I am Emperor Wanli

Chapter 853: The Indian Army is Not Strong Enough

When Gurta ordered the war elephants to attack the Ming army's center, he did not forget to send a messenger to inform Muzaffar Shah III who was stationed in the central army tent.

"Good!" After reading Gurta's letter, Muzaffar Shah III's beard twitched with joy and the fat on his face trembled constantly.

Adil Shah I asked, "Your Highness Muzaffar Shah, what is the good news?"

"The Ming army's sharp artillery is completely helpless against our war elephants. Now their artillery and infantry teams are all running away.

They ran away! These arrogant and arrogant Ming people actually ran away!

Gurta is leading the war elephant team through this gap, rushing straight into the center of the Ming army, and then ending this war and bringing us a glorious victory!"

"Are we going to win soon?"

Adil Shah I, Murtaza and Surit VII could not believe it!

The good news came too suddenly and too quickly!

Muzaffar Shah III, who had not slept all night because of his worry about the missing artillery team, was woken up early this morning. Before he could discuss anything, he urgently reported that the Ming army took advantage of the morning fog and drove to a place not far from the front army and launched a sneak attack.

Then the musketeers of the front army suffered heavy casualties at the hands of the Ming army's artillery, and the first line of defense, which was hastily set up, almost collapsed.

Muzaffar Shah III acted decisively and sent out a team of war elephants for support. However, less than an hour later, good news came from the front: the Ming army's artillery and infantry teams had escaped?
It seems that God is really blessing us!
"Your Highness Muzaffar Shah, under your wise leadership, we have achieved a great victory that will go down in history!"

Free flattery came from the lips of Adil Shah I, Murtaza and Surit VII.

If this battle is won, Muzaffar Shah III's fame will spread throughout India. The Gujarat Sultanate under his rule was originally a powerful country on the west coast.

Now that he has won another huge victory, he will definitely become the number one in Western India.

Anyway, it doesn't cost any money to say these flattering words, so just flatter him now so that you can ask for more when dividing the spoils later.

The high-spirited Muzaffar Shah III stood up suddenly and said to the three sultans: "Let's go to the sentry tower on the back mountain. We want to see with our own eyes how our warriors defeated the Ming army!"

"it is good!"

The three sultans readily agreed.

Muzaffar Shah III and his four companions came to the back mountain not far from the big tent, where there was a watchtower more than ten meters high, which was temporarily built and used to guard the surroundings and pass on messages.

It took a lot of effort to lift the fat Muzaffar Shah III to the roof. Before his lifters could say anything, he said breathlessly: "I don't care how tired I am to see victory."

Adil Shah I, Murtaza and Surit VII, who had climbed up all by themselves and were exhausted and panting, looked at each other in silence.

The four of them took a deep breath, stood on the top of the watchtower, and looked at the battlefield in the distance against the damp and salty sea breeze.

The Indian coalition army camp was more than ten kilometers away from the coastline, and the battlefield was to the north of the camp, less than ten kilometers away from the coastline.

The entire current battle line is about six kilometers long from east to west, which means that the leftmost wing of the anti-Ming coalition is less than four kilometers from the coastline.

It is now close to noon, the sun is shining brightly, the view is excellent, and this is a flat wilderness, so distances of twenty to thirty kilometers can be seen clearly.

Muzaffar Shah III saw from afar his war elephant team rushing forward like a group of black ants.

To their right was a long battle line filled with smoke and flashes of fire. All they could see was a dark mass, making it difficult to tell what was going on.

The adjutant handed over a telescope, a monocular telescope made in the Ming Dynasty. Muzaffar Shah took it, opened the tube, and finally saw clearly.

On the far left, his own war elephant team rushed forward with great momentum. There was nothing in front of them. The Ming army had already fled upon hearing the news.

In the direction of the war elephant team's advance, three or four kilometers away, is the Ming army. Judging from the flags and formations, it should be their central army.

it is good!
There were no people or objects blocking their advance between the war elephant team and the Ming army's center!
On the right side of the war elephant team, the several kilometers long battle line was already a mess, but through the telescope it could be roughly seen that the Ming army was suppressing the Indian army.

It's ok!
Muzaffar Shah III shouted in his heart, "Warriors of Gujarat, hold on! The war elephant team two kilometers away from you is attacking the vital points of the Ming army. Victory will be here soon."

"Ming army's warships!"

Surlit VII, who was also watching through a telescope, suddenly shouted.

"Where?" Muzaffar Shah III asked hurriedly.

"Further to the left, on the sea, close to the coastline."

Muzaffar Shah III turned the telescope toward that location and saw that three or four kilometers to the left of the war elephant team was the coastline, where hundreds of Ming warships were densely anchored.

The ships had lowered their sails and were anchored. People on the deck could be vaguely seen busy at work, but it was unclear what they were doing.

"Don't worry. It's three or four kilometers away, and there's a small mountain in between. The artillery of the Ming warships can't reach that far."

That's right, no matter how powerful a smoothbore cannon is, its range is only two kilometers. And after the shells are fired two kilometers away, they don't have much killing power.

Now the War Elephant Team is more than four kilometers away from the coastline, and there is a small hill in the middle blocking the shooting view. Don't worry!

Adil Shah I, Murtaza and Surit VII were also aware of the situation and nodded, saying that His Highness Muzaffar Shah was right.

But the four of them still couldn't help but look at the Ming warships.

The Ming Navy is so powerful that they are subconsciously worried whether there are secret weapons that they don’t know about!
As the thought flashed through my mind, I suddenly saw flashes of fire on the decks of the ships, followed by thick black smoke rising.

On fire?
wrong!

All I saw were long black lines in the sky, flying from west to east, from the sea to the land, and heading straight for the war elephant team.

At the same time, hundreds of long black lines flew out from the center of the Ming army, leaping from north to south, their target also being the war elephant team that was about to bring victory to the anti-Ming coalition forces.

The long black line finally flew over the heads of the war elephants, then fell down one after another and exploded among the war elephants, raising clouds of black smoke and fireballs.

In the fireball, countless sparks flew around like fairies scattering flowers, and wherever they touched, fire started, burning more and more fiercely.

In just a moment, dozens of elephants were on fire, screaming and running around.

Some of the warriors on the elephants' backs were on fire and jumped up and down in the baskets, while others jumped out of the baskets out of fear, only to be trampled into pulp by the panicked elephants.

The rockets continued to be fired. If we didn't fire 3,000 rockets, how could we say that we had fought a large-scale battle involving more than 100,000 people?

The Navy has more than 60 rocket-launching ships and the 1st Special Artillery Regiment of the Marine Corps' Tianzhu Task Force has 68 rocket launchers, which can fire more than 500 incendiary rockets in one round.

After five rounds, nearly three thousand rockets covered the one-kilometer area where the War Elephant Team was located.

These well-trained war elephants are not afraid of guns and cannons, but they are still very afraid of being roasted alive.

Seeing their companions turned into fireballs one by one, wailing and screaming, and running around with the smell of meat, the three or four hundred war elephants that were lucky enough not to be burned completely collapsed. Driven by the sea of ​​fire, they ran wildly, heading towards the second line of defense of the anti-Ming coalition.

The war elephant with its body on fire seemed to have seen a life-saving straw and started running after the other elephants, but it looked like it was just urging its companions to run faster.

The war elephants that luckily escaped fire saw the fire elephants chasing them. Their bulky bodies immediately turned into overweight deer and they ran even more frantically. Anyone or anything that dared to stand in their way would be trampled mercilessly by them.

Especially the two giant ivory sticks in the front, which were covered with spikes like iron brooms, sweeping away everything. Hundreds of people were swept away and either died or injured. Some even flew into the sky and became the first warriors of India to explore the sky.

The anti-Ming coalition forces standing in front were really in bad luck. Three or four hundred war elephants and two or three hundred fire elephants were running all the way over, while they were like ants blocking the road and were ruthlessly crushed.

The tragic scene made the soldiers curse and flee in all directions. The rockets falling like meteorites in front of them, burning everything, made them scared out of their wits. They turned around and ran, regretting that they could not grow several arms and legs like Lord Hanuman.

The 60,000 Indian vanguard troops were in complete chaos. What was even more terrifying was that the vanguard troops rushed towards the main force of the Indian army like a tide. Panic and fear spread like a plague to the 100,000 Indian main forces behind them.

Small-scale escapes began to occur everywhere.

The situation was reversed in just half an hour. It turned out that the goddess of victory's radiant wave was just a last gasp?

Muzaffar Shah III, who saw everything, felt cold in his hands and feet. He threw the telescope on the floor and leaned on the railing of the watchtower, covering his chest with his hands. His face was as pale as liver and he was gasping for breath.

Adil Shah I, Murtaza and Surit VII looked at each other, and Adil Shah I suggested: "Your Highness Muzaffar Shah, let's retreat first."

"withdraw?"

Muzaffar Shah III stared at Adil Shah I with his round bloodshot eyes.

Don't you know the temperament of our army?

With the wind in his favor, he was in high spirits and felt like a god possessed, able to fight from India to Istanbul.

But if they encounter setbacks, the retreat will turn into a large-scale escape, and those soldiers can run from the west coast of India to the east coast in one breath.

Adil Shah I understood Muzaffar Shah III's look and advised: "Your Highness, we all know the consequences, but if we don't withdraw now, what if another Ming army lands in the direction of Daman and rushes from behind us? We will not be able to escape even if we want to."

Muzaffar Shah III's face suddenly turned from liver color to pale white.

Just as he was about to give the order to retreat, someone shouted from below.

"Report!"

A trusted general rode over on his horse and jumped up and down under the sentry tower.

"what happened?"

"Itimad Khan led his 20,000 elite troops and appeared thirty miles southeast of us."

Upon hearing the news, Adil Shah I and Surlit VII breathed a sigh of relief and said in unison: "Quickly ask Itimad Khan to come and help us."

Muzaffar Shah's face turned pale and he was shaking all over. His fat body was shaking like waves. He was probably angry that Itimad Khan came just now. He was so angry that he couldn't utter a word.

Murtaza shook his head. "Itimad Khan's appearance at this time is not a good thing! Even if he came to support us, after seeing our defeat, there is no guarantee that he would have other ideas."

Yes, now the battlefield is filled with black smoke that rises straight into the sky and can be seen from hundreds of miles around. The hundreds of thousands of Indian troops are in chaos, and it is obvious that they have been defeated by the Ming army.

Itimad Khan turned his guns and launched a fatal attack on the anti-Ming coalition forces. He surrendered to the Ming army and defected to his new master. Perhaps his dream would come true and he would become the new monarch of Gujarat.

It turned out that Muzaffar Shah III was shaking not because of anger but because of fear.

As an old rival for many years, he knew Itimad Khan too well and would definitely take advantage of his misfortune.

"Your Highness, let's retreat immediately!"

"Hurry, take this Sultan away." Muzaffar Shah III shouted miserably.

Wu Dafei commanded his Third Regiment to bypass the elephant barbecue site and pursue the defeated Indian army.

"Report! The front command sent a report!"

Wu Dafei took it and looked at it, then said to his chief of staff: "This Itimard Khan has become one of ours. He first tried to drag the Indian army's artillery to his place, and now he personally led 2,000 cavalry to attack the Indian army's rear wing.

He is really determined to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

The front command ordered us to be careful not to clash with other troops. There was a red cloth tied to the left arm, and there was a password, asking, "How cold is the winter?" The answer was, "I'm playing in the mud in the Northeast." Remember to pass it on to the whole regiment. "

"What kind of command is this?" the chief of staff complained.

"It may be an Indian jingle, and the staff translated it and used it for convenience. By the way, our mission to receive the special operations group of sailors landing in the direction of Daman has been cancelled."

"Why don't the Marine Special Operations Group land and attack from the rear flank?"

"After such a fight, do they still need our support when they land? These Indian soldiers are so weak that they will fall to their knees as soon as the rockets hit them."

The Chief of Staff standing by really wanted to say, if three thousand rockets were to hit the ground, whoever was hit on the head would have to kneel down.

Muzaffar Shah III was watched and beaten by Itimad Khan and was soon captured and beheaded.

Murtaza led his troops to cover the retreat of the other three sultans, but was surrounded by the guard company and reconnaissance company of the 3rd Regiment. They shot him and more than 400 loyal guards to pieces with Type 05 rifles and revolvers.

Sacrificing blood and life to the world's first new breech-loading rifle and revolver with smokeless powder and shelled ammunition was a worthy death.

Adil Shah I and Surlit VII fled together but were separated in the middle. Adil Shah I was unlucky and accidentally ran into the hands of the Sailor Special Forces and surrendered obediently.

Fortunately, Surlit VII escaped with great difficulty and returned to his old nest, Semlao Castle east of Zhengling City.

I was still catching my breath when I raised my head and suddenly found that my home was gone!
(End of this chapter)