"These people were newly recruited mercenaries, slaves captured by the Mughal Empire, refugees who were unable to feed, and poor people who volunteered to surrender."

Nearly 2,000 natives joined the defenders in Kolkata Fort.

Most of these natives have pale faces and thin skin, a small number of them have better mental states, and only a very small number of them are strong.

"People with good physique and height are almost all slaves captured by the Mughal Empire during wars, but they can become good soldiers."

The East India Company, which was responsible for recruiting indigenous people, introduced to Qin Zuoming, who was responsible for training mercenaries. In their opinion, these recruited mercenaries can be judged like commodities.

Among the 2,000 natives, there were only about one-tenth of the strong, who seemed to be exiled slaves and were once captured in battle with the Mughal Empire.

"I will let them develop initial combat effectiveness within one month, and they can defeat all Tumen infantry and cavalry head-on within three months." Qin Zuoming checked the newly recruited Tumen soldiers. Although many of them have poor physical fitness, they can form the most basic musket line with one month of rigorous training.

"We did defend the Kolkata Fort in the siege, but the Mughal Empire was furious. They blocked the outside of the fortress and strictly prohibited the merchants and villagers from trading with us. This is not a solution. Our business this year has been greatly affected, and the profit is estimated to be less than one-fifth of last year." The directors of the East India Company were a little dissatisfied with the current situation.

East India Company is a for-profit organization, and even if war is launched, it is just to seek greater profits.

"Their blockade is powerless. We can still recruit soldiers and buy food from outside." Qin Zuoming said.

"If you have money, you can buy food or even a matter of things from some princes who are greedy for profit. However, this kind of trade can only be carried out privately. Those princes are still afraid of the emperor's authority. Their army is very weak and there are no decent fortifications. Once attacked by the Mughal emperor, they cannot be blocked like us. Private trade will limit the scale. We must launch a war to make them surrender, or support a puppet to trade with us." The person from the East India Company said to Qin Zuoming.

"What do you mean is to implement the third stage of conquering the Indian Peninsula and make them surrender through war?" Qin Zuoming thought of the three-stage plan submitted by the East India Company to the above.

Establish a bastion, clean up competitors, and develop wars to force the market. Now the East India Company is implementing deployment at an extremely fast speed and has quickly reached the third stage.

The final stage is also the longest stage, and it is necessary to force the Mughal Empire to open its doors through strong ships and powerful cannons.

"Now there are two ways for them to sign a treaty with us and open up trade with us in full. One is to capture their capital, Agra, and force their emperor to surrender. This method has the greatest deterrence to them," said the East India Company.

Send an expeditionary force to conquer the capital of a large empire with a population of over 100 million! Such a strategy is indeed easy to surrender, but the difficulty can be imagined. They may be surrounded by the opponent's cavalry on land and face the difficulty of being traversed by food channels.

"It's too difficult to expedition the Imperial Capital of Mughals. Do you know where Agra is? It's not by the sea, but in the central northern part of the Indian Peninsula. Does the expeditionary force need to go deep into the land to conquer Agra? The difficulty is not ordinary." Qin Zuoming looked through the map.

This emperor is not on the beach, but in the hinterland of the mainland!

To conquer the Imperial Capital of the Mughal Empire, several infantry corps were needed to send a few infantry corps to land on the Indian Peninsula, and then to travel thousands of miles to the hinterland of the South Asian subcontinent to conquer the other's imperial capital!

The most terrifying thing about the Mughal Empire was the dense cavalry legion. It is said that under the mobilization of the whole country, more than 200,000 various cavalry could be summoned. In addition, the imperial capital Agra also had a royal arsenal, which specialized in producing match rope guns and bronze cannons for the Mughal emperors. Although their arsenal used backward skills to produce firearms, it was a bit threatening after all.

Flexible and maneuverable dracos can cut off the food route, and when the Mughal Empire is still at its peak, these cavalry can attack everywhere like the hands and feet of the Mughal Emperor.

"The second method is to let their local princes sign a treaty with us and then trade with us alone. In this way, we only need to suppress local princes and give us privileges in their territory. The advantage of this approach is that we can only need a small amount of troops to make them surrender, and we can take advantage of the conflicts and alliances between princes and princes in various places. The disadvantage is that these princes may be forced to the emperor's pressure or cannot establish stable trade with us due to their greedy and repeated personalities." The people from the East India Company proposed the second way.

The various national princes and princes of the Mughal Empire were made one by one, and the entire Mughal Empire was divided into pieces. As long as they were not a single piece, it would be easier to conquer them.

Qin Zuoming pondered for a while, thinking about how to operate it specifically.

Chen Bangyan came over and said, "It is not easy to make the Tubang princes here sign an agreement with us. The majesty of the Mughal emperor made countless Tubang princes afraid. They must fight the prestige of the Mughal emperor through a war, so that the Tubang princes could protect them even if they became independent from the Mughal Empire, so that they would dare to sign a treaty with us unilaterally."

"What you said makes sense. For example, there are at least dozens of princes and princes with greater power in Bangladesh. They usually obey the orders of the Bangladesh Governor and privately act on their own. The second prince Shashuja was the deputy prince of Bangladesh not long ago. He was a little higher than the Bangladesh Governor. If we try to convince the Bangladesh Governor to be independent from the Mughal Empire, then we can sign a treaty with us and we will provide him with protection." Qin Zuoming pointed to the map of Bangladesh and attacked the Bangladesh Governor.

"What if the Bangladesh Governor is unwilling to be supported by us as a puppet?" Chen Bangyan asked.

"Then we will support the independence of the princes and princes under the Governor of Bangladesh and put them in the position of the Governor of Bangladesh. As long as we lure them for profit, there will definitely be princes and princes willing to take risks. The so-called "preferred to be a chicken head rather than a phoenix tail, and I don't know how many princes and princes who think of being a king are." said the East India Company.
Chapter completed!