Chapter 1041 1036 [Lu You, son of the Chinese high priest]
Although the Tamil soldiers in Xia Yuqing's hands were not very good at fighting, they were self-skilled in burning, killing and looting.
They chased the routed enemy all the way north, and when they saw a village, they ran to loot it.
Facing the tribes that were already going crazy, the Han men did not dare to stop them. But they had to take action to demonstrate their authority, so the Han men also joined them and personally led their tribes to loot the villages.
Set rules while robbing, you can leave a small amount of property, but most of it needs to be handed over to the master!
This approach is more acceptable than banning robbery.
After only chasing for dozens of miles, the chasing enemy troops completely lost their organization. Xia Yuqing was very frustrated to find that he could no longer command the troops. They were all scattered in various villages, burning, killing and looting. He was unable to gather the soldiers and follow the trend to attack the enemy.
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Fortunately, their enemies are also rubbish.
Otherwise, Xia Yuqing would turn from a great victory to a great defeat as long as he gathered more than a thousand remaining soldiers to fight back.
It's really like noobs pecking each other.
The enemy belongs to the coalition of four noble lords, and the only one with real strength is Parakarama. Parakarama's elite troops were crippled by the Ming envoys a few years ago, and the newly trained army has much less combat effectiveness.
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Although the main force of the coalition forces and the maritime ambush troops totaled more than 20,000 people, more than 70% were actually farmers.
With the whole front retreating, it was impossible to organize a counterattack.
Lu You stood outside a village and witnessed the brutal robbery. He frowned and said nothing.
"That's how fighting is," Qi Qi'an quickly comforted him. "When I was a child, I lived in Shandong. Bandits were rampaging and wreaking havoc, just like the army in front of me. Bandits in Shandong and Hebei were unable to attack fortified cities most of the time, so they sent troops to plunder villages in the countryside.
The officers and soldiers of the former Song Dynasty did not dare to go out of the city to suppress the bandits."
Bai Shihou said: "That's why our soldiers in the Ming Dynasty have strict discipline and can truly be called a benevolent and righteous army."
Lu You sighed: "It's my wife's kindness. But it can also be said that Mr. Ye is fond of dragons. In the past, he always wanted to do meritorious service on the battlefield, but he couldn't even see the rebels plundering the village."
Fan Chengda said: "Brother Wu Guan has benevolence and righteousness, and is a true gentleman."
Wang Lianqing hesitated to speak, then turned his back, no longer looking at the tragic situation of the village.
In fact, according to the original historical trajectory, the Sinhala people and their descendants here would have died tragically innumerable seventy or eighty years later, and they would have been almost killed until they were replaced by Tamils.
At that time, two major families competed for the throne, and the Jilinga family finally won.
This family is a descendant of the Kingdom of Ceylon, and successive kings married Kalinga women from the South Asian subcontinent (probably in Odisha, India, next to Bengal). They plundered the southern part of Ceylon and left it riddled with holes.
They moved their capital to the northernmost point and at the same time moved the Tamils across the island. They also massacred and expelled the Sinhalese people there.
That is, the members of the royal family have the blood of foreign races from the Indian subcontinent, and unite with the Tamils who are also a minority, changing the ethnic composition of northern Ceylon.
Since then, the northern part of Ceylon has become the territory of the Tamils, and this influence has continued into modern society!
Compared with the operation of directly changing species, Xia Yuqing's army looting villages is nothing?
It can even be said that most of the descendants of the people here are able to survive because of Xia Yuqing.
Of course, this algorithm is quite nonsense.
Xia Yuqing was in a state of despair. It took him five days to recover the scattered and looting troops. Some of the more courageous ones had even rushed north and hundreds of miles east to loot.
Such a delay gave the enemy an opportunity to regroup.
Parakarama gathered the defeated troops from all over the place, and forced the people to join the army, so he managed to gather another six to seven thousand people.
But the alliance collapsed.
Among the coalition forces composed of four nobles from the east and the north, two nobles quietly led their troops away and sent people to contact Xia Yuqing to negotiate peace.
Xia Yuqing had just gathered his troops when he met the negotiator.
He called several old brothers with the highest military positions, and after some discussion, decided to accept the peace talks. Moreover, he also entered into a marriage alliance with the two nobles, and several old brothers came forward to marry women from the other family.
The two parties quickly reached a marriage agreement:
They promised not to invade each other and formed a military alliance. If the two nobles were attacked, the Han forces were obliged to send troops to help. Vice versa, the same was true. For example, this time, the two nobles must lead the remaining troops to help the Han forces attack Polo.
Kalama!
After learning the results of the negotiations between the two parties, six second-generation officials sat down and chatted.
Fan Cheng laughed and said: "It feels like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The King of Ceylon is like the Emperor of Zhou, and can only rule the area near the royal city. The local princes attack each other, and they also join forces vertically and horizontally. The Han people here also have two allies.
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Lu You said: "Although the sparrow is small, it has all five internal organs. I estimate that in a hundred years, the descendants of the Han people here will be able to unify the entire island."
"I think the descendants of the Han people will probably fight among themselves," Li Zuqia said. "Xia Yuqing himself can't control the army, let alone his descendants. Each of the 500 soldiers left by the imperial court has recruited troops. It is very likely that
They became the clans of the Jin and Jin Dynasties. A bigger place cannot accommodate five hundred clans. Once they have wiped out all the indigenous forces, or even before they are wiped out, the Han people will fight among themselves and annex each other."
"It's hard to say," Wang Lianqing said. "After all, the number of Han people on the island is too small. In a hundred years, there will be only one hundred thousand at most. If the indigenous people revolt frequently, the Han people may be forced to unite."
Bai Shihou said: "I'm afraid there are more than 100,000. Not only can they give birth to their own children, but they can also recruit fellow villagers from the Ming Dynasty. Aren't there many fellow villagers who come to join them now? Sometimes, one person can recruit dozens or hundreds of poor fellow villagers."
The six people could not come up with any results from their discussion. Who knows what this deformed Han Chinese force will eventually develop into.
After Xia Yuqing led his troops for dozens of miles, he camped and sent out scouts to inquire about the enemy's situation. He also waited for the two nobles to lead their troops to form an alliance.
During the alliance ceremony, Buddhist monks and Brahmin monks chanted mantras to communicate with the gods.
But the person officiating the ceremony invited Lu You to make a guest appearance.
Xia Yuqing introduced the two nobles: "This is the son of the Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty. The Ministry of Rites is in charge of rituals and sacrifices. Well... you can regard this Mr. Lu as the son of Kasyapa or the high priest of the Ming Dynasty.
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The Ceylon nobles witnessed the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty and were instantly in awe of Lu You.
Lu You couldn't laugh or cry about this, so he presided over the alliance ceremony according to Chinese etiquette.
Since these guys formed an alliance, it was naturally impossible for Lu You to give them the Tailao gift, just to avoid killing cows and circumventing the taboos of Brahmanism.
I don't count him as a prince, I can just barely treat him as a minister, and he can also use Shaolao etiquette.
Pigs and sheep were slaughtered, sacrifices were made to heaven and earth, and the alliance was read out.
Lu You read the alliance letter in parallel prose in Ming Dynasty Mandarin. Not only the two Ceylon nobles could not understand it, but also many old Han brothers could not understand it.
Just don’t understand it, it’s even more mysterious and solemn!
When he learned that his ally not only ran away, but also formed an alliance with Xia Yuqing, Parakarama was shocked and angry.
"Your Majesty, Bahanu has left with his troops!" the trusted minister came to report in a panic.
Parakarama once killed the king and became independent, but privately he still asked his followers to call him His Majesty the King.
Parakarama chased them out on horseback. The last ally's troops had not yet completely walked out of the city gate. He crossed over to stop them: "Bahanu, are you going to give up like this and allow those foreigners to invade the land?"
Bahanu asked back: "The Ming people are a foreign race, aren't the Tamils? In the past thousand years, Tamils have been coming to settle on the island. Who can drive them all away? At least the Ming people allow us to believe in Buddhism.
The Ming emperor also canonized five great Kasyapas. Those Tamils are the most abominable. They forced monks to convert to Brahmanism and turned all Buddhist temples into Brahmin temples. If I had to choose, I would rather let the Ming people rule.
Ceylon, not the damn Cholas and Tamils.”
"If you back down now, the Ming people will one day invade your territory," Parakarama said. "They will kill you and your heirs, and steal your land, property, wife and daughters.
Just like they did in previous years."
Bahanu said: "It's different now. They are willing to form an alliance with the island's nobles."
Parakarama sneered: "That's their despicable trick. Because I raised an army to resist, they were willing to ally with the local nobles. If I were defeated and killed, and no one would threaten them anymore, those Ming people would definitely turn their backs.
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Bahanu said: "It will be a matter of the future to fall out. If I continue to fight with your alliance, I will soon be killed by the people of the Ming Dynasty. The people of the Ming Dynasty are protected by Vajra Bodhisattva. They can control thunder and fire. Our army cannot
Get the victory."
"Idiot, that's not thunder and fire, that's just a weapon!" Parakarama said angrily.
Bahanu sighed: "But the soldiers all thought it was thunder and fire. Some said it was the blessing of Bodhisattva, and some said it was the devil's encouragement. Anyway, the soldiers didn't believe it was the power of mortals. My soldiers are like this, and your soldiers are similar. They don't have any idea.
I don’t want to fight anymore. You now have thousands of troops, but many of them are civilians who were forcibly recruited. Can you really win?"
Parakarama was silent for a moment.
"I'm leaving. May the Buddha bless you." Bahanu said.
Parakarama pressed his hand on the hilt of the knife, wanting to rush over and kill Bahanu, and then annex the remaining soldiers of the opponent.
But he still chose to exercise restraint after all. At this time, annexing the troops would be a bad thing if they really fought, and they might defect during the battle.
Bahanu took the remaining troops to the southeast. Not long after, a scout came to report that the Ming people's vanguard was already more than ten miles due south.
Parakarama thought about it, weighing the gains and losses over and over again.
His heart drove him to fight to the end, but his reason persuaded him to run away quickly.
In the end, reason prevailed, and Parakarama took his family and more than a hundred confidants and fled by boat to Kalinga on the northeastern coast of India.
Kalinga is an ancient Indian country. When Master Xuanzang came to learn Buddhist scriptures, Kalinga had been destroyed and sparsely populated. Now it has become a nation, and the rulers there are feudal nobles.
Parakarama's mother was the daughter of the prince of Kalinga.
Historically, it was precisely because Parakarama had Kalinga blood that his descendants who became kings all married Kalinga women as queens. Eventually, the conflict with the local royal family became increasingly fierce, and they simply moved the capital to Jaffna and supported the Tamil people.
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Now Parakarama is effectively running away to Kalinga to join his grandfather.
As soon as the lord ran away, his troops had no intention of fighting. Xia Yuqing captured this place without any blood and expanded the Han people's power to the northernmost part of Ceylon Island.
Nearly a quarter of the entire island is either directly owned by the Han people or is the territory of the Han people's allies.
Moreover, Xia Yuqing captured the port city of Jaffna.
