Since the capture of Liaoyang and the annihilation of the Russian airship unit by Yang Chao, there has been no head-on conflict between the two sides, on the one hand, because the French are actively mediating, and on the other hand, the Russian army in Lushun also knows that there is no good way to solve the air threat, and if their ground forces advance, they will inevitably be bombed by airships. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

If they were to advance step by step, while guarding against bombardment, they would not be able to keep up with the speed at all, and their supplies would not be able to withstand it at all.

Because when Yang Chao occupied Fengtian and Liaoyang, it was equivalent to cutting off Lushun's material supply, of course, even if Yang Chao did not cut off Lushun's railway line, it was not easy to say that their chaotic country had the ability to supply them through the Trans-Siberian Railway.

If he had to send his army to advance slowly when the railroad was also destroyed, Kontrachenko of Lushun thought that it was impossible, so it was the most realistic decision for him to go on the defensive.

However, since Lushun has been cut off from the railway line, where does Lushun's supplies come from?

The answer is Yantai.

After the news was revealed by the newspapers, the excited Shandong students tried to forcibly break into the Russian cargo ships several times, and at the same time demanded that the prisoners seize Russian supplies and prohibit Russian merchant ships from docking in Chinese ports.

It's just that the Shandong government did not agree, and allowed the Russian fleet to continue to enter and exit, but the vast number of Chinese and foreign merchants doubled the price of materials supplied to the Russians on the grounds that the risk was too great, and the Russians could only grit their teeth and agree to this price, because they really had nowhere else to get the most basic food supply except to buy in China.

As for whether the great powers will provide arms to the Russians, Britain and the United States will certainly not, nor will the French at this time, and the Germans currently want to get loans from the Chinese government, and they do not want to anger the Qing government, so they have no intention of supplying weapons to the Russians, so they have no intention of supplying weapons to the Russians.

Therefore, the Russians can only buy some high-priced grain from Yantai to survive.

Therefore, there is no need for Yang Chao to block it at all, and at the same time there is another purpose, which is very disgusting to say, just like the Empress Dowager Cixi did when she allowed the Boxers to attack the foreigners' embassies and sent people to deliver food to the foreigners, all of which did not want to force the enemy to be in a hurry.

The difference is that Cixi played this kind of cleverness, but she just left a way back for herself, so in the original history, in the end, the foreigners still promised her to continue to govern; But Yang Chao did this because he didn't want to force the Russian army in Lushun to come out desperately, or if the Tsarist government was ruthless and let the Russian army in Harbin open the railway at all costs, Yang Chao really couldn't stop it.

Maintaining the current situation, putting a certain amount of pressure on the Russians, and finally forcing the Russians to give up the northeast is Yang Chao's goal.

The stalemate during this period of time gave Wu Peifu plenty of time, and Wu Peifu actively organized the defense line, and finally got a new army, 100,000 youth troops!

These students who have read the book, although they have not undergone military training, but they are full of blood, passion, and the will to fight is very high, it can be said that if they are allowed to attack the defense line of Lushun at this time, they will definitely be the same as the Japanese, but their resilience is definitely not as good as the Japanese army, and after one or two rushes, they will probably collapse psychologically, and then cry and shout to go home to find their mother.

But before the real bloody battle, they don't have an intuitive understanding of the war, and maybe they think the war is romantic.

At this time, the soldiers who were building the railway in Jinzhou were completely abolished, and one by one they returned to the state of railway workers, working hard under the command of technicians, and the railway was extended step by step under their feet, and in two months, they could be repaired to Fengtian and connected with Liaoyang.

Therefore, the German officers who originally trained this group of railway workers were useless, and at this time, after Yang Chao's coordination, they all went to Wu Peifu and got new jobs to train 100,000 young soldiers.

On the one hand, Yang Chao inspected the army from time to time and encouraged these young people, hoping that they would actively train and improve their military skills so that they could kill the enemy, and on the other hand, he published articles in major newspapers, shamelessly shouting the slogan of '100,000 young people, 100,000 troops, every inch of mountains and rivers, and every inch of blood', and kept sending newspapers to the army, so that these hot-blooded young people were even more enthusiastic as chickens.

Originally, they were students, they had received a certain amount of education, and with active efforts, their military skills improved even very quickly, and many people knew how to arrange positions, organize machine gun fire, and other basic knowledge, that is, they had the potential to be low-level officers.

In particular, Wu Peifu finally formed an artillery unit that knew mathematics and mastered the art of artillery observation and sighting.

More than 2,000 cannons of various calibers made Wu Peifu's firepower reach the strongest in China at this time, even if it was Japan and Russia at the beginning, it was also a level.

Of course, the regular can't do it, at least not even the military uniform.

Yang Chao has already set out to solve this point, 100,000 sets of military uniforms, Yang Chao personally designed, tight tops, straight-leg pants, dyed light blue, with bright copper buttons and rumored gold and silver epaulettes, absolutely in line with the principle of human body mechanics, this is simulated by the supercomputer of the spaceship, comfortable and good-looking military uniforms, will definitely impress these teenagers, it is a young man who loves beauty.

In order to recover the Northeast and gain the reputation of a master of Zhongxing, Zaifeng also paid for this batch of military uniforms, so that he would not hesitate to spend all the balance of the tariffs.

Britain, the United States and Germany waited for the Chinese to borrow money after they had exhausted their coffers.

The French are actively running between China and Russia.

The Russians were busy erecting gallows in a vast land, and Stolypin's tie fluttered across the land.

The terror created by Stolypin, though strong, could not suppress the resistance of the various forces, and the campaign in the countryside to destroy the landlords' estates, wineries and sugar factories continued, and workers and workers appeared everywhere in the cities, and more and more workers took up arms directly.

Revolution is on the verge of breaking out.

At this time, the Russians finally made some concessions.

They said that they could abandon the stationing of troops in Mukden and Liaoyang, but they must station troops in Harbin and Lushun, which is the bottom line.

Yang Chao issued an ultimatum: "Lushun has a maximum of 10,000 troops, and Harbin must withdraw its troops, and for this reason we are willing to accept the Russians' request that the Northeast Minerals be given priority to the Russians for development." If the Russians do not agree, our army is about to launch an attack on Arthur. ”

Yang Chao's attitude is very clear, you can give up most of your economic power in exchange for basic sovereignty.

The Russians, on the other hand, wanted nothing more than to abandon Liaoyang and Mukden, two cities they had lost, and their greed had always remained the same.

The French were still very satisfied with Yang Chao's concession, and with the economic strength of the Russians, they probably did not have the ability to open mines in the Northeast, and their vast and huge territory had not yet been developed, and the invasion of the Northeast was only a legacy for future generations.

Even if the Russians build railways in China, they still have to hire French engineers to purchase French steel and equipment, where can they have the ability to develop in the northeast, but if the Russians occupy the minerals here, it will be very beneficial to France, they can completely get the development rights from the Russians, and the Russians occupy the northeast, which is equivalent to the French occupy.

Therefore, the French were more active in mediating Russia to accept Yang Chao's ultimatum, and all means were exhausted.

In June, the train from Mukden to Liaoyang whined, and the Guanwai Railway finally reached Mukden.

Of course, the railway from Jinzhou to Fengtian naturally has to be operated by the Yanji Railway Company.

The train was loaded with sufficient supplies, as well as reporters from all walks of life invited by Yang Chao, as well as military attachés of foreign powers.

Wu Peifu planned a large-scale military exercise, watching the soldiers wearing new-style military uniforms, well-armed, and with high morale, occupying one hill after another simulating enemy positions under the cover of artillery fire.

Chinese newspapers love their own military power from the bottom of their hearts, while Western media have ulterior motives, hoping to encourage China and make the Chinese have the courage to rush to the reinforced concrete fortress of Lushun.

Under all kinds of pressure at home and abroad, the Russians finally made the last demand and gave in.

They promised to withdraw the Russian troops except for Arthur, but the number of troops garrisoned in Arthur was not 10,000, but 50,000.

Their demand was that the Russian army had the right to pass through the Dongqing Railway under any circumstances without the permission of the Qing government.

The purpose of the Russians is obvious, keeping Lushun is their bottom line, as long as the tsar does not give up on the Yellow Russia plan, then they can't give up the ice-free port of Lushun, which is the only ice-free port in their country, it is the result of Russia's hundreds of years facing the sea, where can it be so easy to give up.

After careful consideration, Yang Chao agreed.

The two sides acted quickly and immediately signed the "Memorandum of Understanding on the Northeast Issue", which summarized and understood the respective acts of the two sides in the Northeast, and redivided the power of the Russians, who obtained a large number of economic privileges, including mining rights within 30 kilometers and priority rights outside 30 kilometers, which can be said to have monopolized the power to open mines in Northeast China.

As for the issue of the garrison in Lushun, although it was not good for the Qing government, Yang Chao felt that keeping Lushun in the hands of the Russians was actually not a bad thing, if China swelled too much all of a sudden, how would Britain, the world hegemon, view China, and if it became supportive of Japan to balance China, instead of continuing to support China against Russia, it would be worth the loss.

As long as the Russian army does not withdraw from Lushun, they must always confront Britain and Japan in the east, and China can only be easily sandwiched between the great powers.

No one knew that Yang Chao inadvertently interfered with the huge trend of history, and Britain and Russia, which should have been reconciled after the Russo-Japanese War, lost a chance to reconcile.

For Russia, because the British supported Japan and China in fighting against Russia twice in three years, it was difficult for Russia to accept reconciliation with Britain, and for the British, Russia always occupied Lushun, and China maintained a military presence in the Bohai Bay, and they could not reconcile with the Russians.

Therefore, the Entente bloc of the European war was not formed, and Yang Chao was a little confused about the trend of the European war.