood on the bow of the boat and talked to Sivaji in the air.

The man introduced himself vigorously: "My name is Chhatrapati Sivaji, the resister of the Mughal robbers, the protector of all the Hindus, and the leader of all the Marathis. I will destroy all the sultanates and let the glory of Hinduism shine on all of India. Chinese friends, I would like to do business with you and buy a thousand muskets from you! ”

Zhang Ruifeng discussed with everyone and replied: "I am only an envoy of His Majesty the Emperor of China, and I have no right to sell firearms. But Your Excellency is a great hero, and the Chinese are willing to make friends with Your Excellency. So, we're presenting you with a firecracker! ”

There are specially prepared "gift muskets" on board, and they have not been delivered back and forth all the way.

Arquebuses, of course, flintlock pistols are not for sale. The body of the gun is partially gilded, inlaid with red sapphires, and even the arquebus is specially made.

When Sivaji got the musket, he immediately smiled and said in a loud voice: "Chinese friends, you have gained the friendship of the Hindus. When I have eliminated the Mughal robbers, I will send emissaries to visit the Chinese emperor with gifts! ”

"Waiting for your lordship!" Zhang Ruifeng arched his hand and said.

Sivaji turned around and rode away, came to the place where the Bijapur soldiers were surrounded, and ordered with a sinister smile: "Kill them all, and leave not a single one!" ”

The Chinese on board, the Portuguese in the castle, immediately watched the whole process as the Bijapur soldiers were slaughtered.

This kind of infighting, no one is involved.

This guy is definitely bold.

Later, he was surrounded and suppressed by the Mughal vice-king, and even sneaked into the city with only a small number of cronies to carry out the assassination with his own hands. stabbed the Mughal vice-king and killed the vice-king's son, and he was able to get out safely. This behavior caused chaos in the Mughal army, and the Mughal vice-king also lost his mind, and Sivaji successfully broke through with the main force in the next battle.

He will be the founder of the Maratha Empire of India, which at its peak was almost unifying the North Indian region, and also occupied a large part of South India, and the territory was probably half of the South Asian subcontinent (the Mughal Empire was destroyed, and could only control the large area of the palm). Later, because of the infighting between the descendants and descendants, during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, the country was dismembered by the British East India Company.

During Aurangzeb's reign in the Mughals, the main enemy was the Hindu army of Sivaji.

Until Aurangzeb's death, the Mughals were unable to extinguish Sivaji's power. In turn, Sivaji also collected protection money from the Mughal governor, which he used to subsidize the treasury and reduce the agricultural tax on the territory by one-third.

To use an analogy, it is like when Zhao Han was entrenched in Jiangxi, he collected protection money from the governors of Huguang, Liangguang and Nanzhi in the Ming Dynasty......

"Long live Hinduism!"

Sivaji shouted with his fine muskets, and his soldiers shouted excitedly, stripped the enemy of their armor as trophies, and threw down the slaughtered corpses and flew away.

The rebels were gone, the battle was over, and the Chinese fleet did not have to leave, so they disembarked one after another and began to replenish supplies.

Taking advantage of the supplies, Prince Charles disembarked with two teenagers.

He slipped up to the Portuguese castle, handed him a cigar, and said in Portuguese, "Hello, my name is Charles." ”

The Portuguese soldier took the cigar and quickly puffed up: "My name is Santos. ”

"How long have you been in India?" Charles asked.

Santos smiled and said, "You should ask me how long my grandfather has been in India." ”

Charles pointed in the direction where the rebels left: "That guy just now, is he famous in India?" ”

Santos shook his head: "It's not famous, and suddenly there was a rebellion." The Sultan of Bijapur gathered a large army to encircle and suppress him, but he could not catch his shadow. He went to the east to encircle and suppress, and he ran to the west, and to the south to encircle and suppress, he ran to the north. The rebels grew in number, and everywhere they went, local Hindus would spontaneously join his army. At first, I heard that there were only a few hundred people, but now it is estimated that there are several thousand, and maybe even more than 10,000. ”

Charles listened with fascination, and already regarded Sivaji as an idol.

He also wanted to kill a few hundred people back to England, and then the troops fought more and more, pressing Cromwell into the toilet and drowning!

The reason why Sivaji was able to grow stronger was not only his own courage and perseverance, but also the general outbreak of religious and ethnic contradictions in India. He was of Maratha origin, an Indo-European ethnic group of mostly third and fourth castes, predominantly Hindus, with occupations as low-ranking officers, soldiers, landowners, and peasants. This kind of religious and ethnic component, a natural rebel group!

Sivaji led the troops, and the Marathas enthusiastically joined the army. Not so with Charles, if he returned to England to raise troops, the gentry class would beat him all over the place.

Just as Charles was inquiring about the situation, the officers of the Chinese mission also approached the Portuguese to understand the situation.

The rise of Sivaji is an important news that must be written into the work report.

During the few days of shore replenishment, Prince Charles was at home at the castle. From civilians to ordinary soldiers, everyone liked to deal with him, and there were even Portuguese people who took him to visit the kilns.

This product likes to toss, and actually took more than a dozen Portuguese soldiers and rode out of 20 miles to appreciate the local customs of India. By the way, I saved an Indian girl back......

The father of the Indian girl said that he was a prince of a princely state at best, but he was a town with a big territory at worst. Because she converted to the Green Religion, she was slaughtered by the rebels, and the girl whose family was ruined fainted directly on the side of the road with hunger, and was almost raped by a group of untouchables, and was picked up by Prince Charles.

The fleet set sail again, and Charles was triumphant, and when he met people, he talked about his chivalrous deeds.

It's another day, and the journey at sea is boring.

Charles found Fan Chao: "General, I heard those sailors say that you have been following His Majesty the Emperor of China for a long time?" ”

This matter scratched Fan Chao's itch, and he suddenly smiled: "Among the dragon heroes of the Datong Imperial Court, although Lao Tzu is not the earliest to follow His Majesty, he can be regarded as a noble elder. When His Majesty occupied Zhangshu Town, I took the warship to defect, fighting from the south to the north, from the east to the west, and made countless feats of war large and small. ”

"Are all those legends of His Majesty the Emperor true?" Charles asked curiously.

"What legend?" Fan Chao asked rhetorically.

Charles said: "Even in the decisive battle of Zhangshu Town, the number of government troops was several times that of the rebel army. At the most dangerous time, His Majesty the Emperor put on armor and led a hundred knights, defeating twenty times the enemy. ”

Fan Chao wanted to roll his eyes when he heard this, at that time, there were only a few war horses in the Datong Army, and all of them were used as sentry horses. Where did the cavalry come from?

"Who did you listen to?" Fan Chao asked.

Charles replied: "That's what the Chinese sailors on board say. ”

Fan Chao couldn't help laughing, nodded and said: "That's it, Your Majesty goes to war, with one as a thousand, no matter how much the Ming army comes, it's useless." ”

"His Majesty the Emperor is really brave!" Charles actually believed it, and thought of Cromwell.

Cromwell's starting capital was 60 cavalry.

Sixty squire cavalry, some country knights, some wealthy farmers. They themselves carried war horses and weapons, followed Cromwell from birth to death, and the will to fight and the discipline of battle far exceeded that of the king's cavalry troops. Cromwell's later cavalry units were based on these sixty cavalrymen, all of whom were from the squire class.

As for Cromwell's infantry, it consisted of workers, apprentices, and burghers.

It's all the new class, fighting for their own interests, and it's morale to fight. You don't even have to pay for the army, you just need to take care of the food.

Charles continued to inquire about the heroic achievements of the Datong army, and Fan Chao began to brag indiscriminately, and finally pulled on to the Battle of Nanjing: "The previous Ming Dynasty had four capitals. One is in Beijing, the second is in Nanjing, the third is in Fengyang, and the fourth is in Zhongxiang. Nanjing is the capital city second only to Beijing, and now it is also the capital of our Datong court. Nanjing's walls were tall and sturdy, with tens of thousands of defenders inside. I have only a dozen warships and a few hundred sailors...... When the battle began, I took off my clothes and didn't bother to put on my armor. The city gate should be opened, and I will brave the rain of arrows to kill seven in and seven out......"

The translator's face was strange, and Charles listened in a daze, always feeling that something was wrong.

The prince, although intelligent, did not really fight. For a while, I didn't know whether what Fan Chao said was true or not, but no matter what, it was true that the general Fan in front of him led his troops to capture the Chinese capital.

Back in his cabin, Charles called the two country boys.

"I've inquired that there are war schools in China," Charles said, "and when I got to Nanjing, they went with me to the war college." I paid for the tuition, and I must learn how to fight! ”

Charles was not short of money, and before he left Europe, he flickered a lot from the big nobles, and of course it can be said that the big nobles invested in him.

After three years and nine months, the fleet of Chinese envoys finally returned to Malacca.

Continuing eastward, docking at Bin Thong Long (Champong) for supplies, and finding that there was a war going on in the north - the Chinese army officially sent troops to Nguyen Thi in Vietnam.

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