The Beiyang Fleet had fought side by side with the Japanese fleet before, and when they blockaded Lushun, they followed behind the Japanese, but they also showed a sense of existence, but after the surrender of the Russian army in Lushun, the Japanese drove straight into Port Arthur, but they did not drive in, and when Yang Chao knew, it was too late, and they refused to let them out after negotiating with the Japanese, delaying for various reasons, obviously planning to annex Lushun. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Yang Chao also took into account that he still had to fight with the Japanese, and he didn't completely tear his face, and now that the Russians are going to compromise, Yang Chao hurriedly wants to return to Lushun, otherwise he will really not come back after the war.

Although he had made up his mind to fight the Japanese after the war, this place in Lushun could not be a reason, because this place was too strong, and the Beiyang Army and the Russians had been operating for decades, and this place was impregnable!

The most sinister thing is that the geographical location here is only a hundred or so powerful from Yantai, and the battleship is at full power, and it will almost reach Shandong in three hours.

If the Chinese navy occupies here, it can form a lock and key together with Yantai, firmly blocking the enemy's invasion of the Bohai Sea, and the Beiyang Fleet chose to build fortress bases in Weihai and Lushun with the purpose of encircling Beijing and Tianjin in the Bohai Sea.

Therefore, Yang Chao did everything possible to return here, but the price was quite high, and the Japanese asked Yang Chao for fifty airships.

Now, although this kind of large airship has been massed on a large scale, the price is still as high as 300,000 US dollars, and the Japanese will leave Yang Chao for more than 10 million US dollars at once.

But Yang Chao politely agreed to Ito Hirobumi, Yang Chao knew what the purpose of the Japanese wanted airships, the first was to see the role of airships in this war, they were very greedy, and they also wanted to equip and explore tactics as soon as possible, and secondly, they were afraid that they would be pulled to Mitsui and Mitsubishi's factories to imitate it as soon as possible.

It's long to see how the Japanese will copy a few hundred airships, and then how will the Americans react?

After the Japanese obtained the airship, they immediately equipped the troops, selected the personnel, and half a month later, the Japanese airship unit began to fight.

They set out from Chita and went north along the Lena River valley, sweeping Russian strongholds one after another, taking advantage of the good summer weather, to destroy the Russian forces east of the Lena River in one fell swoop, and sending their men to all important places by airship, in fact, occupying the territory east of the Russian Lena River.

The mediation of the United States, Britain and France finally came to the fore, and through private contacts with all parties, Yuan Shikai gave face to various countries, and Japan also gave face to the British, so everyone decided to negotiate.

Sure enough, Japan sent Hirobumi Ito, China sent Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang, and Russia's Prime Minister Stolypin personally stepped in.

The venue for the negotiations was still Portsmouth, a small port town in the northeast of the United States.

Unlike last time, this time the Japanese and Russians were not in a hurry, and the negotiations were repeatedly tug-of-war.

Japan demanded that Russia cede to Japan the territory east of the Lena River, Lake Baikal and Orkhon and east of the Ussuri River, including Vladivostok and Sakhalin, and compensate Japan for its military expenditure of 900 million yen.

China, for its part, demanded the recovery of the territory in Northeast China, which had been forcibly ceded by Russia since 1858, and compensation of 1.5 billion taels of silver for the loss of military spending.

The Russians, on the other hand, will not give up an inch of land and will not pay a penny in compensation.

Japan and Russia had the capital to delay, and the consumption of Japan in this war was not large, and their mobilization capacity was stronger than the last time, and in the end a total of one mobilization was carried out, and the impact on the domestic economy was minimal.

Under the forcible suppression of Stolypin, through the half-year truce last autumn and winter, they had suppressed the revolutionary movement in the country, and this time Stolypin killed more than 100,000 of the revolting Petersburg workers, and the Russians were frightened by this move, and the country became surprisingly calm.

But China can't afford to drag it out.

There are one million troops in the north, not to mention anything else, just people eat horses and feed them, and military salaries are fed, Yuan Shikai can't stand it. A soldier Yang Chao gave 20 taels of silver a month, because it was a wartime state, and in peacetime it was 10 taels of silver, and the monthly salary of one million people was 20 million taels, which was not what Yuan Shikai was willing to bear.

Even Yang Chao himself actually didn't want to fight, because the army had been fighting for more than two years, and the army was already a little unstable.

Although the news has been tightly sealed, but the army still began to circulate the domestic situation, before everyone did not know that the Qing Dynasty had actually perished, so they all thought that it was for the Qing Dynasty, although there was not much patriotic sentiment, but there was always a reason to fight, and now the Qing Dynasty is dead, there is a Republic of China, the government is a big president, the soldiers do not understand what this is at all, and it is difficult to reverse the thinking for a while.

So for a long time, Yang Chao did not attack, the army stopped at Chita, and even Irkutsk, which was close at hand, did not attack.

Yang Chao knew that he had to give these people a good time to digest and let them accept the reality of the country's change of dynasty, otherwise this combat effectiveness would not be raised. It was like the sudden revolution in Russia in World War I, although the subsequent government still announced that it would continue to participate in the war, but the army was completely incapacitated, and the Germans broke through the defense line at once.

The three parties talked from September to October, and there was not even a consensus, and the Russians accepted at most the return of the territories that originally belonged to China to China. At this time, they recognized that those territories originally belonged to China, and if it were not for the defeat, they would never admit it. Because only by acknowledging that they had forcibly occupied territories could the population accept the fact that they had lost them. Otherwise, Stolypin would be a traitor, and when he returned to Russia, he would be forced by the raging public opinion, and finally ousted by his political opponents.

When a consensus could not be reached, it was the Russians who first announced the breakdown of the negotiations.

Japan, even those who threaten and intimidate, is the one who wants to reach an agreement the most, because they have received enough things.

China's demand is actually the most sincere and reasonable, and after the news spread, it was widely supported by international public opinion, but it was of little use.

After the Russians announced that the negotiations had broken down, they attacked again.

Yang Chao continued to launch airship bombing, but instead of bombing Moscow, he continued to bomb the territory of the eastern part of Russia, and plowed all the cities and railway bridges that had been turned into ruins, that is, to completely destroy the Russian Far East, so that the people here could not survive, and after the war, they would move back to China on a large scale, and the purpose was self-evident.

When the facilities here were almost destroyed, they could not be repaired, so Yang Chao turned the direction of the attack, and the airship flew over the Urals and flew towards Europe.

In mid-October, the Chinese airship force began to bomb Europe, a cross-era event that marked the first time since the Mongols that an Eastern army attacked Europe.

But Yang Chao was in trouble, and for the first time since the start of the war, an airship was shot down in battle. (To be continued.) )