As a vassal state of China, Japan's great victory over the British and French navies could naturally be regarded as a victory for China. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoOriginally, the Anglo-French navy wanted to plunder the border along the Chinese coastline and wait for the news of the Anglo-French alliance, first, to replenish the materials and goods on the ship, and secondly, during the war, what kind of war is it called if you don't grab a little? Our British navy has been snatched out of scratch, and you have artillery batteries in Dagukou, so it is impossible to have batteries everywhere.

The plundering of towns and towns along the coast and even Chinese merchant ships was also a means of economic destruction of the hostile countries during the war, and during the First Opium War, it was because Zhenjiang was captured and the Qing court began to prepare for peace after the transportation of Cao was cut off. During the Second Opium War, the British and French forces could not do this because the water was now cut off. More than half of the major cities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River were in the hands of the Taiping army, and only one isolated city in Shanghai was left in the hands of the imperial court in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

The British and French forces are robbing while walking, and they are not in a hurry, and in the end I don't know who I heard that Korea is full of gold and loose armaments, and the British and French navies mean to simply go to the Korean kingdom to grab a handful, and the gold everywhere may not be true, but the armament is about to be relaxed, and since it is the palace, there are naturally the most gold and silver treasures.

It's just that the Anglo-French forces drove to the vicinity of Dadonggou and met the Japanese fleet that had come to fight the Anglo-French forces. After Sheng Haizhou first looked at the paddlewheel ironclad ship of the British and French alliance through the telescope, he laughed and said: "It's just an inland river battleship, give the order, fire the gun." ”

The paddle wheel is indeed more suitable for inland navigation, and it is not wrong to say that Shenghaizhou, now the propeller technology of Britain and France and other countries is still being studied, and the steam-powered ships that are launched today are paddle wheels, and the hybrid ships of paddle wheels and sails are the trend of this era. But the seakeeping of the paddle wheel is not good, and the bigger the waves at sea, the lower the combat effectiveness of the paddle wheel battleship.

The Anglo-French coalition forces were several times larger than the Japanese fleet in terms of both the total number of guns and ships, but fighting a war is not mathematics, otherwise everyone would have counted the number of troops and horses, and the side with fewer people would have surrendered.

The main guns of Japanese ironclad ships are all in thick armored batteries, and even the secondary guns and machine guns also have relatively strong gun shields. Although there are many warships and battleships in the British and French fleets, most of them are wooden warships, which are already things that the main navies of the European powers are ready to eliminate.

After the warships of both sides opened fire, the situation immediately became clear, and the British and French warships were hit by water or gunpowder was torn apart and sank, while the Japanese fleet was in the rain of British and French shells, and the Japanese fleet opened fire, fired, and fired again in a rain of shells from the British and French forces.

In the end, after the four ironclad ships of the British and French navies were sunk one by one by the Admiral Zhengyi, the remaining British and French warships scattered in a hurry, and the Japanese warships pursued behind. The British and French warships were sunk one by one, and the Qing State received only a few small boats that escaped, and they were all small boats such as lifeboats.

Now that the Japanese fleet is the supremacy of the sea, it is very good, and of course it will not pay attention to the officers and men of the Anglo-French naval forces trembling on the lifeboats.

In this naval battle, more than 200 warships of the British and French fleets were wiped out and more than 20,000 people were killed, while the losses of the Japanese fleet were only more than 100 dead and wounded, 17 killed and 35 seriously wounded (only those who need to be amputated here are seriously injured).

Seeing that the blackmail could not be achieved, the Russian minister Ignachev turned around and left in hatred.

Xianfeng was also happy when he heard the great victory of the Japanese Navy: "Someone came, and it was rumored that Yu Deqian, the Japanese minister to China, went to the palace. ”

After Yu Deqian brought it, the three bows and nine bows could not be abolished. Then stand ready to answer.

Xianfeng: "Yu Qingjia, do you know the news of the Japanese Navy's great victory in annihilating the British and French navies." ”

Yu Deqian: "The minister also just knew that the junior of the navy had broken the enemy. ”

Xianfeng: "I wonder what reward Japan wants?" ”

Yu Deqian: "I don't dare to ask for a reward, and it is a fluke to be able to coexist with the kingdom of God." ”

Xianfeng: "Oh, how do you say that. ”

Yu Deqian: "Although the Anglo-French coalition army, the navy and army were all defeated, this is just a partial division. There are countless overseas colonies of Britain and France, and the British are known as the empire on which the sun never sets, and even the servant army can arm tens of millions when needed.

Speaking of the navy, the main ironclad ship of the Japanese Navy is now 20,000 yuan, which is 10,000 tons according to the calculation of foreigners. Britain and France are also planning and building such a large or even larger ironclad ship, and now the Japanese Navy can still have a sea frontier near Pingjing, and no matter how far it goes, it will go to the South Seas, and even farther away, it will not know anything about hydrology and dare not venture forward. Not to mention the British legal person's house, but our hydrology, geography, and foreigners here have already figured out and can send troops at any time.

To put it mildly, tigers also have time to nap, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves? But now the initiative is in the hands of foreigners. ”

Xianfeng: "What can be done then?" ”

Yu Deqian: "Foreigners who come from the sea must pass through Malacca." Malacca is the territory of China during Zheng He's voyage to the West (after Zheng He went to the West, the Ming Dynasty stationed troops in Malacca for more than 100 years, which can indeed be regarded as an inseparable part of China). ”

Yu Deqian's calculation method is that the British and French colonies will recruit troops according to the general mobilization period of the war of ten to one (the Hindustan region also has a population of hundreds of millions at this time), in fact, not to mention that Britain and France do not have such a large sea capacity and mobilization capacity, the colonies are not local after all, or they have, and the weapons of tens of millions of people are not ready for Britain and France for a time.

Xianfeng: "In this way, the Russian envoy just now is not all false intimidation. ”

Yu Deqian: "That's right, two years ago, the British and French forces just fought with the Russians in a place called Crimea, and the Russians suffered millions of casualties, but they didn't hurt their vitality. In the eastern part of Europe, Russia is also considered a great power. ”

The hall was silent for a while, the Russians were killed and wounded by millions without hurting their vitality, and now I have more than 10,000 dead and wounded in the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, and people are very distressed. The price of coffins has increased three or four times at once, and the supply is still insufficient.

The monks and Taoists in the temples and Taoist halls in the capital have been dragged away by various families to chant scriptures, and many monks are simply shaved temporarily by the ruffians on the street, just to earn the money for chanting. If it weren't for the fact that most of the local monks in Japan had been forced to return to the vulgar in large quantities, Yu Deqian would have wanted to send the monks to Beijing to earn extra money.

Xianfeng: "The sovereignty of Malacca is a matter of vassals, and the matter is serious, so let's discuss it again." ”

Theoretically, the Nanyang countries are all vassal vassals of China, and the sovereignty of Malacca is in the hands as long as there is a holy decree from the imperial court and the entry of large soldiers, regardless of legal principles or fists. The commercial future of occupying Malacca, that is extremely broad, how about collecting a toll, the Zheng family has not taken Malacca back then, only collecting protection fees and monopolizing Japanese trade in Chinese waters is a net income of 10 million taels of silver a year.