Chapter 509 New World, we are here! (please order, please vote)
"Boom boom boom"
When the thick fog in the Alexandria Islands was torn through the gap by the chain bomb, Yu Dabao was using a telescope imported from the UK to observe the island covered by thick fog directly in front of it. In the haze in the telescope, three orange flames suddenly burst out-
It was the Russians setting up a 12-pound cannon on Chichagov Island that was firing.
"Damn it, the Russians here are much more vigilant than the Dutch Port!" Yu Dabao put away his telescope, then pulled open his mink cloak to reveal the two rows of wooden-handled nipple grenades inserted in the lining.
Ten modified small whaling ships advanced by the low tide and undercurrent. The corner of the bow broke through the ups and downs, and the chain bombs fired from the shore flew over them roaringly. Yu Dabao was half-squatting in the lead from the Aleutian Islands.
On the deck of the small whaling ship stolen from the Dutch Harbor, a nickel grenade was tightly clutched in his palm. The outline of the beach bunker dozens of steps away gradually emerged, and the Cossacks were shaking behind the chest wall made of rotten wood.
The shadow of the hat.
"put!"
With his order, a cyclone cannon installed at the bow of a whaling ship had spit out a tongue of flames. This kind of whaling cannon is actually a small-caliber smoothbore cannon that can be stuffed into a harpoon and then fired with gunpowder.
Go out and pierce the whale's body. But today it was loaded with lead projectiles, and ten such cannons roared together, and 200 lead bullets shot into the wooden chest wall to shoot wood chips everywhere.
"Battle the beach. Brother Tian bless us!"
Yu Dabao kicked the baffle on the bow, and dozens of Taiping soldiers took advantage of the Cossacks on the shore to retreat into the chest wall to avoid shelling, shouting loudly and jumping into the cold knee-deep sea water, stepping on the sea water,
The bullets fired from the shore rushed towards the beach. From time to time, someone was hit by the bullets fired from the shore, screaming and tremblingly falling on the beaches of America.
But more Taiping Heavenly Warriors still rushed towards the beach of Chichagov Island without hesitation. Before they left Vladivostok, the lecturer who accompanied the army had already told them that it was the will of Brother Tian to march to the New World!
Yu Dabao took a torch from an artilleryman and lit the lead of the grenade held in his hand, and then threw it out to the Russian fortress on the beach, blowing out a ball of fire and smoke.
After a few grenades filled with salt sugar charges, he also jumped into the cold sea water. After walking a few steps, he met Wang Tieniu, the platoon leader of the advance team, groaning and holding a few pieces.
The grenade's red tassel spear fell to his knees, and his left leg was cut by a sharp reef under the water with a bloody wound.
"Get up quickly and don't squat on the beach!" Yu Dabao helped the old guy who followed him from Hunan, "Brother Tian asked you to come to the New World, but you didn't ask you to be a target for the Russians to shoot.
"Then he lit the leads of several grenades tied to the red tassel gun with the torch in his hand, and shouted again: "Kill the Russians, go to heaven!"
Wang Tieniu stood up with Yu Dabao's support, and heard the slogan "Kill the Russians and go to heaven". The "Hunan Old Changmao" instantly felt that his blood was burning, and he limped forward first.
After rushing for a few steps, he roared and swung the red tassel gun to throw it at the chest wall on the beach. The 1845-type smoothbore gun that had just stretched out from behind the chest wall had not yet been fired, and several grenades on the red tassel gun had already exploded, and five people were killed.
The Russian army was so bloody that the rest of the Cossacks still fought to the death, using their smoothbore guns to keep firing.
The Taiping Army who rushed to the beach kept getting shot and fell down, and they were sleeping on the beach of the New World.
"Boom boom boom"
A few roars of giant cannons came from behind Yu Dabao and Wang Tieniu - this was the steam ship Manniu on the sea, and the 32-pound cannon on the Pondicherry was showing its power!
As the sun gradually climbed into the sky, the fog covering the coast of Chichagov Island had dispersed, and the troop transport ships on the sea could finally use giant cannons to support the warriors of the heaven who were landing.
Although all these shells were empty and landed behind the Russian beachhead fortress, the huge fireballs and strong smoke greatly inspired the morale of the landing Taiping soldiers.
The cry of "killing the Russians and going to heaven" instantly resounded through the sky. The warriors of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rushed to the beach where only dozens of Cossacks were stationed like a tide, and completely submerged them in a blink of an eye.
Yu Dabao supported Wang Tieniu, followed the group of people, stepped on the crater on the beach, and stepped on the body of Cossack, and rushed into the castle made of logs by the Rakshasa people. The two suddenly heard the woman's crying.
Howled, and then followed the sound and found a solid wooden house made of logs. Yu Dabao kicked open the pine wood door. In the dimly lit house, only a dozen thin clothes tied by ropes were seen.
Aleutian woman, curled up on the bed filled with smell and smell of alcohol.
"What a sin." Wang Tieniu, who knew where this was, pulled off a Russian flag and wrapped the body of a trembling indigenous girl. She looked less than twelve years old. And Yu Dabao
I noticed that there was a portrait of Hong Xiuquan on the walls of the wooden house!
Thousands of miles away, Luo Yaoguo turned his brass globe gently, his eyes staying in the British Victoria area next to the Alexandria Islands, where a small "gold letter" cut out of yellow paper was pasted - not long ago,
A group of Irish people who believed in the True Covenantism discovered a gold mine near a bay there under the guidance of the "Angel Prophecy"!
Luo Yaoguo picked up a brush dipped in cinnabar and drew a circle in the Alexandria Islands. The tip of the pen pointed directly at the Victoria region and the frontiers of the northwest of America: "We really need to let Yang Xiuqing take a good look at what the real Heavenly Father descended to earth."
Kamchatka Peninsula, the Pacific coastline east of Petropavlovsk, early in the morning of May 15.
Gunshots were scattered and never stopped. The sea outside the Avaca Bay where the Petropavlovsk Fortress was located was a busy scene. The huge structure of twenty-eight steamships and sailboats
The ships were flooding the water and transporting supplies. Petropavlovsk is a fortress port. There is a Signal Mountain Fortress on the south side of the port and a Nikolai Mountain Fortress on the north side of the port. The Russian army deployed both fortresses.
The artillery positions, one south and one north, form cross firepower, which can effectively block the port.
Therefore, the British, French and Chinese coalition forces from afar could not land directly in the port, and could not even enter Avaca Bay, and could only land on the beach on the Pacific coast outside Avaca Bay.
Fortunately, the Russian army was not strong enough to set up a long line of defense, so they could only hide around the Petropavlovsk Fortress and protect the port area. As for other places, they were completely empty and prepared.
However, there is not much time left for Zuo Zongtang. The Kamchatka Peninsula close to the Arctic is like this. It only thawed in April and May, and it is cold again in September and October.
If Zuo Zongtang wants to break through this fortress guarded by the Russians, he can only exert force within more than four months between mid-to-late May and September! If he can't fight, then the British and French can do it.
I don’t know how powerful the Taiping Army is.
Therefore, Luo Yaoguo had issued a strict order in his letter to Zuo Zongtang, asking him to take down the Petropavlovsk Fortress before the arrival of autumn - this is a very big bargaining chip!
The more outstanding the Taiping Army performed against the Russians, the more chips Luo Yaoguo had in his hands and the harder his back when he was dealing with the great powers.
After all, military strength is the foundation of today's world!
What was the best for this industrialization in the 19th century? Can it be fought?
Under Zuo Zongtang's supervision, the Taiping Army did have a spirit of 120% of its spirits and worked like crazy. No one rested on the sea and land all night. The infantry of the two regiments had already arrived.
Lu and materials also began to be refuted. Zuo Zongtang and Yu Wanqing were also landing all night and personally directed the army to land.
The Taiping Army of the brigade has begun to assemble. Everyone has carried engineer shovels, ready to drive out the harassed Russian troops around and dig trenches to establish a consolidated position. Although the Russian army did not place troops here to defend, they still released a small number of them.
The Cossack whistle. They harassed and fired guns all night, trying to restrain the Taiping Army's landing movements. There is no doubt that the Russian army here has long been ready to fight the British and French coalition forces.
After a night, Zuo Zongtang and Yu Wanqing's eyes were red. They both sat on a pile of wooden boxes, listening to the staff's report on the login.
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"Marty, in five days, our army's two brigades and four regiments, plus artillery, will all be on the land and attack the Petropavlovsk Fortress!"
Yu Wanqing nodded with satisfaction. He relayed more than 10,000 people in four days to transport landing troops, which was already a miraculous speed. Apart from this Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Expeditionary Force, there is probably no second army in the entire China that can do it.
With such elite troops, isn’t it easy to capture the Petropavlovsk Fortress?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile proudly.
Zuo Zongtang frowned: "It's still a little hungry."
Yu Wanqing looked at him in surprise, and Zuo Zongtang said lightly: "Today is the fifteenth day, and there are five more days to twenty days. It took six days to transport more than 10,000 people.
When we get ashore, there are still a large number of supplies that have not been ashore! If we want to get all of them, it will probably take ten days to go up. It will be slower! If we have to prepare for a protracted battle for several months or even more than a year, it will definitely not work to rely on the water supply on the beach.
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"What? One year goes up?" Yu Wanqing was startled by Zuo Zongtang's words, "Wouldn't you want to spend the winter in this ghost place?"
Zuo Zongtang smiled and nodded: "Lao Yu, you are right. We just need to be prepared to spend the winter! Because only when the preparation lasts for a long time can there be hope for a quick decision!"
Chapter completed!