This is the second infighting in the Indian Ocean since the Spanish, British, Dutch and other allied forces were driven out of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean by the fleet of the Chinese Empire in the Far East thirty years ago, and the Chinese Empire is happy to see them infighting.

However, the Huaxia Empire also wanted to show its existence, so it sent Tianying and Ruan Tian to the battlefield as observers and mediators to contact both sides.

Before they arrived, the battle between the Spaniards and the British was already in full swing on land.

The agents of both sides, the Indians and the Bengali natives, in the dense forests, on the banks of the river, with flintlock pistols in full swing, you come and go, but in just one week, there were 100 battles, the Bengali aborigines suffered 2,000 casualties, and the original Indians suffered more than 3,000 casualties.

Of course, the guns and ammunition that both sides could provide to the natives were not too advanced, even the various antiques that the Indian governor had turned up from the storehouse, which was one of the reasons for the heavy casualties of the Indians on their side, and the Spaniards could not have provided the local natives with too good equipment, and they gave the locals the guns and ammunition seized from the British and Dutch merchant ships that had attacked the British and Dutch merchant ships from the sea, and some old guns and ammunition that they had brought to be sold.

At the same time, some of the old guns and ammunition seized from the British warehouses and the British colonial army were given to the locals to arm them against the British.

The fleets of both sides were trying to exercise restraint, and although it was inevitable that one or two would chase and fight at sea, and then four or five would be forced to come to the rescue, there had not yet been a larger-scale naval battle, because the British did not have enough ships, and they only had fifteen or sixteen slightly older sail ships, although they were all ironclad ships, but they were still inferior to the Spanish fleet in terms of artillery performance, speed, and combat effectiveness.

Only five or six warships during this period were the most recent domestic warships that were better than the Spanish ones.

Seeing their heavy casualties, the British did not give up, adjusted their deployment, stretched the battle line, and attacked Bengal in many areas, and the agents of the Military Intelligence Department of the Chinese Empire in Bengal also gave support to the Spaniards, helping them to mobilize local tribes, and instigating local tribes to attack each other, so that the Spaniards could act as peacemakers, and let them send personnel to counterattack the British, playing the role of liberators.

This allowed the Spaniards to gather more troops to deal with the attacks of the Indians, who were driven by the British, who were familiar with the terrain and population.

The British had the advantage of numbers, and they ruled for a long time, so they could incite more Indian princes, nobles or tribes to provide them with a steady stream of soldiers at a small cost, which was the weakness of the Spaniards.

The British had their own soldiers and officers to command the Indian soldiers, while the Spaniards were more pure, they directly herded their men to attack or defend, while their own soldiers mainly defended some important areas, at most they sent some people and officers to contact the natives, or play a role similar to military advisers, this kind of participation, of course, could not win against the British.

Sky Shadow, who has experience in military command, quickly saw the problem, but he couldn't make a sound, the Spaniards wouldn't bother with him, although he gave face to the Chinese Empire, but compared to the British, the Spaniards were not familiar with the Chinese Empire, otherwise they wouldn't have been driven out by the Chinese Empire, at least they didn't pay much attention to him, the British because they had dealt with the Chinese Empire for a long time, and they had been oppressed by the Chinese Empire for a long time, so they knew the pride of the Chinese Empire and their attitude towards them, so the British were very cooperative on the surface, But in private, they still did their own thing, and this was their battle with the Spaniards.

The Englishmen wearing bearskin hats and wearing a red outfit, and the Indian soldiers wearing a brownish red, turbans, and carrying flintlock pistols, came in a neat formation in front of the Spaniards, all over the mountains, all kinds of formations changed back and forth, British officers riding tall horses, hanging long command knives, countless whistles, countless trombones, cannon roars, volleys of guns, and the smoke of gunpowder was confused.

Native Spanish soldiers in blue uniforms, white belts, tall hats with conical cyan cylinders, fierce drums, horns, and shouts, counting long lines of spears and guns, and countless queues of soldiers on the left and right to protect them, or native Spanish soldiers in black uniforms with a white line on their trousers, pushing the guns removed from the battleship.

The two sides lined up in a plain and hilly area of two of Bengal's widest rivers for a decisive battle.

This was the first large-scale battle in India with tens of thousands of people, the Spanish gathered 30,000 natives, 4,500 troops brought by themselves, nearly 300 artillery pieces, and the British gathered 80,000 troops of the indigenous states of India, 3,200 of their own British colonial troops, and 232 artillery pieces.

In this way, the Spaniards looked like they were doomed.

However, the Celestial Shadow still watched the whole battle, the battle has been carried out in sunny weather, the Spaniards in the first round of artillery to the front row of Indians in all directions, the British had to use their cavalry to suppress those fleeing Indians, and then use their artillery to retaliate against the Bengali indigenous coalition army, in the eyes of the Bengali indigenous coalition army, which was more unbearable than the Indians, they were first excited for a while, and then rushed forward quickly regardless of the command of the Spanish officers, and the formation was scattered at the beginning.

In this era of platoon shooting, such formation and firepower will only make the organization higher than theirs, the training and run-in longer than theirs, and the one-sided slaughter of the Indians who are accustomed to obeying the British.

The Indian indigenous federal army, which was not scattered behind, lined up the scattered soldiers, in a neat line, under the command of the British officers, braved the Spanish artillery fire, meticulously and steadily advanced, even if there was some scattered, even if the Spanish artillery fire caused them heavy casualties, before they came into contact with the Bengali natives without scattered soldiers and horses, there was almost no combat effectiveness.

The casualties were so heavy that even the British officers stood in their ranks in terror, and in the face of the scattered and excited Bengali native soldiers and horses rushing towards them in front of them, they raised their flintlock muskets, arquebuses, and platoon guns with trembling hands.

The first, second, and third rounds of shooting did not stop the frenzied Bengali native army, but instead led to more confusion and flight of the Indian native state army, and then they were fired by their own army's platoon guns and had to return to their posts, after a morning of shooting, the Bengali native army suffered heavy casualties, in exchange for the enemy's almost complete rout, weak casualties, but it was still exciting, at least, they won the morning battle.

There were heavy casualties in this battle, more than 10,000 wounded, more than 2,000 killed, and more than 5,000 people fled, including three Spanish soldiers, and the British were really more stable than the Spaniards, although they faced the same great collapse, but the indigenous people of India had long accepted the rule of the British and learned to obey, and the British had a stronger control over them than the Spaniards.

The British also suffered well, wounded more than 200 British soldiers, dozens of British officers, most of whom were injured by the stampede by the Indians, and more than a dozen soldiers were killed by artillery fire, about 10,000 natives were injured, more than 1,000 died, and more than 3,000 escaped, but most of them were eventually chased back and punitively imprisoned in the rear, unlike the natives who were surrounded by the Spaniards, more than 5,000 people, who escaped in real terms.

This result was still very acceptable to the British, who had more than 80,000 troops, and the loss of one-sixth of their troops was not much, while the Spaniards were very difficult, almost half of their troops were lost, and the rest of them were not demoralized in the face of a huge enemy advantage.

Now the troops are not as good as the people, the morale is not as good as the people, the whole army of the Spaniards is only more than 4,000 regular troops, 12,000 indigenous coalition troops, and the artillery is more than 100 more than the enemy, but the British occupy the local geography, India is also the native of the British, the British have been operating for more than half a century, even if the Bengal region has been on the edge of British control, it still has some influence, and it is stronger than the Spaniards.

The Spaniards had to keep more than a thousand men for the tribes and cities they had conquered, and these forces numbered several hundred army troops, hundreds of sailors, most of whom played the role of artillery.

To stand out, the British had to be defeated in this battle.

The main generals and followers led by Spain this time were also helpless, and panicked, this time they stabbed the hornet's nest and stabbed the British in the ass, and in the end the British were still huge, and reflexively came to crush them, although they could escape with the advanced warships and the large number of warships, but there will be no future after returning home, because this is a real defeat, and the defeat will not be liked.

At this time, Tianying came here with a cadre of their Huaxia people from the British, saw the faces of the Spaniards, and knew the worries of the Spaniards after thinking about it a little, but Tianying They will also laugh, everyone has such a time, the enemy is outnumbered, the enemy is strong, and they are weak, the soldiers of the Chinese Empire like this situation, if they can go against the current and make contributions, then they will make a lot of money.

After comforting the Spaniards, Tianying said: "It's better to leave it to me to command, and I will defeat the British for you, but here needs to be dominated by the Chinese Empire in the future, how about it?" ”

When the Spaniards heard this, "Okay," at this time, they met a helper, and they have heard a lot about the strength of the Chinese Empire in the past few months, where did they come here from Spain, although there are a few old people from the Far East twenty years ago in the team, but after all, most of them are people from the West, they don't know about this place, even if there are a few who are familiar with it, it is useless, with the support of the Chinese Empire, they can't wait, all they need is to occupy this place and have a foothold. Able to do business with Chinese people.

So the Celestial Shadow took over the military command of the Spaniards, of course, it was only the kind similar to the Emperor, and it was impossible for the Spaniards to really hand over the army to them.

(End of chapter)