There are two ways to get from Delhi to Kabul.

One is to walk the Pamirs.

Since the Chinese Empire had already occupied the entire green ridge and was in an absolute state of overlook, they could only take the edge of the Pamir Plateau.

The roads here are tortuous and extremely difficult, and the transportation of supplies is quite inconvenient, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

So Shah Jahan's large army did not dare to choose this path.

His 100,000-strong army had no choice but to cross the Thar Desert and attack the Indus Plain in the south.

Although this is a lot of spare, it can go straight to the Indus Valley newly occupied by Li Zicheng and hit his grain producing areas.

Shah Jahan thinks it's still good.

Moreover, the plains are more conducive to the deployment of their own army of 100,000.

Although Li Zicheng inherited the position of Governor of Afghanistan, he quickly cleaned up the old aristocratic forces that did not obey him.

However, the Mughal Empire is different from China in that there is no complete concept of a state here, and there are some "earth kings" with tribes as the core.

They belong to the typical "wall grass", no matter who has a hard fist, they will choose to superficially submit to the strong.

But in fact it is still in a semi-independent state.

Li Zicheng is also very clear about the urine nature of these people.

Sure enough, many tribes in the Indus Valley chose to take refuge in the more powerful Shah Jahan.

Shah Jahan's Mughal army also won successive battles, defeating Li Zicheng five times and successfully taking a large part of the Indus Valley.

directly drove Li Zicheng back to Afghanistan.

The western part of the Indus River was all mountainous, and after entering these areas, Li Zicheng began to attack.

His men began to break into pieces, attacking the Mughal army in the western hills.

One will attack their reconnaissance troops, and the other will attack the food delivery teams in the rear.

Although it seems that the loss is not big each time, it is also a big loss in accumulation.

In half a month, Shah Jahan's troops had been wiped out by Li Zicheng "piecemeal" by seven or eight thousand people.

What's even more infuriating is that this damn mountainous area makes it impossible for them to concentrate superior forces to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng.

An enraged Shah Jahan changed his previous cautious approach and began to divide his forces and accelerate his advance.

Li Zicheng saw that the enemy had taken the bait, so he left thousands of troops to lure the enemy.

After a period of triumphant advances, the Mughal army finally entered the battlefield that Li Zicheng had predetermined.

It is located in a river valley 30 miles south of Kabul.

It was Shah Jahan's way north to Kabul.

The relatively wide valley leaves a certain amount of room for both sides to play and allow them to set up their formations.

When Shah Jahan arrived with his army, Li Zicheng's men were already in full battle.

He saw that the enemy army had formed a phalanx in front of him.

At the foreground were the large shield men with shields, and behind the shield soldiers were the spearmen, and behind them were the last musketeers of Dashun and the archers.

Although there were 60,000 people accompanying him, the valley could only accommodate 10,000 people at a time.

Even if he has more troops, he will not be able to give full play to the advantage of having more troops in a head-on battle.

The brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, and now they can only invest more than 10,000 people at a time.

With Shah Jahan's command, a low horn sounded!

The 10,000 Nepalese mercenaries took the lead in rushing towards each other with spears in hand.

Although these mercenaries are generally equipped, they fight on the plateau all year round and are extremely brave.

It can be said that Shah Jahan is a trump card in the hands of him, and it doesn't cost less to hire them.

Looking at these Nepalese people in rudimentary equipment, Li Zicheng's eyes showed a trace of contempt.

Courage is important, but their armor is so thin, how can they resist their own firearms.

Li Zicheng knew that compared with these barbarians, his firecracker had an absolute advantage, so although his men and horses often used cold weapons, the firecracker was placed on the horse.

Even if they have now become "lost dogs", they still have nearly a thousand firearms.

At the head of the ranks were more than 1,000 of the strongest Nepalese fighters.

Soon they had rushed to a distance of more than a hundred paces, and in their perception that the bow and arrow could not reach them at this time.

So most people didn't raise the round shield they carried with them to block their bows and arrows.

As Li Zicheng's order flag slowly fell, the gunners in the back row began to shoot.

"Bang, bang, bang"

As a puff of white smoke rose, more and more Nepalese warriors were knocked out by the firearms.

They stared at the bloody hole in their bodies in amazement, and then fell to the ground and wailed in pain.

Cries of pain echoed through the valley.

The Mughal Empire also has firearms, but their firearms are earthen guns with a range of only a few dozen steps, which are not very powerful, and they are far inferior to bows and arrows in actual combat.

In Shah Jahan's impression, these firearms are only available to Westerners, but he didn't expect Li Zicheng to have them.

At this time, Prime Minister Babak reminded: "Your Majesty, in fact, we also have such firearms, you forgot that when you signed the treaty with Huaxia, the Huaxia Empire once gave us a batch of firearms."

It is naturally impossible for the European powers to sell good firearms to the Mughal Empire, otherwise how would these Europeans enslave the Mughal Empire? They just sold Shah Jahan some inferior "dirt guns" at a high price.

So Shah Jahan felt in his heart that these things sent by the Chinese people should also be all the way, so he didn't take it seriously.

Fortunately, Minister Babak still sent someone to test fire this batch of firearms, and found that the power was amazing and the range was very long.

So he took this batch of firecrackers and set out with him!

At this time, the river valley has also entered the link of hand-to-hand combat.

Despite the long range, the reload time was relatively long, which also gave the Nepalese an opportunity.

After that, the bows and arrows of the Dashun army were much easier for them to deal with.

These Nepalese raised their shields against their bows and arrows, and threw spears at the Dashun array.

Soon the Dashun army also suffered casualties.

And the Nepalese also took advantage of this opportunity to rush to the front.

However, in the face of the steel shield and iron armor in the front row of the Dashun army, they were still defeated and retreated.

Dashun's team took the opportunity to press forward, wanting to chase the defeated army and break the Mughal defense line in one fell swoop.

"Bang, bang, bang"

At this moment, the Mughal musketeers opened fire.

The sudden sound of fire startled Li Zicheng, not because of anything else, but this voice was too familiar.

It is the Lu Mi Gong of the Chinese people.

At this time, Li Zicheng greeted Li Xianzhong's ancestors.

He cursed and cursed, but he was powerless to prevent his men from being knocked down by the firecrackers.

Despite the heavy casualties of the Nepalese who launched the charge, the Mughal Empire managed to hold its own position.

There was no one-sided situation that Li Zicheng wanted to see.

The Mughal Empire lost more than 12,000 men in this battle, and nearly 4,000 of Li Zicheng's men and horses were killed in the battle.

Although the casualties of the Mughal army were much greater, Shah Jahan had more men and horses than Dashun, and he could still shout: "Lao Tzu's men and horses are three times that of Li Zicheng, and the advantage is mine!" ”

Li Zicheng did not have many men and horses at hand, and he could not withstand such a war of attrition.

But fortunately, he had already made two preparations.

Although Song Xiance had betrayed Li Zicheng, his trick "Flooding" was still inherited by Niu Jinxing.

The torrential rains of the previous days had caused the water in the valley to swell, and he had already caused a dam to be built upstream.

Originally, it was thought that the Mughal army could be routed head-on, but it seemed that at this time, it could only be attacked by water.

After nightfall, Niu Venus sent people to break the embankment and release the water.

As several dikes were dug up, several currents converged, causing the previously stable river to become irritable.

The raging water overflows the riverbed and roars down the valley towards the Mughal camp downstream!

Shah Jahan, who was still asleep, was woken up by his men and hurriedly asked him to move to higher ground.

Their original camp was overwhelmed by the flood that overflowed the river, and the whole camp was in chaos.

What's even more unfortunate is that Li Zicheng led the army down the river and took advantage of the situation to kill them.

At this time, the Mughal army was leaderless, and each department could only fight on its own, unable to form an effective resistance.

The shouts of killing continued throughout the night, and the valley was littered with Mughal corpses.

The Mughal Empire collapsed, and in the end Shah Jahan fled to Multan with just over 3,000 men.

Originally, the 30,000 allied troops of various ministries that he had left in Multan saw the defeat of the Mughal Empire, and hurriedly withdrew their troops overnight.

In just one day's work, all the birds and beasts were scattered.

This was a major disappointment for Shah Jahan, who was trying to reorganize his troops.

The tribes around Multan originally supported Li Zicheng, but it was only with the arrival of the Mughal army that they reattached themselves to Shah Jahan.

Now they are plotting to capture Shah Jahan and sacrifice him to Li Zicheng.

Fortunately, Prime Minister Babak discovered the plot of these people in time and escaped from Multan with Shah Jahan overnight, so that this tragedy was avoided.

They managed to lead the remnants of the defeated army and fled back to Delhi.

Shah Jahan, who returned to Delhi, was in a state of horror.

But he soon found himself having lost control of the Mughal Empire.

The impact of his fiasco was too great.

Originally, the southern kingdoms were only sneaking up with the British.

Now, with his defeat, these kingdoms are openly independent.

Even in this city of Derry, the Sikhs, who were originally indisputable, began to move.

Arjun, the fifth patriarch of Sikhism, began to call on Sikhs in Delhi to oppose Shah Jahan.

Most of the Mughal top brass who supported Shah Jahan have died in the chaos, and he has no control over the situation in Delhi.

Lee became the ruler of the northwest of the empire, and the Europeans were everywhere to attack the independence of the southern kingdoms, and now Sikhism took the opportunity to revolt.

Faced with such internal and external troubles, Shah Jahan had no choice but to turn to the Chinese Empire.

Although the Chinese also had their eye on the Mughals, they only wanted Mughal land and money, and did not want their own lives.

The other forces are eager to kill themselves and hurry up!

Despite knowing that he was fighting against the tiger, Shah Jahan had no better choice.

But how to move Huaxia to help himself made it difficult for the Mughal Empire.

The entire east coast of India has been ceded to China, so can't the west coast be ceded to China?

The west coast of India is not the same as the east coast.

The cities of Mumbai, Diu, and Goa on the west coast of India have long been taken by the Portuguese and British, who have been in control for hundreds of years.

In addition to the construction of the port, forts, fortresses and other defensive facilities were also built, which will not be easily abandoned.

In the end, they still thought of the oldest way, and pro!

Shah Jahan's second wife, Taj Mahal, is a peerless beauty.

Ajman Banu, a woman from Persia, beautiful, intelligent and versatile, Mahal married Shah Jahan for more than 20 years, the two were inseparable, and witnessed the glory and disgrace of Shah Jahan with their lives.

Shah Jahan named her "Taj Mahal", which means "the crown of the court", and can be described as three thousand favors in one. It's a pity that no matter at home or abroad, there has been a lot of life since ancient times.

In 1622, the Taj died at the age of 38 after giving birth to her 14th child. When the news of his death came, Shah Jahan was so grief-stricken that he turned white overnight.

Her last wish was to rest in a beautiful mausoleum.

So, a grieving husband, Shah Jahan, personally designed and used the royal privileges, mobilized tens of thousands of workers, poured the power of the country, spent countless money, and built the mausoleum with gemstone inlays.

It is the famous Taj Mahal, which was not yet completed at this time.

It was the construction of the Taj Mahal that overwhelmed the Mughal Empire's finances.

But "Taj Mahal" still left several beautiful princesses for Shah Jahan.

Among them, his favorite little princess Mahal is only 13 years old this year, she perfectly inherited her mother's beauty, and she is also Shah Jahan's heart.

Although he was reluctant to give up, in order for the Mughal Empire to continue to be built, in order for the "Taj Mahal" to continue to be built, Shah Jahan had no choice but to sacrifice his little daughter at this time.

He believed that there was no man in the world who could resist Mahal's appearance.

Soon the Minister of State Babak went to Calcutta to find Li Dingguo.

Such a big thing as a kiss is not something that he, the governor of Burma, can decide.

So he sent people to escort them all the way to Ili, the capital of China in the Western Regions.

When Li Xianzhong saw Mahal, he was almost stunned.

This is a typical exotic beauty, with fair skin and a curvaceous figure.

The Persian ancestry makes Mahal's facial features more distinct.

It can be said that she is the most beautiful woman Li Xianzhong has ever seen, more beautiful than Hazia and his other concubines when he was young.

At this time, several names such as "Daji" and "Bao Xi" quickly flashed in his mind, and this woman was definitely at the level of "red face and trouble".

Fortunately, Li Xianzhong is no longer a hairy guy, otherwise he would have to fall.

But at the age of fifteen, Li Shizu, who is strong in blood, does not have such determination.

He barely took his eyes off Mahal's.

It wasn't until Li Xianzhong coughed a few times that he looked at himself reluctantly.

It's because his family education is usually very strict, otherwise this kid would probably have knelt on the ground at this time and begged for his marriage.

The second child of his own family is still a blessing, fortunately he is only a second prince.

If the object of the marriage proposal is his own boss, Li Xianzhong will not agree to such a "red face and trouble" to enter the prince's East Palace.

At this time, he suddenly began to understand why Li Longji wanted to rob his daughter-in-law.

Maybe on the same morning hundreds of years ago, Li Longji saw such a daughter-in-law, so he couldn't hold it, right?

In the end, Li Xianzhong agreed to this marriage.

Li Shizu, the second prince of China, officially married Mahal, the princess of the Mughal Empire.

After that, Li Shizu led 20,000 Chinese main forces to Delhi to quell the domestic rebellion for his father-in-law!

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