Chapter 848: The Tragedy of the Mughal Empire (5)
"Open the city gate and let the Qing army in!" Deeply feeling that he could not continue to let the Qing army bombard like this, the commander of the Mughal army decided to let the Qing army enter the city and fought a decisive battle with the Qing army in the city.
He knew that the cavalry of the Qing army was powerful, and there were many buildings in the city, which was just right to limit the cavalry of the Qing army.
The Haryana gate was suddenly opened, and the open gate could easily rush into the city as long as the Qing army moved.
However, the Mughal commander was not a straw bag, and Dolgon was not a straw bag.
"Hmph, ignore it, keep bombarding." I saw Dolgon snort coldly, unmoved.
The Qing artillery battalion continued to bombard the city of Haryana, and Mughal soldiers were still killed and wounded in the city at every moment.
After the commander of the Mughal army received the news that the Qing army did not take the opportunity to enter the city, his face suddenly became gloomy, but the Qing army did not enter the city, and he had no other way.
In the end, in desperation, the commander of the Mughal army could only withdraw part of the army in the city from the city to the rear, and when the Qing army's bombardment stopped and really entered the city, he would enter the city to support and fight a decisive battle with the Qing army in the city.
The city of Haryana is an important town, guarding the main road, the north and south are cliffs and mountains, the Qing army can only attack at the west gate, and the east gate faces the Ganges plain and the imperial capital Delhi, which is naturally the rear of the city of Haryana.
The Qing army has bombed so far, and the Mughal army in the city has suffered more than 10,000 casualties.
In order to minimize casualties in the bombardment of the Qing army, the commander of the Mughal army ordered 80,000 Mughal troops to temporarily withdraw from the city of Haryana and withdraw to the Ganges plain at the east gate.
However, what the Mughal commander did not expect was that as soon as he gave the order to retreat, almost all the Mughal troops in the city flocked to the east gate, regardless of whether it was his own army that received the order to retreat.
The artillery of the Qing army is too powerful, they have never seen such a powerful cannon, as if death fell on their heads, I don't know when they will be blown into minced meat, this is too frightening, especially after more than 10,000 people were killed and injured, the Mughal army, which was not high in combat effectiveness and morale, suddenly collapsed, and they could no longer bear to continue to be bombed by the Qing army in the city.
It's messy, it's messed up all at once!
While withdrawing part of the army, the Mughal generals apparently forgot one thing, that is, the west gate facing the Qing army was still open.
"Huh?" Dolgon looked through the telescope through the open gate of the city, and saw that the city was suddenly in chaos, and a large number of Mughal soldiers ran towards the east of the city, and at this time there were almost no Mughal soldiers who were guarding the west gate.
Dorgon's heart was full of doubts, and he didn't know what was going on in the city.
The doubt lasted only a few breaths, and the fighter plane was fleeting, and Dolgon's reputation for being a great man was obviously able to catch any short-lived fighter.
"Bow down! You take an eight-flag straight into the east gate! Dorgon ordered loudly.
"Wow!" Ao Bai received the order.
"Pass on the king's order, and the whole army will enter the city of Haryana!" Dolgon, dressed in white armor, rode on a white warhorse, drew his sword with a bang, and pointed it at the city of Haryana.
"Kill" Ao Bai was the first to get the order, so he was the first to rush into the city with a part of the Eight Banners.
Behind the Eight Banners, more Qing troops followed and poured into the city, and the Qing artillery also extended the shelling at this time in a timely manner, so as not to blow up their own people who rushed into the city.
The Qing army, which had just entered the city from the West Gate, encountered an extremely strange situation, and there was not a single Mughal soldier at the West Gate.
No matter how much, Ao Bai took the lead, along the central street, with the Manchu Eight Banners under his command, and went straight to the east gate according to Dorgon's orders.
Other Qing troops who poured into the city scattered throughout the city to find and eliminate the Mughal army in the city.
The first to encounter the Mughal soldiers was Ao Bai and other Manchu Eight Banners that went straight to the east gate.
Seeing the dense Mughal soldiers crowded at the small east gate, although the Mughal soldiers here were numerous and extremely dense, Ao Bai and the Manchurian Eight Banners cavalry did not hesitate at all, and directly rode into the Mughal army crowd.
"Kill!"
"Poof! Burst! Poof" The cavalry of the Eight Banners, who rushed into the crowd of the Mughal army, swung their swords and slashed left and right, and all of a sudden blood splattered and screamed everywhere.
Because the Mughal soldiers here are so dense, the soldiers of the Eight Banners who rushed in could cut the Mughal soldiers with every sword, and sometimes even two Mughal soldiers with one sword.
The Mughal army was originally demoralized by the Qing army's fierce shelling, and when the commander's order to withdraw from the city was directly shattered, all the Mughal troops in the city squeezed towards the east gate regardless of whether they were retreating or not.
This undoubtedly gave the Qing army a huge fighter, and Dolgon also caught this fighter in an instant, so it caused the current situation.
The sudden appearance of the Manchu Eight Banners and the massacre of the Mughal soldiers made the Mughal army in the city even more explosive.
The Mughal soldiers did not want to turn around and fight with the Qing army, but kept dodging the impact of the Qing army on both sides, or squeezed more desperately towards the east gate, hoping that they could squeeze out of the east gate.
Ao Bai waited for the Eight Banners to slash and kill the dense Mughal soldiers around him.
After a while, the Manchu Eight Banners, which also had more servants and cavalry, also came here from other directions, besieging a large number of Mughal troops crowded around the East Gate.
After a while, the Persian infantry also arrived.
Faced with more and more sieges by the Qing army, the Mughal army here was slaughtered one-sidedly, and the blood flowed profusely.
Fear and panic shrouded the heads of the remaining Mughal soldiers, and the remaining Mughal soldiers squeezed even more desperately towards the east gate, but the east gate was so big, it could only accommodate a few people in total, how could it be possible to squeeze out so many Mughal soldiers at once.
Ao Bai and other Eight Banners are still slaughtering Mughal soldiers, and they are also struggling to kill in the direction of the East Gate, intending to block the East Gate.
And where Ao Bai and the Eight Banners went, it was simply a bloody road, and there were constantly Mughal soldiers who faced the Eight Banners of Ao Bai and the Eight Banners to break and flee to both sides, and suddenly let go of the road to the east gate.
"Hahahaha, kill" Finally, Ao Bai laughed wildly, and took the lead in front of the east gate, and a large number of full eight banners followed to the east gate.
The east gate was blocked by thousands of full eight flags such as Aobai at once.
The cavalry of the Eight Banners directly went out of the east gate, killed the Mughal soldiers outside the east gate, and rode back to the city.
The Mughal soldiers inside and outside the east gate were all cleared, and immediately the soldiers of the Eight Banners jumped off their horses and struggled to close the east gate.
At this moment, the Mughal soldiers inside and outside the city were dumbfounded.
There were originally 200,000 Mughal troops in the city, and about 12,000 people were killed and wounded, and the commander of the Mughal army ordered the withdrawal of a part of the army to the Ganges Plain at the east gate, and all the Mughal troops in the city were moved, and the retreat turned into a chaotic escape, and only about 40,000 Mughal soldiers withdrew from the east gate.
The Manbaqi and other Qing troops have slaughtered more than 30,000 Mughal soldiers until now, which means that there are still 110,000 Mughal soldiers left in the city.
The 110,000 Mughal soldiers seem to be a lot of people, not without the strength to fight with the Qing army for a while, but these 110,000 Mughal soldiers have already collapsed their will, and they have no desire to fight.
The order of the Mughal army commander to retreat caused a great chaos in the Mughal army in the city, and unconsciously created an excellent fighter for Dolgon, and Dolgon's fighter not only controlled Haryana City, but also annihilated hundreds of thousands of Mughal troops in the city by the way, and the real battle was brilliant.
The commander of the Mughal army, who was outside the eastern gate, could not have predicted this, or that he had learned the news now, and it was too late to change anything.