Chapter Ninety-Eight: Sand. Jahan's back road was cut off, and the Imperial army suffered another heavy loss

Sand. When Jahan heard that the army in front had sent someone back to report that there was no one on the Ming army's position in front and that there was an empty camp inside, he said angrily: "No! Before the cannon fired, I saw people walking around on top of their fence! ”

Speaking, Sha. Jahan rode forward, and he wanted to see what was going on.

In fact, sand. Jahan was right. Before the cannon fired, there were really some people on the fence in front of them, and they deliberately ran around there, just to make a show for the sand. Jahan they look. If there were a small group of Mughal soldiers who came to reconnoitre, they would also be unceremoniously exterminated. But they saw through the binoculars that the Mughal artillery was all loaded, and the gunners were all lighting torches, and when they were about to open fire, the kiln soldiers jumped off the fence under the command of the officer, mounted the prepared war horses, and quickly ran behind. They don't want to be hit by this shell, and their task is to attract the opponent to attack.

At this point, the sand. Unbeknownst to Jahan, the Kiln Gang people's brigade was attacking them from behind.

Qin Peng and Jiang Wei they found Sha. Jahan learned wisely and attacked steadily forward, and their idea of annihilating a part of the Mughal Empire's army in the valley never materialized. At first, both Qin Peng and Jiang Wei wanted to put Sha. Jahan led them to the front of the second line of defense and then launched a counterattack.

But the two of them thought at the same time, even then it would be difficult to wipe out the sand. Jahan them. According to the scouts, now Sha. Jahan's army is still more than half a million people.

At this time, the commander of the division that had been preparing to ambush the Mughal army came in and said that they knew from the Kasi that there was a path to the south of the valley that could be passed by hunters, and that they could lead their troops around it and raid the Mughal army in the middle of the valley.

Hearing his words, Qin Peng and Jiang Wei glanced at each other and smiled.

Jiang Wei asked, "You dare to send a teacher over from this trail, so how about sending more people?" ”

The division commander didn't understand what Jiang Wei meant, "This, this division is also going to pull out a long line, and if there are more, I don't know!" ”

Qin Peng said in the past: "The army of the Mughal Empire can travel more than ten kilometers in a day, and it will take a few days to reach us. If possible, we'll take a detour behind them from the path you said. I don't know how the path you said is? Will it work? ”

"Our scouts and Cassies have walked through a stretch, and the passage they have walked is guaranteed to be fine. It's just that if you go west, you can only listen to them, and besides, if our brigade takes this road, we can't bring heavy weapons! The division commander knew that this matter was not trivial, and replied cautiously.

"So be it! Jiang Wei, you take someone to understand this situation carefully. We're here to prepare for both! Qin Peng commanded.

Jiang Wei was born in special forces, and now he is the leader of two mountain jungle armies, and he is familiar with mountain and jungle operations. He and the division commander who provided the information personally brought a lot of canned wine and other things to the Cassie's house and drank with him. The whole family was thrilled to be lifted up in this way, and they brought out all the good things they could get out of the house. When the Cassie man heard that Jiang Wei and they wanted to know more about the trail, he went out and invited a few more Cassie people.

Qin Peng drank wine with them and learned about the situation of this hunting road in detail.

Before leaving, Jiang Wei and the others left two bags of flour for this Cassie's family. These things are a great gift for their family.

Qin Peng was very happy when he heard Jiang Wei say that the Mountain Jungle Army could completely pass this hunting path. It was decided to surprise the Mughal army from behind through this hunting road.

After contacting Fan Chengkun and them on the radio, Qin Peng decided that the two mountain jungle armies would carry the weapons they could carry, and go straight to the Brahmaputra River through the jungle, and a large amount of ammunition would be transported directly to the Brahmaputra River by Fan Chengkun and his military boat.

The team was led by Jiang Wei himself, and they hired a few Cassie guides to go into the jungle.

Every day, the front is opened by a company of troops, and in order to ensure physical strength, after a day, another company is replaced. The soldiers who opened the way, each armed with a machete, opened the way in front. The team that opened the way was a day ahead of schedule, and they cut down the trees that blocked the way, and the soldiers behind them advanced much faster.

The mountain jungle army marched in the jungle was their forte, but the road had to be cleared to carry some heavy weapons. The two armies walked into the jungle and were soon annihilated by the green. Qin Peng can only use the radio to contact Jiang Wei.

After the Kassi and Jiang Wei, who were the guides, finished drinking, they regarded the Yaogang soldiers as friends. He was very grateful to Jiang Wei for leaving them to eat. This is something that has earned their family a lot of envy in the whole village. When they heard that they needed a guide, the Cassians scrambled to participate, and it was this Cassie who helped Jiang Wei choose a few strong people who were familiar with the jungle conditions.

The Caseys have been following the warriors in front of the way. Jiang Wei just let them follow, and they didn't do it. These hard-working Cassie people gave them canned compressed biscuits, etc., and they were reluctant to eat them at all, so they all took what Jiang Wei didn't know about as a meal on the spot.

Jiang Wei didn't want to go, and said to them, "Eat what you are carrying!" I'll give you some of this when we're done fighting. Otherwise, we will have to walk a long way, and you will have enough weight to carry on your back. ”

After listening to Jiang Wei's words, these Cassie began to eat these things. To them, this can is simply the most delicious thing in the world.

Jiang Wei and they are inside, changing one every day to open the road in front, although the speed is not very fast, but it still exceeds the original imagination. The Cassie people really lived up to expectations and didn't take a bit of a wrong path. Jiang Wei they Bisha. Jia Han and they reached Qin Peng's second line of defense and arrived at their destination one day ahead of schedule.

Qin Peng's original plan was that the ambush team would be ordered to blow up several bridges on the lower reaches of the Brahmaputra River (Jamuna River) in order to cut off the sand. The retreat of Jahan's army. But now they have changed their plans and decided not only not to blow up the bridges, but to protect them as best they can. Because Qin Peng and the others were already preparing to use these bridges for their march to the west bank of the Brahmaputra River.

Fan Chengkun and his fleet sent two flat-bottomed warships, from the mouth of the Ganges River upstream, at the confluence of the Ganges River and Brahmaputra, turning to the north Brahmaputra River, they advanced not long ago, they encountered the first bridge, but the bridge was too short, they could not cross, the two boats separated and went straight to the two ends of the bridge. The soldiers of the Mughal Imperial Army guarding the bridge at both ends had not yet figured out what it was, and the cannons of the warships were shooting at them at close range. A few shots of "dong dong" flattened all the facilities at the bridgehead. The sailors on board, driving rubber boats to the shore, cleared the Mughal Empire troops at the bridgehead with automatic rifles, and established their own bridgehead positions. After they contacted Jiang Wei and them on the radio, Jiang Wei and they sent troops to attack the remaining bridges along Brahmaputra. At the same time, the bridgehead positions on both sides of the strait were occupied. The boat that came up from behind brought Jiang Wei a large amount of ammunition for them. The two mountain jungle armies had sufficient food and ammunition. The sand has been locked. The retreat of Jahan's army.

Jiang Wei finished replenishing them, and immediately launched an attack on the material base of the Wommore Empire's army on the east bank of the Brahmaputra River. Although they could not carry heavy artillery on the mountain march, the infantry guns and mortars were disassembled and brought in by oxen and horses.

After a bombardment, the infantry charged, and the soldiers of the Mughal Empire army, who had long been frightened by the occupation of the bridge by the Yaogang army, did not put up any resistance at all, and several logistics bases fell into the hands of Jiang Wei and them.

Capturing these late-stage bases, Jiang Wei and the others did not stop, and continued to attack the first line of defense they had constructed, which had now been occupied by the Mughal Empire troops. This was tantamount to shooting in the back of the Mughal Imperial army, all of their facilities were defending to the east, but they did not expect the Ming army to attack from the west. In fact, no matter how they arranged, the cannons, infantry guns, and mortars on the Yaogang warships bombarded indiscriminately, and the wooden defense line flew into the sky in all directions. These officers and soldiers of the Mughal Empire had endured such a heavy shelling that they felt as if they had reached the end of the world, and those who did not die were lying on the ground motionless. The saddest thing is that the officers and soldiers of the Mughal Empire did not have the slightest sense of anti-artillery. They huddled together in a dense crowd to strengthen their courage. A single shell often explodes into a rain of flesh.

The officers and men of the mountain jungle rushed over, but they met the resistance of a very small number of people, and in the morning, more than 50,000 people, more than 30,000 people surrendered. Most of the others died under the shells.

When Jiang Wei came to the position, he said to the staff officers around him: "What the hell is this army?" Is there such a war? It's almost like a pig! ”

The staff officer said: "Mr. Zhang knows that this will be distressing, these people have been captured, we can open a rice field on the east bank of the Brahmaputra River, there is too much rain here, we can grow rice without drawing water!" ”

"Huh! You're starting to think about growing rice! Don't think about it! It's not your turn! Jiang Wei knew that after the matter here was over, they would all be transferred.

The captured line of defense had to be reinforced. Because of the sand. Jahan, their hundreds of thousands of troops, will still want to retreat from here.

At this time, whether it was Qin Peng or Jiang Wei, they didn't know Sha. Jia Han still has more than 700,000 troops, but they have just been wiped out by Jiang Wei and more than 600,000, and there are still more than 600,000 people.

Sand. When Jahan arrived at the second line of defense carefully built by the Yaogang people, he began to wonder. The first line of defense and the second line of defense used a lot of civil work, but why did the Ming army give up so easily. To say that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is much stronger than that of the Burmese army, even if the Burmese army is defending here, it will not abandon such a favorable position so easily, and it can resist for a while.

I don't know why, Sha. Jahan had another feeling that he was bottomless. For the first time, the Ming army abandoned the front-line positions, and more than 300,000 of them were wiped out by the Ming army. So what is the conspiracy for them to abandon the second line of positions? These damn Ming soldiers are like devils, and they don't know what they think.

Sand. Jahan reported that there was a third line of defense behind the Ming army, and they had retreated to the third line of defense. Sand. Jahan ordered, clean up the battlefield, rest, and send someone to reconnoiter the situation.

Sand. Jahan rested and thought that he must scout the situation before attacking.

But the sand. Among the generals around Jia Han, many people believe that the Ming army gave up their positions because they were afraid of war. Some people also believe that this is because the Ming army wants to lengthen our logistical supply line and weaken our offensive capability before fighting us. Anyway, though, the sand. Jahan is going to attack in the third direction. Because now our army, the strength of soldiers and horses has not been damaged.

Sand. Jahan rested here until the next day when he received news from the rear horse. It was learned that the Ming army launched an attack on their logistics base in the rear, several bases were occupied, and the defensive line behind was also occupied by the Ming army, and the whereabouts of more than 60,000 troops were unknown.

Sand. Jahan knew that there was nothing unknown, that is, he was eliminated. Sand. Jahan's mind was in a mess. They didn't know how the Ming army suddenly appeared from behind, and how their more than 60,000 people could be so easily missing. Sand. Jahan is in chaos, and the generals are even more chaotic. They know that without logistical supplies, hundreds of thousands of troops, they will soon be in chaos without a fight.

A little cool sand. Jahan was immediately faced with a dilemma of whether to advance or retreat.

Attacking forward, attacking the hinterland of Burma for supplies can be seized on the spot, retreating to recapture one's own rear road, opening up contact with the back, and the efforts of this offensive will be in vain. It's all over again. The sand at this time. Jahan didn't realize that this time he was going to be wiped out. He also thought that the intention of the Ming army behind him was to contain his own attack.

Sand. Many of the generals around Jahan saw the dangerous situation in front of them, but they didn't dare to say anything.

Haven't waited for the sand yet. Jia Han made a decision, and Qin Peng made a decision for him.

After getting the news that Jiang Wei had succeeded in the front, Qin Peng asked the scout to carefully observe Sha. The situation in the camp of the army of Jahan, he wants to judge the sand. Did Jahan get the news that Jiang Wei had cut them off. Because, there is only sand. When Jia Han got this news, he was able to make the army unstable, and it was also an opportunity for Qin Peng to launch an attack.

When the scout confirmed, Sha. When there was an abnormality in the Jia Han military camp, Qin Peng also judged that at this time, Sha. Jahan has been informed of the attack on the back road. Therefore, Qin Peng took advantage of the darkness to command the infantry to press forward. At dawn, the sand. When Jahan received the report, the Ming army had pressed over, and he was overjoyed, and he now wanted to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army, so that he could take advantage of the victory and attack them to advance. The next thing, sand. Jahan knew that there were still many troops in the Mughal Empire, and they would solve it.

Sand. Jia Han hurriedly wanted to go forward to observe the situation of the Ming army, but the artillery of the Yaogang people was powerful. Nearly a hundred 130 heavy guns simultaneously fired at them under cover. Good thing in the sand. Jahan was still far from the front line, but they were also shaken by the explosion of the cannonballs, and one by one they crouched beside the mound, holding on to the big trees to stabilize their bodies.

Or the captain of the guard pulling the sand. Jahan scurried backwards, saving Sha. Jahan was killed, because as soon as they left the place, it was covered in extended artillery fire.

As the artillery fire extended, the Yaogang infantry pressed up behind the artillery tractor. All wooden obstacles that resist the impact of the horses are easily crushed under the wheels by the tracks. The automatic rifles in the hands of the follow-up infantry kept picking up the Mughal soldiers who had not yet recovered from the shock of the shell explosion.

The Mughal Empire soldiers, who were not dead in the distance, had just passed through the artillery bombardment they had never dreamed of, and saw the kiln men attacking with rifles, and began to flee for their lives. The rout soon formed a trend. The tide of rout rushed backwards along the valley like a flood. It's sand. Jahan never dreamed that the battle had not yet been fought, and his army would be defeated before his artillery could be fired.

Sand wrapped in a flow of people. Jahan's heart is dead, and he is still the dutiful captain of the guard to Sha. Jahan grabbed a few horses and helped him back in the middle of the crowd.

Sand. Jahan also knew that this situation could only be solved after following the brigade to stop in one place.

On the way to retreat, sand. Jia Han's heart was bleeding, he didn't understand, he had never fought with the Ming army in a dignified manner when he sent troops this time, and with this loss, nearly half of his army had been killed or wounded.

It was still the unfortunate mountain pass, and many of the troops stationed here did not have time to crowd into the retreating mountain pass, and the mountain pass was blocked by artillery fire. The artillery fire blocking the pass stopped, and a detachment of soldiers occupied it.

This time, Sha. Jahan was again annihilated by more than 200,000 people. Some brave soldiers became gunshots. There were also nearly 100,000 surrounded soldiers who were huddled together, all laid down their arms and surrendered. In particular, more than a hundred elephants surrendered along with the elephant soldiers.

Will sand. Jia Han and they rushed into the valley, and Qin Peng did not pursue them, but collected these troops who were surrounded. Qin Peng only had three infantry divisions in his hands, and it was still very tense to deal with so many Mughal Empire troops, and there were no more troops to pursue. Their biggest advantage is that Jiang Wei didn't take away the heavy artillery, these heavy artillery are all here. This time, Qin Peng also played the role of artillery to the extreme. Whether it is bombarding the Mughal Empire's defensive line, extending forward artillery fire, or then blocking the mountain passes where the Mughal Empire army retreats with artillery fire, it is all used just right. The whole made up for the lack of troops.

The soldiers finally broke and stopped in a wide valley.

Sand. After Jahan stopped, he ordered the guards to look around for the generals, he knew that the generals were still needed to command the soldiers, and the soldiers could not listen to his direct command at all.

Many of the generals on the front line did not find it. Jahan knew that they were likely to die in the horrific artillery fire of the Ming army. However, some generals and ministers still retreated here.

One general said: "Your Majesty, I didn't expect the artillery fire of the Ming army to be so powerful, we have never seen such a powerful cannonball." Many of our officers and soldiers were killed by such shells. It's so unjust. Many people didn't even see what the Ming army was like! ”

Sand. Jia Han sighed and said: "A while ago, the Ming army was deliberately showing weakness, and they did not expose the actual power of their artillery fire at all. This time I suddenly attacked, and I was caught off guard. It's just too cunning! ”

At this point, the sand. Jahan is like a rat teased by a cat, and he can't say anything in his heart. Seeing the defeated soldiers around him throwing their armor one by one, Sha. Jahan knew that he had to boost his morale now and organize them to rush out to the back and join forces with his own domestic forces to have any hope of survival. Otherwise, no matter how many troops there are, they won't be able to fight anymore. What is even more terrible is that so many armies have nothing to eat and drink. Sand. Jahan endured the order to kill the horses for meat, knowing that he had to give everyone something to eat before he could organize the army.