No one is invincible. Even if they are as powerful as Britain and France, they cannot guarantee that all their soldiers are the best.
However, the Qing Dynasty surrounded all East Asian countries and felt that Westerners were invincible, and their inner fear of foreigners had deepened in war after war.
The reason is also very simple. On the one hand, it is the shock that strong ships and cannons bring to people. The technological gap makes backward peoples feel a sense of frustration of fighting against gods.
Another reason is that the quality of the troops currently sent by Europe to Asia is very high. Just as Tian Ji said in his horse racing, the enemy used the upper Siji to fight against the Qing Dynasty's Middle Siji or even lower Siji. How could such a war be undefeated? ?
The two Opium Wars were like this. In the era of sailing battleships, mankind deployed troops across half the world, which itself was a very big adventure and a huge gamble.
There are countless dangers on the vast sea, such as typhoons, reefs, diseases and even colonial riots. Warships are different from merchant ships. They must take into account many factors such as safety and speed. A full fleet has traveled thousands of miles from Europe. It is impossible to travel to Asia without half a year.
Precisely because the journey was difficult and full of accidents, Britain and France had to prepare the most elite and high-quality soldiers in order to maximize the success rate of the expedition. look
Let alone the mid-19th century, even in World War II, with the industrial strength of the United States, deploying troops around the world was a huge gamble, and the Pacific War was not smooth sailing.
The expeditionary force, which selected the best from the best, faced a group of Manchu Eight Banners and Han Army Green Camp soldiers armed with swords and spears. The result is self-evident.
Today, the sudden attack of the Zhiyuan completely overlaps with the tactics in Tian Ji's horse racing story. These foreign student legions are proficient in several foreign languages, proficient in natural sciences, and are purely trained as senior officers, plus a group of Prussian kings. The elite soldiers who had been trained by Iron Blood for hundreds of years turned out to be top soldiers in normal battles.
As for the poor Dakar garrison, those colonial defenders and servants who thought they were superior horses were actually not even middle class soldiers. In the final analysis, they were just a group of inferior horses and bad horses.
France has been under colonial rule in West Africa for more than two hundred years. During these two hundred years, more than tens of millions of black slaves were sold at Dakar Port. As for gold, ivory, cotton, coffee and other goods grown in the colonies are countless.
Did the Negroes ever rebel during this period? Except for some small tribes that were blind and danced with spears in an attempt to attack the French army, and except for giving some heads to the garrisoned army for merit, the entire Senegal region was as harmonious as the French's back garden.
Two hundred years is enough time for people to form a psychological inertia. In the hearts of successive governors of Dakar, as long as the annual taxes and goods can be paid in full, the local public security will be acceptable, and those niggas will steal less and fight in groups. That's enough.
To be a governor in a place like this is actually to enjoy the blessings and gain qualifications at the same time. No one will try to do anything here.
Not to mention the defenders, the officers were worried about whether the African goods they smuggled could be sold at a good price in Europe, the soldiers were worried about whether the price of fine wine in the bar would increase, and whether syphilis would become more prevalent in the city. As for things like war, let the local elites with high salaries worry about it. Fruits from the equatorial region and a bottle of rum from the Caribbean, this is life.
It is a pity that the sound of artillery in 1868 shattered their dreams. The governor, officers and all the soldiers were dumbfounded at that moment. They had not conducted live-fire exercises for a year. At that moment, everyone forgot what they should do.
"Where did the shelling come from? Who is the enemy? Oh my god, is it the British who are at war with us?"
"I knew it was the UK. The despicable British formed an alliance with us on the surface, taught the Russians a lesson together, and attacked China together, but they turned against us and refused to recognize us!"
"It must be the British. They broke all treaties. They declared war on France. Oh my God, there must be a Royal Navy crowd outside the harbor now."
In chaos, people will always believe some rumors or even actively create some rumors. Why is this? Because of suspicion, because all of them subconsciously have a fear of Britain, they are all vaguely afraid that Britain will stab them in the back.
The Royal Navy is too powerful, and the British national power is too huge. There is no country in Europe that is not worried. Faced with such a behemoth, everyone has a subconscious sense of insecurity.
So in the chaotic night, when people didn't know the enemy's situation at all, this faint worry about Britain instantly became the consensus of people in the entire city. Even though Molière was shouting that the Chinese were coming, it was a pity that his shout was not at all No one paid attention.
"Hell, where are you from, country bumpkin? You actually said you were Chinese? When will the Chinese have warships that span the earth? Aren't they all armed with swords and spears?"
Molière, who was all wet, never expected that he, an upper-class elite from Paris, would be scolded as a country bumpkin in Dakar.
Sun Chu, who was fluent in French, laughed: "Hahaha, country bumpkin? What an apt description, country bumpkin? Hahaha."
"Shut up! Believe it or not, I will shoot you right now." Molière, who was fierce and heartless, took out his pistol and shouted, his face deformed, but Sun Chujian shook his head contemptuously, "You can't bear it. Without me, an officer, as a witness, you Can you convince the bureaucrats in Paris?"
"Look, I don't know anything about you, right? Don't forget that we are all Chinese, and China has the longest period of bureaucratic rule on the entire earth. We are too familiar with that group. Do you want to do something? It’s impossible not to pass their level first!”
"Stop staring at me. I've got you. You'd better be polite to me from today on, otherwise I will find a thousand ways to provoke the entire French bureaucracy and tear you into pieces. Believe me, I have it." This strength is because in China, we have accumulated thousands of years of experience.”
"Hahaha" In the light of the explosion, Sun Chujian laughed arrogantly, causing the chaotic black people around him to look sideways.
Molière's face turned blue with anger. He gritted his teeth and said, "I'm sorry for you. I don't have time to deal with you now, but don't get angry with me. If you dare to challenge my dignity again, I will do the same." A mad dog!"
After saying that, he pushed Sun Chujian and said to his subordinates, "Take these prisoners to the slums, the slums in the north of the city!"
