The change in the goal of Austria-Hungary's aggression not only meant that Tsarist Russia had reduced a major enemy, but also further contained the Ottoman Turkish Empire, making it even more afraid to go to war against Russia. More importantly www.biquge.info the Austro-Hungarian Empire in this way, the already timid German government just took advantage of the slope to get off the donkey and gave up the plan to directly declare war on Russia, and once almost caused the great crisis of the former invincible "steam steamroller" to lose the country, so it was resolved under the active mediation of the British government, and later Li Hui joked that "I can't imagine that a-stirring stick can defend peace", and I don't know what kind of reaction the old Chamberlain would have had if he heard it.

However, it must be noted that the German government's retreat was not unconditional, and after secret negotiations, the British government agreed to sell British New Guinea of limited value to Germany, and France also ceded a small piece of African territory, but the British government demanded that Germany promise not to support the opposition in Tsarist Russia, because as far as the current situation is concerned, it is difficult to say whether the Tsar's rule can continue even without direct invasion by the Great Powers......

Tsarist Russia may still have a fighting capacity of the heavy army group left with a central front army that can not be lightly moved, while the Chinese First Cavalry Army still retains most of its combat effectiveness, under their deterrence, the Tsarist Russian government does not dare to divide troops to quell the rebellion, can only watch the rebellion in various places intensify, gradually forming a prairie fire, if the First Cavalry Army can not be driven away as soon as possible in order to transfer troops to quell the rebellion, it is not impossible for the behemoth of Tsarist Russia to fall apart, but now the Tsarist Russian army is simply unable to defeat it, Even if Tsar Nicholas II dared to send the Central Front, with the cunning of Bai Lang, he would definitely avoid the real and attack the false and directly attack Moscow (St. Petersburg is relatively safe because of its naval assistance. On such a flat and open terrain as the Eastern European Plain, the mobility advantage of the all-cavalry unit was simply too great.

"If you can't drive them away, you can only ask them to leave by themselves." This idea of the elder Chamberlain seems naïve, but he is confident that he will persuade the Chinese government to order the withdrawal of troops, because the invincibility of the First Cavalry Army on the East European Plain is certainly majestic, but it is not in China's national interests to fight in the current situation.

"This is clearly a 'long-distance friendship and close attack', but this is really good, China is too far away from Europe, and now the strength of the Bolsheviks is not enough to quickly take over power, if the tsarist government is destroyed so quickly, it is just a wedding dress for the Germans, a Germany that has gained the European part of Russia, or even just Poland and Ukraine, will not be under the threat of the United States, and Germany is more aggressive, I would rather continue to exist in Tsarist Russia, I don't want Germany to be directly adjacent to us......", Li Hui was quickly persuaded by the British ambassador to China, but it would be too much of a loss to withdraw troops directly, Germany had lost nothing to two colonies, and China did not make a big splash, wouldn't it be sorry for so many comrades who sacrificed their lives?

The best situation is naturally that the Tsarist government immediately accepts China's conditions and cedes land in exchange for peace, but the war against Russia has been fought to this point, and Li Hui can't open his mouth without a lion, but no matter how incompetent Tsar Nicholas II is, it is impossible to accept the abandonment of all the lands south of the Don River, the Volga River and the Ural Mountains, so that Tsarist Russia will completely become a second-rate country, and once it starts a war with China again, it will have to face the difficulty of having no danger to defend, and the fate of Russia in the future will depend on China's mood. How does this work?

Moreover, Tsarist Russia will offend the United States if it compromises with China in private, and then it will have to bear huge debts that cannot be paid off in several lifetimes, not to mention that once the United States breaks with Tsarist Russia, Britain and France alone may not be able to suppress Germany in the west. It would be even more terrible if, in a fit of rage, the U.S. government also concluded a peace treaty with China and then turned around and entered into an alliance with Germany......

Don't think that this is an unfounded worry for Tsarist Russia, the United States has not lost as much as Tsarist Russia, and the obstacle to peace negotiation is much smaller; In addition, there are many Germans in the United States, there is no direct conflict of interest between the two countries, and the economic complementarity is also strong, and the possibility of the United States and Germany joining hands is actually quite large, and even Li Hui has taken this possibility into account in deducing possible changes in the world situation, in fact, this is also the kind of situation that he is most worried about.

The peace treaty was not so easy to reach, so the old Chamberlain retreated to the next best thing, only asking China to suspend the offensive, to which Li Hui replied, "Yes, take the money!" Then the lion opened his mouth and demanded 1,000 tons of gold......

Tsar Nicholas II was furious when he learned about it, but after the British helped cut 700 tons of gold, he bowed his head and agreed, because the situation was already extremely critical, and this kind of short-term truce was not the same as a formal peace treaty, and the United States could accept it. However, Nicholas II still demanded that the Chinese side must keep this strictly secret, so as not to completely collapse the ruble exchange rate (although it is now depreciated), for which Russia only pays half of it first, and then the British will hand over the remaining half of the gold to China three months later, and if the Chinese side leaks the secret, the next 350 tons of gold will not be able to get it.

The British government pledged that as long as the Chinese fulfilled the armistice within three months, they would pay the rest of the gold, regardless of whether the Russians repented or not. In fact, more than 400 tons of the 700 tons of gold were originally lent to the Tsarist government by the British and French banks, and the previous economic crisis and the loss of the Three Kingdoms War had already emptied most of the gold reserves of the Tsarist government, and the materials were given away by the United States for free, but after successive defeats, no one paid for the hard currency spent in order to maintain the ruble exchange rate......

After the 350 tons of gold paid in advance were shipped to Singapore, the short-term armistice agreement was finally officially signed, and the commander of the First Cavalry Army, Bai Lang, was dissatisfied when he learned about it, because his troops had already entered Moscow, but under the strict military law of the Chinese National Defense Force, he could only honestly obey the order. However, Bai Lang still unceremoniously sent a telegram to China, expressing his dissatisfaction with the lesson that after Qin won the Battle of Changping, he did not take advantage of the victory to pursue and destroy Zhao in one fell swoop, and regretted it as a result.

"Bai Lang's historical level has improved a lot, and this example is really appropriate." , Li Hui smiled after seeing the telegram, but what he said next was not a good thing, "But the military must serve politics, not the other way around, if you don't understand this truth, you can only be a general in this life......"