The signing of the "Paris Agreement" marked the official end of the Crimean War as World War Zero.
The Russian army lost more than 522,000 people, the Turkish army lost nearly 96,000 people, the French army lost 95,000 people, and the British army lost 102,000 people. Russia spent about 800 million rubles on this war, and the Allies spent about 600 million rubles.
This war also promoted many technological advances.
The Crimean War can be regarded as the first modern war in world history. It was the beginning of modern scientific and technological warfare. It was an important stage in the history of the development of military weapons and military academics. It played a role in promoting the further development of artillery, firearms and mine weapons.
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Many new means of warfare have appeared on the stage of history, and technology has become an important factor in determining the outcome of a war. Before that, manpower was considered to be the decisive factor.
Technological inventions such as new rifled rifles, steam-powered battleships, railways, and wired telegraphs played an important role in the war.
This was the first time in history that British and French leaders and military departments used wired telegraphs to direct war from thousands of miles away.
Cable telegraph also allowed the mass media to transmit war situations in real time. The war was no longer far away from the public, and public opinion had a profound impact on the course of the war.
The process of the war was eagerly reported by various countries. In order to win the support of the people, various countries had to take corresponding measures.
The military logistics system has developed into an independent department, and engineering support, field medical care, and logistics transportation capabilities have been greatly improved.
The French army unified the clock to correct the time to attack the Malakoff Fortress, which was a major invention in the art of command.
After this war, all military powers accelerated the elimination of old equipment, abandoned smoothbore weapons and wooden sail warships, and engaged in new technology arms races in an attempt to defeat their opponents with asymmetric technological advantages.
Before this, except for the navy, no country particularly cared about technological advantages on land.
Countries have different understandings of war and different conclusions. Britain believes that steam-powered warships have huge advantages. In order to defend maritime hegemony, Britain has always been at the forefront of naval armament innovation.
France believed that the new rifle had the most combat effectiveness, so it vigorously researched the new rifle.
During the Crimean War, no military strategists were able to adapt to this technological advancement, and some even performed poorly.
This is also a problem that has always existed in military history. Tactics always lag behind technology. The tragic tragedies of the two wars are related to this problem, especially the First World War.
It can be seen that, philosophically speaking, objective reality determines subjective consciousness, while technology is objective and tactics are subjective.
The Fuxing Army's participation in the war greatly changed Westerners' understanding of the Chinese people since the Qing Dynasty.
The establishment of the Fuxing Army Field Hospital showed the Chinese civilization to Westerners.
After returning to their home countries, the wounded treated by Fuxing Army field hospitals told their personal experiences to the people around them.
So when Britain and France were ready to send troops to declare war on the Renaissance Army, they even encountered opposition from their own people.
Of course, this time also played a huge role in promoting the emerging pharmaceutical export industry of the Fuxing Army.
After the propaganda of this war, medicine became China's fourth largest export industry after silk, tea and porcelain.
The end of this war was also the time when the strategic focus of the two major European powers, Britain and France, shifted.
After solving the problem in the west, Britain and France turned their attention to carving up colonies around the world.
And when they came back to their senses, they discovered that the Far East had changed beyond recognition. It was no longer an object they could carve up at will.
In the past two years, the Renaissance Army has overthrown the Tatar court from being a local warlord.
The Renaissance Army has become the helm of a major eastern country. This is not what Britain and France want to see.
They are more like Xia Huan, a corrupt, weak and easily bullied Manqing.
But the Renaissance Army rose too quickly, and their actions were so rapid that even Britain and France had no time to react.
When they first learned about this incident, they could only reluctantly acquiesce to this outcome.
The war in Crimea seriously affected the power presence of Britain and France in the East.
Much of the power that was originally intended to be projected to the East was projected to the Crimea region.
At the same time, because of the Crimean War, anti-war sentiment was already very high in Britain and France. At this time, no war could be provoked again in the East under any circumstances.
What's more, the Renaissance Army joined the coalition forces in the Crimean War in advance.
As allies, Britain and France had even less reason to go to war in the East.
In the past two years, the Renaissance Army took advantage of the laxity of Britain and France in the east and successfully completed its layout in Southeast Asia.
Not only in the Malay Peninsula, but also in Borneo, a large number of farms were established and its influence was penetrated into those places.
It also supports a large number of Chinese forces. Some of these forces have established their own countries, and some have established their own city-states.
Some dominate as a force and control the local economic lifeline.
But without exception, they all have their own weapons.
The time when the colonists treated the Chinese as fat sheep has passed.
Now they either have to arm the local natives, or they will never be able to deal with the Chinese at will again.
According to the report submitted by Nanyang to Xinjing, there are now nine Chinese countries in Nanyang with more than 100,000 Chinese. The least among them has more than 1,000 troops.
The largest Chinese country is still Lan Fang Kingdom. They have Pontianak and Singkawang as their two main ports, and Dongwanlu as their capital.
The populations of these three major cities have reached more than 100,000, and they are absolutely dominated by Chinese.
With the support of the Renaissance Army, the Lanfang Republic's army has reached seven divisions with a total of 60,000 people, and it also has a large number of militiamen.
Under Lanfang's rule, not only the Han people, but also many local tribes joined the Lanfang Republic.
They did not come for nothing, but brought their original territory to join the Lanfang Republic.
It is through this method that the area of Lanfang Country has more than doubled than before.
The land that the Dutch had originally taken away from the natives was now back in the hands of the Lan Fang Kingdom.
The entire middle and lower reaches of the Kunjiang River are now under the control of Lanfang State, and the local natives must either surrender to Lanfang or be wiped out.
The scattered small forces could not resist Lan Fang's army. No one could have imagined that the united Chinese people had such a powerful force.
They even directly fought against the Dutch. But the Dutch, who had long since declined, were no match for the Lanfang Republic on land.
Although their navy was much stronger than that of Lan Fang, the Dutch did not dare to take action at sea.
Because as long as they attack at sea, Lanfang may send troops to eliminate the Dutch power on land.
The Dutch could only retreat to a few ports in southeastern Borneo.
The Lanfang Republic also negotiated an armistice with the Dutch in a timely manner under the auspices of China.
Peace is beneficial to both parties, and business must continue as usual.
The Dutch are doing some reselling business anyway, so just let the Lanfang people continue to cooperate with them to ensure the supply of goods for the Dutch.
Of course, the Renaissance Army also occupied a lot of land in Lanfang Country. At the beginning, the Chinese in Lanfang sold all the land close to the indigenous people to the Renaissance Army to establish overseas farms.
Now these farms have long expanded into huge farms managing tens of millions of acres of land.
Of course, the number of employees on these farms is also an astonishing number.
These people are now considered the population of Lanfang, and they have dual identities of Lanfang and Huaxia.
Because Lanfang is a vassal state of China, Lanfang's identity is also recognized in China.
It is precisely because of the addition of these farm populations that Lan Fangguo's power has expanded so rapidly.
Now, there are Chinese countries on almost all the major islands in Southeast Asia.
For example, Bangka Island on the edge of Sumatra established a Chinese country based on the original Palembang.
There are many other countries with Chinese people like this.
The Chinese in the past were not without ambition, they were just too afraid of the colonists.
Also, the Chinese are not united with each other.
Now we have the big brother of the Renaissance Army taking the lead.
The country they established can get the support of the Renaissance Army, and can become a vassal state of China and receive protection.
Many big Chinese families have seen opportunities for their families to move forward.
No matter whether these people are doing it for their own families or for the interests of the Chinese people.
Their actions actually enhanced the status of the Chinese in Nanyang.
This is exactly what Dong Shuheng wants to see.
When the British re-examine the Nanyang region, they will find that things have changed here.
This place has become a Chinese world.
Now the Dutch can only hide in the port cities they control and do business with the Chinese honestly.
The situation in France was even worse. In the Indochina region that the French had been plotting, except for a corner of the Nguyen Dynasty, Nanzhang and Chenla had previously become provinces of the Renaissance Army.
The Renaissance Army, which has extended its tentacles to Indochina, has established a new order throughout Indochina.
Under the threat of the Fuxing Army, both Siam and the Nguyen Dynasty could only remain as their younger brothers with peace of mind.
When they come back again, the British will find that their pearl, India, has become dusty. The Taiping Kingdom is like a nail stuck in the forehead of British India.
The British are constantly being bled.
After defeating the first counterattack of the British Indian authorities.
Shi Dakai began the construction of the Assam region.
Dong Shuheng readily agreed to them and sold them some backward production capacity.
Because he knew that Britain and France had begun to equip a new breech-loading gun, Dong Shuheng also began to export the Type 53 rifle to the Taiping Holy Army.
At the same time, he also ordered the Changjiang security guards in North America to be equipped with rear-loading guns.
Since others have it, it's no longer a secret.
However, smokeless gunpowder is still an important secret of the Renaissance Army. All output breech-loading guns use black powder.
However, Dong Shuheng knew that smokeless gunpowder would be unlocked in a few years. Because there are many people in Europe who can manufacture smokeless gunpowder. But they lack an opportunity, a method that can make smokeless gunpowder more stable.
The first major project Shi Da started was to widen the road connecting Tengchong Prefecture controlled by the Renaissance Army.
Now he has a lot of free labor on his hands. You can also call these people slaves.
With these people, the Han and Dai people under Shi Dakai could be liberated to carry out agricultural or industrial production activities.
Chen Yucheng led some of his elite men to attack everywhere, constantly causing trouble in the Ganges River Basin controlled by the British.
They took away everything useful, including the population. Not only that, they also destroyed all the infrastructure the British had built here.
Even part of the railway that the British had just built had its tracks removed by Chen Yucheng's people.
The Calcutta authorities hated the Taiping Holy Army with gnashing of teeth.
However, after their previous disastrous defeat, they were unable to muster more strength to deal with the Taiping Holy Army in a short period of time.
Those feudal states were able to assemble a large number of armies, but after they were sent out, they all ended up giving lives to the Taiping Holy Army.
Chen Yucheng became more and more skilled in commanding operations, and his army became more and more elite.
Especially after they fought against the British army, it was as if they had been reborn.
The bravery and fearlessness of the British line infantry on the battlefield impressed these Taiping soldiers deeply.
If Chen Yucheng hadn't had the advantage of military strength and suppressed the enemy's artillery, then Chen Yucheng might not have been able to defeat these British troops.
Calcutta is very strange. After winning the war, the Taiping Holy Kingdom did not occupy much territory, but still clung to the Assam region.
It only occupied some strategic locations around it as a barrier to the Assam region.
They seem to be fighting only for plunder. This is why Calcutta has not yet gone all out to fight the Taiping Holy Kingdom.
Governor Razim has reported what happened here to the mainland.
He made no secret of his fault, because in the eyes of the people in the parliament, any explanation was a meaningless excuse.
Razim's report was very long, starting with how the rebels entered the Assam region, their weapons and equipment, and his speculation on the source of these weapons and equipment.
All the evidence points to the FNA.
Razim did not want the British Empire to go to war with the Baath Army.
Because through the battle with these Taiping Holy Army, he could infer that the Renaissance Army's combat effectiveness was stronger.
So if Britain has to travel thousands of miles here to fight the Renaissance Army, then this may not necessarily be a good thing for Britain.
Perhaps it was a disaster, a disaster that brought the British Empire to its downfall.
Razim is a very mature politician, as a British aristocrat. He sincerely hopes that Britain will always be so strong. Unlike some people who only focus on their own money bags and other people's wallets.
Well, he just can't stand those capitalists who are only interested in profit.
Chen Yucheng's looting operation not only provided countless manpower to the rear, but also provided Shi Dakai with sufficient funds.
Under Dong Shuheng's promise of "I'll sell it if I can afford it," Shi Dakai quickly established his own arsenal, steel plant, and shipyard in the Holy Capital City, the hinterland of Assam.