Chapter 54 Chapter 5 A Ridiculous War

After the dispute between Lin Zexu and Yilu, the brothers and sisters, came to an end, the conflict between the two empires began to intensify.It can be seen in some TV dramas and movies that when the Opium War started, the Chinese emperor said "war" so rashly and it was over.How did the UK do it?Queen Victoria jumped into the carriage, went straight to Parliament, and gave a long speech: Ladies and gentlemen, now the Chinese Empire has expelled our businessmen, blatantly cut off our trade, and openly provoked us. We must learn a lesson Teach these primitives a lesson!I now demand war against China!I ask Congress for authorization!

The Congress was in chaos and a fight broke out.why?One group of people thinks that China should be fought against such old and stubborn people; another group of people thinks that war is inhumane and cruel, especially if it is used against a country like the ancient civilization of China, it will easily cause criticism from the world, and it cannot hit. The two sides quarreled for three days and two nights, and finally launched a vote. As a result, the resolution on the war against China was passed by a narrow margin.Once the resolution is passed, all the country's war resources will be activated to deal with the Chinese Empire with all its might.

Guess what the ancient Chinese empire was doing at this time?It is completely unaware that the war has already begun. Although it has declared war, it closes the door after declaring war, thinking it is over.The British fleet bypassed the Strait of Malacca and went straight to the sea of ​​China. After arriving, they met Elliott and said that the war had begun. The first thing to do was to send the declaration of war to China. , We are gentlemen, we must strictly follow the laws of war. At that time, Yilu cried when he heard it. He said that you don't understand the Chinese people. I can bet you that you will never be able to complete the task of sending the declaration of war.But no one believed him, so the British general sent a small boat to send the declaration of war.When the boat was halfway and approaching the coast of China, the Chinese navy fired artillery, causing the boat to turn around and flee.The British generals were all confused: Why did the Chinese fire at us before they sent us a letter of challenge?

If you don't get it the first time, send it to another place.If there is a fort here, then send it to a place without a fort.As a result, this time it was Shui Yong, full of harpoons, who flew over while rushing towards the boat, but still couldn't make it to the shore.In the end, these British people were all stupid. They sat on the deck and said what to do, how can we go to war if the declaration of war cannot be delivered, there is no way to fight!If we can't deliver it, do we have to go back? At this time, Elliot gave a bad idea: Let me tell you a trick, let's get a drifting bottle, put the declaration of war in it and cover it, throw it into the sea and let it float, I don't believe it will float in five hundred years Not to China.Everyone heard that this was a good idea, so they did it, stuffed the declaration of war into the drift bottle and threw it into the sea, and then officially launched a war against China.

The war continues, the British hold muskets, and they have entered the age of firearms, while the Chinese military is still in the age of cold weapons.There was a typical war in which Guan Tianpei, a national hero, guarded the Humen Fort alone and died heroically for his country.Guan Tianpei's deeds were reflected in an old movie "The Opium War", but it filtered out the details of the war. The detail is that when the British warship approached the fort, Guan Tianpei issued an order: All the cannons stand up and line up for me. Do you see a mountain over there?Run me around the mountain!Everyone is confused: why run around the mountain?Guan Tianpei said: Can we deter the British with just a few guards in our fort?We call this the strategy of suspicious soldiers.Although our number is small, we keep running around the mountain, so that the British will be scared to retreat without fighting when they see our troops coming in a steady stream.

This trick really frightened the British. The British took a look through the binoculars from a distance. They didn't fire guns and they didn't talk about fighting. Why were they running around the mountain?There must be something wrong with the Chinese, try two shots.As a result, two artillery shots came over, and the national hero Guan Tianpei was martyred for the country. It sounds ridiculous, but this is the conflict between traditional culture and modern civilization. Guan Tianpei's death marked the decline of traditional culture. He still used the art of war in Zhuge Liang's era to interpret the reality at that time.