At this moment, the sky was already bright, the sun hung high in the sky, wantonly discharging heat, all kinds of tropical plants grew wantonly into all kinds of strange shapes, and in the jungle, countless snakes, insects, ants and birds seemed to be frightened by outsiders, and they scattered in all directions with their screams. 【Reading.com】

"The British guy who said the dog really made Commander-in-Chief Li right, and he actually took the opportunity to go north to occupy more territory." Looking through the telescope into the dense forest in the distance, I could see that a large number of armed men were rushing towards this side, and the bright red uniform of the British Army was particularly dazzling in the dense forest.

"Damn, it seems that there are a lot of them, I guess there must be three or four thousand people, right? Damn it. Even the instructor next to him couldn't help but say a foul word.

"Let the brethren cheer up and be ready to fight, and let them hold the flag as high as possible, so that the English white-skinned devils can see whose flag it belongs to." Ruan Cheng gritted his teeth and sneered.

Major Clive, the advance battalion of the East India Company's colonial army, took out a handkerchief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, took the jug from the guard's hand, and poured it a few times. The spring water in the kettle, which was supposed to be cool, had already been a little hot under the spicy sun, which made Major Clive even more unhappy, and reached out to take the water and slapped his face and neck, while cursing the jungle full of poisonous insects and dangers and the scorching sun that could dry people.

Soon, his complaint was interrupted by a herald who hurried from the rear, and the herald of Brigadier General Jeff, the commander of the Anglo-Afghan forces, stood in front of him. "Major, Brigadier General Jeff has asked us to speed up a little faster. We were already five hours late. ”

"Alright, I see, please tell Your Excellency the Brigadier General, we will advance as fast as we can, and arrive at Kyaukbo East City before two o'clock in the afternoon." Major Clive replied with some smirk.

Looking at the back of the herald leaving, Major Clive couldn't help but spit on the ground. "Major, I think we should hurry as soon as possible, Brigadier General Jeff doesn't have a good temper." Next to him, the company commander, Captain Waite, walked over and said.

"Let's go, who made us a bunch of losers who were once captured by the Easterners for two years." There was a hint of helpless bitterness on Major Clive's face, two years ago he was a good major in the colonial army of the British Empire, and he would soon be promoted, but no one expected that when they were ambitious to go to that country covered with silk and tea trees to harvest wealth and glory, they fell into the trap of that damned Oriental robber and became unlucky prisoners of war.

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Two and a half years have been like a long nightmare, and the life of sleeping on the goose-down bed with the bewitching girl in their arms and wine in India is gone, and their wonderful and proud British Army and Navy have become calloused laborers, toiling hard in exchange for a little food.

Every day, I could only stay in the big rooms like pigsties, smell the indescribable stench wafting from the nearby thatched houses, and endure the bites of fleas and mosquitoes and fell asleep. Only at the end of the month did they get a break to eat a little oily broth and bread, as well as fruit, which was already the best part of his life as a prisoner of war.

Finally, after two and a half years, they finally waited for their freedom, and yes, when they saw the merchant ships flying the flag of the British Empire coming to pick them up from Kowloon, which they, the British prisoners of war called the city of nightmares, at that moment, almost all the prisoners of war hugged each other with joy.

However, no one could have imagined that when they arrived in Penang and were about to enjoy the beauty and freedom, the damned military order forced them to take up arms again to fight.

However, the only consolation was that their enemies were no longer the demonic Chinese army, but the Burmese army, which was no different from the indigenous Indian army they had encountered in India.

Victory, victory after victory, gradually brought back the confidence they had lost for a long time, and the enemies who charged at them in ancient armor, with broadswords and spears, and occasionally riding wild beasts like elephants, fell one by one under the fire and guns of their British Empire, or fled away with a cry.

The pride and superiority of being the British Emperor [***] seemed to have returned to their former prisoners of war in just two months, and it was not until a few days ago, when Brigadier General Jeff from London, England, asked them to advance north again, in any case, to seize the eastern city of Kyaukbo before the Chinese army, to increase the bargaining chips with the Chinese Empire, and to strive to get more colonies and wealth from Burma, Major Clive knew that originally, That nightmare haunted him, and the fear and hatred of that empire had always lurked in his heart.

However, the element of fear is far greater than hatred, and it has to be said that two and a half years of physical and mental torture have given them a deep understanding of the strength and iron blood of Liang Pengfei, the current leader of that empire, and when Brigadier General Jeff made this request, it was opposed by almost all the British [***] officers who had been prisoners of war, including Major Clive, of course.

Because they were deeply jealous of the fighting power of that emperor, and knew very well that with the strength of the British Empire in the Eastern colonies now, it would never be able to compete with that empire, but Brigadier General Jeff, who had just arrived in Penang not long after coming from England, foolishly regarded their opposition as a sign of cowardice on the part of a group of cowards.

At this time, the only Governor of Penang who could hold the Brigadier General Jeff hostage and the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the British East India Company, Edmund. Viscount Burke was still on his way back to Penang. So, they had no choice but to take the order of the stupid and arrogant Brigadier General Jeff and move on.

"Flags, look, there, there's flags!" A soldier walking in front of him suddenly shouted loudly, causing the soldiers who were hurrying through the dense forest to stop in astonishment and look in the direction that the soldier's raised arm pointed into.

"My God......" Seeing the blood-red banner at the mouth of the valley that lay ahead, Major Clive felt his blood almost freeze from the chill rising from the bottom. It's them! It's the banner of that Eastern pirate! The next moment, Major Clive's howl, as sharp as the Malayan orangutan in heat, resounded through the dense forest.

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Brigadier Jeff, who was sitting in the elephant's chariot and staggering and sleeping, was woken up by the anxious reports of his own guards. "What's wrong, what's going on?" Brigadier General Jeff, who weighed nearly two hundred pounds, opened his eyes and said disappedly at the guard who was standing on the ground with his head raised and saluting him.

"Your Excellency, Major Clive of the Advance Battalion has discovered that there is an unknown number of Chinese Emperor [***] troops in the Mengli Pass ahead, and in order to prevent unnecessary misunderstandings on the other side, they have stopped advancing." The guard did not dare to slack off, and immediately replied.

"What did you say?!" Brigadier General Jeff couldn't help but widen his gray eyes. "You're saying that Clive coward spotted the traces of the Chinese army in front of him? Do you know how far it is from Magway City? It's ninety-five miles, and from Mandalay, the capital of Burma, it's nearly two hundred miles, twice the distance we are. We set off as soon as we got the news of the attack on Mandalay, and it was less than two days ago, did those Chinese troops fly over?! ”

"General, this news has been confirmed, and it is indeed the banner of that Eastern Empire." The guard replied against the spit that Jeff spewed.

"Bastards, these idiots, hurry up, I'm going to see for myself!" Brigadier General Jeff cursed for the elephant slave to drive the elephant faster.

By the time he arrived at the advance camp guarded outside the Mengli Pass, the army defending the Mengli Pass had already sent an envoy. "On behalf of the 63rd Division of the Central and Southern Field Army of the Chinese Empire, I warn you that you have violated the agreement between us, and that your British and Arakan coalition forces should be in Magway City, not here." The commander of the special reconnaissance company, Ruan Youjiang, stood in front of Major Clive, as if he was ignoring the Anglo-Allied soldiers around him, and was warning Major Clive there.

"Major Clive, what is this yellow-skinned ghost talking about?" After getting off the elephant, he walked over with a civilized stick under his arm, arrogantly glanced at the Chinese army envoy who was like an upside-down pot on his head, and asked casually.

"Your Excellency, General. This is the representative of the Chinese Emperor [***] team, and they think we have crossed the line. "Major Clive has a lot of grievances against His Excellency the Brigadier General, but he does not dare to show it in front of him in the slightest.

"Really, we've crossed the line? It's ridiculous that you tell this short, thin, malnourished yellow-skinned devil that the pace of our British Emperor [***] is not something that any person or country can stop, let him leave this mountain pass with his soldiers, because, our army will go all the way north, and then north, Burma belongs to our British Empire, not theirs! Brigadier General Jeff's speech was in line with the manifesto of a brilliant and arrogant British senior general to those barbaric and backward peoples.

However, hearing his words made Major Clive's expression extremely ugly, because he knew very well that his boss obviously regarded the behemoth of the Chinese Empire as a weak and deceitful country like Burma or India or the New World, and had little ability to resist in front of the powerful army of the British Empire.

(To be continued)