"What about the movements of the Great Zhou army?" Nold was taken aback, and quickly came back to his senses and asked, "Does anyone know in which direction the Great Zhou army is heading after capturing Calcutta?" ”

"This ...... The information is cluttered! The staff officer hesitated, "Some merchants say that after capturing Calcutta, the Great Zhou army went straight in the direction of Delhi.

It is also said that the Great Zhou army was attacking Salem to the south. It is also said that the Great Zhou army was coming in the direction of Mumbai.

Because the information is so miscellaneous that I can't judge. ”

Hearing this, Nold's eyes couldn't help narrowing, and he said, "Could it be that the Great Zhou army has divided its troops?" ”

"It's possible!" The staff officer nodded and said, "The Great Zhou army has 100,000 horses, and after the capture of Calcutta, the empire has no garrison in Tianzhu, and at this time, it is very likely that the commander of the Great Zhou will divide the troops." ”

"Now all the news is brought back by those businessmen, and the reliability is not exact!" Nold commanded, "You should send someone to find out the true movements of the Great Zhou army now!" ”

Nold's intuition was that after the capture of Calcutta, the Great Zhou army must have divided its forces.

After the staff officer left, Nolde was not in the mood to wander around the temple anymore, and went directly back to the barracks outside the city, staring at the Tianzhu map on the wall without blinking.

Judging from the map, Delhi, the capital of Tianzhu, is the closest to Calcutta, and the political significance of Delhi is far greater than that of any area of Tianzhu, so Nard analyzed that if the Great Zhou army did not divide its troops, it would definitely choose to attack Delhi.

After capturing Delhi, the Great Zhou army would move south to Mumbai, the largest city in Tianzhu, before continuing south to take Salem, the southernmost point of Tianzhu.

But now that England is empty in Tianzhu, it is not impossible for the Great Zhou army to choose to divide its troops and attack Delhi, Mumbai, and Salem at the same time.

But regardless of whether the Great Zhou army divided its troops or not, Nold could not act rashly.

This is because there are only 10,000 troops under Nold's command now, and he can't tell which army the most elite firearms battalion in the Great Zhou is.

If all the firearms battalions of the Great Zhou were in the midst of the army attacking Bombay, Nold's rash actions would most likely face the same fate as Frank.

So Nold chose to stay put.

After thinking it through, Nold, on the one hand, ordered people to return to the house as soon as possible to inform the House of Representatives, and on the other hand, hastened the time to build fortifications near Mumbai.

Now that the domestic situation in Tianzhu has been completely eroded, all Nend can do is to leave a bridgehead for the British Empire in Tianzhu and prepare for the full entry of follow-up reinforcements.

And at this moment in Delhi City, after Sun Dingzong met and appeased a group of Tianzhu nobles in the city, he returned to his residence and was also staring at the map on the wall in a daze.

"Counting the time, the English reinforcements should be about to arrive in Bombay City, right? I just don't know where the Western Route Army has arrived now? Will it be possible to reach Mumbai before the British landing? ”

If the Western Route Army could reach Bombay before the British landing, it would mean that the Great Zhou would completely control the situation in Tianzhu, because if the British army wanted to force the landing, it would face massive casualties.

The first batch of reinforcements of the British army was only 10,000 men, and even if they succeeded in defeating the Western Route Army in the end, I am afraid that there would not be many troops left, and it would be impossible to hold Bombay.

But once the British reinforcements landed in Bombay before the Western Route Army, it would be bad.

In Calcutta, Sun Dingzong used a trick to make dumplings for the British army there, but Sun Dingzong also understood that in fact, in the frontal battlefield, the British army's combat strength was not much weaker than that of the Great Zhou army.

If the Great Zhou army had grenades and mines, the two weapons of great destruction, then the British artillery was undoubtedly much better than that of the Great Zhou.

Although the domestic artillery technology of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been greatly improved, if you consider it comprehensively, the artillery technology of the Great Zhou Dynasty is far from being the best in the world.

In Europe, the artillery technology of the Great Zhou Dynasty is actually at the same level as that of Franc Machine, Italy and other countries, and it can be regarded as second-rate at most.

After all, the production of artillery is far from being done with a single blueprint. From the smelting of iron ore to the final production process, it is actually an industrial chain.

However, whether it is the mining, smelting or final production process of iron ore, Dazhou has at most caught up with the level of Europe, and is far from leading.

There is also a very important reason, that is, there are very few high-quality iron ores in Dazhou, and now the iron ore that has been mined in Dazhou has a large sulfur content in iron ore, which is far from being comparable with high-quality ores in Europe.

This is a big problem, as can be seen even in the later generations of the 21st century, when most of the iron ore used to produce high-precision equipment was purchased from Australia.

Of course, these Sun Dingzong didn't know, what he knew was that the combat power of the British army was actually not inferior to the Great Zhou army, so after pacifying the Tianzhu nobles in Delhi, he left 5,000 men and horses to garrison, and rushed to the direction of Mumbai with the remaining 15,000 men and horses.

While hurrying, Sun Dingzong ordered someone to inform the Western Route Army, ordering it to be cautious during the march to prevent being ambushed by the British army.

If the British army had already landed, it was indeed very likely that the Western Route Army would be ambushed halfway, which made Sun Dingzong have to worry.

As a result, what worried Sun Dingzong the most still happened.

Five hundred miles out of Delhi, Sun Dingzong received news from the city of Mumbai: the first batch of 10,000 reinforcements from England had landed in Tianzhu.

But fortunately, the Western Route Army was safe and sound along the way, and there were no accidents, and the Western Route Army had arrived outside the city of Bombay at this moment.

Seeing that the British army was already stationed in the city of Mumbai, after two tentative attacks, the commander of the Western Route Army understood that he had encountered a hard bone, so he did not rush to attack again, but ordered someone to report the news to Sun Dingzong quickly.

After receiving the news, Sun Dingzong ordered the Western Route Army to stand still outside Mumbai, while his own side hurried to hurry.

Ten days later, Sun Dingzong finally led 15,000 soldiers to the city of Mumbai to join the Western Route Army.

At this time, the 15,000 soldiers were already exhausted because of the rapid march, so Sun Dingzong simply let them live and recuperate in the barracks, and he discussed the military situation with several generals to see how to capture the city of Bombay at the lowest cost.

In the end, after analysis, Sun Dingzong found that because the British general Nold had already built fortifications, it was impossible for the Great Zhou army to capture the city of Bombay without paying the slightest price.

"It seems that a hard battle is inevitable!" Sun Dingzong sighed......