"absurd!

The Qing Dynasty was the supreme country of the Celestial Empire, how could it allow Western English barbarians to point fingers?

It is unreasonable that the British barbarians from the West came to the Qing Dynasty to do business, but they dared to make such excessive demands!"

"The emperor, the British barbarians have sent 24 warships to station on islands across the sea outside Guangdong Province on the southeast coast, and carry large numbers of soldiers. They call this treaty an ultimatum.

If you don't agree, the British barbarian army will land on the coast of Guangdong Province and invade the Qing Dynasty."

"A mere English-English barbarians, if you want to fight, you will fight. I want to see what those red-haired ghosts have!"

In early 1805, when countries on the continent were immersed in the threat of the Roman Empire, Colonel KFC, commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force in the Far East, proposed to open five southeastern coastal trading ports and reduce tariffs, and conveyed them to the Qing court in an ultimatum.

This caused Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty to be furious and ordered all the Green Camp and Eight Banners soldiers in eastern Zhejiang to expel all the British merchants and compradors!

Colonel KFC, on the pretext that his country's businessmen were treated unfairly, formally submitted a declaration of war to the Qing court. As a result, the "Compulsory and Two Japanese Devils" who submitted the declaration of war was ordered by the angry Emperor Jiaqing to escort to Caishikou and behead him.

This is used to express the prestige of the Qing Empire and his determination.

Influenced by his dead father, Emperor Qianlong, Emperor Jiaqing always wore tinted glasses to the Western barbarians, thinking that they were just small countries and there was no need to worry about it.

This time, the British were riding on their necks to sign an unequal treaty. How could Emperor Jiaqing not be angry?

The Qing court officials who felt the anger of Emperor Jiaqing naturally did not dare to neglect the slightest. In addition to the process of collecting money, the efficiency of work was obviously much faster than before.

Senior military and political officials in eastern Zhejiang, especially Guangdong Province, issued orders overnight to draw civilians from townships in various places to fill the vacancies of Green Camp soldiers!

However, Emperor Jiaqing did not realize the combat effectiveness of the British barbarians at this time. He did not even send an imperial envoy to the commander, but only asked the governors of the provinces and senior military and political officials in eastern Zhejiang to gather troops to fight against the enemy.

As for the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, Colonel KFC was just an ordinary senior officer of the Indian colonial government.

The London government was also full of contempt for the Qing Empire, and even a general was not dispatched from the local area.

After the orders of the London government arrived in the Indian colony, the Indian government generals also felt that this was a hard job without any money, so they simply sent a colonel to organize the war.

Of course, Colonel KFC is just the commander of the army, and the nominal commander of the Expeditionary Force is a major general and the commander of the entire fleet.

However, this Rear Admiral was only responsible for coordinating the fleet, and all the battles after landing were commanded by Colonel KFC.

The reason is very simple. The components of this expeditionary force's army were too bad, and they were even said to be not considered regular British troops at all.

Two-thirds of the soldiers under Colonel KFC were Indian Servant soldiers, with less than a thousand people being white troops.

In this white army, only about half of them are from British origin, and the others are "mercenaries" from other European countries.

That's right, this white army was actually a mercenary recruited by Colonel KFC during the British conquest of India!

This is not uncommon on the Indian subcontinent.

In fact, due to the distance problem, the London government in this world has not been many regular troops sent to the Indian subcontinent. After these regular troops arrived in the Indian subcontinent, they were the veritable "Central Army". Even a small soldier would raise his head high in front of the colonial army officers.

Such an "Central Army" like an old man will naturally not undertake a long and hard conquest battle. Their more combat tasks are to station wealthy and stable coastal cities, or to act as a supervisor and reserve team in large-scale battles.

Those who really fought were the colonial troops and mercenaries who were seeking life in the Indian subcontinent.

When these miscellaneous troops faced the Central Army coming from the British Isles, they naturally lowered their heads, and all the dangerous work naturally fell on them.

The news that gold is everywhere in the Indian subcontinent has long been popular in the continental region and the British Isles with the London government's unremitting publicity.

In addition, there were frequent wars in continental China, and many defeated soldiers did not want to work for the tyrant Li Wei, so they crossed the ocean and fled to other places for profit.

These defeated soldiers with combat experience mainly went to only two places - the United States of America and the Indian subcontinent in the North American continent.

Because these two pieces of overseas land are paradise for European mercenaries!

Since the United States of America purchased the Louisiana area at a bargain price, it has begun the Western Development Movement.

To put it bluntly, the big development here is a big invasion!

Naturally, defeated soldiers who know how to kill will not worry about not being able to find a job here.

Every year, thousands of teams of ‘explorers’ move westward and southward, and the goals of these explorers are self-evident.

As for the Indian subcontinent, it was because of the London government's Indian conquest plan, which became a paradise for those mercenaries.

Mercenaries from Europe also became a major component of the British Indian colonial army.

The white soldiers led by Colonel KFC are of this nature.

Of course, it is not very accurate to say that they are mercenaries. After all, these white soldiers have served the British colonial government for many years, and many even married wives and had families in India!

Apart from not being naturalized by the London government, these mercenaries look no different from the regular British red-shirts in terms of military pay and military weapons.

At least, outsiders can't see the difference.

As for the Indian vassal army, it was brought by Colonel KFC to serve as a man. After receiving the task of establishing the Far East Expeditionary Force, Colonel KFC learned that the backward Qing army there was still at the stage of big swords, spears, bows and arrows, and felt that Indian soldiers who were also equipped with big swords, spears, should be able to use them.

The most important thing is that Indian soldiers don’t need money and don’t have to take responsibility if they die!

Those colonial troops have their own tasks and resident areas, and it is impossible to be transferred to the expeditionary army casually.

In fact, at this time, the London government's invasion of the Far East Empire was not too rich, and the expansion of Indian colonies did not stop, and troops were needed everywhere.

If the London government hadn't been short of money, it wouldn't have done so.

Therefore, the expeditionary force that Colonel KFC pieced together was really bad except for his soldiers.

The British Far East Fleet dared to invade the Qing Empire, and all their confidence came from the weakness of their opponents!

That's right, the Qing Empire, which considered itself the highest country of the Celestial Empire, actually has a very good reputation in Europe.

During the Kanggan period, European forces led by Britain began to have in-depth contact with the Far East Empire. After so long, Europeans naturally understood the trump card of the Far East Empire.

Just take the order issued by Emperor Jiaqing himself to fight the enemy, senior officials at all levels in Guangdong Province and eastern Zhejiang desperately recruited rural brave men, but they only took out 20,000 to 30,000 troops.

Moreover, these 20,000 to 30,000 troops still need to be stationed in big cities, and the troops that can be used for mobile combat are only more than 10,000.

This shows how poor the Qing army's mobilization ability was in the local area!

As for those big cities that have inner cities (that is, where the bannermen live), the flag soldiers inside cannot move for the time being unless Emperor Jiaqing personally ordered.

Because the distance is too far, the commanders of the expeditionary army's navy and army armies have great autonomy. After submitting the declaration of war, the fleet commander of the Far East Fleet sailed to Hong Kong Island with Colonel KFC's miscellaneous troops.

Then in just three days, the large island with few troops was occupied, and a solid attacking stronghold was established for the British invasion.

During the entire battle, Colonel KFC only killed one soldier or an Indian soldier, and he was the captive Qing soldiers alone, with hundreds of people.

The victory of this battle made Colonel KFC more sure that his choice was correct. Perhaps Colonel KFC could give himself the rank of general in this expeditionary force!

Of course, this battle was just an appetizer for both the Qing court and the Expeditionary Force.

The Qing court in this era did not attach much importance to Hong Kong Island.

The following Guangdong Province was the focus of the invasion of the Expeditionary Force. It was the only open trading port of the Qing Dynasty and the place that the British knew best.

The morning sunlight dispelled the mist on the sea. Zhang Zixing, who was patrolling the Humen Fort, suddenly widened his eyes and quickly raised the bird gun in his hand to pull the trigger.

I saw rows of Western-style warships appearing on the sea at a very far distance. The warship sailors affiliated with the Qing court in the port boarded Yang Fan at the fastest speed and rushed towards Western-style warships that were far fewer than them.

This is naturally the coastal defense fleet gathered by senior officials of the Qing court in Guangdong Province.

But unexpectedly, the Englishman, whom they regarded as barbarians, took the initiative to call him.

Under the command of the British Rear Admiral, more than 20 ships on the European continent can only be regarded as level 4 and 5 battleships, even frigates, cruise ships, lined up in a row, and skillfully seized the T-shaped wind!

Immediately afterwards, facing the Qing warships that were several times more numerous than themselves, these British warships faced the enemy sideways, and the cannon windows were opened, and the black muzzles were pushed out amid the shouts of the British sailors.

The Rear Admiral, standing on the wooden podium above the flagship deck, held a monocular lens and estimated the distance between the two sides, suddenly issued an order to the messenger beside him.

Immediately afterwards, the gunmen of the various levels of the command were in charge of command, shouting loudly to the gunners under his command: "fire! (fire)"

All ~

The well-trained British Far East Fleet fired their first volley since they joined the war. The black-hole artillery fire roared in no particular order. The huge recoil pushed the entire warship horizontally towards the back, moving more than ten meters in the waves!

The flying projectiles formed a firepower net that the Qing Dynasty's coastal defense admiral had never seen before. The fragile Chinese warship was broken through the loopholes by solid iron bombs. The unlucky Qing Dynasty coastal defense admiral was beaten by an iron bomb, and half of his body turned into pieces on the spot!

The masts of several Chinese warships that were taken care of were interrupted and turned into wooden coffins on the sea.

A volley broke the rush of the Qing army fleet in Guangdong Province.

However, the English warship opposite would not show mercy. The solid iron bullets seemed to be worthless and hit them one after another.

The artillery technology was still stuck in the Qing army fleet two hundred years ago. All the shells that fired the gun and fought back fell into the sea, and they could not hurt the enemy at all!

This unilateral naval battle lasted less than an hour, and the Qing army was defeated like a tide. The sea was covered with abandoned ships and jumped into the sea to escape. Looking around, they were all floating braids...

The Green Camp soldiers on the Humen Fort in the distance could only watch this sad scene. After seeing the high-ranking bannermen and officials at the rear, they were defeated without even touching the enemy's side, they looked at each other tacitly and turned around and left almost at the same time.

In an instant, these senior officials in charge rode their own war horses, or sat in their own sedan chairs and fled towards Guangdong city!

The command tasks were delegated to the Han people who served as middle and low-level officers.

Before leaving, those high-ranking bannermen issued an order to fight to the left-behind Han officers with great backbone!

Anyway, the Han people are garrisoned here.

I don't feel sorry if I die...

However, those Han officers were not stupid. After sending off their banner masters, they immediately fled one after another with their confidants, leaving only a group of big-headed soldiers and a few Han officers in the Green Camp.

The last remaining Green Camp officer was the highest-level one!

President Qian Cao Xing never thought that he would have the opportunity to command thousands of soldiers.

Yes, at this time, the Green Camp soldiers at Humen Fort were all in-house soldiers, and there were no messy rural brave men to make up for their numbers. After all, Humen was a crucial coastal defense gate, and the number of soldiers here was not seriously damaged.

Among those high-ranking bannermen (the senior officers of the Green Camp were basically all bannermen, and the Han officers had a ceiling during their lifetime, which was also a restraining means of controlling the Han people by the Qing court) ran away with their confidants and subordinates. After a large number of Han officers in the Green Camp also led their people to run away, nearly two thousand soldiers were still left at the Humen Fort!

And they were all handed over to the commander of the Qiang General Cao Xing, who was the highest-ranking position.

Cao Xing was of the highest level at this time and should have taken over the command.

Although Cao Xing is just a member of the general manager, he is also a wealthy family in Guangdong Province, otherwise he would not be an official of this level at all.

"Sir, the bannerman master and other military officers have all escaped, so let's leave together.

We can definitely protect our parents.”

Before Cao Xing could recover from the shock of so many soldiers suddenly appearing under his command, his relatives of Cao came over and persuaded him.

Under the Qing Dynasty, nepotism was very common. It was not rare for a father to die and the son to succeed, and brothers to join forces!
Chapter completed!