Zhang Hanqing smiled after answering the call, Yang Zengxin's move is tantamount to showing himself a malicious attitude, which is good. In the face of the turmoil at home and abroad, he has no intention of doing anything in Xinjiang now.

Because it is the nature of the Japanese to repay their eyes, after being accused of stealing this priceless batch of gold, the Japanese army was not willing to give up. They revisited an old incident that happened in the Far East last year, which interfered with Zhang Hanqing's idea of taking advantage of the situation to enter Xinjiang.

The Japanese offensive in the Far East, at first, went well. In order to carry out this war of aggression, Japan mobilized its active army and reservists, and specially organized the so-called Vladivostok Dispatch Army Command.

To be honest, with the current excellent situation and development momentum of the Feng army, it is not right to provoke the Japanese at this time. It's not that he doesn't dare, but it's not worth it, Zhang Hanqing is well aware of the opportunities and challenges that this history has brought to China. Therefore, after rejecting the Japanese request to requisition the China Eastern Railway and the Chinese side to send troops to "escort" its baggage, the Feng Department took the initiative to ease relations with Japan.

Allowing Japanese soldiers to use the China Eastern Railway to transport troops through Manchuria by separating men and guns was the best result, because after the slow progress of Vladivostok and Hailanpao, the United States also began to put pressure on the Chinese government.

There was no need to clash with them at this time, because Japan had been trapped in the Far East and Siberia for four years, and basically did not interfere with the rise of the Feng system, which was a relief for the Feng army, which was still in the stage of Taoguang cultivation!

Beginning in August last year, the vanguard of the 12th Division of the Japanese Army (one infantry brigade, one cavalry and one artillery regiment, and one engineer battalion) landed at Vladivostok from the sea on the 11th. The Dispatch Army Command landed on the 18th of the same month. Thus a bridgehead for the invasion of Siberia and a base camp for commanding the invading troops were established in Vladivostok.

At the beginning of the battle, the Japanese army mobilized the forces of the 12th, 7th, and 3rd Divisions (the 7th Division was originally a unit stationed in Manchuria, and the 3rd Division set out for Manchuria in early September) and launched an attack on the Soviet Far East by two routes. all the way from Vladivostok as a base, along the Ussuri railway line to the north, to Boli (Khabarovsk); The other road is based in Manchuria and leads to Chita along the Eastern Railway line.

At that time, the situation in the Soviet Union was that there were only 300,000 regular troops before and after the Japanese army, and all of them fought against foreign "intervention forces" in the European direction. In the Far East there were only about 25,000 irregular troops.

It is particularly noteworthy that at the time of Japan's military deployment, the Trans-Siberian Railway, with the exception of the two sections of Ussuri and Amur, was under the control of the anti-Soviet forces, so the Soviets were unable and unable to support the Far East at the beginning and even in the middle of the Japanese invasion. Even Zhang Hanqing led his troops to occupy Hulunbuir and recover Mongolia by force, but the polar bear only expressed serious concern and was unable to do anything, which made Zhang Hanqing have a happy time difference.

One of the reasons why the Japanese army used Vladivostok as a military base was that Vladivostok was connected to the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the Japanese army fought along important lines of communication and attacked quickly. On September 5, the vanguard of the Japanese army captured a Soviet military train (the train was driven by Boli and was filled with explosives, which was originally used to destroy railway bridges) and then broke into Boli on the military train.

At that time, Su had a garrison of 10,000 troops in Boli, but the command was not uniform, the coordination was not effective, and the vigilance was not high, which gave the Japanese army an opportunity to take advantage of it, causing the Japanese army to easily occupy Boli and seize a large number of guns, ammunition and war materials. Among them, there are more than 50 artillery pieces, more than 900 rifles and pistols, more than 20 machine guns, more than 270 passenger trucks, more than 50,000 shells and bullets, more than 30 combat ships, and tens of thousands of military maps.

The Japanese army used these guns and ammunition to replenish the troops, and launched a new offensive against Hailanpao from the railways and waterways with captured trains and warships.

On the other hand, the 7th Division of the Japanese Army occupied Chita on 8 September. Subsequently, the Japanese army attacked Hailan Pao from the east, west and south. On 19 September, the Japanese occupied Hylando and Svobodne. On September 22, the Japanese troops met near Skovorodino on several routes.

At this point, the Trans-Siberian railway line east of Lake Baikal was completely controlled by the Japanese army.

In less than two months, the Japanese army occupied the then Primorsky Oblast, Amur Oblast, Trans-Baikal Oblast (now Chita Oblast and Buryatia Autonomous Republic) and Sakhalin Oblast (now most of the Khabarovsk Territory and Sakhalin Island), and controlled the entire Siberian Railway east of Lake Baikal and the water channels of the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers.

The Japanese government decided to end the war because it believed that it had achieved its intended objectives and that the economic situation in the country had deteriorated due to successive wars.

With the exception of the 12th Division, which was stationed in the Primorsky Region, the Amur Region, and Miaojie (Nikolaevsk), the 3rd Division in the Zabaikal Region east of Bolzia, and the 7th Division in the Zabaikal Region and North Manchuria (now Heilongjiang Province, China) west of Bolzia, only three divisions were left behind, all of which were withdrawn from the rest of the army.

As a sign of the transition to the garrison stage, Japan sent back most of its mountain artillery and heavy artillery to its homeland, removed the call of reserves and reserves, reduced the number of troops, and changed the number of troops to a quasi-peacetime establishment.

Obviously, such a small number of troops could not control such a vast territory, and this was also the pain of Japan's small people, so it had to adopt the method of "razing to defeat razing" and set up a puppet regime in Eastern Siberia to organize a puppet regime in an attempt to completely control this region.

However, since the beginning of winter, the Soviet army has resorted to guerrilla warfare, mobilized and organized the masses to expand the guerrilla ranks, and took advantage of the favorable conditions of the Japanese army's difficult operations in the winter to extensively carry out guerrilla activities with the help of the winter cold, sabotaging railways everywhere, cutting off telephone lines, and posing a great threat to the Japanese army. Therefore, the Japanese government decided to send 5,000 additional troops to garrison the eastern tip of Siberia.

On the surface, this move did not seem to be abrupt, but Zhang Zuolin really felt that they were eyeing the Northeast Autonomous Government, because this increased force was not mainly used to deal with the guerrillas, but was deployed on the opposite bank of the Ussuri River and the Heilongjiang River, and there was a possibility that they could cross the river and enter the two provinces at any time.

In addition, the Japanese intervention army set up a military station in Harbin, and if one is not careful, the Japanese troops on the two borders are at risk of communicating with each other.

Thousands of miles of fortification will not help, and it will not be enough to fill in all the Feng troops. Therefore, Zhang Zuolin actively operated and asked the central government to send naval support. As long as there are a few warships cruising in the river from time to time, the possibility of the Japanese army crossing the river can be dispelled. After all, the cruising cost of warships is much smaller than simply using the army to deploy defenses everywhere.

Under the big issue of national territorial integrity, Duan Qirui's government is still very bold. Because the cruiser "Hairong," the main force of the Chinese intervention force, and its fleet commander Lin Jianzhang had already left Vladivostok in the summer to withdraw with the participating armies of other countries, they were ready to send another small fleet north to support, and their task was to establish a Chinese government's northern water force---- the river defense fleet, which would be permanently stationed on the Heilongjiang River.

The Japanese are well aware of the Chinese government's moves, and of course they oppose it. Of course, it is impossible to oppose it openly, because the war also threatens the more than one million Chinese nationals stranded in the Far East, most of whom are concentrated in the area of Temple Street and Vladivostok, and the Chinese government's representations with foreign countries, including Japan, are under the pretext of evacuating overseas Chinese.

Japanese expatriates are expatriates, and it won't be China's turn, so you won't allow it, right?

It is said that it is extremely convenient to enter Northeast China by land, but the Japanese intervention forces are under military control on various major roads, and in addition to the inconvenient transportation in winter, it has become a natural duty to receive overseas Chinese by sea, so it is reasonable for the northbound fleet to go north.

The North Fleet is said to be a fleet, but in fact it can only be regarded as a gunboat formation, because its flagship "Jiang Heng" is only a coastal defense gunboat from the Yangtze River Fleet, with a displacement of 550 tons. The other two shallow-water gunboats, the "Lijie" and "Lisui," and the transport ship "Jing'an," were both battleships surrendered from Germany. Among them, the role of the "Jing'an" is not only to transport, but also to tow the "Lijie" and "Lisui", because they are shallow-water ships and are not seaworthy.

The formation set out from Shanghai and experienced many stormy seas along the way, passing through the East China Sea, the Korean Strait, and the Sea of Japan to Vladivostok. After a short stop, continue north, from Temple Street back to Heilongjiang.

These few warships that were not ranked in the Japanese Navy were already one of the few treasures that the Chinese Navy could get their hands on at that time. Although they are not very powerful, they are very symbolic.

If the fleet is allowed to enter the Heilongjiang River valley and with the support of army artillery, it can control the Heilongjiang River in the west and the Ussuri River in the south, then the Northeast Autonomous Government can use this to completely block communications with Russia. In addition, the Tumen River, which now enters Jilin from Korea, has been effectively cut off, and the Japanese army will not be able to penetrate into the heart of the northeast from its back---- after all, it is easy to contact on land, and it is also prone to trouble, and unless there is a conflict between warships on the river, a large number of Japanese soldiers will cross the river to the northeast, and no matter what excuse you use, you will not be able to justify it.

Therefore, the Japanese soldiers in Boli adhered to the domestic order, refused to let the northbound fleet enter, and also fired artillery in demonstration. Chen Shiying, the commander of the fleet, had no choice but to park the fleet on Temple Street and wait for the government to negotiate.

As can be seen from the map, the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, that is, the section from the Ussuri River to the mouth of the sea, that is, the Amur River, is the only way to enter the northeast by sea. And Boli is just stuck in the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers in China. Between the negotiations between the northbound fleet and the central government of the Republic of China, the weather has turned cold. Local expatriates in Temple Street told Chen Shiying that in 10 days, Heilongjiang would be frozen.

Chen Shiying was anxious. His fleet was small and far across the oceans, and was severely undersupplied. Fortunately, at this time, Zhang Hanqing was fighting wits and courage with Soviet Russia on the issue of the return of Mokuowei, and when he heard the news of the shipwreck of the northbound fleet, he gathered a batch of winter materials from the northeast and sent them through the ships of the Tuchang Shipping Company.

This was the first time Chen Shiying and Zhang Hanqing had a relationship, and he accepted it with gratitude.

Thinking of the barbarism and rudeness of the Japanese Boli garrison to them some time ago, this also made Chen Shiying even more disgusted with the Japanese. At this time, a request from the Russian Red Army gave him the idea of revenge.

He then played a ruthless move, which was extremely refreshing, but it was both fierce and dangerous.