When Wu Ziyu led the army to fly to capture the ice city, the situation of the battle in Fengtian also changed dramatically, the battle of Heigoutai ended quickly, the casualties of the Japanese army were not large, and the heavy army group of the Russian army was shocked to pieces, although the casualties may not be greater than the Japanese army, but the Russian army, which has become a rout, is obviously unable to return to the sky, so it has to quickly gather the remnants of the army and retreat to Fengtian. With the arrival of Nogi Noshinori's Third Army and the formation of the Fifth Army (Yalu River Army), the Japanese army had concentrated 250,000 men on the outskirts of Mukden. The commander of the Japanese army, Dashan Yan, decided to attack the 300,000 or so Russian troops who had been concentrated in Mukden, and since the main direction of the Japanese attack was the right flank of the Russian army, it wanted to force Kuropatkin to transfer reserves from the right flank to the left flank. To this end, in late March, the Kawamura Keimei Division of the Fifth Army on the right flank of the Japanese army took the lead in advancing north from the upper reaches of the Taizi River. With the support of the First Army, a detour began to take place on the right flank of the Russian First Army. This action was completely unexpected by Kuropatkin, who immediately transferred the infantry of the forty-two battalions of the reserve on the right flank (belonging to the 1st Siberian Army) to strengthen the left flank, which Marshal Oyama could not ask for.

Five days later, the Japanese Second and Third Armies began to detour to the right flank of the Russian army and carry out centripetal assaults. This move put the Russian army in a difficult position: on a front that stretched for a hundred kilometers, only one infantry division remained in the reserves of the right flank of the Russian army. The Russian Second Army had to deal with the two Japanese armies, and the ratio of forces was three to four, and while the right flank was being beaten, the two armies on the left flank were still moving. The Russian Second Army was forced to shrink its positions. At this time, Kuropatkin again decided to transfer the reserves from the left flank back to the right flank. So the Russian troops tossed back and forth, exhausted. It seems that the course of the Russo-Japanese War is not better than whose command is better, but whose general is more scummy.

The classmate Kuropatkin decided to launch a counter-assault on the flank of Nogi Noshinori of the Japanese Third Army, which had detoured to his right flank, and for this purpose a number of companies, battalions, and regiments were drawn from the two armies on the left flank, and a mixed force was hastily organized under the unified command of General Kaulbas*. The counter-assault is scheduled to begin on March 4. As a result, the Japanese Third Army had approached the railway line north of Mukden that day, and the situation was urgent. However, Admiral Kaulbas* claimed that the concentration of troops had not been completed, and postponed the original date of the counter-assault to 5 March, when the 2nd Army under his command had a total strength of 80,000 Russian troops, and the Russian army had to stop its operations on 7 March, and the counter-assault did not work, and Nogi's 3rd Army continued to detour north of Mukden.

During this period, the Japanese army also intensified its offensive on the left flank of the Russian army from the beginning of March, and under the resistance of the Russian First Army, the progress was not great. However, when Kaulbas launched a counter-assault on 5 March, the two armies on the left flank of the Russian army did not move. On 7 March, Kuropatkin ordered the two armies to abandon their positions on the Shahe River and withdraw to the north of the Hunhe River. He took this decision in an attempt to shorten the battle line, withdraw troops to strengthen the right flank, and use a new counter-assault to prevent the Japanese Third Army from advancing to the railway line north of Mukden, and cut off the northward withdrawal route of the Russian army in Mukden. On the whole, the Russian army is like a comic, the left flank attacks, the right flank will stand still, the right flank is roundabout, then the left flank is watching from the wall, it is really puzzling, can their command ability only take care of one side?

The Russian counter-assault on Nogi's Third Army on 9 March was ineffective, and at the same time, the Russian First and Third Armies, which had abandoned their positions on the Shahe River, did not have time to build a strong position on the Hunhe River. Under these conditions, on the same day, the Japanese broke through the defense line of the Russian First Army and began to make a detour from the left flank. It was also on this day that the Japanese Third Army detoured from the right flank to the Russian Second Army and appeared in the rear of the army. Although the Japanese army fought smoothly, the evil result of the frequent use of detour tactics was that the Japanese army in the future almost regarded detours as a panacea, and from time to time they would knock a pill and be beaten by the opponent who found the law, but the Japanese commanders who held the experience of the Russo-Japanese War and refused to let go of their repeated teachings, and naturally ended up tragically.

At this time, the Russian army in Mukden was in great danger of being surrounded and annihilated. On the night of the 9th, Kuropatkin gave the order to retreat to Iron Ridge. As with all low-level armies, the retreat was rather disorganized. The cavalry (which did not participate in the battle) retreated ahead of the infantry and artillery, and the baggage blocked the roads. The troops lost their command and were shelled by the Japanese, and the rear guard fell into the encirclement of the Japanese. Fortunately, the Japanese army fought for days and days, and they were tired and unable to pursue. On 11 March, the Japanese First Army and the Third Army met in the Hunhe area. However, at this time, the main force of the Russian army had escaped the encirclement, and there were three or two kittens left, and then the Japanese army occupied the Siping position until the end of the war.

The Battle of Mukden was also the last and largest battle of the Russo-Japanese War, with a total of nearly 120,000 Russian casualties and escapes, and about 50,000 Japanese losses. The crushing defeat of the Russian army directly led to the removal of Kuropatkin by the tsar and the demotion to the commander of the Russian First Army in Manchuria. Colonel-General Linievich, commander of the First Army, who was supposed to take over the post of commander-in-chief of the Far Eastern Army, was unable to take up his post because he was already happily eating pork stewed vermicelli in the prisoner-of-war camp of the New Army. The drudgery of the commander-in-chief of the Far Eastern Army had to be handed over to Admiral Grypinberg* of the Second Army, and after the Battle of Mukden, the tsarist government was still unwilling to be defeated, and continued to cross the Great Siberian Plain to increase troops to the Far East, while pinning its hopes on the Pacific Second Fleet, which was transferred eastward from European waters, as a more comical rescue.

"What does that mean?" Looking at the big sign in the middle of the road, the deputy Junda Masanori of the 12th Wing of the 11th Division was depressed and vomited blood.

The big sign proudly read in Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and English: "Harbin and its surrounding area of 100 kilometers are declared non-belligerent zones, and a joint management committee composed of the leading countries of the international community will be temporarily responsible for the management until the warring parties reach an armistice, and the area will be immediately returned to its country." The entry of any armed personnel into the region during this period is considered a provocation to the justice and justice of the international community. ”

"So who are these pigtailed soldiers? How can they get in with guns? Junda is a top student studying in Germany, and although he is not proficient in English, he can barely cope with it. Although Japanese officials have advertised that they want to "expel ghosts and animals and prosper Asia together," Japan, which is bent on entering the ranks of the great powers, actually has more envy than jealousy and hatred for the European and American powers. In the face of a few European gentlemen who were obviously not Russians, they did not dare to make a mistake, but there was no need to be polite to the Qing slaves who were guarding with guns.

However, the big foreigner, who identified himself as the third secretary of the Belgian Consulate General in Harbin, explained to Juntanakasa with a disdainful look that the joint management committee of the countries in the Harbin area was composed of consuls and chargé d'affaires of 11 countries, including Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Canada. As for the soldiers in iron-gray uniforms, they were employees of the Joint Management Committee, and of course they were not among them.

Seeing that these dozen or so guys who were obviously Manchurian volunteers stopped one of their own wings with rifles, the more than 3,000 heavily armed imperial soldiers had no way to take these dozen or so people, so they had to go home in a gloomy way.

The ins and outs of this matter have to start with Wu Chenxuan's arrival in the ice city four days ago, and Wu Chenxuan, who flew to the ice city, made a decision that shocked the Chinese people after a night of careful consideration. Through Montagu's relationship with the German American Philchers & Co., he introduced the consuls and chargé d'affaires of several countries in Harbin, and after a closed-door meeting, no one knew what agreements had been reached. The next day, diplomats from several countries hastily divided up to hold consultations with the consuls and chargé d'affaires of other countries, and the governments of various countries also sent instructions to their diplomats by telegram, so a joint management committee, which the Japanese later called the "Far East Conspiracy," was set up in a small western-style building on Central Avenue in just one day.

Merchants from all over the world arrived like sharks smelling blood, and even those who couldn't make it were authorized to send authorizations to local partners and agents, and an auction of Russia's post-war assets in China was in full swing. Merchants from various countries went to the offices of the joint management committees of their countries to register transactions, and a large number of Russian assets in Harbin were quickly renamed and became the private property of the great powers.

Ito Hirobumi's protest is not as important as the purse of businessmen from all over the world, whether it is pro-Russian France, Italy, or Britain, which supports Japan, they can disown their fathers in the face of interests, let alone godsons. Mitsui, Sumitomo, Mitsubishi, Marubeni these trading companies are not as old-fashioned as the Japanese Army, their figures are very soft, together with the brand of a third country to participate in the auction, Marubeni and Mitsubishi and the Shandong Chamber of Commerce jointly organized a group, together won more than a dozen factories and commercial facilities, but also incidentally acquired a mechanical technology school, the three according to the proportion of three three four distribution of shares, the establishment of Harbin Xusheng Commercial Bank, jointly manage these assets.

In this capital feast, Britain, France, the United States and Germany made a lot of profits from their hands and made a lot of money, and they were even more satisfied with the management area of the management committee that took the initiative to send it to the door, because they absorbed the elements of the indigenous merchants of the Qing Dynasty, and the local people did not have much humiliation by foreign rule. As for the Heilongjiang general, who had already moved to Qiqihar, he could still obtain the surplus of the public funds in the management area allocated by the Harbin merchants from the commercial taxes, and there was no need to send people to negotiate with the foreign powers, so naturally he had no opinion. The imperial court has long classified the three eastern provinces as neutral zones, and it is fortunate that they can not be ceded off the territory by the foreign powers, and there is no such thing as "until the warring parties reach an armistice, and the region will be returned to the country to which it belongs immediately." "The fig leaf. As for the Russians, what they have to throw away anyway, it is better to cheapen their relatives in Europe than to throw them to the hateful yellow-skinned monkeys, and they can also disgust those Japanese little devils by the way, and as for some assets, they can even be bought back with the vests of other countries, and the Russians can be regarded as a measure to stop loss.

In fact, from Marshal Dashanyan to the first level of Shaozuo, they are already very tired of this kind of battle with Lao Maozi, and they can occupy Liaoning and Jilin provinces without a fight, and the great achievement of expanding the territory for thousands of miles is enough. The Japanese Army, which has suffered more than 200,000 casualties, is also at the end of its strength, and in the face of the combination of almost all the world's great powers, as well as the Second Pacific Fleet, which has come to find a field, the Japanese Army has only protested a few words and is enthusiastically picking up the spoils of war in Changchun, Mukden, Lushun and other places.

It seems that the three eastern provinces have entered a period of peace since the establishment of the demilitarized zone within a radius of 200 kilometers by the Eleven Alliance, and all that remains is the second duel between the Japanese navy and the Russian navy, and everyone else is just watching the lively soy sauce crowd.