The capital of the state of Mumbai - Mumbai City.

As the headquarters of the British Empire's jurisdiction in Mumbai, India, and the first port of the British Empire's Indian trade in the subcontinent, the city of Mumbai grew dramatically. The reclamation of Hornby, which began at the turn of the century, was completed a decade ago, creating seven small islands as an archipelago that would make up the city of Mumbai today. Today, apart from Calcutta, the seat of the British Viceroyalty in India, the British Empire controls the second largest city in India and the largest cotton trading place in India, and more than two-thirds of the untold cotton produced from India is shipped from Mumbai every year. In addition to cotton, countless quantities of gold, precious stones, and raw silk were exported from Mumbai to Britain. It can be said that after Kolkata, Mumbai was the most important port stronghold of the British Empire in India.

However, such an important port is now in an unprecedented crisis!

The Governor of Bombay, Odd, paced impatiently back and forth in the Governor's Palace, muttering, "What can I do?" These damned Indian pigs, especially the Sikh bastards, are rebelling again! But our British soldiers in India are seriously underwhelmed, alas, damn Canning, if he hadn't suggested an expedition to the Eastern Empire, and transferred all our boys to the East to die, he would not have fallen into the predicament he is in today! SHIT!”

The assistant next to him hurriedly persuaded: "Mr. Governor, don't worry, hasn't Governor Canning already sent troops from all over the country to Delhi to quell the Sikh rebels?" Also, he has not already issued an alert to the London side, asking for urgent reinforcements to come to India to support. ”

When Odd heard this, he became even more furious, and shouted, "Don't talk about that bastard Canning! Sending troops to quell the rebels? Are they all from other districts, from our Mumbai, from his own Bombay, from his own from Calcutta? ”

Speaking of this, in addition to being angry, Odd was more hysterical and desperate: "Let's talk about asking London for help, but do you know? Just now, the signal corps from the north has been in a hurry to report that the Gujarati rebels, led by 30,000 soldiers from the princely states of Baroda, and the Maharashtra rebels led by Aurangabad and Pune, a total of nearly 70,000 rebels, are already on their way to besiege our city of Mumbai, or in a few days, they will appear outside the city of Mumbai. Tell me, with our 8,000 native soldiers in England and Scottish soldiers and 3,000 Irish soldiers in Bombay, can we resist the arrival of reinforcements to the European mainland? Damn, if Canning hadn't ordered those 8,000 native soldiers to be transferred from Bombay, how could he have been afraid of these princely rebels? ”

As soon as he said this, Odd regretted it. Although he was the Governor of the Bombay Territory, he still had to obey the orders of the Governor of the Bengal Region and the Governor of the British Empire in India, Canning, and as soon as he heard that the Sikh rebels were attacking Delhi, he sent 8,000 European soldiers from Bombay to Delhi to support. Unexpectedly, the 8,000-strong Mumbai reinforcements had not yet arrived in Delhi, and only arrived in the area of the Bal River, and the news that the city of Delhi had been captured by the Sikh rebels came out. Even within the boundaries of the Bombay Prefecture, the princes of the princely states of Vadodara, Aurangabad, Pune, and Silvassa began to stir up trouble, taking advantage of the opportunity to raise troops to expand their territory and seize the territories and possessions under the direct jurisdiction of the British. Now the 8,000-strong Mumbai reinforcements have all been cut off from logistical supplies, and the back road has been blocked by the princely rebels, and the city of Delhi in front has long become the territory of the Sikh rebels, and it is impossible to advance or retreat.

"Mr. Governor, it really can't be, or recruit more local indigenous mercenaries in this city of Bombay, and use them to guard the city walls, and the gates of the city are all guarded by our native British soldiers, and then drive all the beggars and useless natives in the city of Mumbai out of the city, with the military strength and sophisticated weapons of the British soldiers, they should be able to hold on for several months." The assistant suggested.

Odd was so confused that he could only nod: "That's the only way to do it first." By the way, take a good look at the two warships and the three armed merchant ships in the harbor, and if we really can't resist it, we will withdraw to Persia through the warships and wait for reinforcements from London to arrive. ”

The assistants looked at the Governor Odd in surprise, they didn't expect that the matter had reached such a serious point that the Governor had calculated a way out.

A week later, on the outskirts of Mumbai, heavy gunfire rang out.

Tens of thousands of Indian rebels besieged the city of Mumbai, like a swarm of locusts, smashing all the cotton spinning factories and shops on the outskirts of Mumbai, and looting all the materials that could be moved, such as gold coins, yarn, and cloth.

On the nearly twenty-mile railway from Mumbai to Tana, tens of thousands of Vadodara and Aurangabad soldiers began to attack each other, vying for the right to capture along the railway. In the end, after more than 100 casualties, the princely states of Baroda and the princely states of Aurangabad each sent a retainer to negotiate, and finally reached a consensus that the princely states of Baroda would pay 100,000 rupees (equivalent to 12,000 pounds) of the wealth of the princely states of Aurangabad, and the entire Montabad princely state would be owned by the princely states of Baroda.

A few days later, late at night in the Governor's palace in the city of Mumbai.

The roar of cannon fire made it difficult for Odd to sleep, and he simply got up. In the last few days, there has been a rumble of artillery every night, but there has been no movement during the day, and Odd, like the defenders in the city, is used to it. He went from being scared at the beginning, but now he has slowly settled down. In the first few days of the siege of Mumbai, tens of thousands of rebels attacked the city of Mumbai several times, but they were repelled by more than 10,000 British and European soldiers in the city, leaving more than 1,000 corpses of the rebels in the city of Mumbai too late to clean up, and those rebels in the princely states no longer attacked together, but looted the villages and towns on the outskirts of Mumbai. It's just that every night, the hateful Vadodara princely soldiers would launch small-scale attacks and bombardments, making it difficult for the British troops in the city to rest.

In the end, Odd could only arrange for the defenders in the city to defend the city in two shifts, although the scattered forces and some of the indigenous soldiers in the city were recruited later, but they could barely hold on.

Odd clapped his hands, beckoned his assistant, and asked, "What has happened to the Barodara soldiers outside the city in the past two days?" "Recently, Odd has also seen that the tens of thousands of rebels outside the city of Mumbai, except for the Vadodara soldiers, the rest are basically a rabble, although the Baroda soldiers are not strong, but the commander has some brains, and will organize a group of soldiers to attack and attack, which is quite threatening. Therefore, the Audeh sent people to keep an eye on the movements of the Baroda soldiers, and asked from time to time.

"Mr. Governor-General, some time ago there was a conflict between the soldiers of Nabaroda and Aurangabad, and for some reason it was agreed to pay a large sum of money to the princely state of Aurangabad, and the dispute between the two sides ceased, and the railway from Mumbai to Tana was all returned to Vadodara. However, instead of protecting them, they dismantled the rails and sleepers on the railroad and transported them to the port of Mumbai along with the locomotives, apparently preparing to transport them away. For the past two days, their main forces have been guarding the railroad tracks, but they have sent about 5,000 men to harass us at night in turn, so don't worry, Mr. Governor! ”

Odd frowned: "Ever since he ascended the throne and became the Gar Walker of Vadodara, he has been scouring for riches everywhere. These rails were certainly not intended to be shipped to their state of Vadodara, and they, the natives of Hindustani, hated these civilized things that our British Empire had brought with them, and he must have sold them, either to the French, or to the hateful Orientals. But let them sell, as long as they don't go all out to attack Mumbai, whatever they want. ”

As soon as he said this, there were several successive loud explosions outside the governor's palace, and Odd and his assistant looked at each other, and were about to summon someone in to ask what was going on, when the ground shook for a while, and the assistant was an officer, and immediately judged that it was the sound of the hooves of a large number of cavalry galloping.

At the same time, a steward of the Governor's Mansion rushed in and reported: "Oh no, Governor, those damned Irish have abandoned the gates of the town and seized the warships and armed merchant ships and fled from the port. The rebels outside the city took the opportunity to seize the city gates, and tens of thousands of rebels had already entered the city on a large scale. ”

"What!?" Odd's face turned white with fright. Disbelievingly, he ran to the top attic of the Governor's Palace, which overlooked half of the city of Mumbai and the port. He saw the smoke of fires and gunfire everywhere in the city of Mumbai, and the sound of gunfire was loud, and it was already chaos.

"It's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's ......over, it's over, it's over,

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At the same time, the important towns of the Bengal jurisdiction of the British Empire in central and northern India, Kanpur, Lucknow, Bihar, Gwalior, and even Ranchi and Dhaka, which are not far from Calcutta, have successively appeared a large number of local indigenous rebels, the central part is led by the Sikh army and the princely princely army, supplemented by local rebels, and the eastern Ranchi, Dhaka and other places are led by Bengali rebels, and even some Burmese and Gurkha people appear among the rebels, and they have successively rebelled and rioted and captured cities. There has been an even more vigorous rebellion throughout India than in previous years.

Calcutta. Inside the Doge's Palace.

Standing in front of a map of Indian states, Canning, the governor of the British Empire in India, sighed, his hands trembled slightly, and with the charcoal pen in his hand, he marked Gwalior, Kanpur, and Lucknow on the map with a heavy "×", and then closed his eyes in a gloomy manner.

Behind him, the commander of the British Empire Army in India, General Colin Campbell, the chief of the General Staff of the British Forces in India, Major General Robert Napier, and the commander of the British forces in the Bengal region, Lieutenant General Henry, were also relatively silent.

The news that has been sent from all over India in the past few days has left them dizzying and distraught. The Sikhs rebelled again, and originally Canning thought that as long as he quickly moved his troops to Delhi and quickly defeated the Sikhs before the city of Delhi was captured, the situation could be reversed. At that time, the commander of the British forces in India, Admiral Colin Campbell, did not approve of it, but because of Canning's status and title higher than him, he could only listen to Canning's advice and send some British Imperial troops from all over the country who were originally stationed to suppress the rebels to Delhi, but he did not expect to cause the worst situation today.

Admiral Colin Campbell coughed and said, "I'm mainly to blame for today's situation!" I am the commander of the British Empire in India, and all military operations must be carried out with my permission, and I have been careless, ignoring that this rebellion is not at all an ordinary rebellion like the last one, but a premeditated internal and external collusion! ”

As he spoke, Admiral Colin Campbell pointed to the Punjab area and the area around Delhi City on the map, and said hatefully: "Mr. Governor-General, generals, do you remember that the Sikh king we asked to secretly investigate was once an Indian soldier of our British Empire, suspected that he was captured and surrendered to the Chinese Empire during the battle in Guangzhou, China, and was specially sent to India to act as a spy, and later took advantage of the early days of the Indian rebellion to incite a group of Sikhs to have power and occupy the Punjab region, Unified the Sikhs and established the Sikh kingdom. Judging from this background, the Sikh king and the emperor of the Chinese Empire knew each other after all, and were subordinate to each other. Also, the Kazakh Khanate the year before last, Tsarist Russia instigated the Kokand Khanate to send troops to attack the Huijiang of the Chinese Empire, and the then Emperor of the Chinese Empire sent a confidant general surnamed Shi to lead the troops through the Sikh Kingdom by sea, and arrived in Huijiang from the Indus River upstream, and the Sikh Kingdom provided thousands of Sikh cavalry and countless grain and grass for the army of the Chinese Empire, helping them defeat and capture the Kokand Khanate in one fell swoop, and crushing the Tsarist Russia's attempt to advance eastward. The Chinese Empire also took the opportunity to declare war on Tsarist Russia and the Kazakh khanates in Central Asia, and their territory expanded considerably. These are enough to show that the Sikh Kingdom has colluded with the Chinese Empire! ”

Indian Governor Canning exclaimed: "General Campbell, do you mean to say that this rebellion, on the surface, was instigated by the Sikh Kingdom, but in fact the mastermind behind it was the Chinese Empire?" ”

"Not bad! The intelligence on Dhaka's side is enough to show this! Even the Burmese army stepped in and began to attack Dhaka. It can't be so coincidental! Admiral Colin Campbell pointed to the Gurkha on the map again, "Mr. Governor is too busy to probably overlook an intelligence detail, Mr. Governor ordered the Prime Minister of the Gurkha Kingdom, loyal to our British Empire, to send troops south to help us quell the rebellion, but was told that the army of the Gurkha Kingdom was transferred some time ago to attack the Bulukba Kingdom, and it seems that all this was premeditated. As soon as the British Empire's expeditionary force to China failed, resulting in a serious shortage of British troops in India, this information is impossible for the closed Indian states, they could not know, but this rebellion occurred, therefore, I have reason to believe that this is someone deliberately spreading the news of the defeat of the British Empire, and colluding with the Sikhs and even those princely states, will cause the current situation! ”

Cunning is not a fool, as soon as he heard Colin Campbell say this, he immediately reacted, nodded and said, "Not bad! No wonder the Sikhs rebelled, no wonder the Indian princes took the opportunity to attack, and the timing of their arrest was too coincidental. I see! So, General, the last time the Burmese army attacked Kolkata while the rebels were rampant, it must have something to do with the cunning Orientals? Moreover, this time Burma will definitely send troops again, and it seems that not only we in Kolkata, but also the whole of India have reached an unprecedented dangerous moment! ”