150 kilometers south of Vladivostok is an island with an area of 15 square kilometers, which the Russians call "Askold Island" and the Chinese call it "Qingdao". The three peaks on the island can overlook the sea, and ships also use this island as an important coordinate for sailing.

In 1855, the British Admiral Sammel, who visited the area, referred to the island as "Terminal Island". The Russians first named it "Lighthouse Island", and only later changed it to "Ascord Island".

It is worth mentioning that "Askold" is the name of a new type of warship that left St. Petersburg in 1857. The warship carried Admiral Putiyatin to China to sign the Treaty of Tientsin with the Qing government, and later invaded the Far East with Muravyov.

At first, it was just a place for Chinese to collect kelp, but when gold was discovered here in 1867, it became a gold mining treasure. Chinese gold diggers flocked to the island, and maritime activity between the island and the mainland was booming like never before. But the summer when the gold rush began, the Russians didn't know about it.

It wasn't until a Russian warship unexpectedly visited the island that the conflict broke out.

The commander of the Aleut, Ettoliin, was returning to port after a routine tour of the ship. Passing by the island of Ascord, which he passes through on every voyage, he suddenly wants to visit the island. When he and 15 sailors landed on the island with loaded guns, they finally discovered the secret of the Chinese.

In front of him, there was an open-air gold mining camp hidden in the col, and there were more than 500 Chinese gold miners in the gold mine at that time, who were doing intense work to wash the sands, but looking at the size of the camp, even if it could accommodate 1,000 people, there was no problem.

Ettolin immediately seized 5 pounds (1 Russian pound equals 409.5 grams) of gold and ordered the Chinese to permanently stop what he considered illegal gold mining, but as soon as he left the island, gold mining began again.

Immediately after returning to Hong Kong, Ettolin made a report to his superiors. Two days later, he landed again with 18 soldiers, 6 gunners and a mountain gun, searched the entire island, and when he saw that these Chinese dared to take his orders as a fart, he immediately drove away all the Chinese gold miners in a fit of rage. Since then, there have been regular Russian patrols on the island, and there have been more Russian patrols along the mainland coast to cut off the connection between the mainland and the island.

After that, the Chinese could not get close to the gold rush land, and the Russian army often broke out that its soldiers were secretly attacked and beaten by Chinese remnants. Obviously, the Chinese are taking revenge, which shows that the Chinese did not recognize the rule of the Russians at that time, and still recognized the government in Beijing in their hearts.

After more than half a year, the patrol on Ascold Island was cancelled due to the lack of major incidents. But when Aitolin arrived on the island again in April 1868 on the ship Aleut, he was shocked to see the same busy scene of gold panning as the previous one, with hundreds of Chinese gold miners busy.

Now Ettolin was completely angry, this group of damned Chinese was addicted to stealing the Tsar's gold, he immediately landed on the island with 20 soldiers, and the Chinese turned around and ran up the hill when they saw them, and the Russian army chased after them.

After a while, they caught a gold digger, but at that moment a gunshot rang out in the mountains, and a Russian soldier fell to the ground and died. The shot sounded like a clarion call for an attack, and hundreds of Chinese rushed down from the mountain and surrounded the Russian army that was caught off guard.

When Eitolin saw hundreds of Chinese rushing over the mountains, he immediately ordered a retreat, and those Chinese only had a few shotguns, most of them were armed with wooden sticks and stones, and they did not receive strict military training, so the attack was very chaotic. However, the more than 20 soldiers under Eitolin were all elite veterans, and the muskets and pistols in their hands were also of the latest models, and they did not suffer much loss when they fought and retreated.

Annoyed and enraged, Ettolin ordered the ships to open fire, killing the Chinese gold miners by surprise and suffering countless casualties. According to post-war statistics, Aitolin killed a total of three soldiers, the rest were slightly wounded, but rifles and pistols were partially stolen by the Chinese.

Returning to Vladivostok, Ettolin tore off the mask of warmth, and he finally realized that these Chinese would probably find it difficult to accept the rule of the tsar all their lives, and that the means of governance of the warmth and affection had no effect at all, and he began to prepare for the war to concentrate a large number of Cossack veterans from the Far East, and used a batch of stockpiles of munitions, and he wanted to kill more than a thousand Chinese above Qingdao in one go.

It's a pity that just after he prepared two battalions of soldiers and corresponding supplies, several heavy fogs delayed his attack plan, and it was not until the beginning of autumn that it generally snowed in the Far East, and he had the opportunity to lead the team to attack Qingdao.

Hu Tian is snowing in August, the famous sentence of Cen Shen in the Tang Dynasty is not nonsense, in August every year in the Mongolian steppe, that is, when the Central Plains people eat grape mooncakes during the reunion festival, where the people have ushered in the first snow.

And the Far East is more remote than the so-called Hudi, more bitter cold, here in August people can not do without cotton jackets, Qingdao just ushered in a first snow a few days ago, the mountains are covered in silver, it looks very beautiful, but the people living here are miserable.

In a secluded bay on the south side of the island, the shadow of a large ship was disappearing in the distant fog, and more than a dozen tattered sampans were desperately rowing to the shore, and the small boats were piled with all kinds of goods.

Someone on the shore whispered, "Wang Gui...... What good things did you get in exchange for gold this time? Is there a foreign gun? This time his grandmother also scored me a shot, otherwise I will have three cuts and six ......holes with you."

"Fart, Ding Si, just blow it, dare to touch a single hair of your grandfather Wang? Envy this Western fast gun in my hand? That's what I fought for, I didn't have the credit of knocking down Lao Maozi with one shot, and I still want to touch the good thing? You dream about it......"

The boats and the shore are all old acquaintances, and the two sentences of scolding are actually the usual verbal words, and after the wooden boat docked, Wang Gui threw the cable to the shore, and Ding Si and dozens of them pulled desperately to pull the boat full of goods ashore.

Wang Gui jumped off the boat and said, "Benevolence and righteousness! What a benevolence and righteousness! Xiang Boss is worthy of doing big business at sea, and the Prussian Mauser fast gun was originally going to be exchanged for four taels ......of golden sands, but I heard that our golden sands were not enough, and Lao Maozi was going to sneak attack us again, so he actually bought one and got one free, and exchanged two taels of golden sands for one rod, and the gunpowder bullets were also bought and given away."

"Really?" The crowd suddenly stirred up with excitement, this boss Xiang was beaten last year's New Year and Wang Gui and others in Qingdao got in touch, at that time he said that he could get the best foreign guns, this group of people still didn't believe it, and finally I didn't expect that there were really big ships coming here to sell arms regularly, and the ones sold were all good things that people had never seen.