Chapter 845: The Tragedy of the Mughal Empire (2)
"Ahh
The shells directly knocked a large number of Mughal archers down the dry riverbed, disrupting the deployment of the Mughal generals in an instant.
"Kill!" Without the interception of the archers, the Qing soldiers flowed more violently across the last river.
The first to rush ashore was naturally the Qing cavalry riding war horses and flowing into the water, about a dozen Qing cavalry, the war horses stepped on the dry riverbed on the opposite bank, and rushed to the Mughal army close at hand.
Not all of the Mughal archers who had been thrown down the riverbed by the cannonballs were dead, and many Mughal archers stood up, but they were greeted by the glittering steel swords of the Qing army.
"Poof!" An archer who had just stood up was swept through the neck by the steel knife of the Qing cavalry, and his neck was splattered with blood and he died instantly.
At this time, more Qing Persian infantry also rushed ashore and also killed the Mughal army by the river.
The archers on the riverbed were quickly slaughtered, and the Qing army entered the main force of the Mughal army and engaged the Mughal soldiers in a fierce battle.
The soldiers of the Qing army were extremely brave and fearless of death.
Needless to say, the soldiers of the Eight Banners are simply fierce representatives, no matter how the servant cavalry is also cavalry, the combat effectiveness is not much worse, although most of the Persian Banners were formed in the past half a year, but they run behind the Eight Banners cavalry every day, and their endurance and physical strength have been trained enough, and they are much stronger than ordinary infantry.
"Boom Boom"
Coupled with the assistance of artillery, like a tiger entering a flock, the Mughal army closest to the river was defeated and retreated, and it was impossible to stop the Qing army.
When the Timurid Empire collapsed, the descendants of Genghis Khan's blood gradually conquered India with only 80,000 cavalry, established the Mughal Empire, and ruled India. It is conceivable that under the influence of the caste system and local sects, the Mughal army, which is composed of ordinary soldiers and untouchables, has a low combat effectiveness, and if it were not supported by a population of 90 million, it could form a massive army and move the sea tactics at will, otherwise the seemingly huge Mughal Empire would not even be able to defeat Burma.
During the period of total victory of Burma, it was precisely because of the victory of the invasion of the Mughal Empire that it finally dared to hit the idea of the Ming Dynasty, and finally 300,000 troops were buried in the Ming Dynasty, and Myanmar began to decline.
"Run!" In the end, the Mughal army at the front did not hold out for long and soon collapsed and fled backwards.
"Hahahaha! A flock of weak lambs, kill! Aobai, who had also crossed the river, laughed wildly and rode his horse into the midst of the fleeing Mughal army.
The other Qing soldiers also smiled fiercely and kept swinging their knives and slashing, and their morale was like a rainbow.
Not only did Aobai, the first warrior of the Manchurians, look down on the Mughal army, but even ordinary Qing soldiers also looked down on the Mughal army.
The Qing army was able to destroy the Persian Empire and defeat the Ottoman army, and its combat effectiveness was naturally not a little stronger than the original Persian Empire, while the Mughal Empire was only able to hold up on the Persian Empire at the beginning, and it was difficult to counterattack.
Seeing that the front-line soldiers began to rout and fled backwards, constantly leading more Mughal soldiers to flee, the generals of the Mughal army were all red-eyed.
"Dispatch the war elephants, quick!" A Mughal general shouted.
Although the Mughal army, where ordinary soldiers are untouchables, has low combat effectiveness, the environment of the Mughal Empire is extremely suitable for the growth of elephants, and the Mughal Empire has a large number of war elephants, no less than 6,000 heads, and most of the combat effectiveness of the Mughal army comes from war elephants.
"Knock knock knock" No less than a hundred war elephants rushed over, and there were more behind, the Mughal army should have directly dispatched all the war elephants of their army, and the elephant's feet trampled on the ground to shake, and the momentum was huge.
The war elephant rushed directly into the Qing army flowing across the river, and many Qing soldiers were knocked over on the spot, and then the elephant's leg was trampled in the chest, and immediately vomited blood and died.
The long snouts of the war elephants also continued to sweep left and right, and all the Qing soldiers who were swept were seriously injured and difficult to get up.
Mughal archers and pikemen in baskets on elephant backs also continued to kill and wound the Qing army.
It can be said that every war elephant is like a fighting machine.
The powerful combat effectiveness of the war elephants was suddenly manifested, and nearly 1,000 Qing soldiers who crossed the river were killed and wounded at once.
"Hateful!" The Aobai who commanded here was furious.
At this time, a war elephant rushed straight towards Aobai, and the huge body of the war elephant was not proportional to the war horse that Aobai was riding. The war elephant didn't seem to pay attention to the short war horse in front of him at all, and while rushing over, he also roared a few times, making the war horse sitting down by Ao Bai restless, if it wasn't for Ao Bai's best to control it, the war horse could immediately turn around and run away with Ao Bai.
Ao Bai was so angry that his face was iron-blue, and he roared angrily, as the first warrior of the Qing Dynasty, how could he be frightened away by a mere war elephant.
Ao Bai immediately changed into a bow and arrow, and shot an arrow with all his might.
"Whew!" With a bang, the arrow accurately hit one of the war elephant's eyes, and the elephant's blood immediately splattered out, and the elephant's eye was undoubtedly blind.
The war elephant was suddenly so badly wounded that it roared miserably.
The war elephant seemed to be enraged, and rushed towards Aobai even more frantically, at this time, it seemed a little too late for Aobai to bend his bow and arrows.
Ao Bai gritted his teeth, slapped the horse's buttocks with the steel knife, and even rode his horse directly towards the war elephant, the courage of the first warrior of the Qing Dynasty really made the Mughal soldiers on the elephant's back stunned.
Bang! The war horse and the war elephant collided together.
The result is self-evident, how could the small body of the war horse be the opponent of the war elephant, and the war horse was immediately knocked out with the Ao Bai on horseback.
At the same time that Ao Bai and the war horse flew out, the war elephant also screamed, and the huge elephant body fell to the ground with a bang.
It turned out that Ao Bai at the moment when the war horse and the war elephant collided, he struggled to slash at the neck of the war elephant, because Ao Bai's huge force was too strong, the blade was all submerged into the neck of the war elephant, and it could not be pulled out.
Ao Bai was so brave that he frightened the surrounding Mughal soldiers dumbfounded, even if Ao Bai got up from the ground, no Mughal soldier dared to rush at him without a steel knife.
However, no matter how brave Ao Bai was, he was only Ao Bai alone, and it was impossible for other Qing soldiers to do it to the point of slashing and killing a war elephant with just one person.
Nearly 1,000 Qing troops who crossed the river were still defeated by the elephant herd without accident.
After Ao Bai got up, he shook the numb tiger's mouth, although he has great strength, brave and extraordinary, but the strength can not really be compared with the war elephant after all, while cutting the war elephant's neck, he himself was also affected by a part of the war elephant's backlash and numbness.
Ao Bai did not continue to face the other war elephants, after all, he was not stupid, and he knew that no matter how brave he was, it would be impossible to defeat the entire Mughal war elephant herd anyway.
"The whole army retreats to the edge of the river!" Ao Bai ordered loudly.
The Qing army had invaded the Mughal Empire three times, and had encountered war elephants at least twenty or thirty times, so it was naturally impossible not to have a way to fight against them.