Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 454
As soon as Daming's new 105mm howitzer came out, the Mughal army completely collapsed.

The scale of this battle was not small. It could even be said that it was the largest war that Ming had ever fought in a foreign land after its recovery. It started quickly and ended very quickly.From front to back, the soldiers of the independent brigade stationed on the ship did not let off a few shots, and the only thing they played in normal battles was artillery.It can be said that the Mughal army was completely beaten to the ground by the artillery of the Ming army.

According to statistics after the war, during the artillery battle and pursuit, the Mughal army killed and injured more than 3600 people, and its war elephant troops were almost wiped out.A large number of Mughal troops became prisoners of the Ming army, and even the troops gathered by Shaista Khan were less than one-tenth of the original 18000 troops.

The Ming army did not die in the whole battle, and several soldiers were injured due to mistakes in operating the artillery.

After learning the results of the battle, Bai Mingxiu could only sigh with emotion: "This kind of battle is basically an example for us to fight overseas in the future, because there is too much difference in technology level, even if our military strength is inferior, as long as we fight with firepower, the enemy will be defeated." It’s broken and there’s nothing extra to do.”

He has read history and knows the battle of Plassey when the British East India Company occupied Bangladesh in the 18th century. Soldiers, as well as more than 50 artillery pieces, were eventually defeated by the Mughal army, and even directly defected, while the British army lost only 22 people.

The combat effectiveness of the Ming army was much stronger than that of the British army in the 18th century.This time the Ming army dispatched an independent brigade stationed on ships, with a strength of more than 1 people, and three infantry brigades of the Myanmar Fan Army, with a strength of about 18. Even the equipment level of the Fan Army was much stronger than that of the British Army in the 54th century.The artillery regiment of a brigade carries [-] artillery pieces, and the infantry regiments also have their own artillery battalions. The number of artillery pieces in the entire brigade is more than [-] pieces.

Although these artillery are old-fashioned Napoleon guns with bronze smoothbores that have been eliminated.

As soon as Shaista Khan ran back to Dhaka, more Ming troops rushed up. More than 1 Ming troops surrounded Dhaka and blocked all roads into the city.

Dhaka is the largest city in Bangladesh. In fact, the scale of this city is even more amazing. It has a population of 100 million and consumes a lot of supplies every day.

On the front line, Bai Mingxiu came to the camp of the independent brigade stationed in the ship. After seeing Bai Mingxiu, Qian Erlang asked, "Commander, why don't you continue to attack? We blasted away the broken city wall in a few shots."

Bai Mingxiu smiled, Qian Erlang is his old acquaintance, the infantry company of that year has been dismantled now, and the small infantry in that year may now be a battalion commander, such as Qian Erlang Okay, already a brigadier general.

"If we can save a little labor, let's not bother. I think the previous battle must have shocked the Mughal governor a lot, so let's let him hand over Dhaka by himself. "

Bai Mingxiu also hopes to avoid too chaotic fighting in Dhaka as much as possible, and he will come to clean up the mess. After all, this is a large city with a population of 100 million. Bai Mingxiu hopes to preserve the city as much as possible.

But now Bai Mingxiu has another thing on his mind.

The wealth of Bangladesh is unimaginable. After all, it is now the region that has created 12% of the world's GDP. It is not an exaggeration to call it the Jiangnan of South Asia.After the British took Bengal in history, they plundered a lot of wealth. The British East India Company reaped a huge profit of up to 6000 million pounds just from looting the property of the palace.

Even Daming's annual fiscal revenue cannot compare to this figure.

It can be said that the land of Bangladesh is really full of oil. When Wu Min made the plan to annex Bangladesh, he mentioned that directly acquiring the existing wealth of Bangladesh would be a very good benefit to the treasury of the Ming Empire.

Bai Mingxiu also knew that Wu Min's approach might be more radical, because Wu Min was planning to break the rule of the entire Bangladeshi princes and lords and rebuild the social organization of Bangladesh.In short, he wants to beat the local tyrants.Where did the local tyrant's money go? Naturally, it went into the treasury of the Daming State Treasury and the treasury of the new Mengmen Xuanwei Division.

The resistance of the Bengali people to the foreign rulers is not fierce at all, especially in the case of Wu Min's benefits being equalized and the distribution of means of production, the majority of the Bengali people may stand on the side of the new ruler.

How to break the old structure, drain the oil and water, and then maintain the necessary stability in this area is really a matter of skill.Bai Mingxiu is not confident that he can do it, but Wu Min can.

"Speaking of which, Wu Min, a buff that stabilizes the hearts of the people in foreign ethnic areas, is really very useful."

After spending the night, Paulinho, a Portuguese diplomat who followed the Daming Global Fleet, came to look for Bai Mingxiu.

"Mr. Brave and Invincible Commander, are you preparing to take Dhaka now? Let Daming's good friend, Portugal, solve this trouble for you. A few hours ago, several of our military advisers who were serving the Governor of Bangladesh ran back , they know Governor Shaista Khan himself. We Portuguese are willing to act as your lobbyists to get Shaista Khan to surrender to the invincible Ming army."

Bai Mingxiu glanced at this guy, and asked: "What benefits do you Portuguese want? Let me remind you first, to attack the city, it is just a matter of opening for me. We can bombard such a city wall with one shot." Open. I still have more than 1 elite Ming fighters, and the Mughal army can't stop me."

Paulinho hurriedly said: "Of course, of course! We firmly believe in the strength of the Ming army. If it weren't for your kindness, Mr. Commander, you don't want to accidentally injure the people in the city during the war and cause too much damage to this beautiful city. Will hesitate, I believe that the Ming army can conquer any fortress or city in the world. We Portugal will not blackmail anything with our friends! The friendship between Ming and Portugal is so strong and beautiful, we are willing to fight for our served by friends."

Bai Mingxiu was more aware that the Portuguese also had some cultivation in Bengal, but it was clear that the governance and trade level of the Mughal Empire was completely different from that of Ming Dynasty.A Bengal controlled by Ming is more attractive to Portugal, which is doing business. Ming can provide more valuable commodities and provide various services for merchant ships.Now Portugal has basically given up on developing its own trading ports, because they feel that the efficiency and quality of their work is far behind that of the Chinese. If the Chinese do these "hard work", it will be good for them to make money in the past.

(End of this chapter)