Chapter 544 The Sick Man of South Asia! (Please subscribe)

Author: Linjiang Jun

Chapter 544 The Sick Man of South Asia! (Please subscribe)

The Mughal bombardment was obviously weak.

In fact, Mughal artillery and artillery were fine.

The Mughal Empire introduced Turkic cavalry from Afghanistan and Central Asia, as well as artillery talents from Turkey and even the Netherlands. During the heyday of the Mughal Empire, almost all artillery was in the hands of foreign migrant soldiers.

The source of this practice is its founding ancestor Babur. Babur hired Master Ali Kuli and also hired many sharpshooters from the Ottoman Empire.

The Mughal Empire used artillery made and operated by foreigners to knock down the castles of the princes of Tianzhu one after another, and considered hiring external artillerymen as a national policy.

Because the core of the entire Mughal Empire was a large number of Persian and Turkic military leaders and civil servants, and these people were not good at firearms, so they could only hire talents from the Ottomans and the West.

And those elite artillery were in the hands of Aurangzeb.

Aamir Khan's Mughal frontier army was obviously not an elite force.

The Mughal army began to collapse in the mid-17th century.

When Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, moved from Central Asia to fight in Tianzhu, his army was a devastating presence in front of the native countries of Tianzhu.

They not only have powerful artillery and muskets, but also have the strong military qualities of Central Asian and Persian soldiers. Even in a headwind situation where the battle situation is unfavorable and the generals are killed, they can still fight tenaciously.

Later, the Mughal Emperor Akbar carried out military reforms, which further improved the training, management and equipment levels of the troops, laying a good foundation for the empire to expand its territory in Tianzhu.

By the mid-17th century, the Mughal army was defeated in three battles with the Persian Safavid dynasty for Kandahar and suffered from "wave phobia".

In the ensuing melee over the succession of the throne, there were many defeats in which the entire army collapsed.

In these battles, the Mughal Empire's army fought bravely to take the lead in a favorable situation, fearing that they would not get any credit. However, once the situation was slightly unfavorable to their own side, their morale would immediately be shaken, and they would even flee in fear.

When various problems broke out in the Mughal army, less than 50 years had passed since its peak. Why was there such a huge contrast with before?

The reason is exactly the same as the fall of the Eight Banners!

As a foreign conqueror of India, most of the soldiers in the army that Babur relied on came from the bitter cold mountains and deserts of Central Asia.

These people grew up in a barren and difficult environment and developed the fine qualities of being hard-working, brave and good at fighting.

At the same time, they also integrated the weapons, equipment, strategies and tactics of the Turks, Mongols, and Afghans, and had a combat effectiveness that surpassed the local army in Tianzhu.

However, as they went deeper into the South Asian subcontinent and gradually took root in the warm and fertile land of Tianzhu, they were inevitably infected by the warm and humid climate and comfortable and prosperous life here. Their combat effectiveness began to deteriorate, and their old spirit of hard struggle also faded.

Gradually, I was blown away by the wind of extravagance and enjoyment.

Later, in order to alleviate the conflict between locals and outsiders, the natives of India gradually gained the upper hand in the Mughal army.

The fierce outsiders in the past continued to degenerate on the land of Tianzhu, and fresh blood from the outside could not be replenished. The Mughal army gradually began to be dominated by local soldiers from Tianzhu.

However, there is a big gap between the physical fitness, military literacy and morale of Tianzhu soldiers and those of outsiders.

Tianzhu believers among Tianzhu soldiers were also negatively affected by factors such as the caste system.

Among the soldiers of Tianzhu Religion, the high-caste soldiers who serve as elite cavalry often advocate vegetarian food, while among the large number of light infantry, engineers, and artillery, there are many low-caste soldiers who are hungry.

Except for those noble generals who "have food in their hands and don't panic in their hearts" and can ensure their food intake, the nutritional status of most Tianzhu soldiers is worrying.

Therefore, their physique has also become a shortcoming in their eyes, and they are often at a disadvantage when facing fierce opponents such as Persian troops, Afghan bandits, and Uzbek nomadic cavalry in hand-to-hand combat.

"Cross the river!"

Jieshu saw the opportunity and ordered to start crossing the river.

"Kill!"

The Qing and Mongolian coalition forces rushed toward the river beach, including cavalry and musketry infantry from the Junggar Banner.

With a splash, the river splashed, and a few Kazakh cavalry at the front on their horses began to wade across the river, and then more Junggar Banner infantry rushed into the river and began to wade across the river.

The surface of this narrow river section is less than 200 meters, and because it is in the dry season, most of it is a dry river bed, with only a short area of ​​less than 30 meters with river water.

Soon Jieshu's army crossed ten meters of river water, and only had twenty meters of water left before they could reach the other side of the river.

Bang bang bang!

At the critical moment, the Mughal army finally organized and fired the first round of loose matchlock volleys in the chaos.

Although the Qing army's cannons exploded into chaos, the Mughal army did not collapse and flee after all. The Mughal generals, who hoped to prevent the Qing army from invading, naturally tried their best to order the soldiers to resist. In the end, when the Qing army crossed the river,

, able to organize musketeers capable of intercepting the Qing army.

Bang bang bang!

The second round of volleys was more intensive than the first due to the participation of more Mughal musketeers.

Tsk tsk tsk!

Lead bullets hit the bodies of Qing Mongol soldiers in the water.

Many soldiers fell into the river and were washed away by the water, and large areas of the river were dyed red.

However, more Qing and Mongolian soldiers rushed into the river and continued to cross the river.

Boom boom boom!

The gunners of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty were not vegetarians. They focused on bombarding the musketeers organized by the Mughal army, and supported the soldiers in the water to cross the river smoothly and fight face to face with the Mughal army on the other side.

"ah!"

The shells directly knocked a large number of Mughal musketeers over the dry river bed, immediately disrupting the Mughal generals' arrangements.

"kill!"

Without the interception of the musketeers, the Qing and Mongolian cavalry crossed the last river even more violently.

The first ones to wash ashore were naturally the Kazakh cavalry.

They were extremely ferocious, with about a dozen cavalry and war horses stepping on the dry riverbed on the other side, rushing towards the approaching Mughal army.

Not all the Mughal musketeers who were knocked off the river bed by the shells were dead. Many Mughal musketeers stood up, but what greeted them was the gleaming scimitars of the Kazakhs.

"Poof!" An archer who had just stood up was passed over the neck by the Kazakh cavalry's scimitar, and he died immediately with blood splattering on his neck.

"volley!"

At this time, more Junggar Banner infantrymen also rushed ashore. After they lined up, they shot and killed the Mughal troops heading towards the river in a well-disciplined line-up!

Even the Junggar infantry, whom Kangxi looked down upon, actually killed the Mughals until they retreated!
Chapter completed!