Chapter 391: Aihui's Covenant (2nd Update)

Guo Xing'a stayed in Aihui and did not move, so that it was not that he wanted to personally guard the river defense, but that he did not dare to move. After his troops were reloaded, the ammunition consumption was a bit fast, and Guo Xing'a knew it, but because he had not fought far from the base area before, and the logistics supply had always been sufficient, Guo Xing'a had never calculated how fast the specific consumption would be.

In addition to the heavy cavalry battalion, the engineer battalion, and the baggage battalion, almost all the ammunition of the other departments has bottomed out, and there is only a little portable ammunition left. And the baggage troops have become ordinary infantry, because they no longer have baggage, and all the ammunition has been supplied to the divisions, except for some sundries. Guo Xing'a was also worried that Lao Maozi would kill him, so he could only let the light cavalry regiment protect the various departments and wait for support from the rear.

Guo Xing'a squatted in Aihui, and was not idle, but took the map and began to make various comparisons. The first is to dispel the illusion of an all-out war against Russia to recover the Outer Northeast, and the second is that the arsenal must not only be expanded, but also built on a large scale, otherwise even if the railway network is built in the future, the transportation of ammunition will be exhausting to death.

Aihui made a small fuss, and the ammunition of the army was bottomed out, and if there was a full-scale war, the consumption of ammunition would definitely be even greater. Although it is now certain that the strength of the Russian army in the Far East is relatively weak, the ammunition supply is really unbearable. The Gu'an Army now has only one arsenal under construction in Changchun, and its production capacity is very limited, and even if the output keeps up, transportation is a big problem. Heiji's current transportation is basically on his legs, and the roads are still wild and dirt roads, and even the four-wheeled carriage has a hard time walking, and the time for transporting arms from Changchun to the northeast must be measured in months. To recover millions of square kilometers of territory, the battle line will definitely reach thousands of miles, how can this kind of transportation efficiency keep up. If Tsarist Russia increases its troops from Siberia or even Europe, the war will drag on for a long time, and it will also bring down Goxinga, so this war cannot be fought for the time being.

Guoxinga originally had the intention of splitting up the arsenal, after all, if one company is dominant for a long time, a monopoly business model will be formed, which is not beneficial to the quality of products and the long-term development in the future. Now it is not only a question of introducing a competition mechanism, but also a problem of transportation, and of course, it is necessary to build arsenals in a decentralized manner. After studying the map for a long time, Guo Xinga finally made up his mind to break up his military industrial system. In addition to Changchun, Harbin is to build a large arsenal of the same size, and at the same time establish ammunition factories in Qiqihar and the Sanxing area as supply outposts.

The ammunition factories in Qiqihar and the Sanxing area only need to transfer a part of the technicians and workers, but the factories in Harbin are divided directly from Jilin by lottery. In this way, the balance of power between the two core arsenals can be guaranteed, and it is convenient to introduce a competition mechanism in the future and stimulate the progress of both sides in management and technology research and development. Of course, Fengsheng'a and Zheng Qifeng's overall pattern has not changed, and the development of the arsenal cannot be separated from the control of the core decision-making level.

Before Goxinga could come up with a corresponding strategy in terms of transportation, the envoy of Tsarist Russia, Malevich, came to the door, and his attitude was very tough, and the Aishentai, who received him in advance, was made a little vague by Malevich. The Tsarist invaders, who had just been beaten up, did not have the slightest sense of defeat, but acted as if they had won the battle, and not only were they arrogant and abnormal, but also made many very unreasonable demands.

After Goshinga and Tepchin met this Malevich together, they were also unable to get rid of this Russian master. Guo Xing'a had a strong sense of detachment, he felt as if he and this uncle did not live in the same space, obviously talking about the same thing, but the two of them had completely different perceptions of this matter. Looking at the sworn Russian envoy Malevich, Goxinga began to doubt his life, could it be that he had a strange dream a few days ago, and he was just awakened by this uncle today.

According to Malevich's statement, this is how it should have happened. After Tsarist Russia occupied the Outer Northeast, the people of all nationalities were in harmony, and all lived in the great happiness bestowed by the Tsar. The Russian army and the Qing army on the south bank have always coexisted in harmony, and the Russian army not only provided a lot of help to the Qing army, taught them to accept the advanced civilization of the West, but also provided them with many ways to get rich. On the new border, the people of the two countries are interconnected, as close and peaceful as neighbors, business exchanges and agriculture are thriving, and everyone is working hand in hand towards a better tomorrow. But this beautiful picture was shattered by the sudden and unreasonable attack of the Qing army.

First of all, the Qing army in the Sanxing area suddenly tore up the mutually beneficial and reciprocal "Aihui Treaty", shamelessly crossed the legal border between the two countries, and raided the 3,000 Russian troops who were seeking welfare for the people of the two countries, killing and wounding nearly 2,000 peace-loving friendly Russian troops. Immediately afterwards, the Qing army of Aihui attacked again, and the Russian mission and its escort team who came to Aihui in order to improve the terms of trade between the two countries caused more than 2,000 deaths in the escort of the Russian mission. Moreover, the Qing army subsequently kidnapped nearly 1,000 Russian soldiers who entered the Qing army-controlled area with friendly intentions and brutally threw them into the Heilongjiang River, causing more than 800 of them to be killed by the merciless river.

"In view of the above-mentioned series of incidents, all of which were provoked by your army for no reason, and caused extremely serious damage to our military and civilians, His Excellency Karsakov, Governor-General of Eastern Siberia of the Russian Empire, formally demands that your country pay the corresponding compensation for the above losses, severely punish the war criminals who caused the incident, apologize to our Russian Empire, and cede the area east of the Ussuri River to our country as compensation!" After a long nonsense, Malevich finally made his request.

Tepchin wanted to use some more tactful language to reject Malevich, but Gohinga spoke first.

"Sakhalin do you want it or not, do you want to give it to you together!" Goxinga seems to have accepted Malevich's demands.

"Sakhalin was originally the territory of my Russian Empire, and you don't need to cede it!" Malevich could not recognize Sakhalin because when the Tsarist Russia and the Qing Dynasty signed the Treaty of Nebuchu, they did not know that Sakhalin existed, so they thought that Sakhalin was a territory that they had carved out on their own after defeating the local tribes in 1850.

"How much money should be compensated, and how to deal with war criminals!" Guo Xing'a is too lazy to dwell on the affairs of Sakhalin, he is now taking advantage of a few fishing boats, Sakhalin is really powerless, so he can only wait for Rong Hong and others to come back from Britain, and then settle accounts with Lao Maozi.

"You have caused such serious consequences, you must compensate us with five million taels of silver, and at the same time execute all the officers who commanded the attack on us!" Malevich was aggressive, but he found something wrong, why the powerful Tepchin stopped talking, it had always been this lazy teenager who had never seen him before.

"Hmmm! Let's introduce myself! I am the new general of Jilin and Heilongjiang, and you don't need to trouble the old general Tepqin in the future, you can talk to me about all Heiji affairs. Because I have the title of General Fuyuan, you can call me General. Guo Xing'a rubbed his hands and introduced himself casually.

"Hello, Your Excellency the Young General!" Malevich felt that the Qing government was completely crazy, and actually removed the old Tepchin, in exchange for such a child whose hair had not yet grown.

"Hmmm! As for your country's request! I have a few opinions! First of all, I very much admire your ability to talk nonsense, Mr. Emissary, I am also a person who likes to talk nonsense, but because I know that I am talking nonsense, my expression is always not in place. I really can't do it with a serious reversal of black and white like you, Mr. Messenger, and you can also match it with an expression of righteous indignation, so I would like to pay tribute to you, you are really a good actor. Malevich was worthy of Goshinga's praise, because he knew that the lie would be exposed, so his expression did not change, and there was an angry look to show his protest against Goxinga's slander.

"Secondly, I am too lazy to refute you with all the information you have fabricated, except for the one you accuse me of torturing prisoners of war. It is true that I have captured more than 900 invaders and thrown them into the river, but I am not prepared to torture them. It was the Cossack warriors of your country who claimed that they could swim back to the northern shore, and I just fulfilled their request! Although many people drowned because of their braggaking this time, I will still satisfy the next time your prisoners of war make such a request. Goxinga threatened Malevich without being salty, and Malevich's expression this time was not perfect.

"Finally, I refuse all the requests of Mr. Governor-General of your country, and if he does not accept it, we can continue to fight. If it is inconvenient for him to go south because of his great losses, I can go north to find him, just to recover the lost territory of my country. I have heard of the bravery of your Cossack cavalry, and I would like to compete with them to see whether my army will reach Irkutsk first, or whether your Cossack cavalry will reach Jilin first. In Beijing I personally hanged the French General Montauban, and I really wanted to try what it was like to hang a governor! "Because of the ammunition, Goxinga can't fight anymore, but he must intimidate the Russians. And touching the scar on his face, he suddenly felt that it was good to kill Montauban, and he could brag about it wherever he went.

"Are you a regular army of the Qing court?" Malevich also knew that the Qing Dynasty had a mysterious regular army, which was not only well-trained and well-equipped, but also had defeated the Anglo-French army.

"In other words, I am Guo Xing'a, the commander of the First Division of the Gu'an Garrison Army of the Great Qing Dynasty!" Looking at Malevich's panicked expression, Goxinga knew that his intimidation had succeeded.

"Alright! We are willing to withdraw the previous conditions and renegotiate peace with your army! "Malevich's task is to come and intimidate, it is best to deceive some benefits, and if he can't deceive, he will obediently negotiate peace. The Russian army suffered heavy losses this time, and it was difficult to even reorganize the army, and it was impossible to fight against the Qing army at all, so Malevich only dared to ask for a lion with a big mouth, but did not dare to put forward any threat of force.

"Alright! I also hope that the territorial issue can be resolved in the form of peace talks, but before the peace talks begin, in order to ensure the safety of our residents on the north bank, I demand that all our people scattered in the countryside be withdrawn, except for the 64th Regiment of Hailan Pao, Miaojie, Boli and Jiangdong! Guo Xing'a weighed it for a long time, and still put forward this very loss-making request.

"There is no problem, our country will fully cooperate with your country to relocate residents!" Malevich agreed before Tepchin could stop him, and he began to despise Gohina, a boy who may have been a military genius but who knew nothing about politics. Tepchin, who was in a hurry, suddenly withered, and his heart was dripping blood.

In addition to military occupation, it also depends on who lives on the land. The main reason why the Qing Dynasty lost Outer Manchuria was because of the lack of people, because there were too few people living in this vast land, so it would be easily stolen by Lao Maozi. But at present, there are still many Chinese living here, and this is the seed, the hope of recovering the homeland in the future. Goxinga withdrew all these people in one sentence, and in the future, all the Russians will live in this land, how can they take back their homeland!

Goxinga understood this, but he had to do it. Without the support of military strength, the people living in enemy-occupied areas have nothing to do, and the Russians can take what they want, and they can play no role other than producing food for the Russians. Now that Heiji is all short of people, it is better to move them back, at least the food produced is for their own people, and they will fight back when they become rich and strong in the future. The fact that the owners of the land have become Russians is also planned by Goxinga, and at a time when the media is not particularly developed and world public opinion is still not so strong, Goxinga does not mind destroying all these invaders humanely.

After more than a month, although reinforcements arrived, Guoxinga still did not leave Aihui, because he had to personally preside over the migration work. Lao Maozi really actively cooperated with Guoxinga this time, and they mobilized all their forces to expel these aborigines and drive them all to the area controlled by Guoxinga. Faced with nearly 300,000 refugees who had nothing but clothes and rations, Guo Xing'a could only say, "It's good that people are back!" ”。

During the month, Malevich engaged in arduous negotiations with Pi Runmin and Zou Degui, and the two sides came up with a rough plan for the distribution of territory. Because of the problem of transportation capacity and supply, although there is a lot of reluctance, the entire north of Heilongjiang still fell into the hands of Lao Maozi. The area east of the Ussuri River can only be divided by the Line of Actual Control, and all of Sakhalin Island north of Boli has become Lao Maozi's territory. The only thing to be thankful for is that because there is no "Beijing Treaty", Acton's counterattack this time is also beautiful enough, and a large area of territory south of Bixin, including Vladivostok, has finally been preserved. Of course, no agreement has been signed between the two sides, and the Line of Actual Control is only a verbal ceasefire between the two sides. When the two sides have licked their wounds and prepared their ammunition, they will have to fight to find out.

"Mr. Zeyuan, Mr. Huaiyuan, I'm not reconciled! It's time for us to take care of our internal affairs, and in five years' time, I'm going to reclaim my homeland! Guo Xing'a looked at the water of Heilongjiang and said hatefully.