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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 332: Butterfly History

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    The Year of Jiayin was destined to be an extraordinary era. In the land of Far East China, the fight between the emerging Taiping Army and the Qing Army continued.  Thousands of miles away, wars between Britain, France, Ottoman and other countries and Russia also broke out on the Crimean Peninsula.  I don¡¯t know if it was because Xiao Yungui led the Taiping Army to capture the Shanghai and Ningbo ports in advance. In short, the breeze that Xiao Yungui, a butterfly, fanned in the Far East may have really affected history.  The outbreak of the Crimean War was postponed for eight months, and Britain and France officially declared war on Russia at the beginning of the year.

    Although Xiao Yungui knows that this is the butterfly effect brought about by himself or others, or that the history of this time and space is quite different from the history he knows, Xiao Yungui believes that some things that are fixed to happen will still happen, like Crimea  Just like the Asian War, on one side is Russia¡¯s double-headed eagle expansion ambition, on the other side is the determination of Britain, France and other countries to protect their own interests. The contradiction between the two can only be released through war.  This result cannot be changed. No matter how strong the wind is that Xiao Yungui's butterfly flaps, it will not set off a hurricane to stop the war.

    Sometimes when Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er talk about history and reality, they both feel a deep sense of powerlessness. Both of them are very aware of the major diversion of the Yellow River in the Jiayin year, but they have no good solution.  to change.  The Yellow River was still under the control of the Qing army, and they were beyond their reach in Sufu Province.  When they thought about the tragic situation that this diversion would cause millions of people to suffer and starve to death thousands of miles away, the two of them seemed to be unable to do anything except not mentioning the tragedy that was about to happen.  They can only bury their heads in the ground like ostriches and pretend not to know anything about it.

    Similarly, Ronglu, who was still doing business and training soldiers in Hengyang at this time, could not do anything, and Xingzhen, who was pregnant and still raising her fetus in the womb, could not do anything.  The Qing court's finances had almost collapsed, and local taxes and fees could only meet the needs of the war.  Both Ronglu and Xingzhen were powerless against the cost of repairing river embankments, which often cost millions of taels.  The two of them also chose to forget the incident. At the same time, like Xiao and Hong, they were filled with a sense of powerlessness. This sense of powerlessness comes from the fact that you know that a tragic event will happen but you are unable to stop it.  Sometimes four people will come up with a weird idea at the same time, which is also a kind of happiness.

    Xingzhen and Hong Yun'er were both pregnant at about the same time. The two women were busy with the pregnancy with different moods, and they kept this matter in their hearts.  And the two men also chose to use military training to forget this matter, something they knew but were unable to change.

    Ronglu¡¯s military training in Hengyang was not very successful, and his understanding of military training was not deep enough.  He didn't care about anyone before time travel. The only thing he could do was win people's hearts and introduce firearms, as well as the few military knowledge he gained when he plagiarized the military training of later generations.

    But Xiao Yungui is different. He managed his father's company before traveling through time and came into contact with more people and things.  Some of the war memories left to him by Xiao Chaogui after time travel were also of great help to him, and he was also a practical man who led troops along the way.  He did much better than Ronglu at this point.

    The Shanghai Jiangwu School was established last year.  Xiao Yungui set up his martial arts school in Zhabei, across the Wusong River from the British and French Concessions.  The Jiangwu School occupies a large area, with barracks, houses, teaching buildings, and training grounds. The entire Zhabei District is a large Taiping Army barracks.

    Xiao Yungui had a profound intention to locate the martial arts school here. He did not want the concession areas of the great powers to expand further north. He turned Zhabei and other places into a large military camp.  Turning it into military land was intended to end the great powers' delusions of expanding their concessions, and it was also a silent pressure on the concession powers.

    Ministers from Britain, France, the United States and other countries had protested, but Xiao Yungui insisted on setting up a martial arts school here. He told the ministers from several countries.  This is the military academy of the Taiping Army. Having troops stationed here can better protect the security of the concession.

    Wenhan returned to China at the beginning of the year, and his successor was Sir John Baoling. After appreciating the Western King's tough tone and insincere kindness, Baoling did not dwell too much on this issue.  After all, the King of the West is reasonable. Zhabei is not a concession. As an occupier, he can do anything on the land he occupies. Although this matter may threaten the security of the concession, at least so far, the King of the West has been  Complying with the treaties signed by the Manchu and Qing Dynasties that were imposed on him.

    Bao Ling's attention was drawn more to the construction of the Soviet-Shanghai Railway and the British-French joint fleet in the Far East heading north to attack the Russians in the Far East.  The Jiangsu-Shanghai Railway was the first railway built by Britain in the Far East through Jardine Matheson. Jardine Matheson invested 30% of the capital to obtain a 30% stake in the future of this railway.  Bao Ling's original intention was for the British to invest the entire project, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had to give access rights, including mining rights along the railway line.

    But after Bao Ling, who went to Suzhou with people from Yihe Matheson, negotiated with the King of the West, he did not get what he wanted.  The King of the West insisted on not giving up the right of way.?? is to allocate future interests in the railway in the form of shares.  For this reason, the Xiwang Mansion invested 60% of the total investment to obtain the largest stake in the railway, while the remaining 20% ??was distributed to the wealthy businessmen of Sufu Province.

    Bao Ling was unwilling to give up this attempt because it was very rare to get the opportunity to build a railway in the ignorant and backward China these days.  Bao Ling hopes to open China's ancient door through this railway. He believes that after the Chinese people know the convenience of railways, they will start building railways like the United States like the United States.  He also believed that in the subsequent major road construction environment, even if King Xi was rich, he would not be able to pay such a huge construction cost. In the end, he would still have to give up a lot of road rights in exchange for railway construction.

    Another thing that gave Bao Ling a headache was the attack by the British and French combined fleets in the Far East against Russia in the Pacific.  Although the main battlefield of the Crimean War was on the Crimean Peninsula, there were also Russian military facilities in the Far East.  According to intelligence, Russia has only four or five warships in the Pacific that can barely fight. The rest are some civilian ships, and only about 1,000 marines can go into battle.

    Bao Ling naturally hopes to attack Russia's targets in the Far East. Since war has been declared with Russia, a new battlefield must be opened in the Far East.

    Due to the huge disparity in military strength between the two sides, Muravyov, the governor-general of Russia's Far Eastern Siberia, devoted all his strength to the Kamchatka Peninsula, the mouth of the Heilongjiang River and Sakhalin Island to defend it.

    In April of the first year of the year, a joint task force composed of the British and French navies arrived in Kamchatka. Muravyov ordered all Russian navies to withdraw into the harbor. Seeing that the Russian navy was avoiding fighting, the British and French navies decided to attack instead.  Russian naval base Petropavlovsk military port.  On April 30, British and French warships launched a violent bombardment of the military port, destroying many Russian defensive artillery.  However, the Russian army repaired all night and quickly rearranged their defenses.

    The British and French navies were at a loss when three Americans who claimed to have escaped from a whaling ship suddenly arrived.  Several Americans told the British commanders that it would be much easier to attack the Petropavlovsk military port from land than from sea, and took the initiative to reveal to them the nearest march route.  The British and French coalition forces immediately dispatched a 700-man Marine Corps to land, preparing to raid the Russian naval base.  But those "Americans" led them into an ambush set by the Russian army.  By the time they retreated to the ship, more than half of them had been killed or wounded.  The two naval and land attacks by the British and French navies failed to work, so they had to retreat to Vancouver and San Francisco in North America to consolidate and standby.

    After the defeat, Bao Ling naturally felt ashamed. He needed to mobilize more warships to the Far East to teach the Russians a lesson. But what troubled him was that he had very little land force in the Far East. He did not think that the navy alone could solve the problem.  , but how could an extra army appear out of thin air?

    This morning, when Bao Ling was enjoying breakfast, Midile, who had been promoted to Shanghai consul, walked in quickly and whispered: "Sir, the King of the West has arrived in Shanghai"

    Xiao Yungui did arrive in Shanghai. He landed on the Wusong River at the military pier of the Shanghai Lecture Hall. Without pausing for a moment, he rushed directly to the Lecture Hall a few miles away.

    After the Jiangwu School was established, Xiao Yungui transferred most of his personal guards and officers to the Jiangwu School for training, and based on the children's camp, the Guards Youth Army was established.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? together out of  The Jiangwu School has the first batch of nearly 1,300 officers and Tongying soldiers. They will be the first batch of officers to be enriched into the West Palace Taiping Army that has come to Shanghai to reorganize.

    The Shanghai Lecture Hall is divided into five military branches: infantry, artillery, cavalry, engineers, and baggage.  According to the students' specialties, Class A and Class B will focus on learning military subjects after entering the classroom, such as topography, fortification, weapons, military system, health, etc., and learn the military tutorials created by Western and foreign instructors.  Class C and special classes first study general subjects and basic military courses, such as Chinese, ethics, equipment drawing, arithmetic, history and geography, English or French, infantry drills, shooting instructions, service orders in the formation, work instructions, and field exercises.  Wait, and then study the military disciplines and undergraduate military courses issued by the Ministry of War by subject.

    The foreign instructors hired by the King of the West are also multi-disciplinary talents. For example, in the new military department of the Troops and Troops Department, the King of the West hired some retired British logistics officers to serve.  Although Xiao Yungui knew that Britain's logistics support in the Crimean War was appallingly backward, he still needed these British people. After they compiled the Dian, Fan, Ling and other textbooks on the baggage and military department, Xiao Yungui led the Ministry of War  People with actual combat experience studied and adapted it for a long time, and finally formed a military equipment textbook that echoed the Taiping Army's current transportation capabilities and logistics supply capabilities.  Most of the tutorials and teaching materials of other military departments are also derived in this way, although Xiao Yungui doesn't like teaching very much.Article, but he was more worried that an undisciplined transitional thermal weapon army would appear on the battlefield, which would be a disaster that would kill people.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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