Watermelon is carefully preserved at room temperature and can be stored for 15-30 days. However, Little John and Zhixiu only brought watermelon, a fresh fruit. However, the remaining supplies were also very rich, including a large number of potatoes, dried vegetables, bacon, and salted eggs.

, miso and various pickles, as well as a small amount of live poultry, tea and taro yaki.

Although canned food was already available in the early 19th century, due to the high cost, the food of the ocean-going fleet was still mainly hard biscuits baked with unfermented flour, bacon, raisins, dried peas and wine or rum. Therefore,

After receiving supplies, the morale of the Anglo-French war fleet was greatly boosted.

However, not all supplies were welcomed. Songhua eggs, known as deviled eggs, caused interesting controversy. Sailors formed two completely different evaluations - those who liked it praised it to the sky, but more

Many English and French sailors considered it a worse food than bacon.

As for the live chickens and ducks sent aboard, in addition to being eaten by the captain and other senior bureaucrats, a few fish that slipped through the net were secretly kept as pets by the sailors, becoming a spice to their boring life at sea.

On August 29, a lot of time was delayed due to the appearance of the supply ship. Therefore, after the joint warships sailed into Avacha Bay, they only fired a few dozen cannons and ended the day's battle.

After this test, the two admirals found that Naohide's intelligence was very good, the positions of the forts were mostly accurate, and there were indeed no large ships moored in Petropavlovsk Port - neither warships nor merchant ships, and that damn Aurora

I don't know where the number went.

Because of his identity as a yellow race, Naohide's combat strategy of "attacking various ports first, and then considering landing operations" was opposed by many people, but English Admiral Plath firmly stood by Naohide. As for the reason,

Quite simply, he regarded the appearance of the supply ship and Naohide and others as a good sign for this battle.

In addition, Little John, who was very upright and straight, also played a big role in it.

As the reinforcement envoy of the Xiangjiang Squadron, he was very valued by Plath. Although John Bryan was known by his name to be a Celtic, in the Far East, all internal barriers seemed to disappear with the sea breeze.

Ask yourself, Little John dared to take a merchant ship to the north alone to support him. This is definitely an outstanding manifestation of the spirit of the English gentleman. Although Plath was restrained on the surface, he was very moved in his heart. Little John gave him the ivory-handled Colt.

The revolver he has carried with him ever since as a symbol of friendship.

Plath, who has no discrimination against straight shows, can naturally see the benefits of this plan:

First of all, after knocking out the opponent's fleet and merchant ships, the remaining ports will naturally become snacks that can be eaten at any time;

Secondly, the order he received was to protect the Pacific trade routes in North America, Australia and the Far East. The earliest plan to "storm Petropavlovsk Port" was just a helpless move due to insufficient intelligence. Now it seems that it was too hasty.

At the same time, the majority of sailors also sided with Plath. After all, the landing attack required leaving familiar ships, which sounded worrying.

Therefore, the Anglo-French joint war fleet finally adopted the combat plan of "first destroying the ships and destroying the port" - although it was different from Naohide's proposal, the essence was the same.

During the last two days of August 1854, the combined fleet's artillery shells easily destroyed Petropavlovsk's port batteries and docks, and burned a large number of buildings with their vaunted Congreve rockets before setting sail.

Go south.

"demon!"

The Combined Fleet regards Naohide as its mascot, but some people regard the Combined Fleet as a devil - this person is Muravyov who survived the catastrophe.

The Siberian governor of Lucia is now very pitiful:

The Wulong River supply plan that he had carefully planned was a great success in Naohsiu's original world. Through four voyages along the river, he added valuable troops to Lucia's territory in the North Pacific, and finally achieved the victory of "Peter" in 1854.

The brilliant victory in the Siege of Lopavlovsk.

But due to Naohide's intrusion, the first supply was taken away on June 23.

The four steamships of the White Lord were defeated. The propeller-sail hybrid battleship Dongfang and the steamboat Hope and the steam freighter Ergun were all sunk in this battle.

Although there were not many casualties except the sailors on the three ships, most of the artillery and supplies could not be saved. What is even more frightening is that without steamships, the large-scale supply plan along the river was completely bankrupt - the main forces in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Wulong River

The route totaled nearly 2,600 versts (2,800 kilometers). Without the guidance of steam ships, relying on sails and manpower, the ships sailed extremely slowly on inland rivers, making it impossible to achieve large-scale supplies in the short term.

What made him even more unbearable was that the two failures in the lower reaches of the Wulong River in June 1852 and June 1854 caused his prestige to be ruined. In the past, only the unruly Cossack cavalry challenged him from time to time, but now even Lucia's own people

Everyone has begun to question his ability!

Let's just talk about Pujiatin, the special envoy to the Far East. Everyone is the emperor's confidant and should unite and help each other. However, Pujiatin, with four warships, far exceeds the strength of the post-split Okhotsk District fleet.

How dare he take away the command of the navy in one fell swoop!

This is not because of his successive defeats in the Far East.

Although it was Pujiatin who led the fleet in the Okhotsk region to respond to him, and although he led more than a thousand people in the temple villages without food and clothing, and epidemics were rampant, he is the majestic governor of Siberia. How could you ignore Pujiatin?

The big picture!

And the bad things don't stop there. With the emergence of the Alaska gold rush, Rumi Company, an old salty fish, actually turned over and took away a lot of rights from itself. Not only was the Okhotsk District fleet divided into

Second, a large number of businessmen also fled to Alaska, which seriously weakened the strength of the Eastern Siberia Governor-General.

Unfortunately, the roof leaked and it rained all night. This year, the empire's expansion in the Europa continent encountered severe challenges. Great powers such as England and France all came to an end one after another. The war really spread to the Far East as I expected.

But why did the combined war fleet appear in Kamchatka Peninsula?

Shouldn't you give priority to attacking gold-producing Alaska?

This time, although he was sure of repelling the enemy's attack, his subordinates and the people lacked confidence in him, which forced him to take many tough measures, which caused a lot of dissatisfaction.

The prospect is not good. If unfortunately he is defeated, his position as governor of Siberia will probably be over. But even if he wins, he will be in ruins afterwards.

However, he had prepared a clever plan, which would surely defeat the Anglo-French allied forces this time.

But I never expected that before the clever plan could be implemented, the enemy fleet actually left!

Muravyov broke out and cursed, and everyone around him fell silent and exchanged glances. "The governor's temper is getting more and more irritable day by day. It's really worrying."

Muravyov's premonition was correct. After leaving Kamchatka, the combined war fleet did not stop here, but began to sweep across Rusia's important ports in the northern part of the Whale Sea:

In the early morning of September 11, the fleet suddenly appeared in the port of Okhotsk in the northern part of the Whale Sea.

Because of the rise of Petropavlovsk, Okhotsk has begun to decline. There are only less than 2,000 people in the entire town, and its defenses are extremely weak.

Moreover, the combined war fleet finally blocked the Aurora, which was chasing after it, and also caught a big fish - the Okhotsk District Fleet led by Puyatin.

Including the Aurora and the four warships brought to the Far East by Pujiatin, the Okhotsk District Fleet only consists of four gunboats, three armed transport ships, six high-speed communication ships and other small ships, and they are all sailing warships.

, the bullets fired were also solid bullets.

The combined war fleet consisted of 4 main battleships, 1 light gunboat, 1 armed transport ship, 1 steamship and 4 small steam warships owned by the White Lord.

Although the numerical comparison is 13:11, the Lucians are far inferior to their opponents in terms of overall tonnage and weapons. As for the mastery of tactics and skills, the invincible Imperial navy at this time is far beyond them. In addition,

The bonus of the early morning raid made the battle situation one-sided from the beginning.

The Aurora, which attracted a lot of hatred, was the first to be set on fire, and soon turned into a burning sea torch. All its masts were broken, and it could only wait desperately for destruction.

In the end, the Lucians only escaped on three ships. They were the flagship Barlada brought to the Far East by Pujartin, the high-speed communication ship Diana, and the armed transport ship left behind by the deposed Captain Nevelskoy.

The "Baikal" - the "Diana" and the "Baikal" all escaped by speed, while the Barlada escaped only because Pugatin saw the opportunity and asked other ships to desperately cover it. Although it escaped successfully, it still failed.

covered in wounds.

This naval battle can be said to be a complete victory, but the White Navy achieved very little - apart from lighting a few forts, the only result was the sinking of a small boat. They were rowing throughout the battle and were completely helpless.

Participate in a head-to-head battle with the Grand Fleet.

After the great victory, Admiral Plath of England was very high-spirited. He first asked the steam cruiser to take the four small steam warships of the White Lord to continue chasing the enemy ships. Then he gave an order, and under the cover of the naval guns, a group of sailors formed

The Marines began to land, quickly defeated the sparse defenders, and then fully occupied Okhotsk.

As soon as the war began, Naohide consciously became spectators with Little John and Egawa Hidetoshi - the supply ship of Xianheng Company was commanded by its own captain, and the three of them were left on Admiral Plath's flagship to stand by.

Yingmin was speechless after watching it, but Little John and Naohsiu were not much better. This was the first time they had seen such a sea battle. The three of them were speechless after watching it, with all kinds of thoughts tumbling in their hearts.

On September 11, the combined war fleet destroyed most of the Russian fleet in the Okhotsk region and successfully captured Okhotsk.

On September 15, another important Rusian port, Ayan, was also captured.

On September 17, the English steam cruiser chasing the enemy met at Ayan as planned and brought the good news of annihilating the remnants of the enemy navy.

It turned out that Pujiating took three boats and fled to Ayang first, and then rushed to Miaotun to hide.

Originally this plan was good, but the British Pacific War Fleet had insufficient information about the Far East. These people had not read Siebold's book "Fuso", so they did not know the existence of the Mamiya Strait.

In Naohide's original world, Rusia's Governor Muravyov took advantage of his opponent's lack of intelligence and escaped from the pursuit of the joint war fleet through the Mamiya Strait the next year. Not only did he save the Okhotsk District Fleet, but also

Successfully evacuated large numbers of people.

But this time it didn't work. The White Lord's ships led the way. Between the Wulong River Estuary and Miaotun, the English steam cruiser and the White Lord's four small steam warships finally bit the enemy. After a fierce battle, Balla

The Da, Diana and Baikal were all sunk. At this point, Lucia's navy in the Far East was basically completely wiped out.

The only pity is that the special envoy of Lucia and Fuso, Pujiating, is missing.

Failing to capture any important figures, Nakahama Manjiro led the English steam cruiser north to vent his anger, and burned Nikolayevsk, which had finally recovered, to ashes again.

However, although Pujiatin was not captured, the two admirals of the joint war fleet did not mind this, because the results of the battle were brilliant enough. The annihilation of the Okhotsk District Fleet perfectly completed the primary task. Besides, Peter

Isn't there a Siberian governor in Lopavlovsk? It's okay to arrest him.

On September 20, on the way back to the Kamchatka Peninsula, the combined war fleet smoothly wiped out the largest settlement of the Ruthians on North Ezoti Island. In 1765, the Ruthians began operating at the northern end of the big island.

When convicts were allowed to mine coal here, there were actually hundreds of people living here.

Seeing the Lucians fleeing in all directions, the sailors got on the boats and went ashore, sweeping away all their belongings. The remaining houses were burned to the ground, and hundreds of years of hard work came to nothing in one day!

On September 29, 1854, a month later, the United War Fleet launched another fierce attack on Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka. At this time, Russia's remaining important strongholds in Beiping were also destroyed.
Chapter completed!