Sure enough, the important town of Kanman and the city of Vijayawada could not stop Dolgon's Qing army, but by this time, the Mughal emperor had already fled thousands of miles to the south.

"Damn!" Dolgon gritted his teeth angrily, and had to continue to lead the Qing army all the way south to attack, breaking Mughal cities one after another along the way, and the war spread along the way.

In the south, there are fewer mountains and more plains.

"Kill!" The Qing army's iron cavalry galloped on the plains, and finally exerted their strongest combat effectiveness.

Wherever the iron horsemen passed, the crops were trampled down, and the people who had no time to flee were mercilessly cut down.

One city after another was captured, and the Qing army, with their anger at the Mughal emperor, slaughtered the people in the city.

"Slaughter the city, kill without mercy!" Sometimes, Dorgon even deliberately ordered the slaughter of the newly captured cities, hoping to deter other Mughal cities from resisting with bloody killings.

In order to prevent some cities from surrendering without a fight, the Mughal emperor coerced the families of those leading generals in every place, forcing the leading generals of one city after another to sacrifice their lives to fight with the Qing army for their own families.

The Mughal Emperor did this, which really chilled the hearts of countless people, greatly accelerated the collapse of the hearts of the Mughal Empire, and made the Mughal Empire more inevitably drift away on the road to destruction.

But no matter what, the Mughal emperor did this, and it still had some effect, at least there were indeed not many cities that fell from the wind, and there were even more cities that firmly resisted the Qing army.

It is impossible for the Qing army to use artillery to collapse the city walls of all cities, and those small and medium-sized cities, the walls are relatively low, and usually the infantry of the Persian and Indian flags use ladders to climb and forcibly attack the city.

Although the Persian and Indian flags besieging the city often suffered heavy casualties, Dolgon did not care about these cannon fodder.

When a month passed, in July of the 15th year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army also traveled thousands of miles south from Vijayawada to conquer more than 20 large and small cities, two of which were slaughtered, and 130,000 Mughal soldiers were annihilated by the Qing army.

Counting, nearly 700,000 Mughal troops have been annihilated by the Qing army, and at this moment, the Mughal army following the Mughal emperor is only 60,000 flintlock pistols and 250,000 ordinary Mughal troops.

At this moment, the Qing army, because of the repeated siege of the city, the loss has exceeded 270,000, plus the number of cities to be left behind and captured, the Qing army around Dolgon only has 300,000 left.

"Hateful! The Mughal emperor, timid as a mouse! Dolgon's face was a little distorted, and he led his army thousands of miles south, but at this time, the Mughal emperor fled to the northwest, central and southern regions.

Dolgon wanted to settle the war of the Mughal Empire as soon as possible, but unfortunately the Mughal Emperor always fled in advance, so he had to take hundreds of thousands of troops to constantly follow the Mughal Emperor in circles, how could he not be angry!

In the southern part of the Mughal Empire, there are many plains, but there are also many rivers.

The Qing army's iron cavalry could only gallop after crossing the river, facing the river, especially at the moment when it was still in the wet season, they had to wait honestly for the river crossing.

"Regent, all the boats on this river have also been destroyed by order of the Mughal emperor!" A Qing cavalry who had returned from exploration reported to Dolgon.

The Mughal emperor also seemed to know that rivers could hold back the Qing army, so he destroyed the boats every time he crossed the river, leaving none for the pursuing Qing army.

Looking at the river that is not wide, Dolgon is very helpless, even if the river is not very wide, there are no boats, the army has to be blocked, and in the southern Mughal area, there are too many such rivers.

"If this continues, I don't know when we will be able to completely solve the Mughal Empire!" Dolgon gritted his teeth, his face extremely hideous.

Nevertheless, Dolgon's determination to destroy the Mughal Empire did not change, but became stronger.

As the Mughal emperors always avoided decisive battles and 'moved their capitals' everywhere, the third battle for the destruction of the Mughal Empire launched by Dolgon, although the possibility of success was almost inevitable, the end was constantly delayed.

From May to December of the 15th year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, from the rainy season to the dry season, without the restrictions of the rainy season, the combat effectiveness of the Mughal flintlock pistol team was brought into play, and the Qing army suffered heavy casualties, once again delaying the offensive of the Qing army.

The war did not end, and it dragged from the dry season to the rainy season of the following year, and it was at the end of April of the 16th year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, and the rainy season of another year came.

At this time, the Mughal emperor had no escape, and was finally forced by the Qing army to fight a decisive battle in the vicinity of Mumbai, a large coastal city in the central and western regions.

At this time, the Mughal emperor only had 170,000 Mughal troops left around him.

As the attacking party, Dolgon had to leave soldiers to garrison the captured city, and there were only 140,000 Qing troops left around him.

The number of troops around the Mughal emperor still exceeded the number of Qing troops around Dolgon.

But it's a pity that even at the last moment, the Mughal emperor didn't want to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army, and wanted to continue to drag on. Even eighty percent of the Mughal territory had already been conquered by Dolgon's Qing army.

Starting from May 1 of the 16th year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army and the Mughal army, with a total of more than 300,000 troops, launched the final decisive battle in Mumbai.

At this time, the military spirit of the Mughal army has actually been almost dispersed, even if the Mughal emperor still has 40,000 flintlock pistols, the morale of the Mughal army is far from being comparable to that of the Qing army, and the momentum has been suppressed.

"No, 40,000 flintlock pistols is not enough, I want more flintlock pistols!" The Mughal Emperor looked at Lu Yunzhang with red eyes, hoping that Lu Yunzhang could provide him with more flintlock pistols on behalf of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, I don't know how many gold coins you have prepared?" Lu Yunzhang asked expressionlessly.

For more than two years, the Ming Dynasty continued to provide the Mughal Emperor with a large number of flintlock pistols and 'iron lumps' thunderbolts for defending the city, and the flintlock pistol alone obtained no less than 20 million taels of silver from the Mughal Emperor, about 2 billion silver dollars.

The flintlock pistol is not only the gun itself, but also the matching paper shell bullets, whether it is training soldiers to use guns or the consumption of engagement, they are massive, and even much more expensive than the guns themselves.

In addition to weapons, Daming also provided a part of grain and grass, all of which cost money, and the price was high.

If you really count it, the Ming Dynasty got no less than 80 million taels worth of silver from the Mughal emperor.

Even though the Mughal Empire had a large population and was relatively wealthy, the Mughal Emperor only had most of the country at the beginning, and the richest capital, Delhi, was still occupied by the Qing army, and it was already his limit to be able to pay 80 million taels of silver.

Now, the only thing that the Mughal emperor can loot is the area of Mumbai, and it is already difficult for the Mughal emperor to come out with a lot of gold and silver to continue to buy flintlock pistols from the Ming Dynasty.

Sure enough, as soon as Lu Yunzhang asked for money, the Mughal Emperor was immediately choked and looked ugly.

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