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Chapter 1379 Surrounded by the Tubang Army

Chapter 1379 Surrounded by the Tubang Army
Outside the Calcutta castle are densely packed Mughal cavalry and Tubang soldiers.

Shashuja, the second prince of the Mughal Empire, was lazily riding on a precious war horse from Central Asia, wearing golden armor. Behind him was a group of princes and cavalry feudal lords from the Bengal province. These people gathered A full 40000 cavalry and Tubang soldiers.

They are surrounded by the New East India Company and the Calcutta bastion in the Ganges Delta, and they want to expel the Chinese and British from here!
The East India Company built castles here and hired local low-level castes to expand its military power here, which has aroused the vigilance of some local officials.

Apparently, the East India Company has secrets in building bastions and training mercenaries here.
"My darling, this formation is almost the same as the Mughal emperor's own conquest. You are really a crow's mouth, saying that even if the Mughal emperor attacks our Calcutta Fort with the power of the whole country, we can still defend it. Look at this formation and the Mughal There is not much difference between Emperor Wo'er's personal conquest..." Chen Bangyan and Qin Zuoming, two rookie officers of the Kyushu Army, are in charge of the defense of Calcutta, Chen Bangyan is in charge of the fleet here, and Qin Zuoming is the commander of the East India Dispatch Army official.

Before the Nanyang Fleet left to attack the Portuguese on the west coast of South Asia, the vice king of Bangladesh, Shashuja, the governor of Bangladesh, and the princes of various states led the army to surround the Calcutta bastion, and Chen Bangyan and Qin Zuoming were the two main leaders. Quite a headache.

They immediately summoned 100 sailors, 300 East India Expeditionary Army soldiers and 500 Tubang mercenaries in the bastion, ready to fight.

"I just said it casually. Who knew that their army would come so soon. Did they start to find out that we were building a bastion?" Qin Zuoming was also depressed.

He just said a while ago that he would not be afraid even if the emperor of the Mughal Empire came, but it didn't take long, and the army of the Mughal Empire really came to besiege them!
"It seems that there are tens of thousands of people on the opposite side, many of whom are cavalry, at least tens of thousands of cavalry. This time we have stabbed a hornet's nest." Chen Bangyan said.

"Half of them are farmers equipped with short knives, which are used to ensure logistics and courage. They probably have little combat effectiveness. Their elites are outdated heavy cavalry. This kind of heavy cavalry has little effect in siege warfare, and what they call The heavy armor is as fragile as paper in front of our muskets." Qin Zuoming looked down on these so-called elites of the Mughal Empire.

Perhaps in the last century the cavalry of the Mughal Empire could still traverse the South Asian subcontinent, but now...

"The troublesome thing is that they dragged a lot of bronze artillery. I don't know how powerful those artillery are. Their main battalion is deployed behind the front line. Their main front line is about 800 meters long and 300 meters deep." Qin Zuoming continued to observe Formation of the Bangladeshi army.

"What now? Are you going to ask them why they came?" Chen Bangyan frowned slightly.

Surrounded by 40000 Bengali Maharajas is not something to laugh about.

"They should take the initiative to declare their intentions, otherwise they would not surround our Calcutta Fort for no reason. Do you think it is possible for us to take the initiative to defeat them?" Qin Zuoming asked.

"It's hard. There are less than 1000 people in our bastion, and more than half of them are native mercenaries. Their combat effectiveness is unknown. It would be great if the Nanyang Fleet is still there. Let them go ashore and join us. They will definitely be able to easily defeat and encircle us. The Tubang army." Chen Bangyan said.

"What if we don't break through their army from the front, but cross their defense line and go straight to their main camp?" Qin Zuoming pointed to the main camp where the second prince of the Mughal Empire was, where there was a team of elite heavy cavalry.

"Unless God is helping, it is extremely difficult to seize its main business." Chen Bangyan said.

Qin Zuoming's judgment was correct. The second prince, Shashuja, surrounded Calcutta Fort with an army of 40000, and then sent envoys to give them an ultimatum.

"Outside the fortress is our honorable Second Prince of the Mughal Empire! You East India Company and this army violated our original agreement. You not only established a trading station here, but also built a fortress and trained the army in violation of regulations. Therefore, Our Second Prince ordered you to be expelled! Please leave Bengal on your own, and never disturb our coast from now on!" The Mughal envoy was quite stubborn.

Chen Bangyan and Qin Zuoming looked at each other, and couldn't help feeling a little funny, but the other party was quite serious.It's just that most of the bastion has been built now, do you want to drive them away?Such difficulty is not small.

"Go back and tell your Highness the Second Prince that if he has the ability, he can take down our fortress." Qin Zuoming said, "We have no intention of starting a war with them, but we will not leave here either."

"You will regret your choice! Our warriors will raze this castle, and you will pay in blood!" the Mughal emissary threatened.

"Kick him out." Chen Bangyan waved his hand to let the two soldiers throw the Mughal envoy out of the bastion and shut the gate tightly.

Abandon the costly Calcutta bastion and withdraw from the Bay of Bengal?They are really not afraid of the wrath of the Mughal Empire, whose naval fleet is almost non-existent.

"Originally, we built the bastion and trained soldiers here to prepare for the fear of the Mughal Empire, but we didn't expect this day to come so soon. Our bastion was built similarly, even if it is half built, it can still hold on When the Nanyang Fleet returns. They will definitely not delay for more than half a year to remove the strongholds of the Dutch and Portuguese. If it doesn’t work, we have also controlled the sea, and we can go to Myanmar in the West Cochin Province and the Straits of Malacca to ask for help.” Chen Bangyan said .

In addition to the galleons of the Nanyang Fleet, their East India Company also had armed merchant ships and small boats in Calcutta.The Bangladesh army without a navy encircled Calcutta only on land, but in fact it could not play the role of siege at all.

Many of the 500 native mercenaries in the bastion stood on the city wall. They couldn't help feeling a little nervous when they saw an army of 40000 people gathered outside the bastion.It was their former masters and high-ranking castes who attacked them outside.

"Ah San, don't let them be nervous. As long as they fight according to the usual training, they can easily defeat the princes who used to be high above them." Qin Zuoming said to the small hired boss of the Tubang named Ah San.

"Yes, sir!" Ah San replied.

(End of this chapter)

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