Two days later, the ancient city of Kandy in the middle of Ceylon.

Surrounded by mountains and surrounded by tropical rainforests, this sacred Buddhist site was also the capital of the Kingdom of Kandy. However, this was all 50 years ago, since 46 years ago, the city of Kandy was breached by the British army, and the king of Kandy was also captured and imprisoned in India, this prosperous ancient city that has enjoyed more than 2,500 years of splendid culture has lost its soul, and after more than 40 years of decay, it is now dilapidated.

However, although the ancient city of Kandy is decayed, among the ruins of the dilapidated royal palace, there is an octagonal wooden tower temple, which is a pilgrimage site for Buddhists, the famous Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, the second layer of the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple is dedicated to the teeth of Sakyamuni, so the incense is vigorous, and the believers come and go endlessly, and there is no sign of decay.

But on this day, all the pilgrims of the Temple of the Tooth Relic were blocked from the palace, and more than 3,000 British soldiers from Colombo occupied the ancient city of Kandy, and drove the already small Sinhalese people out of the ancient city, and hurriedly strengthened the city as if it were preparing for some enemy to attack.

Needless to say, this was none other than Major General Beresford, the commander of the British colonial army in Ceylon, and the three thousand four hundred British soldiers he led.

Now he had learned that the governor of Ceylon, Robinson, had surrendered to the forces of the Chinese Empire. According to the scouts, the main force of the huge fleet of the Chinese Empire has left the port of Colombo, and in addition to the soldiers and warships who have been left to guard the port, there are more than 10,000 infantry divisions, the purpose of which is very obvious, this infantry division is used to sweep all parts of the island of Ceylon and completely occupy the island of Ceylon.

Beresford knew that from the moment Governor Robinson surrendered, he and the 3,400 British soldiers he led became the civilian armed forces on the island of Ceylon, and nominally could no longer consider themselves to be the troops of the British Empire, and it was likely that it would be difficult to get support from the British Empire in a short time.

After all, judging from the information learned, this time this Eastern Empire, which he had never paid attention to and contacted before, would be ruthless next time and send so many troops to seize the island of Ceylon. This was only the island of Ceylon, and Beresford could have guessed that that country would send at least several times as many troops to attack India. After all, Ceylon is just a strategic maritime location, and the ultimate goal is the rich Indian mainland.

But against the attack of 10,000 enemy troops, he was still confident that he could hold it. The reason is that the strange geographical location of the ancient city of Kandy, surrounded by deep mountains, and there is no large river that can be navigated, it is inconvenient to march, and it is even more difficult to transport artillery. Moreover, although the ancient city of Kandy is in decay, but the people in the city have moved to other places to make a living, although the city wall is slightly damaged, but on the whole it is fine, and in the whole of Ceylon, it is the only city with a wall, which can be regarded as vulnerable and difficult to attack. That's why he chose this place as a place to retreat and wait for help.

As soon as Beresford and the LinkedIn soldiers finished arranging the defense, a large number of enemy troops appeared outside the mountains, waving flags between the mountains and forests, and it looked like there were more than 10,000 people all over the mountains.

Sure enough, the sentry came to report that there were more than 10,000 enemy troops around the ancient city of Kandy, and that a native of Kandy, as an envoy of the other party, asked to see Beresford and ask the British army to leave the city and surrender.

Beresford was furious and directly ordered the ears of the natives of Kandy to be cut off and driven out of the city to restore the enemy's life.

Soon, the silence and silence of the ancient city of Kandy were shattered by the sound of the horns of the enemy attack outside the city.

Beresford occupied the city tower and looked out of the city, two kilometers away, black Chinese soldiers in gray uniforms, shouting slogans, and dozens of mules and horses, pulling things like small carriages, forced in rows, surrounding the ancient city of Kandy.

Beresford stared at it again, and his color changed: it was artillery! The enemy was able to transport artillery so quickly into the deep mountains and forests. Fortunately, there are not many of them, and there are only more than ten doors. Beresford took the binoculars and took a closer look, the guns were mounted on a special trailer, the trailer was a steel structure, very strong, no wonder he could climb into the ancient city of Kandy, surrounded by mountains, and he was a little relieved that the caliber of those guns was not very large.

But he still asked his assistant to quickly give an order, reminding the soldiers in the city to pay attention to avoiding the enemy fire outside the city when the battle begins. It's a pity that there are only a few portable Congreve rocket launchers in Kandy City, and as for the other large-caliber artillery, none of them are carried, and they are all placed in Colombo, who would have thought that the army of the British Empire would have a day to avoid the enemy's attack.

Probably knowing that persuasion was useless, the enemy forces outside the city quickly organized an attack.

Hundreds of Tamils from Ceylon and Sinhalese from Kandy were driven as a frontrunner, driven by dozens of Chinese soldiers in gray uniforms, and stumbled under the city walls.

Beresford thought about it for a while, then understood, and couldn't help but scold angrily: "The cunning Oriental is really vicious! He had already guessed that the enemy forces outside the city were forcing the natives of Ceylon to test the firepower and range of their defenses as death squads, and to test whether there was any artillery in the city.

Obviously, the enemy troops outside the city should have inquired and knew some information. However, in order to confirm this, and they were reluctant to damage their own soldiers, they escorted the local natives to their deaths to verify the other party's speculation.

"Be ready, don't shoot yet, wait for my order, and then fire when you get close!" Beresford instructed.

Step by step, closer. The Tamils and Sinhalese were only 850 yards away from the city walls, and the Enfield P1853 rifled rifles of the defenders on the walls were already within range, but they were not yet in effective range. Beresford still did not give the order to open fire, waiting for the enemy to get closer, and the effective range of the Enfield P1853 rifled rifle was about 600-700 yards.

But the Chinese soldiers behind them began to stop, and the Tamils and Sinhalese began to slow down, pacing cautiously tentatively.

As if it had been determined that there was no artillery in the city, a large number of Chinese soldiers behind began to approach slowly, and the mules pulled those cannons also slowly approached. Eventually, the guns stopped at a distance of 1.5 kilometers and began to be installed.

Seeing the enemy so brazenly in front of his eyes, Beresford was furious, knowing that the enemy would not advance further, but was about to attack, and he decided to fire first.

At the sound of an order, the soldiers on the city wall opened fire fiercely, and the more than 100 Tamils and Sinhalese who were closest outside the city screamed and fell to the ground. Although it is not the best range, the Enfield P1853 rifled rifle has a range of nearly 1,000 yards, but it is much less accurate.

The Tamils and Sinhalese who had been used as test subjects fled back in disarray, but were immediately forced back, and finally found a place about 1,000 yards from the city wall and crawled on the ground with their heads shivering, but no one paid any attention to them.

The Chinese army outside the city had already begun a large-scale offensive.

The artillery had not yet been set up and angled, but thousands of infantrymen had raised their rifles more than a meter long at an angle of 25 degrees. When Beresford saw this, he didn't care about it at first, but he was surprised that the rifles in the hands of those infantry seemed to have a much smaller barrel than his own Enfield rifled rifles, but the barrel length was more than half longer than that of Enfield rifled rifles. But his intuition on the battlefield for many years suddenly alerted him, but at this moment, the gunshots under the city had already sounded, and he didn't have time to order his soldiers on the city tower to dodge, so he only had time to retract his head sharply and crouch behind the battlements to dodge.

"Bang bang, bang bang, bang bang..." Countless bullets hit the battlements of the city wall, but many of them hit the British soldiers who had not had time to hide in the battlements.

Countless screams rang out on the city wall, and many British soldiers who were hit by bullets screamed in pain and fell from the city wall, and more British soldiers fell on the city wall, and those who were hit in the head were killed directly, and those who were hit in the body rolled on the ground and wailed and shouted God help.

In just one round of shooting, hundreds of British soldiers were killed and wounded.

The second round of gunfire rang out again under the city, and the British troops on the city walls were completely blinded! Beresford was also a little confused. This is completely counterintuitive. How could the rifles of the enemy army outside the city shoot at such a long range?

But at this moment, too late to pay attention, Beresford hurriedly ordered the soldiers to hide from the fire.