Immediately after Commander Gautam embarked on his mission to the Andaman and Nicobar Inds, the othermanders, Gautam and Akhil, also set out for their assigned tasks in the Samudra Vyuham operation.


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    Sarvesh took the initiative, spearheading the first move as he was tasked with hitting multiple targets. His first objective was the Daman and Diu Inds, located off the coast of Mughal-upied Gujarat. Recognizing Gujarat’s pivotal role as an economic powerhouse for the Mughal Empire, Sarvesh wasn’t entrusted with the straightforward task of capturing these inds like hisrades.


    Instead, his mission entailed covertly establishing fortified strongholds as insurance in case the Coast Guard’s efforts to neutralize the dispatched Ottoman warships faltered, potentially requiring them to be stationed on these inds.


    With his mission clear, Sarveshmandeered half of the dispatched fleet assigned to this task and set sail northward, skirting the coastline of the Satavahana state (Maharashtra). Their journey continued until they reached the shores of Thane, all the while maintaining the guise of conducting routine military drills, a tactic that they regrly used in order to provoke the Mughals.


    Upon reaching their destination, the operation transitioned into covert mode. Sarvesh enlisted the support of the Empire’s special forces, recognizing their superior suitability for such covert taskspared to the capabilities of the Navy.


    ns were made beforehand about how to make this happen. First, Sarvesh had the special soldiers dress as civilians and board the group of small fishing boats. From there, the special soldiers were ordered to sail towards the direction of Gujarat. Since they were already near the border, it did not take too long for the secret soldiers to reach the southrenmost border of Gujarat.


    "The hidden mice n is a go."


    The message about the initiation of the n swiftly circted throughout the Mughal Empire. Roshan yed a crucial role in disseminating the message through the Bharatiya External Pragya, due to his department’s involvement in the n.


    With the n in motion, before the Mughal patrol frigates could detect the presence of the small fishing boats that crossed into their controlled water, hundreds of fishing vessels of all sizes joined their ranks like a swarm of bees, creating a seamless blend that made it impossible for anyone to distinguish the special force’s ships.


    This tactic relied on exploiting the absence of a registration system for fishing vessels in the Mughal Empire. The absence of such formalities allowed the special soldiers to seamlessly integrate with the normal coastal fishermen of the Mughal Empire.


    While it may seem perplexing how the fishingmunity cooperated with the Bharatiya External Pragya’s orders, in reality, they were not cooperating but unwittingly manipted by the Bharatiya External Pragya. Rumours spread in various fishing viges about a sinking cargo shipden with gold, effectively stoking the greed of the popce and prompting them to set sail to the rumoured location.


    As the ships diligently scoured the surrounding area, the frigates of the Mughal Empire also made their presence known. The Mughal naval captain was taken aback by the sight of numerous vessels scouring the sea, a scenario he hadn’t anticipated.


    Looking at the numerous fishing boats moving from one ce to another as if they had dropped a thousand gold coins and were searching throughout the vige, the Mughal captain did not understand what was going on.


    "Find out what is happening," he said to his deputy.


    "Right away, sir," said the deputy as he, in turn, ordered a smaller ship in the fleet to find out what was happening. After the small boat left the formation and inquired with the fishermen about what was happening, the boat that was sent came back.


    The captain of the Mughal frigate was stunned as his eyes lit up upon hearing about the ship of gold. Immediately, he looked around, momentarily losing his mind like the fishermen. Not seeing any gold-carrying merchant ship, he came to his senses. "What a pity, this may be a farce created by a troll," he said, disappointed. He soon ordered the fishing vessels to return to their homes.


    The fishermen, although they had lost most of their expectations by this time, still felt reluctant to go back with a mentality of "what if there really is a ship full of gold." Unfortunately for them, seeing their stubbornness, the captain of the Mughal fleet became impatient and fired a warning shot from the cannons on the frigate. *BOOM*


    Now, the people were in a panic as they rushed towards their viges. Along with these vigers, the special force soldiers also split up and joined in, sessfully infiltrating the Mughal Empire. Their ships were carrying artillery instead of fish, making it necessary for this to be a naval operation rather than and one, as the target destinations were two inds off the coast of Gujarat.


    It would be much easier to smuggle multiple artillery pieces into a pair of inds through the sea, especially those close to the naval bases of the Mughal Empire, rather than attempting to transport them ovend, which introduces too many variables and risks.


    As soon as the special forces reached the coast, they were immediately coordinated to be taken in by the Bharatiya External Pragya. Now that they had reached the vicinity of their destination, it was only a matter of time before they got an opportunity to sneak into the inds and establish the secret bases.


    Meanwhile, Sarvesh, who had observed the dispatch of the special forces, went on toplete his main goal: the Lakshadweep Ind cluster.


    Unlike the tribal system in the Andaman and Nicobar Inds, the Lakshadweep Inds were more developed, and governed by local chieftains and rulers. Furthermore, themonly spokennguage in the Lakshadweep Inds was Mym, which made it easier to gather the necessary information for the uing operation.


    Fortunately, as the Bharatiya External Pragya had initiated its information-gathering operations on these inds before the Samudra Vyuham operation was initiated, ample intelligence was collected. The Lakshadweep Ind cluster had a total of six different powers, and among those six, only two had a very good rtionship with the maind as they were Hindu and Buddhist in faith.


    The rest were Muslim rulers who had been ruling their territories, which had a majority Muslim poption.


    Furthermore, what Roshan found out was that at one point, ambitious ns were set in motion concerning Cheranadu (Ker), as expansion of territory became apelling goal for these rulers. Ker’s geographical istion from the maind, coupled with a sharednguage, made the prospect enticing. The sess of these ns should have been imminent.


    However, with the ascension of His Majesty Vijay Devaraya to the throne of Vijayanagara, the Empire underwent a remarkable transformation, bing unified and formidable. As a result, the smaller kings of Lakshadweep hesitated to challenge the authority of the Empire, especially after the Vijayanagara Empire evolved into the Dakshin Bharatiya Empire following its victory over the Mughals.


    Currently, Even with the existence of Hindu and Buddhist kings, the ind cluster was filled with a majority of Muslims, whereas even the kings who were outliers had a 40% Muslim poption in their ownnds and were constantly facing challenges from the Imic rulers. Afterpleting all the data collection, Sarvesh decided to act.


    The minority Hindu and Buddhistmunities, as well as the ultra-minority Dharmic Muslim poption, were linked up and informed of the Dakshin Bhartiya Empire’s ns for the ind.


    The pair of kings who got to know about the intentions of the Dakshin Bharatiya Empire feltplicated. Although they were in a precarious situation, at least they were kings of their ownnd. Now, with the Dakshin Bhartiya Empire’s intervention, their respective families would no longer be royal.


    Regrettably, they found themselves confronted with a stark reality. Given the current trajectory, they were certain that within a decade, they would inevitably lose their power, even without the Dakshin Bharatiya Empire explicitly targeting theirnds. This was due to their inability to control the ongoing conversions within their kingdoms. As for halting this trend, their attempts were futile.


    One of their allies, who shared their dharmic beliefs, attempted to intervene forcefully. However, this action triggered a chain reaction within his kingdom, sparking a civil war. Seizing upon this chaos as an opportunity, the Imic rulers negotiated among themselves and partitioned their friend’s kingdom after dismantling it from within.


    The men were ughtered, and the women were mercilessly exploited as gifts for the soldiers. Witnessing this gruesome fate befall their ally, they were acutely aware of the consequences awaiting them if they dared to resist the forced conversions.


    Both the kings looked at each other, their expressions revealing a mixture of hesitation, pain, unwillingness, and finally, determination. They gritted their teeth and finally agreed.


    Sarvesh, who finally got the agreement from the local forces, was finally free to act. With the information collected by the Bharatiya External Pragya and with additional and detailed information provided by the friendly forces on the inds, the operation started.


    The poption of the Lakshadweep Ind cluster was only 49,000, so a lot of firepower was not required. The ind waspletely isted from the outside with the navy as forces of the Dakshin Bharatiya Empire started to move into the central locations of the various micro-nations ruling this small ind cluster.


    Most of the men on the ind were soldiers, as frequent conflicts on the ind had made it a hot battle zone. Each ruler was able to recruit at least a few thousand soldiers. The soldiers of the two supporting kings had joined forces and supported the army of the Dakshin Bhartiya Empire.


    Surprisingly, the Dakshin Bhartiya Empire had no advantage in terms of skillpared to these skilled soldiers from Lakshadweep, who were embroiled in conflict all year round for many years at a time. Sarvesh thought that their army was top-tier when it came to skill, but he was now witnessing another skill level above their own army’s.


    Fortunately, with the advantage of superior armour and weaponry, the fight was somewhat on an equal footing.


    However, that all changed when firearms came into y.


    *Bang bang bang bang*


    Only a few shots by the phnx were enough to create a wall of dead bodies on the battlefield. The allied kings looked at it with relief, finally feeling that their choice was correct. When they were introduced to these weapons before, they felt that it was very powerful, but it was only now that they saw what these weapons could do on arge scale.


    they were the whip of Yama ( god of death ), On the other hand, the rival kings were shocked by this disy of strength, and they had a bad feeling about this weapon.


    Sure enough their feelings came true, in the next moment, consecutive assassinations were arranged in their own ranks as the enemy rulers dropped dead. Although the two kings were rtively weakpared to the strength of the other rulers, they also had hidden cards, the spies ced among the ranks of enemy kings.


    Normally, these spies were of low rank and unable to do any actual damage to the enemy kings. However, in this battle, where the Dakshin Bhartiya Empire provided guns, the job was made easy.


    With this operation, the Lakshadweep Ind cluster was taken under the control of the Dakshin Bharatiya Empire. All nine kingdoms were dissolved, and the remaining family members of the enemy kings were taken into custody. The women were exiled to the Andaman and Nicobar Inds, while the men of the family were not spared.


    The children under 5 years old were taken in by the empire’s orphanage run by Vijay.


    Aspensation for the two kings, they were granted the ownership of the private inds as property of their noble families, and Vijay elevated them to the rank 2 nobles of the Empire for their contribution to the war.


    By the time all this was finished, an opportunity had arisen in Gujarat. Suddenly, a military shipbuilding shipyard near Jamnagar caught on fire, prompting a military alert from the Mughal navy and orders for all naval vessels in the region to assemble.


    Taking this opportunity, the special soldiers quickly sailed their boats filled with artillery into the Daman and Diu Inds.


    As for what caused the fire in the military shipyard, surprisingly it was not the Dakshin Bhartiya Empire. Roshan was very interested in this news, so he focused his intelligence channels on extracting the information he needed.


    Two out of three operations in the Samudra Vyuham n werepleted, and the remaining operation was for Akhil to carry out. Like the other twomanders, Akhil set off for his operation. His first task was to capture the Maldives. Currently, Maldives is an Imic country ruled by a Sultan called Sultan Ibrahim Iskander the Second.


    Since it was a centralized state, things were much easier to handle. The deration of war against the Maldives was followed by active action against their king. A toon of special soldiers was used to take down the king, which was soon sessful. With the fall of the king, his nobles were without a leader and chose to surrender. Surprisingly, this operation was more bloodless than Lakshadweep.


    Akhil’s next n was Mauritius and Réunion Ind. Since it was quite far from the maind, it took a few days to travel. However, upon arrival, Akhil was surprised to find that there was already an outpost existing in Mauritius and Réunion. Fortunately, he had only sent a scouting vessel to scout out the inds, upon which the scout noticed the European gs nted on the inds.


    Immediately, Akhil feltpelled to inform His Majesty the Emperor and His Excellency the Admiral about this development and subsequently withdrew from the waters.


    P.S. Finally recordpleted, *wipe sweat*