Chapter 487: The Choice of War Against China
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Murajoviv poured all his grievances on the big men of Tea Petersburg, and the big men who stayed at the dacha only knew how to urge and urge, and did not take into account the actual situation in the Far East at all.
They were right, according to the requirements of Eastern Siberia, the country had already sent an army of reinforcements, strictly speaking, a full 30,000 men, but the problem was that they did not expect that if they set out from the country, it would take a year for most areas to reach the Far East, and some remote areas even up to two years.
Thus, instead of being strengthened, the Far Eastern contingent suffered serious losses as a result of Murajoviv's selfless dispatch of 4,500 expeditionary troops to Shanghai, and so far only 6,000 reinforcements had arrived in the Far East.
But the 6,000 people are not at all comparable to the long-trained Russian army in the Far East, they are a group of scum, deserters, exiles, political prisoners, death row prisoners, rapists, all in all, they are still a full 10,000 versts away from a qualified soldier, and more importantly, they broke through the ice and snow in the cold winter, and walked thousands of kilometers to reach the Far East, when they arrived in the Far East, dozens of exiles had already froze to death, starved to death or died of disease, and many more were on the verge of freezing to death from hunger and cold.
The great lord of the country only saw that Murajoviv's current strength exceeded the original number, and he did not see that most of these exiles fell on their hospital beds, many of them came from relatively warm regions, and were directly frozen by the cold wind of Siberia, but fortunately, the arrival of spring allowed them to barely stand up.
But there are still dozens of exiles who have not survived this coldest winter, and there are still sporadic exiles who have become the new tombstones of Siberia, and many more need enough time to recuperate before they can regain their health and courage.
Now St. Petersburg's order is that the war against China must be carried out within a month, otherwise the Russian Empire may pay countless gold rubles and gain nothing if the civil war between China and China is decided, but Murajoviv himself believes that now is not a good time to go to war at all.
The most optimistic estimate is to wait another three months, and wait until the summer of 1867 to carry out the war against China, when not only the exiles who arrived in advance, but also the exiles who followed them, arrived in Siberia, which would greatly increase the strength of the Russian army in the Far East.
You must know that the emperor of the Chinese "Min" country and their nobles seem to have lost the last confidence in winning the civil war, in the past they mobilized a large number of troops from the Heilongjiang region to fight in the pass, resulting in the emptiness of the defense outside the pass, giving the Russians the best chance, but now they instead transferred one or two small troops from the pass, although this is only symbolic, but according to Murajoviv's understanding, the emperor of the "Min" country may flee outside the pass at any time.
Therefore, it was impossible to go to war now, and Murajoviv decided to send St. Petersburg a tough reply, as long as he was in the position of governor of Siberia for one day, he would not agree to fight against China, and he must be fully prepared.
It's just that Murajoviv, who is far away in the Far East, does not know the painstaking efforts of those big men in St. Petersburg, and now the war against China has become the most critical issue in St. Petersburg, even more than the topic of borrowing money from France and negotiating with Britain and Russia, and purchasing a batch of arms from the United States.
The war against China is now a huge financial burden, from the initial one-time only a few thousand gold rubles can be born, to the current one-time pull out of the "Baidu set sail without text" money to hundreds of thousands of gold rubles, and sometimes even millions of gold rubles, and this is still a bottomless pit, devouring all the resources of the empire, from manpower, material resources to no form of support, although the demand for war against China is not like the Crimea is a one-time big loss of blood, the great empire that expands thousands of miles of land has lost face. It took twenty years to recover and resume the war against Turkey, but it was also a chronic blood loss. …,
Although the Russian economy is slowly recovering after the armistice in Crimea, seeing that the war against China has even reached the point where tens of thousands of gold rubles are sometimes spent a day, the whole empire knows that the war against China should not be delayed, and these precious gold rubles should be placed in other aspects of the empire, and the empire after the great blood loss needs money too much.
The gold rubles should be one new factory after another, one new school after another, a new railroad after another, a favor to the lower classes, or something more meaningful, but in fact the money is spent on the big goal of fighting China.
But no one has the courage to propose to categorically stop the war against China, stop the Russian Empire's two-hundred-year-long plan in the Far East, you must know that although the war against China is huge, but compared with the Crimean War, the expenditure is only a drop in the bucket, the war against China is just a trouble for the Russian Empire, not an insurmountable obstacle, and more importantly, so many resources were invested in the early stage, and even the Russian expeditionary force was devastated near Shanghai, and tens of thousands of exiles were deported to the Far East by the country, If you stop now, who would dare to bear such a huge loss for the second mother.
More importantly, it was the greatest encouragement to the so-called "national" factions, conquering peoples, serfs or other opposition factions in the country, because the defeat in the Crimean War greatly encouraged these people, who had always been disrespectful to the Tsar, who were now fighting fiercely in some of the country's frontiers, such as the Caucasus, and the total defeat in the Far East would make these people cheer and launch uprisings again and again.
The Russian Empire could not afford to take such a big risk, and the rise of a Far Eastern power was the most unfortunate thing for the Russian Empire, although it was far from the core of the Russian Empire, but it meant that all Russian expansion in the East was useless, and even regressed.
Therefore, the bigwigs in St. Petersburg have set a goal, as long as the scale of this war is controlled within a certain limit, Russia will fight this war with a lot of manpower and material resources, and now the dispute is only a matter of the timing of the war.
St. Petersburg believed that spring had come and that it was the best time to fight against China, and Mulajoviv, as the commander on the ground, although he was also a nobleman, believed that it was not the best time to start a war, and it was better to delay it until mid-summer, and preferably start the war until early autumn.
The war is about to begin.
And the battle of Tianjing "Yin" Castle was about to end, and in fact, when Meng Deen saw the ship carrying the Heavenly King heading upstream, he knew that the battle of Tianjing was about to end.
He said to Tang Zhengcai, the water coder on the side: "Wronged brother, the king of heaven and the little king of heaven have been handed over to you by old Tang!" ”
"Don't worry!" Tang Zhengcai replied: "Leave everything to me!" ”
He is a native of Hunan, originally a merchant who sold timber by water transport, the Taiping army joined the Taiping army after entering Hunan, because he was an old sailor, so the sailors of the Taiping army have been led by him, during the peak period there were tens of thousands of civilian ships composed of a huge fleet, this fleet conquered the north and south, once from the Yangtze River downstream, swept the entire Yangtze River, and finally ten thousand sails to Nanjing "冇" under the city, land and water and attack Nanjing, changed to Tianjing, and then led the army to the west, until the tragic battle of Hunan The huge civilian fleet was broken by the 5,000 naval divisions of the Hunan army, and the loss of civilian ships reached 10,000, and it was defeated all the way to Jiujiang to gain a firm foothold, and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, because of the addition of Xiang Ronghong's single-ship fleet, were also in a defensive situation.
There were also disputes within the Taiping Army's naval division, and even a large-scale mutiny, but fortunately, Yang Xiuqing temporarily disposed of it, and finally saved this fleet, but the heyday of this naval division was gone forever. …,
And now the sailors of the Taiping Army have even reached the level of embarrassment, they do not dare to engage in any qualitative confrontation with the steam warships of the Hongjun Army, and even the sail warships of the Hongjun Army do not dare to fight, and they will flee as soon as they meet, even so, so far, the Taiping Army has only left about 100 civilian ships and more than 30 warships.
These 100 civilian ships and more than 30 warships are now sailing up under the command of Tang Zhengcai, taking advantage of the night to prepare to go up to find the remnants of the Taiping army in Jiangbei, they only carried away 2,000 veteran elite soldiers and the most important group of gold, silver, jewelry, documents, and officials of the Heavenly Kingdom, but abandoned most of the men and women of the Heavenly Kingdom in Tianjing.
Hong Xiuquan even abandoned his harem in the south of the "Baidu Sail Text" Beijing, only took away a fine aunt and three or five concubines who had given birth to children, as for the following Wang Zong and Prime Minister, they can only leave their wives and go to Jiangbei, their only expectation is to explain their families and relatives, and go out of the city to Jiangbei to meet Chen Yucheng.
That's right, they even gave up the plan to break out, Wuhu has been lost, the entire southern Anhui is owned by the Hong Army, and the land breakthrough is already a dead end in a dead end, they can only hope that their wives and children, family members, old people, and subordinates can get the extrajudicial grace of the Hong Army, and break through the siege from Nanjing to meet them.
It's just that Meng Deen sneered, this Nanjing "Isn't" tens of thousands of Taiping brothers and sisters in the city, I'm afraid it will no longer be owned by the Taiping Army, don't they know what their opponent is? It's a willow house!
He suddenly thought of the harem abandoned by Hong Xiuquan in the city of Tianjing, as well as the wives and children and sisters of those imperial relatives and important civil and military ministers of the Heavenly Kingdom, have they forgotten that although this Liu Jiehu was born in the Taiping Army, it is said that he is still an old brother in Guangxi, but he is a real pervert.
Thinking of this, Meng Deen couldn't help but look up and sigh: "Brothers, for the sake of working together, we will keep it for another day or two!" ”
He immediately replied, "That's not going to work!" ”。 )
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