With the end of the Sino-British Burmese War, Guan Xuqing has set his sights on the land of Siberia

Although he knew in his heart that Britain's defeat this time was not because the Qing Dynasty had an overwhelming advantage in combat power or that Britain had fallen into decline, the main reason was that the British Empire had too many colonies and could not take into account the simultaneous wars

The high-profile report of the "Daqing Daily" made the people worship Guan Xuqing as a god again, and this time the defeat was the empire that the sun never set at that time, and for the Qing Dynasty, the recovery of customs tariffs can not only earn a large amount of tax silver, but also restrict the import of various foreign goods, the first thing that Guan Xuqing banned was opium, and raising tariffs can protect the development of national enterprises

After the recovery of Hong Kong, the Qing Dynasty was no longer a colony of any country, and Jiaozhou Bay, which had been leased out for the purpose of alliance with Russia, had been barbarously occupied by "Jiyuan" at this time, and several Russian gunboats docked in the harbor had already evacuated the harbor that theoretically belonged to them

And Britain, which has been holding back the fire in its belly, has suffered such a big loss in Burma, of course, hoping to gain something elsewhere

The brutal invasion of Burma and Russia, the British concentrated all the forces of the Far East in Afghanistan, Turkey, and Iran to fight back frantically against the Russian-occupied lands, allowing Russia to propose to return the lands of Turkey and Iran, and only retaining part of the interests of Afghanistan

More than 300,000 elite troops of the Qing Dynasty were assembled in Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, and Mongolia, and Alexander III was at a loss for this, and dispatched troops throughout the country in the hope of blocking the Qing invasion from the north

However, more than half a month passed, and the Qing Dynasty only assembled troops without any deviant movements, which made Alexander III incomprehensible

In fact, just as the Russian general Podolnov said, the entire Qing Dynasty expanded its 400,000 troops, and before the Sino-British-Burmese War, the country's gun bureau and a large number of orders from various countries were exhausted, and the equipment was barely completed after overtime, and the consumption of ammunition was very serious after a major war

The situation in Burma is unstable, so guns and ammunition are urgently transferred to Burma from the rest of the troops, resulting in a serious shortage of ammunition for the 300,000 troops in Heilongjiang, Xinjiang, and Mongolia

However, in order to suppress the hungry wolf of Russia, the British repeatedly urged Guan Xuqing to use troops against Russia, hoping to fulfill the terms of the Sino-British Burma Armistice Agreement, and said that they had prepared 10 million pounds for military spending

Of course, Guan Xuqing understands that the British used him as a knife to suppress Russia, indirectly helped Britain, and also made China completely offend Russia, and from then on, there will be no peace in northern Xinjiang, and Britain will have the opportunity to re-attack Burma, how can these small calculations escape Guan Xuqing's eyes, but what is in front of him is not the question of whether to fight Russia, but the problem of ammunition

After years of campaigning, the silver of the Qing treasury flowed out like flowing water, and there was just a little surplus, and the troops were immediately expanded by 400,000

In addition, last year, a complete set of shipbuilding machines were purchased from France, and a large number of foreign engineers and designers were hired to build ironclad ships of the same level as "Zhenyuan", but the voyage can reach 18.5 knots, not like only 15.5 knots made in Germany, in addition, eight 240mm secondary guns were added to the side chord, and the whole ship passed a total of 12 240mm guns, two 370mm main guns on the foredeck and two on the rear deck, and a total of 24 other 180mm and 140mm guns and machine guns. If it was manufactured, it would definitely be the most ferocious ironclad ship in the world at that time, with a displacement slightly larger than that of the "Zhenyuan", with 8,800 tons

In order to build the most terrifying ironclad ship in the world, on the one hand, he recalled the single handle that studied shipbuilding technology in Germany and returned to Mawei Military Port to study with French engineers, and on the other hand, he specially approved 200 million taels of silver for the most funds, and once the manufacturing was successful, it would be mass-produced

With the help of French designers, Tang Hongzheng, technical director of Jiangnan Shipbuilding Bureau, is building the same cruiser as "Riding the Wind" and "Breaking the Waves", and one has already been launched for sea trials.

Everything came true little by little according to Guan Xuqing's plan, and finally after the British three urgings and four requests, after the ammunition of all troops was replenished, Guan Xuqing finally issued the order to march into Russia

The so-called division is famous, and Guan Xuqing's declaration of war to safeguard the territorial integrity of the country is full of enthusiasm

The Chinese people watched with enthusiasm, and there was no international accusation or protest, but it was sponsored by the British military with 10 million pounds

"Tsarist Russia has long taken the conquest of Asia and Europe and the Pacific Ocean as its national policy, and hundreds of years ago, the Treaty of Nebuchu stipulated that the Gelbiqi River, which flows down into the left bank of the Shilka River near the Saurna River, was the border between the two countries

From the stone mountain at the source of the river, along the ridge of the mountain to the sea: all the large and small rivers that flow into the Amur River in the south of the mountain belong to the Qing Dynasty, but its Tsarist Russia's wolf ambitions, often cross the border to rob, kill people and set fires, and repeatedly redraw the border to cut off the territory of the Qing Dynasty

At this time, all the friendly countries were also extremely patient, hoping that they would repent of their misfortunes, and the peace of the whole Pacific could be maintained, but the brutal Tsarist Russia, obsessed with it, and brazenly provoked our British friends, expanded its acts of war and aggression, and was willing to be the leader of the destruction of the peace and justice of all mankind, and carried out its aggressive and tireless ambition to respect all the countries of faith, and the salty and intolerable ambition of all countries that respected the faith, and the salty and intolerable nature of the first two countries formally declared war on Russia, and announced to China and foreign countries that all treaties, agreements, and contracts involving relations between China and Russia would be annulled on August 19, the 12th year of the special Guangxu Dynasty."

A sentence that all treaties, agreements, and contracts involving relations between China and Russia will be abolished, so that the military alliance signed between China and Russia before will become a piece of waste paper, not only do you not have to fulfill the terms of paying military expenses, but Jiaozhou Bay does not need to be leased, it is an excuse to send troops to the friendly Britain, and send troops to it, Alexander III has been mad to the point that he doesn't even know his own family

The sporadic resistance of Tsarist Russia could not resist the attack of more than 300,000 iron cavalry of the Qing Dynasty, not to mention that there was no danger to defend on the Siberian Plain, and the weather in August and September made the soldiers who had stayed in the south for a long time not feel uncomfortable

What made Russia unable to hold its head up was that it signed two armistice agreements with two countries within a month in a row, signed an armistice agreement with Britain, paid a huge amount of money, signed an armistice agreement with China, and ceded 2 million square kilometers of land

At this point, the border between China and Russia was redivided, from Nikolaevsk in the east to Siberia in the west

The return of large areas of the country made China's conventional army seem insufficient, and the Qing Dynasty still adopted the more popular professional military system at that time, and the more popular military service system in later generations was not promoted