Chapter 434: Troops

Finding out the strength of the Western military government was not a difficult problem for Akbar, and the Western minister Yin Zhengmao did not think that this matter was a secret.

On the contrary, Yin Zhengmao wanted to let everyone in the world know how many soldiers he had, and use this to deter all the surrounding countries.

Because the composition of the Western military government is different from the situation in the South and Oriental Seas, although they use the most advanced gunboats of the Ming Dynasty, most of the soldiers are recruited from the country, so they have the largest number of troops - from Burma to Bahrain, the Western military government has increased its army in this sea area year by year over the years, and has set up more than 20 guards and more than 120,000 troops.

Even Yin Zhengmao could not determine the exact number of troops of the Western military government, because his generals had many family members.

The composition of the military force is also extremely mixed, with more than half of the veterans of the Yunnan and Guangxi divisions recruiting from all over the country.

There are three classes of government soldiers in Kaifeng, Henan Province and boxers in Suzhou and Hangzhou who have reformed and reformed themselves, stationed in Goa; The gourd soldiers of Songxi counties, armed with spears and animal skin medicine quivers, traveled through the mountains of the Deccan Plateau together with the miners recruited from Lushi, Yongning, and Lingbao in Henan Province to ensure that the trade routes for buying minerals and cotton were not attacked by local chieftains.

They were familiar with skirmishes and large armies fighting in the mountains, but they were not very good at opposing regular formations, and they were at a disadvantage against cavalry on flat ground.

Therefore, when they received the warning that they would quickly support them by a mixed army composed of the eastern Zhedong bird gunners under the command of Qi Jimei, the chief military officer of the Indo-South Army, the archers recruited from Xuzhou and the long-pole men recruited from Shandong.

In the provinces of southern India, most of these mercenaries who are not proficient in firearms are the most powerful assistants of the Western minister Yin Zhengmao, and it is almost difficult to see the regular army of the Western military government on land, and their banner troops live at sea all the year round, driving warships in the name of southern towns to run rampant in the Indian Ocean, protecting the Ming merchant fleet of tens of thousands of ships every year in the coastal areas.

In Yin Zhengmao's view, it is extremely foolish to spend the extremely precious money-making time to go to war with Safibos or the Ottomans, and a war with these two countries will cause the shipping routes to be attacked, and all the merchant ships will be requisitioned by the military to transport baggage, and the direct loss of a war will be more than 500,000 taels of silver, and the indirect loss will be ten times this amount.

Therefore, the strategic choice made by the Western military government at the beginning was to let everyone know how powerful they were, so as to avoid war, and never hide their troops.

But it is difficult to convince Akbar that the Western military government really has so many troops - compared to the Western military government, Akbar can see the world is too small, the Mughals have not even been able to include Mumbai, and the only coastal province is Gujarat, located on the north coast of the Indian subcontinent, with two large bays, Kutch Bay and Kempard Bay.

Don't get me wrong, the Western military government that Akbar saw was not in Goa, but on a small island off the southern coast of Gijarat province, Diu.

This island was occupied by the Portuguese in the past, and after the Portuguese lost Goa, most of the Portuguese on the island sought refuge from the Mughals in order to avoid direct threat from the Western military government, and the island was accepted by the Western military government.

On the island, they garrisoned only 1,000 households, and even then the sergeants could not be satisfied with food all year round, and often had to be transported by merchants to feed themselves.

Because there are too few indigenous people on the island in this undeveloped land.

Akbar saw this place, how could he believe the information brought back by the envoy, describing that the Western military government had more than 100,000 troops here? Even the envoys who were ordered to go to Goa could not see that the Western military government had more than 10,000 troops.

In addition to a few well-armed generals, the port of Goa was mostly unarmoured servants, who looked like their ordinary soldiers, just in shoes.

When the more clear information came back, Akbar began to prepare for a major battle, with the fortifications on the other side of the island to be repaired, and then 2,000 well-armed northern cavalry from the capital to be stationed.

After preparing for the defense of the Western military government, Akbar began to gather a large army in the country, preparing to march east to eliminate the troublemakers.

But compared with the strength of the Western military government, the strength of the monks in Tianshi was the most worrying to the Mughal court.

"The enemy forces on the front line, more and more, more and more."

Even the nobles who had fought with the Wanzi Army could only get such news when they sent people to the Red Fort, and they never seemed to know how many monks there were.

What's the solution? Even the Heavenly Time Mage didn't know exactly how many people he had gathered from all over the place.

All the monks, yes, scattered in the villages, preached the Dharma, taught the devotees that gold and silver treasures were things outside the body, and taught them how important it was to send gold to the temple.

They always had to eat and drink, and Tianshi criticized this very much, but neither he nor the six arhats could control the monks and soldiers like the army, and the people came here with a very clear intention - to seek wealth and nobility.

Without war, there would be no spoils of war, and without spoils of war, their hearts would be restless, and they could only send them to various tribes and villages to do their own work.

At first, it was seven or eight thousand, but then the Burmese monks came and it became more than 30,000, and now, the North Korean monks are also coming.

For Xiao Daming, the war may not work, but the mobilization of monks and soldiers for the Ming Dynasty is still very smooth, the people of the time of day used to briefly explain the situation, and took out the appointment letter of the abbot of the West Shaolin stamped with the emperor's seal, and the king of Korea immediately let the news spread all over the country.

Tens of thousands of Korean monks and soldiers sailed through the Strait of Malacca and arrived in Bangladesh with the merchant ships buying cotton.

The Japanese mobilization rate was much lower because they had too many monks.

A joint order was issued by Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Chen Hachi, and in just seven days, more than 10,000 applicants were reported near Kyoto.

In today's Japan, the people in power are Chen Jiujing, the general of the main island, Li Rubai, the chief military officer of Kansai, the king Ashikaga Yoshiaki canonized by the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Rulong, the chief military officer of Kyushu, and the subordinate general Tokugawa Ieyasu, their most powerful people.

After these people, Honganji Xianru was the most powerful religious figure.

But there is no doubt that he was ostracized and prejudiced, and those above did not want to see that he had the power to allow monks to take up weapons, but the monks were not easy to manage in Japan, they drank wine, ate meat, killed people, married daughters-in-law, and did not abide by the rules and precepts.

Not many people even studied Chinese Buddhism, but the request for help from the monk Tianshi made Honganji Xianru extremely excited...... How exciting is it that he can take his disciples overseas to open up a new world belonging to the Pure Land True Sect?

At the same time, this is also in line with the ideas of Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the two hit it off, and in the blink of an eye, they handed over a plan to Chen Bachi to make his liver tremble.

In the plan, known as the Monk Crossing Order, they were to transport 150,000 Buddhist farmers, monks, and warriors to India over a three-year period.

The first batch of transport, which was undertaken by the Nanyang Military Government, is about to arrive in Malacca.