Chapter five hundred and eighty nine
Putiyatin looked at the Western King's crazy laughter. He believed that the biggest traitor in the East could no longer deal with the traditional Eastern people's cognition. His words and deeds were different from ordinary people. But he still kept smiling restrainedly because Russia now has no control over the sea in the Far East. It is rumored that six more warships have joined the Heavenly Navy sequence recently and have set sail north to station in Dalian Bay. This is a very bad thing for Russia. Now the Petrobapurovsk military port on the Kamchatka Peninsula is still being rebuilt, and only a few gunboats can provide port guards. The only four warships of the Russian Navy in the Far East are all transformed by merchant ships. They were pulled to Shanghai to show off their military power. Once the two sides have not yet lifted the war in the summer, the Taiping Army may attack the Petrobapurovsk military port again.
For diplomatic and political purposes, Putiyatin suppressed his dissatisfaction and asked: "Why is His Highness the Western King laughing?"
Xiao Yungui wiped the tears of laughter with his sleeve and said, "You Russians' thinking is really weird and ridiculous. He discussed with a rebel leader who wanted to occupy the country's territory and let him exchange peace with you with the land he was about to obtain? Why should we agree to your ridiculous suggestions? The territories you mentioned that Russia needs are our territory!"
Putiyatin's smile began to become a little stiff, and the thick sea lion beard trembled slightly and said, "His Royal Highness, those lands are Russian territory occupied by the Qing people in the past, and the original boundary of your Han people was not there! And now these territories are still nominally in the hands of the Qing people, but most of the local residents are Russians!"
Speaking of this, Xiao Yungui put away his smile and said with a deep face: "Do you think I don't know the dirty things that you Russia has done in the north? You build immigrant settlements along the Ussuri River and along the Heilongjiang River, and use the means of massacre to brutally eliminate the indigenous people in the north, and then openly declare that this land belongs to you! What other bullshit Han territory? Nurhaci, the founder of the Qing Dynasty, was originally just an officer under our Han Ming Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, we established the Nurgandusi in the northern border and commanded the territory of the northern border! After the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus only inherited the inherent territory of our Han people, and we Han people just took back our territory!"
Putiyatin still had to argue loudly, and Xiao Yungui waved his hand and said, "Don't argue anymore. We will take back those territories, our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will not need to participate in it. Let's talk about something practical. If Russia wants to truce with us, it must ced the territory and give up the territory north of Nebchu. Well, there is also the territory of Kamchatka Peninsula. Oh, by the way, I heard that there is also a piece of Alaska territory opposite the Bering Strait. Although that territory was also the land that you Russia occupied indigenous people, it has at least a hard work to explore. I heard that you Russia is also a useless piece of land that is tasteless and abandoned. If you want to sell it at a price, then give it to our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as a discount for war reparation."
Putiyatin was stunned by a series of words from the King of the West. The translator struggled to keep up with the rhythm of the King of the West. After listening to it, Putiyatin came back for a long time before he could recall it. He could no longer hold it back. He stood up with trembling all over and said angrily: "His Highness, Russia has not been defeated and will not accept such conditions! You are insulting our Tsarist Russia!"
Xiao Yungui was like a scoundrel. He crossed his legs and pressed his fingers against the table and said lightly: "We have a navy stronger than you in the Far East. We have the right to control the sea!"
Putiyatin roared loudly: "We have gathered 50,000 elite imperial soldiers in the Far East, and countless armed militias in the area, so we can attack your strongholds at any time!"
Xiao Yungui shook his head and said, "We have the right to control the sea, and we can reinforce the north at any time, and we can also attack your only military port in the Far East at any time!"
Putiyatin blushed and said, "We will also send troops to support Petrobapurovsk military port!"
Xiao Yungui still smiled playfully and said, "We have the right to control the sea, and we can clear your strongholds north along Heilongjiang at any time!"
Putiyatin finally couldn't hold back and shouted loudly: "Our Russian fleet is not weaker than your navy. If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom really wants to start a war, our great Tsar will definitely send elite navy to the Far East to participate in the war!"
Xiao Yungui shrugged and said, "Then we will officially declare war!" In this era, the Suez Canal has not been built yet. Even if it is built, the British who control Egypt may not agree to the Russians. Xiao Yungui is not afraid of the Russian fleet that has traveled around most of the earth. Xiao Yungui is even more afraid of the invasion of the British and French coalition forces.
Xiao Yungui repeatedly stimulated Putiyatin and also tested the Russians' bottom line. They did not dare to easily send Russian elite fleets to the Far East. If Alexander II Nikolaevich, who had just taken over Russia, really dared to send a fleet east at this time, the series of reform measures he carried out in Russia would not be guaranteed by force. At the same time, Russia's power in the Baltic Sea, Black Sea and other places would be further weakened, and Britain, France, Sweden and other countries would not be safe neighbors.
Seeing Putiyatin's appearance on the outside, Xiao Yungui understood that Russia was not ready for this war. They just took risks and placed bets in exchange for the greatest reward at the smallest price. In history, they did succeed. They took advantage of the crisis of the invasion of the British and French coalition forces in the Qing government and obtained 500,000 square kilometers of territory east of the Ussuri River and north of Heilongjiang, and obtained many other benefits, which can be said to be a huge profit.
Unfortunately, Ptiyatin has encountered time travelers now. Song Qingyun’s threats and goodwill to Russia will not be cut off. Xiao Yungui will naturally not be mentally retarded to distinguish the territory of the country with Russia. On the contrary, Xiao Yungui wants to further expand China’s territory in the future through the war with Russia! The 50,000 Russian troops gathered around Nebchu is indeed a threat. The Taiping Army must expand the war. First, it can eliminate the threat in the future. It cannot wait until Russia is ready to fight before starting the war. Second, it can gain more territory and benefits while Russia is weak!
Putiyatin left the Western Prince's Mansion angrily. At night, he was still hesitating whether to lower the price and allow the Taiping Army to get some practical benefits in exchange for what Russia needed, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Ministry of Rites handed over a note to Putiyatin.
When Putiyatin listened to Zhou Qibin, an official of the Ministry of Rites of Heaven, read the declaration of war, he felt as if he was in a dream. When Zhou Qibin politely proposed to give Putiyatin ten days to leave Tianjing, the overdue Heaven would no longer guarantee the safety of their group, Putiyatin roared and roared: "You will definitely regret it!"
The helpless roar was useless. Putiyatin returned to Shanghai the next day, boarded a Russian warship in Shanghai and returned north. At several ports in Shanghai, Putiyatin met the Taiping soldiers who were loading the ship. Tens of thousands of Taiping troops were preparing to board the ship and go to sea. Putiyatin knew that their destination must be north.
In fact, as early as the end of last year, Xiao Yungui had the idea of increasing troops in the north. However, the large-scale frozen waters in the north were not conducive to landing. Now that the flowers are blooming, the conditions are met. Therefore, more than 40,000 people from the Third Army that originally garrisoned Tianjing were loaded on ships to reinforce Tan Shaoguang's troops in Sakhalin Island and other places, and the troops that garrisoned Tianjing were rotated to the First Army that retreated and rested.
In order to transport a huge army, the Taiping Army organized a larger fleet than the British and French coalition forces. The six Western warships that had just joined the naval sequence were naturally provided with six Western warships. For this reason, the Taiping Army collected a large number of merchant ships from Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places, and cargo ships were used to transport military and logistics supplies. A total of more than 500 merchant ships and cargo ships gathered in ports in Shanghai, Zhenhai and other places. Six warships had more than 100 red single ships and other auxiliary warships as guards, and were divided into six batches to start transporting soldiers to the north.
The sudden large-scale military mobilization of the Taiping Army also made the British and French ministers deeply uneasy. They were afraid that the Taiping Army would go north to reinforce the Qing government forces and stab the coalition forces. But when the newspaper published a note on declaring war on Russia, the British and French ministers breathed a sigh of relief. They were very happy to see the Taiping Army's attack on Russia.
After leaving Shanghai, Putiyatin ordered the fleet to head north at full speed, and must return to his territory as soon as possible to report this amazing news and prepare for war. Unfortunately, on the way back north, they were attacked by three new Taiping Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of Fleets of F
After several days of fighting, although Russian warships were larger than fly-slippers and the number of artillery on the ship was higher than fly-slippers, the speed of the fly-slippers was very fast and kept entangling Putiyatin's fleet. Finally, the Taiping Army then followed a squadron and joined the fly-slippers fleet. Two first-class battleships in the squadron were concentrated in the squadron. The advantage of the Putiyatin fleet no longer existed. In the end, Putiyatin had to cut off his arm and ordered two warships to be left to block the Taiping Navy, and he led two faster warships to escape.
The misfortune of Putiyatin did not end. In the Tatar Strait, they encountered a fleet of Taiping merchant ships and cargo ships. The fleet came from Japan and was engaged in trade and supply in Sakhalin and other places for many years. A naval battle broke out between the two sides. Although the Russian fleet sunk three armed merchant ships, Putiyatin's last two warships were also seriously injured, and the headache was that the supply was gone.
In the end, two warships of Putiyatin ventured on the Japanese-controlled South Sakhalin Island to search for supplies, and were finally captured by the Japanese and the ship. A few days later, Putiyatin was handed over to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Tan Shaoguang's troops by the Japanese very unceremoniously. So the Russian plenipotentiary became a prisoner shortly after the Taiping Army and Russia went to war. Two of the last four warships in the Russian Far East, which he brought to show off his military power, were sunk, and the two were captured, and Russia's last naval power no longer existed.
Putiyatin, who was imprisoned, finally realized that the vicious Western King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was waiting for him to fall into the trap. In fact, the Taiping Army had no interest in cooperation at all. They were preparing to expand the war against Russia early in the morning, and what they were waiting for was to lead the last four warships to fall into the trap! (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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