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As Liu Chang estimated, the end of the Battle of Jinzhou only means that the victory or defeat of this war has come to an end, and it does not mean that the blood of the Russians has been exhausted, and it turns out that the Russians have just begun to bleed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The entire Battle of Jinzhou lasted four and a half hours, during which the Russians paid 5,000,3200 killed, 3,462 wounded, and 3,214 unknown casualties, but for the Russians, the highlight of the Sino-Russian war had just begun.

Five days later, the final battle of Jinzhou City finally came to an end, and the Red officers and men were amazed by Ge Mengjin's desperate fight and the tenacity of the Russian soldiers, who paid 1,800 casualties in the whole battle, but captured less than 300 Russian prisoners.

But for the Russians, this was just the beginning of a series of disasters, after the fall of Jinzhou, the invasion of the Russian army outside the pass no longer had any barriers, they even discovered a terrible fact, that is, those Qing troops who had been allied with the Russians turned back, and even the Eight Banners of Manchuria joined the attack on the Russian army.

They went south to Lushun Dalian a force of up to 2,700 men, almost crying and ran back to Shengjing, they lost almost all the horses and artillery, and hundreds of wounded, the Russians originally wanted to retaliate, but their field hospital in Shengjing was attacked by the Qing army, and the rainbow army in the city had changed the red flag and began to attack this poor Russian army.

What followed was a real hell, in which the losses of the Russians in the retreat far exceeded the losses of the Battle of Jinzhou, with 13,000 soldiers either killed, missing, or captured, and even if they were able to cross the Heilongjiang River, they were exhausted from the long journey.

But for the Russians, this was not the end of the journey and the battle, but the beginning, when it was found profitable to plunder the coastal areas. Thousands of outlaws swept the coast of Siberia, and they even brought in steamships and artillery of all kinds, each time reaping a staggering amount of money from the Russian inhabitants.

But for Russia, they are simply not capable of supporting the fighting in the Far East. They have already become a headache because of domestic strife, and can even be considered the biggest crisis in the whole of Russia since the collapse of the Golden Horde.

In the winter of 1859, due to the crazy rise in international cotton prices, which led to the collapse of the entire Polish textile industry, a large number of unemployed workers and peasants, as well as Polish independents "Red Party" and "White Party", broke out a large-scale uprising in Poland.

The uprising was supposed to drag on until 1863. But as soon as the plane was ignited, the insurgents began to form an army of several thousand men, and also organized the government and all the organs, and their size was soon expanded to tens of thousands, and the uprising broke out throughout Russian-occupied Poland, and the scale grew larger and larger.

In order to quell this great uprising, the Russian army had to increase its strength by tens of thousands, bringing the size of the Polish occupation army to more than 100,000. But even so, the whole Polish uprising was still magnificent, and the Red and White parties saw that the uprising was profitable. The whole Polish nation was involved, and according to the Russian General Staff, it was necessary to have 200,000 troops to suppress the Polish uprising.

But it was obviously impossible for Russia to mobilize such a large force, and the spring of 1860 could be called a spring of despair in Russia, in which the serfs and the entire lower classes felt deep despair.

The reforms they were looking forward to had no chance of success, and the bad news came first, first in the Crimean War, then in the Eastern Campaign and in Poland, and with increasing taxes and the possibility of exponential growth. Thus, in 1860 the peasant uprising first broke out in the Crimea, and then the whole of Russia was in the midst of a peasant war.

The level of these peasant wars did not surpass that of Pugachev, and they gathered at most a few thousand or at most tens of thousands of homeless serfs and inferior people, and attacked all the farms, market towns, and other regions that passed, even the more savvy elements. It was only under the banner of the Tsar, but throughout 1860 these uprisings grew in scale, with more and more serfs taking part in the uprising, as well as more and more government troops being frustrated.

The whole Russian land was groaning, so that for the next Russian campaign in the East, Russia had always put him in a position of fright, and it was impossible to provide any support from the European mainland, so that throughout 1860 Chinese continued to push their front northward, and they had already publicly raised the slogan: "The most reasonable natural frontier between China and Russia should be the Ural Mountains......

Any British ambassador felt that the conditions of the Chinese were too harsh, and that was the Ural Mountains, and the Russians could completely collapse the Chinese's logistical line as long as they could recover from the domestic quagmire.

However, after entering 1861, the British felt that it was entirely possible for the Chinese to advance their front to the Ural Mountains, because since the defeat in the decisive Battle of Jinzhou, a war that consumed the entire Russian national strength, the entire Russian army had fallen into a nightmare of fighting on three fronts.

On the Eastern Front, the Polish Front, the Home Front, on the domestic front, there are probably more than 100,000 serfs slaughtered by the Russian army, but there are still more than 200,000 serfs in the entire country who raised their arms and continued to fight, but these serfs should have lost this war.

After all, they could not fight against the regular Russian army, but in the summer of 1861, the Ottomans could not wait to jump out and declare war on Russia, and declared their support for the just struggle of the Russian people, their march and even the rebellion of the entire Caucasus.

The crisis on the Southern Front provoked a crisis in the whole of Russia, a country in which it was not in the interests of the British, so that the new Honourable Missionary in China felt that his mission was very difficult.

He liked the city of Hangzhou, but he didn't guess the heart of the country's owner.

He had been appointed ambassador to China in February 1861, and had met several times in the past few months with His Majesty the Emperor, who had expressed great expectations for peace, but at the same time as these statements had been accompanied by the expansion of the Chinese elite cavalry into the north, using steamships to sustain these raids and establishing many strongholds.

If the Russians could maintain normal national strength, then these invasions would be very likely to be repulsed, but in fact the entire Russian Far East garrison is in a passive situation, they do not even have the ability to move across regions, and can only watch the Chinese concentrate elite forces to take their strongholds again and again.

Even more deadly was the railroad, and yes, the thought of the railroad made him feel deeply troubled.

In addition to the Huzhou-Hangzhou Railway, which was built in a hurry, there was only a partial section of the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, which was opened to traffic, and the completion of this section of the railway represented a more far-reaching influence on the city of Hangzhou.

But there were already five or six important railways under construction on the map of the empire, and according to Ambassador Shaclay's knowledge, more were about to begin, which would be the largest railway network in the whole world, and the British government was at a disadvantage in the contention for these railway projects, and the French, with their financial aid, had already taken the lion's share.

When I think of this, there has always been a belief in Britain that Shakley is committing a crime, and this is not a small project of millions of pounds, but a super project of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of pounds, and Britain only occupies 17 percent of the share, which is simply a crime.

The French, with their financial loans, scooped up half of the railway projects, and Ambassador Charkeli even knew that among these railway projects, two railways were closely related to the fate of Russia in the East, and one had already begun the construction of the Beijing-Shengjing Railway, no, according to the current official name, the Beijing-Fengzhou Railway.

The other railway was more ambitious, with the first phase going from Mukden, which the former government called Shengjing, to a new military town called Harbin on the banks of the Heilongjiang River, and then the second and third phases of the plan would cross the Heilongjiang River across all of Siberia, according to Liu Chang himself: "This railway will lead to the natural frontier between China and Russia." ”

If the major railway and the feeder railway connected to them are fully completed, then Russia will return to their Europe without question, but the country does not want a strong Chinese government to emerge.

Ambassador Shackley felt that this was simply an impossible task, and it was too difficult for him as an ambassador to prop up Russia to maintain the strategic balance of power in the entire Far East while scooping the lion's share of the official orders of the Chinese government.

His insomnia showed no sign of abating, and he spent the morning in his bed thinking in agony for a long time before deciding to go for morning tea.

A few months of life in China had brought him to his role, and he was not only a dignified British ambassador, but also a good friend of the Chinese residents, who found a nice teahouse and began to listen to the Chinese residents, who were desperate to find some anti-war voices among them.

But while the inhabitants are very interested in current political topics, they are less interested in the war in Russia and more interested in another war across the Pacific. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )