Aurangzeb was in big trouble.
It's okay if we lose the battle, we can just regroup and start again.
Even though the National Defense Force is very powerful, it can still survive with the vast land of Tianzhu.
He just didn't expect that there would be a problem in his lair.
Just after he led the army to attack the Ahom Kingdom, riots broke out in Bengal.
The Brahmans began to attack the Muslims without warning, burning, killing and looting everywhere, and even burned the Governor's Palace to the ground.
Local officials were overwhelmed and quickly organized a counter-rebellion.
Originally they thought they could end the riot quickly, but unexpectedly the situation worsened, and the fighting power of the Brahmans was extremely exaggerated.
The army was quickly defeated by the Brahmins and more than twenty cities along the coast were lost.
As the situation came to a head, officials finally realized something was wrong.
Are there any thugs equipped with muskets?
There are even artillery pieces.
Moreover, many of them spoke the wrong language, and even had bald heads hidden among them.
Finally, when the Banga Upazila was also lost, the whole of Bengal was plunged into panic.
Because going east from here is the Hakata River. Across the Bodo River is Dhaka, the political center of Bangladesh.
Local officials have not even calmed down the riots in Dhaka. Once rebels from the west bank of the river rush over, the entire Bangladesh will fall.
News of the chaos in the rear reached the army, and Aurangzeb, who was still on his way back, keenly sensed something was wrong.
He made a prompt decision and led his army to turn around. Instead of going to Bangladesh, he ran for his life and retreated to Patna.
Although this thousand-mile escape cost him nearly 30,000 people, it must be said that this choice allowed him to escape.
Just when Aurangzeb decided to turn, under the cover of the first detachment of the South China Sea Fleet, the 9th Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division and the Siamese army completed the landing at Chittagong.
If Aurangzeb returns to Bengal, he is likely to be attacked by the First Division and the Third Marine Division.
With the arrival of the National Defense Forces, the situation in Bangladesh was completely out of control.
The morale of the supported Brahmans soared, and they finally captured Dhaka and began a bloody liquidation of the Islamic believers.
According to statistics, in just half a month, more than 300,000 Muslims have fled from Bangladesh to Tianzhu.
As for those who died at the hands of Brahmans, it can only be said that they were countless.
It is impossible to calculate carefully in such a backward and remote area.
Because of the imperial involvement, the history of Bengal changed dramatically.
In the original history, this place would be an Islamic country, and it would always live in the shadow of Tianzhu.
As a result, with the help of the empire, the Brahmans became the mainstay and changed the situation here.
Of course, amidst such turmoil, Brahmanism was also undergoing tremendous changes.
The Buddhists agitated and purged while subtly changing the doctrine, making Brahmanism different.
Tianzhu is very big and very backward, so the transmission of information is naturally very slow.
Shah Jahan's envoy arrived in Patna half a month later and saw the remnants of the defeated army.
Aurangzeb didn't need to say anything. Looking at the miserable appearance of the defeated soldiers, the envoy had a premonition that something was wrong.
Sure enough, after hearing that the army was defeated at Guwahati and that Bengal was now no longer safe, the envoy knew that the sky was falling.
Regardless of his fatigue, he hurried back to Delhi.
But there was no need for him to say anything more.
Because bad news also came from the south and the west.
After hearing that the Portuguese, Dutch, and British had come to join in the fun and conquered large tracts of land, Shah Jahan fainted on the spot.
When he woke up, the first thing he did was to immediately order the ministers to find out what happened.
Yes.
Tianzhu is still kept in the dark.
Even in the minds of Tianzhu people, they don't think the empire is anything special.
How dare you get involved in the Ahome Kingdom? Just fight.
Why did he get beaten in the blink of an eye?
In the days that followed, battle reports came in every day, making Tianzhu's monarchs and ministers feel on pins and needles.
The British and the Kandyan Kingdom cooperated with each other and had captured Tamil and Madurai. In other words, the entire southernmost tip of the South Asian subcontinent was occupied.
The Portuguese also captured Makediri.
This location is very important.
Going south from here, Cochin can be lost at any time.
Going east from here, Bangalore is not safe at any time.
Although these places still belong to some small states today, and they are both obsessive and insidious to the Mughal Empire.
But everyone knows that once the entire south falls into the hands of the Allies, the Allies will be able to concentrate all their forces to overwhelm them.
The most uncomfortable thing for the Mughal Empire was the Dutch.
After occupying Karachi, the greedy Dutch never knew when enough was enough.
They went northward along the Indus River and along the fertile plains, and captured Hyderabad.
For a moment, the Tianzhu people looked around and saw enemies everywhere.
This is a situation that even the wisest people find difficult to adapt to.
Everything happened so fast.
Think this is the end?
Big mistake.
It can only be said that the previous Mughal Empire was too awesome after it reached Tianzhu, killing all directions and looking invincible.
But precisely because of this, the Mughal Empire offended a lot of people.
Previously, because the Mughal Empire was too powerful, those forces could only hide their hatred deeply.
But now the Mughal Empire is in turmoil after being beaten by the Allies, and large areas of its territory have been lost. Wherever those forces could hold back, they all came out.
Just when Shah Jahan and his ministers were discussing how to reinforce the south, a bolt from the blue fell.
Berard and Vidal all rebelled.
The Shahi Kingdom, which could not stop the Allied forces, simply surrendered completely and announced that it would join the Allied forces. Then it turned around and attacked the Islamic believers with a butcher's knife.
In the face of reality, faith also has a flexible bottom line.
When things got to this point, it was obvious that the entire southern region was in complete chaos. Even if Tianzhu prepared a large army to go south, it would be difficult to stabilize the situation.
This is not over yet, the most fatal blow to the Tianzhu people has arrived.
As an old enemy, the Safavid dynasty in the west has suffered a lot from the Mughal Empire in recent years, so it is most concerned about the situation in Tianzhu.
As soon as Tianzhu was besieged, the news reached the ears of Safavid King Abbas II.
Although Abbas II was only seventeen years old, he had the appearance of a hero.
He was keenly aware that this was a good opportunity to regain territory from the Mughal Empire.
He quickly organized an army and marched directly to Kandahar.
Originally, the Mughal Empire accumulated a large number of troops on the Western Front in order to defend against the Safavid Dynasty.
However, after problems occurred in other directions, he had accepted Shah Jahan's order and was transferred back to the country.
The empty northwest region was attacked by the Safavid dynasty and was unable to resist it.
In just half a month, the Persian cavalry rushed to the gates of Kandahar.
This important town in Central Asia and the gateway to the north of the Mughal Empire was in turmoil.
(End of chapter)
