Chapter 97: The Sino-British New Testament
Guan Xuqing looked at the calm and somewhat over-the-top teacher, and said patiently: "Master, now in Jiapo, it is my Daqing Division that has been wiped out, and it is my Daqing Army that is besieged in Burma, the British must not be as merciful as you, and before that, you were also the master who taught me, and the kindness to the enemy is cruel to yourself."
Now, I am brave and brave in my officers and men, and I have created the situation with my own life, and I cannot fail them, and I bet that the British will urgently sign an agreement with us, and will not leave their 200,000 troops in Burma."
"It's the minister's ignorance, please atone for the emperor's sins"
Guan Xuqing turned to Li Hongzhang and said, "Hongzhang, this matter is still left to you to handle and leave as soon as possible."
"Chio Chen will not disgrace his mission" Li Hongzhang fell to the ground
"Peng Yulin" Guan Xuqing turned his head to look at the deputy commander-in-chief of the National Army
"The minister is here," Peng Yulin said with a step forward
"I estimate that the peace talks with the British are just a matter of the past two days, I still have big chess to play, and now the forces of Tsarist Russia are gathered in Afghanistan and Turkey, and it is difficult to fight with the British, and Mobei is now also a vacuum, and it is time for me to get back our own land" Guan Xuqing finally walked out of the second step that he originally planned
"What does the emperor mean......" Peng Yulin asked suspiciously
"Order Chen Heng's troops to assemble at the border between Xinjiang and Russia and be on standby at any time; ordered Dong Liang's troops to assemble in Heilongjiang and be on standby at any time; ordered Lu Yiwei, Wu Guang, Wan Tianjie, Shen Danyang, and Zhuo Yan's cavalry divisions to assemble in Mongolia and stand by at any time; Remember that the troops moved in a covert way, and the troops in Yunnan were to defend Sichuan, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Dalian, Henan, Shanxi, Wuhan, and Tibet," Guan Xuqing ordered
"Chirp"
"Your Majesty, is the gathering of nearly 400,000 troops on the Sino-Russian border going to do something with Lao Maozi?" Peng Yulin asked excitedly
Guan Xuqing smiled slightly, and said: "I told the Russian minister that there are no eternal friends and enemies in the world, only interests are eternal.
"The Emperor Shengming" everyone shouted in unison
Guan Xuqing walked between them and said, "Don't keep talking about me Shengming, the matter of troop transfer is controlled by your mouth, and the movement of troops and horses should be as low-key as possible."
"Chirp"
In the process of negotiating with the British, it was very arduous, and after a whole week, Li Hongzhang finally got on the steamer from London to Tianjin with a satisfactory result
Britain promised to return Hong Kong and Kowloon, and was also willing to return the customs duties of the Qing Dynasty, recognizing that Burma belonged to the Qing Dynasty
and agreed to use two million pounds sterling to redeem the 200,000 British troops in Burma and previously captured, but Britain refused to return the reparations for the two Opium Wars, but proposed that as long as China was willing to send troops to Russia, once war was declared on Russia, Britain would finance China's military spending of 10 million pounds
In the past two weeks, Xinjiang, Mongolia, and Heilongjiang have hoarded nearly 400,000 troops from the Qing Dynasty on the border with Russia, and the poor Russians are still sending troops to Turkey and Afghanistan to increase their troops, and they have received information that 300,000 troops have entered Burma in the Qing Dynasty, and 350,000 troops have been hoarded in Yunnan as reserves
The rest of the country is empty of troops and cannot afford to go north, so they have unscrupulously increased their troops in the direction of Turkey, without taking China into account at all, and treating it as a real adversary
The signing of the armistice agreement between China and Britain caused an uproar at home and abroad, and people with discerning eyes saw who was the real victor, and although the British fought on multiple fronts, it still made the whole world look at this big country in the east differently
If the strategic military alliance signed between Germany and China before was more just to earn money from this eastern power, but now it has to consider the need for military support from this country one day in the future, especially in this Sino-British Burma war, which is the power of grenades, this type of lightweight weapon, to the world a vivid lesson
In the 12th year of Guangxu, on July 13, 1986, the king of Myanmar officially presented the land, and Myanmar was included in the territory of the Qing Dynasty
Burma was garrisoned by the veteran Feng Zicai, and Kang Youwei was sent to become the first governor of Burma
Liu Mingchuan's troops returned to Yunnan and Guizhou provinces to garrison, Liu Yongfu's troops continued to garrison Vietnam and northern Vietnam, and Pan Dongmin's troops, Wu Ping's troops, and Nie Shicheng's troops were stationed in Xining, Xuzhou, and Taiyuan respectively
Under such a large-scale troop mobilization of Guan Xuqing, Russia finally came to its senses and the entire Siberian region was completely exposed to the Qing Dynasty, but at this time it was not so easy to withdraw from Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey and other places
Under the strong pressure of the British, Russia was struggling to hold on to the colonies it had already won, and it was impossible to withdraw surplus troops back to China, and it was impossible to return to Siberia from the large number of troops gathered from the country in a short time
There was only one cavalry division and a group army with a total of 80,000 people, but in the face of nearly 300,000 men and horses in the Qing Dynasty, it was not worth mentioning
On the one hand, Russia is nervous about peace talks with Britain, not only unwilling to give up the benefits it has obtained, but also wants to end the war quickly, but Britain has just suffered a dumb loss on China, how can it let go of Russia, a hungry wolf
On the other hand, the Russian envoy repeatedly asked Guan Xuqing to inquire about the increase of troops on the Sino-Russian border, but Guan Xuqing refused
Alexander III only learned the cunning of the Chinese at this time, but it was too late for China's more than 300,000 troops to enter their own gates, and they could enter their homes at any time but they were powerless to resist at this time, and it seems unknown whether the benefits obtained in Turkey, Afghanistan and other places can be preserved
Alexander III shouted a loud reprimand to Army General Podolnov at this time: "China has gathered more than 300,000 troops on the Sino-Russian border, and the intention of the northern invaders is obvious, you tell me, can you defeat those barbaric Chinese"
"Your Majesty, China is a cunning people, they got everything they wanted in Burma, and now they don't want to fulfill their promise to pay us for the military expenses, so they have gathered so many teams on the Sino-Russian border, in fact, they don't have the ability to invade the north, first of all, their war in Burma has consumed too much of their energy, and they don't dare to offend the two major powers in the world at the same time, as long as Your Majesty promises not to ask them to collect military expenses, I believe they will withdraw their troops," Podolnov said calmly
Alexander III scolded: "I'm asking you how sure you are that you can hold the land of our empire, not for you to analyze whether China will send troops You are a soldier, you only need to consider the possibility of war, not to be a politician to judge the future trend of the country"
Podolnov shook his head helplessly and said: "It's a pity that Your Majesty's troops in the Siberian region can't resist the Chinese attack at all, and the nearest troops can go as far as Okhotsk in the east and Sarekhard in the west."
Build a second line of defense to block the invasion of the squadron, not to mention that we don't know where the Chinese army will come in, the border between the two countries is too long"