Chapter 87 Section VI

The Crusaders chased across the plains behind the stone wall, sweeping all the way, and the bullets fired at the Tibetans were denser than the oxygen on the plateau.After catching up to the famous pass on the ancient pilgrimage road, Danba Zelin Night Crying Spring, the red-eyed cross elite soldiers stopped abruptly.The water vapor in the pass is curling up, thick for a while, and thin for a while.When it is thin, you can see some rugged hills and the silhouette of the red cassock.The Crusaders shot randomly into the water mist for a while, seeing that there was no response in front, they chased forward again.Fog engulfed them all at once.

The gunshots exploded in the fog and became more and more intense. It was obvious that there was a fire.Half an hour later, the Crusaders withdrew from the mist, laying on the ground and not daring to move forward.Captain McGory, who directed the pursuit, immediately sent someone to tell Colonel Gelan behind: "We encountered stubborn resistance and asked for artillery support." Soon, Colonel Gelan and ten mobile mountain field artillery arrived here at the same time. Colonel Galan ordered the artillery to fire, and then asked, "How many died, General McGory?" "Colonel, you forgot, I am not a general now, please call me a captain." McGory said, "Report to the colonel, sixteen soldiers died after rushing over just now."

Colonel Galan said, "I'm asking Tibetans." Captain McGory said: "Report Colonel, too many to count." As he spoke, the cannons rang out.After a burst of indiscriminate bombing, it is estimated that all the hills on both sides of the pilgrimage road were bombed once, and Captain McGory led his men into the water mist again.Still encountered resistance, even more tenacious than before.Captain McGory led his men back and pushed a captured monk soldier to the ground. Captain McGory asked in fluent Tibetan: "Say, who did we meet?" The monk said proudly: "You have met Lama Lama, the god of war in Tibet."

McGory asked again: "How many people did Lama Lama lead?" Seng Bing said: "The king of hell and ghosts in hell are not counted. There are a hundred soldiers and generals in heaven." McGory kicked and said, "If you don't tell the truth, you want to die, don't you?" Colonel Gelan asked Gasa Lama to translate it for him, and then he came over and said, "Don't talk nonsense with him, the Tibetans won't tell you anything. Even if there are a hundred Daibon, I will kill them all." He stuffed his pistol into Lama Gasa's arms, "You, kill him."

Gasa Lama held a pistol in both hands and said, "Me? Kill him? I am a lama." Colonel Ge Lan said: "Your heart is no longer a compassionate lama. If you don't believe me, try your heart with your hands. When you shoot at your compatriots, your heart will not be broken. If you do If it breaks, you have to be careful about Buddha; if it doesn’t break, you have to be careful about people.” Gasa Lama recalled Colonel Gelan's words, and suddenly asked: "Which person?" Colonel Galan said: "I don't know either. It's not us British anyway." Lama Gasa gritted his teeth, and really wanted to try, to see if his heart was already a soldier instead of a monk.He put a pistol against the monk soldier's head, closed his eyes, and suddenly thought why he couldn't see it with his own eyes. It's not like he hasn't seen people killed before.He opened his eyes, stared at the head of the monk soldier, and gradually closed his fingers.

The monk soldier saw that a lama was going to kill him, so he said sharply, "Take off your cassock." Gasa Lama's eyes widened and he said, "So what if I'm just wearing a cassock, don't I dare to shoot?" The gunshot rang out, and the brains of the monks sprayed out, covering Gasa Lama's face.Gasa wiped his face with the sleeve of his cassock, took a few steps back, patted his chest vigorously, looked at Colonel Galan with a smile and said, "It's not broken, I don't have to be careful about Buddha. As for people, I will be careful." Colonel Galan looked at Lama Gasa with gloomy eyes, retracted his gun, and sent someone to order all the cannons to come here.

The simultaneous bombardment of dozens of cannons and mountain field artillery made the pass a thick mist.Water vapor plus gunpowder smoke, there is no space between the sky and the earth, what goes up is the smoke, and what falls is the mud.The bombing lasted an hour.The Crusaders began to attack again, this time they met no resistance, behind the hills of the pass, the monks and soldiers of the Lama Lama withdrew without leaving behind, and what remained were the corpses made by the shells. Damba Zelin Night Weeping Spring greeted the Crusaders with the spring water that was still gushing.Under the flames of war, there is still such clear spring water. Although they passed by in a hurry, many British people could not bear to give up and lay down on the ground to drink or wash.But Colonel Galan didn't try it, and he didn't let Captain McGory try it. Although he didn't believe Lama Gasa's words, what kind of spring water is tears of hatred and resentment, and it contains poison like a spell, and anyone who touches the water will rot He died, but he was still slightly afraid. After all, it was a mysterious Tibet, and any weird things could happen. Didn’t the Tuomei Living Buddha who was killed escape from the bulging cassock?

Lama Gasa watched the British drink and wash, but did not stop him, because Danba Zelin cried at night, and the spring water at night is highly poisonous.It is daytime and the sun is shining brightly.He just warned Colonel Galan over and over again: don't finish the Crusaders before dark. Colonel Galan said: "Didn't you find the Gurkhas and Sinbas behind? If they can't get out of the pass before dark, it will be a test of whether the spring water is highly poisonous according to your idea." Lama Gasa said, "So you, Colonel, have already thought of it." The pass is about two kilometers.Springs are densely distributed and can be seen everywhere.The passage of the Crusaders lasted until nightfall.When the Sinba people in the back of the palace walked out of the Night Crying Spring, Colonel Gelan asked Colonel Kaqi: "Have you touched those springs?" Colonel Kaqi said: "How can you not touch it? They all nourish your body." Ge Lan Colonel Lan nodded: "Look at your body, is there any rotten place?" Colonel Kaqi looked at himself and his subordinates, and said strangely: "No."

Colonel Galan glared at Lama Gasa and said, "Tibetans, you want to frighten us with fabricated stories." Seeing that Lama Gasa wanted to defend himself, he waved his hand and said, "Tell me, what's ahead?" Lama Gasa said: "Xuelang Temple and Zachang Gorge in Kangmazong." Colonel Galan asked again: "Do you have any suggestions?" Gasa Lama said: "Zachang Gorge is the only way to Gyantse, and Xuelang Temple must be occupied and destroyed while passing through Zachang Gorge, because it is a temple with Danba Zeling as the highest Dharma protector. "

Danba Zelin again.Colonel Galan spit out Danbazelin from his head.He turned around to look at the pass under the moonlight, sighed and said: "What a miserable mountain, with curved eyebrows and fairy silhouettes. There will no longer be such a nice name for hell in the world."