Deng Youzhang held up his telescope and said to the generals around him: "The enemy's elite main force is gathered in the central army formation. The weapons of the soldiers are spears, and those next to the commander are equipped with swords and shields. These elite formations are neatly formed, and the rest of the troops are
It’s a mess, and it’s all crooked even standing where it is.”
Xie Yuan left behind two pairs of telescopes, and He Wenpeng also observed: "It's still the same old method. The enemy army will probably be defeated in one blow."
The two armies were about to fight, but Li Luosheng still had time to talk about administrative issues: "This country has a system very similar to ours, only the name is different. If we conquer it, we can quickly take over the rural tribes."
The system of Yinmelina Kingdom is infinitely close to that of South India, which is what the Jin King encountered.
The land across the country is owned by the king, and is farmed collectively by village communities. However, it retains the shadow of tribal society. Many village communities are actually tribes. The land is nominally owned by the king, but the chiefs of the tribes have the final say.
More than 7,000 tribal soldiers, or village soldiers, were half-starved and half-full at this time, and were ordered by the king to move forward in batches.
They wore linen half-length robes, which were of Southeast Asian style and somewhat similar to those of India. The soldiers wore headbands on their foreheads, and some officers had leather armor and advanced in disorder with spears raised.
There is also a harpooneer in the back row, holding a short spear and something like a mace on his waist.
The first batch of tribal soldiers to go into battle was about 4,000 people. The remaining 3,000 were moving towards the flanks, and they actually knew how to outflank them.
King Andrea was riding on an ox cart, and the white zebu represented nobility. This guy felt that he was sure to win, and he didn't even plan to let his elite participate in the battle. He sat there looking at the center of the battlefield and said to his ministers: "Our troops are...
It is ten times more powerful than outsiders, and not a single enemy can escape."
"Your Majesty, outsiders need to be careful with their firearms," the minister reminded.
Andrea smiled and said: "Let those tribal warriors consume the enemy's firearms. I will send troops to supervise the battle, kill the tribesmen who have fled back, and let them return to the battlefield to charge. There are only a few enemies, and after the firearms are consumed,
It can be defeated easily."
This king did not regard the soldiers of the village and tribe as human beings at all. In his eyes, they were all expendable.
He was already considered very kind. Two hundred years later, the Queen of Madagascar was truly cruel. The Queen liked to keep reptiles and slept with pet pythons. Tens of thousands of them were thrown into a crocodile pool and executed. The Queen was in power for three years.
In more than ten years, the country's population has dropped sharply by 2.5 million (accounting for more than 50% of the total population), resulting from massacres, wars, famine and plague.
Of course, the queen does not kill people randomly.
The targets of her massacre were political opponents close to Britain and France, as well as people who had converted to Christianity. Almost entire villages were massacred in villages that had been infiltrated by British and French forces, and they also defeated British and French armies many times.
The tribal soldiers continued to advance in disorder, and the Chinese army launched several artillery pieces.
Deng Youzhang owned more than 30 artillery pieces, which were all moved from the shipwrecked warships. The large-caliber artillery was basically unused. The small-caliber artillery was used for the first two years. Later, it was stored due to lack of gunpowder, but there was a dedicated person responsible for daily maintenance.
Before the iron ore was found, the iron cannonballs had been melted down and turned into swords and spears. Anyway, the cannonballs could be replaced by stones, and they could be inserted into the barrel and fired without having to polish them carefully.
This time I also used stone bullets, and they were also gravel shot.
When the tribesmen approached about a hundred meters away, the Chinese gunners lit the fuse, and with several loud noises, countless gravel flew out like flowers.
"ah!"
The enemy soldiers shouted and screamed in terror, and many natives threw away their spears and ran away with their heads in their hands.
He literally ran with his head in his hands, as if his hands could block the flying gravel.
"Cavalry pursues the enemy!"
Several officers of the Datong Cavalry Division, with a group of novice adopted cavalrymen, galloped towards the defeated enemy army.
These local teenagers who were adopted by the Chinese have been practicing riding for more than a year. At this time, they finally looked like cavalry. However, they were still poorly disciplined. They did not look at their teammates when running, and they forgot to make proper use of the physical strength of the war horses.
When ordered to pursue, he whipped his whip with all his strength and accelerated.
After chasing after each other, the cavalry troops were in disarray, and no one paid attention to the officers' orders.
To the natives, such a terrible novice cavalry was like a magic weapon descending from heaven. Even those who had not been defeated by the artillery threw away their weapons and ran away when they saw the cavalry charging towards them.
The king sent several elite groups to supervise the battle, and hundreds of the defeated soldiers who escaped first were killed by the elites. However, they could not stop the momentum of the rout at all. Instead, those groups of supervising soldiers were scattered, followed by the temporarily recruited militiamen.
They also fled.
These soldiers have been deprived of rations and have no food to eat. They already lack morale. Who is still thinking about fighting now?
"The whole army charges!"
When the cavalry rushed out not far away, Deng Youzhang ordered a general attack, and even the indigenous auxiliary troops rushed forward in a swarm.
King Andrea, who had always had a playful attitude, finally stopped laughing at this moment. He said to the generals around him: "Hurry up!"
The indigenous generals led their elite troops forward in formation. These elites were well fed every day and were invincible in fighting all over the island. It is estimated that the long-term victory has created high morale. In the face of the retreat of their friendly forces, they were still able to move forward in formation.
He doesn't seem to think he has lost.
However, there were so many broken troops that the elite formation was forced to stop and stand by after advancing for more than ten cloths. Even so, the formation was disrupted by the broken troops. Many elite soldiers were affected by the broken troops and were ready to attack at any time.
Preparation for slipping.
Two hundred cavalrymen followed behind the defeated troops. A few young men rushed the fastest and broke away from the friendly troops and rushed into the enemy's formation.
Fortunately, the enemy's formation had been disrupted a long time ago. Not only did the command system fail, but morale was gradually approaching zero.
Deng Youzhang's adopted son, Deng Anshun, was rushing to the front. In his hand was a waist knife, which was smelted from artillery shells. He rushed into the formation alone and killed several people one after another.
The enemy elites standing in front of him had spears in their hands. As long as they raised them all, they could knock him over with their spears. But when those elite natives saw the cavalry coming, their first reaction was to run away, because they had never
I have never encountered such a "monster".
The Portuguese also fought with the indigenous people decades ago, but they did not have many matchlocks. Most of the Portuguese soldiers still used cold weapons. As for the Portuguese cavalry, there was not even a single one.
Deng Anshun's blood was boiling. He didn't need to use any force anymore. He only had to hold the knife diagonally downward and use the charging speed of the war horse to drag the knife to death and wound the enemy.
As more than forty cavalry rushed into the formation, all the indigenous elites were finally defeated.
"Let's go!"
King Andrea urged the driver, who immediately pulled the reins and turned the zebu to escape.
How can an ox-cart outrun a war horse?
Deng Anshun himself didn't know how many enemies he killed. He just dragged his sword and rushed forward, leaving many broken soldiers behind. In other words, he was surrounded by broken soldiers, and many of them even jumped into the river in fright.
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There were corpses all along the way. Most of them were not beheaded, but fell down while escaping and were trampled to death by the rebels.
"Quick, faster!"
Andrea kept urging.
The crazy cow actually ran very fast. Under the crazy whipping of the timing, the zebu dragged the car and ran wildly. Unfortunately, the road was uneven and the quality of the car was worrying. One of the wheels was shaken during the bumps.
The king fell from the car, his head was dizzy, he struggled to get up, but was knocked down by the defeated soldiers. He struggled to get up again, but was pushed away by another defeated soldiers, staggered and was knocked down again, and then his waist
His back and legs were trampled by countless feet, and he didn't even know when he was trampled to death.
Tens of thousands of enemy troops were captured, two to three thousand more escaped, and the rest all died on the battlefield.
The priest hid behind an overturned bullock cart. When the indigenous auxiliary soldiers were clearing the battlefield, he knew that he could not escape, so he jumped out and shouted: "I am an astrologer, don't kill me, I am willing to surrender!"
The priest was dragged to see Deng Youzhang, who immediately knelt down and prostrated: "God bless this great outsider!"
"Are you an astrologer? Are you the greatest among kings?" Deng Youzhang asked.
The priest replied: "There are also noble ministers."
This country has a position similar to that of a prime minister, which is held by several large families in turn. They are actually the descendants of the founding nobles.
Deng Youzhang inquired carefully and decided to kill all the big families living in the capital. He then said to the priest: "I can spare your life, but you must be obedient."
The priest quickly said: "I will definitely obey."
Deng Youzhang said: "You must always tell everyone that their ancestors came from China, because it has been too long and they have forgotten it. As long as you learn to speak Chinese, you can rediscover the roots of your ancestors and become Chinese. You are also Chinese!"
"I am Chinese!" the priest nodded hastily.
Deng Youzhang led his troops to Antananarivo, and there was indeed a large population here. The city was not large, but there were countless residential buildings outside the city, and the style of the houses made Deng Youzhang feel like he was on the island of Java.
To capture the capital, the first priority is of course to capture the palace and government offices and obtain a country's documents and documents.
There is indeed a national account book here. Although it uses Arabic letters, it is different from Arabic script. It is a brand-new script based on Arabic letters, just like the difference between English and Latin.
All the men and nobles in the city were killed by Deng Youzhang.
He set out to move the Governor's Palace and decided to set up a school here to adopt more orphans to learn Chinese. These adopted children were the backbone of the future and they must be relied upon to rule various places and assist the Chinese and their children in controlling the entire island.
However, before the capital move could be carried out, local rebellions began.
The nobles he killed had clansmen serving as officials in other cities. When they heard that their clansmen had been killed, they started to rebel one after another, and even gathered an army of 60,000 to take back their capital.
Deng Youzhang was not in a hurry to annihilate them. He waited for the rebels from all walks of life to converge, so that they could be easily eliminated in one fell swoop.
More than ten miles away from the city of Antananarivo, He Wenpeng led dozens of old brothers and hundreds of adopted sons in a beautiful night attack.
Several hundred elites attacked the enemy camp at night, setting fires everywhere, and tens of thousands of enemy troops trampled on each other - the country's elites were long gone, and all that came were rabble-rousers.
After completely settling the situation, the officials sent by the court were finally brought to Antananarivo.
Antananarivo has been renamed New Guangcheng because the hometowns of many old brothers are in Guangdong.