Chapter 413: Treaty of Bengal
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The Ming army landed in India and captured more than a dozen cities in Bengal, much to the wrath of the Whamor emperor Shah Jahan.
Shah Jahan had just ascended the throne for three years, but had stabilized the situation in India, and at this time was developing the military with great fanfare, preparing to use troops everywhere, at this time the Ming suddenly came to the door to find trouble, so that Shah Jahan decided to teach these Ming people a lesson.
So Shah Jahan gathered an army of nearly 300,000 and prepared to deal a severe blow to the Ming army, so that the Ming state would have a long memory. Then go back to clean up a few princely states in the west that have not yet surrendered, and Shah Jahan always thinks about Afghanistan, the Whamor Dynasty was defeated from Afghanistan, and now that it has conquered India, it is natural to go back and clean up the Persians and take Afghanistan back.
Shah Jahan meant 'ruler of the world', and the rulers of the Whamor dynasty were in fact a group of Turkic Mongols.
Once these Mongols established power, the first few generations of Mongols liked to expand everywhere, and after a few generations, they could not move, and soon became rulers of ease and enjoyment.
However, when the Ming invaded India, it was in the period of prosperity of the Mughal Dynasty, and the Indian military during this period was in a rising stage.
Obviously, India in this year is not as easy to deal with as it was during the British colonial period.
In the autumn of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, Shah Jahan led an army of 300,000 to Bengal. At this time, the Ming army decisively shrank its forces. Abandoned most of the captured cities. And outside the city, a position covered with barbed wire and trenches was arranged.
When Shah Jahan saw that the Ming army dared to garrison outside the city with only a little force, he felt contempt in his heart, thinking that this group of Ming troops was nothing more than Erer, and did not even know basic military knowledge, so he launched a hasty attack on the Ming army outside the city.
After the order to attack was given, a large group of Indian soldiers launched an attack on the Ming army position from three sides, and there were 10,000 Ming troops on the position.
The disparity in strength between the two sides is extremely great.
When the Indians approached three hundred meters from the position. Machine guns rang out from the positions. There was a sudden sound that was very rhythmic.
Heavy machine-gun bullets swept out and fired at the densely formed Indian troops.
The machine guns of this era were not the machine gun used in World War II, and the army formation during World War II was very scattered, and it may take tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition to kill an enemy soldier on average. The machine gun was more useful for suppressing enemy forces.
But in this era, Ah San was defenseless and the formation was very dense. Each bullet can easily kill two or three enemy soldiers.
Indian soldiers approached three hundred meters away. Within the range of the machine-gun fire net, there was no time to escape, and the sudden onslaught of the blow. So that they had no idea what was going on at all, especially those Indian soldiers in the back. They didn't see the enemy coming to them at all, they saw a bunch of shining bullets flying in a line, and they came in an instant.
The Indian soldiers in the back didn't even see what was going on, and they were inexplicably shot by the flying bullets. Especially those Indian soldiers who were seven or eight hundred meters away, they couldn't even see the position of the Ming army clearly! I thought that this distance was very safe, but it turned out to be quite tragic.
After a frantic strafing fire, more than 50,000 Indian soldiers were killed on the spot, and Shah Jahan observed the battlefield with a telescope, and then looked confused, unable to figure out what the situation was. Seeing that his army was shot in large numbers, he hurriedly lined up his 30,000 cavalry, hoping that these cavalry could break through the Ming army's defense line with rapid mobility, approach and slaughter them.
The ground trembled, and the cavalry began to charge.
The speed of these cavalry was indeed very fast, but under the strafing of machine gun fire, they were still shot on the spot one after another.
However, the speed of the cavalry was also fast enough, and when nearly half of these cavalry were killed, they finally rushed to the barbed wire defense line of the Ming army two hundred meters away.
An even more bewildering scene appeared, the barbed wire blocked the way of the cavalry, and the cavalry of the Womaer Dynasty had to be forced to stop.
As a result, he was shot and killed!
The corpses of men and horses fell to the ground, and these cavalrymen were crowded in front of the barbed wire, becoming the best targets, and the machine guns swept casually in that direction, and blood was splattered on the spot, and their limbs were hit everywhere by machine gun bullets.
Some of the cavalry kept cutting through the barbed wire, and they finally broke a gap. As a result, the machine guns began to focus on the gap, and the cavalry who rushed to the gap suddenly fell to the ground, and the corpses were stacked together. Some of the fish that slipped through the net continued to rush forward, only to encounter a second barbed wire.
Oh, my God!
At this time, the hearts of these Indian cavalrymen were simply broken, and the group of Ming troops in front of them was simply not a thing, it was so shameless!
The second barbed wire made the Indians desperate very completely, 30,000 cavalry were wiped out by machine guns in less than five or six minutes, a small number of cavalry turned around and ran, the Ming machine gunners did not deliberately aim at any enemy, but really poured fire on the enemy's many places, and cooperated with other machine guns to form a crossfire network, so there were still no two or three thousand Indian cavalry escaped.
Looking back at the battlefield strewn with corpses, it was like a Shura field, and these Indian cavalrymen palpitated, and they were very happy to have picked up a small life.
Shah Jahan was completely confused, the cavalry was useless, the war mode in front of him had completely exceeded his way of thinking about war, it had become mysterious and incomprehensible, and a strong fear suddenly rose from the bottom of his heart, and people were afraid of the unknown.
Immediately ordered a retreat, and the Indian army retreated all the way back for more than ten miles before stopping.
After counting the number of people, only about 180,000 of the 300,000 army remained, and some were killed by the Ming army on the battlefield. Some escaped and did not return. became a rout.
The Ming army was then under the orders of Gao Bangzuo. A counteroffensive was launched against the Indian army.
The Ming army walked out of the trench and pursued the Indian army with horses and machine guns. Shah Jahan had just wanted to set up camp and planned to bring in a large number of troops from the rear. It turned out that the Ming army launched a pursuit, and quickly ordered to retreat. Fortunately, the mobility of the Ming army was not so strong, and the speed of pursuit was not fast.
However, the cities reoccupied by Shah Jahan fled as soon as the Ming army killed them.
The people of India in the city rejoiced as if they were celebrating a festival. The Ming army was welcomed into the city. After the Ming army occupied these cities, the discipline was very strict, and they did not commit any crimes against the ordinary Indian people, but the Indian troops who reoccupied these cities took advantage of the chaos to rob, force, rape, and make complaints everywhere.
Shah Jahan's army had been driven out more than 50 kilometers by the Ming army, and the Ming army began to shrink to avoid going too deep into the enemy's territory and being surrounded.
Although the Ming army had a machine gun and was sure enough to break out of the encirclement, it was still not safe enough. At this time, the strength of the Ming army in India was not enough to rule India. And India's power is still relatively strong. There was no bloodletting, let alone the disintegration and contact of the nobles of the princely states in India. Both sides are still relatively new and need some time to make contact.
The main purpose of this war was to force India to open its commodity market, so that Ming goods could be dumped into India and industrial raw materials could be obtained from India.
After the Ming army shrank its strength, it immediately sent an envoy to contact Shah Jahan again.
Shah Jahan still had palpitations at this time, and when the Ming army envoy arrived, he finally lost his previous arrogant and irrational temper.
This time, Shah Jahan was indeed a little scared, and the combat effectiveness displayed by the Ming army was so terrifying that it was completely beyond the scope of understanding.
The Ming envoy expressed to Shah Jahan that the Ming was unwilling to continue the war, and asked Shah Jahan to send personnel to sit down at the negotiating table with the Ming to talk about the truce.
Faced with the Ming Dynasty's request for negotiations, Shah Jahan was clearly powerless to refuse.
Although he was very unwilling, he didn't figure out the details of the Ming army for the time being, and he didn't even know what weapons the Ming army used, so it was naturally best if this war could not be stopped. If he continues to fight, his ruling interests will be greatly shaken.
The interests of the ruler have always been the weakness of the ruler. Especially for the Mongols, India is equivalent to a piece of land they conquered to enjoy the benefits of domination, since the Ming is willing to talk, then talk to them!
Shah Jahan began to gather forces and sent people to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty. If Da Ming makes too many demands, then he can only continue to fight.
Negotiations soon began, and the Ming proposed to transfer the land in Bangladesh, as well as the border area east of Bangladesh and India to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming was willing to pay 100,000 silver dollars to buy it. At the same time, India is required to open up its national commodity market.
This request made Shah Jahan furious, opening the commodity market is not too much of a problem in Shah Jahan's opinion, but Da Ming wants to cut off a piece of the territory in eastern India, Shah Jahan's heart aches!
"Our emperor does not agree, if you Ming want such a large piece of land, we in India will use a huge army to fight you to the end."
"We are not afraid of many of you, we can increase our troops at any time, and we will destroy as many as we come."
The two sides were full of gunpowder at the negotiation table, and the negotiations between the two sides reached an impasse, and when they threatened each other, it was obvious that Daming was more confident.
This stalemate lasted for more than a month, but with the arrival of the second group of Ming troops, this stalemate was quickly broken.
The Ming sent troops from Nanyang and threatened Shah Jahan.
"If you don't accept these terms, Daming will continue to increase its troops."
As soon as these words came out, Shah Jahan was scared half to death, and hurriedly asked people to sign a treaty. At the end of the summer of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty and India formally signed the Treaty of Bengal.
The treaty provided for India to open its commodity market and cede Bangladesh to the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, the treaty allowed Ming merchants to invest in India.
The door of capital has been opened for Daming.
The barriers to commodity trade have also been directly broken by the Ming Dynasty with military force. The armed forces are the vanguard of capital expansion, and their role is directly reflected.
After the treaty was signed, nearly 20,000 Dominic troops began to take over the military and administration of Bengal. The reason for Gao Bangzuo's increase in troops was also due to the fact that the original army was not enough to control these areas.
Of course, there are not too many cities to control, and the area bordering Myanmar is not inhabited, and many areas are still in a state of primeval forest.
The Ming army initially occupied only a few major cities in the Bengal region, so as not to spread their forces too thinly. At the same time, the formation of the ruling order began, and the follow-up personnel arrived in Bengal through the fleet one after another.
With the arrival of follow-up troops and personnel, the Ming army took the Dhaka region of Bangladesh as the center of the new policy, and gradually expanded its control outward.
Trade with India has also reopened.
When the good news was transmitted back to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao was overjoyed, and Gao Bangzuo actually robbed all the Bengal regions and had already overfulfilled the task.
Zhu Youxiao immediately decided to continue to send 20,000 more troops to India, and at the same time send a number of administrative personnel to the country and implement the reform plan.
The local princely states were directly banned, and at the same time, the caste system in Bengal was tried to be abolished, and the Ming management system was copied from the past.
Of course, the cost of doing this will be relatively high, and if it is implemented throughout India, it will cause the thousand-year-old families in the whole of India to resist together. However, in Bangladesh, it will not be too much of a problem if it is implemented on a small scale. Moreover, the treaty has been signed, and it is impossible for India to take the initiative to provoke the Ming Dynasty in a short period of time.
But as the scale of trade between the two sides expands, it is clear that the war will continue to break out. At that time, if India does not break the treaty, it will continue to bleed to death by the Ming Dynasty, so it will continue to increase troops to India.
If the Ming can successfully digest the Bengal region, then there is no need to rely too much on the local area for supplies in terms of food and other aspects. At the same time, Bangladesh can produce a large number of farm products such as rice and jute for the Ming Dynasty, and can also vigorously develop industries such as mining, fishing, and forestry, so as to make full use of local labor to create wealth, so that the cake can be made bigger, and the squeezing does not need to be too ruthless, and you can obtain greater benefits than rough plunder.
Colonization was broadly divided into three levels, with the least technological being Spain, the pure bandit mode. A little higher is the colonial period represented by the British, the plundering methods were also relatively rough, there was no in-depth management of the colonies, and a large number of labor was abandoned and idle. The most technologically advanced was the colonial powers represented by the United States after World War II, which relied entirely on commercial plunder.
The Ming Dynasty now occupies the Bengal region, which will become a province of the Ming Dynasty, and it is connected to Tibet, which can be regarded as bordering the Ming Dynasty on land, but the roads on the land are impassable.
With this territory, Daming can intervene in India at any time in the future.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty needed to thoroughly digest Bengal and assimilate the local Indians into a province that could not be divided. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to develop Bangladesh, and carry out reform and sinicization, and at the same time do not squeeze too hard, except for the important industries that cannot be transferred to Bangladesh, there is no need to squeeze too hard.
At the same time, it will also become the best reason for the Ming to invade India - to eliminate the unfair caste system in India, so that the Ming can play a righteous role in this war.
And the Turkicized Mongols will be portrayed as the villains who enslave the Indian people.
In the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, Bangladesh was founded!
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