Bahadursha, of course, would not succumb to Yang Feng's threat. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The son of Aurangzeb the Great, the owner of the Peacock Throne, the owner of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, and his grandfather also built the Taj Mahal, how could he be so humiliated by Yang Feng?

So the forty-eight hours of ultimatum time passed quickly, and the Mughal army on the banks of the upper Kushtia showed no sign of retreating, on the contrary, in the fortress and trenches of the fortresses and fortresses on the front, the Mughal warriors who were fighting to defend their homeland were all in a state of combat readiness, and even the elephant soldiers and cavalry who had been in the rear began to urgently move towards the front line.

In that case, there is not much to say.

So then the Ming army's inland river fleet began to go up the Ganges River, these warships with a draft of only two or three feet but with a displacement of hundreds of tons, put on the river is enough to be called a giant ship, although the firepower is not worth mentioning on the sea, but it is also terrifying on the river, fifty river gunboats lined up, with their one hundred three-inch guns, constantly to all the targets worthy of bombardment within ten miles of the shore, pouring 24 pounds of shells.

Poor Mughals!

What do they use to stop such an enemy?

Just by their range, it's only three or four miles of artillery? Or their soldiers with smoothbore guns? Or are their small wooden boats, which can only be used for suicide attacks?

This huge fleet, like an invincible dragon, gradually moved forward along the course of the Ganges, crushing all the ants on both sides who dared to challenge its majesty, everything was ants in front of it, the Mughal batteries were shattered, the Mughal fleet was shattered, and the Mughals were equally courageous, and they looked in horror at the black beast that was spewing black smoke and shooting flames and pouring death, trembling as if facing the deepest demon in their hearts.

This is a behemoth of the mechanical age.

This is the demon of the agrarian age.

In the boundless bright green, the black demon dragon swam slowly, releasing the black mist of death.

Of course, this does not make Bahadursha succumb, and he is not one of the illiterate soldiers under his command who has never seen a steamboat, in fact, His Majesty the Emperor has even seen the cruisers of the Ming army, and these small river gunboats really can't shock him, and besides, he has already locked the upstream river with iron chains, and the Ming fleet can at most go to the confluence of the Pajileti River and the Ganges River, of course, even if it can continue to go up, the Ming army will not go.

His army of 200,000 is still in Murshidabad!

What was the use of the fleet in the past?

However, he was wrong.

The fleet, of course, was useful in the past.

The confluence of the Pajileti River with the Ganges River.

From here to the east is the vast Ganges Delta, from here to the west is the equally vast Deccan Plateau, from here to the north is the rich plains, from here to the south can be down to the Ming army-controlled Xuance Province.

It is the crossroads of the eastern part of the South Asian subcontinent.

There is also the largest group of Mughal fortresses here, and the barrage they arranged is here, and not only the barrage of the river, but also a large number of wooden stakes have also been driven on the course of the Ganges, and even sank countless huge wooden cages full of stones, and several small cargo ships filled with sand have been sunk in the main waterway, which has actually completely blocked the water transportation of the Ganges downstream, while the 200,000-strong army of Bahadur Shah transports supplies through the upper reaches of the Ganges and the Pajilti River, which are still unimpeded.

After all, his army also consumes a lot of supplies every day.

At the angle between the two rivers and the sandbar in the middle of the Ganges, he built three castles arranged in a zigzag shape, completely imitating the construction of European-style fortresses, in fact, even the people in charge of the construction are Europeans, these three pentagonal flower-shaped fortresses have a complete and complex defense system, and form a mutual support, which is arranged with cast steel smoothbore cannons purchased from the hands of Ming arms dealers, and even expensive cast steel flowering shells, the defenders are also the most elite Arab mercenary regiments, it is said that they like to use somersaults to scare the enemy before the war... …

Well, such a scene is estimated to make Emperor Yang feel a faint sense of nostalgia.

But it didn't help.

"I love using this!"

Liu Kun, commander of the First Inland River Fleet of the Ming Army, looked at the soldiers who were loading gas shells and said proudly.

Indeed, now the generals of the Ming army like to use this, especially like to use this to bombard European-style fortresses, and in recent years, because the application of chlorine gas in industry has become more and more extensive, so the production capacity is expanding day by day, and the cost is not as high as before, including the bureaucrats of the Ministry of War in the procurement of weapons, they also like to buy this kind of highly efficient weapon, after the Ming army began to be equipped with gas masks in large quantities, it will be even more out of control, and now the ammunition of the Ming army's combat units is usually a quarter of the DU air bombs.

The 100 Chuanjiang gunboats of the 100 Inland River Fleet were all loaded with duke bombs, and then began to bombard the Mughal citadel.

They kept bombarding for half an hour.

A whole three thousand duke bombs fell in this poor castle.

"Notify the infantry to land and collect the corpses."

Looking at the castle in the distance, which was almost flooded by yellow-green poisonous mist, Liu Kun said casually.

"I miss more and more the feeling I felt when I fought on the battlefield, and now I have no sense of accomplishment in this battle."

Then he said with some sadness.

The troop carriers accompanying the fleet immediately stepped forward, and the Ming infantry of an infantry battalion landed unimpeded, and then quickly occupied the castle like a drill, threw out the flag of the Mughal Empire, and carried out the 5,000 dead and still dead Mughal corpses inside and threw them into the Ganges. Then they took over the castle and began to quickly erect barbed wire fences around it, and even used elephants to drag those three-inch heavy field guns into the castle and set them up, aiming their guns directly at the Pajileti River on the other side, as if sending a notice, a dozen cargo ships transporting supplies for Bahadur Shah on the river six miles away were bombarded into the bottom of the river.

And the river flotilla continued to advance.

But soon Liu Kun had to stop, because there was a huge chain in front of him, which was almost as thick as the waist of the Indian dancer, and the cast steel chain of the Ming Dynasty was half sunk less than a foot below the surface of the Ganges, and was tightened to the maximum, like a terrifying python hidden in the yellow river, and huge wooden cages full of stones were dotted on the chains, and countless other similar wooden cages were scattered downstream, and at the back of these chains were two Mughal fortresses, covering the entire river with cross-fire.

Behind the fortress is the confluence of the Pajileti River and the Ganges River.

"What age, still playing this!"

Liu Kun said disdainfully.

"Maximum elevation angles to bombard their fortresses with duke air bombs and phosphorus fire shells!"

Then he commanded.

Well, the fate of the previous bastion was repeated in these two bastions, this kind of bastion had no meaning in front of the duke, and in the small enclosed area, the power of the duke qi could be maximized, especially the trenches, parapets, and various obstacles they dug around them, which blocked their own escape. The poor Arab warriors hired from Oman and Yemen in the bastion didn't have time to show their somersaults, just in the sound of whistling shells and explosions, smoked into cooked prawns in the yellow-green poisonous mist, curled up and convulsed waiting for death.

"Alright, don't fight anymore!"

Half an hour later, Liu Kun said with satisfaction.

"Switch to high-explosive bombs and aim for those obstacles!"

Then he pointed to the river.

The artilleryman beside him immediately opened the wooden box filled with high-explosive shells, took out shells filled with wet cotton gunpowder and stuffed them into the barrel, quickly shook the handle to lower the muzzle, and aimed the cannon directly at the wooden cages and sunken ships blocking the channel on the river.

In ancient times, these things were indeed regarded as magic weapons for blocking waterways.

But it's a pity that it is meaningless in front of the wet cotton gunpowder high-explosive shell of the three-inch cannon, in fact, as long as it is wooden, it is meaningless in front of this thing, it has evolved to wet cotton gunpowder, which wood can resist? Whether it was those wooden cages filled with stones more than one person high, or those wooden boats filled with sand three or four zhang long, they were all smashed by a cannonball, and they were shattered in an instant, just like smashing walnuts with a sledgehammer, and the Ming fleet easily smashed one obstacle after another and soon advanced to the front of the barrage.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

……

The thunderous explosion sounded intensively, and the surface of the river near the chain was like boiling, and in just a few seconds, more than a dozen three-inch shells hit the chain at the same time, blowing up the mud and sand at the bottom of the river, and countless fish and shrimp were brutally murdered.

However......

"Ma's, in the end, it came from Wujin Iron and Steel Factory, it's really strong!"

Liu Kun looked at the chain speechlessly and exclaimed.

Although it withstood such a fierce artillery fire, this chain was still not broken, of course, not that it was strong, but these shells did not hit directly, but the force of the explosion was partially offset by the river, this thing is also different from those wooden cages, after the wooden cage was shattered by the shells, the stones contained in it were directly washed away by the river, but this thing is a half-suspended iron chain, if it is not directly hit, it is really difficult to blow up. There is also a way, which is to blow up the iron lumps fixed at both ends directly, so that the chains will naturally sink to the bottom of the river, but the two ends of this barrage are actually underwater. In fact, it is carried down from the upstream by a number of wooden boats, and then hundreds of elephants are used to tighten the left and right, and after tightening, the copper liquid is continuously poured with crucibles at both ends, and finally two copper stones weighing tens of tons are formed, and the periphery of the pouring site is pre-built to block the river water, and after pouring, the dam is dug up, and the river water naturally submerges the end of the chain, and now only the top of the two copper stones is exposed.

If you want to start from both ends, you still have to build a dam to block the water, and then concentrate on the fire or simply do the gas welding and cutting.

"Or send a message to the Navy and ask them to send a mine!"

His chief of staff proposed.

"Don't be so troublesome, change the rapid-fire cannon for armor-piercing shells!"

Liu Kun said.

Well, a river gunboat immediately stepped forward, almost to a distance of less than ten feet from the chain, and then a rapid-fire gun on the deck immediately tilted downward at a large angle, and then began to spray flames outward, and one after another shells more than an inch thick were sprayed out at a speed exceeding the sound, and the solid armor-piercing projectiles cast in alloy instantly pierced the river with huge kinetic energy. As for whether it hits directly, there is no need to care about this, anyway, one will not work for ten, ten will not work for a hundred, and if a hundred does not work, it will hit a thousand, and it will not take long for this artillery to hit a thousand shells.

In fact, before 200 shells were fired, the chain was broken.

Although the river water of less than a foot also caused a lot of kinetic energy loss for armor-piercing bullets, it still can't make it immune to the power of this thing after all, no matter how strong it is, it is only civilian soft steel, in front of alloy armor-piercing bullets, it is like tofu, one hit can make a gap, even if the accuracy of rapid-fire guns is poor, after firing two hundred shells at a distance of twenty or thirty meters, it is enough to hit three or five, as long as two hits this chain will inevitably be broken.

After the barrage was broken, the Ming fleet immediately blasted away the remaining obstacles, and soon carved out a passage on the interception line carefully designed by the Mughals, and then escorted the troop transports through this water area and landed to occupy the remaining two fortresses, so that the confluence of the Ganges River and the Pajilti River was completely controlled by the Ming army, and the logistics supply line of the 200,000 army of Bahadur Shah was directly cut off, that is a 200,000 army, a terrifying number for food every day, not to mention that there are more than 100,000 war horses, More than a thousand elephants for various purposes can be said to be like a bottomless pit waiting to be filled.

Don't think that Bahadursha is on your own soil, so you don't have to worry about logistics.

He also has to rely on the Ganges River water operation as the main artery, and it is completely nonsense to meet the consumption of 200,000 infantry cavalry by land transportation, not to mention that his supplies are actually mainly transported from the area of Delhi, as for those governors in the vicinity, how can they raise food for him, and even if they do, they can't transport it, and another Ming fleet in the south is also heading north along the Pajilti River!

It can be said that this time it choked his neck.

"Go and tell him again, just say that I don't bully him, I give him a chance, the two armies have a dignified decisive battle, he doesn't hide in the trench as a mouse, I also keep trapping him with food, give him ten days to prepare, during these ten days his transport ships can continue to pass, ten days later, the two armies will set up a decisive battle, the battle will be won or lost, if he still doesn't dare to fight after ten days, then don't blame me for cutting off his food!"

Emperor Yang said proudly.

Well, that's what he's for.

The oldest, noblest, and most blood-pumping battle battle array.

20,000 Ming troops against 200,000 Mughal troops.

A battle is won or lost. (To be continued.) )