Chapter 48 Section VIII

The Crusaders who had retreated in retreat made a comeback. Colonel Galan quickly adjusted his forces: he sent a mercenary force to attack the tip of the right wing of Longtu Mountain, and held back Lama Totuo so that they could not send reinforcements elsewhere.Then send a small number of two British troops to attack the left wing guarded by Numadaiben and the right wing guarded by Langserdaiben, mainly to contain, and it is better to rush up.Then he personally commanded an elite force composed of the British, and rushed to the middle of the Longtu Mountain Pass guarded by Guoguo Daiben. The upward attack began, and the experienced British scattered widely, bent over and held their guns, ready to lie down and shoot at any time.Eight soldiers, armed with four machine guns, were scurrying around looking for support as they advanced.Crouching down suddenly, there was a burst of rattling shots, and the Tibetans on the top of the mountain, who were probing their heads, immediately retracted their heads.

Tibetans are still unable to shoot, and waiting for the imperial order is as hopeless as waiting for the crusaders to retreat automatically. Guoguo Daiben scratched his head in anxiety, and suddenly said: "The Lama Xijia is right, not being able to shoot does not mean not killing the foreign demon." He commanded his subordinates to move stones and roll them down the mountain.For a while, the rocks were turned, like an earthquake. The British retreated, came up again in a while, and were crushed to the foot of the mountain by a burst of rolling stones. But the rocks that can be moved on the Tibetan position are limited after all.Soon there will be no Rolling Stones.Relying on the instinct of the soldiers, all the Tibetan soldiers took up their matchlock guns loaded with medicine and aimed at the foreign demons who had climbed up.

The British have realized that the guns of the Tibetans are just for show, and soldiers with guns are more cowardly than lamas without guns.The speed of their attack accelerated, and they came to the front in the blink of an eye.Guoguo Daiben ordered the soldiers on the first line of defense to retreat, so that the soldiers on the second line of defense continued to aim.The British didn't evade even more, and approached with a big face.Guoguo ordered the second line of defense to retreat and let the third line of defense take aim.Seeing that it was time for the third line of defense to retreat again, Guoguo Daiben ran around in a hurry, not knowing what to do.He felt that as a Tibetan soldier, he had almost surrendered.You are holding a gun, but let the enemy walk into Tibet from under your nose. What is it if it is not surrender?He cried out in grief: "Buddha, why can't we shoot?"

Suddenly the Lama Lama’s voice broke through the air: “Because you are not a Tibetan soldier, Tibetan soldiers will not stop shooting at this time. The Buddha said, the regent said, I said, shoot!” The Lama Lama has seen that the British want to avoid the fearless Totuo Lama and break through from the position of the Tibetan soldiers who will not shoot until they die.He ran all the way and conveyed his order: "Shoot, shoot, I have asked the regent for instructions, you can shoot." But this matter is too important to just convey verbally, the court's decree is to With paperwork.Just now on the right-wing position of Longtu Mountain, Lang Sedaiben asked: "Then what did the frontline chief Ergalon say? He wants us to guarantee with our heads that we will never shoot until the imperial order comes." Seeing that the British had seized the Longtu mountain pass, Guoguo Daiben also asked, "What is the order of the imperial court?"

Lama Xijia cried out in grief and anger: "Decree, decree, you will know the decree. Could it be that my words are not decrees?" He jumped up and ran towards the back of the mountain, saying in his heart that you should die first, I will go to Lhasa now Bring the order.After a few steps, he knocked over a person. The man jumped up and asked, "Who are you? Why did you hit me?" "I'm Lama Lama." He said, avoiding the man and trying to run again. The man grabbed him and said, "I am looking for Lama Lama, and I will give you the imperial order." It seems that the name "Lama Lama" has magical powers, and in a blink of an eye, the decree comes to the eyes.

Lama Lama said: "Quickly read it to me." Hearing this, Xi Jia rushed to Guoguo Daiben, clattering the imperial decree stamped and sealed by the regent, and shouted: "Shoot, I order Guoguo Daiben to shoot at the foreign demons with unanimity." This time it was really shot.All Guoguo Daiben's subordinates, the regular army in Tibet, fired their first shots since the war. The person knocked down by Lama Lama is Wei Binghao.Wei Binghao finally arrived.He and the fast-horse envoy who delivered the order first went to Chunpi and met Ergalon, the frontline chief.Er read the decree and was ecstatic: "The imperial court agrees with us, that's good, that's good. What kind of beasts are the foreign demons, dare to fight against the Qing Dynasty?" While making people entertain Wei Binghao and Kuaima messenger, On the one hand, they sent people to show the imperial decree to the garrison of Longtu Mountain.

Wei Binghao grumbled a bowl of buttered tea, and begged, "My lord, let me show it. I want to see with my own eyes whether the foreign demon is black or white." He changed a horse, let the person in charge of Er take it, and went straight to Longtu Mountain. The decree came to the battlefield in this way, completely in the tone of the Regent Dimu Living Buddha: The minister stationed in Tibet has clearly stated the imperial decree that we do not kill, except for rats that bring plague. The foreign demons are rats.All the soldiers and civilians, united as one, will kill when encountering demons, more kills will be rewarded, turn around and bleed, no hesitation.And god, quick catch.Gabbasso!

Except for Wei Binghao, none of the people present knew that this sacred court decree and the anti-British declaration expressed by the Minister in Tibet Wen Shuo were actually a fiction. Lama Lama, the supreme commander of Longtu Mountain, ran away.He wanted to let Numa Daiben on the left and Langser Daiben on the right know that what he was holding up and trembling in his hands was the imperial edict that everyone had been waiting for for a long time.The imperial decree was conveyed by him, which was a compliment to him by fate.He was happy, honored and proud, making everyone feel that the order of the imperial court was directly given to Lama Lama of La Liga.

Numa Daiben said enviously: "For us, in Tibet now, the regent is the governor of Er, and the governor of Er is the Lama of Lama." On the stretching mountains of Longtu Mountain, the sound of matchlock guns was heard everywhere.The Tibetans thought that as long as they shot boldly, they could win, and when they aimed, they felt the comfort of venting their hatred.So many comrades-in-arms—Tibetans who I knew and didn’t know all died, and the hatred and anger are boundless.In Tibet, gods who can take revenge will be enshrined, and those who can take revenge will be respected.Although the arquebus can't fire in bursts, there are too many people after all, so if you shoot once, you can change it again.Besides, many officers and soldiers are dragged by women, and the burden becomes an advantage at this time. They can help the soldiers load ammunition, insert matchlocks, and beat fire sickles and flints.The speed of one shot in five minutes has become one shot in three minutes.

The Crusaders attacking the left and right flanks of Longtu Mountain retreated quickly.Only then did I realize that the Tibetans who had never fired did not mean they would never shoot.As for why they shot suddenly, they didn't know.I saw a lama running back and forth, and then there was a frantic resistance with a matchlock gun. But at the Longtu Mountain Pass in the middle area, the elite Crusaders under the command of Colonel Galan did not retreat.They used four machine guns to overwhelm the opponent's firepower and rushed into the Tibetan defense line.Colonel Golan was the first to tear open the breach in the line, with his rifle in one hand and pistol in the other.On both sides of the gap.There were two dead bodies of Tibetans lying there.Colonel Galan stomped by, his boots dripping with blood.He kicked his shoes to shake off the heavy blood, knelt on the ground, and ordered the soldiers to shoot at both sides, trying to tear the gap a bit wider, and it would be best if no Tibetans could be seen within a hundred meters.

But unfortunately, there are more and more Tibetans.Lama Lama came from the right side with some exiled Tuo Tuo to reinforce Guoguo Daiben.Guoguo Daiben's people stopped running and stopped to fight back. Colonel Ge Lan was stunned, looking at the swarming Lama Tuo Tuo, the instinctive terror choked him for a moment.He couldn't help trembling, and subconsciously made the choice to retreat.Also taking the lead, he ran down the mountain.The British followed him, first trampling on the corpses of the Tibetans, and then trampling on the corpses of their own people, flowing away like a mountain torrent.