722 Order making (I)
When the war came to this point, in fact, except for Datang, which was originally a participant in the war, basically all the countries were tired. Pen ~ fun ~ Cabinet www.biquge.info Germany mobilized almost all of the country's industrial capacity and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and millions of war supporters for the war to provide logistical services. Although the Tang Dynasty provided Germany with a lot of supplies in the later period, the German army was already tired by this time, and there were dissatisfied voices in many parts of the country, believing that the war should end immediately.
Not to mention the Russian Empire, which had lost its troops, and Austria, which had already been conquered by its troops. As for Prussia, there will be little room for the existence of the destroyed state.
On January 29, 1795, the Tang Dynasty formally informed Austria and Russia that they would hold talks in Warsaw to discuss an armistice. Austria and Russia were desperate to give their diplomats wings to Warsaw to implement the armistice.
The armistice was not limited to the Tang Dynasty, Austria, and Russia, but actually included all the countries in Europe that participated in the war at this time. On the Tang side there were France, Germany, Republican Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands, while Austria, Russia, the Kingdom of Sardinia, Naples and Spain were on the other side.
Although there was a part of the German side that wanted the complete destruction of Austria and the complete reunification of Greater Germany, this voice did not prevail. Even President Marnes, who was about to become a warmonger, believed that if Germany continued the war, the damage could be too great to be repaired, and even his own position and prestige would be seriously affected. Therefore, when the Tang side informed the German army to prepare for an armistice, Germany did not have the slightest dissatisfaction, after all, they destroyed Prussia through this war and obtained two coastal territories of East Prussia and West Prussia. More often than not, the soldiers and civilians breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, this damned war was finally over.
Britain had already withdrawn from the war, so it did not appear in the armistice talks this time. The British newspapers reported on the matter with the headline that the whole of Europe was under the boots of the Tang Dynasty.
This judgment was extremely correct, and Tang Foreign Minister Chu Bai personally went to Warsaw to hold this important meeting with the Chinese side. In fact, the negotiation part of this meeting is extremely thin, more like Datang talking about conditions, and other countries have only one way to accept it.
It is also true that the French side has nothing to ask for, their participation in the war is very low, and it is satisfactory to be able to stop the war with other countries. Therefore, this armistice talks are essentially the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to formulate a new ruling order on the European continent.
Unlike a group of diplomats from various countries who were gorgeously dressed and wore various gilt ribbons and medals, Chu Bai was dressed in a very simple black Tang Dynasty suit, and he shook hands with the negotiators of all countries with a faint smile.
Chu Bai is not tall, but he looks extremely tall at this moment, and his height comes from the country behind him.
After the talks officially began, Chu Bai first defined the nature of this war: "...... This unfortunate war was essentially provoked by the monarchy, the suppression and hostility of the new republic. In order to maintain justice and peace in Europe, Datang chose to participate in the war. ”
These words did not have much nutrition, and the biggest effect was to give this war an official name, "War to Defend the Republic", in the history textbooks of the Tang Dynasty in the future.
The really nutritious part is Datang's treatment of the defeated country.
First of all, if it doesn't exist now, then it doesn't exist. Germany formally occupied Prussia and achieved the unification of Little Germany. The countries had to accept the fact that the exiled Prussian monarch was now left to work as an apartment in London.
Secondly, territorial processing. The Russian Empire ceded Latvia and Estonia to the Tang Dynasty and established the Tang Estonian-Latvian Overseas Territory. The Russian side is strongly dissatisfied with this, after all, these two Baltic Sea regions are too close to the Russian capital, so that St. Petersburg does not have a sense of security.
However, Chu Bai's response was also very direct, he said: "If your envoy is not satisfied with this condition, then you can withdraw from the armistice negotiations." ”
At this time, the Russian diplomat was dumbfounded, and Catherine II gave a death order on the sickbed that an armistice must be reached with the Tang Dynasty, and he could not suspend it out of his temperament. Russia has completely no strength to continue the war, and the Tang army obviously has the spare strength to burn the war on Russian soil. Even if the Russians were able to continue to resist, the war would devastate Russia, which was already not very wealthy. All that was built during the time of Peter the Great will also be destroyed.
Chu Bai's disposition of Russia was not over, and he later made an even greater territorial claim: Tsarist Russia ceded the Siberian Far East east east of the Lena River valley to the Tang Dynasty. On the other hand, the Russian Federation is divided into administrative divisions, and this land includes the Republic of Sakha, Irkutsk, Buryatia, Transbaikal (Chita), Chukotka, Magadan, Kamchatka, and a part of Khabarovsk, which is roughly one-third the size of the entire Russian Empire.
This completely blew up all the Russians, but they soon withered again. In that barren land, the strength of the Russians was already extremely weak, with a population of only a thousand people, that is, they were engaged in the fur business or something. However, Datang has more than 100,000 troops in Guwei and Dongying Overseas Territories, which are not far from there, even if Russia chooses not to cede and withdraw from peace talks, then Datang can send troops to occupy and drive out all the Russians, there is no difference at all.
What frightened the Russians the most was that the Tang people had always had the habit of forming foreign legions, and they had already deceived 80,000 people from France. Coupled with the scattered subordinate armies in Europe, the scale will be quite large. The Tang people don't need to do anything else, just leak a little bit between their fingers, let these mercenaries burn, kill and loot on Russian soil, and Russia has nothing to do.
Although Russia is a huge country and its national strength is not weak, this defeat has almost exhausted the little strength accumulated by relying on the Russian-Turkish war.
Another face to Napoleon's war against Russia, Russia's standing army is less than 200,000, at this time a fiasco, almost all the mobile field regiments of Tsarist Russia have been lost, the Turks heard the news, they are already on the border, intending to take revenge, without the Tang people's hands, Russia's trouble is big enough. (To be continued.) )