The Donghui Overseas Territory was made up of several countries and regions conquered by the Tang Dynasty, including Manipur, which had been defeated by the Burmese, the kingdom of Assam, which had always been relatively strong, and of course, the Mughal Empire, which nominally ruled India. Due to the more advanced colonial policy of the Tang people www.biquge.info the local people were afraid of virtue, although there were occasional rebellions in recent years, but on the whole, it still did not have much impact on the rule of Donghui's overseas territories.

In this region, the forces were actually very complex, with the remnants of the Mughal provinces, the control of the British East India Company, and the small princely states such as the Kingdom of Kuchibihar, as well as the foothills of Gurkha, Sikkim and Bhutan, which meant that the Wu Yi army had to encounter some other forces if they wanted to enter the territory of the Gurkhas.

Seven years ago, the Tang army defeated the Mughal power, and although some local tribes expressed their submission to the Tang Dynasty's overseas territories, they were more autonomous. The main purpose of Wu Yijun's expedition was to sweep up the vast area in the middle reaches of the Brahmaputra River valley, including the Gurkhas. The Brahmaputra River is a huge river system, called the Brahmaputra River in China, and after entering South Asia, it becomes the Brahmaputra River in India, and the Bengali people call it the Jamuna River. However, now that the Tang people have taken control of Donghui, they have directly turned it into the Brahmaputra River to maintain unity.

The Yamato Corps stationed in Donghui has reserved a batch of logistics and ammunition here, and the Yamato Corps and the Wuwei Army both belong to the second-line combat units in the Datang military system, and the weapons used are the same, so they have relatively strong versatility in logistics, the same S1 bolt-action rifle, the same first-generation Tang-made 60mm mortar, and so on. Relatively speaking, Wu Yijun's firepower is stronger. After all, they have a much larger number of machine guns. And it was also armed with 105-mm howitzers.

The biggest benefit of being able to supply ammunition locally by Donghui is that it can be replenished. That is, the Wu Yi army did not have to carry a large number of weapons and ammunition over the mountains and mountains to Gurkha in the absence of trucks, mules and horses.

After the 3rd Brigade of the Wuyi Army arrived at the front line, Deng Yuanshun also received the first operational instruction, leading his regiment to cross the Brahmaputra River, go out of the enemy territory, and seize the corresponding stronghold. Liao Yuhai even personally found Deng Yuanshun and said to him: "This area, in fact, the ownership is not clear. The Gurkhas, Mughals, and even the British claimed the lands, but it was the nobles who really ruled the lands. The ethnic composition here is more complicated, and it is difficult for us to judge who is more friendly to us, at most we declare to them and ask them to submit to us, and we can't do anything more. No idiot should dare to openly resist our army. ”

Liao Yuhai's guess is still very accurate, after crossing the river, this area is mainly inhabited by Bengalis, and there are also some ethnic settlements such as Gurkhas, Assamese, Kassi, and Rebcha, and these tribes are relatively weak. They now actually have to pay tribute to the Gurkhas, on the one hand, and to the British on the other. When Wu Yijun arrived. Some people were in despair, because as soon as the army crossed the border, there must be some looting of the village.

However, what surprised them was that this group of soldiers brought a dragon banner and asked them to raise the banner and claim to be a subject of the Tang Dynasty. They didn't even replenish food in the village, let alone loot their belongings, but only asked the locals for some water. There were no defenders left, and the force continued to move forward, doing the same thing.

The core of the Gurkha rule is in the Kathmandu Valley, and in other territories, they have at most little influence and no garrisons. After the Wuyi army successively seized more than 20,000 square kilometers of land, it really encountered a Gurkha army. It was the 53rd Regiment led by Deng Yuanshun who encountered the enemy.

Deng Yuanshun's advance was not too forward, there were friendly troops on the left and right flanks thirty kilometers apart, and Deng Yuanshun also paid attention to sending scouts, but it was still a sudden encounter with the army coming from the Gurkhas. This group of Gurkhas, numbering about 700, was in the first contact with a company of the 53rd Regiment. After a detour, the company saw a wave of soldiers coming down from the mountains and forests on that side, and immediately put them on guard.

The incident happened suddenly, in a hurry, and the company did not have time to dig trenches or anything, and there was no effective cover around, so the company commander immediately ordered the soldiers to block the enemy on the slope on the side of the road.

This wave of Gurkhas, who themselves got the news, said that there were enemy troops entering the country, and they came in the starry night, and when they saw that although they did not know what the origin of this group of enemies was, they were not numerous, and immediately broke out their fighting spirit and rushed over. The Gurkha were already strong warriors, and even if the enemy was stronger, they would rush head-on, not to mention that the enemy was far less than themselves.

The group of Gurkha people had few muskets, and their main weapons were ****** and some bows and arrows, and the distance between the two sides was about two thousand meters. Even though there weren't many automatic weapons, the fire from one plane still took a toll on the Gurkhas. The Gurkhas, too, were visibly stunned, for they had never seen such a musket in sight.

However, the Gurkhas were also brave, charging fiercely even when they were heavily wounded under the muskets. This oppressive force still made some of the Wuyi soldiers who were on the battlefield for the first time a little nervous, but under the roar of the officer leading the team, they still tried to maintain their fighting posture and poured bullets at each other.

Although the Gurkha were killed a lot, but after all, they were more numerous, and at the risk of death and injury, they still rushed to the front, at this time the officers shouted to put on the bayonet, some soldiers hurriedly stuck the bayonet on the muzzle, when the first Gurkha man held ****** high to kill, a relatively calm soldier half leaned over, and performed a rehearsal of an unknown number of assassination movements, accurately stabbing the Gurkha soldier in the stomach.

The soldiers of the Wu Yi Army did not have too superb fighting skills, and what they had were the simplest killing techniques. When hand-to-hand combat began, many soldiers let go of their hands and feet, brandished spears, and took advantage of their length and coordination tactics to constantly stab the Gurkhas, who were known for their bravery. Non-commissioned officers and officers, armed with pistols, also constantly fired at the approaching enemy. The hand-to-hand combat did not last long, and the Gurkhas, frightened by their well-trained Wu Yi army, collapsed and retreated in less than ten minutes. (To be continued.) )