Le Paul actually had little contact with the Britons.
On the other hand, Bai Ning and his party were warmly received by the British when they passed by the British Indian Colony Governor's Palace.
He let them visit the British Lobster Soldiers and told them a little bit about the international situation.
It turns out that Britain is so awesome.
It is the most powerful country in Europe.
Although the navy was defeated in the Indian Ocean, it was because they did not expect that the Ming Dynasty would have ironclad ships.
In terms of manufacturing capabilities, Britain today is not inferior to Ming Dynasty in any way.
"The ironclad is now floating in Portsmouth Harbor!"
The British proudly announced to Bai Ning and others.
Even ironclads can be built.
Then this is the British country with such a large territory.
It is the only hope for the whole world to fight against the violence!
Therefore, Bai Ning and his party had already thought about it when they came to Lebao.
To fight against the brilliance, one has to cling to the British thighs.
The Qing Dynasty is no longer a dynasty, but the emperor has been captured, most of them have surrendered, and the remaining ones can only flee to India in embarrassment.
in this case.
If there is still hope for the revival of the Qing Dynasty.
I can only hold my thighs.
Hug the thickest thigh!
"But... we have arrived in India, why do we still want to be enemies with the Ming Dynasty?" Zhang Yulong, the number one strategist next to Le Bao, couldn't help but frowned and said.
"It is precisely because we have arrived in India that we have the capital to be an enemy of the Ming Dynasty!" Shen Song said. He looked at Le Bao and said solemnly: "Governor Xian, if you do not become an enemy of the Ming Dynasty, you and the 300,000 soldiers and civilians under your command will , what’s the difference between the Ming Dynasty’s conquest of the Western Capital Division?”
Shen Song is no longer the dazed young man who had to lead the Eight Banners outside the Pass on the Liaodong battlefield.
He is now over 30 years old, and has traveled all the way from Liaodong to India. He has become a banner man who has opened his eyes to see the world with considerable knowledge.
Le Paul was stunned for a moment.
Then he reacted immediately.
The cornerstone of the existence of Lebao, the governor of the Western Regions of the Qing Dynasty, and the 300,000 bannermen under his command was that he was an enemy of the Ming Dynasty.
If he were not an enemy of the Ming Dynasty, wouldn't it be better for his subordinates to directly join the Ming Dynasty to conquer Xidusi?
If you are not an enemy of Ming Dynasty.
How could those bannermen and old people who cherished the Qing Dynasty come to seek refuge?
How not to be an enemy of Ming Dynasty.
How could the British, a country of tigers and wolves, take the initiative to provide weapons to Lebo?
If Le Bao still wants to retain the power in his hands, it is best to continue to be the enemy of Ming Dynasty.
but
Being an enemy of Ming Dynasty is really scary.
"Zhu Ming is already the most powerful country in the world. How can we, the Qing Dynasty, still have a chance?"
Shen Song looked excited and said: "Zhu Ming is just a strong man on the outside! I have been collecting news about Zhu Ming over the years. It turns out that in the past few years, most of the policies he has implemented have been unethical and star-breaking. To recuperate internally, Farming and mulberry farming were discouraged, and industry and commerce were emphasized. The tax burden was extremely heavy. Not satisfied with plundering the common people, they also had to inspect the land and collect taxes from the scholar-bureaucrats. Ordinary common people found it difficult to live in peace. They either left the country to go to the Northeast or went south to Nanyang. Traveling thousands of miles just to avoid Zhu Ni's harsh rule! What does it mean for the people to have a hard time, and what does it mean for the country to have a general without a country!"
"It has so many problems internally, but what about externally? It is an enemy of Tsarist Russia, an enemy of Britain, and an enemy of Spain. Now it is said that it has extended its hands to the Americas. In the future, it will be the sworn enemy of Citigroup. Among the heroes of Europe, it is the only one. If we have good relations with France, then France must be a friend of Baoming? Not necessarily! The Spanish say that there are no permanent enemies, only eternal interests. Baoming's expansion will inevitably offend France's interests, and even the whole of Europe will be affected by that time. It’s possible that they might cooperate because they want to deal with Baoming together!”
Shen Song's words silenced Le Bao and Zhang Yulong frowned.
Under Lebao's command, there were also several factions.
Of course, some of them are determined to be enemies of Ming Dynasty.
But there were also those who advised Le Bao to proclaim himself king and then petitioned the Emperor of Heaven for canonization.
Anyway, Nurhaci, the ancestor of the Aixinjueluo family, was also the leader of the Jianzhou Guards back then.
He was also a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.
There is no shame in being a vassal of the Ming Dynasty.
And Lebao has gone to India.
The Ming Dynasty had enfeoffed so many vassal states in India, and it would not be a big deal to enfeoff another one. They could even join the princes in the south to respect the king and fight against the barbarians - the one they respected was the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, and the ones they fought against were Britain and the Moguls. Son.
Isn’t it beautiful?
Lebao frowned.
He finally said with a sigh of relief.
"In any case, let's fight first. Sun Shiyi is the most hateful traitor who has turned against the enemy. This time the governor forms an alliance with the Mongolian brothers of the Mughal Empire, and we will definitely dampen his spirit!"
In fact, Bai Ning and his party arrived at Qikaicheng before the British sought contact with Lebao.
Lebao came into contact with the Mughals, who now had only the upper reaches of the Ganges.
At the cost of ceding Ludhiana and Amritsar, the two gateway cities of Lahore, the Mughal Empire requested Lebao to send 10,000 troops to help the Mughal Empire defend Agra.
The coalition of Indian princes in the Ming Dynasty has basically occupied most of the territory in the southeast of the Indian subcontinent.
Now India is divided into four parts of the world.
To the east, south and north, are the two invaders, Britain and Ming.
To the west is the native Maratha force in the south, and to the north is the Mughal Empire established by the older generation of invaders, the localized Mongols.
The coalition of Indian princes in the Ming Dynasty first fought a war with the Kingdom of Mysore, a princely state in southwest India.
Although they successfully captured Bangalore and forced Tipu Sultan of Mysore to flee and enter the plateau mountains, this battle was obviously a big loss for the Ming Indian princes.
First of all, there are heavy casualties!
Tipu Sultan of the Kingdom of Mysore was surprisingly capable of fighting. He actually used a conspiracy to lead a brigade of the Ming Dynasty's Indian princes' coalition into an encirclement. As a result, for the first time, more than 500 people were killed in a battle by the Ming Dynasty's Indian princes' coalition forces!
Killed in action, not casualties.
And all of them are true Ming troops.
Not a servant army recruited in India itself.
The price is simply too high.
And before Tipu Sultan fled Bangalore, he also set fire to this large city in southern India.
So much so that this battle ended.
Thousands of casualties.
Nothing good was gained.
The British Gongsun Shiyi of the Ming Dynasty was furious.
If you lose in this battle, you have to make up for it.
After all, the Ming and Indian coalition forces are not monolithic.
The princes all want to pursue interests. If we fight a few more wars like the Kingdom of Mysore, then the princes may not have much energy to expand.
So he quickly decided to find trouble with the Mughal Empire and prepare to make up for the losses from the Mughal Empire.
"The infidels challenge us!"
"God bless! This is our best chance to defeat them!!"
"We will never be defeated!"
About five hundred kilometers south of Delhi, in the Chambal River Basin, is the city of Agra.
The regent of the Mughal Empire, the powerful minister Wazir Ghazi was praying incessantly.
Wazir Ghazi knew that the country he controlled was in a very bad situation.
The contemporary Mughal emperor was Shah Alam II.
But he was Wazir Ghazi's puppet - Shah Alam II was installed on the throne after Wazir Ghazi killed his father.
This Mughal Cao Cao has been holding the emperor hostage to control the princes for more than thirty years. By constantly selling the sovereignty of the Mughal Empire in exchange for the support of the British people, this Mughal Cao Cao's position as a powerful minister is still Very stable.
If nothing else happens.
He could even become Mughal Cao Cao for life, although there is no Cao Pi among his sons - after all, the real Cao Cao cannot be controlled by a foreign country.
But he has been able to be a powerful minister for so long.
Mr. Cao Cao of the Mughals was still very capable.
But what now?
News that made Cao Cao, well, Wazir Gazi's liver tremble, kept coming from the south.
The invaders from China continued to eliminate the local gangs in the southern Indus Valley, and soon conquered the local wealthy families and established direct rule.
They seemed to be more vicious creatures than the Britons.
Just a month ago.
Tipu Sultan of Mysore killed more than 5,000 Chinese (claimed by himself) at the cost of more than 8,000 casualties. Although Mysore eventually lost Bangalore, it only relied on the mountains to the west of Bangalore to barely block China. human footsteps.
But this still gave great confidence to many Indian states that were trembling in the face of Chinese aggression.
The Chinese are not invincible!
Ever since.
When the diplomats of the Ming Dynasty's Indian princes' coalition accused the Mughal Empire of providing weapons to Mysore, which caused the casualties of the Ming Dynasty's Indian princes' coalition, they demanded a compensation of one million gold rupees from the Mughal Empire.
Wazir Ghazi immediately rejected this extremely unreasonable request.
And actively prepared for war, intending to teach the invaders a profound lesson.
result
One month's time.
The coalition forces of the Ming Indian princes advanced northwestward along the Chambal River and successively occupied cities such as Kapur, Gwalior, and Guxi.
Pushed all the way to the edge of Agra, the gateway to Delhi.
The troops are approaching the city!
The city of Agra cannot be lost!
Because this city is a key fort into the main channel of the Ganges.
Analogy to China.
That is equivalent to the importance of Chongqing Diaoyu City to Da Ting.
Once the city of Agra is taken, on the one hand, the Chinese can attack Delhi north along the Ganges River, and on the other hand, they can cut off the connection between the Mughal Empire and the British.
They could even go down the Ganges to attack Calcutta.
So Wazir Gazi was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
First, we asked for help from another group of Chinese people in the northwest - I heard that they were the mortal enemies of the Ming Dynasty in China.
Then he went to the British for help.
I thought the Britons would open their mouths like a lion.
As a result, the British seemed more anxious than Wazir Ghazi.
They even immediately mobilized their troops and marched north along the Ganges.
But it would take at least twenty days for their army to arrive.
That is to say
During these more than twenty days
Wazir Gazi needed to rely on the 30,000 Mughals under his command, the Uzbek army who believed in the Green religion recruited from the northwest, and the 10,000 troops supported by Lebao, the governor of the Western Regions of the Qing Dynasty. To resist, there were only about 20,000 people. The Ming Dynasty's coalition of Indian princes—including one brigade of Zhen Ming troops and three brigades of indigenous servant troops.
before the British army arrived.
They must hold on to Arag as much as possible - otherwise, the Ming Dynasty's coalition of Indian princes can hoard military supplies in Arag, repair the army, enter the main channel of the Ganges, and expand to the northwest and southeast along the Ganges!
That's when.
Delhi may not even be able to save it.
If Delhi is lost, where will the Mughal Empire go?
Going to the Himalayas to drink the northwest wind?
oh.
It is impossible for the Himalayas to catch the northwest wind, because the northwest is the vast Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and no wind can cross the plateau and go south.
Want to drink.
You can only drink the Indian Ocean monsoon blowing from the southwest
"Regent, we have no way out! Once we lose Aragh, it will be impossible for us to stop the Chinese offensive. By that time, let alone the Ming army, even the British and Qing people, I'm afraid They will all pounce on us like evil wolves and tear us apart!!”
The person who was speaking was Wazir Gazi's top general, the Uzbek Lilamuku.
Lilamuku wore a set of carefully crafted iron armor, a sheepskin hat, a sword hanging on his waist, and two beards on his upper lips that curved upward.
Looks very energetic.
I don’t know if he can become the Mughal King Jian and help the Mughals defend the Mughal Fishing City.
"Your Majesty the Regent, the defense of Agulla is loose and there is no danger to defend it. It is better to place the battlefield in the mountainous area south of the Changerba River. It is surrounded by mountains and there is only one valley leading to the city of Agula. It is best to block the Ming army here. advantageous!"
The person who was speaking was a general officer.
The words translated by Tongshi were spoken by Delentai, Lebao's number one general.
He was the general who led the thousands of Qing troops to support the Mughals.
Actually.
Even if the Mughals did not cede those three cities, Lebao would not be able to sit back and watch the Ming Dynasty's coalition of Indian princes enter the Ganges Plain.
My lips are dead and my teeth are cold!
Delentai had no map, but he had a general idea of the surrounding terrain.
The south of Agulla is said to be a mountainous area, but it is actually a slightly undulating hillock compared to the surrounding flat plateau. There is a valley between the hills, which is conducive to marching and transportation.
Now the Qing Mo coalition forces can occupy this road, occupy the hilly terrain on both sides, ambush the cavalry from a high position, and at the same time establish a defense system on the front. When the Ming army's offensive is frustrated, they can dispatch cavalry from both sides to counterattack!
Wazirgazi looked at Lilamuku.
Lilamuku thought for a while and said: "The Ming army does not have many cavalry. They mostly have infantry. We also have the advantage of terrain. It is not difficult to hold on for twenty days."
"Okay, let's wait here for twenty days, and then let the other princes send out troops. I'm going to have a big fight in Agula!!"
at this time.
The sun and moon flag of the Ming Dynasty and the flag of the British Duke of the Ming Dynasty were placed in
The city of Gwalior, fifty miles south of the Chambal River.
"The British are sending troops from Bangalore, and Lebao has also sent 10,000 troops. It seems that a decisive battle can indeed be fought here! If we can win, we can lose the territory of the Mughal Empire. , and then go south to squeeze the British out of India!"
Yang Yuchun slammed his hand on the map.
"This battle! It's worth fighting!"
(End of chapter)
