September 3, 1855.

Tomsk battlefield, corps command post.

The pocket watch in Pang Jiyun's hand happened to point to 4:5o in the morning, and he looked at Lin Wei, who was looking at the lookout, and asked, "Duke, can you start?" ”

Lin Wei said slowly in a deep voice, "Let's start." ”

Pang Jiyun walked out of the command post quickly, and it didn't take long for him to walk back in. Xiang Lin Wei said: "It's started." ”

The sky was dark and dreary, and the dark shadow of Tomsk Castle covered the slightly white sky in the east. The earth was silent, and the occasional insect chirping could be heard in the grass.

It seems to be the sound of Pangu opening the world, and it seems to be a sudden thunderstorm.

The earth woke up in a tremble, and more than 400 artillery guns spewed fire dragons and roared at the sleeping Russian positions.

The fire on the artillery position of the squadron was constantly flashing, reflecting the artillerymen who were busy around the artillery. The sound there overpowered everything, no one could hear anyone else, and the command was all by the flag in the hands of the gunner.

The artillery of the squadron bombarded from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m., and 10,000 shells were fired in just 2 hours.

Many Russian soldiers will never wake up while they are still asleep, and Tomsk, a castle that has been in the dark for more than 200 years, has been reduced to a pile of stone ruins, and Russian troops buried in tunnels abound.

This parting gift cost the Russian defenders more than 3,000 men, and the entire Tomsk was reduced to ruins.

Originally, Lin Wei just wanted to teach the Russian army a hard lesson. He did not expect the shelling to be so powerful. If you don't do it, you don't stop it. Lin Wei temporarily changed his mind and let the infantry on the front line attack.

The attack was as easy as eating tofu, and the bombardment severely damaged the Russian defenses. It also made the Russian army completely lose its fighting spirit. The squadron starts attacking. The Russian army began to rout.

By 2 p.m., the whole of Tomsk was in the hands of the Reich.

Lin Wei still doesn't plan to spend the winter here. He took away everything that could be taken away from the baggage left by the Russian army, and burned everything that could not be taken away.

This delay, on the 4th, the army left Tomsk.

At the beginning of the Indian battlefield, the emperor's * team suffered a loss because of poor transportation and artillery could not keep up. This time, Lin Wei happily used a saturated firepower attack, and inadvertently Lin Wei and Zuo Zongtang had a new understanding of the use of artillery, especially this kind of high-intensity firepower attack, if the ammunition can be guaranteed, it is simply a nightmare to strike at the enemy's ground. Zuo Zongtang thought about it, sighed, and came up with the idea of studying artillery.

It was already early October when the Western Route Army arrived in Abakan, and the weather had clearly begun to cool down.

Lin Wei began to care about 100,000 people to spend the winter in cotton clothes, because it was still May weather when he came out, the winter clothes of the troops were stored in Kobdo, the temporary garrison of the Western Route Army, and now the winter clothes must be brought from there. This task was assigned to the Ninth Cavalry Division.

Zhou Daming, the commander of the Ninth Cavalry Division, led his cavalry to Kobdo overnight.

While Lin Wei was waiting, he received the latest news from the Middle Route Army and the East Route Army.

Shi Dakai's performance impressed Lin Wei, he originally thought that this was just a doll with a good fate. Unexpectedly, after defeating Irkutsk, the Central Route Army took Bratsk and Krasnoyarsk in one fell swoop.

In this way, the squadron cleared the main forces of the Russian army east of the East Sayan Ridge and south of the Angara River, and the remaining small towns usually did not even have garrisons, and only needed to sweep at the right time.

Lin Wei found a map and checked the positions of the various armies, and now the main force of the Qin Han Division, except for an infantry division guarding Okhotsk, has arrived at Kengertula in Xinjiang. And this famous general of the empire stationed an army in Changistai, which happened to guard the road to the country in Abakan. And after the Central Route Army captured Krasnoyarsk, it also burned Krasnoyarsk, and it seems that Shi Dakai is also a smart person. He has now retreated to Irkutsk with the Central Army. Irkutsk is less than 500 kilometers from Kyakhta, and winter supplies can be delivered there very quickly, much better than their own situation -

In the face of Russia's vast territory, logistics will always be an insurmountable obstacle to attacking it. Compared to the plight of the squadron's slow offensive in the east, the Anglo-French-Turkish and Sardinian (which later unified Italy) forces fared much better, and the destruction of the Russian Black Sea Fleet allowed the allied forces to move their logistics unimpeded. The Four-Power Coalition captured the fortress of Sevastopol on September 8, 1855, after a siege of 349 days.

On St. Petersburg's Palace Square, snowflakes are fluttering, adding to the charm of the Baroque three-storey building. Its thick, rectangular body stands silently at the back of the square. On the snow-covered slope of the palace, Andrei's banner was lowered in the cold wind,

The palace, which was built in 1710, has once again ushered in a change of owner.

The cause of Nicholas I's death was unknown, but Alexander II understood that the more he felt the pressure from both the East and the West, the more he understood Nicholas I's choice, death was actually a relief.

Alexander II sat on the Tsar's throne and looked at the many sculptures and paintings in the palace. The splendid palace gave a sense of enchantment, the sumptuous and colorful Persian carpets, the numerous sculptures and ancient armor placed in the interior, and the lifelike oil paintings all around, all of which were unattainable objects for ordinary people in their lifetime, but all these gave the Tsar dignity and increased the Tsar's responsibility, which he had to deal with the European countries and the eastern neighbor who took advantage of the fire.

One of the first things Alexander II did when he took office was to send Russian Foreign Minister Gorchakov.

Paris, France.

In the winter of 1855, Paris was a stage for the talents of diplomats. With the fall of the Russian Black Sea Fleet base on the Crimean peninsula, the fortress of Sevastopol, the redivision of Central European forces has become imminent.

The victorious side wants to consolidate and expand the victory in the war with the use of diplomats. The losing side wants to minimize the impact of the war, or strive for a more acceptable outcome.

The contest was fought not only by the Ottoman Empire, Sardinia, France, Great Britain, Russia, but also by Austria and Prussia, which had exerted influence on the war. But there is only another important role missing, and that is China, which is still fighting fiercely in the East.

Maybe the East is too far away, maybe the European powers have forgotten too much, in short, European diplomats have consciously or unconsciously forgotten to invite China to participate.

We try to understand it this way, that the European powers want the war in the East to continue, both to weaken the mighty dragon in the East and to get the purpose of holding the stupid polar bear in check. Russia, on the other hand, wants to negotiate with its opponents separately, and as long as the war in the West stops, even if it continues to fight its opponents in the East.

We have no way of knowing whether this was the case, but in any case a negotiated agreement was signed in March 1856.

Because the treaty was signed in Paris, the treaty is called the Treaty of Paris.

Gorchakov won a better outcome for Russia in this diplomatic struggle. The coalition forces withdrew from the occupation of the Russian region of Crimea. However, after the signing of the treaty, Russia returned the Danube estuary and South Bessarabia to Moldavia, and Kars to Turkey. At the same time, Russia has lost control of the Black Sea, and neither Russia nor Turkey is allowed to keep six or more 800-ton ships and four or more 200-ton ships in the Black Sea, nor are they allowed to set up naval arsenals and naval fortresses along the Black Sea coast. The treaty also provided for complete freedom of trade and navigation on the Danube, open to all countries (not to be sure of Vietnam or Mexico), and the implementation of this provision was guaranteed by the "European Danube Commission" composed of Britain, Russia, France, Austria, Prussia, Sardinia and Turkey.

In fact, this was a heavy blow to the attempts of the European powers to open the Black Sea straits to the south and put Turkey at the mercy of the European powers.

Russia also engaged with Beijing during this period. They tried to draw up an armistice in favor of Russia, hoping to stop the war without losing any benefits.

But this is not what Lin Hong hopes to accept. His purpose was to get the whole of Siberia. Now China is in a favorable position in the war, and in terms of transportation and supplies alone, China's military supplies are much more advantageous than those of the Russians, although they are long. At least China's underground railways have reached Kulen, while Russia does not have any railways in Asia. How can this situation allow Russia to stop the war without any damage