On the seventh day of the seventh month of the 28th year of Chongzhen, in Gradna, northern India, the company commander Wei Laoda looked at the hundreds of "infantry fighting vehicles" parked on the dirt ground outside the city in surprise.

India has a vast territory and strong reinforcements, and the war to conquer India is obviously not a simple matter. The war began for a few months, and the large-scale decisive battle had not yet begun.

Seeing those powerful armored vehicles made of steel, Boss Wei began to feel that the uneasiness that had been circulating in the army in the past few months was not worth mentioning.

Originally, the war in India was somewhat difficult.

India is not a small place, it is a huge subcontinent. Although Li Zhi sent 90,000 tiger troops, 60,000 Yizi battalions, and 50,000 warrior troops to invade India, for a subcontinent, these forces were simply not enough.

The combined Ottoman, Persian, and Indian armies had a large cavalry and had much more mobility than Li Zhi's infantry. Moreover, the nobility of the Mughal Empire operated in India for nearly a hundred years and was deeply entrenched locally. Li Zhi's army was waging a war of "aggression" on the Indian subcontinent, and the local people were very supportive of the coalition forces that resisted the "invaders". So with the help of the local people, Li Zhi's logistical supply line was almost completely exposed to the sight of the resistance.

The combined Ottoman, Persian, and Indian armies, or the Indian Resistance Army, could use cavalry at any time to outflank the supply lines of the Tiger Army. If the supply line is interrupted, even if the Tiger Ben army can be a hundred, it will also fall into a desperate situation of running out of ammunition and food.

The coalition forces resisting the Tiger Army were not prepared to come up and fight the Tiger Army, and they made full use of the width of the Indian subcontinent, gradually retreating northwest in sporadic contacts, hoping to drag the Tiger Army into the interior of India, which was difficult to replenish.

Therefore, even if the occupation of India's vast territory is not considered for the time being, Li Laosi has to invest a large number of troops in logistics support, stationing troops and horses in various strategic places along the supply line to protect baggage transportation. The 60,000 Yizi battalion and the 50,000 samurai army had all been sent to the rear to protect the logistics line, and only the most elite 90,000 tiger troops were still advancing in the northwest direction.

In other words, most of the expeditionary force under the command of Li Laosi was in the rear. Referring to the situation of the Japanese army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in later generations, the Japanese army invading China had more than one million troops in China, but in the three battles of Changsha, the Japanese army dispatched only 100,000 troops to participate in the battle, and the vast majority of the troops were in the rear.

The 90,000 Tiger Ben army had to face a full 600,000 Ottoman, Persian, and Indian combined forces, and the ratio of strength was nearly 1 to 7. Although the Tiger Ben Army has always been known for its strong combat effectiveness and habitually winning more with less, it has never fought such a war with a huge disparity in strength, especially when the Tiger Ben Army is the attacking side.

And when the Tiger Army invaded northern India and had sporadic contact with the Ottoman and Persian coalition forces, the soldiers of the Tiger Army soon discovered that the soldiers on the opposite side also had front-loading rifled guns and curved guns. Such equipment, coupled with seven times the number of the Tiger Army, made the Tiger Army feel an unprecedented sense of anxiety up and down. The soldiers began to talk about the night's sleep time, and the number of letters to the rear increased greatly, and it seemed that many soldiers were busy with the aftermath.

This kind of anxiety is obviously extremely unfavorable to the combat effectiveness of the Tiger Army, and even to the battle situation of the entire Indian campaign.

Boss Wei was also worried. Although Boss Wei is a good officer, a tried and tested veteran, he also doesn't want to die in this India. The Tiger Ben Army penetrated deep into the interior of India with an absolutely inferior force to meet the well-equipped Indian reinforcements, which made Boss Wei very worried.

Until he saw the three hundred brand-new infantry fighting vehicles.

The muddy ground outside the barracks was already crowded with people, and all the soldiers who had no vigilance and training tasks gathered next to the chariot to watch the excitement, surrounding the people in a circle. Many people even climbed the trees not far away to watch the chariot show.

At this time, the military uniforms of the Tiger Ben Army had been replaced as a whole, the original red Ming style red robes were eliminated, and the soldiers were all dressed in variegated camouflage. The main color of the camouflage uniform is army green, with grass gray and fog black, which can blend in with the background when lying on the grass. At this time, tens of thousands of soldiers surrounded the infantry fighting vehicle, and some soldiers also wore steel helmets, making the whole scene look like the American soldiers of later generations were huddled together.

After all, Boss Wei is a company commander, and there is a special observation area open to officers above the platoon commander. So as soon as Boss Wei walked over, he found a field of vision to observe the infantry fighting vehicle.

Three hundred huge chariots lay across the mud ground.

Those infantry fighting vehicles looked a bit like the tanks used in the Great War with the Jiangbei Army, and the whole size was about the same as the tank. It is about three meters high, more than five meters long, and more than three meters wide, and it seems to be able to hold more than a dozen people inside. The entire chariot was made of steel, and needless to say, it was known that it was made of the finest steel produced by the Fanjiazhuang State Steel Mill.

There are no chimneys on infantry fighting vehicles, and apparently infantry fighting vehicles already use internal combustion engines like the newspaper "cars".

The chariot was also painted with a predominantly green "camouflage". The combat vehicle did not have wheels underneath and used steel tracks.

However, these things are all in tanks, not the point, what surprised Boss Wei the most was a barrel sticking out of the left side and a cluster of barrels sticking out of the right side of the infantry fighting vehicle.

Boss Wei looked at the stubby barrel and couldn't understand it. How to reload artillery with artillery on infantry fighting vehicles? Could it be that the driver drove down and ran outside the vehicle to reload the artillery?

Old man Han, the battalion commander of Boss Wei, saw Boss Wei and came over with a cigarette in his mouth.

"Boss Wei, haven't you seen the artillery on that chariot?"

Boss Wei saluted Old Man Han and replied, "Battalion Commander, I really haven't seen it." “

Old man Han threw the cigarette on the ground, stepped on it, and said with a smile: "Don't understand? “

Boss Wei nodded.

Old man Han smiled: "That's a rear-loading cannon." “

"Cannonballs and gunpowder are loaded in from behind, and as soon as the bolt is closed, the cannonballs can be shot. After the cannon bolt is opened, it can be loaded from the back to charge. A soldier on an infantry fighting vehicle can constantly fire artillery inside the vehicle without getting out of the vehicle at all. “

Boss Wei looked at Old Man Han in surprise.

He has been fighting overseas, and he has not returned to Fanjiazhuang for a long time, and he is not familiar with the new weapons that have recently emerged in Fanjiazhuang. Unexpectedly, now the prince's artillery has evolved again, and it can already be loaded from the rear.

What is the effect of such an indestructible infantry fighting vehicle with such an indestructible rear-loading artillery?

Boss Wei couldn't help but think a little.

After a long time, he asked, "Battalion commander, what is the cluster of barrels on the right?" “

Old man Han looked at Boss Wei, smiled, and said, "That's called a Gatling gun." “