Chapter 580 Dusk of the Mughal Empire--
Anger, disappointment, and the humiliation of stealing chickens and losing a handful of rice permeated Karu's heart. In a hurry, Captain Garrilyn bravely faced the gunfire, gathered about 200 brave soldiers, unloaded some pulling horses, and acted as a cavalry to the artillery where the Chinese cavalry was. The position launched a charge. Lieutenant Colonel Karu braved his cannons and organized the artillerymen to turn the muzzle of the cannon, showing a counterattack against the cavalry of the Liang family.
However, the artillery of the Liang cavalry is not only a powerful flowering bullet, and the gun is not like the fore-loaded gun used by the coalition at all. After firing, it has to clean up the gun and reload it, which is extremely complicated.
The important thing is that these guns have been loaded with scattered bombs, because when designing the trap, it has been considered that the Liang army is a cavalry, and it is likely to attack the artillery troops in a crazy way. If you want to entangled them with 3,000 musketeers, it will definitely be difficult. Therefore, the artillery Things are loaded, so that they can enter the state of combat readiness at any time. On the European battlefield, in order to prevent sudden encounters, artillery is generally loaded in advance.
But although the scattered bomb can be called the harvesting sickle of life at close range, now, the other party is more than two miles away from them, and the scattered bullet is useless, so it can only be reloaded with artillery fire.
And the cavalry and artillery of the Liang family's army kept firing. In the blink of an eye, they fired five rounds of shelling, and then in the period when the allied artillerymen braved heavy casualties and struggled to calibrate and load, they directly opened the way.
Captain Garrilyn and the warriors who charged on horseback could only eat ashes behind the buttocks of the damn Chinese cavalry, and the horse bend in their hands could not even cut off a horse's tail. The other party was like teasing them, ignoring the two hundred courageous allied soldiers.
When the coalition commander-in-chief Asaf Jahi led the murderous 5,000 iron riders to the battlefield, he could only see the smoke over the battlefield and the mess on the ground.
Looking at the wounded who were being carried by stretchers, showing their miserable wounds and moaning feebly, and the artillery that were damaged by the artillery that were destroyed by the shell landed like a pile of rags. Asafjashi's eyes darkened and almost fell from the horse's back: "Kaluzhong School, where are the Chinese cavalry?
"I ran away." Lieutenant Colonel Kalu sat down on an 18-pound cannon that had been scattered, with a withered face and a depressing expression, like a bankrupt gambler.
"Run away?! Dear, wise Lieutenant Colonel Karu, is your mouth blocked by feces? Assaf Jahi rushed to Lieutenant Colonel Karu angrily and roared loudly, pointing to the messy battlefield. Do you think two words are enough to explain all this in front of you?!"
"Your Highness, please be a little more cunning. They are too cunning. They used war horses to carry small artillery and stopped to fire at us 800 to 900 yards away from us. We had nothing we could do, but fortunately, we just lost part of the artillery." Lieutenant Colonel Kalu couldn't help explaining in distress. I can only blame myself for the current situation.
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Nearly one-third of the guns were lost, and most of them were 18-pound heavy artillery with obvious targets. When the cavalry in the rear of the coalition returned, they also suffered heavy losses. They were attacked by a group of Chinese cavalry, and the number was at least 2,000.
After hearing the news, the senior officials of the coalition army couldn't help but change their faces. Obviously, this was definitely not a small group of harassing troops, but the famous Chinese cavalry regiment that really wandered in the Indus Valley.
After suffering this loss and understanding what kind of demon this harassing force was, the marching pace of the coalition was more cautious.
The trip that could have been completed in three days, it took the coalition forces eight days to arrive at the city of Namiyanvali.
The siege began, but this unlucky coalition found an important problem, that is, the range of their artillery is not enough, or it should be said that if they want to use artillery to attack the city, the coalition's artillery must be close to the coverage of the artillery of the Chinese 1st and 17th Division to attack.
On the one hand, he wants to attack the city of Myangvalli, which is guarded by the 17th Division of the Chinese with elite weapons, and on the same time, he has to pay attention to the Chinese cavalry regiment that has been swimming around at any time. The ambitious coalition did not expect that it would be a nightmare for this Indian indigenous coalition that thought it would be easy to win the siege.
The offensive and defensive sides fell into a difficult artillery battle from the beginning, or it should be said that the coalition was in a difficult situation from the beginning, because the Chinese 118th Division defending the city had fast-movable mortars, with a range not inferior to the Allied 18-pound siege guns, and the rate of fire was far higher than the Allied foreground artillery.
In just one day, the coalition forces had to sadly admit that it was completely a fool's dream to rely on artillery to capture this small city. Now the only thing they can rely on is the number of coalition forces to attack the city in a conventional way.
At this time, the Chinese Legion on the Eastern Front, which had never moved, finally began to take action.
Mirat City, a city in western 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, 20,000 elite Mughal imperial troops are stationed, including 3,000 firemen and 3,000 cavalry.
And just a dozen miles away from the city of Milat, an army of black helmets is rapidly approaching the last barrier in the northeast of Delhi.
At this moment, in Delhi, the capital palace of the Mughal Empire, the ministers have quarreled with each other at this moment. Because they welcomed a captured governor of the city.
He brought a gift from the Chinese army to the Mughal Emperor, a bullet with metallic luster, and a letter.
In his thirties, he is as old as a sixty-seven-year-old man. Alam II, wearing a luxurious silk robe, looked dullly at the important ministers who were quarreling and spitting.
The Mughal Empire has never been as weak as it is today. Yes, the decline of the Mughal Empire has been inevitable since Alam II's accession to the throne. After Alam II's accession to the throne, the powerful Mughal Empire, which once had been the whole Indian peninsula, was as weak as if it was about to swallow. An angry old man.
The Mughal Empire was not only invaded by those damn Western colonists, but also by the invasion from Afghanistan, but also challenged by those local kings. There were rebellions and wars everywhere, and countless forces supported themselves on this land.
Before the emergence of the Orientals, the entire Mughal Empire had been reduced to the northern half of the Hengjumna River area and part of the west bank of the Zhumna River.
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And the Chats in the south and the Sikhs in the west invaded the land like a group of wolves, trying to take away the remaining land from the puppet emperor, who was 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 poured into the land.
By the way, there are also those Chinese people who are also ambitiously spying into this fertile continent.
Although after those British were expelled, Alam II once wanted to summon up his courage and work hard to restore the glory of the Mughal Empire.
However, the Mughal Empire has long been rotten from the root. I'm afraid that his decrees can't even get out of this palace. Those important ministers always try their best to suck more blood from the foundation of the empire to satisfy their greed. However, he has to use these guys to maintain his rule. .
Just a few months ago, the British came to his palace again, bringing gifts and their apologies. After that, they wanted to use the Mughal Empire to deal with the opponent that the British themselves were afraid of: the Chinese.
Alam II knew very well that this was a conspiracy, but the British promised and the hope that the Mughal Empire could restore the glory of his ancestors, he deliberately ignored some consequences.
But now, the city of Miyangari has fallen into a difficult struggle. The 80,000 coalition troops have been firmly contained under the city of Miyangali. At this time, the Chinese army in Qunu City, which had always seemed to be very calm, suddenly broke through the border defense of the Mughal Empire, and the soldiers pointed to the last step of Mughal Yanjing Delhi. Pass: Mirat City.
The request brought by the messenger was very simple, either the Mughal Empire immediately withdrew from troops and ceded all the land 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 will recognize the rule of the Mughal Empire over Delhi and a large area south of the Ganges, but the Indian Peninsula lands that have been divided by Western colonists are not included in this treaty.
Time was spent in meaningless quarrels. When the terrible Chinese army broke through the city of Milat in only three days, these ministers were finally afraid. As soon as possible, they asked the Mughal Emperor Alam II to order to recall the Mughal army in the allied forces, and in Naheng A line of defense was set up along the river to prevent the Chinese from crossing Henan.
(to be continued)