Britain, France, and the United States, which had been actively mediating, suddenly saw the changes in China's situation, and their mediation operations were suddenly interrupted. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's not that they don't want to mediate, it's that the Russians don't want to talk anymore.

The original situation was that the revolution also broke out in Russia, and after the sailors and dock workers of St. Petersburg occupied the port, the tsar quickly sent troops to suppress it, and as a result, a group of young officers in the army directly seized the noble commanders, and the army mutinied in front of the army, and some of them directly defected to the rebel army, and the other part lost command and dispersed.

The sudden change in the situation made the tsar leave Petersburg as soon as possible and ran to Moscow.

Leave the hardliners Stolypin here to suppress.

Russia's political situation has never made it possible for Russia to mobilize more troops to the northeast, and their peak strength is less than 800,000, and they are simply unable to cope with the offensive of China and Japan.

In this case, they want to negotiate.

But then China suddenly revolutionized, and the uprising in St. Petersburg was not successful, and the rebel army finally captured only half of the city, and then there was a fierce battle with the transferred tsarist army, and although the street fighting in the streets and alleys could not end for a while, it was impossible for the tsar to fall.

However, China's revolution spread to more than a dozen provinces in the north and south in an instant, especially in such economic powerhouses as Huguang and Liangjiang, which made people feel that the Chinese regime seemed to have reached the end of the road.

So the Russians didn't want to talk about it, they planned to wait for the situation to change, and while they suppressed the Petersburg uprising, they breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to turn the tide of the war in the northeast, or Siberia, because the battlefield had now basically advanced to the Chita area.

The first step for the Russians is to rebuild the Siberian railway bridges that were blown up by the Chinese and restore transportation in Siberia, without which it is unrealistic to increase troops so far away.

As for Yang Chao, he took the army to rest in Manchuria. Is it not sending airships to bomb Chita and other cities in the Baikal area, and the bombing of other cities in Siberia in Russia has been interrupted.

It's not that Yang Chao is soft-hearted, but winter is coming, and the weather in Siberia is freezing. In many places, there is also goose feather snow, and the snow is white and expansive, and the forests, railways, fields, and even cities are covered in thick snow, and it is easy to get lost when the airship flies over.

The Japanese also rested a long time ago, after laying down Heisenwei. The military operation of the Japanese was basically over, not that they did not want to fight, but they had to prepare for the winter, and it would have to be at least half a year later, after the thaw in the Sea of Okhotsk in the north.

Moreover, the Japanese harvested too much this time, and the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers, Lushun were all received by them, and the land in their hands just tripled the land of Japan, and it was all fertile black soil. This is something that Japanese people with volcanic landscapes would never dare to think of.

In Japan, there is already a lot of talk about how to immigrate and how to build.

Therefore, since the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, it seems to be lively, but in fact, soon the front line has turned to confrontation and rest, and the focus of the world has been on China and Russia, and it is very clear that the direction of this war is actually the internal political situation of the two countries, of course, mainly looking at China. The Russians have already lost, it's just a question of who loses more or less, who gives two countries or loses to one.

"It's so cold, the brothers aren't freezing, are they?"

Yang Chao wore a thick bearskin coat. A barracks was pushed open, and there was a charcoal fire burning in an iron bucket, and a group of soldiers were surrounding the fire.

"Lord Yang!"

When the soldiers saw this, they all stood up and saluted.

Yang Chao pressed his hand: "Put it down, put it down, and roast it quickly." I'm also roasting, walking. But I froze to death. ”

Coming out of the headquarters to the barracks, it was only about two hundred meters, and the whole body was cold.

The soldiers sat down with a smile, what a group of good soldiers, they could eat and dress warmly, they didn't want anything else, and they dared to charge under the leadership of the officers, I really don't know such a Northeast Army, why didn't Zhang Da Handsome dare to fight with the Japanese?

"How's the padded clothes?"

I touched the cotton clothes on a soldier next to me, pinched it and felt it was very thick, and asked about the effect.

"It's okay, it's not as good as my father's dog skin."

The soldier answered honestly.

Wu Peifu, who had been following Yang Chao to inspect next to him, couldn't help glaring at the soldier fiercely, saying that it was okay to be warm, and it was useless to say something.

Yang Chao glared at him, he came to find the problem.

These cotton clothes were ordered from Shandong, and hundreds of thousands of local fathers and daughters were mobilized to make cotton clothes, and there was no overtime to say, because Yang Chao's plan was very thoughtful, he had long planned to fight a protracted war with the Russians, and the cotton clothes began to accumulate before the war, and easily ordered 1.5 million sets, and told Zhang Jian that if they were willing to open a garment factory, the order would not be given to the rural women, but directly given to them.

Of course, it is for the purpose of encouraging industrial production, but also to ensure quality, after all, the craftsmanship of the old peasant woman can not ensure the consistency of the quality of each cotton garment, manual production is always good and bad, and it is impossible to produce it in large quantities in a short time.

"Okay, one is not warm enough, two are better than your father's dogskin coat!"

Yang Chao smiled and patted the shoulder of this ordinary soldier from the Songhua River.

"Is the quilt thick enough?"

Yang Chao began to inspect the soldiers' bedding again.

The soldier spoke just now: "What kind of bedding do you want, wrap the cotton jacket around your body, and fall asleep." ”

Yang Chao smiled: "Eh, you have to rest well." I can't sleep well at night, and I can't kill Lao Maozi when I go into battle during the day. ”

The soldier smiled and said, "The old hairy man has frozen into a stupid roe deer, and he runs to us every day, and if he doesn't beat them, he will freeze to death." ”

The large-scale bombing by airships began in the autumn, and Russia's transportation capacity was greatly hindered, the supply of weapons and ammunition was insufficient, and the logistics and materials collapsed. The Russian army, dressed in summer clothes, has long lost its combat effectiveness and is shivering in the ice and snow of Siberia.

The food supply also had a serious impact, and the Russian soldiers, unable to bear the hunger, fled to Yang Chao's side in large numbers, begging them to have a full meal.

Look at this, you don't have to fight, you can kill most of the Russian soldiers this winter. Of course, the Russians themselves are trying to figure out how to do it, such as sending Cossacks to the countryside to collect grain. But the Siberian peasants were not so easy to mess with, and the Russians themselves began to fight this winter.

"Pass the order, send all the cotton clothes and quilts in stock, and notify Shandong to call over the shortage."

After the first snowfall, Yang Chao inspected the front military camp in Manchuria, which was the starting point of the Chinese army, where 200,000 men were stationed, the others had 300,000 troops in Qiqihar, and Harbin had gathered 500,000 troops.

Fight consumption, Yang Chao is not afraid of fighting the Russians, the productivity of Shandong Province, I dare not say anything else, military production is probably put in the world now, except for Germany, no country will maintain such a huge military production in peacetime, the theoretical supply ceiling is two million troops, and Yang Chao has recruited a total of more than one million soldiers from beginning to end, which is more than enough.

Therefore, Yang Chao is not afraid that he will not be able to consume the Russians, but now he has to take into account the future problems of the Russians, and the Russians are unlucky when they encounter Yang Chao. The Russo-Japanese War fought with the Japanese for several more months, not to mention tens of thousands of deaths, and the accumulation of domestic contradictions became even deeper. Yang Chao also continued to send guns and money to revolutionaries like Kirilenko, so that the Russians suppressed the rebellion for a few months longer than in the original history.

One after the other, Russia has not recovered to this day, and the industrial command has not returned to the highest period before the Russo-Japanese War.

However, Japan has developed thoroughly, although during the war two years, they lost the northeast market, and the light industry suffered heavy losses, but through the war, Mitsui, Mitsubishi and other chaebols greatly expanded their military industry, and the output of Japan's heavy industry greatly increased.

During the Russo-Japanese War, Japan's Hachiman Iron Works produced only 70,000 tons of steel, and two years before the Tohoku War, it was only 100,000 tons, but two years later, Japan's steel output has reached 300,000 tons, and their shipbuilding industry is also extremely strong, from submarines to dreadnought-class battleships, the Japanese shipbuilding industry can build any warship.

And now that the Japanese have eaten a large area of land in the northeast, not to mention the agricultural productivity of the fertile land, the low rich mineral deposits will also make Japan's industry expand again.

Yang Chao feels that Japan's growth seems to be much faster than he planned.

"It's time to talk to the Russians. When the domestic situation is calmed down, talk to Russia. ”

Yang Chao secretly decided that he did not intend to open his mouth, for example, to ask for land in the Baikal area, limited to the territory invaded by the Russians in the Heilongjiang River Valley, as for the Japanese will definitely bite the Russians a piece of meat, although the value of those lands is not high, but the area is too large, four million square kilometers of territory, will definitely make the Russian nation hate Japan to the core, as for whether those lands are frozen soil, ordinary people do not care about that.

The next situation in the Northeast will become a coalition of two seemingly weak peoples against Japan.

When everyone finds out that the Chinese have begun to unite with the Russians against their allies in the war, it is not known if the military experts will be depressed again.

The weather in the north decided that before spring, or even before summer, large-scale battles here would not resume, and there was no need for Yang Chao to stay here at this time.

Of course, it is also beneficial to stay to show off and share weal and woe with the soldiers, but this is not the time to put on a show, he is going to take action to stabilize the domestic situation, Yuan Shikai's actions are too slow, whether it is to get out of the alliance or let Zaifeng abdicate, it is too procrastinating.

Yang Chao decided to take matters into his own hands. (To be continued.) )