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Chapter 30: The Western Expedition and Entering Tibet

Ye Zugui and Cheng Biguang stared at Tang Jian with red eyes, just drawing the three island chains, sweeping across the Pacific Ocean and ecstasy around the world, the saying that the two of them had been lingering in their hearts.

Tang Jian's words were extremely inflammatory. Ye Zugui and Cheng Biguang clenched their fists tightly, and their bodies trembled slightly unconsciously.

Tang Jian changed his tone and said, "Okay, this is the next step after unifying the country. The most important thing now is to expel the British army and take back the Northeast. The two generals, the navy of China, and the future of China depend on you!" After Tang Jian said that, he let out a heavy breath, and his expression became extremely desolate.

Ye Zugui and Cheng Biguang nodded heavily. They also realized how heavy the burden on their shoulders was, but they didn't understand why Tang Jian looked so lonely and desolate after saying these words, like an old monk who had seen through the world.

Tang Jian sighed in his heart, after the Western Expedition, I don’t know how many Chinese men fell down. Tang Jian knew that everything he did now was stained with the hot blood of Chinese men, but he had to do this, because if he didn’t do this, more innocent people would die tragically under the oppression of the great powers. Tang Jian would never want to see the humiliating century-old history.

Instead of suffering for a hundred years, it is better to use the passion of this generation of Chinese men to water a fertile land of peace and stability for the subsequent descendants of Yan and Huang.

To be honest, after fighting in this parallel space and time for so long, Tang Jian felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart, not only because he came from a world that was completely different from this world, and always felt a deep sense of loneliness, but more importantly, he didn't know where he would take China to.

But at least it will make the simple Chinese people live a better life in the future! When they think of this, the haze in Tang Jian's heart was suddenly wiped out. Yes, the transformation process is painful, but he must bravely bear it and take on the responsibility of the rise of China with his shoulders.

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Qinghai, Tanggula Pass.

Feng Guozhang was wearing military uniform and riding on a lacquered horse, his eyes were like torches. With the sound of the horse's sniff, Feng Guozhang looked around and kept scanning the more than 10,000 elite soldiers in front of him.

Feng Yuxiang stood quietly behind Feng Guozhang, his eyes also staring straight at the neat army of the ten thousand troops in front of the formation!

The elite troops in front of him were elite troops selected by Tang Jian from the mountainous areas of Sichuan. Although the Sichuan soldiers in front of him were not tall, their solid and strong bodies were faintly exuding a sense of toughness.

These Sichuan troops have been active on the western Sichuan Plateau all year round. They have long adapted to the harsh climate of the plateau with thin air. They are very suitable for fighting in Tibet, avoiding the trouble of retraining.

The Sichuan Army was fierce, which is a historical evaluation of the Sichuan Army. In ancient times, Sichuan was always regarded as a wild land by the rulers at that time. The people of the country were fierce. Since the Three Kingdoms period, the Sichuan Army has been active on the stage of history. Even Zhuge Liang could not use force to make the Sichuan Army surrender. Instead, he used the attack strategy of capturing Meng Huo seven times to recover the Southern Barbarian Miao people.

When Feng Guozhang came this time, he brought most of the officers at the regiment level and above in the 13th Division, and even brought many advanced weapons, including mortars, Maxim machine guns, m14, melon grenades, etc. After several months of running-in, Feng Guozhang has completely adapted and integrated into this new force.

Feng Guozhang stood in front of the horse, swept his eyes and asked, "Are you soldiers? If an enemy invades our territory, bullies our women and children, dominates our property, and slaughteres our people, what should we do?"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Ten thousand people shouted in unison, with excitement.

Sichuan is only a line between the two, and it can be said that they are dependent on each other. The British fell into the hands of the British. The British burned, killed, looted, and did everything they could. If the British stood firm in the heels, their next goal would be Sichuan. Will they be attached to them? Everyone understands this principle, and there are many Tibetans in Sichuan. The British army entered Tibet and massacred Tibetans at will. The people of Sichuan have long heard of it.

Therefore, Feng Guozhang raised his arms and shouted, and the Sichuan Army below naturally responded.

Feng Guozhang continued: "** has been our territory since ancient times, but the British have ulterior motives and want to split me out of the embrace of the motherland. The land of the motherland will be seized by foreigners. Are you willing?"

"I don't want to! I don't want to!" Another deafening answer.

"Yesterday the President has sent an order, ordering our troops to immediately enter Tibet from Qinghai, expel the British army, rescue millions of Tibetan compatriots, and take back the **. Are you willing to kill all the British and Chinese together with me, Feng Guozhang, and restore my China?" Feng Guozhang raised his cold command knife, pointed at the sky from afar, and said loudly.

"See the general to the death!" Ten thousand people raised their spears at the same time, forming a forest of guns. The forest of guns was waving and undulating in their bodies, just like waves.

Feng Guozhang turned his blade, and the horse beneath him screamed with a wail, and blood flashed, and a bloody horse head flew up from the sky, and a scarlet horse blood was immediately splashed on the wolf-headed military flag beside him. The wolf-headed military flag was designed by Yan Fu, with pure red bottom and a ferocious wolf head in the center of the military flag. The meaning of this military flag is very different from the Huanglong sword flag of the Navy. Taking the Chinese Army is like a vicious wolf on the grassland. When facing the enemy, even a lonely wolf will make the enemy frightened, let alone a group of vicious wolf!

Above the military flag, the ferocious wolf head and scarlet blood make people excited.

Feng Guozhang looked at the majestic Tanggula Snow Mountain in the distance, raised his sword and pointed: "Set out!"

Feng Guozhang's division belongs to the Western Route Army sequence, and is numbered to the 19th Infantry Division of the Chinese Army, equipped with a cavalry regiment, a Maxim machine gun company, and an artillery company.

Because it is a plateau combat, and the valleys are rugged and the roads are inconvenient, most of the strategic supplies of the 19th Division are hunched by mules and horses.

At Feng Guozhang's order, Feng Yuxiang's cavalry regiment took the lead, and the soldiers of the 19th Division in the rear began to slowly climb towards the Tanggula Mountain Pass.

Tanggula Mountain means "mountain on the plateau" in Tibetan, also known as "Dangla Mountain", and in Mongolian, it means "a mountain where eagles cannot fly over". The Tanggula Pass is 5,231 meters above sea level and is located at the border between the northeast of the ** Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province. The eastern section is the boundary mountain between the ** and Qinghai. The southeast extends to the Yunling and Nushan Mountains that connect to the Hengduan Mountains start from the Tanggula Pass.

After Feng Guozhang's 19th Division entered the Tanggula Mountain, it was like water drops falling into the sea. From a distance, from above the snow line, a large army like ants slowly climbed towards the Tanggula Pass. The snow on the top of the Tanggula Mountain is not melted all year round, and dozens of ancient glaciers are rushing across, which can be said to be "a mountain that looks close, but a river that looks far away." The Tanggula Pass is covered with snow, clouds and mist, and lightning is mixed, and it is mysterious. During the climbing period, dozens of soldiers fell due to carelessness, and together with horses, they became a pile of unknown dead bones on the snowy mountain.

It took Feng Guozhang three days to officially enter the **. After entering the **, Feng Guozhang's army arrived at the first town after entering Tibet, Ando.

Ando, ​​meaning "the fork at the end or the lower part" in Tibetan, is located at the foot of the Tanggula Mountain in the north of **.

After crossing the Tanggula Mountain, Feng Guozhang looked back and saw that the Tanggula Mountain behind him was like a head wrapped in brocade, and a heroic god in armor stood high on the snow-capped mountains, grasslands and numerous canyons.

Feng Guozhang sighed in his heart, indeed, the horses were running across the mountain. Don’t look at Tanggula’s altitude of only more than 5,000 meters. But when Feng Guozhang led an army to truly walk through, he realized the terrible aspects of nature.

No wonder Genghis Khan, a genius who was invincible back then, led a large army to enter South Asia through the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, but because of the obstruction of the Tanggula Mountain, he could only look at the mountains and sigh and retreat.

Although Feng Guozhang's entire army crossed the Tanggula Pass, he suffered heavy losses. Before he encountered the British army, he had already lost dozens of soldiers and dozens of war horses.

Ando, ​​the small town in front of you is an important transportation hub in northern Tibet. Ando is located at the exit of the river valley. When you move forward, you will see the endless and open Qiangtang Plateau.

Feng Guozhang led the entire army to rest in Ando for two days, and then headed towards Lhasa again two days later.

Although after entering Tibet, snow-capped mountains were continuous on both sides of the rugged roads, blue sky and grasslands were reflected, and cattle and sheep were scattered like pearls, but due to the sudden drop in the air content, only 60% of the horizontal line, even though Feng Guozhang was in a strong body, he had obvious altitude sickness here.

Everything went wrong. The officers brought by Feng Guozhang from the southeast also had difficulty breathing. The plateau reaction was even more severe than Feng Guozhang, but Feng Yuxiang seemed to be fine. The Sichuan soldiers lived in the plateau area all year round and did not react much. The whole army went south from Anduo, and the army stopped and stopped. After more than ten days, they arrived at Nagqu.

After arriving in Nagqu, everyone's altitude sickness was a little better, but this took a lot of time.

I got information from Lhasa. The British army had discovered that Feng Guozhang's troops had entered the ** and prepared in advance around Lhasa. This forced Feng Guozhang to be vigilant. Although the journey was smooth and he did not encounter the British army entering Tibet, this did not mean that the British army would not relax his guard against him. On the contrary, the calmer he was, the more dangerous it was.

Feng Guozhang said to Feng Yuxiang behind him: "Captain Feng, you sent a team of scouts to the front to inquire about the news. Now we are getting closer and closer to Lhasa, so we must be vigilant!"

Feng Yuxiang responded and immediately sent a cavalry reconnaissance team of two people, a total of twenty people, to serve as scouts to find out the news.

Not long after, one of the pair of scout teams returned from horseback and rushed to Feng Guozhang and said, "Report to the division commander, a huge lake was found ten miles ahead, and there was a caravan not far away."

"Cargoyle?" Feng Guozhang asked inquired. It seemed that the huge lake in front should be Nambu. After passing Nambu and crossing Nianqing Tanggula Mountain, you can go directly to Lhasa. When you meet the caravan here, you should come out of Lhasa and just go and ask about the situation.

The idea was gone, Feng Guozhang waved his hand: "Go ahead and take a look!"
Chapter completed!
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