The Mughal Empire happily withstood a strong invasion from external enemies. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the same time, the Mughals' neighbor, who was at the same time another enemy, another rebel Marathas, fought very hard.

Although the Marathas had more resources, more troops, and even more weapons than the Mughals - this was mainly obtained through trade, from very kind and gracious fellows.

All in all, the Marathas had almost all the better conditions than the Mughals. However, in the war against the Briton expeditionary force, the Marathas did not perform as well as they wanted. It can even be said to be very bad, even terrible.

These guys seem to be completely intoxicated with the idea that "I am Hindi orthodoxy, I am Hindi orthodoxy, I can unify the whole of Hindi, and it is the turn of the heroes of the world to be who else I am." Si people do not come out of the common people", in the strong sense of mission and fate, I feel that I am completely invincible.

In reality, however, this is not the case at all.

Their combat effectiveness is very bad, and the terrible is almost like trying to show "what is bad".

Perhaps many people will be surprised by this. They are obviously a great force in this world. It's obviously an Indian localist, why is it so weak in Indian?

In fact, the question is a completely false proposition.

Or a question that doesn't need to be proven at all. The answer to this question is, "It is precisely because of the Indian localism that he is so weak!"

The indigenous Indians were originally a group of very, very weak chickens, and this issue has been discussed before, and the indigenous Indians, Hindiism, were originally a religion that made the nation weaker and weaker, so that it would be easier to rule.

And in fact, in the war for secession from the Mughal Empire, these guys did not fight any decent wars either.

There is really only one reason why the Marathas were able to gain access to the vast territory of southern India.

That's because they're Indians.

None of these territories were acquired by them through war, but by secession, directly from Mughal rule.

These territories were originally under their control, but this time, they just changed their signs, and then claimed to be separated from the Mughal Empire, and then they did not provide any resources, taxes, and manpower to the Mughal Empire.

It's that simple.

Of course, while simplicity is so simple, the Marathas themselves do not consider themselves simple.

Almost all of the upper strata of the Marathas, the Brahmins, are like any high-caste guys. They feel good about themselves and think they are born to be the ruling class.

So these guys don't need to work hard for their future lives at all.

They have no sense of crisis at all. It's the feeling that "I'm the ruling class, but if I don't work hard, I rule badly and I'll be overthrown" never came to their minds.

They don't seem to care about it at all.

But of course, things are actually what they think. No matter how the dynasty of the Indies changed, or the power class changed, or the emergence of foreign invaders, none of this changed the ultimate foundation of the Indies, which was the caste system.

The great high-caste bastards have remained high-caste bastards for thousands of years. And the garbage of the lower castes, for thousands of years, is still just the garbage of the lower castes.

Social rigidity, like a pot of paste that no longer has any firewood burned, cool, sticky, tangled, unable to move.

The result of social rigidity, in other worlds and elsewhere, usually ends up with two outcomes: the overthrow of peasant revolts from below, the top-down reforms, and civil wars among the aristocratic class. Or maybe a foreign enemy invades and kills them all.

In any case, when everything proves that the dynasty is not saved, the dynasty will naturally be in turmoil and eventually collapse.

Generally speaking, in the feudal era, a feudal dynasty could stand for almost a few hundred years. However, Indy is different, Indy has been the same for thousands of years, everything has not changed, nothing has been shaken, everything is a change of soup and not a change of medicine.

In this case, in terms of the fact that the longer the society is ossified, the more corrupt and incompetent the ruling class becomes, the ruling class in India, that is, these high-caste garbage, their abilities are also naturally very poor, very poor, terrible, so bad that they can't bear to look at it directly.

In this way, it is a matter of course, there is nothing more to say.

William has some ideas and understandings of this. Victoria however...... Well, well, after dealing with the idiot ruling class here, Victoria actually has a bit of a spectrum in her heart. However, I still didn't expect it, I never expected it.

She saw the speed of the rise of the Marathas alone. I saw that these guys have swelled from a very weak princely state in just two years to a huge empire that occupies about one-third of the territory of Indy, with millions of troops and tens of millions of people.

Seeing all this, Victoria was amazed and misjudged the strength of this Maratha Federation.

Think they're strong.

At least not weak.

No matter how weak the chicken is, it can't be weak.

However, the result of the matter is that they are very bad, very bad, unimaginable.

Almost as a matter of fact, after learning of Victoria's expeditionary forces and attacking them, the Marathas were also very arrogant, because they were born to rule all the high-caste people. So of course I'm confident that I can do anything.

These fellows, who thought they could rule over the whole of Indy, immediately organized a huge army of more than 200,000 men, ready to teach the ignorant, casteless, pathetic outsiders a good lesson.

Sadly, however, they did not succeed.

The 200,000 troops, 200,000 troops, although not well-equipped and well-trained, are so numerous that people can't help but have a little unrealistic expectation of their combat effectiveness, but when they are much smaller than their numbers, they are actually just a corps as a vanguard force.

Stimulated by the military reforms of the Gothic Empire in Russia, they were all equipped with flintlock muskets and bayonets, plus the latest artillery – of course, this "latest" needs to be put in quotation marks, that is, it seems to them to be the latest.

Because the intelligence blockade of the Russian Gothic Empire is relatively in place, and it has not lost anything in so many years of war, coupled with the very strict control of logistics. So these weapons and equipment are neither damaged, nor lost. Even those weapons and equipment that are scrapped on a daily basis will be recycled by professionals. The aim was to never divulge information on the latest weapons of the Russian Gothic Empire.

However, it is still sufficient.

A professional army corps with infantry, cavalry, and artillery, with the most elite cuirassiers, flintlock muskets and bayonets, and the latest artillery. Even on the battlefield of the old continent of the human world, a powerful army that can still occupy a place is enough to deal with these guys. Totally enough.

Even though the ratio of forces between the two sides was 10 to 1, in the end, it was the Briton expeditionary force that won the victory.

Even their own losses are minimal.

When the 200,000 Marathas army approached, the balance of power between the enemy and the enemy was taken into account. The commander of the corps vanguard quickly worked out tactics. The legion quickly deployed, and then seized several nearby commanding heights as fast as possible. And artillery units were deployed.

- If he was dealing with a Russian Gothic expeditionary force, or any of the Old Continent armies, then such an arrangement would be a mistake in decision-making.

Because under his command, there were no cavalry artillery like the Gothic Empire in Russia. In other words, they will not be able to deploy their artillery units quickly and quickly on the battlefield.

When the scouts on both sides are already engaged, it is dangerous to move artillery units, even if they are escorted by infantry and cavalry.

Once the enemy decisively sends elite and swift light cavalry units to carry out a surprise attack and destroy these artillery, then without these artillery to provide supporting firepower, the chances of victory of the Briton Expeditionary Force will definitely be much lower.

Of course, the end result proved that the Briton Commander had made the right decision.

Or rather, very lucky.

He was not facing the Russian Gothic Empire or any of the Old Continent armies, but the Marathas army.

They are arrogant and arrogant. Slowness at the same time - This slowness is due to the fact that they have too many troops and have to move so high, but also because they have outdated tactical thinking. and their hubris.

They don't think they're going to lose. I don't know what it means to be a soldier. The 200,000 troops, almost in a bit of a haphazard manner, marched toward the Breton expeditionary force at a speed close to that of a snail.

With the scouts on both sides engaged, the guys finally arrived at the scheduled battlefield, which took two full days.

It was during these two precious days that the Britons adjusted their artillery positions, and even built a relatively simple, but absolutely effective, defensive system through earthwork and engineering work.

It was this simple, but effective defense system that laid the foundation for the Briton Expeditionary Force's chances of victory.

(To be continued.) )