April 6th, 1656
Dakshin Bharatiya Empire, Northern Frontier
With the fall of Mughal defences in the East Madhya Pradesh battlefront and the retreat of General Shahzad Khan, Ramayya Senapati took advantage of the situation and led the army to occupy Seoni, a town 50 km from the frontier wall.
Due to the vacuum created by the retreat of Shahzad Khan, there weren’t many defences in the city of Seoni, hence it wasn’t hard for Ramayya to occupy the city within the day.
Truthfully, there wasn’t even a battle, because as soon as Ramayya arrived near the city wall of Seoni, the Mughal leader responsible for the city, seeing the hundreds of thousands of troops on his doorstep, did not even consider a counterattack.
He just fell to the ground with a *Thud* and raised the white flag.
With this, Ramayya not only occupied the city of Seoni as a foothold but also took over the city’s defences intact.
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Dakshin Bharatiya Empire, Vijayanagara State, Capital City Hampi
A couple is resting in an affluent room in the imperial palace. The woman in the couple seems to be pregnant and has an expression of ease, while the man has bandages strapped to various parts of his body. The bandages have a fresh shade of yellow, indicating they have been recently dressed. This couple is naturally the royal couple, His Majesty Vijay Deva Raya and Her Majesty Kavya Deva Raya.
Vijay’s minor injuries had healed nearly halfway and had already scabbed over. He was enjoying his time with Kavya. Unfortunately, his time was still limited, so when he saw that Kavya had fallen asleep, he quietly got up from the bed, kissed her on the cheek, and slowly left the room.
He sat down in the study room, and the first thing he saw was the classified war report of the frontier war on all four battlefronts.
He opened the report and read it thoroughly, and was very satisfied with the results he read so far.
However,
"Pff, hahaha"
he laughed out loud when he read about the battle report of the East Madhya Pradesh battlefield.
"Ramayya met a good opponent," he muttered as he read about Shahzad, his actions and how he was counterattacked.
As for Ramayya using the secret weapon ’Hastha Dwani’, Vijay did not care at all. Weapons should be used whenever the time is right, and seeing how the weapon was used by Ramayya in the battle, he was very satisfied. As for having more cards for future wars, Vijay is not worried because he is currently researching a weapon that can fulfil just that purpose.
It should only be about a month for the prototype to be ready.
Also, with the exchange of various patents between various BIT universities, the machine tools should also be upgraded shortly.
"Wait!"
"Combine the data?"
Suddenly, like a bolt of lightning striking his head, he immediately got an idea that would allow him to collapse the defences of the Mughal army and push them back.
His eyes bright and his expression eager, he quickly wrote a letter with instructions for the strategy he thought of. In order to save time, Vijay wrote the instructions in cypher text directly.
The sealed letter Vijay sent immediately passed through the highly developed Arkha Drishti communication channel of the empire. Due to the letter being related to the military, it passed through directly, putting all civilian, academic, and administrative messages on hold.
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The Frontier of Western Madhya Pradesh
"Your Excellency, there is a classified letter from the capital, sir."
Kiran Pujari was curious. "Who is it from?"
"Ah,"
*flip*
"It is from His Majesty, sir."
Kiran’s face immediately became serious as he sat in an attentive posture and carefully read the letter.
However, to the surprise of the surrounding officers, Kiran had a smile on his face by the time he finished reading the letter.
The officers all dropped their jaws in astonishment, as what they were seeing was nothing short of a miracle.
"Ah, hey, why did you pinch me?"
"To see if I am dreaming."
"Then why did you pinch me?"
"Oh, right."
"..."
"???"
Soon, unbeknownst to Feroze Jung on the opposite side of the frontier wall, 80,000 of the 310,000 remaining troops controlled by Kiran Poojari slowly slipped away from the Western Madhya Pradesh battlefield and went towards the Eastern front. Due to this migration happening behind the city wall, Feroze Jung was unable to find out about the missing troops.
Even if he had some way of knowing, he wouldn’t use it since he was fully concentrated on breaching the frontier wall and had no time to utilize his hidden cards to discover the secret movement of these troops.
The same thing happened on the Bengal battlefield, commanded by Birbal Singh, and the Jharkhand battlefield, commanded by Narasimha Naik. Both generals sent 60,000 troops secretly into the breached part of the Western Madhya Pradesh battlefield.
All these troops together accounted for 180,000 sent by the three commanders. Adding the 308,000 troops or so that had been left over after the war, Ramayya now took command of nearly 488,000 troops. Of course, this was temporary since he neither had the logistical capacity nor the administrative capacity to lead all these troops immediately.
As for the reason why these troops gathered under him, it was to flank the remaining battlefields and compel the enemy to retreat, of course.
Now that Ramayya has occupied Seoni, which is in the central part of the subcontinent, what could be a better opportunity than this?
"Prepare for battle!" Ramayya ordered, as he split the troops into two parts and immediately launched the operation strategized by His Majesty the Emperor.
Towards the Eastern Maharashtra battlefield, nearly 100,000 troops commanded by Lieutenant Samay Sena left immediately, while Ramayya himself commanded the rest of the 388,000 troops and marched quickly towards the battlefields of Jharkhand and Bengal.
Samay Sena, upon leaving the foothold of Seoni, did not hesitate and swiftly proceeded towards the eastern battle group. Despite the inadequate border infrastructure on the Mughal Empire side, carriages equipped with shock absorption were reluctantly used to hasten the journey. Fortunately, the distance from Seoni to the eastern battle group near Betul was covered in just 12 hours.
Feroze Jung, who was surprised to be informed about an enemy force numbering hundreds of thousands marching quickly towards their flank, was filled with panic and dread.
Although he did not know how such a thing could happen, since in the battlefield he controlled, not even a single dog was allowed to cross the border without him noticing, now suddenly there was a large army numbering hundreds of thousands. How could this news not shock him?
30 minutes later...
After looking at the army marching towards them at full speed on the horizon, Feroze Jung knew that if he was sandwiched between the enemy, his army would be destroyed without knowing how. So, he immediately and decisively ordered, "Retreat back to Bhopal."
The remaining troops of Feroze Jung, numbering around 350,000, immediately withdrew to the city of Bhopal.
With the strategy successful, Kiran Poojari couldn’t help but laugh out loud as he barged into the city of Betul, which was the previous foothold of Feroze Jung, and immediately started to prepare for the raid.
Lieutenant Samay Sena, satisfied that his task was accomplished, promptly returned to Seoni. There, he awaited the return of his Excellency, Commander Ramayya Senapati, who was on the mission. In the meantime, Samay Sena initiated continuous skirmishes against the Mughal troops in the nearby towns and villages to the north.
He also assumed the responsibility of disseminating propaganda and allocating resources strategically to influential figures who could facilitate the expansion of Bharatiya influence in the Surroundings of Jabalpur, their next target.
With these constant riots from the people intensifying, Shahzad Khan did not get the chance to notice the surrounding situation. The only thing he could do was send information about his defences being breached back to the Minister of War, Iqbal, and nothing else, as he did not realize the Bharatiya Empire was using the breach to flank the remaining battlefields.
If Shahzad were to know about the consequences of his actions, it is unknown how he would react.
By the time Minister of War Iqbal figured out the situation in the eastern battlefront, he couldn’t help but be so angry that he even threw out his favourite antique, breaking it into pieces as he roared, "This good-for-nothing bastard! What a waste! Why did he have to be so eager for quick success?
Now, taking advantage of his mishap, the Bharatiya Empire launched continuous attacks on the sore spot, further damaging the defences."
"These freaking noble young masters will be the death of me, goddamn it!"
Although he was angry and wanted to directly curse at Shahzad, he unfortunately could not do it, due to his family connections. Instead, he quickly worked on countermeasures and informed various battlefields of the news, but unfortunately, he was too late.
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Even though the information reached the front line, there was not enough time to prepare for the arrival of the enemy from the back, and they had to decisively retreat.
The only exception to this decision was Mohammed Azlan, the eldest son of the Murshidabad Nawab family and also the general commanding the Bengal Battle Group. As soon as he received the news about the arrival of an enemy from his flank, he started to prepare to confront the enemy from both sides.
He tried his best to lay hundreds of traps, sent scouts to constantly monitor the arriving enemy, and even deployed some of his army, not directly participating in the battle, but to set an ambush.
Ultimately After the battle was over, he was very regretful of his decision because the Bharatiya Empire had sent in Rangers who were specially trained to ensure the safety of their path. When hundreds of Rangers died while trying to scout out the path, Ramayya immediately realized that there were countless traps hidden to ensnare them.
So, he took an unconventional approach and went even further inland to rotate from Chandrakona, a town only 50 kilometres away from the Mughal Empire’s foothold in the Bengal Battle Group at Kharagpur.
Fortunately, there was a good road from Chandrakona to Kharagpur, so the travel took only 6 hours. Ramayya successfully flanked Mohammed Azlan and his troops from behind.
Muhammad Azlan, who intended to fight the Bharatiya Empire, was immediately sandwiched between two forces of equal size and suffered heavy damage. Even the troops commanded by Birbal Singh, originally stationed on the other side of the city wall, entered the fight and started firing from both directions. Helpless, Muhammad Azlan had no choice but to retreat towards the only safe direction, Kolkata.
Upon reaching the city, Muhammad Azlan finally felt at ease, as there was no army of 600,000 following him.
However, unknown to him, when he ordered the reserve forces stationed against the Ahom Kingdom in the far northeast to fight against Ramayya’s troops who ventured inland, Yogendra Singh immediately seized the opportunity and decisively launched attacks from two fronts, towards the cities of Agartala and Mymensingh.
Muhammad Azlan was now desperate due to his actions.
Overall, by the end of April 25th, 1656, due to the mistake made by Shahzad Khan of the Dost Dynasty on April 6th, 1656, a chain reaction occurred where the defences of the Mughal Empire on various battlefields fell one by one due to inadequate preparations.
Furthermore, another mistake by Bengal battlefield general Muhammad Azlan provided a crucial opportunity for the Bharatiya Empire to fully capture the region of Bengal.