Chapter 371: Colonizing the Mughals

The large-scale counter-charge of the black-armored elite cavalry immediately disrupted Zamut's previous military deployment. The retreating Mughal Janissaline Army, after being attacked by heavy cavalry, did not dare to enter the city, so it had to turn around to meet the battle.

The war horses galloped wildly, and the Praetorian Guards of the Mughal Empire had just turned around, and before they could speed up, the warriors of the Black Armor Elite Cavalry of the Chinese Empire rushed to kill.

The fierce Ryoma of Gundam uses its speed to generate a powerful impact that instantly crushes the enemy's camp.

The black-armored knights used their sharp swords to slash left and right. The steel knife slashed at the enemy's armor, and sparks were sparked.

The soldiers on both sides were armoured, so they only attacked and did not defend, and slashed with all their might. However, the knightly swords of the Mughal Empire slashed on the knights' armor of the Chinese Empire, leaving only a trace, and could not penetrate the armor. On the other hand, after the knights of the Chinese Empire slashed through with a ferocious sword, they directly broke the armor and injured the enemy with great strength, and those with poor strength could also destroy the opponent's armor, making the enemy frightened, and they could take their lives after a few swords.

The armor of the cavalry of the Mughal Empire, only the armor on the body of the official is relatively hard, which can fight a fair battle with the black armor elite cavalry of the Chinese Empire, and the armor of other ordinary soldiers only has a gorgeous appearance and cannot withstand the test of actual combat.

Zamut's horse infantry army was less than 10,000, and the disparity in strength was huge, and the casualties were heavy for a while, and the defeat was accelerated.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zamut hurriedly turned around and fled, and as soon as the main general ran, the army's heart was suddenly shaken, and the Mughal Janissaries soon collapsed, and they were killed by the black-armored spirit horsemen, and they fled in all directions.

At the head of the city, Shah Jehan trembled, and some of the main war ministers were also frightened, but they did not forget to give the order to release arrows to block the enemy.

Whoosh

Countless arrows were shot from the city, mixed with the sound of some messy muskets, and the arrows were not very damaging to the heavy cavalry, but the musket lead bullet could cause some damage. However, fortunately, the level of firearms in the Mughal Empire was extremely poor, and even the old firearms were not numerous.

Zhan Zengyong called Jin to withdraw his troops, and the warriors of the black-armored elite cavalry immediately retreated like a tide.

In the battle under the city just now, whether it was a hot weapon battle or a cold weapon battle, the Mughal Emperor ** was not an opponent. The ministers of the main battle immediately exchanged their heads and shook their heads and sighed bitterly, there was no good way to retreat from the enemy. Some of the ministers who had been timid before immediately called for surrender, and in the name of protecting the people of the city from misery, they asked Shah Jehan to surrender.

At this time, outside the city, Zhan Zengyong had ordered the troops surrounding the Taj Mahal to start breaking down, although the gate made of silver was very spectacular and luxurious, but it could not change the ending of it being melted, and the imperial soldiers smashed them one by one without regret and broke in.

Although the Taj Mahal is not yet finished, its luxury is already breathtaking. Exquisite engravings, dazzling and colorful jewelry, each of which is worth a lot.

However, the Imperial soldiers were not ordered to "visit" the Taj Mahal, and the purpose of their trip was to make their way to the coffin of the Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan's favorite concubine.

Soon, the soldiers transported Taj's coffin to the city of Delhi and informed Shah Jahan that if Shah Jahan did not surrender, they would blow it up.

Although this idea is not very good to hear, for war, everything is within the normal range, and in order to win, it is the essence of war.

Shah Jehan was instigated by the ministers of the capitulation faction, and there was a large army outside, and what made him even more angry was that the coffin of the woman he loved the most was in the hands of the other party, and the latter was like a sharp sword directly into Shah Jehan's heart, making him unbearable.

Soon, several soldiers of the Chinese Empire began to pry the coffin, and Shah Jie Khan suddenly couldn't help it, hurriedly called a halt, and promised to surrender.

On the rear position, Zhan Zengyong and others had been observing with binoculars, and he did not think that Shah Jie Khan would disarm and surrender like this. Others don't have much hope either, at least between Jiangshan and Beauty, most people will still choose Jiangshan, and besides, it is still a deceased woman, so it is difficult to believe that Shah Jehan would choose the latter.

However, things are unpredictable. Shah Jie Khan's sudden surrender immediately caused many people's jaws to hit the ground.

"What a lover"

Zhan Zengyong was brave for a long time, and hurriedly stopped the soldiers, and had to admire the emperor of the Mughal Empire.

After struggling for half an hour, Shah Jehan finally persuaded the remaining main battle faction to lead the civil and military officials out of the city to surrender.

In fact, the Mughal Empire's long-term military backwardness had caused the main war officials to abandon their belief in holding the city of Delhi after the battle just now. At this time, there were no reinforcements around Delhi, and they knew that they would not be able to hold out for long under the powerful firepower offensive of the Chinese Empire. Rather than breaking the city and dying in battle like this, it is better to agree to the emperor's request for surrender, anyway, every infamy is carried by the emperor alone, and it has nothing to do with them.

One by one, the huge gates slowly opened, and Shah Jehan walked out with heavy steps, followed by dozens of civilian and military officials, flanked by Praetorian Guards. However, the soldiers of a vaunted escort team had lost their former glory at this time, and they were all dejected.

Here, the soldiers of the Chinese Empire quickly stepped forward to arrest and disarm the Mughal Empire guards.

Shah Jie Khan and the ministers of civil and military affairs were frightened for a while, and it was only then that they understood the truth that people are swords and I am fish and meat, and they did not dare to make the slightest move.

Subsequently, the soldiers of the Chinese Empire quickly entered the city, controlled the defenders of the nearby castle fortress, and after ensuring safety, Zhan Zengyong then led a group of officers and rode straight to the city gate.

Zhan Zengyong did not dismount, but rode on his horse, looking at this Shajie Khan condescendingly. Once upon a time, this Shah Jie Khan was a hero on the battlefield, expanding his territory for more than ten years, and made outstanding achievements. But since Taj's death, the former hero has become a bear, and now he is able to surrender voluntarily for the coffin of a deceased woman.

Zhan Zengyong looked at him quietly for a while, and finally turned over and dismounted, giving Sha Jie Khan a minimum of dignity, even if it was to affirm his deep spirit

"When the emperor is in your share, it is really unprecedented"

Zhan Zengyong's words were not ignored by Shah Jie Khan, he directly put the jade seal and the book of surrender into Zhan Zengyong's hands, without saying a word, and rushed directly to Taj's coffin, hugging his head and crying.

Several soldiers were about to stop them, but Zhan Quan~ Li Zengyong waved his hand and signaled that it was over. Dealing with a fallen monarch, Shah Jehan had already won the sympathy of the supreme commander of the Southern Expeditionary Force of the Chinese Empire.

"Send a team of soldiers to watch him, and the other units will enter the city immediately"

At the sound of an order, the soldiers of the Chinese Empire quickly marched into the city of Delhi, and suddenly, the streets and alleys of Delhi were full of soldiers and horses. For a while, the people of Delhi City suddenly fell into fear, and they hid in their homes and did not dare to come out.

Soon, the Mughal soldiers who remained in Delhi surrendered one after another, and were placed in their respective barracks as temporary prisoner of war camps.

The soldiers of the Chinese Empire quickly took control of the entire city of Delhi and then seized the treasury of the Mughal Empire, but unfortunately the treasury of a huge Mughal Empire had less than 800,000 taels of silver.

"What? That's it? ”

After hearing the news that the treasury was less than 800,000 taels of silver, Zhan Zengyong suddenly became angry.

Undoubtedly, to occupy the capital of a big empire, if there was only such a little silver, Zhan Zengyong did not explain to the imperial government at all, and the reason why those old guys in the court generously supported the colonial war was because of the plundered money. The South Asian War had so far consumed more than 40 million silver dollars, the most consumed of any colonial war to date, and if they didn't get enough money back, God knows how the old politicians would bury the Royal Army.

The most important thing is that every patriarch who followed Emperor Shenwu was able to plunder tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of silver dollars, in the colonial war as a gift to Emperor Shenwu. If Zhan Zengyong only went back with a pitiful 800,000 taels of silver, where would he still have face.

As the deputy commander, Dong Nan's face was also not good-looking.

I arrested a few officials of the Mughal Empire, and only after careful questioning did I understand. It turned out that since the first year of Shenwu, Shah Jahan began to build the Taj Mahal and the new imperial city of the Red Fort, and the annual treasury of more than 20 million silver dollars was consumed on these two items, of which the Taj Mahal accounted for eighty percent, and the treasury of the Mughal Empire has been empty for nine years. The 800,000 taels of silver in front of him were finally deducted by the ministers from the construction funds of the Taj Mahal as military expenses to support the war.

"This little bit of silver will never work, if it is sent back to China, not only will the emperor have no face, but also among colleagues, and we will die when we mention it."

"You're right, if this spreads, we'll lose all our faces" Zhan Zengyong nodded and asked, "Do you have anything to build?" ”

Dong Nan said: "According to intelligence, since the empire launched several colonial wars, the least colonies have also plundered more than 30 million silver dollars, which also refers to the value of real money and silver, excluding rare treasures. The Mughal Empire pays more than 20 million silver dollars in taxes every year, and we have to get at least 20 million, otherwise we really don't have the face to accept the medal given by the emperor, so I will immediately implement the three-light policy."

"What you said is" Zhan Zengyong nodded and said, "It's just that the three-light policy is too much?" After all, people surrendered on their own initiative? Besides, this is the capital of the Mughal Empire, will it affect other battlefields? What if the out-of-town Mughal emperor** goes crazy? ”

What Zhan Zengyong said is not unreasonable, the sacking of the capital of the Mughal Empire will not anger the Mughal emperors who are fighting in other places, and it will not be beneficial to send troops to South Asia.

Dong Nan said: "Not necessarily, what is the purpose of us spending so much effort and effort to attack Delhi? Not to break the will of the Mughal Empire? This is their capital, and if we have a massacre, I believe that everyone in the Mughal Empire will be terrified and dare not fight against the Empire again."

Zhan Zengyong shook his head and said: "The slaughter is not good, Shajehan surrendered on his own initiative, if we still slaughter, the other cities of the Mughal Empire will never surrender again in the future, we are just for money?" ”

Zhan Zengyong looked at Dong Nan, and then at the other officers, who agreed one after another, and Dong Nan nodded.

"So what are you waiting for?"

Zhan Zengyong hurriedly issued an order to all combat units, ordering them to be directly issued to the grassroots companies and platoons, demanding that except for avoiding killing people as much as possible, the whole army should be allowed to loot for five days.

Orders were quickly issued to all combat units, and all but the prisoners and soldiers defending the city were thrown into the sweep.

Suddenly, the city of Derry was full of chickens and dogs.

The emperor's ** team plundered the Agra Palace first, and all the gold, silver, jewelry, rare and foreign objects, and all kinds of royal special instruments in the palace were plundered.

The royal palaces of the Mughal Empire are home to countless treasures, most of which were prepared by Shah Jehan for his empress, the Taj Mahal. All kinds of precious stones, diamonds, jade, jade, etc., prepared to be inlaid in the marble of the Taj Mahal, the total number of pieces, the total number of pieces, gold and silver products are countless, the palace alone, mobilized 10,000 soldiers, in five days, looted more than a million items, the value of which cannot be estimated.

Among them, the most amazing is Shah Jahan's dragon chair. Although his dragon chair was not very special, it was a hundred times worse than that of Emperor Shenwu, but Shah Jie Khan's dragon chair was inlaid with three huge diamonds, which made Zhan Zengyong and the others dumbfounded.

The largest one is called "Dayainoer", also known as the Great Mughal, transliterated as the Sea of Light. Discovered in 1607 in the famous Koral Mine in the Golconda region of India, it weighs 833 carats, and the most valuable thing about this gem is that it is the largest piece of pink gem diamond. The Sea of Light originally belonged to Mirkimorrah, a maharaja of ancient southern India, and was later paid tribute to the Mughal emperors who ruled northern India. The Sea of Light, along with two other diamonds also found in the Golconda region, the Shah and the Koh-i-Noor (Koinor) and Shah, have been treasured in the Mughal palace for many years. Later, ancient Indian craftsmen polished it into a tall rosette-shaped diamond weighing about 300 carats.

The "Sea of Light" is pink, the "Mountain of Light" is pale blue, and the "Shah" is pale yellow. In addition to the three huge diamonds, the throne is surrounded by a large number of pink, blue, yellow and colorless diamonds, among which the 50-carat yellow pear-shaped diamond above the "Sea of Light" is also quite large.

These gems were all detained, and Zhan Zengyong and Dong Nan selected the seven largest and most beautiful diamonds and packed them in delicate boxes. Among them, the 300-carat Sea of Light was given to Emperor Shenwu, the 170-carat Mountain of Light was given to the Empress, and the other five large diamonds were given to the five imperial concubines Shufei, Duanfei, Xiangfei, Xiao and Chenfei as gifts.

"Although these gems are big and beautiful, I always feel a little shabby to give them away."

Zhan Zengyong took the diamond and said to Dong Nan, in Zhan Zengyong's opinion, just sending a small stone is too small, and it doesn't seem "big".

It is no wonder that at this time, diamonds are only favored abroad, and diamonds are not popular in China at this time.

"And what are you going to give?"

Dong Nan asked: "In India, these diamonds are still eye-catching, which is quite special. If you send some gold and silver jewelry and the like, I'm afraid it won't have any effect, after all, before us, the governors of the colonies have not given less, and the royal family is not short of these."

Zhan Zengyong nodded and said, "What you said is that it is better to inlay them on the jewelry, so the effect will definitely be good."

Dong Nan nodded, agreeing with this opinion. However, in India, the skilled craftsmen are too earthy, and they can't look down on them, so they have to take them back to China for further research.

Aside from looting the palace, the Imperial soldiers looted the Garhangil Palace, the Tani Palace, the Wangjia Palace, and even the Modi Temple, carrying away all the valuable things inside.

After robbing several imperial palaces, the soldiers in the city began to rob various yamen, princes and nobles' mansions, jewelry shops, money houses and other places, and looted huge amounts of gold, silver and jewelry, among which the gold and silver in the palaces of the emperor's relatives and relatives were countless, accumulating more than 40 million taels, equivalent to 170 million silver dollars.

The richness of Derry City made Zhan Zengyong and the others panic, and the more they robbed, the more excited they became, and finally they had to adjust the looting time and push again and again.

After looting the palaces of the princes and ministers in the city, they began to rob the homes of the commoners and wealthy merchants in the city. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Delhi, and each household is not much, but it adds up to an astronomical number.

Outside the city is aimed at the Taj Mahal, although the Taj Mahal is not yet fully completed, but there is also a lot of gold, silver and jewelry inside, Shah Jehan spent nine years to build, the facilities inside are luxurious, and the imperial soldiers are also loaded with dozens of carts of treasure to transport back to the city.

Shah Jehan was unable to stop the Imperial soldiers from looting the Taj Mahal and eventually committed suicide, and the Imperial soldiers sympathized with the emperor and buried him in the mausoleum.

Although the Taj Mahal was looted, all the doors and windows were pried down and melted, and the diamonds and jewels on the walls were also deducted, but the main structure was strong and not destroyed.

Zhan Zengyong originally wanted to destroy the evidence of the robbery, but when he thought of the poor Shah Jie Khan, he finally gave up the idea of destroying the corpse and destroying the traces.

The sacking of Delhi City lasted for more than a month, and the imperial ** team robbed 7 million catties of silver, 700,000 catties of gold, and more than 80 million pieces of utensils including various jewelry, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings.

In addition to the invaluable treasures, Zhan Zengyong sent people to count more than two months before they preliminarily estimated the value, which was about 500 million silver dollars.

Zhan Zengyong and other officers suddenly had face, and after this huge amount of treasure was transported back to the empire, they would become the most rewarding dispatch army in the current colonial war.

At the same time, when they plundered the city of Delhi, the entire Indian subcontinent was turned upside down. When the Mughal Empire's armies learned that the capital of their empire had fallen and that the king had committed suicide after surrendering, they did not turn their grief into strength, but were defeated by the Yugoslav army organized by the Chinese Empire, and finally surrendered.

In the following three months, the Yugoslav army led by the Chinese Empire successively occupied various regions of the Mughal Empire.

On March 8, 1640, Kashmir, the last territory of the Mughal Empire, was captured, and the once powerful Mughal Empire fell and became a colony of the Chinese Empire. X