Those driven Bengalis could no longer form the effect of the human wave tactics.
The originally crowded crowd was torn to pieces by exploding grenades.
The remaining people also fell in front of the Holy Army's position under rifle fire.
"Come forward, you damn Bengalis." Seeing that the Bengalis in front were afraid to move forward, the British soldiers behind pushed their bayonets up and kept cursing.
"Go forward, if you don't go forward, you will die now." The British commander shouted.
He's not threatening these Bengalis.
"Ready to shoot."
"put!"
With the sound of a gunshot, the front row of British soldiers actually fired a volley at the recruited Bengalis.
Next, these Bengalis could only instinctively continue to swarm Muraviyov. What awaited them was another intensive bombing of the Holy Army grenades.
The battle was stalemate here for a while. The British were unwilling to charge on their own and wanted the Bengalis to die for them.
In this way they waste a lot of time.
In the East City, Sparrow received Hilton's order and began to organize his Bengalis to divide into groups and drive eastward.
Go and replace the reinforcements who are fighting the Holy Army in the streets.
It was already dark at this time. The city was in chaos, and many soldiers were holding torches.
Street fighting became mainly hand-to-hand combat.
"Damn Hilton, are you planning to let me die? Let's go ahead at this time." Colonel Sparrow was obviously very dissatisfied with this order.
But as a soldier, he can only execute this order. The honor of being a soldier requires that he must do it.
But he didn't know that the danger came not from the Holy Army on the opposite side, but from the Bengalis under his own command.
Most of the 20,000 people organized in the city were servants of Bengali nobles.
They are originally a group of people at the bottom of society. They can be said to be people with nothing.
Many people became slaves from birth because their parents were slaves in noble families.
Hassan is such a Bengali who was born a slave.
In the noble family, the Hassan family are not only slaves, but also the lowest status among the slaves.
Because although Bengalis believe in Christianity, in fact there is still a caste system.
Hassan's family is a low-caste family.
Therefore, he could only do the job of digging out excrement in the noble lord's house.
Moreover, he has been doing this job with his father since he was three years old.
The highest level of servants in the master's house is the housekeeper, followed by the personal servants, cooks, etc. who serve the master. The next rank is the servants who clean and collect excrement.
Despite his background, Hassan seems to have had a fighting spirit since he was a child.
Once, the young master of a noble family was listening to the British tutor invited by the master.
Hassan hid in the bushes and eavesdropped. Hassan could understand what the young master could not learn.
Hassan thought to himself, why is he of a lower caste? He is obviously smarter.
Later, the housekeeper discovered that Hassan was secretly taking classes.
The housekeeper was ready to drive Hassan away, but it was his parents who repeatedly begged him to let Hassan stay.
However, his father suffered the punishment and was injured as a result.
But Hassan's injured father still had to work with his injuries.
Because of this, Hassan's father accidentally fell into a manure pit and drowned.
Some gardeners saw it at that time, but no one went to save Hassan's father.
After his father died, the young Hassan inherited his father's job and began his daily life of collecting excrement.
Until a few days ago, the British wanted to recruit soldiers to defend the city.
Everyone knew that defending the city would lead to death, so no one was willing to go, so Hassan, who had the lowest status in the aristocratic grandfather's family, became the one recommended.
When they arrived at the military camp, Hassan had enough food for several days.
Here each British instructor has to lead hundreds of Bangladeshis, and they are simply unable to manage them.
Hassan found that most of these people were slaves at the lowest level like himself.
Here he also met another manure collector, Abu.
The two had similar backgrounds, so they quickly became good friends.
Here they will be punished if they do something bad.
British instructors often got angry at them for no apparent reason.
But these are commonplace for Hassan and others, because this is how they lived before.
Hassan found that most people here were as numb as his parents.
They were driven by the beatings and scoldings of the British and never knew how to resist. It seemed that they had no ideas of their own.
Why has to be this way?
Every time he holds the gun in his hand, Hassan feels as if he is in control of his own destiny.
Why do these people have to be treated so unfairly?
Because Hassan secretly learned English when he was young, he was able to communicate simply with the instructor.
So he was appointed as a captain.
He manages hundreds of people.
Maybe Hassan is naturally good at communicating with people, or maybe Hassan understands these people's thoughts better.
Within a few days, Hassan had his men obeying him.
Hassan enjoyed this feeling very much, maybe he was born to be a general.
There are more than 20,000 people in this team, and the British cannot control them at all.
Even the commander of this army, Colonel Sparrow, has not appeared in front of this team several times.
There is one British officer to manage every five hundred people, and British officers do not stay with these people every day.
Most of them use "crutches" to manage these Bengalis. These people are not even considered servants, they can only be regarded as cannon fodder to defend the city.
This proved to be the case. Almost all the people who were brought to the city wall to assist the defenders died.
Either he was killed by the enemy, or he was killed by his own people because he ran away.
Hassan is honored to be a "crutch".
In this way, Hassan successfully commanded the five hundred men.
News of the city's destruction quickly reached them, and everyone was in panic, but Hassan saw an opportunity.
Only some of them were sent to defend the city for so many days, but none of them were able to come back.
Everyone is rumoring that these people were killed in the battle.
Hassan didn't want to die yet, nor did he want to defend the city of Dhaka.
Defend for whom? Defend Dhaka for the British and the nobles?
Dhaka is not their slave. If the enemy is driven away, they will continue to be slaves.
Who wants to spend their whole life digging shit?
Finally they were taken out of the military camp.
This means that they will also die on the battlefield.
Hassan followed the British officer and his men to the front line. He saw groups of British soldiers moving to the rear.
Hassan is an extremely smart man and he has already guessed it.
They were pushed out by the British as cannon fodder.
Hassan clenched the loaded musket in his hand and looked at the British officer standing in front of him, who usually didn't even look at him.
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"Baton Commander, there is a Bengali officer ahead with thousands of people who want to surrender to us." At the forefront of the street fighting, a young officer from the Holy Army quickly reported the strange things he encountered to his camp commander.
"What? Is there such a thing? Bring the Bengali officer to me." The battalion commander suddenly became interested.
After fighting for so long, I didn’t expect that a party leading the way would suddenly appear.
Hassan killed the British officer and naturally took over the 500 men.
He also took advantage of the opponent's inattention to conquer several surrounding teams.
Now he has thousands of people under his command, and these people are willing to follow Hassan to change their destiny after being persuaded by Hassan.
Anyway, they are the lowest class of people and have nothing to lose, and now it is clear that they are going to die.
Why not give it a try?
Hassan acted decisively. The first thing he did when he came up was to kill the British officer leading the team.
Next, he will persuade the Bengalis who were born as slaves.
Occasionally, a few thorns appeared who were unwilling to accept his persuasion.
Hassan would give Abu a wink, and Abu would naturally lead the person up and tell that person to shut his mouth forever.
These Bengalis are slaves without any idea, and now that Hassan is coercing them, they can only follow Hassan.
But after betraying the British, Hassan had to find a new backer.
The only people he can rely on are the enemies who come in.
Hassan must be ready to vote.
Colonel Sparrow is the best and most weighty testimonial.
So Hassan led his men back to the military camp, and at the same time sent people to contact the Holy Army.
Outside the Bengali military camp, the camp commander saw Hassan.
This is a dark-skinned Bengali, and you can tell he is from a lower caste at a glance.
He was wearing a gray linen jacket and knee-length shorts. He held a musket in his right hand and a human head in his left hand.
When he appeared, the camp commander's guards subconsciously pointed their guns at him.
Hassan gently put down the gun, held the head in both hands and handed it to the camp commander.
Hassan is holding Colonel Sparrow's head in his hand.
…
Before that.
The camp commander had already sent someone to ask the Holy King for instructions.
With the Holy King's instructions, the camp commander immediately expressed his willingness to accept Hassan's surrender.
He also stated that Hassan's army would be given the bugle call of the "Tiger" Army, and that Hassan would recruit his own men and manage it himself.
This was the first Bengali servant army in the hands of the Holy Army.
Shi Dakai has been considering finding a new force for him to drive to fill the shortage of Holy Army troops.
The entire Indian colony has a population of hundreds of millions, but he only has two million people at his disposal.
We can't turn all these hundreds of millions of people into slaves.
This time the Bengalis suddenly surrendered, allowing Shi Dakai to see an opportunity.
He might be able to win over some people from the lower classes of Bangladesh and give them status so that they can become the servants of the Holy Army.
Then use these Bengalis to deal with the Indians in the west.
The reason why we chose Bengalis is because these people have a special religion and are more militant and capable of fighting than Indians.
Another reason is that these Bengalis have enmity with the Burmese, so they will not join the Burmese.
In the end Shidakai was only prepared to accept these low-caste Bengalis.
Once their hands are filled with the blood of high-caste people, they will never be able to look back. They can only be hounds in the hands of the Holy Army.
Hassan was overjoyed. Finally, they no longer had to go back to being slaves.
From now on he will be a general, and he likes the name Tiger Army.
For this plan, he wants to recruit more subordinates to increase his strength.
The 20,000 armed Bengal slaves are his best targets.
Soon he accepted a mission and accompanied the Holy Army to ransack his home.
At the same time, Shi Dakai also gave them an opportunity, that is, they could take revenge on the former nobles and liberate their families at the same time.
This order simply made Hassan and their men boil.
"Hassan, I'm so lucky that I listened to you." Abu said gratefully. Other slaves also thought the same way.
Hassan suddenly became the spiritual leader of these people.
The Holy Army that entered the city was now completely unchecked. Some of the Holy Army went west to pursue the British, while others followed Hassan's Tiger Army to ransack homes in the city.
A feast of revenge for the lower class against the upper class quietly unfolded in the city of Dhaka.
The resentment towards the noble lords that had been stored in their hearts since birth suddenly burst out like a volcanic eruption.
The fire burns away all the old order!
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