"General Lan, Dongying was attacked by thieves last night, with more than a thousand casualties. Some food and arrows were burned down, accounting for about 10% of Dongying's storage." Yang Feng, who was sitting on Lan Zhen's right hand, said in Lan Zhen's large tent, with a slightly worried expression, but it was still calm.

But compared with him, Zhu Gaoxu, who was sitting on Lan Zhen's left hand, looked extremely gloomy, as if a storm was brewing, emitting a breath of no one to enter. After Yang Feng finished speaking, Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth and said in a very slow and low voice: "General Lan, Xiying was attacked by thieves at night last night, with more than 4,000 casualties. A camp was almost completely destroyed by thieves. The firewood, weapons and other accumulated in that camp were burned to pieces, and all the food was burned."

After talking about the heavy losses of the camp, Zhu Gaoxu continued: "The burned grain accounts for about 40% of the total grain in Xiying. Xiying now has only five days of food left. General Lan is also asked to allocate some grain to Xiying. In addition, because there are too many injured people, it is difficult for the military doctors in the camp to treat all of them. It is best not to move these wounded people, and please send some military doctors to Xiying."

"I will immediately order to allocate enough soldiers in Xiying to eat for five days, and the military doctor will immediately dispatch them." Lan Zhen saw Zhu Gaoxu paused and said, "The King Su doesn't have to be so low. The reason why the losses are a little heavy is not the fault of King Su, but King Pu did not obey my and Your Highness's orders. Because of his negligence, such heavy losses have been caused. Even if he doesn't want to, I will deprive him of his military power, even if his troops cannot be mobilized."

"Speaking of this, why didn't he come to see me when he caused such heavy losses? Could it be that he had no face to see me when he was ashamed?"

"General Lan," Zhu Gaoxu's expression became even more ugly when he heard him mention why Zhu Xiansheng didn't come to see him, and he said slowly: "He could not mobilize his troops. He was seriously injured. When I arrived from Xiying, I was still in a coma and was treated by a military doctor."

"King Pu was seriously injured? Are you worried about your life?" Lan Zhen immediately showed a look of concern on her face and said, "There is a person in my camp who is very good at diagnosing and treating external injuries. I will ask him to treat King Pu immediately."

"There is also a military doctor in my camp who is good at treating external injuries, so I asked him to treat King Pu's injuries." Yang Feng also said.

"According to the military doctor who treated his injuries, his life should be saved, but he will be disabled and leave behind sequelae." Zhu Gaoxu said slowly.

"Leave a disability? But is your leg injured?" Yang Feng asked.

"It can be considered as a leg injury." Zhu Gaoxu answered ambiguously.

"It's good if you don't have any worries about life." Lan Zhen didn't care where Zhu Xiansheng was, and muttered softly, breathing a sigh of relief. Although Zhu Xiansheng could be said to be self-inflicted, he is now Zhu Xiansheng's boss. As a royal family, if Zhu Xiansheng died, Lan Zhen would not guarantee whether Yunsheng would take his anger on him. Since Zhu Xiansheng could not die, Yunsheng didn't like him very much, so Lan Zhen didn't have to worry.

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't hear what Lan Zhen was saying, but noticed that his expression was relaxed for a moment. He looked at Yang Feng's expression again, and remembered the injuries that the military doctor had told him about Zhu Xiansheng. His body trembled, and sighed in his heart: "Zhu Xiansheng is so bad. No one except the people in the royal family has ever had a good relationship with him. Perhaps, this time he was seriously injured, it was also a retribution."

At this time, Lan Zhen returned to the topic: "King Su, Xiying suffered heavy losses and its combat power was greatly reduced. I want to send a guard to Xiying to supplement the losses and restore its combat power. You can arrange soldiers to build a camp for them as soon as possible."

"Yes, General Lan." Zhu Gaoxu agreed.

"Yang Feng, Dongying has suffered little loss, so I will not allocate the garrison to Dongying." Lan Zhen said again.

"General Lan, don't worry, although some people were injured and killed in my Dongying camp, their combat power was indeed not as good as before, but the soldiers were more cautious. If the thieves attacked the camp again, no one would survive." Yang Feng said.

Lan Zhen nodded and was about to say something else, suddenly the guard guarding in front of the tent came in and saluted: "General Lan, His Highness, Deputy General Yang, Deputy General Cao, Deputy General Zhang, Duke Lu, and General Xu Shen asked for a meeting."

"Let them come in." Lan Zhen ordered and explained to Zhu Gaoxu and Yang Feng: "Although the thieves did not harass the camp last night, I immediately ordered them to be more alert after seeing the fire from the East and West Camp 2. They all personally led their troops to patrol from midnight until dawn. Cao Xing and Zhang Fu, Zengsheng, were all around forty years old. Not only did they not sleep all night, but they also blew the cold wind in the middle of the night, and they could not bear it. They went back to rest for a while. When I asked King Su and Yang Feng, you to guard the East and West Camp, I thought that they were not young and would have worked harder."

‘I said, why did General Lan meet two of us alone, instead of being with Cao Xing and others? Indeed, they are not young anymore. When Xu Zengshou was with me, if he hadn’t slept that night that night, he would have been in high spirits all day. But just a few years ago, when I returned to the capital to drink with him all night, he was still energetic. Alas, Zhu Gaoxu couldn’t help but sigh.

He was thinking, Cao Xing and others walked in, saluted and sat down. Although they had been resting for a while, Cao Xing and the other two still seemed a little tired and their heads were not very clear. The young Wen Yao asked first: "General Lan, Uncle Su Wang, Deputy General Yang, thieves attacked the camp last night, how much damage is there?"

"The losses in Dongying are not heavy, but the losses in Xiying are a little big." Lan Zhen immediately talked about the losses in Xiying.

"The loss is so heavy!" Wen Yao exclaimed: "What should I do! And the loss is so heavy, it must be someone who is lazy, and I must deal with the lazy person with heavy losses!"

"It was King Pu who was a little lazy, which caused the losses to be greater. Moreover, King Pu himself was seriously injured." Lan Zhen said again.

After hearing the first half of the sentence, Wen Yao also wanted to say, "Why are Uncle Pu so careless! General Lan, you have to teach him something." Then he heard the second half of the sentence, and hurriedly said, "Uncle Pu was injured? Is it serious? Is it life-threatening?" Cao Xing and others were cheered up when they heard this and said with concern. Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly said that it would not endanger his life.

They were concerned about Zhu Xiansheng's injuries for a while, and then Wen Yao asked again: "General Lan, when I arrived at the tent, I saw a camp erecting in the northwest of Dhaka City. After observing with a clairvoyance, I found that they were all locals, they should be reinforcements from Shah, and they should be the people who attacked the camp last night. The number of soldiers was large, at least 50,000, but the size of the camp they set up was much larger than 50,000, which was at least enough for 100,000 people to live in. However, they had not yet raised the banner of the country, and now there was only a banner with complicated patterns, which should be the surname of the general who commanded the army. Because the distance was too far, they could not see the Qing Dynasty, and they still didn't know where this army came from."

"They set up a camp, and there were still 50,000 people!" Yang Feng said in surprise. He thought that the camp attacked last night was only more than 10,000 people, and it was obtained by Shah who sent people to contact all over Bangladesh who were still loyal to him. But he didn't expect that there were 50,000, no, more than 50,000 people. How could he not be surprised?

"This must be not the local Bangladesh, but the troops sent by other countries in India to rescue Shah," said Cao Xing.

"I don't know which country it is?" Wen Yao said again.

"Don't guess which country's troops are from, they will let us know sooner or later." After saying this, Lan Zhen talked about the next arrangement: "Since Shah has reinforcements coming, and there are a large number of people, give up attacking Dhaka City. Xiying retreated thirty miles southward, place the camp in the southwest of Dhaka City, near Daying; Dongying also retreated thirty miles southward, near Daying. Caoxing, you lead the troops from Daying to set up a first camp, south of Daying."

"Each battalion has at least ten days of food. If it is not enough, tell the food and grass officer immediately and allocate it immediately; the weapons to attack the city are not available for the time being, but the arrows of each battalion must be sufficient. You go back and count them..."

"Yang Feng, you handled the attack camp properly last night, and I will remember you a merit. If the soldiers under your command make contributions, please tell me immediately. I will reward you in the afternoon or tomorrow morning. Your Highness, although Your Highness has handled it properly last night, King Pu was also a subordinate of Your Highness at that time. Your Highness must also remember that those who have made great contributions can deal with it. But those who have made great contributions must also reward you."

"All the dead soldiers will be brought back and buried as soon as possible."

“…”

After Lan Zhen re-arranged, he finally said: "Although the battlefield of this battle is still in Bangladesh, since there are soldiers from other parts of India participating in the war, this battle is not just a battle to pacify Bangladesh. With these current troops, it is not necessarily possible to defeat the enemy. According to Your Majesty's instructions before leaving, it is time to send someone to report to Your Majesty and send the next group of troops to participate in the war. Before the new troops arrive, unless there is a good opportunity in heaven, they will confront the enemy outside Dhaka City. Now most of Bangladesh is occupied by our army, so there is no need to worry about insufficient food."

"Since my father wanted to attack the entire India at the beginning, why didn't he send hundreds of thousands of people to India at the place where the war started, but he just sent less than 100,000 people?" Wen Yao asked. When he heard Yun Yu's words in the capital, he wanted to ask, but he was a little afraid of his father and dared not ask, and he couldn't ask others to ask, so he hid the question in his heart. At this time, when he heard Lan Zhen mention it, he couldn't help but ask.

"At that time, His Majesty's consideration was: First, if he attacked a small Bangladesh and sent hundreds of thousands of troops, the other countries in India would definitely be surprised and would never think that these hundreds of thousands of troops would stop after they only captured Bangladesh, which would lead to the countries near Bangladesh joining forces with Bangladesh to fight against the Ming Dynasty in advance; second, His Majesty did not want to attack other foreign countries after they captured Bangladesh, but waited for His Majesty to operate in Bangladesh for a few years. In that way, hundreds of thousands of troops stayed in India only consumed food and was useless. So he only sent 100,000 troops." Lan Zhen explained.

"So that's it." Wen Yao murmured softly, without saying anything else.

"Your Highness," Lan Zhen said to him again: "Although Dhaka City has not been captured, most of Bangladesh has been captured by our army. Your Highness should be the king of Bangladesh."

"No, no." Wen Yao shuddered: "How can we call the king and establish a vassal state now?"

"Your Highness, you must establish a vassal state." Lan Zhen said again: "Although our army now occupied Bangladesh and has appointed many officials, it is still very vague to rule the local people in what name it is. Even the appointed officials do not know who is the monarch. The so-called "is not right" is not right, and things are not right. If the government orders are smooth, a country must be established. What's more, Your Majesty has long enthroned the land of Bangladesh as the vassal of Your Highness, why should Your Highness refuse?"

"Even so, adding a vassal state requires the imperial edict of the father and no country name, and it needs the gift of the father. It is too abrupt to call the king a vassal state now." Wen Yao continued to shirk. He wanted to wait to capture Dhaka City before formally establishing a vassal state.

"Your Majesty has no imperial edict here to grant His Highness the title of the vassal state, but Your Majesty has already claimed the country's name." Lan Zhen took out a document in the surprised eyes of everyone and opened it for everyone to see. Everyone looked up and saw that there was only the word "heng" on it.

"Your Majesty said: The word 'heng' was originally written as '光'. From the second and moon, the second represents the heaven and earth. The moon is the moon. When combined, the moon has been hanging between heaven and earth for billions of years. The full moon is back and forth and eternity. The meaning is very good. Moreover, Indians also call the river that enters the sea here the Ganges. This word not only has a good meaning, but also has a local place name, which is suitable for the name of Your Highness." Lan Zhen said.

Wen Yao carefully identified it and confirmed that the word was written by his father. Lan Zhen did not dare to deceive him. He immediately did not dare to object anymore. He could only say: "Then I will call him the king and establish a vassal state."

"Congratulations to nephew Wen Yao." Zhu Gaoxu said immediately. Although Wen Yao himself doesn't seem very happy, he also wants to congratulate him.

"Congratulations to Your Highness." Everyone said one after another. Wen Yao hurriedly returned the gift.

"I will order people to prepare immediately and calculate the auspicious day of the zodiac." Lan Zhen said again.

"Don't be too extravagant." Although Wen Yao accepted that he was calling the king and establishing a vassal state, he wanted to wait until he captured Dhaka City again. That time he would be considered as the official monarch, so he didn't require too extravagant this time. And he was still fighting now, so it would be too extravagant to establish a vassal state for himself.

"It depends on what the local Kshatriya and Brahmin thought." Lan Zhen smiled. Of course, he would not be too extravagant, but the local Kshatriya and Brahmin may not be extravagant.

Zhu Gaoxu was about to say something more with a smile when a guard suddenly came in and whispered: "General Lan, your highness, the deputy generals, the newly established camp, sent someone to send a letter with the name of this country!" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!