March 1856. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info west into the city, the former Kremlin, now the West Palace. After finishing the review, Cixi, who had read the newspapers in the past few days, came to the amusement park of the palace worriedly. Here, the Empress Dowager Ci'an of the East Palace is practicing stone locks.

Since Wuzong Xianfeng began to practice martial arts, all the self-motivated concubines, palace maids, and eunuchs in the palace have all practiced martial arts.

Seeing the worried Cixi, Ci'an put down the stone lock and asked, "Sister, what's the matter?" ”

Cixi took a newspaper: "The British are restless again. ”

Ci'an read the newspaper, but it was a piece of news, about the British in the Egyptian colony exhausted tens of thousands of local Egyptian natives, in a few months to open the Suez Canal, connecting the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indian Ocean routes.

With the opening of this route, the distance from Europe to Asia will be much shorter, and it will be much safer, as there will be no more detours around the Cape of Good Hope storm zone. In this way, British warships could come to Hindustan earlier through the Suez Canal to defend their colonies.

Originally, there was only one mouth in the Mediterranean, which was Spain's own territory, and now the Spanish-British alliance will certainly not block the British ships from entering. And when the British navy entered the Mediterranean, there was a good fruit of the Germans and Italians, who now regard the Mediterranean as a bathtub for their own navy.

The news article wrote that this ancient canal opened by the British had existed thousands of years ago, and then it was abandoned for hundreds of years because the channel was silted up by sediment and not cleaned up in time. The British were only re-excavating the old canal, so the amount of work was much smaller than that of a new canal.

When Ci'an was reading the newspaper, Cixi said: "The revenge of the first emperor cannot be avenged." I want to emulate the old things of Tianbo Mansion and set out on the expedition. Bring this Egypt and the canal into the territory of our Qing Dynasty, and we must not let this heroic ship pass through the canal. ”

After reading the newspaper, Ci'an smiled and said, "This matter can't let my sister be beautiful." Knowing that on the day the first emperor died, I secretly swore that even if there was only one woman left in my Niu Colu clan in the end, I would destroy Ying to avenge the first emperor. ”

Cixi: "Sister. ”

Ci'an: "Sister." Don't say it, I'm not as good as you when it comes to battlefield command, but charging into battle, have I and the first emperor fallen behind anyone over the years? Even if the first emperor is gone, we are still the same, you are the boss and the seal is in the middle of the command. I'm a pioneer. ”

Cixi and Ci'an raised the banner of avenging the first emperor and prepared to send troops to Egypt.

Of course, this is not as simple as leading troops to fight over, the Qing army only has infantry cavalry, and the navy has to rely on the navy of the Germans and Japanese to contain or even eliminate the British navy in the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean. Today, the Japanese Navy has consolidated the defenses of Malacca, and the navy frequently sorties from bases in Malacca, intercepting British merchant ships in the Indian Ocean and shelling British warships and ports.

But this is all a small fight, and there is no full-scale war, to some extent, that is, military training. The British have long been accustomed to the sea under the sound of artillery, and British warships will fight when they see Japanese warships. Ironclad battles often end with both sides wounded and leaving. At this time, the appearance of ironclad ships was an era when shields were stronger than spears. Even if the seriously injured ironclad ship returns to the port for a few months to repair it, it will be able to regain its combat effectiveness.

At this time, the actual control of the Qing army had expanded to the Sinai Peninsula, and the way from the west to the city was to march within the territory.

Of course, such a large-scale military operation could not be concealed, and the British still had many spies in Europe controlled by the Qing army. As soon as the Qing army was assembled, the British immediately got the news.

At this time, the British also began to admire their foresight, and mobilized a large number of servant troops from the Hindustan region to Africa in advance. That's millions of hard laborers, and there is not so much of a population to be mobilized in Britain itself.

At the same time that the British began the defense of the Suez Canal, they received the news that the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces had personally conquered Egypt. Although the training of most of the troops has not yet been completed, the six relatives of the devil led a cavalry of 100,000 people and 500,000 horses, with an average of five horses per person. From Central Asia due north to the British colony of Hindustani.

In order to defend the African colonies, the British mobilized millions of strong men from the populous region of Hindustan, leaving the rest of the defense to the pro-British princely states of Hindustan region.

There are more than 100 princely states in the Hindustan region, and these princely states often have a soldier of 10,000 people, and where are the opponents of the Qing army who take medicine every day like wolves and tigers.

Some of the princely states loyal to the British also asked the British for help, and others, after seeing the strength of the Qing cavalry, simply threw the British masters aside to change the court, and began to swear allegiance to the Qing regent Guizi Liu.

For the British, the Hindustan region cannot be lost, but neither can the Suez Canal. Today, the British in Hindustan do not exceed 100,000 men, together with those who trade and colonize, plus the British army that rules the area.

Since their family members know their own affairs, the British know in their hearts that judging from the battlefield achievements over the years, 100,000 British people will never be able to stop the 100,000 Qing troops in field battles -- the British Army has always fought five scum, and this is recognized by the British themselves. Therefore, those princely states who came to ask for help, although they were comforted by the kind words of the British, were in fact abandoned children.

Their sacrifice was best enough to hold off the Qing army, and now it was more important for the British to concentrate on defending Delhi and Mumbai. These two places were the centers of British colonization. Here, too, the British have a good mass base for the local people - the local people are actually afraid of being killed by the British.