Chapter 527: The Great Revolt of the Indian People

The Indian people's uprising against the colonizers did not make Emperor Yang wait long, but it was not in Mumbai, but in Chittagong, Bangladesh, which was not the result of his behind-the-scenes directing, it was a complete emergency.

Because of the war in Indonesia, the British had to recruit a large number of local soldiers in India, so far the three who have been put into the Indonesian battlefield have exceeded 300,000, because of financial constraints, plus they are just a group of cannon fodder, the British Indian colonial government can naturally save money on the treatment of these guys, including the same in equipment, and now the Ah San who are used in the Indonesian battlefield are not able to catch up with those Indonesian monkeys in terms of equipment, the latter has sufficient Chinese weapons.

The casualties in the battle were increasing day by day, the conquest of those hot jungles was becoming more and more remote, and because of the fighting ability, most of the British in India conscripted Muslim soldiers, these soldiers were of the same faith as the Indonesian monkeys, and the situation of oppression by the colonizers was similar, and it was inevitable that they were also very sympathetic, and the war weariness was already very strict.

Just a month after Yang Feng's campaign against India began, a group of Assan, who had assembled in Chittagong to be sent to Sumatra to be cannon fodder, finally broke out when their British commander publicly executed more than 20 deserters who were unwilling to massacre their Indonesian Muslim brothers because of their beliefs. Led by the overwhelming majority of Muslim soldiers, the brigade of Ah San mutinied and quickly took control of Chittagong, slaughtering almost all the British in the city, both officials and civilians, and taking them to the seashore to shoot targets, including hundreds of old and weak women and children.

This atrocity completely angered the British Governor-General in India, Lord Curzon, and the commander of the Indian Army, Lord Kitchener, who immediately transferred a battalion of British troops and a division of Indian troops from Dhaka to suppress them, and at the same time transferred a dozen river gunboats directly to bombard Chittagong.

But it is clear that they underestimated the fighting power of these Muslim soldiers, and more importantly, there was an important arsenal in Chittagong, and after obtaining this arsenal, the mutinous Asanmen quickly armed thousands of men, so that the total strength soared to the division level. In addition, a dozen 105-mm light cannons were obtained, which gave them a weapon against the British gunboats.

After hearing the news of the arrival of the British gunboats from the fishermen who reported the news, the fellows were very clever enough to hide their cannons in the woods by the Gornopuri River, and suddenly attacked them from the flank as the British gunboats sailed down the river to Chittagong.

The British, caught off guard, were suddenly thrown into disarray, and soon the front gunboat sank in the channel with flames, and the remaining gunboats stumbled to evade between the columns of water where the shells exploded, and soon the last one was sunk, while the rebel mortars were firing at the river. There were even fireboats that were lowered from upstream, and although they were useless, the blazing fire and billowing smoke greatly interfered with the counterattack of the British gunboats.

The chaotic battle took half an hour to end, and although several rebel cannons were destroyed, the British lost four gunboats and had to retreat back to sea.

Fortunately, the Anglo-Indian army in Dhaka arrived and launched an attack on Chittagong, but the result was a disastrous defeat, and the Asan-soldiers who had been pulled by the British to quell the rebellion were not willing to fight at all, and charged up and dragged on. As soon as the gunfire rang out from the opposite side, he immediately turned around and ran, no matter how the British soldiers who supervised the war urged, intimidated and whipped, they did not waver, and even shot at the British soldiers in a hurry, and this counterinsurgency battle was stalemate around Chittagong.

The Chittagong mutiny quickly shocked all of India. The radicals of Tilak and the Congress Party, who had been hesitant, immediately saw the hope of freedom in India, and after receiving arms secretly smuggled by Chinese merchants, the Pune workers organized by them staged a large-scale bao. Because of the war against Indonesia. The British had evacuated all the garrisons in the western part of the Indian peninsula, not to mention the British, not even the Indian army. There were only the police and the colonial officials, and although the workers had little military training, their opponents were also incapacitated, and soon the rebels took control of Pune, and then openly shouted the slogan of the Indian Rebellion, and formed the Indian People's Liberation Army (BLA) to march to Bombay.

At this time, Curzon and Kitchener's heads were almost big, and Bombay could never be fine, it was the main area of British immigrants, and if these rebels and the rebels in Chittagong were one virtue, it would turn into a horrific tragedy, but by this time it was too late to transfer troops, and under the orders of the Governor, the British expatriates in Bombay opened their arsenals and armed themselves to defend Mumbai.

Immediately after that, the two sides started a pure battle in the north of Mumbai, but just as they were fighting fiercely outside the city, the Asan men in the city of Mumbai rebelled, and there were also a large number of Indian free warriors here. Although there were no guns, there was no shortage of machetes, iron rods, and the like, and if the Pune riot led by Tilak was organized, there was no organization in the city of Mumbai.

No organization means no order, especially in a city where all the British immigrants who can fight are fighting outside the city, and the wives and children they left in the city are unlucky, at first there was only a riot against the Indian compatriots, after all, the British are still difficult to erase at once, but soon the people who wielded machetes and iron rods and wreaked havoc under the slogan of freedom found that those white people who were once high above the sky and could even be whipped at the slightest glance are now nothing more than a group of shivering, waiting for the lamb to be treated as they please.

After understanding this, Bombay immediately became a hell for white people, and the inferior nature of the inferior people of the Asan people immediately began to be fully displayed.

The British militiamen who were blocking the Indian People's Liberation Army in the north of Mumbai, saw the fires burning everywhere in the city of Mumbai, and they didn't know what was going on behind them, although they were a little unbelievable to the courage of the Asan, but these militiamen immediately panicked, knowing that their families were in Mumbai, at this time they couldn't care about blocking the enemy in front of them, anyway, now that they are under the enemy, it is impossible to hold Mumbai, so it is better to go back and rescue their wives and children and escape.

In this way, the British militia on the outer defense line collapsed in a very short time, and fled back to Bombay one by one with guns in a hurry, and after entering the city, the streets of those wanton slaughter and robbery of the Asan and the corpses of their compatriots who were killed everywhere, and the ladies and noblewomen who were lying in the mud and were tortured to death made them lose their minds at once, and with a vengeful rage, the British began to start street battles with those Bao people. Of course, there are also smart people who fled to Vasai after finding their families, in fact, the whole of Mumbai has been completely disrupted at this time, not to mention the whites and the Assan, even those Asan have begun to take revenge on each other, and even the Indian Liberation Army that then marched into the city began to be attacked by them in order to maintain their image and stop those people from wreaking havoc.

Tilak, who entered the city with a look of triumphant joy, was simply stunned by the scene in front of him, he never imagined that the new India of freedom and democracy in his dream would actually be opened in such a way, but fortunately, this chaos would eventually subside, and by the next morning, Mumbai had roughly restored order, and no one knew how many people died and how many property were looted on that crazy night, anyway, this originally prosperous city was already devastated, It looks like Tokyo, Japan, which was ravaged by the Eight-Nation Alliance.

Curzon and Kitchener were no longer angry at the massacre in Mumbai, they now felt a deep fear, and it was clear that the pugs of the past, once they went crazy, could bite people to death, and His Excellency, the Governor, who was frightened by the ferocity of the Asan, reported to London and asked for some pacification measures, while he began to send troops back from Indonesia.

At this time, the battlefield in Indonesia is no longer important, compared with the security of India, the oil fields there can only be put first, of course, you can't transfer those A-San soldiers, and it may be more troublesome to transfer these guys back, in case those hundreds of thousands of people mutiny together, then the general trend is really gone, not only can they not be transferred back, but they must also be encircled in distant Indonesia.

His Excellency the Governor had drawn Japanese mercenaries who were absolutely impossible to help the rebels, and the British had hired at least 50,000 mercenaries from Japan during this time, and these mercenaries were the main force they fought in Indonesia, and the obedient, willing to work hard, and the Japanese who could feed themselves were now the favorite of the British officers.

However, just as they were withdrawing from Indonesia, there was also a mutiny in Calcutta, which was small and quickly suppressed, but it was already a sign of a storm.

The rebels who occupied Mumbai could not wait to form the government of the Republic of India, and elected Tilak as the interim president, and then issued a slogan to the whole country to expel the colonizers and establish an Indian India, and in a very short time the whole of Maharashtra echoed, and the people killed the British colonists one after another and raised the banner of the Republic of India.

At the same time, the Indian army attacking outside Chittagong learned of the establishment of the Republic of India, and immediately after learning of the establishment of the Republic of India, there was also a large-scale mutiny, and in cooperation with the rebels, they eliminated the British army of that battalion, and then marched towards Dhaka in one place. At this time, there were no more troops in Dhaka, and these Indian troops were not the patchwork rabble of Tirak, they were all regular troops with training, and it was a joke to expect a group of militia to block it, and in order to avoid a tragedy like Mumbai's again, Curzon and Kitchener had to order all the British in Dhaka and even all the surrounding cities to withdraw to Calcutta, where they could still control the situation. (To be continued......)