The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 472 The Duality of the Divine Pig

Sometimes, your biggest opponent in a joint operation may not be the enemy, but your stupid teammates.

Chen Lian and Lieutenant General Su Fulang have now encountered stupid teammates. They both want to beat up the Mysore envoy who came to contact them to vent their anger.

Because after they had worked hard to defeat the British Indian fleet, the Mysore people were still attacking the St. George Bastion in Madras, and did nothing else, not even equipping a temporary port for the combined fleet to anchor.

The reason why it was so slow was because after the annihilation of the 4,000 British Indian troops led by Lieutenant Colonel William Bailey.

Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan, father and son, did not choose to attack Madras directly, but returned to besiege the front fortress where Hector Monroe was.

This was a huge mistake. You have to know that after the fall of William Bailey, not counting Hector Monroe in the front, there were only 200 people left in the southwest of Fort Vendivash and 400 defenders in the Madras St. George Bastion.

Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan, father and son, had 7,000 men under their command, including 5,000 cavalry. If they went to Madras immediately, the British army would probably collapse.

But these two idiots actually chose to bring the captives back with them, and went to the front fortress to scare Hector Monroe in a show of force.

Perhaps the father and son thought that the British were doomed and Hector Monroe would most likely surrender immediately. Then they could quickly capture the fortress in front, release all the 80,000 troops blocked by the fortress, and finally easily capture Madras.

This design cannot be said to be a big strategic mistake.

But Haider Ali made a huge mistake, which is that in war it is best to give the enemy a fair shake and not imagine that your enemies are idiots.

Although Hector Monroe, who is guarding the fortress at the front, looks like a colonel, his background is very extraordinary.

He was a key figure in the British East India Company's conquest of the Mughal Empire and served as commander-in-chief of the Bengal garrison.

Meanwhile, Hector Monroe was the eighth Lord of Norval, Scotland, and had close ties with the Scottish noble family of the Duke of Gordon. He was also a member of the House of Commons and had founded a bank.

The reason he returned to India was because the Air Bank he founded went bankrupt and he had to come here to raise money to pay off his debts.

Simply put, this man can barely be considered a politician and an outstanding general in English history. He had to come to India because of bankruptcy. He was a very typical low-ranking officer with a high position.

So, after learning that Colonel William Bailey had failed, Hector Monroe immediately began to save himself.

Almost immediately, he sent someone to tell Haider Ali outside the city that he was willing to surrender, as long as he could leave safely after handing over his weapons.

This move successfully stabilized the Mysore people.

But when Haider Ali asked Hector Monroe to surrender, Monroe said that he needed a little time to convince the officers in the fortress, and he also offered a large amount of wine and meat to continue to paralyze Haider Ali.

Haider Ali thought he had victory in his grasp, but when he saw Hector Monroe was so weak, he was really paralyzed and ordered his army to stop the attack.

As soon as this order was issued, the Mysore army, which had just won a great victory, immediately relaxed. The officers clamored and demanded a celebration meeting on the grounds that they were afraid that the mutton would go bad.

At that time, the upper class of the Mysore Kingdom was Muslim, while the middle and lower classes were generally Hindus and believers of other faiths.

At the celebration banquet, Hector Monroe brought a large amount of wine. According to religious rules, Haider Ali and his son were not allowed to drink it, so after briefly rewarding the heroes and eating a few bites of meat, they left.

As soon as they left, the atmosphere at the banquet became uncontrollable, and a large number of middle and lower-level officers who could drink drank heartily and became drunk.

But all this was Hector Monroe's conspiracy. He sent a large amount of wine and killed sheep instead of giving them alive, just to make the Mysore people relax.

So, while the Mysore cavalry were feasting and drinking because of their rewards, Hector Monroe poured all the gunpowder in the fortress into the well water and sank the cannons into the artificial lake in the middle of the fortress.

He led all the men, carrying only basic guns, and suddenly evacuated from the forward fort in the early morning when the Mysore people were drunk and asleep.

By the time Haider Ali realized what was happening, they had already left for four or five hours, and the cavalrymen were still hungover, making it impossible to catch up.

The retreating Hector Monroe ran all the way and miraculously returned to Madras. The arrival of these two thousand defenders made the garrison of Madras more sufficient.

Madras Governor John Whitehill not only strengthened the defense of St. George's Bastion north of Madras, but also sent 500 people to strengthen the defense of Wendivash Fort in the southwest.

Ten days later, the furious Haider Ali and his son assembled a large army and besieged St. George's Bastion and Vendivash separately, but they were extremely short of large-caliber artillery and could not fight at all.

Therefore, when the combined fleet arrived off the coast of Madras, there was not even a temporary port to dock at. The Mysore people had suffered heavy casualties in attacking the bastion and their morale was low.

Chen Lian was extremely depressed. This Haider Ali, you said he was no good, but he had just stood up again. You said he was good, but now he is about to mess things up again.

How come you have a great teammate one moment and a bad teammate the next? Are you playing with the duality of being a great teammate and a bad teammate?

"Let's go to the local government and find a port for the fleet to dock. Then we need France to send someone from the mainland who can take charge of the situation in the southeast of the Indian continent."

Chen Lian spoke to Lieutenant General Su Fulang. It was no wonder Chen Lian hadn't realized the importance of Chittagong, because his vision had always been to cooperate with the emperor. The emperor had no intention of intervening in India, so as the emperor's trusted general, he naturally wouldn't have much interest in India.

Therefore, Chen Lian still focused on the established strategy before departure, first ensuring the defeat of the British Indian Fleet and eliminating their potential threat to the Chinese Empire's control of Southeast Asia.

Secondly, this fleet, which has accumulated rich experience, was successfully brought back to the country so that they could sum up their experience and expand.

The second level goal was to help France gain a foothold in the southeast of the Indian continent and disrupt the British plan to monopolize India.

The final goal was to invade Bengal and complete the looting of Bengal, especially to destroy the British opium plantations in Bengal. These dog baskets had already begun to smuggle large quantities of opium to China.

As for Fort William, it is not necessary for Zhonghua and Mozibuhe to capture it.

As a Frenchman, Suffren naturally welcomed Chen Lian's proposal to govern locally first.

The new Governor-General of India of the Kingdom of France should be on the way. Once the Governor-General arrives, France's presence in India can be restored immediately.

If he could deal another severe blow to the British rule in Bengal, his mission would be perfectly accomplished.

"Your Excellency the Duke, I now confirm that you are indeed the best friend of the Kingdom of France."

Lieutenant General Souffran was somewhat grateful. He was very capable in military affairs, but a little naive in politics.

So when I heard Chen Lian was so thoughtful, I was very grateful.

Chen Lian chuckled, "Your Excellency, as beacons of civilization in the East and the West, China and France are naturally good friends.

Our personal friendship is only a small part of the story; more important is the close alignment of our two countries’ interests and the profound friendship between His Majesty the Emperor and King Louis XVI.”

After listening to this, Lieutenant General Sufran couldn't help but nod his head repeatedly, because even at his level, he couldn't understand why the Chinese Empire didn't colonize India.

Well, let alone him, even George III of Britain, Queen Theresa of the Holy Roman Empire, Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia.

These wise emperors also could not understand why the Chinese Empire did not want India, which they considered to be a supreme treasure.

Only Emperor Mozibumo, who came from the future, knew deeply how fertile these Indians were, like indestructible cockroaches, and their uncomfortable living habits and strange religious traditions.

Look at later generations, Indians have almost occupied Britain, Australia, Canada and other places, and have even begun to infiltrate the upper class. When you see an Indian, they are already in groups.

When Mo Zibu thought about how if he got involved with India now, he would see Beijing, Shanghai and other places all occupied by Indians in two hundred years, he felt as disgusted as if he had eaten a cockroach.

Therefore, he would at most colonize India economically, but would never colonize it directly, let alone turn this purely geographical concept into a unified country like the British did.

They should be allowed to continue to exist in the form of dozens of countries and hundreds of principalities.

. . . .

The fleet successfully reached Local Government, about 160 kilometers south of Madras, and imprisoned a company of soldiers from the British India Company stationed there.

Local governance had been controlled intermittently by the French for hundreds of years, and the local Tamils were accustomed to being ruled by the French, so the fleet settled down quickly.

Subsequently, a large number of French soldiers and colonists who had fled to the Kingdom of Mysore and other princely states to hide, as well as a large number of Tamil nobles who had been ennobled by the French, also returned to govern locally, and the city became lively again.

Since taking back local governance, with gratitude towards China, Lieutenant General Su Frang has worked even harder to impart all his knowledge and experience to students around him, such as Cai Qian.

On the fifteenth day of the tenth lunar month, the fleet selected 3,500 marines and conscripted 20,000 Tamil civilians. Under the leadership of Ray Ahu, they went to the Vindivash Fortress and began to besiege Vindivash together with Hyder Ali of the Mysore Kingdom.

On the sixth day of November, after more than 20 days of siege, the Allied forces used more than 20 large-caliber naval guns to blow down the walls of the Wendivash Fortress and successfully captured the fortress occupied by the British.

The cruel Mysore people retaliated against the British atrocities in India with an extremely brutal massacre. All 1,100 people in the fort, including 300 British, were slaughtered.

Only a group of more than 30 young military musicians were left. They were taken into Haider Ali's private tent as drummers for entertainment and pedophiles with special fetishes.

After the capture of Vindivash, the situation began to change immediately. Several Muslim princely sultans who had been watching from the sidelines on the Indian mainland immediately brought their men to join the coalition forces of the Mysore Kingdom.

In particular, Sultan Hussein Ali Khan Bahadur of the Benganabole State brought his entire army, a total of 10,000 people.

This means that if the British do not launch a strong counterattack immediately, the situation in southernmost India will change.

(End of this chapter)