Chapter 54: The British Army Enters Tibet
The Southwest Army kept advancing, and encountered many scattered Tibetan rebels on the way, but after the Southwest Army gradually adapted to the climate of Tibet, it was quickly taken with minimal casualties.
After adapting to the climate of Tibet, the southwest army began to speed up the march, and the Yunnan army advanced directly to the west after Gumi Township, and there was a rebel army of more than 10,000 in Guyu Township on the way to their marching route, and they had already learned that the Yunnan army was advancing towards them, but they were not afraid, because they were deeply confused by the Dalai Lama, thinking that the Wehrmacht was weak and inferior to their strong and brave soldiers, and that the strong fortress was not something that the Wehrmacht could contend with.
The Yunnan army is constantly advancing, the terrain of Tibet is very complicated, so that their advance speed has been greatly hindered, they have no way, more bitter than them are the logistics soldiers, the logistics personnel are now as tired as dogs, the traffic here is too poor, even Cai Yi thinks that the air force should be brought to do logistics, but when I think that the air force is not suitable to move out now, I dare not think about it.
The Sichuan army encountered a Tibetan rebel army of about 5,000 in Zuogong County, and the rebels wanted to use the city wall to block the Sichuan army, but the Sichuan army took out the cannon at the beginning to carry out artillery bombardment, although the city wall of Zuogong was made of rocks, but it still could not withstand many shellings, and the rebels on the city wall were also injured a lot.
Seeing that the Sichuan army had powerful artillery, the Tibetan rebels were very shocked, didn't the Dalai Lama say that the Han army did not have powerful artillery, but they did not dare to disobey the order, so they had to bite the bullet.
When the Sichuan army began to carry out a strong attack, the rebels were still not afraid of death and rushed forward in waves, and the rebels continued to fall under the frantic strafing of the Sichuan army's heavy machine guns, and the rebels did not dodge at all, and they went directly to the ground, and the ground was full of stumps and remains, and the blood stained the battlefield red, which was really miserable.
Soon the Sichuan army took Zuogong with less than 100 casualties, they were not very popular with the Tibetans after entering Zuogong, in exchange for disgusted eyes and expressions, in Tibet can live in the county is basically the local landlords and local tyrants, so they still can not accept the rule of the Sichuan army.
And the Sichuan army didn't see anything, because they were told the current situation in Tibet before they left, so they didn't have any anger, because someone would come to clean them up, and under serfdom, these people regarded their rights more than their lives.
The Sichuan army began to set off after resting for a few hours after cleaning up the battlefield, and the receiving personnel arranged by Qin Yu also kept rushing to Tibet, if it wasn't for Qin Yu's compulsory order, basically no one would come to Tibet, a place where birds don't.
After walking for three days, the Yunnan army walked to the vicinity of Guyu Township, and their scouts detected that there were about 10,000 rebels in Guyu Township, possibly a small number of old-fashioned artillery.
When Major General Tang Jiyao, the person in charge of the Yunnan Army, learned about it, he asked the army to approach carefully so as not to let the enemy find out, and the 10,000 rebels were still a bit troublesome, after all, this was not a plain and the terrain was not familiar, so Tang Jiyao had to deal with it carefully.
The Yunnan army slowly approached Guyu Township, and the rebels in Guyu Township did not patrol very carefully, and many of those rebels looked hungry and did not want regular troops at all. Although the Yunnan army has been very careful, but more than 100,000 people even if divided into several groups looks very large, in a place to the very high terrain on the hillside of a few rebels with the British sent telescope to look around the scenery, suddenly saw a few big black spots moving in the distance, and then carefully looked at the army and quickly called a few people next to him to see, I was stunned, there are a lot of troops, and the clothing is so different, it should be the army of the Han people.
A few of them quickly passed this information to the generals below, and they lit the old-fashioned rocket-style flares, flew into the sky with a thud, and exploded on top of them, emitting a large bunch of fireworks.
When the rebels under the mountain saw it, they immediately sounded the alarm, and all the rebels began to look for weapons to prepare for battle, and Tang Jiyao, who was thousands of kilometers away, was discovered as soon as he heard this sound, so he quickly ordered the army to speed up and prepare the soldiers for battle.
Because it was discovered, Tang Jiyao had to fight face to face with the rebels, just when they reached the rebel position three thousand meters before the rebel army, the rebels opened full artillery fire, and the nearby uneven terrain just gave the Yunnan army a place to hide, although there was a place to hide, but the rebels were obviously familiar with the terrain, and the casualties of the Yunnan army began to increase.
The artillery of the Yunnan army had to not see the artillery because they were not familiar with the terrain, so they had to listen to the sound of the rebel artillery to judge the position of those cannons, so the accuracy was not very high, fortunately, the rebels were more than ten cannons, otherwise the Yunnan army would suffer a big loss.
The artillery of the Yunnan army quickly solved most of the rebels' artillery under the advantage of the number of artillery, and the Yunnan artillery also lost three cannons.
After the Yunnan army solved the rebels' artillery, it began a fierce attack under the cover of the artillery, and the rebels were also very surprised to find that the artillery was killed, but they were pressed by the artillery of the Yunnan army and did not dare to raise their heads, so they had to find a place where the Yunnan artillery was not familiar with the terrain and could not reach and rushed out to fight the Yunnan army.
But the rebels' weapons are too poor, not only the range is short and the power is also very small, they were killed before they hit the Yunnan soldiers, this is simply to die, only those smart rebel soldiers know how to use those uneven terrain to fight back, but this still can't stop the defeat of the rebels, after a few hours the rebels were wiped out more than half, the rest either surrendered or fled, and the Yunnan army also suffered nearly 2,000 casualties.
The Yunnan army began to set off after dealing with Guyu Township, and they continued to eliminate more than 10,000 rebels along the way, while the Sichuan army almost annihilated nearly 10,000 again, and the two teams finally reached the Nyingchi area after ten days.
The Dalai Lama was very angry and frightened that his army of nearly 40,000 or so had been annihilated, and now that there were less than 30,000 troops in Tibet, it seemed that he was no match for the Wehrmacht.
After receiving a letter from the Dalai Lama in India, Minto quickly reported the situation to the situation in England, and British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith quickly convened a parliament to discuss the issue.
Herbert Henry Asquith pointed to Tibet on the map and said, "Do you have any good mention of Tibet's request?" ”
Herbert Henry Asquith's assistant put his hand on his glasses and said, "I think we should send troops, but I don't know if there are enough troops in India?" ”
War Minister Viscont Hall glared at his assistant, "The Imperial Army in India is about 50,000, and there are 200,000 servant troops in India, which is enough to deal with the weak Chinese government. ”
Churchill, the Minister of the Navy, thought for a while and said: "There is definitely no problem with the navy, even if they now have some sea power but they are not the opponent of the Imperial Navy fleet, as for the army, I am afraid that it will not work, I heard that the Wehrmacht of the Huaxia government has defeated a million troops, and I heard that the Huaxia army is basically a coach for German officers, and the strength is not weak, so the army should be cautious." ”
War Minister Viscont Hall was very proud, he thought that the Chinese army was the same as the cowardly Qing army before, "How can those stupid Chinese people be the opponent of my British Imperial Army, as for the million army we can defeat with only 100,000 people, the terrain of Tibet will also inhibit their strength, and the Indian imperial soldiers with the help of Nepalese natives will not be troubled by the terrain, so our army will fail." ”
The Army has always been suppressed by the Navy, and this is the case in the United Kingdom, because the British spend several times more on the Navy every year than the Army does not know it, so the Army is also often indignant at what the government is doing.
Churchill didn't speak, and the prime minister came out of the round, "The army of the empire is definitely not something that China can compete with, and the navy must also pay attention not to let Japan come in and make trouble, Japan is becoming more and more disobedient, and Russia should also pay attention, they are also very concerned about Tibet, they have already driven the army into Outer Mongolia, it seems that they want to suppress it." ”
After the discussion, the people began to vote, and almost everyone was in favor of sending troops, and everyone clamored to teach the yellow monkey a profound lesson, and the next day the British ordered the Asian colonies to transport supplies to the British troops in India, and the British troops in India began to march slowly into Tibet.
The Dalai Lama was overjoyed to hear the news that the British were finally coming, and he felt that the Han Chinese army would definitely be defeated. Qin Yu, who was in Nanjing, also received the continuous advance of the British army in India to Tibet and the actions of the British colonies in Asia, he knew that the British army was about to move, Qin Yu hurriedly telegraphed Cai Ye to ask him to slow down and let the British army enter Tibet to defeat the British army in one fell swoop, and asked them to wait for the logistics to reach more than half before speeding up.