The early colonial expansion did not focus on the colonies as a market for the sale of goods and a source of raw materials, as later on, but on naked robbery and plunder, such as the Spanish killing and plundering of the Inca Empire, the predatory mining of African gold by Portugal, and the later slave trade, which were undoubtedly extremely cruel.

Portugal has relented in recent decades, not that they don't want to loot and plunder, but that their homeland is occupied by Spain, and without the support of the state, it is difficult for private individuals to organize large-scale armed forces to defeat the feudal lords and plunder their wealth.

Kong Dede has long coveted the Mughal Empire, but he has more than 2,000 people under his command, and there are only more than 1,000 arquebuses plus more than a dozen cannons that can only be fixed on the city wall and cannot be moved at all, you must know that the Mughal Empire has hundreds of thousands of troops, more than 2,000 people against hundreds of thousands, no matter how greedy he is, he will not joke with his own life.

But now it's different, his original little brother Svera didn't know what shit luck he had, he actually won the trust of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire, and let him act as an agent for the luxury sales of the Ming Imperial Western Trading Company, in a year or two, Svera has changed from a down-and-out nobleman to the most dazzling upstart in the Portuguese aristocratic circle, and now he has bought tens of thousands of flintlock pistols from the Ming Empire, as well as a hundred cannons that can be pulled by mules and horses, and organized 10,000 private armies, so many weapons, so many troops, His ambitions for the Mughal Empire swelled again.

Now that Svera's 10,000 horses were almost finished, he consulted with Svera and set the first target as the princely kingdom of Mysore.

This princely kingdom of Mysore is actually a vassal state of the Mughal Empire, the de facto ruler of Karnataka today, with 30,000 or 40,000 indigenous armies, and its capital is in the city of Mysore, not far from Goa.

The colonial expansion of this period did not have those twists and turns behind, and the tactics of Conde and Svera were also very simple, wave their troops and go straight to the city of Mysore, directly capture the king of the princely kingdom of Mysore, if he is willing to submit, then use it as a puppet to rule the entire princely kingdom of Mysore, if he does not give in, then kill him first, and then rule the kingdom of the princely state of Mysore by force, whoever dares to disobey will be killed, until everyone submits!

After a simple and crude plan, Comde and Schvera led their army to set off, a total of 1,000 musketeers under Comde, 100 knights, 9,000 musketeers under Schvera, 1,000 artillerymen, and 200 'military advisors' led by Luo Siwei, because this was the first battle of the recruits, so the command of Schvera was still handed over to Luo Siwei, and he was just studying on the side.

With such brazen leadership of their army to the city of Mysore, the king of the princely kingdom of Mysore was naturally quick to receive the news, and while he organized an army to prepare for interception, he sent people to the governor of the Deccan, Aurangzeb, for help.

It's really unclear whether this Comdet and Schwila are unlucky or lucky, let's say they are lucky, but this period is the time when the Mughal Empire is at its strongest, and their emperor Shah Jahan can be said to be the greatest emperor in the history of the Mughal Empire, with nearly a million soldiers under his command! The story of this emperor may not be known to many people, but the Taj Mahal he built for his second wife is world-famous.

Let's say that they are unlucky, at this time, the emperor of the Mughal Empire, Shah Jahan, is fighting with people everywhere, after fighting several principalities of Deccan, he went to fight the kingdom of Ahmadnagar, and after annexing Ahmadnagar, he began to fight with the Safavid dynasty of Iran for Afghanistan, and now he is fighting with the Safavid dynasty, and he has no time to take care of the princely kingdom of Mysore.

Therefore, at the very beginning, Konde and Shivera should have been considered lucky, and it was not the army of hundreds of thousands of Mughal Empires that stood in front of them, but the 30,000 indigenous armed forces of the princely kingdom of Mysore.

The so-called indigenous armament is a hunting bow, a wood knife, an axe, a large stick and a wooden shield, and the end of such a person encountering an advanced combination of flintlock pistols and cannons can be imagined.

When the front Malay reported that tens of thousands of indigenous troops were rushing towards them, Luo Siwei was a little nervous, he thought that he came to the 'indigenous army' like the Houjin Iron Cavalry, and no matter how bad it was, it should have the level of the Mongolian cavalry. If he was leading more than 10,000 elites of the First Legion of the Praetorian Guard, of course he wouldn't be afraid, but now he is leading a recruit who has only been training for more than a month!

On the contrary, Comde and Schvera are not afraid at all, you must know that the most popular classic story in the world of colonists is that the illiterate Spanish adventurer Francisco Pizarro and his friend bandit Almagro and the villain Father Luc led an expedition of less than 200 people, defeated the 80,000 indigenous army of the Inca Empire in one fell swoop, captured their emperor, and finally miraculously occupied the Inca Empire with a population of nearly 10 million!

To say that the Mughal Empire is definitely not an indigenous country, but this princely kingdom of Mysore is definitely an indigenous country, such a country sends tens of thousands of indigenous troops to block their army of tens of thousands, do you think Conde and Shivela will be afraid? They had already reconnoitred that the princely kingdom of Mysore had a total of 30,000 indigenous troops, so what would they do if they all came? It's just the end of all of them!

Luo Siwei had never heard of Pizarro's story, so he still attached great importance to these tens of thousands of indigenous troops, he lined up 5,000 musketeers in front of him to form a five-row attack array, and then arranged two thousand musketeers on the left and right to form a ten-layer dense defensive array, and a hundred artillery pieces were arranged by him behind the 5,000 musketeers, lined up in ten rows, ready to form a protective barrage two hundred to three hundred steps in front of the musketeer array.

As for the more than 1,000 men under Kong Dede, he politely invited them to the back of the large array, in the name of protecting the back road, but in fact, he was afraid that they would cause chaos in the front.

After the formation was arranged, Luo Siwei took out his military telescope and stared at the front tightly.

Seeing his nervous expression, Kong Dede couldn't help but croaked in Portuguese and said to Shi Weila: "Shi Weila, is this general of the Ming Empire reliable, you look at his nervous appearance, only 30,000 indigenous troops, what are you afraid of?" ”

Shi Weila was a little unhappy when he heard this, he thought that he was also an official of the Ming Dynasty, and dared to slander the general of the Ming first-class army in front of him, if it weren't for Kong Dede being his big brother, he estimated that he would have the heart to go up and beat people, but even his big brother couldn't slander him as a general of the Ming Dynasty.

Shi Vera directly turned his face and said angrily: "Kong Dede, you are insulting the general of the first-class legion of the great Ming Empire, do you know?" He's going to be afraid, you haven't seen their rebels, more than 500,000, more than 500,000,000, you know no, it's not an indigenous army, it's a regular army that even has artillery. Do you know that there are more than half a million regular troops? Even if the Spanish gathered all their armies, they might not have been able to defeat it, but they were easily defeated by their six legions! ”

Seeing that his old friend was angry, Kong Dede hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Shi Weila, I'm joking, don't be angry, look, the indigenous army is coming, let's hurry up and watch the performance of this great Ming Empire first-class legion general." ”

Hearing this, Schwera raised his telescope, and the native army really appeared two miles away, a large area of black oppression, because the focal length of his telescope was not large, so he could not see it very clearly.

They can't see clearly doesn't mean that Luo Siwei can't see clearly, he has the most advanced military telescope in his hand, and he can see clearly from three miles away, not to mention that the enemy has approached nearly two miles or so.

But when he saw the army on the other side clearly, he couldn't help but feel a little crying and laughing, what kind of people are these, they don't even have armor, they are wearing coarse linen clothes, and the weapon in their hands is used to chop wood or people!

In the face of such a backward army, the barrage is a waste, and he directly shouted: "All artillery is on the arquebus." ”

The small artillery flag in the back immediately repeated with a crappy Chinese: "On the arquebus, on the arquebus, on the arquebus......"

He ordered according to the rhythm of the artillerymen: "Load gunpowder." "Reload Shotshots. ”

After all the teams reported that they had finished loading, he ordered, "Prepare for adjustment." ”

When the personnel were in place, he issued a series of orders: "All brigades are in the right direction, the first brigade is at an angle of 50, the second brigade is at an angle of 495, and the third brigade is at an angle of 49......." “

If anyone who can read the parameters knows that he wants to completely cover the area of one hundred and fifty paces to two hundred paces in front of the musketeers with ten rows of guns.

The native armies of the princely kingdoms of Mysore were rapidly approaching this side, and in their experience, they could only stop at a distance of about one hundred and twenty paces, for even the archers of the Mughal Empire could only shoot a hundred paces, and one hundred and twenty paces was a safe distance for them.

Seeing the enemy approaching rapidly, Luo Siwei silently calculated the distance, two hundred and fifty steps, two hundred and forty steps, two hundred and thirty steps...... He didn't give the order to shoot or fire until he was two hundred paces, and the recruits under his command didn't know that the enemy was already within firing range, more than a mile away, who could see it, anyway, if the general didn't give the order, they wouldn't shoot.

One hundred and ninety steps, one hundred and eighty steps, Luo Siwei continued to calculate, and when the opposing native army approached one hundred and seventy steps, he immediately shouted: "All artillery fire." “

When the indigenous army had just reached a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, a hundred artillery pieces roared in unison, and a large number of scattered bullets covered the opposing indigenous army like a dark cloud, Luo Siwei then ordered: "The front row of musketeers has a segmented rapid fire, ten rounds." “

As soon as his order was given, the front five rows of musketeers immediately began firing non-stop, and the bullets rained down on the opposite native army.

This was simply a one-sided massacre, the soldiers of the princely kingdom of Mysore thought that one hundred and twenty steps was still a safe distance, and all at one hundred and fifty paces they were not at all defenseless, and they were marching there to prepare for the formation, but a dark cloud came down as a hood, directly killing and wounding thousands of people, and then there was a continuous rain of bullets, and the soldiers in front fell in rows like cutting wheat, after ten rounds of bullet rain, more than half of the 30,000 army fell, and the first half of the army almost became a sea of blood, Countless soldiers lay on the ground groaning in pain, and the sight was like purgatory.

Although the Ming Dynasty is a state of etiquette, but there is no mercy to the enemy, Luo Siwei saw that the enemy was really vulnerable, he immediately ordered: "All the musketeers on the bayonet, rush up, surround the enemy, some resist and kill without mercy, and those who flee will be killed." “

After giving the order, he said to Conde next to him: "Count Conde, please let your hundred cavalry under your command block the enemy's retreat, and don't let them escape." “

Comde was stunned at this time, this rate of fire, this accuracy, how can it be like a new soldier, the most elite troops of the Spanish Empire are just like that; And this range, this lethality, is simply terrifying, the most advanced muskets and artillery on the European continent are probably not so terrifying!

Seeing his stunned expression, Shi Vera couldn't help patting him on the shoulder and said proudly: "Count Comde, General Luo asked your cavalry to block the enemy's retreat, why are you in a daze?" “

Only then did Kong Dede react, and hurriedly pointed to the front and said, "Quick, quick, the cavalry will go up and stop them." “