The Mughal Empire happily resisted the invasion of powerful external enemies. otbnkotgt Meanwhile, the Mughals' neighbors and enemy, another rebellious Maratha, were fighting very hard.
Although the Marathas have more resources, more troops, and even more weapons and equipment than the Mughals, this is mainly obtained through trade and from very kind and friendly guys.
All in all, almost all conditions of the Marathas were better than those of the Mughals.
However, in the war against the British Expeditionary Force, the performance of the Marathas was far from satisfactory.
It can even be said to be very bad, even downright terrible.
These guys seem to be completely intoxicated by the strong sense of mission and destiny that "I am the orthodox Indian, I am the orthodox Indian, I can unify the entire Indian, and who else can be the hero in the world.
If this person cannot survive, the common people will have nothing to do." , I felt completely invincible.
However, that is not the case at all.
Their fighting ability is so bad that it's almost like they're trying to express "what exactly is bad".
Maybe many people will be surprised by this.
They are obviously a major force in this world.
They are obviously from Indy, so why are they so weak in Indy?
In fact, this question is completely false.
In other words, there is no need to prove the problem at all.
The answer to this question is "It is precisely because we are native to Indy that we are so weak-minded."
The native Indians are originally a group of very, very weak guys.
This issue has been discussed before.
The native Indians and Hinduism are originally a group that makes the nation become more and more weak so that it is easier to rule.
Religion comes.
In fact, in the war to break away from the Mughal Empire, these guys did not fight any decent war.
There is actually only one reason why the Marathas were able to obtain the huge territory in southern India.
That's because they are Indian natives.
They did not obtain these territories through war, but through secession and direct separation from Mughal rule.
These territories were originally under their control.
This time, they just changed their brand, and then claimed to be separated from the Mughal Empire, and then they would not provide any resources, taxes and manpower to the Mughal Empire. .
It's that simple.
Of course, although simplicity is so simple, the Marathas themselves do not consider themselves simple.
Almost all the upper caste Marathas, those Brahmins, behave like any upper caste guy.
They feel good about themselves and believe that they are born to be the ruling class.
So these guys don't need to work hard for their future life at all.
They have no sense of crisis at all.
The feeling of "I am the ruling class, but if I don't work hard, I will not rule well and will be overthrown" has never appeared in their minds.
It's like they don't care at all.
But of course, things actually turned out to be exactly what they thought.
No matter how the dynasty of India changes, or the power class changes, or the appearance of foreign invaders, none of these can change the ultimate foundation of India, which is the caste system.
Great high-caste bastards have remained high-caste bastards for thousands of years.
And the garbage of the lower castes has remained just the garbage of the lower castes for thousands of years.
Society is ossified, like a pot of paste that has no more firewood left to burn.
It cools, becomes sticky, and becomes entangled, unable to move.
The result of social rigidity, in other worlds and other places, usually eventually leads to the emergence of two results, one is the overthrow of the peasant uprising from the bottom up, the other is the reform from the top down, and the aristocratic class A civil war breaks out.
Or maybe foreign enemies invade and kill them all.
In any case, when everything proves that this dynasty is hopeless, it will naturally be precarious and eventually collapse.
Generally speaking, in the feudal era, it was considered OK if a feudal dynasty could stand for hundreds of years.
But Indy is different.
Indy has been the same for thousands of years.
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Nothing has changed or wavered.
Everything has been changed.
In this case, the longer the society remains rigid, the more corrupt and incompetent the ruling class will become.
Indy's ruling class, these high-caste trash, are naturally very poor, very poor.
It's so bad that I can't bear to look at it.
In this way, it is taken for granted and there is nothing more to say.
William has some ideas and understanding of this.
But Victoria, well, after dealing with the idiot ruling class here for a long time, Victoria actually has some sense in her heart.
However, I still didn't expect it, never expected it.
She saw only the speed of the Maratha rise.
I saw that in just two years, these guys grew from a very weak country to a huge empire that occupied about one-third of Indy's territory, with millions of troops and tens of millions of people.
Seeing all this, Victoria was amazed and made a wrong judgment about the strength of the Maratha Federation.
Think they are strong.
At least not weak.
No matter how weak he is, he can't be any weaker.
However, the result of the matter was that they were so, so, so unimaginably so.
Almost, after learning about Victoria's expeditionary force and launching an attack on them, the Marathas were also very arrogant, because they were high-caste superiors who were born to rule everything.
So of course I am very confident and think I can do anything.
These guys who thought they were omnipotent and could rule the entire Indy immediately organized a huge army of more than 200,000 people, ready to teach those ignorant and casteless people a lesson.
Yes, pathetic foreigner.
Sadly, they didn't succeed.
An army of 200,000 people.
Although the equipment of 200,000 people is not very sophisticated, and although the training is not very good, it is still very large in number.
People can't help but have unrealistic expectations for their combat effectiveness.
The number was much smaller than theirs, and it was actually just a regiment serving as a vanguard force.
Built after being stimulated by the military reforms of the Russian Gothic Empire, they were all equipped with flintlocks and bayonets, plus the latest artillery.
Of course, this "latest" needs to be added in quotation marks, that is, in their opinion, it is the latest New style.
Because the intelligence blockade of the Russian Gothic Empire is relatively in place, and it has not lost anything in so many years of war, plus it has very strict logistics controls.
Therefore, these weapons and equipment are neither damaged nor lost.
Even the weapons and equipment that are scrapped daily will be recycled by professionals.
The purpose is to never leak information about the latest weapons of the Russian Gothic Empire.
However, it's still enough.
A professional army regiment with infantry, cavalry and artillery, the most elite cuirassiers, equipped with flintlocks and bayonets, and the latest artillery.
Even if it is placed on the battlefield of the old continent in the human world, the powerful army that can still occupy a place is enough to deal with these guys.
Completely enough.
Even though the strength of the two sides was ten to one, in the end, it was Briton's expeditionary force that won.
Even their own losses were minimal.
When the two hundred thousand Maratha army approached, considering the balance of power between the enemy and ourselves.
The commander of the Legion's vanguard quickly formulated tactics.
The legion quickly expanded and then seized several nearby commanding heights as quickly as possible. and artillery units were deployed.
If he was facing the Russian Gothic Expeditionary Force, or any Old Continent army, then such an arrangement would be considered a wrong decision.
Because under his command, he did not have cavalry artillery like the Russian Gothic Empire.
In other words, they cannot quickly and quickly deploy their artillery units on the battlefield.
When scouts from both sides are engaged, moving artillery units, even with infantry and cavalry escorts, is a very dangerous thing.
Once the enemy decisively dispatches elite and fast light cavalry troops for an assault and destroys these artillery pieces, without these artillery units to provide supporting firepower, the chances of the British Expeditionary Force's victory will definitely be reduced a lot.
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Of course, the final result proved that the decision of the British commander was correct.
Or quite lucky.
What he faced was not the Russian Gothic Empire or any Old World army, but the Maratha army.
They are arrogant.
At the same time, their movements are slow.
Even though they have too many troops, so their movement speed has to be reduced to such a high level, it is also because their tactical ideas are outdated.
And their arrogance.
They didn't think they were going to lose.
I don’t even know what it means to be a soldier with great speed.
This 200,000-strong army was almost in disarray, advancing towards the British expeditionary force at a speed close to a snail.
After the scouts from both sides engaged in battle, it took these guys two full days to finally arrive at the scheduled battlefield.
In these precious two days, the Britons adjusted their artillery positions, and even built a relatively simple but absolutely effective defense system through soil work and engineering work.
It was this simple but effective defense system that established the British Expeditionary Force's chances of victory. 160420oshow7: