Outside Kolinga, the war elephants roared, and the Ming army fought and retreated, while the 6,000 light infantry who were pinned on the hopes of the Kolinga guard Shah seemed to be facing Gundam, and were beaten by more than 100 Ming soldiers who fell from their horses.

"Allah...... Whew......"

"Back off, back off!"

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid!"

In the face of the Mughal light infantry, the Ming army that fell from their horses drove more than 6,000 of them to the trench as if they were unmatched.

This is not because the Mughal light infantry is not effective in combat, but because most of them come from poor families, which leads many to join the army to solve the problem of food and work.

Their military pay was the income of a few families, so they were extremely sparing their lives.

In this era, in the face of the soldiers of the Ming army led by the military attache of Yanshan, who received patriotic education and was proud of expanding the territory, they could be called the division of tigers and wolves.

In contrast to them, the Mughal light infantry and its officers, who served for material and subsistence purposes, determined their inertia on the battlefield.

For the sake of military pay, the primary purpose of their entry into the battlefield is to save their lives, so they have no dedication and will to fight at all, which leads to the rapid disintegration and collapse of this part of the soldiers in the face of adversity in wartime.

At the moment, the Light Infantry Legion, which is dominated by the native Indian race, the lowest pariahs, does not want to fight at all.

They can fight a good battle, but when they encounter a tiger and wolf army like the Ming army, they will retreat "heroically" one after another, which is called "preserving the living force".

Not to mention that the Mughal Shah had a headache because of this, even if Zhu Youzhen was moved over to become the Mughal emperor, he would also have a splitting headache.

Nationalism, the spirit of the family and the country...... None of these things that can motivate people can motivate them, they are like salted fish lying down completely, except for the fact that they are more active when they receive military salaries, and the rest of the positivity is handed over to worldly desires.

More than 100 cavalrymen who fell from their horses led them down the trench with men, and the process was so easy that many soldiers felt incredible.

"! Will there be fraud? ”

"I also think it's a fraud, I just killed a dozen people, why did these thousands of people flee?"

The "rout" of the light infantry corps made the Ming troops who fell from their horses hesitate, and they always felt that the enemy had set a trap.

This means that the southern and western armies have not come into contact with the Korean soldiers and the Japanese shogunate soldiers, otherwise they would not have hesitated, but rushed into the battle to kill the Quartet.

"Retreat first, and help the brothers out of the siege from behind!"

Fearing a trap, the cavalry began to turn into infantry and turn back to kill behind them.

Their actions made the elephant herd, which was wreaking havoc in the Ming army's formation, uneasy.

War elephants are not stupid, on the contrary, they are very smart, they know how to judge the time, and they know which side is their own in a calm state.

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Because they were so smart, when they saw the 6,000 light infantry legions being driven away by the more than 100 "enemies", their hearts instantly became uneasy.

Especially when they saw the more than 100 "enemies" rushing towards them, with the howl of the elephants, the remaining more than 500 war elephants immediately turned back to the Ming army's vehicle formation.

While they left behind the corpses of seventy or eighty war elephants, they fled in a hurry towards both sides of their own city, and they did not stop no matter how the elephant soldiers on their backs dragged them.

The battle situation was reversed in an instant, and Shah's blood pressure increased when he watched this scene, and he almost felt that his eyes were dark.

"I'm going to kill them! I'm going to kill them! ”

Shah held on to the city wall, looking at the light infantry who hid back in the trench and continued to talk and laugh, he longed for the 6,000 people to be broken into thousands of pieces!

The good situation failed because of their desperate death!

"The war elephant went back and found that too many of his companions had died, and he was definitely unwilling to charge again, what should we do now?"

"The distance is too close, there is no longer an opportunity to use artillery."

The Mughal generals and Portuguese artillery officers next to Shah spoke one after the other, which made Shah even more angry.

"Guard! When people die, they have to be guarded by me! ”

Shah suppressed his voice and ordered, and the adjutant general next to him heard that even if he issued according to his military order, he ordered everyone to defend the outer line.

The moat of Kolinga was three feet wide, with stone bridges on the north and south sides, and wooden bridges on the east and west sides, while they laid out the outer defensive line only on the south side.

It's not that they're confident and stupid, it's that they have eaten through the Ming army's style of play.

What the Ming army pursued was always an effective annihilation of the enemy, and they shelled Kolinga for several months, and the southern city of Kolinga was in tatters and could be easily breached, so they would not choose to attack elsewhere.

It's just that both sides are holding their forces together, which makes the whole battle confusing.

According to the standards of the Ming army, even the whole world cannot pick out a hundred generals who can calmly command 10,000 people, and Shah is a typical general who has no talent but is entrusted with heavy troops.

If he were to command 3,000 men to defend the city, or 5,000 to defend the city, then he would definitely be much better than commanding 20,000 men.

Since the war with the Ming army, he has not been Qi Yuanbi's opponent at all, and even now, Qi Yuanbi is not serious, and only Li Zicheng and a few people cooperate with each other to take advantage of the battlefield.

In less than two quarters of an hour after the start of the battle, the casualties of more than 2,000 cavalry and more than 100 elephant soldiers and dozens of war elephants were enough to make the morale of the Mughal army fall to the bottom.

Compared to the heartless light infantry corps, Shah could see that the morale of the retreating cavalry and elephant corps was constantly falling.

Under their influence, the musketeers also became a little nervous and frightened.

On the battlefield, if the morale is not good, it is equivalent to losing three points first.

Shah looked anxious, but there was nothing he could do in his heart.

He couldn't have said how much the reward would be, because he didn't have that qualification to promise.

It was impossible for him to pay out of his own pocket, because he did not have much property, let alone give it up for the sake of the Mughals.

Compared with him, the Ming army made brazen adjustments before the battle, and emptied the chariots that had been overthrown by the war elephants of the sand, and used the chariots to escort the wounded soldiers back to the rear.

The musketeers were tempted to shoot, but the eighty-odd paces left them helpless.

Although the arquebuses in their hands were at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, only artillery could penetrate them at a distance in the face of chariots filled with sand.

After several rounds of firing, the Mughal officers abandoned the attack and prepared to wait for the Ming army to approach before counterattacking.

"! More than 200 brothers! ”

"More than 500 people were injured."

Behind the chariot, Li Zijing and Li Guo scolded respectively, while Li Zicheng looked at the artillery at the head of the city with a clairvoyant mirror, and then whispered:

"This group of guys' artillery can't shoot us, take this opportunity to take his outer positions and avenge the brethren!"

After that, Li Zicheng turned around and said to Li Guo and Li Zijing:

"Call Jiexuan (Liu Zongmin's expression) to lead the cavalry to cruise on the side first, we will use the chariot to push away the rejected horse, and he will go on after clearing the road!"

"Good!" Li Zijing responded, and Li Guo also turned his head and greeted: "Lengthen the push handle of the chariot!" ”

"The cart push handle is lengthened!"

One by one, soon the Ming army lengthened the handlebars of the 300 chariots in the front row, and the reason for the lengthening was to guard against some traps.

After the improvement of generations of generals of the Ming Dynasty, the chariot has been played with flowers, and this flower will now bloom in the South Asian battlefield.

"Drum march!"

Li Zicheng waved the command flag, and in an instant, more than 100 drummers hidden in the formation laid the waist drum on their waists, and then beat the waist drum with small drumsticks.

At the same time as the drums appeared, the Ming soldiers began to push the chariots forward side by side.

It is difficult to push a thousand pounds of primitive chariots, but the current chariots and artillery wagons are all using rubber tires produced by the rubber factory of the Armaments Institute, although these rubbers are obtained from the "Euphorbiaceae" plant, which is not as pure as the rubber tree, but it is enough to face a flat battlefield.

The chariot advanced step by step, and Shah looked a little anxious, he turned his head and asked the Portuguese artillery officer: "Can you put shotguns?" ”

"If we fire shotguns, our people will be attacked." The Portuguese artillery officers knew that the Shah did not treat untouchables as human beings, but there were many Persians and Ottomans among the musketeers.

"......" Hearing the words of the Portuguese officer, Shah could only grit his teeth and turn his head to continue to observe the battlefield.

"So many line infantry...... I'm afraid that Vasa (Sweden) will be able to mobilize so many line infantry with the strength of the whole country, and I suggest that we can retreat. ”

The Portuguese artillery officer surveyed the battlefield, and when he saw the most advanced Swedish line infantry tactics in Europe appearing on the battlefield, he immediately felt that the Mughals were likely to be unable to hold Kolinga.

You must know that such line infantry, even the Swedish Vasa Dynasty, is only 30,000 people.

But even with only 30,000 men, Sweden managed to punch Denmark, step on Tsarist Russia, and beat Poland, greatly consolidating the rule of the Swedish Vasa dynasty.

If it weren't for the fact that the whole of Europe was currently at war and there was no time for training, I am afraid that all countries would have already begun to learn and understand this tactic.

The Portuguese artillery officer sighed a little, but because he left the Portuguese army very early and switched to the Mughal army, he did not know that as early as the fourteenth century, a sketchy version of line tactics had appeared in the Ming Dynasty.

After the continuous improvement of the generals of successive dynasties, and then to Zhu Youzhen's large number of flintlock pistols for the army, the line infantry of the Ming army was more terrifying than the line infantry of Sweden.

The Vassa Dynasty of Sweden relied on 30,000 line infantry to threaten northern and central Europe, and such line infantry, the Ming Dynasty had a full 600,000......

"Put!"

"Bang Bang Bang

Dense buckshot shot from the Mughal positions, one by one hitting the chariots of the Ming army.

The front of the tank was pierced, and bags of sand were hit.

The sand in the bag continued to flow out of the pierced holes, but the pace of the Ming army did not stop, and continued to approach the position of the Mughal army.

Fifty steps...... Thirty steps...... Twenty Steps......

The Mughal musketeers were already busy filling with gunpowder and lead, while the Ming army relied on chariots to knock down rows of repulsive horses and break down the walls of sheep's horn.

It's just that when the chariot crossed the sheep's horn wall, there was an overwhelming "Kacha" sound on the ground in an instant, and one after another the chariots fell to the ground.

Seeing this, the Ming saber player decisively let go, raised his shield and retreated to defend.

In the overwhelmed sound of "Kacha", the fallen chariot fell into the ground, pressing the spikes deeper into the ground.

"Beep-"

Different from the crisp whistle that ordered the shooting, this whistle sounded one after another on the battlefield, pulling the long.

This represents the discovery of a trap, and upon hearing this sound, the knife players in the back row immediately rush to the front row with their stocky planks.

The line infantry of the Ming army stopped in front of the trap, and they were less than twenty paces away from the Mughal musketeers, which was very dangerous.

"Beep-"

"Beep-

A crisp and decisive whistle began to blow out of the mouths of the chief flag officers, and all the sword players in the first row instantly crouched, and the foot players in the second row began to raise their guns and pull the trigger.

"Bang Bang Bang-"

At the same time as the white smoke rose, the dense lead bullets were like hail falling from the sky, knocking down some Mughal musketeers and light infantry who did not know how to "trench warfare" in an instant.

"It's useless to imitate form, only form without god, and you won't use it if you have a trench......"

Qi Yuanbi, who was in the rear, looked at the situation on the battlefield in front of him, and while evaluating it, he also turned his head sideways to the artillery battalion general and ordered: "Open the artillery." ”

"Yes!" The general responded, turned around and waved his command flag at the commander-in-chief of the various posts that had been looking at him.

Seeing the flag waved, the chief flag officers of each outpost blew their wooden whistles one after another, and the teams under them also began to shout and open fire.

The arquebus was lit, and in a snorting sound, the four hundred guns of the Ming army let out a roar......

"Boom, boom—"

The dull sound of artillery rang out from the rear, and before Li Zicheng and the others could react, the shells swept across the sky with a "terrible" whistling sound, and one after another shelled down on the crumbling Kolinga city.

"Good!"

Seeing the meritorious work of their artillery, Li Zicheng and others shouted with joy, and then continued to set their eyes on the battlefield.

The will to fight is a vital part of warfare, regardless of the period, especially for generals who want to win.

It's just that, due to the laziness of the Mughal aristocracy, artillery, muskets, and light infantry were given to European, Persian, Ottoman mercenaries and native untouchables, so for these mercenaries, what nation and state? That's all bullshit.

When the Ming line infantry began to line up their guns, the musket regiment composed of Persians and Ottomans had no idea of showing their heads to fight back, let alone the light infantry regiment that only wanted to lead the army and not want to fight.

Shah watched as the group of guys did not come forward, and watched as the sword players of the Ming army carried the planks to the front of the formation.

"Fight back!"

The Mughal Mongol officer in the trench was also very helpless, he kept yelling, and even cut down several Persians who did not obey the order in succession, so that the light infantry and musketeers began to counterattack.

It's just that a platoon of light infantry was knocked down by round after round of guns of the Ming army before they could climb the trench and fell into the trench.

It was clear that the Ming army had no protection from the platoon guns, and the Mughal musketeers could rely on the trenches to shoot, but the two sides had the opposite effect.

"Withdraw to the city!"

Looking at the Ming army that had begun to land in the trench, Shah had no choice but to let his own men and horses in the trench retreat.

They don't understand trench warfare at all, just like Qi Yuanbi said, they only have form and no god.

"Retreat, retreat!"

Under the wave of the flag, all the Mughal soldiers began to retreat as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and the enthusiasm was comparable to that of the Ming army after defeating the enemy army and pursuing and beheading.

The brigade retreated from the trench, and Li Zicheng saw this and directly waved his knife:

"Stop the gun, the front army will concentrate the gun on the stone bridge after entering the trench!"

"Beep-beep-"

Two long whistles made everyone stop plating, and the flag soldiers sent to the flags also told the officers of the flags.

The Ming army began to step over the traps, and the end of the platoon of guns also caused many Mughal soldiers to climb the trench and rush directly towards the stone bridge, instead of retreating around the trench as originally planned.

There were 1,000 musketeers stationed on the stone bridge, unlike the 2,000 Persian and Ottoman musketeers on the front line, this musketeer was a rare Mongol musketeer.

They built defensive lines such as sheep's horn walls and horse rejection on stone bridges, and relied on the gaps in the sheep's horn walls to shoot.

The stone bridge is only three zhang long, and only the middle one zhang can be passed, so many retreating Mughal soldiers are blocked here.

Li Zicheng had long guessed that this would be the outcome, so under his command, the Ming musketeers, after crossing the trench, began to pull the trigger towards the Mughal army blocking the stone bridge fifty paces away.

The sound of muskets rang out as the lead bullets began to harvest the group of routers who had taken shortcuts, which made Shah clench his fists.

Although he didn't care about the lives of the untouchables, it was uncomfortable to see his own people being slaughtered.

"Roar......

Fortunately, at the critical moment, the war elephants finally returned to normal, and under the command of the elephant soldiers, they attacked and killed the Ming army along both sides of the city.

The Mughal musketeers sitting on the wooden frame of the war elephant north began to shoot from afar, and as soon as the war elephant that brought the most casualties to the Ming army appeared, Liu Zongmin, who was cruising around the battlefield, immediately led more than 2,000 cavalry to kill them.

This time they were more prepared, each cavalryman holding the spears scattered across the battlefield and their own cavalry.

Under the leadership of Liu Zongmin, the cavalry and the war elephant passed by, the bullets of the cavalry were left for the elephant soldiers on the back of the war elephants, and the spears were reserved for the war elephants.

Misalignment, pulling the trigger, and stabbing out the spear have become the muscle memory of almost every cavalryman.

The war elephants were wailing and neighing, while the elephant soldiers suffered heavy casualties under Liu Zongmin's targeted blows.

"Shoot the shotgun!"

Shah couldn't bear it anymore, and he would rather shoot some of his own men and horses than inflict heavy losses on the Ming army.

"As you wish......" The Portuguese officer was no longer entangled, for he concluded that if the Ming army did not inflict some heavy casualties, the Kolinga would soon be broken.

Therefore, under his command, a hundred artillery pieces on the city walls began to be filled with "scattered bullets" wrapped in cloth such as gravel and iron nails.

Accompanied by the ignition of the arquebus, the hundred guns were fired in a roar.

"Peng Peng Peng—"

Fierce artillery sounds sounded on the battlefield, but this time it was not from the Ming army, but from the Mughal army.

It is true that firing shotguns with cannons is a bit of a waste and luxury, but it has to be said that it succeeded in achieving the effect that Shah wanted.

I saw that scattered bullets and iron nails were shot out like scattered flowers of the heavenly maidens, spanning a distance of 100 paces, and swept the entire battlefield like a shower.

The Mughal light infantry bore the brunt of the casualties, as they had the thinnest armor, followed by the Ming army.

Many of the Ming cavalry's horses were hit and fell, the cavalry on horseback was thrown away, and some line infantry also suffered blows.

Nearly 100 Ming soldiers were shot, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead, and Li Zicheng, who saw this scene, had a numb scalp, turned his head and shouted: "Let the rear artillery support!" ”

"Yes!" Li Zijing next to him hurriedly waved the largest order flag.

Qi Yuanbi, who was in the rear, immediately frowned when he saw the banner: "Artillery support? ”

"Chief soldier, it should be that Nanyu used a cannon similar to a tiger squat cannon to open flower shells and scattered shells, so General Li asked for support." The general next to him tried to guess, because the Ming army's line infantry tactics were only afraid of such mortars and shotguns if they did not have chariots.

"How long will it be before the artillery fires again?" Qi Yuanbi looked at the artillery battalion that had just opened fire, and the artillery battalion general also replied:

"About thirty breaths."

"Good!" After Qi Yuanbi heard the time, he turned his head and continued to look at the battlefield.

"! Why don't you fire yet! ”

Li Zicheng on the front line scolded, but Li Guo frowned and tried to explain: "Maybe the artillery has not yet reached the conditions for firing again." ”

"How long has it been?!" Li Zicheng scolded, but he also knew in his heart that only in this case would the artillery battalion not shoot.

I have to say that on the battlefield, for Qi Yuanbi and others in the rear, time flies quickly.

For Li Zicheng and others, time flies very slowly.

It was clear that it had only been long since their own shelling, but they felt as if a stick of incense had passed.

Fortunately, the artillery of the Ming army dissipated heat quickly, and the artillery of the Mughal army dissipated heat slowly, so after the shooting, the artillery of the Mughal army could not shoot again in a short time.

"Beep-"

"Hit me hard!"

Li Zicheng couldn't ask for artillery support, so he could only blow the whistle and let the line infantry under his command continue to harvest the group of light infantry.

In the war between the Mughal Mongols and the Han Daming, the native untouchables of India and some Persians and Ottomans became expendables.

After more than a dozen rounds of platoon guns, the artillery of the Ming army finally attacked.

With the dull sound of cannons, four hundred stone bullets whistled in, and Shah once again helplessly started to shrink his head and crouched behind the city wall.

When he finally survived the bombardment of the Ming army and looked up again, the stone bridge was already full of corpses, and the moat was also stained red with blood.

More than 5,000 light infantry who had retreated were broken in half, and the musketeers were not spared.

Seeing that the battle situation was unfavorable, the war elephants rushed out of the battlefield with the corpses of the elephants on their backs.

Those who survived and withdrew to the stone bridge were only five or six thousand people, most of which were lost.

"Beep-"

Seeing that the other party retreated to the stone bridge, Li Zicheng did not choose to storm the stone bridge, but ordered his soldiers to occupy the Mughal trench, and then rebuild the trench to reverse the siege of Kolinga City.

"Let the front army and the left and right armies rest in the trenches, and Liu Zongmin will lead the cavalry to cruise the east and north gates."

Putting down the clairvoyant mirror, Qi Yuanbi arranged the tactical arrangement in an orderly manner, while Li Zicheng ordered people to start harvesting the head.

Although the heads of South Asia do not reward silver, they do military feats.

The Ming army harvested the heads on the battlefield and piled up the corpses on the battlefield, while the Shah in the city looked as ugly as a pig's liver.

Only more than 2,200 cavalrymen were defeated, only 2,080 light infantry remained, only more than 2,300 musketeers, and only 400 elephants were still alive, but many of the war elephants were lost, and there were only about 300 left.

The artillery was shelled by the Ming army, and more than 100 people were killed and wounded.

All things considered, the Kolinga garrison, which was 20,000 men before the start of the war, was only one afternoon, and there were less than 11,000 men left.

Although Shah was angry in his heart, he could not show it, so he could only let the troops who withdrew to the city strengthen the stone bridge and city defenses, while he himself watched the Ming army calmly harvest the heads on the battlefield.

The corpses of the beheaded Mughal army were almost piled up into a hill, and the Ming army poured fire oil on their corpses and set them on fire.

During this period, Shah did not dare to act rashly, and he did not let people shell the Ming army.

After all, it angered the Ming army, and the Ming army threw those corpses into the city or into the moat, and a plague was inevitable.

Shah was afraid of the plague, and the Ming army was even more afraid, so even though they knew that the plague could effectively kill and injure the enemy army, Qi Yuanbi still had them burn the corpses.

More than 9,000 corpses of the Mughal army were burned, and the billowing black smoke filled the entire battlefield with a gloomy atmosphere, and the "white snowflakes" floating on the battlefield from time to time were even more depressing.

For a time, the morale of the entire city of Kolinga fell to the bottom.

At the same time, the wounded soldiers and corpses of the Ming army were sent to the rear, and Qi Yuanbi got the number of dead and wounded on both sides before dusk.

The Ming army lost 457 killed and 875 wounded.

The Mughal army was beheaded 8,627 people, wounded unknown.

The ratio of casualties between the two armies reached 1 to 6, and the ratio of battle to death reached 1 to 18......