The Chinese army is increasingly breaking out of the hilly defense line, constantly breaking through and occupying the forward positions of the LinkedIn Anglo-Russian coalition army, and without the collapse of the Anglo-Russian coalition army, there has been no decisive victory, and the Chinese are not always victorious, and most of their attacks have been repulsed, just like the Anglo-Russian offensive of the combined forces.

On the sea, explosive bombs make sailboats vulnerable, and the same is true on land, and the more reliable explosive bombs make the attacker literally send them to death, and the enemy can easily resist any attack with the help of fortifications, and can also inflict great damage on the attacker's soldiers.

Now it was the turn of the Chinese to attack, and the Anglo-Russian coalition found that the Chinese were also easily killed during the attack, so the Anglo-Russian coalition decided to go on the defensive on the spot if they could not retreat smoothly. The Kazakh hill stalemate began to move into the second stage, the stage of China's strategic offensive.

In other directions, the Chinese army began to achieve greater results this summer.

In the direction of Siberia, after June, large-scale attacks began to break out, and there was no outbreak of plague in the Russian army here, and the Russians who relied on the defense of fortresses such as Omsk had relatively superior living conditions and relatively good health, and the climate in Siberia was relatively cool, so there was no basis for malaria to be rampant.

The biggest limitation was the problem of troops, when the Chinese army began to attack, the Russian strongholds and fortresses deployed in the area east of the Ob River were pulled out one after another, and the Chinese also attacked from the Irtysh River, echoing the Siberian direction, making it difficult for Russia to divide its forces.

The inhospitable geography of Siberia dooms human activities to be carried out only along rivers, and Barnaul is very close to Omsk in a straight line, but the large number of swamps and primeval forests in the middle are almost impossible to cross for human activities today. Instead, the Chinese army circled a large bay along the Ob River, first threatening Tobolsk upstream, with a military strength of more than 1,000 kilometers.

After a fierce battle, China captured Tobolsk with absolute superiority, and can now threaten Omsk along the river south, or threaten Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and other important places east of the Ural Mountains with rivers, such as Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, and Chelyabinsk.

The strategic posture is becoming more and more unfavorable for Russia.

The Chinese army also began a counteroffensive in the direction of India.

The battle in this direction was not fierce, and after the British defeated the Burma, they forced the Burmese Gongbang Dynasty to sign an alliance treaty with the British.

China then sent troops south from Tibet on the grounds that the Burmese had betrayed the alliance, and the Tibetan army entered the palm-sized state of Sikkim, which was squeezed by Gurkha and Bhutan, and was dependent on Tibetan religious powers.

The adaptation of these Tibetan soldiers to the terrain of the plateau is incomparable to that of the soldiers in the interior. Tibetan soldiers, who were born as serfs, were very strong in spirit after the government invited the Living Buddha to pray for them.

The Chinese government has never changed the political landscape of Tibet, which is still a feudal serfdom ruled by religion and aristocracy, culturally terrifying, and the practice of skinning people for sacrifice is terrifying. But it was extremely stable, the barbaric oppression of the aristocracy, under the spiritual brainwashing of religion, in this region with an extremely weak economic foundation, reached a surprising equilibrium, the vast number of serfs were completely appointed, their religious piety was more extreme than that of later generations, and the Tibetans of later generations were amazing, and the vast majority of people in the world could not understand the source of spiritual strength of believers who could kowtow thousands of kilometers from Sichuan to Lhasa for pilgrimage.

However, this kind of political system, which is highly integrated with religion, is undoubtedly backward system, and by any social insight, it is backward. Since the end of the Ming Dynasty, Tibet's population has stopped growing and has remained stable at more than 1 million. It has been stagnant for four or five hundred years.

The government inherited all the policies of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and sent ministers to Tibet to administer the area, not seeking economic benefits here, but only seeking stability here. For Zhou Lang, he also wants to dismantle the serfdom here, but he is not an idealist, he does not have such a strong sense of morality, and he will definitely not do thankless things. If the conflict between the serfs and the nobility broke out and the serfs began to seek self-emancipation, he would have supported the serfs without hesitation, but unfortunately, the serfs here were appointed, and their religious beliefs were more important than anything else. To liberate them under such circumstances will not only not win their support, but will also offend the religious privileged class, and they will not be human inside and out.

After the emancipation, the serfs were emancipated by legal status, and after the economic conditions improved, they did not have high material requirements, and were willing to donate most of their wealth to the temple instead of for pleasure. This kind of human psychology is incomprehensible to materialistic people in the commercial society. Therefore, in later generations, there are a large number of public intellectuals who sing the praises of Tibetan culture, but in fact, these public intellectuals are full of food and support, and they are absolutely unwilling to let these people take out all their wealth. What's more, constantly waving the flag for the rebel forces and criticizing their own government's Tibet policy under the banner of various Western worldviews, such as "freedom," is either ignorant or deliberately smeared.

Zhou Lang learned these lessons, and he found that this sentence is very true, but do not do to others what you want, sometimes do not do to others, because others may not need to pay a huge cost to liberate the serfs, and may not be able to get the support of the serfs, so don't do it.

But within the scope of not offending the Tibetan elite, Zhou Lang still made some efforts, such as spending money to buy serfs from those serf owners, and then giving them free status, first by making them serve, then giving them land, allowing them to cultivate, and turning serfs into yeoman farmers.

In this way, the minister stationed in Tibet organized a Tibetan army of 10,000 people, stationed in the border areas, and established more than a dozen military reclamation areas.

After this army left Tibet, it united the armies of the two vassal states of Gurkha and Sikkim, totaling 30,000 men, of which 15,000 were sent by Gurkha, and 30,000 troops quickly captured the southern foothills of the Himalayas, which were previously controlled by Burma, and the two princely states of Assam and Manipur in the upper reaches of the Brahmaput.

The real main force was the Chinese army that marched south from Yunnan, totaling 100,000 men, from the Ruili River into Burma, and finally into the middle and upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River.

The rainforest terrain makes it difficult to conduct large-scale warfare, and the main way is to support local forces, secede from Burma, and support the Kachin people centered on Myitkyina to establish the Kachin state, and the Shan people centered on Lashio to establish the Shan state. After that, he successively supported the way of local powerful factions to build the country, which completely and directly caused Burma, the largest empire in South Asia, and the Gongbang Dynasty also perished.

This is a later story, a real counteroffensive through the jungle of Myanmar is unrealistic, and the Irrawaddy River currently does not have the capacity for large-scale shipping, and the transportation capacity is limited. Therefore, the counteroffensive in India mainly relied on the armies of African companies.

After a long tug-of-war with British India, the strategic balance once again tilted in favor of the African company, and the key to breaking the balance was that the Sikh Empire finally chose a position between China and Britain, and they decided to form an alliance with China, so that the army of the African company could pass through the territory of the Sikh Empire, cross the upper Indus River and attack directly to the Delhi region of North India.

The company pledged to support the Sikh Empire's advance into Delhi and to seize the area south of the Yamuna River and west of the Chambal River, where they had previously been bounded by the Sutlej River and the British Raj River, with the newly expanded territory twice as large as the previous one. I can't help but be unmoved, but the main reason is that they have chosen a position between China and Britain, they are more optimistic about China, and they are more willing to accept an alliance with China, mainly because China's governance is more easily recognized by agricultural peoples, and Britain's kind of exploitation system, which famine at every turn, is really frightening.

After allied with the Sikh Empire, the combined forces of the two countries quickly captured Delhi and advanced to the middle reaches of the Ganges, where they fought fierce battles with the British Indian army, winning and losing. Both sides had abundant human resources, with 40 million people in the Indus African Company Territory, more than 10 million people in the Sikh Empire, and more than 200 million in British India. Both sides have military industrial systems of comparable scale, in fact, the weakest of them is African companies, because they can purchase from China, and the Chinese fleet has the right to control the sea, so African companies have not been able to build their own military industrial systems, while the Sikh Empire and British India have their own military industrial systems.

The military industry of the Sikh Empire can produce rifles and cannons with the same quality and performance as Europe, and he has a standing army of about 30,000 people, equipped with about 200 infantry guns, but after the scale of the war expanded, the Sikh Empire could not support it, and the African company provided 80,000 weapons assistance, so that the Sikh army expanded to 100,000 people; The African Company itself established an army of 200,000 people in the Indus Valley, because the Indus Valley was once ruled by the British, resulting in the power of the rural lords here, and the frenzied exploitation policy of the British, coupled with the spread of Chinese literati culture here, the soldiers of the African Company all had the characteristics of subordinate soldiers, and they all thought that they were fighting for their homeland.

The opponent British Indian army was no different from the East India Company army in the past, almost mercenaries, mainly native soldiers of all classes in India, and the officer class was either a feudal aristocracy in Islam or a Brahmin caste of the upper class of Hinduism, and it was dominated by Brahmins. After the end of the British East India Company's rule over British India, the direct rule of the government reduced the level of oppression to a certain extent and eased the local contradictions. But the tax rate is still very high, Britain needs India to be self-reliant, and the military industrial system in India, the huge army, are all dependent on India's financial supply. In this way, the British built up a standing army of 200,000 men in India.

The combined forces of the African Company and the Sikhs, after a year's hold with the British in the Delhi area, finally repelled the British and advanced along the Indus River towards the heart of British India.

In time, Britain will lose all of India.

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