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The sun of the plateau pierced the thin clouds and sprinkled the earth with a white and silver light. In Gyantse, Tibet, the commanders of China's 50,000 new army were Cai Ye and Jiang Baili. Cai Ye commanded 30,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, and Jiang Baili commanded about 10,000 artillery. Originally, Nie Shicheng, who was old and strong, took the initiative to ask Ying, and asked the army chief Duan Qirui to go to the presidential palace to find Song Xiaofei, and asked Xuefei General Li Guang and Lao Ji to fight on the battlefield again.

Song Xiaofei did not agree. He said to Duan Qirui: "You tell General Nie that I can understand his hard work and loyalty. General Nie is a real national soldier, honest and rigorous, and an upright official. The Wuyi New Army he trained is also the pillar of the country, and it is united by his personality strength. However, General Nie and his generals are all from the old Huai Army, and although they have experienced the transformation from broadswords and spears to foreign guns and cannons, objectively speaking, he is a military commander with a semi-cold weapon and a semi-modern weapon, and there is a great contradiction between the new-style military exercises and the old command concepts. It can be said that General Nie was a good general of the old era. This time, China will face Britain, the world's number one power, and the well-equipped British army, and the overall quality of the British army is not comparable to that of the Spanish army or the Cuban army. I think it's still important to give young people a chance. Cai Ye and Jiang Baili, they need a bigger stage. ”

Duan Qirui said: "The president is reasonable, and I will tell the truth. In the end, the gray-haired Nie Shicheng sighed: "I'm really old", and he didn't fight anymore.

Gyantse County is a thousand-year-old city, located in southern Tibet, in the east of Shigatse City, in the upper reaches of the Nianchu River. The terrain is high in the north and south, low in the central and western regions, with an average altitude of 4,000 meters. On both sides of the Nianchu River. It is a canyon area, with a maximum altitude of 7,191 meters.

In May, the temperature warmed up, the Naiqin Kangsang Snow Mountain had melted, the Nianchu River thawed, and the gurgling water was very clean, flowing down the pebbles in the canyon river. The vanguard of the British army was a battalion of more than 300 people. by John. Captain Cameron led the way, followed by an army of 3,000 Indian servants. John was about thirty years old, and his mustache was cocked. A confident face. He has been in India for many years and is familiar with the terrain of Tibet. The British invaded Tibet and soon crossed the gorge of the Nianchu River and occupied the Pala serf owner's estate, 2 kilometers from the county seat. It was one of the eight aristocratic estates of old Tibet. John set up his headquarters here.

Cai's army was stationed at Zongshan, located in the center of Gyantse County. For several days, hundreds of British troops harassed the squadron, constantly attacking the squadron's positions with a small number of British troops and a large number of servants, but they did not dare to advance too aggressively. Because they found that the firepower of the squadron was very fierce, especially the artillery, and they did not dare to take the liberty of a decisive battle before the British troops in Myitkyina arrived. Because before 1895, Beiyang had already built a basic industrial system led by military enterprises. These include metal mining and metallurgy, machine tool manufacturing, chemical industry, shipbuilding, military industry, etc. In addition, the talents who have returned from studying in the United States have preliminary research and development capabilities. At this time, after more than ten years of large-scale investment and development. There is also the guidance of Song Xiaofei, an artillery soldier in the 21st century, and the mortars made in China in 1908 were close to the level of World War II mortars. Jiang Baili also enriched the theory of artillery under the guidance of Song Xiaofei. Artillerymen know that the power of artillery is measured by accuracy, range, rate of fire, ammunition power, and tactical use of artillery. The whole army has a map that can be used for artillery command!

The squadron was also equipped with 16 Krupp 75 guns, 32 Krupp 60 guns, about 32 Grusen 57 land guns (field guns) and mountain guns, and about 36 Krupp 37 guns. There are about four types of shells: flowering shells (grenades) are used to destroy forts, barracks, and city walls; Bullets (shrapnel) attack the enemy in dense formation; Grapeshell attacks charged skirmishers; Solid steel bullets are used to penetrate steel armor and iron armor ships.

At that time, the guns of the Chinese infantry were also new small-caliber Type 1888 Mauser guns, and they were armed with Tianlong heavy machine guns. The firepower was very strong, close to the level of the British army. After becoming familiar with the tactics of the British army, Cai gave the order to counterattack the British army two days later.

Two days later, the Chinese soldiers had suppressed the British attacks for a long time, and now it was finally their turn to attack, so they burst out with several times more firepower than usual and stormed the British positions.

John didn't expect that the squadron would start to counterattack them so quickly and fight with the British army. China and Britain have not been at war for many years, he has been in India for a long time, and his understanding of the squadron is still in the late Qing Dynasty, thinking that the squadron will flee as soon as the artillery bombards it.

Cai Yi did not want too many casualties in the first battle, and used all the military planes developed by the Wright brothers, which were transported from the railway to Gyantse.

Cai ordered four planes carrying a large amount of explosives and began to fly towards the Pala serf lord's estate in Gyantse to bomb the British headquarters. Airplanes at that time, although not very fast, were still faster than airships. When the four planes flew over the Para serf owner's estate, the British were shocked when they saw it, they didn't expect that the squadron would have such a high-tech thing, and they didn't have a weapon specifically to deal with the planes, so they were very passive.

John grabbed Adjutant Lang Weili by the collar, "God, what is this winged steel monster?" Why are there bombs and machine guns on it? ”

Adjutant Lang Weili also looked innocent, "This thing, I don't know, is probably a new weapon secretly developed by the Chinese." ”

The Chinese soldiers on the plane laughed and kept throwing bombs on the house of the British headquarters, and the British soldiers on the ground began to scatter and run around when they saw the plane throwing bombs. As for those Indian Ah San (servant army) were very shocked when they saw the plane, they felt like a big bird that could pull bombs, and they watched the bombs drop from their heads in a daze, and a large number of Indian servant troops were killed and injured, and finally the entire British army in the command post was blown up crying out to God, dodging bombs everywhere, and black smoke billowed over the British command post.

Chinese planes not only bombed the command post of the British troops, but after two rounds of bombing, they flew towards the center of Gyantse, destroying the military defensive positions that the British troops had already built.

When the four planes appeared in the sky over Gyantse together, the British troops below were eager to grow four legs, and many British troops also saw planes for the first time in Asia, and these planes were bigger than their British Empire's airships, the terrifying scenes of bombs falling from the sky, as well as the strafing of machine guns, made them feel very desperate, a large number of military buildings were blown up, ammunition depots were also blown up, and some British troops who were not well evaded were also killed. The British troops were in shock and the debris was all over the ground, and it was not until the plane had been gone for half an hour that the British dared to run out of the dodge. The invincible British Empire ** team fled.

Seeing this scene, Cai Ye commanded the squadron to pursue. When the British saw that the Chinese had counterattacked, they immediately asked all the remaining Indian servants to block the Wehrmacht's artillery fire, and they accelerated their escape. Those Indian servants were driven by the British army and fought back without fear of death, but because the weapons of the Indian servants were too backward, the Mauser 1898 rifle in their hands was not a single shot with one bullet, but a magazine rifle that could hold multiple rounds! The dense formation of the platoon gun attack seems to be their eternal standard tactic, and the density of firepower is completely guaranteed by the dense formation.

These stupid cannon fodder in India were hit by accurate shells from Chinese artillery, and those individual bunkers and shallow trenches were destroyed beyond recognition. Cai Yi's army used heavy machine guns to carry out the slaughter like cutting wheat, three or four soldiers operated the heavy machine guns together, the main and secondary shooters cooperated, and they were engrossed and used all their strength to keep the machine gun body stable, their eyes stared at the area ahead, and the bullets roared out suddenly, and many Indian Ah San who died in the war were bloodstained with blood on their faces blackened by gunpowder, the blood flowing from the corners of their mouths had coagulated, and their cold bodies were on the ground. Many of the Indian servants surrendered on their knees.

In the rumbling cannon and dense gunfire, the flying dragon flag of the squadron shook head-on. The position within a radius of more than 10 meters immediately became a hell on earth, and the British army and the Indian Ah San who fled were either blown up or shocked to death, and they had no ability to fight back for a while.

"Rush!" The saber in Cai Yi's hand pointed forward sharply, and the war horse under his crotch was stabbed hard by the spur, and let out a long neigh, and galloped forward. The ** people beat their horses and galloped under the shout of "kill"! This army, which is made up of experienced cavalry soldiers, radiates an indomitable momentum of victory.

Cai Ye commanded the cavalry to pursue, and in this battle, 300 British troops and 3,000 Indian servant troops suffered heavy deaths, more than 200 British troops died, and 1,500 Indian A3 were killed and 1,000 were captured. The squadron has achieved a great victory in Gyantse! This battle broke the history of the squadron not defeating the British army. After being reported by the New York Times and The Times, Cai's reputation was shocked!

The commander of the British forces in India, Minto. Carl received a telegram from John fiasco, and the first time he received the news, he thought it was a fake, what kind of thing is an airplane? How can China have military aircraft? He immediately thought that the Germans must have sold the advanced airship to China, and in this war, the Germans must have allied with China again, thinking of this, he immediately transmitted such news back to London, he did not admit that the squadron defeated the army of the British Empire, and put all the blame on Germany, saying that Germany and China colluded to trap Britain, and at the same time he also telegraphed the Myitkyina reinforcements that were coming, hoping that they would reach Gyantse quickly and deal a heavy blow to the Chinese. (To be continued......)