"Come here, bring the British invader, the big porn dealer Elsfinton, to prison!"
With a shout in Urdu, Elsfinton, who was tied up in a big way, was escorted to a square outside Peshawar Castle by two fierce-looking Eight Banners yellow jackets. I saw that he was wearing a high conical hat on his head, and a wooden sign hung around his neck. The words "invader" and "big pussy dealer" were written on the hat and wooden sign in Urdu, and his face was full of It's all fear and uneasiness - no one would be fearful if they reached this stage!
Look at this posture, are you going to be shot or decapitated?
Elsfenton wanted to complain - although he was an aggressor, he was really not a porn dealer. The tablets copied from his headquarters were not his, but medicines used by military doctors to treat headaches, brain fever, acclimatization, vomiting and diarrhea, knife wounds and gunshot wounds, and fear of death. And the quantity was not large, there were just a few boxes of pornographic films, with a total value of less than a thousand rupees. If this is a business, isn't it too small?
But before he could say his "grievance", someone was already yelling and throwing some random things at him.
"kill him!"
"devil!"
"Go to hell!"
"British, get out!"
Elsfinton couldn't understand what those people were shouting, but he also knew that it must not be something good. He quickly looked up and found that the square was already crowded with local people from Peshawar at this time, and the people maintaining order in the square were They turned out to be some Indians still wearing the infantry uniforms of the East India Company with yellow cloth strips tied on their left arms - obviously, these people were "cowards" of the Jin Kingdom who had just turned their backs and surrendered.
Just when Elsfenton wanted to curse a few words for a while before dying, the scene suddenly became quiet, and everyone raised their heads and looked up. Elsfenton also looked up, and found that an airship that looked about the same size as an entire building had descended to a height of dozens of feet above the square. It looked like a floating in the air. Castle-like. How had the local people of Peshawar seen such a big flying object in the square? Everyone was stunned. Some of them didn't understand the situation and knelt down to the airship.
As soon as Elsfenton looked away from the airship, he saw Abbas Khan, the governor of Peshawar appointed by Dost Muhammad Khan, nodding and bowing and following the great Jin Pingxi King Wu Zhen from the Peshawar Castle. When they came out, there were people behind them holding aloft the flag of the Afghan Barak Zaid dynasty (the dynasty of Dost Mohammad Khan) - a flag with a black background and a white Tianfang Temple embroidered on the black background.
Although Peshawar had been ruled by the Durrani dynasty before, both the Balakzai dynasty and the Durrani dynasty were Pashtun dynasties and both believed in Tianfang religion. The alternation between these two dynasties was entirely an internal affair of Afghanistan. Therefore, the people of Peshawar were happy to accept the new ruler, otherwise the East India Company would not have allowed the governor sent by Dost Muhammad Khan to temporarily manage the civil affairs of Peshawar.
Seeing that the Governor of Peshawar supported by the East India Company had already stood with King Pingxi of Dajin... Elsfinton's heart sank to the bottom!
When the people of Peshawar saw the flags and governor-general of the Balak Zaid of Afghanistan, they immediately cheered.
Wu Zhenfa and Abbas Khan came to a stop next to Elsfenton. At this time, Abbas Khan had a big beard, wore a traditional robe of the Tianfang Sect, and a black turban on his head. Abbas Khan (whose black turban means he is a holy descendant) has begun to deliver a speech in Pashto.
"Emperor Daoguang of the Great Jin Empire is our friend in Afghanistan and the half-brother of the Emir. His army was invited by the Emir to help us expel the British and achieve the unification of Afghanistan. This is not only The Amir’s war is not just a war for us Pashtuns… but a war for God!”
Abbas Khan's "War of Gods" is not something he talks about casually. A leader with a high status must issue a decree.
The people of Peshawar in the square cheered again.
Abbas Khan raised his right hand and pointed at the flying sky, and people immediately fell silent.
Abbas Khan added: "According to the orders of Emperor Daoguang and the Emir, General Elsfinton, the leader of the British invaders, will be sent to Kunduz for trial... using this large ship Airship of the Golden Empire Royal Navy!”
Soon, the Major General was placed in a large basket, hoisted with a rope to an airship floating in the air, and then placed in front of a group of Dajin airship crew members wearing yellow jackets - this It was so magical that his "first flight", a civilized and progressive major general of the British Empire, actually took place in an airship piloted by barbarians.
"Rear Admiral Elsfinton, we are the Royal Naval Air Force of the Dajin Empire, and you are our prisoner now!"
At this time, an airship veteran from the Kingdom of Jin, who looked barbaric and backward, and who was a bit older, spoke up. He spoke in English with an Oxford accent. The person asking the question was Guan Tianpei, who had been an exchange student when he was young. He studied abroad at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, England, and later served as a military diplomat at the British Embassy. So he can speak quite fluent and standard English... Fortunately, Elsfinton is a British Army soldier. If Yilu is caught now, he will probably recognize Guan Tianpei, because they were classmates!
Zhuge Weidao also smiled and said, "Major General, we will take you to the Amu Darya camp. Maybe you will meet His Majesty the Golden Emperor... As long as you cooperate with us well, we can guarantee that you will personal safety.”
Of course he also speaks English. Although he has never studied in the UK, he was able to speak English in his previous life, and his English in this life is even better. The British Royal Navy has always been the imaginary enemy of the Ming Navy, so all officers of the Ming Navy must Master English so that you can truly master first-hand and original information and know yourself and your enemy.
Of course, the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth also has dedicated Chinese classes!
Major General Elsfinton still had a dreamlike feeling when he looked at the "yellow jackets" in the cabin.
This is so unreal!
The Royal Navy of Daikin… There is no sea, so what’s the Royal Navy? Oh, it’s still aviation! Although the UK also has airships, the Royal Navy does not have professional aviation. Their airships are not that big and cannot fly too far. They can only fly around the base, and there is no airborne strategy for airdrops. Isn't this too advanced?
Seeing that the British major general didn't say a word as if he was stupid, Zhuge Weidao changed to Chinese and said to Guan Tianpei: "Sir Guan, it seems that this British man is nothing more than this... The British and Indian Army collapsed at the first touch and has no combat effectiveness at all. . Even such a stupid guy can become a general, why do we need to be afraid of them? "
Guan Tianpei glanced at Zhuge Weidao, frowned and said: "Taozi, don't talk about war easily...it's easy to start a war, but hard to stop it!
However, the combat effectiveness of the British and Indian troops was indeed much worse than we imagined. More than 200 Eight Banners soldiers descended and took over the headquarters in Peshawar. But it is not that easy for Daikin to win against Daying. The Daoguang Emperor actually miscalculated. Although he deceived tens of thousands of British and Indian troops into Afghanistan, he also took advantage of the heavy snow in winter to close the mountains and roads to launch an airborne surprise attack on Peshawar. But his army is now blocked north of the Hindu Kush Mountains by heavy snow, and he cannot advance until the snow melts. But by the time the heavy snow melts, it will already be mid-spring next year. It would be great if the Jin soldiers could march into the Gandhara Basin next summer... By then, the British mainland army would have arrived in large numbers! "
Guan Tianpei's analysis is actually the same as Zhuge Weidao's idea - the combat effectiveness of the "Third Brother" of the British-Indian Army is indeed unexpected.
If Daoguang was determined to advance into northwest India and catch the British by surprise, by the time the British mobilized troops from the mainland, perhaps the Indus River Basin would be gone.
However, Emperor Daoguang was nestled in the valley of Central Asia and didn't know much about the reality of the British Empire, so he didn't dare to mess around as soon as he came up.
Zhuge Weidao did not expect that Daoguang's Eight Banners soldiers would be so fierce. At the same time, he did not want Dajin to leave the good place of Central Asia and move to India - Central Asia is vast, sparsely populated and rich in resources, and has now been managed by Dajin. The pattern of half Taoism and half Taoism has been eliminated, and the Taoist population also occupies the most important grain-producing areas in Central Asia. Future population growth is still expected. Therefore, like Southeast Asia, it can be managed as the backyard of the Ming Dynasty.
Only when the backyard is stable can the future of Ming Dynasty be stable!
Therefore, his plan was just to let the Jin soldiers deal with the British in Afghanistan. Looking at it now, it is indeed a bit conservative.
Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao said to Guan Tianpei: "Sir Guan, it's time for us to return... We just happened to send this Elsfentong to Emperor Daoguang on the way!"
