Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 738 The Battle of Buxar
After all, following the emperor’s wishes, the Mughal civil and military officials went north first to Agra Fort to preside over the completion of the Taj Mahal Mosque. In the halls and yards of Fort Aragat, the walls are hung with silk brocades from Daming. A large porcelain vase that is rarely seen by rich people is placed in a corner. The bowls, chopsticks and teacups used are all burnt-flower porcelain from Daming , Ice-cracked porcelain, extremely valuable.

In particular, because of the severance of diplomatic relations with Daming, the expensive black tea, which has already risen to one gold coin and one tael, can be freely drunk. As many as tens of thousands of dignitaries, princes and ministers attended the tea party.

It is estimated that the prosperity of the opening ceremony and the tea party can be passed down in Indian legends for hundreds of years.

In July, the hottest weather, the satisfied emperor Shah Jahan finally marched towards Buksar in Bihar Subba with all his civil and military officials.

By the time of Shah Jahan, the Mughal Empire had really reached its heyday. Thirty thousand pairs of royal legions, Qing Yishui, were composed of noble children, all dressed in gold-plated armor with animal heads and various decorations. More than 1 royal troops The cavalrymen are extremely tall, and their coat colors are almost the same. Horsehead Mountain also has this gorgeous gold-plated decoration.

The entire imperial guards look resplendent and magnificent, rich and powerful. However, if such an army walks alone in the countryside of the country, it may be robbed by others. Watching each one of them kicking their horses and swaying forward is arrogant. The sons of the nobles don't want to be able to fight bloody battles.

Fortunately, the Mughals didn't care. The empire was rich and powerful. There were more than 20 troops on the front line.

Sitting in the towering elephant back building, Shah Jahan even started to stroke his slender beard, thinking deeply, after defeating the Ming army, whether to eunuch all the captives and send them to the palace, or use their The head built a pyramid in the province of Bihar to show its martial arts?
I heard that the Han emperors in the Ming Dynasty had [-] Han eunuchs, and the Han eunuchs were more careful and delicate in serving people than those Egyptians and Persians, so it is better to be castrated!

Under the admiring eyes of the nearby royal legion, the ruler of the sky and the earth seemed to have finally made a decision in contemplation.

The army of the Mughal Empire was short of commanders, so they stood still, but the Ming expeditionary army on the opposite side also did not act rashly. It was not that Li Dingguo didn't want to make some small moves. In fact, the whole of North India belonged to the vast Ganges River Plain, and the terrain was extremely flat. The expeditionary force was only more than 9000, and the cavalry was [-] to [-], but the opponent had a full [-] cavalry.

Especially the Deccan Legion, this army of more than 4 has long competed with the Safavid Dynasty in Central Asia for the Kandahar region in Persia, and once went south and successively broke through several Indian kingdoms on the Deccan Plateau. Compared with other lazy Tubang troops, this army especially made Li Dingguo afraid.

On July 22, after almost three months of preparations, the Buksar front line, which consumed countless food and grass in the Ganges Plain, finally ushered in their commander. In the military camps with a radius of more than ten miles, Shajah can be heard everywhere. Khan's cheers, the Indian army's power is indeed earth-shattering, even the Ming army's expeditionary force on the other side of the tributary of the Ganges was shocked by the cheers.

"finally come!"

Following the countless Ming soldiers who walked out of the tent, Li Dingguo also picked up the binoculars. In the lens tube, Li Dingguo's glasses were almost dazzled by a burst of golden light. After a long time, he found Shah Jahan sitting on an elephant in the golden armor. , After staring at it for a while, Li Dingguo couldn't help sighing.

"You're so fucking rich!"

"It's no wonder that Uncle and those major shareholders of the West India Company are willing to spend so much money to help the army go out. Damn it, I want to go there now and snatch these upstarts!"

"Li Shuai! Before robbing them, don't forget that there are more than 20 troops in front of them!"

The disturbing voice came from behind. I have never fought a battle with such a disparity in the number of people in my life. Fatty Wang, who was worth more than one hundred thousand taels after a round of fighting, followed closely with a sad face, and also raised his hand. Telescope, asked quite worriedly.

"Do you really want to trust that foreign prince? Is he really willing to betray his father for us?"

"Ask Mr. Li about this!"

The soldier has been in the army for a long time, and the good people are regarded as ruffians, with an unscrupulous smile on his face, tilting his head, Li Dingguo smiled and looked back at Li Xiaohei, but the latter obviously didn't give face, he was not confident, Li Dingguo let out a depressing snort when his honest father was able to accomplish such a big thing.

"No fun!"

"Deputy Commander Wang, anyway, no matter whether he, the prince, will betray or not, we have to fight across the river and defeat these rich Mughals on the opposite side, otherwise, we have to go back to face the court-martial law enforcement officer and Sun Chuanting, Mr. Sun's dead face, it would be better if he betrayed, if he doesn't betray, we will beat him together!"

This time is different from the time when he followed Wu Sangui. If he followed Wu Sangui all the way to Heilongjiang, he would really follow the country and lose his family. Song Qingshu was merciless about the liquidation of these hostile generals, and he was often executed directly after a public trial. , but now, those who die in battle are considered martyrs, and there is still a pension. In the future, when Daming regains Shaanxi, the Wang family is still a wealthy family, but they can go to a military court, and the reward of more than [-] taels will be gone.

Anyway, there is no way out now, and Wang Fuchen also clasped his fists heavily when he was heartbroken.

"The last general will follow Li Shuai, and he will go through fire and water without hesitation!"

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To say that the emperor's ostentation is really big enough, the two armies have been facing each other around this shallow tributary of the Ganges River for three months. This Shah Jahan has not yet attacked when he came, and he waited for more than three days.

Li Dingguo couldn't bear it anymore. He went deep alone, and he didn't know that the city was rebelling behind his back.If it goes on, there are too many variables, which is not good for him. For several days in a row, he sent scouts to harass him. However, this Shah Jahan didn't know if he belonged to a tortoise, but he just didn't move his nest.

It was another day when the sun was rising in the east. Looking at the opposite side under the awning built by the trench by the river, he didn’t know how to celebrate. It seemed that the Mughal Empire’s army had won. After watching it with binoculars for a long time, Li Dingguo suddenly impatiently looked at it. Throwing the binoculars to his chest, he looked back at the warm sun at ten o'clock, and suddenly nodded to Wang Fuchen.

"The sun is good today, and it's a good weather for fighting!"

"Li Shuai is right."

Habitually, Wang Fuchen, who was drinking water, nodded his fat head and followed suit. Who knew that before he finished speaking, he slapped his thigh. Li Dingguo suddenly became excited and waved his hand to greet the messenger.

"Deputy Marshal Wang also agreed, come here, immediately challenge the opponent, tell the Mughals to retreat ten miles, and get out of the battlefield. Our army will cross the river and fight them decisively!"

Phew~ The water from Wang Fuchen's mouth simply sprayed the opposite soldier's face.

The numbers are at an absolute disadvantage, and the tactical thinking of the Ming army has always relied on cannons. Under such circumstances, Li Dingguo wanted to abandon heavy artillery and solid fortresses, and take the initiative to attack the 23-strong Mughal Empire army with 7000 cavalry. Wang Fuchen really felt that he was crazy.

But this side sent the messenger away, and the other side looked at Wang Fuchen's stunned face, which was plump and oily, and Li Dingguo confidently blinked his handsome eyelids again.

"Deputy Marshal Wang, you should have heard of the Battle of Feishui!"

Just when Deputy Commander Wang suddenly realized something, he lazily pulled out the revolver from his waist, fiddled with it twice, and looked at the well-maintained magazine, where six bullets were neatly stuck. The gunpowder in the back was also hammered, and he stretched out his hand to close the magazine, and looked at the opposite side leisurely, Li Dingguo's plain words suddenly revealed a sharp murderous intent.

"The king of the Mughals certainly doesn't know!"

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Shah Jahan really didn't know that more than 1000 years ago, there was a northern monarch named Fu Jian who led an army of 98 to attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty. As a result, he was on the edge of Feishui. When the [-] Beifu soldiers were defeated, the huge former Qin Empire was also ruined.

In the Mughal camp, they were still praying in front of the battle according to the religious rules of a trace of blue. The reason why there was no attack for three days was that the Mughal army was too mixed and chaotic. The princes and princes speak different languages, let alone fight together. For this reason, even if they don’t know the allusion of the Battle of Feishui, when they heard that the envoys of the Ming army came to invite the battle and asked the Mughal army to retreat a certain distance, they would be shocked. The first thought is still to say no.

"Go back and tell your general that the rulers of heaven and earth will cross the river in a few days and eunuch them and fill them into the palace, and let them wait!"

Without even thinking about it, Shah Jahan, who was kneeling on the carpet and praying, stretched out his hand and wanted to send the messenger away. Who knew that before the eunuch walked out, there was a man next to him wearing simple chain armor, with a big beard, thick eyebrows and big eyes like a rough man. People who are more warriors than nobles suddenly stood up.

"Father, this is an opportunity. Don't refuse it. If we defeat the Ming army here, the Ming army will be wiped out with nowhere to retreat. If the stalemate continues for a long time, the Ming army will be timid and retreat eastward." , then they have cannons comparable to the French, the British and the Dutch will become a great obstacle to our army, and it will take at least one or two years of war to bring Bangladesh back to the embrace of the ruler of the sky and the earth.”

"Food, not enough support!"

"Father, the third child is right!"

Although I don't know why it's so rare that my younger brother, who is more cunning than a fox, is willing to take the initiative to attack, but the second prince, Shashuja, the deputy king of Bengal, jumped out almost immediately, and then kowtowed to the ground.

"The sooner you defeat the Ming Kou, the sooner you can bring the Bengal province back into the sacred arms of the Mughals!"

Shashuja's mother's family power is in Bengal, and all his property is there. In the whole Mughal, there is no one who is more eager to march than him.

"Our army has more than 20 soldiers, including more than [-] cavalrymen who are brave and skilled in combat. The Ming bandits only have [-] soldiers, and they are all infantry. Your Majesty, this is a fighter!"

Diarmuid, the prime minister of Mirbakhshi, the chief military administrator, also stood up in agreement, but he was also cursing his mother in his heart. Just now the third prince Aurangzeb was right. In recent years, the empire has spent too much resources on the The construction of the Taj Mahal and the Red Fort is underway, and the army's food reserves are indeed not sufficient.

Of course, he wasn't worried about the army's hunger. The commander-in-chief of the empire was not that noble, but he exchanged the old grain for new grain, embezzled the army grain in the name of abandoning it, and sold it to Ming Dynasty. Once the war protracted, it would not be covered. It is easy to become a target for attacks by political opponents.

Seeing in astonishment that his two sons and the commander-in-chief agreed, and the rest of the generals and ministers did not show any objection, Shah Jahan nodded after hesitating.

"Go and tell the envoys of the Ming people that the rulers of heaven and earth have challenged!"

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Amidst the din, soldiers from various Suba administrative regions of the Mughals began to dismantle their tents and retreated. The level of military training in each province was different. Some were fast and some were slow. You can see the commander everywhere looking for his stupid soldiers with a stomach full of anger. The Mughal army that was originally like a tofu block is like being stepped on suddenly.

Especially for the Chinese army, it is too laborious to move away the many Persian street stalls, golden wine vessels, singers and dancers, and things for eating, drinking and having fun, where there are many rulers of the sky and the earth. Still not done yet.

Looking at the chaos, Aurangzeb, who had just spoken out in the tent, showed an unprecedented contempt in his dark brown eyes, which were somewhat similar to Dorgon, and suddenly put the very Persian style, Dai Wearing a nose guard, but with a plain helmet without any decoration on his head, Aurangzeb hummed and kicked his horse towards his Deccan army.

Just at this moment, the Odo River, a tributary of the slowly flowing Ganges River, boiled. On the bank, countless wooden boats were thrown into the water. Paddle the water quickly and swim to the opposite bank. In some places where the water is shallow, the cavalry rushes forward with a roar, and Li Dingguo's assault boat is at the forefront.

"Brothers, do you want to go home? Do you want to use the gold and silver you earn back to buy land and build a house to marry a wife! This battle is over. After defeating the barbarians on the opposite side, everyone can go home! Follow me and attack!"

Compared with the huge and lazy team of the Mughals, the expeditionary force seemed too well-trained. It landed on the opposite bank in less than 3 minutes, and in less than 5 minutes, the six-pound guns at the four corners of the five hollow phalanxes were basically It took shape, and in 1 minutes, two cavalry divisions wrapped a huge army formation and appeared in front of the still messy Mughal army. Not far away, you could even see Mughal soldiers who were anxiously dismantling their tents. expression.

Papa fired three shots in a row, Li Dingguo's eyes were bright and he yelled loudly like a falcon staring at a rabbit.

"attack!!!"

(End of this chapter)