1825 My New Daming

Chapter 98 King Pingxi Defends Peshawar
In the east of the Gandhara Basin, the city of Mardan.

The flag of the commander-in-chief of the East India Company Army is flying high above the second largest city in the Gandhara Basin.

Brigades of East India Company mercenaries or Sikh soldiers with big turbans are marching in mighty force, one after another along the road from outside the Gandhara Basin.Although these troops had marched over from Lahore and Multan in several days, they had traveled more than [-] kilometers in ten days, and they were exhausted long ago.But their morale seems to be relatively full. Whether they are Hindus, Tianfang believers or Sikhs, when they march together, they all have their chests and belly protruding, and they look like they have been injected with chicken blood.

Obviously, in order to stimulate the morale of these Hindus, Tianfang believers and Sikhs, the East India Company has spent all its money!

On the wall of Mardan City, Lieutenant General Hugh Gough, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Company Army, finally showed a satisfied smile on his face as he watched the troops entering the city continuously.This famous British general who once led the British Army to fight "Yi Ya" in history has now received the rank of lieutenant general in advance.Probably got the coveted lieutenant general title, so Hugh Goff also performed extremely hard this time.Thirteen days ago, he took a streamlined headquarters and boarded the train bound for Delhi. After arriving in Delhi, he took a carriage and drove all the way to Lahore.After staying in Lahore for a day, after negotiating with the Sikh Empire Maharaja Ranjit Singh on the conditions for sending troops to recover Peshawar, he and the "trapped" Sikh Empire ruler (his [-] troops trapped in Afghanistan) left Lahore together, and after a few days of carriage, they arrived in Mardan three days ago.

And when Hugh Goff and Ranjit Singh led a few cavalry to Mardan, the second largest city in the Gandhara Basin was already in chaos, with people from Baisha everywhere inside and outside the city. The officers and soldiers of the East India Company Army who retreated from the front line.Morale is low, people are panicked, and supplies are difficult.The white officers all hid in the city and drank their sorrows, while the Indian soldiers below were busy fighting and looting everywhere. No one was in the mood to fight the golden soldiers in Peshawar again.

Under the order of Sir Amishd, these troops who were originally stationed on the outskirts of Peshawar had the courage to counterattack twice, but they were crushed by the golden soldiers of Peshawar with an overwhelming advantage, and they lost all the way to Mardan. Alas, I lost everything, I doubt my life.

The army officers and soldiers of the East India Company are used to fighting with the wind. Relying on the superior firepower of the British and the organizational ability of the white officers, they suppress the weak soldiers in the local Indian states who want arms and have no arms, and need to be trained. The winner is in hand.

But this time in Peshawar, the enemy's firepower actually prevailed!The shots were accurate and ruthless—the artillerymen under Wu Chuanzhen were all capable of pinching and counting, and the officers among them all graduated from Xiandao University, and all of them were humanoid fire control computers. up!
What's even more exaggerated is that Jin Bing actually still has air superiority!

In the two major counterattacks formed by the British and Indian soldiers around Peshawar, several airships flew over their heads and dropped bombs!Although those airships fly very high and the bombing effect is not good, the blow to morale is too great!
After several rounds of shelling and a round of airship bombing, the attacking British and Indian soldiers would definitely not be able to hold it.At this time, the militiamen in Peshawar fought back from the city of Peshawar under the supervision of the "yellow jacket" cavalry of the Dajin Kingdom. How could the British and Indian troops who were destroyed by shelling and airship air strikes survive?In this way, the two counterattacks were defeated by the same method.

And after the second counterattack of the British and Indian troops was defeated, those "yellow jacket" cavalry were still "victorious", chasing and killing a wave with their shell guns, killing the two or three thousand British and Indian soldiers who were watching Peshawar. Got blasted to Mardan.

However, Hugh Goff was not very worried about Jin Bing's bombardment and air strikes, because he knew that Jin Bing used four 6-inch howitzers to bombard them-the artillery used to support the Khyber Pass fortress, and the power was not small. , but there are not many ammunition, only more than 1000 rounds.Moreover, the cannons of this level of the Ming army are all 155mm caliber, and there are no 6-inch shells to supply the Jinbing, so after the shells are fired, the four 6-inch cannons are for display.As for the airship's bombing, it's just listening to the sound to scare people.

But what really worried Hugh Goff was the fact that the Golden Army sent additional troops to Peshawar by airship.

According to the investigation, about every two days, a dozen or twenty airships would arrive in groups over Peshawar, and use ropes to lower soldiers and some supplies—it should be weapons and ammunition.

According to Hugh Goff's knowledge, the most equipped Ming army is the Flying Dragon III airship.This kind of airship has a long range and a large carrying capacity. It should be no problem to transport twenty or thirty fully armed soldiers at a time.

In other words, each batch of airships can transport about three or four hundred gold soldiers to Peshawar!If calculated according to a batch of two days, more than 1000 people can be transported in ten days, and at least four to 30 people can be transported in 5000 days...

If there was such a number, what Hugh Goff had to consider was not to regain Peshawar, but how to keep the Khyber Pass and reserve a retreat for George Cotton's army.

So seeing the East India Company mercenaries and the Sikh army in the brigade finally completed a continuous march of hundreds of kilometers, and finally drove to Mardan with high morale, Lieutenant General Hugh Gough finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Thinking of this, Hugh Goff turned his head and said to the chief of staff beside him, "Charlie, let all the officers above the battalion come to my headquarters, and I'm going to arrange a combat operation to attack Peshawar."

His chief of staff, a British aristocratic officer in his forties, was taken aback when he heard this: "General, are we going to organize an attack now? Our troops are quite tired! They all marched two or three hundred miles from Lahar in a hurry. and Multan. Should we let them rest for a few days?"

"No, it's too late." Hugh Gough shook his head, "Charlie, we now have 500 East India Company mercenaries and 400 Sikh soldiers. The number of Golden Soldiers in Peshawar is estimated to be less than 3000, but they Every two days, there will be an increase of [-] people. If we rest for a few days, then the defenders in Peshawar will be close to [-] people! And this is the real golden soldier, excluding the local militia in Peshawar. According to intelligence, Abbas .Khan has defected to the Great Jin Kingdom and declared the War of the Gods, so the Pashtuns in the Gandhara Basin are all supporting the Jin Kingdom. Every day we delay, the enemy will become stronger, and we have few backups behind us Not for a month!"

"General, I understand!" The colonel and chief of staff stood at attention, gave a military salute, and then turned around and ran down the city wall to arrange a military meeting.

At the same time, Zhuge Weidao had already got out of an airship cabin that had landed on the square outside the Peshawar Fortress, and stood in the center of this ancient city. Long Qi seemed to be a little emotional - the war on women in this timeline is about to reach India!
As soon as he thought of this, he heard Wu Chuanzheng's hearty laughter: "Mr. Zhuge, I hope you will come. With your help, the battle of Peshawar will be sure to win!"

Zhuge Weidao heard that the other party called himself "Zhuge Military Advisor", he quickly waved his hands and said: "My lord, I'm not a military advisor yet, I can't afford you as a Zhuge Military Advisor."

Wu Chuanchuan smiled and stepped forward to grab Zhuge Weidao's right hand, pulled him and said, "Daozi, don't be humble. When the Battle of Peshawar is over, your position as a military advisor is still guaranteed? Don't say anything else, just like this." Hui Hui's magic weapon from heaven and gossip machine gun array, can't he be a military adviser?"

Zhuge Weidao heard what Wu Chuanzhen said, and hurriedly asked: "My lord, how is the gossip machine gun formation going? Yingyi is going to counterattack soon, right? If the machine gun formation is not properly deployed, Peshawar will be difficult to defend. "

Wu Chuanzhen smiled and said: "Daozi, since you asked, let's go to the scene together to have a look. If something is wrong, tell me right away, and I'll get someone to correct it immediately."

"Okay, that's it!"

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(End of this chapter)