The waves washed over the Osprey 1 expedition ship, and the red flag whirred in the sea breeze. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Russian stronghold on the shore had sounded the alarm for battle, but the formation of two medium-sized Western-style sailing ships and a small flying scissor warship on the sea had not yet been determined where to start. Even if the strength is in a crushing state, it will be less than a few people or less dead. This operation is completely an independent action of the Overseas Exploration Bureau. Not long ago, they got five retired warships from the Sailors!

And this is the Three Holy Coves on Kodiak Island in Alaska. The largest stronghold of the Russians in the Alaska region.

It has been two years since the establishment of the First Overseas Exploration Bureau of North Road. In the year of its establishment, it touched the ice and snow world of Alaska, and the sailors captured the Russian nautical charts in the battle on Sakhalin, on which the location of the Aleutian Islands and the distance were marked very clearly, and the North American continent was directly seen along the Aleutian Islands, including several footholds built by the Russians here in recent years.

Thirty-five years ago, as soon as Elizabeth I ascended the throne of the Tsar, she sent the Dane Bering and the Russian Chirikov on expeditions to the Far East. During this expedition, the Bering Strait got its name, and the Russians took a big step further east, and they saw North America. During the event, after the fleet was separated in a storm, Chirikov was lucky enough to find the eastern islands, and Bering was lucky enough to find the western ones. A route to the North American continent unveiled itself to the Russians. When the hunters of Siberia learned of the abundance of fur-bearing animals, they flocked to the Commander Islands and then gradually moved eastward, crossing the Aleutian Islands to the mainland, thus establishing a Russian foothold in North America. Although the conquest and massacre of the Russians almost wiped out the indigenous Aleutian people in just a few decades.

But now these have all become the wedding clothes they made for the Fu Han army.

It's just that two years ago, the Fuhan Army Navy Division did not directly send troops to sweep a series of Russian strongholds in Alaska, because in Chen Ming's opinion, this piece of meat was already meat that had fallen into his bowl, and he could eat it whenever he wanted, and there was no risk in eating it early or late. Before eating all of Alaska, China should clean up a series of Russian strongholds along the coast of Northeast Asia, and also explore the entire Bering Strait, its products, its climate, and its ocean currents.

In the following two years, although the ships of the Overseas Exploration Bureau arrived in the Arctic Circle and Alaska, they were all in the nature of exploration and reconnaissance. At that time, the attention of the sailors was focused on the land north of Kamchatka and the Trans-Khingan Mountains, and all the activities of the First Overseas Exploration Bureau were completely dependent on the help of the sailors, and the latter's eyes did not turn to Alaska, but swept back and forth the Russian settlements along the coast or near the sea, and the First Overseas Exploration Bureau was helpless. It's just that the exploration ship brought back polar bears, arctic rabbits, arctic wolves, and the same white arctic fox for Chen Ming, because in China white animals are always very good. It once caused a national sensation, even though those animals died soon because they couldn't stand the warm climate of Nanjing, in Chen Ming's eyes, they could only be regarded as a gimmick. But soon, a wave of 'hunting white skins' swept through China, making Chen Ming instantly realize that this was a great opportunity. 'White' fur can catch the eye of all Chinese! The imperial court can also use its power to guide more people into the Arctic Circle.

Chen Ming ordered Beihai Company to let Chen Jigong organize another leather company. Some retired soldiers and experienced hunters were preemptively gathered by the Beihai Company, which was the first to be close to the water, and sent them to the Arctic Circle in an organized way to hunt animals and obtain furs, which made huge profits. The immediate impact is to intensify the Arctic boom in China. Even though China itself does not have a 'full-time' hunter group like Russia, in just over a year, thousands of people still took the initiative to run to the Great North. Although some of them did not reach the North Pole at all, but made their home in Sakhalin.

A large number of polar bear skins, arctic fox skins, arctic wolf skins, arctic rabbit skins, as well as seal skins, sea otter skins, etc., have emerged in the domestic market since last autumn and winter. Arctic fox skins and sea otter skins are highly sought after!

In the second two years, the Fu Han army took a step to expel the remnants of the Manchu Qing in the northeast and purge the whole of Korea, but these were not important for the overseas exploration bureau. The important thing is that they finally waited for their own warships, and waited for five second-hand ships handed over by the military.

With these boats, they can completely shake off the constraints of the sailors and do it on their own. Just like it is now.

Three second-hand warships were loaded with more than 200 hunters, and each of them had signed an agreement before, and this agreement was not only the first overseas exploration bureau, but also the endorsement of the Beihai company, which had great influence in the Arctic Circle. Three warships ran along the Aleutian Islands all the way to Sansheng Bay on Kodiak Island. It is the largest and most important stronghold of Russians in Alaska, not only a resting place for many hunters, but also the headquarters of Russian leather merchants, which occupies an important position in the economic field.

The three warships were now slowly moving on the surface of the sea some distance from Sansheng Bay, out of range of the Russian battery's artillery. Commander Chai Daji carefully observed the layout of the batteries in Sansheng Bay.

As an old oilman who has been in the Qing army for many years, after Chai Daji surrendered to the new dynasty, even though he has been staying in the military academy system and has never really fought, his combat experience is not comparable to that of a fledgling rookie. Moreover, in the past few years in the military academy, in order to keep up with the trend of the times, he has been on a foreigner's sailboat, and he has run through the South Seas with the training ship, and he has seen the Arctic Circle. Chai Daji's vision is very broad, and he doesn't think it will be difficult to capture Sansheng Bay. The Russians have probably built the fort here in the last two years, and they have not completely cleared the dense woods around the fort.

Is the empty space around the fort thirty zhang long?

If someone touches the vicinity of the turret from the side, the gun can directly threaten the turret.

Of course, the mountains and dense forests here also blocked the way from the flanks to a certain extent. Chai Daji could have people make a way out of the woods, but he felt that it would be too much work to do. And the casualties will not be less than in a frontal attack. Fighting in the woods is the specialty of Russian hunters.

"We have an absolute advantage in firepower and manpower." Are there two hundred Russians in this place of Sansheng Bay? None of the 100 people who could afford to hold a gun, right? Therefore, it is most appropriate to attack directly. "Let's launch a frontal attack, destroy the fort and put the boat to land directly." There was not a single merchant ship in the port, which made Chai Daji feel very regretful.

In the past two years, the biggest gain of the First Overseas Exploration Bureau was the capture of a Russian merchant ship on the Kamchatka Peninsula, on which a shipload full of leather goods made the First Overseas Exploration Bureau eat with a mouth full of oil. "Beware of the warehouses of the Russians during artillery shelling and land attacks. Try to protect the security of the warehouse. ”

Opinions were unified, and Chai Daji officially gave the order to attack. The captains of the Osprey 2 and 5 ships returned to their respective ships in small boats.

Soon when the Osprey 1 and 2 ships were about a mile away from the harbor, the Russian batteries on the shore opened fire.

Six shells pierced the sky and scattered around the two warships far and near, striking a few small columns of water, and the Osprey 1 and 2 returned fire.

"Boom, boom, boom ......" smoke filled the entire hull.

Twenty or thirty shells fell one after another around the fort, and the shelling on the sea was even more inaccurate than on land. But it is clear to every Russian that they will not be the victors in this battle. The gap in strength between the two sides is too great.

The Flying Shear bow warship passed through the middle of the two warships like a sharp arrow, and when it was only less than 300 meters away from the shore, it deftly crossed a 90-degree curve, and at the same time two rockets aimed at the turret sprayed out from the Flying Shear bow warship......

The artillery battle lasted less than half an hour, and one by one small boats were lowered from three warships. Hunters dressed in gray-green costumes rowed small boats towards the pier of Sanya Bay.

Behind them, on the deck of the warship, sailors struggled to lower a small cannon with pulley booms, as well as powder kegs, cannonballs, grenades, and reinforced iron shields. The latter belongs to the category of civilian equipment, which is made of iron plates and solid wood boards two points thick, and weighs no less than sixty catties, which may not be much worse than the defensive power of the shield in the army, but it is much heavier. Close-range shots that can withstand bullets!

Each small boat carried about ten hunters, and after arriving at the port, they lined up in line at the sound of their respective captains' orders, many of these hunters were veterans of the Fu Han Army, although they were hunters, their combat effectiveness was not bad. Hold the landing ground and wait for the follow-up troops to follow.

"Bang! Bang! "The muskets on both sides were fired, and the Russians really didn't have any more artillery, and there were no new Russian cannons behind the dense bushes and mounds of earth on both sides of the harbor. So the resistance of the Russians went bankrupt as soon as several guns from the Exploration Bureau were transported to the shore.

Shells plowed the Russian line, countless fragments flew away, and the Russians immediately waded to the ground.

There is no Russian government here, and the highest authority is the headquarters of the fur merchants.

Now the remaining Russians in Sansheng Bay are gathered here, and a few unfortunate fur merchants who happen to be in Sansheng Bay are even more uneasy.

Manager Sergeevich Valentsov looked expressionlessly at the Chinese approaching the residential area across the port, put away the monoculars, and then said to a fat middle-aged man beside him: "Varisi, it's time to decide the final fate." Sansheng Bay has no strength to resist. We can only surrender now. "The only force that was beaten in the battle just now was thrown into the streets, and the thirty or forty corpses lying in the port area represent the resistance of the Three Holy Bays, and now they can only surrender.

The middle-aged man, Varysi, was obviously speechless, he was a bit more special, he came from a noble family in St. Petersburg, although he himself was only a lowly baron. If it were possible, Sergeyevich Valentsov would never want to see a nobleman captured by the Chinese in the headquarters of a leather merchant, but he could not do anything at the moment.

Varisi pushed his pistol to the center of the long table, and he accepted his fate. "The Chinese are putting pressure on St. Petersburg, who came to Alaska not to escalate the war, but to let St. Petersburg see the loss of Russian wealth. Give the order to surrender, I think our lives should be guaranteed. ”

In the face of irresistible external forces, surrender is not a shameful choice for the West. Of course, if they choose to fight heroically to the last man, each and every one of them will become a hero of Russia.

The Restoration Army's sweep war against the remnants of the Manchu Qing has been going on for three years.

Unlike the Mongols back then, whether it was the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the northwest or the main force of the Eight Banners in the northeast, their choice was to escape from the Han army.

In the Great Northwest War, the Fu Han army has taken the nine cities of Ili, but it is still very far away from eliminating the Yongying group, which has now run to the area west of Lake Balkhash, although the sum of the troops and civilian forces under Yongying is less than 20,000 people, but like a small strong who can't be killed, he is completely disgusted with Chen Han.

The battle situation in the northeast has also made great progress, and after the Fu Han Army seized Shengjing and changed its name to Liaodong, the army made persistent efforts, especially the Fu Han Army after the reorganization of the whole army last year, which concentrated the strength of two divisions to sweep through Jilin. The entire Ningguta capital area was captured by the Fu Han army, more than 300,000 Korean slaves were rescued, and no less than this number of Eight Banner Bannermen were captured.

But Yonghui fled directly to Heilongjiang City, that is, Aihui. In Jilin and Shengjing, there are many Eight Banners people hiding in the mountains and dense forests, including a few bandits, including Wang Zhanqing. and the subsequent Korean campaign carried out by Chen Han greatly delayed the progress of the Han army.

Wang Zhanqing was originally a person sent to the northeast by the secret camp, and there were several people who went together, but the others were unlucky, and in the end, there was only one Wang Zhanqing left, and his face was also sprayed by the earth cannon, and he got the nickname of Wang Mazi. The Fu Han army seized Shengjing, and then marched into Jilin, and Wang Zhanqing, who was rushed to Jilin from Shengjing by the Eight Banners, also came to the organization to report his work. But Wang Zhanqing didn't know that an inconspicuous little minion in his team was the dark line of the secret camp, always secretly monitoring everything about Wang Zhanqing. Although this guy has no collusion with the Manchus, he is by no means a good person. There are too many innocent lives contaminated, and the smell of blood on a pair of hands has long been washed away.

As a result, Wang Zhanqing was beaten half-naked by the 'Iron Fist of Justice', and he almost fell into the pit and couldn't get up. It was the people sent by the national security to clean up the portal who underestimated Wang Zhanqing's vigilance and let him escape with his life. But the backbone of the bandits under Wang Zhanqing has been cleaned up, and now he is hiding in the mountain nest, and it is difficult for the local government to take him down for a while, but it is also difficult for Wang Zhanqing to make a comeback.

Although Yonghui still has a relatively strong team in his hands, this team will only weaken more and more with time. Fleeing from Shenyang to Jilin, and from Jilin to Heilongjiang, how much ammunition savings do Yonghui have left in his hands? How many cannons do he have left?

The hot weapon unit is not a cold weapon unit, and without supplies, muskets and artillery are not as good as bows and arrows. Can Russia be responsible for the supply and supply of ammunition for the Eight Banners in the Far East? At least hundreds of thousands of Eight Banners poured into the Outer Northeast, can they really survive?

And with the loss of Lake Baikal, the power of the Russians in the Far East is getting weaker and weaker, if it were not for the Russians who happened to suppress the Pugachev uprising, whipped thousands of captured rebels and sent them to Siberia, and used the flesh and blood of these people to resist the follow-up attack of the Fuhan army on Western Siberia after the victory of the Battle of Baikal, Russia would probably have knelt long ago. If all the Eight Banners retreat to the north of the Trans-Khingan Mountains, perhaps the Eight Banners will recall the wildness of the wild boar skin era overnight, follow the path that the Russians had traveled, bypass Lake Baikal, and enter the more west part of Lake Baikal......

So after such a remote migration is over, how many people will be left in the Eight Banners?

Although more than half of the soldiers were Outer Mongolia and Buryat Mongols recruited by Chen Han with high salaries, this powerful force seriously threatened the security of Russia's region west of Lake Baikal and directly hindered the communication between Russia and Eastern Siberia.

The Chinese are also laying a horse-drawn carriage track between Outer Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, and although the project is far from complete, it makes the whole of Russia feel that a dagger is on its belly. This is terrible!

The loss of Russia's interests is already enormous.

The war cost thousands of Slavs, the beautiful Lake Baikal, the benefits of trade with China, and the vast majority of the profits from the skins. Opposition to the war is growing in St. Petersburg, and Varisi knows about it, having received a letter from his cousin only last month.

Now he thinks that the anti-war voice in St. Petersburg should be louder. Because so much time has passed since the letter was written and when it was delivered to him. "Now that the Chinese have officially seized Alaska, the news will return to Russia, which will add a heavy weight to the anti-war forces in St. Petersburg."

"Although Russia can defeat the decaying Ottomans, it is still too weak compared to the far east, compared to this ancient empire with a population of 200 million......" Varisi sighed inwardly. This is a powerful empire with a standing army in the millions. (To be continued.) )