And after the army entered India, good news immediately came from the Eastern Route Army.

Zeng Guofan led his army to attack Xiongguan in the east of India, known as the first pass in the east, and opened the passage to the seven provinces in the east of India.

Zeng Guofan's dress is really beautiful and very important.

So, how did Zeng Guofan get rid of it?

It is said that after Zeng Guofan led the Eastern Route Army to set off, he traveled all the way to stay overnight, and the speed of the march was extremely fast, and in not many days, he had successfully led the army to cross the Sino-Indian border and enter the Indian border.

After crossing the national border, Zeng Guofan discussed with Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang and others, planning to surprise attack Acham Pass.

Acham Pass is a natural barrier to the east of India, the geographical location is quite important, as long as the Acham Pass is captured, then, India is close to Burma, the gateway of the seven eastern provinces led by the Achal Province will be opened in one fell swoop, after that, as long as the Taiping army sweeps the army, presumably within three days, the Taiping army can take the entire Achal Province, if it is a little faster, it should not be a problem to take the seven eastern provinces within a month.

Therefore, the capture of Acham Pass will be the most crucial link in the entire plan against India.

However, unlike other passes, it is precisely because of its importance that the Indian army has a large number of troops stationed here, and if they want to attack from the front, it will not only delay for a long time, but also cause heavy casualties, which is obviously not a rational act.

Again, this is what Zeng Guofan and others do not want to see.

Therefore, after much thought and deliberation, the final strategy was a surprise attack.

And the so-called surprise attack, the key lies in a strange word, that is, surprise. Attack them unprepared, and use the most effective, hidden, and direct methods to carry out sneak attacks.

If they wanted to do this, the requirements were very high, and the Taiping army also faced great difficulties.

But. What is a little gratifying is that the Taiping Army still has a special combat team available, and the special combat team is born for surprise attacks, so with it, this makes surprise attacks possible.

Zeng Guofan decided to use cavalry as the main force of the raid and the special combat team as the vanguard of the raid, and took Acham Pass in one fell swoop.

The specific arrangement is that the special combat team will sneak into the customs first. Then find a good opportunity to open the city gate, and the Taiping cavalry will lie in ambush outside the city, once the city gate is opened, the Taiping cavalry will swarm in and attack with all their might, so as to effectively control the entire Acham Pass.

In fact, this strategy is just like that, and it is also after having a special combat team. An extremely common tactic often used by the Taiping army, perhaps this kind of tactical method was not so unusual in the Taiping army at this time. However, if you look at the four seas, except for the Taiping Army, I am afraid that there will be no such army that uses special combat teams to conduct surprise operations.

In short, the special operations of the Chinese Empire are unique in today's world. It is also the most advanced mode of warfare, and other armies have not mastered this skill at all, or have not yet developed this awareness.

For example, in this attack on the Acham Pass, the special combat team infiltrated the pass, and the Indian army did not feel it at all. It wasn't until the Taiping army's iron cavalry entered the city and began to slash and kill that the Indian army knew that something was wrong, and by the time they began to organize sporadic resistance, the war was over.

It can also be seen from this that the operational concept between the Taiping Army and the Indian Army is not a concept at all, and it is not at the same level at all.

And after the Taiping army broke into the city, the Indian army was even more vulnerable, in front of the powerful Taiping army iron cavalry, the Indian army was simply tofu scum, the Taiping army was just a few rounds of impact back and forth, and the Indian army was already crushed.

To be honest, compared with the iron army of the Taiping Army, the Indian army is simply a child, and even Zeng Guofan has the feeling of being invincible.

However, fortunately, everyone understands in their hearts that the purpose of this attack on India is to bring down the Indians and the British, so although it is a one-sided massacre, no one will be merciful, because the mercy to the enemy is the abuse of oneself, and now the good thing is that the Taiping army has the upper hand, and they can still do whatever they want, if one day the Indian army has the upper hand, I am afraid that the Indians will not be polite to the Taiping army.

In a word, this is war, either you die or I live, and there is no emotion to talk about.

And the war came quickly, and it ended quickly, only one battle, and the Taiping army had set the Acham Pass.

And after Zeng Guofan led the army to settle the Acham Pass in a battle, the soldiers of the Eastern Route Army were very happy, and everyone felt that this was a good start, indicating a good omen!

And with this victory as a foreshadowing, the officers and men of the Eastern Route Army felt that from now on, they would be smooth sailing, so as to win India in one fell swoop.

So, after a short stop in the pass, they took advantage of the victory and launched an attack on the entire province of Achar.

The truth of the speed of soldiers, Zeng Guofan and others understand better than anyone else.

In the face of the powerful Taiping army, the Indian army could not organize any effective resistance at all, they were defeated in addition to rout, so within three days, all the Indian troops in Achar Province had been purged, and the Taiping army fully occupied Achar Province, and obtained the actual control here, and it took three days to take the customs and occupy the land, and the speed of the Taiping army was not fast.

Of course, there is also an element of luck in this.

And strength plus luck, this is the key to the Taiping Army's quick victory.

After taking the province of Achar, Zeng Guofan continued to attack forward.

Their next target is Abdullah Province.

Compared with the Eastern Route Army's smooth progress, the Western Route Army's offensive was not so smooth, and they encountered great difficulties in the process of advancing.

Now, the Western Route Army is blocked at the Assam Pass, the first pass of the west, and there is no way to advance and retreat, and it is completely in a dilemma.

Although Tian Xiaoer thought of a lot of ways to sneak attack Assam Pass, but the opportunity was lost, so in the end he failed to do so, in short, the current situation is very bad.

And Tian Xiaoer and the others' original plan was also to use the same strategy as the Eastern Route Army to surprise attack Assam Pass.

However, the luck of the Western Route Army was really not as good as that of the Eastern Route Army, and they had an accident in the process of the surprise attack, and not only did not succeed, but exposed themselves prematurely. The Indian army guarding the pass increased its vigilance, thus losing the best opportunity to seize the pass.

Of course, the reason why the rush failed, in addition to the luck component, there is also a crucial part in this, which is an important reason why the guide did not succeed in the sneak attack this time. It turned out that in this Assam Pass, the Western Route Army encountered a difficult opponent, and in this pass, in addition to 100,000 Indian troops, it also included 20,000 British troops, which was not expected by the Western Route Army.

And all these reasons are superimposed, so that the final sneak attack was unsuccessful.

And the sequelae of the failure of the sneak attack is whether Tian Xiaoer and the others are now waiting for another sneak attack opportunity, or take the initiative. Forcibly tackling key problems.

However, the ditch is deep, the wall is thick, and there is an invincible cannon every 1 meter, and the strong attack will inevitably lead to huge losses.

Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Tian Xiaoer decided to temporarily garrison the army and seek countermeasures.

Meanwhile. He telegraphed Huang Xu about the situation.

Huang Xugang set off not long after leading the reserve army. He received an urgent report from Tian Xiaoer, to the effect that the Western Route Army was being blocked under the Assam Pass and its advance was blocked.

After Huang Xu received the report, he thought about it for a while, and then replied to Tian Xiaoer. It is to the effect that the general will be outside, and the king's order will not be affected, how can there be a reason to ask for a thousand miles to fight, he also said. Since Tian Xiaoer was ordered to control the West Road, then he has the right to act cheaply, please don't worry too much, just deal with it yourself, you don't have to report, it should be like this in the future.

Huang Xu didn't want to think of a way for it, he just hoped that Tian Xiaoer would take this opportunity to temper more, people always have to grow.

After Tian Xiaoer received Huang Xu's callback, he had understood Huang Xu's thoughts, so he no longer had scruples, after he convened everyone to discuss, and then set a policy to lure the snake out of the hole, he planned to transfer the 20,000 British troops out of Assam Pass and annihilate them outside the pass.

However, this luring the snake out of the hole does not mean that it can be led, it depends on how it is led.

If so, how can it be introduced?

Then we must first find out the temper of the British army, the British army is used to rampant in the Indian subcontinent, and has always been accustomed to being predominant, so they want to rob when they see good things, and they want to touch beautiful women when they see them.

Therefore, Tian Xiaoer and others are ready to start from this aspect.

They were going to send a group of people to pretend to be merchants, pass through the pass, and deliberately show off the wealth and beauties they brought with them, so as to arouse the interest of the British army, they believed that the British army would definitely send people out to rob them, as long as they dared to come, Natian Xiaoer would let him come and go.

And this trick really worked, not long after the caravan played by the Taiping army passed through that pass, there was a squadron of British soldiers running to grab things, and the result can be imagined, the British troops of this squadron were immediately captured alive by the Taiping army.

After capturing the British army alive, Huang Xu sent someone to pretend to be a British soldier and went back to the pass to ask for help, saying that the British squadron that went out to grab things was surrounded by an unknown group of people, and was attacked urgently, asking for assistance.

After hearing this news, the British army immediately sent troops to rescue, of course, at this time, they will not come out of the nest, because, the British army believes that a small number of troops can solve the problem, but the people they sent out did not come back, and the answer they got was still the same, they were surrounded.

At this time, the British army was a little anxious, and they doubled the number of men and horses sent reinforcements, but the result was still the same, and they did not return.

The British were in a hurry.

At this very moment, the people who added fuel to the fire came again, and someone reported to the British army that the British army that was besieged was surrounded by an unknown army, which numbered no less than 200,000 people.

Hearing the news, the British army suddenly realized that the crux of the problem was, so they set out to rescue the besieged British army.

Because, no matter how arrogant the British army is, it will not be crazy enough to use a few teams of people to deal with an army of 200,000.

And as long as the British army is out of the customs, it will be easy to do.

It is not terrible to lose the British army with the obstacle, and in the case of numerical superiority, the Taiping army will have no problem dealing with the British army.

And what happened next, just as Tian Xiaoer and others thought, 20,000 British troops took the initiative to get into the pockets arranged by the Taiping military first.

The result was predictable, the British army was completely annihilated.

However, although the British army was destroyed, the Assam Pass was not broken, and it was still firmly in the hands of the Indian army, and this part of the Indian army guarding the pass was also the elite of the Indian army.

In this way, Tian Xiaoer and the others have nothing to lose for the time being, and they can only wait and see. (To be continued......)