Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 544 The Sick Man of South Asia! (seeking subscription)
The shelling from the Mughal side was obviously weak.

In fact, Mughal artillery and artillery were okay.

The Mughal Empire introduced Turkic cavalry from Afghanistan and Central Asia, and 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 father, Babur, who hired his master Ali Kuli from outside, 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 the Indian religion, and regarded external artillerymen as a national policy.

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

And those elite artillery are in the hands of Aurangzeb.

Aamir Khan, the Mughal frontier army, is obviously not an elite.

The time when the Mughal army collapsed began in the middle of the 17th century.

When Babur, the founding king of the Mughal Empire, moved from Central Asia to Tianzhu, his army could be called a destructive existence in front of the native country 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, Emperor Akbar of the Mughals carried out military reforms, which further improved the training, management and equipment levels of the troops, and laid a good foundation for the empire to expand its territory in Tianzhu.

By the middle of the 17th century, the Mughal army had lost all three battles with the Persian Safavid Dynasty in the battle for Kandahar, so that they suffered from "phobia".

In the subsequent melee of succession to the throne, there were many defeats in which the entire army was defeated.

In these battles, the army of the Mughal Empire fought bravely against the wind, fearing that they would not get any credit, but once the situation was slightly unfavorable to their own side, their morale would be shaken immediately, and they would even flee timidly.

When various problems broke out in the Mughal army, less than 50 years had passed since its peak. Why is 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 Tianzhu, most of the soldiers in Babur's army came from the bitter cold mountains and deserts of Central Asia.

These people grew up in a barren and difficult environment, and cultivated the excellent qualities of being hardworking, brave and good at fighting.

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

However, as they went deeper into the South Asian subcontinent step by step 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 affluent life here. Gradually, he was blown away by the wind of extravagance and pleasure.

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

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

However, there is a big gap between Tianzhu soldiers and those outsiders in terms of physical fitness, military quality and morale.

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

Among the soldiers of the Tianzhu religion, the elite cavalrymen of high caste tended to advocate vegetarianism, while among the large number of light infantry, engineers, and artillery, there were many low caste soldiers who could not eat enough to eat.

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

Therefore, their physique has also become a shortcoming in the eyes. When facing fierce opponents such as the Persian army, Afghan bandits and Uzbek nomadic cavalry in hand-to-hand combat, they often fell into a disadvantage.

"Cross the river!"

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

"Kill!"

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

With a splash, the river splashed, and the few Kazakh cavalry who rushed to the front rode their horses and began to wade across the river first, and then more Junggar banner infantry also rushed into the river and began to wade across the river.

In this narrow river section, the river surface is less than 200 meters, and because it is in the dry season, most of the riverbeds are dry, and the places with river water are only less than 30 meters short.

Soon Jieshu's army crossed the ten-meter river, and the river was only 20 meters away from rushing to the other side of the river.

Bang bang bang!
At the critical moment, the Mughal army was finally in chaos, and the organization fired the first round of arquebus volleys that were not intensive.

Although it was blown into chaos by the cannons of the Qing army, the Mughal army did not collapse and escape 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 , was able to organize musketeers capable of intercepting the Qing army.

Bang bang bang!
The second round of salvos was denser than the first due to the participation of more Mughal musketeers.

Chi Chi Chi!
The lead bullets hit the bodies of the Mongolian soldiers of the Qing Dynasty who were swimming in the water.

Many soldiers fell into the river and were washed away by the river, and a large area of ​​the river was stained red.

However, more Qing 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. The soldiers who supported the water were able to cross the river smoothly and fight face-to-face with the Mughal army on the opposite bank.

"what!"

The artillery shells directly blasted a large number of Mughal army musketeers down the dry riverbed, disrupting the arrangement of the Mughal generals at once.

"kill!"

Without the interception of the musketeers, the Mongolian cavalry of the Qing Dynasty waded through the last river more violently.

The first to rush ashore were of course the Kazakh cavalry.

They were extremely ferocious, there were about a dozen cavalrymen, and their horses stepped on the dry riverbed on the opposite bank, rushing towards the Mughal army that was close at hand.

Not all the Mughal musketeers who were thrown down the river bed by the shells died, many Mughal musketeers stood up, but they were greeted by Kazakhs with gleaming scimitars.

"Pfft!" A Kazakh cavalry's scimitar brushed across the neck of an archer who had just stood up, and immediately died of blood spattering on his neck.

"volley!"

At this time, more Junggar Banner infantry also rushed ashore. After finishing their formation, they lined up in a disciplined manner and shot and killed the Mughal army who were heading towards the river!
Even the Junggar infantry, whom Kangxi looked down upon, actually killed the Mughals back again and again!

(End of this chapter)