On this day, General Rus, who was in charge of the defense of the city of Calcutta, reported to Canning that the Burmese army, which was less than fifty miles from Calcutta, had stopped advancing.

Half a day later, General Ross again reported that the 5,000 British troops from Patna and Ranchi had arrived at the mouth of the South River in Calcutta, and that Major General Henry, commander of the Bengal Corps, who had been ordered to attack Burma, also led 20 warships from Lower Burma to the docks outside Calcutta.

Canning was overjoyed. Only then did he feel safe. Now that tens of thousands of reinforcements have arrived, plus the 12,000 troops in the original city, the total number of people is 23,000, and they are no longer afraid of the 40,000 or 50,000 Burmese troops.

General Rus suggested that 7,000 troops should be left to defend the city, and 6,000 troops should be sent to the east along the estuary of the river under the cover of warships, looking for an opportunity to attack the Burmese army, and he personally led 10,000 artillery infantry cavalry to cross the Ganges directly and attack Dhaka.

Canning was worried that leaving only 7,000 troops would lead to a shortage of troops in Calcutta, but General Ross was full of confidence that 7,000 troops could hold Kolkata for at least ten days, which was enough time for other reinforcements to arrive, and that these 16,000 troops would be enough to defeat the 450,000 Burmese indigenous troops, and then take advantage of the situation to recover Dhaka and Chittagong in East Bengal, and annihilate the Burmese army in Bengal, so that it could not return to BurmaMoreover, if the main forces of Myanmar are wiped out, the whole of Myanmar can be occupied.

Although Canning was a little worried, the military affairs were left to Ross. So, he agreed with Ross's suggestion and sent troops to take the initiative, after all, the Burmese army actually stopped advancing, that is, they knew that reinforcements from Calcutta had arrived and did not dare to attack again. This shows that they are afraid, in this case, anyway, to recover Dhaka and other East Bengal regions, send troops to take the initiative to attack, the British Empire has never been afraid of this group of indigenous soldiers.

Of course, the most important thing is that the soldiers of Great Britain and the Crimea will soon arrive in India.

The British army was divided into two lines. Attacking from the sea by water, led by Rear Admiral Henry, there were a total of 6,000 troops, including 2,000 in the navy and 4,000 in the infantry. The land route was personally led by General Rus, about 8,000 soldiers, and more than 2,000 logistics and transport auxiliaries. Among the 8,000 soldiers, it consisted of 15 Bengal infantry regiments, 3 Bengal cavalry regiments and 4 horse-drawn artillery batteries, with a total of 42 cannons, 1,400 cavalry and 5,800 infantry.

Ross sent a large number of reconnaissance cavalry to reconnoiter around, and soon, the news came: the main force of the Burmese army stationed in Magula, 30,000 people, probably learned that the British reinforcements had arrived, and after stopping the march for a while, they actually took the initiative to retreat, abandoned the village of Magula, which had just been occupied, and was preparing to cross the river and retreat to the direction of Dhaka. And, Ross received a message that made him feel excited, the forward force of the Burmese army, a total of 18,000 people, for some reason, lost contact with the main force of the Burmese army behind him, and ventured into the vicinity of Jessore village. Moreover, the scouting cavalry observed from a distance with telescopes, and although the Burmese soldiers were much stronger and taller than the Burmese soldiers they had seen before, some of them only carried swords and spears, which made Ross overjoyed.

This Burmese forward force is so aggressive, and the weapons are so backward, it is really a perfect opportunity to annihilate the other side. He immediately ordered the naval warships to immediately sail into the Ganges River, shell the retreating main Burmese army if they had the opportunity, and hold the Ganges River if they did not have the opportunity, so that the main force of the Burmese army could not cross the river to rescue, and then the rest of the infantry artillery will defeat all the Burmese army forwards in the village of Jessor. At that time, the entire Burmese army will have less than 30,000 people, and it will be better to clean up.

Ross was confident that he would completely wipe out the 18,000-strong Burmese army forward. The 8,000 infantry artillery coalition led by him, plus the 4,000 infantry led by Major General Henry, in addition to the 42 Malaganon guns, rifles, not only have 8,000 brown bass firing smoothbore guns, but also nearly 2,000 newly produced 1853 Enfield single-shot front-loading rifled rifle guns, especially this new front-loading rifled rifle rifle gun has a much higher range and accuracy than the firing smoothbore gun, and the most important thing is that because of the rear loading filling, the rate of fire is much higher than that of the old brown bass firing rifle rifle, It can fire more than 5 rounds per minute, almost twice as many as front-loading smoothbore guns, and played well in the newly won Crimean War.

Such a powerful weapon, combined with the consistently good discipline and training of the British army, even a small half of them were loyal Bengali mercenaries, enough to wipe out the backward indigenous Burmese monkeys!

Ross could have expected victory two days later.

On the morning of the next day, the British army formed a fan from the west, southwest and south to encircle the entire village of Jessore, and tens of thousands of British infantry and artillery were stretched into a battle line several kilometers long, with 700 cavalry galloping back and forth on each side, covering the two wings.

The weather was very hot, and the temperature was close to 40 degrees Celsius near noon, and the march was very difficult. As the British approached the village of Jessore, the battle began as they passed through a valley full of tall trees.

In the valley, gunfire rang out. The smoke from the fierce fire filled the entire river valley. The well-trained British found themselves attacked, and after a brief panic, they immediately ducked and began to return fire.

Although he could not see the enemy troops on the opposite side, he heard the direction and opened fire on the opposite side.

After a period of scramble, Marat's field guns were erected, nearly thirty of them opened fire, and howitzers landed on the hill above the river valley, and there were faint screams. So, Ross gave the order, at the expense of shells, to fire fiercely, and for a while, the shells rained down, and two or three thousand shells fell on the hill next to the river valley, and also caused a burst of mountain fires.

Slowly, the sound of enemy gunfire thinned out. Another burst of fire was fired, and in the afternoon, a gust of mountain wind blew the smoke away, and the scouts came to report that the forward troops of the Burmese army on the opposite side seemed to have been repulsed. The water in the valley is only knee-high and it is easy to cross.

Ross ordered Henry to lead 4,000 infantry as the vanguard, and together with 1,400 cavalry, cross the river in pursuit. He personally led the artillery and the remaining 5500 infantry main force to keep up.

The 1,400 cavalry was the first to cross the unknown river valley and reach the opposite mountain beam, which was the village of Jessor. And Major General Henry's 7 infantry regiments also quickly crossed the river valley.

At this moment, suddenly there was a loud roar from the upper reaches of the valley, like thunder. The two infantry regiments in the middle of the valley were stunned, only to see a monstrous river upstream, surging down.

"Not good! It was the cunning Burmese army that actually intercepted the river upstream and dammed it to release the flood, and wanted to drown us. Henry was frightened and hurriedly ordered the soldiers who had crossed the river to go ashore, but in the panic, where was there time?

Only a few hundred people rushed up to the banks before the raging river swept in, and the four or five hundred people in the middle of the valley were swept away by the rushing flood before they could run to the shore.

The valley, which used to be knee-high, has become a huge river that is difficult to cross.

And with the appearance of the flood, fierce shouts of killing sounded on the other side of the valley. In the originally silent mountain beams and forests, a large number of Burmese troops suddenly appeared, and with the sound of gunfire, they opened fire violently. More than 1,500 infantrymen who had just crossed the river on the opposite side of the river hurriedly took cover on the spot, and while returning fire, they retreated, but they were intercepted by the river and could not cross the river, so they could only shoot at the enemy head-on.

In the distance, there were also cannons and gunfires, and the mountain wind blew and brought bursts of neighing horses, presumably the 1,400 Bengali cavalry and the Burmese army also exchanged fire.

On the west bank of the valley, Henry was in a state of impatience and shouting, while ordering the immediate making of a raft and choosing a shallow place to cross the river to rescue the British troops on the other side of the valley; On the other hand, he ordered someone to report to General Ross. He only hoped that the 3,000 troops on the east bank of the valley would last for two hours, waiting for the arrival of the main British rescuers.