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Chapter 29 Bloody Indus (2) Queen Durga

 Kang Xiaozhong, the brother of Kang Xiaozi, is the mayor of Karachi City and commander of the Karachi squadron.

In eight years, the Truchens had connected a series of sea sandbanks south of Karachi, making it a breakwater of about ten miles long, leaving only a narrow exit to the east, just like the British in the 19th century.

On the dock, after 35-year-old Kang Xiaozhong and others saw Toure's fleet, they quickly let the military band on the shore start playing.

Toure is twenty-six years old this year. He entered Bangladesh when he was fifteen. Ten years have passed in a flash.

Now he and Princess Mughal have several children. I originally thought that with the entry of Truchen, the situation in mainland India would soon stabilize, but I didn’t expect that some Sikhs and Balochs would appear again!

To understand mainland India, it is obvious that the Truqins are not as good as the British, nor are they as good as the French who have been working here for half a century.

Toure didn't want to pay attention to the chaos in the middle and lower reaches of the Indus River, but recently he received instructions from Qitad.

"The third brother, recently, the Bukhara Khanate north of the Amu River had a great war with the Governor of Northern Afghanistan south of the South. In the end, the Bukhara Khanate was defeated. The Afghans were about to invade Samarkand, so they had to ask our country for help"

"Our country naturally cannot find it. Lao Zhangzab led a division to be deployed at the Turkestan Mountain Pass, ambushing the Afghans and defeated them. Because they were separated by the Amu River, most of the Afghans who eventually came to Hebei died in battle"

"At this time, the army of Hualazimo in our country also sailed upstream by boat. Under the threat of the two, the Bukhara Khanate surrendered to our country"

"In this way, our country has opened up an export from land to India"

"You need to do this..."

""????..."

The welcome song that is now played on the shore, which is now passed through the entire Truqin Empire, including overseas jurisdictions, interrupted Toure's thoughts and made him turn his attention to the great city he had been to several times.

A big city with a radius of ten miles and a whole body of gray and white limestone is located in the city. There are five churches, including Islam, Christianity, Lamaism, Taoism and Jewishness. Naturally, the other four religions are set up around the Taoist temples of Changchun.

In order not to let the Changchun religion fall behind other temples, Qitade also set up four tall pagodas in addition to the traditional Taoist temples - his Changchun religion was originally a hodgepodge of Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Taoism.

Naturally, the statues of the four characters, namely the king of the king of the country, the king of the great news, the king of the growth, and the king of the broad-minded world, will stand on the pagoda.

Catholics, synagogues, and Islamic churches were built by the Portuguese, Solomons/Kirchennau, and local Islamic churches. Whether it is the church spire or the high minaret, they can only be under the four heavenly kings.

In addition to a wooden steam fleet, this city also has a regiment of marines, city walls and ports, and various artillery were densely packed with artillery. Due to the special existence of the Truqins in the Indian continent, so far, there is no force that dares to come and stroke its tiger beard.

This city is a declaration that forces the British to avoid making trouble along the Indus River.

Karachi City, Governor's Office.

"Your Highness"

Kang Xiaozhong is reporting to Toure.

"Originally, the areas from Lahar to Multan were the most densely populated in the Indus River Basin. Fifty years ago, there were at least two million people, and now there are only 500,000 people. Among them, there are also a large number of Sikhs who poured in here. The locals are estimated to be only about 300,000."

"The population south of the country has withered even more. From Sukur to Hyderabad, there were originally a million people, but now there are only about 200,000, including Baloch people who arrived here."

"The population in Sadigabad, the narrowest part of the central area, is well maintained"

(Sadigabad, near Rahim Yarhan County in later generations)

"Oh?"

"This area was originally a sharp decline in population, but twenty years ago, a large family came from the Maratha Alliance. They came with the Maratha nobles who occupied this place. After the Balochs entered, most of the places were occupied by them. This place was about two hundred miles long from north to south and about one hundred miles wide from east to west. The land of about five thousand square kilometers was almost not invaded by the Sikhs and Balochs."

"Why is this?"

"This is because the leader who presided over this area was a woman, and his husband was also a nobleman of the Maratha League, but he died shortly after he arrived here. She had only two daughters, the debtor. After the Balochs entered, they married the two daughters to the Sikhs and the Baloch leaders respectively."

"No wonder"

"It's not only that. At that time, this place was originally the Hindu world, and it was a rare Hindu area in the Indus River Basin. Unlike the Maratha Alliance, the people here use a lot of camels and horses"

"Although I married my daughter, the Sikhs in the north are still relatively polite, but the Balochs in the south are a loose alliance, and they ostensibly follow Mir Ali Khan as the Great Khan and the Governor"

"In fact, there are more than a dozen tribes below, so they don't care about these things. For them, if they can take this place, it will be the basis for the tribe to establish itself"

"In the past, whether it was Adirsha or Durani, in addition to robbing a large amount of money, he also plundered the population of the Indus River Basin to Afghanistan and became slaves to farm for them"

"In other parts of the river basin, most of the population also believes in Islamic Buddhism, so they cannot regard it as slaves. If such a good place is taken down, it will obviously be very good."

"This woman is called Durga, and in Hindi means the female war god. She did not let this name down. There are still five thousand families here, plus the Maratha people who moved there, about six thousand households. Each household, regardless of gender, needs to be dispatched to serve as a soldier"

"She has incorporated a thousand of those who are good at controlling camels into the camel soldiers' team. The camels here are very tall and powerful, and there are two people on them. One person is responsible for driving, and the other person is responsible for shooting archery and setting fire guns"

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"The Baloch people are all light cavalry and are very brave, but when their war horses saw the camels, they couldn't help but slow down..."

"Wait, there are also camels in our country. I have never seen war horses afraid of camels. Could it be..."

"Yes, they put masks on the camel with patterns such as tigers, pythons, black bears, etc. When they charged, the war horses thought that there were poisonous snakes and beasts coming, so how could they not be afraid?"

"Whether it is the Baloch or the Sikhs, most of the weapons in their hands are cold weapons, and even the arrows are light arrows, and they rely on the sabers in their hands to fight. There is no way to face such a camel soldier"

"The Maratha people are all good cavalry, they also have horses, and they are tall horses, and the Baloch horses are mostly Mongolian horses, and they cannot take advantage of them."

"Therefore, they have been attacking for ten years and still have nothing, because their chief married Durga's daughter, obviously would not help him. They can only attack with the power of their own tribe. After ten years, not only can they not move Durga at all, but also lose their troops and generals. After ten years, they will no longer have the strength to attack."

"At this time, Mir Ali Khan announced that he would directly include them in his tribe, and the war naturally came to an end"

"After that, Durga accepted the canonization of the Maratha Alliance and became the Nawab here, but people in the area called her Queen Durga"

"Where are the Sikhs?"

"They have equally strong combat power, but compared with the Baloch people, they are mainly infantry and have their own special formations. Sikh men are somewhat similar to Cossacks. They have been trained as warriors since childhood and are familiar with combat formations and fighting skills."

"Also, it is said that they all lived in the valley on the southern foot of the Himalayas before. They were physically strong and very disciplined. They could fight to the death. At present, they not only completely expelled the Afghans from Lahore, but also occupied the Punjab of the Mughal Empire."

"Very good, you should know what I'm going to do. Let's talk about it, how do we do it?"

"Your Highness, there are two major difficulties in trying to conquer the Indus River Basin"

"Oh?"

"If you attack directly along India and from south to north, the Balochistan population is not large, with a maximum of ten thousand households, that is, ten thousand cavalrymen, and they are not the opponent of this division you brought to you."

"But they used to make a living in the desert south of Kandahar. Although there were no regulations, they were no less brave than the Sikhs"

"What's more, they are nominally commanded by the Governor General of Kandahar. If there is a big accident here, the Dulani people of Kandahar and the Balochis of Quetta will come to support it"

"Also, the basin oasis is surrounded by deserts. They are born with the ability to live in the desert. Once the battle is unfavorable, they will immediately jump into the desert. They can stay there without eating or drinking for a week without losing much combat effectiveness"

"When the enemy relaxes, they will suddenly jump out. That's how they easily defeated the Islamic nobles here"

"Don't eat or drink?" Toure snorted coldly, "That's all tyrannical. Even if they and the horses are extremely drought-resistant and hunger-resistant, they can't be able to fight without eating or drinking for a week."

"It's probably because they are familiar with life in the desert and have the ability to find water and food that is different from ordinary people. As far as I know, the desert here is better than the desert near Hualazimo, and there are still a lot of food."

"Okay, keep talking"

"Yes", Kang Xiaozhong's expression frightened, "As for the Sikhs in the north, they should have received the assistance of a certain European force in secret, most of whom were British. Naturally, the British did not go north from the Indus River, but entered from Rajasthan"

"They are very well organized. Although they are still mainly cold weapons, they have been equipped with muskets since last year. Their number is more. They can invest about 30,000 infantry and cavalry at one time, of which about 5,000 cavalry and more than 20,000 infantry"

"But because they took Punjab, 30,000 infantry and cavalry were distributed in the huge Lahore state and Punjab, and they also had to take care of the southern foot of the Himalayas. In fact, there were only about 10,000 infantry and cavalry in Lahore, and they were also stationed in various places."
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