Chapter 340: The Raptors Cross the River

Qi Taisheng's old life was finally saved, after all, because Qi Taiyu was rich and helped his uncle send so many gifts, Lord Detai was really bad and killed him like this.

Lord Detai left a sentence: "Go back and tell King Sù Tang, I, Detai, know what he wants to do, my Qing army has already been prepared, just let the horse come." As for what he wants to do to His Holiness, hehe, listen to him, I want to see how the Tibetans will react when they know that their living Buddha has been 'forcibly passed away'! ”

Lord Ted is prepared to let the horse come, but let the dragon come? I'm afraid he still can't think of it. Tang Ning got a reply, first: Lord Ted is not interested in developing a million acres of farmland, and he doesn't believe it, and he doesn't know what impact it will have on the livelihood of the ** people if this is successful. Second, Lord Ted thought it was funny to let the Living Buddha pass away forcibly, probably thinking that Lama Nadarai really had some magic or something.

All right. Looks like we're going to get some real things. Downing began to work in Kathmandu on the "Raptors Crossing the River" plan, that is, the Velociraptor crossing the Brahmaputra River.

The garrison reached the size of 5,000 men, but Downing felt that it was okay to send a thousand Nepalese soldiers, who, according to the British officer, were very heroic. Their air superiority would put the Tibetan army at an absolute disadvantage in a frontal war, and the Thousand Dragoons were mainly used to hunt down the stragglers who were scattered by the air force.

There is no need to dispatch a large-scale air force at all, and the air force that can adapt to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is too expensive, so Tangning transferred the latest field artillery company of the Indian army to 16 accurate 6-inch caliber howitzers, because it is expected to be a unilateral superior strike, these 16 HD6 are enough to make the Tibetan army no longer laugh.

The artillerymen were also Britons of the East India Company, and were prepared for night battles, and these new guns were self-loading, using the recoil of the shells, somewhat like automatic rifles, so that each gun only required one soldier to operate. This seems easy, but in fact it is difficult to do, because the entire mechanical structure of the cannon is very cumbersome, and it took a huge amount of energy from the world's most elite engineers to achieve Boss Tang's goal.

A round of automatic cannon fire will deplete the 6 shells on the "shell chain", and the artillery will need to replenish the ammunition, and the whole replenishment process will not take more than 30 seconds.

The shells are very heavy, and normally it takes two soldiers to make a bar, but now the shells are resting on the gun chain, which has its own small wheel, which has become a small cart, and a soldier can also change the chain.

The best thing about the automation of artillery shells is the wireless reception of commands from airship observers, so the artillery will be very idle. The shells can communicate with each other via Bluetooth and cooperate automatically, so these are unprecedented Bluetooth cannons, as long as one of them receives the signal, it can immediately start fighting.

The ultimate force that made the Tibetan army finally ruin miè was the positioning system. Due to the storage of satellites, the signal towers of auxiliary navigation can be made very convenient, and the airships are deployed near the battlefield, and the entire 1.2 million kilometers of ** battlefield only needs a few auxiliary signal towers, hidden deep in no man's land, which is not difficult, because the other side does not take information warfare to heart, and they do not understand.

The high-altitude reconnaissance airship will mark the suspicious military targets one by one with GPS, and the Indian army can choose the position of the artillery at will, because the maximum firing distance of the HD6 is more than 10,000 meters, and it is quite accurate at a distance of 8,000 meters, which is the death line of the target.

However, before the attack, the ministers stationed in Tibet, who did not know whether they were alive or dead, mobilized the Tibetans to resist the invaders in Lhasa and Tibet, and the officials of the Qing Dynasty were best at spreading rumors and making trouble, saying that the invaders were extremely unbearable, and the Tibetans were all angry. In fact, blaspheming the Darai Lama is sinful enough.

Force is not the problem, domination is the big problem. For the sake of his later rule, Downing had to fight a propaganda war with the other side. The airship flew over Lhasa with propaganda materials to drop it. The promotional materials are not small advertisements like waste paper, but carefully designed wooden boxes, which are gently lowered by small parachutes.

After the wooden box was opened, there was a silver coin and a card the size of a playing card, and the card was the content of the propaganda, or "eat his mother, wear his mother, the king of Tang came and did not pay food" and the like, and said that those who picked up the silver coins were the lucky ones selected by Guanyin Bodhisattva, and they could claim an acre of fertile land for free with this silver coin in the future.

The card also said that the lama on the silver coin is the next generation of Dalai Lama, who will save all people from fire and water, and will use divine power to reclaim one million acres of fertile land by the Brahmaputra River, and the Bodhisattva will send 10,000 acres first, and there will be continuous activities in the future, and there will be many more.

For this propaganda, Tang Ning printed 10,000 silver coins wearing Lamaist robes and spent 10,000 silver dollars. Propaganda may not be recognized, but it's real silver. This silver dollar is equivalent to one-fifteenth of the average income of the Qing people, and the Tibetans are even poorer, and this silver dollar may be able to give them a lot of full meals, which is true.

The True Bodhisattva doesn't know if it will come, but the real silver coin is really coming!

Of course, in addition to the material benefits, we also have to slander the current ruler, saying that the current Darai Lama Chenglie Gyatso was deceived by villains, and colluded with the Qing Empire's lackluster lackeys in Tibet, for example, the official salt monopoly, which was abolished in the whole world, even the Qing Dynasty, and the Tibetans still had to buy salt at a high price. Elsewhere, a pound of barley (60% of the staple food of the Tibetans, a kind of cold-resistant barley) can be exchanged for a pound of salt, but in **, the people have to spend 50 pounds of barley to exchange for a pound of salt.

It's really good to have Qi Taisheng, a person who has worked under the minister in Tibet, as a helper, and he named the villain who was deceived as Gyatso.

It's really good to have money, the propaganda war is so easy, the political and religious leaders in the Tibetan area feel extremely uneasy, these 10,000 silver dollars are a good thing, very few people are willing to hand it over, Da Lai, **** The two living Buddhas and the Tibetan minister have repeatedly asked the people to hand over the silver coins and cards, no one wants to hand them over, of course the cards are not valuable, but if you hand over the cards, you have to pay the silver coins, when I am stupid?

Seven days later, auspicious clouds fell from the sky again, and the "next generation of Da Lai" came to the airborne again, and once again threw 10,000 silver coins, causing all the people to rob, and the poor people don't care about you, and having food is the right way. Only the most devout believers are at ease.

Coincidentally, Chenglie Gyatso has not been in good health recently, and he doesn't even have the strength to come out to refute the rumors. So even in the propaganda war that the spirit boy is about to be reincarnated, the Tibetan army has suffered a dumb loss.

In fact, the Tang army prepared 30,000 silver coins, and when the third airdrop, all the Lhasa soldiers and civilians went out to rob them, and the 10,000 people were empty, which was a good opportunity for the army to sneak attack, and the dragoons who had already smuggled across the border bypassed the border defense and directly attacked Lhasa City.

An army of 1,000 on velociraptors roared to loot the camp in broad daylight, and the soldiers of the Tibetan army hurried back to the fortress from the streets and alleys.

Don't look at this only 1,000 soldiers, but the firepower is definitely stronger than the 2,000 people defending the city, because of the cartridgeless design of the Black Contractor rifle, there are 50 rounds in one magazine, and the soldiers with velociraptors have a great increase in their load-bearing capacity, so they ride the dragon to storm the fortress while pouring bullets at the other side as if they don't want money.

The artillery of the Tibetan army in a hurry has no chance to prepare, the speed of the other party rushing up is too fast, the natural danger fortress of Lhasa City is difficult to drive even the main battle tank in, the sheep intestine path, intricate, but the other party is a velociraptor dragon, a kind of jumping forward vehicle hanging balloons, it rises 7 or 8 meters high in one leap, and there is no obstacle to stop the dragoon.

After the velociraptor jumped high, there was a period of twenty or thirty meters of gliding, and the soldier took the opportunity to pull the trigger, and the bullets were swept like a horizontal rainstorm, which was really a crazy knight.

The soldiers sent by Shi Dakai were still elite, and they desperately used Russian-made K1 rifles to counterattack, but in broad daylight, they found that the opponent's mount was equipped with a heavy shield against the sky, and it was still a 45-degree oblique armor. Tang Ning did not equip the infantry fighting vehicle with oblique armor, but equipped it with velociraptors, so that the ordinary firepower of the Qing army was completely promoted, and I am afraid that only by transferring the cannon can we deal with these dragoons.

The shield looked like the front end of a battleship, bouncing off the bullets that came one after another, but what Tangning didn't expect was that the route of attack was too narrow, and the ricochets that bounced off could also bounce on the Nepalese soldiers from time to time, causing some casualties.

The Qing soldiers had to collapse under the powerful firepower, and the original Tibetan soldiers were vulnerable, while the reinforcements sent by Shi Dakai were very strong and fought and retreated, and they still had a certain combat effectiveness when they retreated to the Potala Palace, which was a headache. And the battle losses on the side of the Tang Army also exceeded Tang Ning's imagination.

Unexpectedly, with the help of such advanced offensive weapons, there were still more than 100 casualties, and this result was much more ugly than when the British and French forces fought against Seng Lingqin at Bali Bridge. King Tang's face also became ugly. Fortunately, the Nepalese soldiers were brave and did not take these dozens of lives seriously at all.

The encirclement of the Potala Palace was not as easy as the Tibetan army imagined, 16 howitzers had been set up in a secret place 5 kilometers away, and the airships hovering in the air found that there were people moving and immediately sent coordinates, usually a target was fired by three guns in a salvo, almost 100% of the target was blown away.

This automatic calculation has been improved over the years, and even the wind speed, altitude and other factors have been carefully considered, so it is so accurate that the defenders of the palace are so miserable that they hardly dare to show their heads slightly, and they are crowded in the White House and the Red House. These two places are key cultural relics protection units, and for the time being, King Tang did not order them to be blown up, otherwise the legitimacy of his next generation Dalai would be difficult to say.

The White House is the dormitory of the Supreme Leader Dalai, and the Red House houses the remains and holy relics of the past generations.

Because King Tangning had thrown 30,000 silver coins to the Lhasa people in advance, the city's hostility seemed to have diminished, and only the most ignorant believers chanted mantras at home, and most of the city's citizens watched the battle unfold. The Tang army only dispatched a thousand people, and the supplies were sufficient, and it was too simple for Qiu to commit no crimes