Chapter 1131: Principality

Kolkata.

When the Western Land was in fear because of the war in India.

Qin Shan and Guan Tong welcomed the armies of the princely kings.

According to the order of Emperor Zhao Xu, they did not choose to defeat them one by one, but quietly waited for their arrival in Kolkata.

Because, he wanted to announce to the whole of India through this war that the era of British rule over India was over.

In the future, India will be taken over by Dasong.

"What a mob, I can't bear to do it, it seems that we are too bullying.." In the vast fields outside Kolkata.

The 60,000 Dasong troops were confronting the huge coalition of princely states.

Looking at the princely soldiers, Guan Tong was a little amused.

Qin Shan couldn't help laughing.

They first occupied Kolkata not only because it was the location of the British Governor's Office.

Another reason was that it was the industrial center of Britain in India.

All the factories built by Britain in India were in this city.

Including Britain's musket and artillery factories.

After taking this place, no princely state can use the factories here to obtain muskets and artillery.

At the same time, since Britain came to India for colonization.

So it only armed a princely state in the Calcutta area and used this princely state to help them rule many other princely states.

Therefore, most of the Indian princely states are in a very primitive stage, even worse than the former feudal system of Dasong.

Therefore, their army is naturally not much better.

Now, Qin Shan and Guan Tong are facing the princely state coalition that has always been more backward than the former feudal army of Dasong.

They only have thousands of flintlock rifles, most of them wear worn-out armor, and hold swords, shields and bows and arrows.

The only thing that is shocking is their number and many elephant soldiers.

After arriving in Calcutta, as many as 600,000 princely state soldiers surrounded Calcutta on all sides.

It seems that the purpose is to cut off all supplies to Calcutta and let the Dasong army collapse without a fight.

Faced with this situation, Qin Shan and Guan Tong chose to go out of the city to fight.

Although it was 60,000 to 600,000, the advantage was on the Dasong army.

"It's hard to bear, but when we fight, we must make the soldiers kill. Only once we scare the princely kings, can we avoid more trouble in the future." Qin Shan said to Guan Tong.

As the saying goes, a merciful man cannot command an army. A general who can't be ruthless at a critical moment is not worthy of being a general.

He knew that Guan Tong was just joking just now, and he was actually ready to kill in his heart.

Moreover, they also fought this battle for the Indians in Calcutta to see.

After understanding it for a period of time, they found that India was a strange place.

There is something called caste here.

According to the level, it is divided into four levels: Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra.

Among them, Kshatriya is the highest and Shudra is the lowest.

This caste is equivalent to aristocracy in India.

And the Indians below the four castes are called untouchables.

That is, untouchables.

However, this is not the strangest thing. What shocked them the most is that the Indians do not have the spirit of emperors and generals, but rather have the spirit of the species.

The lower castes have never revolted against the rule of the upper castes, and are willing to be their servants.

Britain may have taken advantage of this feature, so it actively wooed these high castes.

When they invaded Kolkata, they found that there were many high-caste Indians in Kolkata.

At this moment, they were also watching the battle.

For this reason, Qin Shan also intended to give them a warning.

Let these high-caste Indians see the horror of the Dasong army, so that they will serve them honestly.

Once the high-caste Indians serve Dasong as they serve the British, the lower-caste Indians can only submit to Dasong honestly.

"That's for sure. What I can do for them is to send them to heaven." Guan Tong grinned.

After saying that, he rode his horse to the south.

He and Qin Shan were responsible for one direction each.

At the same time.

Seeing that the Dasong army was out of the city and lined up, the princely kings communicated and decided to attack the Dasong army.

Soon, the formation of the army of the four states changed, and the catapults were exposed and pushed to a position 400 meters away from the Dasong army.

Then, elephants carrying soldiers appeared in front of the team.

The tusks of these elephants were all tied with sharp knives.

It would be very dangerous if the elephants rushed into the team.

On the side of the Dasong army.

The soldiers lined up according to the order and arranged in a tight large horizontal line along the city wall.

Each horizontal line had three rows, and the soldiers were shoulder to shoulder.

The soldiers in the front row lay down, the soldiers in the second row half-crouched, and the third row stood up.

All the Qin-style rifles in their hands were aimed at the Indian soldiers 300 meters away.

To deal with such a dense cold weapon army, a tight array is the most appropriate.

And in the intervals of the horizontal line, there is a machine gun team.

They also loaded bullets and waited for orders.

The artillery built positions in the city of Kolkata.

There were soldiers on the city wall looking out with telescopes, specifically providing them with artillery coordinates.

Both sides were ready.

At this time, Qin Shan noticed that the Indian catapults began to move, and immediately ordered artillery fire.

"Boom boom boom..."

Instantly, bursts of roars came from the direction of Calcutta, like thunder in the sky.

Drawing a perfect curve in the sky, the shells immediately exploded in the Indian army.

In particular, the location of the Tianzhu catapult has received special attention.

In an instant, Tianzhu soldiers were blown away by the shell shock wave, and more soldiers were killed by flying shrapnel.

The catapult affected by the shell immediately fell into pieces.

"Da da da……"

"Bang bang bang..."

Just as artillery bombarded the Tubang army, the sound of Qin-style rifles and machine guns rang out.

The Tianzhu soldiers on the front fell like wheat harvested by a sickle.

There were heavy casualties in a short period of time.

These soldiers who came from afar had mostly encountered old-fashioned flintlock rifles, but they had never seen such ferocious firepower.

Seeing their companions dying at an alarming speed, fear immediately took over their bodies, and they turned around and ran away.

The majestic elephants, frightened by the loud noise, also began to run away, trampling on the soldiers of the princes, exacerbating the chaos.

"Lancers attack!"

Qinshan seemed to have expected the collapse of the Tubang army, and calmly issued orders one after another.

In his view, the Tianzhu caste system maintains the stability of Tianzhu society.

But it has a fatal feature.

That is, the officers in the Tianzhu army are often from the four major castes, but the soldiers are mostly composed of untouchables.

These untouchables are servants of the four major castes, but the untouchables have no loyalty to the upper-caste nobles.

Especially the soldiers from the feudal states, they fought with the upper caste nobles holding their necks.

Therefore, once the war fails, they will be defeated very quickly.

While Qin Shan was thinking, the Lancers were already attacking from all directions.

The saber was raised, harvesting the lives of Tianzhu soldiers one after another.

The Tianzhu nobles watching the battle on the city wall felt chills in their hearts.

I finally understood that the Dasong people were more vicious than the Britons and could not resist!