In January of the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Zhen and Li Yun on the island of Ceylon raised their armies and landed through the area called Rama Bridge by the locals, that is, the Adam Bridge in later generations, the so-called Rama Bridge, in fact, refers to a series of coral reefs and shoals between Ceylon Island and the Tianzhu mainland, nearly 60 miles wide, which can be passed by rowing a small boat, and the Tamils on the mainland arrived at Ceylon Island from here.

After passing through the Rama Bridge, it is the Tamil Nadu state of India in later generations, the main race is the Tamils, and now it is mainly ruled by the Pallava Dynasty, but it is worth mentioning that the rule of the Pallava Dynasty here is only nominal, and the dynasty is divided into countless small states, and the wars between the various states are endless, which is even more chaotic than the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in the history of the Central Plains.

The first opponent they faced after landing was a small state located on the eastern coast, a small country called the Kingdom of Chola, with a total population of about 600,000 to 800,000 and a force of more than 10,000 people, occupying a long and narrow coastline, and also having a certain influence on the central hilly region of Tamil Nadu, there were two relatively large port cities on the coastline, one was called Chora City, which was also their capital, and the other was called Sanga City, which was comparable in size to Chora City. Eighty percent of the country's population is concentrated in these two cities.

For this kind of city-centered city-state state, Li Zhen and Li Yun have summed up their experience on the island of Ceylon, such as the previous Tamil Kingdom and Sinhalese Kingdom, as long as their capitals are occupied, then the whole country can be regarded as destroyed, so after Li Zhen and their army landed, they immediately marched to Chola City.

Li Zhen and Li Yun had 2,500 musketeers in their hands. and an artillery unit of 500 people, and there were originally more than 10,000 firearms troops in Datang. But Li Zhen and Li Yun's strength is limited, even if Li Shimin lends them all. They also don't have that many firearms for the troops, so they borrow so much for the time being, and the rest can be rotated.

The artillery unit has more than 100 cannons, although the artillery power of this era is limited, but under so many artillery salvos, there is no city wall in the whole Tianzhu that can stop it, and the city of Chola is only the capital of a small state, and the city wall is not thick, so it is under several salvos. The walls of the city of Chorah fell apart.

The Kingdom of Chora is also a country composed of Tamils, and the relationship with the Tamil Kingdom on the island of Ceylon is very close, when Li Zhen and Li Yun destroyed the Tamil Kingdom, many nobles in the kingdom fled to the Kingdom of Chora by boat, so the whole Kingdom of Chora has an understanding of Li Zhen and Li Yun's army, and knows that this foreign army is well-equipped and very fierce, and the same number of Tamil troops are not opponents of the other party at all. Not to mention the fact that there were only six or seven thousand defenders in the city of Chorah.

The Tamil garrison of six or seven thousand men faced more than 50,000 steppe cavalry, and the city wall was broken, so there was no danger to defend at all. Faced with this desperate situation. The kingdom of Chola wisely chose to surrender, and as a result, Li Zhen and the others effortlessly took Chola City into their hands.

Immediately afterwards the two separated a part of the cavalry, taking with them the orders of King Chorah. It was very easy to take down the other Sanga City, and then Wang Xuance and the others immediately referred to Li Su's method of governing the colony. Combined with their own situation, they began to carry out a series of reforms and governance of the kingdom of Chora. This will be the bridgehead for them to erode the Tianzhu Continent.

Li Zhen and Li Yun occupied the Kingdom of Chola, and finally had a place to settle on the Tianzhu Continent, but the other kingdoms around them would definitely panic after hearing the news, although their relationship with the Kingdom of Chola was not very good, and even some were feuds, but after all, they were all countries composed of Tamils, and they believed in Brahmins, and they were only infighting before, but now there is an outside force intervening, and they are not Brahmin believers, so they naturally will not look stupidly, Now these surrounding states are intertwined, and it is likely that they will attack Li Zhen and Li Yun, who have not yet gained a firm foothold.

Regarding the performance of Li Zhen and Li Yun, Li Su was not too surprised, and even Li Su was not worried about the connection between their surrounding countries. In history, Wang Xuance, relying only on more than 10,000 troops borrowed from Tubo and Brahma, turned the entire Tianzhu upside down, not to mention that Li Zhen and Li Yun made all preparations, and there were 50,000 steppe cavalry in their hands, as well as powerful firearms troops. It can be said that with this force alone, if they don't consider occupying it, they can wash the entire Tianzhu Continent in blood in the shortest possible time.

However, Li Zhen and Li Yun did not come here to preach force, they wanted to completely occupy and rule, completely annex the entire Tianzhu, and establish their own dynasty and country. Therefore, it is impossible for them to destroy countless countries regardless of Wang Xuance like Wang Xuance in history, but they can only retreat after that.

"It's easy to conquer a place, but it's not easy to keep a place firmly in your hands and turn your subjects into your own help, everything depends on your own means of rule!"

This is a sentence that Li Su sent to Li Zhen and Li Yun afterwards, Li Su and Li Zhen and Li Yun have an essential difference, that is, Li Su can immigrate from the Tang Dynasty, and the main ethnic group in China is still dominated by the Han nationality, supplemented by other foreign races. But Li Zhen and Li Yun are far away in Tianzhu, and there are not so many Han people in the Tang Dynasty who can immigrate, so under the rule of the two of them, they must be dominated by the local ethnic groups in Tianzhu, and if they want to rule in this kind of place where there is no national foundation, this requires Li Zhen and Li Yun to have higher means of governance, otherwise they will be driven out sooner or later.

However, Li Su now has no time to pay attention to Li Zhen and Li Yun's rule over the state of Chorabang, because at the same time that Li Zhen and the two sent troops to Tianzhu, the situation in the Strait of Malacca has also changed, and the existence of the Lion City has seriously threatened the economic interests of the kingdoms along the coast of Malacca.

However, as the port of the Lion City became more and more prosperous, more and more ships were willing to berth in the Lion City, which made the ports led by Mora Yucheng gradually depressed and no longer prosperous. At first, Mora You and other countries were able to endure this situation, but as time went on, the taxes they could receive became less and less, and the pirates sent out secretly were constantly exterminated by the Lion City fleet, which made their finances even more depleted.

As the saying goes, taking people's wealth is like killing parents, and these countries couldn't bear it anymore, and finally led by Mo Luoyou, they began to form a secret alliance, preparing to gather everyone's strength and destroy the Lion City in one fell swoop. However, this news soon reached Li Su through Wu Meiniang's intelligence system.

Li Su had already taken precautions against the actions of these small countries like Mo Luo You, and even if he couldn't divide too much strength now and couldn't completely wipe out these small countries of Jinzhou like Mo Luo You, he would have sent someone to take the entire Malacca into his own hands, where would he still need to work hard to build the Lion City?

However, although he did not have the strength to take the initiative to clean up, he came up with a passive solution, that is, when the Lion City was built, he wantonly provoked the replenishment of Moluo You and other countries, cutting off their maritime economic resources, so that they would definitely send troops to attack, but there was a strait in the middle, so the other party must go out to the navy, and then he could just use the navy to wipe them out at sea, and now it was as he expected.

It was also because he had already made a plan before, so when Li Su received the information that Mo Luo You and they were about to move, not only was he surprised, but he was also very happy, and even ordered Lu Qing in the Lion City to strengthen the clearance of the Strait of Malacca and completely exterminate the pirates supported by several countries, so as to further anger Mo Luo You and other countries.

Lu Qing, who received the order, naturally did not dare to slack off, and the twenty main warships were organized into ten clearance fleets by him to carry out a new round of clearance of the entire Strait of Malacca.

This series of moves by the Lion City has made the security of the Strait of Malacca skyrocket, and the maritime merchants who come and go know that this is the credit of the Lion City, so more ships are willing to berth at the port of the Lion City, which almost makes the ports of Morayou and other countries completely lose the source of tax revenue.

Under these circumstances, the increasingly powerful Sri Buddha and other kingdoms led by Mora You, supplemented by the increasingly powerful Sri Buddha, gathered 2,000 warships in the port outside the city of Morayou, with more than 100,000 soldiers, and launched an attack on the Lion City in May of the 19th year of Zhenguan, and Lu Qing, the governor of the Lion City, raised 20 main warships and hundreds of auxiliary ships to meet the enemy.

Originally, two thousand against twenty, there should be no suspense in this war, but the naval battle was not won by numbers, most of their warships were more than ten steps, at most thirty steps long boats, compared with Lu Qing's main battleships of more than 100 steps, it was like a toy, even if they didn't use the guns on the ship, they could smash the other party into pieces just by ramming.

What's more, Lu Qing and they still have hundreds of auxiliary warships, most of which are much larger than the opponent's main warships, and even some of the auxiliary warships are equipped with artillery, and their attack power is only below that of the main warships, so Lu Qing is full of confidence in this war.

The other countries also knew that their inferiority in the performance of their warships was irreparable, and even if they had an absolute advantage in the number of warships, they were not confident that they could defeat each other in naval battles. However, it is precisely because they know this, so they did not plan to fight each other hard at sea, but thought of a breakup plan, with half of the warships to drag Lu Qing's navy, and the rest of the warships went straight to the Lion City, striving to attack the Lion City in the shortest possible time, and then without the stronghold of the Lion City, Lu Qing's navy is useless no matter how strong it is. (To be continued......)