Just when the northern section of the Dhaka battle line was broken through by cavalry, Shao Wen launched an artillery bombardment of the whole line, and hundreds of artillery pieces still focused on uprooting the fortress outside the city, and the attack of the fortress was no longer prioritized, regardless of the left and right flanks, the crowd of the coalition army rushed to the British fortress like a raging wave.

As the outer forts were gradually uprooted, coalition forces surrounded the city of Dhaka from three sides. Now the forts within 1 km of Dhaka have been captured, and more than a dozen forts have been uprooted in three days of fighting, and at the same time, the coalition forces have paid heavy losses. These days were the days when the combat attrition was the highest, and the cumulative number of casualties counted by the various units reached more than 9,000. Among them, the largest casualties were the Indian surrendered troops who charged at the front, followed by the armies of Burma and other countries, and the casualties of Chinese soldiers also reached thousands of people.

Such a casualty ratio was not deliberately arranged by the commander. On the battlefield, the Chinese soldiers also charged with the other allied soldiers, and naturally the team mixed with cold weapons had to get close to the British in order to kill and injure the other party, and the training of the Chinese soldiers also allowed them to avoid some unnecessary casualties. The reason why the Indian surrendered troops suffered the most casualties was because their weapons were mainly made in the imperial system, and after the ammunition supply was not available in the later period, the musket became a spear with a bayonet.

Despite this, as the commander-in-chief of the Indian theater of operations, Shao Wen still gave timely condolences and care to the wounded soldiers from other countries, and uniformly gathered the wounded in the mobile hospital belonging to the Chinese Army for treatment.

With the development of the war, in the face of the emperor's * team's uprooting of the fortress outside the city, Dhaka had no danger to defend, and was completely exposed to the heavy artillery of the emperor's * team, which made Guo Fu helpless.

On July 10, 1841, Guo Fu accepted a letter from Shao Wen, commander of the Indian theater of operations, handed over Dhaka, and entered a prisoner of war camp. At this point, the Battle of Dhaka ended, and the main British military forces in India were completely lost.

Compared with the difficulties of the Indian battlefield, the war in East Africa and North America is basically worry-free, since the 85th Division of the 11th Army in North America captured Fort McClyde, the British army in North America is basically powerless, plus the squadron treats prisoners of war well, many British immigrants who were temporarily conscripted as soldiers surrendered without much resistance after exchanging fire with the squadron. Although the strength of the East African fleet is also good, it is also unable to go north to attack Egypt, plus Egypt is nominally part of the Ottoman Empire, so there is no reason for the emperor * team to enter the Egyptian region, but in the first half a year of the war, the 114th and 115th divisions of the 32nd Army in East Africa firmly controlled the middle reaches of the Nile River in South Sudan. The 116th Division of the Thirty-second Army and the 2nd Division of the East African Servant Army had moved south into the northern parts of Uganda and Kenya, expanding the Empire's colonies in East Africa.

Historically, the great uprising in India took place in the mid-19th century, when all strata of Indian society were secretly brewing an anti-British uprising. From 1856 onwards, crepes began to be passed around the countryside as a signal to connect the people with the uprising. In just a few months, these mysterious crepes have spread across the vast countryside of the north. Among the Indian "native soldiers", secret organizations appeared, and the Red Lotus, which served as a signal for the uprising, was widely transmitted in the team. Secret correspondence was also established between the various teams to incite the anti-British struggle. In a letter to the rest of the group, Barakpur's "native soldiers" wrote: "If we revolt, we will be victorious, and from Calcutta all the way to Peshawar will become a well-fortified battlefield." The teams used the festival to invite each other to strengthen their bonds, or met secretly late at night, and some even secretly formed officer councils to prepare for an uprising.

The princes of the princely states, who were dissatisfied with British colonial rule, were also engaged in anti-British propaganda. Nanasab, the prince of Marat, sent envoys to contact and plot to make trouble. Some well-known Islamic scholars, such as Ahmed Shah, went deep into the cities and villages to agitate. In cities such as Lucknow and Agra, thousands of people often hear their speeches. Ahmed Shah used India's 100-year history to inspire patriotic fervor. In early 1857, he was arrested and imprisoned. Folk artists also used storytelling, singing, puppetry, and drama to expose the greed and brutality of the British colonists, and to encourage the people to resist British colonial rule.

On the eve of the uprising, it was rumored that the British colonists would be expelled in 1857, the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Plassey. In cities such as Delhi and Madras, leaflets calling on the people to rise up in the struggle against the British often appeared. The leaflets read: "Everyone with one heart, drive out foreign invaders!" They have trampled on the minimum requirements of justice, seized our sovereignty and are determined to destroy our country. The only way now is to break free from the tyranny of the alien race and wage a bloody holy war!

At the beginning of 1857, the British colonial authorities issued a new bullet in a cardboard package coated with tallow and lard, which had to be bitten open with teeth. The Hindu and Islamic "native soldiers" saw this as an insult to their religious beliefs (Hinduism holds cows sacred, and Hindu taboos pork) and were extremely indignant. Hindu soldiers carry the water of the Ganges, and Islamic soldiers face the Qur'an and vow to destroy British colonial rule. On March 29, 1857, during the parade of the 34th Infantry Regiment of Barakpur, a young "native soldier" Mangal; Pandey, full of anger at the colonists, shouted "Rise up! Brothers, for the sake of our freedom, attack the insidious enemy! He also shot and killed three British officers. The British arrived at the news, arrested Pandey, and sentenced him to death by hanging. The British colonists then disbanded the infantry regiment. At the end of April and the beginning of May, there was another incident in Mirut in which the "native soldiers" refused to use new bullets. The colonists sentenced 85 "native soldiers" to seven years in prison for refusing to use new bullets. On 9 May, the British convened a meeting of the entire brigade of officers and soldiers, publicly stripped the uniforms of the 85 "native soldiers" who had been sentenced, took away their weapons, and then took them to prison in handcuffs and leg irons. For this reason, the "native soldiers" could not bear it anymore, returned to the barracks to hold a secret meeting, and decided to immediately launch an uprising. At this time, the indignation of all strata of the Indian nation against British colonial oppression had reached the extreme, and the guns of the Indian "native soldiers" revolting became the signal of a great national uprising.

Now, because of the Battle of Dhaka between the Chinese Empire and the British in India, most of the British army assembled in India, except for the two divisions sent to Malacca, the rest of the army were either killed or captured in Dhaka, which also indirectly led to a great decline in British control over the Indian colonies, and the British colonial rule over India was gradually established in the process of the war of conquest. After the East India Company occupied Bengal, it ruled under the guise of a puppet of the Nawab, and then implemented a "dual management system": the Nawab authorities managed the civil affairs, and the company held the right to expropriate land. In 1773, the British Parliament passed the "Indian Administration Act", which provided for the British government to appoint the Governors of the British Indian Territories, ending the "dual management system". In 1784, the British Parliament passed the Act to Improve the Administration of the East India Company and the British Indian Territories. Under this Act, a Board of Inspectors is appointed by the Cabinet to deal with all major issues of India; Although the power to appoint all civilian and military personnel remained with the board of directors of the company, the supreme authority to rule India was vested in the British government.

The changes in the system of British colonial rule in India served the needs of the British bourgeoisie to plunder India. In the 17th and 18th centuries, in the process of military conquest of India by British colonists and the establishment of a colonial system, Britain was in a period of primitive capital accumulation, and its main means of colonial plunder were: pirate robbery, unequal trade, and direct plunder. After the East India Company occupied Bengal, it looted the treasury and plundered a total of £37 million worth of wealth, of which £21 million went into the pockets of the company's senior staff, including £234,000 from Clevau alone, and £15 million worth of royal treasures by the British at the time of the capture of the capital of Mysore. The "dual management system" ensured that the British colonists would extort land taxes directly from India. Before the East India Company took over the taxation rights of Bengal, the actual income of the Bengal land was 810,000 pounds, and the year after the company took over (that is, 1764~1765), the amount of land taxes soared to 1.47 million pounds, and by 1792~1793, it was as high as 3 million pounds. The exploitation of handicraft workers by the company is also extremely cruel. Through its scattered merchant houses and Indian brokers, it forces thousands of Indian artisans to order for its processing, while paying them less than half the market price, or even enough to buy raw materials. In addition, the company has a monopoly on the trade in salt, tobacco and opium. The salt patent alone nets £800,000 a year; The company forced Bangladeshi farmers to grow opium, bought it at a low price, and then smuggled it to China for huge profits and poisoned the Chinese people, accounting for one-seventh of the company's total revenue. The vast wealth plundered by the British colonizers from India flowed into Britain in a steady stream. According to statistics, in the 58 years after the occupation of Bengal (1757~1815), Britain extracted 1 billion pounds of wealth from India. This wealth contributed to Britain's Industrial Revolution, which quickly became the world's first capitalist industrial power. However, the appalling plundering of India by the British has seriously damaged India's social economy, turning India into an extremely poor and miserable country. British MP William & #8226;Rich Ladeng once described the East India Company's plundering of Bengal as follows: "In the past, Bengal was the granary of all countries, a place where the commercial wealth of the East and the handicrafts of the workshops were concentrated. …… In just 20 years, many parts of the area have taken on the appearance of deserts. The fields are barren, and the vast ground is overgrown with weeds; Farmers were plundered, craftsmen were oppressed, famines were repeated, and with them a depopulation. "In 1770, there was a great famine in Bengal, in which one-third of the Bengali population starved to death. In 1789, the British Governor was compelled to admit that "a third of our territory in India is now a desert inhabited only by wild beasts." ”

At the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, with the progress of the Industrial Revolution, the economic power of the British industrial bourgeoisie became stronger and stronger. They insist on opening up the Indian market and participating in the exploitation of India. In 1813, the East India Company's monopoly on trade with India was abolished. Thus began a new phase of the plundering of India by British industrial capital, which increasingly became a market for British goods and a supplier of raw materials.

Between 1814 and 1835, the amount of cotton fabrics exported to India by the British increased from less than 1 million yards to more than 51 million yards thanks to low tariffs (3.5 per cent on cotton and silk and 2 per cent on woollen fabrics). India, known as the world's largest cotton weaving industry since ancient times, is now flooded with British cotton fabrics. Under the impact of cheap British goods, India's handicraft industry was devastated, and millions of handicraftsmen went bankrupt and lost their jobs. Dhaka, the famous center of the textile industry, rapidly declined and depressed, and its population decreased from 150,000 to 30,000 in 1827~1837. Governor Bendinck confessed: "The miserable situation is unparalleled in the history of commerce. The bones of the cotton weavers have turned the plains of India white. ”

British colonial rule also harmed the interests of some Indian feudal princes. The feudal princes of the Indian states were originally the pillars of British colonial rule, but the colonial authorities adopted a policy of annexing part of the feudal princely territories in order to expand the territory of the direct rule area and open up a wider market and more raw material production areas. In 1848, when Dai Hexu became governor, according to the so-called "loss of rights" theory of the colonists, it was stipulated that if the prince had no direct heirs after his death, his land and annuity would be recovered by the East India Company. Through this means, the colonizers successively annexed more than a dozen feudal princely states such as Satara, Nagpur, and Jhansi. In 1846, the colonial authorities declared that the Maharaja of Ode was not good at governing and forcibly annexed his territory. In addition, the Marat Maharaja Nana Sahib was deprived of his right to receive an annuity and a large amount of land was confiscated from Hindu and Islamic monasteries. These policies of the British colonizers aroused the resentment of princely princes and Hindu and Islamic monks.

The outbreak of the first Sino-British war provided an excellent opportunity for a major uprising in India. Molvey. Ahmad. Sha's activities were recognized by the Indian princes everywhere, who understood that only by driving out the British could their interests be protected from further infringement.

For a time, Indian national uprisings were blooming all over the British colonies, and the largest number of British troops in various places was currently at the regimental level, which was simply not enough to deal with the Indian uprising.

Now, what the British needed was to immediately negotiate peace with the Chinese and release the captured soldiers to stabilize the situation in India