A deserter.

The British army, which totals 1,300 people, also escorts more than 1,000 ordinary British civilians, including the elderly, weak, women and children.

Under such circumstances, how could they deploy the Chu army's cavalry... That is to say, they brought a lot of artillery with them when they retreated. When they encountered the Chu army's cavalry, they began to form a formation and pulled out the artillery.
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Otherwise, I am afraid that when they first encounter the Chu cavalry, they will be scattered by the Chu cavalry.

The British army formed a formation to protect themselves. The Chu army's cavalry on the opposite side would naturally not foolishly risk the enemy's artillery fire and charge at the infantry array... Unless there was an extreme and unavoidable situation, no cavalry general would do such a thing.

This is not a matter of whether you can win, but a matter of losing even if you win...Cavalry is much more expensive than infantry.

Therefore, more than 500 cavalrymen of the 72nd Cavalry Regiment dismounted and rested and camped more than a thousand meters away. As the saying goes, I will not move if the enemy does not move, and I will move if the enemy moves...

Then, the British army was completely blind.

Because in this way, they can't leave at all... Now that they are arrayed to meet the enemy, the Chu cavalry on the opposite side will naturally not attack in order to avoid unnecessary casualties... But as long as the British army dares to form a marching column at this time

, it won’t take long for the Chu army’s cavalry to reach them.

By that time, for the Chu cavalry, it was nothing more than a performance battle.

But if we don’t leave now and continue to delay like this, the Chu army infantry behind us will catch up sooner or later. Maybe it will be one day, maybe two days, but it won’t be long.

Once the Chu army's infantry catch up, they will be completely doomed.

With such an uneasy mood, the British army tried to break out that night, but soon found that a large number of fire dragons were burning around them.

The Chu cavalry directly lit a large number of torches and wandered around... and also used their cavalry cannons to fire several shots at the British camp from time to time. Although it did not cause any casualties, it seriously affected the British army's preparations for a breakout.

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It was only in the middle of the night that the British army took advantage of the darkness to retreat north to break through.

The Chu army's cavalry did not launch an attack in the night... but kept following behind.

Why did the Chu cavalry just follow instead of attacking?

Because it is too difficult to launch a cavalry charge at night, it is easy to get yourself into a trap if you are not careful.

Besides, if the English take advantage of the few hours in the second half of the night to walk north, they won't be able to go very far. If they are exhausted, they can only walk ten or eight kilometers, which will have little impact on the overall situation.

As for the British army continuing to march after dawn... that is to give lives to the 72nd Cavalry Regiment following behind.

Regardless of whether the British troops fled under the cover of night or stayed in place to fight to the death, in fact their fate was already decided when they fled the city of Bombay.

They can neither fight nor escape, and there are more than a thousand ordinary civilians in the team, and quite a few of these civilians are the family records of officials and soldiers.

How could they run away under such circumstances!

In the afternoon of the next day, a forward infantry battalion of the Chu Army's 72nd Infantry Division with reinforced artillery also caught up and joined the cavalry.

At this time, the British commander finally gave the order to surrender.

Because there is no point in continuing to resist except for the death and injury of people like myself. It is better to surrender directly and end the matter. No matter what happens, we must save the lives of these people.

After all, the Chu army has a very good reputation for treating prisoners well. At most, they can live as prisoners of war for a few years without worrying too much about the danger to their lives.

If we are lucky and the British East India Company and the Chu State reach an armistice agreement, it may not take more than a few months to leave the prison camp and return.

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Therefore, there is no pressure on them to surrender!

With the surrender of this British army, the British East India Company's defensive deployment in Bombay was completely destroyed. By the way, many company executives were captured.

More importantly, the total number of British garrison in Bombay was gathered by the East India Company from surrounding cities. The garrison in Bombay was completely wiped out, which meant that the British troops in the entire Indian Peninsula and even in West Asia and North Africa were destroyed.

It’s been weakened.

There are more than 3,000 troops and militiamen in Mumbai. Not a single one of these 3,000 people is left. They were all swallowed up by the Chu army. How can we fight against the fierce offensive of the Chu Empire in the future?

Moreover, the city of Bombay, which has complete fortifications, more than 3,000 troops and many indigenous servants garrisoned, has fallen. Can other colonies of the British East India Company also be defended?

I can’t hold it back...

Just five days later, on December 16, the twenty-sixth year of Chengshun, a landing fleet of more than 20 ships from the Chu army arrived outside the port of Surat and captured it without wasting much effort.

The city of Surat is already empty of troops.

The British East India Company's decades of operations in the Indian peninsula were all reduced to ashes.

In fact, not only the British, but also the Dutch and Portuguese had completely lost any strongholds on the Indian Peninsula a few months earlier.

December 16, the twenty-sixth year of Chengshun, was also the day when the Chu Empire took full control of the coast of the Indian Peninsula.

From that day on, the Chu Empire completely took this huge peninsula into its own bowl!

Next, it’s time for a large number of various forces in the Chu Empire, especially the industrial and commercial forces, to pick up their knives and forks and start cutting and eating meat.

Among them, the fastest moving company is the Indian Arms Trading Company of the Dachu Empire...
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