"Fixed-shot loading, three quarters in the direction, and twelve rounds of preparation...... Put! ”

"Boom, boom—"

"Dodge! Get down! ”

"Boom—"

In August, when Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao discussed how to reduce the contradictions between the rich and the poor and the class contradictions in the Ming Dynasty, while Li Dingguo helped the family to farm, and selected concubines in the capital, the war in South Asia had been completely burned.

As the southern rebels were further suppressed by Lu Xiangsheng, the rebels basically hid in the dense forests of the Deccan Plateau, and did not even dare to attack the Ming army's baggage and caravans.

More than 100,000 rebels were wiped out in laughter, and less than 10,000 remained.

In the face of Lu Xiangsheng, who surrounded and suppressed them here, they believed in Hinduism, and "kindly" gave Lu Xiangsheng the title of "Yama".

In the legend of Brahmanism, the predecessor of Hinduism, the first person in the world to die was called Yama.

After his death, this man became the Hindu ruler of Hades, one of the twenty heavens, and had eighteen judges in charge of the eighteen levels of hell.

Later, this legend was inherited by Buddhism, and Buddhism gave him a more comprehensive title, the full name of "King Yama".

The rebels were frightened, and Lu Xiangsheng, after many successful encirclements and suppressions, further divided his troops to the north to support.

This time he divided his troops into ten battalions and went north, while he himself left less than ten battalions of troops to continue to encircle and suppress the rebels.

With the support of 10 battalions and 30,000 men, the number of Ming infantry troops on the front line reached 123,000, while Mirza did not receive follow-up reinforcements and still maintained the size of 170,000.

The number of artillery pieces of the Ming army was further increased to 2,400 guns, while the Mughal army remained at the pitiful 1,200 guns.

The superiority in firepower led Qi Yuanfu to decide to launch a full-scale counteroffensive, and under Huang Long's orders, Huang Fei and Li Dan commanded the navy to launch an attack on the thousands of miles of coastline of the Mughals.

The sudden artillery fire shattered the Mughal army and disrupted the defensive line......

"A bunch of useless garbage, ahem, ahem...... The order is to be held firmly, and I have sent someone to ask for reinforcements from Lahore......"

"Peng Peng Peng—"

As he spoke, Mirza coughed, his face instantly flushed, and he covered his mouth with a dark handkerchief.

When he stopped coughing, he looked at the handkerchief again, and there was already a lot of thick phlegm with blood stains on it, and the sound of artillery came from beside him.

Faced with such a situation, he exhaled slightly, but he directly squeezed the handkerchief in his hand and did not make a sound.

Because the Mughal army was at a disadvantage, he couldn't take turns to rest in other places like Huang Long, Qi Yuanfu, and Qi Yuanbi of the Ming army, so his body was in a very bad state under the long-term unadaptation of water and soil.

It's just that Mirza also understands in his heart that if he doesn't win another battle, the entire Mughal will be in danger, so Mirza at this time can be regarded as completely open.

He no longer cares if he dies on the battlefield or not, he just wants to win!

It's a pity that the people who want to win are not only the Mughal army, but also the Ming army that launched a counteroffensive wants to win.

The day before the full-scale counteroffensive, Huang Long had a military order passed down.

As long as the whole army can defeat all the cities along the Mughal coast before the end of the year, then the expedition will be declared victorious, even if the follow-up imperial court will continue to attack the Mughals, he will also transfer troops to change the defense, so that the 170,000 soldiers of the Ming army on land and sea who have been away from home for several years will return home and reunite with their families.

Just the simple word "go home" made the officers and men of the navy and the Gongwei battalion crazy.

"Win the battle before September, let's go home and celebrate the New Year!"

"Give me a hard beating!"

On the artillery positions of the Ming army in various passes, all the generals were clamoring to go home for the New Year.

Huanglong gave them the order to win before the end of the year, but they couldn't wait.

The word "Chinese New Year" seems to have a magical power, which makes the soldiers of the Ming army crazy......

"Beep-"

"Counterattack!"

Blowing the wooden whistle, Li Zicheng, who was in the Yanan defense line, pulled out the Yanling knife on his waist, shouted the word "counterattack", and led his troops to attack the Kolinga defense line in the north of Yanan.

"Give it all to me! Go home for the New Year after playing! ”

Liu Zongmin, Li Zijing, and Li Guo saw Li Zicheng draw his sword, and the three of them also drew their knives one after another, blowing the wooden whistle to launch a counterattack.

If the four generals are like this, the soldiers below will naturally not bear it.

They launched a counteroffensive surrounded by their own generals, they pushed their chariots, and began to advance the front in a coordinated manner of infantry and chariots.

Four battalions of more than 12,000 men poured into the battlefield, which was a tricky problem for the Mughal troops in charge of garrisoning the Kolinga line.

Kolinga was a city on the eastern coast, and Mirza stationed 20,000 men, of whom 5,000 were cavalry, 8,000 were light infantry, 2,000 were elephants, and 3,000 musketeers and 2,000 artillerymen.

Compared with them, the rear defense line of the Ming army was 3,000 artillerymen, and the front was 6,000 foot gunskeepers, 3,000 sword players, and 3,000 cavalry, totaling 15,000 people.

The positions of the two sides were five miles apart, and the Ming army pushed the chariot forward for three miles, and when they arrived at their own artillery position, the men and horses that had been scattered began to gather, and they pushed the chariot that covered the artillery position forward.

The Ming army's foot men and sword players advanced with chariots filled with sandbags as shields, as did the cavalry.

"Load the shells and crush them!"

Faced with the pressing of the Ming army, Shah, a general who relied on the entrenchment of the city of Kolinga, began to give orders.

Three hundred Portuguese gunners, hired by them, began to load their artillery with one thousand seventeen Persians.

The number of artillery at the head of the city of Kolinga was a hundred, and although it was inferior to the Ming army on the opposite side, the power of their artillery was actually greater than that of the Ming army's five-catty and ten-jin cannons.

After busy filling the artillery, with the sound of "snorting" arquebuses, one after another stone bullets came out of their disembowels, with a piercing whistling sound, and smashed into the Ming army, which was already less than two and a half miles away from Kolinga.

"The artillery advances one mile, and the target is the enemy's cityhead artillery!"

"Yes!"

Qi Yuanbi, who was guarding the artillery position, was light and did not care about the counterattack of the Mughal army at all.

In his opinion, as long as the position of the opponent's artillery is determined and the opponent's artillery is determined, then without heavy firearms, the Ming army will win!

"Put!"

"Peng Peng Peng—"

The cannons of the Mughal army rattled, and some of the stone projectiles that hit the flat ground in the wilderness turned into ricochets, or some of them were lucky enough to hit the chariot but were unloaded by the sand of the chariot.

In a round of shelling, only six of the hundred stone bullets hit the chariot, and the remaining ones turned into ricochet bullets and injured less than a dozen Ming soldiers, and the force was not enough to seriously injure people, because the sword players around them would raise their cards to cover their own foot players to unload the stone bullets.

With the chariots, the Ming army suffered few casualties on the two-mile journey.

It's just that when the chariot entered the range of one mile, a stone bullet suddenly hit the chariot.

The powerful stone bullet completely destroyed the entire chariot, and the Ming soldiers pushing the chariot also died extremely miserably, and the whole person was very miserable.

Li Zicheng was taken aback by the soldiers who flew away, and the red blood was coated with a thick layer on the ground, which made people feel chills in their hearts when they saw it.

It's just that the chills are followed by anger:

"Rush me! Avenge your brothers who died in battle! ”

"Kill!"

Everyone worked hard and pushed the chariot towards the Mughal position.

It was at this time that the artillery of the Mughal army was empty, and the hot artillery was doomed to not be able to fire again.

Seizing this opportunity, Li Zicheng and others pushed the chariot closer to the Mughal army's defensive line outside the city of Kolinga.

"Prepare ......"

Like the trench defense line of the Illuminati army, the soldiers of the Mughal army stood in it, and in front of them were defensive obstacles such as horse rejection and sheep's horn walls.

The Persian and Mongol officers in the army shouted loudly, and the 5,000 Mongol cavalry on the left and right outside the city also began to prepare restlessly.

When the Ming army stepped into a one-mile range, Shah, who was defending the city, waved his horsewhip, and the soldiers next to him blew their horns when they saw this.

Five thousand Mongolian cavalry rushed out like wild horses that had escaped from the reins, intending to cut off Li Zicheng and the others.

"Beep-"

"Formation!"

Li Zicheng whistled and shouted to form a formation, because he could see that the Mughal artillery could no longer shoot.

Without artillery, the Ming army began to form a chariot formation, approaching the city of Kolinga step by step.

"Drive! ...... driving"

The rushing Mongol cavalry howled something that even the Mongols of Mobei could not understand, and when they thought that the Ming infantry had become lambs to be slaughtered, the Ming cavalry hidden behind the chariot rushed out.

At a distance of more than 500 paces, the cavalry of the Ming army quickly increased the speed of their horses, and they also held the cavalry and short hammer in their hands.

The wind is swaying, and the war horses are neighing......

The horses' hooves trampled outside the city of Kolinga, and the 3,000 Ming army cavalry scattered and attacked in a wall-like formation.

"They're going to charge the wall, be careful!"

The Mongolian officer, who didn't know the musketeers, roared, and the flag officer next to him saw this and hurriedly waved the flag in his hand.

All the Mongols saw a large banner waving in a few breaths, and they were completely dispersed.

I have to say that they are blind cats who caught dead mice, and they are so scattered, but they let the Ming army's cavalry defeat them.

But even so, Liu Zongmin, who led the cavalry, still calmly raised the cavalry in his hand.

Two cavalry teams rushed head-on, one was the heavy cavalry of the Mughals, and the other was the semi-armored cavalry of the Ming army.

"Put!"

"Bang Bang Bang-"

It was as if the platoon of guns appeared on the cavalry, and the Mughal cavalry, caught off guard, was knocked off their horses, or the horses fell forward.

Falling at such a high-speed gallop is a terrible thing, and the fall of a horse represents the danger of more than ten horses in the future.

Experienced cavalry drove their horses over fallen men and horses, while inexperienced cavalry turned forward with men and horses.

It's not a round of guns, it's round after round.

The Ming cavalry was divided into three arrows that pierced into the scattered triangular Mughal cavalry formation, taking advantage of the advantage of the platoon of guns to shoot constantly in the interlaced space.

The Ming army in front of them wielded a golden gourd hammer and collided with the Mughal cavalry, some weapons were knocked away, and some were accidentally hit in the arm, and the whole arm shrugged down.

The battlefield is bloody, and the soldiers are not strings of numbers, but fresh lives.

In the staggered period, the Mughal cavalry left six or seven hundred corpses, while the Ming army also paid one or two hundred.

Such casualties are unacceptable, regardless of which side it is.

Liu Zongmin's eyes were red, but he was also a little afraid in his heart, while the Mongolian officer who led the troops was only afraid in his heart.

He subconsciously looked up at the walls of Kolinga, hoping to see the flag of Shah ordering him to withdraw his troops, but he saw nothing.

"Shock the infantry of the Ming army!"

He gave up entanglement with the Ming cavalry, and only wanted to attack the "weak" Ming infantry.

More than 4,000 Mongolian cavalry under his leadership went to kill Li Zicheng who was forming a chariot formation, at this time the chariot formation had not yet been formed, but the Ming army had already formed a phalanx of guns.

The picture of 4,000 iron horsemen rushing forward was very shocking, but the infantry in his hand gave the Ming soldiers full confidence.

"Prepare ......"

Li Zicheng held the banner and led many chief flag officers to raise the flag one after another, and the soldiers who saw the flag moving raised their guns one after another, aiming at the Mongolian iron cavalry that was rushing towards them.

"Beep-"

A piercing wooden whistle sounded, and although it was very faint, the Ming infantry men who formed a hollow phalanx were ready.

"Bang Bang Bang-"

The familiar white smoke rose again, but this time there were not many Mongolian cavalrymen who fell from their horses, only more than thirty people.

This is because Li Zicheng chose to fire the first time at 100 paces, and he did so in order to confuse the Mongol cavalry and make them think that his casualties would not be very large.

"Beep-"

Li Zicheng blew the wooden whistle again, which made many soldiers who were about to pull the trigger a second time stop and looked at their team members and the chief flag officer in confusion.

The two sounds are to stop shooting, which means that they want to put the enemy close to fight, but as the battalion soldiers of the Southern Army and the Western Army, in fact, many Ming troops do not have as much experience in facing cavalry as the Northern Army, the Eastern Army, and the Shangzhi, so they can't help but panic in their hearts.

When the Mughal cavalry rushed to seventy paces, many of them clenched their rifles and swallowed hard.

When the Mughal cavalry rushed to fifty paces, everyone felt sweaty.

When the Mughal cavalry rushed thirty paces, the former nine-sided bird gunners would choose to flee with their guns, but the soldiers of the Gongwei battalion did not.

Their insistence was right, because in the next second, Li Zicheng blew the whistle like a life-saving sound.

"Beep-"

"Bang Bang Bang-"

The heat wave hit, and the horses neighed......

At a distance of less than thirty paces, even the triple armor of the old slave could not carry the rifle, let alone the double armor of the Mughal cavalry.

In the face of the 800 infantry guns raised by the soldiers in the first row of the Ming army, a large number of Mughal cavalry only felt a cold in their chests, and their hands and feet were weak in an instant, and the whole person fell down with men and horses.

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

Before it was over, as the second round of guns began to sound, a large part of the Mughal cavalry, which had fallen with the horses because the cavalry in front had fallen, suffered a second round of blows.

"Withdraw! Remove! ”

The Mughal officers, surrounded by a dense crowd, could not see their own casualties, but the constant sound of the Ming army's footsteps made him panic.

He hurriedly ordered the follow-up cavalry to withdraw from the battlefield, and they fled in another direction, and the cavalry that could not escape was harvested by the chasing Ming cavalry.

"This is the Europa style of play......"

On the city wall, Shah watched his cavalry go into battle for only a few minutes before he was beaten to this virtue, and his face was so blue that he suspected that he had eaten poison.

Especially when the cavalry withdrew from the battlefield, there were half fewer people than when they set off, which made Shah's heart feel a sense of inexplicable fear at the same time.

"How many muskets do they have?" This question echoed in Shah's mind, and I am afraid that it was difficult for him to believe that the Ming army's firearms armament rate had reached eighty percent.

"Keep attacking, don't covet the head!"

In the Ming army's formation, Li Zicheng looked at some soldiers who were trying to harvest the first rank, and hurriedly shouted, grabbed the order flag next to him and waved it.

His military orders were conveyed along with the banners, and the general banners shouted to stop the soldiers under their command, and the Ming army once again formed a formation to think of Kolinga to kill.

The Ming army and the chariots formed a chariot formation with the word "Hui", advancing at a speed of more than a dozen paces per minute, while the 10,000 light infantry and musketeers stationed in the trenches were breathing heavily.

"The elephants are ready and have destroyed their chariots!"

"Yes!"

Shah sent his elephant soldiers, 2,000 elephants representing more than 600 elephants, and when his military order was given.

On both sides of the city of Kolinga, some of the pacified war elephants began to march to the battlefield under the appeasement of the soldiers.

The elephants, seven to one foot tall and weighing three to five tons, were covered with a layer of cotton armor that protected their heads, abdomen, and hips, and they obediently allowed the musket-carrying soldiers to climb on their backs.

When 600 war elephants appeared, even many Ming soldiers who had fought with them in Jiaozhi were stunned.

It's just that the car formation is still advancing, and it is impossible for them to retreat, so everyone is stubborn to meet it.

"Roar......

The roar of war elephants filled the battlefield, and the Ming army's military horses had not been trained to face war elephants, so they stagnated for a while.

The distance between the two sides was narrowing, gradually narrowing from one mile to two hundred paces, during which the war elephants did not move, and Shah seemed to be ready to let the war elephants break through the Ming army's chariot formation at close range, and then rely on muskets to harvest the Ming army.

It's just that his wishful thinking was wrong, and the number of muskets of the Ming army far exceeded that of the Mughal army in the city of Kolinga.

"Prepare ......"

"Beep-beep-"

The whistle sounded three times, and the Ming infantry men in the front row had already begun to prepare, and they were only a hundred steps away from the war elephants.

Gradually, they began to approach the defensive line, and Shah also looked at the Portuguese artillery next to him: "Aren't you okay?" ”

"It's going to take at least three minutes." The gunner tested the temperature of the chamber and replied with a shake of his head.

His answer made Shah very uncomfortable, so he gritted his teeth and said, "I'll add 1,000 rupees to each of you!" ”

"Oh...... Then you can fire now! The Portuguese artillery officer smiled.

Waiting for the price to be sold, this was already a common method used by European mercenaries for the Mughals, and they often did so at critical moments of war.

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"Prepare ......"

"Boom, boom—"

Before the words of the Portuguese artillery officer could be spoken, the sound of artillery was heard in the distance, and then the whistling stone bullets hit the head of Kolinga intensively, many wall bricks were hunted directly, and some artillery that was caught off guard was also killed.

While Shah was dodging, he hurriedly picked up the binoculars to observe the battlefield, only to find that the artillery of the Ming army had moved a mile.

This is a disadvantage of Mughal officers, who tend to focus only on a local battlefield and ignore the entire battle situation.

"It should be a test firing, and it will take five minutes for them to shell the next round."

After the shelling, the Portuguese officer stood up to comfort Shah, but at this time Shah's face turned pale, because they had missed the best time to shell the Ming army car camp.

"Beep-"

"Bang ......"

When the chariot of the Ming army entered a distance of fifty steps from the war elephant, Li Zicheng chose to release it without hesitation.

The infantry of the eight hundred Ming soldiers began to shoot at the war elephants, and the dense lead bullets only felt pain for the six hundred war elephants.

They screamed, but they didn't fall.

In the wars of the South Asian subcontinent, war elephants, which have more contact with firearms, are not afraid of fire.

In the arquebus era, a few hundred rounds of bullets could not kill a single war elephant, and it was not until the gradual development of artillery technology that the elephant soldiers were completely useless in South Asia.

As a massive creature that has been used in the history of warfare for thousands of years, elephants are far less fragile than many people think.

Enraged by the shooting, the elephant herd began to charge towards the Ming army, and at this time, the Mughal cavalry who had withdrawn from the battlefield was still chasing and entangled with the Ming cavalry.

Many Mughal soldiers were ready, and when the elephants crushed the opposing chariots, all the light infantry would rush forward.

They firmly believe that no one can beat them in the short-range field......

The sound of "hissing" continued to sound, and the behemoth formed by 600 war elephants faced the Ming army's round of guns, although some fell, but compared to the number of rushing guns, it can be described as a drop in the bucket.

"Knife player prepare!"

Li Zicheng shouted with a calm face, and the flag officers around him also kept waving the order flag to pass on military orders.

Hearing this, all the sword players rushed to the fourth row to prepare for battle, and at this time, the war elephants also rushed in front of the Ming army's car formation.

The chariot filled with 1,000 catties of sand and soil seemed to be as fragile as a toy in front of the war elephants, and one by one they were knocked down, while the Ming soldiers retreated while fighting.

The appearance of war elephants did disrupt the deployment and plans of the Ming army, so much so that Liu Zongmin, who was leading the cavalry, saw this scene and immediately gave up the cavalry chasing the Mughals and rushed towards the battlefield.

"Kill this group!"

"Kill!"

Six thousand light infantry at the ready, climbed up the trench, crossed the wall of sheep's horn and repelled horses, and slaughtered the Ming army.

The mad war elephants have no longer careless, and occasionally even kill and injure their own people.

Some of the Ming troops could not retreat, and they would also be trampled to death by war elephants, and the Mughal light infantry rushed to the front of the battle, but before they could react, Liu Zongmin led more than 2,000 Ming cavalry to cut them off.

"Dog slave An dare!"

Liu Zongmin rode his horse and rushed into the path of the light infantry, wielding the golden gourd hammer while pulling the trigger of the cavalry, and instantly reaped two lives.

His bravery made many of the native light infantry fearful, but at this time, the Mughal Persian musketeers hiding in the trenches began to pull the trigger indiscriminately on the Ming cavalry.

"Bang Bang Bang

"Withdraw!"

The moment Liu Zongmin heard the arquebus, he immediately led his people to retreat, but he was still hit by many cavalry.

When some Mughal light infantry saw the Ming army falling and dismounting, they hurriedly swarmed up, trying to use their heroic "force" to subdue the opponent.

It's just ideal plump, realistic skinny.

The light infantry in simple chain mail faced the Ming cavalry in triple armor, even in foot combat, they could not help them, but they were constantly knocked down by the musketeers in the rear.

The more than 100 cavalry of the Ming army immediately united and beat the 6,000 Mughal light infantry who were still trying to encircle and suppress them in front of them.

"These untouchables ......" Shah looked at the humiliating scene on the battlefield, and at this moment he really wanted to slaughter a few native villages to vent his hatred.