460 Allied Fleet Group
Of course, although the problems of the Russian Empire are not small, they are all within the controllable range, and now the status of the thousand-faced fake tsar has been entrenched, as long as the thousand-faced fake tsar does not die, the generals on the front line will not be able to succeed in the rebellion anyway, not to mention the help of the Taiping Army, once the Russian generals on the front line really rebel, as long as the center of the Russian Empire is cut off from logistics supplies, the Russian army on the front line will run out of food every minute.
Unless, the Russian rebels on the front line can quickly fight back, otherwise, sooner or later they will be suppressed.
This is the confidence of the thousand-faced false tsar of the Russian Empire!
It is also the reason why he dares to let go of talented Russian generals, without these newly promoted talented Russian generals, even if the Russian Empire is strong, it is difficult to press the Central Asian nomads to the ground and beat them to the ground.
Therefore, as long as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom does not fall, no matter how unpopular the rule of the Thousand-Faced False Tsar is, it will be as safe as Mount Tai!
Under the strong expansion of the Russian Empire, the Russian nation, which is now undergoing great integration, has become the second most noble nation in Europe and Central Asia after the Han Chinese.
Even their quality of life remains the same!
Of course, the Taiping Army's upcoming landing operation on the British Isles was also strongly supported by the Russian Empire, which contributed almost all the ocean-going ships that could be scavenged in the country to the Taiping Army to transport soldiers and equipment!
Naturally, this could not be concealed from the anti-Han alliance led by the Kingdom of England, but the British were not afraid.
Although the first-class battleships of the Taiping Army are terrifying, their number is too small, and although they themselves can be rampant, they want to escort a large number of transport ships to land across the ocean, which is tantamount to a fool's dream.
The British Navy, which integrated the Spanish fleet, the Portuguese fleet, the Dutch fleet and even part of the French fleet, formed a large Allied fleet group.
There are more than a hundred regular naval warships alone, and the worst can reach the level of a third-class battleship!
As for other ordinary sea vessels, there are even more of them!
Moreover, the British have worked overtime to build the Monarch at Sea according to the Taiping Army's first-class battleships have entered the stage of sun-loading, and after several years of investment regardless of the cost, the British finally reluctantly built a first-class battleship worthy of World War I, and it won't be long before the British can replace the first-class battleship of the same level as the Taiping Army as the flagship!
When the time comes, the Allied fleet will be able to officially confront the small navy of the Taiping Army!
The Allied fleet has an absolute advantage in numbers, so it is not a problem to intercept the Taiping transport fleet at all, and it cannot sink the first-class battleships, but the Allied fleet can completely drag three first-class battleships with losses, and then let other battleships sink the Taiping transports.
If the Taiping army can suffer heavy losses at sea, the anti-Han alliance will definitely be happy to do so.
At best, three first-class battleships could only deter the Allied fleet, but they could not really control the sea.
This is the confidence of the British to continue to resist!
However, when the time came to the middle of '88, the British discovered that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had really sent a huge landing fleet to try to cross the English Channel!
According to the information received by the British, in addition to three large first-class battleships, there were two strange battleships covered in iron shells, but this did not go down to the Allied fleet, or the fleet of the Anti-Han Alliance had no choice.
They must be intercepted!
At the very least, sink the transport ships carrying the Taiping army!
After learning that this time the Taiping Army had loaded a whole division of the main force of the Taiping Army on the ship, the Anti-Han League did not hesitate to send all the main forces of the Alliance fleet!
Hundreds of regular naval battleships, nearly 1,000 frigates and auxiliary ships of various types have almost covered the entire ocean, and the real meaning of a thousand sails across the ocean!
The Allied fleet's objective was simple, to sink the transports that were transporting the main forces of the Taipings, and then disengage from the first-class battleships and two strange ironclads that the Taipings were guarding.
The Anti-Han League did not know the specific data of the ironclad ships, but they speculated based on their own conjectures that they felt that the weight of the battleships and seaships wrapped in iron-hulled ships would be greatly increased, and the speed should be far inferior to that of ordinary wooden-hulled sea-going warships.
As long as the speed is not enough, it's fine.
Anyway, the Allied fleet did not expect to sink two iron-hulled warships, and only two iron-hulled warships could not carry out a landing operation on the British Isles, and the elimination of the main force of the Taiping Army was the top priority!
The front of the Taiping fleet was escorted by the Zhenyuan ship, the back was escorted by the Dingyuan ship, and on both sides were escorted by three first-class battleships, and in the middle were hundreds of sea ships collected by the Taiping army everywhere, all of which were Taiping soldiers with rifles.
However, the first batch of Taiping soldiers who landed were not equipped with Makqin heavy machine guns, grenadiers and 75mm rapid-fire guns.
In fact, Hong Tiancheng was not sure to keep the safety of these landing force transport ships under the attack of the wolves of the Allied fleet, and this division was more used as a bait to seduce the main force of the Allied fleet, and then use the firepower of the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan ships that exceeded the times to severely damage or even annihilate them!
Therefore, the precious Maxim heavy machine guns, grenadiers, and 75-mm rapid-fire guns were not carried, and the infantry of one division was enough to attract the anti-Han League fleet to intercept it with all its might.
The British did not dare to let the main force of the Taiping Army of an entire division land on the British Isles, and it was easy for the Taiping Army to board it, but it was difficult to drive it into the sea.
The British claimed that the 300,000 troops of the British Isles were sworn to surround the motherland, but it was really not very sure that the British would use these 300,000 troops to fight the Taiping army.
The Ottomans were annihilated by the Taiping army before and after, and if you round it up, I'm afraid there are three million......
Although it was filled with a large number of slave soldiers, servant troops, and even armed young men, even the Ottoman regular army troops numbered far more than 300,000!
And although the 300,000 troops of the British have been fully trained, the vast majority of them are recruits with no actual combat experience.
The British themselves doubted it!
Therefore, the entire division of the Taiping Army must not be allowed to land on the British Isles!
The British believed that with the number of Allied fleets, it should not be a problem to destroy a transport fleet escorted by only 5 main battleships.
As a result, the Allied fleet confidently greeted the Taiping landing fleet that came across the sea.
The Allied fleet was filled with almost all the best of the remnants of the opposition to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and although the Taiping army had purged the main forces of the European continent, the navy did not clean up much, and most of them gathered under the banner of the British in the name of the anti-Han alliance.
This huge Allied fleet is how it was put together!