If Britain and the United States still have a little bit of a precautionary tale of taking precautions against Russia, then Japan has a painful experience with Russia.

The Liangzi between Japan and Russia was planted five years ago during the Sino-Japanese War.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing government signed the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" with Japan, which not only compensated 200 million taels of silver, but also ceded the Liaodong Peninsula and Taiwan to Japan, and in order to prevent the development of Japan's power in the Far East, Russia, together with Germany and France, sent notes to Japan shortly after the signing of the "Shimonoseki Treaty", demanding that Japan give up its possession of the Liaodong Peninsula. Under the intervention of the foreign powers, Japan was forced to back down and agreed to give up the Liaodong Peninsula, only to demand 30 million taels of silver from China as compensation. This is the famous incident of "Three Kingdoms Intervening to Return Liao". And by spitting out the fat in its mouth, Japan was naturally very dissatisfied with Russia.

In the First Sino-Japanese War, another great result of Japan was that it took control of Korea and officially became independent from the suzerain, the Qing State. However, in order to get rid of Japanese control, Korea pinned its hopes on the intervention of Russian forces in Laron to counterbalance Japanese power. As a result, the two sides hit it off, and while Tsarist Russia extended its influence into Northeast China, it also extended into Korea, an absolute sphere of influence that Japan regarded as a forbidden country.

This, in turn, caused extreme anger in Japan. In 1898, Japan proposed to Russia that "Korea should be returned to Japan, and the northeast of the Qing Dynasty should be returned to Russia." However, Russia rejected it outright, and never recognized Korea as Japan's exclusive sphere of influence. Insist on extending influence into North Korea. Therefore, when the Russian army occupies the entire northeast, then Korea, which is only separated by a river from the northeast, is directly under the Russian army, and Japan naturally cannot accept such a result.

However, at this time, Japan could only be regarded as a small follower among the great powers, strictly speaking, Japan could not be regarded as a completely independent country now, and the tariff power was still under the control of Britain. Although Japan has repeatedly asked Britain to withdraw its tariff rights, Britain has not relented, and Japan has no choice but to do so.

And the 66th Fleet, which Japan has built with all its strength, has not even completed half of it, and it knows that it is unable to compete with Russia alone, and it also needs to find backstage support. Therefore, the demands of Britain and the United States reached Japan, and Japan immediately saw the opportunity, so Japan immediately mobilized both naval and land forces, and successively dispatched more than 23,000 land forces to join the Eight-Nation Alliance, becoming the country with the largest number of troops in the alliance, and at the same time dispatched a huge fleet to Dagukou. And in step with Britain and the United States, try to suppress Russia.

After the Eight-Nation Coalition captured Dagukou and Tianjin, Britain and the United States both recommended that the Japanese army should preside over the task of defending these two places, and the commander of the remaining two places was also served by the Japanese army, although the reason was high-sounding, because Japan had the largest number of troops, and the actual purpose was not to allow the Russians to gain more opportunities to expand their influence in China. Therefore, instead of dividing troops to garrison Dagukou and Tianjin, it is better to concentrate a limited number of troops, go north from Beijing to Shanhaiguan, cooperate with the domestic invasion of Northeast China's army, and complete the Yellow Russia plan at an early date.

The Japanese were naturally flattered, and they felt that they finally had a bit of the model of the great powers, and with the support of Britain and the United States, they had a lot more confidence, so they stepped up their efforts to rely on Britain and the United States.

Of the great powers, only France was an ally of Russia, and in 1892 the two sides signed the Russo-French Alliance against Germany However, the basis of the alliance between Russia and France is to contain Germany in Europe, France certainly does not want Russia to invest too much power in the Far East, thus relaxing the pressure on Germany, after Russia put forward the Yellow Russia plan, in France, there are many people who doubt the motives of Russia's alliance with France, whether France will be the wronged leader, itself stupidly in Europe to contain Germany, but let Russia free up its hands to expand to the Far East. Therefore, France naturally did not want the Yellow Russia plan to succeed.

But after all, France and Russia are allies, and it is not easy to directly interfere with Russia, and Britain, the United States and Japan have joined forces to suppress Russia, which is in the hands of France, so France generally pretends not to see the behavior of Britain, the United States and Japan against Russia, but only helps Russia to say a few words without nutrition when it is not painful, which can be regarded as an alliance.

Germany's goal is exactly the opposite of France, due to the signing of the [Russian-French Alliance], Germany has fallen into the Franco-Russian East-West Attack, and the strategic situation is extremely unfavorable, so Germany on the one hand wants to destroy the [Russian-French Alliance] in every possible way, on the other hand, it tries its best to direct Russia's attention to the East to relieve its own pressure, in addition, Germany's rise is relatively late, and the colonies around the world have basically been carved up by the old imperialists, and can only pick up a little scum that others look down on. As the largest piece of fat in the world's colonies, Germany naturally wants to get a piece of the pie.

In 1897, under the pretext that the missionary was killed, Germany sent troops to capture Jiaozhou Bay, seized a foothold in China, and wanted to expand its power in Shandong, China, but at this time, the great powers had their own spheres of influence in China, that is, in Shandong, there were also British and German competition, and not long after Germany captured Jiaozhou Bay, Britain was like the Qing government forcibly leased Weihai, making it difficult for Germany to expand in China. If Russia is pushed to the forefront, and there is a conflict with other powers, Germany can fish in troubled waters and take advantage of the fire.

As a result, Germany has been paying lip service to Russian expansion in northern China. And through this Boxer Rebellion, the German minister Klinder was killed, and won the position of commander of the Eight-Nation Alliance, Kaiser Wilhelm II appointed Wadsey as commander, leading a huge army of 12 warships and 7 auxiliary ships, a total of 20,000 soldiers, including 7,000 combat troops, set out for China on August 19. In name, it is to punish China, but in fact, it is to take the opportunity to obtain greater benefits in China.

However, at this time, the Eight-Nation Coalition had already captured Beijing for four days, and the German army rushed to China, which had no effect. Naturally, Germany wishes that China's situation is as chaotic as possible, and that if the waters are not muddyed, then what if they can touch the fish? But let Germany and Russia stand together against Britain, the United States, and Japan, then there is no way.

As for the other two countries in the Eight-Nation Alliance, Italy and Austria-Hungary are purely playing the role of soy sauce, and it is enough to eat a little scraps after the big brother. In fact, in the Eight-Nation Alliance, their army is like a guard of honor, with only a few dozen people and no combat effectiveness to speak of, and in terms of navy, the two countries have only sent one warship to make up the number.

Although Colonel Volkov is not a politician, he can still sense the delicate atmosphere in the current eight-nation coalition forces, and the Russians, despite their barbarism, are not lacking in intelligence.

Since the Russians are a fighting nation, they have lost the battle, and they naturally want to find a place to get back, and now there is no Russian army stationed at Dagukou, but there are six warships moored, namely the battleship Sisoy, the armored cruiser Russian, the shallow gunboat Korean, the Geely, the Beaver, and the Kiriak, with a total of more than 2,000 naval soldiers. Although the Russian army lost nearly 70 people in this battle, it was completely possible to pull out an army of about 300 people from various warships to find the field.

However, after thinking about it for a while, Colonel Vorkov decided not to act alone, but to report to the headquarters of the coalition forces stationed at Dagukou, asking the headquarters to organize troops to exterminate this Qing army, after all, the upper echelons of the coalition forces have repeatedly emphasized that the armies of various countries must obey the command and move at the same pace.

Moreover, in the coalition forces, Russia has been relatively isolated, Britain, the United States and Japan have almost completely the same caliber against Russia, and Russia's ally France has limited support for Russia, and Germany cannot count on it, if dozens of soldiers are sent out to rob, it will not hurt, but to send an army of 300 people, this movement will be too big, and it will inevitably be criticized by Britain, the United States and Japan, although the fighting nation is not afraid of confrontation with Britain, the United States and Japan, but it is better to avoid it, after all, Russia's goal is now to realize the Yellow Russia plan, and it is better to have good relations with other countries as much as possible。

In addition, Vorkov also thought that if this attack was carried out by a certain country within the coalition forces, then the Russian army would not be able to act alone, and asking the command to send troops was also a test to see if the coalition forces really wanted to turn against Russia.

The Japanese officer stationed at the mouth of Dagu was called Yuki Otsu, with the rank of Osa. Although he served as the commander of the Eight-Nation Coalition Army stationed at Dagukou, Yuki Otsu knew very well in his heart that he could not command anyone except the Japanese army. Therefore, the sailors on the warships of various countries are looting, and Otsu Yuki turns a blind eye, as long as he does not go too far, Otsu Yuki basically does not care.

On the contrary, Yuki Otsu also organized Japanese troops to go out many times, and also went to nearby villages and towns to loot, but unlike other countries, all the things that the Japanese looted were handed over to the state except for grain. Because although after the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing government compensated Japan with 230 million taels of silver, plus the materials looted in China, a total value of about 350 million taels of silver, but after all, Japan is still a backward country, its industry is not developed, and its economic strength is not counted. Moreover, although the First Sino-Japanese War was won, Japan was almost exhausted and borrowed to defend itself, and half of the compensation obtained by the [Shimonoseki Treaty] was used to repay debts, and in addition, the 66th Fleet had to be built, and the army also had to expand, and the annual military expenditure rose sharply, exceeding more than 30% of the government's fiscal revenue, so it was naturally unable to make ends meet.

This time to participate in the war in China, in addition to containing Russia, Japan also has the mentality of making another profit in China, and the materials looted back by the soldiers are naturally handed over to the national treasury, which is also fortunate that little Japan has always been accustomed to obedience, although it is not excluded that a small number of Japanese soldiers will have some private collections, but most of the Japanese soldiers honestly handed over the looted things, otherwise the soldiers of that country would not have done it.

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