The Dongfang Telegraph Network established by Xiao Letian was indeed a strange phenomenon in the 19th century. The heavily invested undersea telegraph network and countless carefully trained spy ships jointly woven a skynet on the sea. hp://772e6f742e6f%6
In the era without radio, this communication mode that combines manpower and cables has indeed reached the forefront of the times. At least from a strategic level, Xiao Letian attached great importance to it, even more than the British Empire.
There are countless sparsely populated islands in the sea, which seem to be of little value, but there is often a transmitting base station here. The cables under the sea are far from being single or several as Europeans imagined, but are arranged according to the island division. The net covers the coastal areas of Qing Dynasty and other places.
Every island with a transceiver will be equipped with more than two small spy ships, which ensures that certain communication support can be obtained within a radius of 100 kilometers from the center of the island.
It is precisely because of the countless such telegraph base stations and the support of countless disguised spy ships that Xiao Letian on the high seas can grasp the battle situation and issue new combat orders in a timely manner.
Primitive, indeed very primitive. This communication method is of course inefficient, but everything depends on comparison. Something is better than nothing. Xiao Letian has this primitive, backward and inefficient communication system, but don’t forget that East Asia is now Even the British Navy does not have such a system to provide communication support when it goes to sea.
Not to mention the Russian Expeditionary Force. All they can do is collect massive amounts of intelligence at seaports with communication support, and then begin to revise the next advance or combat plan. Once the fleet leaves the port, it will be completely blind. No matter what changes occur in the battle situation during the voyage, they can only follow the previous planned plan.
Prepared and unprepared, with sound eyesight and blind eyes, the defeat of the Russians is a certainty.
The Russian Embassy in Beijing has always been under the surveillance of the CIA's Gyeonggi Branch, which Chun Shisanniang is in charge of. In particular, the Russian telegraph lines are monitored 24 hours a day.
The code of Russian Minister Gurry's telegram communication with the outside world has long been deciphered by the Chinese. Now the Russian Legation is transparent to the CIA.
When the telegram from Moscow reached Beijing, the monitoring team deciphered the telegram as quickly as possible and sent it to the Ryukyu headquarters.
When the headquarters saw this heavy intelligence, they did not dare to neglect and quickly contacted Wang Huaiyuan, the person with the first authority. Only Wang Huaiyuan's team could contact Xiao Letian who was on the high seas.
A telegram traveled thousands of miles and reached Xiao Letian's hands. More than a hundred people were used and more than tens of thousands of funds were consumed! But it was all worth it. When Xiao Letian saw the top-secret handwriting in the message, he slapped his thigh and said, "Mark it! Give Chun Shisanniang's team a great credit!"
"Xiang Ying! Speed up immediately. We must rush to the nearest telegraph base station. I need communication..."
"What happened? Do we have the right to know?" Xiang Ying asked nervously.
Xiao Letian hesitated for a moment, "There is a big fish in the Russian Expeditionary Force! It's a big fish that I never thought of before... Damn it, the prospective brother-in-law of Alexander II actually followed!"
"Find him! Capture him alive! This is our bargaining chip in future negotiations..."
Everyone was excited at the words. Lin Zhen and Jin Sanshun were gearing up to vent their excitement, punching and kicking each other. "Really? God is really looking out for us, giving away fat sheep for free!"
Xiao Letian carefully searched the memory bank of his previous life. He had a vague impression that Alexander II's original queen was frail and died early. Before she died, the Tsar had an affair with Catherine, and Catherine's family was said to be a very special one. The ancient noble surname had great influence in Tsarist Russia.
If this young man named Dickson falls into the hands of Xiao Letian, the Czar will naturally have a better chance of winning in future negotiations.
But there is another hidden worry. If this young man is killed in this war...then it is hard to say whether the tsar will fall into madness and the hatred of the country and the family will be mixed together.
"Quick, speed up now! This battle is really fucking difficult to fight!"
The war between the Chinese and Tsarist Russia was indeed the most difficult battle Xiao Letian had ever fought in his life. Needless to say, the brutality of the battle was needless to say. The key point was that the priorities must be right, so that the enemy would be frightened but not allowed to fall into hysterical madness. This intensity is really difficult to control.
What the Chinese want is a ticket to enter the club of great powers, not for the entire club to be ostracized or even unite to strangle.
In the final analysis, Xiao Letian wants to play the role of a civilized robber in front of countries such as Britain, France, the United States, Russia, and Prussia. One can abide by the unspoken rules among bandits, and then have the strength to share the big cake of the earth together.
To put it bluntly, I just hope that the great powers will agree to Xiao Letian eating cake together, not to mention how much they will share from the beginning. At least they have to get the right to eat cake.
Don't do it too extreme or too unconventional. If the smell of blood on your body is too strong and you are tempted to overturn the table as soon as you get up, then these robbers who came to the table early will not give you this chance. They will join forces. Get up and kill this new guy together.
"We have to speed up to Amami Oshima. It's really worrying that I won't personally guard this battle..."
Just when Xiao Letian was worried, the Russian army attacking on Tangwan Mountain had already begun the third artillery bombardment, which was the final bottom line for Xiao Hexin to allow the 4th Xuanwu Battalion to retreat.
But no one expected that this third bombardment would be so violent and lethal.
Boom...boom...boom...the sound of the artillery was very different from the previous field artillery. The sound was extremely dull, like muffled thunder pressing on the horizon.
The screams of passing shells in the sky also changed. The veterans obviously felt that the trajectory of the shells fired this time was much higher, because the sound was not as sharp as the one just now.
What followed was a loud bang above everyone's heads. The entire reinforced concrete permanent bunker was blown up with smoke and dust, and the ground shook violently.
"Damn it, what kind of cannon is this? Why is it so powerful..."
"The mortar, it must be the mortar!" Xiao Hexin, who was on the top of the mountain, put down his telescope and immediately gave an order, "Let Chu Zhao and the others prepare to retreat. The cement structure on top of Jiaziku Fortress is very fragile, and this kind of mortar cannot be defended!"
Mortar, this is a very primitive fortress gun and the predecessor of later mortars. The main use of this cannon with close range and powerful firepower is to siege cities.
Generally, the ballistic trajectories of field rifled artillery shells are very straight. When used to attack the Jiaziku Fortress, they are directly bombarded on the front cement wall. However, the ballistic trajectories of mortar artillery are curved. The shells can fly high into the sky and then fall from the sky to directly attack the fortress. The weak top.
And this is where the weakness of Jiaziku Fortress lies.
