845 The Third Prince Is Captured(1/2)
On the south bank of the Jiehe River, Shah Jahan held up a telescope and glanced at him from afar, and his intestines were regretful.
At this moment, there are only tens of thousands of Ming cavalry on the other side, and more than one hundred thousand!
He really regrets that he shouldn't have been back!
If he had heard Captain White's first, he would have been on his way to Dhaka City now, and he would have been blocked by someone on the south bank of this world river and was in a dilemma.
What to do now?
He really doesn't know what to do.
Now that he has less men than others under his command, he has more iron-armored cavalry. How did he build a floating bridge to cross the river?
He frowned and pondered for a while, and suddenly had an idea.
By the way, he still has millions of troops under his command.
At this time, why are you attacking the city wall? Just build a floating bridge and escape back.
Thinking of this, he decisively ordered: "Transfer the order, and ordered Shahshuja, Aurangzeb and Bahish to stop the attack and immediately gather in the direction of the boundary river with his men.
Remember, all muskets and cannons must be brought here."
He still doesn't believe that he has millions of troops, more than 4,000 cannons, and more than 20,000 muskets. These 200,000 cavalry can block him.
At this time, confidence returned to his face.
He then ordered loudly: "Get back and set up camp for five miles."
As a result, before the camp was established, the fast rider he sent ran back in panic like a stray dog, ran to his car, and panicked: "It's not good to sweat, the road leading to the camp ahead has been blocked by the Ming army."
ah!
Shah Jahan was shocked and said, "How many Ming troops blocked the road?"
You quickly rode with a terrified face and said, "Shank you, there are too many Ming troops, densely packed like a wall, you can't count them at all!"
What to do now?
In fact, at this time, he still had one road to walk, which was to lead his army to run north, rush into the jungle, and detour across the river from the mountains and forests to the north.
However, in the jungle to the north, Lu Xiangsheng was not at all prepared.
At this moment, Luo Sigong was guarding the jungle with two thousand Jinyiwei scouts and tens of thousands of elite troops from the Southeast Camp.
Although he didn't have many people under his command, everyone was equipped with muskets. Moreover, they had occupied various hills. If more than 100,000 troops were not rushing in, it would not be so easy to break through their defense.
In other words, if Shah Jahan takes all his bets and immediately rushed into the jungle in the north with his 200,000 men, he still has the chance to escape.
This is also the biggest loophole in Lu Xiangsheng's entire plan.
There is no way, it is not that easy to encircle and annihilate more than 1.7 million people.
There are many places where he wants to use troops.
For example, if the city wall is in power, he will attack the city wall by more than 1.2 million. If he wants to ensure that the city wall is safe, he will have to press all the soldiers of the Shenji Camp on it.
There is also the Border River, which is even more important.
If you want to be sure of the direction of the boundary river, you must press down on all the more than 200,000 soldiers of the Shenwu Camp.
As for the Southeast Camp and the Nanyang Camp, the combat power is not very strong at this moment, and at most it can be used to scare people with a large number of people and complete equipment.
If they really fight to the death, the Southeast Camp and the Nanyang Camp alone would probably not be able to withstand the millions of troops.
Therefore, he could only let the Southeast Camp and Nanyang Camp rush up along the coastline, first surrounded the millions of troops attacking the enemy, and scared these people to surrender.
As for the 200,000 Black God Army, it is useless to go up alone, and it may not be possible to fight in the jungle. Moreover, people are here to help, so they cannot really send people up and let others fight to the death.
Taichang also told him that the Black God Army should not be killed or injured. If the 200,000 Black God Army soldiers were killed or injured, it would affect the plan of the entire Africa.
Therefore, he could only leave the Black God Army as a backup.
In this way, the jungle in the north can only be handed over to Luo Sigong's two thousand Jinyiwei scouts and tens of thousands of elite troops in the Southeast Camp under Luo Sigong.
Of course, Luo Sigong and the others don’t have to hold on for too long. They just need to light the wolf smoke and within an hour, he will definitely send someone to support him.
Fortunately, no smoke came out of the jungle at this moment, and the Southeast Camp and the Nanyang Camp had surrounded the millions of people in front of the enemy from both the northwest directions.
Lu Xiangsheng turned his telescope and glanced around carefully, then decisively ordered: "Send an order, let Ahara lead people forward to persuade him to surrender."
At this moment, Ahara and his several officers were not on the city wall. They were following the soldiers of the Southeast Battalion and slowly pressing forward on the west side.
A wave of flags on the city wall, and he knew that it was time for them to appear.
For the sake of the future, I can only try it out.
Ahara immediately waved, "Everyone, come forward and shout."
His words were spoken in the dialect of the Mughal Empire, and naturally he was not all the soldiers of the Southeast Camp who greeted him.
Soon, he brought several officers under his command and thousands of Asans who had thick voices out, came to the front of the formation, shouted at the panicked siege infantry in the Mughal Empire dialect, "Put down your weapons and surrender, Asharam Bag really came to save us. After we were captured, we lived a very good life. We could eat every meal and eat meat."
Although the A-san civilian soldiers were a little moved, they did not dare to surrender immediately. They still subconsciously looked at the high caste officers above them.
Those high caste officers were also very panicked now!
They gathered together to discuss it for a few words and pushed the person out.
This man knew Ahara, so he stepped forward and asked, "Ahara, you are not lying to us, right? If we surrender, then will Asharam Bag let us go?"
Ahara immediately patted several officers around him, and then explained in Persian: "Look, there are only six of us leading the army in total. Aren't we all here now?
Asharam Bagh said that as long as we cooperate well, our identity and status will be the same in the future. If the Ming Empire needs to rule so many untouchables, we have to rely on our support.
Moreover, Asaram Bag will not let us lead troops to the battlefield to fight in the future. War is the business of the Ming army soldiers. We just need to take good care of the untouchables below.
Of course, if he refuses to surrender, Asharam Bag will not be ruthless.
We surrendered, we just sweated a lot. If we don’t surrender, our minds will be gone. You guys think about it carefully.”
Is this still necessary to consider?
When the officer went back to explain to other high caste officers, a group of high caste officers here immediately shouted: "Hurry up, put down your weapons and surrender, Asharam Bagh is here to save us. Follow Asharam Bagh, you will definitely have a good life."
Well, if you say surrender, then surrender.
At this moment, at least more than 100,000 ordinary civilian soldiers threw down their already shabby weapons.
Immediately afterwards, Ahara simply took several high-caste officers who had just surrendered and walked over, directly finding other high-caste officers who led the troops and persuaded them to surrender.
It was like a hurricane blowing on the battlefield. The ordinary civilian soldiers who surrendered wherever Ahara went quickly dropped their weapons.
Zhao Rujiao directly commanded the soldiers of the Southeast Camp to come forward, divide the surrendered Mughal Empire soldiers into pieces, and directly let others sit on the ground and wait, without even being tied up.
In this way, the infantrymen of the Mughal Empire surrendered even faster.
Seeing this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Okay, now we can finally pull out our hands.
He roughly looked at Ahara's speed of persuading the surrender, and then decisively ordered: "Send the order, the Black God Army will go to the city wall to change defenses, and all the new soldiers of the Shenji Camp will go north quickly and enter the jungle to block it."
A wave of order flags, and a neat footsteps suddenly sounded on the city wall.
The soldiers of the Black God Army lined up on the city wall in a row, while the recruits of the Shenji Camp who were originally guarding the city wall ran to the north in an orderly lined up and ran towards the north.
It turned out that the ladders of the elite scouts of the Jinyiwei crossing the river had been laid on wooden boards at this moment. Teams of soldiers from the Shenji Camp quickly slid down from the city wall, and quickly crossed the simple wooden bridge and headed straight for the jungle on the other side.
The overall situation has been decided, it depends on whether we can catch Shah Jahan and several leading princes.
Shah Jahan seems to be unable to catch it for the time being, after all, he still has 200,000 elite soldiers around him.
So what about the leading princes Shahshuja, Aurangzeb and Bahsh?
At this moment, they were all so scared that they rushed all the way to the camp of Aurangzebu in the north.
Aurangzeb left behind 20,000 cavalrymen, and Shahshuja and Bahish each left behind more than a thousand personal guards and several governors under him.
What can these little men do?
The three of them hid in the camp, staring at the tide of surrender that spread like a plague, and then looked at the Ming army infantry behind them as thick as a city wall and the large black and dark circles that were constantly advancing here in the east, and their faces were full of fear.
Aurangzeb was better, and he was not scared to panic. Shahshuja and Bahsh were both scared to death now.
what to do?
They seemed to have no choice but to escape into the jungle. The other three directions were the city wall on one side, and the other two sides were densely packed with hundreds of thousands of Ming troops. No matter which direction they rushed, they could not rush through.
Aurangzeb frowned and pondered for a while, then decisively ordered: "Hurry, order each person to carry dry food for ten days and prepare to enter the jungle."
They dared not blatantly to rush into the jungle, because once the sound of horse hooves sounded, it would definitely attract the attention of the Ming army.
Aurangzeb led more than 20,000 people, led the war horses, and walked quickly towards the jungle under the cover of the camp.
Fortunately, their camp was built on the edge of the jungle, which was only a few miles away. The Ming army's recruitment speed should not be as fast as they entered the jungle.
"The First Clan"
They thought they could escape by entering the jungle, but they didn't know that there were several Jinyiwei scouts on the hills in the jungle, staring at them with large telescopes.
With more than 20,000 troops, even without the support of Shenji Camp, it would not be possible to break through the defense line of the Jinyiwei.
What's more, the soldiers of the Shenji Camp had already poured into the jungle to support him.
To be continued...