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Vasily didn't have time to think about it, because after the flames were extinguished, the Japanese rushed up. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

A group of Japanese soldiers who were blocked by the fire just now regained their composure, and before the fire was extinguished, they had already rushed over, and one person had already rushed into the fortification, Vasily didn't want to resist, at this time he heard gunshots, and then several Japanese soldiers fell directly.

Vasily was lucky enough to wait for reinforcements.

Vasily became a hero to the Russians.

When almost all the positions on the 203 heights were captured by the Japanese army, Vasily was the only one who held out to the end, and he alone held the ring fortifications of the main position, and his position was full of Japanese corpses, just within ten meters of the position, there were nearly 100 people.

When Kontrachenko, the commander of the Lushun ground forces of the Russian army, personally invited him to dinner and asked him how he held his position, Vasily said that God helped him.

The Japanese were demoralized to the extreme, and the next day they did not launch any attacks.

Kodama Gentaro submitted a report suggesting that the commander-in-chief of the Manchurian Army, Oyama Yan, and the War Department temporarily abandon the attack on Lushun, first transfer Lushun troops to the north, start a ground decisive battle with the Russian army, and then attack Lushun after destroying the main force of the Russian army assembled in Mukden.

But Oyama Iwa refused, demanding that Gentaro Kodama must relaunch the offensive, and at the same time sent a telegram to the War Department, explaining what had happened in Lushun and asking the country to ship a batch of heavy artillery as soon as possible.

At this time, the Japanese cabinet and the emperor began to consider the issue of negotiating with the Russians.

Previously, when the Japanese army was victorious step by step, the Americans began to mediate, and the French also forced the Russians to agree to contact.

As early as October, the Japanese army won victory after victory, and after thwarting the Russian offensive launched by Shahe.

The Russians continued to build up armies, intending to form the Second Manchurian Army and carry the war to the end.

But no one looked favorably on them, they did not win once, the navy was trapped in the harbor, the breakthrough was unsuccessful twice, the commander of the navy was killed, and everyone thought that the defeat of the Russians was only a matter of time.

As a result, Russian bonds on the Paris market plummeted, and the French, fearing that the Russians would collapse and that there would be no place to go into debt, first expressed their desire to stop the war.

The British, seeing that the Japanese were running out of money, also hoped to reap the benefits as soon as they saw them.

The Japanese also hoped to use victory as capital and reached an agreement with the Russians, saying that they would allow the Russians to keep Lushun and Dalian as colonies, but would not allow the fortification of these two places, and at the same time withdraw troops from other parts of Liaodong.

But at that time the Americans and Germans wanted them to continue fighting, hoping that they would keep more blood.

The tsar was not very willing, he couldn't afford to lose, but he couldn't lose to the Japanese, it was too embarrassing, Russia, which had long competed with Germany and France for the world's first army, was defeated by a yellow country in the east, and the land war was not won.

In addition, the Russian Second Fleet was already on its way to the East, and the tsar had not yet seen the inevitability of complete defeat, so he was not very enthusiastic about compromise.

Although the army still did not make progress, and the navy could not break through the Japanese blockade, but Lushun's army became more and more tenacious and won the unanimous recognition of the outside world.

Japan conveyed its views to the British Government, which in turn expressed its views to the United States, hoping that the United States, a third party, would intervene to mediate.

It's just that the Americans are very inactive at this time.

Because the Americans did not want to end the war so early, because they believed that the Japanese still had the upper hand and had not been defeated so far, if they negotiated under such circumstances, the Japanese would certainly gain a large profit.

The Americans hoped that the Japanese would drain their blood, and then win a crushing victory and conclude an equal treaty with the Russians. That way, Japan won't be too bloated.

Although the attitude of hoping that Japan will win the final victory has not changed, the Americans do not want to see the Japanese replace the Russians to dominate the northeast.

The Americans did not mediate, while the Russians made it clear that they would not seek other ways to end the war before Japan surrendered.

The attitude of Russia to destroy Japan made Japan panic, but at the same time, it also inspired them to be ruthless, and they were determined to continue fighting.

After the Japanese became ruthless, they immediately announced that they would mobilize another 300,000 troops to fight in the northeast.

At the same time, more than a dozen Japanese merchant ships have been anchored in Yantai Port.

"It's a bonus."

Yang Chao did not expect that after the Japanese fought wholeheartedly, they immediately spared no expense in purchasing materials, and all the steel from Yantai Iron and Steel Plant was loaded on their ships without money, and they were all purchased at a high price.

This made Yang Chao regret that he had rejected the Germans' proposal to help him build a steel plant.

The 4,000 machine guns and 2,000 cannons that Qingdao Arsenal had previously accumulated were also bought by them in one go, which allowed Yang Chao to make an extra profit.

Yang Chao gave the arsenal 800 taels of silver for a machine gun, but asked the Japanese for 3,000 taels, which is not expensive, and the Dagu shipyard imitated a heavy machine gun barrel and the imperial court also needed 2,900 oceans, which was still the cost price.

Four thousand machine guns made Yang Chao draw more than eight million taels. Each cannon averaged 10,000 taels of silver, and Yang Chao gave the arsenal 4,500 taels at most, and 2,000 cannons were 100,000 taels of silver. The two together are ten million taels of silver.

The Japanese buy arms, and the Russians naturally have to buy them too.

In fact, many countries have valued this market so far, but unfortunately, they can't compete with Yang Chao.

First, they couldn't take out too much inventory for a while, and in many countries the arsenals in peacetime were not mass-produced, and the output was very limited, while Yang Chao's arsenal had been running at full speed long before the war.

Second, it was impossible for them to get weapons into the hands of the Japanese in three days, something that Britain and Germany, which normally had huge arms production capacity, could not do.

So although he is greedy, he can only let Yang Chao monopolize this market.

Fortunately, the black hands behind the Russo-Japanese War did not value this business the most, whether it was Britain or France, their borrowing proceeds were enough to make a windfall.

"Russians don't do good business."

Although the Russians also placed an order to wipe out all the rifles recently produced by the arsenal, Yang Chao found it difficult to do business.

Because the Russians offered to Yang Chao to deliver the goods to the door.

It's not that the Russians are deliberately making things difficult, but the Russians have no choice, and now the Japanese are crazy and have begun to blockade the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, and the last batch of arms sold to the Russians was sent to them by the French by steamer, and now the Japanese are completely crazy, let alone stop the French ships, even if they dare to sink them.

Yang Chao didn't know what was wrong with this, but he guessed that the British might have given Japan new assurances that no matter what they did, France would not dare to enter the war.

"Tell the Russians that there are no problems with delivery. But I want cash. Don't fool Lao Tzu with rubles. ”

The Russians not only offered to deliver the goods, but also asked to pay in rubles and open an account for Yang Chao from the Sino-Russian Daosheng Bank.

With his own involvement, who knows what this war will look like, Yang Chao will not dare to ask for rubles, in case it depreciates after the war.

So: "It has to be cash." You look at how free and easy the Japanese are, and without saying a word, the pound went directly to my account with HSBC. This is the rich man, without money, what kind of war do you fight. ”

Yang Chao complained as he sat next to Zhang Nian and watched him send a telegram to the Russian consul via telegram.

"My lord, the Russians say cash on delivery."

"It's bargaining again, love to buy or not. Tell them that the goods will be shipped after payment. I don't believe Maozi. ”

If the credit of the British is gold, the credit of the Americans is silver, the credit of the Russians is rubbish, and the depreciation of the ruble may not, but they have done such a thing.

"My lord, the Russians asked if they accepted the franc, and they said that there was really no cash."

Francs.

Yang Chao thought about it, the French should be fine, they can last until World War II, and besides, the French are not involved in the war now, and the franc can be exchanged in the market.

"Francs are francs, money is delivered!"

In the evening, Xie Guanhui sent a telegram saying that the Sino-Russian Daosheng Bank had remitted 27 million francs to Yang Chao's bank account.

The gold content of the franc is not high, and one or two pieces of silver can be exchanged for more than three francs. Unlike the British devils, a pound is worth more than seven taels of silver, and the dollar is worth one and a half of silver.

Since they had sent money, Yang Chao didn't want to see the Russians being abused by the Japanese, so he immediately shipped the goods, loaded the 100,000 rifles that had been recently produced on the airship immediately, and headed for the northeast, this time targeting Mukden, that is, Shenyang in the future.

Russia's own industry is not developed, and the production capacity of the military industry cannot maintain wartime consumption, not to mention this time, even the world war more than ten years later, and the Russian soldiers will not be able to do one gun per person.

But there is a reason why they choose to purchase from Yang Chao, because Yang Chao is the best choice for the Russians, even if they can produce it themselves, they even want to buy it from Yang Chao, the reason is the distance, the Russian standing army is more than one million, these can be walked on the train, but the northeast region has never exceeded 400,000 troops, the reason is that it is too far away, there is no time to transport.

Yang Chao's arsenal is obviously the closest to the Northeast, followed by the Japanese arsenal, obviously they will not be naïve enough to go to Japan to buy weapons, and the closest will be the United States, which will still have to cross the Pacific Ocean.

Therefore, by purchasing arms from Yang Chao, they can free up more wagons to transport soldiers, and when they reach the point, they can directly pick up Yang Chao's weapons and fight.

The only problem was transportation, the Japanese blocked sea traffic, and the Russians were curious how Yang Chao could send the goods to the northeast?