In the Assam region, after the Spring Festival, Sun Dingzong led a large army to continue westward and attack Bengal.

By this time, General Frank Koshire, the British governor in Tianzhu, had already arrived in Calcutta, an important city in western Bengal.

After learning that the Great Zhou army had begun to attack Bengal, Frank immediately ordered all the garrisons in all parts of Bengal to assemble in Kolkata, leaving only some local soldiers to resist.

The combat effectiveness of the local soldiers in Tianzhu is not strong, and the weapons are still at the level of spears and knives, so where is the opponent of the Great Zhou army?

Therefore, along the way, the Great Zhou army can be said to have swept all the way, and it took less than half a month to reach the city of Calcutta.

"It's finally here!" On the wall of Calcutta, looking through the telescope at the Great Zhou army that was encamped in the distance, the corners of Frank's mouth curled slightly.

On the side, General Hill also echoed: "Thanks to the New Year of the Great Zhou, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to gather all the troops!" ”

This time, Frank can be said to have been determined to fight to the death, and gathered all the British garrisons in Tianzhu to Calcutta.

If the Great Zhou army had stepped up its time to move troops to Bengal when it had just captured Assam, I am afraid that they would not have enough time to deploy their troops.

But during the Spring Festival, Da Zhou was born in Assam for a full seven days, and the siege of the city along the way was delayed for half a month.

After such calculations, the Great Zhou army actually gave Frank more than 20 days to transfer troops.

Although Tianzhu was large, its territory was only half the size of the Great Zhou, so in these twenty days, Frank finally mobilized all the British troops in Tianzhu to Calcutta.

A full 40,000 British troops, in Frank's opinion, even if the Great Zhou army doubled, was no match for the British army.

After all, his 40,000 British troops are all well-trained soldiers, but on the side of Da Zhou, there are less than 20,000 people who can be proficient in the use of firearms.

As for the remaining 100,000 troops, in Frank's opinion, they were completely sending heads to the British army.

That's why Frank is so fearless.

Contrary to Frank's view, Sun Dingzong believed that the Great Zhou would win the battle.

This is not that Sun Dingzong thinks that 100,000 soldiers who have never touched a few muskets are the opponents of the British army, but that Sun Dingzong has already thought of a way to deal with the British army.

"Order the whole army to set up camp and hurry up the repairs, and besides, no one is allowed to go to the city to provoke the British army without the order of the old man." As soon as he arrived at the city of Calcutta, Sun Dingzong issued such a puzzling military order.

For three days in a row, Frank saw that the Great Zhou army outside the city did not take the initiative to attack, and he couldn't help but feel a little confused: "What happened to this Great Zhou army?" Shouldn't they take advantage of the victory to attack at this time? Why didn't you move for three days? ”

Frank, who was puzzled, came to General Hill to discuss, wanting to see what the Great Zhou army had to say.

But General Hill was also confused in his heart, so he suggested: "General, why don't we take advantage of the night to sneak attack the Zhou army camp tonight, and test it first?" ”

"What the general said is reasonable!" At this point, Frank didn't have any good ideas, so he followed General Hill's advice. After dinner that day, he ordered a small force to go out of the city and attack the camp of the Great Zhou army.

In this regard, Sun Dingzong had already taken precautions, after all, in the past and present wars, sneak attacks are a very effective method, so he took precautions early.

Therefore, the sneak attack of the British army did not take advantage of it in the slightest.

However, the Great Zhou army did not have any advantage on this side, and after the British army was repulsed, Sun Dingzong ordered the army to withdraw to the camp early in order to prevent the British army from ambushing.

In the following days, the British army went out of the city several times and came to the camp to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, and Sun Dingzong ordered them to be defeated.

Originally, Frank thought that after these several provocations, the Great Zhou army would be unbearable to start a decisive battle with the British army, but he didn't want such a situation to occur.

"Your Excellency the Governor, why don't we take the initiative to attack and go out of the city to start a decisive battle with the Great Zhou army?" At this time, General Hill suggested.

"No way!" Without even thinking about it, Frank vetoed General Hill's suggestion, "In less than a month, the first batch of 10,000 reinforcements from China will land in Bombay."

As long as we drag on for this month, will we still be afraid of these Zhou troops outside the city at that time?

Therefore, what we have to do now is to maintain the current situation, as long as the domestic reinforcements arrive, the Zhou army will collapse without a fight. ”

"But I heard that Da Zhou's side is still continuing to transfer troops to Tianzhu, and it is still a firearms battalion of tens of thousands." General Hill was a little worried, "Judging from the current situation that the Zhou army has not moved for a long time, they are also waiting for the arrival of this batch of reinforcements." ”

"What's there to worry about?" Frank said disapprerovingly, "Didn't you hear from Wilson, who just came back from Da Zhou, a few days ago, that the total number of firearms battalions in Da Zhou is only 600,000 people, and 400,000 of them are gathered on the northern border. As for the southern regions, there are only 5,000 firearms battalions in each province.

Do you think that the Great Zhou Emperor would transfer troops from the north? ”

Speaking of this, Frank laughed and said, "Unless the Great Zhou Emperor is crazy, he will do this, otherwise with the strength of several southern provinces, how many firearms battalions can be transferred?" ”

"But if it's like what you said, Governor, why hasn't the Great Zhou army outside the city been slow to act?" General Hill was puzzled.

"Why else? Maybe this Great Zhou general outside the city thought that with the 10,000 firearms battalion that was about to be transferred, he would be able to defeat us, right?

But they didn't know that the country had begun to increase troops in Tianzhu. ”

When Frank said this, General Hill felt that it made sense. After all, compared to Yingli's understanding of Da Zhou, in fact, Da Zhou does not know much about Yingli.

Especially in terms of intelligence, Tianzhu can obtain all kinds of information through the secret agents who are planted among the merchants who come and go to and from Europe to the Great Zhou, and the intelligence of the Great Zhou on the English side is basically equivalent to zero.

Frank thinks that the news that England has decided to increase troops to Tianzhu is still unknown to the Great Zhou.

But who knows, compared with England's understanding of Da Zhou, in fact, Da Zhou now has a better understanding of the situation in England.

This is largely due to the fact that England has a 'good' neighbour: France.

Based on the struggle for European hegemony, France has long wanted to stab England in the back, how can it give up this golden opportunity at this time?

Naturally, all kinds of information about England were stolen by France and then passed on to the Great Zhou......

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