My Daming New Empire

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Although they can't go to the battlefield, they are useful no matter whether they set up camp or transport supplies.

Even if Zhu Di wanted to reduce the burden on Ming soldiers as much as possible, he could devote all his energy to fighting.

Longping Hou Zhang Xin has always been favored by Zhu Di because of his refuge before Zhu Di's death.So for this expedition, he was also appointed as the chief officer of the former battalion of the South Route Army.

But Mu Xin, who was his deputy commander, knew that Zhang Xin's cleverness was just a little cleverness, not great wisdom.If this person hadn't been favored by Zhu Di, he would have been demoted because of his mistakes.

In fact, he has not been demoted.In the 12th year of Yongle, Zhang Xin followed the Northern Expedition and supervised the payment.

Zhu Di conducted a big review in Xining. Zhang Xin had absurdly spent the night by abducting civilian girls the night before, and claimed that he would not be ill the next day.As a result, Zhu Di demoted him to be an official. Not long after he made contributions in the Northern Expedition, he was reinstated.

In a foreign country, Mu Xin knows the importance of intelligence.As the deputy commander, he vigorously promoted a group of soldiers from the Habayashi Guards to serve as security missions for the front, middle and rear troops. Even the entire intelligence agency was handed over to them and the internal supervisor of the Advisory Department, Jin Yiwei.

On the way north, although they were all cavalry, limited by the supplies from various places, the army only marched a hundred miles a day, and planned to reach the territory of the Delhi Sultanate in [-] days.

At that time, Zhu Di will also land in Hulumos, and he will be ready.

Zhu Di asked the [-] Eastern Expeditionary Army to occupy the Khyber Valley on the first day of December regardless of the battle situation. This was not difficult for them.

On the tenth day of September, benefiting from the sufficient supplies from the small Indian countries and the active cooperation of the guides, the Ming army arrived at Jaipur, the most important gateway in the south of the Delhi Sultanate, one day ahead of schedule.

Delhi Sultanate is **** state.The Sudan is not only the head of state, but also the highest patriarch of Islam, combining monarchy and theocracy.There are 36 ministries in the central government, and the chief minister "Wazir" is in charge of the ministries in name, but actually only manages finances.

He and the Governor of the Military Ministry, the Minister of Religion and Justice, the Confidential Secretary and the Minister of Intelligence have become the four pillars of the Sudanese country.In addition, a provincial system of local governance was established, with local military aristocrats in power.

Since the ruling class is all the Christian military feudal aristocrats from Central Asia, with the forty Turkic and Afghan families as the core, they occupy a large number of military fief lands "Iqta" and rely on the employment of foreigners in Central Asia. The army is the pillar of rule.

The Sudanese regime adopted hostile, discriminatory, and persecutive policies against the Hindu feudal lords and residents of all walks of life, especially the compulsory poll tax and forced conversion to Islam, which stimulated the national and religious sentiments of all Hindu classes.

The Sudan conferred the conquered land of India in the form of "Iqta" (military field) and "Waqf" (mosque teaching field) and "Inam" (the life-long granting field of the Imam of Islam). Military feudal aristocrats, mosques and imams with military merits served as their military feudal fiefdoms and religious properties.

A large number of Indians have lost their land and can only be tenants.Therefore, people's uprisings and sectarian movements broke out continuously, and ethnic, religious and class conflicts were very sharp.

Generally speaking, the Delhi Sultanate is nothing more than the largest regional kingdom in North India, and the size of its territory is directly proportional to the strength of the country.

These conquered and ruled areas belong to the Delhi Sultan in name, but in fact there are three situations: the area directly controlled by the central government is called Harissa, that is, state-owned land, mainly limited to Delhi and the inter-river area.

The second is the area under the control of the provincial governor, that is, the Iqta-type fiefdom.

Finally, there are areas ruled by vassal Hindu kings or chiefs.The state only collects land taxes on the first two types of areas, and only requires annual tribute to the latter type of areas.

Jaipur is the last one. The rulers here, the Singh family, have always been the most loyal Hindus, but they succumbed to the force of the Delhi Sultanate and became a vassal of the Delhi Sultanate.

In response to Ming's attack, the Sultan of Delhi dispatched a direct army of 5 people to directly take over the city defense of Jaipur.

However, the Ming army knew about this situation a long time ago, and did not take the Singh family, which had a ambiguity with the Sultan of Delhi, as the main target of attack.

The [-] cavalry just swaggered outside the city, smashed the flag of Delhi on the city wall with muskets, and continued northward.

This time, it was the turn of the Arab general Tughluq of Delhi to feel uncomfortable, because it was a city defense battle. Although he had 5 people under his command, he only had [-] cavalry.

Now Daming soldiers don't attack the city at all, and he doesn't have many cavalry under his command, so he doesn't even dare to chase him.

But if the Ming army goes northward unscathed, then his head may be lost.

As a last resort, he could only order the [-] cavalrymen under his command to catch up with them tail-to-tail, and wanted to wait until the intercepting troops in front stopped the Daming cavalrymen, and attack back and forth.

However, when they caught up, the two thousand Ming soldiers who tied up their horses divided into four square formations, waiting for them to enter the encirclement.

Although it was five thousand to two thousand troops, when the gunshots sounded, the Indian cavalry who had not been disturbed by the gunshots and had been trained with loud noises immediately fell into chaos.

Under the bursts of gunshots, the horses panicked, and many soldiers were thrown off by the mad horses.

For the first time, the power of the firearms of the Ming soldiers was truly displayed in front of the Indians. Less than 300 of the [-] cavalry fled, and all the other soldiers fell to the hands of the Ming soldiers.

In just a short hour, [-] soldiers wiped out [-] cavalry. This scene made the Indian servants who cleaned up the battlefield look like heaven.

They stripped the Derry soldiers of their clothes and picked up their weapons, and the horses they captured surprised many.

Because of these harvests, they were also full of motivation. That night, they dug a huge pit enough to bury more than 4000 people. When the dawn of the next day came, more than 4000 naked corpses were thrown into the pit. There is a fresh earth mountain in place.

After receiving the news from the soldiers who had fled back, Tughluk ordered the city gate to be closed and never dared to send anyone out again.

The mighty Ming has already made him terrified. Facing the muskets of the Ming people who can injure people from a distance, the swords and spears in their hands can hardly harm the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

Only archers can play a little role, but Ming soldiers are equipped with steel wire soft armor.Because of the popularity of steel wire soft armor, Daming even canceled the shield soldiers during the Western Expedition.

When wire cannot be produced, hand-drawn wire is expensive to manufacture.

But when the steel wire can be mass-produced continuously, a large piece of steel wire mesh can be produced in the weaving mode, and the cost of this kind of steel wire soft armor becomes very low.

In order to let the people of Delhi hear the news, Zhang Xin and Mu Xin deliberately rested for two days by the Crystal Palace Lake not far from Jaipur, and then continued northward.

Sure enough, more and more Delhi troops wanted to stop them, but when they heard that five thousand cavalry were wiped out in an hour, they backed away in fright.

More and more soldiers stopped in front, but they dared not show their faces.The soldiers of Ming Dynasty were not afraid either.In addition to letting the Indian servants inquire about the situation ahead every day, they still slowly go straight into the area where the enemy has the most troops.

Their speed had more than halved, although on the surface they seemed to have been rushing recklessly into the Derry encirclement.

But before the opponent's number reached 20, their [-] soldiers were still waiting.

Every day, their route is strictly analyzed, how to meet the enemy, how to fight, and how to retreat temporarily if the enemy is advancing rapidly.

"My lord, Shahpur is the opponent's last chance. After passing Shahpur, it is the plain area. At that time, our cavalry can reach Delhi directly without hindrance. Therefore, in Shahpur, there will definitely be some people waiting for us." battle."

From Jaipur to Delhi, there is only a mountainous area in the north of Jaipur, and then there are large plains.The Delhi people want to intercept the Ming army, and only Shahpur is their last chance.

Zhang Xin looked at the group of Habayashi Guards General Qian in front of him. He didn't think that before this expedition, he could clearly feel that the soldiers of Habayashi Guards were much stronger than ordinary soldiers in all aspects.

They have now occupied the middle ranks of the army, and in ten or twenty years, the entire army will be theirs.

In the past, he had always been a little indifferent to the role of Habayashi Wei Xue, but now it seems that in the future, his own son should also be thrown in to have a good experience.

"Are all the soldiers ready?"

"It has been notified, and all soldiers are looking forward to it."

The power of muskets indeed enhanced the self-confidence of Ming soldiers. Only by hitting others, others could not hit themselves.Such a one-sided battle, let alone 20 people, even 100 million people, they dare to fight.

Because of the long-distance march, they didn't carry much ammunition, and each of them had a base of fifty guns.Then the transport team delivered another batch of spares, which averaged out to each person, which was only [-] rounds of ammunition.

Since it is not easy to replenish, they cherish the ammunition very much, and have no idea of ​​​​taking the initiative to attack.Instead, he wanted to wait for the enemy to gather together, maim and disable the enemy in one fell swoop, so that they would never dare to fight against the Ming soldiers again.

And because of the gap in weapons, the Delhi people can only rely on numbers to establish a psychological advantage. Just as Zhang Xin and the others expected, the enemy is constantly retreating and converging.

In Shahpur, a small city in the north of Jaipur, guarding the exit of the mountain, nearly 20 Delhi soldiers formed an endless camp.

Against the [-] soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, the [-] servants dared to face the enemy directly. The people in Delhi couldn't believe it, but they couldn't believe it.