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Chapter 1396
The frontal battlefield in Plaxi Village was full of smoke and smoke. The two sides began to use artillery to shell each other from a long distance. Almost all soldiers on both sides were paying attention to the situation on the frontal battlefield.

Both sides were patiently probing each other, hoping that the artillery would overwhelm the other's formation.

The artillery bombardment lasted for an hour, and all the bronze guns of the Mughal Empire were pushed to the forefront.More than a dozen people from the expeditionary army were killed under the attack of the opponent's heavy artillery.

It's just that the two sides are still trying to restrain themselves, looking for the best time to fight to decide the world.

"They seem to have pushed all the artillery up, and asked our soldiers to retreat into the woods to reduce the threat of the opponent's artillery." Qin Zuoming saw that the opponent's firepower increased, and asked the flag soldiers to wave the flag high.

The soldiers on the frontal battlefield saw Qin Zuoming's order and began to retreat into the woods.Due to the cover of the trees, the power of the heavy artillery was greatly reduced, and the bronze cannons could hardly damage them.

The Mughal emperor Shah Jahan was supervising the battle. The hour-long bombardment caused very little damage to both sides. The bronze cannons used by his artillerymen had very poor accuracy.

"You lead the Musketeers forward to test!" Seeing that the bronze cannons were useless, Shah Jahan asked one of his generals to lead the Musketeers.

The arquebus troops on the front of the Mughals began to move forward.

However, they soon realized how terrible the enemy's firepower was.

The smoothbore guns at the artillery position by the river shelled the arquebus gunners. At least 20 musketeers were killed by solid shells as they advanced!
"Let them get close before shooting."

The infantry battalion soldiers who had retreated into the woods raised their muskets and aimed at the arquebus men who were approaching outside.

Although these arquebus gunners seem to have a large number of people, the officers and soldiers of the No.12 regiment who came to support from Nanyang often attack the large number of indigenous kingdoms, and they will no longer be timid in front of the indigenous troops with crowd tactics.

"Shoot!" When the opponent's arquebus entered the deadly range, the soldier with the Dreiser rifle in the woods pulled the trigger!
There were musketeers in the woods, and the fierce firepower caused more than a dozen musketeers in the front to fall to the ground, while the pupils of the musketeers behind shrank suddenly, lit the fuse in a hurry, and aimed their arquebus guns at the woods.

Boom, boom!The volley of arquebus guns rang out, shooting meaninglessly into the woods.

The musketeers on both sides began to replace the artillery for short and medium distance confrontations!
The arquebus shooters were concentrated by stray bullets, and the losses were rising disproportionately!

The infantry who have the woods as cover have very little loss. The breech-loading rifles they use are reloaded extremely fast, which reduces many unnecessary and cumbersome reloading processes. The firepower of one soldier is equivalent to several arquebus gunners!

Shah Jahan saw that the arquebus gunners had the upper hand in the battle with fewer enemies, his face was cloudy, and he quickly ordered the arquebus gunners to retreat.

The arquebus gunners retreated after leaving dozens of corpses, and a dozen more were killed by muskets in the woods while escaping.

The Mughal cavalry and Tubang mercenaries on the right flank of the river bank are also testing each other, but it has not yet turned into a decisive battle.

Although Shah Jahan and a group of Mughal princes were full of confidence in their own military strength, they were still a little uneasy. They didn't know how confident the other party was with more than 3000 people to fight their 7 troops.

"There are only 1000 musketeers on the opposite side, but listening to the sound of muskets is definitely not 1000, but 4000 people, no, maybe more! Did they ambush the musketeers in advance in the woods?" The sound of muskets, I always feel that this is not the firepower that 1000 people should have.

The arquebus they commonly used from Persia limited their understanding of the musketeers, and they thought that the continuous firepower in the woods was because the opponent's other ambushed more people.

"Our rangers have already scouted this forest in advance. It is absolutely impossible for them to ambush in the forest in advance, unless they are the ambushes who started deploying last night. But where do they get so many soldiers?" the chief guard asked Shaja Khan swore he hadn't let up in his scouting.

"Anyway, be careful that there are ambushes in the woods, and push the artillery to the front!" Shah Jahan said.

Originally, the opponent's infantry retreated into the woods this time, and he thought that this might be a good opportunity for a full-scale attack, but he sent a musketeer forward to test it out. The opponent's counterattack was so strong that he couldn't help suspecting that there was an ambush in the woods, so he had to continue Experiment with artillery.

The two sides began to confront each other at 7 o'clock in the morning, and began to test each other's strength at 10 o'clock in the morning, and continued until 12 o'clock in the morning, and neither side was desperate.The soldiers on both sides were in a state of mental tension for more than 10 hours, and they were very tired.

The Governor of Bangladesh, Kasim, crossed the river with 15000 Bangladeshi troops, but his movements were slow, and after crossing the river, he began to stand still.

"Why didn't the troops on our right wing not move when they were trying to turn around?" Wu Yi discovered the abnormality of the Bengal Governor Qasim's troops.

Logically speaking, the opponent should quickly attack them from the side in a detour, instead of standing still after crossing the river.

"If my prediction is correct, it should be the people of the Governor of Bangladesh we are trying to win over. He is watching, and if the frontal battlefield is favorable, he may be fooling around." Guessed Qin Zuoming, who personally presided over the operation to win over Kasim.

"Win the governor of Bangladesh? What conditions did you promise him?" Wu Yi asked.

"Let him be the king of Bengal, do you think he will be tempted by this condition?" Qin Zuoming said.

"This condition is too tempting. Many princes will kill each other like moths to a flame. Our No.12 Corps often plays like this in Nanyang. In order to become the new king, the dignitaries of the indigenous kingdoms would like to use other The rich and powerful are defeated, and they all take the initiative to cooperate with us." Wu Yi said.

"As long as we show a strong side on the front line, this fool will probably fall on our side." Qin Zuoming looked at the army led by the Governor of Bangladesh with some deep meaning.

"You mean it's time for us to fight back?"

"Correct."

When Qin Zuoming and others were about to fight back, a drop of rainwater suddenly fell on the back of their hands.

Qin Zuoming, Wu Yi and others looked up at the sky, and the sky began to become gloomy.

"The rainy season in Bangladesh is too annoying..." Qin Zuoming said helplessly.

The two sides were using firepower to test, but they didn't expect it to start raining at this time, and there was no way to continue fighting at this time.

"Everyone protect firearms!" Wu Yi ordered.

(End of this chapter)