The situation was developing in the bad direction, and the enemy cavalry outside the city did not leave, cruising around the city, obviously with bad intentions.

One day later, reinforcements came from the enemy, and thousands of cavalry arrived.

Three days later, the defenders of Mumbai began to become desperate, and the opposing infantry arrived!

This small infantry unit built barracks and built a long perimeter around the city of Mumbai to clear the obstructions outside the city.

The nature of the matter has changed, and the other party does not want to take a plunder and leave, but wants to capture the city of Mumbai!

There is no navy in the city of Mumbai now, and there are ships that have escaped and sent the information out, but it is not a matter of gathering a large army to come to the aid overnight, and it is likely that when the reinforcements arrive, the city of Mumbai has already been lost.

A week later, an army from outside the city gathered and laid siege to the city of Mumbai!

Representing the presence of the Mughal Emperor in person, a bearded and majestic old general wearing golden armor rode a black horse that was shiny and extremely powerful.

This veteran is no small general, he is a Turkic warrior from Central Asia, and his contemporaries are either dead or deposed, but he is the only one who survives and makes a career on the battlefield in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is the "graveyard of empires", which has been revealed since ancient times, the Arab Empire did not gnaw Afghanistan, and the Tang Empire also stopped in Afghanistan.

To a certain extent, the Mughal Empire that had come to Afghanistan was also sadly trapped in the graveyard, they couldn't handle the tribes there, they fought with the Mughal Empire from generation to generation, and the Mughal Emperors fought with the tribes one by one, trying to conquer them, but seeing no prospect of victory.

Or some people say that Afghanistan is certainly a "graveyard", but it is also a "magnet" that attracts those empires to join it?!

The nature of the empire was to expand, and for the Mughal Empire, they found that to the north was Persia, and if they got Persia, they would border the Ottoman Empire, a brother state of the same religion to the west.

Brothers work together, and their profits are broken?!

It's just a good wish, no matter how stupid the Mughal emperor is, he knows that now across Persia, the Ottoman Empire is a brother. If there is no Persia, the Ottoman Empire will show their true colors and will march on the Mughal Empire and annex the Mughal Empire!

To the east, there is a rich eastern country, but unfortunately, the impassable Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is like a loyal guard, firmly defending the tranquility of the Pearl of the Orient.

The land south of the Tibetan Plateau is full of primeval forests and rivers, and no army can expect to conquer that area, and the people there don't even have to fight the conquerors.

People will encounter malaria, dysentery, jaundice, bush-wasting diseases, or ---- strange diseases as the general saying goes, and you won't be able to find out the cause of the disease, but it will kill people in every minute.

Hehe, why are the Chinese able to raid Southeast Asia with the same environment, they are lucky, it is the people of Liangguang and Fujian Province who are adapted to the environment there, if the northerners of the mainland go directly to the south, they will not come back!

When the environment in Southeast Asia improves, the northerners will continue to come to the liver, so that they will not die without illness.

Similarly, the Chinese spread along the Indian Ocean, and the vanguard troops dispatched were also the soldiers of Liangguang and Fujian Province, as well as some soldiers from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which were uniquely adaptable compared to the people of other provinces.

The expansion of the Mughal Empire, to the south, those three brothers who are good at kneeling and singing about conquest will not resist, but the Mughal Empire is only a distant Indian subcontinent, and it is not a real matter.

Occupying that big dung pit of hundreds of millions of people tastes sour.

Far from it, it is in this context that the generals who can fight in Afghanistan and make a name for themselves are really first-class commanders!

Imad Ahmed commanded Ruoding, who fought for the empire, and was the mainstay of the Mughal Empire, and he could only maintain an invincible situation --- his ability to suppress many disobedient tribes on the battlefield in Afghanistan, and sadly, once the veteran left the throne, the Mughal Empire did not know who would be able to rise to the top.

The Mughal Empire did not feel much offended by the fact that the Chinese occupied some territory in southern India, because the Chinese proposed the "right of inheritance", that is, to inherit the territory of the previously defeated Hongmaofan, and the Mughal Empire did not even want to provoke Hongmaofan, so they ignored them.

Don't mess with the red hair?

The red-haired fan came from the sea, and he can beat you, but you can't beat him, the victory is slim, and it is not enough to laugh, what do you do to provoke them?!

But there are some things that can't be left alone, the Ottoman Empire was attacked by the Chinese, and the holy land was taken away!

The Ottoman Empire sent an envoy to Delhi, the imperial capital of the Mughal Empire, and sternly reprimanded the kings there: "You let God's land be taken away, are you still God's people?" ”

This was so serious that in order to punish the pagans of the East who dared to offend the heavens, the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan sent Imad Ahmad to attack Bombay.

Shah Jahan's level of knowledge is there, he increased the prestige of Imad Ahmed, and allowed him to serve as the honor guard of half the emperor!

Imad Ahmed lived up to expectations, he deserved to be a famous general, he shot ruthlessly and sophisticated, he first gathered troops, in the name of crusading against Afghanistan, so that everyone took it for granted, the spies in the southeast country in the Delhi area failed to sound the alarm in time, and when they found out that something was wrong, the road traffic to Mumbai had been cut off, and the news could not be transmitted.

Then he sent the elite cavalry of Mutu Karim to raid the city of Mumbai, and after taking the lead, he quickly reached the city of Mumbai with an army of 100,000 troops.

This hand alone is beyond the reach of most generals, you must know that the ancient conquest was troublesome enough, the logistics supply was not easy to handle, and those military leaders were even more troublesome, but under the command of Imad Ahmed, everything was not a problem.

The military leaders surrounded Imad Ahmed, who had been confident in him by previous victories.

As a rule, the Mughal army consisted of four main parts: light infantry + war elephants + musket artillery + cavalry.

Among the various branches of the army, the Mughal cavalry was dominant, with the Shiyi cavalry, the feudal cavalry, and the knights of the Royal Forest Army making up the cavalry of the Mughal army, the former two being locally provided troops, i.e., tribal armies, and the latter being elite warriors fed by the treasury. Most of them came from the Central Asian Turkic warriors, who formed the main force of the Mughal royal cavalry, and Imad Ahmad was the leader of the Central Asian Turkic warriors.

He brought with him 15,000 cavalrymen, of whom 5,000 were heavy cavalry and 10,000 light cavalry, and under his tutelage, not a silver wax spear but a steel spearhead, so invincible and invincible, that the ambitious tribal leader Mutu Karim could only suppress his ambition and did not dare not disobey him.

Musket artillery was in the ascendant, and since the introduction of European firearms to India at the end of the 15th century, the role of large-caliber long-barreled front boring cannons has become increasingly important on the Indian battlefield. But the cannon was so expensive that it required a lot of copper and iron to make the cannon body, a gun carriage and plenty of pack animals to transport it to the battlefield, and finally a gunpowder and skilled gunner to make it firing and to play its role.

The only empire in the empire that could afford to set up a large military factory to make cannons and provide other accessories and personnel for the cannons was the royal family, and the Mughal emperors set up special institutions to manage the production and transportation of cannons.

Musketeers were recruited from among the settled inhabitants of towns and villages. Light infantry using Turkish-style heavy arquebuses and Portuguese-style conventional arquebuses were generally considered effective, providing more firepower than archers.

Proponents of the effectiveness of war elephants point out that war elephants have the advantages of strong destructive ability and strong deterrent ability, while opponents of negative opinions believe that war elephants are useless, pointing out that war elephants have disadvantages such as high maintenance costs, easy to trample on friendly forces, and create chaos.

In any case, the Mughals, who had strong cavalry and had defeated war elephants, continued to develop their own army of war elephants, and at the height of the Mughal Empire, the royal family kept more than 1,000 royal elephants, which were used for large-scale performances and transportation of heavy goods in peacetime, and used in wartime for battle.

The army was besieging the city, but the army of 300 elephants and hundreds of heavy artillery pieces were still on their way to Bombay, and Imad Ahmed sent henchmen to urge them to come quickly.

As for the light infantry?

Everywhere, aren't the three brothers who grow vigorously like weeds the best light infantry and the best cannon fodder?

Imad Ahmed ordered his generals to collect the third brother as soon as possible, and prepare to use their boiling blood to open the door of the Heavenly Hall!

The third brother rushes forward!

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