Chapter 482: The Fall of Tibet

Yang Feng's army almost completely annihilated the allied forces of the three North Indian countries in Qunu City, not only Qu Polo I was burned to the bones, but also the main force of the entire North Indian Three Kingdoms army turned into floating corpses in the Ganges.

Then North India became his hunting ground.

In the next four months, his army collected protection money city by city, forced those officials to pay money, food and even women, and whoever dared to slaughter the city without paying his army, so he swept all the way east like locusts, and when he arrived at Hua's city in the early summer of the second year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, the army led by He Luguang and Li Gao was already waiting for him here. They arrived here by boat along the Ganges, and at this time the mouth of the lower reaches of the Ganges River was not in modern Bengal, but in Calcutta, that is, in the area of the Pajilti River where the Tang army landed, and the main seaport was Tama Lidi, less than a hundred kilometers west of Calcutta.

Of course, Li Gao didn't drive his lucky boats and bird boats directly to Fahrenheit City, the channel of the Ganges River is not so deep, and those bird boats may be able to drive over during the flood season, but the lucky boats are impossible anyway.

He was a local vessel recruited by force.

There are boats on the Ganges, which is nothing more than sending the army over to arrest them, and also taking out part of the income from the looting of those Indian nobles to hire, those ordinary people will not care about what invaders are not invaders, there is money to be made, of course they will not care about serving the invaders, Li Gao and the others not only hired a large number of Indians to transport them, but also hired them to build cities and ports for the Tang army in Calcutta, and the Tang soldiers drove to Indian cities to collect protection money one by one like Yang Feng......

This kind of thing must be understood by everyone.

In short, the armies of the east and west completed their rendezvous under the city of Fahrenheit, and then Dharmapolo led the princes and ministers to run out and surrender tremblingly.

Yang Feng accepted his surrender.

Of course, the Baltic Kingdom will have to provide them with food, organize people to transport grain and grass, and cede the area of Calcutta to the Tang Dynasty, and then cede the northern city of Bennavatana that has been annexed to the Tang Dynasty, the city is on the side of a tributary of the Brahmaputra River, which is the main transportation route from the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River to the Ganges River basin, not far from the Siliguri Corridor, which is the mountain pass leading to Yadong, which is very suitable as a starting point for attack, and the Ganges, the water transport route of the Brahmaputra River, It is also enough to support the logistics of the army.

Of course, Dama Polo did not dare to refuse, at this time, Yang Feng destroyed him with just one sentence, and in this way, the Polo Kingdom officially became a subject state of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang army could move freely within its borders, and it could also conscript troops and levy food if needed.

Of course, they also have to go to the Tang Dynasty to pay tribute.

In the end, Datang took the first step to colonize India, also under the auspices of Yang Feng, Datang East India Company was formally established, according to the previous distribution of interests, 55% of the shares were handed over to He Luguang after returning to Lingnan to raise, Yang Feng, Li Gao, Zhang Guangsheng on behalf of Gao Xianzhi each 15%, after returning to the Western Regions, Fujian, Zhejiang, Annan how to distribute within the three groups is their own business. In short, west of Longya Gate, the trade rights of the Lion Country, that is, east of Sri Lanka, belonged to the East India Company, and the west of this line belonged to Yang Feng, and he was ready to open another West India Company, plus Southeast Asia controlled by Gao Xianzhi and the northern countries controlled by Li Gao, and the four divided the entire maritime trade rights.

In this way, internal conflicts are avoided, and the trade colonies within their respective spheres are responsible for each other, and they can act together if needed.

Yang Feng rested in Fahrenheit City for two months.

During this period, he and the insect girl also took on a fairy posture to visit the Wangshe City, Vulture Mountain, Wild Deer Garden, Nalanda Temple, Chaojie Temple and other places, and had an academic exchange with those tantric masters, or to show miracles, so that the common people can see who is the real god, whether he has divine power and the insect girl who is obviously not mortal, or those who are dirty, he can press to death with one finger.

In short, he went to the door to slap his face, especially in Nalanda Temple, and even he summoned countless fish and shrimp flowing from the sky.

Among them was a whale.

Pity a master who couldn't dodge and was actually stoned to death by this little gray whale.

Just when he ran to pretend to be forced to slap his face, his army went north to Bennavatana, and completed all the preparations to enter Tibet, in August of this year, King Yang led 30,000 servants, one man and three horses, north across the Himalayas, after the first battle opened the mountain pass defense, it took only five days to raid to Luo. The main force is all in Longyou and Hexi and other places and the Tang army confronted the Tubo people, did not expect that there will be a Tang army from the south raid, the small number of Tubo troops left behind in the Luo although bloody battles but after all, the strength difference is too great, Yang Feng led the army to break through the Luo City, and the Tubo royal family, including Zampu, all the members of the Luo Dynasty were captured, the entire Luo was burned by him, and all the men and women in the city were arrested, and then the rope was strung up and quickly evacuated back to India.

Two months later, the main force of the Tibetan army, which had withdrawn from the north, was nearly 50,000 troops, and as he had guessed, they were angry and slaughtered out of the plateau.

Yang Feng tortured those Tibetan captives as bait, luring them to continue southward, and finally the two sides started a decisive battle under the city of Pennavartana, although Yang Feng did not summon any meteor shower, but the Tubo army was still easily crushed by the cavalry he personally led under the torture of drunken oxygen, and then was surrounded by a total of 150,000 elephant cavalry armies, including the Tianzhu army of the requisition, and the Annan infantry led by Zhang Guangsheng blocked the Yadong Pass, and the elite of the 50,000 Tubo army was annihilated in India.

Then Yang Feng once again led the cavalry north into the plateau, and began to carry out a comprehensive sweep, all the Tibetan people regardless of men and women were captured, and the entire plateau was emptied to the maximum extent, and the livestock could be taken away, and those that could not be taken away were bled on the spot, and the crops were burned or trampled by horses, in short, the entire plateau was swept away.

At this point, Tibet perished.

Although there are still some Tibetan tribes in Kangsang and Qinghai-Tibet Zhangxiong, but the country of Tubo no longer exists, and the population on the plateau has almost lost more than half, with the population growth rate of this era and the harsh environment there, it is estimated that there will not be any noteworthy forces rising there in a hundred years, in fact, it is a miracle that there can be a force rising there, if such a miracle can be repeated again, it is really a dog.

Yang Feng did not stay there in the army.

First, no one wants to stay in that kind of ghost place for a long time, and secondly, it is extremely easy to produce warlords and the like there, Yang Feng doesn't want to send a Tang general and bring modern civilization there, and then integrate the remnants of the forces to create a new Tubo.

So just leave it alone.

In short, his battle of Tibet ended smoothly.

Then he left 3,000 Tang troops in Calcutta, and 2,000 in Pennavatana, and at the same time, following the British example, recruited another 10,000 Asan to form the Tang Indian Army, and the Tang Army acted as officers, giving them sufficient military pay and sophisticated equipment, as servants of the Tang Army, as for the Tang Army stationed in India, this was naturally from the Lingnan Army, and in the future this was the colonial stronghold of the Lingnan gentry, and the wealth of the East India Company would begin to flow into their pockets from here, and naturally they would send troops to garrison, In addition, a navy and river fleet must be maintained here, so the spectacular scene of the Tang Dynasty chariots and ships sailing on the Ganges River imagined by Yang Feng can be staged.

As for all the bird ships of the navy, leave fifty bird ships here, and also recruit some Ah San as sailors, which is actually an armed merchant ship.

Of course, this was proposed by Yang Feng.

This place does not belong to him, he doesn't need to worry too much, the gold and jewelry looted in India during this expedition, especially the pearls produced in Bangladesh, have already made He Luguang's face smile, and he already knows that there is a place in the south of Tianzhu that produces a large number of gemstones, not to mention that there are countless elephants and rhinoceros here that can collect ivory rhino horns, and this is also the most important cotton cloth production area, all of which can bring a steady stream of income for the Lingnan army, such a place must of course be controlled.

And it's not just India.

Based in Calcutta, northeast to Gamma and southwest to the Lion Country, all within the radius of this stronghold.

At the end of the day, it's the interests that matter.

That's fine, for Yang Feng, the layout of the Indian Ocean is completed, but then he has to go and drive away the big cannibals in the Sindh area and occupy there, Sindh is Karachi, and the expansion of the big food to India starts from there, Yang Feng wants to control the western Indian Ocean, then it is the best stronghold. He had de facto control of the trade routes from the river through Tocharian and Gaofu, so that he could transport the industrial goods of the river south to Karachi, and from there to the shores of the Indian Ocean, and in the future the merchant ships from the Black Sea could monopolize the trade routes of the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts, and even grab a colony in the Mediterranean, such as a larger island, and use this colony as a base to open up a route to the Americas, which was much closer.

In this way, the Han people continued to expand westward.

This kind of thing must be lured by profit.

When he gained a steady stream of wealth through Western trade in the river, he would certainly continue to induce the Han people in the East to continue to go west to his men to pursue wealth together, and Western Europe may not bring much income, at most catch some white slaves, but after the establishment of the transatlantic route to the Americas, the gold and precious stones of the Mayan Empire at the height of this time will definitely cause madness.

The 10,000 horses of the Hezhong Army saved the Central Plains, and through some soldiers who were accustomed to buying things with silver coins or even gold coins, they had told the people in the interior how rich the Western Regions were, and many of the immigrants brought back by Yang Feng were lured by this.

After all, gold is the driving force of colonization.