The battle of Woidetun was over, and Zhixiu was not surprised by the victory.

There are too many favorable conditions, advanced weapons, strict training, reasonable tactics and preset battlefields. More importantly, as long as there is a fair chance, those who fight for a better future can always defeat the bandits.

For Naohide, what is more difficult than fighting is how to convince everyone to fight this war before it starts.

After all, there are only a few hundred people in the White Lord Shrine. Facing a giant like Lucia, Naohideo said that few people really support him.

The first is the question of whether you can win by fighting or not.

Everyone in Fuso kept talking about kamikaze, God's blessing, and samurai living to death. In fact, it was because Kazuto knew his own situation very well. He was a small country and weak, so he could not rely on his strength, so he could only hope for miracles.

Bai Zhu gathered together Fuso people who knew the most about the world at this time - there were a large number of relevant books in Xiangxue, and Naohide and his group had been studying Western knowledge, and the more they knew about it, the more they could understand the differences.

The gap between the Lucian Empire, known as the military police of Europe, and the White Lord's Sanctuary is as vast as heaven and earth.

For this kind of panic caused by understanding, even if Naohideo talked about a lot of the weaknesses of this clay-footed giant, such as backward weapons, discord between officers and soldiers, outdated tactics, etc., it could not dispel everyone's worries.

This shows the foresight of Zhixiu when he visited Miaotun in June last year. Although the fight was across the river, it was a real conflict after all. At that time, the Lucians were indeed using muzzle-loading guns. I don’t know whether they had smoothbore or not.

At that time, the squadron was uninjured and several enemies were killed, which supports the theory that the Lucians' weapons were backward.

The information obtained by Hori Naoyoshi and Datou when they were trading with the tribe last time also confirmed from the side that the number of opponents was indeed small.

Everyone carefully considered the advanced Western ordnance and other capabilities in their hands, compared the intelligence, and based on the results of the staff deduction, the chances of winning were indeed greater.

But being able to defeat the enemy at the mouth of the Wulong River does not mean that he can defeat the Eastern Siberian Governor of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Muravyov has about a thousand standing troops and six gunboats, especially the gunboats, against which there is no regular warfare.

The threat from the white master of the ship is too great.

In this regard, Naohide believed that the White Lord would definitely be able to hold on. The gunboats were a threat, but they were not invincible.

According to information from the original world, the current Russian fleet is officially called the Okhotsk Sea Fleet. Since 1849, its home port has been the Port of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula. It has 2 gunboats and 4 armed transport ships.

, 5 small sailing boats.

Fortunately, the Okhotsk Sea Fleet has not received much attention since its establishment. It has only maintained the security of the Russian Far East coast and protected merchant ships. It has been short of funds, resulting in many ships being in disrepair and their weapons being very outdated.

The ship is equipped with all old-fashioned front-loading smoothbore artillery. There is no bombardment gun, also known as the famous Pexan gun, and they still fire solid shells. The optimal range is about 500 meters, and the effective range is 1,000 meters and 500 meters.

About 300 meters, Shi Xing can definitely fight with it.

The artillery currently owned by Lord Bai is four famous Mi-type 3-inch rifled guns. These guns are not only light and safe, but also have a very high hit rate. The only problem is that they are still loaded in the front chamber.

Originally, the Ordnance gun was supposed to pass the test of the American army on June 25, 1861, but Naohide developed it in the United States in advance. The reason why Nakahama Manjiro returned a year late was because of this treasure.

Its process mainly adopts the hollow casting process, and the focus is to first use a machine tool to wrap five layers of iron bars around the mandrel.

The standard barrel weight of the Ordnance gun is 820 pounds. When using 1 pound of propellant, the maximum range of a 9-pound grenade fired at an elevation angle of 10 degrees can reach 2788 yards.

The range can reach 3972 yards when launched.

Due to the different levels of hull rocking and protection, the naval gun is at a disadvantage in the exchange of fire with the fort. In addition, the 3-inch rifled gun has advantages in range, shell type and accuracy. This is why Zhixiu is not afraid of the Lucian warship.

s reason.

Moreover, Muravyov, the governor of East Siberia, may not necessarily send a ship to attack the White Lord - news deception is one of the reasons. The execution office has been showing off under the banner of rice ships, but another more important reason is that Muravyov did not

He has received formal authorization for foreign war, which means that the fleet may not necessarily obey his orders to attack Fuso territory.

Since Columbus discovered America on August 3, 1492, he led three sailing ships built with the Queen's jewelry for sale. Countless adventurers have appeared in the external expansion of European countries. They dared to attack cities with hundreds of people and commanded generals.

A few thousand people dare to start a war with an indigenous nation.

From the conqueror Hernán Cortés to the plunderer Pizarro, these so-called generals often conquered and destroyed without authorization. This custom of making their own decisions and then talking about it after doing it has continued to this day.

Captain Neveskoy, who was exploring the Wulong River Estuary, actually did not receive official authorization. He only received the support of Menshikov, Chief of the Naval General Staff, and Menshikov’s decision was not reported to the emperor, so the expedition to Ukraine was

The Longjiang Estuary was actually an internal illegal operation for Lusia.

Before Neviskoy, Rusia had explored the mouth of the Wulong River and concluded that "big ships cannot pass it." Therefore, Nicholas I once decided that "it is a pity that the Amur River is useless, so the issue of the Amur River should be shelved."

No discussion." Afterwards, Foreign Minister Nesserrodie informed Admiral Wrangel, general manager of the Russian-American Company in charge of the Far East, that "the Amur problem should be over forever, and all exchanges can cause relations between China and Russia.

Unpleasant documents should be kept secret."

Menshikov, the chief of naval staff who supported the inspection, once told Captain Neveskoy: If discovered, he would reply that "the ship was blown to the mouth of the Amur River by the rapids and the strong winds that often blow here."

After Neviskoy surveyed the deep-water channel at the mouth of the Wulong River in 1849, although the Special Committee did not punish him due to the intervention of the emperor, it did not give him any reward. On February 3, 1850, Nicholas I gave instructions.

"Establish a winter camp near the southwestern coast of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk to facilitate trade with the Kiryaks, but in no case should it involve the Amur River and the bayou area."

However, due to the persuasion of the Governor of Eastern Siberia Muravyov, Nicholas I later overturned the resolution of the Special Committee and awarded the Order of Neviskoi, stating that "no matter where the flag of Rusia is raised, it cannot be raised again."

Come down".

The subsequent series of Russian expansions in Wulongjiang and Huatai were all just a chain reaction caused by the adventurous activities of the governor of Eastern Siberia and this captain - the ministers at that time were influenced by the Slavic trend, and most of them tended to expand to the Balkan Peninsula of Europe.

, they have little interest in the bitter cold lands of the East.

Before the end of the Crimean War in 1856, Naohide's opponent was only Muravyov, the governor of Eastern Siberia in Rusia. And before Nicholas I ordered the invasion of the Danube River Basin on June 21, 1853, the White Lord had no choice but to

When attacking Lucia's territory in the Far East, as long as the clay-footed giant's nerves are not overly stimulated, the only enemies he will face are one thousand standing troops and six gunboats under Muravyov.

Facing Muravyov, an adventurer, the White Lord can only gain four years of precious breathing space by cutting off his ambitions. This is why Naohide believes that he must fight.

Speaking of these crazy adventurers, the protagonist of the black ship's visit next year, American Commodore Matthew Perry, is also one of them - the order given to him before departure was clearly not to provoke a war, but he actually threatened the shogunate with war.

thereby reaping huge benefits.

The main reason why there are so many adventurers is poor communication. Most of the information from the rear basically comes from the feedback from the front line. That's not to say what it is - as long as you win the battle and take advantage, everything is easy to talk about.

As the head of the White House and the head of the family, Naohide has a high prestige, so he is also qualified to be an adventurer.

After the fight, we could withstand the retaliation later, so everyone reluctantly agreed to go to war.

As for the shogunate's accountability, everyone is less worried about it than going to war against the Lucians. The reasons are:

Firstly, there are too many things that are prohibited by the White Lord. It doesn’t make a big difference if there is more or less. What’s more, the sky is high and the distance is as far as the sky, so you can get away with it by bluffing. If it doesn’t work, there is still a straight show top tank;

Second, everyone in the White House has a tendency to cause trouble. They are very excited to be able to participate in such an earth-shattering event. They feel as if they are witnessing history and making history. Except for Naoxiu, no one in the office is doing it.

Those who stood out under the shogunate system had a certain market for their treacherous ideas, and the reputation of the Lucians was too bad. In Fuso, fighting against Lucians was a kind of political correctness;

Moreover, these group leaders had a vague feeling: If the White Lord can defeat the Lucians, then the shogunate may not be able to do anything good against the White Lord.

After getting the backbone, Naohide used another method for ordinary ashigaru - coaxing, "This trip north is for military training. The Lucians will go south sooner or later, so everyone must prepare early."

Of course, there are some clever people in Ashigaru who feel something is not right, but their perspective and intelligence are not enough, and they cannot figure out the reason even if they try hard, so naturally they cannot firmly resist the order of the group leader.

After the Battle of Woidetun was over, all the questions and doubts naturally disappeared because of the complete victory of the practice - at least for the time being.

Everyone was happily cleaning the battlefield and arranging armaments, while Naohide led the Ainu disguised as Mi people to judge the prisoners.

The order issued before the war started was to kill without mercy. Originally, there should not be any prisoners, but this prisoner was somewhat special. He was a priest.

It is a custom in Europe to bring a priest with the army, and the Lucians are not exempt from the custom. This priest was caught by the Hezhe people on the way to escape, because the locals are pantheists and worship nature and gods. The Hezhe people who have been to the temple

Don't dare to kill him after you catch him.

You cannot hold back during battle, but you cannot dispose of tied up enemies at will, otherwise it will have the wrong impact. The so-called unknown killings and prisoners can easily cause soldiers to doubt the justice of their own position, thus damaging the credibility of the organization.

If you catch him, just catch him, so that you can further confirm the enemy's situation.

Since the Lucians were considered to be the formidable enemy, White Lord's people were all learning their opponents' language, but Naohideo was the most fluent, so he personally took charge of communication.

The priest's name was Peter, a slovenly middle-aged man who had never seen much of the world, so after Nao Hide threatened him, he confessed everything.

Since the Nikolayevsk post was established in August 1850, the Governor of Eastern Siberia Muravyov has attached great importance to this place and sent a total of half an infantry company of 90 people, a Cossack cavalry company of 100 people, some sailors and some immigrants.

They were stationed at the Miaotun outpost and the Pyrov winter camp - there were 25 Cossacks and ten sailors in the winter camp.

Although the Lucian bandits were very cruel, they respected the priest very much, so Peter knew a lot of information about them.

According to what Peter said, the staff calculated that if what he said was true, then there were 45 infantrymen and more than a dozen private adventurers in Miaotun - actually merchants who were part-time bandits, and 35 soldiers in the winter camp.
Chapter completed!