Chapter 704: The Beginning of a Mughal Nightmare
After deciding to exchange with the Ming for 200,000 captives, Dolgon tried his best to prepare the 100 million taels of silver that the Ming had opened.
In addition to bringing 500,000 tribesmen, Dolgon also brought the only remaining 20 million taels of silver in the Qing Dynasty treasury, and then destroyed several khanates such as Braha, and collected about 10 million taels of property from several khanates, and then plundered the Persian Empire, plus the city of Murkala negotiated peace with the Persian Empire after the first war, and the Persian Empire compensated 10 million silver coins, a total of 14 million taels of silver, which has 44 million taels of silver. Now that the Persian Empire has been destroyed, he is left to absorb the wealth of the entire Persian Empire.
Of course, in the past two years, the Persian emperor has frantically expanded his army, and it is impossible for the Persian treasury to have silver, but this does not mean that the people of the Persian Empire have no property.
After Dorgon fully controlled all military and political power, he recruited a number of Persian henchmen, including Abad.
Abad's traitorous behavior did make Dolgon extremely ashamed, but it was precisely because of this that Abad could not turn back, and could only follow him all the way to the dark, and some things were most appropriate for Abad to do.
After Dolgon incorporated the original Persian army, the Persian banner under his command had increased to 120,000 people, and the army that Dolgon could mobilize once again exceeded 300,000.
Immediately, despite the opposition of some halal elders, Dolgon forcibly ordered a one-time tax for two years, especially the rich Persian families in each castle, registered them one by one, and forcibly ordered them to hand over a part of the money, it can be said that Dolgon in order to raise enough silver in exchange for the 200,000 tribesmen captured by the Ming Dynasty, almost to the point of madness.
The Persians were bitter and complaining, and some Persian nobles took the opportunity to rebel, but within three days they were swept away by Dorgon as an example of the monkeys, and their homes were exterminated.
The Persian young man was recruited by the Persian emperor and there was not much left, and the Persian emperor's 450,000 troops were wiped out by Dolgon, and there were a few rebellions that failed and were exterminated.
However, there are still more than six million taels away from the 100 million taels mark, and at this time, it is not good for Dolgon to continue to loot from the Persians, after all, he has almost pushed the Persians to the limit, and the Qing Dynasty will still rule Persia in the future, and he can't do too much.
Although it was impossible to continue looting from the Persians, Dorgon had another way.
In September, Dolgon himself led 30,000 Manchu Eight Banners and 70,000 servant cavalry to suddenly attack the territory of the Mughal Empire from the southeast, and in seven days, he broke more than ten castles of the Persian Empire and sacked them!
As a result, Dorgon not only looted more than 8 million silver coins, but also plundered more than 300,000 Mughal Empire populates Persia.
Of course, with so many possessions and people, Dolgon couldn't have brought them back so smoothly.
On September 26, the Marshal of the Mughal Northwest Frontier gathered 90,000 Mughal troops to intercept Dolgon at the border, intending to recapture the captured people and property, and to teach the invading Manchus a bloody lesson.
The Mughal Empire's army was well-equipped, armoured and armoured, and even had more than 300 war elephants to help.
Unfortunately, the system of the Mughal Empire was quite bizarre, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was far inferior to that of the Ottoman army, and even the Ming army during the Chongzhen period was far inferior, and the 100,000 iron cavalry of Dolgon was defeated in less than an hour.
"Kill" Dolgon, taking the opportunity to order the Qing army's iron cavalry to chase and kill.
After more than two hours of pursuit, more than 30,000 Mughal soldiers were killed, and nearly 50,000 surrendered, only a very small number of Mughal soldiers escaped, and the Qing army itself suffered less than 3,000 casualties!
"Hahahaha, pigs, it's just an army of pigs, and the combat effectiveness is so low!" Dolgon laughed wildly, thinking that he had never imagined that the army of the Mughal Empire would be so vulnerable.
To say that the Mughal Empire, in Dolgon's intelligence, both territory and population, are larger than the area south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty combined, the Mughal Empire has a population of 90 million, gold everywhere, and is extremely rich.
To say that an empire with such conditions should be extremely powerful, the Ming Dynasty did not rely on the prosperity of the Jiangnan area, and the Northern Expedition directly defeated the Qing Dynasty's two million army in the first battle, even if the Mughal Empire is not as good as the Ming Dynasty, it should not be much weaker, this is Dolgon's original idea.
Based on this idea, before destroying the Persian Empire, Dolgon would not provoke the Mughal Empire under any circumstances, and if it weren't for the fact that there were still millions of taels of silver, Dolgon still did not choose this time to provoke the Mughal Empire.
However, this battle was too much of a surprise for Dolgon.
The combat effectiveness of the Mughal Empire's army was so poor, it was unprecedented, a big battle, 100,000 against 90,000, and the Qing Dynasty suffered less than 3,000 casualties.
Dolgon can see that the 90,000 Mughal army is not the lowest Mughal army, after all, equipped with so many armor and war elephants, it must be the elite army of the Mughals, and the performance of the Mughal elite army is like this, but this Mughal empire is still so rich, how can you let Dolgon not be surprised, this is simply a treasure falling from the sky for the Qing Dynasty!
In fact, the combat effectiveness of the Mughal Empire's army is not as unbearable as Dolgon thought, after all, the Mughal Empire has defeated the Persian Empire many times, and the main reason is that the Mughal Empire has never been attacked by such a large cavalry army as Dolgon. 100,000 iron cavalry rampage, of which 30,000 are the Manchu Eight Banners, known as the world's first cavalry, plus the Mughal caste system and the Hindu system, the soldiers' will to fight is not very high, so the performance of the Mughal army is so poor.
In any case, the Mughal Empire has been synonymous with weak combat effectiveness in Dolgon's heart, and it is foreseeable that in the future, the Manchus will be eyeing the Mughal Empire, and this will also be a nightmare that the Mughal Empire cannot erase.
After all, he was born nomadically, conquered the world on horseback, and was full of plunder and possession all over the world.
"Back to the army!" Dorgon commanded in a high-spirited manner.
Since he has plundered enough money, then the matter of exchanging the clansmen with the Ming Dynasty can no longer be taken off, as long as the population of the clansmen goes up, it will be easy for the Eight Banners to recover more than 100,000 troops, and when the time comes, not to mention the Mughal Empire, even the Ottoman Empire, he will not be in his eyes.
In October, Dolgon sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty to negotiate with the Ming in exchange for the return of 200,000 people.