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Chapter 1380
"They really drove you away without saying a few more words to you?"

The second Mughal prince's face was gloomy. According to the envoy's description to him this time, the other party was very arrogant, and he drove the envoy away without much thought.

"Your Highness, the second prince, the attitude of the other party is extremely bad. They should have long had the ambition to fight against our empire. We must punish them!" the messenger said angrily.

"The whole army is resting, and we will attack the city tomorrow!" Shashuja looked coldly at Calcutta Fort.

The other party has built a fort to the door of Bangladesh, which is simply a provocation to him and the Mughal Empire behind him!

An army of 40000 arrived at Calcutta Fort. They had traveled a long distance and were unable to launch an immediate attack.

More than 1000 defenders in Calcutta Fort are urgently strengthening the fortifications.

The East India Company designed Calcutta Fort as a solid star-shaped bastion. In theory, there is no dead angle for intensive firepower strikes. Its defense capability is extremely strong, like a sharp-edged thorny bouquet. Therefore, the defensive Chen Bangyan and Qin Zuoming No rush at all.

At night, torches were raised on the bastion, and Tubang mercenaries were patrolling.There are also clear posts from the gate of the bastion to the periphery.

Qin Zuoming recruited everyone and proposed a risky plan: "There will be heavy fog in the morning these few days. If the forecast is not bad, it will be foggy tomorrow morning. This is the opportunity to raid their main camp. Their The number of people is at least 30000, and their commander will never think that we will give up the dominant fortress to attack their main camp, this is God helping me!"

"This move is too risky. We have the Calcutta bastion as a defensive fortress, and we can rely on the bastion to kill them a lot. As long as we stick to it, they will definitely collapse on their own because they cannot bear the huge casualties. And we can continuously supply soldiers and supplies by sea." Chen Bangyan, who was born in the Nanyang Fleet, proposed a more secure method.

Relying on the construction of most of the bastion and 7 artillery pieces, it should be easy to defend Calcutta.

"The enemy's siege of Calcutta Fort will greatly increase the pressure on our food, especially when the Nanyang Fleet left a batch of food from us. At that time, we had no idea that there would be an army of the Mughal Empire so soon. Come to besiege us, the remaining food in the granary is limited. So the most urgent thing is to go to sea to find food, or take the initiative to defeat the enemy."

"We have a great advantage. They have traveled a long distance. They may not know that the swamp near Calcutta has been filled with heavy fog these days. Tomorrow morning I will personally lead 300 infantry and 500 mercenaries out of the castle. In the most ideal situation, we will capture the second prince of the Mughal Empire alive and force the army besieging the fortress to retreat." Qin Zuoming looked around at the crowd, intending to carry out this conspiracy.

Raid the enemy's main camp in the thick fog, and capture alive the second prince of an empire with a population of hundreds of millions!
Such a tactic of directly attacking the enemy's heart can be said to be bold and reckless!

And this kind of victory is often largely dependent on luck!
"Even in the worst case, we can let them kill each other without causing our entire army to be wiped out. We are already familiar with the nearby terrain." Qin Zuoming reassured.

"If your main force of 800 people leaves here, in case of any accident, we will only have 100 naval soldiers, East India Company's armed merchant sailors, handymen, hirelings, and a defensive force composed of some incoming Chinese merchants. I don’t know if I can keep Calcutta..." Chen Bangyan asked a question, but he immediately overturned his doubt, "It should be able to hold it."

"Then it's settled. If our raid operation suffers heavy losses tomorrow morning, I will apologize with death!" Qin Zuoming said.

Chen Bangyan and the people from the East India Company looked at each other, and they could still hold the bastion under the premise that the main force of 800 people suffered heavy losses. They finally agreed to Qin Zuoming's bold tactics.

"All the soldiers who participated in the raid operation tomorrow morning must have a good rest tonight, and we will complete a raid operation tomorrow morning." After Qin Zuoming imagined the direction of march tomorrow morning, he personally visited the wooden houses and earthen houses where the soldiers lived, and personally told them Recharge your batteries.

He doesn't have many men, but a raid doesn't need many soldiers either.

The following raid was also an excellent opportunity to test whether the Tubang mercenaries he had trained could be qualified as servants.

I heard that there had been a surprise attack earlier, and the soldiers of the East India Dispatch Army were very stable. Only the native mercenaries recruited in Calcutta were panic-stricken-they were going to take up muskets to deal with their former masters!
"In the battle tomorrow morning, the three bravest among you can be promoted to low-level appointed non-commissioned officers." Qin Zuoming announced an order to the most worried Tubang mercenaries.

In order to establish its own servant army system and let the servant army fight hard for them, the Kyushu Army implemented a different system for the servant army than the standing army.

The lowest level is the low-ranking soldiers, who can be promoted to the upper-ranking soldiers for bravery in combat. There is only a slight difference in treatment between the lower-ranking soldiers and the upper-ranking soldiers, mainly honor.Servant soldiers can also be promoted to officers, but compared with the Kyushu Army's higher-level system of generals, school officers, lieutenants, and non-commissioned officers, the officers of the Servant Army have only four levels--low-level commissioned non-commissioned officers, middle-level commissioned non-commissioned officers, and senior commissioned non-commissioned officers , Quasi-appointed lieutenants, leading different numbers of soldiers depending on the situation.

It can be said that warrant officers are likely to be the ceiling of the servant army soldiers, and it is difficult for them to rank among the ranks of lieutenants established by the Kyushu Army, let alone school officers and general officers.

Even so, if these humble servant soldiers can become non-commissioned officers, their treatment can be greatly improved!
After Qin Zuoming announced this order, the eyes of many Tubang mercenaries were hot!
The three bravest soldiers of the Tubang will become low-level non-commissioned officers, and maybe they can get a few subordinates!

"Tomorrow morning I will wake you up on time. We will take advantage of the thick fog to bypass the opponent's front line from the left, attack their main camp, and defeat the enemy's confidence in one fell swoop. If we are discovered in advance, then Rely on the cover of the fog to retreat to the bastion. There will definitely be chaos during the battle, and then follow the drums and act." Qin Zuoming finally told the dispatched army soldiers and Tubang mercenaries under his command.

In the early morning of the next day, as expected, there was still a thick fog like the previous few days. Qin Zuoming led 300 soldiers from the East India Expedition Army and 500 Tubang mercenaries quietly opened the gate of the city, and were submerged in the fog.

(End of this chapter)