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    Xianfeng 579_Xianfeng full text free to read_Chapter 579 The ambassador comes from

    As Liu Chang estimated, the end of the Jinzhou Battle only means that the victory or defeat of this war has come to an end. It does not mean that the blood of the Russians has been shed. Facts have proved that the Russians have only just begun to bleed.  //Baidu search to see the latest chapter//

    The entire battle of Jinzhou lasted four and a half hours. During these four hours, the Russians lost 50,3200 killed, 3,462 wounded, and 3,214 dead and alive.  As a result, but for the Russians, the highlight of this Sino-Russian war has just begun.

    Five days later, the final battle in Jinzhou City finally came to an end. Ge Mengjin's desperate fight and the tenacity of the Russian soldiers amazed the Hong Kong officers and soldiers. They paid 1,800 casualties in the entire battle, but captured less than three.  One hundred Russian prisoners.

    But for the Russians, this was just the beginning of a series of disasters. After the fall of Jinzhou, the Russian army that invaded outside the customs no longer had any barriers. They even discovered a terrifying fact, that is, those who had allied with the Russians  The Qing army rebelled one after another, and even the Eight Banners of Manchuria joined the attack on the Russian army.

    A force of 2,700 soldiers who went south to Dalian in Lushun ran back to Shengjing almost crying. They lost almost all their horses and cannons, as well as hundreds of wounded. The Russians originally wanted to  They retaliated, but their field hospitals in Shengjing were all attacked by the Qing army. The Hong army in the city had changed their red flags and began to attack the poor Russian army.

    What followed was a real hell. The losses of the Russians during the retreat far exceeded the losses in the Battle of Jinzhou. A total of 13,000 soldiers were either killed in battle, missing or captured. Even if they could cross Heilongjiang,  They also became exhausted during the long journey.

    But for the Russians, this was not the end of the journey and the battle, but the beginning, when it was discovered that raiding the coastal areas was very profitable.  Thousands of desperadoes continued to sweep across the entire Siberian coast. They even brought steamships and various artillery, and each time they obtained astonishing amounts of property from the Russian residents.

    But for Russia, they are simply unable to support the battle in the Far East.  They have become troubled by domestic disputes, which can even be considered the biggest crisis in Russia since the collapse of the Golden Horde.

    In the winter of 1859, due to the crazy rise in international cotton prices, the entire emerging textile industry in Poland collapsed. A large number of unemployed workers and farmers, as well as Polish communists "Red Party" and "White Party" broke out in Poland.  There was a massive uprising.

    The uprising was originally delayed until 1863.  However, this time and space was ignited from the beginning. The rebels formed an army of thousands of people from the beginning, and also organized the government and all agencies. Their scale was soon expanded to tens of thousands, and the uprising spread throughout the Russian occupation.  The outbreak in Poland is getting bigger and bigger.

    In order to quell this great uprising, the Russian army had to increase its strength by tens of thousands, bringing the size of the Polish occupying army to more than 100,000.  But even so, the entire Polish uprising was still magnificent, and the Red Party and the White Party saw that the uprising was profitable.  The entire Polish nation was involved. According to the Russian General Staff, 200,000 troops were needed to suppress this Polish uprising.

    But it is obviously impossible for Russia to mobilize such a large force. The spring of 1860 can be said to be the spring of despair in Russia. In this spring famine, the serfs and the entire lower class in the country felt deep despair.

    The reforms they were looking forward to had no chance of success, and what came one after another was just bad news. First there was the failure of the Crimean War, and then there was the complete defeat of the Eastern Campaign and the rebellion in Poland. The taxes they had to pay were getting bigger and bigger.  There are many, and there is the possibility of exponential growth.  Therefore, the peasant uprising first broke out in Crimea in 1860, and then the whole of Russia was in the midst of a peasant war.

    The level of these peasant wars did not exceed Pugachev's level. They gathered at most a few thousand or at most tens of thousands of homeless serfs and lower-class people to attack any farms, market towns or other places they passed.  Region, even the more thoughtful ones.  They were just under the banner of the Tsar, but these uprisings grew in scale throughout 1860. More and more serfs participated in the uprisings, and more and more government troops were frustrated.

    The entire Russian land is groaning, so for Russia's subsequent Eastern Campaign, Russia has always put him in a situation of self-destruction, and it is impossible to provide any support from Europe. Therefore, throughout 1860, the Chinese  are constantly advancing their fronts northward, and they have openly raisedThe slogan: "The most reasonable natural border between China and Russia should be the Ural Mountains"

    Any British ambassador feels that the Chinese conditions are too harsh. That is the Ural Mountains. As long as the Russians can recover from the domestic quagmire, they can completely collapse the Chinese logistics line.

    However, after entering 1861, the British felt that it was entirely possible for the Chinese to push their front to the Ural Mountains. That was because after losing the decisive Battle of Jinzhou, a war that consumed the entire Russian national power, the entire  The Russian army has fallen into the nightmare of a three-front battle.

    On the Eastern Front, the Polish Front, the Home Front, and the domestic front, there were probably hundreds of thousands of serfs massacred by the Russian army. However, there were still more than 200,000 serfs in the country who raised their weapons and continued to fight. However, these serfs were originally  This war should be lost.

    After all, they could not fight against the organized Russian regular army. However, in the summer of 1861, the Ottoman Empire eagerly jumped out to declare war on Russia and announced that they supported the just struggle of the Russian people. Their march even led to the entire  Rebellion in the Caucasus.

    The crisis on the Southern Front triggered a crisis in the entire Russia. This country was in many crises and was not in the interests of the British. Therefore, the new Ambassador to China, His Excellency Xia Keli, felt that his mission was very difficult.

    He likes the city of Hangzhou, but he has not guessed the intentions of the owner of this country.

    He was appointed ambassador to China in February 1861. In the past few months, he had met with His Majesty the Emperor several times. His Majesty the Emperor expressed great expectations for peace, but at the same time as these statements  , it was the elite cavalry of the Chinese who expanded to the north again and again. They used steamships to maintain these raiding operations and established many strongholds.

    If the Russians can maintain normal national strength, then these invasions will be easily repelled. However, in fact, the entire Russian Far East garrison is in a passive position. They do not even have the ability to mobilize across regions. They can only watch.  As the Chinese concentrated their elite forces, they captured their strongholds again and again.

    What is even more deadly is the railway. Yes, Xia Keli feels deeply worried when he thinks of the railway.

    Of the railways in operation throughout the Chinese Empire, apart from a section of the Hu-Hang Railway that was rushed to be built, there was only a section of the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway that was partially open to traffic. The completion of this section of railway meant that the great powers could have a more profound impact on the city of Hangzhou.  .

    However, across the entire empire, there are already five or six important railway sections under construction, and according to Ambassador Shakeley's understanding, more railways are about to be constructed. This will be the largest railway network in the world. The British government is  In the competition for these railway projects, they are at a disadvantage. The French, with their financial assistance, have grabbed the lion's share.

    Thinking of this, the British people have always believed that Xia Keli was committing a crime. This is not a small project of several million pounds, but a super project of tens or even hundreds of millions of pounds, and the United Kingdom only occupied 17% of the share.  , this is simply a crime.

    The French relied on their financial loans to take over half of the railway projects. Ambassador Xia Keli even knew that among these railway projects, two railways were closely related to Russia's destiny in the East, and one had already begun construction in Shengjing, Beijing.  The railway, no, according to its current official name, is the Beijing-Fenghuang Railway.

    The other railway is a more ambitious plan. The first phase of the plan will be from Fengtian, which is what the former government called Shengjing, to a new military town called Harbin on the Heilongjiang River. Then the second phase will be with  The third phase of the plan will cross Heilongjiang and the entire Siberia. According to Liu Chang himself: "This railway will lead to the natural border between China and Russia."

    If this large railway and the branch railway connecting them are fully completed, then Russia will undoubtedly return to their Europe, but the country does not want a Chinese government that is too strong to appear.

    Ambassador Xia Keli feels that this is simply an impossible task. He must not only support Russia to maintain the strategic balance of power in the entire Far East, but also win the largest share of the official orders from the Chinese government. This is too difficult for him as an ambassador.

    These troubles made his insomnia show no sign of relief. He thought painfully in his bed for a long time in the morning, and then decided to have morning tea.

    Several months of living in China have allowed him to adapt to his role. He is not only a dignified British ambassador, but also a good friend of a Chinese resident. He found a good teahouse and began to listen to the opinions of the Chinese residents.  Opinions, he was eager to find some anti-war voices among these residents.

    But although residents are very interested in current political topics, they are not interested in Russia¡¯sThey were less interested in war than in another war across the Pacific.

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