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Chapter 541 Don’t be too simple

The full name of Bengal at this time was Bengal Subhu (Pakistan), and its area was almost twice as large as that of later Bangladesh because it included the Indian state of West Bengal.

The Ming warships surrendered the Han people including Zhang Guangsi, a total of 5,000 people, and threw them all into Bogra, Bangladesh. Later, some armor and weapons were left behind. Although there were no artillery, muskets and war horses, the basic cold weapons, swords and guns were still not stingy.

They were even afraid that these people would run out of food, so they left some extra food and grass.

Bogra.

This is a city on the northern border of Bangladesh. The nobles and officials in the city are enjoying the drama and enjoying delicious food at the banquet.

"It's not good, the (Mogul) emperor sent a large army to kill him." Suddenly a soldier reported in a panic.

"How many people are here?" an official asked subconsciously.

"I don't know, at least tens of thousands..."

Where did the tens of thousands come from, there were only more than 4,000 people in total, and a thousand were left by Zhang Guangsi to guard the villages that had been occupied.

Yes, those are Han soldiers led by Zhang Guangsi.

It's really too easy. It can't even be said to be easy to fight. It can almost be said that it's a failure.

Zhang Guangsi went back and forth to conquer the east and west, occupying a large area of ​​villages. As a result, not a single battle was lost, and even the knife edge was not stained with blood. Fortunately, we immediately went all out to kill Bogra. Even if we couldn't defeat them, we could test the city's defense strength in advance.

"Run!"

I don’t know who shouted it out first, and all the officials at the banquet were in a panic. Not just the officials, but also the waiters at the banquet and the religious dramas being performed... everyone shouted and scrambled to escape.

Suddenly an official shouted: "We cannot escape. We should immediately summon the army to defend the city and then ask for help from Murshidabad."

Ask for help, ask for help, no one cares about this person at all.

That's an army of tens of thousands!

There are only so many troops in the entire Bogra, and the combat effectiveness of those troops... can only be described in words.

Although the Mughal army was not very good, under Aurangzeb's aggressive military campaign, the Mughal Empire's finances had collapsed, and naturally they could not afford to raise elite soldiers. Even if they could, their army had lagged behind era.

When Zhang Guangsi led an army of more than 4,000 people and rushed into Bogra, he saw that the city gates were wide open and countless soldiers and people were rushing to flee.

He just came to test the opponent's city defense, but it ended immediately?

"The whole army will follow me and charge immediately!" Zhang Guangsi made a prompt decision and led his soldiers on a white donkey. There were also hundreds of other low-level cavalrymen riding oxen or donkeys to charge and kill.

The Ming army left no war horses for him, and he also found no war horses in the occupied villages. Instead, he found some strange-looking cows (buffalo) and white donkeys (Damascus white donkeys).

Zhang Guangsi led hundreds of low-level cavalry under his command to charge first, and the infantrymen who did not have oxen or donkeys behind them also shouted and ran to keep up.

Hundreds of cavalry rushed to kill, not to mention, they ran no slower than the southwest ponies, and they were big enough to charge all the way.

When they saw someone at the city gate, they stepped forward to kill them and forced them back into the city. Those people did not dare to resist.

After defeating several city gates, they finally found a city gate surrounded by many soldiers. This was obviously the escape exit for the bureaucrats in the city, and they were also transporting goods out one by one. Although Zhang Guangsi didn't know the identities of these people, they were protected by the army and had so many cars containing property, so they were obviously not ordinary people.

"Stop them." Zhang Guangsi gave the order, and then took the lead and chopped down a soldier who had no eyes.

Seeing the situation, the other slave soldiers immediately dispersed. The fleeing officials were also frightened and ran away. Many of them knelt on the spot and begged to surrender, and some simply mounted their horses and ran away, regardless of their wives and children who had not yet left.

Zhang Guangsi was too lazy to chase, because he would definitely not be able to catch up. No matter how good a donkey was, he couldn't outrun a horse!

Anyway, just take the city and keep all those people's belongings.

And those Bogra officials who surrendered on the spot discovered that the army sent by the emperor were all foreigners?

"It was so easy to defeat it?" Geng Shouyi looked at the Bogra City in front of him, feeling quite unbelievable.

Zhang Guangsi said: "It seems that the Tatars were right. Tianzhu is really easy to fight. And there is such fertile and fertile land. If the imperial court does not take it, it would be a waste to give it to these Tianzhu people."

Geng Shouyi smiled and said: "It is indeed a waste, but it doesn't matter. Since we have conquered this place, this is the land of our Ming Dynasty. I will immediately go to the imperial court for you and report your merits. If we can really expand our territory here, , even if you are exempted from the culpability in the future, you may even be given the title of wife and son, and it is not impossible to return to your hometown."

The first half of the sentence didn't matter. Hearing the second half of the sentence, asking for meritorious service and even being granted the title of wife's wife and returning to his hometown, Zhang Guangsi finally smiled.

Geng Shouyi was also very happy. Wasn't he risking his own life to come to this foreign country to supervise the exiled criminal generals like Zhang Guangsi, just to open up new territories?

Although it was agreed at the beginning that all the land conquered would belong to people like Zhang Guangsi, after cabinet deliberations, half of it was still forcibly retained as the imperial colony in Bengal.

Supervisor Geng Shouyi also served as colonial officials. Zhang Guangsi and his party had to pay taxes per mu after surrendering generals and troops, and even the taxes were higher than in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course Zhang Guangsi did not dare to resist, not to mention that he still hoped to be exempted from crime by meritorious service and then return to his country to serve as an official. Even though he was unfamiliar with the place, he couldn't resist. The imperial warships could even attack him through the Hakata River at any time.

Half a month after Bogra was captured by Zhang Guangsi, Murshidabad, the capital of Bangladesh, finally got the news.

Sarfaraz Khan and his son were shocked. They already knew that it was the Chinese army that occupied Bogra, and even mistakenly thought that it was the Ming Dynasty that sent troops to attack Bangladesh.

"Father, the Chinese army has occupied Bogra. Should we send troops to recapture it?" Sarfaraz Khan asked.

His father Shujadin Muhammad Khan quickly shook his head: "No, China is extremely powerful, more powerful than the empire. If we send troops rashly, if we offend the Chinese emperor, it may trigger a full-scale war."

Sarfaraz Khan said angrily: "But now that the Chinese army has occupied Bogra and the war has broken out, we cannot remain indifferent and should fight back."

Shujadin Mohammad Khan shook his head again: "No, the founding of Bangladesh Subbu is not stable, we should focus on stabilizing the current situation, and the empire and the emperor are still staring at us. If we anger China again, we will inevitably be attacked from both sides."

The personality differences between father and son are huge. The father likes to engage in infrastructure construction. During his rule, he also witnessed Bangladesh's economic and political stability.

But his son was different. He was extremely keen on war and resorted to violence. He was overthrown by his deputy Aliwadi Khan in less than two years.

Sarfaraz Khan was very angry, but had no choice. After all, his father was the Nawab: "We must do something. If we remain indifferent, the Chinese troops will intensify their efforts. If they attack Murshidabad, we will what to do?"

Shujadin Muhammad Khan finally nodded: "What you said makes sense. You can send someone to ask the British in Calcutta. They are allies with China. Ask them to ask if there is any misunderstanding. Then inform the officials and nobles everywhere, Let them not act rashly, and so does the Naib of Dhaka (equivalent to the deputy king)."

During this period, Bangladesh was not only extremely wealthy, but also achieved a short period of industrialization in the following decades with the help of the British. Although it collapsed quickly, and industrialization mainly served the British.

The British were also shocked when they learned that the "Ming Army" had occupied Bogra. They quickly accepted Bangladesh's request and sent envoys to Bogra to ask what was going on.

As a result, when the British arrived in Bogra as envoys from Bengal, they suddenly learned that it was not the Chinese army that occupied Bogra, but criminals exiled by the Chinese emperor.

This routine... looks familiar somehow?

(End of this chapter)