500: World War I breaks out
On June 29, 1909, the Royal Army in Russia had basically advanced the front to Tyumen, and the Russian army was urgently moving troops to the vicinity of Tyumen, intending to have a new decisive battle with the Chinese Empire in the Tyumen region, and this would also be the last decisive battle between the two countries, if Russia lost, then it would be the last one, and if Russia won, there may be other decisive battles next. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
But judging from the current situation, there is little hope of Russian victory, and the other line of the Royal Army, led by the Third Army, has already occupied a large part of the Kazakh territory, and has divided its forces from Orenburg, Orsk, Kartaray and Troitsk to the north, and will encircle the Russian army on three sides with the First Army and the Second Army.
The total number of troops invested this time is as high as one million, and the Russian army does not have any advantage in terms of equipment or numbers. And once this battle is lost again, then the Russian army will lose the ability to continue fighting, and at this time, no one in Russia is optimistic that Russia will win.
Through these two years of fighting, Russia and the whole world have seen the strength of the Chinese, although regretted, but late, and now they can only bear all this silently.
The decisive battle in Russia was about to start, and Russia was also in civil strife, and the Bolsheviks, who had received a large number of weapons and equipment, instantly radiated their powerful fighting power, occupied several cities in a row, and on this basis, rapidly expanded their strength. The benevolent government of the Bolsheviks also won the approval of a large number of Russian people, and even many of them moved their families to areas controlled by the Bolsheviks.
Although Moscow has cracked down on this, it can be said that it has tried its best to encircle, pursue, and intercept, but it is still to no avail, and even many Russian troops have directly defected to the Bolsheviks.
Russia was officially caught in a dangerous situation of internal and external troubles, and Lenin seized the opportunity to preach that the greed, ignorance and arrogance of the Tsarist regime had brought endless suffering to the Russian people, and on the other hand, they were to preach that after the overthrow of the Tsarist regime, they would negotiate with the Chinese Empire to end the war as soon as possible, and they would lead the Russian people to stand up again and not be disturbed by the flames of war.
Lenin's remarks made him crazy fans in Russia, and in just two or three months, the total population under Lenin's rule exceeded 2 million, and this number is constantly changing every day.
On the one hand, the Tsarist regime was preparing for the war in Tyumen, and on the other hand, dealing with the sneak attack of the Bolsheviks, which can be described as busy and confused, at this time, someone proposed to the Tsar that he promised the Chinese conditions, stop the war with the Chinese as soon as possible, and then transfer troops back to exterminate the chaotic working class, and further stabilize the Tsarist regime.
On June 29, Tsar Nicholas II formally agreed to the Chinese's terms with a nod and handed them over to the British to convey to the Chinese, while allowing the Royal Army to go to Kazan, and the Russian army would also withdraw to the west of Kazan, and the two sides would hold peace talks in Kazan.
Before the news of the Russians' desire for an armistice, a huge crisis broke out in the Balkans in Europe, and on June 29, an international telegram was sent back to China, and this telegram was immediately sent to Wang Sirui's desk.
When he saw this telegram, Wang Sirui rubbed his eyes in disbelief, kept reading it three times, and confirmed it with the telegraph man a few times, and then believed the content of the telegram.
The Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, were assassinated during their inspection in Sarajevo, the attacker was a Serbian young man named Garincip, Wang Sirui did not remember the name of the attacker, but it felt as if he was not a person in history, but this did not affect the historical pattern of the whole world, because the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were indeed assassinated, and they also died, but the time was only five years earlier.
After the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, Austria-Hungary immediately reorganized its armament and fought with a posture of wanting to pacify Serbia, and Serbia, although under the control of Austria-Hungary, was actually a country supported by the British, and also joined the Entente agreement, so in the face of the coming anger of Austria-Hungary, the Serbian side could only ask the British for help, hoping to get help from the British.
On the one hand, Austria-Hungary was angry because of the assassination of the crown prince, and on the other hand, it had long wanted to include Serbia and other countries in its territory, and on the other hand, Austria-Hungary also contacted the German side immediately after the outbreak of the incident and obtained German support.
Austria-Hungary, with the support of Germany, began a large-scale rearmament war, in fact, the preparations had already been prepared, and now all that had to be done was to reassemble a new force, and then transfer them to the front, and then the war could begin.
At this point, we have to mention the role played by the Chinese Empire in the whole incident. This character is very unbright and even disgusted, but it is an indispensable character.
With the rise of the Chinese Empire and the steady implementation of Wang's plan to disrupt Europe, Germany received a large amount of modern military equipment, such as tanks, such as Chinese-made rifles and machine guns, and ammunition, and the support given to them by the Chinese side alone was enough to arm an army of millions in an instant.
Although they paid some military equipment and corresponding technology, they had to admit that this move was indeed a cover-up and successfully concealed the sight of Britain, France, the United States and other countries, making them mistakenly think that this was the Chinese expanding their armaments, thus ignoring the threat of the Germans to a certain extent.
Although Austria-Hungary did not receive much support in the Chinese Empire, as an ally of Germany, they still received a lot of support from Germany, so they were still relatively confident about the war at this time.
After some investigation, Britain and France were stunned to find that this extra million army had been secretly formed for two years, and in addition to this million army, Germany was also expanding two million troops, one million of which could be put into battle within half a year, and the rest could be trained within one year.
Combined with Germany's original army of 1.485 million troops in the seven major armies, Germany's total strength increased to 2.485 million, while the number of troops that France could participate in the war during the same period was only just 1 million, and Britain was not much more, even if the two countries combined, the number of troops was not as large as Germany's.
And with the two million troops of Austria-Hungary and the more than one million troops of the Ottoman Empire, the Entente was completely defeated by the Central Powers in terms of military strength. What's even worse is that under the suppression of the Chinese Empire, Russia has been greatly damaged, and it will not be able to assume its due responsibility in a short period of time.
In this extremely passive situation, Britain and France did not want to break out into a head-on conflict with the alliance group led by Germany and Austria, but Serbia was also a member of the Entente, and if Britain and France were indifferent, it would be tantamount to pushing Serbia out, which might even lead to the disintegration of the entire Entente, with unimaginable consequences.
Neither is the gang, Britain and France are not ready at all, plus Germany has formed three armored divisions, and the armored forces of Britain and France have not yet been seen, so they can't be defeated at all. If you don't help, once the Entente disintegrates, Britain and France will be even more passive.
As a result, Britain and France pinned their hopes on peace talks, hoping to temporarily delay the war in a peaceful way, and on the other hand, to step up the expansion of war preparedness.
Of course, Wang Sirui did not know about the considerations of Britain and France, but he knew very well that the Sarajevo incident and the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were the fuse of the First World War in history, and Germany, which received a lot of support from the Chinese Empire, now has a military strength that has long exceeded the same period in history, and has a crushing situation on the side of the Entente, and it is impossible for William II, who is so happy, not to see this, so Wang Sirui can be very sure that World War I is about to break out. And it broke out five years in advance.
Let the First World War break out in advance, which is beneficial to the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire's war against Russia has basically come to an end, as long as the Royal Army can annihilate the main forces of the Russian army on the front line, then Tsarist Russia is basically finished, the Bolsheviks led by Lenin are now also victorious, and the Tsarist regime is miserable, once Europe falls into war, then the time for the Chinese Empire to take off is really coming.
Next, the responsibility of the Chinese Empire is to make this world war last longer, to make the European powers more completely consumed, and in the same way, to allow the Chinese Empire to gain more benefits from it.
In addition to the nearly 3 million troops currently on active duty, there are 1.5 million recruits in the reserve barracks who have entered the middle and late stages of training, and 1.2 million recruits who have just entered the barracks for less than three months.
In the next three months, the active force of the Royal Army will increase to about 4.5 million, and eight months later, it will increase to about 5.7 million, but this is far from meeting Wang Sirui's final requirements, although the military strength of the Chinese Empire has become the largest in the world, but Wang Sirui from later generations knows very well that without a 7 million army as support, he does not want to become the boss in this world at all.
Therefore, for the army, Wang Sirui's bottom line is 8 million, and he always maintains 2 million reserve troops, but in the early stage of the war, the army of 4.5 million was temporarily enough, or even exhausted.
"Inform Premier Wang, Xu Shichang of the Military Department, and the chief of the Navy, Army, Air Force, Logistics, and Security Bureaus to come over immediately!" After putting down the telegram, Wang Sirui immediately summoned the top military and political leaders, and next, he could finally show his strength on the international stage. (To be continued.) )