When Mahmoud received information that Allahabad had been captured by coalition forces, the sultan, who had shown a lot of military and political talent since childhood, almost fell off his horse.

"Five days, just five days, Allahabad fell into the hands of thieves?"

Mahmud jumped to his feet angrily and scolded: "Even if 40,000 monkeys are put there for the Ming people to catch, will they be caught in five days?" ”

"Now that Allahabad has fallen, then our support is no longer necessary, honorable Sultan, let's withdraw to Delhi and prepare for the next battle."

The governor from the Nivayin region spoke his mind, but the offer was met with a mocking look from Mahmud.

"Do you know where we're going to support?

It's Allahabad, and you're telling me to retreat back to Delhi now to fight a positional battle with the Ming army?

Do you think that Delhi is more important or Allahabad is more important, the Ming army does not attack Delhi to the south, believe it or not, thousands of miles are invincible. ”

The governor was reprimanded for his lack of temper, and he muttered, but his voice was too small for Mahmud to hear.

Maybe even if he heard it clearly, he wouldn't be in the mood to pursue it now.

Mahmud simply continued to urge the march, and then, seeing the outline of the familiar city, ordered the army to stop.

The head of the city changed the banner of the king, and hundreds of flags of the Ming army deeply pierced Mahmud's eyeballs.

"Can you tell anything from this city?"

Mahmud raised his horsewhip and pointed to the bloodstained city wall and asked the dozens of governors on the left and right, but received few responses, and the big guys did not understand what Mahmud meant.

"The city is very well preserved."

The endless remarks made the governors wonder even more, what did Mahmud mean by what he meant?

"Half a month ago, the Ming army advanced into the Ganges Plain from Banggara, and it was mentioned in the military situation at that time that there were hundreds of cannons in the Ming army's military formation, which are some relevant records left by the Mongols in the book."

Mahmud said in a deep voice: "It is a weapon that can fight far and is extremely powerful. The merchants of Ceylon had a history of communication with Southeast Asia, and once said that the Ming fleets relied on this weapon to cross the seas, and countless city-states could not bear the walls of the city for even a quarter of an hour before they were blown to pieces.

But if you look at Allahabad, there is not even a single hole in the wall that has been blown open, and you say, what about the cannons of the Ming people? ”

The governors understood what Mahmud meant, and one of them said solemnly: "The Ming people who have come this time know the importance of Allahabad. ”

"yes, that's the hardest enemy to deal with."

Mahmud sighed, he wished he had come here to see a ruin.

In that case, he could rush in front of the Ming army, raise the banner of asking for the people's lives, and call on all caste slaves in this land to resist the invasion of the Ming army.

After all, in terms of identity, the Delhi Sultanate and the Ming army were both invaders of this land.

Caste slaves have never cared who is the master of the land, their bottom line can be lowered again and again, but dogs will jump over the wall when they are in a hurry.

Allahabad fell, and in terms of righteousness, the Ming had surpassed the Delhi Sultanate.

"Set up camp and make up your army."

Mahmud didn't have much to say at this time, he just wanted to recapture the city quickly: "It is impossible for the Ming army to spend long with us here, their food for more than 100,000 people all depends on logistics, and they will definitely come out of the city to seek a decisive battle, and if they blindly hide in the city, they will starve to death." ”

As Mahmud said, after seeing Mahmud's army, the Ma army in Allahabad waited for three days without waiting for the imaginary siege battle, and then understood Mahmud's thoughts, and said to Chen Chunsheng with a smile.

"This Mahmoud is not a fool, but I underestimated him."

Want to block hundreds of thousands of coalition troops in the city until they run out of food?

"He really thinks that Lao Tzu is afraid of fighting with them in the field?"

Looking at the city, the Delhi camp more than ten miles away could not be seen for a while, and Ma Dajun had a rough estimate in his heart.

"Judging from this number, Mahmud has gathered all the governors of the provinces of the Delhi Sultanate, which can be regarded as the power of the country."

Dadokel was also taken aback by this huge number, and he said with some concern: "Your Excellency, commander-in-chief, why don't we defend the city, it is not a good strategy to abandon the city and attack." ”

"Since ancient times, there are only a few people who hold on, how can there be a reason for hundreds of thousands of troops to shrink into the city?"

Ma Dajun glanced at him and frowned dissatisfiedly: "Not to mention anything else, as far as military rations are concerned, we won't be able to resist for long." ”

Allahabad is surrounded by rivers on both sides, which is not only easy to defend but difficult to attack, but also provides convenience for the besieging party.

"If you want to go out of the city to fight in the field, the mountain in the southwest must be defeated."

Chen Chunsheng turned his head left and right to observe the landform of Allahabad, raised his hand and pointed to a small hill not far away: "If the artillery array is placed here, you can do whatever you want from a high position, and it is easy to break the Delhi army." ”

"Siwa Mountain!"

At the same time that Chen Chunsheng discovered this advantageous location, Mahmud outside the city had already discovered this key point, and he slapped it on the map in the camp.

"If the Ming army goes out of the city to confront our army, it is bound to capture Siwa Mountain to arrange their artillery, so we must take this place down first."

Mahmud was convinced that his guess would not be wrong, so he decisively ordered: "Al Sahaji, you take five thousand men to guard Mount Siwa." ”

This is his henchman, who turned around and walked out of the tent after hearing the words.

"Five thousand?"

The governor of Nivai questioned: "If this Siwa Mountain is so important, why did you send five thousand men?" ”

If it weren't for the current battle, Mahmud would have been eager to strangle this stupid teammate.

"Keep your eyes open and go out and take a good look, how many people can be put in Siwa Mountain, it's just a small hill."

Before Governor Nivai could speak, Mahmud said sincerely: "My dearest brother, I hope you will not speak until this war is over, okay?" ”

If he heard the stupid monkey's opinion again, Mahmud felt that he might not be able to restrain his temper.

As soon as the Delhi army moved, the army of horses at the head of the city saw it.

"This enemy is not easy to deal with."

In terms of distance, the Delhi army was close to Allahabad, and even if the Ming army sent troops out of the city now, it would not be possible to reach Mount Siwa before the Delhi army.

"If it's hard to deal with, you have to fight."

Looking around, Ma Dajun ordered: "Order the army to go out of the city, since he Mahmud wants to fight a field battle, then we will accompany him to fight." ”

Cowardice before fighting has never been Ma Dajun's temper.

"Of course, we can't be brutal, tell Zhou Yunfan's kid, let him bring five thousand people, and let me find a way to take back the Siwa Mountain Heights."

Chen Chunsheng answered, hurriedly summoned several heralds and began to give orders, and in an instant, the city of Allahabad ordered the flag to be unfurled, and the horn was full of horns.

"The Ming army can't sit still."

As soon as the city gate opened, I watched the coalition troops pouring out of the city like a tidal wave, and Mahmud standing on the watchtower of the main camp was in full view.

"Do you want to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Ming army?"

Mahmud was impressed by the offer, but he quickly denied it.

"You look at the military formation of the Ming army, they did not run out in a swarm, but the military formation was rigorous, the cavalry first went out to guard the two wings, and then the shield, and the hundreds of artillery pieces on the city were not busy dismantling, just to prevent us from sneaking attack."

In the battle of hundreds of thousands of people, both sides were cautious.

"So we're going to just wait?"

"Wait."

Mahmud was not in a hurry at this time: "We have blocked the Ming army here, are we afraid that they will not be able to fly with wings?" After all, we take advantage of the heavy supplies, and I don't believe that their one-eyed general can calm down. ”

Mahmud's confident stance gave confidence to the governors, and everyone settled down and waited for the opportunity to arise.

At the same time, Mahmud's caution also gave Ma Dajun a headache.

"It's all surnamed Ma, and this bastard doesn't know how to cooperate with Lao Tzu at all."

After scolding, Ma Dajun laughed again.

The opponent is a little level, and he feels happy.

If the Delhi army rushed to attack the city, and then was blown up under the artillery, the Ma army felt that it was not interesting.

"Since he gave us time, let's set up the camp outside the city first, and then dismantle the cannons."

"Dismantling?"

Chen Chunsheng was stunned for a moment: "Once we dismantle the artillery, this group of Delhi troops will definitely come to attack us." ”

The Delhi army has not launched an offensive so far, and what the rat thrower is afraid of is not the artillery array of the Ming Dynasty.

"There is a trick in the art of war, which is called drawing troops and adding stoves, hiding from the sky and crossing the sea."

Ma Dajun said teasingly: "Why should we dismantle all the cannons at once, and dismantle the two hundred giant arquebuses one by one, so that I can see if Mahmud can calm down, and he doesn't know the characteristics of these four hundred cannons in our city." ”

Leave the cannon that can hit the long range at the head of the city, and the melee use will be dismantled first to induce Mahmud, this is the idea of the Ma army.

Anyway, two hundred huge arquebuses were placed on the top of the city, and they could not be used.

After all, this thing has a short range, and the coalition forces are out of the city again.

Before he could hit the enemy, he wounded himself first.

Ma Dajun's strategy worked, as soon as the Ming army dismantled the artillery, the Delhi army riders roaming under the city discovered this phenomenon and conveyed the military situation to Mahmud's tent in real time.

"The Ming army is now dismantling artillery and transporting it outside the city."

Mahmud's tangled eyebrows tightened: "If it continues, we can only watch them move the artillery array from the head of the city to the outside of the city." ”

Tear down one door, build one door, and then tear down the second door.

The artillery position shifted again at an almost slow pace, but it kept the fire at full height.

"Call me when the Ming army dismantles the fifty gates."

"Fifty doors."

"A hundred doors call me."

"A hundred."

"Call me at one hundred and fifty gates."

"One hundred and fifty."

The tangled Mahmud stood up suddenly: "Order the front army, attack!" ”

He didn't dare to wait any longer, wait any longer, and wait until all the artillery arrays of the Ming army were transferred, and the Ming army could comfortably march step by step and counterattack him Mahmud step by step.

Tens of thousands of Turkic cavalrymen with scimitars and scarves on their heads instigated their horses, screaming and unreining their horses.

"You say they fight when they fight, why do you have to cover your nose and mouth with a cloth?"

In the face of the overwhelming battle, Ma Dajun still had the heart to laugh, although his expression was more serious than anyone else.

This was only a tentative offensive by the Delhi army, but it also involved tens of thousands of troops.

"Let's test the guns."

Based on visual inspection alone, Ma Dajun didn't know how far away this group of green cultists was from him, so he simply ordered directly.

The flag was unfurled, and the two hundred general cannons on the head of the city roared.

Relying on the high profit of the city, this first round of shells shot a full 300 zhang!

Numerous deep pits were left outside the city of Allahabad.

Although all the test guns in this round were empty, they played an unexpected role.

Cannonball-shaped traps!

The cavalry advance of the Delhi army was curbed.

And this round of artillery also frightened Mahmud's eyes wide.

"How could the artillery of the Ming army hit so far?"

His rangers had been spying on the army at a distance of about one or two hundred zhang from Allahabad, but they had not been attacked, and he thought that the artillery of the Ming army should be a record left by the Mongols during the invasion in ancient books.

One hundred and eighty feet.

And now it seems, one hundred and eighty zhang?

It's all three hundred feet!

For this distance of 300 zhang, how many lives will his Mahmud's army have to fill it?

But the order to charge the front army has been issued, and the army has already rushed into battle, and it is nonsense to order a retreat at this time.

"Dosti has no cowards, they will burst out with the greatest courage under the gaze of Allah and will not be intimidated by death."

Now, Mahmud had no choice but to brainwash himself with religious beliefs, and then a second round of artillery rang out in his ears.

This round of 200 shells smashed into the formation of the Turkic cavalry!

Countless stumps and severed arms, horse legs and horse bodies rose and fell in the sky, and large expanses of blood mist mixed with dust fell to the ground in pieces of blood-brown mud.

"Allah!"

The courage of the Turkic Green Cultists was not so easily intimidated, they shouted Allah and continued to charge.

3rd, 4th, 5th.

There were three rounds of artillery roaring in a row, and due to the fact that the artillery array did not have the detonation technology, there were nearly seventy percent of the Turkic cavalry who were alive close to the Ming army's military formation.

At this time, Mahmud's face still did not have any joy, but became more and more solemn.

Fifty zhang, what about the bow and crossbow of the Ming army?

Could it be that the Ming army still intends to continue to fire artillery when the two armies are about to engage in short combat?

Soon, Mahmud's doubts were answered.

The artillery guns that had been unloaded by the Ming army earlier showed a bloody mouth.

Just as the Turkic cavalry was within fifty feet and continued to move forward, thick ropes of fire were ignited.

"Boom!"

A giant arquebus can be loaded with hundreds of lead shots, but what about two hundred?

The eyes of many of the Turkic cavalry widened, and they only had time to see the countless blinding fires, and then they felt a tearing pain coming from all over their bodies.

The oncoming half-metal storm knocked them into a sieve.

This is the real killer weapon of the Ming army!

A means of military strike far beyond this era.

Fifty zhang, this distance was not even enough for the Turkic cavalry to launch a cavalry fire, and they suffered a devastating blow first.

And when this half-metal storm swept over, after the artillery array of the Ming coalition army, the shield bearers and pikemen took a step forward and launched a reverse charge towards the Green Cult soldiers, who had completely lost the momentum of the charge.

"Outflank the cavalry on both flanks and make dumplings for this Delhi army."

If Mahmud is a fright, then the Ma army is a surprise.

The test artillery when it was accepted for armament earlier was to hit the air, but now the effect of using it on the battlefield is real.

Sure enough, it was the harvesting of human lives that made people even more excited.

The Turkic soldiers who survived had no heart to shout for Allah at this time, and they faced the spears stabbed by the coalition soldiers stupidly against the bloody and fragmentary corpse pendants left by their comrades in front of them.

The two armies are at war and take advantage of them first.

There is no doubt that the Turkic soldiers at this time were completely robbed of their courage, not to mention their strength.

Don't bring such a war!