Chapter 580: The Dusk of the Mughal Empire
Chapter 580: The dusk of the Mughal Empire...
Anger, disappointment, and the humiliation of losing a chicken, losing a rice filled Kalu's heart. In a hurry, Captain Garylin bravely faced the artillery fire, gathered about two hundred brave soldiers, unloaded some cannon-pulling horses, acted as cavalry, and charged towards the artillery position where the Chinese cavalry were. Lieutenant Colonel Kalu braved the artillery, organized the artillery soldiers, turned the cannons of the cannons, and showed the picture to launch a counterattack towards the Liang family cavalry.
However, the artillery of the Liang family cavalry not only had huge flowering bullets, but the cannon was not like the borebore gun used by the coalition forces. After firing, the cannon had to be cleaned up and recharged, which was so complicated that it was outrageously complicated.
Importantly, the shotguns were loaded in these artillery, because when designing the trap, we had already considered that the Liang family army was a cavalry and was likely to attack the artillery troops in a rush assault. It would definitely be difficult to entangle them with three thousand musketeers. Therefore, load the artillery items so that they can enter the state of combat readiness at any time. On the European battlefield, in order to prevent sudden encounters, artillery was generally loaded in advance.
However, although shotguns can be called the life-harvesting sickle at close range, now the other party is more than two miles away from them, and the shotgun is useless, so they can only reload the shells in the fire of artillery.
The cavalry artillery of the Liang family army was firing continuously, and in the blink of an eye, five rounds of artillery fired, and then, while the coalition artillery was risking heavy casualties and difficulty in calibration and loading, they directly drove the way.
Captain Garylin and the warriors who were charging in the horses could only eat the ass behind the damn Chinese cavalry's butts, and the horse bend in their hands could not even cut off the hair of the horse's tail. The other party was like teasing them, and ignored the two hundred courageous coalition soldiers.
When the coalition commander Asafu Jiaxi led the murderous five thousand cavalry to the battlefield, he could only see the smoke of gunpowder above the battlefield and the mess of that place.
Looking at the injured who were being carried by stretchers, with miserable wounds, moaning weakly, and the artillery wounded by artillery bombardment and placed them like a pile of rags, Asaf Jahi's eyes turned black and almost fell from the horse's back: "Lieutenant Colonel Karu, where are the Chinese cavalry?"
"Run away." Lieutenant Colonel Kalu sat down dejectedly on an eighteen-pound heavy cannon that had fallen apart, with a haggard face and a depressed expression, like a bankrupt gambler.
"Run away?! Dear, wise Lieutenant Colonel Karu, is your mouth blocked by feces?" Asaf Jahi rushed to Lieutenant Colonel Karu angrily, pointed to the messy battlefield and roared loudly. "Do you think two words are enough to explain all this in front of you?!"
"Your Highness, please be a little lonely. They are too cunning. They use their war horses to carry small cannons and stop at us eight or nine hundred yards away. We have no choice but tolerate that we only lost some of the cannons." Lieutenant Colonel Karu couldn't help but explain with distress. The current situation was caused, and we could only blame ourselves.
The artillery lost nearly one-third, and most of them were 18-pound artillery with obvious targets. The cavalry cruising behind the coalition army also suffered heavy losses when they returned to the team. They were attacked by a group of Chinese cavalry, with a number of at least two thousand cavalry.
After hearing this news, the senior officials of the coalition forces couldn't help but change their faces. Obviously, this was definitely not a small group of harassing troops, but the fierce and famous Chinese cavalry regiment that Yizhen wandered in the Indus River Basin.
After suffering this loss and understanding what kind of demon this harassing force is, the coalition forces' marching pace is even more cautious.
The itinerary that could be completed in three days took eight days to reach the city of Namiyanwali.
The siege war began, but this unlucky coalition discovered an important problem, that is, their artillery range was insufficient, or if they wanted to use artillery to attack the city, the coalition's artillery must approach the coverage of the artillery fire of the 117th Division of the Chinese to attack.
On the one hand, we had to attack the Miyanwali City guarded by the 117th Chinese Division, which was armed to the teeth and had elite weapons, and on the other hand, we had to pay attention to the Chinese cavalry regiment that had been cruising around at any time. The ambitious coalition forces never thought that they would have thought that they could easily win the siege, which would become a nightmare for this indigenous Indian coalition.
The offensive and defensive sides were in a difficult artillery battle at the beginning, or it should be said that the coalition forces were in a difficult situation at the beginning, because the Chinese 117th Division defending the city had fast maneuverable mortars, with a range of no less than the 18-pound siege cannons of the coalition, and the firing rate was far greater than the coalition's bore gunfire.
In just one day, the coalition forces had to admit sadly that it was a dream to rely on artillery to capture this small city. Now the only thing they can rely on is the number of coalition forces, and they use conventional methods to attack the city.
And at this moment, the Chinese Legion on the Eastern Front, which had not been moved, finally began to take action.
The city of Meerat is a western city in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located between the Upper Yamuna River and the Ganges River, 130 miles northeast of Delhi. It is the last barrier in the northeast of Delhi, the capital of the Mughal Empire. Here, there are 20,000 elite Mughal troops, including 3,000 musketeers and 3,000 cavalry.
And just ten miles from the city of Meerat, an army in black clothes and black helmets was quickly approaching the last barrier in northeast Delhi.
At this moment, in Delhi, the ministers in the capital palace of the Mughal Empire, the ministers had already quarreled in a quarrel. Because they welcomed a captured governor who had broken the city.
He brought the gifts from the Chinese army to signal him to the emperor of the Mughal Empire, a bullet with a metallic luster, and a letter.
He is in his thirties, but he is as old as a sixty-seven-year-old man.
Alam II was wearing a luxurious silk robe and looked at the important officials who were spitting out with a dull look.
The Mughal Empire has never been as weak as it is today. Yes, the decline of the Mughal Empire was inevitable since Alam II ascended the throne. After Alam II ascended the throne, the powerful Mughal Empire, which once had all the entire Indian peninsula, was as weak as an old man who was about to die.
The Mughal Empire was not only invaded by the damn Western colonists, but also invaded from Afghanistan, but also challenged by the kings of the country. There were rebellions and wars everywhere, and countless forces held their own troops on this land.
Before the emergence of the Orientals, the entire Mughal Empire could rule had narrowed to the northern half of the Hengzhumuna River area and part of the west bank of the Zhumuna River.
The Chateaus in the south and the Sikhs in the west were invading the land like a group of wolves, trying to take away the remaining land from his puppet emperor controlled by the British colonists.
When the British were defeated by the Chinese, the British left the palace of the Mughal Empire, but more Western colonists flocked into this land.
By the way, there are also those Chinese who are equally ambitiously peeking into this rich continent.
Although after the British were driven away, Alam II wanted to muster up the courage and work hard to restore the Mughal Empire to its former glory.
However, the Mughal Empire had long been corrupted from its roots. His government orders were afraid that even the palace could not be out. Those important officials who were lip service always tried every means to suck more blood from the foundation of the empire to satisfy their greed. However, he had to use these guys to maintain his rule.
Just a few months ago, the British came to his palace again, brought gifts and their apology, and then they wanted to use the Mughal Empire to deal with the opponent that the British were afraid of: those Chinese.
Alam II knew very well that this was a conspiracy, but with the promise of the British and the hope that the Mughal Empire could restore the glory of the past ancestors, he deliberately ignored some consequences.
But now, Miyangvalli City has been in a difficult struggle, and the 80,000 coalition forces are firmly restrained under Namiyangvalli City. At this time, the Chinese army of Qunu City, which seemed to have been very peaceful, suddenly broke through the border defense of the Mughal Empire, and the troops pointed directly at the last pass of the Mughal capital Delhi: the city of Meerat.
The messenger's request was very simple. Either the Mughal Empire immediately withdrew its troops and ceded all the territory north of the Ganges to the Chinese Empire, recognizing the Chinese Empire's sovereignty over the Indus Plain and the Ganges Plain.
The Chinese Empire would recognize the Mughal Empire's dominance over Delhi and large areas south of the Ganges, but the land of the Indian Peninsula that had been divided by Western colonists was not within this treaty.
Chapter completed!