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Longsha Dorji Cijie was born in an aristocratic family in Sulong (now Dana area, Xietongmen County) in Houzang.At the end of the Qing Dynasty, he served as Zikang Zhaba.

In 1914, Longxia, the fourth-rank official, was ordered by His Holiness the Thirteenth King as the leader of the team, and led four young Tibetan nobles (Menchong Chin Rao Gongsang, Jipu Lob Wangdui, Qiang Oba Rindor Dorjee, Guo Kar Wa Sorang Gumbu) went to study in the UK.This is the first time that Tibet has officially sent overseas students to study in Europe and the United States.Long Xia immediately went to England with his wife, and then went to France, Italy and other countries successively.During his stay in the UK, he was in charge of supervising the study of four foreign students so that they could become talents in mineral exploration, electrical machinery, telegraph service, military affairs, etc. After returning to Tibet in 4, it was reused by the thirteenth emperor. In the 4th year, he was promoted to Ziben, and later known as "Ziben Longxia".

Strictly speaking, although the 35-year-old Long Xia once went to study in the UK, he is not a separatist as mentioned in the history books. As for his pro-British political outlook, he is more likely to cater to the needs of the thirteenth Dalai Lama. .Perhaps it was the strong performance of the British army and the weakness of the Qing government that deeply shocked Grand Buddha. In short, after the demise of the Qing Dynasty, the thirteenth Grand Buddha, who personally served as the regent, has changed from being anti-British to politically. Anglophile.And Long Xia, who relied on the Buddha in politics, naturally followed closely without hesitation, and finally followed to pro-British.In other words, if Grandpa Buddha suddenly decides to oppose the British tomorrow morning, I believe Long Xia will follow without hesitation.

However, Longxia has also been troubled recently. After regaining Qamdo, the Thirteenth Emperor was very satisfied with the Tibetan army's performance in defeating the Han army. In his opinion, as long as it has good equipment and training, the Tibetan army can also become an invincible army army.So under the leadership of Bell, the British commissioner in Sikkim, Long Xia was appointed to participate in the formation of a new Tibetan army.However, since the year before last, the British stopped the aid of arms and supplies, and he didn't even give a reason. He negotiated with Bell several times, and the other party also expressed that he could not continue to provide assistance, and could only provide part of the arms in the form of a transaction. Another confidant of the Communist Party, Shadrak Ban Kyaw Dorje Kalon, was a serious Anglophile. This Lord Shardha immediately began to search for wealth in the whole of Tibet to buy goods from the British.As a result, the nobles whose interests were harmed were very dissatisfied with this.Naturally, these nobles did not dare to trouble the Buddha, and most of their anger was directed towards Xia Zha and Long Xia.In fact, Long Xia was also very dissatisfied with Xia Zha's actions, because Beijing at that time was not capable of threatening Tibet. In his view, Xia Zha's actions were not so much about building up a Tibetan army to resist the Han people, but rather taking the opportunity to expand his own power. .

This morning, Longxia went out for exercises according to the usual practice. More than 400 strong Tibetan men wore new British military uniforms, British belts, and soldiers wearing Tibetan hats. The soldiers stood fairly neatly. This army is the XIII* *The security regiment of Tibet, the first regiment of the Tibetan Army, is called Kadang Maga in Tibetan.According to the plan, this force was to be formed with 1000 people, but in fact only 40.00% of the formation task was completed, which was a huge gap.Here we might as well talk about the establishment of the Tibetan army: the designation name of the Tibetan army is "Maga", which means "barracks" and "barracks", which is equivalent to a regiment. The largest number of "Maga" is 1500, the slightly larger one is 1000, and most of them are 500.In the beginning, there were only ten regiments. According to the order of the [-] Tibetan letters, the various divisions of the Tibetan army were called:

Kadam Maga - the first regiment; Kadam Maga - the second regiment; Kadam Maga - the third regiment; Jaidang Maga - the fourth regiment;

Jiadang Maga - the fifth regiment; appropriate Maga - the sixth regiment; Jiadang Maga - the seventh regiment; Jadang Maga - the eighth regiment;

Dadang Maga - Ninth Regiment; Didang Maga - Tenth Regiment;

历史上藏军部队番号出现最多时,是在1950年秋冬的昌都战役前后,藏政府大肆扩军之际,曾经扩编到16个团“玛噶”。　既增加了11、13、14、15、16、17团，因为藏语里12是病的意思，不吉利，所以没有12团的编制。

And their duties also refer to the standards of the new army:

Maga (Tibetan means barracks, regiment), the chief is Daiben-Tibetan means the archer or archer commander (equivalent to the head of the regiment)

Ruka (Tibetan means team, battalion), the chief is Ruben-Tibetan means troop commander (equivalent to battalion commander)

A school (Tibetan means a hundred-person unit), the chief is Jiaben-Tibetan means a hundred-man commander (equivalent to a company commander)

Dingxiao, Xieao (Tibetan means small unit), chief is the final version—Tibetan means sub-team leader (equivalent to platoon leader)

Nine Schools (Tibetan means a unit of ten people), the chief is Jiuben-Tibetan means Ten Leaders (equivalent to squad leader)

A school (Tibetan means five-person unit), the chief is Aben-Tibetan means five-member leader (equivalent to group leader)

Markey (Commander in Chief)

Daiben, under the jurisdiction of two Ruben 499; Ruben, under the jurisdiction of two Aben with 249 people; 3 Aben 124 people; Aben, under the jurisdiction of 4 soldiers.

According to Emperor Qianlong's imperial approval, the Tibetan army should have 3000 people, of which 1000 are stationed in Lhasa (actually it should be the police camp), 1000 people are stationed in Rikeze (actually it should be the Panchen security camp), and the remaining 500 people are stationed in Gyantse. 500 people are stationed daily.The weapons equipped at that time were very sophisticated, "five tenths of them used muskets, three tenths used bows and arrows, and two tenths used knives and shields".In addition, 14 mountain-splitting cannons were dispatched, 12 were given to the Qianzang Army, and 2 were given to the Houzang Panchen Lama.

But in fact, the number of Tibetan troops under the name of ** has reached about 6000, which is a very astonishing number.More importantly, such a Tibetan army is currently equipped with 1500 British Lee Metford rifles and 40 "Lewis" type light machine guns.Strictly speaking, this kind of portable light machine gun is the heavy firepower of the Tibetan army. Bell originally planned to get some cannons for the Tibetan army, but the difficulty of transportation was too great, so he had to give up.

Long Xia is now almost commanded by the personal guard army of the thirteenth Dalai Lama Buddha. In fact, the training of this personal guard army is still very good, but for Long Xia who has seen the market, it is just not bad.Among other things, this equipment is really not enough to look at. Long Xia has been to France, and the shock of the earth-shattering bombardment on the battlefield in Europe has always come to mind.However, the entire Tibetan army is not even equipped with the most basic 75mm mountain guns. Longxia really can't imagine whether such an army can really carry the Buddha's dream of establishing a great Tibet.

Just as he was thinking about it, Jiansai Tudeng Gongpei, a young lama next to the Buddha, ran over from a distance: "Longsha Zidai, Longsha Zidai, the Buddha invites you to meet him in the Potala Palace."

Long Xia took a look at the young lama in front of him. Although he was only in his teens, he was very much favored by the Buddha.He smiled and said to him: "It's Jiansai, what's the matter with the Buddha? Who else was summoned by the Buddha besides me?"

After all, he was still a child, and Tudeng Gongpei spoke honestly one by one: "In addition to Zi Dai, there are Xia Zha Kalun and several other Buddhas!"

Long Xia nodded politely: "Understood, you go to Jiansai first, and I will come later..."

When Long Xia walked into the West Sunlight Hall where Grandma was, Grandpa Buddha was losing his temper at Xia Zha who was kneeling on the ground, and the atmosphere at the scene was very depressing.

Seeing Long Xia walk in, the thirteenth emperor calmed down a little, sat back on the throne, and then signaled Tudeng Gongpei to pass the telegram in his hand to Long Xia.

Long Xia didn't look at it, but he was shocked when he saw it: "What, Lord Buddha, the [-] Han army has already entered Tibet."

The thirteenth emperor obviously didn't want to see his subordinates panic like this, so he gave a displeased glance at Long Xia, who in his opinion had seen the world, but he didn't reprimand him.

Looking at the shocking crowd, the Thirteenth Emperor couldn't help but sighed and said, "Everyone talk about it, what should we do? According to the news sent by people in Chengdu, it is said that the person who entered Tibet this time is Liu Xiang, the rebel army who betrayed Wang Zhenyu, was originally a tiger general of the Sichuan Army, and this time he raised the banner of obeying the Beijing government."

Long Xia couldn't help sneering when he heard this, don't look at these Living Buddhas, Karon, etc., they are usually very dignified and wise in front of the common people.In fact, there are not many people with real skills, but if they are really capable, it is estimated that ** Buddha would not dare to use them.Xia Zha, who was kneeling on the ground, was the first to raise his head and said: "Lord Buddha, there is no need to panic about this matter. Let's follow the method we used to deal with the Sichuan Army and the Yunnan Army a few years ago, and ask the British to come forward and let Beijing issue an order to let these Han people The army should retreat."

Several other Buddhas naturally said yes, the thirteenth grandma thought it could only be like this, and was about to let Xia Zha stand up, but heard Long Xia say something wrong.The thirteenth emperor hurriedly asked: "Longsha, what's wrong?"

Long Xia thought for a while, then bowed very respectfully and said, "Lord Buddha, this matter seems a bit strange no matter how small it is? If this army betrayed Wang Zhenyu's army, then what they should do is to attack Chengdu instead of Running to our snow-covered plateau, does he expect Wang Zhenyu to send troops to chase him down and be dragged down by him? Here we need soldiers but no soldiers, and supplies but no supplies, so I have only one explanation for the actions of this Han general , He is here to rob us of Lhasa, it is very likely that his rebellion is just an illusion, in order to invalidate your method, Xia Zha."

Hearing this, Xia Zha was immediately unconvinced and said: "Invalidation, why ineffectiveness, do you know how strong the British are? Even Beijing is afraid of them. I don't believe that no matter how strong a little Wang Zhenyu is, he can be stronger than the Beijing government?"

Long Xia shook his head and said, "The problem now is not the strength of the Han people at all, but the weakness of our British friends. Didn't I talk about it when I came back? In Europe, the British are fighting with the Germans. People are fighting and bleeding, can’t you feel the changes in the British over the past few years? At the beginning, when we were given weapons, did we ever ask for money and supplies?”

One word awakened the dreamer, and the thirteenth emperor, Xia Zha and others immediately became dumbfounded when they heard this. . .