Volume 18 Chapter 48 The Great Powers Are Frightened and Seek Peace Again
Sun Chuanting's work is quite reliable, the emperor said that he wants to fight steadily and steadily, then he is in a hurry, the defensive arrangements around the railway are not leaky, not to mention, he even ordered people to build a fortress every fifty miles or so.
In this way, the advance speed of the Ming army is naturally very slow, but the footsteps are also very solid, with the fortress as the backing, he is not afraid of the enemy to cut off the railway line, if the enemy does not react at all, he is really likely to build the railway all the way to the imperial capital of Tsarist Russia!
It's not that Tsarist Russia doesn't want to react, but they really can't react, because they now have a total of 200,000 troops, and all of them may not be able to do more than 100,000 Qin troops, not to mention that the Ming army is more than 100,000 at all.
If the Ming army advances in the direction of their fortress, no matter how much they do, they will resist, the problem is that the Ming army is not stupid, they didn't repair their fortress at all, anyway, the terrain is almost the same, and they don't pursue speed, which direction to repair is not repair!
Rozov had no choice but to hope for Richelieu.
It is said that after Richelieu received the news, he couldn't spurt out a mouthful of blood, this Ming Empire is really poisonous, you play the navy with him, he will play the army with you, the southern border of France has been messed up by the Ming Empire, and the Tsarist Russia is here again.
He had to take care of this matter, if the army of the Ming Empire broke through Tsarist Russia and drove straight into Europe from the west, then the anti-Habsburg alliance would be over, and the army of the Ming Empire was not an ordinary terror.
Now France is unable to send troops to support, he can only write to other allies to explain the situation, know the benefits, and hope that they can send troops to assist Tsarist Russia to block the attack of the Ming army, otherwise, everyone will be finished together!
He also urged all countries to quickly send negotiators to gather with Tsarist Russia and ask the Ming Empire to negotiate peace again to see if they could persuade the Ming Empire to retreat.
Fortunately, the Ming army seemed to have insufficient manpower to build the railway, and the advance speed was very slow, and it took more than a month to advance more than 200 miles.
Of course, Sun Chuanting will not advance wildly, he only has 200,000 people under his command at this time, and it will be finished if he rushes up and is dumpled by the anti-Habsburg coalition forces, and if there is an army of 1.5 million like the beginning, he is afraid that he will rush up long ago.
At this time, he still followed the emperor's will, and he was there steadily, not in a hurry at all.
Anyway, it's just to attract the enemy's troops, to attack, 200,000 people is really not enough, to defend, 200,000 people is more than enough, those fortresses built along the railway line are not fake, it is really a big deal to retreat to Wushan City, the great powers are not afraid of gathering a million troops!
The great powers naturally don't want to fight with the Ming Empire's army, and now France, which has the strongest army, has been dragged by the Ming Empire and the Spanish coalition in the southeast part of France, and the other countries' armies add up to five or six hundred thousand.
Sun Chuanting did not refuse the foreign powers' request for peace talks, but this time there was no need to invite Zheng Zhilong, the king of Zhennan, the emperor had already explained in a secret letter, and he would preside over the peace talks.
This time, it was Speke who led the team, the chief negotiator of the anti-Habsburg coalition, who seemed to be very awesome, but he really didn't want to take the lead.
After negotiating with the Ming Empire so many times, he has never reaped any benefits, and every time he has paid indemnities, indemnities, and indemnities, and signed so many unequal treaties, it is strange that he will not be scolded to death by later generations.
However, he had to take the lead, and none of the other negotiators really had as much experience as him, whether it was negotiating with the Ming Empire or paying compensation!
Before starting the negotiations, he got good news, according to the investigation of Tsarist Russia, the strength of the Ming Empire is not very large, it seems that there are only about 200,000, but it is not invincible.
The negotiation venue chosen by the Ming Empire was still Wushan City, and Speke had to rush over from the Imperial Capital of Tsarist Russia again with the negotiation delegation, but there was no way, every time he begged others not to fight, and it was naturally impossible for people to come to his side.
Sun Chuanting didn't put up any battles to scare people, this time the emperor's purpose was to spend money with them, not to blackmail them for money, and besides, the great powers were not fools, and it was impossible to get their money with two or three hundred thousand people.
Therefore, he is very single, what he looks like, and he is not adulterated at all.
The negotiating delegation led by Speke was not shocked this time, because what they saw seemed to be similar to the results of the Russian reconnaissance.
Railway, they saw it, but it is no secret that the Ming army is building the railway, and it is impossible for them to come over for peace talks if the Ming army does not repair the railway.
The fortress, they also saw it, everyone just frowned slightly, this thing does not have offensive ability, but there is nothing to be afraid of.
Osan City, they saw it last time, and when they look at it again, they don't have the shocking feeling they had last time.
The Ming army also roughly saw it, and it was indeed as Tsarist Russia said, with 200,000 of them, it couldn't scare them either.
After entering the conference room, the map on the wall has not changed, but the generals of the Ming army on the opposite side are less than half, a total of one marshal, four generals, and at most 500,000 people, which is not enough to scare them.
Sun Chuanting didn't have as many fancy intestines as Zheng Zhilong, and when he saw the negotiation delegation of the great powers coming in, he just took the lead in standing up, said "Please sit", and then sat back with a snap.
Speke couldn't figure out what the Ming Empire wanted to do this time, or how much money he wanted to blackmail, so after sitting down, he didn't speak at all, just sat there calmly, waiting for the other party to speak first.
than patience, this is also a means of negotiation, however, Sun Chuanting is too lazy to be patient with these people, seeing that the other party did not speak for a long time, he asked directly: "Everyone, I don't know what you are doing when you come this time?" “
He said it directly in Chinese, and this time he didn't bring any translation, Chinese has now almost become the universal language, and it would be strange if the other party couldn't understand the translation.
Sure enough, as soon as he opened his mouth, the interpreter on the other side began to explain to the negotiators in a low voice.
When Speke heard this, he frowned, is this some reason to ask, if you don't attack Tsarist Russia, how can we run over.
He thought for a while, and then said solemnly: "On behalf of the countries of the Anti-Habsburg Alliance, I strongly condemn your Ming Empire's invasion of our ally, Tsarist Russia, and ask you to abide by the contract and withdraw your troops immediately." “
Sun Chuanting listened to the explanation of the translator on the other side, and immediately said stiffly: "Your Excellency Speke, our Ming Empire has always abided by the contract, and it was you who first violated the contract to attack our allies Spain and Portugal, so we had to fight back!" “
When Speke heard this, his head suddenly became as big as a fight, and when he heard this tone, he knew that the Ming Empire was going to be quite unreasonable, and Spain and Portugal were not mentioned in the last contract at all, so why did they violate the contract first.