A Slave who became Emperor Chapter 54

Published at 20th of August 2019 08:42:34 PM Chapter 54

Badshah Khan was given a good chamber in the palace to relax, he was well rested and well fed . . the only thing he missed was being with Benazir . . he couldn't forget their first night together . . they got along like old buddies, there was passion, intimacy and camrediere . . what more could he ask for . . having such wife fulfilled his dreams . . but right now . . dreams were not important . . he was here to help the Guptas . . . Benazir understood him so well . . she was perfect . . . he shook his head like a dog trying to get rid of a fly . . he came out of the riverie . .

Shiva came and said, 'Badshah Khan . . . I am Shiva . . I serve the Royal family . . . the Prince wants to meet you . . ' Khan nodded and went along with Shiva . . they entered a chamber . . it was adorned with spears and swords . . it was the strategy room . . there was a huge table in the center with a map . . the map showed Hindustan along with few neighborhood countries . .

Pinaka and his father emperor Surya Gupta were standing near the table looking at the map . . the map showed the major empires, kingdoms, cities, rivers, and mountains of the land . . . Badshah Khan entered the room and greeted Pinaka and his father . . Pinaka introduced Badshah Khan, he thanked the emperor Surya Gupta for helping him and saving his life in childhood . .

The emperor said, 'Badshah Khan, let's work on strategy now, I was only doing my duty that day . . I would like to understand how you would be able to help us stand against Zaffar and his army . . ' Khan said, 'your majesty, in Afghanistan I was running dry fruits business . . I increased my father's business by ten fold . . everything was going well . . suddenly a great famine hit the Afghan lands . . we expected help from our neighbouring country Iran . . but the Shah of Iran was a cruel emperor . . he sent his troops to loot our lands . . our ruler declared war against the Shah of Iran . . we were successful in beating the troops of the Shah . . during the war, many common people like myself participated in it as our army was not very big . . . later the Shah sent a bigger regiment . . we couldn't stand . . many men were slaughtered mercilessly . . our ruler submitted to the Shah . . now he is ruling under the Shah's name . . the pride of Pathans was lost . . Zaffar was the general . . he rose in the ranks after this battle . . he became independent and established his own army with the help of the Shah and started looting and invading small cities and kingdoms . . his army comprises of the troop of bandits and cutthroats he grew up with . . now if the information I have received is right, the Shah has given a few thousand men from his army to Zaffar . . now his greed has grown so much that he wants your entire country . . . ' both Pinaka and his father studied Badshah Khan . . then Pinaka said, 'what is the strategy or warfare techniques they follow . . ' Badshah Khan said, 'no strategy . . that is Zaffar's strategy . . '

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