Chapter 883: Fierce Battle of Jabald City (1)
Under the city of Jabalp, more than 470,000 Qing troops were densely packed, and the momentum was terrifying, which frightened the Mughal soldiers on the walls of Jabalpur City, and their eyes were full of fear.
In particular, the 400 cannons brought by the Qing army can be clearly seen that just more than 500 meters away, the Qing soldiers are urgently building artillery camp positions, and once all the 400 cannons are placed, the Qing army will inevitably attack immediately.
"Kill ββ-," Dorgon pointed at his sword.
"Kill, ββββ" Suddenly, thousands of Indian flag soldiers rushed towards the city of Jabald with ladders.
It was a tentative attack, and it would have been best if they had taken the city of Jabald directly, so that Dorgon would not have to waste so many shells to blow up the walls. Although Dolgon prepared a large number of shells for the second battle to destroy the Mughal Empire, it seems that he should be able to support the army to destroy the Mughal Empire, but after all, the number is still limited, and it can be saved as much as possible, anyway, there are many Indian flag soldiers who are cannon fodder, and they will train hundreds of thousands after they die, all in all, he doesn't want to have a situation like the last time, because there are not enough shells, and the offensive momentum of the army is blocked, and the Mughal Empire cannot be destroyed at one time.
In the face of the Qing army's attack, the Mughal soldiers on the walls of Jabald had no idea that the Qing soldiers who rushed up were nothing more than an army composed of untouchables like them, and in their eyes, the Qing army was all the same, all representatives of terror.
Some of the Mughal soldiers on the city walls were shaking a little with their legs.
"Quick, repel them!" General Nandru, the commander of the Mughal army in Jabald, duly climbed the city wall and loudly ordered the Mughal soldiers to repel the Qing attack.
Although the Mughal soldiers were more war-like and less combat-intensive, they would never be defeated before they had even fought, and they still had the advantage of being high on the city walls.
In fact, the combat effectiveness of the Mughal army can be counted in this way.
If it is said that the real elite army can withstand six to seventy percent of the casualties before it collapses, the ordinary elite army can withstand four to fifty percent of the casualties before it collapses, and the non-elite ordinary miscellaneous army will collapse with about two to three percent of the casualties, and the rabble will collapse as long as one or two percent of the casualties.
The Manchu Eight Banners are the elite of the elite, fearless of death, and can withstand at least eight to ninety percent casualties.
The servant cavalry and the Persian banner were brutally trained by the Manchurians, and were probably able to withstand forty percent of the casualties.
Although the Indian flag has also undergone brutal training by the Manchus, in view of the consistent urine nature of the Indian national untouchables, with the same training, they cannot compare with the Persians and the Braha steppes in any case, so no matter how much the Manchus train the Indian flag, it is at most a non-elite ordinary miscellaneous army.
This is the division of combat effectiveness above the Qing army.
As for the Mughal army, although it has also been trained by the Mughal Empire, the training of the Mughal Empire is not as cruel as that of the Manchurians, and the army trained by the same Indian untouchables is naturally inferior to the Indian flag of the Qing army, which is about between the rabble and the non-elite ordinary miscellaneous army.
In general, even if the Mughal army is not highly combative, it can withstand about 20% casualties before facing collapse.
"Xiu ββββ" Mughal soldiers on the city wall began to shoot arrows at the Qing army's Indian flag, which came into range of bows and arrows.
"Whew! Laugh at! Sneeredββββ "A large number of soldiers of the Indian flag of the Qing army fell with arrows.
However, after the brutal training of the Manchurians, this level of casualties was not enough to stop the attack of the Qing army's Indian flag.
Soon, thousands of soldiers of the Indian flag of the Qing army rushed to the foot of the Jabald city wall, set up a ladder, and began to climb the city wall.
At the same time, the Qing army also began to shoot arrows at the city wall under the city, and many Mughal soldiers were hit by arrows and fell off the city wall, which made the Mughal soldiers on the city wall a little confused, but soon stabilized again.
Even if the Mughal army on the city wall is not as elite as the Indian flag trained by the Qing army, it has the advantage of the city wall, and it will not be so easy for the Qing army's Indian flag soldiers to attack the city wall.
Ladders were pushed to the ground, and iron lumps the size of human heads were ignited by Mughal soldiers and thrown down the city to explode.
The "iron pimple" exploded by the "boom boom boom ββββ" was not small, and a large number of soldiers of the Indian flag of the Qing army were killed.
This is undoubtedly a product of the Ming Dynasty, although the Ming Dynasty did not sell the Mughal Empire cannons, too much to enhance the strength of the Mughal Empire, but in addition to the flint, but also sold to the Mughal Empire's rough technology 'iron lumps', slightly enhance their strength to defend the city.
Each 'iron lump' was roughly priced at 4,000 silver dollars, which was equivalent to 40 taels of silver.
Seeing the Persian flag of the Qing army on the city wall suffering heavy casualties under the 'iron pimple', the general Nandru smiled with satisfaction.
"Daming, although the price is relatively expensive, but it has a great effect, it would be nice if there could be more!" General Nandrew said with some shock.
In the past year or so, in addition to buying 80,000 flint guns from the Ming Dynasty, the Mughal Empire has only bought 5,000 iron lumps, and there are about 1,500 in Jabald City, and now 200 have been used.
The soldiers of the Indian flag of the Qing army under the city wall retreated backwards after paying more than 2,000 dead and wounded!
"Haha, the Qing army is starting to retreat!" General Nandru was overjoyed.
This also encouraged the other Mughal soldiers, and the Mughal soldiers on the city walls burst into cheers, and the fear of the Qing army was somewhat dissipated by the failure of the Qing army's tentative offensive.
Qing army camp.
"Rubbish! A bunch of useless rubbish! "Regarding the casualties paid by the Indian flag, Dolgon and the top brass of the Qing army did not express anything other than dissatisfaction and angry scolding.
"Lord Regent, it seems that it will be difficult to capture Jabald City with such an attack!" Ao Bai said to Dolgon.
The combat effectiveness of the Indian flag is not high, and it is impossible to attack the city of Jabald by relying on the ladder, and the Persian flag with higher combat effectiveness is the same as the result, I believe that Dolgon will not be able to let the core of the Qing army such as the Manba Banner and the Indian flag and the Persian flag be used as cannon fodder to consume, so they can only attack the city in another way and forcibly collapse the wall of Jabald
Sure enough, Dolgon nodded, picked up the binoculars in his hand and glanced at the walls of Jabald, looking at the cheers of the Mughal soldiers on the city walls, the corners of his mouth hooked up a trace of disdain, and he ordered with murderous intent: "Order the artillery battalion, bombard the walls of Jabald!" β
"Fire!"
"Boom, boom, boomββββ-"
In the artillery camp of the Qing army, 400 imitation Shenwu field cannons bombarded the walls of Jabald intensively.
One cannonball after another exploded on the walls of Jabald, shrapnel shredded the bodies of Mughal soldiers, and the blazing waves tore off the bodies of Mughal soldiers off the walls, and the whole city of Jabald seemed to shake.
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