The use of Chinese airships has once again attracted the attention of the world, but everyone is not too strange, after all, Yang Chao himself has sailed around the world twice, which proves that the performance of the airship is beyond doubt, flying two thousand kilometers to Russia is not strange at all, but this is a new way of use, so everyone discussed it more enthusiastically. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The most vehement view is that if the Chinese use this fish-leap tactic and skip unnecessary cities, they should be able to establish a foothold in the western hinterland of Russia, and then they will threaten not Moscow, but all of Russia.

However, there are also opponents who believe that the reason why the Chinese were able to occupy Chelyabinsk was because the transportation here was weak, almost all the transportation was maintained by the railway, and once the railway was blown up, it was difficult to rescue in a short time, but the western territory of Russia was different, there was a perfect transportation network, and it was close to the center of Russia, and it was very convenient to transfer troops, and it was impossible for the Chinese to establish a foothold here.

Opponents even doubt whether the Chinese will be able to hold on to Chelyabinsk, how long they can hold out, and so on.

But they were disappointed, or they were too confident in the fighting power of the Russians, and after the capture of Chelyabinsk, the whole of Russia was shaken, and the tsar massively increased his troops to the east, mobilizing 300,000 fresh troops to attack Chelyabinsk, threatening to drive the Chinese army out of Russian territory in one fell swoop.

But they besieged Chelyabinsk for a month, and from June to July, they did not capture a single fortress or a single trench. With 300 airships, the Chinese defense forces had absolute air superiority, and in a month, with the hard work of a large number of technicians, more than 30 concrete ring fortifications had been poured with reinforced concrete, just like the ring fortifications deployed on the high ground of the Arthur fortress.

The outskirts of Chelyabinsk were protected by such ring fortifications, and three trenches were dug and deployed three miles apart.

The Russians, having stormed ten times in a month and, having lost more than 40,000 men, temporarily abandoned the offensive.

It's not that the Russians can't move, it's that their supplies are almost exhausted, and the railroad is still not back in operation. Yang Chao's airship was able to cut off the railway traffic here before occupying Chelyabinsk, and there is no reason why the Russians can easily resume traffic after occupying this place.

There was no railway traffic, and it was not so easy to transport supplies to the small towns of the Ural Mountains by horse-drawn carriages, and the Russians still had to wait.

However, the Russians are not sure, they are ready to guard against the Chinese troops attacking them at any time, for fear that they will be repulsed again, and it will become a rout, and after the Ural Mountains, they will reach the European territory of Russia, which is really of great significance.

But they were lucky, the Chinese never attacked.

As for why they did not attack them, the Russians thought that the Chinese were not strong enough, but the real reason, they could not think of the real reason.

"It's time for peace talks!"

Yang Chao sighed in his heart.

Britain, the United States and France continue to communicate with Yuan Shikai, but this time Yuan Shikai has sung enough of being offered by foreigners, and he still needs the younger brother to be able to fight, and he has a status as the leading brother, but unfortunately Yang Chao is not his younger brother, otherwise Yuan Shikai would be even happier.

Yuan Shikai still had to give the face of the Three Kingdoms, so he sent a telegram to Yang Chao and informed him of the relevant news.

The mediation of the three countries has never stopped, but this time it is different, this time they revealed the attitude of the Russians, and the Russians have released a lot of sincerity, such as their intention to accept the renunciation of the Chinese territory seized in the "Beijing Treaty" and the "Aihui Treaty", so that the Sino-Russian border will return to the status stipulated in the "Nebuchu Treaty" signed by Kangxi and Peter the Great.

This can already satisfy Yang Chao's appetite, after all, it is not realistic to let the current Russia cede Siberia.

Because Britain and the United States and other countries will not agree, even Japan, which is now fighting side by side with China, will not agree, and confront the whole world, Yang Chao is not so stupid, that kind of diplomatic situation, how stupid foreign policy can be caused.

A good politician is not embodied in moving forward when it is time to advance, but knowing how to make concessions when it is time to make concessions.

Only by making concessions can we retreat with all our bodies, Yang Chao is confident that he will lead China to retreat in this war, so I don't know if the Japanese have this wisdom, if it is Ito Hirobumi, he should be able to see it clearly.

"Give me contact the Japanese. Our warships are going to Lushun! ”

After some bargaining with the Japanese, Ito Hirobumi finally agreed, ceding Lushun, withdrawing the 100,000 Japanese troops in Lushun, and handing over the more than 30,000 Russian prisoners who were still alive to Chinese jurisdiction, and the withdrawn Japanese troops would go north by railroad and assemble directly in Chita for the next stage of Japan's military operations.

The Japanese fought this war easily, there were Chinese blocking the main forces of the Russian army in front, they took a large territory with little effort, the atmosphere in Japan has been pushed to a feverish level, the newspapers daily exaggerate how fertile the land they occupy, the black soil of Heilongjiang is vast, and the cultivated land area is more than that of all of Japan, and it is more fertile.

There was already a heated debate among the Japanese people about how the empire should manage this land.

In the end, this is an agricultural civilization country, although it has been initially industrialized, but the pursuit of arable land is still so fierce.

However, there are also industrial-oriented media that report on the rich mineral deposits in the land they occupy, and even civil society organizations recruit engineers to carry out mineral development, and from time to time report on newly discovered mineral deposits and reserves.

Although the final victory has not yet been achieved, the Japanese are already imagining the harvest, and I don't know if Ito Hirobumi can suppress such public feelings, or whether Ito Hirobumi himself is also carried away by the immediate interests.

Of course, if Ito Hirobumi was stunned at this time, Yang Chao would not laugh at him at all, because their gains were too great, and if Yang Chao didn't know that there would be a larger-scale war soon, a war that completely destroyed the rule of the tsar, Yang Chao would not be able to restrain his ambition to cut a large piece of meat from Russia this time.

Because he knew that a better opportunity was ahead, Yang Chao had the patience to wait.

With such a big gain, although Lushun is also very important, but now when it is still up to the Chinese to block Russia, the Japanese still choose to hand over Lushun to China under weight, after all, this is something agreed before the war, but Dalian they insisted on not handing it over, saying that they still need Dalian to transfer materials, and guarantee that they will definitely withdraw their troops after the war.

Yang Chaocai did not believe that the Japanese would keep their promises, in fact, this was a mine he planted between China and Japan, and when the Japanese broke their promises, Yang Chao would have reason to incite anti-Japanese sentiments, and Russia, which lost in the war, would treat a Japan that defeated them twice and ceded their millions of square kilometers of territory, and then the Russians had no choice but to immediately stand on the side of China and fight against Japan together.

At the thought of uniting Japan to defeat Russia, and then defeating Japan in United Russia, Yang Chao felt a bit Bismarck, just like when Bismarck united with Austria to defeat Denmark, then united with Italy to defeat Austria, and united with Britain to defeat France, every step put Germany in the most favorable diplomatic position.

But before, Yang Chao had to scold Liu Guanxiong fiercely.

After negotiating with the Japanese, Yang Chao called Liu Guanxiong to Fengtian, or invited him to Fengtian!

"You navy still have to lose face!"

Liu Guanxiong is now the chief of the navy, but Yang Chao did not save him a little face.

Because during this time, the navy was so infuriating, needless to say that the war was fought, in the year of Gengzi, Liu Guanxiong led the remaining dozen or so small ships of the Beiyang Navy to run south to Shanghai, the purpose was not to fight with the Western Navy rushing to the north.

Not to mention avoiding the war, after Liu Guanxiong arrived in Shanghai, he actively contacted the foreigners and explained the intentions of the Chinese navy, and came to Shanghai not to embarrass the foreigners, but to protect each other in the southeast, and they did not join the war.

If it is understandable that Li Hongzhang's politicians promoted mutual protection in the southeast, Liu Guanxiong was a soldier at that time, but he played this kind of trick, which not only allowed his navy ships to be preserved, but also won the recognition of foreigners, and his political status was greatly raised, so that he has now achieved the position of chief of the navy.

On the contrary, Yang Chao felt that if Liu Guanxiong had set aside his military horses and fought to the death with the fleets of the invading powers at Dagukou, and then the whole army was annihilated, he would have really been able to preserve some spirit for the Chinese Navy, and in the end they hid in Shanghai peacefully, but it would have been completely finished.

Yang Chao didn't see it before, but now it has been confirmed that this is a navy that is so rotten that it can't be rotten anymore.

Because Yang Chao did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to order and build a batch of new warships for them, but after the recent launch of the dreadnought built by the United States in Yantai, the navy refused to accept it, because they did not have a place to put this warship!

It is impossible for the Beiyang Navy to hide in Shanghai all the time, and there is no place for them to anchor in Shanghai, so they borrow the Nanyang Fleet's military port in Nanjing, which can not accommodate 18,000-ton Dreadnought-class battleships.

This move immediately provoked Yang Chao, this is really a group of guys who have completely lost their sense of honor, the First Sino-Japanese War Lushun was taken away, and then Weihai was snatched away by the British, and the two major bases of the Beiyang Navy were lost, these people became a group of homeless wild dogs, and they are not afraid to become wild dogs, and they dare to bare their teeth and bite people crazy, the problem is that this group of people dare to be a group of stray wild dogs, which is terrible.

Liu Guanxiong was scolded by Yang Chao, after all, he was also the chief of the navy, so his face was gloomy, but he never held back and did not have a seizure.

Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he saw him like this, he could hold back like this, this is indeed not a soldier, but a politician.

"Chief Liu, the Japanese have promised to give up Lushun, and your Beiyang Fleet can go home!"

Yang Chao sighed, extremely disappointed. (To be continued.) )