In the middle of August of the twenty-sixth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen, who had been leading the army westward, suddenly ordered to stop when he arrived at the ruins of Qunu City, so that the whole army could rest and recuperate.

This will has puzzled many people, didn't it go smoothly all the way, why did it stop? If you don't take advantage of the good situation, when will you fight?

Despite this confusion, the soldiers of the Ming army were accustomed to their emperor's often unexpected wills, and the final facts proved that the emperor was definitely useful in doing so.

And those Mughal recruits have never experienced it, but even if they have an idea in their hearts, they don't dare to show it.

At this time, among the troops led by Emperor Chongzhen, 20,000 elite cavalry were his basic plate. Next is the Heshute cavalry led by Dalantai, which is in the early 10,000s. There are more than 30,000 infantry troops from Dongwu.

At present, the worst combat strength is the Mughal infantry army, with a total of more than 90,000.

The reason why the Mughal infantry army is poor in combat strength is that the language barrier is that it has only been a few months under the command of Emperor Chongzhen, and he can only understand a little bit of Chinese. Therefore, when it comes to commanding in wartime, it is very difficult.

The second point is that the Mughal infantry army is not well equipped. The muskets they were equipped with were still very primitive arquebuses, and the quality was uneven, and it was not uncommon for them to be blown up on the battlefield. As for armor and the like, there is basically none.

The only advantage is that most of these Mughal infantry troops are the former Mughal Empire infantry troops, and they know some common sense about marching and fighting, and they don't need special training.

During this break, Emperor Chongzhen gave his commanders a task, that is, they should reduce the infantry army of Dongwu nationality to 20,000, and the infantry army of Mughal nationality to 50,000.

These soldiers who were streamlined were formed into another army, and Zhang Huangyan, the governor of Dongwu who followed behind the army, was asked to lead them, and they were mainly transferred to local armies.

The repeated wars in the Mughal territory, although it is not the side of the Mughal Empire or the side of the Ming Kingdom, but there are still many people who are scattered all over the place, and no one relies on them, they just want to be at ease.

If Emperor Chongzhen was just like the beginning, he would leave after a circle. Then these ungoverned people, he will not worry about it. However, now that the Mughals are to be occupied, these people must be eliminated. This task is going to be handed over to Zhang Huangyan.

As for why he stopped at the ruins of this Qunu City, it is not because he regrets that the once glorious Qunu City was destroyed by the war, but because there are two fools in front of him who are calculating the Ming army. Emperor Chongzhen didn't think about acting according to the script they thought, so he simply stopped and consumed their sharpness first.

Anyway, as far as the current situation is concerned, Emperor Chongzhen is not in a hurry at all. At the moment of resting, you can reorganize the combat strength of the army, stabilize the rear, and by the way, you can also make the supplies in the back a little richer, why not?

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Sure enough, Emperor Chongzhen was not in a hurry, but Aurangzeb was in a hurry, or in other words, among the three forces, he was the most anxious.

After concluding an alliance with Abbas II, Aurangzeb took Shah Jahan back to Delhi and, as in history, imprisoned him on the opposite side of the Taj Mahal, where he was kept under strict guard.

Then, Aurangzeb himself led his army all the way east, and after estimating the itinerary, he set up a posture to meet the battle in the Oud region.

Although he and Abbas II agreed that the decisive battle with the Ming army would be set at Panipat, if he ran to the west without fighting, he was afraid that he would not pretend to be like it and be suspected by the Ming emperor.

Therefore, Aurangzeb's original plan was to pretend to march eastward, pretend to rescue the east, and then encounter the Ming army, and if he couldn't resist it under the big battle, he could only retreat. In this way, the Ming army will definitely bite him all the way to the west, and this bureau will be completed.

Destroying or driving away the Ming army as soon as possible and restoring the territory of the Mughal Empire was Aurangzeb's most anxious thing. Therefore, if possible, he was eager to end the war as soon as possible.

Aurangzeb's army, which was openly in a posture of fighting with the Ming army, was actually ready to withdraw at any time. To be honest, this posture is not easy to pose, especially if it is placed for a long time, it is easy to flash the waist.

Aurangzeb therefore estimated that he would almost encounter it in the Oud region, so he put it here first. As a result, his posture was set, but he didn't see the Ming army on the left, and he didn't see the Ming army on the right, so he couldn't hold on anymore, so he had to send a scout horse to the east to search for the traces of the Ming army.

As a result, I didn't expect the return of Tanma to be that the Ming army rested on the side of the ruins of Qunu City and did not come west again.

At this moment, Aurangzeb was a little confused.

If the Ming army did not continue to advance westward, the countermeasures he had discussed with Abbas II would not be useful. Didn't it come to the west with a fierce momentum, why did it stop?

What to do next? Aurangzeb was a little out of his mind.

For him, the best thing to do is to lure the Ming army to the west, so that Abbas II can also participate in the big war, and it is best if they can lose more troops and let him profit, which is the best situation.

The second class is that he joined forces with Abbas II to annihilate the Ming army at a small price. Then Abbas II would return in compliance with the agreement, and he would be able to fight further east, regain lost territory, and achieve the revival of the Mughal Empire, or even go further.

But now, the Ming army has stopped, and if he wants to face the Ming army alone, it is one thing to win the battle or not, and the most important thing is that he feels a little stupid and absolutely unwilling to let Abbas II's army sit on the mountain west of Delhi and watch the tiger fight!

Stalemate? Aurangzeb certainly didn't want to.

What to do?

After thinking about it for a long time, Aurangzeb could only continue to the east, take the initiative to fight the Ming army, and then retreat back to the west.

However, the farther he went east, the farther away he was from the intended battlefield, and the greater the losses he would lose when he turned back and fled back to the west. Therefore, Aurangzeb can almost be said to have gone east with a drop of blood.

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Odom was left in Delhi by Aurangzeb, so Emperor Chongzhen's grasp of Aurangzeb was not clear enough. However, when the Mughal Empire's Tanma did not make contact with Daming Night, he knew that Aurangzeb had still come.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen actually had many countermeasures to choose from, all of which could make Aurangzeb very uncomfortable.

For example, if the Ming army retreats directly to the east, will Aurangzeb pursue or not? If you catch up, what will happen to Abbas II's ambush army? If you don't chase after it, you really have to watch the Ming army withdraw like this?

In addition, the Ming army can also go south, will you Aurangzeb chase or not? It's the same thing.

Of course, right here, ruthlessly clean up Aurangzeb's army, anyway, the other party has no real will to fight, just take advantage of this opportunity to beat up. When Aurangzeb led the army to retreat westward, Emperor Chongzhen just didn't pursue, which was another countermeasure.

However, Emperor Chongzhen's purpose was to include Abbas II. Therefore, he did not take these countermeasures.

The rest of the Ming army ended with the approach of the Mughal imperial army. Emperor Chongzhen took the army and began to act.

Just as Aurangzeb expected, Emperor Chongzhen led the main force after reorganization and took the initiative to attack and seek a decisive battle.

The two armies faced each other, and they were all thousands of troops. A huge army, on this plain, seems to be headless at a glance.

Emperor Chongzhen's imperial flag was very eye-catching, and he was observing the opposite formation in front of the two armies.

After glancing around, he suddenly waved his hand. A brocade guard beside him drove his horse forward, alone, to the Mughal army opposite.

Seeing that there was only one knight on the Ming army's side, of course the Mughal side knew that this was a messenger, and it was obvious that he had something to say, so there was no movement, just looking at the knights of the Ming army, a little curious what the Ming army wanted to say?

When he was a stone's throw away, he saw the Ming army Jinyi guard holding his horse and shouting loudly to the Mughal army: "The Ming Emperor has a decree, and the third prince of the Mughals, Aurang Zebu, stepped forward to listen to the decree!" ”

This sentence was shouted in the Mughal language. Therefore, when you listen to it here, you will naturally understand it. Subconsciously, they looked at where their prince was.

Aurangzeb, as the "Great Khan of the Mughal Empire", how could he come out to listen to the will of the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, isn't it that he is a little shorter. But whether he can come out or not, no one can call the shots for him, he can only have the final say.

Therefore, everyone else is looking at him and waiting for his opinion.

Aurangzeb snorted, and then instructed the guards around him: "You go to pass the decree, just say that Ben Khan has a decree, let the emperor of the Ming Kingdom come up and ask for the decree!" ”

When his guards heard this, they immediately drove their horses out, and shouted with the same great voice, and called out the meaning of Aurangzeb.

On the side of the Mughal army, after hearing this, they all laughed. I have to say that Aurangzeb's reply was to laugh at the Ming army's side, and unconsciously, it improved the morale of his side a little.

Is the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom a fool, how could the Great Khan come forward to listen to his will, don't say that after the Emperor heard this, he would come over to listen to the will of the Great Khan!

When the brocade guard heard this, he stopped talking, beat his horse back, and handed over the order to Emperor Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about the ridicule in the opposite formation, with the help of the movement just now, he had locked on Aurangzeb and "rewarded" him with a first-class eavesdropping seed, which was his purpose. As for Aurangzeb to hear his will, there was no such thing at all!

After such a small episode, the battle between the two armies began.

On the side of the Ming army, unlike before, the Hongyi artillery was pulled to the front of the formation, shelling first, preparing to break up the formation of the Mughal army. The infantry advanced, the war elephants opened the way, and the cavalry pressed from both flanks and launched an attack.