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Chapter 523 - Chapter 434: The British Tactic

The next day, in the fine curtain of rain, a squad of British soldiers took advantage of the overcast skies and slipped into the innermost layer of the "Pa" through a breach blasted open by a cannon.

The defending Mysore soldiers hastily fled through the tunnels, but the man left to ignite the gunpowder kegs took out a flint and struck three times. However, the sparks were all extinguished by the rainwater blown in by the wind.

Two British soldiers appeared at the entrance to the tower, raising their Brown Bess flintlock guns at him.

An hour later, the Marquess of Wellesley looked at the seven or eight corpses soaked in the rain, his expression somber. It had taken him a full 14 days to finally break through this crude fortress, and the Mysoreans had lost less than 30 men.

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