More than 200,000 people and hundreds of thousands of baggage trains formed an endless procession on the flat land of northeastern India. If you look at it from a high place, these large teams of hundreds of thousands of people look like a group of paved roads.
Ants on the road.
Humayun walked to a small river and saw a few fast horses galloping in front of the army on foot.
Those fast horses are called "Seadu" in Persian. They are the descendants of the Persian nobles of the Mughal Empire and are secret messengers in Humayun's army. These messengers wear gorgeous Persian armor and have white ribbons tied on their heads.
Tassel-shaped decorations have the highest right of passage in the military.
Several fast horses crossed the river directly, rushed to Humayun, jumped off their horses, half-knelt down and shouted: "Your Majesty, the sentry report from the front! The most elite 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty came from southwestern Myanmar.
We boarded the ship at the port, and I heard that we are going back to the Ming Dynasty."
Humayun was overjoyed when he heard what these messengers said.
Li Zhi's general Li Laosi swept across the Indochina Peninsula with 150,000 men and had conquered Myanmar. Li Laosi's elite force was the 40,000 Tiger Army. These Tiger Army were equipped with sniper rifles, and some were even equipped with breech-loading rifles, which had great combat effectiveness.
Very prominent.
Before that, Humayun was worried about whether he could defeat Li Zhi. You must know that although the 200,000 Indian army was large in number, only 60,000 were equipped with the most advanced "Formosa" rifles of the Dutch. 70,000 were recruited from the Dutch
There were old-fashioned matchlocks there, whose combat effectiveness was far inferior to Li Zhi's troops. And there were 80,000 people who had no firearms at all and only used ordinary swords to fight.
If Li Zhi's 40,000 Tigers and Guards troops were in Burma, Humayun felt that he would not dare to invade Myanmar. If those 40,000 Tigers and Guards troops were placed there, even in the mountains, one hundred thousand musketeers would be defeated.
But God helped the Moguls. The Dutch intelligence was indeed correct. Civil strife broke out in the Ming Dynasty. Li Zhi hurriedly transported the main force of the 40,000 Tiger Army back to the country, apparently to deal with the Jiangbei Army within the Ming Dynasty.
In this way, Humayun only had to deal with the 50,000 Yi Zi battalion and the 60,000 warrior army.
According to Humayun's intelligence, the Nayizi Battalion went directly to the battlefield after being formed. Their shooting skills were not good, and their combat effectiveness was at best comparable to Humayun's new musketeers. The samurai army without firearms was not worth mentioning. If they were caught by a matchlock
The gunman might have collapsed after just one volley of fire.
With an army of more than 200,000 against a motley crew of 110,000, Humayun was sure of victory.
If Li Laosi can be defeated, I am afraid that the territory of the Mughal Empire will extend into Myanmar, and the empire will expand its territory to unprecedented places in its own hands.
Humayun's face gradually glowed with excitement as he thought about it.
He suddenly pulled out his sword and shouted loudly: "Glory to the Mughals!"
The soldiers around Humayun shouted: "Glory to the Mughals!"
"Glory to the Mughals!"
The shouting started from Humayun's side, spread outwards, and finally turned into a deafening tsunami.
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The temperature on the Heilongjiang River has dropped below zero. But Zhirkov, standing in the cold wind, did not feel cold at all. He was wearing a brown bearskin coat and a bearskin hat on his head, only his oiled face
and hands exposed in the wind.
In fact, there is no need to apply oil to prevent wind at this temperature, but Zhirkov is already used to applying oil in winter.
Zhirkov was the commander of 20,000 Cossack soldiers. At this time, he was standing on the hill on the bank of the river, greedily observing the land on the other side of the river.
Crossing the river is the land of the Ming Dynasty.
Russia's desire for land is endless. In the seventeenth century, when science and technology was not developed, the frozen land of Siberia was almost uninhabited for hundreds of miles, but the Tsar still tirelessly sent an expeditionary force to Siberia. In southern Siberia,
A passage was created to separate the entire Siberia from other countries.
Of course, what the tsar longed for more was the Far East south of Siberia. If he could go all the way south from Heilongjiang to invade the three northeastern provinces of the Ming Dynasty and open an ice-free port on the Liaodong Peninsula, then the tsar would be satisfied.
Russia had already begun to penetrate into the three northeastern provinces. As early as the 20th year of Chongzhen, Russia sent hundreds of Cossacks across the Heilongjiang River to plunder the natives of the three northeastern provinces.
However, Li Zhi of the Ming Dynasty had strong soldiers and horses and fought back the Russians.
Tsar Alexei was not a man to admit defeat easily. Since he could not defeat Li Zhi alone, Alexei found allies in Europe. The British were a good collaborator, and they were allies with the Dutch and could pass
The British successfully found the Dutch.
So when the Jiangbei Army began to attack the capital from the north, the Ming merchants bribed by the Dutch quickly spread the news to the Russians in the north of Heilongjiang.
Businessmen from the Ming Dynasty revealed to Zhirkov that this time not only the Jiangbei Army from the Ming Dynasty attacked the capital, but also the 200,000-strong army from the Mughal Empire in India attacked the southern territory of Li Zhi. If all the troops are combined
It is estimated that more than 400,000 people will besiege Li Zhi this time.
After the Tsar purchased new rifles from the British, he deployed 20,000 Cossacks in the Far East. These 20,000 Cossacks took the Formosa rifles purchased from the British and went south to the Heilongjiang River.
There are already some floating ice on the Heilongjiang River, which makes Zhirkov feel very safe.
Cold is the Russian's best friend.
In another month, the three northeastern provinces of the Ming Dynasty would be covered in ice and snow. At that time, Li Zhi's soldiers would not be able to fight at all.
In order to deal with the severe cold, the Russians had a complete set of equipment, including various fur coats and hats. These cold-resistant equipment could only be obtained from hunters in the north, and it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to equip them in large quantities.
Moreover, the Russians are different from the Ming people who lived south of the Great Wall. The Russians have lived in the coldest places for a long time and have natural resistance to the cold. In the coldest times, southerners cannot move outdoors even if they have fur.
The Cossacks under Erkov can continue to fight in the wild.
Twenty thousand people was not a large number, but during the four winter months from October to February, Zhirkov's Cossacks were invincible.
Li Zhi's troops were unable to fight in the three northeastern provinces in winter.
Zhirkov decided to invade the three northeastern provinces of the Ming Dynasty in winter, kill all the people there, and burn the houses of the Ming Dynasty people. In this way, the Ming Dynasty's colonization in the three northeastern provinces would be completely collapsed.
As long as all the Ming people in the three northeastern provinces are killed, Russia will not be far away from occupying the three northeastern provinces.
Li Zhi was besieged in the south and was unable to take care of the north. And even if Li Zhi wanted to go north to stop the Russian army, he would not be able to withstand the severe cold in the Northeast.
This is a perfect invasion plan.
Although Zhirkov was the leader elected by the Cossacks, he also longed for Russian titles and wealth. Zhirkov felt that after this victory, the Tsar would definitely make him a count.
With a wave to the troops, Zhirkov issued the order to cross the river.
Twenty thousand Cossacks wrapped in fur coats carried out the newly built boats and put them into the unfrozen Heilongjiang River. The soldiers shouted slogans, waved their oars, and attacked the prosperous Ming Dynasty in the south.
