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October 1.

The south bank of the Ganges.

"I love this kind of scene!"

Emperor Yang sat on the throne and looked at the seemingly boundless enemy army in the distance and said.

This Huanghuali seat inlaid with gems carved nine golden dragons, standing on the top of thirty-six steps, this is the number of vassal states owned by the Ming Dynasty at present, and there are two maids standing behind them playing a treasure fan, and the throne on both sides completely imitates the Fengtian Hall of the Nanjing Imperial Palace, but the scale is much smaller, but there are also several generals and attendants standing at his feet, the whole looks carved beams and paintings are splendid, it is completely a mobile palace, but it is not horses or steam engines that move this palace.

It is carried by a person.

Like Xerxes in three hundred, a moving palace carried entirely by men.

Below this palace, there are groups of neatly arranged slaves, according to the color of their skin on the four sides of the palace, the front is all white slaves, the back is all black slaves, the left is all brown slaves, and the right is the same yellow slaves, the so-called yellow slaves are the construction slaves and Japanese slaves and the like. Four hundred slaves of all four colors marched to the rhythm of the musician's drum, and if anyone made a mistake, the brocade guard would unceremoniously drag him out and cut him down. This is not to say that Emperor Yang really has such a penchant for change, but this ghost place can't take steam cars, nor can you take heavy carriages, the land is too damp and soft, and the use of horses to carry such a mobile palace, it is impossible to ensure that the pace is neat, but the employment of people is completely different, in the case of cutting off the head if you can't walk together, those slaves walk as neatly as the People's Liberation Army during the parade.

Of course, in fact, this mobile palace is not too heavy, it looks quite scary, but most of it is horned iron and the like, and then the outside is pasted with plywood, but the gold leaf and gems pasted on it are real, and there is no shortage of this in Emperor Yang's treasury now, and he and his business partner often use this to trade.

This mobile palace is just a prop for pomp and circumstance.

And the object of Yang Feng's pomp and circumstance was the seemingly boundless Mughal soldiers opposite him.

Bahadur Shah didn't dwell too much on the decisive issue.

Mainly in the following days, his counterattack on the estuary fortress was once again a sea of corpses, and the daily casualties of more than 5,000 people made him finally understand the fact that as long as the place occupied by the Ming army was usually impossible to recapture.

In that case, let's just hurry up!

Although the decisive battle in the field also means that the ditch he dug a while ago was in vain, the ferocity of the Ming army's arrogance also made him understand that there may not be good fruits to eat in the defense of the position, and the decisive battle in the field can still give full play to his huge advantage in troops. After all, he has a full army of 200,000, even if it is impossible to send them all, he can at least invest more than 150,000 people in the decisive battle, and there are a full 80,000 cavalry inside, in fact, the cavalry is the main body of the Mughal army, this huge empire with 440,000 standing troops, and even has a full 200,000 cavalry.

Of course, the real elite cavalry, that is, the heavy cavalry, is less than 10,000, and the others are actually just horses.

But that's still enough.

Because the Ming army was only a cavalry brigade.

That is to say, if there is a decisive battle in the field, then Bahadursha can put in almost twenty times the cavalry of the Ming army, and can put almost seven times the infantry of the Ming army, because the three fortresses must be guarded, so the Ming army only has two infantry brigades that can be put into the field, although they also have an artillery brigade, but Bahadursha still has an incomparably huge advantage, not to mention that he also has an elephant soldier composed of more than a thousand elephants.

Although the rapid-fire artillery of the Ming army destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the elephant soldiers, the charge of more than a thousand elephants and the charge of three hundred elephants were not an attack of the same level at all.

It is precisely because of this that he finally decided to duel with Yang Feng in the field.

Of course, in fact, the main thing is that he also knows that if Yang Feng really wants to cut off the supply line for him, then he really won't be able to last long, and he has more than one enemy, the Marathas in the west have begun to attack the area under his control, and several governors on the southern peninsula are planning to stand out from the empire, especially the governor of Hyderabad has even openly contacted the Ming army, and even the Sikhs in Punjab have launched a rebellion, so it can be said that he can't afford it now.

So in the end, Yang Feng got his wish.

"Isn't it a little too crazy that I'm less than 20,000 against 150,000?"

Emperor Yang asked Wang Song.

"Your Majesty, the heavens are coming, everything is a chicken, a dog, 150,000, 500,000, the ministers are just worried that there will be not enough manpower to catch too many slaves when the fight starts later."

Wang Jingluo, who was standing next to the throne, bowed his head and said.

"Okay, you can talk!"

Emperor Yang said with satisfaction.

In fact, at this time, there was really no one in the Ming army to fear, although their enemies seemed to be boundless, especially the more than a thousand elephants and countless cavalry were indeed quite scary, but as long as Emperor Yang was beside him, everything was a floating cloud.

There are a lot of people who have a fart, we have a god here!

"Leave me alone later, just do what you have to do!"

Yang Feng said to Wang Song.

"Your Honor!"

Wang Jingluo immediately saluted, and then retreated down the steps, and then began to arrange the troops, in fact, there is nothing to arrange, since it is a decisive battle in the field, then it is nothing more than playing the old line infantry, the front two infantry brigade platoon battle lines, eight infantry battalions are all in the first line, with the Ganges River as the back to form a classic Liu Yu-style moon formation, behind the battle line is the artillery position, the heavy artillery brigade and the brigade artillery battalion of various calibers of artillery and rocket artillery are all set up behind the infantry, and then directly to the improvised dock on the shore to transport ammunition.

In addition, there was a cavalry brigade left in the inner circle.

But not as cavalry, a cavalry brigade to kill and play against nearly twenty times the cavalry is purely suicidal, these cavalry are used as a reserve for the infantry brigade, all the soldiers are dismounted and on standby, and only after the enemy army has been defeated can they get on their horses and pursue.

It's all textbook-like.

And when the Ming army was arranging the formation, Bahadursha was also commanding his army to arrange the formation, in fact, he also had nothing to arrange, his men and horses were too many, the Ming army was too small, and they were all held into a regiment, so his army only needed to use cavalry and elephant soldiers as the vanguard, and directly pressed through all the fronts of the Ming army, whether it was his cavalry or elephant soldiers rushing into the Ming army formation, then this battle could be said to be victorious, and even as long as an elephant rushed in, he could be said to be victorious.

So his deployment is just as simple.

The elephant soldiers attacked the middle of the moon formation, and the cavalry attacked the two wings, rushing at the fastest speed, and did not need any artillery cover, in fact, Bahadursha also understood that because the difference in range was too large, his cannon could not be pushed to a distance sufficient to attack the Ming army.

In this way, the two sides quickly completed the arrangement of troops.

Of course, immediately after the deployment of the Mughals was sent to Wang Song by the airship scouts in the sky, but he did not make additional adjustments, because it was completely unnecessary, his moon formation was the best tactic, the Mughals attacked him to meet him, and the Mughals did not attack him and he would advance along the river, anyway, the fleet was following beside him, and what supplies were needed were directly unloaded from the ship, and the cannons that could not be followed by land could also be withdrawn from the ship at any time, if the Mughals did not attack, Then he went all the way to the three bastions at the mouth of the Pagileti River.

This game is simple.

However, Wang Song did not notice that at this moment, His Majesty the Emperor, whom they respected, stood up from the throne with a proud face, like Xerxes for three hundred miles, slowly walked down the steps, and then walked to the back of the mobile palace, and walked into an open door in the fear of the black slaves, and the brocade guards outside closed the door immediately after he entered.

The tentative offensive of the Mughals soon began.

An infantry regiment quickly moved forward.

The infantry in the Mughal army was actually cannon fodder, this empire was somewhat similar to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, both ruled the country with foreign conquerors, and the most sophisticated was the Muslinized Turkic-Mongol cavalry, which was organized according to the number of people, and the highest was 10,000 troops commanded by the prince, which was like the iron crops of the Eight Banners. There are also private armies recruited by officers at all levels, which are like clothed house slaves, and there are armies owned by provincial governors and local chiefs who have autonomy, the former is like the green battalion, and the latter is like the brave battalion that appeared later.

Of course, this infantry corps is not cannon fodder.

They were in fact musketeers, line infantry trained entirely with the help of European officers.

10,000 musketeers carried smoothbore guns purchased from Ming arms dealers on their shoulders and stepped forward under the leadership of the commander.

And the Ming army did not fire.

None of the artillery fired, and all the Ming artillery remained silent, despite the fact that these enemy troops had long since come into range of the artillery.

When the latter arrived less than 100 zhang away from the Ming army, they began to stop and form a group at the sound of the officer's command, and quickly changed from a marching state to an offensive state, but the Ming army still did not fire, neither fired nor fired, even if it was actually within the range of the rifle at this time, all the Ming infantry watched them switch to the horizontal line and start advancing, and when they marched to a distance of only less than 70 zhang, the Ming army opened fire.

Suddenly, as if a firecracker pile had been set on fire, the dense and short gunfire flashed away, and the Mughal musketeers, who had just finished their formation, fell by a fifth.

Two hundred meters away.

Breech-loading rifled rifles.

Coupled with the elite infantry fed with thousands of bullets every year, the quarter-hit rate is really easy, and the first salvo of the 8,000 Ming infantry in the queue shooting battle knocked down almost 2,000 Mughal musketeers, and then those Ming infantry who have not played like this for a long time pulled the bolt of the gun as quickly as possible and put the paper shell bullet on the hand, only a few seconds later, before the Mughals on the opposite side woke up from the blankness, the second round of gunfire sounded densely.

Nearly 2,000 more Mughals fell.

And then......

The Mughals collapsed.

There is no way not to collapse, they are similar to the brave battalions in the First Sino-Japanese War at the end of the Qing Dynasty, how can they have any will to fight with their salaries, they have not collapsed in the first round of shootings just because they have not reacted yet, and after the second round of shooting, they finally reacted, and the Mughal musketeers who were originally lined up screamed, throwing away their weapons as fast as possible and rushing to the rear.

But alas, it was too late.

The fastest infantry of the Ming army could even fire a dozen bullets in a minute, and in a few seconds, how far could these Mughals run again?

The effective range of the Ming rifle was 200 zhang.

The neatly arranged Ming infantry methodically repeated the action of loading and aiming and shooting, and as they pulled the trigger again and again, the fleeing Mughals fell one by one, and after less than a minute, 10,000 Mughal musketeers were all spread on the green field, and at this time the Ming army still did not fire a single shell, and the Ming army did not suffer any casualties......

If a soldier who had fought so hard that he was burned in the face by leaked gunpowder gas was not considered a casualty!

"I knew it was going to be like this."

In the Mughal formation, a huge bull elephant was on its back, and Bahadur Shah said speechlessly.

His Majesty the Emperor is almost seventy years old this year, his father has been the emperor for too long, and he didn't die until he was in his eighties, but he was forced to become an old man, originally he would die of illness next year in history, and after his death, the same sons who were also survived by him to the end of their lives, immediately couldn't wait to fight, and then completely destroyed this huge empire, in just a dozen years of civil strife, and Marathas, Sikhs, Persians, European colonizers, local governors together, It teared at the dying body of the empire like a carnival.

It can be said that he was the last emperor of the glorious era of the Mughal Empire.

Coincidentally, when the empire was finally destroyed by the British, the last emperor exiled to Burma had the same name as him, and Bahadur Shah I and Bahadur Shah II became the saddest symbols of the empire.

Of course, now he had to struggle a little more, after all, his empire was still strong at this time.

"Order, attack on all fronts, all cavalry throw away their armor, throw away their shields, throw away their muskets and bows and arrows, throw away all the burdens, leave a saber for each person, charge me at full speed, charge without stopping, no matter what is in the way, rush, rush forward is victory!"

His Majesty the Emperor roared with a scimitar.

"Uh, what's that?"

Suddenly, his swinging of the knife came to an abrupt halt.

Similarly, all the Mughal cavalry that was about to charge came to an abrupt halt.

Then everyone looked dumbfounded at the middle of the Ming army's formation, because there a golden light rose into the sky, with two huge golden wings, like the legendary golden-winged Dapeng, it jumped into the sky a hundred feet high in an instant, and then swooped down in the air. (To be continued.) )