"Come on, bring up the British invaders, the big girl film dealer Elsfinton!"

With a cry in Urdu, Elsfinton, who was tied up with a lot of flowers, escorted the two fierce-looking Yellow Coats of Eight Banners to a square outside Peshawar Castle. I saw that he was wearing a tall conical hat on his head, and a wooden sign was hung around his neck, and the words "invader" and "big girl dealer" were written in Urdu on the hat and wooden card, and his face was full of panic and uneasiness—anyone who got to this point would be terrified!

Look at this posture, whether you want to shoot or kill your head!

Elsfindton wanted to cry out - although he was an aggressor, he really wasn't a film dealer. The pieces copied from his headquarters were not his, but the medicines used by the military doctors, to treat headaches, brain fever, water and soil adaptation, vomiting and diarrhea, knife wounds and gunshot wounds, and greed for life and fear of death. And there are not many of them, there are only a few boxes of slices, and the total value is less than a thousand rupees. If this is a sale, isn't it too small?

But before he could shout his "injustice", someone was already yelling at him to throw some messy things.

"Shoot him!"

"Devil!"

"Go to hell!"

"British, get out!"

Elsfunton couldn't understand what those people were shouting, but he also knew that it must not be a good thing, so he quickly looked up and found that the square was already crowded with local people in Peshawar at this time, and the people maintaining order in the square were actually some Indians who were still wearing the infantry uniforms of the East India Company and wearing yellow cloth strips on their left arms—it was obvious that these people were all "cowards" of the Dajin Kingdom that had just surrendered.

Just when Elsfinten wanted to scold a few words one last time, and die again after a while, the scene suddenly fell silent, and everyone raised their heads to look up. Elsfinton also looked up, and saw that an airship that looked about the size of an entire building had somehow dropped to a height of dozens of feet above the square, looking like a castle floating in the air. Where have the local people of Peshawar seen such a big flying object in the square? They were all stunned, and some of them didn't understand the situation, so they all knelt down for the airship.

As soon as Elsfunton withdrew his gaze from the airship, he caught a glimpse of Dost. Muhammad. Khan-appointed governor of Peshawar Abbas. Khan was nodding and following the big king of Jinpingxi out of the Peshawar castle, and there was someone behind him holding aloft an Afghan Barak Zai dynasty (Dost. Muhammad. Khan's Dynasty) - This is a flag with a black background and a white Tianfang Temple tattooed on a black background.

Although Peshawar had been ruled by the Durrani dynasty before, the Barakzai dynasty and the Durrani dynasty were both Pashtun dynasties, both of which believed in the Celestial Religion, and the alternation between the two dynasties was entirely an internal affair of Afghanistan. So the people of Peshawar were happy to accept the new ruler, or else the East India Company would not have let Dost. Muhammad. The Khan sent a governor to temporarily administer the civil affairs of Peshawar.

I saw that the governor of Peshawar, who was supported by the East India Company, was already standing with the king of Pingxi of Daikin...... Elsfinton's heart sank to the bottom at once!

The people of Peshawar cheered when they saw the banner and governor of the Barak dynasty of Afghanistan.

Wu Fax and Abbas. The Khan and the two stood next to Elsfenton, who at this time had a big beard, wearing the traditional robes of the Celestial Sect and a black turban on his head. Khan (black turban means he's a saint). Khan has already begun to speak in Pashto.

"Emperor Daoguang of the Dajin Empire is a friend of our Afghans and a half-brother of the Emir, and his army was invited by the Emir to help us expel the British and achieve the unification of Afghanistan. This is not only a war of the emir, and not only a war of our Pashtuns...... It's God's war! ”

Abbas. Khan's "war of the gods" was not a casual rhetoric, and a fatwa had to be issued by a leader of high status.

The Peshawar people in the square cheered again.

Abbas. Khan raised his right hand and pointed to the sky in the air, and the people immediately fell silent.

Abbas. Khan added: "By order of the Daoguang Emperor and the emir, General Elsfintun, the leader of the British invaders, will be sent to Kunduz to stand trial...... Just use this Daikin Empire's Royal Navy airship! ”

Soon, His Excellency was placed in a large basket, hoisted by rope to a floating airship, and then placed in front of a group of Dajinguo airship crew wearing yellow coats—this is really magical, his "first flight" of the civilized and progressive British Empire Major General was actually completed in an airship piloted by barbarians.

"Rear Admiral Elsfinton, we are the Royal Naval Aviation of the Daikin Empire, and you are now our prisoner!"

At this time, an airship veteran of the Dajin Kingdom, who looked barbaric and backward and was still a little old, spoke, speaking in the English of the flow or in the Oxford dialect - the one who asked was Guan Tianpei, who had studied at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, England as an exchange student when he was young, and later served as a military diplomat in the British Embassy. So be able to speak fairly fluent and standard English...... Fortunately, Elsfinton is a British Army, and if it is Yilu who is caught now, most of them will recognize Guan Tianpei, because they used to be classmates!

Zhuge Weidao also smiled and spoke, "Major General, we will take you to the Amu Darya camp, maybe you will meet His Majesty the Dajin Emperor...... As long as you cooperate with us, we can guarantee your personal safety. ”

Of course, he also spoke English, although he did not go to England to study, but he was able to speak English in his previous life, and he spoke English more slippery in this life - the British Royal Navy has always been the imaginary enemy of the Ming Navy, so the officers of the Ming Navy must master English, so as to truly grasp the first-hand and original information, so that they know themselves and their opponents.

Of course, the Royal Naval Academy in Dartmouth also has a dedicated Chinese language class!

Rear Admiral Elsfinton looked at the "yellow coats" in the cabin, and still had a dreamlike feeling.

This is so unreal!

Daikin Royal Navy ...... There are no seas, and the Royal Navy? Oh, and still aviation! Although Britain also has airships, the British Royal Navy does not have professional aviation, and their airships are not so big, and they can't fly too far, so they can only go around near the base, and they don't use airships to carry out airborne tactics. That's too advanced, isn't it?

Seeing that the British major general was stupid and didn't say a word, Zhuge Weidao changed to Chinese and said to Guan Tianpei: "Sir Guan, it seems that this Great Britain is nothing more than that...... The Anglo-Indian Army collapsed at the touch of a button, and it had no combat effectiveness at all. Even such a wooden-brained guy can be a general, so do we need to be afraid of them? ”

Guan Tianpei glanced at Zhuge Weidao, frowned and said, "Daozi, don't talk about war easily...... It's easy to start a war, but it's hard to stop it!

However, the combat strength of the British and Indian troops was indeed much worse than we imagined, and more than 200 Eight Banner soldiers descended to end the headquarters in Peshawar. But it is not so easy for Daikin to win against Great Britain. The Emperor of Light actually miscalculated, although he deceived tens of thousands of British and Indian troops into Afghanistan, and also took advantage of the opportunity of heavy snow in winter to close the mountains and roads to airborne Peshawar. But his army was now blocked north of the Hindu Kush by heavy snow, and he would not be able to march until the snow melted. But by the time the snow melts, it will already be mid-spring next year. It would be nice if the Golden Soldiers could march into the Gandhara Basin next summer...... By that time, Britain's native army had arrived in large numbers! ”

Guan Tianpei's analysis is actually the same as Zhuge Weidao's idea - the sparseness of the combat effectiveness of the "third brother" of the British and Indian armies is indeed beyond expectations.

If Daoguang had crossed into the northwest of India, caught the British by surprise, and waited for the British to transfer troops from the mainland, perhaps the Indus Valley would have been gone.

However, Emperor Daoguang nested in the valley of Central Asia, and he didn't know much about the reality of the British Empire, so he didn't dare to stud as soon as he came up.

And Zhuge Weidao didn't expect Daoguang's Eight Banners to be so fierce, and at the same time, he didn't want Dajin to leave the good places in Central Asia and move into India - Central Asia is vast and sparsely populated and rich in resources, and now it has been run by Daikin into a semi-Taoist and half-Tianfang pattern, and the Taoist population also occupies the most important grain-producing area in Central Asia, and the future population growth is still expected. So it can be the same as Southeast Asia, and it will be the backyard of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty.

When the backyard is stable, the future of Daming can be stable!

Therefore, his plan was only for Jin Bing to deal with Great Britain in Afghanistan, and now looking at it, it is indeed a bit conservative.

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao said to Guan Tianpei: "Chief Guan, it's time for us to return...... Just by the way, I sent this Elsfentong to Emperor Daoguang! ”