Those who save themselves will be saved by God, and those who abandon themselves will be abandoned by God.

The staff of the Wulongjiang General Office in Aihui City eagerly hoped that pies would continue to fall from the sky, but unfortunately, this wish was still disappointed:

On May 22, 1860, after the "Sauron Tribes" ambushed Lucia reinforcements more than ten miles upstream of Aihui, the coalition forces immediately disintegrated.

At that time, the soldiers of Jiangzuo Tun were still clearing the Lu people in the mountains and wilderness, but Guan Baoan was inserted in the henchmen of the righteous army, and "Tun Qian" sent someone to report urgently, "On the morning of the third day of victory, the 800 warriors who came from afar to help suddenly disappeared. ”

The Wulong River basin can be divided into three sections, "upper, middle and lower", and Aihuicheng and Lanpaozi are stuck at the beginning of the middle section.

At that time, the Lu people pulled hundreds of barges with three steamers, which stretched for nearly ten miles, and went down the river in three groups. As a result, on the way, the flotilla was suddenly thrown into disarray due to simultaneous shelling of the front and rear.

In the panic, the barges untied their cables one after another to save themselves, but the rain of bullets on both sides of the strait continued to hit, and finally it became a major rout - among them, the personnel and materials were heavily lost, especially the three steamers that were the main targets of the attack, none of them ran away.

According to the prior arrangement, the main forces of the Jiangdong Tun coalition army carried out the extermination from the bottom to the top, so as to eliminate the evil.

At this time, the Lu people who had fled to the shore had lost their organization and most of their ordnance, and in a panic, they basically lost their resistance. The enthusiasm of the people in Jiangdong was high, and they joined in the pursuit.

The next day, when the overall situation was decided, the 800 righteous men invited by the foreign aid Zalasi began to shrink silently.

At noon on the third day, when Zalaxi officially said goodbye in Aihui, the Manchurian leader who stayed behind found that everyone had begun to evacuate.

Ge stretched his forehead and begged hard, hoping that Zalasi would leave a helping hand, and promised countless gold, silver, jewelry, beauties, and eagles, and blamed each other with righteousness, but all he got was a polite refusal, and when they parted, Zalasi said a meaningful sentence, "Those who save themselves will be saved, and those who abandon themselves will be abandoned." ”

In fact, the officers and soldiers in Aihui City have been paying close attention to the changes in the war, but because they can't make up their minds, although they have supported a large amount of supplies with the water army, they have not participated in the war on a large scale.

Acting Wulongjiang General Special ~ Puqin, Aihui Deputy Capital Guan Bao, the two were worried that it was said that the Lu people could levy 20,000 troops upstream, so they did not dare to act rashly - although Zalaxi and others have been preaching in the Jiangdong Coalition Army, "How can the Lu people have so many soldiers and horses", and also cited a lot of details, but these two don't believe it.

The idea of these two is very right, that is, to use the "Sauron Divisions" to consume the opponent's sharpness and troops, and then let the Lu people "retreat in the face of difficulties".

Moreover, both of them have some resentment:

"This eagle man, the rice man, and the 'righteous man' who helped in the war, why don't you come to us! Hooking up with these Jiang Zuo's mud legs, what is the intention? ”

They forgot:

Before the war, when the Guevara Chamber of Commerce sent guns, in order to avoid suspicion, these two people were stunned and did not let their family dock at Aihui, but unloaded their goods at the temporary wharf found downstream;

After that, Lan Baozi and the ambush fleet fought twice, and these two did not take the initiative to send anyone to contact.

With this cautious attitude, Naoyoshi Hori doesn't run away with people, so will he stay for the New Year?

Last year, when John asked Naoxiu to send troops to help, there was a discussion among everyone at that time, "The lips are cold and the teeth are cold, this army is definitely going to be dispatched, but what are you going to fight."

Situation? ”

At that time, it was decided that the orchid bubble must be pulled out to teach the Lu people a lesson; And the reinforcement fleet must also be knocked out. But after that, it's not advisable to get too involved - this coincides with Little John's thoughts.

Little John's mission is to make trouble for the Lu people, and it is really out of control, so Xiao John will not give up his previous efforts - he has no grudge against the Lu people, he just wants to take advantage of this matter to get on the throne.

Zhixiu wanted to ignore the cost, but now that the family business is big, he can't do it if he wants to cover the sky single-handedly, what he has won is, "If the Tang people cooperate, then you can let go and fight." Front-line commanders have the right to make decisions on the spot. ”

Therefore, after ambushing the Lu fleet, Naoyoshi Hori and others saw that the overall situation had been decided, so they launched the evacuation plan.

After receiving the news that the righteous soldiers had withdrawn, Guan Bao sent a boat to chase after him, and hurriedly invited Shangguan Te~ Puqin to discuss the matter, "What should I do about this?" Now it's left in the air. ”

I don't know what the two of them combined, it is estimated that it is nonsense to find out that the 20,000 army of the Lu people, anyway, it was finally decided, "You can't eat hairy pigs without a butcher":

The Wulongjiang General's Mansion, from the more than 5,000 soldiers gathered in Aihui, drew more than 2,000 elite soldiers, and then united with the Jiangzuo Tun Righteous Army, together under the banner of the Sauron Righteous Army, and marched by land and water to the stronghold of the Lu people in the upper reaches of the "Jiangwanzi".

Because of the success of the previous attack on the Lu fleet, the governor Pujiating and the special envoy Pirovsky who were on the steamer were killed on the spot, and most of the defenders of Albazin Town were scattered with the fleet.

The lack of garrisons and rumors led to a great riot in 1704 in the city, which was famous for its silver mines - after the retreat of the Ola warriors, the exiled prisoners and miners who had been temporarily armed took the opportunity to revolt, opening the prelude to the 1860 uprising ~ rebellion in the province of Irkutsk.

Because of the large number of rebels and the fighting effectiveness of the armed miners, after defeating several Lu encirclements, the turmoil eventually spread to many Western Siberian governorates.

In the end, St. Petersburg had no choice but to suffer the bitter fruit:

First, because of the failure of blackmail in the Wulong River Valley, Lucia did not get any extra advantage in the Yarrow War that ended that year.

Second, the special envoy Pirovsky, at that time, was desperately entangled with the black hand of England in the Battle of Aihui, which eventually led to the complete rupture of the cooperative relationship between the two sides in the Far East and strengthened the determination of England to control the mouth of the Wulong River.

Third, with the support of Britain and France, the Qing court not only rejected Lucia's request to redraw the border, but also began to migrate in large numbers to the Wulong River basin, which eventually prevented Lucia from expanding downstream along the Wulong River for twenty years.

Of course, Naohide did not know at the time that the Battle of Aihui had such a big impact, and when he met the returning Egawa Hidetoshi and others on June 3, 1860, the battle on the upper reaches of the Oolong River continued.

Unlike Zhixiu, who is still worried, Little John's eyebrows are dancing, before he took 5 steam cargo ships to make soy sauce all the way, but this credit is all credited to him alone - isn't it, he doesn't care what benefits Zhixiu and others get in it, anyway, in England, I remember that it is all the credit of Huitong's foreign bank.

After thanking Zhixiu, Little John, who was in charge of killing and burying it, pulled out his anchor and set sail straight for Songjiang, China.

After he left, the Hakodate Office summarized the battle:

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The conclusion is that "technology has changed warfare".

In 1852, although the first battle of Miaotun took place in late June, the ships arrived at the mouth of the Wulong River in early June; The second Battle of Miaotun in 1854 was also held in June. And in this battle of Aihui, the warships arrived at Miaotun in early May.

The time gap of this month was brought about by the appearance of steam iron-hulled ships - not only the speed has increased, but also they are not afraid of drifting ice, which is strong enough for fighters.

Speaking of which, the Lu people are also very cunning, and it is estimated that the shipping will be scheduled for the end of May:

Although the lower reaches of the Wulong River thaw at the end of April, the thaw time outside the estuary generally occurs in early May, and the northern strait of the Whale Sea does not disappear until the end of May.

Therefore, in order to avoid the interference of the English, the Lu people set the time of the Aihui attack at the end of May - the upper reaches thaw in early May, so that the army could go down the river, and in order to avoid the damage of drift ice, normal cargo ships would not appear at the mouth of the Wulong River until early June.

But Governor Pugarting didn't notice that the all-iron-hulled steamship ships could ignore most of the drift ice threats to the ships.

Therefore, the Lu people did not lose this battle unjustly.

In addition, in addition to the above reasons, in fact, the Lu people also ignore the impact of the Xiaoice cycle - in recent years, the ice period of the whale sea has become shorter and shorter, which is not an accident.

Moreover, on September 1, 1859, the "Carrington Event" occurred, and mankind noticed for the first time that the abnormal activity of sunspots would have a significant impact on the earth.

Of course, the frequent earthquakes in Fuso in recent years show that the earth's crust is moving fiercely, which can also cause abnormal weather.

In private, Naoxiu was sympathetic to Pugarting, "Knowledge is important, brother! ”。

Another proof of the success of science and technology is the power of advanced ordnance.

With rifled guns, the "Sauron Tribes" could suppress the Lu people in a guerrilla way, making it difficult for them to move an inch in the field; By the time 800 people from the box hall appeared with more advanced armaments, Blagoveshchensk was destroyed in one day.

Of course, tactics, training, logistics, etc. can't be left behind, but Lu people, you can't do anything, you dare to provoke a war in Wulongjiang, Ms. Liang is not there, who gave you the courage!?

In short, it's easy to say anything if you win, everyone in the box hall is happy, and the old people of the original box hall in the meantime are also very concerned - of course, "insiders look at the doorway, laymen look at the liveliness", Naohide believes that what Hakodate Toshiki and Takeda Kaizaburo are thinking is by no means the same thing.

But a good ending is really good, so what do you do.

Speaking of which, Naohide should really be grateful to the Lucia people - the internal integration is all about fighting the Lucia people, not to mention, his earliest acting officer of the White Lord, and later the White Lord and Hakodate are not all related to the invasion of the Lu people.

"What a man!"

However, Naoxiu vaguely felt that if the Wulongjiang General's Mansion could seize the good opportunity created by the battle of Aihui, I am afraid that the Lucia dividend would end here.

Without "foreign aid", what will happen to the development of the Northland?

At the end of 1859, the Hakodate Prefecture was under its jurisdiction, including Ezo and Kita-Ezo, but there were only about 78,000 people—not counting the merchants, their escorts, and men, or the other daimyo stationed in Kitachi.

At this point, if you want to get ahead in the storm at the end of the Bakugo, no matter how good the ordnance is, if you die, you will be a-stirring stick.

The question of where the way out is is really heavy.