Zhu Cijiong's use of soldiers, perfectly inherited his style of Lao Tzu Chongzhen, radical and cautious, simply put, the radical aspect is very radical, but the cautious aspect is cautious to the extreme.

For example, not far from the Kelber Pass, there were even more than a dozen miles to Peshawar, so Zhu Cijiong ordered him to camp there.

As a result, the Ming army had just been stationed in the camp, and a huge army appeared outside the Ming army camp.

Xia Wanchun was also stunned: "Your Highness, it seems that there are only 30,000 people at most?"

"Thirty thousand? I'm afraid it's not yet." Zhu Cijiong shook his head and said, "If you can't do it, it's 20,000 people."

"Less than 30,000 troops dare to take the initiative?" Xia Wanchun raised his forehead and said, "Who gave them the guts?"

"Those who don't know are not guilty, they don't know the power of our great soldiers." Hu Guozhu continued.

While the three of them were talking, there was a sudden hissing sound in the distance ahead, and when Zhu Cijiong and the others hurriedly raised their binoculars to look, they found that a team of elephants had come out of the back of the hill in front of them.

"This is a war elephant?" Xia Wanchun couldn't help but be taken aback.

As early as Samarkand, the Ming army had heard that the Persian Sawifa Dynasty and the Mughal Dynasty in India had war elephants, and there were quite a few of them, but they had never had the opportunity to witness them with their own eyes, but today they finally saw war elephants.

I saw that these war elephants were huge, larger than the elephants Zhu Cijiong saw in the Forbidden City when he was a child.

I saw that these war elephants were carrying huge elephants on their backs, and each elephant had multiple musketeers on them.

However, Zhu Cijiong and Xia Wanchun were indifferent to these musketeers, but they were a little surprised by the huge bronze cannon dragged by the war elephant, this caliber is afraid that it must be five inches or even larger?

The point is that there are 50 war elephants and 50 cannons.

"No wonder we dare to meet our 200,000 army with 30,000 men!" Hu Guozhu said.

"King Ding, the Mughal dynasty seems to be stronger than we thought." Xia Wanchun said abruptly.

Zhu Cijiong didn't speak, just holding a telescope to observe the enemy army, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a pause, Xia Wanchun said to himself, "If we hadn't built the camp in advance, maybe there would have been some trouble."

Xia Wanchun instinctively believed that the Mughal army's cannons had a larger caliber, longer range, and greater power.

Therefore, the artillery of the Mughal army can hit the Ming army camp at a greater distance, and if the Ming army has not built camp fortifications in advance and has trenches to provide shelter for the soldiers, the casualties will definitely not be small.

"Brother Duan, what you said is reasonable, so you can't blindly defend." Zhu Cijiong turned his head and shouted, "Pass my order, the 1st Cavalry Division and the 2nd Cavalry Division will line up on both sides and form an angle with the battalion."

After several years of training, Zhu Cijiong can be regarded as a real practice.

At a glance, Zhu Cijiong saw the two fatal disadvantages of the Mughal army: the number of troops was small, and all of them were infantry!

In this expedition to the Mughal Dynasty, Zhu Cijiong led four cavalry divisions of the 1st Cavalry Army, and the remaining two cavalry divisions were stationed in Samarkhan and Khiva respectively to guard against the Persian Sawifa Dynasty.

As for Tsarist Russia in the north and Ottoman Turkey further west, Zhu Cijiong was not worried at all, firstly, these two countries were far away and beyond their reach, and secondly, the Ming Empire did not start a war with these two countries, so the possibility of Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire sending troops was very small.

Zhu Cijiong brought four cavalry divisions over, with a strength of 80,000.

In particular, it should be noted that these six cavalry divisions of the Ming army are no longer dragoons, but have turned into real cavalry divisions in a long battle.

That is, there is no need to dismount and line up when fighting.

Of course, there is another reason that the rifles of the Ming army have evolved again.

After the rifle evolved to a breech gun and a metal cartridge case, it was easier to fight on horseback.

The Ming army also included Dzungars, Turks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Khivans, and No

The Vassals of the Gai and Turkmen were numbered about 60,000 men.

Therefore, the total strength of the Ming army was 140,000.

The Mughal army on the opposite side numbered only 30,000 men.

The Ming army had an absolute superiority in strength, coupled with the high mobility of the cavalry, and it became the best tactic to threaten the enemy's flank from both flanks.

Zhu Cijiong's order was issued, and 40,000 soldiers of the two cavalry divisions immediately galloped away from the camp.

The Mughal army on the opposite side was very supportive, and I don't know if it was because they had stayed in the South Asian subcontinent for a long time and had not encountered a strong opponent, so they turned a blind eye to the threat of the Ming army's division of troops.

Facing the threat of a three-sided attack by the Ming army, the Mughal army continued to march in a queue.

Soon, the forward infantry of the Mughal army came within range of the Ming artillery.

However, Zhu Cijiong did not give the order to open fire, he was waiting for the war elephants of the Mughal army and the 50 or so bronze cannons dragged by the war elephants to also enter the range of the cannons.

The result was really as Zhu Cijiong guessed.

The bronze cannons of the Mughal army came as close as 2,000 paces.

Seeing this, Zhu Cijiong, Xia Wanchun, and the generals of the Ming army behind them all laughed.

"King Ding, it seems that we overestimate them, hehe." Xia Wanchun said with a smile, "Although the bronze cannon of the Mughal army has a large caliber, the range is far inferior to our 2.5-inch mountain cannon."

Zhu Cijiong snorted lightly, then turned his head and shouted, "Order, all artillery regiments start artillery preparations."

The heralds guarding behind Zhu Cijiong immediately waved the flag and conveyed the order to the artillerymen.

The next moment, the sound of artillery firing continued to sound in the camp of the Ming army, and with the sound of artillery, rows of 2.5-inch caliber flowering shells had already swept into the air.

At this time, the Mughal artillery two thousand steps away on the opposite side had just set up their cannons.

Before the Mughal artillerymen could reload the chambers with gunpowder and solid shells, rows of flowering shells had already fallen from the sky, and then exploded continuously in the large array of the Mughal army.

Zhu Cijiong and Xia Wanchun raised their binoculars at the same time.

It can be seen clearly through the field of view of the telescope.

I saw that in the dense infantry and artillery arrays of the Mughal army, suddenly there were clusters of dazzling red light, accompanied by these dazzling red lights, there were clusters of qi waves spreading violently, and after the air waves spread, there were clusters of smoke and dust, and the entire large array of the Mughal army was soon covered by smoke and dust.

After about a dozen seconds, the smoke finally cleared slightly.

When I looked closely, I saw that there were more than 200 smoke-emitting craters in the dense infantry formation of the Mughal army, and the Mughal infantry in the middle of the crater and around it were either torn apart on the spot or overturned by the air wave generated by the explosion, and the originally dense and complete infantry formation suddenly had more than 200 blank areas.

Just this round of shelling caused nearly 10,000 casualties to the Mughal army!

This is the dimensionality reduction blow brought about by weapons separated by two eras!

To be honest, the performance of the Ming artillery was actually very average, with a total of 4 cavalry divisions under 12 mountain artillery regiments, equipped with a total of 324 2.5-inch mountain guns.

A row of shelling is 324 shells, and only more than 200 hit the target, which can only be regarded as a failure.

But even so, the artillery bombardment of the Ming army also dealt a devastating blow to the Mughal army, and the Mughal army, which was caught off guard, was stunned at once, and even forgot to flee.

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But the fifty war elephants were frightened, broke free from the control of the pilot, and fled.

Admittedly, elephants are indeed more resilient than humans.

Fifty war elephants, many of them were wounded, but they were not killed by the explosion.

A few seconds later, the second row of shells of the Ming artillery roared again, and the Mughal army, which was in a state of panic, finally reacted, and immediately scrambled to scatter and flee.

The Mughals who were still menacing just now

The army, only after two rounds of artillery bombardment by the Ming army, immediately collapsed.

Zhu Cijiong immediately ordered all the servant armies to pursue, and the 1st and 2nd cavalry divisions on both flanks outflanked him, and the nearly 30,000 Mughal troops who finally attacked were all killed or captured.

In the evening, groups of Mughal prisoners of war were escorted to Zhu Cijiong.

Looking at these Mughal prisoners of war, Zhu Cijiong's eyebrows twisted into pimples.

Because of the skin color of these Mughal prisoners of war, Zhu Cijiong felt a strong sense of discomfort.

Zhu Cijiong has seen Kunlun slaves, and there are actually many Kunlun slaves sold by Arabs in the Ming Dynasty through the Western Regions, these Kunlun slaves are castrated, and most of them are very docile.

Zhu Cijiong originally thought that Kunlun Nu's skin color was enough to make people sick to their stomachs, but he didn't expect that in this world, there was something more disgusting than Kunlun Nu's skin color.

The complexion of these Mughal prisoners of war in front of them was not only dark, but also dirty to look at, which made people extremely uncomfortable.

What made Zhu Cijiong even more intolerable was that these Mughal prisoners of war also emitted a strong stench.

At that moment, Zhu Cijiong pinched his nose and said, "Kill them all, if you encounter such a thing in the future, you will be executed, and black and smelly garbage like this should not exist in this world."

Hearing this, the servants and generals behind Zhu Cijiong suddenly became excited.

The next day, after the Ming army bombarded the gate of Peshawar with the captured bronze cannons of the Mughal army, the servant army led by the Dzungars faithfully carried out Zhu Cijiong's will, and more than 300,000 South Asian natives in the city were almost slaughtered, and only more than 10,000 light-skinned and tasteless high-castes were spared.

The servants also seized large quantities of gold, silver, and jewelry.

Abdullah wasn't lying, Peshawar is truly a city of gold.

The servants seized countless gold utensils and gold jewelry from the city, and also stripped a large amount of gold leaf from the roofs and walls of more than a dozen mosques in the city.

Even the most conservative estimates put the looting of as much as 500,000 taels of gold.

Abdullah said that Delhi has more gold, and that there are dozens of cities like Peshawar in India.