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(I checked the map again and found it a bit embarrassing. The cities of Tanjore and Madurai are not close to the sea. They are just downstream of the two rivers, still some distance from the mouth of the sea. The map used by Lao Wang is wrong. Forget about checking modern maps and just make do with it.)

In the world, there is something called "Indian time". It is mysterious, mysterious, unpredictable, and elusive.

With the help of the Dutch, all parties made an agreement to send troops immediately after the rainy season.

But after the rainy season, the King of Madurai began to gather troops. Orders were passed to cities and villages, military nobles took their time to do things, and officers and soldiers gathered slowly. It's almost time to harvest the summer rice, and we will definitely harvest the grain first.

At this rate, we may have to wait until late autumn to complete the assembly.

The fastest mover was the prince of Camme City. These guys nominally surrendered to Zhao Kuangyi and had a stake in it, so they were very motivated and were busy killing the Chinese with the coalition forces.

Whether it is Sun Kewang, an old thief, or Weng Yingqi, a general of the Datong Army, they have been fighting for half their lives, but now they have made a mistake when they come to India!

The imagined situation did not come at all.

In such a situation, it would be most reasonable to deal with the prince of Camme City first according to the wishes of the civil servants.

Who would have expected that?

As the saying goes, soldiers are more valuable than speed.

In order to gain more time, the infantry, cavalry, and naval commanders under Zhao Kuangli made preparations during the rainy season. The peasants in the village community were whipped and forced to gather in the rain to go to Taiwu City. More than 20 people even died of colds and fevers.

When Weng Yingqi, together with his infantry and civilians, landed by sea boat and then transferred to a river boat and arrived outside the city of Madurai, the Sultan here was frightened to death.

"It took less than half a month for the weather to clear up, but why did the Chinese come to kill them?" Sultan Udaji was completely at a loss.

This guy is young and energetic, and at least he has some sense of responsibility. He personally leads the guards to guard the city, and also mobilizes the citizens to join in the defense.

As for Sun Kewang, all the cavalry under his command were lightly armored and carried only dry food to fight towards the border. When they saw a village community, they killed people and grabbed food. They looted several village communities in a row, but there was no trace of the enemy army at all.

Before the incident, three generals, Weng Yingqi, Sun Kewang, and Lin Chengzong, discussed and formulated a detailed plan.

But when it came to the Indian battlefield, their military plan was completely like a joke, and all predictions...all failed!

Sun Kewang didn't care so much, he just robbed villages and communities along the way and killed anyone he saw wearing good clothes and living in a good house. The more Brahmins and Kshatriyas he kills, the more chaotic the grassroots rule of Madurai will be. In the next few years, there will be no need to send troops to attack Jin.

After killing and looting all the way, Sun Kewang and his cavalry ran to join Weng Yingqi's infantry, but the army of King Qin of Madurai still hadn't appeared yet.

"Fuck you, what the hell kind of fight is this?" Sun Kewang couldn't help scolding his mother.

Weng Yingqi was also a little speechless. He pointed at the city and said, "It is scheduled that if the enemy does not send troops, we will besiege the city for reinforcements. But the enemy's reinforcements have not arrived for a long time, so we are just wasting it here? The time has been delayed for too long, it is too long." What should I do if His Highness is surrounded in Wucheng?"

"How do I know?" Sun Kewang looked depressed.

At this moment, an officer came to report: "Two generals, the enemy is going out of the city to fight!"

Weng Yingqi and Sun Kewang looked at each other, confused at first, then overjoyed.

Several city gates were opened wide, and enemy troops came out of the city one after another.

There are even a dozen war elephants, which are actually kept in the city.

Sultan Udaji also went on a personal expedition. The king was very ambitious and felt that he would win this battle.

He has more than 600 musketeers, nearly a thousand elite infantrymen using cold weapons, hundreds of cavalry, and more than a dozen war elephants. Some of the Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Sudras in the city were also temporarily recruited and organized into an army of tens of thousands. In addition, there is a navy in the lake, dispatching hundreds of river vessels.

As for the Chinese, only 600 infantry left the city. Of the remaining 400 infantry, 300 were left to guard the city and 100 were scattered to manage the village community.

There are also 300 cavalry troops and 100 naval warriors.

The real soldiers are just these one thousand!

The rest were all Sudra civilian husbands, and more than 2,000 people were recruited. Their tasks were to transport baggage, assist in building camps, help soldiers wash clothes, etc.

"How dare you come out." Sun Kewang smiled broadly.

Weng Yingqi said: "General Sun, I will lead the infantry to hold the camp, and you will look for opportunities to go out and cause chaos."

"I understand." Sun Kewang smiled.

The camp of the Jin army was surrounded by a small lake to the west and a tributary of the Waigai River to the south.

The Madurai army either crossed the river, landed on the lake, or circled along the lake shore.

Sun Kewang led the cavalry directly to leave the camp and run downstream to cross the river, hoping to make a roundabout way back to the enemy's rear for a surprise attack.

Only 600 army infantry, 100 navy soldiers, and more than 2,000 Sudra civilians with no fighting ability remained in the camp.

The Madurai Navy took the lead in launching an offensive, with hundreds of boats of different sizes coming from the lake.

There were only trebuchets and bows and arrows on board, and Weng Yingqi had six cannons. Before the enemy ship could enter the range of the trebuchets, the rumble of artillery sounded.

When the enemy warships heard the sound of cannons, they were so frightened that they quickly dispersed their formation and cautiously moved closer to the camp.

Udaji bought a telescope from the Dutch. He carefully observed the situation in the camp and felt that he would not lose. He crossed the river with tens of thousands of troops and piled up the Chinese to death. The king did not wait for the navy to make a contribution, and then ordered: "Except for the Sudanese Guards, the rest of the troops must cross the river in batches!"

Madurai soldiers carried numerous small sampans and rowed over in a chaotic manner.

The artillery of the Jin army was firing at the enemy's ships on the lake with all its strength, and they could not spare the energy to bombard the troops crossing the river.

Soon two groups of enemy troops successfully crossed the river, both of which were temporarily recruited urban troops. The officers were from the Kshatriya caste, and the soldiers were Vaishyas and Sudras from the city. The officers were fairly well-armed, but the soldiers had a variety of weapons.

This kind of temporary force had never fought a single battle. They only trained for ten days before being taken out of the city to fight by the Sultan.

If there were really tens of thousands of troops garrisoned in the city, Zhao Kuangluo would be so confused that he would send hundreds of people to besiege the city.

The number of enemies who successfully crossed the river quickly numbered close to a thousand, but Weng Yingqi ignored them and even allowed more enemy troops to attack later. In his eyes, what was in front of him was not an army at all. Not to mention the lack of soldiers and armor, there was chaos after landing, and the Kshatriya officers could not even quickly organize their troops.

Of course, we couldn't form a team. When the boats crossed the river, they floated in a mess, and after they landed ashore, the organization was completely messed up.

They organized their troops according to blocks, with a low-ranking Vaishya officer in charge of a bunch of Sudras they knew. These low-level Vaishya officers were in turn managed by mid- to high-level Kshatriya officers. When the team was forming, they basically didn't look at the flags. They started shouting to find people they knew.

The more than 1,000 enemy troops who were the first to cross the river had not yet completely formed their ranks when the second batch of soldiers landed ashore.

After more than 3,000 people crossed the river, the Madurai army finally took action. The team of more than 1,000 people circled to the east side of the camp, seemingly planning to launch a flanking attack from both sides.

At this time, if Sun Kewang's cavalry did not go downstream to cross the river, but came back and charged directly, they might be able to overwhelm the enemy in a single confrontation.

Weng Yingqi said: "First sentry, second sentry, attack from the east gate of the camp!"

Nearly two hundred musketeers set off immediately after receiving the order.

They had loaded their ammunition, left the camp, quickly formed their formation, and moved forward slowly listening to the whistle.

The enemy, numbering more than a thousand, was circling around, and their formation was scattered as they marched. Seeing the Han army coming, they hurriedly stopped in formation, holding various cold weapons and waiting for the battle.

"Bang bang bang!"

The two sides closed the distance, and the first row of 50 flintlock guns fired. Before the second row could fire bullets, the more than a thousand Madurai army collapsed.

The Kshatriya officers took the lead in escaping. Not to mention the improvised militiamen, even the Kshatriya officers had never been on the battlefield. There has been no war here for more than thirty years, and there is not even a decent general to be found!

"Fire the bayonet!"

The high-pitched charge horn sounded, and the Han army of less than two hundred people rushed to the river with more than a thousand broken troops.

"Third and fourth sentry, come out from the south gate of the camp!"

By this time, Weng Yingqi still had a reserve team.

The defeated troops being chased by the first and second sentries had already caused a chain reaction before they even approached the river bank. At this time, more than a thousand enemy troops had completed their formation, and hundreds more had just landed. Seeing the friendly troops fleeing, the soldiers who had just landed immediately fled by boat.

Seeing this situation, the third and fourth sentry immediately seized the opportunity without bothering to form a formation. They formed a group of five people nearby and rushed over with flintlock guns.

The gap in military organization between the two sides is really huge.

The Han army can quickly form a five-man team with just a few orders. As for the temporary army in Madurai, it takes a long time for the whole team to be ready. Once chaos breaks out, it cannot be commanded.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

A group of more than thirty five people fired freely after approaching, then inserted bayonets and charged forward.

The four thousand enemy troops who had crossed the river were all routed within a few minutes. They did not dare to fight with the Han people, but they were very fierce in robbing their own boats. A large number of small boats were overturned and many were trampled to death on the river.

Seeing this, Sultan Udaji's lungs almost exploded with anger.

He personally rode a horse and rushed to the river, shouting: "Everyone come back and reorganize to cross the river! Don't just go through here, go downstream to cross the river first, get in formation and then attack the enemy camp!"

The Sudanese personal guards quickly followed, and more than a dozen elephant soldiers were on standby.

The river had long turned into a mess, and thousands of small boats were at a loss as to where to go, and finally rowed towards their own positions in a mess.

"Ta-ta-ta-ta!"

In the midst of this chaos, Sun Kewang came with three hundred cavalry. They took off all their armor, crossed the river wearing only single clothes and carried their horses, and then charged upstream regardless of life or death.

By the river, nearly ten thousand enemy troops were in chaos, and there were even soldiers who had not returned from the boat.

These guys were frightened for a long time. When they heard the sound of horse hooves, they subconsciously turned around and ran away. Sun Kewang's cavalry was still two miles away from them.

"Array, array!"

The commander of the Madurai army was a veteran who had fought in the Nayak Civil War.

Seeing that the temporarily recruited army could not be commanded, he immediately rushed to Udaji and said: "Your Majesty, let the Sudanese Guards and the militia keep a distance, so as not to be overwhelmed by the defeated troops."

Udaji said in a panic: "You have full command!"

This veteran general still knew how to fight, leading the cavalry to cut down the defeated troops along the way, and escort the king and the Sudanese Guards away from the battlefield.

Seeing that the Sudanese Guards were still in chaos, Sun Ke simply ignored them and continued to kill the nearly 10,000 defeated soldiers. Three hundred Han cavalry and nearly 10,000 defeated soldiers were killed. Some of the defeated soldiers ran towards the city, and some of the defeated soldiers were so frightened that they jumped directly into the river.

On Weng Yingqi's side, more than 400 infantrymen were already crossing the river in small boats.

"Your Majesty, please return to the city and stop fighting!" the veteran said.

Udaji was unwilling to give in: "I have more than a thousand Sudanese Guards, hundreds of musketeers, and elephant soldiers. Even if the militia is defeated, we will still have an advantage over the enemy in terms of strength!"

The veteran said: "Your Majesty, your Sudanese Guards have been frightened!"

Udaji turned around and saw his own guard soldiers, all of whom turned pale with fear.

These Sultan's guards are all Kshatriyas.

He is still good at bullying people, but he rarely trains and has never really fought. Seeing that the battlefield was full of defeats, they did not dare to fight even if they had the upper hand.

"Go back to the city!" Udaji gritted his teeth and said.

The king ran quickly with his guards. Sun Kewang's cavalry was separated by the broken troops and could not be pursued for a while. He simply chased the chariot and defeated the troops back to the city, only to find that the city gate here was closed tightly, and even the defeated troops were blocked from the city.

Then they went around to hunt down the Sultan. The Sultan had already returned to the city with his guards, leaving only a dozen war elephants wandering around the battlefield.

The entire army collapsed on the main battlefield, and the Madurai navy also retreated.

About an hour later, the Sultan sent a messenger to ask for peace.

Weng Yingqi presided over the negotiations and signed an alliance under the city. The two parties bargained. Madurai would rather lose more money and food than become a vassal state of Jin.

The content of the treaty is as follows:

First, within ten years, the two countries maintained peace.

Second, Sultan's sister married Jin Wang Zhao Kuangluo as his concubine.

Third, this time Jin sent troops, Madurai paid all military expenses.

Fourth, Madurai will compensate the Jin State with five thousand taels of gold and ten thousand taels of silver.

Sultan Udaji searched the whole city for gold and silver, and finally sent the Jin army away. He stood on the city wall at a loss. He didn't even understand how he was defeated.

By the way, the Sultan's sister was taken away directly by the Han army.

It was not until several days later that the army of King Qin from Madurai arrived belatedly one after another. The local nobles, all extremely loyal and brave, clamored to kill and avenge the Sultan.

The Sultan looked at these guys and wanted to chop them all with his knife.

After thinking about it, I felt it was boring.

The young sultan returned to the palace and began to indulge in pleasure. It seemed that he was ready to lie down for the rest of his life.