The problem now faced was to compete with the powerful British colonizers for control of Central Asia.Britain did not hesitate to send troops to Afghanistan repeatedly, and since 1839, it has launched three successive wars of aggression against Afghanistan, but under the stubborn resistance of the Afghan people, the invaders have been broken and bloodied, and have suffered a shameful defeat.The Hindu Kush became an insurmountable obstacle for the British colonizers.The First Anglo-Afghan War took place in 1839.In the thirties of the 19th century, after a protracted feudal division and civil war, Afghanistan was finally unified by Dost Mohammed.At this time, the British colonists, who had controlled most of India, continued to spy on Afghanistan in order to bring Allah into their military alliances.Tsarist Russia also stepped up its infiltration into Afghanistan and deceived the trust of the Afghan rulers, causing Afghanistan to fall to Tsarist Russia.Under the guise of the "Russian threat," Britain immediately stepped up preparations for war and decided to send troops to Afghanistan to overthrow the pro-Russian government and prop up a puppet regime.Although Hua unexpectedly replaced Tsarist Russia in the Central Asian provinces, Tsarist Russia's power still existed.In the case of insufficient troops and strength, the Chinese emperor wanted to ensure the security of the Central Asian provinces and find a way to compete with the British for hegemony in the Middle East.But the Emperor had no choice, if it were not for the successive encounters in diplomacy in Europe and the blocking of the way to seek peace, the Emperor would not have taken this step, and now, the Emperor would have openly challenged the hegemony of Britain.Everyone, what kind of person are the people present are either the women next to the emperor, or the top diplomats of the Chinese country, as soon as they heard the tone of the emperor, in fact, they have roughly guessed the thoughts of the emperor, everyone listened to the emperor talking, not nervous, but the people who listened to it all felt the pressure."
You probably tell everyone about the war between Afghanistan and the British, can you talk about it?"
President Meng asked Ekaterina Klimova, thinking that Ekaterina Klimova had been in Central Asia for so long, so she should know about the surrounding affairs.Ekaterina Klimova nodded, her heart was so dangerous, fortunately she had only learned about the situation in Afghanistan not long ago, otherwise, she would have made a fool of herself in front of everyone.In April 1839, more than 30,000 British troops made a long journey to Quetta, and then crossed the Khojak Pass to invade southwestern Afghanistan.
The British forced their way through the Khyber Pass and fought with the main British army.The Afghan army has only 150,000 men, which is far inferior to the British army in terms of numbers and equipment.The British soon captured Kandahar and Ghazni and marched under the city of Kabul.Dost Mohammed's appeal to Russia for help was denied, so he had to flee to Bukhara for refuge, and the British set up a puppet regime in Kabul.In order to fight back against the British invading army, the Afghan people rose up and launched a guerrilla war against the British.Relying on favorable terrain, the guerrillas in various localities flexibly attacked the enemy, attacked British outposts, cut off the enemy's communication and supply lines, and recovered important towns.Under the heavy blows of the Afghan guerrillas, the British army was demoralized and panicked.On November 2, 1841, an uprising broke out in Kabul, and the guerrillas from all over the country staged a joint counteroffensive.The rebels fought valiantly and overwhelmingly, capturing the entire city of Kabul that night.The next day, the rebels attacked the British stronghold outside the city, and the British colonial army exclaimed, "The whole of Afghanistan has taken up arms against us."
By the 9th, the rebels had captured all the strongholds between Kabul and the Bala Himsar fortress, and later killed the British minister McNaughton, and the British were forced to agree to withdraw their troops from Kabul.The remnants of the British army, their entourage and their families, 160,000 people, were ambushed by the rebels several times along the way to Jalalabad, and in the end, only one seriously wounded military doctor ran back to Jalalabad to report the total annihilation of the British army.After that, the anti-British forces surrounded Jalalabad and Kandahar, recaptured Ghazni, and the British puppet regime completely collapsed.Not resigned to defeat, the British colonists sent reinforcements, first relieved the siege of Jalalabad and Kandahar, and then attacked Kabul from the east and south.In September 1842, after a bloody battle, the Afghan army finally withdrew from Kabul on its own initiative due to the disparity in strength.After the British reoccupied Kabul, they burned, killed and looted, and retaliated frantically.However, the Afghan people did not give in, and the anti-British struggle intensified.Fearing another crushing defeat, the British hastily withdrew to India on 12 October after rescuing the hostages.The First Anglo-Afghan War, which lasted three and a half years, cost the British colonists more than 30,000 men and 1.5 billion pounds, ended in a complete victory for the Afghan people.For more than 30 years, the British colonists did not dare to wage another war of aggression against Afghanistan."
Colonial wars are not as easy as they seem."
President Meng said: "The colonizers are actually mainly for money, if there is a corrupt government, such as the original Qing court, to help send money, there will be no large-scale colonial war, dominating a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country, this is the colonizer's favorite way." ”Jiegege glanced at Emperor Hua with disgust, meaning that Emperor Hua had committed a foul again, and last time he said that he would not take the Qing court as an example.President Meng glanced at Jiegege and smiled slightly."
We have relatively little information on Afghanistan at the moment, does Your Majesty mean to see Afghanistan as a piece of the Middle East?"
asked Wu Tingfang.Hua Huang nodded and said, "Yes, it is to look at Afghanistan and the Middle East together." ”"The Afghan issue is part of the plans of the Middle East Federal Organization."
Ekaterina Klimova added, and looked at Princess Katrina Kaf.Princess Katrina Kafu continued President Moe's words and said, "Your Majesty, let me now talk about the current situation in Afghanistan" Emperor Hua agreed.The reason why it is Princess Katrina Kaf, not Ekaterina Klimova, in fact, no one knows more about the grasp of global intelligence than Princess Katrina Kaf, because the information of the Bureau of Statistics has to be summarized by the President's Secretariat, even if the Central Asian Province is next to Afghanistan, Ekaterina Klimova does not know as much information as Princess Katrina Kaf, and this is how it came.In 1879, the British colonists carried out a second war of aggression against Afghanistan.In the 70s of the 19th century, Britain and Russia continued to carry out aggression and expansion on the north and south flanks of Afghanistan, pushing the border forward and directly bordering Afghanistan territory, posing a new direct threat to Afghanistan.In order to seek asylum, Afghanistan accepted the draft treaty proposed by Tsarist Russia, which included provisions such as sending troops to Afghanistan, and refused to allow the British mission to visit.The British colonial authorities could not tolerate an alliance between Afghanistan and Russia, so they used the refusal of the mission as an excuse to send troops to invade Afghanistan.In November 1878, 350,000 British colonial troops invaded Afghanistan in three directions.The rulers of Afghanistan were bent on Russian assistance and adopted a policy of non-resistance, deliberately scattering 50,000 troops throughout the country in an attempt to let the British army penetrate deep into the border and force Tsarist Russia to fulfill its promise to send troops to help.As a result of Afghanistan's implementation of this guiding ideology, the Afghan army's defense is very weak.The South Route Colonial Army advanced to Kandahar without resistance and took the city lightly on January 8, 1879; The central colonial army was blocked at the Paival Pass, and then forced it to retreat after detouring to the Afghan flank; The northern route colonial army was heavily bombarded by Afghan artillery fire at the Khyber Pass, and its advance was blocked, but the Afghan army was ordered to retreat that night, and the colonial army successfully occupied Jalalabad.A large part of the country was lost, and Russia was asked to send troops.However, Tsarist Russia's strategic focus is in Europe, and it does not want to have a showdown with Britain in Afghanistan, and now, separated by a Chinese province in Central Asia, if it wants to intervene in the Middle East, it must start a war with China again, and on the premise that the Crimean War has just been fought, and because Tsarist Russia only signed an armistice agreement with China last year, domestic and foreign affairs, coupled with military strength, are not enough to support Tsarist Russia to provoke China again so quickly, so Tsarist Russia refuses to send troops.If the Emperor remained silent at this time, Afghanistan would become a vassal state of the British, and then the situation in the Middle East would be very favorable for Britain in the entire European and Asian junctions.The signing of the Treaty of Gandamak provoked a wave of outrage in Afghanistan.A popular uprising broke out in Kabul, where angry soldiers and crowds surrounded the colonizer's residence, killing the British governor-general.The people's uprising in Kabul ignited a nationwide anti-British fire, and many tribes organized anti-British guerrilla units.On the outskirts of Kabul, many rural women took part in the anti-British war with shovels, axes, and sabers, causing the invaders to pay a heavy price for every step they took forward.On 12 October, the colonial army reoccupied Kabul in a frenzied campaign of revenge against patriots and citizens at large.The anti-British forces in various places used Ghazni as a base to encircle Kabul, actively attacked the enemy, and thwarted the colonial army's attack on Ghazni, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy.The 250,000 anti-British troops encountered a brigade of the colonial army near Kandahar, and the famous Battle of Maiwan began.After the battle began, the anti-British army first suppressed the artillery and cavalry on both flanks of the enemy with artillery fire to cover the advance of the infantry.After that, the cavalry closely cooperated, took advantage of the situation to launch a fierce attack, and the colonial army was defeated, and only the reinforcements arrived to avoid total annihilation.The anti-British army took advantage of the victory to march to Kandahar, and the Kabul colonial army was also surrounded by 100,000 rebels."
Now the situation is very tense, we can not use force, but also profit, but also to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a British colony, this is what we have to do now, I call it the Middle East Federal Organization plan, and doing this plan well will not only be conducive to the victory of our Chinese diplomacy against Britain, but also conducive to stabilizing the situation in Central Asia."
President Meng said meaningfully.Everyone shook their heads secretly, it was too difficult, but everyone didn't dare to show it.t1706231537: