Chapter 312: Above the Battle of the Central Asian Steppes

The use of rear-loading rifled guns with long range, high accuracy, and fast reloading to perform Mangu tactics was nothing short of a tiger for the Mongols. Although the 2,000 breech-loading dragoons were not all Mongols, half of them were Ming cavalry, but since the Ming dragoons were equipped with breech-loading rifled guns, they also learned Mangu tactics.

In fact, the Mongols during the strong period of the Mongol Empire used Mangu tactics, and the feather arrows could not penetrate the strong armor of the European and Arab heavy cavalry, mainly harassing and consuming the horsepower of the heavy cavalry.

Today's Mangu tactics are not just about harassing and consuming the opponent's horsepower, but about killing rifled gun bullets! The allied dragoons kept turning and shooting, the sharp bullets spun at high speed and pierced the people, the armor on the Mughal cavalry was pierced like paper paste, and the bullets drilled into the human body, tumbling and deforming, causing huge wounds, and a small bullet knocked a heavy cavalryman who had been trained for many years off his horse.

The consequences of being hit by a bullet, even if it does not hit the vital point, are very serious, and rifled gun bullets have an extremely good stopping effect, and a single shot can disable a cavalryman's combat effectiveness.

Some horses were hit by bullets, and the wounded horses immediately threw off the knights on horseback, and the heavily armored cavalry fell to the ground, not even thinking about getting up.

In fact, the Indian cavalry during the Mughal Empire was still very powerful, and the Indians had Bargir lancers, Pindari dragoons, Chamindar heavy cavalry and other cavalry arms, as well as Indian elephants. It's a pity that both the Bargil lancers and the Chamindar heavy cavalry are live targets in front of the dragoons equipped with rear-loading guns.

The Indian cavalry chased for a while, unable to hurt even a single hair of the opponent, but their own companions were killed one after another, which made the Indian cavalry feel frightened and did not dare to pursue again.

There was also a part of the Mughal cavalry to chase the coalition stragglers who rode on camels and retreated, and the Indian cavalry caught up with the coalition camel soldiers, and just as these Indians drew their scimitars and were about to slash them, they saw the camel soldiers pull out their short guns from their waists, turn around, and pull the trigger on the Indian cavalry that was chasing after them.

The six-shot rifled Thunderbolt Short Gun is not small, after all, it is a rifled gun, which has great lethality at close range, and the Indians who were shot fell off their horses one after another.

"It turned out that the cavalry of the Mongols had a new type of musket, no wonder they dared to charge with five thousand men." Amir looked at the retreating cavalry and said indignantly.

Bahadur Shah said: "But it seems that the enemy does not have many new muskets, only 5,000 men. If you want to defeat the enemy, you can only launch a general attack! Under my order, the three armies came out together, first bombarding the Mongol formation with artillery fire, and then attacking from the front with war elephants and infantry, and the cavalry flanks detoured! As long as our army is all pressed up, the Mongols will not be able to resist us at all with this new type of musketeer! ”

The war drums rumbled, the trumpets sounded, and the Mughal army waved its flags in the formation, opening up the offensive formation. The newly defeated Mughal cavalry also regained their morale, and they were all ready to wait for the war elephants and infantry to disrupt the Mongol formation, and then they rushed forward to kill a few more Mongols to avenge their comrades.

Many of the Indians who died in battle were relatives of these Indian cavalrymen, and the Kshatriya class in India was a professional soldier, and this profession was passed down from family to family, and there were often fathers, sons, and brothers serving in the same army, and even three generations of grandparents and grandchildren in the same army. Nearly a thousand cavalrymen were killed just now, and seeing the tragic death of their relatives, the Indians gritted their teeth and waited for the order of the general attack to avenge their relatives.

The Mughal army finally began its general offensive, and the artillery team fired an overwhelming barrage of shells that smashed into the coalition formation. However, many Indian gunners were killed by the coalition skirmishers just now, and all of them were experienced gunners. Except for some of the veteran gunners, the rest of the artillery is temporarily pulled up by the infantry, who load the shells under the command of the gunner, and then the gunner adjusts the angle and fires.

Due to the large number of experienced gunners killed, the results of the shells fired by the Indians were not very good, most of the shells missed, and only a few shells smashed into the coalition formation, causing certain casualties to the coalition forces.

"Hold the formation! Don't mess around! "Rank-and-file officers of the coalition army shuttled through the formation, shouting and shouting.

The Indians had already begun to press up, the massive war elephants in front of them trampling the ground with a drum-like roar, followed by the black-pressed Indian infantry. Looking at the approaching Indian war elephants, the allied infantry formed a formation, the archers stretched their bows and arrows, the musketeers raised their muskets, and the pikemen stuck their repellents on the ground.

The coalition skirmishers moved to both flanks and moved in the direction of the Mughal artillery. However, this time the Indians had already prepared, and the Indian cavalry protected the artillery team, so that the coalition skirmishers did not have a chance to approach the Mughal artillery team.

The war elephant was getting closer and closer, and seeing that the war elephant was about to rush to him, he heard a loud shout from Galdan: "Ready! ”

Coalition soldiers with torches walked up to the archers and lit the cloth wrapped around the front of the bow. The cloth is soaked in tung oil, then wrapped in pine resin, and ignited when it meets fire.

"Put!" Galdan roared.

The rows of archers let go of their bowstrings, and with the sound of bowstrings, dense rockets fell like locusts flying in the sky and fell on the heads of the Indian war elephants. The rocket landed on the dry grass and immediately ignited a flame.

The elephant was afraid of fire, and when he saw the fire burning in the grassland in front of him, the elephant who was moving forward step by step was a little afraid, and some of the elephants began to be anxious, and no matter how the elephant slaves behind shouted, the elephant's pace slowed down. At this moment, only a roar was heard in the coalition formation, white smoke rose up, and dozens of fireballs smashed down into the herd of Indians' war elephants like fire rain meteors.

"The Mongols have opened fire!" The Indians were shocked.

"Quick, let the war elephant rush over as soon as possible!" Several Mughal officers shouted.

If only solid shells are fired, then if a few elephants are crushed to death, the rest of the elephants can still rush quickly and quickly break through the formation of the coalition forces. However, the artillery shells fired by the coalition forces were either red-hot shells, flowering shells filled with gunpowder, and a new type of incendiary shell fired from mortar cannons.

The so-called incendiary bomb is a kind of solid iron ball inside, which is covered with a layer of phosphorus, and then wrapped with a layer of iron sheet on the outside, leaving a hole in the tail, which is usually sealed with paraffin. When the shell is fired, the gunpowder gas breaks through the paraffin wax, igniting the phosphorus in the shell, and the fired shell immediately burns and falls on the dry grass, igniting a large fire.

Even an ordinary solid cannonball, when it burns red and fires, falls on the grass and rolls up a spark.