The autumn grassland scenery is so beautiful that the heart is about to be intoxicated, and the sweet and majestic wind enters gently from the nostrils like a lover's hand, and then gently soothes the internal organs and then floats away. The wild flowers that can't be named are like the girls of the grassland, although they are not amazing enough, but they are more straightforward, and they show their vigorous vitality on the grassland.

Kuang Haishan took 3,000 soldiers and an equal number of people and pressed over from the Baotou Statue Kulun. The reason why the word "pressure" is used to express it, in addition to explaining the power of the advance army, is more because the speed of the march is not much faster than that of a snail.

On the official road from Kulen to Baotou, the Mongolian princes rushed to meet Kuang Haishan. Many people actually began to kneel down from the door, raised the vermilion handbook above their heads with both hands, and then knelt down to his Chinese army tent. Kuang Haishan's position as a Mongolian reclamation envoy was equivalent to the Kulen minister of the former Qing Dynasty, and belonged to the emperor of all Mongolia. Even when the Kulen minister Sanduo met with the Mongolian Living Buddha, he sat on a chair and waited for Jebtsundamba to salute him.

The angel of the kingdom is better than the king of the small state??? The Mongol princes were imprisoned by the Manchus for more than 200 years, a rule that was clearer than that of the Han Chinese.

In addition to rewarding the three armies to show their respect, most of the Mongol princes took Kulen's secret mission, and they lobbied Kuang Haishan in groups not to send troops to Kulen, and then began to promise, and the price was finally increased to 40,000 taels of gold, only begging the Mongolian advance army not to set foot on the land of Western Mongolia.

Kuang Haishan only regarded these words as a fart, and at first he was polite, and then he sent guards to drive him out after he got annoyed, but the Mongolian princes still came to work along the official road in an endless stream, and the soldiers ate with a mouth full of oil, and praised the beef and mutton of the Mongolian steppe for tasting better than that in the interior of the Central Plains.

From Baotou to the west, the more you walk, the more sparsely populated, the Han people in Eastern Mongolia are several times more than the Mongols, and after Bayan Dengle, even the yurts become scarce, often walking for a whole day without seeing people. Tuoketo, Baotou, Kyakhtu, Kulun, this is the traditional business road of Jin merchants, it was originally quite prosperous, and it reached its peak at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Since the Republic of China Zhaoxing, Jebtsundamba established the "Great Mongolia" under the instigation of the Russians, proclaimed himself the Great Bright Emperor, Western Mongolia wantonly excluded the Han people, many of the people who originally did business here were robbed by Mongolian horse bandits, most of them returned to Eastern Mongolia, and some simply returned to the Central Plains. The bustling traditional trade routes of the past have also become deserted.

As the sky gradually darkened, Kuang Haishan ordered the whole army to be stationed. The soldiers set up barracks and set up high lookouts. The afterglow of the falling sun is reflected on the rugged and winding official road, which seems to stretch from eternity to the distant future.

The firehead army set up the cauldron of the march, the whole fat sheep was slaughtered and thrown into the soup pot, more than 10,000 people set up two or three hundred marching stoves, the fire reflected red for a long time, and the sunset complemented each other, the beauty was dazzling.

"Commander Kuang, Deputy Commander Gu called, they have pursued the remnants of Wutai all the way, and now they have entered the territory of Manchuria!"

Kuang Haishan nodded and said: "Tell Gu Nanshan that the military stations along the way must leave enough troops to guard, try to avoid clashes with the Russians, and tell him not to be impulsive." ”

On the hundreds of miles of official road from Mongolia to Manchuria, the advance army arranged four military stations, each of which had a high-power Marconi wireless telegraph to transmit a distance of 130 kilometers, and then relay the news from station to station.

"Gu Mazi's strength is too thin!" Kuang Haishan said to himself worriedly.

The advance army has a total of only 6,000 troops, Kuang Haishan and Gu Nanshan each bring half, one to the west and one to the east, in order to maintain contact and ensure the supply of follow-up resources, but also to build military stations along the way, which also needs to be guarded by troops, and now the number of troops following Gu Mazi into Manchuria is less than 2,000. Moreover, the form of Manchuria is very complicated, Zhao Erxun, the governor of Fengtian, was originally an old Manchu bureaucrat, and Yuan Shikai was a little bit at odds with him, and when the revolutionary party rebelled, he killed his younger brother Zhao Erfeng, so the relationship with the Southern Army was also very tense. The power of the Benben and the Russians in Manchuria was even greater, especially the Russians in the area of the Manchurian Railway and the Middle East Road, with 80,000 armed men.

In the event of a conflict, it is almost an impossible task for 2,000 lone troops to deal with 80,000 Russians.

"Commander, there's a lama asking to see you!"

Kuang Haishan smiled faintly, he should be the secret envoy of Jebtsundamba again, but the power of Lamaism in Mongolia has penetrated into all aspects. Before leaving, Chai Dongliang told him that it was easy to fight Mongolia and difficult to gain a foothold, and he still respected religious people. The reason why Mongolia is making trouble is closely related to the Manchu court's new policy of opening up Mongolia, and the contempt of Kulen's minister Sanduo for the upper echelons of Mongolian monks and laymen is also inextricably linked. The fact that Jebtsundamba and Utai ascended to the heights could make most of Mongolia rebel had a huge bearing on the personal qualities of Qing officials and the random surnames that formulated policies.

"Please!" Kuang Haishan said loudly.

After a while, a lama wearing a robe and a yellow monk's hat walked in, followed by a tall lama, but the person behind him walked a little stiffly, and the monk's robe was a little out of place.

Kuang Haishan couldn't help but look at him more, under the light of the gas lamp, his eyes turned out to be blue-gray!

Is this a foreigner?

"Poor monk Sanjie greets the envoy of the tunken!"

Kuang Haishan pondered for a moment and said, "Oh, you are the Great Lama of Gegen Temple, Sanjie Living Buddha?" ”

"Poor monk Sanjie, by the will of the Great Bright Emperor, I have come to reward the Han brothers of the advance army!" Sanjay said respectfully.

Kuang Haishan slapped his palm on the table and roared angrily: "Emperor of Great Light? Who sealed it? Who approved it? Someone, send off! ”

Even the Russians did not dare to openly admit the "Great Mongolian State" of Jebtsundamba, including his self-proclaimed "emperor", and the other powers were even more indifferent, saying that he even bluntly demanded that Mongolia give up his reading power. Although Russia has demarcated its sphere of influence through the third secret treaty, he does not want a Mongolian state to appear, because this Mongolia is bound to be a vassal of Russia, and the threat to himself from a large number of Russian troops going deep into Mongolia is also quite huge.

In the Russo-Russian War, he finally won a nominal victory at a huge cost, but he did not even see a single kopeck in reparations. For this reason, the political axe was scolded by the angry people of Yumoto, and the ronin brandished a katana to slaughter the "Yue Annihilation" group headed by Ito Hirobumi, especially the vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lin Dong, whose house was smashed. He believed that the Russo-Russian War was a "proxy war" to fight Russia for Britain and the United States, but he suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties and owed a huge debt to the Western powers that could not be paid off for decades. It was against this background that the "Bigu Burning Incident" against Britain and the United States took place.

For Russia, the Russo-Russian War was just a conflict on the border, but for Russia, it was a gamble on national fortunes??? This gamble frightened the political axe. On the one hand, he said that he wanted to control Manchu and Mongolia and realize the conspiracy of gradually conquering China, and on the other hand, he was afraid of triggering a second Russo-Japanese war, so he only controlled the situation before the incident. The nominal rule of the Mongols under the political axe of the Republic of China was more advantageous to Yue himself than under the actual rule of the Russians.

Okuma Shigenobu, Inuyotsu Yi, Saionji Konobu and other politicians are still quite wise, and the veteran ministers of the Meiji Restoration have not yet died, and the political axe is not the puppet used as a mouthpiece by the military department and the mob during World War II.

The attitude of the Russians towards the [***] position was basically supportive, but the Tsar's attention was mainly focused on the Balkans, and Russia and Austria-Hungary were fighting for the Balkans, and the war between the two sides was on the verge of breaking out with millions of soldiers. The court of St. Petersburg really did not have much energy to pay attention to the barren lands of the Far East. Britain and the United States were extremely dissatisfied with Russia's and Ben's control of Manchuria, Mongolia, and the exclusion of British and American capital, and British Minister Zhu Erdian and American Minister Jia Leheng clamored for the maintenance of China's unity, and openly declared their opposition to the establishment of [***] under the banner of opening the door.

The attitude of the British Empire can influence the whole world in this era, they oppose the establishment of [***], who would dare to openly support other powers?

Therefore, Jebtsundamba, the emperor, was tasteless, and even half of the Mongolian princes opposed the [***] establishment out of fear of being attacked by the political axe of the Republic of China. Jebtsundamba, the so-called emperor's decree, could not come out of the "Guangxian Temple".

Sanjie saw that Kuang Haishan was angry, looked back at the foreigner wearing a monk's robe behind him, and saw that he was indifferent, so he had to bow down and say: "The handsome man is angry, the poor monk is following the decree of the great living Buddha of Jebuzundamba, and came to meet the handsome!" ”

"Say it."

"The Great Light Living Buddha said, I hope your army can return to Eastern Mongolia, the Great Living Buddha is willing to take thirty percent of the Western Mongolian tax revenue as your army's military expenses, as long as the reclamation makes the Lord stay in Eastern Mongolia for one day, this filial piety will always exist."

Kuang Haishan sneered: "I can do the taxation myself, and I don't bother with the living Buddha of Lao Zhebu Zundamba." The unity of Manchu and Mongolia, this is universally recognized, Mongolia is part of our Republic of China, this is something that no one can deny! ”

The foreigner in the monk's robe suddenly said in stiff Chinese: "If the 'Great Mongolia' abolishes the reading power and is reincorporated into the legal system of the Republic of China, will your army no longer be able to enter Western Mongolia?" ”

Kuang Haishan laughed and said, "Cancel the reading power? With this as a premise, it can still be discussed! But who are you? Can you call the shots for Jebtsundamba? ”

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(To be continued)