Because of the fierce fighting, neither Campbell's British side nor Tazib's Imperial Chinese Field Army side noticed that fierce fighting had already begun in the city of Calcutta. Not only that, but even in the north of Calcutta, gunfire rang out, but the distance was too far for the sound to be drowned out by the sound of fighting in the ruins and alleys of the city.

In the central center of the city of Calcutta, Lin Litong led nearly 10,000 soldiers of the 8th Infantry Division of the Sixth Field Corps to form a front that ran through the entire city of Calcutta, a distance of nearly 3 kilometers, so that his soldiers could only line up in 2 rows, and in the center of the back, there were two artillery battalions composed of nearly 800 soldiers, carrying only 24 Krupp 75mm Krupp field guns, under the traction of more than 30 donkeys and horses, slowly advancing.

The officers and men of the 8th Infantry Division, composed of two dense rows of soldiers, had lost three or four hundred men, but the British troops on the opposite side had lost even more.

In less than half an hour of fighting, because of the huge difference in the range and accuracy of the rifles in their hands, the British soldiers on the opposite side had lost more than 3,000 people! Finally, the British soldiers, who could not bear the huge losses, stopped advancing and retreated. But even so, when it turned around, it was a good time for the officers and men of the 8th Division to shoot bravely.

Victory was in sight, looking at the row of British soldiers on the opposite side who were bloodied by bullets, Lin Litong showed a cruel smile.

He stood on top of a broken wall of masonry and shouted: "Baga, rush to Lao Tzu!" The foreigners have already been killed by us to pee, and the number is only half of ours, Commander Wei has an order to wipe them out! ”

When he shouted this, he felt that it was not enough, so he raised his voice and continued to shout: "Warriors of Fusang, if you want to become a noble Han like me Lin Litong, if you want future generations to be recorded in the Han nationality from now on and have the Han surname given by the imperial court, don't be afraid of death, go and kill a few more foreign soldiers!" ”

Among the two rows of soldiers, there were not many soldiers who heard his shout, only one or two hundred soldiers in the center, but they all followed the roar, and after shouting Baga, they all quickened their pace, and turned around and retreated in pursuit of the British troops in front. Although the whole battle line was long, the other soldiers saw the soldiers in it attacking, and some heralds on horseback held the order flag and signaled the pursuit, and hurriedly began to press.

Because it was a pursuit battle, the artillery was completely useless, and in fact it was really not needed. From the moment the British began to retreat, the outcome of the battlefield was already decided. Lin Litong was very good at grasping the fighters on the battlefield, and when the British army was completely fleeing, he ordered that the battle formation should not be in a straight line, as before, but adopt a skirmish line that was easier to pursue, so that it could rush into every alley, woods, or ruin. In addition, many of the soldiers in the 8th Infantry Division were Japanese soldiers from Honshu Island, and even samurai from the Kanto region ruled by the shogunate.

The British soldiers who fled in front were commanded by Major General Robert Napier, chief of the British General Staff in India. At this moment, hearing the gunshots getting closer and closer behind them, the British soldiers were even more frightened and panicked, and they didn't know who threw the weapons in their hands, and the rest of the soldiers also discarded their weapons and equipment, and the whole team completely lost its command, like a chaotic fly running forward, completely bombing the camp and collapsing.

When Lin Litong saw this scene, he smirked and shouted: "Everyone, get on the bayonet!" After shouting, he brandished the samurai command knife and slashed at a British soldier first, and began to beckon his subordinates to snatch the battle merits.

At this moment, the soldiers of the other 8th Division had also rushed into the rear of the fleeing British troops, and they were close to each other, and these Japanese soldiers, who were mostly low-ranking samurai, did not have time to reload their bullets, fixed the bayonets that had been folded, and began to stab the backs of the British soldiers who were still fleeing.

An hour later, on the battlefield of the ruins east of Calcutta, more than 5,000 British soldiers led by Robert Napier were killed, the remaining 4,000 were captured and 2,000 were captured, and the other 2,000 fled and disappeared, and even the whereabouts of the commander Robert Napier were unknown.

The 8th Infantry Division also lost nearly 2,000 men, almost 1,000 were killed, and the rest were seriously wounded, because the body of these Japanese soldiers was very strong, and ordinary minor injuries were nothing at all, and they were still bravely pursuing the enemy. But even with such a large number of casualties, these Japanese soldiers did not care at all, and did not grieve for the death of their comrades in battle, they were now intoxicated with their victory, and almost everyone thought that if they killed one or two foreign soldiers, they would immediately receive the reward of the empire, and become a Han family name that could be awarded by the Ministry of General Affairs and even the emperor himself.

It would be better to be surnamed Lin like Master Lin, and he could also take the whole family to the Celestial Empire Continent, obtain the title of military merit, and become a happy high-class Han from then on....... Thinking like this, these Japanese soldiers killed even more fiercely, and even the foreign soldiers who had already surrendered on their knees rushed forward and stabbed them to death with rifle bayonets, but fortunately they were stopped by some officers who were veterans of the Taiping Holy Army. They have no reason to fear and obey these Han officers, which is the worship of the strong. But looking at the fierce light of those foreign prisoners still made those British prisoners tremble.

Lim Litong, who had defeated the city of Calcutta, received a report that not far south of the city, Commander Tazib commanded the officers and men of the 6th Infantry Division to fight the British troops. He didn't care about resting, so he hurriedly asked his men to load their ammunition, leaving two artillery battalions to guard the 2,000 captured foreign soldiers and more than 1,000 wounded, and then led the remaining 7,000 infantry to the southern battlefield.

At this time, Lin Litong was far from being the shrewd, capable, iron-blooded and ruthless political predator Okubo Litong of the Japanese country in later generations, but just wanted to make meritorious contributions and hollowed out his heart to please his boss and wanted to become a master of the Lin family. Rushing out of the ruins of the city of Calcutta, just in time, I saw a large group of British troops lined up in several rows, stretching for two or three kilometers long, shooting at the Chinese Imperial Capture Army to the west. Even his sentries came to report that the foreign soldiers seemed to be setting up artillery at the rear of the ranks, preparing to bombard their own friendly troops.

When Lin Litong heard this, he was shocked, and hurriedly urged his troops to speed up their advance, and without making any preparations, he brazenly ordered more than 7,000 officers and men of the 8th Infantry Division under his command to rush to launch a fierce attack on the British army from the north.

It was precisely this kind of stunned person who generally had no scruples and disrupted the rhythm of the British army that was originally facing west.

The British army was very densely packed, but it was all officers and men of the 6th Infantry Division in the trenches facing west. When they reacted, they fired at the officers and men of the 8th Infantry Division who rushed over, but because the formation could not be dispersed for a while, plus it was four columns, only the northernmost soldiers of less than 1,000 people were within the firing range, and although the others had many soldiers, they were all far away from the firing range, and there were friendly troops lined up in front, it was difficult to shoot, and the defensive force was very thin.

The officers and men of the 8th Division, although they did not have a strict queue formation, formed a fan-shaped skirmish front of six or seven hundred meters long facing the British troops in the process of running, not to mention more than 7,000 people, at least nearly 3,000 people within the firing range, directly firing at the British troops in the four columns.

Although the British target was small, they could not stand so many muskets firing freely, and like dominoes, they were shot one after another, and they fell to the ground from north to south. This is equivalent to thousands of Imperial Chinese soldiers charging and shooting only one or two hundred British troops, but there are many British troops of one or two hundred, but on the line of fire, there is always a duel between thousands of Mauser rear-loading rifled rifles and one or two hundred Enfield rifled rifles with a short range and slow rate of fire.