Chapter 120 Section five

The first to discover that the elite soldiers of the cross were rushing towards Baiju Temple was the Lama Lama who had been monitoring the enemy from the watchtower of Zongshan Castle.He shouted hoarsely, calling "Chu Chen Daiben" to the sky.Chu Chen Daiben heard it.This is how the Tibetans communicated during the war. It trained the penetrating power of the voice and the sharpness of the ears. Chu Chen Daiben also shouted, his voice pierced through the halls of Baiju Temple, wherever he went, people would rush towards the windows and doors where they could shoot.The main building of Baiju Temple is the Baiju Pagoda, which has 108 gates and 76 Buddhist halls, and there are Tibetans holding matchlock guns in each Buddhist hall.In the central hall at the bottom floor, Khenpo Zhuomi, who was over 80 years old at Baiju Temple, hung a golden khata around the neck of Chu Chen Daiben, and said: "I heard that you have excellent marksmanship in the past, and you are fighting against foreign demons today. It's time to show off your talents, I wish you to fight the enemy bravely, and put a layer of gold powder on the Buddha's face instead of a layer of mud." Chu Chen Daiben lifted the long khata that could be dragged to the floor, and held a khata on his chest. Knot, raised his arms, and sang with a thirsty voice:

I am Chuchen Gyatso, the monk and soldier, I'm about to fight the demons, Dear Khenpo Zhuomi of Baiju Temple, I will fight with my life to live up to your entrustment. He sang and walked out of the hall, saw the Crusaders had appeared fifty steps away, yelled, knelt down on the threshold, then took the matchlock gun from his back, charged it, ignited it, and fired the first shot. gun.Then, all the matchlock guns of the Tibetans rang out.On the thirteen-storey Baiju Pagoda, except for the raspberry, pagoda, and pagoda top, which cannot be climbed by people on the top, there are Tibetans shooting condescendingly at the Crusaders on the other several floors.

The Crusaders immediately stopped their attack, spread out quickly, and outflanked the two wings of the Baiju Tower.After a while, there was a circle of British people around the round Baiju Pagoda.Eight machine guns were scattered at all angles trying to overwhelm the Tibetan fire.The two most threatening machine guns are on the west side of the Baiju Pagoda, where there is a hill that is about the same height as the Baiju Pagoda. General McGory personally led people to rush up the hill, killed the Tibetans guarding the hill, and then used two Machine guns and dozens of rifles fired at the Pagoda, and the Tibetans on almost every terrace became living targets.The west side suddenly became the weak side of Tibetan defense.On the flat ground between the mountain bag and the Baiju Pagoda, hundreds of elite cross soldiers rushed away.

Chu Chendai originally came to the west, commanding his subordinates to shoot from windows and door openings.But there are not many windows and door openings, and the arquebus sticking out is very limited.What's more, compared with the modern equipment of the Crusaders, the process of charging, igniting, and shooting the matchlock gun is too long.Facing the sparse to almost lingering firepower, the Crusaders quickly rushed forward.Chu Chendaiben yelled: "I'm dead." He swung his matchlock gun and rushed out the door. Many monks and soldiers followed Chuchen Daiben, their purple and red cassocks fluttering around.Tibetans who use guns as big sticks show their toughness on the one hand and helplessness on the other hand.The sorrow of backward weapons is also the sorrow of backward civilization, and a brave fight is actually a tragic blood loss.At the moment when Chuchen Daiben passed away, the Lama Lama on the watchtower of Zongshan Castle let out a yo.His position was on the east side, and he couldn't see the west side of Baiju Temple, but he felt that not only Chuchen Daiben died, but Baiju Temple also fell amidst the flying pieces of cassock.

Crusaders rushed into the Baiju Pagoda, and the hand-to-hand combat and close-range gun battles in the pagoda were still fierce, and the trend was still that the Tibetans were retreating.The abominable matchlock gun, the matchlock gun that makes Tibetan men proud, is no longer a gun when life is at stake, not even a stick.The monks and soldiers did not prepare swords, Tibet lacked exploration and utilization of mineral deposits, and iron could not be found anywhere, and occasionally a little was donated to monasteries to build temples and forge Buddha statues.Those black-bone blacksmiths didn't make enough weapons for the fighters who had to fight in close quarters.Qunjue Daiben and Xialu Daiben, who were merged into Chuchen Daiben's command, took over the command after Chuchen Daiben's death.Qunjue Daiben took off his cassock, rushed forward with his upper body bare, and died soon after.Many monks and soldiers and lamas of Baiju Temple died with him.Xia Lu Daiben saw that the resistance was ineffective, so he ordered the monks to withdraw from the tower and spread to the undulating ground between Baiju Temple and Zongshan Mountain.

Baiju Temple became the enemy's position in an instant.The blood of Tibetans angrily stained the ground black and the white walls red.The superimposed white walls of the Baiju Pagoda, all the white walls that make up the 108 gates and 76 Buddhist halls, have been painted with blood, so that for a long time since then, Tibetans have called it the Red Residence. tower. The guns went off.Just as the Tibetans guarding Baiju Monastery retreated from the monastery, crowded on the wavy ground, lined up along the narrow road, and ran to Zongshan Castle, Colonel Galan showed his sharp teeth.He let the machine guns and cannons fire together, showing off uninterruptedly, as if he would not stop until he killed all the Tibetans exposed to the fire.

According to the "Holy History", there were only 20 or 30 people who ran into Zongshan Castle, and other Tibetans died on that wavy land, including Shalu Daiben and the fourth Zhuomi Khenpo who was over 80 years old at Baiju Temple.