Chapter 416: The Peacock Throne
At the same time as the sack of the Taj Mahal, another Ming army wearing gas masks rushed into the Red Fort, which had been consumed by chlorine gas. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The rest of the matter is very simple, in the yellow-green poisonous mist, these extremely strange-looking soldiers with bayonet rifles continue to stab at the Mughal soldiers who are still struggling, as they pour in, this famous fortress that was once used as a palace gradually turns into a hell of corpses and a sea of blood, and in the same way, with the Ming army marching forward, everything valuable in this fortress has also been carried onto the river warships of the Yamuna River.
The efficient Ransack Legion emptied the Red Keep and Taj Mahal with great speed.
And then......
"I can't bear to do that!"
Liang Kai said sadly.
The soldier next to him was pouring gasoline everywhere with a gasoline can, although the Taj Mahal is marble, there is nothing to burn, but the rules of this kind of thing cannot be broken.
"Brigadier Commander?"
An officer with a torch looked at him with an inquiring gaze.
"I'm gone, you burn again!"
Liang Kai said.
At this moment, the fire suddenly rose in the Red Fort not far away, and then spread very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the raging fire reflected the red sky, and he turned around and carried his own small box, and walked out of the Taj Mahal with a sad expression, and the officer behind him, who did not understand aesthetics at all, threw the torch in the gasoline very speechlessly, and turned around and carried his souvenir at the same time as the flame rose into the sky.
Just after the Ming army withdrew, a large number of Mughal people who had been impatient for a long time rushed in despite the fire......
Of course, they weren't there to put out fires.
These beautiful palaces, there is nothing beautiful for them to judge, this tama is their hard-earned money, the cost of 40 million rupees is dug out by them in the farmland with a hoe, how many people are tired of Rajahan's love on the construction site, he left a beautiful legend, left his singing and crying love, how many people for this broken mausoleum family broken and lost their wives and scattered, in the eyes of the common people, the marble is not white but red at all, it is all the blood of their ancestors!
Who can miss this great opportunity?
Although it was sacked by the Ming army, even if there was a little scum left, it was a good thing for those poor Indians.
Then the matter was simple, and the next morning Liu Kun sent a report to the warship following Azim in the rear, and the latter relayed to His Royal Highness the Regent that the governor of Agra had rebelled and blocked the advance of the fleet, and after being defeated by the Ming army, he committed suicide in the Red Fort, and the rebels and rebels who followed him ransacked the Red Fort and the Taj Mahal, and caused a fire that caused serious damage to both buildings, and as for all kinds of gold, silver, treasure, art, and other things inside, they were looted or burned, in short, this is the case, we deeply regret it, And the quality of the people in your country is worrying!
Of course, that's what it means.
Azim is not stupid, what is the Ming army running to do impatiently? Isn't it just to loot something?
This is the inevitable price of borrowing troops.
Any monarch who wants to borrow foreign soldiers has to acquiesce in their robbery, as for robbing the Red Fort and the Taj Mahal, it can only show that the army's eyes are relatively high, and ordinary goods are no longer eye-catching, in short, there is no need to care about this kind of thing, and he has no feelings for his great-grandmother, let alone her mausoleum.
Burn it, burn it!
And after the sacking of the Red Fort and the Taj Mahal, the Ming army temporarily stopped advancing, mainly because the draft of those battleships has increased significantly, and the low-freeboard Chuanjiang gunboats have been pressed fast and the water is level, in this case, it will definitely not be able to reach Delhi if it goes upstream, the Yamuna River goes up from Agra, and the water volume has been greatly reduced, if there are not too many things, the Chuanjiang gunboats can go up, but don't expect this kind of thing when it is basically full now.
In other words, Liu Kun is also very helpless.
And at the same time that the Ming army was stranded in Agra and divided some warships to escort the transport ships to the rear to transport the booty, Jahandar. Sha, too, finally moved to gather the troops loyal to him and prepare to fight back.
He did realize it later.
Because the speed of the Ming fleet was too fast, in fact, it was not until the Ming army began to sack the Red Fort and the Taj Mahal that he got the news from his side, at this time their information transmission was all dependent on stagecoaches, five or six hundred miles a day was the limit, and the Ming army's marching speed had to be close to four hundred miles a day on average, it could almost be said that he was chasing after his stagecoaches, and because the governors and local officials did not cooperate along the way, the efficiency of those stagecoaches was not high, and the result was that the Ming army reached Agra, The news that Azim was vying with him for the throne with Yang Feng's support only reached Delhi.
Fortunately, the Ming army stopped, otherwise he would not even have had time to gather the army.
Relying on this opportunity, he quickly cobbled together an army of 100,000 loyal to him, and then abandoned the defense of Delhi and went south directly to meet the battle, and also under the urging of the Ming army, Azim also abandoned everything he could, and led his army of 20,000 to Agra day and night, but he still couldn't arrive in time, Jahandar. Sha's army arrived first, and then heroically attacked the Ming army first, but the Ming army retreated directly from the ship, and after a casual bombardment of him, let Agra retreat downstream.
Jahandhar. Sand also did not pursue.
Agra is no one to avoid it, he just needs to wait here, waiting for his brother who has traveled thousands of miles.
Soon Azim's army arrived.
Then His Royal Highness the Regent did not hesitate to launch an attack on Agra, and at the same time the Ming fleet, which had already withdrawn downstream, reappeared in Agra, just as Jahandhar. When Sha and Azim were engaged in a bloody battle outside the city of Agra, the Ming naval guns began to bombard the former. The rest was very simple, the terrifying firepower that the Ming army really displayed shattered Jahandar at once. Sha's sweet dream, his army of 100,000 on the battlefield was in disarray, and then collapsed under the ferocious attack of Achim, not only lost nearly half of his army, but he himself was wounded by artillery shells, and had to flee to Delhi with the remnants.
Of course, Azim would not let his brother go, and then his army pursued him.
Of course, the next thing is none of the Ming army's business, after sending away those trophies, the load is greatly reduced, the waterline returns to the two-foot Ming army's river fleet and continues to advance, sailing to Delhi as fast as possible, before waiting for the rout of Jahandar. Sha returned to his capital, and the Ming army arrived first.
"Knock open the gates!"
Liu Kun, who was standing on his flagship, shouted arrogantly.
Behind him, all the cannons on the Sichuan River gunboats were flattened at the same time, and the black holes of the guns were aimed at the gates of the Red Fort in Delhi near the Yamuna River, and as his shouts fell, blazing flames erupted, and the dense cannonballs instantly flooded the gates.
When the flames of the explosion are gone......
Well, the gates are still there.
"Mah, it's pretty sturdy."
Liu Kun said speechlessly.
In fact, this castle is quite strong, but this is also the purple city of India, it would be strange if it could be so easy to open, although this is the city gate, but the city gate is also covered with thick iron plates outside the wood, for a fortress of this level, the power of the three-inch cannon high-explosive bomb is still a little worse.
However, this did not save the castle's fate.
"Change the air bomb!"
Liu Kun shouted without hesitation.
That's fine, after thousands of Du air bombs were shot into the Red Fort, the Ming infantry who landed immediately afterwards put the heavy rockets outside the gate of the Red Fort, and even the heavy rockets that could be blasted open by the Jubao Gate, the power after replacing it with wet cotton gunpowder was basically nothing that the city gate could bear, as a flame crossed the moat and hit the city gate, not to mention the city gate in the explosion of the sky and the earth, even the city gate building collapsed.
The 6th Infantry Brigade of the Ming Army, heavily armed and wearing gas masks, immediately led by their brigade commander, smashed into another masterpiece of Shah Jahan like they had entered the Taj Mahal.
"Quick, look carefully, you must find the treasure dedicated to the emperor!"
Liang Kai waved the revolver in his hand and shouted.
His voice looked weird through the gas mask, and of course, with the pig nose and glass lenses of the gas mask, it looked even more weird.
The Mughals lying on the ground beside him, looking at the intruding enemies with fear and despair, could only twitch weakly there, and finally one of the officers struggled to his feet, trembling and rushing at him with a scimitar, but unfortunately he could not achieve his goal under the destruction of chlorine gas, and collapsed to the ground coughing in pain less than a foot away from him.
Brigade Commander Liang, who thought that this guy was in the way, kicked him away speechlessly.
Immediately after Liang Kai carried a pistol surrounded by soldiers, he quickly began to ransack the official palace of the Mughal Empire, and a large number of treasures were continuously loaded into wagons and transported to the river bank through their hands, where they were also loaded with Sichuan gunboats, but this time they were much more restrained, so as not to press the ship's side to the same height as the water.
Just an hour after the looting, in a palatial hall, Liang Kai finally found the gift he was going to give to the emperor.
"Move out, quick, move out!"
He stammered and shouted as he stood in front of a huge throne.
This throne, which is 1.8 meters long, 1.2 meters wide, and 0.6 meters high, has a canopy supported by twelve pillars, and all the pillars and the throne itself are entirely inlaid with precious stones of various colors, and on the canopy are two peacocks cast in gold, and the peacocks are also inlaid with precious stones, surrounded by flowers made of precious stones and gold, and on the armrest of the throne there is a huge diamond, one light blue and one pink, and in the middle of the backrest hangs an equally large pale yellow diamond, and the poisonous mist disperses, In the sunlight outside, the entire throne was dazzling, and the three giant diamonds sparkled with dazzling light.
Well, that's the Peacock Throne.
On its handrails, the light blue one is the Koh-i-Noor, the pink one is the Sea of Light, and the pale yellow one is the Shah who once quelled the war between Russia and Persia.
They weigh one hundred and ninety-one carats, one hundred and eighty-two carats, and ninety-five carats. (To be continued.) )