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Gawain had a very good habit, that is, when he fought against a strong enemy, no matter if it was false or true, he often liked to form a unified alliance, win over friends to the greatest extent and isolate the enemy.

This time, although the two kings had not had direct contact and confrontation, Gawain's "diplomacy" had never been absent on the front line: he won over the Isfahan court and asked the Seljuk Empire to bear the military expenses; in order to capture the city of Herat, he also won over the Gur King Iz. Aladdin; now after conquering the Ghazni forces in Sindh, Gawain, who occupied the coastline, began to have close contact with the two most powerful military states in northern India, Johan and Ghadawara.

It turns out that after the demise of the ancient Indian dynasty, its empire gradually became "Rajputized" (raja-putra) - many brave and warlike tribes such as the Xiongnu, Kushan, and Saka from Central Asia entered the northern part of India one after another. They gradually became a warrior class serving the emperor, speaking Sanskrit, converting to Brahmanism, and obtaining a large number of fiefs, which was the "Mandajusha system". Later, it was called "Rajputra" (Rajput is a transliteration), which means "royal descendants".

Slowly, this group of warriors eroded and occupied the power of the country, and built and protected Brahman temples. The Brahman monks also reciprocated by forging genealogies for them (almost all royal descendants were fake). Many outstanding and glorious Rajput warrior families were even traced back to the mythological era, or directly descendants of gods - the Rajput class, another name may be more familiar to everyone, that is, "Kshatriya".

The coming of the Rajput era also heralded the end of the ancient Indian empire era, replaced by years of separatist wars among various feudal dynasties.

At first, India could be said to be divided into three parts, namely the Pratikara Dynasty in northern India, the Pala Dynasty in eastern India, and the Rashtrakuta Dynasty in central India. Their pillars were all Rajput warriors who occupied land and military power. In order to compete for the core city of Kusumapura on the Ganges, the three dynasties fought for more than 200 years and exhausted all their blood.

Then the Crescent Moon Church came with the Koran and swords.

In fact, the Umayyad Dynasty had already frequently invaded the Ghazni and Sindh regions in northeastern India, but at first it was only satisfied with establishing military colonies in some cities.

After the establishment of the Ghaznavid dynasty, the invasion of India by the Crescent Moon followers reached a crazy climax: Mahmud of Ghaznavid was called the "Indian Butcher". He invaded India 17 times in the first 25 years of the last century. The five rivers of India, the middle and upper reaches of the Ganges, Rajputna and other places were ravaged by the Crescent Moon followers. Even Kusumapura, which symbolized the pride of Indian culture, was captured by Mahmud. The Pratikara Dynasty was also destroyed by him. Mahmud used 350 elephants and 1,000 camels to transport the treasures of Kusumapura back to Ghaznavid. The great statues of Brahmanism were also among the spoils of war. They were thrown in the square of Ghaznavid and trampled on by people. Hundreds of thousands of Rajput soldiers and civilians were slaughtered or sold into slavery. Mahmud was praised by the imams as a "hero of holy war".

To this day, the states in the Sindh region still trembled and worshipped Ghazni as their suzerain until they were destroyed by Gawain in the Battle of Marka.

Miserable India, if we ignore its self-proclaimed ancient empire mythology and turn to its bloody and tearful medieval history, according to credible data (the victorious Crescent states would not lie), it was constantly invaded and ravaged by the Crescent states from the north, and for hundreds of years it was simply unable to defeat the Crescent warriors who came south. Even in the Age of Exploration, the Portuguese sold them excellent Persian horses (raised in Hormuz, Marco Polo mocked the Indian princes for not raising horses at all, and believed that the Indian land was not conducive to raising horses), and gave them advanced muskets and cannons, but even so, they were still defeated by the Crescent states. In the history of this plane, Abala, a slave-born lieutenant under the command of Sultan Muhammad of the Ghurid Dynasty of the Crescent Moon Church, swept through Kusumapura, Delhi and Benares, established the famous "Delhi Turkic Dynasty" (1206), and completely conquered northern India in just 20 years.

This shows how pathetic the Indians' martial arts were.

But don't be afraid, before the tragic event in this plane happened, a thunderclap sounded: Gawain came to the land of India.

Because of Mahmud's burning, killing and looting a hundred years ago, whether it was Ghadawara who occupied Kusumapura and Benares, or Chauhan who occupied Delhi and Ajmiel (of course, there were also several small Rajput kingdoms), they all hated and feared the Crescent Moon Church, so when they received the news that the Roman emperor had captured Sindh and defeated the Ghaznavid army, they were all excited and decided to abandon their hatred and join hands to send envoys to Emperor Gawain.

In the Diwan Hall of Tata City, Gawain, who was sitting on his seat, was surrounded by monks sent by the two kingdoms. They not only took out the emperor's "genealogy", but also launched a huge debate on the emperor's divinity.

The Brahmin monks stubbornly claimed that Gawain's ancestor was "Indra", the incarnation of the god of war and thunder, that is, "Indra" in the Buddhist scriptures, because Gawain's army could shoot thunder and fire freely;

However, the Buddhist monks believed that Gawain was "Vaiśravaṇa", the incarnation of Vaisravana, who held the power of protection and wealth, and the evidence was that Gawain came from Varyag in the north;

The Jain monks from the newly conquered Gujarat region denounced the first two factions, saying that they equated the emperor, a philosopher and wise man, with the descendants of evil idols. Later, the Jainism believed that Gawain was a "human ancestor" who was a combination of the best material and spiritual factors in the eternal and infinite world. He had reincarnated 28 times before he came to this era. In addition, this group of Jain monks was ingenious and worshipped Anna as "Saraswati", the wife and daughter of Brahma in mythology, and the embodiment of poetry and art - this made Gawain very embarrassed for a while, although sometimes Anna would call him "papa" out of interest.

While the dispute was still going on, several naked people rushed out of the venue and beat the Jain monks with sticks, causing them to run around the venue. It turned out that the naked people were also a branch of Jainism, namely the "Tianyi Sect". They advocated that monks practice asceticism naked and not get close to women. So the Tianyi Sect begged the emperor to give up his glory and power, take off his clothes and practice asceticism with them naked, so that they could gain eternal spiritual liberation.

"Shut up, you backward idolaters, polytheists, there is only one God in the world, just like there is only one emperor in the empire!" Maxianius, who was beside the throne, could no longer bear it, and drew his sword and pointed at the noisy monks, frightening them to the ground and dared not move.