Chapter 10 The Surrender of Nepal
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The next morning, the white mist had not yet cleared, the sky was still gray, and there was silence and silence except for the occasional bird that fell. www.xstxt.org loud military horn sounded, and the squadron shouted the slogan "Capture Chandra alive" and began to storm Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Prime Minister Chandra of Nepal. Shamshell. Rana deployed the remaining Gurkha army for defense while asking the British for help.
"Boom ......"
"Boom ......"
The artillery shells of the squadron continued to fall in front of the positions of the Nepalese army, and many of the advancing Gurkha troops were blown up into the western sky before they could draw their knives. Cai also used airship troops in the air to bomb the Nepalese army. Some of the city's old buildings were in ruins due to artillery fire.
Although Nepal has also trained some recruits, the overall combat effectiveness is similar to that of the flag army of the late Qing Dynasty, as soon as the battle starts, they close their eyes and put their guns in the sky, and retreat after the bullets, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined, while the squadron almost does not waste a bullet and aims to shoot.
When the squadron saw the Nepalese army approaching, they immediately used grenades to blow them up, and the Gurkha army, who saw the power of the grenades, lay on the ground and did not move as soon as they saw the squadron take out the grenades, or dodged in all directions.
The only one who poses some threat to the squadron is the Nepalese elephant army, some Gurkha troops ride some war elephants, and the elephants are chained.
Some of the elephants ran to the Chinese positions and overturned the artillery.
Cai Ye later thought of a way, and the elephant went to war. And he threw elephant grass at the feet of these elephants. There are more than 50 species of elephant grass growing in the area, ranging from 5 to 6 feet tall and up to 8 feet tall. It is the favorite food of elephants. Nepalese war elephants live in very poor conditions in peacetime, all the elephant houses are made of wood, and they often do not have enough to eat, and when they see food, the elephants quickly stop their progress, stretch out their long trunks, and roll up all the elephant grass on the ground to eat. In this way, the Nepal Army became the target of the squadron.
There are also Ganges crocodiles and turtle crocodiles in the Bagmati River, on the tidal flats next to the river. There were about a dozen of them, and the large crocodiles had their mouths wide open, revealing their sharp teeth. Motionless as a sculpture, crocodiles eat everything, and some Nepalese soldiers who fell into the river were swallowed alive.
The battle lasted all morning. Chandra's army was losing ground one after another. Chandra himself personally went to the front to command. Unexpectedly, a catastrophe that could never be recovered befell his family.
In the royal palace of Nepal, the King of Nepal, Barisvi. Bill. Bikram. Shah and his elder brother, Prince Bariswi of Nepal. Kerry. Bikram. Shah, along with several pro-Tibetan ministers, discussed the surrender of China in the secret room.
Beginning in 1846, the pro-British Gurkha Rana family staged a coup d'état and seized the important political positions of the Nepalese army, leaving the king with the hereditary prime minister. For half a century, the Rana family has been controlling Nepal, which has actually caused public anger in Nepal.
Prince Kerry was overjoyed. He said with a smile: "Your Majesty, now that the British are fleeing in disarray, and more than half of the Gurkha army is killed or wounded, it is the best time for our Shah family to restore power." The goal of the Chinese is Chandra, and as long as we kill Chandra and submit to the Chinese, we will be able to restore the former glory of the Shah family! ”
King Barrisway. Bill. Bikram. The Shah had had enough of Chandra's arrogance and said, "What are we charged with?" ”
At this time, Nepal's Minister of Home Affairs, Sweet. Kerr. Ramnit. Shah said: "In the past 60 years, the Rana family has looted countless people's fat and ointment, and we can send people to raid Chandra's house, and there will definitely be a lot of money, and when the time comes, it will be announced to the people, and the people hate corruption the most, and they will definitely stand on our side." Moreover, the coup d'état of the Rana family killed more than 400 ministers, and many families were forced by their dictatorial authority to respect the Rana family on the surface, but in fact, they hated them in their hearts. It only takes a spark for the flames of anger to burn the Rana family to ashes! ”
King Barrisway. Bill. Bikram. Shah said: "The Prime Minister's Office is guarded by Gurkha troops, and our palace guards are only 300 people, can you be sure?" ”
Prince Kerry said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I have inquired, now all the people in the Gurkha army who can fight have gone to the front, and only some of the old, weak, sick and disabled are in the nursing home!" ”
King Barrisway. Bill. Bikram. Still not reassured, Shah said, "What if Chandra comes back from the front?" ”
The prince and his ministers came up with an idea, and King Barrisway. Bill. Bikram. When Shah heard this, he straightened his brows, and for the first time in thirty years, he straightened his waist and issued a decree like a king: "Chandra has deceived the king, played with power, admired foreign countries, put all the people in fire and water, and corrupted and corrupted, and immediately confiscated his house and property!" Regardless of the age of the family, they were immediately put to death. ”
Prince Kerry took two hundred soldiers of the palace guard overnight to carry out the king's orders. That night, when the wind was high and the moon was dark in Kathmandu, the people in the streets closed their homes early, and two hundred murderous palace guards with pine oil torches rushed into the prime minister's palace and killed anyone they saw, killing more than 200 members of Chandra's family, and the Rana family was bleeding. When the local people heard that this dictatorial family was baptized in blood, they all said that it was the ancestor of Lana, Chung Ge. Bahadur. Rana staged a coup d'état in 1846, killing more than 400 prime ministers, generals, and ministers.
Chandra didn't know what was going on at the front until a bloodied slave ran to tell him the truth, and when he heard the bad news, his eyes went black and he almost fainted. Immediately he had no intention of fighting again, and hurried home with the remaining more than 1,000 Gurkha soldiers, his family had all fallen in a pool of blood, and even the guard dog was killed, lying upright on the ground.
Chandra shouted into the night: "If you don't take revenge, I will not be a man!" Then, riding a war horse, he led more than a thousand Gurkha troops to the royal palace Narayanhiti Palace. However, the gates of the Narayanhiti Palace were closed at this time, and the soldiers guarding them did not open the door, no matter how Chandra shouted. The minister of the military department also walked to the head of the city wall and shouted to the Gurkha army: "Chandra betrayed the king, looted the people's wealth, and found 300,000 taels of gold and countless jewels from his house. ”
The dictators of the world often look powerful, but in fact they are paper tigers, and it is easy for them to betray their relatives! Not to mention such a large bounty. At the moment Chandra turned his head, a Gurkha lieutenant jumped on his horse and cut off Chandra's head with a single sword! The sword used was the Kukli saber that the Gurkha people were best at using, and then they fell to their knees and swore allegiance to King Barisvi. Bill. Bikram. Shah.
Chandra's men saw that the leader had been killed, that there were pursuers behind him, and that the squadron had already entered Kathmandu, so they also knelt down and surrendered to the king.
The king of Nepal immediately sent someone to contact Cai Ye and surrendered Chandra's head as a token to China. But King Barrisway. Bill. Bikram. The Shah demanded that the throne be retained, and that diplomacy and the army could be handed over to the Chinese to take over.
Cai sent a telegram to Song Xiaofei, who felt that since Nepal's diplomacy and army were controlled by the Chinese, it would be okay to retain the name of a hypocrisy, which would also be more conducive to maintaining Nepal's stability, and the Gurkha army in India might also be loyal to the king of Nepal for my use, which is conducive to China's strategy of the Greater Tibet Region, so he promised Nepal to retain the title of king, but asked the king to accept the canonization of the Tibetan lama.
King Barrisway. Bill. Bikram. After consulting with his ministers, the Shah accepted China's plan and teleged the world, with Nepal still taking China as its suzerainty and renunciating the right to foreign affairs and defense.
Cai's army successfully completed the Tibetan counterattack, subjugated Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal and other places, and formed China's Greater Tibet. Song Xiaofei ordered the immigration of one million from Sichuan to the Greater Tibet region to consolidate the occupation of these areas, and China established a new Great Tibet Military Region with a garrison of 100,000 troops, and settled southern Tibet. (To be continued......)