Chapter 657: The Battle of Shura

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"The colonists of the East India Company are a bunch of robbers, slaves, and perverts! They always want to control the princely states, build their own state, collect taxes directly, and rule directly over India, Burma, and all the lands they can see! ”

"All kinds of evils are intolerable in our Britain, but the colonialists, who made their fortunes by directly plundering the wealth of others, have great influence in London. They had a lot of influence over the House of Lords, and the larger the territory controlled by the East India Company, the more sources of raw materials Britain had, and the larger the market, so ......, yes, I believe that London would seriously consider the East India Company's proposal and send a fleet here. ”

"Your army is very strong, the army and navy are very strong, but if the British government is determined, let alone Burma, it will be difficult for you to keep Malacca. One of Walpole's great achievements was to calm the flames of war in Europa, which was now calm and Britain could afford to send at least twenty third-class battleships to the war. As an old friend of His Majesty the Emperor of China, I am very reluctant to see the two countries go to war, so I suggest ......"

In the military camp 80 miles east of Bago in Burma, the "old friend" of the Chinese people. Popper, the commissioner of the British East India Company, tried to win over the young official in his twenties in one fell swoop with an emotional tone and rhetoric to Chen Run, the newly appointed Burmese envoy of the Shanghai General Office.

After the Battle of the East Andaman Sea, the British East India Company finally began to make direct contact with the British and Chinese, both of whom had previously denied their direct involvement in the situation in Burma. Popper's suggestion was that the British East India Company should not interfere in the change of regime in Burma, but that the trade and mining rights acquired by the British East India Company in Burma should be retained, and that the port of Salem and Tuba to the west be owned by the British East India Company.

The British East India Company also promised that as long as the two sides reached an agreement, the British could also help China drive away the French and Dutch forces in Burma, and even appease the Dutch and help China open the Malacca route.

Chen Run's face was fresh and shy, listening to Popper come together with the "suggestions", but he was sneering in his heart, and it was so. When I was in Europa, I heard that the Britons were the best at betraying their allies, and they were lonely and arrogant in their bones, and the Britons had joined forces with the Dutch and the French in Salen, and now they had no psychological burden to betray each other in order to monopolize Burmese interests.

But those two sides are not pure white rabbits, even if Batavia is besieged, the Dutch also told Chen Run that if they can ensure that the Dutch can enjoy exclusive interests in Burma, the Dutch can help the British and Chinese deal with the British, of course, only Burma. This is a testament to the Dutch merchant qualities: everything has a price, and a yard is a yard.

Not to mention the French, who participated in the plans of the Britons in Burma, they were just ghosts who brought their own dry food, hoping to raise their own value and exchange for enough benefits here in Yinghua, so they did not have the heart to fight side by side with the British.

And this Popper, who seems to be thinking about China, is actually still threatening with needles, twenty third-class battleships? Chen Run smiled secretly, when I haven't been to Europa, I don't know that you Britons are engaged in a naval shipbuilding competition with the Spanish Banyas, and the French? Europa is calm because everyone is gathering strength. Britain had the audacity to send twenty battleships to sail away, and the Spaniards and the French had the audacity to amplify artillery battles in the Caribbean and North America.

Didn't let Popper see through his own "essence." "Chen Run is slimy" research. These "suggestions" were accepted.

When Wu Ya asked Chen Run how the army would cooperate with the general office, Chen Run said: "The ideal negotiation is to negotiate with the captives who have nothing...... ”…,

Chen Run's words completely shattered the illusions of Burma and British, and the situation in Myanmar evolved dramatically.

The director of the British East India Company and the director of the Burma branch, Zhan Ningde, was also a decisive man, and ordered the colonial troops stationed in Tangoo to send the Burmese king Daningh to Salian, and the Burmese army also converged to Bago, and Tangoo did not want it.

Donghu can't get it anymore, the city of Ava in the north has fallen, and the central part is about to be cut off, Donghu is located in the northeast of Bago, and Bago is in the northeast of Shalian. If Bago is occupied, Donghu will be finished, and the king of Burma will fall into the hands of Yinghua.

In the face of an army with a total estimated number of more than 200,000, the only thing Zhan Ningde could do was to gather troops with Shalian as the center, shrink the defensive line, resist stubbornly, and delay and wait for changes.

Unexpectedly, the Burmese king Daninge has been a stupid little puppet for so long, and at a critical juncture, he actually has backbone, he did not retreat, but gathered more than 20,000 people, on the one hand, he insisted on holding Donghu, and on the other hand, he contacted Yinghua on his own, and sold Britain and all Europatons at the price, hoping to exchange for the continuation of the Donghu Dynasty.

This is also understandable, Taungoo is the real heart of this dynasty, and without Toungoo, the Burmese people will never have a future. But understanding is understanding, Jenningde is not willing to let the Burmese king get out of control, otherwise the Britons will lose the righteousness of their existence in Burma.

The troops of the British East India Company suddenly turned against the Burmese in Donghu and wanted to forcibly take Daningaine to Salian. Daningene resolutely resisted, and was hit by a stray bullet during the battle, and unfortunately died.

On October 9, the ridiculous and pathetic battle that took place in Donghu finally ended, and Zhan Wenda's army on the middle route and the northbound detachment sent by Wu Ya advanced north and south, and the two sides were served together.

The Britons fully carried forward the spirit of shamelessness, did not recognize the new Burmese king supported by the British and Chinese, nor did they recognize the new Burmese king's law on canceling the treaty and the transfer of rights with all Europas, and they found a nobleman from the Burmese and supported him as another Burmese king, putting on a sloppy face, "The old man is here, this place is the old man."

"All in all...... It's just underplayed! ”

Wu Ya summed it up, and then issued an order to attack Bagu. His southern route army had been stopped east of Bago and was waiting for the progress of the middle of the northern route.

On 12 October, Bago fell, and at this time northern and central Burma was largely cleared. By mid-October, Burma had become a battlefield between Anglo-Chinese and Europa forces. With 25,000 British East India Company troops and more than 20,000 Burmese troops, a large number of artillery pieces and fortifications, Jenningd was ready to hold out. Of course, he did not expect to defeat the army of more than 200,000 people, but hoped that the Chinese people would understand that if they were to be eliminated, they would have to pay a huge price, and that it would be better for everyone to talk about it and divide Burma together.

"Your Majesty's decree! Myanmar is the door to break through the gate for my China, this war is ......, regardless of the cost! ”

In the big tent, Wu Ya informed the generals of the military order sent by Li Xi in the name of the commander-in-chief, and there was a sound of heel collision, "Si war!" The call came out of the tent, and even the officers and soldiers of the Satsuma Domain, who were disturbed and irritated by the mud on their legs in the distance, and who had begun to feel nostalgic for their hometown, involuntarily gathered together and began to ignite sparks in their chests.

Click, click, click......

The beat of the drum beat gently, and in the wilderness twenty miles northeast of Salem, the red and gray figures swept along the south bank of the river, from northeast to southwest.

Bang la bang, bang bang ......,

In response to the drumbeat was the sound of footsteps in the mud, Gui Zhen, the commander of the new Sixth Division of the Anglo-Chinese Army, walked in the queue with his head held high, relying on another bloody letter and the question "Does the governor not trust our loyalty", he grabbed this battle again. To be honest, Wu Ya was very, very dissatisfied with this kind of coercion behavior of taking off his pants to show his scars and being proud of being ugly, and his intentions were not so simple. …,

Naturally, Gui Zhen brought with him the servant army of their division, and Takahashi Yoshiren and his Satsuma samurai, who had been reloaded with rifled guns, were placed in front of the horizontal formation as stragglers.

Takahashi Yoshiruto, who was at the forefront, was so straight in his chest, and the battlefield where hundreds of thousands of troops faced was actually their Satsuma samurai, what a glorious deed? The only thing that has some shortcomings is that they have all changed into the gray uniforms of the Anglo-Chinese non-military army, and they don't show the smell of the samurai.

By the time the infantry was dispatched, the two sides had been engaged in artillery fighting for more than an hour, but because of the poor road conditions in Burma, neither side had dragged in much heavy artillery. The Britons are flying pounds and fishing cannons, and the Yinghua side is twenty-pound cannons, and now they have all stopped, waiting for the duel between the six-pound and the four-pound cannon.

On Gui Zhen's side was a large horizontal formation of 2,000 stragglers and 5,000 men, covered by war elephants of the servant army on both sides. The British, on the other hand, sent in about two regiments of 4,000 colonial troops, and 5,000 Burmese troops, including nearly 1,000 cavalry, which, judging by the poor conditions of the battlefield, were obviously not of much use.

The battle lines of the two sides slowly approached from four or five miles away, and when they were more than three miles apart, the small and medium-sized artillery of the two sides set up positions on the front line and began to bombard each other. The infantry columns of both sides were parked behind the artillery, under fire from each other. About half an hour later, the Britons could not bear it, and the Yinghua four-pound guns fired extremely fast and penetrated, so they had to stop the shelling, and the infantry pressed on.

"This is the ...... of the Battle of Shura, and the samurai of Hinakoto boast that their will is stronger than steel, and in such a battle, they are as weak as tofu. Fortunately, this cruelty does not distinguish between friend and foe, and the will of the enemy is also tormented. The real war turned out to be a matter of whose will would collapse first...... ”

As a first-hand witness of the battle, Takahashi has a very detailed account of the battle, and in his manuscripts, the distorted handwriting and intermittent strokes reveal the fear in his heart.

Hundreds of British stragglers rushed up against artillery fire, and their rifled guns also caused a lot of casualties to the Yinghua artillery, Gui Zhen had to release his own skirmishers in advance, and thousands of rifled gunmen swarmed up and opened fire from three or four hundred yards away, quickly dispersing the opposing stragglers.

Then what "pushed" out of the smoke was a neat horizontal formation, the pale yellow color did not have much oppression, but the neat pace, the formation under the rifled gun continued to shatter, but the whole was still not shaken, not only Gui Zhen was greatly moved, Wu Ya and others who were watching the battle in the rear couldn't help but admire, the British's battle column is well trained, even if it is just a colonial army, they can get out of the Anglo-Chinese red-clothed soldiers.

The skirmishers fired in a haphazard manner, and although the rifled guns were far away and powerful, this unorganized fire did not stop the opponent's footsteps. The British's 4,000-strong battle column had been close to fifty paces, and hundreds of corpses were scattered around the rear of the column, but they had not yet fired, and the Anglo-Chinese skirmishers on this side were ready to switch from the state of chasseurs to the state of grenadiers, and rushed up to throw grenades.

Forty paces, sixty meters, the Britons fired, three rows of volleys, piled up in a mess, there was no array of British and Chinese stragglers, hundreds of servant stragglers scattered on the spot, only the 6th Division's own red-clothed skirmishers, and the Satsuma samurai under Takahashi Yoshiren did not retreat.

Takahashi writes in his book: "This is just the beginning ....... "The mouth is almost cured, and after finishing official business next week, I should be able to recover~~. )

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