Napoleon, with 3,000 soldiers and horses, sailed from Ningbo on 17 large and small warships, entered the Indian Ocean from the South Sea, bypassed the Cape of Good Hope, crossed the Atlantic, and sailed directly to North America.

This journey alone is dangerous enough, the British Cape colony has fallen under the attack of the Kingdom of South Africa, and the British have completely lost the sea control in the sea east of the Cape of Good Hope, but once they have passed the Cape of Good Hope, in the vast Atlantic, it is not known how many British merchant ships have been wantonly.

After passing the Cape of Good Hope, the fleet even had to sail northwest, and the farther north it went, the weaker China's control became, the stronger the British became, and even on the West African coast, the British had completely expelled the Chinese power, they captured the mouth of the Niger River, pressed the African company to the Congo River area, and the sea transportation of the African company had been forced to be interrupted.

Due to the flanking attack of the African Company and Burma, it was unable to take British India for a long time, and the British and Indian fleets were cowering in the harbors, but they were restless, and from time to time took advantage of the weather conditions to throw themselves into the ocean and break diplomatic relations everywhere when the Chinese foreign naval divisions could not blockade them, so that the main force of the Chinese fleet could not all go west to West Africa to compete with Britain for sea supremacy.

The British fleet has been in Europe, some of them stay on the mainland, some of them maintain sea supremacy in the Mediterranean, and the British do not dare to send their fleets into the Indian Ocean to compete with China for sea supremacy, not because they are afraid of the size of the Chinese fleet, but also because of geographical factors, which limit the scope of operations of the British.

The home fleet is not easy to mobilize, they dare not guarantee that other countries will join the war at any time, the French fleet should not be underestimated, Spain has begun to restore its own navy to maintain overseas colonies, any European country has a nerve, such as the unpredictable political behavior of Poland, the British defense of the empty homeland may be greatly damaged.

In addition, if it loses its control over the Mediterranean, the Chinese fleet will suddenly attack the Mediterranean Sea from the direction of the Indian Ocean, and not only will the Crimean Expeditionary Force be in a difficult situation, but the British mainland will no longer be safe.

There has been dissatisfaction with the government in Britain and criticism of the government's hasty war with China.

There are a large number of people at the bottom who think that their politicians are idiots, and first fought with the Russians for four years for the sake of Austria's interests, so that Austria got the mouth of the Danube, and Britain did not benefit from half a dime. Then, because of its refusal to accept peace, it began to wage war with China around the world, which has seriously affected Britain's business interests, the domestic economy is staggering, unemployment is increasing, the capitalists have no business to do, and the workers have no work to make ends meet.

In fact, British politicians are also reflecting on the fact that their way of refusing China's mediation at that time may have been wrong, and they should not have refused directly, and perhaps there could be a way to continue to oppress Russia without China entering the war. Perhaps an armistice should have been accepted at that time, after all, Russia is such a big country, and it is impossible to weaken it overnight. However, at that time, the British cabinet judged that they had rejected China's mediation, and it was impossible for them to enter the war, and according to the assessment of the British, it was in China's best interest to remain neutral.

Because no matter how you look at weakening Russia, there is only good and no harm to China, and Britain even thinks that China's policy in recent years is to contain Russia in the east and west with Britain. Who would have thought that the Chinese's European policy would suddenly become pro-Russia, it is not logical at all.

But now that the war has begun, British politicians are not cowardly, their mentality has been above that of the entire European country, and they see Britain as a world empire rather than a European power, and they are not afraid of any challenge. What could be more hopeless than during the Napoleonic Wars, when Britain did not survive and held out for twenty years.

In terms of the degree of danger, China is not as good as Napoleon's, at least Napoleon has a sharp sword suspended above Britain's head all the time, and China's cannons are impossible to aim at the British Empire itself, no matter how the war is fought, it will not affect the British Isles, so what is there to be afraid of.

In recent years, the conflict with China overseas has become increasingly intensified, and sooner or later the two sides will break out into conflict over this.

But the war went on for half a year, and all the countries that continued to maintain contact with China basically understood that the British had no chance of winning.

Hortmann, the consul of the Netherlands in China, who had always maintained peace in this war, was full of pessimism about the prospects of the British Empire, and although every report he sent back home would be known to the British because of the relationship between the Netherlands and Britain, he did not hide that it was useless and futile for the British to carry out this war.

China had already mobilized 300,000 men to fight in West Asia, and such a large force Hotmann did not see any effect, and in his report to the Dutch government, he described: The Yangtze River is still so busy, and the merchant ships are weaving back and forth, and people are more concerned about the market this year than the outcome of the war with a "Yiren"; In the textile factories of Jiangnan, the black smoke from the chimneys obscured the sky like Manchester, and truckloads and boatloads of fine cotton cloth and silk were constantly produced from these factories; The war did not seem to have any effect on the country, and their emperor only approved a bond of ten million gold taels (gold), which was sold by their national bank at a low interest rate of two cents, and in the eyes of their investors, their country's bonds were almost risky.

"I don't know what the situation is in the UK, but I don't think it's going to be so calm, they should really think about peace."

Finally, Hotman wrote.

The British did begin to think about peace, and the war had been fought so far, and they found that there was no turnaround, and that China, the Eastern Empire, was armed in a modern way, as all intelligence suggests, and that their citizens were perhaps not the bravest, not the most adventurous, not the most intelligent, but the number of their citizens was incredible, and what was even more incredible was that their government was able to organize such a large number of citizens in a consistent way, which had never happened before in the history of mankind. At least it subverts Western perceptions.

How can so many people be united according to the concept of unity, India is the closest region to the Chinese population, but there are hundreds of different management methods in India, not to mention Europe, each nation has a different way of living, and even the same nation has dozens of different cultural forms, but China is consistent and uniform.

At the beginning of the war, the British expected to be as powerful on the outside as they were in the face of other great empires, but with a slight push, they would immediately and miraculously collapse, as Spain did against the Aztec Empire, the Inca Empire, or Alexander against the Persian Empire, and as for China as a new dynasty, so what, how terrifying Attila's Xiongnu Empire was, and it collapsed without a single defeat.

But the progress of the war in the past six months has shown that the Chinese not only will not collapse, but will become stronger and stronger. On the battlefield, Britain can win one battle, or even ten or hundred battles, but the Chinese will soon recover their forces, regroup, and fight back.

How should the war be fought against such an opponent and the direction of victory cannot be seen at all?

And except on the Crimean peninsula, where the British and Osmanian armies were on par with the Chinese army, they began to show disadvantages on all other fronts.

In particular, the changes in the Indian battlefield, which was originally full of confidence, surprised the British.

After the British traded Australia for colonies of Chinese companies such as Sinde east of the Indus River, they quickly completed the conquest of the Indian region, mainly by diplomatic and political means, rather than by means of war. The British entered into a financial treaty with the princely princes of India to station troops on their lands, and these princes provided them with military expenses, and British India provided protection, as well as trade and commercial privileges. In fact, it was to make these princes their protectorates. In this way, Britain unified India.

After the Chinese power withdrew east of the Indus, the Indian princes quickly changed their views, because they could no longer see the power to oppose the British India, so they established a protective relationship with the British, and in just five years, the 20 princes of Rajpurta, the 145 minor princes of Central India, and the 145 minor princes of the Kartiawa Peninsula entered the system of financing alliance treaties. Orissa and a number of minor princes of South India also accepted the treaty of subsidiary alliance. Even big powers like Hyderabad and Peshwar were attached to the British. The Marat Union was annexed by British India. The whole of India, except for the Punjab in the Indus Valley, remained independent, but it was this Punjab that caused great trouble for the British.

It was not the British East India Company that first considered the government Punjab, but the Chinese East India Company, which Henry Pitt had managed, but they failed. Punjab, under the leadership of its founding monarch, Ranjit Singh, grew stronger and managed to stop Henry Pitt's invasion.

After the Napoleonic Wars, Ranjit began to carry out reforms, employing a large number of retired French officers, and authorized French captain Jean-François Arad to help train cavalry, and Jean-Baptiste Ventura to help train infantry.

The Punjab army that these two French helped build is completely different from the army of the Mughal Empire that was also commanded by the French army in history, such as the army of Bengal, they really have the level and combat effectiveness of the European army, and the British underestimated the Punjab army too much, and suffered a big loss in this regard!