More than a dozen nautical miles away, the sudden appearance of several steel behemoths flying British flags added a bit of unpredictability to this naval battle.

Standing on the outer deck of the bridge, the commander of the British Indian Ocean Fleet, Hober, looked at the battlefield in the distance with a clairvoyant mirror.

Looking at the Chinese [***] ships painted with protective colors that seem to be integrated with the sea under the scorching heat, looking at the neat and orderly combat formation of the Chinese [***] ships, and the just right distance between the ships, one can even imagine the scene of the black pressure gun muzzles on each ironclad ship forming different elevation angles according to the firing range.

The Russians, although the Battle of the Crimea showed their technological backwardness compared to the European powers, the Russians will always be a formidable force, and even the Red Coats of the British Empire are not willing to confront the Russians in the European theater unless they are forced to do so.

The Chinese, on the other hand, launched a full-scale war against Russia, which for nearly two hundred years was a forbidden area that no European country wanted to touch, except, of course, Napoleon the Great, the brilliant madman.

Black smoke gradually rose from the ironclad ships on both sides, and suddenly, a light Chinese ironclad that rushed out of the oblique spur attracted the attention of He Bo.

Of course, it also attracted the attention of all Russian commanders, because the light ironclad ship went straight to the "Peter the Great".

After firing with the Chinese artillery for dozens of minutes, the Russian commanders on each ship have changed color on their faces, and the Chinese artillery has an extremely fast rate of fire and great power, and in less than an hour, more than four of their own ironclad ships have been severely damaged, and one is slowly sinking.

Admiral Butakov gave the order loudly.

"Order, the second and third formations join the battle! The goal, the right wing of the Chinese! ”

"Right Rudder Fifteen!"

"Yes, right-hand fifteen!"

In all areas of the bridge, there were tight shouts everywhere.

Butakov's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at the steel-armored flagship flying the Chinese dragon flag in the distance.

It is an indisputable fact that the Chinese Navy is stronger than they think, especially their artillery system, the retreating rapid-fire guns, pose a huge threat to their own ironclad ships, but their own smaller caliber guns cannot cause too much damage to the capital ships of the Chinese in a horizontal formation, and the heavy artillery has a slow rate of fire and low hits, and many times it depends on luck.

However, Butakov did not think that the Chinese would be difficult to defeat, as long as the concentrated artillery fire disrupted the Chinese formation, there was a chance to inflict heavy losses on the Chinese in the chaotic battle, because this new navy would be more or less dogmatic and did not know how to adapt to changes.

At this time, a light ironclad ship of the Chinese suddenly broke into the range of their own artillery.

From the analysis of common sense, Butakov immediately judged that this was a pole mineboat, that is, a long pole fixed at the front of the ship to blow up the mine, and attack the enemy ship in a ramming manner.

Most of the pole mineboats are small ships with a displacement of twenty or thirty tons, which are not suitable for going to sea, and the Russian ship formation on this expedition did not have pole mineboats, nor did they have the sea batteries that the Russian Navy has vigorously developed today, and the kind of round coastal defense surnamed heavy batteries.

Without the commander's order, the rain of bullets had already poured down on the Chinese's pole mineboats, and the accuracy of shooting at close range had greatly increased, but the Chinese's pole mineboats were extremely flexible, moving through the boiling water column in a zigzag shape towards Peter the Great.

Butakov frowned slightly, the courage of the [***] people in China is commendable, and the quality of the sailors on the ship is amazing, but he does not think that pole mines can do any damage to the thick armor of Peter the Great.

"Avoid! Circumvent! ”

The first mate gave the order loudly, and it was customary to do so, lest this small ship be loaded with some strange explosives and launch a suicide attack, there are too many tricks for the Chinese!

In the distance, the 10,000-ton heavy ship "Achilles" of the British gradually approached the battlefield, and the British fleet used a battle formation, occupying a position that could support the Russian fleet in attacking the second formation of China at any time.

In the command room of the Regent, Li Chengmou's eyes couldn't help but turn from the light ironclad ship that was gradually approaching the Peter the Great to the British naval fleet.

The ironclad shield in the command room had not yet fallen, but in front of the huge glass window, He Bo's telescope had been paying attention to the every move of the Chinese light ironclad ship.

Then, he saw a slight movement on the sea, a long string of bubbles floated from the side of the Chinese ironclad ship, heading straight for Peter the Great, the bubble flow was not fast, moving forward at a speed visible to the naked eye, He Bo was stunned, the Chinese also have white-headed torpedoes? His gaze followed the faint black object in the bubble for a moment, and he sighed even more in his heart, four years ago, the Imperial Engineer Robert? Whitehead, borrowing from the invention of the Austrians to develop the torpedo, but the speed of more than ten kilometers per hour and the range of about hundreds or even tens of meters make it not get too much attention.

However, He Bo believes that this is not a sharp weapon of naval warfare, and the Chinese, apparently, are also under development, and are at the forefront of the British, and the range and speed of this underwater weapon of the other side obviously exceed that of the bald torpedo.

Let's see how powerful it is.

Seeing that the swarthy object was about to hit Peter the Great, it was obvious that the Chinese sailors had judged it extremely accurately in advance, and He Bo was even more shocked.

But before he could think of it, the swarthy object that was about to crash into the Peter the Great suddenly tilted its head and rushed out in a diagonal stab.

Hoberti's heart in the throat finally fell, and like the white-headed torpedo, the underwater weapons of the Chinese could not guarantee that they would go in a straight line.

This thrilling attack was like a small episode, and not many of the soldiers who participated in the naval battle paid attention to it.

In the "Fulong", the captain Lu Dahua smashed his fist fiercely, and couldn't help but spit out a bad breath and scolded: "Say! "After much effort to get close to Peter the Great and successfully launch the torpedo, it fell short, and it was clear that the spirometer system that kept the torpedo in a straight line was not yet stable.

That's right, the Fulong, the first torpedo ship of the Empire, with a displacement of 110 tons, a power of 1540 horsepower, a maximum speed of 25 knots, and a crew of 20 people.

Weapon system: two 50mm rapid-fire guns, two 330mm torpedo tubes, equipped with three Imperial "Sea Dragon King" torpedoes.

Because of the small number of personnel in the torpedo boats, the sailors on the ships have a clear division of labor, and they are all elite sailors of the empire, and they have undergone special training.

Captain Lu Dahua, the first mate is also the helmsman "Bao inquired" Bao Daling.

Lu Dahua originally looked down on the "sissy" and "mother" Bao Daling, but after the first battle of Wusongkou, he was greatly admired by Bao Daling's skillful skills at the helm, and the two gradually became friends.

Just avoided the rain of bullets, although there was an element of luck, and there were many reasons why many Russian armored ships did not have many cannon configurations, but Bao Daling's beastly intuition and skillful rudder skills also contributed to it.

Bao Daling kept his mouth shut, didn't say a word, his bare arms were already soaked, and he turned the rudder with all his might, approaching Peter the Great again.

Staring at the Russian flagship, Lu Dahua's eyes erupted and he ordered loudly: "Detonator ready!" ”

All along, various engine systems have been the key research and development projects of the Empire's laboratories, and the power system of the "Neptune" torpedo has benefited from this, and the range of the thermally powered "Neptune" torpedo can exceed 1,000 meters, which makes the torpedo boat do not have to approach the most dangerous area on the side of the target, and the safety surname is greatly improved.

The tragedy of Peter the Great may be doomed, the bold and boundless Lu Dahua and Bao Daling directly used the Peter the Great as a testing ground, in fact, the torpedo technology of the current empire is still unstable, when the second torpedo of the Fulong was launched, it failed to surface when it dived into the water, Lu Dahua was stunned, and the flagship had sent a message to order it to return, although he was a little unwilling, but he still gave the order to retreat in frustration.

And at this moment, under the surface of the Peter the Great, there was a sudden muffled sound, and immediately the entire sea surface rolled up, like a volcanic eruption, and the water ripples in all directions.

The "Neptune" torpedo, just when the power was gradually exhausted, finally surfaced, and hit the weakest point of the bottom protection of the Peter the Great, and the violent explosion immediately opened a hole in its bottom cabin, and the sea water rolled in.

Peter the Great staggered, and then, the speed slowed down significantly, not only because of the influx of seawater, but also because of the influx of seawater, many sailors left their posts to close the gap and close the watertight cabin, which naturally made the whole ship temporarily out of the control of Admiral Butakov.

When he saw through the telescope that the Chinese were immediately pouring a rain of bullets on the Peter the Great, the reaction was so sensitive and the efficiency was terrifying, He Bo sighed deeply, "Order!" 2 nautical miles back ......"

As the British fleet drifted away from the battlefield, smoke was billowing from the Peter the Great and the hull was beginning to tilt.

The next battle can be imagined, the Russian ships have withdrawn from the battlefield under the order of the flagship, but some of the ships refused to carry out the order, the fierce "Klemur" (Kremlin), advancing at full speed, in a vain attempt to sink the Regent with its huge ramming angle, but under the efficient rapid-fire cannon fire of the Chinese ship, there was a continuous explosion in the hull, and soon it slowly sank in the skyrocketing water column.

He Bo watched this scene from afar, and there was no doubt that this volley battle of the Chinese Navy in the waters near Xinjiapo also had the intention of showing strength to the British Imperial Navy.

In this naval battle, what impressed He Bo the most was not the Chinese torpedoes, because although the torpedo boats were surprisingly victorious, as long as the medium and low-tonnage ironclad ships were equipped with more cannons as frigates, they could completely resist the threat of torpedo boats.

He Bo was impressed by the overall combat quality of the Chinese Navy, its high efficiency, rapid reaction capabilities, and skillful ship control, and of course, the advanced artillery system and indestructible steel armor of the Chinese.

Obviously, if the Imperial Navy continues to be so arrogant, sooner or later it will be overtaken by the Chinese.

Thankfully, there's still time. He couldn't wait to send a telegram to the Imperial Admiralty about what he had seen.

In early September 1870, the largest naval war in the world in the past ten years -- the "Battle of Malacca" -- ended with the retreat of the Russians, and in less than a day, the Russian navy was defeated by the Chinese, the flagship "Peter the Great" was sunk, and the remaining ironclad ships were sunk five and four prisoners were damaged.

Grigory, the founder of the Russian ironclad tactical theory? Ivanovic? Admiral Butakov committed suicide by drinking a bomb.

At the time of the "Battle of Malacca", the Franco-Prussian War officially broke out, and hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides fought fiercely on the border, which also made the information of the Sino-Russian naval war in Europe covered up by overwhelming reports on the progress of the Franco-Prussian War, but for the European naval powers, especially for the British, the reflection and enlightenment brought by the Sino-Russian naval war was so huge, and the Chinese navy, which was active in thinking, became the object of some of its strategic thinking seriously and even accepted by the maritime hegemon for the first time.

…… Seeing the outline of the town of Abakan from afar, Nikolanavich breathed a sigh of relief.

Along the way, he also encountered several of his own troops, and according to the commanders' reports, the chief of the general staff of the Central Theater, Seruqi, had organized a second line of defense in the northern mountains of the Sayan Ridge to resist the Chinese attack, and had already exchanged fire with the Chinese.

Nikolanavich was extremely relieved of Seruch, the only general of the Imperial Army who had participated in the Crimean War, and his strategic vision even political opponents had to admit his superiority.

Nikolanavich did not go to Seruch's forward headquarters, but ordered a personal soldier to send a secret letter, and he hurried back to Abakan, and the nightmare he experienced was to report to the imperial brother and the presidential command as soon as possible, now the Chinese will definitely march together to invade Siberia, the army group commanded by Seruch does not exceed 100,000 people, it is difficult to resist the attack of the Chinese, the strategic surname retreats, the Chinese front will be longer and longer, forming a new defensive circle in Novosibirsk and Barnaul, Even if the Chinese, who have lost railway supplies, want to organize a large-scale battle, the difficulty will be greatly increased.

At present, we can only implement strategic defense in the central theater of operations, and after containing the offensive momentum of the Chinese, we can then gather forces and turn to a counteroffensive.

Nikolanavich took a deep breath and urged his horses, and at this moment, on the grassy slope with half-human tall weeds growing on both sides, several figures suddenly pounced, and Nikolanavich was caught off guard, and was suddenly thrown off his horse, and fell heavily into the grass, until he was dizzy.

"Bang bang bang", the guards cavalry who reacted and was ready to resist was shot and fell off his horse with a scream.

Nikolanavich immediately felt that his eyes were dark, he was blindfolded with a black cloth, his mouth was gagged, and then he was erected and ran involuntarily in the grass.

Hearing the strange voice of the grunt, I don't know what the Chinese are talking about.

It was Company Commander Liu who spoke, and he was smiling and saying, "Dressed with bells and whistles, the official is not too small, take it back and ask our regiment commander for questioning." ”

Company Commander Liu was subordinate to the First Rank Corps of the Royal Heavy Infantry Praetorian Guard.

In fact, the establishment of the Praetorian Brigade has been upgraded to the Praetorian Division, but the number has not changed, in addition to the infantry regiment and the rapid artillery regiment, there are also armored regiments, that is, the "Thunder" have been allocated as the armored corps of the Praetorian Guard Brigade.

An infantry regiment of the Praetorian Guard Brigade that abandoned heavy weapons had already sneaked to the vicinity of Abakan, but Abakan garrisoned a division of the Russian army, which was heavily guarded, and never had the opportunity to attack.

And Ye Zhao saw Nikolanavich more than twenty days later.

By the time Nikolanavich was escorted to the capital, Seruch's troops had already moved strategically and retreated to the area around Novosibirsk, the matchmaker occupied Abakan, and the army marched in three ways to the dense urban areas of Russian immigrants in the area around Novosibirsk.

In the East Warm Pavilion of the Xiangrui Tuantuan's Heart Cultivation Palace, Ye Zhao met Nikolanavic.

Obviously, the Tsar's brother had suffered a double blow both physically and mentally, and looked sluggish, but for the sake of caution, to his left and right, there stood a guard with a large waist and a round waist.

Nikolanavich sat on the soft pier unique to China, looked at the ambitious Chinese emperor, and sighed softly in his heart, the young and powerful emperor may have the ambition to expand the territory, but unfortunately, this emperor was born in the East, and the object he wants to conquer is his own motherland.

Ye Zhao asked him a few words lightly, nothing more than a show of concern, and finally said: "If you want to write a letter to your brother, I can convey it on your behalf." ”

Nikolanavich shook his head silently, the blood of Peter the Great flowed in him, and even if he became a prisoner, he expressed his resistance with silence.

Ye Zhao waved his hand, and the guards immediately took him out.

Ye Zhao turned his head and looked at the map on the table, now the Siberian area is gradually getting cold, and seizing the Novosibirsk area before the winter is the strategic goal he handed over to the matchmaker, although he did not give more instructions, but the matchmaker will not enter lightly, and at the beginning of spring next year, it is the time for a decisive battle with the Russians.

The Western Front is advancing according to the set strategic objectives, and Harwich will not be in a hurry to eat the Russians in the area of Alexandsk, where hundreds of kilometers of trenches have been dug.

At present, railways and roads are being laid to the northwest from Tianhu City, and several columns are being sent deep into the Kazakh steppe to recruit Kazakh tribes, and a large area is encroaching on the Russians' sphere of influence.

The war in the eastern theater was extremely smooth, Han Jinchun had conquered Temple Street, Sakhalin Island was recovered, the six kings fled north in a hurry, there were fewer and fewer princes and ministers accompanying them, most of the soldiers and civilians surrendered, Manchurian nobles and ministers, also stayed in Temple Street to surrender, Zeng Guofan, who returned to the temple from Novosibirsk and other places a few years ago, was determined to flee north with him.

It is a pity that Zuo Zongtang died of a violent illness, which makes people have to sigh that the world is impermanent.

Just as he was sighing in his heart, a guard hurried over and delivered a fold from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

But it was the British who put forward new conditions.

After the Battle of Malacca, the Chinese fleet rushed out of the Strait of Malacca and took advantage of the situation to reach the Maldives, signing agreements with the Sultan of the Maldives to lease ports.

This was a stab in the sore spot for the British, because the Maldives was so close to India and Sri Lanka that if the Chinese fleet could anchor in Male at will, it would seriously affect the absolute control of the British over the whole of India.

In fact, it is precisely because the Maldives is very close to the British colonial port that the British have little interest in this small archipelago with few resources and few indigenous people, and the Maldives has been under the control of the Dutch for many years.

But the port of Malé has a very different meaning for China, and in the Indian Ocean, almost all the island supply points have become British colonies, and if you want to slowly form a supply chain to Europe without having to rely on the British all the time, you can only pick the teeth of the British and find some unsightly scraps to swallow cold.

And the Dutch are increasingly dependent on China to maintain their interests in the South Seas, and they do not know what promises they have received from the Chinese, and they are happy to transfer the Maldives to China.

The Chinese also had a fair excuse that during the war with Russia, a sea route to Europe was needed in order to deal with the Russian threat.

Although the British minister immediately sent a note to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, his rhetoric was not fierce, and it was clear that after the Battle of Malacca, the British had truly regarded China as a member of the club of great powers and began to take the interests of the Chinese seriously.

The British initially proposed that an agreement could be signed, whereby Chinese merchant ships could be supplied in British ports with permits issued by the British Minister, and the British fleet would be responsible for the safety of Chinese merchant ships.

Naturally, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would not agree, so if Chinese businessmen wanted to carry out international trade, they had to get permission from the British, and slowly the British would not be able to cultivate a large number of pro-British capitalists?

Perhaps the British also knew that their conditions were too harsh, and later came up with two plans, both of which were rejected by the Chinese, and the latest plan was to exchange the Chagos Islands for the Maldives.

The Chagos Archipelago is located in the middle of the Indian Ocean, where Diego Garcia Island is a natural harbor with thousands of indigenous people, and after the opening of the Suez Canal, the islands in the Indian Ocean have become dispensable for Europeans in this era, because from the west to the east, there is no need to bypass the African continent, and the supply points in the Indian Ocean are no longer so important.

To say that the conditions of the British are really harsh, out of the Strait of Malacca to the Suez Canal, if you use the island of Diego Garcia as a supply point, you have to go around the boss.

But Ye Zhao smiled, perhaps Europeans thought that China was now desperate to open up trade routes to Europe, but they didn't know that they had never regarded the Mediterranean trade circle as something fragrant.

Rushing out of the Strait of Malacca, what's next?

Ye Zhao stretched out his hand and turned the globe on the table, his eyes fixed on the African continent and southern Africa.

The sea route from the Oriental countries to Africa, the island of Diego Garcia is as precious as gold.

Ye Zhao slowly lifted the brush and commented on a line of small characters on the fold.

…… Ice and fire are two heavens, when Ye Zhao is full of comfort and turns the globe, the Kremlin is silent.

Even Empress Catherine, who was the most pleasing to the emperor and was known for being coquettish, was sitting beside Alexander with worry at the moment, looking at her husband uneasily from time to time.

The entire line of the middle road retreated, the commander was missing, just got the news that he was captured by the Chinese, and how Alexander was not worried.

Milyutin looked at the telegram in his hand with a stern face, it was sent by the temporary commander of the Central Theater of Operations, Seruqi.

Milyutin pleaded guilty several times, although Alexander II did not blame him, he could not help but blame himself, however, he was not the kind of person who lived in remorse, and now the most important thing is how to redeem the defeat.

The Chinese were clearly premeditated, and the fact that the defected Chinese official in Alexandrsk disappeared as soon as the fighting at Sayan Ridge began, made it even more hateful.

It's just that the strength of the squadron [***] is not expected, from this aspect, whether there is a trap laid by the Chinese or not, in the early stage of the war, because of insufficient understanding of the enemy, it will definitely suffer a painful defeat.

Now only by facing up to the balance of strength between the two sides and placing the Russians in a position equal to their own strength can we really formulate a strategy to defeat the Chinese, just like Napoleon's invasion back then.

Empress Catherine was thinking, the Diao people outside are really annoying, they just lost the battle, they marched and demonstrated, and threatened the emperor to abdicate, why didn't they know how to contribute to the country? Don't you know how troubled Your Majesty has been during this time?

Alexander pointed to Omsk, the oldest town in Siberia, where the Tsarist army established a fortress more than 150 years ago, and with the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, a large number of people poured in, and Omsk is now a large city with a population of hundreds of thousands.

Alexander said: "Form a defensive ring around Omsk to fight the Chinese." ”

Milyutin did not make a sound, retreating from Abakan to Omsk is equivalent to a strategic retreat of more than 1,000 versts, and the dense immigrant population area around Novosibirsk will be easily occupied by the Chinese.

But the strong man broke his wrist, His Majesty can be said to be far-sighted, every time Russia retreats, the Chinese are farther away from their core supply area, and once they retreat, it is more than a thousand miles, and the difficulty of the Chinese fighting in Omsk can be imagined.

If you resist all the way, then your own living forces will only be eaten and wiped out by the middle [***] team, and a large-scale strategic retreat, and an effective resistance can be organized in Omsk, so that the Caucasus army and a large number of new recruits will have time to replenish the middle army corps.

Miliujing said: "Locomotives and wagons, one cannot be left to the Chinese. "The Chinese and Russian railways have different gauges, and if they do not leave their locomotives, and the railway lines will be destroyed, it will be difficult for the Chinese to use Russian railways for transportation.

Milyutin said again: "If it weren't for the fear of losing Alexandersk, we could have retreated with a bigger step." ”

If Omsk is occupied by the Chinese, its corps will advance hundreds of miles to the west, Petropavlovsk, and the railway to Aleksandr will go south from Petropavlovsk, and once Petropavlovsk is lost, the entire Western Front Corps will be under the Chinese attack, and the supply line will be lost.

Alexander sighed and said, "But now the deceived people will denounce me again!" ”

Mi Liujing nodded silently, the Sayanling fiasco has aroused the indignation of the domestic people, and now they are retreating without a fight, giving up large areas of land to the Chinese, including more densely populated areas, and the people will naturally be indignant.

In particular, there are populists such as the National People's Congress Party (Narodnaya) making trouble.

Since the emperor ascended the throne, he has been assassinated three times, these groups are really ignorant, for the voice of the people at the bottom, His Majesty the Emperor is the most enlightened in all dynasties, and he is extremely tolerant of dissidents, and rarely carries out brutal repression, but they do not know gratitude, but take the opportunity to develop and grow the organization, and repeatedly plan the assassination of the emperor, if His Majesty is like the previous Tsar [***], where is the opportunity for them to develop and grow? The arrest and execution of core elements long ago has led to the disappearance of these groups.

These people who oppose His Majesty the Emperor are really stupid and ridiculous.

Thinking about it, Miryugin couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

…… In the Empire, except for the occasional occurrence of commercial supplies not arriving on time, it seems that most people were not affected by the war.

Representatives of eight countries, including China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and Yueben, signed the "Metric Convention", laying the foundation for the unification of weights and measures in Asia.

Today, Myanmar is not a member of the South-East Group, but after several rejections of his application, the South-East Group gave him the status of an "unofficial member", and the British and Indian authorities stopped encroaching on and invading their shyness.

With the exception of military cooperation, Myanmar can attend as a member of the conference, including the Metrology Conference.

China and Russia were at war, and when Russia had just declared war on China, Korea, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia submitted their credentials to declare war on Russia, but Ye Zhao did not want to complicate the Sino-Russian war, so he naturally refused.

And when the news of the great victory in the Sayan Mountains came, it was only in a letter that the Ben and Thailand Shanshan wrote to express their determination to advance and retreat together with the suzerain, but in fact, they are not to blame, after all, the Russians are notorious, and in the Far East, they are originally a powerful and outrageous behemoth, and it is naturally unavoidable to say that they are tied to the chariot of the suzerainty and fight with Russia.

Especially in Ben and Thailand, China's influence can be said to have just entered the house.

If you want to say that it is more courageous, it is Nepal, which also wrote a letter asking for troops to be sent to serve the suzerainty to fight against Russia. Although Nepal has gradually moved closer to Britain in recent years, as China has become stronger, Nepal has sent envoys to China several times to pay tribute, after all, nominally, Nepal is still a tributary state of China.

Nepalese people are more fierce and love to join in the fun, such as the Taiping army in the previous dynasty, and the Nepalese people wrote a letter that they were willing to send troops to serve the emperor of the previous dynasty to exterminate the Taiping army. Moreover, when Nepal first came into contact with the British, it was very victorious, and once sent the captured booty to Yanjing and reminded the suzerainty to beware.

It was only the previous dynasty that translated the names of the British differently when communicating with its envoys, which made the former dynasty think that Nepal had defeated an unknown Western barbarian, and it was a matter of confusion, and if it knew that the subject country had defeated the British who had suffered a big loss to the old empire in the First Opium War, it would have been impressive.

Now Nepal has begun to move closer to the Central Plains, after all, there is still a big difference between the East and the West in terms of race and customs and civilization, and if it can be blessed by the eastern powers, Nepal naturally does not want to deal with the British anymore.

Seeing Nepal's letter of state, Ye Zhao was moved, so he sent a telegram to Zhao Sanbao to get in touch with the Nepalese and recruit a Gurkha infantry brigade for training.

(To be continued)