Chapter 1124: Calcutta

"We surrender!"

The Homalin River flows surging from north to south.

On the east bank of the river, Coalition soldiers wearing uniforms of different colors raised flags of the same color—white flags!

"Make them throw all their rifled muskets into the river."

The actions of the Coalition soldiers fell into the eyes of Shang Yi; after the guide translated the words of the Coalition soldiers, Shang Yi immediately issued the order.

To him, the caliber of this batch of Coalition rifled muskets was different from their own muskets, so keeping them was useless.

Therefore, for the sake of safety, it was better to let them throw them into the Homalin River.

The guide followed orders and translated Shang Yi's words to the Coalition soldiers on the opposite bank.

They hesitated for a moment.

The Coalition soldiers walked slowly to the riverbank and threw their rifled muskets in.

Between the options of certain death and the possibility of living, they chose the latter.

Having learned the prowess of the Da Song army, they had lost hope for victory.

Moreover, not everyone had the courage to face death.

After the first batch of soldiers surrendered, more and more soldiers chose to surrender.

People always have a herd mentality, which is to say that one person's behavior is easily influenced by others.

If there had not been the first person to choose surrender, others would have endured and not surrendered due to a sense of shame.

But if the first person surrendered, the psychological defenses of many would instantly vanish, and they would begin to find excuses for their own surrender with words like, "Others have surrendered too."

Therefore, once the Coalition soldiers surrendered, this momentum could not be stopped.

The Coalition soldiers coming from the eastern battlefield saw the sea of white flags ahead, and they naturally began to raise white flags as well.

Scattered soldiers saw the soldiers on the main road surrender, concluded that the situation was lost, and also began to raise white flags to surrender.

For a time, the white flags were like a single spark, gradually starting a prairie fire.

Of course, the important factor in the Coalition soldiers' surrender was ultimately that they had lost hope for victory and chose to survive.

While the Coalition soldiers were surrendering one after another, the Gun Cavalry, who were about to chase and kill them to Huomalin, put away their cavalry sabers.

At this time, they raised their horse rifles to supervise the Coalition soldiers, ensuring they would not pose a threat to the Da Song soldiers.

It was another three days of clearing up.

Apart from the soldiers who surrendered, the remaining Coalition soldiers on the east bank of the Homalin were all annihilated by the Azure Dragon Army and the Vermilion Bird Army.

The war that had been deadlocked with the Coalition for eight months finally ended in a total victory for Da Song.

On the fourth day, Qin Shan and Guan Tong arrived at the bank of the Homalin River.

Beside them, Da Song soldiers arranged in neat formations were crossing the Homalin Bridge.

Next, he would head to the next place.

That was the center of Britain's rule in Tianzhu, Calcutta.

The war on the border between Tian Zhu Guo and Piaoman was only a part of the entire Tianzhu war, not the whole.

Only by fully occupying Tianzhu and constructing a Tianzhu order belonging to Da Song could the war be considered truly over.

As for the more than one hundred thousand Coalition prisoners, they had already sent people to contact the navy.

They were to transport these prisoners to Da Song to be distributed by the Construction Department.

At the same time, to ensure these prisoners would not cause trouble.

They left behind one hundred thousand men to be responsible for guarding and assisting the navy in escorting the prisoners.

However, these one hundred thousand men were not all used to guard prisoners; there was no need for that.

It was because Qin Shan and Guan Tong believed the main force of the Coalition had been eliminated.

There was no need to use too many troops for the remaining Coalition soldiers in Tianzhu, as this would only increase the burden on logistics.

Therefore, after discussing it, the two decided to lead only over ninety thousand soldiers across the Homalin Bridge.

Just as they had expected, from Huomalin heading west, they basically encountered no decent resistance anymore.

Two days ago, they deliberately allowed more than two thousand Tianzhu native soldiers to leave.

These two thousand Tianzhu soldiers were the tools for the Da Song army to spread fear.

The reason the Tianzhu native kings revered the British as their suzerain was that they feared the absolute military power of Britain.

But now, the Da Song army had actually annihilated the massive number of Coalition soldiers.

To them, this was how shocking it was.

However, they did not believe these words from the deserters at first.

Not until the Da Song army appeared in their native states.

Some Tianzhu kings who still refused to believe it sent out their own armies.

But whether it was thirty or fifty thousand, or eighty or ninety thousand men.

Upon contact with the Da Song army, these native armies tasted their prowess.

Leaving behind a ground full of corpses, the native armies ran away without a trace, and the panic spread even more rapidly.

Afterwards, on the road to Calcutta, the Da Song army encountered no more resistance.

Until they arrived at Calcutta.

After encountering resistance from over three thousand Coalition soldiers here, the Da Song army took only half an hour to kill their way into Calcutta and completely occupy this central city from which Britain controlled Tianzhu.

"General, the prisoners we captured said their Governor had already headed to the East battlefield before."

Calcutta Governor's Mansion.

Qin Shan and Guan Tong were sitting on white wooden chairs in the courtyard, looking at the clear swimming pool in front of them, discussing taking a bath there in the evening.

At this moment, Shang Yi walked in.

"So, they are either dead or captured by us?" Qin Shan pondered for a moment, then continued, "Never mind them; you must immediately send men to notify all the native kings of Tianzhu, ordering them to arrive at Calcutta within three months to pledge their allegiance to the Emperor of Great Song. Otherwise, they will be regarded as remnants of the Western Lands colonists and wiped from the soil of Tianzhu."

After controlling the Governor's Mansion, they captured many native Tianzhu officials who had served the British.

These native Tianzhu officials were proficient in the British language and understood the situations of the various native states of Tianzhu.

At first, when the Great Song Navy completely annihilated the Coalition fleet, these native Tianzhu officials were in a panic, feeling that the days of British rule in Tianzhu had come to an end.

It was only out of fear of the Coalition Army in the East that they dared not show any signs of abnormality.

Now, the Coalition has also been completely annihilated, so naturally, they will no longer foolishly remain loyal to Britain.

After all, they also need to eat and survive.

Moreover, the history of Tianzhu is simply a history of being ruled by outsiders.

The deeply rooted caste system of Tianzhu also originated from this.

The Tianzhu people with the purest bloodlines are currently known in the Tianzhu language as the Untouchable outcasts.

And the high castes, in order, are the outsiders who invaded and ruled Tianzhu during different periods.

If the British were allowed to continue their rule, then the British would become the highest caste in Tianzhu.

Therefore, to those Tianzhu outcasts known as Untouchables, who rules Tianzhu is completely irrelevant to them.

Because during the period of British rule, they did not even have the qualifications to serve the British.

And the high castes who served the British understood the British very well.

But it is precisely because they understand the British that they realize the Great Song people who defeated the British are clearly even more terrifying.