On the side of the Mughal Empire.

After Dolgon and his Qing army captured a large part of the Mughal Empire, due to the casualties of the siege and the need to stay behind to defend the captured city, the soldiers gradually ran out of food and grass, and finally stopped the attack.

The Manchus' second great war to destroy the Mughal Empire was declared a failure.

However, counting the territory conquered last time, the Manchus already occupied three-sevenths of the Mughal Empire.

For the next period of time, the Manchus fell silent, trying to digest the captured Mughal territories while training new Persian and Indian flags to gather strength in preparation for the next battle to destroy the Mughal Empire.

Feeling the lesson of this time, digesting the captured Mughal territories and accumulating strength, Dolgon also took a lot of time and energy to develop an intelligence system in the remaining territories of the Mughal Empire, so that he could always understand all the actions of the Mughal Empire.

Even Dolgon still wants to develop the intelligence system into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but it is a pity that there are a large number of Jinyi Wei spies in the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the stability of the Ming Dynasty inside and outside, and the people's lives are happy and healthy, it is difficult for Dolgon to find someone to help him pass on the information, and he himself sent people into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, almost all of them lost contact after stepping into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, so that Dolgon had to temporarily dispel the idea of developing an intelligence network in the Ming Dynasty, and only focused on the development of the intelligence of the Mughal Empire.

The Mughal Empire originally had a population of 90 million, but after two large-scale invasions by Dolgon and the Qing army, the population of the Mughal Empire had dropped to more than 82 million, a drop of more than 7 million people.

At present, the Mughal territory controlled by the Manchus had a population of about 38 million, and the population in the territory still under the control of the Mughal emperor was 44 million.

Originally, the Manchu Qing Dynasty captured the richest city of Delhi in the Mughal Empire, although the territory controlled by the Mughal Emperor was smaller, but the population should be about the same, but the Manchu Qing was the invader after all, and when attacking the city, a large number of Mughal people always fled to the places controlled by the Mughal Emperor in order to escape the war, so the population of the places controlled by the Mughal Emperor was larger.

But it doesn't matter, India's population of more than 38 million is enough for Dolgon.

Under the orders of Dolgon, 550,000 Indian untouchables were forcibly conscripted to form a new Qing Indian flag.

The Manchurians still used their 'old methods' to train these new Indian flags, and the 550,000 new Indian flags were all divided into multiple parts, and they followed the butts of the war horses of the Manchurian Eight Banners every day to 'march' for training, and once they fell behind, they would immediately be mercilessly slashed and killed by the Qing cavalry that followed behind, and the degree of training was very bloody.

Under such bloody training by the Manchurians, the combat effectiveness of the new Indian flag has been continuously improved, and even after the training, only 500,000 of the 550,000 Indian flags remained, and 50,000 people died under the steel knives of the Manchurians because they fell behind.

In addition to the large-scale training of the new Persian and Indian flags, Dorgon also ordered the Great Qing Firearms Manufacturing Bureau in Isfahan to work around the clock to produce artillery shells and collect more food and grass.

With such a large-scale expansion of strength, it is impossible for the Manchu people to hide it from the Mughal Emperor, even if the Mughal Emperor does not know, the intelligence network of the Ming Dynasty will pass this information on to the Mughal Emperor.

"The heart of the Mughals will not change! Hateful! Hateful! The Mughal emperor gritted his teeth.

As the emperor of the Mughal Empire, he will never allow the Mughal Empire to perish, because if the Mughal Empire falls, he, the emperor, will inevitably not end well.

"Nope! My Mughal Empire will not perish, will never perish! The Mughal Emperor roared with a hideous face.

The Mughal emperor was stimulated and went crazy.

On the same day, the Mughal Emperor told Lü Yunzhang, who was stationed in Vijayawada, that he would buy more flintlock pistols and 'iron pimple' thunderbolts from the Ming Dynasty, and that he would train more flintlock pistol teams to resist the Qing army and even defeat the Qing army.

The Mughal Empire may be relatively wealthy, but the Mughal Emperor now only has half of the country left, and if he wants to have enough money to buy Ming flintlock pistols, he can only continue to tax the Mughal people, and the levy is more ruthless than the Manchus.

A large amount of gold and silver from the Mughal Empire flowed to the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty once again provided 80,000 flintlock pistols for the Mughal Empire, and counting the remaining flintlock pistols of the Mughal Empire, the Mughal Emperor was able to form a flintlock team of about 100,000 people.

The 100,000-strong flintlock team was not enough, and the Mughal emperor wanted to train more, so he had to continue to loot gold and silver to buy from the Ming Dynasty.

In the end, the Ming Dynasty once again 'supported' the Mughal Empire with 50,000 flintlock pistols, so that the Mughal Emperor could form a total of 150,000 flintlock pistol teams, which was enough for him to temporarily resist the Qing army's attack for a while.

In addition to the establishment of the Fusilier Corps, the Mughal Emperor also recruited a large number of young and strong Indian untouchables to form a new Mughal army, and it was expected to restore the ordinary Mughal army of one million people.

Both sides are preparing for the next big battle.

Dolgon was determined to destroy the Mughal Empire for the third time, and the Mughal Emperor, with a fleet of 150,000 flintlock muskets, also had an ambitious hope to defeat the Qing army and regain the lost territory.

Finally, the two sides were preparing for two whole years.

In May of the 15th year of the Ming Dynasty, Dolgon gathered a huge number of 700,000 troops, of which 500,000 were Indian flags, and launched the third war to destroy the Mughal Empire.

The Mughal emperor was so shocked that his face turned a little black, 700,000 Qing troops! Even if he knew that most of the number was made up of Indian untouchables, after all, he was in the name of the Qing army, which made his heart palpitate.

In the end, the more greedy for life and fear of death, the indecisive Mughal emperor still did not dare to fight a direct decisive battle with the Qing army, and the victory was decided in a battle.

Relying on the 150,000 flintlock pistols, even if the Qing army had the advantage of artillery, its actual strength was not much stronger than that of the Mughal Empire.

The Qing army can indeed use cannons to restrain the Mughal Empire's flintlock pistol team, but other Qing troops are flesh and blood after all, and the Mughal Empire's flintlock team has too many people, and the artillery cannot all be killed, so it can only be restricted and contained, and the Qing army will inevitably suffer heavy casualties after all.

At Grimnagar, one of the last two towns leading to the new capital of the Mughal emperors, Vijayawada.

The Qing army of 700,000 attacked from outside the city, and the Mughal army of 300,000 defended the city, and the first and fiercest battle between the two million-strong armies took place.

The Qing army relied on the advantage of artillery, and the Mughal army relied on the advantage of a large number of flintlock pistols, as well as the advantage of defending the city, and in the first short time, the two sides were inseparable.

In this battle, even if the Qing army was more numerous, as the besieging side, it could not quickly defeat the Mughal army that was defending the city of Grimgel and completely capture the city of Grimgel.

In the end, it was only by relying on a heavy rain that the Qing army's artillery and Mughal flintlock muskets were abolished for most of the combat effectiveness, and the battle changed.

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