Valley Emperor

As the earliest overseas territory of the Tang Empire in the Indian peninsula, Gehe Prefecture is also relatively close to the mainland, so even after the Tang Empire later took control of Ceylon, the development of Gehe Prefecture is still very good.

After all, Ceylon Island was positioned as a military base in the overseas territory of the Datang Empire.

It was localized before.

However, the localization of Ceylon has not affected the development of Gehe Prefecture itself, after all, the positioning of the two is different.

The island of Ceylon has been operated as a native country, and now there are even railways. The island of Ceylon is even more of the people of the Tang Dynasty, but there are no temporary residents, and there are no indigenous people.

As for Gehe Prefecture, it is still just an ordinary overseas territory. In Gehe Prefecture, you can still see many temporary residents, as well as many indigenous people.

The overall development is also based on agriculture and indigenous trade.

So far, the area under the direct jurisdiction of the entire Gehe Prefecture is more than 70,000 square kilometers, but there are not many Datang people living in these more than 70,000 square kilometers, only a few hundred thousand.

Overall, the population density is still relatively low.

In the area beyond 70,000 square kilometers, there are many aboriginal kingdoms.

Among these numerous local indigenous kingdoms, some are puppet kingdoms supported by Datang, some are indigenous kingdoms that Datang is too lazy to deal with, and some are indigenous kingdoms that naively regard Datang as an enemy.

Carlo Kingdom is such a naive kingdom.

In fact, the rise of this kingdom did not take long. It only took four or five years to fully count. However, during these four or five days, it continued to expand, and the territory it ruled gradually expanded from a few thousand square kilometers to more than 50,000 square kilometers now. .

In other words, the rise of the Karo Kingdom is also inseparable from the efforts of the arms dealers in Datang, because the weapons used by the army of this kingdom, like the weapons used by other royal teams in India, are exclusively supplied by Datang. .

In order to make money, the arms dealers of the Tang Dynasty made troubles all over the world. In order to make the Karo Kingdom buy more weapons, they constantly encouraged the kingdom to wage war.

It's just that the continuous victories in the war make the people of the Karo Kingdom seem to be a little swelled inwardly.

Last year, he wanted to renegotiate tariffs with the Datang Empire, and the people from the Datang Empire's Ministry of Foreign Affairs were naturally too lazy to deal with him.

Then at the beginning of this year, they did some special tax in their territory, levying special tax on Datang's export commodities.

They didn't explicitly levy tariffs, they just levied taxes on sales and other links.

However, the businessmen of the Tang Dynasty were stabbed!

After several conflicts, these Datang merchants directly recruited an indigenous mercenary army to defend their own interests.

As a result, the combat effectiveness of the native mercenaries they hired was not good enough to defeat the army of the Karo Kingdom.

As a result, the Carlo Kingdom also exploded, and several Datang business halls were directly closed down.

But if you do this, you will directly make things bigger.

It is not allowed by the Tang Empire to directly seal down the business offices of Datang merchants and hinder normal trade.

The Datang Empire has countless colonial business halls all over the world. If every indigenous kingdom dared to seal it up, that would be amazing.

This is good. After a brief negotiation with them, the Imperial Indian Affairs Yamen was too lazy to talk, and directly asked for the cooperation of the army in an official document.

This is the matter of the Eighteenth Division sending troops to the Kingdom of Caro.

The area of ​​the Caro Kingdom is only tens of thousands of square kilometers. Although I heard that they have a large number of troops, there are tens of thousands of them, but how can I put it, an indigenous kingdom of this size will never be taken seriously by the Tang Army.

If there are no special circumstances, it is estimated that the 18th Division will just send a battalion at random, and then carry the inland warships over, and it is estimated that the whole country will surrender after a casual battle.

But this time, Major General Tian Qinyun was thinking, just take this opportunity to have a long-distance armed training plus a live-fire exercise!

Well, he regarded the deployment of the Karo Kingdom as an armed training and live-fire exercise.

It can't be said that he is arrogant, it is the truth!

The Eighteenth Division of the Army is one of the dozens of standing divisions in the Empire. When the division is full, it has more than 18,000 people. At the same time, it will be supported by the inland artillery fleet.

Really fight, if the logistical support is sufficient, the 18th Division can sweep the entire Indian peninsula!

Therefore, Major General Tian Qinyun is really not arrogant!

He simply wanted to conduct an exercise to test the actual combat performance of the Joint Type II rifle.

After all, he was also explained to him, and the rifle was tested in actual combat, and various potential problems were identified and reported for design improvement.

For this task, Major General Tian Qinyun still attaches great importance to it.

After all, he is also a major general of the army, and he is also the commander of the main infantry division. He has a bright future within the Datang Army, and in fact, he can barely be regarded as a middle-level general.

He is naturally clear about the United Type II rifle, and this time he is going to build a main rifle that can stand the test of time.

Unsurprisingly, the Joint Type II rifle and the improved version will be equipped for decades, and the number of early equipment alone may reach millions.

For this kind of main equipment of the whole army, of course, there can be no neglect, all kinds of preliminary testing work must be completed, and all the defects of the improvement must be improved, so that serious defects can be avoided after large-scale equipment, resulting in The embarrassment of dismantling.

After Tian Qinyun had the idea of ​​​​arming and training, he explained to the allies who were also stationed in Gehe Prefecture, the 23rd Marine Regiment of the Navy, and asked them to take up the defense of Gehe Prefecture first.

As for the 18th Division itself, it started westward under the cover of inland warships.

The distance of hundreds of kilometers is not too close. Part of the area passed by is a puppet kingdom controlled by the Tang Dynasty, and there is a neutral kingdom that has no sense of existence, but this did not affect the advance of the Army's 18th Division.

The army's 18th Division marched westward along the river, covered by inland warships along the way, and followed by dozens of inland transport ships full of debts and various materials.

With a westward march of this scale, no indigenous kingdom with no eyes would jump out and say something. All of them are honestly welcoming the Great Tang King and sending off the Great Tang King.

After more than half a month of marching, the 18th Army Division finally arrived at the edge of the control area of ​​​​the Kingdom of Caro.

At this time, the people of the Carlo Kingdom finally panicked and sent people to intercede, but Tian Qinyun was still too lazy to pay attention to them.

He Tian Qinyun, the dignified major general of the Tang Empire army, led the troops to carry out the mission, is it possible that he was also influenced by these indigenous people?

joke!

Furthermore, if your Caro Kingdom wants to seal down the business hall, it will seal the business hall, and if you want to arrest people, you will arrest people. Who the **** gave you so much courage!

This time, in addition to armed training and live ammunition testing of the new rifle, the 18th Army Division will also change a group of rulers for the Kingdom of Caro by the way.

After all, before the 18th Division set off, the Indian affairs yamen even prepared the new king, and now they will come with the people of the 18th Division of the Army.

You can't change the king just because the people of the Karo Kingdom ask for peace!

Therefore, Tian Qinyun ignored their request and continued to lead the army westward. ,

On the way, Tian Qinyun didn't care much about the battle, after all, there was no battle.

There were a few times when the indigenous army tried to resist, but as soon as the artillery of the artillery opened fire, the opponent basically collapsed.

When he hit the so-called capital of the other party, Tian Qinyun felt that it was impossible to continue like this.

It is time to hit the capital, and it is estimated that this time the armed training will be over after this battle.

but!

The infantry units of the 18th Division have not fought a few serious battles. Every time the artillery opened fire, the opponent collapsed. There was no time for the 18th Division of the Army to perform standard tactical actions.

What are the standard tactics of the Datang Army?

Naturally, it is the coordination of the infantry and artillery, the roundabout attack and the like.

In short, when fighting and the artillery fire first, after the artillery has hit the enemy's forward position, the artillery fire is extended, and the infantry rushes to occupy the position.

However, the tactics conceived by the Tang generals themselves have been on paper for many years!

because!

So far, no indigenous army of any family can withstand the artillery bombardment of the Datang Army!

It was like this when fighting the Ottomans in Egypt, and now it's the same in India.

The generals of the Datang Army felt that the only ones who could really make the Army use a whole set of tactics were the Tartars.

Those Tatars were smarter and built dense forts, trenches on the eastern front.

When Datang's artillery bombarded, they all hid one by one, and they continued to hide when Datang's infantry rushed up.

Until Datang's army rushed to a distance of tens of meters, they would get out and open fire with muskets, and then they would not stand guard. In many cases, they would directly launch a counter-charge to fight hand-to-hand combat.

Although their casualties will be very heavy~www.wuxiaspot.com~ But I have to say that this is the only way they can cause effective casualties to the Datang Army when their weapons are backward.

And the Datang Army was reluctant to play any close combat with these Tartars, so most of the time the infantry would not rush up, but bombarded with artillery from a distance and killed them with rifles from a distance.

Therefore, the current war between the Tang Dynasty and the Tatar Jin Kingdom on the eastern front is about to become a positional battle of the first World War.

Of course, it's not really how strong the Tatar Golden State is. In fact, this set of theirs is nothing to the generals of the Tang Empire Army. It's nothing more than a waste of a few heavy artillery shells.

But this shell is too expensive!

The upper echelons of the empire are not willing to support the army to launch the third westward expedition now. They feel that it is good for now, and it is enough to keep the pressure on the western front.

The most crucial point is that the Datang Empire hopes that the Tatar Golden Kingdom and the European countries will continue to fight, and will continue to fight.

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