Chapter 645: Nashik's Great Victory

"Are you sure?" Chen Xie was very surprised, how dare this thing be so sure, there are 200,000 troops of Nima outside.

"Master, the villain is looking at the flags, and one morning, the flags dispatched are all Shah Jahan's elite guards, all of which are the troops who have been fighting with him for many years. These armies are very loyal, so they have been fighting to the death. In addition to these troops, the remaining other units have much worse combat effectiveness. Now in Shah Jahan's hands, there are at most war elephants and more than 10,000 elite cavalry elites, and other elite troops have appeared. Shar Yar replied in the affirmative, Chen Xiexin believed it, or was very surprised.

This Shah Jahan came up and invested in elite troops, which is not logical. Shouldn't some garbage troops be used as cannon fodder first, and the main force will be the last? After thinking about it for a while, Chen Xie figured out that Shah Jahan wanted to solve it quickly. Otherwise, you can't do this, and since that's the case, then grasp his mentality and continue to keep it.

Chen Xie's judgment was right, Shah Jahan just wanted to fight quickly, the reason was very simple, there was no money. This is a lover emperor, in order to repair the Taj Mahal, it can be regarded as spending a lot of silver, and he has to build a black tomb opposite to bury himself, hoping to meet the Taj after death. It can be seen how deep this person's affection for Taj is. During his reign, he was reckless in military force and spent a lot of money to repair the mausoleum, and it was normal to have no money.

With a spectrum in his heart, Chen Xie ordered again to shrink the defense line and give the opponent a hope. The military order was like a mountain, and the troops began to retreat in an orderly manner, alternating cover. Regardless of the predominance of Japanese descent, there are many veterans in each unit as life guides, and with their assistance, the commander can ensure that there will be no confusion during the retreat. And the timing of this retreat needs to be mastered. It was also a big test for these officers and men of Japanese descent.

Probably because the fight was too easy. Before dark, all the troops were safely withdrawn, and the losses were almost zero. In contrast, Shah Jahan was distressed, and came down in the day, although he cleared some positions on the periphery. But the price paid was too great. The most capable army in his hands was not more than 40,000, and he suffered 30% casualties in one day. You don't have to go to the battlefield to see the tragic situation, and you feel like your heart is dripping blood when you listen to the report.

What the hell is going on? How could the firearms of the Ming army be sharper than those of the Portuguese? What to do tomorrow, do you continue to attack, or do you want to make peace with your opponent? The idea of peace was only fleeting, and Shah Jahan made a decision. Tomorrow there will be no onslaught, and the most elite war elephants and musketeers will be saved for the most critical moments.

Nashik was not a big city, and the positions outside the city were impossible to give up lightly, and after a day of fighting, Shah Jahan made adjustments and sent a force to make a detour to the back of the city and cut off the retreat. It's not about three or one, it's just the rhythm of preparing to starve the enemy.

This change. Chen Xie didn't expect it, and thought that Shah Jahan was going to fight quickly, but he didn't expect this thing to stop attacking hard and change his tactics. In this regard, Chen Xie also felt that he had taken it for granted, and changed it to his own words. There will be no more onslaught. Cutting off the back road and being surrounded by people, this is not an ordinary trouble, the key is that these people in the city will definitely be fluctuating.

There was no fighting the next day. After dark, Chen Xie immediately made adjustments and took the initiative to attack.

Chen Xie's judgment was right, there was really an undercurrent surging in the city this night, after all, it was on other people's territory, and the vast majority of people would not be tamed immediately. The new house of Shar Yar was lit at night, but fortunately it was discovered in time and did not burn down. In the middle of the night, Chen Xie was woken up, and when he heard that this was the case, he sent someone to appease him for a few words, and felt that it was not enough, so he went to the scene in person, and said to the panicked traitor: "Don't worry, tomorrow my lord will personally go out to defeat Shah Jahan." ”

How to defeat an enemy army ten times his size with more than 20,000 people, Chen Xie did not tell them, and he was not worried that the news would be leaked. This is what was deliberately told to them, hoping that Shah Jahan would be prepared and take out the most elite troops tomorrow. Any king who loses his elite army often shakes his rule. From this point of view, the so-called "Tongzhi Zhongxing" can still appear in the middle and late stages of "My Great Qing Dynasty", and Cixi is really a very bullish woman. How to say it, the player is very strong, but the knowledge is poor.

In the early morning of the next day, various orders sounded throughout the camp, and the 2nd Xinghai Division (B), which was in reserve, lined up neatly and left the city one after another. The artillery, which had not been used much, was all pulled out.

Shah Jahan was not idle, and as soon as he got the news, he rushed to the front line. By the time he got to the front, his opponents were already in formation. One by one, the phalanx pressed forward neatly, and this was the first time that the invading enemy had left the annoying fortifications and took the initiative to ask for a field battle. There are too many people, but there are more than 10,000 people.

Is 10,000 more than 10,000? It's really a lot, and when 10,000 people stand together, all they see are human heads. But on this battlefield, Shah Jahan saw two arrows. As Shah Jahan's opponent, Chen Xie personally led the team to the battle, standing in the middle of the team, holding a telescope to observe the reaction of the other side, surrounded by Konoe Huanran, Shar Yar, the traitor, was also brought, and there were things that needed his explanation.

Not to be outdone, Shah Jahan showed all his family backgrounds at this time, war elephants, muskets, cavalry, and the elite infantry who had retreated before. Judging from the comparison of forces, the front is about ten to one, and Shah Jahan has to ensure the pressure on both flanks, and the enemy on one side of the position is also killed. 100,000 troops, in his opinion, is enough.

"Kill!" Raising the battle, Shah Jahan couldn't wait to give the order, he thought that his strategy had succeeded, forcing the enemy to go out of the city and take the initiative to fight. This idea was correct, but he didn't think about the question of whether he could win the head-to-head battle. I never thought about this question. Chen Xie really miscalculated, the original plan was to launch a counterattack after consumption, but now he has to fight a decisive battle in advance, he is still very unhappy about this, and he underestimates the third brother. The problem is that Chen Xie knows that he will continue to underestimate the third brother, otherwise he will not come to India with the army of Japanese origin as the main force.

The two brigades pressed forward with two arrows respectively, and with such an unrestrained style of play, Shah Jahan almost vomited blood out of breath. He immediately sent his best cavalry to meet the enemy on the left flank, and on the right flank, a combination of war elephants and musketeers as arrows, supplemented by elite infantry. The shouts of the Mughal Empire soldiers on the battlefield shook the sky, and Sharyar, who was following Chen Xie, had been pretending to be calm. There are really fewer people, and he has no bottom in his heart when he leaves the strong fortifications to fight in the field.

It was a battle destined to make Shah Jahan vomit blood, and when the most elite cavalry of more than 10,000 cavalry attacked, the opponents lined up in a neat formation, no longer moving forward, but met them in a square formation. When the cavalry advanced forward, and the distance was not less than a thousand paces, the opponent taught him a lesson with rockets, what is modern warfare.

The cavalry, who had never seen rockets, was in a situation that could be imagined when more than a thousand rockets washed the ground. Immediately there was a mess, and the first attack turned into a mess, stubbornly continuing to charge, and the artillery once again taught Jahan's cavalry a lesson. The battle on the other side was the same, and after the war elephant was disturbed, it ran wildly and directly messed up its formation. The neat formation of the Xing Navy continued to press forward, and rockets, artillery shells, and platoon guns advanced layer by layer.

Shah Jahan's forces were strong, but the course of the battle was like waves crashing against rocks. Under the command of Chen Xie, an infantry division stabbed the opponent's ribs in a neat formation, firm as two sharp knives. Shah Jahan could only keep throwing in his troops, trying to stop the opponent's advance, but none of the troops could hold out for long, at most an hour or two, and were defeated.

The battle in the morning was barely maintained, and before dark, Shah Jahan unexpectedly found that he could not support it, not that all the troops were gone, but that none of the troops still had the courage to continue fighting. This battle, hailed by later Indian historians as the "light of civilization", illuminated the dark imperial canopy and brought freedom and light to the Indian people.

Well, this is the result of brainwashing. Don't take it seriously.

The situation on the battlefield was that when Chen Xie put a brigade of the First Division into the battle as a reserve, the direction of the entire battle was decided. Before dark, the army of the 200,000 Mughal Empire collapsed, abandoned 30,000 corpses, and fled north overnight.

After the front is defeated, what to outflank left and right, and what to cut off the back road, becomes meaningless. The armies of the Mughal Empire fled overnight, and the generals of all walks of life ran back to their starting places. Winning the "Nashik Victory" was no surprise to Chen Xie. It's like the Anglo-French coalition army defeated "I Daqing" at Bali Bridge, but what happened next surprised Chen Xie.

Cleaning up the battlefield is naturally the favorite of Japanese soldiers. The valuable things are first looted, then the records are handed in, and then the company is divided into 30% of the seizures and distributed to everyone's heads. After the huge battle, Chen Xie did not rush forward, but waited for the follow-up transportation and supplies, and after resting for three days, when he was about to march to Delhi, Shar Yar brought a news that Chen Xie absolutely did not expect.

"Master, Aurangzeb launched a mutiny, put Shah Jahan under house arrest, and sent envoys to ask for peace talks with the master."

This is really an accident, it is really unexpected, looking at Shar Yar who was kneeling on the ground, Chen Xie really had mixed feelings, the wheel of history really has a huge inertia. But sometimes it's postponed, sometimes it's early, and moving forward is an inevitability, right? Think about it carefully, it took me so long in Daming to change the trajectory of the wheel of history, and it was only a few days in India, how could it be possible to shake the progress of history? (To be continued......)