The East India Fleet, with only 8 warships, even forgot to come forward to attack, and all the people in the fleet were stunned by the terrifying images displayed by the two fleets of the Chinese Empire.

Not only are the number of artillery shells on the other side, but the power of a single shell makes every warship dare not come forward to try. When Fort William was completely destroyed, the warships of the Chinese Empire continued to move forward, and the East India Fleet reacted and hurriedly retreated. But it can only delay a little time, the upstream of the tributaries behind, getting narrower and narrower, at most more than ten kilometers away, can only navigate hundreds of tons and tens of tons of small warships, other fleets in the medium and large warships all have to run aground, without medium and large warships, this fleet that originally did not have many warships, what combat power is there?

Seeing the East India Fleet fleeing upstream, Wei Jun didn't care too much, his main target was Calcutta. He only sent 3 cruisers and more than 20 small frigates and steam gunboats to pursue the East India Fleet, and the remaining 50 or so warships slowly began to change their formation, forming a column along the river, facing the city of Quasi-Calcutta with the strongest firepower on the side of the ship.

First, this would allow the firepower of nearly 30 warships to hit the city of Calcutta, and second, there would be fewer chances of being hit by artillery on the shore.

Just as the fleet of the Chinese Empire began to change formation, several fast horses rushed out of the city of Calcutta, and a British officer led several soldiers to the side of Fort William with white flags, and again asked for peace talks.

Wei Jun directly refused, and asked Buchanan to come forward to ask the Indian capital Canning to come forward in person, and come to Fort William, which was already in ruins, to surrender. There was no peace talk but unconditional surrender and let the British officer bring the words back.

At the same time, the 6th Infantry Division and the 8th Infantry Division of the 6th Field Corps had reached a village on the banks of the Ganges River, 3 kilometers downstream from Fort William, and the two infantry divisions began to land on troop carriers as early as the fleet bombarded Fort William. The landing was also unusually simple, there were no enemies on the shore, and all the British outposts or batteries had been cleared by the fleet in front. The engineer regiment in the infantry division directly landed with rowboats first, and built a pontoon bridge between one of the largest troop carriers and the river bank, and the infantry on the other troop carriers rushed to the shore through the pontoon bridge. Ships loaded with artillery and other weapons slowly approached the shore and were laboriously carried by sailors and soldiers to the village on the riverbank.

The village has long been deserted and in shambles. The indigenous people of the village had fled months earlier and were occupied for some time by the Bengali rebels besieging Kolkata, who withdrew the day before the warships of the captives appeared.

More than 20,000 soldiers of the 6th Infantry Division and the 8th Infantry Division of Liuye were all spread out, although this village was once a large village of 5,000 people, it was completely impossible to squeeze, not to mention that there were many field artillery and other weapons constantly transported from the river bank, and finally extended into a nearly 3-kilometer-long battle line, surrounding Calcutta.

The commanders of the 6th Infantry Division and the 8th Infantry Division were Taqib and Lin Litong respectively, and the commander-in-chief of the attack on Calcutta was, of course, Wei Jun, the commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet, and the command of the army was originally set to be Lin Shi, the commander of the 7th Infantry Division of Liuye, but because Lin Shi was on the island of Ceylon, Wei Jun ordered these two infantry divisions to take Taqib as the main general.

Although Tabuqi was a Manchu with a yellow flag, but now with the fall of the Manchu Dynasty, the Manchus have rapidly declined, and the hatred between the Manchus and the Han has also disappeared, and even the remnants of the Manchus do not even have the courage to hate. Tabuqi's family members all lived happily in the city of Changsha, from the original caution to the present freedom, and Tabuqi, like a large number of other Hunan generals who originally followed Zeng Guofan, was reused by Emperor Feng Yunshan, and was already loyal to the Chinese Empire.

Another commander of the 8th Infantry Division, Lin Litong, whose real name is Okubo Litong, changed his name to Lin Litong because he recognized Lin Hongnian, the original envoy of the Chinese Empire, as his father, and now he is even more proud of his surname Lin and becoming a Han Chinese, leading tens of thousands of Japanese samurai recruited from Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island and Honshu Island The 8th Infantry Division went to India to conquer the British army. Of course, if Lin Litong wants to rebel, it is okay, but the middle and lower-level officers of the entire 8th Infantry Division are all old soldiers of the Chinese Empire, and I am afraid that he has not yet launched a rebellion, and he has been killed by a shot by the guard battalion around him.

However, Tazib did not send the two infantry divisions directly into the city of Calcutta, but laid a trench to the southwest outside the village, as if he was afraid of an attack. In fact, this is just a habit of Taqib, who has been following Zeng Guofan in the Hunan army, and when he encounters a camp in a strange place, he must first lay a trench and set up camp after a steady defense.

And at the same time that the army of the Chinese Empire was preparing to attack Calcutta, the British army in Calcutta had already begun to move. More than 30,000 British troops rushed out from the northeast of Calcutta and attacked the main force of nearly 30,000 Burmese troops stationed there; Nearly 10,000 British troops assaulted southeast of Calcutta and launched a fierce charge against the 20,000 Bengali rebels stationed there.

Although the Burmese army and the Bengali rebels seemed to be brave, the firepower and military quality of the soldiers were the opponents of the British army, and they were quickly routed, and in a short two-hour battle, more than 2,000 people were killed and tens of thousands were injured, and many of them were trampled and injured when they fled.

Since the rebels besieged Calcutta, they have been defeated several times by the British army in the city of Calcutta, but each time they did not pursue them from a distance, but grabbed some food and other supplies and then returned to the city, and the next day they found that the rebels were besieging Calcutta densely.

On two occasions, the British pursued them from a distance of 6 kilometers east of Calcutta, and at once broke into an ambush of the Bengali rebels and the Burmese army, losing hundreds of British troops in one fell swoop. Five kilometers east of Kolkata, there is a dense forest with strange terrain, and the Bengali rebels, who are mostly native, familiar with the terrain, ambush on the side, and wound a large number of rebels, it is difficult for the British army to defeat the rebels as easily as outside the city of Kolkata. In addition, the British army had a limited number of soldiers, and if there were 100 fewer people killed in battle, there would be 100 fewer people and could not be replenished, while the Bengali rebels seemed to be endless, even if they lost 5,000 on the first day, they would be replenished in less than two days, so the British army felt that it could not withstand the losses and no longer pursued it from a distance. In this way, the British army was reluctant to leave Calcutta, so they had no intention of dispersing the rebels, and waited for reinforcements to arrive.

But this time the British army was led by Lieutenant General Henry, the commander of the Bengal district, who ordered a fierce pursuit, as if mad, and killed the Burmese army completely defeated, leaving less than half of the soldiers left, and fled directly from the city of Kolkata for 10 kilometers. And the Bengali rebels are even more unbearable, although there is a group of *** warriors who are not afraid of life and death, but the backward weapons cannot be compensated for by courage alone. A small number of brave Bengali rebels fearlessly held off the rushing British, but as the deafening gunfire rang out, they fell in droves like dry wood. The rebels were completely routed.

The British army began to clean up the battlefield and collect all kinds of supplies abandoned by the rebels. But at this moment, the west side of the city of Kolkata resounded with fierce artillery fire, as if the end of the west had happened, and it resounded in the sky.

Lieutenant General Henry's face changed greatly: "Oh no, those Orientals don't want to make peace with Governor Canning at all, they have begun to attack Calcutta!" Fortunately, we have already defeated the rebels outside the city, and I don't know how the Governor of Canning negotiated with the Bengali rebels, hoping to get the Bengalis to stop the rebellion, otherwise, the remaining rebels and the eastern Chinese army will attack Kolkata together, and it will be dangerous! Now we need to hurry back to the city to defend! ”