Hearing Lu Yunzhang's strategy, the Mughal emperor was silent all of a sudden, and the surrounding Mughal ministers were also discussing.

Doing so may really be able to resist the Qing army's attack, so that the Qing army will not be able to destroy his Mughal empire at once.

But it will also be like the last time, it will allow the Qing army to capture a large territory, and after the Qing army digests those territories, its strength will increase again, so what about the next large-scale attack? And how can the empire resist? It seems that this can only delay the fall of the empire, and if there is no way to completely defeat the Qing army, the empire will inevitably be destroyed after all.

However, if it is a decisive battle, although it seems that there is some possibility of defeating the Qing army in a battle, and then recovering the capital city of Delhi captured by the Qing army, as well as a large territory, but there is a greater possibility that it will be the same as the last time, and the decisive battle will be lost again, and the elite army will be lost.

Hesitating and hesitating, the Mughal emperor's face was constantly changing.

Lu Yunzhang spoke again at the right time.

"Your Majesty, it has only been a little more than a year at this time, and Your Majesty has trained 80,000 flintlock pistol teams, if you have more time, plus the help of the Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty is likely to train 100,000 or 200,000 flintlock pistol teams, and then defeat the Qing army, no problem!" Lu Yunzhang flickered.

In fact, Lu Yunzhang is just a simple fool, and the flintlock team without the configuration of field artillery cannot give full play to the combat effectiveness that an all-firearms army should have, and it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to really provide 200,000 flintlock pistols to the Mughal Empire.

But after Lü Yunzhang's persuasion, the Mughal emperor finally made up his mind.

"Okay, just listen to Captain Lu!" The Mughal emperor gritted his teeth and said firmly.

After all, the Mughal emperor was still afraid of death, afraid of the defeat of the decisive battle and no room to turn over, and finally he gave up the idea of doing his best to fight the decisive battle, and was ready to adopt Lu Yunzhang's strategy, relying on the cities one by one, gradual resistance, and constantly consuming the number of Qing troops and the number of cannonballs, in order to achieve the goal of finally preventing the Qing army from approaching the new capital of Vijayawada.

The other Mughal ministers did not disagree too much, nor did they favor large-scale decisive battles, tying the fate of the Mughals to a decisive battle with a greater likelihood of losing.

With the decision of the Mughal Empire to abandon a large-scale decisive battle with the Qing army, and instead rely on the cities and gradually resist, consume the number of soldiers of the Qing army, especially the number of artillery shells used in the siege, and finally contain the Qing army's attack, and buy more time for the Mughal Empire to breathe and train the flintlock team.

The order was delivered, and the Mughal emperor divided the 700,000 troops that had been gathered to prepare for a large-scale decisive battle with the Qing army into several parts, and divided them into five other important towns that the Qing army had to conquer in addition to the already lost city of Jabalpu, and some other cities that the Qing army passed through and also had to conquer.

The Mughal monarchs and ministers regarded this gradual resistance as particularly important, and all the leading generals were concentrated in the city of Vijayawada, and if anyone dared to surrender to the Qing army, the family was immediately killed, forcing all the leading generals to risk their lives to resist the Qing army's attack.

Under such a spicy arrangement of the Mughal emperor, even if the combat effectiveness of the Mughal army was not strong, and it could only bear a maximum of about 20% casualties, it would not surrender to the Qing army without the slightest resistance.

Starting from the second important town of Gondia that the Qing army had to conquer in the offensive route, hundreds of thousands of Mughal troops relied on the city to defend the city, of which 60,000 flintlock pistols were distributed among them.

Due to the coercion of the Mughal emperor, there were almost no generals who dared to surrender without resistance, and there were almost no cities that fell in despair, and the Qing army had to forcibly conquer every city it reached.

"Boom, boom, boom" Cannonballs hit the walls of Gondia one after another, and the Qing army had to spend artillery shells to collapse the walls before they could fight in the face of this second important town that had to be conquered on the way to attack.

Gondia had 100,000 Mughal troops, 10,000 of whom were flintlock pikes, and although such a force was weaker than Jabalpu, it was not so easy for the Qing army to conquer.

"Boom ——-" Finally, after a period of bombardment, the walls of Gondia collapsed.

"Kill—" The Qing army slaughtered in large numbers, and a fierce battle began in the city of Gondia.

The defender of Gondia was also a general trusted by the Mughal emperor and had some talent.

In fact, before the Qing army invaded several times, the Mughal Empire in this period had not fallen from its peak, and the politics were quite clear, although there were many people who were greedy for life and afraid of death, but there were also some diehards of the Mughal royal family, and the defenders of the two important towns of Jabalpur and Gondia were one of them.

In the face of the Qing army's breakthrough into the city, after the Mughal guards of Gondia deployed the 10,000-strong flintlock team under the collapsed city at the beginning, the Qing army had just rushed in from the collapsed city wall on a large scale, and immediately faced the intensive attack of this 10,000-person Mughal flintlock pistol team.

"Bang bang bang-" Rows and rows of Qing soldiers were shot and fell to the ground, including many Manchu Eight Banners.

Even if the Qing army was numerous, in the face of the intensive attack of the Mughal flintlock pistols, it could not really enter the city at once.

Qing army camp.

Hearing the dense gunfire coming from inside the city of Gondia, Dolgon's face instantly darkened.

"Hateful! It's Da Ming's flintlock pistol again! Dorgon said with a grim face.

In the face of the flintlock pistols in Gondia, if it is not resolved, it will be difficult for the Qing Dynasty to really capture Gondia City.

Against the flintlock team of this intensive attack, the cavalry and infantry can only pay huge casualties for a large-scale charge, and only by sending the Great Qing Breaking Dragon Army, which also belongs to the flintlock team, to attack can they be quickly defeated.

However, in Jabalpur City, the flintlock pistol team of the Great Qing Dragon Breaking Army has already suffered a lot of casualties, and the population of the Eight Banners is not large, and it is not easy to replenish, and it seems that the gains outweigh the losses at the cost of thousands or even more people to defeat the Mughal flintlock pistols in the city to break through the Gondia.

"Order, the army will suspend the attack on the city, bombard the artillery camp, and blow up the Gondia to ruins for this king!" Dorgon said angrily.

Although it was clear that this would consume so much of the shells it carried, that it might eventually have to stop the attack due to the lack of shells as it had done last time, and it would also fail to destroy the Mughal Empire.

However, Dolgon can't control so much, cannonballs may be important, but the Qing soldiers, especially the Eight Banners, are even more important.

"Boom, boom, boom—" The Qing army aimed its guns at the city of Gondia, and poured a large number of shells into the city.

In the end, as expected, Dolgon began to embark on the path that the Ming quietly guided him, but whether the final result was also as the Ming expected, the Mughal Empire was full of corpses, and it remains to be followed by development.

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