"This is ......" Cao Yuan was stunned, and immediately showed a puzzled look. Isn't this the land of poison (India)? ”

Zhu Su's finger was not to the west of Thirsty Rock City, where the Persian region was located, but to the east of Thirsty Rock City, the Delhi region of India.

"Regardless of his west and east, if he can reach Thirsty Stone, won't he be able to contact the fourth brother and them?" Zhu Su said. "Persia has a vast territory and many forces, although it has been plowed by Timur, but it may not be safer to go directly to Thirsty Rock City to find the army under the command of the fourth brother."

What Zhu Di originally thought was that the Ming Dynasty would rush to their aid by land, and there were people from the Ming Dynasty in Hami and Yili along the way, so naturally there would be nowhere to find his whereabouts. But Zhu Su took the sea route, and if he rashly landed in Persia, it would really be a black eye.

"On the other hand, this poisonous ...... The land is extremely rich, and the seeds sown do not need to be intensively cultivated, and can often be harvested. There is a bite to eat on the left and right, so the people of the country tend to be submissive. Moreover, since ancient times, the priests and nobles who have lived in the ruling class have been extremely corrupt, separated from the people, and have little combat power to speak of. ”

"The country that now rules this place is called the Delhi Sultanate, and it is even weaker, many times weaker than Persia under the rule of the Timurid Empire. We must first have a foothold here and secure the rear road, so as to ensure that our soldiers will not fall into the quagmire of the enemy. ”

"But we are here to support His Royal Highness King Yan, and our main purpose is not to make a name for ourselves in a foreign land." A general of the Cantonese Naval Division, who was transferred to accompany Zhu Su, was still puzzled. "If you land from here, wouldn't it be the opposite of His Royal Highness King Yan? Wouldn't it be more time-consuming to go all the way to Thirsty Rock? ”

"No, it won't. Just log in from here and save a lot of time. Zhu Su's fingers continued to swipe over the map nailed to the wall. He was referring to the Indus River of the Hereafter. "Just follow this river all the way north, and Delhi, the capital of the Delhi Sultanate, is close at hand."

"The Delhi Sultanate has been decaying for a long time, and when I hear that our army is coming, I will definitely mobilize the troops of the whole country to enter the king of Duqin."

"In other words, we only need to fight to completely disintegrate the armed forces of this country, and after this victory, we can reach Thirsty Rock without hindrance......"

Zhu Su's hands were slapped at the position of "Delhi" on the map. Next, the generals have already discussed a lot, but they all think that this method is feasible. When the army is on the march, what is most feared is not a decisive battle with a large group of enemies, but an endless attack and harassment by a small group of enemies. In the event of a decisive battle, even if the enemy army is several times larger than its own, this group of arrogant soldiers with high eyes in the Ming Dynasty is confident that they can win more with less, and defeat all the foreign soldiers who do not know the power of Huaxia. But if you are constantly harassed along the way...... Even if the morale of the army is not affected, it will inevitably greatly slow down the process of rushing to the aid of His Royal Highness King Yan.

Zhu Su is here, and the biggest prophetic prescience is the "terrain". Using the Indus River to go straight to the city of Delhi is already the best way to make the most of his traverser's advantage.

The idea was set, and the Ming army began to act. Zhu Su divided the fleet into three teams, with the more flexible pathfinder speedboats and armed merchant ships as the first team, which first entered the Indus River from the mouth of the sea to check whether the river was smooth. The second team was Zhu Su and the sailor warships full of Ming soldiers, carrying soldiers and serving as the main force to occupy the Indus River. The third team is a large fleet of seagoing ships represented by the treasure ship Fuchuan, which is responsible for guarding the entrance to the sea and supporting the back road while deterring the country.

At this time, the river did not have the scenery of sewage flowing like in later generations, and the river was quite smooth, but Zhu Su originally thought that India was also an ancient civilization, and some quite elegant exotic scenery could be seen on both sides of the river.

However, as far as the eye can see, there are countless poverty and wilderness, and most of the people are dull and dark, even if they look at the speeding Ming warships, they often only show a stunned look. This made the prisoners and prisoners who accompanied the ship extremely confused, and they selected one person to come and ask Zhu Sudao: "Lord Sacrificial Wine, doesn't it mean that this poisonous land is extremely rich, and grain can grow without cultivation?" ”

"And since this place is the ancient Tianzhu, it stands to reason that it should be the paradise of the Buddha country, why is it so depressed and desolate?"

"The Paradise of Buddha? Hehe, the Buddha is high, how can he really bless a Buddha country. If you want to have a happy land in the mortal world, you can only do it if you are the ruler who loves the people and works diligently. ”

"In other countries, the officials were corrupt, and the nobles and priests, in order to control the wealth for a long time, instituted a caste system, so that the poor would be poor from generation to generation, and the rich and noble would be rich from generation to generation...... After thousands of years, it is not unusual for this to happen. ”

After listening to this, the prisoner was even more puzzled, he thought for a long time, and finally asked: "Chaowen said, you can die at night." The student was so puzzled that he dared to ask again. ”

"The so-called princes and generals, rather than a kind, the people here have been oppressed for generations, don't they know how to resist?"

This sentence can be regarded as a great rebellion, Zhu Su lowered his eyes slightly, and saw that the prisoner was just looking for knowledge, so he also replied: "Rather there is a kind of ...... That's for people, too. ”

"If all generations are animals...... Even the children and grandchildren are still oppressed by others, and they also feel that this is what they should do. ”

The prisoner's eyes widened, as if he couldn't believe that there was such a thing in the world, and he was stunned for a long time before he spit out a word:

"Students today know how fortunate they are to be born in China, to be educated by their ancestors since they were young, and to be bequeathed by the saints......

Zhu Su didn't answer, he squinted his eyes, and seemed to see people and horses in colorful clothes pointing at the boats by the river, these people can wear colorful brocade, which is naturally different from those poor people who are not clothed. Zhu Su wanted to come to the lookout, and found that most of them were hugging each other, and there were many soldiers and civilians guarding them, and these people were frightened and frightened by their own Ming warships, and even worse, there were some who scolded.

The excitement on his face is incomprehensible.

"What are these people scolding in groups?"

Some generals also saw these shore scenes from the lookout.

Zhu Su was also puzzled at first, but after thinking about it, he suddenly realized and explained: "Religion is prevalent in this country, and most of them regard this river as a holy river. I must have violated some taboo by waiting to sail on this river. Maybe after a while, someone upstream will come and intercept us. ”

"It's just a boat, what's so taboo? If you want to come, you will come, and I will be afraid that they will not succeed? The generals of the Ming Dynasty suddenly realized, but they all disdained it.

Sure enough, further forward, he encountered the army shooting arrows at the Ming warship. The Ming army is not used to these people, and the ships keep passing by as a cannon. These archers have never seen a cannon, most of them are so frightened that they are full of urine, and often when they hear the sound, they have quickly dispersed, except for wasting a wave of arrows, they have not caused any damage to the Ming warships.

"Such a weak brigade dares to tease my Daming Tiger Beard." The generals on the ship laughed, "It's really pedantic, dealing with sea ships, not using ships to choke the river, but trying in vain to intercept them on the shore...... Is it because this river is the holy river of Rausch? ”

Seeing the fragile combat effectiveness and military methods of this poisonous Delhi Sultanate, the generals had a little more confidence in Zhu Su's strategy.

(End of chapter)