Nalan Laoxian looked at the boiling Dajin Navy Death Soldiers below and seemed very satisfied. He nodded with a smile and then raised his whisk, as if he was going to cast a spell and bless them all.
The group of marine death soldiers below who looked a little crazy all stopped cheering, and all of them looked at the old immortal's fly whisk devoutly - this is really both "Showa" and superstitious!
Zhuge's Taoism is also a bit strange. What kind of Taoism does this old immortal Nalan have? At this moment, the old immortal suddenly spoke: "Brothers, listen, I have selected 250 young, beautiful, well-educated, and sensible people for the first batch of people who dare to die by airborne in Peshawar according to the emperor's imperial edict. Immortal Fairy who is also proficient in the art of dual cultivation... If any of you are willing to be my great gold pioneer, please raise your right hand high!"
"Two hundred and fifty Immortal Princesses! They are still young and beautiful, well-educated, and proficient in dual cultivation... No wonder those Dajin Navy death soldiers are crazy!" Zhuge Wei said in his heart: "But There can’t be too many fairies of this level, right? They took out two hundred and fifty at once, this Daoguang Emperor really spent a lot of money!”
At this time, the Dajin navy death soldiers below were already excited. Everyone raised their right arms and shouted loudly together: "Long live, long live, long live..."
This opportunity is indeed rare!
Those who will become navy death soldiers are definitely not the direct descendants of the Eight Banners nobles. Judging from their faces, many of them should be of mixed Hu and Manchu descent. These people are all second- and third-class bannermen in Dajin. In generally peaceful times, they didn't have a very good future. Now the land in Wuji Valley is a bit tight. I'm afraid they won't even be able to get the full share of the land. Orchid Fairy of Nalandili's level can't even think about it... Now it seems We have to draw lots to decide who will be the first to land in Peshawar!
When Zhuge Weidao was folding his arms and waiting to see the draw, a big man had already squeezed through the crowd and came to Zhuge Weidao. He first clasped his fists and then shouted loudly: "Brother Daozi, I just sent someone to invite you and Zheng Shenshan , why are you here?"
Zhuge Weidao took a closer look and saw that the person who came was Wu Zhenzhen, the Minister of the Admiralty of Dajin. He clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, are we going to send troops?"
Wu Zhenfa laughed and said, "I've been looking forward to this day..." He looked around and said, "Brother Daozi, this is not the place to talk. Let's all talk in detail in the hall." He said with a solemn expression. The guest's gesture: "Inside please."
"Okay!" Zhuge Weidao smiled and said, "Your Majesty, please come first."
As they spoke, the two people walked toward the lobby of the Yamen of the Admiralty Department of Dajin one after another.
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While Wu Zhenzhen, Zhuge Weidao, Zheng Guoxian and others were busy planning the first divine weapon descending from heaven in history, a big drama was just taking place in the city of Kunduz at the northern foot of the Hindu Kush Mountains.
The Afghan army guarding Kunduz obviously didn't have much fighting spirit. When tens of thousands of Dajin troops came to the city, they only fired a few symbolic shots and then abandoned the city and left.
However, the offensive of the Dajin soldiers at the northern foot of the Hindu Kush Mountains ended here. Further south is the Salang Pass, which is nearly three thousand meters above sea level. It is already early winter. Although the mountain pass is not blocked by heavy snow, the thin air and low temperature brought by the high altitude are difficult for any large army. deadly. At the same time, a British-Indian army of two to three thousand people also drove to the Salang Pass at a rapid march and set up defenses with the Afghan army there.
After the news of the arrival of the British troops reached Kunduz, Emperor Daoguang, who had previously clamored to go to India to ban pornographic films, seemed to have given up. Not only did they stop their advance immediately, but they also contacted the British troops at Salang Pass through local religious leaders in Kunduz, and expressed their intention to negotiate peace.
After learning that Emperor Guang wanted peace talks, the commander of the British army, George Cotton, also planned to use the opportunity of peace talks to explore the reality of the Dajin soldiers - Wuji Valley has always been a relatively closed existence, and the East India Company's spy It's hard to fit in. The strength of the Dajin soldiers is also hazy. Although it gives people a backward and conservative feeling, it still maintains the legend of the invincibility of the heavenly soldiers in Central Asia.
Therefore, in order to know ourselves and the enemy, Major General George Cotton sent his chief of staff, Colonel Mike Norton, and Ali Khan to come to Salang Pass and arrived at the Jinbing camp on the outskirts of Kunduz, which was occupied by the Dajin Heavenly Soldiers.
This Jinbing camp is a typical cavalry camp. It is very loosely organized, with shallow and narrow trenches. The camp walls are scrawled and the fences are sparse. They look casual. However, the watchtower in the camp is very tall and sturdy, and you should have a good view from it.
After entering the camp, Mike Norton had fought in the Napoleonic Wars and fought against the princes of the feudal states who were dissatisfied with British rule in India for many years. He immediately felt the temperament that a backward, conservative, and undisciplined feudal army should have - regardless of the The officers and soldiers were all wearing outdated, tattered cotton armor and ridiculous-looking lightning rod helmets. The management of the army is very loose, and the teams coming in and out are very chaotic. The soldiers carrying guns look like a mob. It is almost impossible to see any group of soldiers conducting routine drills, but there are large groups gathering. Soldiers gambling together.
There are many fortune-telling Taoist priests in the military camp, waving magic weapons like "little mops" and shouting about "invulnerability" - Mike Norton understands Chinese, he served as a military attaché in the Ming Dynasty, and he also knows Taoism.
But their method of boosting morale seems to be of no use. Anyway, all Mike Norton saw was low morale and listlessness. Although the officers and soldiers of the Jin Kingdom looked strong and physically stronger than the Indians in the British and Indian troops, they lacked energy, had numb expressions, and sometimes showed very weird smiles...for a while Numbtongue covered his mouth and snickered for a while, as if he had taken some kind of medicine.
But what surprised Mike Norton even more was that there were actually many vendors and women who didn't know what they were doing in the military camp, wandering around here, making the military camp look like a market...
As for the weapons and equipment of this Dajin Heavenly Soldier, it is not worth mentioning... Mike Norton saw that most of the soldiers were still using muzzle-loading guns, and the number of artillery was very small. There were no water-cooled machine guns. There are only a few miniguns (Gatling), and they all seem to have very little ammunition.
In short, this Dajin Heavenly Soldier looks like an army of beggars at first glance. Maybe they can bully the more ignorant and backward opponents in Central Asia, but trying to defeat the Anglo-Indian Army is simply a dream.
Mike Norton really couldn't understand, how dare Emperor Daoguang bring such an army to Afghanistan to die?
However, after meeting the fat, lazy, and mediocre Emperor Daoguang himself and his ministers with low abilities, Mike Norton quickly understood the purpose of Emperor Daoguang's visit - he did not come to die, he came to beg for food. of!
"Suici, do you know what Suici means? We, Dajin, are helping you, Great Britain, to guard the northwest border and make sure not to let bandits harass you. Your British Empire rewards us with hundreds of...hundreds of thousands of pounds every year. .Isn’t this too much to ask for?”
The person speaking to Mike Norton in English in a large, faded gold-domed tent was a thin old man with a white beard. He was none other than Heshen, the chief secret minister of the Kingdom of Jin. He was also regarded as the leader of the Kingdom of Jin on the international stage. The number one celebrity. When he was young, he served as ambassador to the Rakshasa Kingdom and even danced with Emperor Catherine the Great! It is said that Empress Catherine thought he was handsome and wanted to invite him to spend the night in the Winter Palace.
Later, He Shen became the minister to the Kingdom of France, just in time for the Great Revolution, and together with Zhuge Weijiu, the then minister of the Ming Dynasty, he rescued the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, and became famous. Later, Marie Antoinette gave birth to a half-blood prince for Louis XVI in Vienna...
As Mike Norton listened to Heshen's conversation, he thought to himself: "For such a man who was so influential when he was young, he is now so old and comatose that he actually wants to beg for food from the British Empire. What an old fool!"
