These armored vehicles and heavy artillery, as well as a dozen or so river steam-deck barges of the fire support type, would be divided into two armored fire support detachments here, one with the Northern Corps along the Ganges and Yamuna rivers to raid the city of Agra, and the other for the Southern Corps to sweep through Manila.

In addition to the powerful motorized and armored assault detachments and artillery detachments, the Eastern Route Army is also equipped with a field brigade, two main cavalry divisions of the indigenous people in the Outer Northeast, two overseas divisions, and four death divisions. In addition, there is nearly half of the airboat unit of the theater command, as well as a large number of inland steam-deck barges. Such a strong strength is almost the sum of the Southern Route Army and the Western Route Army.

Of course, the combat mission of the Eastern Route Army was also very important, not only to quickly occupy the Bengal region, but also to raid the city of Agra along the Ganges River. The main purpose of the Theater Command is to consider the current situation of the Mughal Empire, once the Emperor Rajahan and several of his heirs are eliminated, the Mughal Empire will immediately become a mess.

The Mughal Empire seemed to be powerful, but its internal problems were very complex, full of various class, national and religious contradictions. The various religious issues, such as Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, and ethnic issues such as Marathas, Arrogaf, Jath, Sikh, Afghan, Zat, and Tamil, are very intertwined.

The great feudal aristocracy of Islam in various parts of the empire, the brutal exploitation and persecution of Hindu peasants who accounted for 80 percent of the empire, and the numerous Hindu tribes in the south, all kinds of contradictions emerged one after another. It is doubtful that the Mughals would be able to effectively rule every province of their vast empire, which nominally belonged to the empire over the vast area south of the Godavari River on the Deccan Plateau.

This was the current state of the Mughal Empire in this era, once the Northern Army of the Eastern Route Army captured the city of Agra, the capital of the Mughal Empire. With Rajahan and his direct lineage heirs wiped out, the seemingly mighty Mughal Empire could be torn apart in an instant.

To be honest, the geographical location of modern India is also excellent. Moving westward to control the strategic waters of the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, southward to the west to the Cape of Good Hope, and east to the Strait of Malacca. It can be said that on such a stage, the Indians have enough capital and space to maneuver.

With the exception of the United States and Canada, it is almost the best geographically located. From the perspective of geography and economics, India has an endless Ganges plain, where the land is fertile, surrounded by the sea on three sides and the meandering of large rivers such as the Ganges, there is no need to worry about drought, and the climate is warm, basically two or three harvests a year. It is very suitable for the development of agriculture.

India has more arable land per capita than China, is rich in mineral resources, and has convenient transportation. There is also something that many people overlook, and that is the important conditions for the development of the modern economy, India is bordered by Central Asia to the north, which is rich in oil and gas, and is also close to the Middle East, and that alone. It has a lot of advantages over China.

Moreover, the rich oil and mineral resources of the entire African continent can be used by India, just like China lives in fear almost every day. Worry about Malacca or the Persian Gulf all day long. I had to look for oil everywhere, and then I was scolded everywhere, and I was also punished everywhere, but in fact, our country's external situation has always been extremely difficult.

India, on the other hand, has unique conditions, so it has the potential to become a world-class power. But it's a pity. India, on the other hand, does not yet have the potential to become a great power. The various contradictions and conflicts of the Mughal Empire, until the modern society, are still the biggest bottleneck restricting the development of India. In addition, the British colonizers artificially created hundreds of princely states in India in order to consolidate their colonial rule in India.

Although in 1971, India passed constitutional amendments. The annuity of the princely princes was abolished, the titles were abolished, and the assets of the princes were confiscated, and the era of the princely princes and nobles finally came to an end in India. But the real aristocracy of India did not end, and the decline of these nobles in the princely states was the beginning of the birth of some new nobles. Whoever holds power will become the new aristocracy, this is an eternal truth.

The Indians used their own forceful means to force these princely states to be incorporated into India, but those princes and nobles, the leaders of the princely states, originally had their own independent kingdoms, and of course they were not willing to be deprived.

Therefore, once India encounters a foreign war, then these princely state leaders are likely to be ready to move. This was also the Sino-Indian border war at that time, and after the defeat of India, the Indian conquest was very frightened, because the princely state leaders in various places had begun to live.

It's a pity that there was no Qinghai-Tibet Railway back then, and there weren't even a few decent roads, otherwise once the Chinese army had no logistical pressure, after penetrating in, the leaders of those princely states would definitely jump out. Even so, Nehru's reforms had to be interrupted for reasons that later did not dare to take further action against the princely states.

Therefore, even modern India is a hard patchwork, just like Yugoslavia in the past, once the country faces a crisis, it is bound to quickly and violently turbulent. Many princely state leaders willingly have been used by outside forces, tearing the country apart.

Just like during the Great Indian Uprising in 1857, the princely states everywhere did not have the mentality of resisting foreigners at all, and they all watched the fire from the other side with a detached mentality, and even many princely state leaders helped the British colonists suppress the rebels in various places.

India is a vast area, the population may not be much less than the current Ming Dynasty, and there are all kinds of complex situations in the Indian region, and it is unrealistic for the Far East Company to swallow the whole of India in one bite.

Therefore, the Far Eastern Company's strategy for India is divided into several steps. The first step is to occupy the fertile areas of India, such as the coast, the Ganges and Indus valleys. The next step for the company's intelligence department is to communicate with the governors and princely states of the Mughal Empire, allowing them to establish their own independent kingdoms.

In a few years, the company will take advantage of the great drought in Chongzhen to collect displaced people from all over the Ming Dynasty and send them to the coast, Ganges River basin and Indus River basin in India for resettlement.

Once the company has gained a firm foothold in India, the Foreign Affairs Secret Service of the company's intelligence department will copy what they have done in various parts of the South Seas and set up an Indian Development Company. It is said that Billy Zhou of the Ministry of Intelligence is already studying and formulating a development plan for India, and it may be a few decades from now, the Indian region will be completely different. (To be continued.) )

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