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Chapter 483 Break the city

Although the war in Kansas was brutal enough, a war of such intensity could not be discerned by Dong Shuheng.

It's just a battle involving tens of thousands of people.

In the end, the war in North America must be at least hundreds of thousands in scale. Dong Shuheng would not be willing to let the white people in North America lose millions.

Finally, it would be best to bring in the Avengers among the North American Indians to cause chaos in North America. That would be interesting!

At this time, East Bengal was also in a state of war.

Hundreds of thousands of troops have gathered outside Dhaka.

The Kingdom of Burma continues to add troops to the Bengal region, and now the total strength has reached 70,000.

After driving out the British, the Burmese kingdom was united as never before.

The nobles were willing to hand over their wealth to Li Shaoquan and let him operate to obtain more war supplies from China.

People spend money to build forces to help them fight wars.

When I arrived at Dong Shuheng's place, it became a job to make money. This is how Shi Da started his business.

Although these wealth were accumulated by the indigenous nobles of Indochina.

But it ended up going to the weapons factory of the Renaissance Army.

Finally, the Renaissance Army does not have to bear the bad reputation. Why not?

Although only weapons factories make money, weapons factories also have many upstream factories.

For example, making weapons requires steel, so the money will flow into part of the steel factory. For example, making guns requires wood, so the money will also flow into lumberyards and wood processing plants.

All real industries are interrelated. As long as the machine is running, wealth can be continuously created, increasing the total wealth of the entire society.

A large part of this year's economic growth of the Renaissance Army was contributed by the Taiping Army. After all, their five to six million people have not been engaged in production, but they have to consume a lot of materials.

Now there is another Burmese kingdom. Anyway, now the Burmese kingdom is doing various purchases based on the needs of the war.

Li Shaoquan is such a middleman. Being able to make Burmese people willingly spend money to buy things in China requires brains.

The weather this year is not as hot as in previous years. There is also much less rain.

This is obviously good news for the offensive side.

Shi Dakai's Taiping Holy Army also arrived here. This time Shi Dakai also brought some heavy artillery.

In order to transport these heavy artillery, Shi Dakai even used his own elephant soldiers.

"Mr. Governor, what should we do? There are hundreds of thousands of troops outside the city now."

Faced with this situation, Governor Ramsey could only feel helpless.

"General Brown, what else can we do? The local reinforcements and equipment have not arrived. We can no longer mobilize troops from the Indian rear. Compared with Dhaka, the Indian rear is more important to us."

"Yes, Your Majesty the Governor, then shall we just watch them attack here?" General Brown was obviously still a little unwilling.

"Otherwise, let Hilton arm the Bengalis in the city. These Bengalis have enmity with the Burmese, and they should not be willing to surrender to the Burmese," Ramsay said.

Ramsay's order quickly spread to Dhaka.

The general in charge of defending Dhaka is Hilton. Following Ramsay's order, Hilton organized more than 20,000 Bengalis in the city to coordinate the defense.

In fact, there were not many civilians in the city. Most of these organized people were servants of the Bengali nobles.

Naturally, the nobles would not go up to the city wall to defend the city themselves.

"Holy King, the Burmese have started attacking again. Galloya asked us how long it will take. They have obviously suffered a lot of casualties from attacking the city wall these days." A general under his command came to Shi Dakai and asked.

After Shi Dakai brought his people, Galloya couldn't help but start attacking.

The two sides initially engaged in an artillery duel.

Dhaka City does not have a moat, perhaps because of concerns about river water intrusion. Flooding here in Dhaka is more serious.

Two big rivers come together and flow into the sea from here.

This not only created fertile farmland in the Ganges alluvial plain, but at the same time caused the people here to suffer from floods.

This is a low-lying granule plain.

Floods are common here.

Therefore, Dhaka City has no moat.

This reduces a lot of trouble for the attacking troops.

The artillery battle lasted for a long time, and by the end, both sides' artillery had been lost.

After the artillery attack failed to work, Garoya continued to attack the city every day, causing heavy casualties to the army.

Originally, he planned to use those Bengalis as cannon fodder to consume the enemy's bullets at the front.

However, this plan was rejected by Shi Dakai, and it would not have much effect if these people were used as cannon fodder.

The defenders in the city did not worry about the consumption of ammunition at all, because they could already communicate with the outside world through the docks on the riverside.

Letting these Bengali civilians be used as cannon fodder will only make the Bengalis in the city even more sympathetic to the enemy.

Shi Dakai asked all these people to leave. They were arranged by Shi Dakai to dig tunnels.

These Bangladeshi civilians are indeed good at work.

In order to prevent people in the city from discovering it, Shi Dakai needed to start digging from a distance, so the amount of work increased a lot.

First, he built a large camp one kilometer away from the city wall, which was surrounded by tall wooden fences.

The entrance to the tunnel is located in this camp.

These Bengalis were assigned to dig this extra long tunnel here.

Because of the hot weather, the work of digging tunnels was very difficult. Some people even died of heat stroke while digging tunnels. People had to be divided into several teams and take turns going down the tunnels.

There's no better way to do the job than with these Bengalis.

As long as their families are detained, those strong men will have to work obediently.

Of course, the Holy Army also contributed to the siege.

Otherwise, the defenders in the city would definitely wonder what the Holy Army was doing.

In tunnel siege, concealment is very important.

Shi Dakai was reluctant to use the Holy Army to climb the city wall. Their main task was to provide long-distance cover under the city.

Because the Holy Army has many rifled guns and their own artillery, they can provide long-distance fire support to the Burmese army.

"Tell King Galloya to hold on for a few days and we will be fine here soon," Shi Dakai said.

The city wall of Dhaka is so strong that it cannot be blasted open with artillery.

Moreover, there are artillery in the city, which can be used to bombard enemy artillery on the city wall, which Myanmar cannot afford.

Dhaka can also obtain supplies through the river, and it is not blocked.

Although Ramsay did not have more troops on the ship to send support, he had been continuously transfusing supplies into the city of Dhaka.

People in Dhaka can also leave the city through the city gate along the river side.

As soon as Shi Dakai saw the city of Dhaka, he knew that it was not easy to attack.

In addition, he saw that there was no moat outside the city, so he determined the siege method of digging tunnels and blowing up the city walls. This method was an old method used by the Taiping Army.

But the British here in Dhaka may not be familiar with such tactics.

The Burmese had never used such tactics before.

Therefore, this tactic can be used to deceive others and hide the troops defending the city.

If the other party knows in advance, there is still a way to resolve it in advance.

So Shi Dakai discussed with Galloya that the Burmese army would be responsible for attacking the city and diverting the enemy's attention, giving the Holy Army time to dig tunnels.

The Holy Army dug tunnels and finally broke through the city wall. The two armies entered the city through the broken wall.

Although in this siege arrangement, the Holy Army has to make certain advantages.

But who said that the final city would be returned to Galloya? The Holy Army was originally invited by Galloya to help.

In a three-story castle building in the city, General Hilton is presiding over a military meeting to defend the city.

"Gentlemen, in order to prevent the Indian rear from being empty, the Governor-General has no more reinforcements to send to us. Now, together with the more than 20,000 young Bengalis who have just been recruited, we have a total of 50,000 defenders available here. Compared with the number of the enemy

It's one to two. Coupled with our strong walls and continuous artillery supply, I think this city can still be defended."

"Colonel Jack Sparrow, you must organize and train these young Bengalis as soon as possible so that they can form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. We now have a large number of weapons in reserve in the city. Someone must use them, otherwise it will be too wasteful." General Hilton ordered.

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"Yes, Your Excellency General. But there is one thing I need to tell you. Most of the 20,000 people recruited this time are slaves of the nobles. I think they may not have the determination to defend the city. You know that the civilians were blocked at the beginning.

He didn't come in after leaving the city." Colonel Sparrow said. He was obviously very dissatisfied with the arrangement for him to train these low-level Bengali slaves.

"Colonel Sparrow, it doesn't matter. As long as our artillery can keep supplying, the Burmese and rebels outside the city won't be able to invade. So the 20,000 people you have in hand may not necessarily be of use.

." General Hilton said with a smile.

Judging from the enemy's recent siege situation, these people can only rely on their numerical advantage to attack the city through ladders.

As long as the artillery on top of the city remains, the enemy's plan to rely on artillery to breach the city wall cannot be realized.

However, there are a large number of firearms in the city, and there is no shortage of weapons and ammunition.

Therefore, the enemy's human sea tactics will definitely not be able to sustain it in the end. How many troops can they have to support such consumption?

Outside Dhaka, in the camp of the Holy Army.

"Luo Fei, go and arrange the explosives yourself."

"Yes, Holy King, don't worry. If the city wall cannot be blown down, I, Luo Fei, will come to see you."

"Go quickly, don't be disgusted with me here, you think you are Xingtian, and you still come to see me with your head raised."

Luo Fei is the old man next to Shi Dakai and now serves in the artillery.

This man liked to play with explosives the most. During the Taiping Rebellion, he had been in charge of planting explosives, and he blew down countless city walls.

As we all know, the Taiping Army was accustomed to using explosives to blow down the city walls and then breach the city. They even invented a double-layer burial method to ensure that the entire city wall would be blown down.

Practice makes perfect in everything.

"Assemble the troops and prepare to attack the city."

"Guo Xing, after the city wall collapses, you take the soldiers from the front camp of your Xuanwu Legion and rush into the city first. Your mission is to firmly control the gap and prevent the collapsed gap from being taken by the enemy.

"

"Yes, Holy King." Guo Xing replied, cupping his fists.

Guo Xing was Shi Dakai's former personal guard with a fierce fighting style. Later, after the Holy Army was reorganized, Shi Dakai placed him in the front camp of the Xuanwu Legion as a camp commander.

Shi Dakai made arrangements for other follow-up troops.

In addition, they also sent people to inform Garoya that when Shida entered the city, he would seize the east gate.

At that time, the Burmese army can enter through the east gate.

When the time comes for a melee in the city, the British army will be worried about their own people in the city, so they will not be able to use naval guns to bombard them at will.

"Tell your men that after entering the city, we will only rob financial resources. Do not kill unless necessary. Killing more will only increase the hatred of the Bengalis towards us." Shi Dakai ordered the generals.

"If the Burmese want to massacre the city, let us ignore it. We will only take away the finances and withdraw from the city."

Shi Dakai did not want to attract hatred from Bengalis.

Bangladesh is a densely populated area in South Asia. There are a large number of Bengalis here. If these people are angered, the Holy Army will not have a hard time here.

But there is a feud between the Burmese and the Bengalis. They are very likely to massacre the Bengalis.

Shi Dakai is a holy king, but he is not a saint. He will not care what others do.

"Okay, let's take action on our own!" Shi Dakai finally said.

In the first ten days of this battle, the Holy Army went to the city to fight.

Fire guns and cannons from a distance at the top of the city to provide cover for the Burmese army's attack.

In fact, one of the most important things they did was dig tunnels.

Digging tunnels here in Dhaka is not an easy task. The weather here is hot and the ventilation conditions in the tunnels are poor.

The workers couldn't stand digging inside for a while, so they had to keep rotating.

Also, if you want to dig such a long tunnel, you must control the direction well.

Many people in the Taiping Army were originally miners, and only they mastered this craft.

In addition, it is close to a large river and the altitude is very low, so water easily accumulates underground and drainage work needs to be done well.

Explosives must be moisture-proof and waterproof.

After so many days, everything was finally ready.

Shi Dakai was a little worried and sent someone to take a look inside the tunnel.

The detonation work was carried out in the evening. The cover of darkness could be used to prevent bombardment by British naval guns outside the city.

At the same time, it can also minimize the escape of British troops in the city.

Galloja decided to capture a large number of British prisoners this time.

His idea was that by then he would be able to negotiate with the British with a large number of prisoners in his hands.

At the same time, these people can also be used as hostages to prevent British naval guns from indiscriminate bombardment.

Anyway, it was sudden, so even if their behavior towards the prisoners violated the rules of engagement, it didn't matter.

It is understandable for natives to do some barbaric behavior.

As for the Bengalis in the city, Galloya really has no intention of staying.

He once ordered his soldiers not to seal their swords for three days after entering the city.


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