Volume VIII 1291 High Seas Espionage Network

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Xiao Letian's Dong** newspaper network was indeed an anomaly in the 19th century, and the undersea telegraph network built with a lot of money and countless well-trained spy ships jointly weaved a sky net on the sea.

In the era when there was no radio, this communication mode combining manpower and cable had indeed come to the forefront of the times, at least from a strategic height, Xiao Lotian attached great importance to it, and even attached importance to Cheng Dù surpassing the British Empire.

Countless sparsely populated islands on the sea, seemingly of little value, and there is often a base station here, the cable under the sea is far from what Europeans imagine, it is a single or several, but according to the island division in a network covering the coastal areas of the Qing Dynasty.

Each island with a transceiver is equipped with more than two small spy ships, which ensures that there is some communication support within a radius of 100 kilometers from the island as the center.

It was precisely because of the countless such telegraph base stations, as well as the support of countless camouflaged spy ships, that Xiao Lotian on the high seas was able to grasp the battle situation and issue new combat orders in time.

Primitive, indeed very primitive, this means of communication is of course inefficient, but everything has to be compared, something is better than nothing, Xiao Lotian has this set of primitive and backward inefficient communication system, but don't forget that the current East Asia and even the British Navy to go to sea does not have such a system for communication support.

Not to mention the Russian Expeditionary Force, all they could do was gather a large amount of intelligence in a seaport with communications support, and then begin to revise their next advance or battle plan. Once the fleet left the port, it was completely blind, and no matter what changed the tide of battle during the voyage, they could only run headlong into the previous plan.

Prepared to fight unprepared, sound eyesight to open the blind, the defeat of the Russians is a sure thing.

The Russian Legation in Beijing has always been under the surveillance of the Gyeonggi branch of the CIA, which Chun Shisanniang is in charge of, and the Russian telegraph lines, in particular, are monitored 24 hours a day.

The code of the telegram communication between the Russian minister ** Gley and the outside world has long been deciphered by the Chinese, and now the Russian legation is transparent to the CIA.

When the telegram from Moscow arrived in Beijing, the listening team deciphered the telegram as quickly as possible and sent it to the Ryukyu headquarters.

When the headquarters saw this heavy information, they didn't dare to slack off and hurriedly contacted Wang Huaiyuan, the first authority, and only Wang Huaiyuan's team could contact Xiao Letian, who was on the high seas.

A telegram traveled thousands of miles to Xiao Letian's hands, and the manpower used in it was more than 100 people, and the funds consumed were more than tens of thousands! But it was all worth it, when Xiao Letian saw the top-secret handwriting in the message, he slapped his thigh: "Credit! Give a great credit to Chun Thirteen Niang's group!"

"Xiang Ying! speed up immediately, we must rush to the nearest telegraph base station, I need to communicate with ......"

"What's going on, do we have the right to know?" asked Xiang Ying nervously.

Xiao Letian hesitated slightly: "There is a big fish in the Russian Expeditionary Force! It is a big fish that I didn't expect at all...... Damn, Alexander II's brother-in-law is coming!"

"Find him, capture him alive! This is the bargaining chip for our future negotiations......

In a word, everyone was excited, Lin Zhen and Jin Sanshun rubbed their hands, you punched me and I kicked to vent the excitement in their hearts, "Really, God really favors us, send the fat sheep to the door for nothing!"

Xiao Lotian carefully searched the memory bank of his previous life, and he faintly had the impression that Alexander II's original queen was frail and died early, and the tsar had a leg with Catherine before she died, and Catherine's family is said to be a very old noble surname, and its influence in Tsarist Russia is very great.

If this young man named **Kesen falls into the hands of Xiao Letian, the Tsar's future negotiations will naturally have a few more chances of winning.

But there is also a hidden concern, if this young man is killed in this war...... So whether the tsar will fall into madness, it is really hard to say whether the hatred of the country and the family will be mixed together.

"Quick, speed up now! This battle is really fucking hard to fight!"

This war between the Chinese and Tsarist Russia is indeed the most difficult battle Xiao Letian has fought in his life, the tragedy of the battle naturally goes without saying, the key is that the priorities must be taken care of, so that the enemy is afraid but can not let him fall into hysterical madness, this strength is really difficult to master.

What the Chinese want is a ticket to the club of the great powers, not for the entire club to be rejected or even united to strangle together.

In the final analysis, Xiao Letian wants to play the role of a civilized robber in front of Britain, France, the United States, Russia, Prussia and other countries. One can abide by the unspoken rules between robbers, and then has the strength to share the big cake of the earth together.

To put it bluntly, I hope that the powers will agree to Xiao Letian to eat cake at the table together, not to mention how much to share at the beginning, so that the power to serve the table must be in his hands.

can't be too extreme, too alternative, if the smell of blood on your body is too strong, there will be a ** who lifts the table as soon as you come up, then these robbers who are on the table early will not give themselves this chance, they will join forces to kill this new guy together.

"I have to speed up and go to Amami Oshima, I'm not guarding this battle myself, it's really worrying......"

Just when Xiao Letian was worried, the Russian army attacking on Tangwan Mountain had already begun the third shelling, which was the final bottom line for Xiao Hexin to allow the retreat of the fourth battalion of Xuanwu.

But no one expected that this third shelling would be so fierce and so lethal.

Rumble...... Rumble...... Rumble...... The sound of the cannon was very different from the previous field artillery, and the sound was extremely dull, as if the thunder was pressing the horizon.

The screeching of the cannonballs in the sky also changed, and the veterans clearly felt that the trajectory of the cannonballs fired this time was much higher, because the sound was not at all as sharp as the one just now.

This was followed by a loud bang above everyone's heads, and the entire reinforced concrete permanent bunker was blown up with smoke and dust, and the ground shook violently.

"Damn, what kind of cannon is this? Why is it so powerful......"

"Mortar, it must be a mortar!" Xiao Hexin on the top of the mountain put down the telescope and immediately ordered, "Let Chu Zhao and them prepare to retreat, the cement structure on the top of the fortress is very fragile, this kind of mortar cannon can't be prevented!"

Mortar, which is a very primitive fortress run, is also the predecessor of later mortars. The main purpose of this cannon with short range and strong firepower is to siege cities.

Generally, the trajectory of the shells of the field rifled guns is very straight, and the ballistics used to attack the fortress of the armor are directly blown up on the cement wall in front of the fortress, while the trajectory of the mortar cannon is curved, and the shells can fly high in the sky and then fall from the sky to directly attack the weak top of the fortress.

And this is where the weakness of the fortress lies.