Major General Henry of the East India Company in the Bengal District? Sir Havelock became the commander of the British forces in the capture of Burma. His face was heavy.

As soon as he set out from Fort William, Calcutta, he had a sense of unease, which was the sixth sense of his thirty years in the army, but as a major general of the British Empire, although he was uneasy, he carried out the orders of the Indian governor and led a Bengali army of 5,000 with infantry and artillery to attack the Arakane region by land from the border between Bengal and Burma.

At the same time, 30 warships carrying more than 7,000 British troops in Penang, Malacca, and Singapore attacked the Arakan region (Rakhine State) and the southern coastal areas of the southwestern coast of Burma from the sea in two routes.

Crossing the Neff River, 5,000 British troops were stopped by the Burmese army, but although half of the Burmese army was also armed with muskets, it was far from being a match for the British, and after two hours of fighting, the Burmese army was defeated and fled.

The British were not in a hurry to pursue, and joined up with 2,000 navies, quickly captured the capital of Arakan, and soon took control of the entire territory of Arakan.

At the same time, the British army of more than 5,000 men on the other route in the south, on the 21 warships sent by the Straits Settlements, split into two routes, and attacked the port of Maltapan from the sea, and then shelled the city of Rangoon; Another line of 12 warships went directly up the Irrawaddy River, shelling coastal towns in all directions.

More than 100 small wooden sailing warships of the Burmese army were quickly sunk by the heavy artillery of the British warships. As a result, the Burmese army simply abandoned the coastal and riverbank areas.

After Rear Admiral Henry left behind 500 men to occupy the capital of Arakan, he led the rest of the nearly 4,000 infantry artillery along the coastline to the south, and under the escort of warships, made a detour to the Irrawaddy River valley, preparing to join the navy in the south. Along the way, the Burmese army fled against the wind.

But Rear Admiral Henry was worried. Although he didn't understand why they suddenly had such strength, and he didn't think that he would be as invincible as the British army, Henry still felt a little abnormal.

However, the journey went exceptionally smoothly, with little resistance, and the British infantry and navy met up on the banks of the Irrawaddy River.

At this point, Major General Henry was a little relieved. He ordered the warships to attack Rangoon while conducting a landing battle. A few days later, the British army successfully captured the coastal cities of Yangon and Bogu, and directly threatened the center of Burma from the south.

Major General Henry led the LinkedIn artillery infantry, escorted by warships, up the Irrawaddy River, capturing Pyre, Arammew and Magway along the way.

On this day, Major General Henry was riding a horse and walking among the British troops marching along the riverbank, when he suddenly heard the news that hundreds of British troops stationed in the cities of Yangon, Bogu and other cities in the rear had been attacked by the Burmese army, and even the humble ones that had just been captured were also captured. Major General Henry was shocked, he knew that the Burmese army wanted to scatter his forces, break them individually, slowly consume his forces, and flank them in front and back. Considering the advent of the rainy season and the instability of the rear, he did not dare to march further north, and ordered to return to the defense and capture the cities of Beba, Yangon, and Pugu before making the next move.

On the way back to Bey and Rangoon, the British army was constantly attacked and harassed by the Burmese army, and although they were few in number, they came out from time to time to intercept and block them.

After arriving at the city of Beak, seeing the Burmese flag of the king of Gongbang planted on the city, Rear Admiral Henry ordered the warships to shell the city, and suddenly, after several rounds of shelling, the gate of the city was breached. When 2,000 British troops stormed the city, they found that the entire city was almost empty except for dozens of Burmese soldiers who had not had time to escape.

Major General Henry's heart became even more uneasy. He ordered to speed up the march and rush back to Rangoon. Along the way, he was constantly attacked and harassed by Burmese soldiers, but he sent troops to attack, but he fled. It cast a shadow on Major General Henry's heart.

A few days later, when he arrived in Yangon with the LinkedIn army, he found that the Burmese army besieging Yangon had long since fled. He suddenly felt like he had been fooled. At this time, an urgent military situation came: Northwest Myanmar did not know when, but gathered 50,000 Burmese troops, taking advantage of the fact that he led the main force of the LinkedIn Army to attack southern Myanmar, captured the northern region of Arakan in one fell swoop, and directly waved his division to the west, and captured the important towns of Ratnaparan and Lamu in the Chittagong region of the Bengal region, and the forward troops were already fiercely attacking Chittagong.

The British troops stationed in Bengal, after two troop transfers, had only more than 10,000 troops, and hurriedly asked Calcutta for help, and at the same time sent 5,000 troops to rescue Chittagong.

This was followed by a handwritten order from the Indian Governor General Canning, who asked him to send warships back to Bangladesh to aid Chittagong.

Upon hearing this, Major General Henry was stunned! He knew that he had been completely deceived!

When did the commander of Burma be so cunning that he would attack the east and west, deceive himself to southern Burma, and Ningyuan gave up Yangon and other important cities in the south, the purpose was to disperse the forces of Bengal. And their purpose turned out to be a direct attack on the British army's base in Bengal.

It's a great move. It is tantamount to attacking the save-worthy place of Great Britain. For the British, not to mention Yangon and other areas of Burma, even the whole of Myanmar cannot be compared with the important Bangladesh at all.

Just as he was about to lead his troops to leave, thousands of Burmese soldiers appeared outside the cities of Bere, Rangoon, and began to attack these cities occupied by the British army with great force.

Major General Henry was furious, and although he knew that the Burmese soldiers were deliberately doing this in order to delay their march and rescue Bengal, he could not help but directly order the defeat of these shameless Burmese natives.

On the Bangladeshi side, the fighting was raging.

The 700 British defenders in Chittagong did not hold out for two hours before they were routed by the fierce Burmese army, and then the entire army was annihilated. The only remaining warship and two armed merchant ships in Chittagong could not defend the entire port, and soon Chittagong was occupied by the Burmese army, and then the entire port was destroyed.

Five days later, fierce fighting broke out between the British and the "Burmese Army" in the Dhaka area. The Burmese army was outnumbered, and the British could not resist it and retreated. In the end, the British army simply abandoned all the small towns and withdrew them all to the city of Dawaka.

The Burmese army did not wait for the British army to rest, and immediately organized 30,000 troops to surround the city of Dhaka, and the battle was extremely fierce. Although the Burmese army lost a lot of casualties, the British army in the entire city of Dhaka was only 4,000 troops, and after the Burmese army outside the city exchanged more than 5,000 people for 2,000 British casualties in the city, the British army took the initiative to abandon Dhaka, open the city gate and surrender.

Subsequently, 50,000 Burmese troops attacked cities and plundered land in all directions, and successively occupied all the places in the Bengal region, such as Agartala and Khulna. In addition, the Burmese army mobilized Muslims in the Bengal region to respond to the Delhi rebellion and rebel against the British army.

And the two thousand British troops who surrendered, what they never expected was that what awaited them turned out to be a disaster. The British soldiers, who had been starving for two days after having their weapons seized, were suddenly rushed in and slaughtered for more than an hour by thousands of crazy Muslims without the power to resist, and only a dozen British soldiers took advantage of the chaos to escape.

The Burmese army that occupied the Dhaka area recruited tens of thousands of Muslims as pioneers on the spot, and after equipping themselves with the surplus weapons in the city of Dhaka, they distributed them to the Muslims.