Chapter 56: The Attack on Krasa
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Cai's Southwest Army advanced to Lhasa after capturing the valley and high ground in the Shannan region, but the Southwest Army had just set off and received Qin Yu's order to outflank Lhasa in two ways, one was to advance directly along the Brahmaputra River to Qushui and then north to Lhasa, and the other was to advance northwest to Dazi and then west to Lhasa.
The two southwestern armies each took three airships, and the other went to Gyantse to reconnoiter the British army's march, but Cai Yi only asked the reconnaissance airships to check from a distance, trying not to let the British army notice.
The two armies continued to approach Lhasa, and the southwestern army in the north did not encounter any obstacles and arrived in the Dazi area, but they did not encounter any rebels in Dazi, only less than 3,000 rebels were stationed in Dazi, and the rebels basically surrendered as soon as they saw such a large position of the southwest army, and only a small number of diehard elements of the Dalai Lama insisted on resisting the southwest army, and they were all annihilated.
The southwestern army marched west to the rebels in many places along the way, but the rebels of one or two thousand people were easily eliminated by the southwest army, and when they reached Qushui, they had destroyed more than 5,000 enemies along the way, and the terrain in some places was also very bad, but with the airship terrain will no longer be a problem.
The Dalai Lama was very frightened when he knew that the Southwest Army had reached Qushui and Dazi, and he gathered more than 20,000 rebels near Lhasa to Lhasa, and he wanted to hold on to Lhasa and wait for the British to help.
He knew the intention of the Dalai Lama, so he thought about attacking Krasa as soon as possible to prepare for a big battle with the British army, and they used to fight with their compatriots in their own country, but now they are finally going to fight with the foreigners, or with the British, so they are very excited.
The army of the two routes rushed towards Lhasa quickly, the army that went north to Lhasa was mainly to prevent the rebels from escaping, and the southwest army from the direction of Dazi was the main force attacking Lhasa.
A day later, the southwest army arrived near Lhasa, Cai Ye was very shocked to see the tall and majestic Potala Palace after arriving, although he had heard of the Potala Palace in Tibet, but today it was the first time to see it, which immediately made him respectful, and then saw those people who were pilgrimage and increased people, he knew why Qin Yu told him before setting off to beat Lhasa must not damage the Potala Palace, which is the key to governing Tibet in the future.
Cai Ye is now a little afraid that the Dalai Lama will flee into the Potala Palace to escape arrest, so Cai Ye immediately asked Qin Yu for instructions on how to deal with this matter, Qin Yu replied to him and asked him to leave a gap for the Dalai Lama to escape from Lhasa, and then he was captured halfway, if the Dalai Lama did not run away but ran into the Potala Palace, the Potala Palace would be surrounded and the Dalai Lama would not be allowed to come out, and he would know how to choose after defeating the British.
Cai Ye hurriedly asked the Southwest Army in the south of Lhasa to deliberately leave a gap for the Dalai Lama to escape, and it was not known whether the Dalai Lama would escape from there.
Cai Yi soon ordered an attack on Lhasa, the artillery of the Southwest Army continued to shell the rebel artillery on the city wall, the Southwest soldiers carried out a fierce attack on Lhasa under the cover of artillery fire, and the rebels also relied on the city wall to begin to return fire on the Southwest Army, and the two sides fought fiercely.
In the army of the rebels, Da. Lama Lai kept moving around, because he was very anxious to find that the British army had not heard from him for so long.
The soldiers of the Southwest Army soon arrived at the city, only to see them throw grenades one by one on the city wall, some rebels who didn't know what they were were blown to pieces by the grenades in a daze, and the flesh and blood were splashed everywhere, and those who were not bombed to the rebels were very shocked when they saw this, they didn't expect that the Southwest Army would have such powerful weapons, and some of the rebels were even confused and shouted loudly, "This is the devil...... It's the devil."
The rebels, who knew the power of the grenade, hid far away as soon as they saw the grenade flying, although the grenade was very powerful, but it was not suitable for siege, so the Southwestern Army only threw a few times and stopped.
After the first round of the attack, Cai Yi withdrew his troops first, and he wanted to get the rebels inside to surrender and let the Dalai Lama go. Cai Ye deliberately asked people to persuade the rebels to surrender, but the rebels not only did not surrender, but also kept delaying time, which made Cai Ye very angry, and the next day he sent the airship to bomb the rebels in the city.
The appearance of several airships made Da. Lai Lama was very excited, and he told the rebels and the people that this was the gods protecting them in Tibet, a symbol of victory. Reach. Lai Lama also personally bowed to the airship flying in the distance, and those people and rebels also knelt down to worship the gods, for the appearance of the airship made the entire Lhasa city boil, I didn't expect to see the gods, and it was a god who came to protect Lhasa.
When the airship flew over Lhasa, the soldiers on the airship said that they had become gods when they saw the situation below, which was really funny, but the soldiers still threw bombs at the place where the rebels were concentrated.
When the rebels saw that the gods had thrown something down, they thought it was a treasure and ran to pick it up, but as soon as the thing hit the person, it exploded hundreds of people nearby with a bang, and the blood was cut to the ground, and the remnants of the limbs were blown everywhere, this situation was staged everywhere in the city of Lhasa, the Dalai Lama and the rebels could not believe that the gods could harm them, and the ordinary people thought that the rebels were punished by the gods.
Soon the soldiers of the airship threw more than 300 bombs and flew away, leaving only the corpses of the rebels all over the ground, although many of the rebels realized that they wanted to hide, but still caused the rebels to be wiped out more than 5,000 troops, which made the Dalai Lama even more worried.
The bombardment of the airship fleet caused chaos in the entire city of Lhasa, and the rebels were constantly looking for a place to hide, and the local people hid at home and did not dare to go out until the airship fleet flew away for a long time. The people of Lhasa began to discuss why the gods would drop the heavenly thunder to attack the Tibetan army, and it was lively for a while.
"Is this the punishment of the gods for us, have we done something wrong?"
"The gods should punish us for the war with the Huaxia army, otherwise why didn't the Huaxia army outside be punished by the gods?"
"At the beginning, I said that we should not be independent, but now we are finished."
"Didn't you say that with the help of the British, we won't fail, now that we are all at home, the British don't even have a shadow, let's surrender."
"Nonsense, we will not be defeated, we must firmly believe in the leadership of the living Buddha, and our future is bright."
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Previously, the Dalai Lama said that the gods were here to protect them, but now they were attacked, which made many rebel soldiers have a heart of resistance to the Dalai Lama, and the morale was even worse, only those die-hard elements were still muttering about holding on to Lhasa, and some rebels saw the process of the Wehrmacht bombing above with binoculars, which made them even more terrifying.
Due to the excellent performance of the airship fleet, the rebels suffered heavy losses, Cai Yi was very appreciative of the airship fleet, Cai Yi took advantage of the low morale of the rebels to start a fierce attack, and the Dalai Lama was planning whether to escape from Lhasa to find the British army or run into the Potala Palace to wait for the British army to save himself, and finally the Dalai Lama still wavered.
Cai Yi's attack made the rebels even more depressed, many rebels were passive confrontation, only those diehards were stubbornly resisting, and soon the Southwest Army broke through the Lhasa city wall and entered Lhasa City, and the rebels encountered by the Southwest Army along the way were more surrendered and less resistant.
After the city of Lhasa was broken, the Dalai Lama had artificially gone to the British army under his subordinates, after all, no one knew how long the besieged Potala Palace would last. However, they soon found that there was only one route to escape, and they thought that the southwest army did not understand the topography of Lhasa and left it directly, so they set off directly on this route, and they went south along the gap left by the southwest army.
After Cai Ye broke through the city of Lhasa, he began to sweep the rebels in the city, and those die-hard elements were quickly cleaned up, so Lhasa was officially conquered by the Southwest Army.
The Dalai Lama, who was fleeing, suddenly found himself surrounded by the southwestern army, which made him very frightened. Lai Lama surrendered despite the persuasion of his subordinates, how could only a few hundred people beat tens of thousands. The Dalai Lama considers himself to be the spiritual leader of Tibet, and his faithful followers are all over Tibet, and the Chinese government will definitely not confront Tibet in order to determine what kind of confrontation it will be, otherwise the Chinese government will not be able to get mixed up in Tibet.
The capture of the Da Lai Lama by Qin Yu was not announced, but it was announced that Lhasa had been conquered, and that the rebel leader had fled. But this information shocked the British very much, why Lhasa was broken The imperial army has not yet arrived, what is the Indian governor doing, and China is not very concerned about the Southwest Army being able to attack Krassa, thinking that Zhao Erfeng and thousands of Qing troops can sweep Tibet, and today's 200,000 national defense troops are more than 100 times stronger than Zhao Erfeng's thousands of people, but the national defense army has to face the British army.
After learning that Lhasa had been conquered in such a short period of time, Minto was very depressed, because he was scolded by the prime minister, and the prime minister ordered him to find the Dalai Lama or not to return to China, and the enraged Minto immediately ordered the soldiers to move forward quickly.