The Fourth Disaster, Starting from the Movie Eight Hundred

"It's a little bit of a billion, right?"

"What kind of Vader behavior uses resources to transcend the laws of physics."

"No, no, no. As a civil engineer, I know very well that this can be done as long as we have sufficient resources."

"Haha, in this world, no one has more resources than us players, so no one knows how to build a plateau railway better than us."

"If we can build a railway, then a highway is even easier!"

"What about the power system? The air on the plateau is thin. Won't that affect the locomotive?"

"Let's leave it to our Special Equipment Manufacturing Department. They'll definitely have a solution."

"That's right, it's a direct take-it-or-leave-it approach."

"Can we produce equipment for 2025?"

"As long as there isn't a huge gap in materials science, precision issues can be solved by our eighth-level technicians, and design issues can be solved directly with existing technological achievements."

"Let's get started! We want to connect every village in Tibet by 1939!"

That's why people say that gamers are a naturally energetic group. On the online platform, men and women who can get along with each other can talk to each other regardless of the age gap, and then the king of ideas will automatically be born.

After the players quickly compared the data and conducted demonstrations, they came to a reliable conclusion. With the technology of 1939, the plateau railway could be built by piling up resources, but the cost was quite terrifying, equivalent to paving the railway with gold.

Now that we have decided to do it, the next step is to solve the difficulties.

How difficult is infrastructure construction on the plateau?

To sum it up with a Chinese idiom, Tencent makes games with conscience - the difficulty cannot be described in words.

In addition to the problems of lack of oxygen and temperature differences at high altitudes, there is also the problem of the permafrost zone.

The permafrost zone in Tibet is formed due to the low temperature caused by the high altitude, under the influence of many years. To see how disgusting permafrost construction is, please refer to the Siberian blacksmith furnace.

The Tibet Railway traverses permafrost for over 50% of its length. This permafrost repeatedly freezes and thaws with the changing seasons, causing the roadbed to expand or collapse. A particularly striking example is the 550-kilometer section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the Golmud region, where continuous permafrost covers 100 kilometers, including an extremely unstable, high-temperature permafrost zone. This means that the permafrost here frequently shifts between two states: solid, like Siberian permafrost, and thawed, like the swampy mud of Xishuangbanna during the rainy season. The only solution is to drive deep piles, pour concrete, and then build a bridge over it.

Don’t you think the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Bridge is very majestic? Climbing high and looking far into the distance, you can see countless beautiful scenery.

In fact, there is unavoidable construction pressure behind this. As a railway worker, you don't want to lay the railway in a straight line, but the shortest line segment between two points is often the most expensive and the least likely to be achieved, so taking a detour is the norm.

This is the same as why the birthplaces of early human civilizations are on both sides of rivers, because the productivity conditions at the time did not allow humans to live comfortably in other places.

Another real pressure that cannot be ignored is earthquakes and plate activity.

Do you remember what was written in your junior high school geography textbook about how the Himalayas were formed?

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is located in the collision zone between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The Sichuan-Tibet Railway needs to cross the Hengduan Mountains earthquake zone. This place cannot be bypassed, so the only way is to build roads through mountains and bridges across rivers. The bridge-tunnel ratio is as high as 80%. It is no exaggeration to say that it is not just a railway, but a railway built in a bridge and tunnel.

From a cost perspective, opening up the route is the key, while building a railway has become like giving away a mobile phone for free when you top up your phone bill.

But railways alone are not enough, roads must also keep up.

Compared with railways, Tibet has a longer history of roads. Historically, the Sichuan-Tibet Highway and the Qinghai-Tibet Highway were opened to traffic at the same time in 1954. This shows that the difficulty of building roads is much lower than that of railways.

However, the efficiency of road transportation is definitely not as good as that of railways. For a strategic area like Tibet, roads can only be regarded as a strategic supplement. Railways are the key to strategic transportation, which can enable the People's Army in Tibet to truly gain a foothold as the main force.

This is not alarmist. When we were fighting India, our troops were basically infantry divisions, and their mobility relied entirely on their legs. At high altitudes, human creations are more fragile than humans themselves.

There is no way. Once mechanical equipment reaches the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, no matter how powerful it is on the plains, its power will drop by more than 30%, or even 50%, turning heavy trucks into light trucks and light trucks into motorcycles. The efficiency of ox cart transportation is higher than these mechanical equipment. At least the local yaks can work without reducing power.

It was precisely because of the understanding of these difficulties that the players chose to do it themselves, using system resources to build railways and highways on the Qinghai-Tibet Line and the Sichuan-Tibet Line. They also transferred a large number of people labeled as "stubborn elements who refused to cooperate with the reform" from the Northeast region, allowing them to waste their despicable lives on the great construction cause.

Don't worry, the players will definitely deal with their bodies cleanly, leaving nothing behind, to ensure that there is no evidence.

Since the relevant work was all done by the players, later historians were unable to come up with an accurate number of Japanese prisoners of war who were sent to Tibet for infrastructure construction. No traces of mass graves were found in the area. Those people seemed to have disappeared silently, becoming a historical unsolved case.

Of course, at that time, neither the newly born red Japan nor the new China was interested in the life and death of those scum. Everyone was only excited about the completion and opening of railways and highways in Tibet.

Leiwuqi County in Tibet is 105 kilometers away from Chamdo. Since the eastern part of Leiwuqi County is the high mountain canyon of eastern Tibet, the western part belongs to the northern Tibetan Plateau, and Chamdo is located in the upper valley of the Lancang River, the height difference and landform differences between the two places have caused the road to be winding. In the eyes of players, this so-called "highway" can only be called a dirt road for public use.

The armored forces that the Volunteer Army was proud of encountered huge challenges here. No matter whether they were Soviet, German, American or British vehicles, they were basically in a gasping and asthmatic state, stopping and starting, stopping and starting. The engine power was obviously insufficient, which was obviously caused by the low-density air environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Within the same range, the amount of oxygen that the engine can inhale is greatly reduced, and naturally there are problems such as incomplete combustion and power reduction.

In this case, either improve the intake efficiency, use oxygen-containing fuel, or directly replace the electric car on the track, which is not afraid of the impact of the thin air on the plateau.

Fortunately, China in 2025 has rich experience in this regard. After all, China is the only country in the world that has the need to fight in plateau environments and can afford the cost of developing equipment specific to plateaus.

However, even in this situation where they are weakened, players are still monsters in the eyes of the Tibetan Kashag government.

Have you ever seen a light infantry unit march 800 kilometers overnight, and when launching an offensive, they actually rolled out 203 howitzers to physically persuade local slave owners who refused to cooperate with their work?

Eight hundred kilometers in one night, dragging two things weighing more than 18 tons at full speed, is this a human?!

In fact, the player himself rides a specially modified high-altitude off-road motorcycle on the road. After arriving at the destination, he summons his NPC commanders and fighters and uses the game system to exchange heavy artillery. Then he just starts bombarding. There is no enemy that 203 cannot persuade. If there is, then the opponent will be turned into a corpse that does not need to be persuaded.

It’s not that the players are deliberately wasting firepower to show how powerful and rich they are, but the local slave owners are just too inhumane.

Don't think that only those evil cults in Tibet carried out human sacrifices in the 2K era and the 40K era. The slave owners also did these inhuman things, thinking that this was a necessary means to make the slaves obedient. If the slave owners in a village still believed in religion, then every once in a while there would be a few local people who would randomly "become great things."

It refers to peeling off a person's skin, using the skull as a ritual tool, taking the internal organs for sacrifice, etc.

Because the locals lived such a hard life and their weapons had no medical level at all, Mo Yu followed the troops into Tibet during this period. He often saw ritual implements and decorations made of human tissue in the homes of local slave owners. There was even a complete human trafficking industry in the area. In this era when organ transplants were not yet available, the locals had already achieved "people-oriented".

The city mastermind was ecstatic.

The powerful faction of the Kashag government in the local area was so arrogant that it was inhumane.

The serf owners set up their own torture halls, with more than 50 methods of punishment, including gouging out eyes, chopping off feet, pulling out tendons, skinning, throwing into water, etc. There are countless punishments that you can think of, and those that you can't think of. Even R18G has to censor them until they are completely blurry.

The most famous of these are human skin thangkas and ritual implements. The skin of girls aged 16 to 17 must be used to make religious thangkas, and ritual implements are made from skulls and tibias. The process is accompanied by extreme pain such as cutting the tongue and skinning alive. The makers believe that only ritual implements made in this way are the most powerful, and the number of ritual implements determines the user's lofty status. Some psychologically twisted bastards regard this as a "fun" religious ritual.

There is no doubt that there are definitely people here who do this kind of thing just to satisfy their own perverted hobbies.

How lowly were serfs in the eyes of local slave owners? Their lives were worth only "a piece of straw rope" and the lords could kill serfs at will without taking any responsibility.

Let me tell you a real case that may make you feel uncomfortable - the body of a little girl pickled in salt was found in the king's home in Shannan, Tibet, as a "sacrifice".

There are countless similar tragic scenes. Once, I was offline for a whole hour and vomited all over the place.

Even she, a miracle doctor, performed like this, and the situation of others was not much better. The players present all regretted using heavy artillery to attack the slave owner's fortress, because the people inside were directly blown to death, and they died so easily!

The local serfs were basically all skinny. Many children who were obviously under the age of sixteen looked like middle-aged men in their thirties or forties. Their vitality was severely overdrawn, and they looked like the living dead.

Many local people were sent to the temporary medical camp in Nagqu for treatment. The medical level of the volunteer army was at an amazing level and could definitely be called the best in the world. But even so, there were still times when they were unable to provide treatment.

Mo Yu took over a child who was twelve years old, but due to severe malnutrition, he looked worse than a six or seven-year-old child. He had multiple organ failures and his body could not even take in the most basic nutrients. Mo Yu thought of all the rescue methods she could think of, but even so, she was still unable to save him.

The only thing Mo Yu could do was to pick him up and comfort him quietly, hoping that he could fall asleep peacefully.

At least, let his suffering end here.

At the end of his life, the child whispered in Mo Yu's ear: "Mom... Bodhisattva... is here to pick me up..."

At that moment, Mo Yu burst into tears.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of countless tragedies in Tibet. There are countless people like this child. The only relief they can find after they are born is death. The meaning of life is to wait for death, or just to live. There is only a weak struggle of humanity in them because their masters want them to be obedient pigs and dogs.

The medical team that Mo Yu was in rescued more than 5,000 local people in Nagqu. The volunteers and the first group of Red Army cadres who were able to enter the Tibetan area began to train and build at the same time, repairing houses and toilets for the local people and distributing fields.

These are basic operations carried out by the volunteer army in various places, but for the Tibetan people, this is the first time in history.

Gradually, the locals began to be willing to listen to the volunteers, began to actively learn Chinese, and began to let go of their vigilance and fear to communicate with the volunteers.

Until one day, Mo Yu took the medical team out to treat the villagers as usual. When they arrived outside the nearby village, several children ran towards them happily, shouting something in Tibetan.

Mo Yu heard the following pronunciation from their voices - Jinzhu Mami (Bodhisattva soldier who saves people from suffering).

At this moment, all the confusion and puzzlement that Mo Yu had felt disappeared without a trace.

This is liberation.

Chapter 131: Cloudy today, transfer to the Volunteer Army

(The second update is here, (～￣▽￣)～)

The actions of the Volunteer Army in Nagqu made the Kashag government very dissatisfied, especially when the Volunteer Army began comprehensive land reform, the whole of Tibet immediately went into chaos, and everyone in the ruling class felt insecure.

It is undeniable that there are good people in every class, but there are only individuals who betray their class, not classes that betray their class. Their attributes determine the logic of their behavior. Every time the times advance, a group of people are destined to be thrown into the torrent of history and ruthlessly crushed. This time, it is their turn.

However, due to the special nature of the Tibetan region, not only the Kashag government was involved, but also the British troops stationed in India.

It is not surprising that such a thing happened. Britain is a world-class troublemaker, stirring up trouble wherever it goes. Tibet is naturally located at a high position over India. Any local government with a normal mind would want to turn Tibet into its own strategic high ground. When there is no opportunity, they will wait for it, and when there is an opportunity, they will pounce on it immediately.

Throughout history, Britain has invaded Tibet more than once.

In 1773, Britain invaded Bhutan, annexed Cooch Bihar, and established diplomatic relations with the Tibetan religious leader, the Sixth Panchen Lama, for the first time. However, because the Qing Dynasty was still in its ascendant at the time, Britain did not dare to act rashly.

But after entering the 19th century, Britain, having completed the Industrial Revolution, felt that it was capable and accelerated its pace of aggression.

In 1814, Britain invaded Nepal and forced Nepal to sign the Treaty of Segori in 1816. It militarily controlled Bhutan and Sikkim, cut off the barrier of southern Tibet, and thus had a solid bridgehead into Tibet. In 1860, it began to fully annex the territories of Sikkim and Bhutan, leaving southern Tibet directly exposed to the sword of British India.

On a strategic level, Britain opened trade routes to China and Central Asia through Tibet, allowing it to dump Indian tea on a large scale. However, its core purpose was to use this as a springboard to project influence in Central Asia from another direction and curb Russian expansion in Central Asia.

Who could have prevented the infiltration of Tsarist Russia? In addition, Tsarist Russia showed its strong intention to compete with Britain for the right to speak in the world. Britain needed Tibet to become a strategic springboard for the "Great Game" between Britain and Russia, and to form strategic advantages in multiple directions from a geographical perspective.

By this point, the Qing Dynasty had completely degenerated into a savage state. The historical opportunity the British government had been waiting for finally arrived, and the First Tibetan War broke out, lasting from 1888 to 1893.

The cause of the war was that Tibet set up defenses in Longtu Mountain to prevent the infiltration of British troops. Britain unilaterally claimed that the area belonged to Sikkim and invaded by force in 1888. The Tibetan army was defeated due to its backward weapons. In 1890, the Qing government was forced to sign the Sino-British Tibet-India Treaty to recognize Britain's "protection circle" over Sikkim. In 1893, the Sino-British Conference Tibet-India Clauses, also known as the Tibet-India Supplementary Treaty and the Tibet-India Supplementary Treaty, were signed. They were supplementary documents, opening Yadong as a commercial port and granting British merchants tax-free privileges. The door to Tibet was forcibly opened.

Do you think this is the end? No, no, no, this is just the beginning.

For imperialist countries, once they have tasted the sweetness, what awaits you is only endless salami-slicing tactics.

Less than ten years later, Britain launched the second invasion of Tibet.

In 1903, the British army, led by Younghusband, captured Yadong under the pretext of "spies being detained".

You read that right. The excuse is "the spy was detained". I'm too lazy to even act it out. Anyway, the Qing government is a piece of crap that can't even beat Japan. What's wrong with me, the great British Empire, bullying a little jerk like you?

From this point on, Tibet officially entered a new hell mode and began to rush towards the deeper eighteen levels of hell.

On March 31, 1904, Francis Edward Younghusband, also known as the British invasion pioneer Francis Edward Younghusband, pretended to propose negotiations, asking the Tibetan army representatives Ladinse and Namseling to extinguish the fuses of their weapons to show their sincerity, and pretending that the British army withdrew its bullets.

In fact, these beasts are just bullying the locals because they can't understand and then shoot

But in fact, the British army had secretly completed the three-sided encirclement, aimed machine guns and artillery at the Tibetan army, and deliberately broke down the negotiations. A massacre followed. The Tibetan army was slaughtered because they could not fight back after the matches of their matchlocks went out. Daiben Ladinse and Langselin died on the spot, and the bodies of the Tibetan soldiers were scattered all over the plain.

This is what we know today as the "Qumeixingu Massacre." -p

After the massacre, the British army took the opportunity to advance straight into Gyantse and Lhasa, looted temples (such as the Purple Gold Temple), and plundered hundreds of Tibetan books and cultural relics. However, the Tibetan army did not sit idly by. In the Battle of Gyantse in July 1904, the Tibetan army relied on the Zongshan Fortress to hold out for a hundred days, but eventually ran out of ammunition and food, and the survivors jumped off the cliff to die for their country.

In August 1904, British forces captured Lhasa, swiftly followed by the Treaty of Lhasa. This attempted to establish a "protectorate" over Tibet, but faced opposition from the Qing government and foreign powers, and the high altitude climate also presented a significant challenge for the British. Consequently, the 1906 "Renewal of the Tibeto-Indian Treaty" was signed. While this treaty upheld Chinese sovereignty, it still recognized British trade privileges in Tibet. This was similar to the Qing-Indian system of paying indemnities for defeat, though it retained sovereignty over Tibet, an inseparable part of China since ancient times.

Everyone is familiar with the story that follows: the Simla Conference and the "McMahon Line". Britain and British India began to find ways to take advantage, wanting to split Tibet in the name of "Inner and Outer Tibet". They privately decided on the "McMahon Line", which has been disgusting until the 21st century. They also supported the Dalai Lama's armed forces to resist the unification of the motherland. Later, this policy was inherited by India, and the consequences remain to this day.

By laying mines and causing sabotage, Britain completely destroyed the traditional order in Tibet and supported a large number of pro-British people. Therefore, for Tibet, if you want to maintain stable management, the easiest way is to deal with the middle and upper levels.

Anyway, these people who left Tibet were just a bunch of useless people who could do nothing. They were all slaughtered. At most, they would account for 5% of the total population of Tibet, and that's only if their nine clans were counted.

Moreover, the population distribution in Tibet is relatively concentrated. Mr. Kang said that he had never seen a place where it was so easy to purge counter-revolutionaries.

The central government, which had already gone through all the red tape, chose to overturn the table after the Kashag government made another request and threw the evidence of their collusion with the British government and British India into the open.

"The Xinhua government absolutely does not accept traitors. There's no need to talk. Go back and wait for death!"

At the same time as the Central Committee issued the final judgment, the volunteer army had already begun to airdrop into Lhasa, Shannan and Shigatse, and in order to ensure the smooth operation, volunteer troops also began to land in Pokhara and Kathmandu.

If your British government can do it on the first day, then we can do it on the fifteenth. From today on, your British India will never have a peaceful life. Asia or Europe, you choose!

Chapter 132: Loyal Close Combat

(The first update is here, and the number of tickets for urging update is 10, so I can be lazy today!)

Fun fact: Pokhara and Kathmandu are cities in Nepal, and Kathmandu is the capital of Nepal.

At present, this place is just a part of the British colony, but compared with the country of Nepal, the Gurkha knife is obviously more famous, because when the British invaded here, they were shocked by the bravery of the locals, so they hired locals to fight for them, who are the famous Gurkha mercenaries.

Kuo (4th tone) Erka (1st tone).

However, after the disintegration of the British colonial system, the treatment of these people continued to decline, and finally even the retirement benefits were stopped, which is very consistent with the great shortcomings and virtues of the word "嘤".

Even in the 21st century, Nepalese mercenaries are still very famous. Britain still retains the Gurkha Brigade (just like France today, the most capable foreign mercenaries hired by the country), India has 30,000 Gurkha soldiers, and there are even Gurkhas who have joined the Russian Airborne Brigade.

For these reasons, if you mention Nepal to many foreigners, they probably won’t be able to find this country on the map at first, but if you mention Gurkha, many people will know about it.

But it should be noted that the Gurkhas' bravery and fighting skills were completely forced. The local natural environment is too unfriendly to carbon-based organisms. In this country known as the "Snow Mountain Buddhist Kingdom", the pillar industry is tourism, and foreign exchange basically relies on remittances and handicrafts sold to foreigners. The altitude ranges from 60 meters to over 8000 meters. Among the 14 peaks above 8000 meters in the world, eight are located in Nepal or the Nepal border area.

In a place where survival is considered an extreme challenge, expecting it to develop modern industry is not a question of whether it is realistic or not, but rather a question of expecting the US government to suddenly have a conscience like Lenin. Even the most imaginative authors only dare to fantasize about it when they are cheating.

When survival resources have to be fought for, it is the poor mountains and bad waters that produce unruly people, and bravery and fighting skills are all for the purpose of surviving in the internal circulation of survival. If you don’t believe it, you can look at the relevant information about the fight for water in domestic villages. That kind of scene, in the Warring States Period of Japan, would be a large-scale melee at the level of multiple vassal states, which can be simply called a great battle.

Most Nepalese people in the 21st century are extremely poor, even though they have benefited from our country's Belt and Road Initiative. To expect Nepal in 1939 to have any modern facilities is an unrealistic fantasy about Britain. Anyway, after the players parachuted in, they had a fairly intuitive understanding of the local poverty.

Except for the city center, which can be regarded as a product of the combination of modern civilization and classical architectural art, the styles of other places generally remain in the 15th century or even earlier, like a museum of early human history.