On the war elephant, Aurangzeb looked up under the reminder of his subordinates and saw the Zhou cavalry waiting in front of him.I saw the other party, under the banner of Daxu, a gold-armored general, Le Ma stationed.Behind the general, the cavalry rode on their horses, and the ranks were silent, only the sound of hunting in the wind and the sound of horses' hooves plucking the ground.Before the cavalry, a row of bronze cannons, with their muzzles high, was aimed at the arriving Mughal army.Aurangzeb was taken aback, he fought in the south and the north, and he was considered to have some knowledge, but the army in front of him was just standing still, but the momentum he could exude far exceeded the army of the Indian princely states, and even more elite than the Persian cavalry of the Sassanid Dynasty.However, after all, there were 200,000 people, and he looked at his war elephants, as well as the large number of Mughal cavalry, and immediately had confidence in his heart, and sneered and asked the army to set up a formation, ready to clean up the Zhou army on the opposite side.The 200,000 Mughal army, the infantry and cavalry were a little chaotic, and they were in a hurry, and when they were on the ground, the artillery array of the Zhou army on the opposite bank suddenly roared, and they saw the artillery retreat violently, raising a cloud of white smoke and more than 20 shells, piercing the sky, whistling and smashing, directly into the Mughal formation.The cannonball landed in front of the formation, splashing a cloud of sand, and then jumped up and hit a sergeant, which immediately exploded his head and splattered his brain.A cannonball hit the war elephant, and the huge war elephant screamed and fell to the ground with a bang, causing the surrounding soldiers to scatter in panic.The Mughal Empire also had artillery and muskets, but their artillery and muskets were relatively backward compared to the Zhou army.The Mughal artillery, similar to the early cannons of the Ming Dynasty, was more bulky and heavy, mainly used for siege cities, and was still in the rear of the army, while the muskets were about the same level as the Ottomans, mainly arquebuses, and they were scarce.Although the war elephant has been trained, this behemoth is actually both kind and timid.The shelling of the Zhou army caused a commotion in the Mughal army, and the war elephant sitting down on Aurangzeb shook his body uneasily, which made Aurangzeb furious: "Damn, you dare to attack first!"
The war elephants strike and crush them!
”The Zhou army provoked with artillery, and Ao Langzebu was furious, regardless of the fact that the 200,000 troops had not yet formed a formation, so he issued an order to counterattack.The other party is only more than 10,000 people, and the 200,000 Mughal army is impossible to lose no matter how you fight.As soon as the military order was given, the horn sounded!
The Mughal war elephants slowly drove out.At the beginning, Ao Langzebu used his killer weapon to directly crush the Zhou army with war elephants.Hundreds of war elephants, at the sound of the horn, gradually increased their speed, and a large number of spearmen, scimitar infantry behind them, followed the war elephants and launched a charge.It can be seen that the Mughal tactic is very simple, that is, the war elephants will crush the Zhou army, and then the spearmen and scimitar soldiers will follow up and harvest the Zhou soldiers.At this time, the battle elephants on the ground shook and rushed, but the Zhou army was not afraid, the artillery in front of the formation was still roaring, the shells fell into the enemy group, splashing sand and water columns, and the cavalry was still standing still, staring at the galloping team, without fear.At that time, Wu Sangui and Sun Kewang fought for Sichuan, and they fought back and forth in Sichuan for several years.At this time, the war elephant was in the midst of the splashing water column, collapsed the Satlej River in the dry period, and was about to rush towards the Zhou army, but the Zhou army still did not move.Aurangzeb rode on the war elephant and couldn't help frowning, didn't the enemy know the horror of the war elephant, and just as he was puzzled, he suddenly exclaimed behind him, "There are enemy troops in the south!"
”Turning to the south, he saw that the yellow sand was everywhere in the sand, and a cavalry rushed out of the desert and rushed directly to the tail of the Mughal army from the side.The 200,000 Mughal army, in formation, is heavy in front and light in the rear, and militarily it is called Qianquan, like a long snake.This kind of marching formation, for the battle-hardened Zhou army, it is not too easy to fight, and the most commonly used way is to pinch the head and tail and hit seven inches.At this time, the main force of the army, the war elephant, had just jumped over the Sutlej River, and the three thousand Zhou army iron cavalry rushed out of the killing desert and hit its tail.Xia Guoxiang, the general of the Zhou army, hit the buttocks of the war horse with a gun, the war horse was in pain, and with a long fight, it shot out like lightning, "Kill!"
”Behind him, three thousand iron horsemen, followed closely behind, let out a roar of rage, directly attacking the tail and the army of the lower castes that had not yet completed the assembly.The upper stratum of the Mughal Empire were, Turkicized Mongols, the middle stratum consisted of the high castes, and the lower strata consisted of the lower castes and untouchables.The relatively elite Mughal army is in the front and center, and there are more than 100,000 people in the back, although the number is large, but it is mainly to transport baggage, full of auxiliaries, most of them have no armor, no muskets, holding primitive cold weapons, and black and thin, no combat power at all.Seeing the cavalry of the Zhou army, suddenly appearing in front of him, the Mughal soldiers behind immediately panicked and shot at the cavalry with bows and arrows, but how could the arrows block the impact of the elite cuirassiers, and the cavalry of the Zhou army was like a giant hammer, smashing directly into the rear of the Mughals!
The cavalry of the Zhou army rushed swiftly and rushed into the formation with the momentum of ten thousand jun, the galloping war horses with huge weights, constantly crashing into the Mughal soldiers, the cavalry rode spears and stabbed, the war knives flew up and down, invincible, instantly killed the enemy formation, and then another detour, crashed into the enemy formation again, and slaughtered.Seeing this, Aurangzeb gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and was about to transfer reinforcements, when another exclamation was made around him, "The enemy army in front has moved!"
”Aurangzeb hurriedly looked up and saw that the Zhou army, which was about to be hit by the war elephants, suddenly moved."
The dragoons and artillery teams avoid the front, contain the left and right, and the Guanning iron cavalry outflanks them with the outnumbered!"
Wu Sangui decisively gave the order!
The artillery of the Zhou army, dragged by the war horses, quickly moved to both sides, and the cavalry immediately divided into four groups, two foot cavalry, let go of the front, followed the artillery team, and retreated to the northwest and southwest corners of the battlefield respectively, and then turned over and dismounted, and lined up to form a musket line.These two teams, each with only about 2,000 people, pinned down the Mughal army crossing the river, and the other two teams of cavalry, each with 3,000 elite cavalry, under the leadership of Wu Sangui and Hu Guozhu, slowly drove out, raising full speed, benefiting the speed of the cavalry, bypassing the elephant team in front of them, and directly pounced on the main Mughal formation.At this time, the Mughal army, the forward crossed the river, could not be recovered, and the tail was disturbed by the cavalry of the three thousand Zhou army, Aurangzeb looked, and the two Zhou cavalry, one left and one right, galloped across the Sutlej River, rushing towards themselves and instantly changing color.The Zhou army's operation of taking the lead in the encirclement and directly hitting the middle section caused Aurangzeb and the Mughal army to fall into a panic."
Quick, line up to meet the enemy!"
Aurangzeb hurriedly roared.The army around him was in a hurry, but the Indian army also had a special characteristic, that is, the country was constantly invaded, resulting in an extremely complex ethnic and ethnic composition, which could be called an ethnographic museum.The complexity of human races and ethnicities, coupled with the long-term division of the population, has created another problem, that is, the language and writing are not understood.In the Qin Dynasty, China was able to write and write on the same track, while India still had more than a dozen languages even after a few hundred years.This is extremely fatal in the army, resulting in a very inadequate command.Seeing that the cavalry of the Zhou army was rolling in, and the army around him was still in a panic array, once he was attacked by the enemy cavalry, his life would be threatened, so Aurangzeb hurriedly shouted in horror, "The Mughal iron cavalry attacked!"
”As soon as the military order was given, nearly 10,000 Mughal cavalry, shot out like lightning and attacked in two directions."
Crush them!"
In the Mercedes-Benz, Wu Sangui raised his gun and yelled.The Guanning Iron Cavalry was not afraid of the Mughal cavalry that came to block it, and the cavalry quickly divided into three waves, galloping like three moving city walls to launch a terrifying impact.()