Chapter 737. There is a disparity in power

There was an uproar, and the new wall that had been built for a day could be regarded as being violently smashed open by a sledgehammer, and several officers of the Left Army rushed in, shouting for warmth.

"Young marshal! Are you alright, young marshal? ”

Originally, he threw an empty bottle of Wu Sangui's wine collection on the side, and Zuo Mengeng, who was leaning against the wall and snoring, immediately jumped up like a hot buttocks, pushed away the officers, grabbed three steps in front of him and ran out of the building in two steps, almost jumped off Dingwu Fort directly, weighed the wheelbase of more than ten meters on the outer wall, and obediently turned down the small north gate, and then in the civilian residence barracks temporarily requisitioned outside the city, it was a scene that made him want to cry without tears.

The more than 13,000 reserve troops are still those, but the 8,000 regular army is left in the early 4,000s, and not a single brigade is complete! And as Wu Sangui said, he didn't even have the courage to fight, and he could imagine what crooked melons and cracked dates were left.

"Young marshal, it was Ma Shixiu's bastard who took the lead in taking refuge in Wu Sangui, which brought away so many brothers! Do you want the general to catch up and kill that bastard? ”

Seeing Zuo Mengeng's ugly face, Hao Xiaozhong, a trapped veteran of the Left Army, jumped out again, holding a knife and asking murderously.

However, if he really had the courage, Zuo Mengeng would have chosen to fight to the death with him Liu Zongmin, instead of escaping the Yangtze River and surrendering, he didn't have the courage to jump out of his comfort zone desperately, his face changed for a long time, Zuo Mengeng finally sighed helplessly: "Forget it, Wu Sangui's family is the descendant of the East India Company after all, unlike our sideline, if there is a stiffness at this time, Wu Sangui can completely put the responsibility on our heads!" ”

"If he wants to die, let him go! It just so happens that this brother has returned to us, you go to the warehouse and dig it out to see what else there is. ”

"That's right!"

Suddenly thinking of something, Zuo Mengeng suddenly gritted his teeth and roared again: "Send someone to write a letter to the company's board of directors, I was going to impeach him!! ”

At the head, Zuo Mengeng was furious, but he didn't pay attention to the deflated appearance of several of his generals, compared with his Lao Tzu, this young marshal Zuo, is really far behind!

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On the other end, pulling more than 3,000 mercenaries, with his old subordinates, Wu Sangui was also vigorous and set out on the expedition.

After crossing the tributaries of the Henghe River, 3,000 people carrying ten cannons all the way to the north, more than 100 Guanning iron cavalry were scattered by him in front of the army to inquire about the news for a moment, for the troops of the left army to take refuge, Wu Sangui was almost unrestrained, and he did not even move the establishment, and also appointed the original generals of the left army, and did not care about their robbery of indigenous villages along the way, as long as they did not delay the daytime march, at will.

However, after all, it was delayed for about eight days, and by the time Wu Sangui led his army to the border of Kulna of the Marathas, the main army of 70,000 Bengali led by Nawab had already arrived at Karifatabad, less than two days away from Wu Sangui.

After all, his head was not caught by the door, and he pulled this person to go immediately and face the person hard, Wu Sangui was rational and ordered to stop the military horse.

It is worthy of the two holy rivers of India, the Ganges River has many branches on the Bengal plain, dividing the princely state of Kurna and West Bengal, is one of them, after crossing the river, Wu Sangui ordered the destruction of the earthen bridge built by the Indians behind him, and immediately built a military camp next to the river.

Fortunately, after more than six months of special training in Tainan, the engineer operation is one of the training items, or it is really difficult to let these left army masters bend down to dig the soil, in Wu Sangui's shouting, the East India Company mercenaries dug out a very traditional three-trench fortification, the big circle outside is set around the small circle inside, but a little unexpected thing is that according to the military practice, the cannon should be hidden in the trench to prevent the enemy's artillery attack, but this time, Wu Sangui not only hid the cannon, Instead, he put all the excavated earth in the center, and raised ten heavy red-coat cannons high, like turrets.

It took more than a day to do this, and at this time the weather was already hot, and they were sweaty, tired and sleepy, and these grandfathers of the left army finally stopped picking, and lay down in the trench that had just been dug out and fell asleep when they were cold.

However, they were destined to not sleep well this night, in the early hours of the morning, a burst of vibration suddenly came from outside, and the left army lying in the outermost circle turned over uncomfortably, turned his head again, and finally simply drilled out of the trench in anger, but in the next second, these left soldiers couldn't help but be stunned.

On the horizon, which had already revealed the white of the fish's belly, suddenly it was thicker, and the sound of neat and dense vibrations was overwhelming, and the torches were like fireflies that appeared out of nowhere, and there were even some dark and strong monsters swaying towards them.

"Wu Sangui, that bastard! Is this a little fucking dangerous? ”

Hand Sun Dasheng put it on his eyes like that, and he couldn't help but scold the strong man from Henan who came by.

It's really too different! Even if there was a bloody battle with the Marathas for a day, the Bengali army that won the big victory had almost no loss, with 70,000 people, war elephants, cannons, and muskets, but Wu Sangui's side, the more than 3,600 left troops that were fooled by him, were still unevenly organized, some were only one or two people, and the cavalry was only more than 100.

But Wu Sangui is full of confidence.

The sudden discovery of the East India Company mercenaries also made the marching Bengali army slightly agitated, and at a distance of about a kilometer from Wu Sangui's camp, Nawab ordered to stop, and then took advantage of the dawn light, more than a dozen knights of the mining provinces on horses and white flags for negotiation hurriedly trotted over to their side.

"Governor Wu! Governor Wu! The barbarians have sent messengers to negotiate! ”

This amount, even Ma Shixiu, a veteran of the Left Army who was moved by Wu Sangui's words, trembled a little, and when he saw the messenger, he hurriedly ran to the artillery position that was raised in the middle, and shouted loudly.

At this time, Wu Sangui himself was also quarreled, and he was looking into the distance with a telescope, listening to Ma Shixiu's shouting, he threw down the telescope and picked up a flintlock pistol casually.

"Barbarian envoy, is that what General Ma is talking about?"

"That's right, Governor Wu, the barbarians are menacing, and there are so many of them, I'm afraid the war is also a hard battle, it's really not good, just according to what my young marshal said, we can negotiate peace with the other party, our East India Company is such a big deal, and it won't be bad to pay them tens of thousands of taels"

Before he finished speaking, a gunshot rang out violently, Ma Shixiu almost fell into the trench, and he didn't care about etiquette, so he panicked and picked up the telescope that Wu Sangui threw on the ground and looked over, in the cylinder, the Bengal Caiyi knight in front had already dropped his head and dropped his horse, and the remaining Turkic Persian riders also turned around and ran.

Blowing out the muzzle of gunsmoke, Wu Sangui asked with a ruffian smile: "General Ma, is there anything else?" ”

"Governor Wu, you"

His mouth trembled, and the old man of the left army slapped his thigh sadly for a long time: "The last general is fine, let's go to the front to supervise the battle!" ”

Come and kill them all, there is still room for a fart to negotiate peace?

Ignoring Ma Shixiu, who was going down the trench, the gun was thrown to the side, Wu Sangui actually yawned heavily, fluttered and lay down in the soft mud, and waved his hand lazily in the teeth of a group of left army artillery.

"Call me and get some more sleep!"

Wu Sangui still had the heart to sleep back, but the Wabu Jasthanpur was almost not angry, when he was enjoying the victory on the battlefield, Wu Sangui wrote a letter to point at his nose and scolded, and threatened that the East India Company would find him to settle the account of the assassination, good fellow, now even his messenger dares to kill.

Before Wu Sangui ran to Jida, the good feeling of sending him silk, spices, and silver was completely disappeared in an instant, and he was full of anger and corruption, and the Bengali emperor waved his war knife violently like a grumpy child.

"Wear Navabhuling! Offensive! ”

The sound of bull horns resounded through the spacious Bengal plain, just like the last time the Maratas were annihilated, the thick imperial light infantry phalanx was like a tofu block, crowded forward in the morning light, and along with the infantry phalanx, there were imperial war elephants hanging with double cannons, and the morning light flashed a particularly fierce murderous aura on the bronze muzzles of the guns.

"Ha~~~"

yawned again, and with the horn, Wu Sangui, who had been lying on his stomach for half an hour and returning to the cage, finally sat up in a daze.