Chapter 148: Opponent (7)
"In the fifty-sixth year of Qianlong, General Jiayong Gongfu Kangan entered the Gurkha from here."
www.cmfu.com release Zhangmu Pass, located between the important town of Nyalam in western Tibet and the northern border town of Gorkha (Nepal) Kodari, this to the east, successively stands Zhuo Oyou Peak (8201 meters), Mount Everest (8848 meters) and Makalu Peak (8463 meters) three cloud-piercing giant pillars, to the west, 8027 meters of Xisha Bangma Peak is steep and majestic, to the north, Yaru Xiongla Pass is dangerous, to the south, Langdang's snow peaks, bare rocks, tundra, grasslands and coniferous forests are arranged from high and low echelons, The roof of the World Realm has a small gap here, and a thin blue-gray line made of people and horses is wriggling in the gap little by little.
On the side of the road facing the Gurkha side of the www.cmfu.com Pass, there is a broken stone tablet, which is engraved with Manchu, Tibetan and Chinese characters, and an old general with quenched snow is holding a lancet with gold inlaid beads on the sheath, standing on the side of the monument, and sighing with emotion.
www.cmfu.com released, "Marshal, General Fukangan brought 17,000 men to conquer the Gurkhas, which is almost three times the size of our army. β
www.cmfu.com issued a lieutenant colonel with a red tassel rope on his chest, Cheng Fengxiang, reminded the old general.
www.cmfu.com release, "I, Zhao Erfeng, didn't know how powerful the Fukangan army was back then, but if you look at the soldiers I led, you said that my 5,600 people were worthy of how many people were under Fukangan a hundred years ago?" β
www.cmfu.com Zhao Erfeng, the former Han Army Zhenglan Bannerman, was 60 years old when he was the Minister of Tibetan and Indian Affairs, the Minister of the Tibetan Affairs Office in Tibet, the Minister of Sichuan-Yunnan Frontier Affairs and the Commander of the Tibetan Garrison, although he was not born in the army, but because he was familiar with the Sichuan-Tibet border affairs, he was specially awarded the military rank by the former Guangxing Emperor, and he served as the deputy commander of the Tibet Special Military Region and the commander of the garrison in the seventh year of Guangxing (1902), and held the practical power of the Tibetan army, and actively promoted the reform of the land and the return of the river in Tibetan areas, abolished the lords, and established counties and counties. The results have been remarkable. When the British and Indian troops invaded Tibet in 1903, the Tibetan army and civilians successfully repelled the enemy army and recovered the land under his unified command.
How can Zhao Erfeng not sigh when www.cmfu.com release? 114 years ago, that is, in 1791, due to the two invasions of Tibet by the Gurkha Kingdom, the Qianlong Emperor appointed Jiayong Gongfu Kangan as the general, and successively transferred more than 17,000 troops from Tibet to the Gurkha. In the fourth lunar month of the following year, Fukangan marched in two ways, and the Qing army and the Tibetan army cooperated closely to quickly defeat the invading Kuo army, and by May it had recovered all the lost territories, including Nyalam and Jilong. The frightened Gurkha king Lana•Bahadur released the Han soldiers Wang Gang and Zongben Tangmai, who had been captured in the past, and brought back a letter asking for peace, Fukangan replied that he refused to make peace, and ordered the army to advance by victory, and arrived near Kathmandu, the capital of the Gorkha kingdom in the eighth lunar month. On August 28, 1792 (the 57th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty), Fukangan accepted the surrender of the Gurkha king and stopped marching troops. On the 4th day of the first month of September, all Qing troops withdrew from the territory of Gurkha and retreated to Jilong. Since then, the Gurkha Kingdom has paid tribute to the Great Emperor of Beijing every five years, and it has never been broken, and every Gurkha king since then has accepted the canonization of the Great Emperor after ascending the throne, which has never been changed.
www.cmfu.com On the 20th of the same month, the Rana family, who had been in power in Gurkha for more than half a century and held the position of hereditary prime minister, staged a coup d'Γ©tat under the leadership of the current Prime Minister Girishala and executed King Bariswi•Bill•Bikram•Shah, and appointed King Chinuslan, the brother of King Barisvi, as the new king, and the new king publicly announced the day after his accession to the throne. The special envoy sent by the former king of Barisvi rebelled against the kingdom, and all his remarks did not represent the original intention of the Gurkha king, and he immediately unilaterally abolished the nominal suzerain-vassal relationship between China and Kuo, and stopped paying tribute to the Chinese Empire.
Ten days after the www.cmfu.com was announced, Diabia, the son of the former King Barisvi, arrived in Nyalam, proclaimed himself the "true king" of Gurkha, and asked the Chinese Empire to send troops to punish the "king-killer" Jirishala and the "pseudo-king" Zinuslan.
On July 6, www.cmfu.com, Emperor Kaihong delivered a speech at a joint meeting of the two houses of the National Assembly, accusing Gurkha Prime Minister Girishala of killing King Barisvi, who was officially canonized by the Chinese Empire, which not only blasphemed the way of the people and ministers, but also despised the prestige of China, and unilaterally abolished the relationship between the Kuo clan and the vassal that had existed for more than 100 years. Now there is the son of King Barisvi, Diabia, who was supposed to inherit the throne, because his father was killed by the prime minister, and he wandered to the Tibetan border, and wrote to the emperor to denounce the evil deeds of rebellion against Girissala, and implored the Celestial Empire to send troops to quell the rebellion. At the request of Prince Diabia, the emperor immediately sent troops into the country to eradicate the evil and support justice, so as to protect the people's hearts and protect the prestige of the country. On the same day, the National Assembly passed an emergency military budget totaling 15 million yuan for military operations to quell the Gurkha "rebellion".
www.cmfu.com release of the treacherous rebel minister to kill the monarch and seek the country, the young prince is in a foreign land, such a story has been rendered by the emperor's moving speech and the media, and immediately produced an unexpected fairy tale effect in the whole world, "support the rebel or support the prince" quickly and "support evil or support justice" was quickly equated with a natural sign, and newspapers in various countries began to report one after another how the prince skillfully escaped the murder of the evil prime minister. Led by a beautiful Tibetan girl with a hundred pigtails, he climbed over the snow-capped mountains, defeated the monkey-like and ugly killer sent by the prime minister with the help of a brave warrior riding a one-ton yak (yes, the newspapers did say about it), and how he showed his ingenuity in the Potala Palace in Lhasa and persuaded the * lama to give him an army to avenge his hatred......
www.cmfu.com the release story continues, it doesn't matter whether Prince Diabia has actually met the * lama or not, in short, on July 15, a mixed force of 5,600 men under the command of Zhao Erfeng began to march from Nyalam to Gorkha territory, this force includes 2,600 garrisons from the mainland and 3,000 new troops recruited and trained locally in Tibet, armed with Hanyang or Mauser rifles, Hanyang light machine guns, domestic Makqin water-cooled machine guns, mortars and mountain artillery. On the day of the expedition, someone saw Prince Diabia, dressed in the traditional costume of the Gurkha royal family, carrying a Mauser pistol on his waist, and together with his three personal soldiers, rode a horse in the middle of the marching column of Zhao Erfeng's troops.
www.cmfu.com On July 16, the 4,000 Tibetan troops led by the commander of the Tibet Special Military Region, Ze Duoqilan (a great lord with thousands of serfs and the nominal supreme military chief of Tibet), also began to march from Jilong to Gurkha, west of Nyalam, with soldiers from the territories of 27 great lords, led by 7 Daiben, and equipped with a variety of equipment, including Tibetan knives, round shields, ankle-length chain mail, arquebuses that have been in service for two centuries or more, Breech-loading flintlock rifles, rear-loading single-shot rifles using paper cartridge casings, 13mm Mauser M1888 rifles with a five-round magazine, and 8mm Manchari rifles with ten-round magazines...... Of course, this mobile history museum also has a place for so-called "heavy weapons", and is equipped with a total of eight early British 7-point 62 mm Maxim MK1 machine guns, two 37 mm Maxim machine guns (bang guns) and four 57 mm mountain guns, all of which can be disassembled and carried on the march by mules and horses.
www.cmfu.com release: "I think the Dozilan army should also cross the border smoothly." Thinking of this, Zhao Erfeng couldn't help but worry about the "rabble" of Zeduoqilan, although the task of Zeduoqilan's army was to contain Zhao Erfeng's army with coordination as the main force to attack Kathmandu, but judging from the complexity of the source of the troops, just commanding the march was enough to make the commander brainless, not to mention that this time it was to go deep into the enemy's territory to launch an active attack.
www.cmfu.com Cheng Fengxiang stroked the stele and said: "Marshal, then the Qilan army doesn't have to take it to heart, they can win, and it doesn't matter if they don't win, as long as they are not defeated and retreat, thank God if they endanger our army's rear road." β
www.cmfu.com Zhao Erfeng waved his whip and pointed to the neat marching column of the army in the middle of the road: "I don't expect those savages to make much effort, the family foundation that I Zhao Erfeng has built in the past three years in Tibet is here, if you don't rely on them, who else can you rely on?" β
www.cmfu.com issued "The marshal is wise, but our army has arrived at the Zhangmu Pass, and we don't see the army to stop it, could it be that there is fraud in it?" β
www.cmfu.com release" is there any fraud, go forward and know the way,
After www.cmfu.com release, Zhao Erfeng hung up his horsewhip, put on his military hat, and strode towards his jujube black war horse.
When www.cmfu.com was about to get on his horse, a white horse swept to the front with smoke and dust, and jumped down a spy in white clothes and hats: "Report to the commander, on the road five miles ahead, there are seven or eight hundred Gurkha soldiers, eighty percent infantry, and twenty percent cavalry, walking in a column of five or six rows, waving white flags, coming this way." β
www.cmfu.com release "Under the White Flag? Do you see clearly? β
www.cmfu.com release" can be seen clearly. β
www.cmfu.com release" go back and explore again. β
www.cmfu.com release "Yes! β
www.cmfu.com released a spy dressed as a Gurkha man and ran away, Zhao Erfeng stroked his beard for a long time and summoned Cheng Fengxiang.
www.cmfu.com issued an order to pass on me, the whole army stopped advancing, the front army occupied the high slopes on both sides of the mountain pass, the Chinese army lined up on the road to prepare for battle, and the rear army dug trenches and built walls on the spot with baggage as the center, and there was no slackness! β
www.cmfu.com post "Understood! β
Not long after the release of the www.cmfu.com, the group of Gurkha soldiers had already approached the guard post of the front army, and a Gurkha knight dressed as a leader drove his horse forward, shouting loudly, Zhao Erfeng could see clearly from the binoculars, so he asked Cheng Fengxiang to bring the knight over to talk.
As soon as the www.cmfu.com release knight saw Zhao Erfeng, he "wow-wow-la-wow-la-......la-
www.cmfu.com Zhao Erfeng has been in charge of Tibetan affairs for many years, and the Tibetan language is difficult for him, but in the face of this Tibetan language with a strong Gurkha accent, he still has to call a Tibetan military translator who is familiar with Gurkha to help.
www.cmfu.com release" He said that they were the team of the head of Baren Soje, who was the brother-in-law of King Barisvi, and had always had a deep affection for King Barisvi, and heard that the king was murdered by Prime Minister Girishala, and the head of Baren Soje was very sad and angry, but because of the disparity in strength, he had to endure and wait, and now he heard that Prince Diabia, the legitimate heir of King Barisvi, invited the emperor's royal teacher to punish the evil, and the head of Baren Sojie brought all the men in the territory who could fight, At the behest of Prince Diabia. β
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