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As the most knowledgeable minister of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang knew that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was now in crisis, and there was a big trouble with the henchmen of the "short-haired thief" inside, and France, Tsarist Russia, and Yueben were eyeing each other outside. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although the Manchus trained the Beiyang New Army with the help of the British, it would take a long time for it to become an army.

Under these circumstances, Li Hongzhang's visit to Europe was not only to order advanced warships to equip the Beiyang Naval Division and purchase machinery and equipment to raise the level of the (military) industry, but also to seek help from Western countries so that the Manchus could eliminate internal troubles as soon as possible and at the same time resist the attack of foreign enemies.

During Li Hongzhang's trip to Britain by water, a foreign enemy attacked the Manchus, and it was none other than the Manchus' greatest foreign enemy, Tsarist Russia (Russian Empire).

In late July 1884, 3,000 Russian troops entered the Tangnu Wulianghai area, burning, killing and looting all kinds of evil, but the defenders of the Qing army in the Tangnu Wulianghai area strictly abided by Li Hongzhang's order, shrank up, and ignored what the Russian army did. (The specific circumstances of the war are omitted due to lack of detailed information)

However, what the Qing army did not expect was that the Russian army entered the Tangnu Ulianghai area not simply to plunder wealth, but to completely occupy the Tangnu Ulianghai area.

In the face of the Russian army's pressing step by step, the Qing army, which had more than 5,000 people and equipment more advanced than the Russian army, actually retreated again and again, and did not dare to have a head-on conflict with the Russian army at all.

This can be bitter for the people in the Tangnu Ulianghai area, whoever is encountered by the Russian army, there is only a dead end, and the land of Tangnu Ulianghai has been dyed red with the blood of the common people.

The people of Tangnu Ulianghai continued to rebel and struggle, but in the face of the heavily armed Russian army, they could only be slaughtered.

In the end, the Qing army, which had no way to retreat, finally aroused a trace of blood, did not retreat again, and made its own voice in the face of the Russian army.

It's a pity that the Qing army retreated again and again to let their fighting spirit be worn out little by little, and in the face of the swarming Russian army, some of the Qing troops were so frightened that they threw away their weapons and fled.

Of course, the battle ended in a complete victory for the Russian army, most of the Qing army fled, and a small number of people fought to the death with the Russian army, and it was these small numbers that made the Russian army pay the price of nearly 500 casualties.

Is the Qing army strong?

Strong! But the Qing army without fighting spirit is garbage.

After the war, the Tangnu-Ulianghai area, which covers an area of about 170,000 square kilometers, no longer has the armed forces that can resist the Russian army, and it can be said that the Tangnu-Ulianghai area has fallen under the control of Tsarist Russia.

But is that the end of it?

No!

From Xinqi to Mongolia to the Outer Northeast, under the ambitions of Tsar Alexander III, thousands of Russian troops were being assembled, and Tsarist Russia wanted to acquire more land from the Manchus.

The invasion of the Tangnu-Ulianghai region is only the first step, and the footsteps of Tsarist Russia will not be stopped so easily.

The speed at which the Russian army invaded and occupied the Tangnu-Ulianghai area and defeated the Qing army stationed in the Tangnu-Ulianghai area was too fast (relatively speaking, the transmission of information was too slow), and after the fast Russian army completely occupied the Tangnu-Ulianghai area, the Manchu court had not yet received a single message, let alone Li Hongzhang, who was still sailing to Europe.

Tsarist Russia has always been China's worst enemy, and there is no one.

During the Qing Dynasty, the border between China and Russia was tens of thousands of kilometers long. In the face of the ferocious Tsarist Russia, the Manchus needed at least 500,000 troops to hold such a long border.

Tsarist Russia is one of the most greedy countries in the world for land, and since the day Tsarist Russia appeared, it has been constantly expanding its territory, even if it is a permafrost-like Siberia, it does not dislike it, as long as it eats it in its stomach, it will not spit it out again.

However, Siberia was too cold, and although it had become the territory of Tsarist Russia, not many people wanted to live there, and Siberia became a penal colony for prisoners.

Siberia is not suitable for human habitation, but the fertile land "below" Siberia is very suitable for human habitation, and Tsarist Russia has set its eyes on the Manchu Qing Dynasty, whose territory is also huge.

Beginning in the 17th century, Tsarist Russia extended its sinful claws to the Manchus.

On September 7, 1689 (the 27th year of Kangxi), about 250,000 square kilometers of land west of the Xing'an Mountains and the Erguna River were lost after the signing of the Treaty of Nebuchu.

On October 31, 1727 (the fifth year of Yongzheng), about 100,000 square kilometers of land south and southwest of Lake Baikal were forced to sign the Kyakhta Treaty and were lost.

In 1790 (the 55th year of Qianlong), about 100,000 square kilometers of Kuye Island was secretly annexed by Tsarist Russia.

In 1840 (the twentieth year of Daoguang), it belonged to the state of Kazakhstan and was invaded and annexed by Tsarist Russia, with an area of about one million square kilometers; It belongs to Bangbrut, with an area of about 100,000 square kilometers, which was annexed by Tsarist Russia.

On May 28, 1858 (the eighth year of Xianfeng), the vast area west of the Tongjiang River, north of the Heilongjiang River, and south of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, with an area of about 460,000 square kilometers, was invaded by Tsarist Russia, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was forced to sign the Aihui Treaty to recognize it.

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On the other hand, by 1945, China had a total of 5,883,800 square kilometers of land occupied by Russia (including Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union), accounting for one-third of the country's area.

When Tsarist Russia invaded and occupied Chinese land, it also committed a series of vicious crimes that made the Chinese people angry, such as the Hailan Pao Massacre and the Jiangdong 64 Tun Bloody Case, and the land occupied by Tsarist Russia was full of Chinese blood.

The reason why this is hated by the Chinese is because it once occupied most of China, so Tsarist Russia should be hated by the Chinese even more, and this hatred must not be forgotten!

Fortunately, in this plane, there is a special existence of Yan Xueyi, China's history will be completely changed, and the history of those humiliations will be rewritten by Yan Xueyi, robbing my land and killing my people, we must return these humiliations, but these will take time, and to start a war with a great power, we must have a certain industrial base, otherwise we will only fail.

The Tangnu Ulianghai area has fallen into the hands of Tsarist Russia, and the news of Tsarist Russia's invasion of the Tangnu Ulianghai area has only been transmitted to the capital, after the Manchu court got the news, a sigh of sighing, the internal trouble of the "short-haired thief" has not been solved, and there is actually another big enemy, so many years, the Manchu Qing can see that Tsarist Russia covets the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but now what is the best way to stop Tsarist Russia?

The only way is to go to the Western powers.

After the Western countries got the news that Tsarist Russia had invaded and occupied the land of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they actually did not react much, after all, most of the territory of Tsarist Russia was not suitable for human existence, and even the lands occupied by Tsarist Russia in the Manchu Dynasty were also sparsely populated, so it would not increase the strength of Tsarist Russia too much.

However, the Western countries, led by Britain, still agreed to act as lobbyists and try their best to prevent Tsarist Russia from encroaching on the Manchu lands. The countries also did not want Tsarist Russia to encroach on the rich lands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which would greatly increase the strength of Tsarist Russia.

However, what the Manchus did not expect was that the matter of Tsarist Russia had not yet been resolved, and another country had also attacked the Manchus.