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When the war elephant troops of the Nian Kingdom arrived one thousand meters away from the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms, they paused for a moment, then suddenly accelerated and rushed towards them. At this time, howitzers and mortars began shelling.
"Boom"
The sound of shell explosions came one after another.
Elephants have very high IQs and have a variety of emotions. This has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it is easier to train. The disadvantage is that it is afraid of death and is timid.
The huge explosion and the death of their companions greatly stimulated the nerves of the elephant herd. The elephant herd slowly showed signs of fleeing. The chariot soldiers on the elephants' backs tried desperately to control the elephants, but as the shelling continued, some of the elephant herds began to collapse, and a large number of elephants turned around and ran away. The soldiers behind the elephants were in dire straits. Many of them were collided and trampled by the elephants, resulting in serious deaths and injuries.
When some of the war elephant troops rushed within 300 meters, the sound of machine guns "ta da da da" gave the chariot army another heavy blow. The war elephant troops were completely defeated. The elephants and soldiers scattered in all directions and could no longer form an effective attack.
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Half an hour later, all the war elephants and chariot soldiers who could run ran away. Those who couldn't ran were lying on the ground dead, or were seriously injured and wailing. After a final count, more than 1,000 war elephants were killed and injured, and more than 5,000 Zunian soldiers were killed or injured.
"Haha This battle was really fun. We should rush to their capital as soon as possible to prevent them from escaping." Leather Socks looked very happy and said a little smugly.
"Yes, we'd better clean up the battlefield as soon as possible and set off as soon as possible."
After winning the first battle, the Tamil king also seemed very excited. The country of Zunian, which originally needed to look up, was defeated easily by them.
"Okay, let's set off as soon as possible!" Zhao Hu acted very indifferently, thinking that such a victory should be natural.
After clearing the battlefield, the team continued to move forward and arrived at the capital of Zhunian Kingdom when the sun set.
At this time, the gate of the capital of Zhunian Kingdom was closed tightly, and no one could be seen around. However, the soldiers who appeared on the wall from time to time made it clear that there were still people in the city.
"General Zhao, do we want to attack the city today?" Pi Qing looked at this huge capital city and felt a little itchy in his heart. However, if he wanted to capture this city as soon as possible, he would have to rely on the howitzers of the Song Dynasty army.
Zhao Hu raised his head and looked at the sunset in the distance, "Today we have traveled a long distance and fought for a long time, and the troops are very tired. It is better to rest for one night and start the siege tomorrow."
The army set up camp one mile away from the east gate of the capital of Zhunian State and buried pots for cooking.
After dinner, Zhao Hu arranged for defense, came to Wen Shen's tent, and asked the committee, what do you think of today's war? "
"No," Wen Shen put down his hand, "However, I think no matter how strong you are, you must not be careless about everything."
¡°The committee member is absolutely right,¡± Zhao Hu smiled, ¡°Actually, it shouldn¡¯t be a big problem to attack the capital city of Zhunian. After occupying this city, we should deal with Leather Stockings and the Ceylon army.¡±
Hearing this, Wen Shen asked with interest, do you think it can be handled well? "
"Although Jinzhou is temporarily managed by us, it is still nominally under Srivijaya. So we must find a way to solve this problem." Zhao Hu looked at Wen Shen, "The best way is to take away Srivijaya. Pay 700,000 taels of gold, and once the three-month period is up, the Golden State will be ours."
In order to facilitate management, Zhao Hu changed its name to Jinzhou after obtaining the temporary management rights of northern Sumatra Island.
"Well, isn't this a good idea? Are you going to release the water and let Zhong Nian and the others escape at night?"
Zhao Hu chuckled and said, "If you mean this, it depends on whether the King of Chaan will appreciate it or not."
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Early the next morning, after breakfast, the soldiers began to assemble, line up, and adjust their guns.
"General Zhao, why don't we surround the capital? What if they escape through other gates?" Leather Socks asked with some confusion when he saw all the soldiers gathered near the east gate.
"Don't you surround me ten times the size?" Zhao Hu rolled his eyes at him, "We have less than 20,000 people in total, so why don't you surround such a big capital?"
"Wellthe general is absolutely right."
Leather socks thought it made sense. If the troops were dispersed and the chariot troops in the city rushed out at once, they might not be able to stop them.
The siege went extremely smoothly. After the shelling, a section of the city wall collapsed, and then tens of thousands of soldiers rushed into the city and quickly occupied the city.
Leather socks, who were concerned about gold, silver and jewels, took the lead and quickly led his troops into the royal city and searched it inside out. The king and ministers in the chariot were nowhere to be seen.
"I'm so angry." When Pi Sock heard the news, he seemed extremely angry and occupied the chariot.?The joy in the capital has faded by three points. Suddenly he remembered that he still owed the Song Dynasty 700,000 taels of gold, and hurriedly told his generals that you should stop searching people first. Now you mainly collect the silver and gold in the city. No one is allowed to hide anything for personal use. If there is any doubt, he will be severely punished. "
"General, what if the people in the city don't let you do what you want?"
Leather socks looked at the general, his eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth and said to kill."
"Get the order"
After receiving the specific instructions from the leader, the generals should do the same.
1. The soldiers of Srivijaya were like hungry wolves, scurrying all over the city, no matter it was a palace, a noble house, a commoner's thatched hut, or even a temple, they scratched the ground three feet away. If the people disobey even a little bit, they will be hacked with steel swords.
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Seven days later, the capital city of Zhunian Kingdom was in a mess. All the gold, silver and jewelry in the city were concentrated in the royal city, containing nearly a thousand large wooden boxes.
Zhao Hu and others stood around the box, discussing with smiles, only Leather Socks looked dejected.
It turns out that after counting, all the gold, silver and jewelry were equivalent to about 1.1 million taels of gold. According to the pre-arranged distribution ratio, the Song Dynasty accounted for half of it, fifty-five taels, and the Three Buddhas and Qi's accounted for 40% and more than 400,000 taels.
More than 400,000 taels seems like a lot, but it¡¯s still not enough for 700,000 taels. Leather Socks is worried about raising 700,000 to redeem Jinzhou, but after much deliberation, he can find a good way to get along.
"The capital of Zhunian Kingdom has also been occupied, and the gold, silver and jewels have been looted. Should we withdraw now?" Zhao Hu glanced at the leather socks indifferently.
"Although we occupied the capital of the Zhunan Kingdom, their main force escaped. If we withdraw now, they will soon occupy the city. In that case, won't all our efforts be in vain?" King Tamil said nervously Look at Zhao Hu.
"Oh" Zhao Hu looked at the Tamil King with interest and smiled, "I wonder if you have any good suggestions?"
"It's better that we occupy this city for a long time."
Zhao Hu chuckled, "We in the Song Dynasty do not have so many troops to defend this city."
Leatherstocking absentmindedly replied that although this place is good, it is too far away from Srivijaya and we cannot occupy it for a long time. "
"This city is garrisoned by Ceylon, what do you think?" the Tamil king said excitedly.
Leather Socks twirled his messy beard and chuckled, "You are really good at taking advantage. What we worked so hard to occupy is yours just by opening your mouth." Suddenly he rolled his eyes and said, "This country of Zhenxi is yours. The land is vast and rich in resources, and according to the distribution agreement, we, Srivijaya, occupy 40%."
"Oh" King Tamil seemed a little disappointed when he saw Leather Socks disagreeing.
"However, I can buy you our 40%."
"What's the price?" King Tamil's eyes lit up and he asked urgently.
"One million taels of gold" Leather Sock thought for a while, and the lion opened his mouth.
"So many?" King Tamil felt cold in his heart, and then looked at Zhao Hu.
"We can also sell you 50% of our money. We don't want much, just two hundred thousand taels of gold plus Ceylon Island." Zhao Hu said lightly, while taking a look at the leather socks.
"ThisCeylon Island is our foundation. If it were given to the Song Dynasty, wouldn't we become a rootless duck." The Tamil King said hesitantly.
"The vast resources of this country are much stronger than your island of Ceylon. In addition, we can also add two thousand muskets, how about that?" Zhao Hu showed a look of pain.
"Okay, I do"
After weighing the situation, the Tamil King felt that with two 2,000 muskets, the remaining power of the Zhunian Kingdom was not of concern.
Seeing this, the leather stocking on the side asked anxiously, "Do you still want to buy the 40% in my hand?" "
The Tamil Kingdom laughed and said that I really don¡¯t have any gold in my hand. I think we should divide the land according to proportions.¡±
"Ah" Hearing this, Leodou's face was very ugly. At the same time, he wondered if Zhao Hu did this on purpose? If it was intentional, then he definitely didn't want to collect 700,000 taels of gold, so his ultimate goal should be to capture all the areas north of Jambi and then control the entire Xingzhou Strait. "
Finally, Leather Sock gritted his teeth and said with a forced smile, General Zhao, it seems that we can't spend 700,000 taels of gold to redeem the area north of Jambi. What do you think we should do? "
Zhao Hu pretended to be embarrassed, "This is really not easy to handle. The agreement between us has been submitted to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. If it is not implemented according to this, I can't bear the blame from the emperor."
"Hey," Leather Socks sighed, "Okay, let's implement the agreement. From now on, all the land north of Jambi will belong to the Song Dynasty."
"General Huaiyuan is indeed a man of his word." ZhaoSeeing that his goal was achieved, Hu chuckled and said, "You should hurry up and divide the Zhongnan land. This land is not necessarily worse than yours."
In the end, Leatherstocking and the Tamil king negotiated, taking Tuta City and the capital Thanjavur as the line, the north was owned by Sriwijaya, the south was owned by Ceylon, and the capital was temporarily jointly managed by the two countries.
In order to strengthen his own power, Leather Socks purchased another 300,000 taels of gold weapons, mainly rifles, and also purchased a heavy machine gun.
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Three days later, Zhao Hu returned to Touta City with nearly one million taels of gold and loaded the gold on a ship. At this time, the telegraph operator came to Zhao Hu, saluted and said, "Sir, I just reported from Xingzhou that a fleet of 300 ships attacked Xingzhou." "
"?" Zhao Hu was shocked when he heard this.
"However, the fleet was repelled by us. It was observed that they went south, apparently heading towards Sriwijaya." The telegraph operator hurriedly added.
"Not good." Leather Socks on the side was shocked, "It must be that the main force of Zunian Country went behind to attack our lair. We don't have many people left there at all, so we must not be their opponents. This is terrible." "
"Now that we are rushing all night, it is too late to be frightened." Zhao Hu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Xingzhou was fine.
"This is good." At this time, Leather Socks was like an ant on the hot pot. After turning around a few times, he said loudly, "No, my parents and children are all at home. We have to rush." ??Finally, he He looked at Zhao Hu suddenly and said, "General Zhao, your ship is very fast, can you go and save us, young and old?"
"This this is not in our plan. I'm afraid the superiors will not agree to my doing this. You are very risky here." Zhao Hu chuckled in his heart. If you don't want to rip off someone at this time, you can extort money at other times.
Hearing this, Leather Socks really wanted to cry without tears. It was really shameless to secretly scold General Zhao, but there was nothing he could do. In order to save my family, I can only bear the pain and say to General Zhao, if you can help us, we are willing to hand over the territory that Zunian Country just gained to you. "
"To be honest, we are not interested in the territory of Zunian Country at all, otherwise we would not sell them to others." Zhao Hu said lightly.
"I wonder how General Zhao can help us get through this difficulty."
"We're not interested in either of you. You'd better find a way." After saying that, Zhao Hu and Wen Shen boarded the steel hull boat.
Seeing that Zhao Hu was unwilling to help, Leather Socks sighed, hurriedly gathered his troops and rushed towards the Sanfoqi lair.
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"We should have gained the greatest benefit from this war. We used some arms and earned Ceylon, Jinzhou and more than one million taels of gold." Zhao Hu said to Wen Shen with some pride.
"Well, you didn't do it right. It's the New Year in these two days." Wen Shen said lightly.
"Oh, if you didn't tell me, Councilor, I almost forgot. I don't know, Councilor plans to celebrate the New Year there today. Otherwise, just celebrate the New Year in Xingzhou."
"It's better to go back to Yizhou. I always feel that it's weird to celebrate the New Year on a hot day."
"Haha, I thought the same way last year, but I'm used to it now." Zhao Hu laughed as he thought of the New Year's Eve scene in Xingzhou last year.
"By the way, why didn't you help Srivijaya just now?"
"Srivijaya has nothing worth seeking for." Zhao Hu pondered for a moment, "Actually, the more important reason is that if we really completely cripple the country of Zhunan, it seems that it will not be good for us. It is better to let them interact with each other. We can have some checks and balances, fight the war, and we can also buy some arms.¡±
Wen Shen smiled knowingly, "You kid, you are getting more and more naughty. I feel relieved to have you in Xingzhou. I originally planned to let you go back to Yizhou this year, but now it seems that it may not be possible."
"I'm used to it in Xingzhou, and I appreciate the kindness of the committee." Zhao Hu said nonchalantly.
"In that case, I will go back to Yizhou."
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Wen Shen did not shy away from everyone, and returned to Yizhou directly.
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