Volume VIII 1235 Thunder made public the first shot

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To be sure, Stefansky was not a mediocre man, and his ability to get Alexander II to be elected commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force already speaks volumes.

But sometimes one gets carried away by victory, and from the time he set out from Europe to Asia, he traveled tens of thousands of miles in four months, and all he received was applause, flowers, and praise.

Perhaps Britain and France and other countries also want to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, all the British and French colonies have been given the green light all the way, and the colonial governors have provided a lot of help to the Tsarist fleet, ranging from food, medical care, coal supplies, to providing weapons and ammunition at cost prices, all kinds of praise have long made the commander a little inflated.

Not to mention the coercion brought by the huge fleet to those weak and small countries, Stefansky felt incomparably proud and proud whenever he saw the frightened eyes of the princely kings of Africa, India, and South Asia, and the local people bowing down as if they were facing gods.

At the top of the swelling was the surprise attack of Bai Layi, and in Stefansky's mind, that battle was completely a textbook surprise attack, the enemy was not the slightest defense, there was no leakage of intelligence, and there was not the slightest mistake in his own command.

Because of this, he was able to easily snatch all the wealth without letting the Chinese hide half a cent. Later, the Governor of Hong Kong even sent him a congratulatory telegram in his personal name, which was so praised by the British Governor of the East, that for the commander, it was already a drunken ecstasy.

Now Molière actually wants him to flee without a fight? This is simply a shame, I have just flaunted my might from Hong Kong along the coastline of the Qing Dynasty across two provinces, and when my morale is at its highest, you let me escape? What a joke.

"Knight Molière, I admit that there is some truth to what you said, but I can't take it! Because I can't demoralize the expeditionary force, I finally mobilized the children's fighting power, and you let me escape now?"

Our great Tsarist Russia will always be a fighting nation, we only know how to attack, never to escape, we must fight...... Now give me the order, the left and right flanks will outflank the geese, surround them under the enemy's artillery fire, and we will shoot at close range!"

"......No," Molière howled in pain, "Commander, please be calm, please remember your main task, you have come to Asia to join Vladivostok, and everything else is a trivial ......"

"Go aside, who likes to listen to your rambling......" This time Stefansky didn't speak, and the adjutant next to him pulled the nasty ghost-faced Molière aside.

The Russian fleet began to change its formation rapidly, the supply ships and troop carriers began to slow down and change course and deviate from the battle sequence, while the remaining twelve capital battleships and fifteen frigates began to diverge, with the flagship St. Peter as the core on the left flank to the west, and the second capital battleship Diamond as the leader on the right flank to the east.

Two battle groups were gradually formed, and the remaining eighteen light warships were used as guerrillas on the battlefield, patrolling the gaps between the two major military formations.

The sound of killing on the sea shook the sky, and the Russian troops on the troop carriers poured on the deck, shouting at the navy in front of them.

"Ulla!Ulla!Ulla!"

"Punish these infidels on behalf of God! Defeat those lowly enemies in the name of the Great Tsar!

The Russian Army could not help but could help, and the sea was full of Ula roars, and the morale of the Russian Navy suddenly burst.

In stark contrast to the frightened eyes of the Chinese, the fishermen who escaped the disaster floated on the surface of the water holding driftwood, looking at the crazy foreign devils, not knowing what was happening.

A closed country, a closed society, and a closed heart! These people, who only know how to farm and fish, do not know a single word, and they just go with the flow all their lives, and many people have never heard of the names of France and Britain until they are forty or fifty years old, and in their eyes all foreign devils are the same.

And no one understands what happened to the foreign devils and the Qing Dynasty, they don't know what the war is about, let alone what a treaty is, and they just live around instinct.

But when the most basic and humble desire to 'live' has become a luxury, when they are honestly fishing at sea, and they are knocked into the sea by the foreign devils who burst into the sea without recruiting anyone or provoking anyone, then the anger in their hearts also explodes.

"Damn foreign devils, wait for Grandpa Lei to kill you!"

At that moment, the Heavenly Thunder Mother heard their prayers, and suddenly a faint light flashed in the direction of due north and east, followed by a dull rumbling thunder.

There seemed to be an iron car flying towards it in the sky, followed by a sudden burst of flames in the Russian ** ship group on the right flank, and a rumbling explosion resounded in the sky, and the port side of a frigate was shot, and the smoke and fire went straight into the sky.

"Oh my God!

Of course it's not Lei Gong, at this moment Deng Shichang They have already captured the figure of the battleship in the distance in the lens of the telescope, I don't know how to get it, Deng Shichang seems to see the closest person in the depths of his soul, and a sense of closeness that cannot be described in words swells up in his heart.

"This is the Zhiyuan? This is the miraculous battleship? He fired, he fired!"

Deng Shichang grabbed Yan Fu's arm like crazy, shook it like a pendulum, and tears flowed down his face, "You're not right...... Woo woo, what you said is wrong, it is the Zhiyuan, Xiao Letian did not choose to defend, he still came to attack, he finally rushed out to attack the enemy......"

"Even if everyone in this world kneels, at least there are some people who don't kneel, and Prime Minister Xiao doesn't kneel! Lao Tzu, I will never kneel......"

"Close! Let's put it on...... Damn, I can't even take a look at it, I just want to see how these rakshasas died!"

Ri Yige had been suppressed by the fanatical aura of these students, and he suddenly remembered a story told by Shen Baozhen, the chief officer of the Ship Master Academy, that Lin Zexu's son-in-law had personally experienced something.

The address of the Mawei shipyard and the academy was originally chosen by Zuo Zongtang himself, but it was impossible for Zuo Zongtang to personally handle the specific affairs, so he handed over the affairs to his confidant Shen Baozhen.

However, when Shen Baozhen went to Mawei Village to negotiate with the villagers about the land acquisition, he was met with Yan Zhan's resistance.

Obviously, the price of land has been raised to three times the market price, but the ignorant villagers will not sell their land, and it is clear that it is some low-yielding saline-alkali land by the sea, and it is impossible to exchange them for fertile water to irrigate the land.

Those ignorant villagers, as soon as they heard that they were going to build a Western-style school, they shook their heads and said that the things of foreign devils would damage the feng shui of their ancestors, and even if they were killed, they would not sell their land.

Until the end, the angry Mawei villagers smashed Shen Baozhen and his party out of the village alive with pebbles and bricks.

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