After the Southwest Army attacked the city of Kraszak, Cai Ye asked the Tibetan translator to write a notice to stabilize the people of Lhasa, and the notice said that the rebels in Tibet were splitting the motherland, which was absolutely intolerable, and now the Chinese army came to quell the rebellion, and the rebels have been basically eliminated, this is God's will to destroy the rebels, I hope everyone will not panic, and the national defense forces will not interfere with the daily life of the people, etc.

Cai Ye was looking at the map of Tibet with Tang Jiyao and other officers to discuss how to fight the British army, when suddenly a soldier came to Cai Ye with a telegram and said: "Report to the commander-in-chief, the telegram of the chairman." As he spoke, he handed the telegram to Cai Jie, who waved his hand to let the soldier go down, and the soldier saluted.

Cai Ye took the telegram and read it, only to see that the telegram said that Cai Yi was to deliberately defeat on a small scale when fighting with the British army, and then let the British army remain proud, and then take the opportunity to cripple the British army.

Cai Yi knew Qin Yu's intentions after reading it, and he knew that Qin Yu would definitely not let him do this lightly, which was different from the previous plan, so he thought of what Qin Yu said about the northwest, and it seemed that Ma Jiajun was moving.

Although everyone was shocked by Qin Yu's order, when they thought of the situation when they fought with the Beiyang Army, they thought that Qin Yu was just pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, and only Tang Jiyao was very puzzled.

Tang Jiyao thinks that he should not deliberately lose the war now, this will lead to internal instability, and now the people also need the encouragement of this war, and there should be no flaws, so he wants to stay and ask the old chief.

Soon, Cai Yi and the others made a preliminary plan, first deliberately defeated in Gyantse, and then shrink their forces to make the British army think that the southwest army was afraid, and then wait for the opportunity to attack the British army again.

Everyone thought it was okay and then discussed it again and then dismissed, leaving only Cai Yi and Tang Jiyao in the conference room, Tang Jiyao was puzzled and said to Cai Yi: "Commander-in-Chief Cai, why did the chairman do this, just defeat the British army all the way, this will be of great help to us." ”

Cai Yi touched his chin and said: "According to the original plan, this is not the case, there should be something wrong in the northwest, the chairman wants to use the defeat to lure out the Ma Jiajun to solve it, and a proper defeat will not cause the shock of foreign parties, which is also beneficial to us, after all, our strength is not very strong." ”

Tang Jiyao was also shocked when he heard it, he didn't expect the chairman to think so far, so he exclaimed: "It's really worthy of the chairman, if this were put on me, I would never think so much." ”

Cai Yi looked at Tang Jiyao and said: "So you have to use your imagination more, only by constantly thinking can you keep up with the footsteps of the chairman, the chairman is a rare ghost talent in my Chinese millennium, and the grand cause is indispensable, let's follow the chairman to fight the world." ”

Tang Jiyao nodded deeply in agreement, and the two chatted for a while before they dispersed, Cai Yi was going to work on the order Qin Yu had just given.

Just when Cai Yi ordered the whole army to go to Gyantse at full speed, the British army led by Minto was also rushing to Gyantse quickly, in order to find Da Gyantse as soon as possible. Lai Lama Minto put all his 100,000 points of spirit to use.

Cai Ye let the army move forward at full speed while letting the airship keep carrying supplies to the Bailang area, the transportation from Bailang to Gyantse is very convenient and not far, so Cai Yi chose to store materials in Bailang.

The Southwest Army and the British Army continued to advance towards Gyantse, and on the whole, the speed of the Southwest Army was a little faster than that of the British Army, because the Southwest Army had been fighting in Tibet for more than half a month, and the British Army had only just entered Tibet, and many soldiers were not very adaptable.

The Southwest Army arrived in Gyantse a day earlier than the British army, and Cai asked the soldiers to begin to arrange the battlefield, and the soldiers of the Southwest Army continued to dig trenches and build blocking heights in the direction from Kangma to Gyantse.

Before the layout of the battlefield was completed, Cai Ye received information from the airship of aerial reconnaissance that the British army would arrive at the battlefield in five kilometers, so Cai Ye had to ask the soldiers to stop arranging and prepare for battle.

Before Minto arrived in Gyantse, he was told by the reconnaissance soldiers that the Huaxia army had arranged the battlefield in Gyantse but fortunately it was not finished, which made Minto angry and worried, fortunately, the Huaxia army did not complete the layout of the battlefield, otherwise the loss would have been very strict.

Soon the British army arrived on the battlefield, and as soon as the British artillery arrived, they continued to shell the Southwestern Army, but fortunately, the Southwestern Army had trenches and did not receive any losses, and the Southwestern Army soon began to shell the British army, and both sides continued to shell, but neither side let the soldiers advance.

"Boom~~~~"

"Boom~~~~" The cannon sound continued to sound, in order to make the plan go smoothly, Cai Ye only used half of the cannon to confront the British army, even so, the artillery fire of the southwest army was not worse than that of the British army, and the two sides fought inextricably for a while.

Minto was shocked to see that the Southwest Army also had such a powerful artillery fire, his understanding of Huaxia was still retained in the former Qing Dynasty's garbage army, after thinking for a while, he felt that although the current Chinese army was more powerful than the former Qing Dynasty, it was not their opponent of the British Empire.

When the artillery bombardment was raging on both sides, Minto let the 200,000 Indian servants attack the Southwestern Army fiercely, and those Indian servants rushed towards the positions of the Southwestern Army with rudimentary weapons.

There is an improved version of the Makqin heavy machine gun every 20 meters on the position of the Southwest Army, the soldiers of the Southwest Army continue to strafe at the Indian troops rushing towards them, the Indian soldiers in front continue to fall, and the back ones continue to step on the corpses in front of them, layer upon layer of corpses to spread the earth, the blood continues to stain the earth red, although the Indian soldiers are very scared but they are helpless to rush forward under the drive of the British army.

The British army followed behind the Indian soldiers, using the bodies of Indian soldiers to block the bullets, so their losses were very small, they attacked the soldiers of the Southwest Army, the strength of the British army was really not covered, their tactics were still very good, and under their attack, the Southwest Army also began to have a large number of casualties, which led the firepower of the Southwest Army to be attracted to the past.

Soon, the places that had not yet been arranged by the Indian army were filled with a gap by the lives of the Indian army, and a large number of Indian and British troops entered the inner line of the Southwest Army from this gap, and the Southwest Army began to be unable to resist the British troops pouring in from that gap, and slowly retreated, while the British troops who were still in a frontal impact felt a lot less pressure and began to attack more fiercely.

Seeing this situation, Cai Ye hurriedly asked the Southwest Army to retreat, which was exactly in line with his plan, the Southwest Army retreated while guarding, while the British Army continued to advance, they thought that they were going to defeat the Southwest Army and were very excited, because this was a military merit, and they could get better jobs and rewards when they returned to China in the future.

Many soldiers in the British army despised the retreating Southwest Army, and they all thought that although the firepower of the Southwest Army was very fierce, the appearance of the Southwest Army was too cowardly, and the proud British Army would never run away like this.

A large number of corpses were piled up on the positions of the Southwest Army, the trenches were filled with blood and corpses, and thick black smoke was emitted from time to time in some places, and the smell of burnt barbecue filled the entire battlefield.

Although the Southwest Army retreated, the British army was still constantly knocked down, as for the Indian soldiers will only blindly rush forward, it is a miserable death, this time the Southwest Army lost more than 20,000 troops, while the British army was 10,000, and the Indian army lost more than half.

Cai Ye led the army to constantly retreat to the Bailang area, and the British army was also constantly pursuing, in order to show a better way, Cai Yi deliberately let the soldiers pretend to be wolf bèi points, so the British army should not see that the Southwest Army was deliberate.

The British army was very excited about this victory, but as soon as they saw the casualties, they had a headache, they had lost so many troops at the beginning, so how to fight in the future battles, Minto did not expect that the strength of the Southwest Army was so strong, not only a large number of artillery, but also a large number of heavy machine guns, so he was very worried now, and because the Southwest Army took away the sacrificed soldiers, he could not know the losses of the Southwest Army this time and how much combat power it still had.

After discussing with Minto and a group of officers, they all thought that the losses of the Southwest Army must have been very large, so they reported that they had annihilated more than 30,000 troops in China, while their own losses were less than 10,000, which was basically a ratio of three to one.

Minto made it clear to the British government that the Chinese government's army was very firepower, and in order to solve the Tibetan defense force at once, the defense forces hoped to be able to separate the British army in Myitkyina to help solve the Tibetan defense forces, and the British government agreed to his proposal.