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It is said that there was a colleague in Dengzhou Prefecture, perhaps because of a conscience, or perhaps out of desperation, he gave the imperial court a fold, objected greatly to the establishment of the Weihai Special Zone, and even rebuked the bad deeds of the Russian allies, hoping that the imperial court could restrain it, otherwise "the originally rich land of Dengzhou will become a scorched earth."

Not long after, the imperial court issued a dismissal order against him, and at the same time reprimanded him, saying that he only knew how to pick out the details of the imperial court's open national policy to slander and slander his allies, never thought about the advanced civilization that the Russian allies had brought to us to the Qing Dynasty, and blindly wanted to provoke a close partnership between the Chinese people and their allies. In the reprimand, he also said that the people's grievances in Jiaodong were ignorant of the people, who could not accept new things, could not endure the slightest grievances and suffering, and just wanted to dream that they could make a fortune overnight.

At the same time, this reprimand was also sent to the governors of various localities in order to arouse the vigilance of other local officials in similar situations, and to resolutely prevent the spread of such ideological trends that confuse right and wrong.

A few days later, apparently the imperial court had not yet had enough of its inner anger, and then came a decree to bring this fellow intellectual, who was already halfway back to his hometown, back to Weihai, and together with his old father and young son, beheaded on the spot, confiscated his family property, and sent the women to Liugong Island as slaves to sponsor the Allied army's good deeds of building the maritime barrier of the Qing Dynasty.

With the extremely friendly assistance of the Manchu government, the first phase of the Wei Navy Port was completed. Colonel Barushka, commander-in-chief of the Jiaodong base of the Tsarist Russian dispatch army to China and commander of the Third Fleet, and Colonel Dasamov, chief adviser of the Weihai Special Zone in charge of land defense, did not forget to pay attention to the great war that had broken out thousands of miles away, and moreover, they felt more and more intense, especially Barushka.

If you want to talk about the greatest pressure, Barushka is worried about the threat from the Red Celestial Empire. Because from the first battle last year, the Red Navy used unpredictable maritime tactics to defeat him and his Third Fleet.

Since the then governor of Eastern Siberia, now the commander of the Tsarist Russian Dispatch Force in China and the commander-in-chief of the Russian-Qing Coalition Army, Muravyov, who once "sailed the Heilongjiang River with arms," officially entered the mouth of Dagu, the main combat ships in the naval organization of the Tsarist Russian Dispatch Army in China once reached nearly 100 in its heyday in the middle of last year.

It can be said that at the beginning, they didn't take the strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Navy in their eyes at all, and they didn't believe that the Celestial Empire's Navy would make any big waves. For them, all their minds are devoted to the benefits they have snatched from their own Tsar Majesty, and that is the last word. Muravyov is not the same as Bodhyatin and Ignatiev politicians, he is a soldier and does not know any messy politics, he only knows that he is the most loyal warrior of the Tsar, the pioneer of his Tsar's Majesty to expand the territory, and of course he is not anyone's watchdog. He first ate Dagukou and looked at Lushun, and as soon as Lushun arrived, his eyes turned to the land again.

Due to the oppression of the powerful armed forces of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on various battlefields in Guannai, and due to the high trust and closeness of the Manchu government in these Russian allies, a large number of Manchu standing troops stationed outside the Guanguan were transferred to participate in the war in Guannai. Not only the horse teams and infantry used in Heilongjiang and Jilin to defend the border, but even the "elite" armed forces of the Eight Banners, which they claimed to be the birthplace of Shengjing, also went south one after another. In this case, if Shanhaiguan can get his hands on it again, as long as he is happy in the future, he can take over the entire Northeast China at any time. Therefore, except for trying to find a way to find a reason to drum his elite marines into Shanhaiguan, Muravyov did not have the heart to really participate in the civil war here, but just to make some Manchu national fortune.

It was only after the "Cossacks" were buried in the sea together with the commander of the improvised Southern Battle Group, Colonel Davakov, that Muravyov felt the crisis and learned that there was a Red Navy in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Therefore, in a hurry, he rebuilt a third fleet (his first fleet was at Dagukou and his second fleet was at Lushun), and used one-third of the entire maritime force of the entire army stationed in China, and then used most of it to fight against the Red Navy of the Celestial Empire entrenched in Shanghai, and to compete for sea supremacy in the Yellow Sea.

Nevertheless, Ignatiev was wrong, and his mistake was still to underestimate the new force of the Red Navy, and to underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Celestial Empire's soldiers, and the tactics he adopted from beginning to end were like adding fuel to the tank, which ultimately determined their complete defeat.

The next major battle first broke out in the waters east of Chongming Island.

Barushka led more than 30 warships and several transport ships carrying 2,000 troops to Shanghai, trying to destroy not only the main force of the Red Navy in World War I, but also the Red Navy base in Wusong in one fell swoop. Before leaving, he was ambitious, because as far as he knew, all the Red Navy could be called the main ships of the battleships, but there were more than ten of them, although there were some tadpoles that were rumored to be magical and strange, but he still firmly believed that as long as there was sufficient precautions in advance, those tadpoles would not be in any major problem at all, so he did not count these tadpoles into the ranks of real combat ships.

The mighty Third Fleet was divided into three columns, and the left and right sides were guarded by small gunboats, which were special formations of Barushka, and were specially designed to deal with the Red Navy speedboats that might appear and he had not yet seen them. As long as the tadpoles dare to cause trouble, the intensive interception artillery fire will smash them to pieces first.

Balushka's fleet "knocked away" several Red Navy patrol ships, and easily saw Chongming Island, and of course tasted the artillery fire from Chongming Island and Sheshan Island. He hurriedly led his team to withdraw from the defensive artillery fire of the Red Army, and then he saw dozens of Red Army "gunboats" pouring out from the north and south directions of Chongming Island.

Why is it called "gunboat" and not "gunboat"? Quite simply, these are just about the same as fishing boats, nothing more than a few more guns on board, which, in Barushka's opinion, definitely cannot be called a battleship.

Actually, what he said is not bad, and now it is only the army river defense fleet of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire that has come out to fight.

Despite the first burst of artillery fire from the two islands, and the momentary confusion caused by the retreat of the entire forward fleet, Barushka was very calm, and in the face of the Red Army's river defense fleet, he quickly re-formed the formation, using only the gunboats on both flanks to meet the enemy, and the capital ships in the middle were lined up in two columns. On the two flanks of the column, two more guard ships were arranged.

In fact, he could see that the Red Navy was drumming up these gunboats to come out with the intention of attracting all his attention and disrupting the deployment of his fleet, and then by surprise using the main fleet to suddenly kill from an unknown direction, bite himself, and find his own advantage. Of course, he will not be fooled like this, he has to wait for the object of the real decisive battle, that is, the main fleet of the Red Navy, and also cover the transport fleet at the rear of the fleet. Besides, a dozen tsarist gunboats were enough to deal with those inconspicuous gunboats.

In his heart, the current priority is to destroy the main fleet of the Red Navy first, and as for the garrison on several islands, it will not be difficult to solve it in the end. When this qiē is completed, hehe, Wu Songkou will be ruined. However, by this time, of course, he had not forgotten to guard against the sneak attacks of those tadpoles, and he sent signals from time to time to remind the entire main fleet to keep an eye on abnormal movements in all directions.

However, the tadpoles did not appear. The Red Army's gunboats had just made contact with the Russian gunboats, and then, to the south of Sheshan Island, billowing smoke rose and the twelve capital ships of the Red Navy sailed diagonally from southwest to northeast at high speed. Under the guidance of the "Zhenhai", the Red Navy warships moving forward in a straight line were moving forward at high speed while firing at the Russian fleet diagonally opposite with their wide open port guns.

Barushka's judgment was completely accurate.

Because Tsarist Russia's own fleet was in a north-south direction, it happened to be at an angle of 45 degrees with the main fleet of the Red Navy, and it was lined up in two columns. In the first round of artillery battle, the battleships "Corsair" and "Don Beauty", which were the leading battleships of the fleet, were torn apart and sunk to the bottom of the sea.

According to the knowledge he learned at the Naval Academy, coupled with many actual combat experiences, in this case, his first reaction was to order his main fleet to quickly line up in the same column, first adjust the formation to parallel with the Red Navy, and then make a 90-degree turn, carry out a roundup attack from the back of the Red Navy formation, and use all the gunwales of his fleet to attack the Red Navy warships in the rear. But he couldn't, because he had to take care of his army brothers on the transport ship behind him.

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