Under the strong pressure brought by the Ming Dynasty, not only Dolgon, but also the entire Manchurian Eight Banners had an unprecedented desire to improve their strength.

To improve the strength of the Qing Dynasty, there is only plunder. Plunder wealth, plunder population, and even plunder land, plunder everything that can be plundered. The only place to plunder was the Mughal Empire, located in the southeast of the Qing Kingdom.

The Mughal Empire was a vast territory, with a population of 90 million and a large amount of wealth, and was extremely wealthy, even if it was killed and plundered by the Manchus three times, the population size of the Mughal Empire was almost undiminished.

In the twelfth year of the Ming Dynasty, the thirteenth year of the first month.

Dolgon himself led 70,000 Manchurian Eight Banners, 50,000 servant cavalry, 100,000 Persian Banners, a total of 220,000 troops, and attacked the Mughal Empire for the fourth time.

The Indus River was the border between the current Manchu and Mughal empires, and as on the previous two occasions, Dorgon was prepared to force his way across the river directly with his army from the shallow and narrow section of the upper Indus River.

At this moment, it was still the dry season of the first month, and the water level in the shallow and narrow part of the river was so low that there was no need for boats, and the soldiers could cross the river alone.

On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, 220,000 Qing troops came to the river.

"Dangdang Dang"

On the other side of the shallow river, the Mughal Empire's military camp alarm bells rang.

A large number of Mughal soldiers rushed out of the barracks and came to the river.

"Devil! The devil is here again! A soldier from the Mughal Empire shouted in horror.

Because the Qing army such as Dolgon crossed the river from here to invade the first two times, in order to prevent the Qing army from crossing the river from here again, the Mughal emperor deployed a full 100,000 Mughal army here to prevent it.

Sure enough, the Qing army really came again, and for the third time they were preparing to cross the river here to invade.

The first two invasions of the Qing army such as Dolgon, even broke a large number of cities in the Mughal Empire, and every city that was breached suffered serious damage, the elderly were killed, the young and strong and children were plundered, and the gold, silver and grain in the city, etc., the city that the Qing army passed through almost became an empty city.

This is not the most shocking and terrifying, the most terrifying is the combat effectiveness of the Qing army, the three invasions together have crushed nearly a million troops of the empire, and each Qing army's offensive is almost unstoppable.

Although with the population size of the Mughal Empire, it can easily raise millions of troops, but the ferocity of the Qing army has already carved a deep mark in the eyes of Mughal soldiers, making Mughal soldiers and ordinary people fear when they mention the Qing army.

Even if the Qing army had not yet begun to cross the river, the 100,000 Mughal troops on the other side of the river had already been frightened before fighting.

This is not to blame them, the Mughal Empire has a deep caste class system, under the leadership of the unique sect of the Mughal Empire, ordinary Mughal people are bullied by the high castes and never resist, they only hope for the next life, and in this life they eat and wait for death, and it is indeed unlikely that the army composed of such people will have much combat effectiveness.

"The Qing army has not yet begun to cross the river, there is a river in the way, let's not be afraid of them!" There were Mughal generals shouting, trying to calm the hearts of the army. Although they were also afraid of the Qing army, this was not a direct face-to-face battle with the Qing army, but only to prevent the Qing army from crossing the river.

Even if this section of the river is not deep and the river surface is not wide, they still have some confidence just to prevent the Qing army from crossing the river.

In any case, the people who can become generals are at least the high castes with a certain status, and the wealth of the entire Mughal Empire is in the hands of the high castes, as a member of the high castes, they undoubtedly do not want the Qing army to invade, after all, the Qing army came to rob them of their wealth.

After being appeased by the generals for a while, the Mughal soldiers really settled down a lot, yes, they were still separated by the river, and they only needed to shoot arrows at the river when the Qing army began to cross the river to stop the Qing army.

Mughal archers were sent to the front to bend their bows and arrows, and they did not hesitate to shoot arrows as soon as the Qing army crossed the river.

Across the river.

Dolgon's disdainful hand raised his hand in the void and gestured a few times.

Behind, a Qing army general bowed down and took the order, and retreated.

After a while, with the sound of artillery, countless shells fell on the group of Mughal soldiers on the other side of the river.

The "Ahhhhh

Quite a few Mughal archers, who were at the forefront ready to shoot arrows, were thrown off the riverbed by the blazing waves of cannonballs.

"Boom Boom" was only twenty breaths apart, and another round of shelling.

During the continuous bombardment of the Qing army and the full half of the Mughal army, at least 3,000 Mughal soldiers were killed and wounded, and the morale of the remaining Mughal soldiers was suddenly knocked to the bottom, and they fled in all directions under the shells, and there was a great chaos.

"Cross the river!" Dorgon, seeing the opportunity, ordered the crossing to begin.

"Kill" The Qing army rushed towards the river beach, with cavalry and Persian infantry.

With a bang, the river splashed, and several Qing cavalry who rushed to the front rode war horses and began to wade across the river first, and then more Persian infantry also rushed into the river and began to flow across the river.

This shallow and narrow section of the river, the river surface is less than 200 meters, and because it is in the dry period, most of it is a dry riverbed, and the place where there is river water is only less than 30 meters, and soon the Qing soldiers will flow through the river water of 10 meters, and only 20 meters of river water can rush to the other side of the river.

At the critical moment, the Mughal army finally organized the first round of arrows that were not dense in the chaos.

Although it was blown up by the artillery of the Qing army, the Mughal army did not collapse and fled after all, and the Mughal generals, who wanted to stop the invasion of the Qing army, naturally tried their best to order the soldiers to resist, and finally when the Qing army crossed the river, they were able to organize archers who could intercept the Qing army.

The second round of the arrow rain was a bit more intensive than the first because more Mughal archers participated.

The "sneer" arrow hit the body of the Qing soldier in the dripping water.

Many Qing soldiers fell into the river and were washed away by the river, and large areas of the river were dyed red.

However, more Qing soldiers rushed into the river and continued to wade across the river.

The artillery of the Qing army also focused on bombarding the archers organized by the Mughal army, and the soldiers who supported the flowing water were able to cross the river smoothly and fight face-to-face with the Mughal army on the opposite bank.