Chapter 875: Breaking the City

Because Agra Fort is built on a small hill, the terrain is more complicated. Therefore, the staff of the Northern Army, the breakthrough chosen by the Death Commandos for the attack on the castle of Agra, was a section of the city wall on the north side of the hill with a relatively gentle terrain.

The Agra Fort is 1.5 square kilometers long, with a 12-metre outer wall and an inner fort of 20 metres high, all of which are made of red sandstone, also known as the "Agra Red Fort", which is as famous as the Red Fort in Delhi.

With more than 500 buildings, the castle was the place where the Mughal emperors received their ministers and envoys, and was also the residence of Raja Khan. Agra Castle is a fortified fortress in this era, with its fortified red sandstone walls and extremely strong walls.

Rajahan defended the city of Agra by placing its elite troops in the fort of Agra, which was littered with crossbowmen and musketeers, and placed hundreds of artillery pieces of various types. The fort of Agra, which was so strongly defended, was also Rajahan's greatest reliance, and he firmly believed that the fort of Agra would hold out for a month under the onslaught of tens of thousands of elites of the Far Eastern Army, and there would be absolutely no problem.

The time for the preparation of the fire of the artillery groups of the Far Eastern Army was coming to an end, and the artillery fire was gradually thinning out. Fujita held a telescope and observed the section of the wall at the breach, and before the artillery fire had completely subsided, he drew his katana and swung it forward.

With a "bang......", a daredevil's samurai raised his flare gun and pulled the trigger in the sky, and a red signal flare instantly rose into the air.

As soon as the red signal flare was raised, the Death Army Combat Engineer Regiment, which had been waiting behind Fujita, rushed towards the Agra Castle on the hill with various equipment and explosives on their backs, and then fell down more than 100 meters from the city wall.

More than a dozen airships, which had been hovering in the nearby airspace, also flew towards Agra Castle. Hovering more than 100 meters above the section of the city wall from the breach. Use the twin water-cooled heavy machine guns behind the airship pod to fire wildly at the city walls, clearing the Mughal defenders in the city wall section of the breach.

The dense bullets rained down on the city walls, causing some of the Mughal defenders who were lucky enough to survive to be instantly beaten into a sieve by the rain of bullets, so that the battle sappers of the daredevils rushed to the city walls of Agra Citadel without paying any casualties.

Dozens of officers and soldiers who dared to die carried some strange-shaped components on their backs. rushed to the city wall, quickly assembled various components into a shelf several meters high, and then put the shelf against the bottom of the city wall, put some explosives specially configured before the war in various positions on the shelf, and took the wire wheel to pull the wire back to a place of more than 100 meters and lay down.

With a loud "boom", the red sandstone of the city wall was blown up and collapsed, forming a mottled city wall of several square meters, revealing the soil layer inside the city wall. The second group of combat engineer units of the Death Army rushed to the bottom of the city wall with various tools. The mottled wall was rapidly enlarged, and the interior of the wall was constantly excavated.

The Dare Soldier Engineer Corps, which had been trained for several months before the war, was extremely skilled in all kinds of movements, and extremely fast. It didn't take much effort to dig a huge space under the city walls.

Until a non-commissioned officer of the combat engineer unit of the Death Army under the city wall raised a small red flag and kept waving. A large number of officers and soldiers who had been lying in the distance with explosives on their backs rushed to the gap under the city wall. Stuffed the explosives behind him and stacked them.

When the last box of explosives was placed, all the Death Engineer Combat Engineers were withdrawn. Only a few people were left with wire wheels, and they dragged the wire to a place a few hundred meters below the city wall and hidden.

There was an earth-shattering bang, and the entire Agra Castle was shaken several times. The Mughal defenders in the castle were even more stunned. Some people who were closer to the explosion point were directly shocked to death.

The explosive power of several tons of explosives exploded the section of the city wall at the breach. Countless boulders, dust, and rubble were smashed into the sky.

Until the smoke cleared, the Far Eastern officers and soldiers under the city found that the section of the city wall at the breakthrough had been blown down by more than ten meters, forming a huge gap in rubble.

"Ah...... Ah......h

The Death Strike Army, which had been waiting for a long time, rushed towards the gap with their katanas in their swords and roaring loudly. The Mughal defenders inside the castle were also aware of the danger. The defenders were brought in from everywhere, but more than a dozen airships in the air fired frantically and dropped some incendiary bombs, blocking the defenders supporting from all over the breach.

Seeing that the assault troops, under the cover of the airship troops, had already controlled the walls on both sides of the breach, Fujita immediately sent a large number of daredevils to storm the Agra Castle.

Qiao Haipeng took the binoculars and watched the death army assault troops frantically pour into the castle, put down the binoculars and said with a smile: "Agra Castle is broken......"

The Death Strike Force stormed the Agra Fort and, under the cover of the airboat forces, quickly took control of key points around the breach. The officers and soldiers of the subsequent Death Dare Division also rushed into the Agra Fort.

The daredevils who stormed the Agra Fort and attacked the interior of the Agra Fort in a company unit. The officers and men of the Dare Death were equipped with bulletproof shields, muskets, grenades & ammunition, and the command of the Northern Army Corps also transferred firepower units from other units to equip each combat unit with a large number of water-cooled heavy machine guns and 70-mm rifle guns.

Although the elite of the Mughal Empire in Agra Fort relied on the fortifications in the castle to resist desperately, in the face of such a powerful offensive firepower of the Far Eastern Army, they could not stop the wolf-like daring army division.

In just over two hours, the Fort of Agra was completely conquered by the Far Eastern Army, and the Mughal Emperor Rajahan and his two sons were killed, and a large number of royal members and important ministers of the Mughal Empire were killed and wounded.

After conquering the castle of Agra, the Far Eastern Army made persistent efforts and conquered the city of Agra with great vigor, the Northern Army of the Eastern Route Army

The most important task of the Indian campaign was successfully completed, and the beheading operation of the Mughal Empire was successfully carried out. A few days later, the Northern Army of the Eastern Route Army conquered the city of Delhi and cleared Agra and the surrounding area of Delhi.

At the same time, the Western Route Army fought along the Indus River and the Ravi River all the way to Lahore, an important northern city of the Mughal Empire. Lahore was the commercial center of the South Asian subcontinent and the summer capital of the Mughal dynasty.

After a hard battle, the Far Eastern Army successfully conquered Lahore and moved south to join the Northern Army of the Eastern Route Army in Delhi. The Southern Route Army also succeeded in capturing most of the southern coastal areas of the Mughal Empire. At this point, the Indian campaign lasted more than a month, and the first phase of the plan designated by the theater command was completed. (To be continued.) )