Beiyang new warlord

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"Is he crazy?"

Every persimmon has to be pinched softly. No matter how you look at it, the Tang people in Calcutta are all soft persimmons. Besides, Wu Sangui is like a lunatic, killing people and setting fire to food everywhere. In Nawabu’s view, Maratha people hate East India anyway Have more companies!

But what he forgot was the current political situation in the Mughal Empire.

The Taj Mahal in later generations is indeed beautiful, but to accumulate this beauty, it needs real money. In order to build the mausoleum for his favorite concubine, Emperor Shah Jahan has spent all the savings hoarded by the treasury for many years. , He broke a rule established by the third Mughal emperor Akbar in order to stabilize the rule, and re-imposed a poll tax on Hindus!

Marathas are devout Hindu believers!The skin is dark, and the indigenous people who have been Sudras for thousands of years dare not resist, but it does not mean that they are willing to obediently spend their money and pay for the emperor's romantic love!Originally, because of the tax increase, the conflict between the Mongolian descendants from Central Asia and the local aborigines has become acute, and the Maratha states in the Mughal Empire have already begun to turmoil.

Coincidentally, the incident of Wu Sangui broke out again, and his active harassment completely became the fuse to ignite the barrel of gunpowder.

As for why he didn't ask Wu Sangui to settle the score, but went directly north to tear his face with the entire empire?Indeed, in Nawabu's view, Wu Sangui is a Ming, a foreigner like the British, and he is not on the same boat as himself!But in the eyes of the Marathas, Wu Sangui, who has always been submissive, is a loyal running dog of the Mughal Empire!It was your Nawab who sealed him in Calcutta himself, no matter how crazy he is, he was also instructed by your Nawabu!If the dog bites you, it is natural to beat the dog's owner!

Another more direct reason is that Wu Sangui was cruel before he went to the battle. He ordered the burning of all the accumulated grain in Calcutta. The granary of the Maratha people, the Maratha people who are on fire are also in a state of food shortage, and they are concentrating their forces to gnaw at the well-defended Dingwu Fortress. Not to mention whether they can be defeated in the short term, even if they are defeated, the loss outweighs the gain However, the people in the territory still have to go hungry, so it's better to send troops to the north and tear off a piece of flesh and blood from the empire to fill their own stomachs!

Nawab wanted to drive away the wolves, but unexpectedly he shot himself in the foot. In the end, his Bengal royal court became the target of being devoured by wolves.

This feeling of miscalculation is the most uncomfortable. After a few seconds of silence, the unforgivable roar of the descendants of the hero Timur resounded in the entire Jida court. In his roar, the deputy king of Bengal The area under the jurisdiction also began to sharpen their swords and prepare for war. Hundreds of messengers galloped out in all directions carrying Nawabu's call-up order.

Wu Sangui was not thought of during the rescue, and he was not forgotten during the war. One of the messengers traveled southward on a Persian sailboat with a big belly, and came all the way to Calcutta at the mouth of the Ganges.

In the golden light of dusk, a group of immigrant men from the Ming Dynasty were still screaming and stabbing fiercely with bayonets. At this time, Wu Sangui had also returned to Dingwu Fort. He knew how much he weighed. It’s okay to raid their granaries when people are unprepared. Once Maratha’s tens of thousands of horses gather, his [-] elite cavalry are not enough to fill his teeth. After raiding the settlements is a little difficult, he has already withdrawn his troops. Come.

Standing on the city wall, he took the sheepskin scroll from the courier and read it ten lines at a glance. Wu Sangui's rather handsome face seemed to be carved out of marble. There was no trace of human expression, and it was full of gloomyness. Wu Sangui gently waved waved.

"Your envoy, let's go back! I will immediately gather my subordinates and go to Jida to meet at the time specified by His Highness Nawabu!"

"God bless you!"

After saluting respectfully, the messenger also hurried down the city wall, and he would continue to go south to Olisa Subba, the imperial province, to ask for help. Watching the Turkic man go further and further away, the expression on Wu Sangui's face It began to loosen. At first, the corners of his mouth curled up, and then the smile spread to his entire cheeks. In the end, he simply knelt down covering his stomach, laughing loudly and hammering the bricks with his fists, tears streaming down his face. Wu Qing was smashed with fists, still unconscious.

Seeing the appearance of his general master, it was rare for HP not to persuade him this time, but put his hands together and bowed heavily.

"Congratulations, Master General, Bangladesh is in chaos! The time has come for Master General to show his skills!"

After laughing for a long time, Wu Sangui held his stomach and finally stood up. Years of ambition finally came to the stage this time, and the smile gradually faded on his face like a eagle watching a wolf. With the sound of rubbing, he slowly pulled out the saber from his waist and pointed it fiercely at the north. Those cold eyes were full of murderous intent.

Chapter 731. Fishing in Troubled Waters

In April, the weather in Tianzhu has begun to become hotter. It seems that the temper of the men has also become irritable with the temperature. From Kulna to Barisel, the mighty Maratha troops are as straight as ants. They came rushing to the north, full of anger and murderous intent along the way.

It's just that their crude equipment is not comparable to the strong morale of the Marathas.

In the tropics, there is no need to mention armor. Most of the light infantry occupying the main force of the army are unarmored, and even many of them are directly shirtless and tanned in the sun. , It's just a simple set of bamboo armor, there are too few iron armors.

Then in terms of weapons, in Chinese martial arts novels, almost all kinds of strange weapons can be found in this army, such as fist swords, tiger claws, curved daggers, iron sticks and bone machetes, and Emei thorns and short sickle judge pens. It seems that the entire army is composed of martial arts masters, and the momentum is overwhelming.

It's just that the truly modern lethal weapon, the blunderbuss, has only a few hundred shots in the Maratha army of nearly 4 people. It is still the most primitive fire gun, and there is no cannon.

The Marathas originated in the Delhi Sultanate. The Turks and Afghans who invaded from Central Asia also faced the problem of insufficient manpower when they conquered India, so they recruited fighters from the lower and middle castes in India and promoted them. As military aristocrats, when the Mughals conquered the Delhi Sultanate, these Maratha people were originally enemy fighters. Naturally, the Mughals could not let the lethal weapons such as artillery fall into their hands.

In fact, artillery is also considered a precious war resource in the entire Mughal Empire. Back then, Timur conquered the river and established a huge Timur Empire.They even sent 50 troops at one time to conquer the Ming Dynasty, relying on the tactical advantages of artillery and cavalry, just like the Greek fire of the Byzantine Empire, the artillery technology of the Mughal Empire was only mastered by the royal family, and had the right to produce it. How could these countries under hostile surveillance obtain these advanced weapons?

But in a word, the ignorant are fearless. They haven’t been on the battlefield for nearly 100 years. They usually rob and bully other natives in the name of warriors. Even the imperial officials are unwilling to provoke these hooligans. Over time, this kind of arrogance is cultivated After getting up, the large group of heroes of the rivers and lakes was full of confidence, and went straight to Jida, the ruling center of the Bengal province.

Along the way, they indeed successfully captured a series of important towns in Bangladesh such as Khalifatabad and Barisal.

The Maratha people who were on the march didn't know it. In front of them, a huge army was already dormant in front of Chittagong, waiting for them.

Most of the troops of the Mughal Empire are similar to the Marathas, and they are also this kind of light infantry recruited by civilians. , each person was given a short spear more than one meter long, and the few who had their own shields still carried their own pot lids on their backs.

But as the conqueror of Central Asia, the main force of the Mughal Empire has never relied on local light infantry, but cavalry!When Babur the Great conquered the Turks in India, the Mongols and Afghans were divided into a huge empire, forming the lowest level with a small amount of land, and the small landlord class who hired natives to cultivate the cavalry had more land, similar to There are two levels of feudal cavalry and cavalry that manage a certain area like local officials.

In addition, after the loss of the territory of Afghanistan and the inability to recruit fierce and warlike mountain frontiers from Central Asia, the Mughal Empire also specially recruited a hired cavalry from the Hindu subjects of the Lapjet in northern India. Basically, the White Huns, Guishan people, Persians, Heda people who invaded India from Central Asia before, and even the descendants of the Greeks who came with Alexander the Great a long time ago, claiming to be a noble Lapjet Human combat effectiveness is no less than that of their Central Asian counterparts.

With 6000 Lapjet cavalry, more than 5 feudal knights, and more than 7 urban civilians, Nawab pulled out an army of more than [-] people in half a month.

In particular, there are more than ten war elephants in this army.

The heavy elephant was blindfolded. Two thick and black cannons were hung on both sides of the elephant building on its back. His hair was gloomy and murderous.

Since the layout failed, and the two opponents did not kill each other to the point of collapse as he hoped, then it is up to him to go out and completely wipe out these two forces. Who can resist.

But Nawabu forgot that the enemy on the battlefield is not scary, but the enemy wearing the same uniform is scary!Wu Sangui came to Bangladesh for three years, but it was not for nothing. Compared with the officials of the Dongjiang Department under Mao Jue, this guy from the old bureaucracy, who often runs relationships and gives gifts and worships eunuchs as foster fathers, has more advantages. He is good at management and has nothing to do every day. Went to Jida to light guns and give gifts, and Wu Sangui infiltrated most of the Bengal court.

Not far from the Nawab central army formation, the military governor Mir Jabr, who commanded the right-wing Lapudjet cavalry, lowered his head and looked at a parchment scroll over and over again.

The letter was written by Monk Hewlett-Packard, and its content was naturally known only to Mir Jabr. However, this letter obviously hurt the heart of the Bangladeshi military governor. The bushy beard on his face also twitched with the muscles on his face, but suddenly, the military governor, who was also from a distant relative of the Mughal Empire royal family, suddenly turned his head and stared at the huge central army formation, deeply There was a murderous killing intent in his pupils.

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The scorching Indian subcontinent has already sharpened its knives, and when the battle is about to meet, Changping and Chiyohime's business trip team also arrived in Taiyuan, Shanxi smoothly at this time.

Daming deployed more than 60 troops on the Nine Sides, of which there were nearly 20 in the three west towns of Xuanda Shanxi, but Mao Jue followed the policy of elite soldiers. In this important northern area, he only transferred the previous Lushun Guards, Only 8 people were stationed, so in order to make up for some vacancies in defense, the northern railway from Taiyuan, the capital, to Yulin was hardly completed much later than the first longitudinal Xulei railway.

The railway has also brought new wealth to the hometowns of Shanxi merchants. Because of the popularization of steam engines, the demand for coal in Beiming has increased dramatically, and a lot of coal bosses have emerged here.

As soon as he got out of the car, the rich aura of the coal boss came over his face!Wearing a hat with a big brim on her head and a dress like a butterfly, Chiyohime, who had been on the train for more than two days, jumped out of the train happily, and she was immediately attracted by what the train carried off.

They were huge glass water tanks, filled with seawater, which could only be lifted by seven or eight strong men with poles. The things in the water were also strange enough, such as large East China Sea prawns the size of train hooks, Big yellow croakers and small yellow croakers swimming around wagging their tails, groupers that are almost integrated with stones, and a lot of big abalones attached to the glass wall.

"Wow, Miss Changping, come and see, shark!"

It can be regarded as a wealthy family, but Chiyohime has never seen so much fresh seafood in her life, she couldn't help shouting with joy.

Two guards followed behind with a big suitcase on their shoulders. They were also wearing a lady's hat with a large brim, a black top, a black skirt, and black gloves on their small hands. Chang Ping looked like a black beauty. The money also got off the train, but seeing Chiyohime yelling there, Changping smiled helplessly and shook his head.

She can be regarded as a figure who has experienced three dynasties. Her father, Chongzhen, advocated simplicity, and lived frugally in the palace. The military expenditure of 100 million taels is not available.

But her husband!Extravagance can hardly be used to describe him. As far as the grand car race is concerned, it is too appropriate to say that he is extravagant. He works like a charm, and these wealthy businessmen are also extravagant enough. They have transported live seafood to these three Jins from thousands of miles away. The earth, along the way, there is a special person constantly blowing air into the water tank. The cost, I am afraid that a fish will cost several times its own weight in silver.

However, in the huge station, the people are wearing the new clothes of later generations, carrying swollen bags to salute, and they are full of food, with healthy and rosy faces, and they are much happier than the people in the Chongzhen period.

Why is this?

But before Chang Ping could figure it out, a sound of respectful greeting interrupted her thoughts suddenly. At some point, a senior official in scarlet robes and a dozen subordinates walked up to her, and spoke heavily to her. Bow yourself.

"Greetings to Empress Ming! Greetings to Empress Fu!"

"Oh, Mr. D, please! Chiyo, come here soon, Mr. Qu is here to pick us up!"

In the era of Mao Jue, the relationship between men and women finally became much more normal. Just like now, Qu Shisi can sit in the same car with two effervescent concubines and walk across from each other without fear of any scandals. During the reign of Chongzhen, in terms of ethics, this was enough to kill the three of them.

However, this former Liaodong supervisor with a face like a pot of iron was a bit too self-indulgent, and he didn't take his status as a princess seriously at all. As soon as he got in the car, he had a gloomy old face and asked bluntly like business affairs with.

"Nowadays, the imperial court has a big plan to appease the Mongolian tribe, and the officials are busy with business. More than two imperial concubines have come to Jin, so what's the point!"

That subtext, I'm busy!You two don't make trouble, can you?