"Not bad! In the name of the British, kill him and spread it out. Let those princely lords have the sad idea of the death of rabbits and foxes, and then gather all the rebels in Delhi, withdraw from Delhi, and go to Punjab. Do everything you can to drag the Sikhs of Punjab into the rebellion, as long as you capture Lahore, the capital of Punjab, and the holy city of Amritsar, the British are finished! "Summit. Kumar has set his goals.

In fact, this goal was not set by him, nor was it directly instructed by his superior, Fan Ruzeng, director of the Special Services Department, but Feng Yunshan. At the beginning, Feng Yunshan asked Fan Ruzeng and his secret service department to incite a rebellion in India, so he formulated a strategy, that is, not to stick to Delhi as in history, and let the British calmly mobilize their forces and concentrate on conquering Delhi. Instead, they pulled all the rebels directly to Punjab, which is relatively close to Delhi but most important in the northwest, and pulled this large agricultural state with a large population in India into the rebellion.

If the British knew about Feng Yunshan's strategy, they would definitely be shocked!

In fact, it was through the study of later history that Feng Yunshan knew the importance of this Punjab to the British Indian region at that time.

Britain has set up a total of 240,000 troops in India, of which there are less than 40,000 British soldiers, and the rest are almost all Indian soldiers (including Burma, Pakistan and Bangladesh). Of the 200,000 Indian soldiers, 70,000 were Sikhs from the Punjab region.

The reason for the failure of this great Indian uprising in history is naturally that there are very few princely states that really rebelled and rebelled, and most of the other feudal lords who held the leadership of the uprising surrendered and rebelled one after another under the threat and inducement of the British, causing the uprising to suffer great losses. The rebel army was fragmented and fragmented in its actions, lacking effective leaders and unified command to strike at the enemy in a coordinated manner. But in addition to these two reasons, the most important reason was that the rebel army adopted a purely defensive strategy militarily, which allowed the British army to seize the initiative. The main reason why the British army took the initiative was that the Sikhs in Punjab chose to support the British, and their attitude had an overwhelming impact on the outcome of the uprising.

The Punjab region is only four or five hundred kilometers from Delhi, the center of the uprising in the northern region, and is the last of the British conquered states, even though it has been annexed for seven years, but for this most important grain producing place in the whole of India, the most populous state, the East India Company attaches the most importance to it, and has designated it as an important place for British troops to be stationed. In the entire Punjab area, more than 40,000 people were stationed, of which 10,000 of the 25,000 regular troops were British soldiers from Europe, accounting for almost a quarter of the European soldiers in the whole of India.

Just like the Governor of Punjab, John. Lawrence said afterwards that if the Punjab had not sided with the British, or even fallen, the whole of India would have been lost if Nepalese reinforcements and British reinforcements from the Crimean peninsula and the mainland had not reached India.

As a result, Feng Yunshan made a careful plan for the Indian riot caused by this single-handedly planned plan, and asked the secret service department to implement it. Kumar's shoulders.

On the second day of the occupation of Delhi, the rebels proclaimed the Mughal Emperor Bahadur. Shah II was the Emperor of India and set up a ten-member Executive Yuan as the governing body. Kumar became one of the ten. That night, however, the elderly Mughal Emperor Bahadur. Sha II was shot and killed from a distance by guards who had infiltrated the palace, and the murderer, a British soldier, was secretly plotting outside the palace with a long-range rifle. Suddenly, the British soldier was killed on the spot by the "angry" Hindu soldiers, and the British murderer was also found with several yellowish pills in his pocket, but they were quickly burned by the "angry" Hindu soldiers.

News of the killing of the Mughal emperor by the British soon spread throughout Delhi, and news continued to spread to other Indian states. Just when everyone was hating the British for this astonishing news, an even more astonishing news came from London: Dalipu, the last Sikh king of Punjab who had been invited to London as a guest? Singh was actually imprisoned in a London prison and beaten to death by several prison guards.

At this time, not only the Muslims hated the British, but even the Sikhs were surprised!

The ten elders of the Delhi Executive Yuan quickly convened a meeting to discuss these two news. Except for Summit. Outside of Kumar, the remaining nine elders are Muslims, and of course, in fact, Samit. Kumar pretended to be an Islamist as well. Therefore, they decided to face Bahadur. Shah II was identified two years ago as the heir of the leader of India, the new emperor of the Mughal dynasty.

However, the name of this heir is Muhammad? Bahadur? Sand? Gov, not Bahadur. Sha II's biological son, the name is not right. When he declared himself commander-in-chief of the rebel army in Delhi, he ordered all troops to be stationed in Delhi and prepare for the British attack.

Summit. Kumar jumped out directly and said loudly: "Your Majesty, how can the people of Allah be so cowardly? Not to mention your father, Bahadur. Sha II was killed by the British, shouldn't you hurry to avenge him? It is only right that the British who should quickly lead the soldiers of Delhi to attack the Punjab, there are tens of thousands of British soldiers, and it is time to kill them all and rescue the people of Allah who have been oppressed by them as soon as possible! ”

Suddenly, two elders nodded in agreement, while the other seven elders looked at the new Mughal emperor, waiting for his reply.

"No! The British have stationed a heavy army in Punjab, and if our tens of thousands of troops go forward, if the British army takes advantage of the situation to occupy this city of Delhi, will not my Mughal dynasty be destroyed? What's more, it is easier to hold on than to siege the city, and now that I am the commander-in-chief, I have the final say, and I will hold on to Delhi, waiting for the British army to attack! "Muhammad? Bahadur? Sand? Guofu said categorically.

"Stick to Delhi and just sit still! In this situation, we can only unite with the Sikhs in the neighboring Punjab to rebel against the British. "Summit. Kumar shouted angrily, and then left the Red Keep Palace.

That evening, Summit. Kumar then set out for Punjab with all the Sikh and Hindu soldiers, as well as a small number of Islamic soldiers who were willing to follow him, a total of 9,000 men.

As soon as he left Delhi, Summit. Kumar preached the news from London that the last Sikh king, Dalip? Singh was imprisoned in a London prison and beaten to death by prison guards. Suddenly, the Sikhs in the entire army were in a state of excitement. Summit. Kumar took the opportunity to declare his belief in Sikhism, ordered the whole army to be replaced with the flag of the original Sikh-ruled Punjabi king, blew the Punjabi Sikh military song, dressed up as Sikh decorations, and expelled the unwilling Hindus and Muslims among them, although there were only about 6,000 left, but all obeyed the orders of the Samit. Kumar, when he heard that he wanted to restore his own country and recover Punjab, which had been occupied by the British, was immediately full of fighting spirit and drove all the way to Lahore, the capital of Punjab.

Coming to Rotak, the front army came to report, and encountered a group of British soldiers escorting a large group of British civilians on the way. Without saying a word, Kumar directly ordered to wave the Sikh flag and attack immediately, and soon, the British army, which was only a few hundred men, surrendered knowing that it was invincible. Regardless of whether the other side surrendered or not, Kumar directly ordered a massacre, so that hundreds of British troops and more than 200 British civilians, including women and children, were all killed.

And, Summit. Kumar also deliberately let his subordinates let go of dozens of British soldiers and a few civilians, claiming that they should be told that we Sikhs are not afraid of the British, and if we want to restore our homeland, we must not be afraid of the other party, let alone show mercy to their subordinates!

In this way, these dozens of lucky Britons fled back to the city of Chandigarh in Punjab and immediately reported to the commander of the British army, Hodsun, that a Sikh army of tens of thousands of people had rebelled, killing not only British soldiers, but also brutally killing British women and children, so that the British army was on guard against the Sikh soldiers in the army and the Sikh rebellion in the entire Punjab area.

Hodsun, the commander of the British army in Chandigarh, was taken aback, and then furious. Immediately began to purge the city of Sikh soldiers, began to disarm the Sikhs, and secretly executed some of the Sikhs; One side to the Punjab Governor John. Lawrence reports.