Chapter 432: Storm
The centaurs gathered in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent by the Ming Dynasty could no longer be called Buddhists, not even the civilian armed forces.
Because they have officers, they have soldiers, and although the military level is uneven, they are indeed an army.
Buddhists from the Ming Dynasty and Japan had not yet set out, but the number of Buddhists gathered in Bihar province had reached 30,000 – even more than the Bengali rebels had gathered.
The noble leaders of the rebels were stupid, they couldn't understand what the Heavenly Time Mage was doing here, and they didn't dare to ask.
When the monk came with more than 300 people, they didn't dare to ask, and if there were more than 30,000 people today, they didn't dare to ask.
The crucial turning point occurred in the last month of the eighth year of Wanli, when Venerable Tianshi's Buddhist army underwent a qualitative change, as the Western minister Yin Zhengmao finally opened his mind and planned to accept them and give them a little help within his ability.
Of course, this may also be due to Yin Zhengmao's feeling that Tianshi is too unqualified as a commander.
Qi Jiguang of the Oriental Military Government came to confer the eight arhats, which were actually eight generals, and they were controlled by King Ava, who had the most combat experience in the past, and King Mangyasha, who was the most experienced in the past.
The name of the despicable king Mangyasha is a transliteration, in fact, according to the habit of naming others in the Ming Dynasty, the fierce spoon may also be called the mang spoon, but there is no way, the name of the fierce spoon is given by himself, and Chen Mu is a witness to this name, so the fierce spoon likes to call himself, he can call it.
These two guys, who are called kings, are the gravediggers of Mang Yinglong, and they led the troops to defeat Mang Yinglong's main force and belong to the Ming Dynasty.
The first thing the Ming did after completely ruling Donghu was to take back their power, give them more treasures and officials, and promised them two generations of wealth, they were the first generation, as the second generation of nephews and nephews are the current prefects, but the third generation will move to the thirteen provinces to achieve a smooth handover of officials.
For the Fierce Spoon, who is probably the biggest powder of his age, this is exactly what he wants.
Therefore, as soon as he heard that Master Tianshi had recruited monks and soldiers to help India in the war, he immediately pulled the Mangyasa line of fire into the temple to pay homage, and took a boat to support the construction of the empire.
In a very short period of time, the Wanzi Army completed the transformation of a large number of stragglers into a traditional army.
With a regular commander-in-chief, the situation is different.
Each of the eight Arhats has a different number of temple abbots, and the abbots of each temple have subordinate monks, and Fujian, Guangzhou, and businessmen manage the baggage, forming a complete management system.
During this time, the monks scared away the Mughal army that had entered the province of Bihar.
The information of the Mughals was lagging behind, and the reinforcements of the monks came too quickly and too much, and the news that came back from the last defeat was that the 20,000 local rebels had seven or eight thousand Ming troops to help.
Based on this information, the Mughals, eager to make a meritorious contribution to curry favor with Akbar, urgently gathered 40,000 local motley armies to return to Bihar.
Originally, the soldiers of the Bengali rebel nobles were local miscellaneous troops, generally weaker than the Turkic cavalry and the northern cavalry, but Akbar's army had not yet arrived, and the army gathered by the local nobles and the head was actually similar in strength to the rebels, and they could also recognize themselves and clearly know that the monks from the Ming Dynasty and the rebels were not of the same mind.
If you want to break them one by one, you must first work together to deter and defeat the rebels, and once the Ming Dynasty monks are not profitable, they will inevitably retreat.
Even if they don't retreat, they can still have 20,000 troops left to fight with the monks of the Ming Dynasty, and their ideals are very full.
But when he arrived in Bihar, the Bengali rebels he had to face were still more than 20,000, but the Ming army had increased to more than 30,000...... Who dares to come here?
Far from deterring the rebels, the local nobles emboldened them, and more importantly, they felt that they were vulnerable.
The eight generals hit it off and led the monks to advance westward, and the rebels behind immediately followed.
Throughout, Monk Tianshi did not reach any agreement with the rebel leaders, but there was a tacit understanding between the two sides that did not need to be stated.
The monk used Buddhism to overturn a city, erect several temples, take away some of the believers who could fight, and then continue westward; The rebellious nobles followed suit and occupied these cities, leaving nothing to do with what the monks had, collecting the remaining lands and fiefdoms, leaving the nobles to take care of them, and more people followed closely behind the abbot.
They marched all the way west along the Ganges, and the offensive was very difficult, but they continued to advance slowly, and by the time the winter moon was about to come in the ninth year of Wanli, they had occupied twelve cities in Bihar Province along the Ganges River to the west.
The speed of such an attack was almost enough to catch up with Akbar's battle to conquer the rebels.
This result is not because of the high combat effectiveness of the monks, but precisely the embodiment of the low combat effectiveness of the monks, after all, they are not a first-class army, and the officers of the Western military government who watched the excitement in Goa were extremely angry, and they were eager to personally lead the troops to teach them how to fight.
Qi Jimei thought it was not bad, and others such as Li Xi, Zhang Yuanxun and others thought that Tianshi Monk was extremely ridiculous...... Why do you want to attack city by city, city by city, and use the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to decide the victory?
With a Rokka-class warship and more than 200 merchant ships protecting the route, wouldn't it be good to go directly into the capital by ship?
But seeing that the heart was anxious, the Western military government scrupulously obeyed Yin Zhengmao's orders and did not interfere with any actions of the monk Tianshi, but just watched the Mughal army retreat one by one.
They didn't really look at it, because the order of the cabinet minister of Beiyang came.
Zhang Juzheng's most troublesome thing was that there was no iron, so a letter was written to this point, and the 400 banner troops of the Siyang Military Government spread into Bihar, Bengal and other places to survey maps, look for iron ore, and instruct merchants to trade with the Bengali rebels, and at the same time negotiate borders with them.
Unilateral borders.
Bengal and half of Bihar belonged to the rebels, and the lands further west did not.
It's not that Yin Zhengmao wants to take advantage of the danger at this time, to be honest, the rebels have nothing to take advantage of Old Man Yin, mainly because of the edict sent by the emperor from China...... A large number of county kings and auxiliary generals from Shanxi came.
Everyone is looking for him to seal the country, and the official document of the imperial court is written, how much land they used to have in the Central Plains, and how much land they will give them when they come here; As for how to divide it, the emperor didn't seem interested, and only told Yin Zhengmao, you just give them points.
Master Yin almost wanted to cry without tears.
The merchant can't control it, the monk can't control it, he hasn't even had time to complain to the court, the county king and the auxiliary generals are here again, which is still out of his control.
The Indian subcontinent experienced a great division at the beginning of the ninth year of Wanli, and the princes who should be divided were divided; The generals who should be divided are also divided.
In the end, the Mughal army and the Bengali rebels who were left on both sides were confused: these people divided our land, so what will we eat and drink?