Section 101 Battle of Arthur

The results of the failed negotiations were also reflected in the orders of Japan and Russia. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Japanese borrowed money easily and generously, and the Germans in Qingdao did not sell them shells, so Laiwu opened up to sell.

The Russians' business was cut off by the French, but the Russians couldn't do without Yang Chao's transportation, after they evacuated Mukden, they were farther away from Lushun, of course, the straight-line distance was not far, but the transportation was even more impossible, the psychological distance was too far.

The tsar finally removed Kuropatkin and transferred the commander-in-chief of the First Army, Lynevich, with Kuropatkin, and Kuropatkin became the commander of the First Army.

Linievich's appointment did not sever business contacts with Yang Chao, on the contrary, he greatly strengthened cooperation with Yang Chao.

Linevich needed a victory too much, he was a new officer, and he needed to prove his ability to the Tsar, but it was too difficult to attack Mukden from Tieling, and he did not have the confidence to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army, so he put his hope on Arthur.

A month after the end of the Battle of Fengtian, Yang Chao sent 40,000 people to Lushun, bringing Lushun's troops to 100,000, and the troops sent were all elite veterans who had fought with the Japanese army in Mukden, and the brigade of Yang Chao's old acquaintance Kornilov was also transferred to Lushun.

Transporting 100,000 people a month, this seems impossible to complete, after all, Yang Chao has only one person, an airship, making an airship is not a problem, the problem is how to drive an airship, in this world night navigation, only Yang Chao alone can do it, no matter who it is, it is impossible to fly to Lushun with a compass at night.

Therefore, it is impossible to form an airship transport team, but there can't be many airships, and they can be increased.

It took Yang Chao ten days for the spacecraft to build a second airship, which was twice as large as the first, increasing its length to two hundred meters, but doubling its carrying capacity to one hundred tons.

It can transport 1,000 people at a time, plus their necessary equipment, an average of 1.5 runs a day, a saturation speed of 1,500 people, and a month of intense transportation, not only completed the task, but also sent 1,000 tons of Chinese cabbage to Lushun, so that the Russians would not be malnourished and lose their combat effectiveness.

Having received enough troops, Kondrachenko immediately launched a counteroffensive, and within three days, recaptured all the outlying positions occupied by the Japanese, and advanced the battlefield to the point where Nogi Noshinori could attack.

The result of the Battle of Arthur surprised the whole world, and it turned out that the Russians could also fight.

In fact, they knew there how big the black cauldron Kuropatkin carried, and the battle of Mukden was a failure, but after abandoning the vast majority of artillery and other heavy equipment, the main force of the Russians escaped, fled to Tieling and formed a solid defensive line, which was not easy, and it was more difficult than the later Dunkirk escape, after all, the Russians did not have ships, and they successfully retreated more than 200,000 people by rail and on foot, which required organizational skills that were not imaginable by ordinary people.

At least Yang Chao recognized Kuropatkin very much, and felt that if this guy didn't want to be an officer, he should be able to do it if he went to any big company.

Kuropatkin kept the Russian army alive, and at the same time continued to contain the Japanese at Tieling, and then there was a counteroffensive by Lushun Kontrachenko.

But in any case, the Battle of Arthur was a victory, and the Russians finally saved a little face.

At the same time, Kontrachenko became famous, he was indeed a very capable major general, and was immediately promoted to lieutenant general by the tsar, and was given the command of the entire battle of Arthur, including the warships anchored in the harbor and dismantled with artillery.

Of course, Yang Chao's role in it is the biggest change, because if Yang Chao had not blown up the Japanese heavy artillery unit that time, Kondrachenko would have been killed by Japanese artillery during the inspection a few days later.

The Battle of Arthur caused an uproar all over the world, and of course the interest on the loans of the Japanese was once again raised to 5 percent, and it can be seen from this interest rate that the market is still optimistic about them.

But the impact on the Russians was of great significance, for the vigorous anti-government forces in Russia were temporarily subsided, and even the bloody Sundays that occurred in history because of the defeat of Arthur did not occur, and although the atmosphere in the Russian country was very tense and the various forces continued to move, they did not get the spark of explosion after all.

The spark in history was the fall of Lushun, but Lushun counterattacked, and this spark could not be born.

Finally, there was a victory, the Tsar's tone became harder, and he was dissatisfied with the requirements of the French, the French shells were too expensive, and the shells that Yang Chao sold to them were cheap, so the Russians began to rashly purchase arms from Yang Chao on the grounds of inconvenient transportation, and the French government acquiesced, like a wronged little daughter-in-law, then the barbaric chest-haired man of Russia has no way.

But Yang Chao can't deliver it, and a hundred tons of freight volume can't guarantee the increasing material needs of the Russians.

I can't think of all kinds of methods, even including asking Lao Jiu, a robot, to help pilot another airship, because Lao Jiu said that the spaceship cannot intervene in any war.

It's a pacifist alien spacecraft.

The Russians also offered to lease Yang Chao's airship, because they could transport it themselves in broad daylight, but Yang Chao also refused, and he did not dare to hand over his airship to anyone.

The Russians themselves bought a batch of airships from Germany, but they could not find their way at night, and they were strafed by the heavy machine guns of the Japanese in broad daylight, and the Russians had to abandon their adventures. Although they didn't know how Yang Chao could discern the direction at night, they still had to rely on Yang Chao.

But the paper can't hold the fire, and Yang Chao finally got into trouble.

"These idiots, don't they know the importance of keeping information secret?"

Yang Chao was furious, because the Japanese touched the melon and actually touched himself, and protested to the imperial court.

After all, the Japanese are not fools, they have actually discovered the problem a long time ago, the inexplicable increase in the strength of Lushun, they don't know what the reason is, but they can guess that the Russians can only pass by air, and later the Russians' transportation in the daytime also confirms that the Russians supply Lushun through the air.

And their intelligence work finally paid off, and they unexpectedly discovered that it was Yang Chao, who had been selling them arms, who helped the Russians transport supplies.

Yang Chao sold arms to the Russians, and the Japanese knew about it for a long time, and they protested countless times for this, but it had no effect, because Yang Chao was under the banner of the Americans and the Germans, and these two countries simply ignored the Japanese protests. Moreover, the Japanese still have to rely on the United States in terms of funds and materials, and their domestic military production cannot continue without American steel. The Germans were used to being arrogant, and they didn't care about Japan.

The Japanese could only turn a blind eye and continue to purchase arms from Yang Chao, hoping to eat Yang Chao's output as much as possible, so that the Russians could get less.

However, directly helping the Russians to transport, especially the soldiers, this is beyond the bottom line of the Japanese.

The Japanese did not hesitate to issue a threat of war and let the combined fleet go around the port of Tianjin, and the Qing government was immediately frightened stupid.

Zaifeng immediately sent an edict, demanding that Yang Chao stop helping the Russians transport soldiers, and that the Qing Dynasty must abide by the principle of neutrality.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs assured Japan that Chinese officials had not intervened in the war, and that the Chinese government had no intention of intervening in the war.

The U.S. consul in Yantai vaguely expressed the attitude of the U.S. government to Yang Chao, saying that if Yang Chao continued to sell arms to the Russians, they would have a neutral attitude toward it.

Obviously, the Americans also hope that Yang Chao will support the Russians to a limited extent.

Before the Russians lost all their belongings and surrendered, the Americans hoped to end the war, after all, the Japanese won the Russians too easily, and the eyes may be on the other side of the Pacific Ocean in the future, and the distance between the Philippines and Taiwan also makes the Americans feel insecure.

The German governor of Qingdao informed Yang Chao that if he encountered diplomatic pressure, Germany would stand firmly on his side and would never allow any country to interfere with trade freedom by improper means.

Germany did not want to see the Russians driven back to Europe in disgrace, and although they had begun to reassess the fighting power of the Russians, it was definitely not a good thing for a million Russian troops to march to the German border.

Therefore, they firmly supported Yang Chao and hoped to send more arms to the Russians, especially after they lost most of their heavy firepower in Mukden, Germany wanted to see the Russians straighten their waists under the heavy fists of the Japanese, continue to increase their troops in the northeast, and even after the war, they had to maintain a huge number of troops to guard against the Japanese.

Moreover, the Germans were also very interested in Yang Chao's night transportation technology, thinking that Yang Chao had any advanced technology, but when Yang Chao asked their people to visit his airship, the Germans found that this was extremely simple, they thought that this was a zeppelin, and even the engine structure was exactly the same.

Then the navigation method can only be through the ground, the Germans guessed that Yang Chao placed a lot of navigation facilities on the ground, probably people, such as people set fire at night, every time they landed, Yang Chao let the Russians set off the cross flame is indeed very confusing.

Yang Chao was relieved and boldly let the Germans visit, because he could conclude that it was impossible for the Germans to discover his secret, and the Germans would not guess that Yang Chao was navigated by a watch.

However, the Germans wanted Yang Chao to lend the manpower for night navigation to the Russians and let the Russians transport it themselves, but Yang Chao refused under the pretext of danger.

The Germans knew that at this time, the Russians could only rely on Yang Chao.

After the Japanese threatened the Qing government, the Russians also began to threaten the Qing government, and France and Germany successively expressed their views to the left, the Qing government had no other good way than to issue an edict to Yang Chao to abide by neutrality.

So this time the diplomatic turmoil, except for pushing Yang Chao from behind the scenes to the forefront, there was no result, and the business that should be done continued to be done, and he did not hesitate to be exposed, and even began to start the airship in the early morning when the sky was barely able to see and just ten at night.

The Japanese intercepted it a few times, but their machine guns and even artillery didn't do anything to Yang Chao, they just thought that they didn't hit it, in fact, many times Yang Chao was startled, because the Japanese shells smashed on the airship, and the airship still shook a lot.

Full force transportation, two trips in one night, can transport 2,000 people, and if you transport weapons and equipment, it will be even more.

Moreover, if Yang Chao set out from Dashifang, it would be closer to Lushun, and he would arrive across the cape of more than 100 kilometers, so Lushun's weapon attack was very sufficient.

Seeing this, the Japanese had no good way except to dispatch elite soldiers and strong generals to assemble in Lushun.

They also had to solve the trouble of Lushun as soon as possible, because the second fleet of the Russians finally reached the China Sea.

Thus began the Second Battle of Arthur.