Faced with the rising rebellion in northern and central India, India's Governor-General Governor Elskanning was overwhelmed.

He never expected that the Indians, who had always been cowardly, would carry out such a large-scale rebellion for some reason, and they would all come together. In particular, the Sikhs, who had always been honest and obedient, because they opposed the strict caste system of Hinduism and did not approve of Islam's rejection of paganism, although they broke away from Hinduism, they were enemies with the Mughals for generations, so they have been helping the British to deal with the Mughals. But this time, there was a rebellion too! It's all to blame on the rice buckets in London, and the news that the last Sikh king was beaten to death by prison guards came out, didn't this deliberately let the Sikhs rebel?

Although Canning has already wanted to ask for help from London, he does not know when he will send troops from the mainland, and even if he sends troops from the Crimean Peninsula, it will take a long time, who knows how many months? Now the key is to immediately send a large army to control the rebel Indian natives everywhere, and not to linger any longer.

Fortunately, the south and east of India have been governed by the East India Company for a long time, otherwise they would have rebelled like the north and the center. But if the rebels in the center are not blockaded and allowed to develop, maybe when will they be killed in the east and south?

There happened to be a group of soldiers who had been transferred from India to fight in the Crimean War, and had recently been transferred from the Crimean peninsula to Persia to attack the Qajar dynasty, and Canning ordered that the troops should return to India to rescue them. In addition, he ordered all British troops around India to be transferred back to India to suppress the rebels in the north-central region.

As a result, Canning ordered that only 4,000 British troops of the more than 10,000 British troops stationed in the Lower Burma region remain, and the remaining 5,000 British troops were urgently transferred back to Calcutta; The garrisons in the three parts of the strait sent half of the army to the Indian rebel area.

And Canning urgently sent a message to Henry, the governor of Ceylon? George? Ward asked for help and asked him to transfer seventy percent of the troops in Ceylon to India to help put down the rebellion, while at the same time, Canning asked for help from the king of the Aihambarak dynasty in the neighboring northwest of India and the king of the Gurkha in northern India, on the condition of money and land, so that the two countries could send soldiers to help the British put down the rebellion!

Suddenly, within a month or two, Kanning really gathered nearly 60,000 troops, divided them into three places, and went to Punjab in the northwest, Delhi in the center, Bihar and other places to encircle and suppress.

Among them, Delhi was the place where the British attacked the most and fiercely. The British army gathered 20,000 troops, divided the troops into five routes, and launched a general attack on Delhi. The commander of the British forces attacking Delhi was Major General Barnard, and his deputies were Major General Thomas Leed, Brigadier General Nixon, and Colonel Wilson.

As soon as the attack is launched, the war is very fierce! The British attacking soldiers were crammed into a narrow moat and were swept away by artillery fire organized by the rebel Indian soldiers in the city, suffering heavy casualties.

But all the way the British army under the command of Major General Barnard and Brigadier General Nixon, fearless of life and death, swarmed forward, using soldiers to attract the fire of the rebels in the city, the artillery behind opened fire, under the heavy artillery bombardment, there were two breaches of the wall collapsed, the British army rushed through the gap into the city, and what caught their eyes was a large area of the rebels who were shattered and charred by the artillery fire.

The two sides engaged in fierce street fighting, the British army was shot with muskets every few steps, and the roofs on both sides of the alley were armed with rebels with guns, and finally, the British army used dead men to carry out blasting tactics, and directly blew up all the houses on both sides of the alley with explosives packs, and finally widened the narrow city alley, but the commanders at this time, Major General Barnard and Nixon, were both shot and killed.

At the height of the fighting, the Mughal Emperor Bahadur was hesitant in the Red Fort in Delhi.

Just now, dozens of officers of the rebel army in the city all came to petition, asking him to personally serve as their leader, command them to conduct street battles in the city, and defeat the British army, which was not very numerous. But hearing that the British fire was so fierce, and the British soldiers were so valiant, and the walls were broken, and the gates were opened by the British, Bahadur felt that the rebellion must have failed.

He shouldn't have agreed to be the leader of the rebels in the first place, and he regretted it. I knew that it was better to be a puppet emperor, at least I could live in the Red Fort with peace of mind, and I would have no worries about food and clothing.

Now, he's scared. So, he led some cronies loyal to the royal family and some rebels who also hesitated, took the initiative to open the gate of the Red Fort and surrendered to the British army besieging the city.

As soon as the emperor surrendered, the 38th, 54th, 74th and three artillery companies of the Indian indigenous troops in the rebels, totaling nearly 4,000 people, also surrendered one after another and returned to the British army.

Major General Thomas Leeder and Colonel Wilson were overjoyed and hurriedly ordered to encircle and annihilate the rebels in the city.

After six days of fierce fighting, the British army lost more than 5,000 dead and two generals, while the rebels in Delhi lost 7,000 killed and surrendered 20,000, leaving only 8,000 to flee.

And Emperor Bahadur? Sand? Gouf, dozens of his royalty, especially his heir and brother, were shot in public by order of Maj. Gen. Thomas Lide, and he and several female royals were announced to be escorted to Yangon, Burma, for life captivity.

The British had just captured Delhi and before they had time to rejoice, they received the news that Lahore had fallen in Punjab and that almost all of Punjab had been occupied by Sikh rebels.

Moreover, the so-called king of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab, Samit Kumar Singh, announced the expansion of the army and the establishment of the Sikh Empire, which was very unwilling to be limited to Punjab and had the intention of marching into Delhi.

The Indian governor Canning could not help but be worried, and looked forward to the early arrival of the British troops in the Crimea and the Persian side of the British army in Punjab, and as for the British troops in the country, he knew that it would be at least a few months before they arrived.

At this time, news came from Myanmar in the east of India, a coup d'état had occurred in Myanmar, which had always been peaceful, and the new monarch of the Gongbang Dynasty, Meng Tong, was imprisoned by his younger brother Prince Ganang, who became the new monarch and ordered to rebel against the British, mobilizing nearly 60,000 Burmese troops to storm the British army in Burma.

The British garrison in Lower Burma had only 4,000 troops, four regiments of two Bengali infantry brigades, and although they were well-equipped, they were completely wiped out under the siege of nearly 60,000 Burmese troops, and even the commander, Major General Godwin, was killed in battle. And, according to the few surviving British soldiers, the indigenous Burmese soldiers, for some reason, were also armed with many muskets, and they were not much better equipped than the British army.

In desperation, the Indian governor Canning could only order the British troops in the three strait districts of Singapore, Penang and Malacca, which had just arrived in Calcutta, to turn the bow of their ships, send warships to carry 7,000 British troops in the strait, and then transfer 5,000 troops from the Bangladesh region to Yangon, recapture Lower Burma, or at least, capture the most important city in Rangoon.

At the same time, because the loss of 4,000 British troops in Lower Burma was too large, the Indian governor Canning immediately reported to London, once again urging the mainland to send troops quickly.

But in this way, the suppression of the Indian rebels will once again be delayed due to lack of troops.