In early March of the year of Yimao, although the warmth of early spring had already arrived, the bleak cold wind in the north was still cold. The cold wind accompanied by the salty and wet smell of the sea water gently swept across Dalian Bay, the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula.

At this time, Dalian Bay was just a bay. Outside the Qing Dynasty blockade, it was sparsely populated, just a small fishing village with a hundred households, and not even a town. This deep watery bay in later generations is now so desolate.

Half a month ago, a huge fleet came here. The local fishermen were very surprised. They had never seen so many large sea boats, and some of them were emitting rolling black smoke, like monsters.

The fleet sent dozens of small boats to land. The yellow-skinned family members were all reassured by the fishermen, but they found that these people had no braids. Through conversation, the fishermen found that these people claimed that they were holy soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the south and came to fight against the Russians. So, these fishermen became in chaos on the spot. Regarding the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising, the Northeast received even less news. The three generals of Shengjing, Ningguta and Heilongjiang blocked the bad news. In addition, the news in the Northeast was blocked, so these fishermen did not know that the Qing Dynasty had originally had a rebel who had established the capital and established the robbers.

Since the other party was a thief, the fishermen were naturally very scared. After learning about the identities of these people, they hid home and did not dare to come out. Many of these fishermen immediately sent news to Shengjing.

These soldiers without braids and dressed in strange clothes did not harass these villagers, but built camps, warehouses, and ports on the seaside of Dalian Bay, and transported the materials on the ship to stock up.

It turned out that this fleet was the fleet of the British and French coalition forces, and the soldiers who landed on the shore were the young guards of the Western King of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. When Britain and France determined to join forces with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to attack Russia north, Xiao Yungui pointed out to Grant, the commander of the British and French coalition forces that the coalition forces must find an anchorage for transit materials in the north, otherwise the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army would not be able to ensure that the combat plan was completed without sufficient materials.

Grant expressed his strong agreement with the Western King. In addition to the lack of military strength in the last defeat of the British and French coalition forces, the difficulty in replenishing materials was also a major reason. In the end, the British and French coalition fleet even had to transfer to North America for rest. However, Bao Ling and Grant were in a dilemma, because there was no trade port in the north of China, which meant that unless forcibly occupied, the coalition forces would not be able to obtain temporary anchorages. However, Britain and France are still nominally neutral and did not declare war with the Qing Dynasty, so forcibly occupied is not feasible.

However, the Western King quickly gave a solution. The soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom landed on the shore to occupy a Liang Bay. As long as they were under the banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there would be no problem. It was natural for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to occupy the land of the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom navy had sailed far away to Xiamen before, so it was reasonable for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army to appear on the Northeast sea.

So the fleet in Dalian Bay was flying the flag of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which made Tan Shaoguang, the commander of the young guards, fantasize. These are all the navy of our heavenly kingdom!

Ten days later, General Shengjing heard that the Changmao Navy was landing in Dalian Bay. He rushed to send a thousand infantry and a thousand horses to investigate and seize it. As a result, he was beaten up by the Taiping Army. After hundreds of casualties, the Qing army retreated. General Shengjing was panicked and quickly organized defenses and flew to the capital for help.

Since the coalition forces landed and repelled the Qing army, there were almost no casualties. The only casualties came from the noose that carried the goods broke and killed an unlucky Indian sailor. That's all.

At first, the local fishermen were very afraid of these thieves. They always seemed to have burned, killed, looted. Fortunately, these thieves did not harass them, and then repelled the Qing army. The fishermen gradually became more and more curious. In the next few days, they had contact with the Taiping Army. When they learned that the Taiping Army had no intention of attacking Shengjing from here, they just went to the dock to replenish their food and water, and later they had to go north to attack the Russians.

These fishermen in Northeast China still hate the Russians very much. Seeing that the Taiping Army was strict in military discipline, they became safe. Anyway, the official army could not defeat these people. Could it be that they, the civilians, still fought with them?

Then they started a business with the Taiping Army. The Taiping Army brought rice from the south. The fishermen exchanged fresh fruits, vegetables and fishing prey. The Taiping Army's transactions were fair. After hearing this, the people around Dalian Bay gradually became bolder and the people nearby came to exchange goods with the Taiping Army. It has to be said that Tan Shaoguang is not a mediocre person in doing business. The fresh vegetables and fruits he exchanged in a few days were enough for the army.

The commander of the coalition army, Grant, was very satisfied with the progress of the mercenary. In half a month, several temporary docks and warehouses were built in Dalian Bay, and several nearby hills began to build positions and dig trenches. The Taiping Army even hired local people to help them build these fortifications. French Colonel Brzeva of the General Staff of the coalition once asked in confusion: "General, aren't these Taiping Army rebels from this country? Why do these people work for them?"

Grant said to the Indian mercenary behind him: "Like Indians, the concept of the country is very weak." Brzeva said disappointedly: "It seems that Emperor Napoleon did not say anything. China is a sleeping lion. Whoever awakens him will be in trouble. But now I only see a group of shirtless slaves." Grant smiled and pointed to the young guards in the West Palace and said: "Col. Those people are lions that have begun to wake up. I always feel that there is a great risk in the union with them. Maybe we are doing dangerous things, but before they gain national power, I still regard them as sleeping lions."

On this day, a bad news came. The Russians continued to increase troops to several ports in the Far East through the Heilongjiang route. Muravyov, the governor of Russia's Siberia, even spoke out. The Russian strongholds in the Far East were solid. There were also rumors that Muravyov organized a cavalry unit of 12,000 people in Nebchu.

Grant felt very embarrassed. Although the British and French allied forces were very powerful and the Russian fleet in the Far East was not worth mentioning at all, if the land situation was not reversed, the navy would still not be able to occupy the military port. He immediately felt that the corps sent by the King of the West was smaller, and then asked Tan Shaoguang's opinion whether to invite the King of the West to send some more troops. Tan Shaoguang's answer was very simple. Their young guards never asked how many enemies there were, but only cared about where the enemy was!

Grant felt that the sixteen-year-old Taiping Army commander seemed too hasty, but their staff was still very good, so Grant didn't say anything anymore. Anyway, the casualties were also the Taiping Army, and he would not send the British and French Marines to the ashore to take risks.

In the following days, Tan Shaoguang began to assemble troops, and the officers and soldiers who had been resting on the shore for half a month had recovered almost, and the British and French fleets also began to prepare to go north. Tan Shaoguang left a battalion of troops to guard Dalian Bay, and the British and French coalition forces also assigned this left-behind unit a small fleet. I believe that the Qing army's Heilongjiang horse team would not be able to break through the Taiping Army's defensive positions.

On March 25, the artillery and baggage of the Taiping Army first boarded the ship, which took two days, the horses of the cavalry regiment spent one day, and the soldiers spent two days boarding the ship. The main reason was that the delivery ability of the temporary dock was too poor. On March 31, the British and French fleet completed the loading. At dawn, it was between a faint mist. The French fleet first started to anchor.

The fleet was divided into three squadrons, forming three columns. The command of the three fleets was Brigadier General Bare, on the first ship "Goddess of Revenge", Brigadier General Brod took the "Goddess of the Mountains" and Colonel Breva, on the "Suizi", two chains (four hundred meters) separated the ships. General Grant was on the "Furban". Admiral Sane was on the large ship "Goddess of Information", and Baron Grod was on the "Northshera".

Grant left his confidant Colonel Neto, the Navy, and led a squadron to station in Dalian Bay to assist the Taiping Army on the shore in protecting the temporary anchorage. Seeing the scorching sun in the morning gradually break through the fog, the wonderful coastline of Dalian Bay gradually faded. Grant let out a long sigh: "What a wonderful harbor. I hope I can stay here for a long time and leave Dalian Bay."

The French staff officer, Colonel Juel, who was beside him, listened to Grant's hymn, gently stroked his thick beard and said excitedly: "When the warship's majestic body staggered and advanced towards the Russians in the north, we were very excited; and this gently stings your heart, making people feel how relaxed and pleasant the life before was. What fate would be waiting for us? Will we win? Or will we be surrounded by crowds of people and be trampled to death by the large group of Cossack cavalry that emerged in unfathomable places?"

After listening to the poems of Ayer, the generals around Grant laughed. The romantic atmosphere that the French used to, made the tension of going to war disappear a lot. But Grant found that Tan Shaoguang beside him was silent at all. After listening to the translation of the translation, the young man just muttered a sentence in English. This sentence made Grant hear: "It was our Taiping Army who went ashore to fight! Why are the French excited?!"

Ten days later, on the morning of April 10, two British and French fleets met successfully outside the Tatar Strait in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. The French fleet was amazed at the excellence of the British fleet, and their dual-powered ships of steam and sail far exceeded that of the French fleet. The British fleet could sail freely at the speed of the ship, which was more grand than the French fleet and moved freely. The French fleet sailed slowly in line; the fastest ships were forced to travel with the slowest motorboats, and the steamboats dragged sailboats and many Chinese boats sold from Dalian Bay.

These small boats are full of ammunition and supplies, and Tan Shaoguang's words are correct. If you can bring more supplies to the north, bring more supplies, and the round-trip freight will be left. Tranter appreciates the economic mind of the young officer, but he doesn't find it strange. Their Western King is a person who likes to care about gains and losses.

The French fleet broke down to the south of the British fleet, the British fleet formed two formations, and the French fleet formed one formation. After the two fleets sailed on the same route, they broke down together at twenty nautical miles from the Miaojie Fortress at the Miaojie Fortress at the Heilongjiang River in Russia. More than a hundred ships broke down in sequence, and the scene was spectacular, with masts standing in a row, like a church bell tower soaring into the sky. At this time, the British and French coalition forces had replaced the flag of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the colorful flags were flying high on the top of the masts, which was a powerful scene.

The Temple Street Fortress was silent, like a sleeping beast. The British and French Marines who had experienced the last failure were still scared. On that day, Grant, who became the commander of the British and French coalition forces, ordered a day to rest and prepare for landing war. That night, each coalition soldier distributed six days of rations, a portion of wine and white wine, a portion of dried roasted coffee, a piece of cooked pork and some fresh fruits. Because the Taiping soldiers were still not used to drinking coffee, Grant ordered them to prepare tea. The Taiping cavalry also received three days of horse forage. After getting ashore, more forage should be found on the land. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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