C914 Therefore the next therefore (1/2)

No one was invincible, even someone as strong as the English and French, it was impossible for them to guarantee that all the weapons would be the most outstanding ones.

However, the entire Eastern Asian countries all felt that the westerner was invincible, and the fear in their hearts grew deeper and deeper in the war.

The reason for this was simple. On one hand, it was because of the shock people felt from the strong and powerful cannons. The difference in technology between the two races gave the people a sense of defeat when they fought against the gods.

The other reason was that the weapons that Europe had sent to Asia were all of high quality. Just like what Tian Ji horse racing said, the enemy had used a strong man to fight against a strong man in the Great Qing. How could they not lose in such a war?

The two Opium Wars were both like this. In the age of sail battleship, when humans put in troops across half of the Earth, it was already a huge risk, a huge gamble.

There were countless dangers in the vast sea, typhoons, reefs, diseases, and even colonial riots. Battleships were different from merchant ships, as they had to take into account safety and speed, and so on. It was impossible for a fully manned fleet to travel thousands of miles from Europe to Asia without half a year's travel.

It was precisely because how hard the journey was and how full of accidents it was, that the English and French had to prepare the most elite soldiers, in order to increase the success rate of the expedition.

Forget about the 19th mid-century leaf, even in the second world war, with America's industrial power, it would still be a huge gamble to throw military forces around the world.

The result of selecting the best among the best Expeditionary forces s, facing a group of Qing Dynasty Eight Banners and Han Army Green Battalion s with long swords and spears, was self-evident.

But today, the sudden attack of the Zhiyuan Warship actually overlapped with the battle tactics in Tian Ji's horse racing story. These armies of foreign languages and natural sciences, which were cultivated purely as high-ranking military officers, and a group of elite soldiers who had been trained in the blood of Prussian Kingdom for a hundred years, had actually become the common enemies of a normal battle.

On the other hand, the pitiful Dakar's defending army, those colonial defending army and slave army who thought they were being too arrogant, were actually not even considered as underlings. In the end, they were just a group of underlings and a group of underlings.

France had been colonizing West Africa for more than two hundred years, and during those two hundred years, the Dakar Port had sold more than a few tens of millions of slaves. As for the gold and ivory colonies, the number of cotton, coffee, and other goods they produced was untold.

Had there been a rebellion during that time? Apart from the small, unassuming tribes dancing with spears in an attempt to attack the French army, the whole of Senegal was as harmonious as a Frenchman's back garden, apart from sending the garrison a few human heads as a tribute.

Two hundred years was more than enough time for people to get into a state of mind. In the hearts of the past Dakar Governors, as long as they could guarantee that the taxes and goods would be paid every year and that the local security would be alright, it would be enough for the niggers to not steal anything and fight amongst themselves.

To be a governor in a place like this was to enjoy life while also gaining qualifications. No one would attempt to accomplish anything here.

The officers were worried about whether they could sell their smuggled African goods in Europe for a good price, the soldiers were worried about whether the wine prices would rise in the bars, and whether syphilis was more prevalent in the cities. As for war, there were local elites with high salaries to worry about, and there would be a bottle of Caribbean rum for the fruits of the Equator region.