Ou Zongan, the deputy commander of the detachment leading the team, came to the gate of Ryukyu Hall.

The door didn't open.

"Which army are you from? The gate is sealed with stones. There are not enough people here to move it. You guys come up from the ladder."

Zhang Quan almost mobilized his last potential before saying this.

Maybe it's because I saw too many lives and deaths during this period.

There was no sadness in his voice.

"We are the Marine Corps detachment of the escort force. Brothers, you have worked hard." Ou Zongan didn't know how to comfort these people.

The situation here is really tragic.

He could even see soldiers jumping from the high wall with Tsarist Russians in the corner.

This group of escorts, who don't even have regular army formations, are great.

Ou Zong'an led the people to climb up the ladder of the Tsarist Russians.

There are still corpses of Tsarist Russians hanging on the ladder. The corpses are hanging in mid-air, and their blood is already dripping dry.

The scene above the wall shocked him again. The scene here was even more tragic than below the wall.

The walls made of stone and cement were covered in blood. The joints between the stones were dark red because more blood had accumulated.

And on the surface of those stones, the color of blood is bright red.

He could see that many of the guards were actually Fuso people, because they were generally short and stocky in stature.

It is obvious that some of them were killed by cold weapons.

Some people's bodies were even almost split in half.

Ou Zongan didn't know what to say for a while.

The purgatory-like scene here is in sharp contrast to the beautiful gem-like bay.

"God damn Rakshasa ghost!" Ou Zongan cursed in his mouth.

The Chinese didn't provoke these people at all, they came to them themselves.

This revenge must be avenged.

"Commander, these Tsarist Russians came from the north through the Sakhalin Strait, which the Tsarist Russians call the Tatar Strait. The head of state once said that these Tsarist Russians had already arrived north of the Tatar Strait and established ports and ports on the ice sheet there.

Residence."

"In order to calm the troubles and deal with the remnant Ming regime in the south, the Tatar Emperor Kangxi signed the Treaty of Nerchinsk with the Tsarist Russians and ceded a large area of ​​land in the Far East to Tsarist Russia."

"But in recent years, Tsarist Russia saw the weakness of the Qing court and began to invade southward. It has extended its tentacles to the Heilongjiang River Basin. This group of Tsarist Russians came from there."

Lu Yi is like Zhuo Yiqing's master and the female Zhuge beside her.

This girl must have come from a scholarly family before, and she could never forget anything in the book.

Zhuo Yiqing is the most bothered by these tedious things.

"It seems that Tsarist Russia will be a big problem for us in the future. They are in the ice fields in the north and the climate is harsh. If you give them a hundred years, they will not be able to develop. But it will be different when they come to the south." Zhuo Yiqing

Still have some strategic vision.

"Commander, today is May 19th. We are going to Dagukou in July and will meet up with the troop transport fleet at Liugong Island."

Lu Yi seemed to have figured out what Zhuo Yiqing wanted to do, so she reminded her in a low voice.

"If we travel as hard as we can, we can arrive there within a month. This will leave us more than ten days to go around the Tartar Strait." Zhuo Yiqing still wasn't ready and just let it go.

The Chinese shipbuilding speed still cannot keep up with the needs of development.

After the privateer fleet left, in order to prop up the Second Fleet, Dong Liang handed over four wooden-hulled, iron-ribbed steam-powered cruisers produced by Iriomote Island and Anping Shipyard to the Second Fleet.

In this way, the Second Fleet can basically ensure combat readiness patrols from the Yangtze River Estuary to the East China Sea.

But it may not be enough to let them attack Dagukou.

Strong bones like Dagukou still have to be handed over to the privateer fleet.

So the privateer fleet was free, but it became a free working dog.

"Commander, this..." Lu Yi still wanted to persuade him.

But think about it and forget it. Zhuo Yiqing’s character is like this.

This time heading north, Zhuo Yiqing did not bring six gunboats with him.

These purely steam-powered warships did a good job, but they also ate too much.

She estimated that the warships in the harbor should be the main force of the Tsarist Russians.

Therefore, Commander Zhuo did not even go ashore and asked the gunboat detachment to stay and help defend Hakodate.

The Marine Corps that landed ashore were quickly recalled to the ship.

After replenishing some food and fresh water, we headed north in a dusty journey.

The first target they encountered was the stronghold established by Nevelsko in the southern part of Sakhalin Island.

This is a harbor at the southernmost tip of Sakhalin Island. The harbor is surrounded by mountains and forests, with very little flat land.

From a distance, you can see the temporary buildings built by the Russians on the flat land inside the harbor.

There were only a few dozen Tsarist Russians stationed on the island, and they used a small sloop as a means of transportation.

Zhuo Yiqing unceremoniously asked people to clear out these Tsarist Russians.

At the same time, dozens of soldiers were left stationed here.

Using the same simple and crude method, Zhuo Yiqing's fleet went north along the west side of Sakhalin Island, and then went south along the east coast after arriving at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River.

Along the way, two more Tsarist Russian strongholds were cleared. Both had only a few dozen people.

In fact, at this time, the entire Eastern Siberia Governor-General only had a handful of troops at its disposal.

They were under the jurisdiction of the Governor-General of Kurtsk and Eastern Siberia Muravyov.

Muravyov was Nevelskoi's admirer and direct leader.

It was he who expanded into the Heilongjiang Basin without authorization despite the opposition of the Russian Central Committee.

The center of Tsarist Russia did not want to quarrel with the Manchus at this time. They had a trade route with the Manchus through the Mongolian Plateau, which could bring them a lot of profits every year.

However, Muravyov is a man with political ambitions, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty is a stepping stone to realize his political ambitions.

He felt that the Manchus and the Ottoman Empire were both dying herbivorous beasts. If they wanted to get more meat, they had to eat it as soon as possible.

Historically, he really succeeded. He not only blocked two attacks from the British and French expeditionary fleets.

It also took advantage of the fact that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was deeply trapped in the two-front battle between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the British and French forces, and successfully penetrated its forces into the Heilongjiang Basin.

This laid the foundation for their subsequent invasion of the entire Northeast.

But this time they encountered the Chinese navy, an army that also treated the land as life.

Zhuo Yiqing felt that maybe what he defeated in Hakodate was the main force of Tsarist Russia.

It just so happened that it was time to head south.

She did not continue to explore the Heilongjiang Basin.

It just so happens that in this season, if you go further north, you may encounter ice floes, which will pose a threat to the fleet.

So the fleet began to move south. After returning to Hakodate, Zhong Runyi had already led people to support him here.

He brought a large number of people and materials to prepare for the reconstruction of the Ryukyu Hall in Hakodate.

All the surrounding Fuso people were killed by the Tsarist Russians.

Zhong Run classified the surrounding land as a concession without even consulting the shogunate.

In order to prevent this from happening again.

He applied to Dong Liang for 10,000 armed immigrants.

The so-called armed immigration is similar to the Construction Corps.

They are all composed of young adults and have received militia training.

Organize brigade and squadron units to open up wasteland and cultivate land in some newly occupied areas.

There is ready-made land around Hakodate, and there are also ready-made housing in Hakodate City.

These people can move in directly after arriving.

If the Tsarist Russians come over next time, they will not face a building garrisoned by two hundred people.

It was a Chinese city garrisoned by tens of thousands of people.

Of course, it will take some time for these people to come.

Zhong Runyi's top priority is to restore operation here.

At this time, there were still two to three hundred Tsarist Russian remnants on the island that had not been eliminated.
To be continued...