Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 874 Conquest
Such a battle has no suspense at all.

One of the two Zhuluo warships fired the white flag, but the other was unlucky. Before the white flag was fired, the shell smashed the side of the ship, and the breach was still below the waterline.After the blockade failed, the sailors on the ship jumped into the sea with wooden boards, wooden boxes, wooden barrels and other floating objects.

Naturally, these people could only become captives. The Qi army put down the small boat and lifted them up one by one like fishing for fish. Without any nonsense, they were strictly guarded.

These people will be Lu Qijun's free labor from now on.Every time you catch one more, it is a fortune.You must know that the ultimate goal of the Qi army is by no means to sweep around the southern Tianzhu continent, and then go back home. They are going to be nailed to Giddenboram.

Compared with the mission of this fleet, the battle in front of us is just a small episode. The ultimate goal of the Qi army is to establish a solid support point in Giddenbaram, which will become one of the bridgeheads for them to land in South Tianzhu in the future. .The role of Ceylon will gradually change towards the base camp.

Of course, how can Ceylon be regarded as the base camp for Emperor Lu's entire Tianzhu strategy? It's just a seesaw there.

It's just that at this time, the Tianzhu people never thought of Lu Qi's ambitions.

The city of Giddenbareham is still more than [-] miles away from the mouth of the Cauvery River. It has the same problem as Shanghai and Hong Kong. Continuous swamp puddles.

The Tianzhu people couldn't defend the mouth of the sea at all, and the Qi army naturally couldn't land here.The fleet went upstream along the river, and did not see a continuous patch of green until after traveling more than ten miles, and also saw a camp of the Zhuluo army.

The commander of the fleet waved his hand.Two five-thousand stone-class lucky boats rushed towards the shore, and ran aground when they were more than a hundred meters away from the shore. The two lucky boats lowered their sails, and then swaggered down a large number of small boats on board.The small boat was loaded with soldiers and rowed towards the shore.

Naturally, it was not the allied forces of the Nanyang countries who acted as the vanguard this time, but the marines of the Western Fleet. Under the leadership of Ying Zheng, they landed on the shore in only two quarters of an hour.

The infantry and cavalry of the Zhu Luo army were always hovering one mile away. They did not dare to attack the landing marines under the bombardment of cannons, but they were even more unwilling to retreat afterwards.I could only watch helplessly as a battalion of marines landed smoothly.And after the marines with this battalion landed, wouldn't Lu Qi's soldiers become more unscrupulous?
When Zhu Luo's army couldn't bear it anymore and launched an attack on Lu Qi's army, the navy and marines of the second battalion had already gone ashore.And their attacks only further proved the power of the guns.

"Charge, charge..." shouted a Cholo officer with a ruby ​​in his hat.

The infantry and cavalry under his command roared with all their strength, suppressing their fear, and rushed towards the land force.In front were a group of infantrymen holding bows and arrows and daggers, followed by hundreds of Chola cavalry.

In Zhu Luo, the cavalry was far more important than the infantry.

Thousands of infantry rushed over in a dense mass.The crossbowmen in the front were the crossbowmen, and the spearmen behind them, all of them were howling hysterically to alleviate the fear in their hearts.

But when these efforts fell on them one by one, the tragic scene immediately made all their efforts come to naught.

Amidst the whistling sound, a five-pound solid bullet hit the chest of a Chola infantry officer. There was a crackling sound of fractures, and the blood mist shot out like an explosion. The iron ball shattered the officer's body. Afterwards, several people's arms, legs and feet were broken.Heart-wrenching cries were heard, and soldiers wounded by gunfire lay rolling and howling on the ground.The other sergeants beside him all had pale faces.

The sound of the cannons was like thunder, and dozens of cannonballs, large and small, hit the head and covered the face.

There was an endless stream of wailing and howling in the array.The Zhuluo soldiers who were hit by iron balls were flying all over the place.

The Zhuluo infantry in the charge had a dense formation, because they were in the charge, and unconscious people crowded together. In such a dense army formation, if an iron ball rushed into the formation, it would be a flesh and blood alley being rolled away.

"Ah, ah, ah..."

After two rounds of shelling, the momentum of Zhu Luo's army's charge has stopped.

There was blood everywhere, and I don't know how many Zhuluo soldiers who were injured and maimed by shells rolled to the ground and howled.Being beaten so blindly and the scene so tragic, Zhu Luojun was about to collapse immediately.

Especially those people at the front, screaming and turning around like headless chickens, and some even fled back crying.

The power of cannons and guns cannot be resisted by the flesh and blood of the Tianzhu people.The bravery of the Tamil people was only met with a more painful defeat.

After a large number of Nanyang coalition forces landed on the shore, the remaining Zhu Luo army didn't even care about the camp, and fled westward one after another.

Combat is very easy.Zhu Luojun's camp was not damaged at all, and it was basically preserved intact. The large amount of forage, food and other materials stored in it all belonged to Lu Qijun.

On that day, Lu Qi's navy and army did not continue to march towards Giddenbaram City, and the Qi army camped on the spot had roughly figured out the enemy's strength through the interrogation of the prisoners of war.There were many more people than them, and there were even two hundred elephant soldiers, but this strength was not taken seriously by the Qi army who came.

Maybe the Nanyang Allied Forces could easily beat Brother Ah San in a fight with real swords and guns, but there is a lot of risk in this matter. After all, Zhu Luo is a big country with a population of over ten million. How could Emperor Lu not consider it carefully?

The use of guns and guns to maximize the strength of the two armies and reduce the overall risk is the greatest guarantee of Lu Qian's "Tianzhu Conquest Plan".

Whether it is South Tianzhu or North Tianzhu, it is too far away from China.Although Lu Qian can bear failure, he doesn't want to see failure, and he doesn't like the bitter taste of failure.

For this land, all he needs is to colonize it, not to completely turn it into Han soil.

Because the former can achieve the goal very easily, but the latter will be [-] times more difficult.

In the city of Giddenboram, the nobles of the Zhuluo Kingdom naturally received the news of defeat, but to be honest, they haven't figured out how to deal with firearms until now.

Elephants only show great destructive power when facing flesh and blood.But in the face of shells and bullets, it is hard to say how much effect a hundred war elephants can play.

When the Chinese conquered Bagan, Queen's Kingdom, etc., the performance of war elephants when facing firearms can definitely be described as clumsy and incompetent.

The Zhuluo nobles were arguing endlessly in the city. Some advocated to take the initiative to attack and launch a sea of ​​​​attacks; The army poses a certain threat.

Just when they were arguing and unable to make a decision, Lu Qi's army had already approached Giddenborum.And relying on the cannon, he easily blasted open the gate of Giddenboram.

Chula King Julutongga Chola II was furious. In a short period of time, five port cities fell. It is time to enter Thanjavur, the capital of the Chola Kingdom.

The tens of thousands of Chula troops he deployed in Chiddenbaram, Mayulam, and Kumbakonam seemed to have turned into nothingness in this instant.

Moreover, the Qi army's offensive was not only progressing smoothly on the Gitenberg road, but also on the other four roads.Facing artillery and muskets, the Chola army was as helpless as their navy.

This is a completely different mode of warfare.And without the evolution of hundreds of years, the guns that can already be called "mature" instantly crossed the barrier of time and space and landed in front of them, let alone Ah San, even the Khitan and Japanese, In front of the Qi army equipped with a large number of firearms, it is also vulnerable.

Nayelu Dashi is not a coward. Looking at his achievements in history, we can know that he is a man with a mind as firm as a stone.If he was really desperate and couldn't see a glimmer of light, why bother to surrender to Lu Qi, and even fight for Emperor Lu in the years to come, before and after the pommel horse?

The collision of two completely unequal armies, the collision of cold weapons and primitive but relatively mature hot weapons, the result is self-evident.It is no wonder that historians hundreds of years later will lament: China's conquest of Tianzhu is the easiest one among countless "conquests" recorded in world history books.

The Tianzhu society is a "deformed child", and its own development is congenitally imperfect.Some of the "flaws" that existed before me due to historical reasons were infinitely magnified in this war, and passively became China's best helper in the process of conquering and ruling Tianzhu.

Although it's just the beginning!
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Time has entered June, and a good news flew across thousands of rivers and mountains, and was delivered directly to Emperor Lu!

(End of this chapter)