Chapter Seventy-Four: The Battle of Delhi (I)

Yellow sand rolling.

At the head of Delhi, Jing Si held a telescope in both hands, staring at the enemies that were emerging on the horizon.

It is said that it was also the inspiration of the Great Emperor to polish two particularly transparent glass lenses into a convex shape and put them in a special slender wooden tube, which can be seen at a greater distance than the naked eye.

If there are still people in the current empire who are not in awe of the Great Emperor, Jing Si does not believe it at all.

Of course, it may be far away from the center, far away from the army, and the officials and people at the bottom are not so deeply felt, but the more prominent they are in the empire, the more they fear the emperor, only increase.

Even if the Great Emperor has been missing for ten or eight years, I am afraid that this kind of awe can maintain the operation of the entire empire as usual.

The cabinet ministers have long been accustomed to the absence of the emperor in the capital.

Originally, walking with the Great Emperor in the Southern Regions, Jing Hei felt that he was on vacation, but now, the Great Emperor was concentrating on dealing with the Chola Empire in the south, and the heavy responsibility of fighting against the fanatical jihadist army in the north was on his shoulders.

The Great Emperor had a long talk with him several times, and he understood that once this fanatical sect army invaded the sphere of influence radiated by the Great Qi, it would cause all kinds of evil consequences, and even have an extremely far-reaching impact on future generations.

Every time I listen to the emperor's teachings, it is like opening a window, and my understanding of this world is different from before.

These enemies that gradually appeared under the city of Delhi were so different from the enemies faced by the Great Qi army before.

The first to appear on the horizon were the camel cavalry, scimitar knights, each wearing snow-white robes, and from a distance, it looked like a blizzard pouring in layer by layer, bringing an incomparably cold and intimidating atmosphere.

In another direction, countless war elephants were driven out, their tusks tied to sharp knives, and the giant elephants let out an astonishing howl and galloped away, bringing up more yellow sand.

Farther away, the huge stone thrower is slowly revealing its silhouette.

Obviously, the Emir of Ghaznavid, which was bound to win this battle, was almost exhausted by the main army in the east.

This battle, this is destined to go down in history!

Enemies, is it very different? If they become dead, what is the difference between them and those Nanban and Beihu?

After Ghaznavid sent the son of the emir, the Subuk agent who had great ambitions for the conquest of the Quartet was officially identified as the heir and the emir's mistress had been executed, he knew that today's war was inevitable, and he also sent a secret letter to the emperor, but the emperor did not reply, apparently believing that he could guard the gate of this southern province.

Thinking about it, Jing Si's heart and chest, the blood gradually boiled, looking back at the south, in the rolling yellow sand, the sky was overcast, but faintly, there was a cloud, but it was like a vague figure, sitting on the top of the cloud, staring at the entire battlefield.

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Subuk's agent slowly reined in the reins of his horse and looked at the outline of Delhi City in the yellow sand in the distance.

It is heard that the city of Delhi was renamed Feisha City by the Qi people, also known as "Ancheng", which means the city of peace and tranquility.

But the Subuk agent never believed in the existence of peace.

I heard that Qi is the successor of China, the extremely powerful capital in the Far East, the continuation of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and more powerful than the Han and Tang Dynasties, with fertile land, rich residents, and a legendary paradise-like flower world.

When the Abbasids were extremely strong, the caliph promised the great emir of the East that whoever first set foot on the land of China would be the governor of China, and the Western Regions called China at that time had a large number of protectorates living under its wings, when the iron hooves of the caliph entered this area, these infidels were terrified and asked for help from China, and the Chinese army at that time was extremely proud, preemptively, marching thousands of miles west, defeating the first few emirs to enter the East, and then, a conflict broke out with the main army of the caliphate.

Eventually, the Chinese army was isolated and defeated because one of its client states was bribed by the caliphate's commander, but the caliphate's legions of jihad also suffered heavy losses, thus giving up their coveting of many protectorates in the Western Regions of China.

Unexpectedly, in the east of the Five Rivers Basin, an army from China in the far east suddenly appeared.

The local natives said that China's territory had not reached the Ganges Valley before, and the Chinese had just arrived last year.

It is not known whether the Chinese had to migrate west to the south after encountering a strong enemy further east and north, or whether the Chinese had already overcome their powerful enemies in the north and east and expanded to the south.

For a long time, I heard that the Chinese are tired of fighting the northern enemy, and in their own blood, it seems that there is also the blood of their ancestors who were expelled from the north by the Chinese, but various enemies in the north have emerged one after another, and it has always been a great trouble for the Chinese.

Therefore, my father, who was old and frail and had lost his enterprising spirit, did not want to blindly go to war with the Chinese, but he did not think so.

The population of the Chinese migrating to the Ganges should be very small, and its army is only a few thousand people, plus the servant army recruited locally, at most only 20,000 or 30,000, and the combat effectiveness of the local natives is almost negligible.

It was not so difficult to defeat the Chinese and expel them from the Ganges, and my father thought so, but he was afraid of incurring retaliation from the Chinese.

But this place is extremely far from the Chinese mainland, and there are mountains and rivers as grabens, but I hope that the Chinese's large army will go on an expedition and let it taste what it is like to defeat again.

Moreover, since the Chinese can make a detour from the north to the Ganges River Valley, perhaps, they can also find a way to invade China from here, go to China's flower world to plunder, and even conquer and purify their land, so that this eastern country can share the light of the true god.

Subuk's agent stared at the silhouette of Derry in front of him, his gaze becoming more and more frenzied.

"Great Emir, I will go and call them to surrender in Kaesong, if they don't, they should know the consequences." Behind the Subk service, the general was in strong build, and was his most loyal supporter, the military emir Sobktaqin.

The white-robed knights on the camels jumped down one after another, they were actually heavy infantry, and the camels were only faster in their marches, and they wore all kinds of armor inside, but they had to wear holy white robes on the outside, and it was said that if they died in battle, they would also return to the arms of the gods.

The siege equipment carried by the war elephants was also dismantled and assembled.

Subuk shook his head, "They won't surrender easily, at least, not now, let them taste the whip of fire from hell first." ”

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When Subuk's special service discovered the Chinese army's military formation west of Delhi, he frowned slightly.

Subuk is proud, but not stupid.

Although he thought it would be difficult to expel a few thousand Chinese fighters, he had been collecting information on these Chinese fighters in recent days, even when he was forcing his father to establish himself as his heir.

I heard that in the process of conquering the Balos and annexing the land on both sides of the Ganges, the Chinese armed themselves and used a barrel-shaped weapon that could make a loud noise, although it felt that it was just to scare these ignorant natives, but after all, it was about to face the most powerful empire in the East, and it was its elite expeditionary force that could come from thousands of miles away.

It was discovered early that there were Chinese scouts along the way, but they were listed outside the city, apparently not feeling that they were in a desperate situation.

At the very least, it believed that it was not yet time for all armed men to hold on to the castle and fight to the death, but that there were still mobile forces that could go out of the city and maneuver with the besieging party.

If your army is attacking the city with all its might, it is clear that the army to the east of the city will be able to attack your flank.

"Let me kill these Chinese outside the city!" Sobktarqin drew his scimitar and roared in circles with excitement.

"Drive away the war elephants and scatter them!" Subuk looked coldly at the dense black dots in the distance, at this time, the wind gradually became smaller, the yellow sand dispersed, faintly you can see the black lines of the Chinese battle formation, arranged so neatly, its depth is full of thirty or forty columns, one by one black black lines straight out of the general, four corners, dense black dots.

Subuk's heart to underestimate the enemy gradually disappeared, and he pulled off the cloak behind him, which was a subconscious action when he was nervous.

Yes, perhaps the targets of the war in the past few years have either been the ignorant natives of the Five Rivers Valley, or the extremely weak kingdoms, which have made them confident that the Ghaznavid army is invincible in the world.

And now it is about to face the expeditionary force sent by the most powerful empire in the East, the giant of the East who once stood on the side of the powerful Abbasid Caliphate.

And now, what he has to do is to do the same glorious thing as his ancestors, to wipe out the expeditionary force of this oriental giant where it should not be touched.

This earth-shattering collision is destined to be the most eye-catching moment in his military career.

"Huh", the war elephant hissed, driven by the Tianzhu slave soldiers, these hundreds of behemoths ran up, rushing towards the distant Chinese army formation, the earth was trembling slightly, the mightiness brought by the earth-shaking running of this huge herd of elephants, it seems, is that the castle of Delhi is crumbling.

Subuk returned to his senses.

By this time, Sobktaqin had already led a group of cavalry, slowly following behind the herd, preparing to pursue the scattered enemy soldiers.

Subuk's special service squinted his eyes slightly, using war elephants to impact the enemy's formation is his new tactic, the natives in this area, they learned how to drive elephants thousands of years ago, so every time they invade and plunder in the east, elephants are indispensable trophies.

However, this expeditionary corps of the Eastern Empire shouldn't be defeated so easily, right?

"Boom, boom, boom", in the formation of the Qi army, a huge noise suddenly broke out, and bursts of white smoke rose up.

Then, countless black dots rose and rained down on the running herds, and among them, there was a huge ball of fire.

"Boom", with a few black spots, fell in the herd of elephants and exploded violently.

There were even fireballs falling, bringing up a burst of flames.

Some war elephants were hit by iron balls falling from the sky and fell to the ground in a wail.

The running herds were immediately frightened, and immediately they all went on a rampage, some collided with each other and fought, some fled in all directions, and many turned back and trampled on the native slave soldiers who drove them, just to escape from the terrible land where the sky had fallen.

Subuk's eyes immediately froze, but fortunately, the cavalry led by Sobktaqin was far away from the elephant herd, so as not to be frightened by the horses, and at this time they all turned their horses, and were not hit by the elephants that scattered and galloped wildly.

Some war elephants still rushed forward desperately, but when they arrived in front of the Qi army's formation, they fell one after another, some fell into the trench, some were tripped, and occasionally rushed to the front of the Qi army's rejection of horses, they were poked by more than a dozen spears of more than four meters, and fell to the ground in wailing.

But after all, a few of them rushed into the Qi army's formation, causing a period of confusion, and those war elephants were poked down.

Subuk nodded slightly, the enemies of the Chinese in the north are all warriors on horseback, and they are really good at resisting the impact of cavalry.

In the distance, Sobktaqin seemed to be quick to realize this, and led the cavalry to circle and watch.