This Qing is wrong

Chapter 248 The Commander Wants to Run
"Why did the Third Army not arrive at the scheduled battlefield? This is the critical moment of the decisive battle. How dare the Third Army neglect the military opportunity like this!"

Less than half a day after the start of the battle, Cyndia was angered by the coalition generals below.

Since the Maratha coalition forces were mainly trained by instructors from the European continent and the Qing Dynasty, for the convenience of command, the military system of the legion was introduced, imitating the West with the battalion as the basic combat unit.

Each legion actually came from a Maratha kingdom.

Because the strength of each state is different, the strength and equipment of each legion are also different.

In terms of equipment, it's okay to say, anyway, everyone is a cold weapon team...

The difference in military strength is huge.

The small legion has only 8000 people, most of which are assembled by armed untouchables, while the large legion has a full 6 to [-] people!

And the main body is composed of mercenaries, such as the First Army led by Sindia!

Cindia was able to become the commander of the coalition army, naturally not because of the democratic election of the nobles, but because he has the strongest strength in his hands.

However, this old boy, Sindia, is not authentic, or he has inherited the common fault of almost all commanders in the feudal era - placing friendly troops in front, and placing his direct line behind the safe central army...

Even the first army is not at the back, and there is a small army to prevent surprise attacks in the future.

This deployment will naturally make the feudal lords below unhappy, but Sindia is not only strong enough, there are many feudal lords who wear a pair of pants with Sindia, coupled with the support of Emperor Kangxi and the European East India Company, Sindia's The position of commander-in-chief of the coalition forces can be said to be as stable as Mount Tai.

Regardless of the fact that Emperor Kangxi was completely lost by Li Changqing, the Qing army beat the elite of the strongest Mughal dynasty here in the Indian subcontinent back then, and its reputation has long been established.

And Emperor Kangxi escaped with the rumored most powerful core of the Qing army, the Eight Banners, almost all cavalry military groups. How could the princes of India not be afraid?
When Emperor Kangxi arrived on the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent, he picked up a few weak city-state-style native princes to attack. After capturing several large cities, no one among the Indian natives doubted the strength of the Qing army anymore.

It can only be said that the states on the Indian subcontinent in this era are really too weak.

Not only the weakness of the scattered sand, but also the weakness brought about by the high degree of feudal corruption and the military group monopolized by the high caste.

Indian princes are unwilling to establish a standing army with untouchables as the main body. They are all supported by noble warrior groups like Kshatriya. However, there are not many Kshatriyas, and their desperate spirit has been corroded by their luxurious life. Naturally, their combat effectiveness will not be strong. How many……

This is also the reason why the military 'powerhouse' here in the Indian subcontinent generally maintains a large number of mercenaries, and even many western desperadoes come to serve as mercenaries.

The Indian Assams are not strong in combat, but they are rich. Not to mention how much they earn as mercenaries, they will not be punished for running away on the battlefield.

The people who came to report waited until Cindia finished venting his anger, and then reported truthfully: "The general of the Third Army said that they suffered too much loss from the previous attack by the Tang army. Refusing to fight Tang Jun..."

"what?
The loss is too great!

The Third Army originally had more than 2 people, but they were defeated in that battle without much resistance. Could there be 2000 people lost?
It's only [-]% of the battle damage, so you can't fight? !
How could there be such a scum in the Maratha coalition army! ! ! "

Cyndia's beard was crooked with anger.

If the troops that retreated from the battlefield were unwilling to continue to the front line, wouldn't he have no soldiers to use when all the reserve troops fought for a round?

Don't look at the beginning of the war, the Tang army chased the Maratha coalition forces and killed them until they were exhausted before they had to retreat. In fact, the Maratha coalition forces did not make too tenacious resistance at all. Basically, the new force went up and fought for a round before retreating. down.

In other words, the real casualty data of the Maratha coalition forces is not high.

There is no way, there are too many Maratha coalition forces. Even if more than 3 Tang soldiers killed two of them, they only killed more than 6 people.

What's more, fighting is not a math problem, and the total strength of the Tang army in charge of the charge is only in the early [-]s. It is impossible to bet on all of them, otherwise, what if the Maratha coalition forces burst the back door?
The Third Army belongs to the type that is defeated very quickly, so the loss is relatively small among the Maratha coalition forces.

If it was the legions with heavy losses, Cyndia would not be so urging, but the Third Legion, which suffered "slight" losses, was like this. How could Cyndia not be angry, how could she not be afraid? !

What happened to the Third Army made Sindia feel a little uneasy. If the other troops were as cowardly as the Third Army, even if he put his own troops up, it would be impossible for him to defeat the mere [-] Tang Army. ...

This decisive battle has condensed the essence of the Maratha Alliance, and it is also the strength of the Maratha Alliance to fight against Tang. Once defeated...

Cyndia could no longer imagine the consequences of failure!

After all, the Maratha Alliance is just a military alliance, not a centralized empire. Failure means that people's hearts will be scattered. At that time, apart from surrendering to the Tang State, they can only watch themselves being swallowed up by the Tang State little by little.

Just like those feudal lords who refused to accept the rule of the Tang Dynasty in Northwest India.

The top management of the Maratha Alliance knew that Li Changqing was not Emperor Kangxi. In order to consolidate his ruling foundation, he didn't care about the casualties of his troops.

When Emperor Kangxi ruled the northwestern region of India and replaced the Mughal Dynasty, the reason why he retained the power of all the local feudal lords and only took away the land directly under the Mughal Dynasty was because he did not want to be involved in a long-term suppression of public security. The Eight Banners Army with a low population base suffered too many casualties.

However, the Tang Empire didn't care at all, because it was either Li Ergou, the warlord's vassal army or the Japanese mercenary who was responsible for the suppression, so Li Changqing naturally wouldn't care.

It is worth mentioning that, because there is only one powerful warlord left in the Tang Empire, Li Ergou, he behaved very docilely, and he did his best to suppress the Tubang rebellion, shortening the years for the Tang Empire to pacify Northwest India region time.

So Li Ergou's warlord status is preserved!
He was canonized as the general who conquered the barbarians. Li Changqing also allocated the Mongolian Eight Banners, Hui Eight Banners and other surrendered troops in the Qing army to Li Ergou to supplement his loss of troops.

Li Ergou's headquarters is like a garbage dump. Except for the surrendered troops from the Han people, all descended troops from other races will be thrown to Li Ergou.

This is also a test. If Li Ergou cannot integrate these foreign descendants and exert their due combat effectiveness, sooner or later Li Ergou will step into the footsteps of the previous governors, and the General Zhengyi will also be reduced to empty honor.

Fortunately, Li Ergou and Si Ni's skills were considered qualified, and under the encouragement of looting and bounty, they were stunned to integrate the foreign troops.

Of course, this also has something to do with Li Ergou bullying more and bullying less in every battle.

However, isn’t suppressing and suppressing rebellion wars just bullying the few with the more and relying on the strong to bully the weak?
Li Changqing also found that Li Ergou was really not good at fighting against opponents whose strength was comparable to his own, or even weaker than his own. He was also a very mediocre general.

But when Li Ergou has an absolute advantage in strength, morale, and even weapons and equipment, the steady Li Ergou is almost invincible.

As the territory grows larger, Li Changqing feels that he really needs a large-scale capable person who can effectively use the surrendered army to fight security warfare.

After all, the expansion speed of the Tang Empire was really too fast.

Unsurprisingly, shortly after the Third Army Corps refused to enter the battlefield, Sindia received one after another the excuses from the defeated Legion that they had fought against the Tang Army and could not go to the battlefield.

It is said that the troops lost too much, morale was low, the soldiers could not continue to fight, and they needed to rest for a whole day...

Cyndia looked at the front line and was still attacking the Maratha coalition forces in waves, defeating groups of Maratha coalition forces, and then stopped the offensive due to exhaustion, and replaced the Tang army with the next wave of attacking troops, with a look of despair on his face.

Cindia has already seen that those Tang soldiers are desperate lunatics, as long as they have the strength, they will launch a steady stream of offensives.

Not only the big green-skinned guys inside, but also the bunch of dwarfs were also beating people like crazy.

However, the commander-in-chief of the Tang army has always kept all the firearmed troops in the central army, and did not give Scindia the opportunity to send cavalry to attack the rear and flanks.

Scindia tried it once before, but the cavalry of the Maratha coalition army, which was several thousand larger, was smashed by the opponent's guns without even rushing through the horizontal formation of the Tang army's muskets.

Just one charge, and thousands of cavalry were lost!
Since then, Cyndia has known that there is no loophole on Tang Jun's side to exploit...

Only positive hard steel!

However, no matter how strong the Maratha coalition forces are, if the retreating troops cannot quickly regroup and enter the battlefield, the reserve team will be wiped out before dark!

This made Cyndia unacceptable.

He didn't understand, isn't it normal for troops fighting on the front line to rush back and forth and retreat?
Why did all the teams that fought against Tang Jun lose their nerve?
If Sindia went to the front line to face the big orc infantry and the Yin soldiers of the Qin Dynasty, he would know how desperate the Maratha soldiers on the front line were...

Fortunately, the Japanese samurai, the Maratha coalition forces can't compete in individual combat capabilities, but at least they can kill the opponent with beatings.

But the orc infantry was too hopeless. There was even a case where more than a dozen Maratha coalition soldiers besieged an orc infantry and was finally defeated!

As for the Yin soldiers of the Qin Dynasty, it is not difficult to kill them after they materialize, but their ability to transform makes these Yin soldiers of the Qin Dynasty the most powerful assassins.

Since the Hindu 'mages' in the Maratha coalition army purified many Qin Dynasty Yin soldiers, these Qin Dynasty Yin soldiers no longer gathered together, but broke into pieces and scattered into the entire battlefield to help the Tang army who was charging.

Basically, wherever the Tang army charged, the Yin soldiers of the Qin Dynasty would attack with their backs, and they never wanted to fight.

Even if the Hindu mages were dispersed to various troops in a targeted manner, it was still difficult to resist the sudden attack of the Yin soldiers of the Qin Dynasty.

This allowed the Tang army to smash the front of the Maratha coalition army on the opposite side every time it charged into the formation. If you were lucky, you could even smash several fronts in a row!
As a result, the reserve team of the Maratha Allied Forces was depleted far faster than Scindia expected.

Now those defeated soldiers who have retreated are unwilling to return to the battlefield, what else can Cyndia do except despair?
It's not enough to fill in your own troops!

Cyndia looked at the tragic battle situation on the front line, looked up at the sun at noon, and thought:

"No, according to the Tang army's offensive rhythm, the coalition forces will not withdraw until dark.

Once the reserve team is completely defeated by the Tang army, those retreating legions will inevitably disperse, and it will be difficult to escape..."

Afterwards, Sindia issued a series of new orders to remove all the friendly troops surrounding his direct troops.

Then let the elite musket infantry under his command go first, the artillery will definitely not be able to take it away, but this kind of backward artillery did not play any role at all on the battlefield against the Tang army.

The range is crushed by the Tang army artillery in all directions. As long as one shot is fired, it will be bombarded by the Tang army artillery. After a few rounds, the artillerymen of the Maratha coalition army will not be willing to go to the front line...

Therefore, these baby bumps in Cyndia's eyes are not fragrant now.

After all, today's Indian subcontinent is no longer a melee between various states. The Tang Empire from the East is really too powerful.

From fighting will to weapons and equipment, Sindia felt at a loss.

Now, Sindia has only one purpose, to preserve his direct troops as much as possible, and then fight for a condition of autonomy for himself at the future surrender negotiation table.

In the northwestern region of India, there are also many princes of the earth-states who are able to retain their autonomy, but the towns that are rich in their fiefs or occupy key transportation points have been deprived, and all of them have been transferred to relatively remote areas.

As for how 'biased' the transfer location is, it depends on the strength and performance of each prince.

Powerful Tubang princes can bring their troops to join the Tang Empire's anti-insurgency and public security war, and naturally they can get some preferential treatment.

The Tang Empire doesn't like the powerless princes of the Tubang who want to join the war of public security!
In the northwestern region of India, many powerful feudal lords who had been brilliant for a while, even if they chose to surrender to the Tang Empire, fell from the clouds, reduced from top feudal lords to big landlords of several villages...

To put it bluntly, it is because of insufficient strength!

This is all because Emperor Kangxi made them miserable at the beginning.

What the Eight Banners of India lost was actually the power of those powerful feudal lords.

Sindia didn't want to repeat the same mistakes. The example of Northwest India made him understand that even if he was a dog for the Tang Empire, he had to be a powerful dog to eat meat.

Under the cover of Sindia, other Maratha allies did not find out at first.

Because none of the elite cavalry guards under Sindia left.

However, with the withdrawal of more and more Sindia's direct troops, the paper failed to cover the fire after all!

(End of this chapter)