The Patna region of Bihar, an eastern border province of the Mughal Empire, was the main battlefield for the Mughals to confront the Bangladesh rebels.

To the west of Patna is the Mughals, to the east is Bangladesh, located on the south bank of the Ganges River Basin, the gateway for the Mughal army to enter Bangladesh. At this moment, the royal army has advanced eastward, but the fortress is still in the siege.

While the elite soldiers and generals of the royal army entered this land, Mughal King Akba was anxiously waiting for a reply from the Ming Dynasty. At this moment, he did not know that an elite scout team under his command pursued the defeated army and entered the hinterland of Bangladesh, and almost killed the Xi Shaolin abbot from the Ming Dynasty on the battlefield.

At this time, Akbar, who claimed to be the king of justice, was not mentally prepared to attack the Bengal nobles who were supported by the "Ming Dynasty merchants" - his Portuguese adviser explained the situation in the Indian Ocean to him, and also let him know that the Portuguese who worked closely with him in the past was unreliable at this time.

To be honest, Akbar of Mughals signed an agreement with Christianity to give Christianity the opportunity to enter Mughals, but the purpose of this agreement was to allow Portugal ships on the sea to protect the visitors of the Mecca Holy Land to be safely passed.

Now Portugal cannot achieve this goal of Akbar. If they do not obtain permission from the Western Military Office, they will not even be able to guarantee their own safety when they leave Goa. Moreover, even if they receive the order from the Western Minister to allow their travels, the sailing of the Red Bay is under the command of another Ming person, the old capital of Xidacheng, Lin Feng, the King of the Ming Han Dynasty.

The Portuguese are not allowed to protect the ships entering the Red Bay will be mostly safe as long as they pay taxes based on the passenger head and the weight of the cargo. However, if the Portuguese ships are protected, the cargo will be kept clean and clean.

Of course this is just an assumption. No Portuguese dared to sail to the sea where pirates in Han Dynasty were inhabited.

The Portuguese, who once fought with Spain with the ambition of a small country, wanted to divide the world through business, colonized and destroyed several countries in the South China Sea, was forced to become a young wife on the land by Lin Afeng, and could only be active in various battlefields of the subcontinent as a foreign gun team.

At this time, the Patna Fortress, which was at the forefront of the two armies, was still under the control of the Bangladesh rebels. The local Afghan lord was dead on the way out of the city to fight. The confidant of the late lord was the confidant of the deceased lord, a slave-born old black man from Ethiopia named Hajim.

The Afghan lords or tribal chiefs from Persia ruled various countries in India. The long-term developed maritime trade caused various ethnic groups to move very frequently, and the local military system also relied heavily on the black slave army from Albania.

These black people were slaves when they were resold by Arab vendors to Indian or Persian nobles. Most men were trained as warriors since childhood, and received a salary, and were loyal to their masters throughout their lives.

What is particularly true is that this ‘lifelong’ is the lifelong of its master. When the master dies, they will be free and reserve the right to continue to serve the army.

Although they are unlikely to become new nobles, they still have the opportunity to become new military commanders in a certain country, city-state or tribe. Since the Indian military commander in this era only has one word, he will be called the captain for the time being.

As a foreigner from the Indian subcontinent, Hajim has been a second generation. He has lived in Patna as a soldier since he was a child. At this time, he took over the fortress and defenders left by his master. However, due to the frustration of his master's offensive, most of the defenders have fled eastward. Now there are less than four hundred slave troops left in the city who want to avenge his master like him.

The situation was not good for Hajim. A few days ago, he watched the army from Mughals swept across Patna like a tide and attacked eastward. They had lost the opportunity to retreat eastward. The royal army of Mughals also burned down the local oars placed on the southern bank of the Ganges River. They had nowhere to escape and could only hope that the Bengal nobles in the east could repel the Mughals and push the front back to Patna.

But there are two prerequisites. One is that they can survive until then. In order to prevent them from attacking the baggage routes on the Ganges, the Mughal army specially left two captains of a thousand-person digging trenches outside the city to block the fortress.

Second, in Hajim's perception, the nobles of Bangladesh were unable to defeat the Mughal army, and the army of the Bengal rebel forces was almost at a loss on the front of a hundred miles.

The main force of the Mughal army was very elite cavalry and a large number of local infantry recruited to wear short swords and short axes, as well as a small number of elephant soldiers and artillery soldiers.

In the past, the elite cavalry of Mughals were terrified on the battlefield. The Timur knights, who were wearing armor, were superb in cavalry and archery skills and were able to rush hard. However, in recent years, due to the poor relationship between the ruler Akbar and his cousin Mirza, the proportion of Turkic riders in the army was decreasing, and the Rajputs in northern India were instead used as the main source of Mughal cavalry.

The new Mughal cavalry focused more on charge speed. Compared with the Turkic riders, they were a little poor, so they could not buy Mongolian-style armor for themselves and their war horses, but they also had high-top helmets, chain mail and heart protection mirrors, and their bravery on the battlefield was not as good as the Turks.

What's more, the Mughal infantry also had well-made muskets and artillery from the Ottomans. Even if the war elephants and artillery were pulled east by the royal army to attack more important towns, the infantry and cavalry left outside the fortress of Mughals would still bring disaster to Hajim's more than 400 slave soldiers in the field.

Compared with the Mughals, the eastern city-states could only use war elephants to fight with hand-to-hand combat, because the trade environment after the rebellion made them lack gunpowder.

In the west, there were pirates in the Han Dynasty that were causing trouble. There were no Arab merchants here anymore. Even the entire Indian coast became a forbidden piece of merchants. They sold woven cotton, silk, porcelain, tea and various hardware and crafts. Even people like Tianshi Abbot who had influence in the Eryang Military Palace in the southwest would sell well-made Franchise machine cannons and messile bird guns in small quantities.

But in the Ming Dynasty, gunpowder and raw materials were absolutely banned, and no one except the Siyang Military Palace dared to touch it.

So, what's the use of selling more artillery?

Without the Chinese snow in the Arab population, the Chinese salt in the Persian population, and the sulfur in the east of the Strait of Malacca, charcoal rods cannot explode.

Day after day, the Mughal cavalry outside the city often rode tall and slender Arab horses across the trenches and shouted loudly, and there was not much food in the city, which made Hajim particularly worried.

Until that night, Hajim, who was sleeping with a scabbard on the head of the city, was awakened by the noise at the top of the city. The anxious captain reported to him that someone was in the dark and tied a letter to the torch onto the city with a bow and arrow.

The letter was written in Bengali language, asking him to distribute a vegetarian headscarf to his subordinates tomorrow morning to invite the besieged troops, and after seeing the letter, he shook it with a few torches on the northern wall of the fortress. After the war began, reinforcements from the Ganges River would be connected to them.

The slave soldiers stood on the city wall in skepticism. Hajim held the arrow shaft with a knife carved the Chinese character "Shaoshi Monk" and lit a torch to look north.

After a brief, breathtaking calm, they saw countless ship lights flashing on the dark Ganges River under the night sky in the northeast. In those fleeting huge shadows, towering long banners could be seen on the ship.
Chapter completed!