Meanwhile, inside Fort William, inside the city of Kolkata.

The Viceroy of India, Canning, turned pale.

Just now, rumors began among the British soldiers in the city of Calcutta that the British army led by General Ross had fled in defeat and did not know where they went. The British army was indeed defeated, and more than a dozen British soldiers had already fled back to the city of Calcutta, not only that, but the Burmese army was about to attack the city of Calcutta, and now the people in the city were panicking, and many Indian nobles and European merchants were ready to flee from Calcutta.

Canning didn't believe that the mighty British army would be defeated, so he asked his assistant to interrogate the soldiers who had fled back, and was dumbfounded!

The British army led by Ross was really defeated, and it was completely defeated.

That's when something unexpected happened to Canning. A violent rebellion broke out in and around the city of Calcutta.

A man named Ahmed? The Islamic scholars of Shah, who had come to Calcutta from Lucknow, had been secretly encouraging the Muslims of Calcutta to rise up against the rule of the East India Company.

As soon as the news of the defeat of the British army led by Ross broke, the city of Calcutta fell into chaos. That evening, leaflets calling on Muslims to rise up against the British appeared. The leaflets read: "Everyone with one heart, drive out foreign invaders!" They have trampled on the minimum requirements of justice, taken away our faith and religion and are determined to destroy our Allah. The only way now is to break free from the tyranny of the alien race and wage a bloody holy war! ”

The next day, five or six thousand Muslims in the city of Calcutta began to set fire to various places in the city, storming William's Castle and the police station, and also set fire to the shops, taverns and factories opened by the British.

With the cooperation of the Muslims in the city, the Muslim rebels soon occupied the gates of Kolkata and broke the city.

The Indian governor Canning gathered the few British troops in the city, all of whom were stationed at Fort William, while calling for help. But he knew that Calcutta was finished.

Muslim jihad erupted with great destructive power. Muslims have always been the target of the East India Company's attacks and oppression. In the eyes of these Muslims, the defeat of the Mughal dynasty by the British, the crushing of the Muslim regime, and the promotion of Christianity everywhere, not allowing Muslims to live according to Sharia law, in a vain attempt to turn the land of Indian states into Christian areas, made these Muslims very angry, and they had to drive the British out of the country through jihad to establish the territory of the Islamic state.

Therefore, the main force of this great uprising in the Indian states was the Muslims everywhere. The area around Kolkata is the capital of the Bengal region, and it is a gathering of hundreds of thousands of Muslims, and the rebellion is even more powerful, so in less than two days, the entire city of Kolkata has been occupied by Muslims, and even Fort William, where the Indian Governor Canning sits, was also captured by the Muslims who did not care about life and death, Fort William, the castle named after King William III of England next to the river, was reduced to ashes in the two hundred years as a landmark of the East India Company's notification to India.

The warships led by Ross, who had retreated to Calcutta after retreat, passed by the river and rescued the remaining 1,000 British troops in Fort William by the river. And the Viceroy of India, Canning, was fortunate to be saved.

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Standing on the warship, the Indian governor Canning, looked at the thick smoke rising from the city of Calcutta, and lamented in his heart. He knew that it was all the factories and warehouses in the city of Kolkata, which had been burned down by the crazy Muslims.

In just a few days, it was like a nightmare!

Calcutta, the headquarters of the British East India Company and the seat of its own satrapy, was thus occupied by the rebels. Moreover, he, the plenipotentiary governor of the East India Company, was powerless and could only escape with the help of warships. It must be said that this is a great irony.

Kolkata was originally heavily guarded, and it would never have been lost because of these Muslim rebellions, all because of the Burmese army, damn it, if they hadn't come to attack Bengal at this time, or even beyond Calcutta, how could this happen!

The point is that having lost Calcutta, an important city that had been in business for one hundred and sixty or seventy years, Canning did not know how he would return to London and how he would face the directors of the East India Company! You must know that Calcutta is the headquarters of the East India Company, and the company dividends and all kinds of trade goods that will be shipped to London in the future this year are stored in the warehouses of the East India Company, and they have not had time to be delivered.

Especially those smoke and dirt! Canning didn't dare to think about it anymore.

Half of the East India Company's trading business came from the tobacco business in Bengal. In addition to the smoke in Bengal, which is concentrated in Dhaka and Chittagong, most of the rest is concentrated in warehouses near the port of Kolkata.

If it was in previous years, it would have been forgotten, but in the past two years, due to the rise of rebels in the Far East, a large amount of tobacco soil could not be imported into the East as usual, and a large amount of hoarded tobacco soil was piled up in warehouses. With the fall of Calcutta, all this smoke will be lost. This is a huge fortune, and if this tobacco is lost, the East India Company, which has been losing a lot of money, will surely go bankrupt! And this guilt, according to the faces of the ugly people in London, will definitely put the blame on their own heads, although the Canning family is also the majority shareholder of the East India Company, but they cannot afford to compensate for this huge loss. It's over, it's really over, this time not only disgraced his father, who had been prime minister, but also blackened the entire Canning family.

For General Ross in front of him, Canning is both loved and hated. What he hated was that if he hadn't proposed to lead his troops to the battle, he wouldn't have fallen into such a field, and Calcutta wouldn't have been lost so easily, and what he loved was that he still led the warship to the port of Calcutta, and led the troops to break into Fort William to save himself on the warship, if it weren't for him, he would have been captured by those crazy Muslims.

I don't want to think so much, so I will flee to Madras first, where there are more than 10,000 British soldiers and some warships, and now only there is the safest.

Canning made up his mind, closed his eyes, and prepared to recuperate. At this moment, a huge killing cry suddenly erupted from the east of the city of Kolkata in the distance.

"What's going on?" Canning asked.

"Mr. Governor, I'll show the lookouts on the warship!" Rose, who was next to him, hurriedly replied, while gesturing to the lookout on the mast of the warship to look.

Soon, the lookout came with the news of what he had seen.

"Mr. Governor, it's the rebels of Calcutta, fighting each other! The Muslims defending the city were obviously outnumbered, and the rebels outside the city broke through the city, and it should be the Burmese army from the east who attacked Calcutta! ”

"The Burmese army came so fast? Even those crazy Muslims can't resist the fact that the city has been breached so quickly? Canning smiled wryly, feeling that he had been kicked out of Calcutta, and that he was not wronged. Even if Kolkata is not captured by these Muslim rebels, it will be captured by the Burmese army. Thinking about it this way, there is a lot of balance in my heart.

"Just let these two rebels eat dogs!" Canning muttered, "It's better to rush to Madras first, dispatch the troops there, and when they are almost done, then find a chance to regain Calcutta!" ”

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News of the fall of Bengal and the capture of Kolkata by rebels soon spread throughout the Indian states.

Originally by Thomas. The city of Delhi was captured by 20,000 British troops led by Major General Lead and Colonel Wilson, and nearly 30,000 native Indian soldiers surrendered, and began a rebellion under the leadership of the religious leader. Although this group of Wall Leaders was quickly suppressed by more than 20,000 British troops, it caused the original 20,000 British troops in Derry City to only 15,000. Of these, only 8,000 were native British soldiers, and the remaining 7,000 were indigenous soldiers of the Euhambarak dynasty and the Gurkha dynasty in northern India. And for the rest of the surrender of nearly 20,000 indigenous soldiers of the Bengal region, because there have been two rebellions, Thomas. Major General Li De disbanded them all and did not dare to use them anymore.

And the Punjab region, Summit. Kumar. The Sikh Kingdom of Punjab established by Singh also expanded its power to most of Punjab, and the Sikh tribe under his command expanded to nearly 100,000 people. Summit. Kumar. Singh not only proclaimed himself the king of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab, but also called himself the Sikh Maharaja of Sikhism, restored the glory of Sikhism, and ordered the unity of Hinduism and Islam in the Punjab region, and the elimination of Christians and foreigners. Suddenly, a massacre of Europeans, especially the British, began, the British fled in Punjab, and the East India Company's shops, factories and mines in Punjab were confiscated by the Sikh Kingdom of Punjab. And, not only that, the Sikh Kingdom of Punjab also organized its forces and sent invitations to the princely chiefs and local rebel leaders of several neighboring states, ready to join other rebels to attack Delhi and defeat the British completely!

The other Jhansi queen Lakshmi. Bayi grew the Chhansi rebel army to 50,000 horses, and led the Chhansi army to capture Gwalior, and then continued to march to the north around Arag, aiming directly at Delhi.