Respectfully

The second half of 1914 was destined to be a bad day for Russian bears.

In the Battle of Tannenberg from mid-August to early September, the Russian army suffered a disastrous defeat.Due to the disordered command system and poor communication, the Russian First Army and the Second Army that entered East Prussia had problems in coordinated operations. In danger, almost wiped out.The [-]st Army was also nearly driven into the swampy area of ​​Lake Masurian by the Germans who had intercepted the telegram, and at the cost of two divisions, the rest escaped.

In the battle, the Russian army suffered at least 12 casualties, and the loss of strategic materials was even more numerous.

Hindenburg and Ludendorff, who commanded this battle, were regarded as national heroes in Germany, and they successfully avenged the Teutonic Knights a hundred years ago.

After the Battle of Tannenberg, the Russian army was defeated on the Northwest battlefield where it fought against the German army. It made good progress in Southern Galicia, where it fought against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. However, the German army defeated the Russian army that entered East Prussia and immediately dispatched the Ninth Army. Supporting the Austro-Hungarian army, the situation on the battlefield changed immediately.After paying 15 casualties, the Russian army had to retreat in the direction of Warsaw.

In the following months, the Russian army did not engage in large-scale battles with the German army and the Austro-Hungarian army. On the one hand, the Russian army was seriously lacking in strategic materials; In terms of real strength, if the Austro-Hungarian army wants to succeed in the offensive, almost all of them need the help of the German army.

It is also a hindrance, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is more reliable and kinder than Italy in the two world wars, at least the Austro-Hungarian army is just a hindrance, and Italy, not to mention the hindrance, will turn around and stab Germany twice.

Therefore, choosing an ally is really important.

Whether it was World War I or World War II, the German army almost relied on the power of one country to challenge the entire West, never counting on his allies.William II and Hitler were both war madmen and "lonely people".

Due to the heavy losses of the Russian army on the European Eastern Front, the Tsar and the State Duma decided to send more forces into Europe. For this reason, the stability of the Far East was of utmost importance to the Tsarist Russian Empire.

The Huaxia negotiators headed by Zhan Changqing had a vicious vision, saw clearly Russia's external strength but middle performance, saw the opportunity, and became more and more tough at the negotiating table.From the initial delineation of the [-]-kilometer-deep land on the west bank of the Ergun River, to the restoration of the Chinese territory before the Treaty of Nebuchu and Yaksa, to the idea of ​​starting the station along the large railway that enters Europe from the Far East, Russian negotiators seem to be sitting on a volcanic pile every day, either being so angry that one Buddha is born or two Buddhas ascend to heaven.

However, even if he was so angry that his nose was smoking, he had to bite the bullet and continue talking.

Tsarist Russia's army has been involved in the quagmire of Europe, and the tsar's rule is facing pressure from many aspects, and no greater disputes can be caused in the Far East.

At the end of September, bad news came frequently on the European Eastern Front. The six northern provinces of China took the opportunity to increase their troops to Siberia again. The marked boundary markers can also be moved three places a day.The newly reorganized No.16 Division cooperated with the newly reorganized No.15 Division to bombard Chita. The Russian troops stationed in Chita fled without a fight.

The Siberian rebel organization that occupied Irkutsk was worried about the attack of the Chinese army. Trotsky sent representatives again and asked Kirov to remain vigilant against the Chinese army and use force if necessary.

However, there are different opinions within the resistance organization. Members of the organization headed by Kazan believe that the Chinese army should not be easily provoked at this time.

"An enemy's enemy is a friend." Kazan has already won Kirov's trust, and his words moved Kirov more than that arrogant representative, "We can try to contact the Chinese army, we need weapons and supplies , maybe you can get it from them."

"Ridiculous!" Trotsky's representative yelled, "They are the enemy! A group of yellow-skinned monkeys!"

This representative is a typical Slav, with a high nose and deep eyes, a bad temper, and a loud voice like thunder.He didn't realize at all that this sentence offended many people in the room.

The main members of the Siberian resistance organization led by Kirov are ethnic minorities living in Siberia, and more than half of them are yellow.

The words "yellow-skinned monkey" made them all change their expressions.

"Comrade Sherinin!" Kirov said with a serious expression, "Please pay attention to your words!"

After all, Sherinen was not a fool. He realized that his outspokenness had offended the public, but he couldn't bear to apologize, so he just sat back on the chair and said nothing.

"Kazan, do you think the Chinese army will help us?"

"I can't guarantee it." Kazan glanced at everyone in the room frankly, "but everyone should know that if we don't get supplies, we may not be able to last for a month."

All nodded in agreement.

The current resistance organization has grown to a scale of nearly 4000 people, and has become a force to be underestimated. Kirov's reputation in the country is also getting higher and higher, even surpassing Trotsky. Vladimir also heard his name.

Brave Kirov, Kirov who brought light to everyone, Kirov who resisted the brutal tsar!

Living in the Far East, more and more oppressed Russians gathered around him, and the combat team continued to expand, including some veterans who had served in the Russian army. Most of them lived in poverty and did not have enough to eat. Also pay heavy taxes.The resistance group led by Kirov gave them hope.

In this way, under the encirclement and suppression of the Governor of the Far East and the Siberian Border Army, the resistance organization continued to grow.But growth also brings problems, that is, food, medicine and weapons.

"We can't even stay in Irkutsk without supplies."

Kazan's words are very real, and it is precisely this truth that has a considerable provocative force, which is much more useful than the big talk of Trotsky's representative.

"Then, a show of hands."

Kirov made a decision, and the main members of the resistance organization present began to vote with a show of hands. In the end, more than two-thirds of the people agreed to contact the Huaxia people, and passed Kazan's proposal.

During the entire voting process, Trotsky's representative did not say another word, but looked at Kazan and Kirov with a hint of unkindness.

On the day the proposal was passed, the rebel organization selected a small detachment headed by Kazan to go to Buryatia, where the Chinese army was temporarily stationed. They carried weapons but no food. “We are seeking help for everyone. task, leave the food to comrades who need it more.”

Mirscha offered to accompany him, but Kazan shook his head. Trotsky's representative was still here, and he left. Mirscha had to stay with Kirov and pay attention to their every move to prevent any changes.It is not easy to gain Kirov's trust, and it is even more difficult to find such an opportunity to contact the Chinese army in such an open and aboveboard manner.

"You have to stay here." Kazan said to Mirsha, who grew into a big girl in less than a year: "You must stay here, understand?"

Mirsha bit her lip, but finally nodded.

Kazan's group entered Buryatia smoothly, which surprised everyone except Kazan, especially after seeing the people living in Buryatia, the surprised look on their faces was even more concentrated.

Huaxia's army did not plunder or kill, and traded food and spices with the people here at a very affordable price in exchange for fur and wood.

These Chinese people are still looking for ore. If anyone can provide information, they will get a full ten rubles.

The current ruble has not depreciated significantly. One ruble can almost be exchanged for one and a half oceans. Ten rubles is not a small amount for these people living in Siberia, but it is only used for one piece of news?

Under the protection of soldiers, Chinese military doctors visited nearby villages, treated the villagers here for free, and left some beautiful candies when they met young children.Soon, the children in the nearby villages knew that these soldiers in brown uniforms and red crosses on their arms would give them candy and biscuits, and many children gathered around them when they appeared.

The people living here, from the initial panic to the present calm, some young single girls, seeing the soldiers who obviously have nomadic blood, will come forward to talk enthusiastically, as if they have forgotten these Chinese people It is an out-and-out "aggressor".

"Kazan, these Chinese people..."

"Shh."

Kazan signaled his companions not to speak. A group of Huaxia soldiers walked by in front of them. "Let's go to the village first and find a way to get in touch with their military doctors."

"it is good."

Kazan couldn't help but glanced at the Huaxia soldiers passing by again, a look of eagerness and excitement flashed in his eyes, but quickly disappeared.

Five days later, the Kazan group returned to Irkutsk from Buryatia. Everyone in the team was smiling.They completed the task of this trip, and the Huaxia people agreed to trade with them.

"Kazan, did they really promise not to attack Irkutsk?"

"Yes." Kazan nodded and said, "They also promised to exchange food with us. There will be restrictions on weapons, but there are also twenty Mosin Nagant rifles and hundreds of bullets."

Where these rifles come from is self-evident.

Kirov has also seen the rifles and machine guns used by the Chinese army. They are all German-made calibers. These guns were obviously seized by them from the Tsarist Russian army.

Two years ago, these guns were still "babies" in the army of the six northern provinces.But now, even the new recruits are using Mauser rifles replaced from the main force. These old men's guns have stable ballistics, but the recoil is too strong, which is really difficult to use.Coupled with the caliber problem, they can only be sent to the warehouse.

It is also a good choice to switch to the resistance organization now.Although they are not in the same way, they are not in the same way as the Tsar.

"The Chinese also put forward conditions." Kazan continued: "They have a batch of goods to be transported to Europe via the Trans-Siberian Railway. They asked us not to stop the train when it passed through Irkutsk."

"goods?"

"Yes."

Although Kirov is very interested in this batch of "goods", in the long run, it is not worthwhile to fight against the Chinese people.In the end, he agreed to the terms of the Huaxia people.

In this way, the representatives of Huaxia used means on the negotiating table, and gave money under the negotiating table, and obtained the transportation and use rights of the European section of the Siberian Railway from the Russian negotiators, and settled the occupation of Irkutsk with food and weapons. resistance organization.

From then on to the end of the First World War, Chinese goods will be continuously transported from the large railway built by the Russians to Europe, under the banner of a neutral country, to avoid the British naval blockade and the German unlimited submarine warfare, with cans, biscuits, and steel helmets And various products in exchange for a lot of money.

"No ship is not necessarily a bad thing."

Li Jinyan was very concerned about the negotiation process between China and Russia. When he saw Minister Zhan making the Russians dizzy and gnashing his teeth while having to sign the agreement, he slapped the table with a smile.

"However, if it is transported by railway, Ned and Second Sister Xu cannot continue to stay in Belgium." Li Jinyan picked up all the information about the Trans-Siberian Railway collected by Xiao Youde, compared it with the map on the desktop, and finally landed on Switzerland. over the country.

In order to ensure that the goods are not intercepted midway, a certain amount of force is required. Maybe the arsenal should study the train gun?

As for the stations along the line, the problem is also easy to solve. In the worst case, some losses can be made up from other places. As long as the goods enter Europe, everything will be fine.After all, Russia shares borders with Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so it is up to these Germans to pay for the money and deliver the goods from East Prussia back to Berlin and Vienna.As for France and Britain, anyway, they have ships, so they can transport them by themselves.

Li Jinyan put down the materials, curled his lips, and when he had a ship in his hand, Russia would be in chaos again, anyone who ate his food would have to spit it out!

In mid-October, on the Western Front in Europe, the symmetrical movement of the Allied and German forces towards the sea finally came to an end. From Switzerland to the Belgian coastline, there were [-] to [-] kilometers of trenches, barbed wire and various fortifications. Breaking through the opponent head-on, no one can successfully outflank the opponent's flank.Although both sides are not reconciled, but the conditions are limited, continue to run, do you want to run into the English Channel?

The German General Staff formulated a new plan. The Germans did not accept defeat. They vowed to tear a hole in the defense line of the British and French forces and completely defeat them.

The attack point was chosen in the Belgian town of Ypres.

If you choose the most unlucky town in World War I, Ypres will definitely be on the list.

In [-], the last battle on the European battlefield took place in Ypres. Germany launched the poison gas war for the first time, and Ypres was chosen. The king of poison gas mustard gas was first used on the battlefield, and Ypres was the first place to be used.

Why is it always the one that gets hurt?This sentence is definitely the truest portrayal of Yipre.

During the three-week Battle of Ypres, both the German army and the British and French allied forces suffered heavy casualties. A large number of young volunteers of the German army died on the way to charge, and the first British expeditionary force was almost wiped out.

The French army also played an unimaginable combat effectiveness. The three European powers were strangled together, and the battlefield was covered with gunpowder smoke, blood and corpses.

Huaxia remained neutral during the First World War, but sent a military observation team, accompanied by the United States.Perhaps China's medicines, helmets, canned food and other products are becoming more and more important to the warring countries, and the warring parties are still polite to China and the US military observers.

Military observers and war correspondents will send home the situation in Europe every three days.These telegrams are equally important to the Chinese government and the army.

Heavy artillery, machine guns, soldiers who died on the way to charge, lives fought desperately in the trenches, blood sprayed, fallen trees, black gunpowder smoke...

This is the battlefield.

In late October, the Battle of Ypres was over, and neither the German nor the British and French allied forces were able to launch another battle of the same scale in a short period of time. They dug trenches one after another, licked their wounds in the muddy trenches, accumulated strength, and waited for the next attack .

The negotiations between China and Russia finally came to fruition.This treaty, known as the "October Agreement" by later generations, was once considered by some experts to be a supplement to the "Manzhouli Treaty", and they claimed convincingly that they had absolutely reliable evidence, that is, three days before the signing of the agreement , A telegram from Marshal Lou to President Lou Da.The content on the telegram was almost the same as the content of the agreement, which is why later generations believed that the agreement was actually promoted by Lou Xiao using force and money.

Some people even speculated that Lou Xiao had secretly formed an alliance with Germany at this time, so that he could force Russia to agree to China's negotiation terms.Although there is no evidence, there are still many people who hold this view.

Regardless of the evaluation of later generations, it cannot be denied that the "October Agreement" played an important role in China's recovery of the Northern Territory.

The most important content of the treaty is the division of territory. Although the coast of the Ergun River is still not clear, Nerchinsk and Yaksa have confirmed their return to Huaxia, and Hailanpao and Jiangdong 64 villages have also been reclassified to Huaxia.

Huaxia representatives also raised objections to the ownership of Vladivostok (Vladivostok) and Khabarovsk (Khabarovsk). In view of the short legs of the Huaxia Navy, although Russia was beaten enough on land, its strength at sea It should not be underestimated, and in the end Zhan Changqing did not argue for too long on this issue.

Minister Zhan looked at the Russian negotiators with a smile on his face, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.

The ones that belong to China will be taken back sooner or later!

After the "October Agreement" was signed, Russia demanded that the Chinese army immediately withdraw from Chita and other places. Yate and other places, but they left, and Kazan entered the place with members of the resistance organization. The Russian army wants to re-enter?Nothing is that easy!

At the same time, the Chinese army marched into Nerchinsk, Yaksa and other places one after another. When the army entered Hailanpao and Jiangdong 64 Tun, there were many Chinese people wearing filial piety clothes behind them.

They are all survivors of the Gengzi Russian disaster. Meng Erhu, dressed in white, walked to the riverside and knelt down with a plop, his head hit the ground heavily, and did not lift up for a long time. The rest of them also knelt down like him, as if they were Some kind of ceremony was performed, and after a long silence, there was a roar like a beast: "Father, mother! The two tigers are back! The unfilial son is back! Our army is back! Your two elders can rest in peace in the sky!"

With the roaring, crying, and shouting, years of resentment and grief finally had a place to vent.

The Russians on the other side of the river, looking at these red-eyed Chinese people, listening to their shouts and cries, no one made a sound, they just hurriedly packed their luggage and turned away, leaving the land they had seized. Almost even the back disappeared.

The accompanying reporters captured this scene with tears streaming down their faces.

The spotlight sounded, and the picture scroll of history added a rich stroke.

On October 23, the temporary headquarters of the Third Division occupying Sinuiju walked into a special guest, a court servant who came to Pyongyang from Seoul in disguise with a letter written by King Lee Hee of North Korea.

"His Majesty the Emperor of the Korean Empire..."

The sharp voice of the servant made the people in the room frown, a small country with three surnames as domestic slaves, return to the Korean Empire, return to His Majesty the Emperor?

People who have lived in the court for a long time are the best at observing words and expressions. The servants quickly noticed that everyone was unhappy, so they didn't dare to talk nonsense. They briefly explained the purpose of this trip and took out Li Xi's personal letter from his pocket.

Zhao Yue, the commander of the third division, looked at the signature on the envelope and asked them for help?

This North Korean king really has "meaning".

But with this letter, will the Third Division be more "famous" when it fights against North Korea?

Thinking of this, Commander Zhao signaled the adjutant to take down the servant who sent the letter, went to the telegraph room to send a telegram to Guanbei, and then called several regiment leaders to the command room. , Now with this letter, attacking Pyongyang is not a problem.

As for the leak of the matter, what will happen to the North Korean king is not in Zhao Yue's consideration at all.When he didn't know what the North Korean king was up to?Since you have focused on the Huaxia people, you have to be prepared to give corresponding "rewards" at any time.

Want to take advantage of not giving a little benefit?Make his spring and autumn dream!

Besides, at this time, the Japanese will not touch him, otherwise Li Xi will die, and everything written in his letter will be confirmed?

Thinking of this, Mr. Zhao sneered twice, really dozed off and gave the pillow away.

Guanbei City

Young Marshal Lou received the telegram from the third division, thinking more, his eyes slowly swept across the long and narrow land, and then ordered the third division to attack Pyongyang!