As early as the end of 1870, a formation led by the armored cruiser "Xing'anling" which was originally affiliated with the Red Navy's high seas fleet, secretly began to move towards Hawaii according to Lin Haifeng's dispatch.

In February 1871, the "Xing'anling" formation arrived in Hawaii and merged with the Hawaiian squadron of the Red Navy Pacific Fleet and Chen Tingxiang's Red Eighth Army.

Lin Haifeng's purpose was very clear. He was waiting for the best opportunity to concentrate his efforts to completely knock out the British Pacific Fleet.

However, Lieutenant General Jeffrey, the commander of the Royal Navy Pacific Fleet of the British Empire, was far from aware of this.

Although he has been living in poverty for a long time when facing the Pacific Fleet of the Red Navy of the Taiping Kingdom, he has been living in poverty for a long time. However, he is confident that he is still quite good at the strength of both the enemy and us, but he does not think that the Pacific Fleet of the Taiping Kingdom Red Navy of the Taiping Kingdom can really eat him in one bite.

Of course, if you don’t think it’s better or not, Lieutenant General Jeffrey is still prepared for it in actual actions.

In the past year, in order to keep his fleet a fist, Jeffrey has thrown all the burdens of South America to his Spanish and Portuguese allies to take care of, while he himself is focused on Vancouver Island and its surrounding waters, and his eyes are also staring at the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Red Navy of the Pacific Kingdom.

Just as we reached a tacit understanding, the Red Navy Pacific Fleet under Xu Zongyang would not only harass and tease Jeffrey's fleet from time to time with small fleets from time to time, but also focus more on operating his own transportation lines.

Therefore, although he still had to deal with it, Jeffrey's mentality not only did not get rid of it, but was still a little satisfied. As the saying goes, you hit you, I hit me. General Jeffrey always followed the trend for the small harassment and provocation of the Red Navy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, that is, he would always act like he was very passive and sent several warships to follow the other party to make trouble. His main force was unmoved at all and continued to participate in assisting his army brothers in counterattacking the land.

Time soon entered July of 1871.

On the land of Canada, the British American Expeditionary Force headquarters, which was always tense and was in extreme state, had all the flowers waiting for, but they had never waited for the imagined Battle of Ottawa.

At sea, even though the Pacific Fleet of the Red Navy of the Pacific Kingdom could do anything, Jeffrey, who had been unwavering in Vancouver, never felt the inconvenience of logistics supply.

Supplies from the Atlantic Ocean and fresh blood from the Army transported to Vancouver Island are still in a steady stream.

The facts have fully proved Jeffrey's judgment. If his brothers on land were as good as he was at persisting and clearing up the chaotic situation, it would not be easy for the Allies to really hold the bull ears of the American war situation in their hands.

Just as General Jeffrey was optimistic in July 1871, Sir Alexander George Woodford, the commander-in-chief of the British Empire American Expeditionary Force, who was originally worried about the situation of the war, began to gradually develop an optimistic mood.

Because Woodfords not only did not see any major moves from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army, they also obtained a major insider information about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom through various channels.

It turned out that the extremely selfish Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army was not willing to use their huge sacrifices to exchange for the interests of the so-called Allied Powers. What they are best at and willing to do is to take advantage of others' dangers to get greater benefits for themselves.

In other words, if the British did not fight the American Allies and the American Expeditionary Forces of the French Empire on the battlefield between the two Americans, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army would be more willing to stay in the field and see the lively momentum for a while.

As a result, as the mood became more optimistic, the mentality of extreme regret became stronger and stronger.

Woodfords began to regret not being so anxious to ignore the American battlefield. In their opinion, if they had not been deceived by the seemingly magnificent illusion of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but were still focusing on the American battlefield. The problems of both Americans would have been completely solved.

Now that they have realized their major mistakes, Woodfords have begun to actively make up for it.

In the Ottawa Great Defense Circle, which has been fully arranged for a long time, Woodfords implemented the "adding stoves and reducing troops". On the surface, they continued to deploy more power to this Great Defense Circle. In secret, they quietly drew some elite troops to move south and carefully prepared the "meat grinder operation" to be launched on the battlefields of the two Americans in September, breaking the existing stalemate on the two battlefields, and once again regaining the absolute initiative of the two Americans and even the entire American battlefield.

Unfortunately, if the Woodfords could do their intelligence work to Beijing and then enter Lin Haifeng's office, take a look at the huge military map hanging on the wall of Lin Haifeng's office, or be able to put on a clutch and go around Hawaii early, Woodford and Jeffrey would regret their decisions.

Because in the Pacific Ocean in July, two fleets from Hawaii are approaching Vancouver Island step by step.

What sailed in front was an iron-armored cruiser fleet composed of six ships including the "Xing'anling" and "Tianshan" of the Red Navy's high seas fleet. More than a hundred nautical miles followed were the Hawaiian squadron of the Red Navy's Pacific Fleet, and a large transport fleet carrying all the officers and soldiers of the Red Eighth Army.

At the same time, Xu Zongyang and his main force of the Red Navy Pacific Fleet were also on the journey of rapid southward movement.

On August 11, 1871, a small formation of four-ships of the Taiping Red Navy broke into the British army's maritime cordon. But unlike in the past, this small formation of the Taiping Red Navy did not repeat the old trick of fleeing when encountering the enemy, but got rid of the entanglement of the British police formation at high speed and continued to approach Vancouver Island.

The opponent's excessive arrogance seemed to anger General Jeffrey, who had always been based on "Hello, I, Hello, everyone". So more than a dozen British warships rushed out of the Vancouver military port and began a furious hunting activity against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Red Navy fleet.

Of course, although the momentum was very large, Jeffrey did not have much expectations for the final gains of this hunt.

After all, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom warships ran too fast. Unless these Taiping Heavenly Kingdom people came to fight head-on, this would be a mess that would be irritating and not worth their lives. (To be continued...)
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