Chapter 584 "Warm Current Action" (23)

As Lin Haifeng said, the root of the headache for the commander of the Royal Navy of the British Empire was General Geoffrey, the commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Force of the British Empire, General Woodford, and his empire's government.

After the battle against Vancouver started with a vigorous start but ended in a shameful result, Jeffrey had at least temporarily completely dispelled the idea of ​​regaining Vancouver City.

Jeffrey believes that instead of fighting the Taipingtian team for a dilapidated Vancouver City, it is better to just hang up the Taipingtian people outside Vancouver City first. Anyway, you don’t dare to enter Vancouver City, you have to permanently entrench the heavy troops on the wilderness of Vancouver. In the end, who is uncomfortable and who knows the best in his heart.

But Woodford doesn't do it.

Because Woodford was very worried, he was worried that once the Taipingtian team entering the Vancouver area would have no worries, they would start to make their progress in the east with all their might.

In order to prevent the Taipingtian team from turning around from Vancouver to move eastward easily, in order to allow the Taipingtian team to always feel the huge pressure from behind, Vancouver City must be recaptured.

For this reason, he called Jeffrey several times, asking him not to completely lose his fighting spirit by a small defeat, but should seriously summarize the lessons learned from the failure and build confidence that he will definitely regain Vancouver City. Not only that, in order to prevent Jeffrey from taking advantage of insufficient land forces, he took a care of his recapture of Vancouver City, Woodford also specifically notified General Jeffrey that he had ordered the main force of the elite Eighth Legion located in the northwest of the United States of America to begin to concentrate on San Francisco and would soon be transported and strengthened by the American fleet to Jeffrey.

After never receiving the accurate reply from General Geoffrey, General Woodford simply called the Supreme Command of the Empire, hoping to urge General Geoffrey to do his job honestly through the direct oppression of the Supreme Command of the Empire.

In a telegram to the Supreme Command of the Empire, Woodford kept saying that the fierce offensive launched by the Taipingtian team in Canada not only seriously threatened the stability in his rear, but also seriously affected his military fighting spirit on the battlefield of the United States, seriously disrupting the thoughts of people from all walks of life in the United States of America, making it difficult for him to complete all strategies against the American allies wholeheartedly.

So, in early December, General Jeffrey received a stern-worded telegram from the Imperial Government.

The telegram reminded General Jeffrey to be sure to pay attention to the gains and losses of Vancouver City, not only involve the safety of the entire western part of the Canadian Governor's District, but also affect the changes in the overall situation in North America. General Jeffrey must put the overall situation first, resolutely regain Vancouver, and tightly hold the hind legs of the Taipingtian** team that has already entered the Western Front, so that they dare not move east easily.

In desperation, Jeffrey had to harden his head again. While starting his retake of Vancouver again, he was also trapped in a nightmare that lasted for half a year.

Every time Jeffrey's recapture of Vancouver was always as smooth as ever at the beginning. After several hours of continuous intensive shelling, a large number of British officers and soldiers simply rushed to the land like a walk.

But the next situation is not possible.

Because the Red Cavalry Army had already built up defensive positions in advance outside the range of artillery fire of the British fleet. Although the British officers and soldiers had successfully landed, they were difficult to develop further. As long as they dared to show a little greed, they would immediately suffer from the ravages of the fierce artillery fire from the Red Cavalry Army.

The British troops landed could only gather less than ten miles wide, and the depth was even more pitiful, just a narrow and long seashore of four or five miles.

Even though the British officers and soldiers who had already swallowed their anger so much, the soldiers of the Red Cavalry Army were still unreasonable. As long as the night covered the beaches of Vancouver, the British officers and soldiers would fall into the bottomless abyss of miserable misery.

The sneak attack teams of the Red Cavalry Army approached the British beachhead positions without knowing their knowledge, including mortars, grenades, grenades, guns and guns of long and short guns, and even sabers and bayonets. They kept greeting the British soldiers on the position without making a fuss for a whole night.

After a few days, the British landing troops, who were worried day and night, were tortured to the point of being unable to bear it.

But no matter how the landing troops cried and begged, General Jeffrey this time made up his mind. Not only did he not allow the landing troops to do so-called temporary retreat and rest, but he also kept urging the landing troops to develop in depth at all costs.

At the end of January 1870, more than 30,000 officers and soldiers of the British Eighth Legion who had not broken their promises, who had retreated from the battlefield in the United States, arrived on Vancouver Island.

General Jeffrey, who had been frowning for many days, finally seemed to see hope.

The Eighth Legion's immediate participation in the war did indeed bring about a new look on the Vancouver Coast.

The British army successfully restored control of Vancouver City, and with the help of the severe cold, quickly renovated Vancouver City into an ice city surrounded by thick ice walls.

Although it is still difficult to fight too much, it is not that easy for the Taipingtian** team on the opposite side to fight in. The British officers and soldiers finally made a stable place for themselves.

Jeffrey was very satisfied with the current situation. He ignored General Woodford's opinion and persuaded him to stop the urge to find an opportunity to fight the elite Red Cavalry Army in Taipingtian** team in front of him.

Geoffrey believes that according to the current situation, it is obviously not absolutely important whether the Red Cavalry Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can be eliminated in one fell swoop (of course, the past suffering told him that it is actually a difficult thing to really destroy this elite army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom). What is really absolutely important is the existence of the Eighth Legion.

As long as the Eighth Legion exists on the front line of Vancouver City for one day, it can restrain more Taiping Heavenly ** teams, including the elite cavalry army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in front of it.

Sure enough, after February, Jeffrey saw the scene he wanted to see the most.

According to the notice from the 8th Corps Command, Jeffrey learned that among the Red Army troops of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on the front line of Vancouver, the banner of the Fifth Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Workers and Peasants Red Army had also appeared.

Jeffrey smiled. He had reason to believe that after more than two months of cruel battle, although the British army suffered quite heavy losses, the elite cavalry legion of the Taiping Tian** team must also be covered in bruises. In order to prevent their Eighth Legion, the Taiping Tian people had to pull another new force to Vancouver.

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