With the success of the Great Zhou army in taking Calcutta, the rain gradually stopped for many days.

After three days, the flood waters gradually receded, leaving only the ground in shambles.

Although he took Calcutta, Sun Dingzong still had a lot of aftermath work to do.

Homeless victims are to be resettled, captured British troops are to be taken care of, and epidemic prevention work must be carried out at the same time.

It is said that after the catastrophe there will be a great plague, and now Sun Dingzong is most worried that there will be a plague outbreak in Calcutta.

After the floods, there was not even a clean water source in Kolkata, and it was not easy to prevent it.

Even though Sun Dingzong had ordered that no one in the city should drink raw water, the plague still inevitably occurred.

But fortunately, because of the better sanitary conditions in the army, there was no epidemic, which made Sun Dingzong feel a lot more at ease.

The things that can't be dealt with every day make Sun Dingzong, the commander, upset.

Sun Dingzong was born in the military in the end, and he is not very good at government affairs, and other generals in the army also have this situation.

Therefore, Sun Dingzong repaired a letter and ordered people to rush to Luoyang for 800 li, and he left more than 10,000 ordinary soldiers to garrison Calcutta and take care of the British prisoners, so he led his troops to the west without stopping.

At this time, because Frank ordered all the troops in Tianzhu to be transferred to Calcutta, and then Sun Dingzong came to make dumplings, there was no British army stationed in Tianzhu.

Faced with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, how could Sun Dingzong give up?

So Sun Dingzong made a bold decision: divide the troops.

Yes, after the British garrison in Tianzhu was wiped out, Sun Dingzong decided to divide his troops and marched, leading 20,000 troops to Delhi, the capital of Tianzhu, while the other two teams each had 40,000 troops and marched in the two directions of Bombay and Salem.

From Hill's mouth, Sun Dingzong had already learned about the increase of troops in England to Tianzhu.

Through analysis, Sun Dingzong found that if reinforcements from England wanted to land in Tianzhu, Mumbai was the best port.

So at first, Sun Dingzong wanted to go to Mumbai in person.

But the reality is that Delhi is the capital of Tianzhu, and if it captures it, Da Zhou will gain a great political advantage.

After all, many of the local nobles in Tianzhu lived there, and if they were subdued, then the rule of the Great Zhou over Tianzhu would be stable in the future.

It was precisely because of the political significance of Delhi that Sun Dingzong decided to personally lead his troops to Delhi.

However, compared with the other two armies of 40,000 men each, Sun Dingzong only brought 20,000 horses, and except for a battalion of 5,000 musket battalions, the rest of the 15,000 men were ordinary soldiers.

This time, Sun Dingzong led his troops to Delhi, not for the purpose of fighting, so he did not bring so many soldiers and horses.

And the fact is indeed as Sun Dingzong expected, in the process of marching, all the cities that pass by are basically looking at the wind.

In the eyes of the nobles of Tianzhu, the English who colonized them before were all defeated by the Great Zhou, so how could they, the colonized people, be the opponents of these Great Zhou troops?

So along the way, Sun Dingzong went smoothly, basically did not delay for long, and it took about half a month or so for Sun Dingzong to arrive in Delhi City.

Compared with Sun Dingzong, the marching speed of the other two armies is not slow, the Western Route Army has reached Bhopal, and the Southern Route Army has also reached Eluru, which can be said to be making rapid progress.

There was no resistance along the way, and it was very smooth.

At the same time, the first batch of 10,000 additional reinforcements sent by England to Tianzhu had reached the sea west of Mumbai.

The commander of the support army, Nold, stood at the bow of the ship, looked out at the port ahead, and asked the staff officer beside him, "Is there any news from Frank in the past two days?" How is he doing in Kolkata now? ”

"No news yet!" The staff officer shook his head and said, "However, according to the analysis of the news transmitted by Sir Frank before, he should still be in Calcutta at this time to hold off against the army of the Great Zhou. ”

"Hopefully!" In this regard, Nold did not report much hope, "Over the years, I have seen that the Empire's garrisons in Tianzhu have become old soldiers one by one.

Losing Assam and Bangladesh one after another, why didn't Frank commit suicide by hitting the wall? ”

"Ahem......" Seeing that his general said this, the staff officer hurriedly coughed and signaled that he must not let others hear this, otherwise it would reach Frank's ears, and it would be troublesome.

Nolde didn't care about this, and still said to himself: "Although the Great Zhou army has a large number, there are only 20,000 people who can really fight against the imperial garrison.

Frank has 40,000 men under his command, and if he can take the initiative to go out of the city to start a decisive battle with the Great Zhou army, I am afraid that those men and horses of the Great Zhou will have been driven out of Tianzhu long ago.

Now it's good to stay in Calcutta, and I don't know what his pig brain thinks. ”

"Perhaps, Sir Frank thinks that after our group of reinforcements arrived on the battlefield, he would be more sure, so he didn't start a decisive battle with the Great Zhou army, right?"

"That's what you really think?" Squinting at the staff officer, Nold asked.

"Yes, General!" The staff officer could only answer this way......

Before you know it, the warship has sailed into the port of Mumbai.

"Tell the soldiers to rest for the rest day, and then march to Calcutta after breakfast tomorrow morning!" As soon as he set foot on the soil of Mumbai, Nold gave instructions to his staff.

At this time, Nolde did not know the news of the total annihilation of the British army in Calcutta, and after entering the city, he still leisurely wandered the ancient streets and temples here.

"General...... Finally found you, General! In a temple in the city of Bombay, the staff officer panted and ran to Nard and said, "General, according to the merchant who has just arrived from the direction of Calcutta, the Imperial garrison in Calcutta has been completely destroyed!" ”

"What did you say?" Hearing this, Nolde was a little incredulous.

The staff officer said stubbornly: "According to the merchant from Calcutta, half a month ago, there was a sudden rainstorm in Calcutta, and Sun Dingzong, the commander of the Great Zhou army, ordered someone to deliberately block the Hooghly River, and after the water level rose, Sun Dingzong ordered someone to dig a dike, and finally flooded Calcutta, resulting in the annihilation of the imperial army!" ”

"Is the message exact?" Nold was still a little incredulous, "It can't be some businessman talking nonsense, right?" ”

"The news is clear, General!" The staff officer explained, "As soon as I heard the news, I asked several businessmen from Calcutta, and they all confirmed the news.

Now, most of the people in the whole city of Mumbai know the news......"

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