The King of Sumatra said with a smile:
"Then I'll have to trouble Your Highness the Crown Prince. I feel very bad that the Ming Dynasty has suffered a loss. Please rest assured, Your Highness the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty."
If you can protect our Sumatra Kingdom and help us resist that orphanage, the people of Sumatra will be forever grateful for the kindness of the Grandson.
"For all eternity, we will be subservient to the Ming Dynasty, bowing down to it and paying homage every year."
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said:
"Let's put those aside for now, it's not about that. The main thing is that I think that Orphanage is going too far, always starting wars, which is not good."
Everyone chuckled knowingly, while Zhao Qingzhu rolled his eyes, thinking that Zhu Yunwen was quite cunning.
This matter was temporarily settled, and Zhu Yunwen still entrusted the plan to deal with the orphanage to Ma Sanbao.
This eunuch Sanbao was also very interested in this kind of thing. What man could resist the temptation of leading troops into battle?
Therefore, Zhu Yunwen temporarily appointed this eunuch Sanbao as a general, leading several thousand soldiers to form an aid army in Sumatra.
The main purpose is to help the friendly country of Sumatra defend against foreign enemies.
During this time, the Orphan Kingdom was unaware that the Ming Dynasty's team had arrived in Sumatra, and therefore did not know that the Ming Dynasty had decided to help Sumatra. As a result, the Orphan Kingdom was still frantically testing Sumatra's bottom line.
Every now and then, they send out an army of one or two thousand men to repeatedly provoke Sumatra on its border, having a great time doing so.
The Orphan Kingdom may not be as wealthy as Sumatra in terms of national strength, but its army's fighting power is undeniable; otherwise, it wouldn't dare to cause trouble for Sumatra every now and then.
In addition, during Zheng He's voyages to the Western Ocean, Sumatra was often bullied by that orphanage.
The Orphan Kingdom even killed a king of Sumatra, and the king's wife even offered a reward, saying that she would marry whoever could kill the king of the Orphan Kingdom and avenge the king of Sumatra.
In other words, this queen is going to marry this hero.
The fisherman in the latter part of the story avenged the king of Sumatra and was honored as the old king. He even went to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute. This is a true story that happened in history.
Although the current timeline is still a bit early, the threat posed by the Kingdom of Naguan to Sumatra has always existed and cannot be underestimated. Sooner or later, it may rule Sumatra.
Now that Zhu Yunwen has become involved in this matter, he naturally has to help Sumentala solve this problem, or rather, resolve this hidden danger.
Only by making Sumatra a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty could the Ming Dynasty establish its own power on this huge island in Southeast Asia.
Not only will it be of great help to the military and national politics, but it will also make future business exchanges between the two countries closer.
It would also be a good thing for the people of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Yunwen would naturally do something so profitable.
Because after doing something so beneficial to themselves, Sumatra should thank Zhu Yunwen.
Why not?
After Ma Sanbao was appointed as a general, he immediately led 5,000 troops to the border of Sumatra and began to help the Sumatran border army fight against the Orphan Kingdom.
During this period, the army of the Orphan Kingdom mostly provoked Sumatra. The number of troops sent by the Kingdom ranged from a few hundred to two or three thousand, which could not be considered a large-scale battle.
Therefore, these small numbers of troops, initially approaching the Sumatran border, might have posed a significant threat to the soldiers of Sumatra and caused considerable trouble for Sumatra.
However, ever since the Ming army arrived, whenever those few hundred soldiers from the Orphan Kingdom came to the border to cause trouble, they were easily wiped out.
It was a small island, and the hundreds of soldiers from that orphanage had tried to burn, kill, and plunder within the territory of Sumatra.
Although they knew they might encounter Sumatran soldiers, they didn't take them seriously at all, because the Sumatran soldiers posed no threat to them whatsoever.
Therefore, these soldiers paraded around in a very ostentatious manner, riding in small boats and approaching the beach with the waves.
At that moment, a border general from Sumatra, who was hiding behind the reef, immediately said to Ma Sanbao:
"General of the Ming Dynasty, they're getting close. Shouldn't we rush out immediately?"
Ma Sanbao remained very calm. Although Zhu Yunwen had given him 5,000 soldiers, he only brought about 100 of them this time, since the other side had only brought a little over 500.
With several hundred soldiers in Sumatra, they're guaranteed to win this battle no matter what.
But the Sumatran general was still somewhat nervous. Ma Sanbao shook his head and said:
"Don't worry, let them get a little closer."
After he finished speaking, he waved his hand, and a hundred soldiers behind him raised their muskets. The Sumatran soldiers were somewhat bewildered when they saw these muskets.
Clearly, they had never seen this kind of weapon before.
So the general immediately spoke up:
"General of the Ming Dynasty, why didn't you bring any weapons?"
He felt that the Ming army was not very reliable.
Ma Sanbao simply smiled and said calmly:
"Fire!"
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