New Shun 1730

With the collapse of the British-Indian coalition's front line on the battlefield, the battlefield quickly turned into a slaughterhouse.

The wounded Bengal cavalrymen on the ground raised their hands to show their surrender and muttered Persian.

However, the soldiers on the Dashun side did not understand at all.

The gestures may be internationally universal, but the Dashun cavalry did not want to understand the gestures that they actually understood, but skillfully stabbed the Bengal cavalrymen struggling on the ground with their spears diagonally.

Jumping off the warhorse, opening the bag behind his saddle, pulling off the rings on the corpse or any other useful things that looked valuable, or washed and given to a lover in the brothel, and putting them into his saddle bag.

Every noble or officer became the focus of care.

Those Islamic-style knives inlaid with ivory or gems, and those headscarves wrapped on the head and washed at home to be used as cloaks, were all reasons that prompted the Dashun cavalry to chase and kill every Bengal cavalryman or British infantryman they saw.

These British infantrymen were very rich. The company gave them enough bonuses before the war, and the officers in the previous Bengal War took the lion's share. These soldiers also shared a lot of silver from the Bengal Treasury.

As for those who were obviously senior employees or officers of the company, the maps could be exchanged for money at the staff of the command post, and the officers' swords and noble swords could be sold to some military noble circles in the country.

And most of them wore pocket watches, which became the reason why they had to die.

The battle was actually basically over at 8:30 in the morning, but it was not until 3 o'clock in the afternoon that the various units regrouped.

In this battle, the British and Indian coalition forces had a total of 12,000 people.

When the results of the battle were counted in the afternoon, 4,000 people were captured, most of whom were Bengal infantrymen who had little money to be squeezed.

A total of about 6,000 bodies were left on the battlefield, including the British Dorsetshire Infantry Regiment and the 102nd and 103rd Native Infantry Battalions of Bengal, as well as some sailors, officers, and senior employees of the company who followed them, most of whom were killed.

Several key figures, many of them died in the pursuit of Dashun soldiers for the purpose of fighting for spoils.

Robert Clive committed suicide by swallowing the opium he carried with him, and his personal belongings were robbed.

Jafar was stabbed to death by the cavalry with a spear, and even his clothes were stripped off. Two Dashun cavalrymen even fought to snatch boots, resulting in a Dashun soldier's eyebrow bone being broken and his nose being fractured.

Watson Hastings, although smart, took off his clothes and hat decisively after finding that he could not escape, and threw his package and other things to the cavalry chasing him.

But the cavalry chasing him did not show mercy, but habitually dragged a knife on his head, and then went to see the spoils.

The soldiers found something very valuable in the package, which was more valuable than the pocket watch in the package, but not necessarily worth much.

A diary of Hastings.

A copy of "Bhagavad Gita".

There are also several pages of absolutely antique Sanskrit manuscripts.

These things are worthless to the soldiers, and may not be worthless to the officers, after all, there are no scholars who specialize in Sanskrit.

However, given some preferences similar to the King of Chu's preference for thin waists, there are still people who buy these things, and they can directly take them to the high-ranking officers who buy them in exchange for a few silver coins. Dashun's paper money cannot be used in India for the time being, because the soldiers who get the spoils cannot spend paper money here.

After reorganizing, the soldiers began to clean up the battlefield and began to finish off the bodies on the ground, transporting the dead soldiers of the Dashun Army and piling up the bodies of the enemy soldiers.

Several battalions that can fight continuously will set off towards Fort William tomorrow.

Those who stay here will be responsible for digging pits, building Jingguan, and showing military merits.

Before dusk, the identification of captured soldiers has also begun.

Given Dashun's previous attitude towards the Netherlands, although there were too many people killed in the previous battles, the captured people finally felt that this was probably just caused by language barriers. After the battle, Dashun was still reasonable.

Especially those who were responsible for identification were all well-mannered. Some knew Persian, some knew French, Dutch, and Latin.

Although no one spoke English, some prisoners who knew French, Persian, Dutch, or Latin were willing to believe what these people said when they heard them speak in a language they could understand.

"Those who have been to public schools, church schools, and know Persian and Latin, stand up. The governor will give you special treatment and treat you as captured officers. There will be dinner later."

In fact, those who could meet these conditions on the battlefield just now have been killed. The main reason is that being able to meet these conditions, even the simplest one of being able to master Latin, is enough to prove that their family background is definitely not an ordinary family.

To some extent, it is the same as finding someone who knows Chinese and can read Chinese books in Japan at this time, 99% of them have a good family background.

After all, English is a native language at this time, and even the King of England can't speak it, but has to rely on French or Latin to communicate.

Although almost all the soldiers were killed on the battlefield, six or seven of them stood up after hearing the order to identify them, saying that they knew Persian or English, or had attended church schools.

The Dashun army seemed to be more trustworthy, and immediately gave them the "scholar" treatment of the feudal aristocracy, and did not detain them with the captured soldiers.

Although Europe still does this at this time, for example, Frederick can eat with the captured Austrian nobles during the intervals of battle, after all, everyone can be related.

However, the Dashun side actually stopped playing this trick after the Spring and Autumn Period. At the very least, the bottom-level "Shi" level cannot be treated as officers, at least they can get the doctor general.

However, this time is still very special, the seven people who were selected really got the treatment of officers.

When camping and reveling at night, Du Feng also treated them to a very sumptuous meal, invited them to drink some wine, and communicated with them in French or Latin.

The Privy Council's identification and massacre order is confidential, so naturally few people know it.

After drinking, the next morning, Du Feng took these seven people to the piles of corpses to identify the bodies.

After counting, basically all the core figures of the British East India Company here, except for the lieutenant general whose uncle was the former British Navy Minister who was in Fort William due to illness, the rest of the officers above the company level and the contacts in Jafar's court were basically all killed or captured.

After counting the number of people and matching them one by one, Jafar's body was also identified here, and his body was cut up in the style of Dashun.

The head was chopped off, pickled with salt and lime, and sent to various cities in Bengal, and those who were not on the list of "traitors" identified by Siraj were required to go to Rajshahi as soon as possible to prepare for Siraj's restoration.

Except for the cavalry who continued to pursue and search, and the battalions with strong combat effectiveness that could fight continuously and continue to advance to Calcutta, the rest of the soldiers were busy seizing the time to dig out the mounds of earth piled up in an attempt to build a Jingguan.

The matter of digging the mounds to bury people also revealed an unspeakable absurdity:

The Dashun officers followed the theory of Yin Yang, Five Elements, Feng Shui, Eight Diagrams, and the Four Emperors and the Lord of Arms Chiyou.

A pyramid-like Jingguan was built.

The bodies of enemy soldiers who believed in Anglicanism, Puritanism, Shiaism, or Sunniism were buried inside.

The Jingguan was located near the holy island of Hinduism, Sagar Island.

Then a Buddhist monk from Ceylon recited a scripture.

The digging project had not yet been completed, and good news came from Fort William at noon.

The sneak attack engineer battalion took Fort William, where there were almost only a few people left, almost without bloodshed, and captured Charles Watson, the former Governor of Newfoundland and Vice Admiral of the British Navy. Except for one battleship that chose to sink, the rest of the British warships under his command chose to surrender under the threat of coastal artillery and the Dashun Navy blocking the estuary.

The sneak attack went very smoothly. Only two people in the engineer battalion were injured. A large amount of supplies were captured, and several warehouses of the East India Company were sealed.

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A few days later, the overall situation was settled.

In the tent next to the completed burial mound, Siraj, who had fled to Dashun because of betrayal, forced a smile.

The huge burial mound outside scared him.

Although he had actually killed many people after inheriting the post of Jiedushi, Dashun did not kill people, but just killed people and buried them normally on the battlefield.

However, the gloomy burial mound piled up with more than 6,000 corpses was still too shocking.

The strange battle loss ratio made Siraj even more terrified.

In this battle, Dashun only lost more than 80 people, and those who were seriously injured and might die of infection were less than 200.

Among the more than 4,000 prisoners, the Bengali infantry were selected and assigned to Siraj's command.

Because Siraj had nothing left, these captured infantry were the only "own army" he could count on when he returned to Rajshahi.

And these captured Bengali infantry were obviously frightened by the Dashun troops.

The killing didn't scare them, as it was normal on the battlefield. The lightning-fast breakthrough of the Dashun infantry column made it impossible for them to have the courage to fight against the Dashun troops.

More importantly, the cavalry, which was an important pillar of the rule of the Bengal Jiedushi, was basically killed by Dashun.

These cavalry were like the good children of Dashun to Dashun. Without an elite cavalry, as a Jiedushi, he could only obey Dashun.

Of course, there are some more complicated issues involved, so although Siraj had fled to Dashun before, he was not a king within the scope of Dashun's tribute.

The rule of the British East India Company in India was legally authorized by the Mughal Empire.

Moreover, this was an important theory of reversal in the historical Hastings impeachment case: that is, the company was private, and the company's rights in India did not come from Congress, but from the emperor of the Mughal Empire. The company only had the monopoly on domestic trade and was responsible to Congress.

Dashun and Britain had different systems, because the Dashun came to Bengal to fight not a Dashun Indian Company, but a formal governor of Ceylon, an official appointed by the court, and Dashun did not have an Indian company at all.

But Dashun was not without its own diplomatic logic system.

For example, Li Tang, of course, had the claim and title of the King of Kings of the Persian Empire.

However, Siraj was only the governor of Bengal in the Mughal Empire. Although he did not need to be conferred by the court, Dashun could not confer the title of king on him. He could only give him the seal of the Dragon and Tiger General, because he was not from the royal line of the Mughal Empire.

For the time being, Dashun did not make any excessive demands on Siraj.

Nor did he send a prime minister to assist Siraj in accordance with the normal county system. Instead, Niu Er and a group of people who originally rescued Siraj were sent as consolation envoys to follow Siraj.

But obviously, Dashun couldn't fight for him in vain.

No matter how stupid Siraj is, it is impossible not to know that Dashun would really protect him for the so-called "order of all nations", "order of the world", "difference between kings and ministers", "no rebellion" and other order reasons. Get up and help him regain his position as Jiedushi?

Dashun now used three battles, including the siege of Fort George, the Battle of Diamond Bay, and the sneak attack at Fort William, to completely change the situation in Bengal.

At least until then, in theory, Bangladesh's military governors, such as Jafar, still had the strength to compete with external forces.

Because in history, Jafar really thought about rebelling against the British East India Company, and was deposed by the British because of this, until he figured out how to be a military governor after being a dog.

But now, after these three battles, especially after the heavy-massacre Battle of Diamond Bay, no matter who becomes the governor of Bengal, it is absolutely impossible for him to have any resistance again.

Neither courageous.

Also ability.

A major pillar of Bengal's feudal rule, the organized cavalry force, was completely destroyed.

Therefore, whoever becomes the governor must be a puppet. Siraj has long thought about this.

However, the more he thought about it, the fact that Dashun had not put forward any conditions made him feel more uneasy.

There used to be money in Bangladesh's treasury, but now there is no money. Jafar gave all the cash to the East India Company as a thank-you gift for helping him rebel and ascend to the position of Jiedushi.

According to Siraj’s understanding during his years of exile in Dashun, Dashun does not seem to like the tax farming system, but is very enthusiastic about direct rule.

He is mainly afraid that Dashun will directly swallow up Bengal, and then he is afraid that he will be useless.

In fact, Dashun really wanted to rule Bangladesh, but his ideas were different from those of the British.

Dashun has already approved the plan proposed by Niu Er.

His plan, from a land perspective, can be understood simply as follows:

Originally, Chai Mindar was somewhat similar to a county official. The land belonged to village communities and farmers. They were responsible for the taxation, public security, etc. of this "county" and paid taxes to the central government according to a fixed amount. Local expenditures, etc., are their own business. The superiors do not care. They only collect taxes according to the Yellow Book and the taxes that each county should pay.

Niu Er’s method is to privatize quickly.

Chai Mindar directly supported thousands of middle-level people and evolved their status from "tax collectors" to "landlords" in one step.

Although, for the villagers, from the perspective of paying taxes, there is almost no difference, and the taxes may even be lighter than before.

But from the perspective of ownership, it is equivalent to issuing an administrative order directly to directly own the land rights of the original village communal land, farmers' private land, small farmers' land, etc. to the landlords.

Farmers changed from the original “pay taxes to tax collectors”.

It became "paying rent to the landlord" in the future.

Dashun only dealt with these thousands of new landowners, not with the village communities, nor with the middle caste of tax collectors and accountants.

Siraj was not even a rubber stamp in this conception.