Other than that, Kunwar in Bihar? Singh and Amar? The uprising of the two Singh brothers also began to take on a grand scale. The two brothers led an army of 40,000 to capture the capital city of Patna, and drove several princes from the whole of Bihar from their territories and set themselves up as kings.

And Barreley's Buckard? Khan was assassinated by the British in Delhi, and his men fled to the other rebels. Tandia in the area of Kota and Gwalior? Toby led the rebels into submission to the Queen of Jhansi, further increasing the power of the Queen of Jhansi.

Kanpur's Nana? Sahib grew to 70,000 and led his troops to occupy the city of Lucknow. For a time, the power was second only to the Sikh kingdom of Punjab.

Suddenly, the entire northern part of India, except for the city of Delhi and a small number of surrounding areas still under the control of the British, the main cities in the rest of the region were occupied by the rebels, who mobilized the local Muslims and Hindus to set off an anti-British upsurge.

The princes and lords of these places changed their courts, abandoned the East India Company as a backer, and announced that they would join the ranks against the British, and contact the leaders of these rebels, preparing to win over or recruit these rebels in the name of the nobility.

Affected by the anti-British rebellion in the northern and central regions, the city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh in the south-central region, Mumbai, Sharapur, and Pune in the southwestern state of Maharashtra, and the city of Cochin in Merala Pradesh, all began to rebel, and the Muslims also began their holy war, burning British merchants and landlords who had defected to the British in the city, and some of the princely princes who had originally expressed their submission to the British also began to waver, although they did not rebel against the British in person, but with the strength of the rebels in the central and northern regions, Slowly alienated from the British.

Some other neutral princely princes have secretly negotiated with the rebels in the north-central region, and some have even openly declared that they will join the rebel alliance against the British.

Seeing that the whole of India, dozens of princely states, large and small, were all ready to move and were about to rebel in an all-out way, the rescue troops of the British Empire finally arrived.

The British arrived in three ways.

All the way was on land, the second group of mercenaries from Aiukhan (Afghanistan) and Gurkha (Nepal), with a total of less than 10,000 men, tentatively attacked the Punjab region, but when they saw the tens of thousands of troops of the Sikh Kingdom of Punjab, they could only retreat in embarrassment after a few battles and the loss of more than 1,000 people.

The other two are by sea. The western route was a part of the 40,000-strong army withdrawn from the garrison in the Persian region and the Crimean peninsula, and arrived in Mumbai via the Arabian Sea, where it was prepared to attack the queen of Chhansi in the center and the Punjab region in the north. The southern route was 40,000 troops from the British mainland, plus another 10,000 troops from the Cape Colony and the Australian colonies of Victoria, Queensland, Batavia and the Straits Settlements, a total of 50,000 troops, and arrived at Calcutta by warships and merchant ships through Madras.

The rebellion in the Indian colonies caught Britain by surprise. Originally, Britain was ready to take advantage of the good opportunity to defeat Russia in the Crimean War, and had already ordered to send half of the British troops of the Crimean Peninsula to the Duchy of Herat in Western Asia, preparing to occupy this important trade route and important strategic stronghold, and eventually colonize Persia (Iran) and Aiukhan and other places. There had already been several small engagements with Persia, and when they were about to attack on a large scale, the outbreak of the Indian rebellion forced the British to interrupt the plan to occupy the Duchy of Herat and invade Persia, and hastily concluded a peace treaty with Persia, promising not to invade Herat and the Persian region again, on the condition that Persia and Aiukhan assist the British army in quelling the Indian rebellion.

As a result, the more than 20,000 British troops originally assembled in Persia were able to escape and arrive in Bombay by ship from the Persian Gulf through Persia.

However, by the time 30,000 British troops arrived in Calcutta on warships, the entire city of Calcutta had been completely burned and destroyed, and turned into a scorched earth. Fort William, the symbol of the British colony here, has become a pile of bricks and tiles, and the Muslims hated the colonial city, the place where Western Christianity spread in the Bengal region, and demolished the whole of Calcutta to the point where only a few bricks and tiles remained, not even a single house.

Through the capture of some Muslim rebel leaders in the city, as well as some secret messages of spies left behind, the British army learned that shortly after Canning and their escape from the city of Calcutta, the Muslims had not yet secured the city of Calcutta, and the Burmese army in the east attacked the city, and in less than half a day, after shooting and killing more than 3,000 Muslims, they occupied the city.

It is not known what consensus the Burmese army leader reached with the Muslim rebel leader, who led the Bengali natives out of Calcutta. In two days, the entire Calcutta was sacked by the Burmese army, and when they finished withdrawing, they burned the entire Kolkata to the ground, and even the city walls were blown down, completely turning them into ruins.

Poor Kolkata, which took 200 years to build British, has returned to its former state in two days.

The British left some men to rebuild Calcutta, and some troops went to the periphery to quell the Bengali Muslim rebels, and the other part prepared to attack Bengal and retake Dhaka and Chittagong.

Aside from the fact that the British wanted to rebuild the port and suppress the rebellion, the captives led by Li Kaifang made huge gains.

Although the battle with the British army in the village of Jessore and other places, and the subsequent capture of Kolkata with the Burmese army, nearly 3,000 soldiers of the captives were killed, which can be described as huge losses, but the capture of Dhaka and Chittagong and other two large cities, the captured materials made the captives a lot of money, and slightly made up for the sorrow of the soldiers killed in the battle. And the occupation of Kolkata was a complete unexpected surprise, a big windfall.

At this moment, the army of captives withdrawn from Calcutta, driving more than 8,000 Muslim people from Bangladesh, transported a batch of goods and wealth looted from Calcutta to Dhaka with great difficulty, pulling nearly 1,000 carts with cattle, horses, mules and manpower.

However, despite the countless seizures, Li Kaifang in the middle of the team still had a solemn face. Behind him were dozens of vehicles carrying the ashes of thousands of soldiers who had been killed in battle. Li Kaifang originally planned to transport the bodies of the soldiers killed in the war back to Yunnan for burial, but when he thought of the thousands of miles of mountain roads, he didn't know when he would be transported, and the weather in Bangladesh was hot, so he had no choice but to tear down all the wooden beams that built the houses in the city of Calcutta, burn the sacrificed soldiers to ashes with a fire, and use pottery jars to transport them back to his hometown in the future.

A deputy chief of staff of the division ran over and reported: "Division commander, there are too many lists of materials seized in the city of Calcutta this time, what to do with it after arriving in Dhaka?" ”

Due to the hurry of time, after occupying Calcutta, the captives asked the soldiers to seize all the valuable materials in and around the city of Calcutta and load them away. At that time, it was too hasty to count what was, and it was not until this entered the territory of Dhaka that the inventory began, and perhaps the deputy chief of staff in charge of the inventory felt that there were too many seizures and a headache for transportation.

Li Kaifang only knew that a lot of seizures had been seized, but he really didn't know how much. So, he asked, "What are the things, and how many?" ”

The deputy chief of staff saluted and said with a happy face: "Division commander, after a few days of counting and counting, it is generally clear. The results are here. ”

Li Kaifang took a few densely written lists of seizures, and at a glance, he was stunned:

Gold and silver jewellery worth 1.2 million pounds and pounds sterling and silver dollars are 5.3 million yuan when converted into silver dollars.

More than 30,000 boxes of Bengali tobacco.

Even at the origin price of £80 per box, the value of the seized tobacco was £2.4 million, equivalent to 10 million silver dollars. In fact, this is not all the tobacco in the docks and the city of Kolkata, and nearly 10,000 boxes have been distributed by the Burmese army. There is no way, Li Kaifang can't keep it all for himself, he always has to give some sweetness to the other party. After all, their Burmese army killed more people in the war, and there are no trophies, so they can't explain it.

24,000 quintals of tea.

The antique cultural relics of the princes of Bengal also have several large cars, although these are the East India Company's leftovers, the best cultural relics and antiques have naturally been shipped to Britain as early as a hundred years ago, but this batch of things left behind is still valuable, do not look at any artistry, only look at the material, not the best emerald gemstones are made of pure gold, can it not be valuable?

Among the weapons specially captured, there were more than 3,000 single-shot front-loading rifled firing rifles from Enfield, 25,000 pre-loaded musket firing rifles of the Indian model, 70 artillery pieces of various sizes, 30,000 barrels of gunpowder, millions of cartridges of various types, and tens of thousands of shells. Of these, in addition to half of the weapons captured by the British in the battlefield, more than half, especially most of the bullets and gunpowder, were captured in three arsenals in and on the outskirts of Calcutta. It is strange that the Muslim rebels believed only in their scimitars and iron spears, and did not pry open the arsenal to seize the weapons, otherwise, the captives and the Burmese army, although they had 30,000 or 40,000 troops, would not have captured the city of Kolkata, which had just been occupied by the Muslims, in less than half a day.

Li Kaifang was not polite to these guns and gunpowder, and occupied them all, not giving them to the Burmese army at all, but the cannons that were difficult to transport away, were given to them.

Li Kaifang only glanced at some other Bangladeshi native products, such as pearls, jute, and sugar, and said directly: "These native products are difficult to transport, so they are all disposed of on the spot in Dhaka." 1.3 million yuan of these most valuable gold, silver, jewelry, and pounds and silver dollars were set aside for retention, and the remaining 4 million yuan was sent to send 5,000 soldiers and 3,000 people to transport them back to Yunnan by land through northern Burma! The rest of the tobacco and tea were personally transported to Yangon by me and the rest of the Bengali people, and weapons and other supplies were sent to Dawei City, in the southernmost part of Myanmar, in the Tanah Salin region! There, the king of Burma has promised that the entire Tanah sarin region will be ceded to our Chinese empire and become the first enclave overseas! With this wealth in order to build this territory! ”

"Yes!" The deputy chief of staff hurriedly responded, and he suddenly remembered something again, and asked: "Division commander, our army has retreated early, and the Burmese army, under the leadership of their prince Menghuo, is still looting property in several towns and villages on the outskirts of Calcutta. The small feared that British reinforcements would arrive and that they would suffer losses. ”

"Humph! These Burmese must be unwilling to see that we have captured a lot, and they have to make a lot of money on the way to withdraw their troops, and they are not greedy enough! Just send someone to remind them, and it can be regarded as the end of benevolence. Our army did not have to pay attention to so much, and gave orders to go down, speed up the march, and do not have to stop when they arrive in Dhaka, dispose of those sustenances, and rush to Yangon immediately. I estimate that this time the British should have sent a lot of reinforcements, and if they fight again, I am afraid that they will be seen, and our soldiers will not be able to afford to lose. Let's let them eat dog with those Muslim rebels! According to the original goal of our troops, we will first manage the Tanah sarin area in the southernmost part of Burma, and then slowly occupy the Malay Peninsula. ”

"Division commander, you said that Your Majesty is far away in Tianjing, oh, no, now it is called Shengjing, far away in Shengjing, and it is not more than thousands of miles away from this Myanmar, how can you be so clear about the situation here, so mastery of this side, and lay out such a strategy, the small one is really admired!" The deputy chief of staff sighed sincerely: "But what is the use of occupying this Malay Peninsula and its deserted forests? According to a small estimate, Your Majesty is planning in advance to guard against the British. ”

Li Kaifang's eyes widened, and he said: "We are all His Majesty's courtiers, just follow His Majesty's will, what do you want to do so much?" If we all knew about it, wouldn't we be as wise as Your Majesty? ”

However, after he finished his lesson, he frowned and asked curiously: "On guard against the British?" Let's talk about it, what does this Malay Peninsula have to do with guarding against the British? ”

The deputy chief of staff licked his face, he knew that the division commander was talking about him, and he must also want to know His Majesty's intentions, so he said mysteriously: "Division commander, you don't know something, you will understand it after you have seen the Western map!" As he spoke, he took a branch and rowed it on the sand, "Commander, look, this foreigner's warship and merchant ship will pass through this strait." The foreigners call this strait the Straits of Malacca, and the three places on the Malay Peninsula, Penang, Malacca, and Singapore, are all colonies occupied by the British, guarding this strait. If we occupy the Malay Peninsula, it will be convenient to control these three colonies. Once we go to war with the British, simply sending troops to capture these three colonies will be tantamount to controlling the strait in disguise, causing trouble for the British to send a large army to attack our homeland, and even blocking the route of the British army's sea advance, making it difficult for it to replenish. Small conjecture, this is His Majesty's purpose. ”

Li Kaifang suddenly realized, patted his head and exclaimed: "Not bad! You've done a good job! Most likely, this is the case! ”

He waved his hand excitedly and ordered: "Come on, quickly send someone to report the situation here to Your Majesty." It shouldn't be long before His Majesty's latest directives come down. ”