Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 453

Shaista Khan, Governor of Bengal, led his army out of Dhaka, ready to defeat the invading enemy head-on.

Shaista Khan is a very experienced military general. He once fought against the Kingdom of Golconda and fought in Shivaji. Basically, the governors of the Mughal Empire were not only the relatives and cronies of the emperor, The military capability must be capable, so that the local area can be suppressed.

The Mughal Empire was a huge multi-ethnic empire, and the rulers from Central Asia were a minority, and they were Green Christians, while most of the subjects of the Mughal Empire were Hindus.Because of ethnic and religious issues, the Mughals had constant disputes, and the Mughals had never really completely leveled the various forces in the country, so wars often occurred.

Shaista Khan's army consisted of [-] light infantry, [-] heavy cavalry, and a small number of war elephants.

His tactics are very classic tactics of the Mughal Empire army. The army does not have a very obvious phalanx, but there are still groups of left army, center army and right army.The front row is a large number of light infantry, the second row is a war elephant unit, and the last row is the most elite heavy infantry.

On the side of the Ming army opposite the Mughal army, Gao Ning explained to Li Wan: "...the tactics and equipment of the Mughal army are at a relatively ancient stage. India has not been a powerful infantry country since ancient times. Their The light infantry is all recruited from towns and villages, and the actual military training is limited, so it cannot be called a professional army. Most of these light infantry use Turkish-style heavy muskets, and some use matchlocks introduced by Europeans Guns. Most of the Mughal light infantry were archers, and they used muskets and bows more, and other cold weapons were relatively less important in hand-to-hand combat."

Li Wandao: "Are those muskets like carrying guns? It's really funny. What's the use of such weapons?"

"The Mughal army didn't deal with some enemies that were too strong, so this was enough for them."

At this time, the Mughal army seemed to be about to take the initiative to attack.

"You see, this is the signal for their attack. The infantry in the front row are scattered on both sides of the elephants to cover their elephants. Such a large formation will rush over in one go, with the purpose of breaking through the enemy's defense line. The timing of their heavy cavalry will completely overwhelm their enemies."

Gao Ning and Li Wan did not lead troops in the garrison. This time they came out with them, in fact, to provide the necessary tactical advisory guidance for this infantry brigade of the Burmese Fan Army.

Li Wan was still a little nervous: "What's the matter, is our fan army's infantry brigade going to work? They are still equipped with the bronze smoothbore guns that King Jin used back then."

Gao Ning said calmly: "You will know it when you look at it."

Even if the Burmese army is not as good as the local Ming army, it is still a professional and regular army.The soldiers of the Ming army had already pushed the artillery to the front of the formation to form their artillery positions. When Shaista Khan's army entered their range, the artillery of the Fan army opened fire.

"Flower bomb!" Li Wan looked at the weapons that the army on his side had not used for a long time, and actually had a little fun watching retro weapons.

The dense flowering bombs were sent to the Mughal army along with the shelling. The effect of this shelling was decisive and amazing. A large number of light infantry of the Mughal Empire visible to the naked eye fell directly.Even the rough-skinned and thick-skinned war elephants screamed in pain after being hit by the artillery shells, and began to chaos in the formation, trampling on the Bangladeshi soldiers.

Then came the curved-firing artillery of the Fan Army artillery in the second array. After crossing the front row, the artillery shells directly smashed into the Mughal infantry formation rushing up from behind. kill.

Li Wan beamed with joy: "This artillery technique is good! With this old type of artillery, even the elite artillery of the Army's First Division and Eighth Division can perform like this."

He was still a little puzzled, and asked, "What about the independent brigade led by General Qian? The independent brigade has stronger fighting power, why didn't it come out sooner?"

Gao Ning said: "In the final analysis, the situation in Bangladesh is still maintained by the Burmese Fan Army. If the Fan Army can't face the main force of the Mughals and win, then there is no need to fight this war. Of course, General Qian will still attack. Yes, but it should be in the final sweeping stage."

The artillery of the fan army here was bombarding non-stop, and the Mughal army over there was completely unable to move forward.

Shaista Khan was originally riding on an excellent Central Asian warhorse, and was going to lead his direct cavalry to a hearty battle, but before he started charging, his light infantry and war elephant troops had already It was beaten and collapsed by the "Myanmar" army.

"Why are there so many artillery? Why are the Burmese artillery so powerful?" His whole face turned pale with fright. The other party did not send any troops to attack at all. They just opened fire at them.And it was this kind of artillery fire that directly hit his army without any fighting spirit. Even the troops that were not hit had already retreated.

"Where's our cannon?" Shaista Khan hadn't given up even a last bit of fantasy.He had several artillery instructors from Portugal who helped him train his artillery.

"My lord, those Portuguese have already run away. They said that they would not fight the Ming army even if they were killed. The army on the opposite side is not the Burmese we imagined, but the Chinese. The Ming Dynasty in China has already Annexed Myanmar, now the Burmese army is nothing more than China's lowest-level cannon fodder army..."

"What do you mean, my victorious army can't even defeat the Chinese cannon fodder army?" Shaista Khan gritted his teeth and was very angry at his followers.

"Hmph, artillery is the most cumbersome thing, and it is very difficult to move. The flanks of these Chinese troops lack protection. As long as I lead the cavalry around, charge them, and destroy their artillery, we can still win!"

However, at this time, his cavalry also mutinied.This group of cavalry from Central Asia didn't want to lose their lives in this kind of place at all. They had horses and ran the fastest, so Shaista Khan couldn't restrain them at all, and these cavalry ran back with a roar , The formation of the cavalry in the back row was also completely chaotic.

From the other direction, Qian Erlang, who had snatched up from the rear, came leading the independent brigade of the garrison troops.

"Hurry up, if you don't fight now, you won't be able to win any battles later. Where's my 105 cannon? Show them some experience!"

(End of this chapter)