Anger, disappointment, and the humiliation of losing a handful of rice pervaded Karui's mind, and in a hurry, Captain Garilin bravely faced the artillery fire, gathered some two hundred brave soldiers, unloaded some of the cannon-pulling horses, and acted as cavalry, and charged at the artillery position where the Chinese cavalry was. Lieutenant Colonel Karui braved the cannons, organized those artillery, turned the muzzle of the cannon, and launched a counterattack against the cavalry of the Liang family's army.

However, the artillery of the cavalry of the Liang family army was not only a powerful flowering shell, but also the cannon was not at all like the breech guns used by the coalition forces, and after firing, the chamber had to be cleaned and recharged, which was so complicated that it was outrageous.

The important thing is that these guns have been loaded with scattered bullets, because when designing the trap, it has been taken into account that the Liang family army is cavalry, and it is very likely that they will attack the artillery units in a wild assault way, and it will definitely be difficult to entangle them with 3,000 musketeers, so that the artillery things are loaded, so that they can enter a state of combat readiness at any time, and in the European battlefield, in order to prepare for sudden encounters, the artillery is generally loaded in advance.

However, although the shotgun can be called the reaper of life at close range, now, the opponent is more than two miles away from them, and the shotgun is useless, so they can only brave the fire to reload the shell.

And the cavalry artillery of the Liang family army kept firing there, and in the blink of an eye, they fired five rounds of shelling, and then during the period when those allied artillerymen were risking heavy casualties and struggling to calibrate and reload, they directly opened the way.

And Captain Garilin and the warriors who were charging on their horses could only eat a mouthful of ash behind the buttocks of those damned Chinese cavalrymen, and the bends of the horses in their hands could not even cut off the tail hair. As if they were teasing them, the other party paid no attention to the two hundred brave coalition soldiers.

When the commander of the coalition army, Assafjahi, led the murderous 5,000 iron cavalry to the battlefield, he could only see the little smoke of gunpowder over the battlefield and the mess in that place.

Looking at the wounded who were being carried on stretchers, showing miserable wounds, moaning weakly, and those guns that were destroyed and injured by the artillery fire fell to the ground like a pile of rags, Assafjahi's eyes darkened, and he almost fell off the horse's back: "Lieutenant Colonel Karui, where are the Chinese cavalry?" ”

"Ran away." Lieutenant Colonel Karui sat down abruptly on the body of an eighteen-pound gun that had fallen apart, his face withered and his expression aggrieved, like a bankrupt gambler.

"Ran away?! Dear Lieutenant Colonel Wise Karui, is your mouth clogged with feces? Assafjahi angrily rushed to Lieutenant Colonel Karui and roared loudly at the messy battlefield. Do you think two words are enough to explain all this?! ”

"Your Highness, please be cold, they are too cunning, they use war horses to carry small artillery, stop and fire at us at a distance of ** hundred yards, we have no choice, but fortunately, we only lost part of the artillery." Lieutenant Colonel Karui couldn't help but explain in distress. I can only blame myself for the current situation.

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Artillery losses were close to a third, and most of them were eighteen-pounder guns with obvious targets. The cavalry that had been cruising in the rear of the coalition army also suffered heavy losses when they returned, and they were attacked by a group of Chinese cavalry, numbering at least 2,000 horsemen.

After hearing the news, the high-ranking members of the coalition couldn't help but change their faces, and it was obvious that this was definitely not a small force of disturbing troops, but the famous Chinese cavalry regiment that roamed the Indus Valley.

After suffering this loss, and after understanding what kind of demon this harassing force was, the coalition army marched more carefully.

What could have been done in three days, it took the coalition forces eight days to reach the city of Namiyanvali.

The siege began, but the hapless coalition army discovered that the range of their artillery was insufficient, or if they wanted to use artillery to attack the city, then the coalition artillery had to be close to the range of the Chinese 117th Division.

On the one hand, it was necessary to attack the city of Miyanvali, which was armed to the teeth and guarded by the elite Chinese 117th Division, and on the other hand, it was necessary to keep an eye on the Chinese cavalry regiment that had been cruising around the left and right. The ambitious and outnumbered coalition could never have imagined that the siege battle, which they thought would be easily victorious, would become a nightmare for the indigenous Indian coalition.

The attacking and defending sides were in a tough artillery battle from the beginning, or it should be said that the coalition forces were in a difficult situation from the beginning, because the Chinese 117th Division defending the city had a fast and mobile mortar, the firing range was not inferior to the coalition army's 18-pounder siege gun, and the rate of fire far exceeded the breech fire of the coalition army.

In just one day, the coalition forces had to admit sadly that it was a fool's dream to rely on artillery to capture this small city, and now the only thing they could rely on was the number of coalition forces, and they would attack the city in the usual way.

And at this time, the Chinese Legion on the Eastern Front, which had not moved, finally began to act.

The city of Meerut, a city in the western part of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located in the area between the Upper Yamuna and the Ganges River, one hundred and thirty miles northeast of Delhi. It was the last barrier in the northeast of Delhi, the capital of the Mughal Empire, where 20,000 elite Mughal troops were stationed, including 3,000 musketeers and 3,000 cavalry.

And just a dozen miles away from the city of Meerut, an army in black clothes and black helmets was rapidly approaching the last barrier in the northeast of Delhi.

At this moment, in Delhi, the capital of the Mughal Empire, the royal palace, those ministers have been arguing at the moment. Because, they ushered in a governor who was captured by the city.

He brought with him a gift from the Chinese army that he had brought to the Mughal emperor, a bullet with a metallic sheen, and a letter.

He is in his thirties, but he is already as old as a sixty-seven-year-old man. Dressed in sumptuous silk robes, Alam II stared a little blankly at the spittling ministers who were arguing.

The Mughal Empire has never been as weak as it is today, yes, the decline of the Mughal Empire has been inevitable since before the accession of Alam II, and by the time Alam II ascended the throne, the mighty Mughal Empire, which once owned the entire Indian peninsula, has become as weak as an old man who is about to breathe.

The Mughal Empire was not only invaded by the damned Western colonizers, but also by the invasion from Afghanistan, but also by the princely kings, and there were rebellions and wars everywhere, and countless forces built up on this land.

Before the advent of the Orientals, the entire Mughal Empire had been reduced to the northern half of the Heng Jumuna region and part of the west bank of the Jumuna River.

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The Charters in the south and the Sikhs in the west invaded the land like wolves, trying to take away what was left of the land from the puppet emperor who was controlled by the British colonizers.

When the British were defeated by the Chinese, the British left the royal palace of the Mughal Empire, but more Western colonizers poured into the land.

By the way, there are also those Chinese, who are also ambitious to spy on this rich continent.

Although after the British were driven out, Alam II wanted to muster up the courage and try to restore the Mughal Empire to its former glory.

However, the Mughal Empire has long been rotten from the roots, and his decrees are afraid that even this palace cannot be released, and those important ministers who are obedient to the government are always trying to suck more blood from the foundation of the empire to satisfy their greed, but he has to rely on these guys to maintain his rule.

Just a few months earlier, the British had come to his palace again, bringing gifts and their apologies, and then they wanted to use the Mughal Empire to deal with the adversaries that the British themselves feared: the Chinese.

Alam II was well aware that this was a conspiracy, but the promise of the British, and the hope that the Mughal Empire would be restored to its ancestral glory, deliberately ignored some of the consequences.

But now, the city of Miyanvali fell into a difficult struggle, and the 80,000 allied troops were firmly pinned down under the city of Namiyanwali, and at this time, the Chinese army in Qunu City, which had always seemed to be very calm, suddenly broke through the border defense of the Mughal Empire, and the troops pointed directly at the last pass of the Mughal Yanjing Delhi: Meerut.

The messenger's demands were simple: either the Mughal Empire immediately withdrew its troops and ceded all the lands north of the Ganges to the Chinese Empire, recognizing its sovereignty over the Indus River Plain and the Ganges Plain.

The Chinese Empire would have recognized the Mughal Empire's dominion over Delhi and large areas south of the Ganges, but the lands of the Indian Peninsula, which had already been divided by Western colonizers, were not covered by the treaty.

Time was wasted in pointless quarrels, and when the terrible Chinese army had breached the city of Meerut in only three days, the ministers finally became frightened, and as quickly as they could, they asked the Mughal Emperor Alam II to order the recall of the Mughal army from the coalition, and set up a defensive line along the Ganges to prevent the Chinese from crossing the river to the south.

(To be continued)