Led by Shang Zhixin and Shang Zhixiao's 50,000 Second Western Expeditionary Army, they launched an attack on the remnants of the Mughal Empire entrenched in several fortified castles.

Although the Second Western Expeditionary Army was far inferior to the loyal battalions equipped with a large number of Minnie rifles and breech-loading rifles in terms of light weapons, the Second Western Expeditionary Army carried a large number of artillery pieces when it went out, including 200 12-pounder cannons, 50 24-pounder howitzers and 24 64-pounder mortars, high-trajectory howitzers and mortars, especially large-caliber and heavy-pound mortars, and high-explosive flowering shells, which were the nemesis of those castles.

The castle in front is called Zailiysky Castle, which is a fortified castle built on a hill, and in the middle of the castle is an Orthodox church, with a blue garlic roof, blue and white buildings, and gold bricks on the doors and windows, which looks full of Russian style. On the periphery of the church, there is a strong city wall, there are bastions on the four corners, there are shooting holes at the top, there are cannons in the castle, which can condescendingly shoot the attacking Ming army, and the walls of the castle are densely packed with shooting holes.

The crown prince of the Mughal Empire, Bahadur Shah, currently lives in this castle, and he still has 5,000 men and horses on hand, living in this impregnable and difficult to defend castle, Bahadur Shah is not worried that his castle will be breached by the Ming army.

"Let me be the first attacker!" In order to overwhelm his brother, Shang Zhixiao, who was eager for meritorious service, was the first to stand up and ask Ying to fight.

Wang Yu has promised Shang Zhixin and Shang Zhixiao that as long as they take the South Asian subcontinent, then they can be crowned as the new king of Pingnan, and the territory of the king of Pingnan is in the South Asian subcontinent. And Shang Zhixiao knew that he was a younger brother after all, and if he wanted to suppress his eldest brother, he could only make more great contributions on the battlefield, capture as many soldiers of the Mughal Empire as possible, and gradually turn the captives into his own people, so that he could suppress the eldest brother and make himself truly the king of Pingnan.

The South Asian subcontinent is rich in resources, with a land area of 4.3 million square kilometers, which is larger than the actual control area of the original Ming Empire, with a population of hundreds of millions. Thinking that he was about to rule over hundreds of millions of people, Shang Zhixiao was excited.

Although the mortar cannon was powerful enough to destroy the castle, the range was not as good as the cannons of the Mughal army, which fired condescendingly.

Shang Zhixiao led the wolf-like Second Western Expeditionary Army to capture local young people in various villages to serve as people's strongmen. The Second Western Expeditionary Army was adapted from the original Green Camp Qing Army and the Han Eight Banners, these people were very cruel, and they would not consider any national unity at all, and when they encountered those Turks who refused to cooperate, they would whip them in the face, and those who resisted, even if they scolded, were cut off with a merciless knife.

"Brothers, all work hard, the people of the South Asian subcontinent are graded according to the color of their skin, we are all so white, we go over there, and we are all Brahmins!" Shang Zhixiao shouted to cheer up his soldiers.

Although the Second Western Expeditionary Army was basically composed of Cantonese people, to be honest, Cantonese people were not so white-skinned, but compared to the local natives of the South Asian subcontinent, Cantonese people were completely Brahmin skin color.

The local Turks dared not speak out, and could only watch as the soldiers of the Second Western Expeditionary Army took their sons, husbands, and fathers away as people.

Shang Zhixiao pointed to an open field a mile in front of Zailiysky Castle: "It is very simple to build an earthen embankment here, go to the river to pick up sand, pile up the sand, and put part of the sand into sacks. ”

The captured people began to work hard under the leather whip of the Second Western Expeditionary Army, and they braved the scorching sun to go to the nearby desert to collect local materials, dig baskets of sand, load them on wheelbarrows, and push them back. Some people poured the sand on the ground directly on the car, and some people put the sand into the sacks, sewed the mouths of the sacks, made sandbags, and then piled up the sandbags.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, the enemy is piling sandbags outside the city." A soldier saw the movement of the Ming army and reported it to the Mughal prince Bahadur Shayu in the castle.

Bahadur Shah walked into a fortress, stood on the top of the tower, and condescendingly watched the movement of the Ming army a mile away, and he suddenly understood: "It seems that those Han people are planning to build a fort!" Fire the cannon right away, you can't let them fix the battery! ”

Mughal artillery inside the castle lit the cannon in response to the crowd of sturdy people who were piling sandbags and pouring sand.

On the two fortresses, tongues of fire erupted from the shooting holes on the top floor, and the cannonballs whistled and smashed into the busy crowd, and a shell smashed into the crowd, pulling out a flesh alley, and a large number of people fell. Many more were grazed by shells and tore off their legs, feet and arms were torn off their bodies, and wounded people fell in pools of blood and howled in pain.

"The Mughal army has opened fire! Let's run! Seeing the tragic situation of flesh and blood, the two people threw down the work in their hands and turned around to run.

Several soldiers of the Second Western Expeditionary Army, who were standing on the side to supervise the work, stepped forward with knives, and without saying anything, they slashed with their knives, and cut off the heads of all the people who had escaped alive.

"Those who are passive and sabotage will be punished with a hundred! If you run away, that's what happens! A bloody head lifted the chief officer in his hand and shouted.

Threatened by sharp steel knives, the Mughal soldiers braved the artillery fire of the Mughal army to pile sandbags under the scorching sun, and they poured truckloads of sand on top of the stacked sandbags, and soon built a sandbank.

The Mughal army's cannonballs smashed on the sand bank, and the solid shells drilled into the sand pile, and the energy was absorbed by the sand without a trace, and it could no longer bounce and hurt people, nor would it kill the people behind the sand bank.

When it got dark, Shang Zhixiao ordered the lantern to be carried out overnight.

On the brightly lit construction site, wheelbarrows go back and forth, constantly bringing sand and sandbags, and the sand bank grows tall and strong at a speed that can be seen by the naked eye. After a day and a night of construction, a sand bank three hundred paces long, one zhang wide, and six feet high appeared in the open space a mile away from the castle.

"The sand bank has been completed and can be used by artillery." A soldier came to report to Shang Zhixiao.

Shang Zhixiao was overjoyed: "Okay, immediately let the artillery settle in and prepare to bombard the castle!" ”

The gunners of the Second Western Expeditionary Army, pushing 12-pounder cannons, 24-pounder howitzers and 64-pounder mortars, settled behind the sand bank, and with the cover of the sand bank, arranged artillery positions and prepared to attack the castle.

The Mughal artillery at the head of the city continued to fire at the sand bank, but the energy of the shells was absorbed by the sand, and it could not hurt the Ming artillery behind the sand bank at all.

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