Chapter 698: Tokyo Bay
This time, the Tatar Song followed the footsteps of the Aryans, Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, etc., and the three brothers and wild fathers, and once again easily crossed this world-class natural hazard.
The vast and fertile plains of the Ganges and the Indus River are already in sight.
Of course, compared to the predecessors, the opponent encountered by Tatar Song this time was much more difficult.
Because this kingdom of Jammu is the Sikh kingdom armed by the British.
The Sikhs, also known as the red-headed Ah San, are the most abundant martial arts among Ah San. (See Fig.) ๏ผ
It is precisely because of their relative abundance of martial virtue that the proportion of Sikhs in the Indian divisions formed by the British is quite high.
But on their own, the Sikhs are very numerous, making up only 2% of India's population, or only 8 million people.
Today, Britain is facing tremendous pressure from Europe, North America, and the Far East, and has formed more than 180 Indian divisions with nearly two million men.
Many of the elite of these divisions were transferred to Central Asia, Malay, Burma, Europe, and even North America.
The Indian divisions, which had little combat effectiveness at all and were reluctant to serve as security police, were left in India itself.
Because according to the judgment of the British, if Zhu Fugui intends to invade India, he must first take Malay and Burma.
Because Zhu Ming's biggest winning weapon is tanks and cars.
It is unlikely that Zhu Ming will cut off his own arm, so he will cross the snowy plateau and the Pamir knot and enter from northwest India.
In those places, it was simply impossible to build roads, and there was no room for mechanized troops.
As a result, a large number of Sikhs were attracted to the British army and went to fight outside India
This has resulted in a relative emptiness of their nests.
Moreover, the Sikhs are rich in martial virtue relative to other peoples in South Asia.
And the Tatar Song crotch pull is extremely relative to the height that the East Asian nation should have reached.
If the Sikhs were really so full of martial virtues, there would be no battle hero in the future who said, "The enemy not only surrenders, but dares to shoot back!" "The sound of anger is up.
The Tatar Song army and people had no idea what to do with the British head-on.
But to bully Indians is to go back to the old business.
Looking at the undefended and empty Khyber Pass, and the army of Tatar Song beggars slowly passing through, Tokugawa Yoshiki rode on top of the short-legged Tibetan horse, took out a Ming army-style saber from his waist, waved the saber, and shouted: "Enter the customs!" โ
Then, the sound of horses' hooves and wheels from the north once again woke up this ancient and fertile land.
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When Zhu Fugui learned that the Tatar Song army had really crossed the snowy plateau alive and entered like locusts and swept through many towns in northern India, it was already more than half a month later.
Putting down the "Times" and the secret report of the brocade guard, Zhu Fugui had to sigh with emotion, the British reporter is still running fast!
Their news arrived in front of the Imperial Court almost at the same time as the secret fold of the Jinyi Guard.
However, this is mainly because Zhu Fugui is not in Fengdu now, and there is no guarantee of the transpacific cable.
Radio is sometimes not as reliable as cable telegraphy.
At this time, Zhu Fugui's location was above the Beibu Gulf, or the Gulf of Tonkin in the Vietnamese population.
Zhu Fugui's two ships, the Dingyuan and the Zhenyuan, plus several main warships in the Shenzhou Theater, such powerful firepower may be nothing in the Atlantic, but in this "Tokyo Bay", if you want to go sideways, you can go sideways, and if you want to go vertically, you can go vertically.
And the city of Tokyo is now trembling under the guns of the Ming Dynasty.
In the Baosheng area (now Lao Cai, Vietnam), 150 kilometers north of Tokyo, the strength of the 25th division of the Ming Royal Army and the Black Flag Army, which had just been annexed to the Ming Dynasty, were already waiting for them.
The Black Flag Army was a peasant armed force active in the border areas of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and was led by Liu Yongfu at the end of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Historically, with the defeat of the Taiping Army, the Black Flag Army was also forced to flee into Vietnam and help Vietnam resist French aggression.
Later, in the Sino-French War, he was ordered by the Qing court, and together with the veteran Feng Zicai, he inflicted heavy losses on the French army at Zhennan Pass, and led to the downfall of the French cabinet Jofli.
And this heroic army was finally disbanded by the disbandment of the worried Qing court.
Later, it had to be reorganized in the First Sino-Japanese War, and finally the whole army was martyred in Taiwan.
And in this life, the fate of the Black Flag Army is of course very different.
About four years in Dewu, Zuo Li successively became self-reliant, and the Han landlord armed forces in various places changed their ways, only the governor of Liangguang was the banner man Ruilin.
He remained loyal to the Qing court and insisted on purging Liu Yongfu's troops.
However, Seo Lin's power was limited, so although the Black Flag Army was still active on the border between Guangxi and Guangzhou, it did not penetrate deep into Vietnam to help Vietnam resist the French.
Moreover, the full name of the Governor of Liangguang, Ruilin, is Yehnara Ruilin.
Now he has changed his name to Zhao Ruilin, and followed Zhao Xingzhen to the high plains to catch hairy people.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty in the Liangguang War was almost missionary.
The Black Flag Army also immediately surrendered to Daming.
Zhu Fugui has a good impression of the Black Flag Army and Liu Yongfu, but such a peasant army naturally cannot be retained.
Just like Zhu Fugui admired the veteran Feng Zicai very much, but he only went to Guangdong to visit him once in person and invited him to Fengdu to retire, but he did not keep him after being refused.
It is impossible to invite Feng Zicai to become a master.
It is impossible for an old man like him to adapt to the Ming Royal Army.
The same goes for the Black Flag Army.
After settling the matter of Jiaozhi, Daming will give them the opportunity, or re-enlist in the army in the normal process, receive regular planning training, or disarm and return to the field, and Daming will issue a reasonable severance pay.
Liu Yongfu is actually only in his thirties now.
After Zhu Dashuai's special approval, after the end of the war, he will enter the Daming Naval Academy for study.
In short, for these righteous men of the old era, although Daming can't accept them all, he will not treat them badly.
But for the Nguyen Dynasty and the so-called Ruan Yizong, there was not much time left for them.
Of course, the "Tokyo" here is not the "Tokyo" of Japan.
Because of the turmoil by the Ming Dynasty, Japan's Meiji Restoration became Tokutake Masasa, and Edo Castle naturally did not change its name to Tokyo.
This so-called Tokyo refers to Tokyo, the capital of Vietnam, which later became Hanoi.
(In English, one is tongkin and the other is tokyo, reflecting the considerable difference in accent between the two rebels in the Chinese civilization circle.) ๏ผ
The winner of the May Day Labor Award of the Ming Dynasty, the chief designer of the Fengdu Metro, the spiritual mentor of the civil engineering people, the living fossil from a ghost to a human, and the old friend of His Majesty Zhu Fugui, Mr. Charles-Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, if he had not been captured alive in advance by the Ming Dynasty, he would have been given the nickname of "Tokyo Scud" in the Franco-Prussian War.
The meaning of "Tokyo Scud" is roughly equivalent to "the god of the sorghum river".
Obviously, the former was far inferior to the latter, and was eventually captured by the Prussians at Sedan.
But judging from this joking nickname, you can see how deeply the French are involved in Vietnam.
Zhu Fugui sat on the dragon chair on the deck, eating the prawns peeled by Bai Xia'er, watching the Times, drinking Coke, the traditional drink of the Ming Dynasty, leisurely waiting for the arrival of a person.
The arrival of the Great Tomorrow Son is an ultimatum to the monarchs and ministers of the Nguyen Dynasty.
If you know the current affairs, go to the emperor's name, and come naked with sheep, you can especially provide a set of medium and large apartments with four bedrooms and two living rooms in the Five Kingdoms City.
If you don't know the current affairs, that 30-centimeter box is your forever home!
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