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At the time of the capture of Delhi, Aurangzeb not only succeeded in placing his father Shah Jahan under house arrest, but also captured his eldest brother, Crown Prince Dara. Shuco.

Dalashuko is four years older than Aurangzeb and is only 34 years old this year. He also served as the governor of Punjab, just because he was the crown prince, unlike other princes, who had to go to the province to take up his post, but his own cronies ran Punjab.

He stayed at court for a long time and was favored by his father. However, he had certain personality flaws, he had a fiery temper and arrogant demeanor, and he made many enemies among the nobility. It is said that he was too straightforward and completely despised the advice of others.

In addition, his tolerant views on religious issues hindered his political interests, as some Aurangzeb-style orthodox Sunni Muslims regarded him as a heretic, including Bachilleth, who secretly defected to Aurangzeb precisely because he was not accustomed to the religious views of Crown Prince Darashuko.

The day after the accusation, Aurangzeb tied his brother Dalaschuko to the back of a filthy baby elephant and paraded through the streets of Delhi to announce his crimes of treason and religious heresy, and then quickly executed him.

Due to his fiery temper and arrogant demeanor, the nobles and ministers of Delhi rarely sympathized with his death.

But for Aurangzeb, his father Sha was placed under house arrest. Jahan and killing his brother Darashuko and taking control of Delhi City did not mean that everything was fine.

These only mean that he has temporarily seized the throne of the Mughal Dynasty, and whether he can sit on this throne depends on his wrist next.

Among his brothers, there are two more who have grown up, one is his second brother Shashuja, the eldest Aurangzeb is two years old, and is now the governor of Bangladesh.

The other was his younger brother Murad. Bach, Aurangzeb Jr. was six years old. He is currently the Governor of Gujarat Province.

Both men had served in various military and administrative positions, had considerable experience in the rule and had a large standing army under their commands. and they all have long been watching the throne;

Now Aurangzeb has seized the throne by forcing the palace, and his second brother Shashuja and younger brother Murad . Will Bach say yes?

Although Shashuja has a modest personality, he is a brave man and has shown himself very well in governing Bangladesh. It's just that the biggest drawback is that he also indulges in comfort and pleasure; He had another disadvantage, that is, he professed the beliefs of the Ten Leaves, which provoked the resentment of orthodox Sunnis in the imperial court.

Murad. Bach was also a brave man, but he was uninhibited and an overindulgent drinker. He was also not treated well by the ministers of the DPRK and China.

And compared to the two remaining brothers, Aurangzeb, in addition to his undoubted administrative talents, was the strictest type of Muslim, fully trusted by the orthodox Sunni aristocracy of the empire; The orthodox Sunni aristocracy has been a very powerful force in the imperial court since the time of Akbar.

After Aurangze took control of the city of Delhi, his decisive, calm-natured, and calculating character was fully revealed. His first step was to win over these orthodox Sunni aristocrats and gain their support.

and sent the most capable officer of his army, Alain. With an army of 50,000 men, Yar immediately went to attack the province of Bengal, which was under the jurisdiction of his second brother. Bach sent people to lobby first. As much as possible, it is settled without killing soldiers.

At the same time, in the name of his father, he concocted an edict of abdication, to the effect that since the death of the Taj Maj, he has not been able to do politics, which has led to the defeat of the Southern Union. The invasion of foreign enemies in the north caused misery, and there was a rebellion of the crown prince inside, trying to kill his father and usurp the throne. Now he was emaciated, so he gave way to the prince Aurangzeb, who had contributed to the suppression of the rebellion.

Bakiletay entered the palace in the name of the crown prince, even most of the people in Delhi. They all thought that it was really Crown Prince Darashuko who was plotting rebellion, let alone local officials.

Therefore, this edict of abdication is still very capable of fooling people.

At the same time, Aurangzeb quickly prepared for the enthronement ceremony, and on the third day, he officially ascended the throne at the Delhi Palace.

He removed all the ministers he could not trust, and then let those he trusted take over all the important positions. For example, when he was governor of the Deccan region, he had a very capable tax collector, Murshid. Khuli Khan, at this time, was appointed Minister of Finance of the Empire.

The garrison of the capital came to a major reshuffle, and many of the original generals were arrested on the spot and beheaded as the comrades of the crown prince Darashuko.

In this operation, Aurangzeb fully demonstrated his resolute and ruthless side, and he was ruthless, using iron and blood to quickly control the situation in Delhi.

Delhi was quickly accused by him, but Aurangzeb was confronted with four pressing questions: the first was his second brother, the second was his younger brother, and the third was the Four-Nation Coalition under the command of Hai Rufeng in the south; The fourth was the Dzungar army, which captured the Punjab region in the north.

From the geographical point of view, the Bengal province controlled by his second brother is located east of Delhi, and the Gujarat province controlled by his younger brother is located south-west of Delhi.

In other words, although Aurangzeb now occupies Delhi, he is in danger of being embattled.

The sea in the south may be able to stabilize it for the time being, and the most important thing is to attack the Dzungar army in the Punjab region in the north.

These 50,000 troops attacked the city and plundered the terrain, and it must be clear that Punjab is not an ordinary place, it is located in the north of India, and the Mughal emperor Babur divided Punjab into three provinces, namely Lahore, Multan and Delhi.

Now the Dzungar army has captured the two provinces of Lahore and Multan, through which the Sutlej River, a tributary of the Indus River, passes through them, and the irrigation is developed, and the inhabitants are mostly Sikhs. It is one of the most developed agricultural rich countries in India and is known as the 'breadbasket of India'. It is rich in wheat, rice and cotton.

And the fact that the distance from Lahore to Delhi is flat and not far away is the most urgent and terrible threat to Aurangzeb, the newly enthroned Mughal emperor.

At this time, the Sangha, who connected the two wealthy provinces of Sao Ping, was full of ambition, and he also vigorously rebelled against the local Sikhs and followed him against the rule of the Mughals.

The Sikhs have been known since the late 15th century, when the Punjabi monk Nanak founded the Sikh sect. The Sikhs are a distinctively organized armed group that has been engaged in a long armed struggle against the Mughals, which have been suppressed as the Mughals grew stronger.

The monk took full advantage of the long-standing contradictions between the Sikhs and the Mughal dynasty, and when he rebelled, many Sikhs joined his army.

After hearing of the coup d'état in Delhi, the monk keenly smelled the opportunity and immediately set out from Lahore with an army of 40,000 and an army of 3,000 Sikhs and went straight to Delhi.

Hearing this news, Aurangzeb did not dare to slack off, he was not in the right position, no matter how beautiful he did, there would inevitably be suspicions. In order to deal with the most ferocious foreign enemies and consolidate his throne, he secretly held his father hostage in the army, and at the same time took some important ministers to mobilize an army of 40,000 to meet the monks in person.

At this time, the 50,000-strong army led by Akbar, another great general of the Mughal dynasty, was already fighting fiercely in the city of Gernar between Delhi and Lahore.

The coup d'état in Delhi almost collapsed the 50,000-strong army, but fortunately, Aurangzeb moved quickly, quickly seized power and ascended the throne, and rewarded Akbar, the army in front could not determine the situation in Delhi, and Aurangzeb had already led the army as the new emperor.

When Aurangzeb arrived in the city of Gernard, his army totaled 90,000, and the new emperor personally conquered the Mughal army, which greatly boosted the morale of the Mughal army.

The monks stationed in the north of the city of Gernar are also not ambiguous, 40,000 Dzungar troops, plus thousands of Sikh soldiers and horses, even the camp is ten miles, and his thirty cannons have been pulled, and they are setting up cannons in the north of the city overnight, and a huge bloody battle will inevitably start under the city of Gernar.

If Aurangzeb's defeat would have changed India dramatically, what would have been the outcome of the battle?

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(To be continued......)