Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 330 Fighting Lobster Soldiers
"The people under Le Bao are still doing it really ruthlessly!"

Central Capital Palace.

The report on the Indian war has been sent to Emperor Zhu's desk.

Several important officials under his command were also reading the copy of the battle report at the same time.

The brows were all wrinkled.

"Your Excellencies, the British Fan requested the Indian Ocean Fleet to send warships to control the waterway of the Ganges River. What do you think of this matter?"

Emperor Zhu hesitantly put down the battle report in his hand and asked.

This matter is indeed troublesome, because Emperor Zhu's strategy for India is "limited intervention".

All Indian vassals are vassals with considerable autonomy.

There is only suzerainty obligation with Daming.

Daming is determined not to directly intervene in the Indian battlefield.

However, Sun Shiyi stated in the memorial that if the battle to control the Ganges River Basin is to be fought with the power of the Indian vassals, at least warships must be built, and shipbuilding materials must be transported inland, which will take at least two years.

This is just the preparation period for the battle.

Therefore, if Daming does not directly intervene, then the situation in India will be unpredictable.

Moreover, controlling the Ganges River Basin is something that Emperor Zhu has always asked the Indian vassals.

"Your Majesty, the Indian vassals really need an inland river fleet to control the Ganges River Basin, but the alliance of the vassals' armies is easy to talk about. The key is that if the inland river fleet is also a coalition force, how will the various vassals distribute their benefits in the future? If it is the British vassal Monopoly, wouldn't the entire Ganges River Basin be monopolized by the Yingfan?" Zhao Si said.

"Old Zhao, you mean you can intervene?" Emperor Zhu's expression changed.

"The old minister thought that instead of letting the feudal vassals wrestle with the waterway of the Ganges River in India, it would be better for the imperial court to directly control it."

Emperor Zhu nodded and looked at Gu Song.

"Your Majesty, if the Britons are completely driven out of India, they might strengthen their power in North America."

Gu Song reminded.

Emperor Zhu nodded.

India is a small hit.

But the future.

There will definitely be big fights in North America.

The current United States is not qualified to fight against Ming Dynasty.

The only one that can fight against Ming Dynasty is the European coalition led by Britain.

So Gu Song's concerns are justified.

If the British had withdrawn from India altogether, their power would have been more concentrated in North America.

Most of the interests of India belong to the vassals.

For Daming.

India's interests are limited.

The interests of North America are unlimited.

Emperor Zhu thought for a while and said: "North America is the future, India is the immediate thing, a bird in the hand is worse than a thousand birds in the forest, and ordered the Indian Ocean Fleet to build a Ganges inland river fleet to control the main waterway of the Ganges! The fleet will not be abolished either, the Ganges River Basin is the most densely populated and densely populated area in India, ensuring Ming's control over the main waterway of the Ganges River is the key to Ming's interests in India!"

"The imperial court agreed to establish the Ganges River Fleet, but it seems that the imperial court will directly intervene in India to control the main waterway of the Ganges River, and the interests of the waterway will not be left to the vassals."

The news quickly reached Sun Shiyi through the Clippers.

He frowned, and handed the official document in his hand to Pan Shien.

After Pan Shi'en saw it, he smiled slightly and said, "My lord, it's not a bad thing to return the waterway of the Ganges River to the imperial court. It's a great thing!"

"how do I say this?"

"If the imperial court does not take away the benefits of the Ganges waterway, I am afraid that the current situation of unity among the feudal vassals will be shattered because of this."

Pan Shien reminded.

Sun Shiyi is of course a smart man.

He understood it as soon as he heard it.

Now the vassals are able to gain a foothold in India, and even overwhelm the British. Why?
It's not because of the unity of the feudal clans.

But unity is based on interests.

The reason for disunity is naturally also because of interests.

If the Ganges waterway belongs to the British vassal.

It is inevitable that the feudal lords will not be jealous.

But if the interests of the waterway are shared equally by everyone, how to distribute it is also a matter of wrangling.

On the contrary, now that the imperial court is directly intervening, everyone will forget about the interests of this waterway, and on the contrary, there will be fewer troubles.

"The benefits of the Ganges waterway cannot be exclusive to the British domain, but the Duke can request to occupy the upper reaches of the Ganges and the area around Delhi." Pan Shien said.

Sun Shiyi nodded.

Occupying the territory around Delhi, it can expand to the northwest and southwest in the future.

As for the other vassals that entered the Ganges, there are not many places where they can expand.

If they expand again, can they expand towards the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau?

To occupy the territory around Delhi is considered for future expansion.

In fact.

This also resulted in a decades-long battle for the Kashmir region between the Ming Yingfan and the Qing Indian Governor-General.
Of course, that's another story.

Now the Ganges has not been brought down.

It is too early to talk about the distribution of land.

Just now.

A British civil servant in a red official uniform came in a hurry.

"Grandpa, news from the front line! The Britons have marched in large numbers, and they are approaching the city of Agoura!!"

Both Sun Shiyi and Pan Shien were shocked.

"So fast?"

Upper Ganges.

A small city east of Agra.

Teams of lobster soldiers stepped in.

Occupy this small city about thirty miles away from Agoura City.

Because Yang Yuchun and others did not expect it.

The Britons would march so decisively.

So no troops were stationed in this small town.

But actually
After the British occupied the city.

Only then did Yang Yuchun discover the importance of this city - the location of this small city is stuck on the main road of Agoura City entering and exiting the Ganges River!
If the Britons are allowed to build a permanent bastion here and install fortress guns that can block the river.
Then the significance of taking Agula is completely reduced.

"The Chinese will definitely take the initiative to attack. What we have to do is to store as much troops as possible here before they attack, build fortifications, stockpile weapons, and turn this place into a hedgehog! Let the Chinese smash their heads here Blood flow!"

Arthur Wellesley is now on a gunboat in the middle of the Ganges Channel, holding a telescope and looking towards the south bank.

"We lack rifled guns, and our opponent's artillery performance is much better than ours, so...we need to avoid field battles with each other as much as possible!"

Arthur Wellesley said.

He was a little helpless.

When was the army of the British Empire afraid to fight the enemy in the field?
But now he had to make such a bad move and let his army shrink within the fortifications to defend the city.

Because the Mingyin army on the opposite side is equipped with a large number of rifled guns.

Although the British Army also had rifled guns, they were not popularized to the line infantry, but were equipped on the hands of the hunters.
at the same time.

The British wooden support bombarded the smoothbore gun, and the range was far inferior to the rifled howitzer of the Ming army.

If the two sides confront each other in the wild.

The Britons will definitely suffer a lot from this.

so.
It was Arthur Wellesley who came up with the idea.

Force the Ming and Indian Fan Army to take the initiative to attack the city! !

Luo Dingshan leaned on the wall of Agoura City, held up the binoculars and looked at it for a long time, and then said helplessly: "The British have already built a bastion structure on the city wall. If they are allowed to stay longer, a large bastion may be destroyed. Once it is built, it will be a big loss if you want to attack at that time! I suggest that you rectify the troops as soon as possible, launch an attack, and remove the enemy's stronghold!"

Yang Yuchun nodded.

"What General Luo said is also what I think! Then don't wait for follow-up reinforcements! Order the whole army to rest for a day and launch an attack tomorrow morning!"

The war between the Ming and Indian Army and the Governor's Office of Britain and India came quite abruptly.

On the morning of May 1796, 5.

The fortress on the south bank of the Ganges River, which the Britons hastily built, was shrouded in smoke and flames.

A four-inch gun was approached to a distance of less than 800 meters from the fortress.

As the gunner pulled the cable, the guns trembled.

Flames splashed out.

Immediately afterwards, there was a thunderous sound of cannons, and the cannons retreated sharply.

In a blink of an eye, a large column of smoke and flames rose from all over the fortress, and the fragments of the shell blasted like a storm across the city where the lobster soldiers were entrenched. Human limbs, gravel, soil or other things were broken Flying, the bricks and stones on the top of the city also crashed and fell straight down.

When the gunfire sounded, the Japanese ronin Moori Takayaga who was lying in the trench also trembled.

He was in the trench where the attack was launched—the tactics of the Ming army had been updated a lot. Although the queuing and shooting style had not been completely abandoned, the obscenity style of squatting in the pit had become more and more mature.

Now this temporarily disintegrated trench is full of soldiers and officers. When they heard the gunfire, everyone straightened up from the trench and looked forward.

Maori is also one of them.

In fact.

Except for the Ming Japanese Armed Forces Corps.

Many Japanese samurai ronin also went to the Ming Dynasty to seek opportunities to fight.

no way.

There are too many samurai in Japan.

These samurai with excess energy are a huge hidden danger to the Tokugawa shogunate.

So they welcome the Indian vassals to go to Japan to recruit samurai to fight abroad.

There is also a Japanese Samurai Brigade under the command of the British Fan.

Mao Li Gui Yong is the brigade commander of this samurai brigade!

"Mr. Gui!"

He turned around and called Gui Taro to his side loudly. Gui's first battalion of military soldiers and a company of engineering soldiers were one of the two reinforced battalions that took the lead tonight.

"Don't fall behind the Ming people, you must fight like a Japanese samurai! That bastion is nothing special. I order you to take down the city wall in one charge!"

At the same time, in another trench.

Marquis Qian Dazhao's clan brother, Qian Daji, the brigade commander of the Wu Fan Brigade, was holding a rifle and speaking to several battalion and company commanders in person.

"Repeat the order again, charge as soon as the shelling stops later, the first and second companies are responsible for covering fire, the engineering company is responsible for building bridges, and the third company is responsible for climbing the city wall with ladder grenades and I! Today I will personally lead you to charge! The supervisory team is here In the trenches, if anyone dares to fight back, the gun will not recognize him!"

Time passed as the firepower prepared.

The battlefield suddenly became quiet.

At this time, Qian Daji was the first to jump out of the trench with a rifle in his hand, and at the same time he raised his arms and shouted: "Da Ming wins! Go forward!"

Then came a vote of low-level officers of the Ming army, and then soldiers.

It is the practice in the era of "queuing and shooting" for officers to lead by example. If you don't have the guts, you can't be a mid-level and lower-level officer!
"On board! On board! On board of the emperor, on board of Ming Dynasty!"

Japanese slogans sounded at the same time.

Although it may seem absurd to future generations, it is taken for granted in the eyes of people in this time and space.

Japan is already a vassal state of Ming Dynasty.

The Emperor of Japan was also invited to Zhongdu and became a prince.

The king of Japan is now also the sixth prince of Ming Dynasty.

It is only natural for Japanese samurai to fight for the great emperor.

In fact, these Japanese samurai also got a lot of benefits in the process.

Even if you didn't join the Daming Japanese Samurai Legion.

Under the hands of the Indian vassals, they can get the entrusted territory in India and become local nobles. Moreover, the land in India is much better than that in Japan, and the bottom of India is more docile than Japan. Generations of wealth.

and so.

These Japanese samurai are not just humanoid weapons full of loyalty to the emperor.

In fact, they are also fighting for their own interests.

Take India!

Be the noble lord of the Indians!

Be it Chinese or Indian.

Now, with this dream in mind, we are moving forward bravely.

The first wave of attacking troops carried planks and ladders and marched forward with loud shouts. Their starting position was only five or six hundred steps away from the fortress.

The attacking troops did not charge with all their strength at the beginning, but advanced slowly in the formation of skirmishers at a walking speed.

At this time, the defenders of the fortress also recovered from the overwhelming artillery fire just now, and began to fight back!

"Everyone on position, ready to fight!"

The fortress commander Lieutenant Colonel John Clara's heart-piercing roar rang out from above the city.

His arm that held the binoculars was shaking.

in the field of view of the telescope.

There are corpses everywhere.

Those are lobster soldiers transferred from London, the most elite army soldiers in the British Empire.

In the process of the British Empire conquering the world, as it is now, it is really rare that a large number of people are beaten to death without any power to fight back!

The Angles are actually not only technologically advanced, they are also quite advanced in military organization.

"Damn it!" John Clara cursed, the losses of the troops far exceeded his calculations.

Although the Britons knew that Ming's shelling was very powerful.

But now we have just transitioned from the era of smoothbore solid bullets to the era of bombardment guns.

Innovation in tactics is always slower than innovation in weapons.

Always have to go through the lessons of blood and fire before there will be a change in tactics.

The Britons have always been bullying opponents whose firepower is inferior to their own. Now they have become an army with far more firepower than themselves. They are not very good at fighting at the beginning. Just this round of shelling, the British lobster soldiers were stupid on the city wall bombed
but.

Even if the casualties are heavy.

The British Lobster Soldier is also worthy of being a strong contemporary soldier.

One by one muskets were set up on the city wall.

The cannons that escaped the shelling in the city also began to roar.

but.

What is showing off now is the British smoothbore gun, which fires solid bullets, and its firepower cannot be compared with the grenades of the Ming army.

Therefore, the firepower density is not high, and it has little effect on the Ming army, which is now completely advancing in a skirmish formation.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming army rushed to the moat below the city in one breath, and a large number of mortars began to be deployed.
(End of this chapter)