Chapter 918: Ten Thousand Miles Returned
At Changchun, Goxinga gave the order to march to the Arabian Peninsula and took his newly married daughter-in-law to Dalian to boost the morale of the Marines who were about to go on the expedition. At the opening ceremony, Guo Xing'a said many things such as nationality, honor, bravery, and glory, and the soldiers were all enthusiastic, but the same words had completely different meanings in the far west.
The fifteenth year of Zhongzheng is a special year, and many historical celebrities who are connected or unconnected with Goxinga have left this world forever when Goxinga knows or does not know. The great German Emperor Wilhelm I, in February of the fifteenth year of Zhongzheng, had closed his eyes forever with a stomach full of unwillingness and resentment at Goxinga's calculations. An ordinary soldier of the Russian Empire named Lenin also died on the battlefield in Eastern Europe in March of the 15th year of Zhongzheng with great ambition. So many things have changed in Goxinga, and the world has deviated from its original trajectory.
The long and brutal war drained the anger and passion of the Europeans, who were struggling with the flames of war and had lost all their enthusiasm for the war. At the beginning of the war, words such as nation, honor, bravery, and glory would make the blood of the young men of Europe boil, but now they only find it ironic. Everyone just wants to leave this damn battlefield and go home to be an ordinary person who has nothing to do with the world. The higher-ups also hoped that this terrible war could be stopped quickly through negotiations, but everyone was waiting for the bastard on the other side to speak first.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire, which had a thin foundation, was now completely out of the mix, the citizens of Vienna had begun to starve, and the war was going on for a year, and everyone would starve to death. So Joseph approached the eldest brother of Wilhelm II, hoping that this brother would be subdued, and the two brothers went to England and France to talk together. It's a pity that Wilhelm II is a well-known iron head, he is a person who plays with his life to hit the south wall, and the fun of life is to hit the south wall and practice iron head skills.
"Believe me, my brother, hold on, the English and French are having a harder time than we do. Russia is on the verge of total collapse, with frequent changes in the top of their government, repeated mutinies in front-line troops, and they are about to surrender. We will continue to pressure Russia out of the war, and then we can attack France with all our strength as planned. When we take Paris, we can conclude a treaty with the French, and then Germany will concentrate on attacking England, and victory will be ours! "Wilhelm II, who has just ascended to the throne, is much more impulsive than he was in middle age, and this time Britain and France do not have the help of their American cousins, and their chances of winning are indeed very good.
"Our soldiers are also starving, they are also surrendering in formations like the Italians, and it is difficult for us to hold on any longer!" Joseph had little hope of defeating France, and his situation was not much better than that of Alexander III.
"The guy in the East who has been watching the drama is about to attack, he is about to attack the Arabian Peninsula, the Ottoman Empire will no longer be able to threaten the Balkans, and it will be destroyed. At the same time, the guy who slammed the door will also provide us with 20 million tons of food aid, and our people will be saved from hunger! Goxinga was very worried that Deao would not be able to bear it, so he sent them necessary supplies to continue the fight, including news of his dispatch of troops and food.
"That's good news, but the British have a firm grip on the Mediterranean, when will they get the food? When they destroy Russia or the Ottomans, we will not be able to survive! Joseph was still pessimistic, and he knew that Goshinga only wanted them to die with England and France.
"The first batch of food will be delivered tonight!" Wilhelm II was full of confidence, and although Bismarck, the old fellow, had explained several times that it was Goshinga's ruse to incite them, Wilhelm II was still convinced that he could use these things to turn the tide.
"Tonight? …… Didn't they fly over? Joseph's eyes were wide open, and they were full of question marks.
"Yes, they just flew here! Several air formations of the Manchurian Air Force will enter our airspace tonight and drop the much-needed food for us! "Wilhelm II was very excited, the emergence of the Manchurian Air Force meant that the Manchurian army would intervene in the war in Europe, and with strong reinforcements, they would inevitably be able to defeat Britain and France. By the time Germany had taken control of all of Europe, and then after a few years of development, Wilhelm II would be able to negotiate with strong reinforcements.
"I admit that the Manchurian Air Force is very strong, they are the pioneers of the world's air forces, but how much food can be transported by a few air formations?" Joseph did not question the transportation capacity of the Manchurian Air Force, but he questioned the IQ of Wilhelm II, hundreds of tons of food, not to mention the poor, even if it was not enough to save the emergency!
"The Manchurian Air Force would drop three thousand tons of food, some high-tech products of the Manchurian Empire, very remarkable inventions. I've already eaten those compressed biscuits and instant noodles, and they taste and feel very good, and they expand exponentially when you add water. 3,000 tons of food, as long as enough hot water is added, will become tens of thousands of tons of food! This is a sample, you can also taste it, it is really a very good oriental flavor! Wilhelm II was confident, but he underestimated the extent of the damage caused by the profiteer Goxinga.
Half a month later, even the soldiers on the front line knew that the dignitaries of their homeland had been tricked and that they were fighting a senseless war. Because the soldiers with weapons engraved with Chinese characters suddenly found that the poor damn man in the trench opposite was actually eating the same food as himself. Someone is giving out food, weapons, and they are fighting a war to destroy each other, and that person is hiding in a quiet couch watching jokes.
The soldiers discovered the anomaly, and the dignitaries naturally saw it, and it turned out that all the necessities they had to kill each other came from the same place, but in different ways of transportation. Weapons and food from Britain and France, which came to Europe by sea, were supplied by the General Directorate of Military Industrial Manufacturing in Sulu and the Sulu Food Group. German and Austrian weapons and food came to Europe by air and Arctic Ocean shipping, and their suppliers were Changchun Military Industry Group and Dalian FMCG Group. There are slight differences in paths, supply methods, quantities, etc., but the boss behind them is all one person, that is, Guoxing'a, who counted money in Changchun and had cramps. Everyone saw Goxinga's sinister intentions, but they couldn't stop themselves in the middle, especially after the outbreak of the Russian Revolution.
From the westward march of Goxinga to the outbreak of the Second Far Eastern War, Russia was in a dilemma of defeat after defeat. After being beaten on the Eastern Front, in order to save itself, Russia provoked another war on the Western Front, and then everything was completely out of control. Bloody and cruel Europe, in just over three years, took the lives of more than 1.8 million young Russian men, plus the loss of one million on the Eastern Front, the Russian Empire has lost nearly three million soldiers, and the number of soldiers disabled by wounds is as high as one million. Five percent of the country's population is either dead or disabled, and all of them are young and middle-aged men, which no country can bear. But the women don't have time to shed tears for their sons and husbands, and they have to face even greater pressure to survive.
Due to the lack of fuel and raw materials, the blast furnaces were fired, many factories had to be closed, and the textile mills that relied on imported cotton before the war also stopped production. Traffic and transportation are seriously blocked, and the railway cannot bear the rapid increase in transportation tasks. Then there was a chain reaction, the production and transportation of food began to decline, the wounded soldiers on the front line did not receive food and gauze for several days, and the citizens in the rear began to starve. Petrograd, Moscow and other industrial cities were short of food, but the Caspian Sea, the Volga and the Don rivers had large quantities of grain, meat, fish and other foodstuffs, which were piled up and rotted because they could not be transported. Large quantities of goods were piled up in the harbor and could not be transported into the interior, and coal was piled up like mountains, and boxes of raw material for the arsenal were piled up along the wharves, but the ships had to wait weeks and months before they could unload them.
After the outbreak of the Great War, Russian agricultural production was severely affected. Fifteen million people who are able to work are conscripted into the armed forces, mainly from rural areas. When a large number of rural boys put down their hoes and take up arms, a reduction in grain production is inevitable. Transport difficulties have also led to a physical disruption of rural-urban links, and there is a growing shortage of grain, meat, sugar and other agricultural products in the market. The landlords, kulaks, and merchants had in their hands a great deal of the necessities of life, but they were better at hoarding and speculating. Food often disappears from the store, only to be sold at high prices on the black market. The price of food has skyrocketed more than threefold, and meat and sugar are particularly expensive. Women who have lost their husbands and children have to use their weak shoulders to resist this.
Of the belligerents, Russia had the longest front, and the war was fought on 50,000 square kilometers of Russian territory. As a result, at least three million refugees have been left homeless, without food and clothing, and many have been killed, maimed and died of the plague during the war. Many of the soldiers' families were left unsupported and lived in great pain. Soldiers are fighting for their country on the front line, but their families are struggling to starve to death, which directly leads to the collapse of the morale of the Russian army on the front line.
The combination of these pressures, coupled with the repeated unfavorable fighting on the front, finally the Russians could not bear it anymore, and they launched an uprising. The bourgeois revolution broke out in full force throughout Russia, and Alexander III wanted to mobilize troops to suppress it, but found that even the army had mutinied, and the soldiers did not listen to the Tsar. A day later, Alexander III forced him to abdicate and declare himself in exile in China. The Qing court always liked this feeling of saving people from danger, so it happily coordinated the Manchurian army to let the Tsar's family escape from the Ural Mountains, enter China from Xinjiang, and arrange a new home for the Tsar in Beijing. A group of gods who ate too much in the Hanlin Academy also gave the Tsar's exile a nice name - Wanli Annex.