The night lights were lit by the street patrolmen, and the dim glow of the lampshades shone on the willow trees along the canal. Standing on the balcony facing the street on the second floor of the embassy, Pu Dingcha overlooked the capital at night, the direction of the Forbidden City was red in the night, and those round red lanterns lit up the Forbidden City, in this moonlit and starry autumn night, the Forbidden City, a giant castle, made people feel more majestic and powerful, like a giant dragon entrenched in the middle of the capital.

While Pu Ding was thinking about his thoughts, there was a knock at the door.

"Your Excellency, Mr. John has returned, and he has asked to see you."

"Let him come up."

John, a middle-aged man in his early thirties, dressed like the Chinese on the street, entered the door John reported to Pu Dingcha about the investigation at the western suburbs train station.

"Sir, the Chinese army is like ants, these people are already equipped with the most advanced weapons, and they have filled the station square in whole teams, and it has become a sea of green. Martial law patrol sentinels were everywhere, and the wagons of the army, covered with green linen, lined up for miles away. Their artillery was wrapped in canvas and pulled by horses. Infantry escorted them into the platform of the railway station. ”

Although Pu Ding Cha did not see it with his own eyes, in John's surprised narration, he had already felt the strength of this imperial army, thinking of the loss he had just suffered in the war for hegemony, Pu Ding Cha felt a chill, a gust of autumn wind blew outside the window, and Pu Ding Cha closed the window.

That night, under a kerosene lamp, Pu Ding Cha wrote a well-worded letter to the British government. It euphemistically expressed the view that Britain and China should make their due contribution to world peace.

In 1845, when spring approached, Kathmandu, which was already warm, suddenly dropped in temperature. There was a lot of slaughter in the air that shouldn't have been in spring. Just when the Chinese Empire was basking in the joy of victory, Lin Hong received news of the Gurkha rebellion. Rana took advantage of the Nepalese King Prativir. Narayan. When Shah went to Beijing to meet him, he launched a rebellion, Lin Hong knew very well that this was a blockage imposed by the British, but he just used this to swallow Nepal or everything, so as not to have a country in his own country, Lin Hong looked at the map and looked twisted.

Bahadur. Rana's eyebrows and beard were covered in a frosty white, and he carried a scimitar most commonly used by the Gurkhas, across his waist, and rode a Persian horse gifted by the British. He took the reins with him and silently waved his hand to his men. A large group of Gurkha soldiers, led by the generals, meandered towards the Nathula Pass, and this team of nearly 10,000 people did not make any noise in the march, only the rustling footsteps echoed on the snow-capped mountains of the plateau.

Bahadur. Rana gathered an elite Gurkha force that was absolutely loyal to him, and three thousand of them were armed with front-loading flint muskets presented by the British. The other 7,000 men were armed with earthen guns, and of course every Gurkha warrior would not forget to wear the Gurkha scimitar shaped like a dog's leg, the sharp Gurkha scimitar could easily cut off the enemy, and they had always been the favorite of the Gurkha warriors. Behind this team was a team of waddling horses, pulling a team of horses that had been presented to Bahadur by the British. Lana's marching artillery, pulling artillery on this rugged mountain road is simply cumbersome, but Bahadur. Lana is not too troublesome at all, and these ten field guns will be his killer weapons. With these cold iron pipes Bahadur. Rana seems to have seen the goddess of the snow-capped mountains blessing him on the top of the white mountain.

On the more than 1,000-kilometer journey from Lhasa to Kathmandu, Shao Wen commanded a large army to march forward. This time, he transferred four infantry divisions and one artillery division from the First Army. After arriving, the officers and men of the Fourth Division of the **Military Region were also under the command of Shao Wen, and the strength of this contingent had reached more than 40,000 people. Last year's adaptation training in Lhasa led to a reduction in the number of troops. About 200 soldiers remained in Lhasa as a result. The rest of the expeditionary force had adapted well to the local climate, and this achievement was reflected in the march at this time, which was almost to Shigatse, and not a single person in the team was left behind.

The transfer of troops into the Gurkha this time was also a helpless move, and now most of the troops in North India are helping the British army to quell the Indian uprising, and there is no extra military strength to go north.

At the end of the last century, the Gurkha invasion ** once attacked Shigatse, and Tashilhunpo Monastery was also plundered by invaders, so the local Tibetans welcomed the imperial army. That night the army rested in Shigatse and continued its march towards Kathmandu the next morning.

Nyalam means elephant's neck in Tibetan, and is commonly understood and translated into Chinese as "the road to hell". Shao Wen did not expect to suddenly encounter the Gurkha army here.

The mountains reach into the clear blue sky, and white clouds float on the mountainside. The Imperial Expeditionary Force advanced to the Zhangmu area after a little repair in the Nyalam Sect, from Nyalam to Zhangmu, the straight-line distance was only 18 kilometers, but the altitude difference reached more than 2,000 meters. Just a semi-arid plateau shrub steppe. It is not long to walk, and the surrounding scenery changes rapidly. The scene of subtropical humid mountain forests is not comparable to that of semi-arid areas, although the roads are difficult to walk, but suddenly in the high mountains and snowfields, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of green trees, birds singing and flowers, and the mood of the officers and men of the army is a little high.

The team marched along the banks of the turbulent Boqu River, and with the new chief of staff Zuo Zongtang taking care of Shao Wen, it was much easier. He rode on his jujube red horse and watched the peaks on both sides of the river into the axe and chopping the knife, and the waterfall falling from the peak corresponded to Li Bai's popular poem "Flying down three thousand feet", and the strange trees and flowers around the waterfall were luxuriant. The clouds rushing from the Indian Ocean swirl through the canyon and the scenery is breathtaking. It made Shao Wen feel that he was not fighting, but traveling.

Not only Yang Luchan, but many people in the expeditionary force were a little paralyzed.

The place where the Gurkha was encountered was in a canyon, and the topography of the canyon was like a stone pot on the ground. The surrounding mountains are steep and the forests are dense, and the road is difficult. The water of the Bochu River divides the canyon into two halves and rushes through the valley floor, and the only road follows the river through the valley floor. It is only more than 30 meters wide at its narrowest point. Shao Wen, as a veteran of the battlefield, coincides with Zuo Zongtang with his keen intuition. Both were worried about being dumpled in the canyon. It would be extremely dangerous for someone to suddenly block the banks of the valley and attack the army in the valley from above when the army entered the canyon.

The army stopped in front of the gorge, and in accordance with the regulations of the army, the commanders of the regiments and battalions sent out small detachments to occupy the nearby heights.

Seeing that Kathmandu was about to arrive, Platesville, who was a little anxious, complained that the army had stopped, but at that moment the sound of gunfire continued to be heard from the nearby heights. The Gurkhas killed from all around.

The Imperial Expeditionary Force had already penetrated deep into the border at this time, and the surrounding environment was unfamiliar, and such terrain was just right