: King Pingxi defends Peshawar (craving to read, there will be an extra update at 6pm tonight!)

Eastern part of Gandhara Basin, Mardan City.

The flag of the Commander-in-Chief of the East India Company's Army flutters high over the second largest city in the Gandhara Basin.

Groups of East India Company mercenaries or Sikh soldiers holding turbans were marching in from outside the Gandhara Basin along the road one after another. Although these troops had been marching for days from Lahore

They drove over from Seoul and Multan. They had covered more than 400 kilometers in ten days and were already exhausted. But their morale seemed to be relatively high. Whether they were Hindus, Devadanians or Sikhs, they gathered together

When we were marching together, they all had their chests out and their bellies protruding, as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

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

On the city wall of Mardan, Lieutenant General Hugh Gough, commander-in-chief of the Army of the East India Company, looked at the troops entering the city in a steady stream, and finally showed a satisfied smile on his face. This man in history once led the British Army to fight "

A "Yiya" famous British general has now received the rank of lieutenant general in advance. He probably got the coveted rank of lieutenant general, so Hugh Gough also performed extremely hard this time. Thirteen days ago, he brought a streamlined

Headquarters, boarded the train bound for Delhi. After arriving in Delhi, we took a carriage and drove all the way to Lahore. We stayed in Lahore for a day and negotiated with the Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, Ranjit Singh.

After meeting the conditions for sending troops to regain Peshawar, he left Lahore together with the ruler of the Sikh Empire who had been "trapped" (his 20,000 troops were trapped in Afghanistan), and sat in a carriage for several days before finally

Arrived in Mardan three days ago.

When Hugh Gough and Ranjit Singh led a small number of cavalry to arrive at Mardan, the second largest city in the Gandhara Basin was already in chaos.

The officers and soldiers of the East India Company's army who had retreated from the Wa line were suffering from low morale, panic, and difficulty in supplying supplies. The white officers were hiding in the city drinking to drown their sorrows, while the Indian soldiers below were busy fighting and looting.

I am not in the mood to fight the golden soldiers of Peshawar again.

Under the command of Sir Amesh, these troops originally stationed outside Peshawar had the courage to counterattack twice. In the end, they were overwhelmingly crushed by the golden soldiers of Peshawar and lost all the way to Mardan.

Alas, I've lost everything. I've lost so much that I doubt my life.

The army officers and soldiers of these East India Company are accustomed to fighting against the wind. Relying on the superior firepower of the British and the organizational skills of the white officers, they suppressed the weak soldiers in the local Indian states who wanted arms but no weapons, and needed training and training. Basically,

The victory is guaranteed.

But this time in Peshawar, the enemy's firepower actually had the upper hand! The shooting was accurate and ruthless - Wu Zhenzhen's artillerymen were all good at pinching and counting, and the officers among them were all graduates of Xiandao University.

Humanoid fire control computer, you can shoot Zhu Yuan with just a few clicks!

What's even more exaggerated is that Jin Bing actually has air superiority!

During the two major counterattacks by the British and Indian troops around Peshawar, several airships flew over their heads and dropped bombs! Although those airships flew very high and the bombing effect was not good, it had a huge impact on morale.

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After several rounds of shelling and a round of airship bombing, the attacking British and Indian troops were determined to be unable to withstand it. At this time, the Peshawar militiamen fought out of Peshawar under the supervision of the "Yellow Jacket" cavalry of the Kingdom of Jin.

How could the British and Indian troops survive the counterattack but were defeated by artillery bombardment and airship air strikes? The two counterattacks were defeated by the same method.

After the second counterattack of the British and Indian troops was defeated, those "yellow mandarin coat" cavalry were still "unyielding in victory" and chased them with their rifles, killing the two to three thousand British and Indian soldiers who were watching Peshawar.

It hit Mardan.

However, Hugh Gough was not too worried about the Jin soldiers' shelling and air strikes, because he knew that the Jin soldiers used four 6-inch howitzers for shelling - they were artillery used to support the Khyber Pass fortress, and they were quite powerful.

, but there are not many ammunition, only more than a thousand rounds. Moreover, the cannons of this level of the Ming army are all 155 mm caliber, and there are no 6-inch shells to supply the Jin soldiers, so after the shells are fired, the four 6-inch guns are

It's all set up. As for the airship dropping bombs, it's all just to scare people.

What really worried Hugh Gough was the Jin army's airlift of additional troops to Peshawar via airship.

According to investigation, a dozen or twenty airships arrive in the sky above Peshawar about every two days and use ropes to lower soldiers and some supplies - which should be weapons and ammunition.

According to what Hugh Gough knows, the Ming army's most equipped equipment is the Feilong III airship. This type of airship has a long range and a large carrying capacity. It should not be a problem to transport twenty or thirty fully armed soldiers at a time.

In other words, each batch of airships can transport about three to four hundred gold soldiers to Peshawar! If one batch is calculated as two days, more than a thousand people can be transported in ten days, and at least four to five thousand can be transported in thirty days.

people……

If this figure is true, then what Hugh Gough would have to consider is not to recover Peshawar, but how to secure the Khyber Pass and reserve a retreat channel for George Cotton's army.

So today, when I saw a large group of East India Company mercenaries and Sikh troops finally completing a continuous march of hundreds of kilometers and finally arriving at Mardan with high morale, Lieutenant General Hugh Gough finally felt relieved.

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

His chief of staff, a forty-year-old British aristocratic officer, was stunned when he heard this: "General, are we going to organize an attack now? Our troops are quite exhausted! They all marched two to three hundred miles from Lahar

They drove here with Multan. Should we let them rest for a few days?"

"No, it's too late." Hugh Gough shook his head, "Charlie, we now have 10,000 East India Company mercenaries and 8,000 Sikh soldiers. The number of Jin soldiers in Peshawar is estimated to be less than 2,500, but

They will increase their number by three to four hundred people every two days. If we rest for a few days, the garrison in Peshawar will be close to three thousand people! And these are real golden soldiers, excluding the local militia in Peshawar. According to intelligence,

Abbas Khan has surrendered to the Jin Kingdom and announced the War of Gods, so the Pashtuns in the Gandhara Basin support the Jin Kingdom. Every day we delay, the enemy will become stronger, and behind us are

There won’t be one for months without backup!”

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

At the same time, Zhuge Weidao had emerged from the cabin of an airship that had landed in the square outside the Peshawar Fortress, and stood in the center of this ancient city. He looked up at the yellow floating on the white castle in front of him.

Long Qi seemed a little emotional - the war on this timeline is about to reach India!

As soon as he thought of this, he heard Wu Zhenzhen's hearty laughter: "Commander Zhuge, I have been waiting for you. If you help me, military counselor, I will be sure to win the battle to defend Peshawar!"

When Zhuge Weidao heard that the other party called himself "Zhuge Military Advisor", he quickly waved his hands and said: "Your Majesty, I am not a military advisor yet. I cannot afford to be a Zhuge Military Advisor like you."

Wu Zhenzhen smiled and stepped forward, grabbed Zhuge Weidao's right hand, pulled him and said: "Daozi, please stop being humble. When the battle of Peshawar is over, isn't your military advisor position still guaranteed? If nothing else, that's it.

You can’t become a strategist even if you return to the plan of divine soldiers descending from the sky and the Bagua machine gun array?”

Zhuge Weidao heard what Wu Zhenshan said and quickly asked: "Your Majesty, how is the Bagua machine gun formation going? Will the Yingyi launch a massive counterattack soon? If the machine gun formation is not set up well, Peshawar will be difficult to defend."

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Wu Zhenzhen smiled and said: "Daozi, since you asked, let's go to the scene together and have a look. If there is anything wrong with the layout, tell me immediately and I will have someone correct it immediately."

"Okay, that's it!"

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Yang Lian: Your Majesty, it’s easy to fall into trouble if you have a second job. Cui Wensheng, who killed the late emperor with medicine, is an example!

Zhu Youxiao: Do ​​you compare me with that guy Cui Wensheng who works without a certificate?

Yang Lian: Isn’t it?

Zhu Youxiao: Haha, you may not know that I was once a certified mechanical chief engineer, a working MBA, and the second-in-command of a state-owned enterprise!

When everyone thought that Carpenter Zhu did not care about the people or ghosts and gods and was not doing his job all day long, Carpenter had already pushed the Ming Dynasty to its peak!
Chapter completed!