Seeing that 3,000 Manchurian Eight Banners were completely annihilated, and more than 240,000 Indian Banner Qing troops collapsed without a fight, and the soldiers of the Indian Banner Qing Army scattered all over the mountains and fled in the direction of India.

It's a pity that they are only infantry, and the Ming army is cavalry, even if their number is dozens of times that of the Ming cavalry, but they still have no resistance in front of the Ming cavalry, under the pursuit of the Ming cavalry, in addition to nearly 20,000 killed in the pursuit, in the end as many as 220,000 soldiers of the Qing Army of the Indian flag were captured.

From the battle to the capture of more than 220,000 soldiers of the Qing Army of the Indian Banner, the whole time was less than half an hour.

The death and defeat of Zihar led to the burial of 250,000 Indian flags.

The Mughal Empire ruled by India was destroyed, and since the Manchu rule, the population has been declining, this time in order to resist the Ming Dynasty, Dolgon has transferred more than one million Indian Qing troops into the army, and more than one million are engaged in logistics and transportation, weapon production, etc., plus the loss of 250,000 this time, India has nearly three million young people have been transferred.

India's original population was 36 million, and after excluding nearly 3 million young and strong, only a little more than 33 million remained, and most of them were old and weak. Compared to the 90 million people who were still under the Mughal Empire, India lost nearly two-thirds of its population due to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is truly terrifying.

The Qing army that came out of India in a vain attempt to cut off the supply line of the Ming army's Braha section was completely annihilated, and the Ming army still had the intention of following closely and directly sending troops into India, and the Ming army's eyes were mainly on the Baghdad front.

Baghdad City.

After a whole day of fierce fighting, even if the Qing army resisted fiercely, the Ming army had already captured nearly four-fifths of the city of Baghdad, and in two or three hours at most, the Ming army would be able to capture the entire city of Baghdad.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

The "boom, boom, boom ----" mortars once again blew up a group of Qing rifle corps that had newly entered the city to support them, killing and wounding them heavily.

The dense network of light and heavy machine guns and rifles of the Ming army fiercely attacked, killing a large number of Qing rifle soldiers.

The soldiers of the Qing rifle army also fired at the Ming army, but unfortunately their firepower was too weak, although they also killed some Ming soldiers, but the casualty ratio with the Ming army was more than eight to one.

Those cold weapons Qing army is even worse, basically they go into the city as cannon fodder and consume the ammunition of the Ming army, even if a thousand cold weapons Qing soldiers are killed, it may not necessarily be replaced by a Ming soldier casualties.

However, these cold weapons Qing soldiers did consume a lot of ammunition from the Ming army.

Dolgon's purpose of using these cold weapons to clear the army seems to have been achieved. It's a pity that there is one thing that Dolgon expected, that is, the ammunition of the Ming army seems to be completely exhausted, and the firepower has not been weakened from beginning to end.

Unable to consume the ammunition of the Ming army, let alone repelling the Ming army, Dolgon is desperate, and he no longer knows how to defeat the Ming army and keep the Qing Dynasty.

"What about Jihar, why hasn't the supply line of the Ming army been cut off, and why has the ammunition of the Ming army always been exhausted!" Dorgon roared wildly, scolding madly even though Zihar was his right-hand man.

Dolgon was desperate and powerless, and the most he could hope for was that Jihar, who was in charge of India, would successfully cut off the supply of the Ming army, so that the Ming army would quickly run out of ammunition.

At this moment, he could only believe that the Immortal Heaven would bless the Great Qing Dynasty, and victory would ultimately belong to the Great Qing Dynasty.

For the sake of this belief, Dolgon continued to support it hard, constantly sending Qing troops into Baghdad and the Ming army was attritional.

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Little did Dorgon know that after breaking through the Isfahan Line and capturing the middle and lower reaches of the two river basins in Baghdad, the Ming army's supply and transportation routes were no longer limited to the one that passed through the Blaha steppe on the 6th.

The Ming army also had a supply line, and that was by sea.

Persian Gulf!

One after another, huge Daming steel freighters sailed into the Persian Gulf, and finally unloaded boxes of ammunition and supplies at Kuwait Harbor, and finally sailed up the two rivers by small and medium-sized ships to the vicinity of the Baghdad Ming army camp.

Dolgon is indeed lagging behind, his cognition can't keep up with the Ming Dynasty's development, and he has long been unable to accurately estimate the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, so he actually doesn't know what kind of strength is likely to defeat the Ming Dynasty.

Dolgon's desperate support, gave up a large number of cold weapons and the Qing army as cannon fodder, but still could not make the Ming army's firepower weaken in the slightest, and could not see that the Ming army's ammunition and materials were not enough at all, he had to admit that the Ming army's ammunition and materials were not consumed at all, and it was unrealistic to force the Ming army to retreat by using up the Ming army's ammunition and materials, and even defeat the Ming army.

In the end, after a few more hours, the city of Baghdad was inevitably completely captured by the Ming army.

"Boom, boom, boom----" shells continued to explode, killing one Qing soldier after another.

Tens of thousands of Qing soldiers fled in fear from the edge of Baghdad, and behind them were a large number of Ming soldiers with rifles, light machine guns, or heavy machine guns and mortars.

The city of Baghdad has completely fallen.

"Lord Wang! Rajah! The army was defeated outside the city, and the city of Baghdad had been completely captured by the Ming army! A Qing army general came to Dolgon in embarrassment and reported.

"It's over! The Qing Dynasty is coming to an end! Dorgon slumped limply in his chair.

The city of Baghdad fell, and the Baghdad defense group established on the basis of the city of Baghdad could not withstand the attack of the Ming army, after all, with the city of Baghdad to defend, it was still defeated by the Ming army, and the city of Baghdad was lost, how can the defenses on the periphery and rear be compared with the defense of the city of Baghdad.

Moreover, in the battle of Baghdad, the Qing army had already lost too much, and there was not much strength in the periphery and rear.

260,000 rifle troops, including the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Dragon Breaking Army, were buried in the city of Baghdad, and the Indian flags, Persian flags, Ottoman flags, etc., which used cold weapons, were buried even more, more than 400,000!

In other words, from the beginning of the Ming army's shelling of Baghdad to the fierce fighting of a day and a night after the invasion of Baghdad, the Qing Dynasty lost no less than 700,000 soldiers! According to Dolgon's estimates, the losses of the Ming army were no more than 30,000, which was what made Dolgon the most desperate.

The city of Baghdad can be called the meat grinder of the Qing Dynasty, and it is the meat of the Qing soldiers that is grinding!

After the city of Baghdad was forcibly captured by the Ming army, Dolgon continued to resist the Ming attack with the remaining 700,000 Qing troops in the periphery and rear defense groups.

Although he was desperate and powerless, Dorgon was not reconciled! For more than 30 years, he no longer thinks about leading the Qing Dynasty back to the Central Plains and defeating the Ming Dynasty, but more than 30 years have passed, but the Qing Dynasty is still unable to resist and will be destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, how can he be willing!

At a dangerous point thirty miles northeast of Baghdad, Dolgon's eyes were red, and he was full of madness with 300,000 Qing troops to defend the pass, and the attacking Ming army to the death.

"Boom, Boom, -----Boom" artillery and mortar shells continued to fall in the pass, killing one Qing soldier after another.

"Boom!" Suddenly, a shell exploded within a few meters of Dolgon, and the flying shrapnel knocked Dolgon to the ground.

"Regent!" A man yelled and rushed towards Dorgon.

In the end, Dolgon was not killed directly, but was seriously injured.

"Herald! The whole army retreats! Retreat to Ankara! Dolgon's mouth was bleeding, and his eyes were blank at the order.

In the end, because of Dolgon's serious injury, the entire line of the pass, which was supposed to be undefensible, collapsed, and evolved into the collapse of the entire Baghdad defense line, and the remaining hundreds of thousands of Qing troops were defeated and out of control.

This largest engagement since the beginning of the war, and it was also a decisive battle in the true sense of the word, still ending with the rout of the Qing army, the rout of the entire 1.4 million Qing army, almost exhausting the last strength of the Manchu Qing.

After the Ming army broke through the Baghdad defense line, it was unstoppable and approached Ankara, the new capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the destruction of the Manchu Qing Dynasty seemed to be imminent.

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