Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 48 The Eastern Front Defeat

The southern line is unstoppable and is about to advance to the city of Delhi. So what about the eastern line?

In fact, Cao Wenzhao was also in a state of great power on the eastern front, because there were no big cities between Ava City and Daka, so the army on the eastern front had no resistance at all. If he hadn't been waiting for the railway to extend, he would have rushed to Daka in one breath.

After going through a lot of hardships along the way, breaking through the barriers of mountains, rivers and rivers. More than a month later, Cao Wenzhao finally led an army of 400,000 and 300,000 prisoners on the east road to build the railway near Dhaka.

At this time, Aurangzeb was already on guard in Dhaka City. His last encounter outside Mysore City had already caused a shadow on the Ming army, so he never dared to go to the wild to fight against the Ming army. However, it would be different if there were city walls. It would be difficult for 200,000 troops to be stationed in a city, and it would be difficult for 400,000 troops to conquer, at least that's what he thought.

Cao Wenzhao didn't think so. It was a dream that the 200,000 army without muskets and artillery wanted to resist his 400,000 army. The cannons under his command were not vegetarians!

This city of Dhaka was built by Subeda Ilan Khan, the governor of the Mughal Empire in 1608. It has only been around for more than 30 years. It is considered a new city, but the city wall is not very high, less than five meters, and is not much higher than the walls of the small county town of the Ming Dynasty. Cao Wenzhao really doesn't take such a small city seriously.

While he ordered the Annan Army and the Donghu Army to speed up the time to make siege equipment, he led the Guanning Army and the Dingliao Army to set up a formation outside the city of Dhaka and prepared to bombard the city wall.

The Guanning Army is a first-class legion with 1,000 artillery pieces of various types. The Dingliao Army was also promoted to a second-class legion in the Battle of the Southern Desert Grassland. It has 900 artillery pieces of various types. The two legions combined have 1,900 artillery pieces, and the number is extremely terrifying.

Cao Wenzhao was too lazy to siege the city because he still had 80,000 cavalry under his command. If the enemy abandoned the city and fled, it would be just enough to chase and suppress the city. That would be much easier than siege.

He directly chose the east side of Dhaka City as the main attack target, and nearly two thousand artillery pieces drove directly one mile west of Dhaka City, and arranged in sequence according to the range. In front were five rows of musketeers protecting them, and on the left were 80,000 cavalry plundering formations, while he himself led the remaining musketeers to press the formation behind.

When Aurangzeb saw the dense artillery under the city wall, he felt his scalp tingling. The last time the Ming army in Mysore seemed to have only a few hundred artillery pieces that made him suffer enough. This time there were nearly two thousand. How could he fight?

Cao Wenzhao did not care whether Aurangze's scalp was numb or not. Once the formation was set, he directly ordered all artillery to load solid bullets, aim at the city wall, and bombard continuously!

The artillery of the Ming army was so quick. They set up guns, loaded gunpowder, loaded shells, aimed, and ignited tests were like flowing water.

Aurangzebu saw the Ming army in the telescope start to set up cannons, and was so scared that he said, "Be careful to hide", and then ran down the city wall and returned to the Governor's Mansion!

He knew that it was impossible for the Ming army to attack the city without building siege equipment. At this time, the bombardment was likely to be a threat to intimidate the defenders in the city. Let them intimidate. Everyone was hiding behind the arrow bush and the female wall. What could you do if you have artillery?

Cao Wenzhao naturally did not intimidate him, but wanted to flatten the arrows on the city wall, so that there would be fewer casualties when siegeing the city. After all, the defenders hiding behind the arrows can also cause certain casualties. If you flatten the arrows, you will see how you aim to shoot the arrows!

After the test firing, the artillery commander calculated the shooting elements according to the landing point of the shell, and then reported a series of parameters to adjust various types of artillery. After the adjustment was completed, the volley was started directly.

"Boom boom boom", one thousand nine hundred artillery roared together, and the power shocked the entire city of Dhaka. Aurangzebu on the way to the Governor's Mansion was frightened. This Ming army was crazy, it would be fine if it fired two cannons to scare people, but there was a round of volleys. Is there too many shells?

The Ming army prepared a lot of shells. With the current production speed of the Ming Dynasty, there are countless shells that can be built in a year. With train transportation, Cao Wenzhao didn't have to worry about insufficient shells, so his order was to bombard him continuously!

"Boom Boom Boom Boom", "Boom Boom Boom Boom", the Ming army was so excited that it had been a day of blasting. After this day, the arrows on the city wall were almost bombed. Aurangzebu's face suddenly turned pale when he received a report from his subordinates. It turned out that the Ming army wanted to flatten all the arrows and disappeared. How could he shoot arrows? How could he keep this city!

The next morning, the Ming army continued to set up their formation and prepared to bombard. Cao Wenzhao raised his telescope and looked at the situation on the city wall. When he saw it, he couldn't help but shake his head. The soldiers of the Mughal Empire were really lazy. I wonder if they repaired the arrow pile overnight. Although it didn't work much, it would make the enemy more trouble.

According to the leisurely custom of the Mughal Empire, if you ask them to work overtime to repair the city wall at night, it would be better to kill them. So the generals guarding the city didn't think about this at all. Boom, Boom, anyway, if you want to be flattened, why bother to do that!

The Ming army naturally would not be polite. After setting up the cannons, adjusting the shooting of the corpses, and another blast.

As the bombardment was blowing, the artillery commander discovered a problem. He immediately put away his telescope, ran to the central army, knelt in front of Cao Wenzhao on one knee, and said in surprise: "Reported to Deputy Commander Cao, the walls of this Dhaka City are not very reliable. His subordinates found that many female walls in places were smashed by shells!"

Cao Wenzhao was overjoyed when he heard this. If even the female wall could be blown away, there would be no need to attack the city. He just used artillery shells to smash all the defenders on the city wall into meat paste. He couldn't help laughing and said, "Hahaha, very good, go, adjust the angle, and cut off their female wall together!"

The artillery commander said, obeyed the order, and ran back to command the artillery to adjust the shooting of the people. Next, the shells directly hit the female wall. The walls of Dhaka City were indeed not as reliable as those of the Ming Dynasty. After less than an hour of bombing, the entire female wall on the west was bombarded with holes, and it was only a matter of time before the entire flattening was flattened.

When Aurangzebu received the news, he was in despair. How could he defend the city? Without the female wall, the city wall would be a bald roof. The defenders on the city wall could not become the target of shells!

That night, Cao Wenzhao received a secret report from the scout that the defenders in the city had already fled from the west of the city!

He ran well. He did not ask the cavalry to chase him immediately, but asked the scouts to follow him far away and determine the direction of their escape.

The next morning, at the hour of Mao, it was just dawn. Cao Wenzhao and Qin Gongming personally led 80,000 cavalry to follow the marks left by the scouts and rushed all the way. In less than an hour, they chased the 200,000 army of the Mughal Empire.

At this time, they were preparing to set up camp by a small river. When they heard the sound of horse hooves like thunder, the 200,000 troops were immediately in chaos. No matter how the officers shouted, they could not organize them together.

Faced with such a scattered enemy, Cao Wenzhao and Qin Gongming led the cavalry to rush up, and a row of guns shot hard, and then smashed them down like raindrops. The entire Mughal Empire's army collapsed immediately, and everyone ran away.
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next