"I'm! It's so damning! Those abominable infidels! Blasphemy against our true God! "The Mughal army's Chinese tent was filled with the roar of Bahadur Shah's voice.

Needless to say, I also know that the origin of all this is the challenge book that Li Guangdi asked people to shoot with feather arrows just now.

About half an hour ago, twenty Mongolian archers on horseback appeared far outside the barracks of the Mughal army. These Mongolian archers turned over and dismounted a stone's throw away from the Mughal camp, and more than 20 people raised their voices at the same time and shouted in unison: "I wonder if the Mughal army dares to meet the challenge?" We're here to deliver war letters! ”

After the Mongolian archers shouted, twenty archers fired a row of feathered arrows with their bows and arrows.

"The battle book is at the end of the arrow shaft, if you dare to meet the challenge, see you early tomorrow morning!" After the Mongols had shot their arrows, they shouted in unison, then mounted their horses and galloped away.

Twenty Mongol archers stood at a great distance and shot arrows, and the feathered arrows flew a hundred and fifty paces away and landed in the Mughal barracks. Hearing the shouts of the Mongols and seeing the arrows that had been fired, several Mughal soldiers immediately ran up, picked up the arrows, and took out the challenge book from the tail of the arrow.

When the Mughal soldier opened the challenge book, his face changed suddenly: he saw a pig drawn on the challenge book, and what made the Celestial believers even more angry was that there was a man riding on the back of the pig with a green Celestial Sect symbol on his head, and a line written in Arabic next to it: Prophet Muhammad.

Although the Mughal soldiers were all Hindus, most of the officers in the army were Celestials. Imagining the faces of the officers and generals when they saw this challenge, the Mughal soldiers' faces turned blue.

I heard that the Mongols had shot a challenge book, and several officers had already run over with their own soldiers, and the soldiers were in a dilemma if they wanted to put away the challenge book, nor did they hand it over to the officers. Seeing the officer walk in front of him, the soldiers had no choice but to pluck up their courage and tremblingly hand the challenge shot by the Mongols to the officer.

Seeing the challenge, the officer who believed in the Heavenly Sect was furious: "Abominable infidels! Not only insulting our true gods and prophets with such filthy animals, but also scribbling the portraits of prophets! It's so hateful! ”

Whether it is Western Christianity, or Eastern Buddhism, Taoism, there are statues of gods, even small temples have portraits, but the true gods and prophets of Tianfangjiao do not have idols of gods, nor do they have portraits, because Tianfangjiao believes that the image of God is indescribable, so no statues of gods are allowed. And among the taboos of Celestial Buddhism, it is forbidden to paint portraits, to depict portraits of any person or animal, because it is said in the hadith that if you paint an image of life, the true God will let you breathe life into the image as punishment, and the painter will never breathe life into it.

Portraits, pigs, are all violations of the taboo of the Heavenly Sect, no wonder they will be furious.

Upon learning that the odious pagans had humiliated the Prophet with portraits and pigs, all the Celestial cultists in the Mughal army were outraged. Not long after, Prince Bahadur Shah also learned the contents of the challenge.

The thunderous Bahadur Shah gradually calmed down and analyzed the situation with his general, Amir.

"The abominable Mongols called for a challenge, and in an insult to our true God, they sent us a letter of challenge to leave the camp and go out of the barracks to fight them in the field. Amir, you analyze, what will the Mongols intend to? Will they take advantage of the opportunity of the field battle to ambush us? Bahadur Shah asked.

Amir replied: "Strength is everything, we have more men than them, we have heavy artillery, we have war elephants, and the cavalry is no less than them." As for their camel soldiers, our archers and musketeers, as well as cannons, can deal with them. Their musketeers and archers, we have cavalry and war elephants to deal with. They did not have heavy artillery, only a few light guns were a threat to our war elephants, and we suppressed their light artillery with heavy artillery. ”

This series of tactical arrangements sounded perfect, and the Mughal Empire's army had the upper hand in both weapons and troops.

But Bahadur Shah always felt that something was wrong, and he thought to himself: Something is wrong! Since the enemy dares to provoke us, there must be a conspiracy! But what can they do? Ambush on the savannah? It was clear at a glance on the flat grassland, it was already autumn, and the grass was withered and yellow, and there was no three-foot-tall grass to ambush the army. I really can't think of what the opponent has to do.

"Since the opponent wants to fight in the field, then fight! Their blasphemy against the true God is so abominable that we cannot spare them like that. However, beware of their deception, if the enemy wants to lead us into an ambush circle, we must be careful, once the enemy is defeated and retreats, do not chase too far, lest we be ambushed. Bahadur Shah finally responded.

In the camp of the coalition army, a personal soldier walked into the camp and reported: "Lord Qiqi, the Mughal army has agreed to our challenge, and they will walk out of the barracks early tomorrow morning to fight with us." ”

Li Guangdi stroked his beard and said with a smile: "It seems that these Heavenly Fang Sect disciples are really provoked!" They abandoned the camp and went to the steppe to fight in the field, and our chance came! Early tomorrow morning, try to fight them as much as possible, but do not seek total annihilation, and leave some troops for the Mughal Empire to deal with the Turks. ”

The coalition was determined to win this battle, but Li Guangdi still considered leaving some men for the Mughal Empire to deal with the Turks in Central Asia. In addition, the Qiongzhou army is also about to conquer the South Seas, if the Mughal army is defeated now, the British East India Company will take the opportunity to control the whole of India, which will make the British fishermen profitable.

Early the next morning, the two sides opened their formations according to the agreed time, separated by one mile, and confronted each other on the grassland.

Li Laiheng picked up the binoculars and observed the Mughal army from a distance, from the binoculars, it can be seen that this is a mixed army of Celestials and Hindus, on the opposite side are soldiers wearing red robes, armor outside, and red turbans wrapped around their heads, and some officers and elites wearing red clothes, heavy armor, and iron helmets; The soldiers of the Heavenly Fang Sect were dressed in white, with black armor and white turbans wrapped around their heads. And those who wore colorful clothes, iron armor, and iron helmets were officers and elites.

The Mughal army had a lot of artillery, with twelve-pounder guns, six-pounder cannons and four-pounder field guns, as well as quite a few infantry with muskets.

"Look, the artillery of the Tianzhu people is pushing up, and they will soon attack!" Li Guangdi pointed to the Mughal artillery team that had launched the artillery in front and said, "Let our skirmishers prepare to go first!" ”