By the time Campbell arrived south of the city with 20,000 British troops, the war there was almost over.

The smoke had cleared ahead, and a mile away was a dense line of troops of the Chinese Empire in gray uniforms. On the ground 1,200 to 1,500 yards ahead, there were many corpses of British soldiers piled up crookedly, it seemed that there were at least a thousand people, and in the small ditches and bushes next to them, there were dozens of British soldiers wailing for help.

Campbell was furious and directly ordered the British troops to line up and prepare to attack.

On a two-mile front 1 mile to 3 miles south of Kolkata, a field encounter began.

Of the 20,000 soldiers of the British army, more than 18,000 infantry rushed to the front, and behind them, there were two artillery battalions composed of about 1,600 people, a total of 48 9-pounder field guns and 6 24-pounder howitzers, but because the mountain roads were difficult to travel and the weight of the artillery was not light, the artillery battalion marched slowly and dragged far behind. The more than 18,000 infantrymen consisted of four infantry brigades of the second, fourth, fifth, and sixth brigades of the British Army in India, in addition to two light cavalry infantry regiments, most of which were equipped with Enfield P1853 rifled rifles, led by several officers on horseback, to kill the Chinese army a mile away.

Through the cavalry spies, it was learned that the Chinese Imperial Army on the opposite side totaled about 10,000 people, and the other party was obviously lacking in confidence, and it may have also discovered the situation on his side and began to retreat.

Seeing that the devils who had just killed so many British Empire soldiers wanted to retreat, how could Campbell let it go. Campbell can't wait for the artillery, he can't wait for a victory to avenge the death of the British Empire soldiers in front of him!

Therefore, Campbell followed the conventional combat method of the British Empire, and when he was about to approach the enemy, he directly lined up and marched forward, preparing to use the method of close combat to win the battle with great joy.

1200 yards, 1000 yards, 900 yards.

Soon it was 800 yards away. Campbell began to prepare to roll over and dismount, and the guards behind him immediately realized that the general was about to give the order to prepare for battle.

In fact, this is also true. Campbell only waited for 650 or even 700 yards before ordering the entire army to open fire. At this moment, there was only the footsteps of the marching soldiers and the nervous breathing and panting of the soldiers on the battlefield, and not a single British soldier fired because of nervousness, which was the order to forbidden! Campbell was somewhat satisfied with his men's performance! He could even feel that in a minute or two, after the gunshots rang out, the gray black enemy troops on the opposite side would turn into corpses.

But at this moment, a dense and violent noise of gunfire suddenly rang out from the opposite side.

It turned out to be the other party who opened fire!

Campbell laughed in his heart, at such a long distance, even if he was equipped with the more advanced Enfield P1853 rifled rifle of the British Empire, he might not be able to hit, although this did not exceed the range of the Enfield rifled rifle, but it was still far from the best effective range, even if he was lucky, he could wound dozens of British soldiers, but he wasted the first most precious bullet. And with this reload time, their own soldiers can rush at least 50 yards away.

Campbell breathed a sigh of relief, where did these commanders of the Eastern armies understand European tactics!

But before Campbell could exhale this breath, his eyes were about to pop out, and, most importantly, two stray bullets passed through the front rows of soldiers and hit the war horse he stepped on, and the horse was in pain, and he was already stunned and stunned.

The surrounding guards immediately surrounded him and helped him up. Campbell wasn't hurt, but he turned pale.

There was an extremely piercing and dense gunfire ahead, as well as countless screams. He was horrified to find that the black and oppressive gray enemy line on the opposite side began to shoot at his own soldiers in rows, and as the shots continued to ring, his own soldiers fell like waves of harvested wheat and weeds under lawn mowers.

But at this time, Campbell could only grit his teeth and give his first order: "Advance steadily, rush forward and suppress the enemy with a salvo of fire!" ”

The four infantry brigade commanders under his command immediately conveyed his order, and began to step on the corpses of their compatriots on the front line, and with a faster pace, they met them, trying to exchange the death of the soldiers in the first two rows in exchange for the soldiers in the back rows to rush into range and open fire on the enemy. They were all full of rage, hoping to get into range and be sure to give the enemy a hard kill.

But soon, the British officers, including Campbell and these brigade commanders, suddenly discovered that the dense formation of the British army could not get close to the enemy's 700 yards at all.

At this distance of 100 yards, rows and rows of British troops fell here.

Campbell's eyes were torn and his heart was like a knife. Many of these soldiers were excellent soldiers of the British Empire who had followed him for a short time, with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers Battalion on the left, the Scottish 51st Highland Battalion and the 2nd Royal Fusiliers Battalion in the middle, which were far from being compared with the temporary European transfers of the British Empire's colonies in India.

But now, without the slightest effect, he was shot like a target and fell in this distant India.

Campbell thought that even if he sacrificed 2,000 men, he would always be able to rush into front of the enemy and start a fierce battle. But after ten minutes or so, he suddenly found that the corpses on the battlefield in front of him had slowly piled up, and the brave British soldiers still had not been able to get into the best range to shoot.

In desperation, Campbell could only give an order in despair: "Return fire, return fire!" ”

As a result, the British opened fire, but regrettably, the opponent's formation changed slightly, and it quickly calmed down again. The army of the Chinese Empire on the opposite side did not suffer many casualties at all, hundreds of musket bullets were fired, and only a small number of soldiers were wounded. Campbell knew very well in his heart that this was a lack of range, and even if he hit, it would not have much lethality.

To Campbell's despair, it was why the enemy's rifles had such a long range. In addition, the speed at which the enemy reloads bullets is also very fast, the front row has just finished shooting and crouches, and the back row has already loaded the bullets and stepped out to shoot.

The commander of the Royal Welsh Infantry Brigade rode to Campbell's side and shouted: "General, retreat, the enemy fire is too fierce." Artillery and cavalry charges must be mobilized! ”

And just as Campbell was hesitating whether to retreat, two rows of troops appeared in the back row of the enemy troops on the opposite side and brazenly launched a charge.