Chapter 424 "...Haifeng brothers guessed quite accurately." Hong Renqian looked at Lin Haifeng and smiled, "Hill Ali wanted to take action to recover Herat immediately.

Entering the 1830s, when Dost Mohammed Khan ended the protracted feudal separatist and civil war and had just unified the entire territory of Afghanistan, the Tsarist Russia and the British Empire also began to attack Afghanistan at the same time.

While Tsarist Russia was constantly stepping up its infiltration into Afghanistan, it also used all its solutions, and finally deceived Dost Mohammed's trust, and Afghanistan turned to Tsarist Russia in an all-round way.

At this time, most of India had already controlled and was constantly sending a large number of spies into Afghanistan. The British Empire, which had always hoped to turn Afghanistan into its own military allies, obviously could not appease his neglected heart.

So, in April 1839, more than 30,000 British Emperors teams, after a long journey, rushed into Afghanistan in a fierce manner. Their only purpose was to overthrow the current pro-Russian Afghan government and to build a brand new Afghan puppet regime to eliminate the "threat from Russia."

Afghanistan, which has an armed force of only more than 15,000 people across the country, is obviously far from an opponent of the British Empire in terms of the number of troops and the equipment of the army.

So, the British army quickly came to the city of Kabul without much effort.

Dost Mohammed, who was panicked, now only has one way to go, that is, to quickly seek help from the Tsarist Russia, who had made countless promises to him.

However, Dost Mohammed did not get the warm hand extended by his Tsarist Russian allies in an emergency. He never expected that this Tsarist Russia, which he had once placed unlimited expectations, would abandon him.

Dost Mohammed had no choice but to leave Kabul and flee to the Bukhara Khanate for refuge.

If it weren't for the great uprising of the Afghan people in Kabul later, the anti-British armed forces from all over the country would have joined forces and fought bloody battles with the British Empire's army for more than three years, and finally drove the British out of Afghanistan completely, Afghanistan would have long become a part of the British Empire.

The lessons of history are worth noting.

When Hill Ali took over the throne of the Khan king of Afghanistan in 1863, when he saw the Tsarist Russian atrocities on the Kazakh grasslands, when he saw the British Empire failing to attack the big country in the east, China, and began to constantly win over and instigate the Ottomans, and still did not forget to oppose China, Hill Ali, as the head of a weak country, set himself a way to survive in the cracks, that is, "not forming an alliance."

He would no longer care about the Tsarist Russians who had betrayed his country in times of danger, nor would he shake hands with the British Empire that had brutally ravaged his country. Of course, he would not be too close to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which was also very large.

In a word, I am not close to anyone and I will not give anyone any excuses to find my illness.

Until 1866, when Hill Ali saw that the great Kazakhs' restoration movement was a foregone conclusion, when he saw that several neighboring countries such as Shiva, Bukhara, Brut and Kokhan were all matched by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government, they threw away their past hatred and finally formed an iron alliance, and he began to reflect on his previous strategy of not being involved in anyone and being alone.

In the second half of 1866, Hill Ali sent a delegation to Beijing for the first time.

In Beijing, according to Hill Ali's instructions, the Afghan mission only focused on economic development and economic aid issues and held friendly consultations with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government. As for military aid, it was just mentioned casually.

As for the matters such as alliances and friendly partners, the Afghan mission avoided all the issues. Even normal things like sending ministers to each other, the Afghan mission was secretly hidden.

Despite this, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government still gave great enthusiasm to the Afghan government and the people.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government provided various scarce civilian supplies to Afghanistan and gave Afghan government a loan of one million yuan. At the same time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government also cared about the military aid issues mentioned by the Afghan delegation. By the end of 1867, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government provided the Afghan government with a total of guns and cannons and a large number of ammunitions to the Afghan government.

But Hill Ali still didn't feel relaxed.

Since the British Empire officially declared war on the United States and France on May 13, 1866, the war between the two military groups, the Allies led by the British Empire and the Allies led by France, not only burned ragingly on the lands of America, Europe and Africa, but also gradually became more and more powerful than Asia.

Hill Ali believed that the capital that the British Empire kept underground in the Ottoman Turkish Empire would always be rewarded.

Sure enough, in June 1868, the armed invasion of Bosses carried out by Ottoman Turkey and Tsarist Russia in conjunction with Bos, verified Hill Ali's concerns were correct.

At this time, Hill Ali could no longer sit still.

Hill Ali realized very clearly that once Bos was finished, his Afghanistan would inevitably become the next target of the Ottoman Empire, which had already fallen to the feet of the British Empire. He had to find a trustworthy backer for himself before the war reached his home.

And now there is only one country that can make him trust, that is China.

Hill Ali, who had already made up his mind, immediately summoned the elders of various tribes to conduct a decisive and quick consultation. Then, he formed a mission to rush to China day and night.

We requested that the two sides send ministers to each other and proactively propose to sign a military mutual assistance and friendly alliance with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Government. At the same time, we also requested that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Government Government immediately provide emergency weapons and equipment assistance to the Alberta side...

"Brother Dakai, do you think their turn is credible?"

Yang Xiuqing said, looking at Shi Dakai, who looked very relaxed with his expression.

"It should be credible," Lin Haifeng said in advance without waiting for Shi Dakai to answer, "Hill? Ali is a smart person. He will not be unable to see the Kazakh model that is placed in front of him. In addition... Hehe, I guess, they should have another thing to inform us this time. That's right, Brother Ren's?"

"Haha, Brother Haifeng guessed quite accurately."

Hong Renyi looked at Lin Haifeng and smiled, "Hill Ali wants to regain Herat immediately."

"Herat?" Yang Xiuqing looked at Hong Renyi in confusion, then Lin Haifeng, "Where is this Herat?"
Chapter completed!