In a valley nearly 40 kilometers from the city of Kolkata, a large group of troops dressed in light gray cotton uniforms marched nervously, and from time to time the shouts of officers were heard, leading the soldiers who were jogging all the way shouting slogans.

Li Kaifang rode a maroon Burmese horse, looked into the distance, but it was all deep mountains and old forests, he couldn't see anything, his eyes were illuminated by the scorching sun overhead, and he couldn't open his eyes, so he had to ask the staff officer beside him: "The General Staff has set us a decisive battle with the British army in the village of Baruni, 35 kilometers northeast of Calcutta. How far is it now? ”

The staff officer replied: "Report to General Li, it is less than 5 kilometers. ”

Li Kaifang thought about it and muttered, "Less than 5 kilometers? So you're about to arrive at your intended battlefield? Now I haven't heard the sound of gunfire, which means that the war has not officially started, and there is still time. The order was given, and all the soldiers rested on the spot for an hour to recover their strength. After an hour, change the formation, no longer with one column of this march, but with a dense formation of three columns, and prepare for battle! ”

Half an hour later, fierce gunfire came from the west, and Li Kaifang smiled bitterly: "These guys from the General Staff are really amazing, they can actually detect the actions of the British army, saying that they are fighting with them in that village called Baruny, listening to the gunshots, it is really in that direction." After saying that, he immediately ordered the whole army to take action and rush to the battlefield urgently.

Li Kaifang led two infantry divisions and one special forces division of the Fifth Field Corps through Burma into the Sultanate of Bengal, marching all the way to support the three infantry divisions of the Sixth Field Corps stationed in Calcutta. The three infantry divisions originally stationed in Calcutta slowly retreated all the way to the northeast, and finally succeeded in luring the 60,000 British troops who had landed from the port of Calcutta to the shore more than 30 kilometers inland from the port.

Because the British were in desperate pursuit, many heavy field guns were too late to transport, and at the entrance of the village of Baruny, fierce fighting broke out between the two sides. The three infantry divisions of the 6th Field Corps no longer retreated, but, in accordance with the operational plan of the General Staff, held their positions and put up stubborn resistance. Although the British army had twice as many troops, the combat area on the battlefield was limited, and there were too many troops to be deployed, and the range of the British rifles was much worse than that of the Mauser rifles of the defenders of the Chinese Empire, so it would not be able to conquer it for a while and a half.

When the attack and defense of the two sides were at their most intense, a 30,000-strong Chinese Imperial Field Army suddenly drilled out on the southwest side of Baruni Village, and it was the 30,000 reinforcements led by Li Kaifang, the commander of the Fifth Field Corps of the Chinese Empire, who made a detour to outflank the British army. At the same time, nearly 80,000 Bengali troops from the long-organized Bengal Sultanate in northern Calcutta, as well as 50,000 Burmese troops from the Kingdom of Burma, also laid a large net with a radius of dozens of miles on the periphery, blocking all the retreats of the British army.

This was the first time that Li Kaifang and the Fifth Field Corps under his command had engaged British regular infantry. Li Kaifang, who fought and rushed violently, suffered a lot of losses at first, sacrificing thousands of soldiers, but after the British outposts found that they were surrounded by enemy troops, the British army began to be in turmoil, and many generals thought that they should return to Calcutta.

The British army's thoughts immediately lost their will to fight. In addition, Li Kaifang's army was like a fierce tiger, launching a fierce charge from the southwest behind him, and the British army was attacked on both sides, and after two hours of fierce fighting, it was finally torn open by Li Kaifang's one. The 6th Infantry Division and the 8th Infantry Division of the 6th Field Corps in the east, under the leadership of division commanders Taqibu and Lin Litong, also braved the British artillery to launch a fierce charge, and the British army temporarily faced the battle, and even the trenches and other fortifications could not be built.

It's not that the British are afraid of death, it's that the morale is really low. After the Bengali army in the north also launched an attack, the British army suddenly fell into a situation where the enemy was attacked on all sides, and all retreats and even logistics routes were blocked, and the momentum fell into a trough. The two sides fought fiercely for more than several hours, and engaged in an astonishing battle of fire until late at night.

That night, Li Kaifang expected that the British army would break through, and he mobilized the special division to defend in the northwest overnight. Sure enough, in the early hours of the morning, the British army mobilized 20,000 infantry from the west to the north to launch an assault on the Bengali army stationed here, and on a front of more than a kilometer, nearly 40,000 Bengali troops lined up in three lines of defense, but they were still broken by the British army, and the Bengali army suffered heavy casualties and was unable to form an army. Nearly 26,000 other British troops were besieged, followed by the 20,000 British troops who broke through to the northwest. Just when the Bengali army was retreating one after another, and the British army was about to break out, it encountered a 3-kilometer-long fortification that the 10,000 special divisions of the Fifth Field Corps rushed to the northwest overnight and dug up.

The special division did not use conventional means of warfare at all, and did everything to kill and injure the British army. Even the desperate charge of more than 20,000 British troops was firmly resisted by 10,000 soldiers of the special division and blocked in the encirclement.

At this time, the tens of thousands of Bengali troops that had been defeated were also reorganized and entangled again, giving great support to the special division, and completely destroying the British army's breakthrough operation.

At dawn, nearly 50,000 troops of Li Kaifang's Fifth Field Corps in the south and the Sixth Field Corps in the east besieged one after another, and the British army fell into a desperate situation at once.

The arrogance of the British army allowed them to resist for more than three hours, but it was more than these three hours that made them pay a heavy price, this short 3 hours of fire on all sides, made them pay the price of 15,000 people, although not all of them were killed in battle, most of them were wounded by rifle fire, but in this era they were shot by muskets, and they were in the tropical jungle of India where there was no medical condition, you can imagine these British soldiers.

Of the original 60,000 British soldiers, only about 34,000 remained, and they were on the verge of collapse because of the blockade around them. At this time, the British army suddenly received a shocking news: the British Empire's expeditionary fleet to China suffered a crushing defeat in the Bay of Bengal, and less than one-fifth of the fleet fled back to Calcutta.

That is, the entire tens of thousands of their infantry who remained in Calcutta were completely abandoned.

Hearing this, these infantry immediately bombed the camp, and the last trace of pride was also destroyed, and half an hour later, only 31,000 British infantry remained, and surrendered en masse to the Chinese Imperial Field Corps that surrounded them.