The city of Nagpur is an important town on the Deccan Plateau. It is sandwiched between the Maratha League, the Kingdom of Bijapur and the Kingdom of Golconda. It is a first-class military location.
The fifty-five-year-old Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb led his army to station here. He was a talented and strategic monarch and a war madman. Under his leadership, the Mughal Empire reached its greatest territory.
Guang; also under his leadership, the national treasury was unable to make ends meet and domestic crises were rife.
However, the more talented and ambitious the great man is, the less likely he is to see the lurking crisis. The life quality of the ordinary people who are as small as ants is really not important. They only have great achievements in their eyes.
Not long ago, Aurangzeb had just defeated the army of Bijapur, and the king of Bijapur surrendered to him. After the victory, he did not return to the court with his troops, but was stationed in Nagpur, constantly deploying troops.
The general plans to continue going south to conquer the Golconda Kingdom near Hyderabad and the Travanth Kingdom further south to complete the great cause of unifying Tianzhu.
During this period of time, he had gathered an army of 150,000 troops on the Deccan Plateau, thinking that conquering the two small countries that refused to surrender was as easy as squeezing two ants to death.
But the closer to the moment of victory, the more troubles became. The Marathas north of Nagpur formed a military alliance with the Golconda country in the south. Their leader Sivaji was extremely talented in military affairs, and the terrain was dangerous.
, is located in a mountainous area and is difficult to suppress; the Bijapur country that has just submitted has also shown signs of instability; the latest intelligence shows that King Varma of Travant led 7,000 soldiers to reinforce the Golconda country, which made the enemy in front of him
The number has increased to 30,000. Although it is not worth mentioning compared with the hundreds of thousands of troops he mobilized, it is still bad news. What is even more disturbing is that Sikhs and Rajputs are in the northwest.
and the north are ready to move.
Aurangzeb did not think that his country was in crisis at all, nor did he think there was anything wrong with the religious policy of exclusive Islam. On the contrary, he only regarded these unstable factors as the dying forces that prevented him from unifying Tianzhu.
It's just a struggle. No wonder he is so confident. Since he came to the throne, he has destroyed more than ten countries and can be called the Mughal God of War.
Now, on the surface, only the Golconda Kingdom in the south and the Travanth Kingdom further south have not surrendered. It is time to complete the great cause of unifying India!
After all, he was an emperor on horseback, and his deployment was tight and orderly. He ordered his third son, **** Shah, to stay in the capital Delhi to frighten the Sikhs and Rajputs; he also ordered the newly surrendered King of Bijapur to
He led his army to Nagpur to join him and jointly attack the Golconda country. This was a temptation. If they were willing to come, it meant they were loyal to the empire. If they refused to come, they would be pretending to surrender and swear to destroy it. They also sent
The beloved general Chai Singh led 30,000 troops and was stationed in Indore, the hinterland of the Marathas. He was looking for an opportunity to destroy the Maratha army under Shivaji. At the same time, he also attacked the Portuguese in Diu and the British in Surat.
A deterrent to people.
The wind is blowing! The great Emperor Aurangzeb climbed to the top of the city of Nagpur and looked around. Cotton grew in the fields, as white as snow, and the cotton branches were filled with peach-like fruits. Each tree
There were dozens of them, and the pressed cotton branches were bent over. In some cotton branches, the bloated cotton bolls split their mouths, and white cotton came out of them, like clouds.
The Nagpur area is an important cotton-producing area in India. With cotton, people can have cotton-padded clothes to keep out the cold in winter.
However, His Majesty the Emperor only glanced at it and turned his attention elsewhere. He always believed that civil affairs affairs should be handled by local officials. As an emperor, there was no need to care about such trivial matters. He divided the country into fifteen suba
(province), forty-seven sakars (administrative districts), and the sakars are divided into pargana, each with Amin (judge), Shikdar (tax officer), treasurer, clerk and other local officials to govern.<
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The emperor's attention was focused on the great cause of unification that could be remembered in the annals of history.
"Your Majesty, the King of Bijapur has led an army of 10,000 to join us." Aurangzeb was thinking about the iron horse war, and his general Tyril Khan came to report.
"Yes," the emperor responded with satisfaction, satisfied with King Bijabr's obedience.
"Your Majesty, the people of Bijapur have always been on good terms with the people of Golconda, so we must be on guard against fraud," Tyril Khan advised.
"What you are saying is that I have ordered you to lead an army of 20,000 people, set up camp next to the Bijapur army, and monitor them closely. If there is any abnormal movement, kill them without mercy. When attacking the Golconda people, place them at the front of the army formation.
", Aurangzeb said sinisterly, and immediately ordered wine to be placed in the military camp to entertain allies coming from afar.
"Your Majesty, the great emperor, you are as bright as the sun." As soon as they met, King Bijapur sang a hymn and knelt down to kiss Aurangzeb's shoe.
This move made His Majesty the Emperor very proud. He helped King Bijapur up with a smile and said, "My brother, you have proved your loyalty to me with practical actions. Please enter your account quickly. I will definitely not get drunk with you today."
No return!"
The banquet was very grand, and dancing girls were summoned from Nagpur to accompany the wine, and they sang and danced happily.
Aurangzeb asked a question that concerned him very much: "Are the Marathas still peaceful recently?" The Maratha tribal alliance is located in the north of Bijapur, and its leader Shivaji has always been a thorn in his side and a thorn in his flesh.
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"Those rats who only dared to hide in the mountains used despicable means to assassinate Afzair Khan. I can't wait to eat their flesh and drink their blood. Ever since General Jai Singh stationed his troops in Indore, they all
Hiding in the castle in the mountain, not daring to go down the mountain.
Afzhai Khan is the most powerful warrior in Bijapur. He is so powerful that he can lift a cannon that requires eight strong men to lift alone. He is known as the Xiang Yu of Tianzhu.
When Shivaji, the Maratha leader, was seeking independence, the King of Bijapur sent Afzair Khan to lead his troops to suppress it. Seeing that Shivaji could not defeat him, he pretended to surrender, but Afzair Khan asked him to surrender in person. He was very brave.
Shivaji put on a tiger claw in his left hand, hid a scorpion knife in his sleeve in his right hand, and laid an ambush. When they met, he assassinated Afzair Khan by surprise, and then set out ambushes to defeat the leaderless Bijapur army.
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After this battle, the Marathas won their independence, but the people of Bijapur were still haunted by the inexplicable assassination of their first warrior, Afzhai Khan, and believed that Shivaji was a coward who relied on assassination to win.<
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Seeing that he hated the Marathas so much, Aurangzeb felt relieved and encouraged him a few more words, and the atmosphere of the banquet reached a climax.
However, the most wonderful thing about politics is that those who were supposed to be mortal enemies often become allies in the end, and those who were supposed to be allies often become mortal enemies in the end.
Since the Marathas, Bijapur, Golconda, and Travant jointly surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, the Marathas and Bijapur were no longer enemies, but allies against the Mughal Empire.
.Even the King of Bijapur's introduction of the army this time was also Shivaji's plan, allowing him to pretend to help the battle and find an opportunity to defect before the battle. In order to defeat Aurangzeb's army, Shivaji secretly brought 30,000 elite troops.
Maratha warriors lurk in the valleys of Golconda.
This chapter has been completed!