Chapter 627: The Indian Subcontinent Is in Turmoil
Arabian Sea, Li Ke looked at the continent in the distance thoughtfully, that continent at this moment, strictly speaking, no longer belongs to the Jieri Dynasty, the Jieri Dynasty was the most powerful from about 586 to 606 AD, and now, the Jieri Dynasty and the Shalouqi Dynasty on the plateau of the southern continent of India are separated by the Narmada River as the boundary river.
The current Indian subcontinent is probably divided into four kingdoms, the most powerful, with the Ganges Valley in the middle, and the royal capital is located in the city of Qunu, the Ring Sun Dynasty, which once briefly dominated the Indian subcontinent for about a dozen years, and then the Indian subcontinent is now divided again.
The Ring Sun Dynasty and the Ring Sun Dynasty west of the Ring Sun Dynasty were allied with the Kama Wave Kingdom, and the Karma Wave Kingdom was dominated by the Ring Sun Dynasty.
The Chalou Dynasty and the Gundam Kingdom on the south side of the Ring Sun Dynasty were an alliance, and these four countries were two major military groups, as was the case in history.
But the current history has been played by Li Ke to abolish the first problem is the north side of the Jieri Dynasty, the Jieri Dynasty has already included the later Bengal into the rule, which was still the territory of the Gaoda Kingdom not long ago, but because the Songtsen Gampo of Tibet crossed the Himalayas through the Yadong Ditch in later generations, and found a large area of land with abundant water and grass south of this mountain range, Songtsen Gampo's eyes lit up.
In the past, the main target of Tubo was the Tang Dynasty, and he once tried to attack Yunnan, western Sichuan and other places in the later generations, but these places have one thing to say, although the climate is slightly better than that of Tubo, but it is not much different, and it is not suitable for planting at all.
And if you continue to advance eastward or northward, you will have to face the most powerful empire in the world, the Tang Dynasty!
People who are not in this era do not know what the day Khan means. Tian Khan, not only a title, but also represents status, which means that the current East Turkic major tribes Xue Yantuo, Khitan, Murwei and other more than a dozen tribes are all looking to the Tang Dynasty.
In addition, Tuyuhun has just been cleaned up and completely wiped out, and Datang's prestige is constantly rising, so who is willing to fight Datang if he has a choice? Isn't that looking for death?
Songtsen Gampo now doesn't dare to jump like before, the reason is that the Tang Dynasty took Tuyuhun, not only took Tuyuhun, but also trained and armed at least tens of thousands of Tuyuhun herdsmen near the border between Tuyuhun and Tubo.
Songtsen Gampo knew in his heart that the reason why he dared to jump before was because he was sure that the army of the Tang Dynasty could not adapt to the climate and environment of the plateau, but with the herdsmen of Tuyuhun, it was different.
I didn't see Tuyuhun's rebel army, Murong Shun's five thousand cavalry, how long has he been crisscrossing Tibet? To date, none have been found.
If it weren't for the fact that the climate had already begun to enter summer, and the herdsmen in Tubo had gradually begun to gather, Murong Shun would probably have harassed him.
Although he hasn't appeared for a long time, this winter, Tubo has not had a good time at all.
Only 5,000 cavalry made Tubo unsustainable, and tens of thousands of cavalry from the Tang Dynasty came up, how could Tubo fight?
Therefore, the cooperation with Li Ke is the most important thing for Songtsen Gampo now, especially when countless iron tools were made into armor, and they were also provided with a large amount of food, salt, etc., which were transported to Tibet, as well as all kinds of linen, cloth, and so on.
This made the lives of the Tibetan nobles instantly improve by a few steps, not to mention, and even the combat effectiveness of the Tibetan army has increased a lot.
After all, Songtsen Gampo is not a fool, and he will still be able to give his soldiers some linen clothes and the like to win people's hearts.
Therefore, at the beginning of the 20th year of the Tang Dynasty, Songtsen Gampo began to push horizontally with Yadonggou as the starting point in the later generations.
In the beginning, it was mainly the Gundam country, occupying a lot of territory in the north and west of the Gundam country, and then Songtsen Gampo began to emigrate.
For the herdsmen of Tibet, the land here is as sweet as the Central Plains of the Tang Dynasty, and there is no shortage of water, so in early March, Songtsen Gampo temporarily launched an offensive against the Indian subcontinent, and he first took the lower reaches of the Brahmaputra River, which was ruled across the river from the Gouda country.
In other words, Songtsen Gampo has directly separated the Gundam Kingdom from the Jieri Dynasty.
After the separation, Songtsen Gampo began to advance westward. The reason why he chose to advance to the west was because there was no river blocking it on the west side, and the flow of the Brahmaputra River in this era was much higher than that of later generations.
After all, with the strength of the Ring Sun Dynasty...... It may be strong on this continent, but it is weaker than Tibet.
The reason why Li Ke knew this was because he didn't expect to come here, Li Ke's original idea was to continue westward to Persia after taking the entire island of Sri Lanka in the future, after all, his time was also relatively tight.
But after taking Sri Lanka, Li Ke and some Tang businessmen over there learned the news that Tibet had occupied the mouth of the Ganges River and the Brahmaputra River, so Li Ke thought about it and simply divided the fleet into two, and he directly led half of the fleet to Tibet from Sri Lanka.
And the other half is according to the original plan all the way to "hunt down" the pirate troops under the village of Monobe, and in Sri Lanka, Li Ke and they also left about a thousand soldiers, oh, now Sri Lanka is officially renamed: Mingda Island, is the name of Li Mingda, the son of Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty.
What kind of boundary monument or something like that, Li Ke has already asked people to erect what should be erected on it, and what should be buried.
And the original lion country on Mingda Island is also called Sinhala country, which belongs to the country of Buddha, well, it can only be said that the combat effectiveness of the 5,000 people in the village of Monobe is a little strong, of course, it is also related to the fact that the lion country is a little weak.
The Lion Kingdom is recorded in the history of the Tang Dynasty, because the Eastern Jin Dynasty monk Fa Xian once traveled to this place, and I have to say that there are many ancient Chinese figures, which can be regarded as the earliest trekking anchor.
In the original history, the Lion Kingdom once sent envoys to China in 428, 670 and 750 respectively to pay tribute to the Central Plains Dynasty.
And now, the Lion Country is gone, the Monobe Village is too fast, and the Lion Country has only one royal city, after being wiped out by the vast majority of the noble emperors under the Monobe Village, the arrival of Li Ke's fleet is a matter of course for accepting here.
Anyway, the royal city of the Lion Kingdom is already under the jurisdiction of Datang, so of course, the entire Lion Kingdom also belongs to the territory of Datang.
As for whether some small nobles in other places will resist, they will not dare in the short term, as for the follow-up, the longer the time, the more there is no way to resist, when Li Ke and his fleet arrived, many people in the entire royal city knelt down to welcome the king, thanking them for driving away the demon-like enemy.