Chapter 313: Under the Battle of the Central Asian Steppes
"Bang" a red-hot three-pounder cannonball shell just hit an elephant, and even the world's largest land animal is so vulnerable to human firearms. The cannonball smashed into the elephant's left front leg, breaking the thick elephant's leg in one fell swoop, and the cannonball bounced to the side with flying flesh. The elephant hit by the cannonball let out a long, mournful roar, and its huge body leaned forward, then to the left, and fell heavily to the ground, and the elephant soldier on his back was also thrown to the ground.
Immediately afterwards, another elephant was grazed by a cannonball, which grazed the elephant's ear and then over the elephant's right shoulder. Although the cannonball did not hit the target, but the hot cannonball with a strong kinetic energy, the elephant burned to the pain unbearable, and pulled out a long blood mark, the injured elephant felt the hot temperature, and saw the fire in front of it, the elephant is a spiritual animal, it is afraid of fire, just now by the cannonball grazed the hot feeling, so that it feels afraid, the elephant immediately turned around, spread four thick legs and ran back.
"Bang" An unlucky elephant was hit by an incendiary shell fired from a twelve-pounder mortar cannon, and the shell smashed on the body, although the slow mortar shell could not kill the huge elephant at once, but the burning cannonball burned the elephant and rolled on the ground in pain.
The rifled gunners who tried to attack the Mughal artillery team failed to get close to the artillery team, so they turned back, and hundreds of rifled gunners turned over and jumped off their camels, and picked up their guns.
The dense bullets pierced several elephants, and even the elephants with rough skin and thick flesh could not withstand a random shot of guns, and the scarlet blood mist sprayed from the bulleted elephants one after another, and they fell down with a long cry of sorrow one after another.
At the same time, rear-loading rifled gunners and smoothbore gunners fired rows of bullets, and multiple elephants were knocked down.
Rockets and shells were falling, the yellow grass of autumn was blazing, and more than two dozen elephants were knocked down by guns, and the Indians had lost control of their elephants. One elephant after another, ignoring the drive of the elephant slaves behind them, turned their heads one after another, turned around and rushed towards their own formation.
"Not good!" Seeing the herd of elephants that turned and rushed towards their formation, the Mughal infantry turned around and ran.
Don't look at the clumsiness of the elephant, but it is not slow to run. Soon, the panicked elephant herd had been crushed into the Mughal infantry's own formation. The last group of infantry to run was knocked to the ground by elephants, and some people who didn't have time to dodge were hit by the tusks and passed directly through the heart. Some people were knocked to the ground, and then stepped on by the elephant's legs, and they were trampled into meat cakes, and some people were rolled up by the elephant's trunk because they blocked the way, and fell to the ground fiercely.
"Steady! Don't mess around! Bahadur Couch let out a hoarse roar. But his shouts were soon drowned out by the sound of gunfire.
The overseers wearing white hats and white robes came out and slashed and killed many red-headed Indian soldiers who had been defeated, but they could not stop the pace of the Indians' rout. The front of the Indians was disrupted, and the rebel army rushed to the rear. After a while, a large group of red-headed soldiers crashed into the white-turbaned and white-robed soldiers, and the Hindus wrapped themselves around the Celestial Sect and rushed backwards like a tidal tide at a low tide. Behind the crowd, hordes of war elephants crushed over and trampled countless red-headed soldiers to death.
"The war elephants of the Tianzhu people have scattered their own infantry! Kill! Li Laiheng pulled out his steel knife and pointed in the direction of the Mughal army that had broken out in formation.
"Kill!" The sword and shield men at the front took out their grenades one after another, shouted and rushed forward. With a melee weapon like a grenade, even if rockets, artillery, and muskets could not scare away the elephants just now, the grenades thrown by the coalition infantry could scare away the Indian elephants at the last moment. But now it seems that there is no need to use grenades against elephants.
The allied dragoons mounted their horses and flanked them, and their breech-loading rifled guns, which could be used on horseback, opened fire in succession, knocking down the scattered Mughal infantry.
Mughal cavalry also surrounded from both flanks, trying to stop the coalition infantry and protect their own infantry.
Seeing the Mughal cavalry come out, Galdan pulled out his sword and pointed at it: "Sons, kill the enemy with Ben Khan!" Kill! ”
The Mongol cavalry, Mongol camel soldiers, and Mongol dragoons fought out one after another and slaughtered the Mughal cavalry. The dragoons and camel musketeers of the loyal battalion and the Cantonese army also rushed out one after another, shooting at the Mughal cavalry from a distance.
Random arrows and bullets pierced into the Mughal cavalry, and the screams of people and the mournful screams of the war horses were mixed together, and the Mughal cavalry group continued to spray blood mist, and the cavalry who were shot fell off their horses one after another. Immediately afterwards, the Mongol cavalry had already rushed to the front, and the mace and axe in their hands smashed over, easily smashing the armor of the Indians, knocking them off their horses.
The defeat was overwhelming, and the unstoppable Mughal cavalry did not care about the infantry protecting them, and only thought about fleeing for their lives. All the cavalry turned around, pulled their horses and ran, leaving the large group of infantry to the coalition forces.
The allied forces fiercely pursued the defeated Mughal infantry on the steppe, the cavalry came up from the two wings, some of the infantry had already ridden on camels to chase them, and some of the infantry were covering from behind. The muskets roared incessantly, with volleys of arrows, interspersed with the explosion of grenades. Although many of the Mughal infantry were still very fierce, they turned their heads and resisted the trapped beasts, constantly blocking the progress of the coalition forces. However, under the fire of the muskets of the coalition army, the collision of war horses, and the impact of camels, the Mughal infantry, who could not form a formation, were killed one after another, and the corpses were covered with the withered yellow grassland.
The defeated Mughal army retreated for more than 30 miles in a row, and the coalition forces followed closely behind to cover the killing. The war elephants that had been charging and trampling the enemy's infantry had become accomplices of the coalition forces, and the furious herd of elephants passed through the crowds of defeated Mughal infantry, leaving a trail of blood in their path.
Bahadur Shah led the defeated army and retreated all the way. When it got dark, the allied cavalry and camel soldiers were still in hot pursuit, killing Indians all over the field.
The Mughal army retreated to the area around Tash and fled into the city, where the allied forces, who were in hot pursuit, gave up the pursuit when they saw the Mughal army retreat into the fortified city.
The coalition was victorious, and the Khan of the Bukhara, Abdullah Aziz, with his subjects, personally went out of the city to meet the victorious coalition army.
"Thank you to the Great Khan for sending troops to help, otherwise we would not have been able to stop the attack of the Mughal army. The battle was fought beautifully, the Mughal army suffered heavy losses, and our country was safe for several years. Seeing Galdan coming, Abdullah Aziz greeted him and saluted him.
Galdan said: "Although the Mughals were defeated, their strength is still very strong, and their emperor is not willing to fail, and may come back at any time!" That's why we've decided to leave a part of our forces behind to protect your country. ”