On September 29, the Anglo-German combined fleet returned to Kamchatka and launched another fierce attack on Petropavlovsk.

However, an interesting incident happened before the attack, when a Mi-registered cargo ship approached the joint war fleet, and the captain said that "his cargo had just been savagely requisitioned by the Lucians, and he was disgruntled, so he could provide information to help attack the place."

After hearing about this, Naohide was happy - it was rumored in later generations that the governor of Eastern Siberia had used a counter-trick in this battle, and it seems that it may actually be true!

After identification, the information provided by the captain of the "Mi Man" was basically the same as that provided by John Jr. and Naoxiu, and this person also provided the latest defense map of Lucia, which clearly marked the location of the land battery. However, because Naoxiu had already reminded Admiral Plath that "the Lu people may pretend to be Mi Ren and use anti-intermediary schemes", this scheme was not sold.

The reason, of course, is because there are too many flaws:

In the previous battles, the coalition forces captured a lot of prisoners, and obtained a lot of information through translation, especially the sailors of the fleet in the Okhotsk district provided very detailed information.

It turned out that after the failure of the large-scale supply plan along the Wulong River in June, Governor Muravyov decided that it was the work of the British Far East Fleet, so he did not disperse his forces as originally planned, but transported most of the more than 1,000 men back to Petropavlovsk to strengthen the defense.

Lucia's counter-plot was considered more carefully, and the number of spies was also in line with this figure, "less than two thousand troops", but the prisoners caught in the early stage said otherwise, "Muravyov was mad and forcibly conscripted merchants into the army, and the strength of the army has reached three or four thousand!" ”

Can two thousand and four thousand be the same thing?

This forced conquest movement is so big, you even know the location of the battery, how can the estimate of the number of troops be so different!

The Rusians failed in their counter-plot, and the spies were beaten and imprisoned, but how to capture Petropavlovsk became a difficult problem - 4,000 men, and the sailors on the ships combined were less than half of them, and the land battle was completely uncertain.

It stands to reason that the fleet of the Okhotsk district has been completely wiped out, and the important ports of Lucia in the North Pacific have been almost destroyed, and their own losses are relatively small.

They learned an important news from the captives, "a lot of the gold obtained from Alaska was transferred here, and then sent back to China through the Siberian Post Road".

In the end, it was reminded by Naohide that the two admirals of the coalition came up with a good solution, that is, "ransom fees".

The lion opened his mouth, and the coalition army offered a ransom fee of 100,000 pounds, and nothing else, but gold and silver!

In 1717, Sir Isaac, as the director of the English Mint, set the price of gold at 3 pounds 17 shillings and 10 pence per troy ounce (90% purity), so that 100,000 pounds is nearly 30,000 troy ounces, which is equivalent to about 864 kilograms of gold of 90% purity!

After receiving the notice of the captivity, of course the Lucians refused, the treasury did contain a batch of gold shipped from Alaska, but why, one is a good fortune, and the other is that he has many people and cannot be defeated.

But soon the Lucians didn't think so—although the city was built on a hill, the six-pounder and twelve-pounder cannons of the Lucians were not as far as the three-inch rifled cannons of the White Lord.

In the past month's battles, Naohide did not mobilize the White Lord Land Group to participate in the battle - he was afraid that he would be used as cannon fodder by the Anglo-Buddhist coalition army, but he transported six rifled guns, and he was not a good person on either side anyway, and he was happy when the human brain hit the dog's brain.

The coalition forces are also very satisfied with the rifled artillery, this thing is far and accurate, but the power is a little less.

Don't you say, although the level of naval warfare in France is very different from that of England, its sailors are very skilled in handling artillery when they arrive on land, and Petropavlovsk is also mostly made of wooden buildings.

Soon there was fire and smoke everywhere, and it was a bleak scene!

Therefore, two days later, the entrenched Lucians could not bear it, and they organized a team to carry out several counterattacks, but they were all repelled by the coalition forces guarding the fortifications - although there are no machine guns now, the gun's shotgun power is not small, and the coalition sailors are extraordinarily strong under the stimulation of gold, all of them are like divine help.

Governor Muravyov couldn't suppress the merchants and his subordinates, so he had to send someone to negotiate peace, but the coalition army sat on the ground and demanded that the ransom fee be doubled, "200,000 pounds", no need to negotiate!

After the news came back, the Lucia people were furious, "Anyway, the house is gone, you can build it again, so let's continue to fight!" ”

The battle continued for half a month, and the two sides fought fiercely several times, and the victory and defeat were indistinguishable - it was the Lucians who took the initiative to attack, and the coalition forces were passively defended.

The Crusians finally couldn't bear it, and although they were killed in the battle, they were not injured, but the supply became a big problem:

Petropavlovsk is surrounded by mountains, there is not much agriculture and animal husbandry, mainly fishing, although some grain is stored, but many warehouses are reduced to ashes under artillery fire.

After the failure of the counter-plot, Muravyov's original plan was to prepare to boil the coalition forces away, but he found that the coalition forces actually had merchant ships to replenish, and now it has become an opponent who is boiling him! If this stalemate continues, everyone in Petropavlovsk will freeze or starve to death in winter.

However, 200,000 pounds was never possible, and after a bickering between the two sides, the deal was made for 150,000 pounds - 50,000 pounds worth of gold first, 50,000 more when the coalition forces began to retreat, and the balance before leaving.

Anyway, the coalition forces are not afraid of the opponent's debts, and if they don't give it, they will start fighting again.

On October 18, 1854, the allied forces, having received a full amount of gold, left Avacha Bay, and the "Petropavlovsk Siege" of 1854, which began on August 29, was completely over - if it didn't end, the North Sea would freeze in November, and if you didn't leave, don't leave!

In this campaign, which lasted for more than a month, the results of the combined forces of the British, Francis and White lords were as follows:

The coalition completely destroyed the fleet of the Okhotsk district in Rusya, sank four gunboats, three armed transport ships, six high-speed communication ships and other small ships, and destroyed a number of merchant ships - Governor Muravyov was very ghostly, so that the merchant ships went north along Kamchatka and hid in Novomarinsk, which was founded in 1649, but these merchant ships did not escape the fate of being destroyed.

After the start of the second Petropavlovsk assault on September 29, most of the warships were idle, and Naohide remembered, "Rusia still has a stronghold in the Far East, Novomarinsk, because this port is relatively remote, so it is not on the list in the early stage, and now it is free, the world is so big, let's go and see?" ”

When the English governor Plath sent a steam cruiser and four small steam warships of the white lord to the north, the result was that many merchant ships were blocked in Novomarinsk, so it was another painful annihilation war.

However, the news of the destruction of merchant ships Muravyov was not known to Governor Muravyov, and the coalition forces were not obliged to inform him, anyway, Naohide felt that the Far Eastern Territory of Lucia was estimated to be finished this year - the warships and merchant ships were gone, and a lot of food and supplies were burned, so it is certain that this winter must be very cold for the Lucians!

As for the ports destroyed by the coalition forces, including Petropavlovsk, Okhotsk, Ayan, Nikolaevsk and Novomarinsk, the important bases of Lusia in the Far East did not slip through the net, and the comparison was miserable.

It is estimated that thousands of people were killed and wounded by the enemy before and after, and relying on the strength of the ships and artillery, the losses of the coalition forces were few, not a single ship sank, not even a major injury, and the losses of personnel were negligible, with more than a dozen killed and less than 100 wounded, which was a complete victory!

The battle is also over, and the coalition forces will naturally go their separate ways.

But there is one more thing before breaking up, and that is to divide the spoils!

In fact, the white lord made a lot of contributions in this battle, not only providing a large number of supplies and accurate intelligence, but also four steam warships personally participated in the battle.

But as a result, the 150,000 pounds worth of gold was only given to Naohide for one-fifteenth of the money, which also included the payment for four rifled guns—after the three-inch rifled guns, the whole coalition army was very satisfied, and England and France snatched two each, ready to go back and copy them.

Although Naoxiu explained, "This is the armament of the rice country, you don't need to rob it, you can buy it in the rice country openly", but the two admirals still snatched four gates, but to put it mildly, they finally left two doors for the white lord - originally there was no one.

What's even more disturbing is that this gold was not directly given to Zhixiu, but handed over to Little John for distribution.

According to Little John secretly told Naoxiu, even the distribution of this bit of gold, there are still great opinions within the joint warship team about it, thinking that Naoxiu got a lot of loot in the early stage, and the yellow skin ~ monkey should have been content a long time ago!

These people are talking about what happened during the attack on Okhotsk and Ayan in September, when a lot of livestock, a small number of cattle and a lot of horses were captured, and there were many left in addition to being slaughtered, and when the coalition forces and the white lord were in the honeymoon period, the English governor Plath waved his hand and used these to compensate for the supplies provided by Naohide.

Speaking from the heart, more than 300 horses is indeed a big income, plus since the coalition army conquered Okhotsk and Ayan, the demand for supplies has been greatly reduced, compared with the supplies provided, the white lord does make money.

But that's not how the accounts are calculated, these horse coalition troops can't be transported away, at most they can only kill and eat meat, and it is the ability of the white lord to transport it away, not to mention that if the white lord has been hunting a large number of seals, the cost of providing a large amount of jerky is also quite expensive.

But whoever has the big fist is reasonable, and Naoxiu can't care about this.

But then Little John told him another secret, which scared him into a cold sweat on the spot - Admiral Francis once privately told Admiral Plath of England that "it is not a good thing for the Yellow ~ race to master four steam warships, although the tonnage is small, but it is also a trouble", and asked Plath to find a way to consume these ships.

Fortunately, at that time, the Lucian naval army had been completely exhausted, so there was no suitable opportunity, and John Jr. explained to Admiral Plath that "this is the peripheral power of his country in the Far East", and the white master naval army escaped.

"Well, I can't believe it if I'm white ~ skin @ pig!"

Naoxiu hurriedly thanked Little John and said that he would give him half of the gold he had received.

Little John laughed and politely declined Naohide's kindness, but he asked Naohide to continue to cooperate with the English attack on Petropavlovsk next year - it turned out that Admiral Plath had to look forward to it, and he thought that since the Lusians could come up with 150,000 pounds worth of gold, there would naturally be more in the warehouse! So he decided to come back next year.

But what Admiral Plath did not expect was that, stimulated by the 150,000 pounds worth of gold, the colony of Quebec in North England would officially attack Alaska next summer - the breeze stirred up by butterfly wings has a tendency to become a tornado!

In fact, there are many reasons why John Jr. does not collect money:

First, through this war, he discovered that "even without considering the relationship between Naoxiu and the major shareholders of Xianheng & Co., the power of the White Lord was very important to his development in the Far East."

Second, of course, he made a lot of money this time - according to the agreement, the steam-sail hybrid-powered merchant ship of Xianheng Foreign Company belonged to him after the war, and this ship alone was worth nearly 30,000 US dollars, equivalent to more than 6,000 pounds, plus Admiral Plath treated him well and privately gave him 3,000 pounds of gold, and the two added up to nearly 10,000 pounds.

In the end, the reinforcement was a great success, and John Jr.'s position in the politics of the English Far East must have skyrocketed, and the potential benefits were enormous, far from being matched by a hundred thousand pounds in the long run!

Since he knew that there were people in the coalition who had bad intentions towards him, he didn't hurry up, and on October 27, 1854, the white master fleet returned to the department, where Naohide and Little John broke up, one returned to Xiangjiang and the other returned to the white master.

But after returning to the White Lord with great joy, Naoxiu saw an unexpected guest, "Is this swollen, how can you be a troublemaker in the White Lord?" Isn't that completely unscientific? ”