Chapter 561 The Mughal version of the Battle of Songjin (please subscribe!)

Author: Linjiang Jun

Chapter 561 The Mughal version of the Battle of Songjin (please subscribe!)

Kangxi's Eight Banners column looked very neat. Thousands of matchlock soldiers formed dozens of small rows, and then formed a large column.

All the soldiers wore yellow, white, red, blue and other colors of military uniforms, carried bags on their backs, and carried matchlock guns with bayonets on their backs.

The elite Eight Banners line infantry formed a tight team shoulder to shoulder, moving at a walking pace to the sound of drums and drums with a strong rhythm.

The Eight Banners kept pace with the times, imitating the Ming Dynasty, and began to use military musicians to command the troops.

Looking at the Eight Banners line infantry, Aurangzeb began to understand why Amir Khan suffered a disastrous defeat.

However, what Amir Khan faced at that time was not the most elite Eight Banners line infantry at all, but only the Junggar Musketeers!

Amir Khan, who followed Aurangzeb to observe the enemy's situation, broke out in cold sweat on his forehead. This army was obviously stronger than what he encountered at that time. The rhythm of Mughal pills.

Amir Khan thought about the local Tianzhu soldiers in his hands. Apart from acrobatics, they seemed to have nothing particularly good at them.

He glanced at Aurangzeb, who was still observing the enemy's situation with a Western telescope, and wondered whether he should grease the soles of his feet and run away to southern India.

Aurangzeb, who was unaware that his subordinates had already decided to retreat, was observing the enemy's cavalry.

Between the infantry columns, there are also a large number of horse-drawn cannons and cavalry wearing cloth armor or chain mail, as well as a large number of vehicles loaded with various supplies, rumbling together.

Around the marching team, there were many scattered light cavalry, keeping watch while moving forward slowly.

The number of cavalry was so astonishing that Aurangzeb could not count them. If these cavalry were on the Ganges plain, it would be absolutely difficult to stop them.

However, what is interesting is that the direction in which Kangxi's army moved was not Lahore, but passed through the northwest and north of Lahore, and then turned to the southeast.

It looks like they are going to bypass Lahore and head directly towards Delhi!

When Kangxi's army advanced in an orderly manner, the scene was so spectacular that the Mughal upper echelons watching from the tower of Lahore Fort were so nervous that they could hardly breathe.

Those Mughal nobles who followed the tyrant Aurangzeb to guard the country also began to panic.

Because Kangxi's army was surprisingly large in number, the marching team stretched out forty or fifty miles to the northwest and north of Lahore, with flags of various colors billowing in the wind.

According to some rough estimates, the strength of this group of elite troops may have already exceeded 100,000!

Here are the most elite Eight Banners of Junggar, Eight Manchu Banners and Eight Han Banners, pure direct troops, not those miscellaneous troops.

In addition to the 100,000 elite troops advancing, there are two huge camps under construction on both sides of the Ravi River. The two camps are also connected by pontoon bridges.

Countless infantrymen were busy there, and large groups of cavalry were on guard outside the two camps.

However, the attire of these infantrymen and the cavalry on guard around the camp were very different from those of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers who were advancing.

Most of these soldiers wore all kinds of fancy turbans, and they were not as solemn and solemn as the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers. They also used a variety of weapons. At a glance, you can tell that they are a ragtag group of people from India, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Khiva, and Bukhara.

However, the number of these rabble is quite large. A large area of ​​Wuyang Wuyang is larger than the regular Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers. It is estimated that there are at least 150,000 people.

Some of these miscellaneous troops were also driving along the Ravi River from the upstream direction!

"Shameless betrayal!"

Even if the Indian soldiers, Sikhs, and Afghans were burned to ashes, Aurangzeb knew them all. Aurangzeb, who had been silent at first, finally couldn't bear it anymore and roared.

The biggest headache is for the Sikhs.

The characteristics of Sikhs are particularly obvious. They wear large and high turbans.

Why Aurangzeb was angry is because the Punjab region where Lahore is located is the stronghold of the Sikhs.

There are many Sikhs living in the area, all of them are aggressive and aggressive, and from time to time they rebel under the planning of their ancestors.

Now even the Sikhs have followed Kangxi, and Lahore is in danger!

Moreover, this group of people worked very hard to obtain many ships, helped Kangxi's army transport a large amount of food, and also helped build two or three pontoon bridges across the Ravi River.

Aurangzeb had never seen such loyal and capable Sikhs.

In addition, these Tianzhu traitors seem to be preparing to take on the task of guarding the city of Lahore, so that Kangxi Khan can lead his Eight Banners Army to capture Delhi and even Agra.

Kangxi is so thief!

Aurangzeb was fooled!

Aurangzeb imagined that there would be Sikhs and Indian princes along the way to lead Kangxi Khan's army and provide supplies.

The betrayal of these people put Aurangzeb, the Mughal tyrant who guarded the country, into a passive position!

Although he also gathered an army of more than 250,000 people in Lahore, they were surrounded like this and had no use at all.

As long as he cannot move, the land east of Lahore will be gone!

Huh!

Why is this situation a bit like the Battle of Songjin?

The Battle of Songjin happened because the Ming army valued Jinzhou too much, and because defending Jinzhou, they lost all the strategic momentum.

At that time, Huang Taiji learned lessons from the historical failure of attacking Jinzhou in 1627 and changed different tactics to avoid being good at attacking in the field and not good at attacking fortified cities.

The strategy adopted by Huang Taiji was to besieged for a long time and force them to surrender.

The fact is that this strategy was completely successful. It not only eliminated the 130,000 reinforcements led by Hong Chengtaochou, but also forced the Ming army defenders in Songshan, Jinzhou, and Xingshan to surrender, destroying the Ningjin defense line that the Ming army had operated for many years.

Kangxi used Huang Taiji's trick this time.

Aurangzeb's situation was more dangerous than the Ming army in the Battle of Songjin. As long as the miscellaneous army surrounded Lahore, Kangxi would definitely win.

Because it seems that his Tianzhu soldiers still cannot defeat the enemies outside Lahore.

How do you think about it, because whether Kangxi's army is directly from the Eight Banners or a miscellaneous army, the skin color is obviously whiter than that of Aurangzeb's people!

According to the concept of Tianzhu people, the whiter the skin, the better the fight!

This concept has not changed until the 21st century. The bad guys in those Bollywood movies are usually dark, and the good guys are fair-skinned and beautiful. This is blatant color discrimination.

The Kangxi Khan not only had white skins from Afghanistan and Central Asia, but also a small amount of Rakshasa white skins.

It’s so white that it’s invincible!

But Aurangzeb and his family no longer have the supply chain of the white-skinned masters from Central Asia.

In these years, it has been maintained by the troops of India's native Tianfang believers and Rajput princes (there are many Rajput generals, Mircha who defected to Kangxi is just one of them).

Although the skin of these people is whiter than that of the people on the Deccan Plateau in the south, it is definitely not as white as the people of Kangxi Khan.

So if they want the Tianzhu people to go out to the city for a decisive battle, I'm afraid they are already mentally depressed and have no confidence that they can win.

In addition, the Eight Banners soldiers of Kangxi Khan looked too neat, which made Aurangzeb feel a little nervous.
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