After several days of violent shelling, the entire Aihui City fell into a sea of ​​fire, with fire burning and thick smoke covering the sky.

Zasulichi's troops were constantly exhausted and he lost the defense of Nancheng City on the 14th. However, Zasulichi did not retreat. He received a death order to defend Aihui and wait for reinforcements.

Due to the powerful artillery fire of the Beiyang Army, Zasulic lacks corresponding artillery to resist, and the combat losses are extremely high. So Zasulic leads more than 1,000 people to defend the walls of Beicheng and Dongcheng and several nearby highlands, and builds a large number of fortifications to resist step by step. The north city and Dongcheng are closest to Heilongjiang, and the river surface there is in a ">" shape. The Russian Amur River defense fleet can effectively provide fire support.

Tsarist Russia has been planning to the northeast for a long time, and warships and ships can be passed on the river from below Mohe River. Especially from April to August every year, most ships with shallow drafts can be passed by less than 3,000 tons. Therefore, in 1859, Russia formed an Amur fleet composed of inland shallow water heavy gunboats and gunboats and gunboats. The fleet has two 1,300-ton shallow water heavy gunboats Novgorod and the lieutenant general Bobov, six Peren-class 640-ton gunboats, and five 230-ton gunboats. Most of these gunboats were built in the 1960s and 1970s, and the hulls were a bit old, but it was appropriate for Russia to send it to the Far East to deal with the Qing Empire.

As a favorable support for ground fire, the firepower and protection of shallow water heavy artillery boats pose a great threat to the army. Zasurich and his remnants of the East Man Detachment dragged the Amur fleet and were able to survive.

Although the Beiyang Army's artillery regiment exceeded the number of ship-borne guns of the Amur Fleet in terms of artillery number, it does not have an advantage in caliber. The shallow water heavy gunboat has a minimum of 152 mm main gun, and the gunboats are generally 102 mm main guns, and the gunboats are mostly 47 speed-fire guns and 37 machine guns. And the most important thing is that the gunboats are a powerful firepower carrier, while the infraskets are fixedly fired. Every move and static attack will definitely be the latter.

The Beiyang Army will never go to challenge that bad luck. Since the naval gun fire is mainly direct, the Beiyang Army took advantage of the Aihui city walls and houses as cover and launched a general attack on Zasulichi's troops on July 15 by the Second Brigade of the First Town of the Beiyang Army.

In terms of street fighting firepower, the Beiyang Army still has a large number of Maxim heavy machine guns, and the Russian Army's Maxim heavy machine guns were basically destroyed by artillery fire during city defense wars. Therefore, in the face of the Beiyang Army's heavy machine gun strafing, the Russian army almost dared not look up.

Under the cover of heavy machine guns and some 80 infantry artillery, the Beiyang Army launched an attack alley, and soon forced Zasulic to retreat to the Jedi. Just as Zasulic was about to despair, the 11th Infantry Regiment of the East and West Villa in Imperial Russia, led by Lieutenant General Stexel, arrived in Aihui.

The 11th Infantry Regiment of East and West Villa belonged to the elite imperial Russian troops. Because they were not clear about the strength of the other party, Wang Shizhen decided to suspend the attack after discussing with the generals. The Second Brigade maintained its occupation of most areas in the south of the city and built fortifications. Wait for the strength of the Qing Russian army before making offensive deployment.

After Lieutenant General Stexel joined with the Dongman Detachment led by Lieutenant General Zassuric, he was not in a hurry to attack the Beiyang Army, but instead built fortifications on the spot and transported a large number of light and heavy equipment and supplies.

The 11th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment with 40 light and heavy artillery pieces, including 8 120 caliber heavy artillery pieces and 12 heavy machine guns. It is the best in the overall firepower of the Russian Army.

After Lieutenant General Stexel arrived in Aihui, he immediately took over the defensive position of Zasulic's troops. Zasulic's Dongman detachment became a reserve team and was under the command of Stesel.

In order to win time, Stexel asked the Russian minister Kurman to force the Qing government to suspend the attack as much as possible to win time for building defensive fortifications.

The Qing government learned from the negotiation experience of the Sino-French war and also tried to sell some mines and railway rights in exchange for Russia's strike. Kuman took the opportunity to express sincerity in peace talks and was willing to negotiate, but asked the Qing army to stop attacking Aihui City.

On July 18, the Qing and Russia reached a ceasefire agreement again, and the two sides agreed to maintain the status quo and coordinate the resolution of the problem through negotiations. However, due to the weakness of the Qing government, Russia proposed that both troops withdraw from Aihui City and demanded that Aihui become a neutral military buffer zone.

In response, the Qing government's Zongli Yamen, which had no choice but to eat a hundred beans, actually agreed. Therefore, the Beiyang Army had to withdraw from Aihui City under the explicit notice of the Zongli Yamen and retreat to the position at the beginning of the Aihui offensive and defensive battle. However, the Russian army was not so obedient. After consolidating the existing position, they still sent troops to reoccupy Aihui City.

The Zongli Yamen protested accordingly, but the Russian side said that the Russian army entered Aihui City just to conceal the bodies of the fallen soldiers, and would be withdrawn soon once completed. In this regard, the Zongli Yamen actually believed it.

The Qing and Russia resumed negotiations. Compared with the previous negotiation atmosphere, after the Battle of Songhua River and the offensive and defensive battle of Aihui, the Russian army's arrogance was defeated, and the Tsarist Russian minister Kuman was not as arrogant as before.

At this time, Tsarist Russia did not have much bargaining chips. Instead, the Qing government held nearly 20,000 prisoners of Tsarist Russia, which forced the Russian government to make negotiating concessions.

It is no longer possible to cede Heilongjiang Province. The Tsarist Russian government settled for the second best, demanding that the six counties around Aihui be cedeed, and at the same time, return Russian prisoners of war, and also compensate for military expenditure and economic losses of 50 million taels of silver. It also needs to set up a military buffer zone in Heilongjiang and Songhua River, allowing the Russian Siberian Railway to build branches in the three northeastern provinces and send troops to protect them.

It is really unacceptable to such a big talk. It is so righteous to defeat the war. Not only was the Qing government shocked, but even the great powers of various countries were also shocked.

"It is obvious that if the Russians lose face, they will definitely find the situation. The negotiations are still an excuse to delay time. Any idea of ​​hoping that Russia will stop the army will be futile. Only by letting the Russians remember for a long time can this frontier conflict be terminated."

The Beiyang Daily, founded by Ruan Zhongshu, a capable subordinate of Wang Chenhao, exposed Russia's plot with the front page headline, and at the same time, the spearhead was pointed at the weakness and incompetence of the Zongli Yamen, revealing Russia's hypocritical face.

Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and other knowledgeable people initiated the fourth public bus letter, asking the court not to follow the old path of Sino-French war. It is understandable to take advantage of the victory and seek peace, but national interests cannot be transferred, otherwise it will be no different from defeat.

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A dozen police officers surrounded the gate of 13 Hamills Avenue in New York, Manhattan Island, New York, and they set up a cordon.

The owner here is Nikola Tesla. As a genius, a stranger and a genius in the scientific community, Tesla is currently experiencing the second trough in his life.

The first time he parted ways with Edison. His serious differences on the issue of DC and AC led to Edison's strong suppression of Tesla. Edison used his influence in the scientific community and the company's huge financial resources to force the scientific community to refuse to recognize Tesla's status as a scientist and call him a pseudoscientist and monster. The sponsors were forced to keep him out of the company's influence due to Edison's company's influence.

After several years of ups and downs, Tesla finally broke through Edison's blockade, received funding from the Morgan Consortium, received orders from the 1,500-kilowatt exchange group of the Niagara Hydropower Station, and hired him as the power station designer. As a result, Tesla got out of the trough.

However, a few years later, just as Tesla received large funding from the Morgan consortium to prepare for a big fight, an unexpected fire burned down his laboratory. On the evening of July 16, 1896, a fire broke out in Tesla's laboratory at 13 Hamills Street, and the test equipment costing $340,000 was burned.

This puts Tesla in the second trough of his life as he faces debt collection and blame from Morgan consortium funders.

Tesla, sitting in front of the ruins, was dejected and his expression was quite sad. Several assistants next to him just sighed helplessly. There was news that the fire was not an accident, but a destruction caused by Edison. Because of Tesla's success in AC power, Edison's DC power business faced serious challenges.

However, Edison did want to take revenge on Tesla, but he sent someone to set fire to Tesla's laboratory in May 1897, and the current fire was a year ahead of schedule. Someone hired someone under the banner of Edison.

OK! Wang Chenhao admits that he did another bad thing!

In order to get Tesla, Wang Chenhao had to do some tricks. Since Tesla was funded by Morgan Consortium at this time, it was difficult for Wang Chenhao to pull him to work in Beiyang Science and Technology. So he ordered people to pretend to be a worker at Edison, hire Mexican resident on the streets of New York, and secretly sneak into Tesla's laboratory to cause damage. The purpose was to allow Tesla to face debt collection and accountability from Morgan Consortium sponsors, forcing him to join Wang Chenhao when he was desperate and use it for his own use.

Everything was very secret, and no one could find out that it was done by Wang Chenhao, and all the fingers were pointed at Edison. Tesla hated Edison, but the main problem at the moment was how to explain it to the sponsors of the Morgan Consortium.

"Sir, your letter!"

Just when Tesla was having a headache, an invitation letter from the New York Consulate General of the Qing Empire was delivered to him.

Tesla opened it and saw the invitation letter to invite him to work in Beiyang Science and Technology in China. Wang Chenhao briefly told him on it that he would provide him with the world's most advanced laboratories and experimental equipment, fund all his scientific research projects, etc. For specific matters, he would be asked to go to the Consulate General for an interview.

Tesla was puzzled, but his assistants looked very happy. Deputy Bailey told Tesla: "Sir, this person is a first-class official of the Qing Empire and is very rich. He invested 20 million US dollars to build the world's largest experimental base - Beiyang Technology. Congratulations to Mr., if he can work there, it is the dream of every scientist."

Undoubtedly, this deputy Bailey has been bribed by Wang Chenhao.

Tesla is at a desperate situation at this moment. If you don't want to be forced by debt collectors to sell blood to pay off your debt, you can only escape.

So Tesla went to the consulate to meet Wang Chenhao. There was no doubt that Wang Chenhao agreed to his conditions without thinking, helping him repay his debts, giving him the most advanced laboratories and experimental equipment, giving him sufficient scientific research funds, etc.

Of course, Wang Chenhao is not without conditions. His condition is that the patent invented by Tesla will belong to Wang Chenhao, and Tesla cannot transfer relevant technologies to others without permission. Moreover, Tesla will be employed by Beiyang Technology for life.

Tesla did not realize how profitable his scientific and technological achievements would be. Someone was willing to hire him for life and provide sufficient scientific research funds. Where can I find such good things? Therefore, Tesla happily agreed to all Wang Chenhao's conditions.

The two signed an employment contract on the same day, and Tesla became one of the chief experts of Beiyang Technology, won the title of second-class academician with an annual salary of 100,000 US dollars, and Wang Chenhao became Tesla's lifelong boss.

The next day, Wang Chenhao sent someone to follow Tesla to meet his sponsors and paid off all the debts for Tesla on the spot. He hired all the technicians around Tesla. His deputy Bailey was accused of giving advice and was treated as a fourth-class academician of Beiyang Technology with an annual salary of 30,000 US dollars. As for first-class academicians, no one is currently in charge. Wang Chenhao divided the personnel working for Beiyang Technology into fifth-class academicians and third-class clerks, and used their rank and reputation to assassinate all staff members, so that they could work hard and hard.

After Tesla and his team joined Beiyang Technology, Tesla's existing patents will be subject to Beiyang Technology to apply for patents in countries around the world, including 33 patents: alternating current motors, alternating current high-voltage transmission systems, household alternating current, reversible high-frequency magnetic fields, radio transmission and interference, radio remote control, electromagnetic vibration dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng dàng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tràng tr
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