Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 562 War on the Eastern Front (please subscribe!)

His eyes shifted back to the Eastern Front.

Just when Kangxi was about to attack Delhi and Agra, Daming also launched an offensive.

Zhu Kezang was not satisfied with Bengal and ordered the expeditionary force to continue to attack.

On March 1690, 1, Qian Yan led more than [-] people from the Sixth Town of Jinwei and [-] Dongying Congregation Army to attack Bihar in the west.

Considering that the army of the Governor of Bangladesh Shaista Khan has been defeated and collapsed, the number of troops marching into Bihar, which is not particularly wealthy, is not large.

Since ancient times, the provinces near the capital are often not particularly rich, and they understand everything.

Behind Bihar is Agra.

The other troops of Ming Dynasty are resting in Bengal. After the rest, they will catch up with Qian Yan and continue to attack Agra in the west.

Shaista Khan is not just negotiating peace with Daming, he is also mobilizing follow-up troops.

Aurangzeb sent [-] troops from Agra to the city of Patna in Bihar.

Together with Shaista Khan's original 8 people, a total of 15 troops were formed.

In this way, 25 on the west front and 15 on the east front, the Mughals mobilized a total of 40 people.

This is a very terrifying number. In the whole world, Ming, Ottoman and their Mughal Empire can mobilize so many troops at one time.

With 40 troops, logistics alone is a huge problem.

If an agricultural country wants to quickly mobilize 40 troops into battle, it will take several months, or even a year or so, to prepare.

However, the Mughal Empire was able to mobilize 40 troops within a month, which is quite good.

All the way from Agra to Bihar is the Ganges Plain, which can collect food locally and transport it by ship, which greatly reduces the logistical burden of the Mughals to a certain extent.

The army of 15 rushed up in one brain, and it was quite terrifying without a good position.

After Qian Yan learned the news from the Royal Air Force scouts, he didn't dare to be careless.

Quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, not to mention 15 people, even 15 pigs rushing up, that is all shaking the earth.

And he only has [-] guards. Even if the Dongpu Congregation Army can fight, their weapons are not as good as the Ming Army!
When he learned that his opponent had only 3 people, Maratha, a general from Agra, wanted to ask for a fight and grab a credit.

As soon as Maratha opened his mouth, other people also asked for a fight, wanting to claim credit.

Obviously these Turkic Mongols from Agra have never seen the horror of the Ming army.

Seeing the high morale of his subordinates, Shaista Khan was also very pleased, and dared to fight no matter what.

"Be careful, the Ming army is different!"

However, Maratha and other generals of the Mughal imperial capital did not listen to him seriously at all.

At this time, he could not stop fighting, and Agra was behind him. If he stayed in the city and the enemy bypassed them to fight Agra, the Mughals would be waiting to die.

He began to arrange military deployment, and let Maratha lead the chariot soldiers and sword and shield soldiers to charge the Ming army from the front.

Let another general Mudra lead the cavalry to go around the flank of the Ming army and attack the flank of the Ming army.

Another general, Bahadu, led the Musketeers to charge from the middle to shoot each other with the Ming army.

Very well-behaved head-on field play, nothing eye-catching.

But if the strength of the Ming army is about the same, there is nothing wrong with his arrangement.

The two sides contacted at noon, and the forwards of the two sides met less than 2000 meters away.

As for the army, it is still in the rear.

With 15 people, it is impossible to pile all of them on the front line.

The 15 troops of the Mughal Empire almost covered this area, with a depth of several kilometers.

The vanguards of the two armies came into contact, and they fought without saying a word.

Qian Yan's was a battalion of more than 1000 people in the sixth town and more than 1000 Japanese Confederates. The Mughals had a mixed force of infantry and archers, with almost 1 people.

The two sides fought, and the Mughals set up a formation here, with archers in front and infantry behind, and then approached the Chinese army.

This is their traditional method of warfare. Let the archers enter the range first, and then shoot out all the seven or eight bows and arrows in their hands in the shortest time, and then retreat to the side, and the infantry charges.

The reason why the elite archers from Agra bring so few arrows is entirely because they pursue preemptive strikes, so they want to shoot as far as possible than the opponent.

This requires pulling the bowstring to a full extent, which takes a lot of effort.

Being able to shoot seven or eight arrows in a short period of time is considered pretty good.

And don't underestimate the power of this wave of projectiles, it is quite powerful against dense formations.

It's a pity that what they encountered this time was the Ming army with trigger rifles. This was their sorrow.

In the past, when they fought, they were often the first to strike, because their archers had a long range.

However, this time, it was the Ming army who fought first, and their rifles had a longer range.

While the archers were still advancing, the Ming army opened fire.

Faced with these defenseless enemies who came over in a foolish formation, Gao Meng, the general of the Green Battalion, was filled with emotion.

Once upon a time, their Qing soldiers fought against Daming so foolishly.

Because of his meritorious service in defending Ganzhou and his force value, Gao Meng entered the ranks of the Guards. He was the battalion commander of an infantry battalion in the sixth town.

"Kill, let these barbarians know how powerful I am."

A soldier next to him yelled and fired.

The gunfire rang out, and at the same time the artillery sounded from the rear.

This time Qian Yan did not bring much artillery, a total of [-] mortars and [-] rifled guns.

When the artillery supported Gaomeng's battalion, they didn't fire at full power. They just fired forty mortar guns. This was because they were worried about scaring the enemy away at once, and also to save ammunition.

With the sound of the guns, the shells accurately fell into the army of the Mughal Empire.

Suddenly, a lot of screams sounded.

Their formation is too dense, and this formation is simply giving away the head against the powerful artillery.

"Go faster."

The Mughal commander hurriedly shouted that they hadn't entered the effective range at this time, and they couldn't even fight back.

The archers immediately accelerated their pace, but as they were advancing, some people kept falling down.

How is this going?

This is the confusion in the hearts of all soldiers from Agra.

In the past, when they fought wars, they were absolutely safe at this distance. Why are people dying now, and a large number of them are dying.

Although they couldn't figure out why, they could also realize that this situation was very bad and very dangerous.

Smart Bengali soldiers are already hiding behind!
It's also thanks to the long range of these Agra longbowmen, otherwise they really wouldn't be able to fight back.

And now, after a difficult charge, they finally came within their range.

However, because of running so fast, they were all out of breath at this time.

The comrades beside him were still falling one after another, and these people couldn't care less about panting, they took out their arrows one after another, 321 opened the group, and the counterattack began from this moment!
(End of this chapter)