Since the outbreak of the European War, no, it should be said that since the establishment of the new national social axe, the relationship between the national social political axe and the United States can be said to have improved by leaps and bounds, although it is not as good as the level of the former Germany's [quasi-ally], but it can also be called quite friendly.

The first reason for this situation is that the United States, a country with a rather aggressive surname, also wants to find a country that can contain him. The second reason is that although China is a country with a certain strength, its navy is too weak to threaten the United States on the other side of the ocean, and since the establishment of the national social and political axe, China has not shown any [special] ambitions, which is why China and the United States have been in contact so happily.

Especially in the past few years in the European war, because China has not shown too much ambition (to participate in the European war, as long as Iraq and Kuwait are so cool, in the eyes of the United States, it is quite quite unambitious), and after the outbreak of the European war, the navy invaded and occupied many German islands in the Pacific Ocean that originally belonged to Germany, and the relationship between China and the United States can be described as unprecedentedly good.

After all, both China and the United States are quite wary of this country.

Especially when this country has a navy that is in no way inferior to any other country except Britain and Germany.

Merely... Obviously, the friendly relations between China and the United States had begun to retreat in great strides when China began to massively encroach on the territory that formerly belonged to Russia.

As mentioned earlier, the United States has such a good relationship with China entirely because China has a certain amount of strength, but it cannot threaten the United States, and it has never shown any [iron-bidden] ambitions.

However, China's many actions after the signing of the agreement between Soviet Russia and Germany have obviously disappointed the United States.

You must know that at this moment, because of some preparations in the past, China has completely occupied the Caucasus, the whole of Central Asia, Outer Mongolia and the Outer Khingan Mountains, plus Iraq and Kuwait, which were just handed over to China by the British not long ago. Obviously, the Americans, who have adapted to the past China's [no desire and no desire], were stunned by China's sudden display of ** for the land.

And while being stunned by this **, the United States has also shown a certain vigilance against China.

In the final analysis, the friendly relations between the United States and China were only because of the existence of the United States. And now China, in addition to the navy, both industrial strength and all aspects have far surpassed the capital, originally because China has no ambitions, these are all right, but now... The moment when China showed its ambitions, it also reminded the United States that if China and the United States belong to the same kind of country, then China will pose a much greater threat to the United States than the United States... After all, although the United States is an extremely industrially developed country, it is not as strong as Britain and Germany in terms of military and scientific and technological strength, otherwise it would not be threatened by this small country... And at the end of the day... In the final analysis, the United States is a country with serious racial discrimination, and there are still many states in the United States that do not allow blacks and whites to go to school together until the end of World War II, while China is not a black country, but a yellow country, and although the status of yellow people in the United States is higher than that of blacks, it is not much higher... Therefore, the Americans gladly accepted the proposal of the British.

It's just that although the Americans are definitely stronger than several other powers in terms of industrial strength, plus China, they are completely outright in terms of military strength... What's more, the Americans don't have much power in Asia, except for the Philippines, and they are reinforced from the Philippines? It's better to think about getting reinforcements from the British from India, and I'll forget it... And for the Americans today, the elimination of the nascent Bolshevik regime is obviously a much more important thing.

But... Although we can't do much to support this now, it doesn't mean that it won't work in the future.

After all, the United States is not surnamed [two], and it is impossible to let China grow into a force that can threaten itself, not to mention that no matter how you look at it, China's potential is much stronger than that of the original, and the threat is naturally much greater, plus the territories and resources that China has newly annexed... Therefore, the United States had already secretly decided that after the intervention forces of the Entente had completely eliminated the Bolsheviks in Russia, they would provide economic and industrial support to Russia in the future, so that they could carry out a greater clamp on China. As for the rest, let the British and French come to the ―――――――――― although they are still fighting against Germany, and have begun to form an [intervention army] to prepare to eliminate the Bolsheviks in Russia, but these have not hindered the conspiracy of Britain, France, the United States and other countries to [contain] China.

As for France? Although France's presence in Asia, or rather, in Asia is not as great as that of Britain, there is also a Vietnam just below China. Although they were not very nervous about the French in Vietnam, it was clear that they did not want to lose a colony just like that, especially when France had suffered so many losses during the European War, so it was only natural that France joined in the conspiracy.

At this time, Yan Guang, who was far away in Yanjing, was obviously not alert to this matter, firstly, because this [conspiracy] was still in the embryonic state, and the countries had only made preliminary contacts, and secondly, and most importantly, Yan Guang had already focused all his attention on Vladivostok and Sakhalin, and had nothing to do with what happened to the British and the Americans.

But even if it doesn't matter, the attitude towards the once extremely friendly Americans is obviously still somewhat perceived, but now the most important thing is Vladivostok and Sakha..."

Standing by the window, looking at the patrol guards who had just passed outside, Yan Guang let out a long sigh.

If it was just Vladivostok, it might have been a very simple matter, but if it was Sakhalin..."Now we can only hope that the Navy will be able to transport the army to Sakhalin as quickly as possible......... And you must be ahead of me..."

In fact, not only Yan Guang thinks so about this, but even Sa Zhenbing, who is on the flagship [Baxia], thinks so.

Therefore, after loading all the land forces that were going to be used to attack Vladivostok and landing on Sakhalin onto troop carriers, Sa Zhenbing, a special fleet consisting of three battleships, three battle cruisers, and more than a dozen cruisers of the first and second rank, headed north for Vladivostok... It's just that whether this trip will go smoothly or not, even Sa Zhenbing, who is meditating on the flagship, doesn't know.

After all, Vladivostok is different from ordinary ports, it is the most important port of Russia in the Far East, although it is not as good as the port of Arthur that once belonged to Russia, but now belongs to the port of Arthur, but it is definitely a fortress of steel.

And not only Sa Zhenbing, but even the officers and soldiers of the army on the troop carrier also had questions.

"Do you say, are the Russians easy to deal with?"

On a troop carrier, a recruit who seemed to have just enlisted in the army sat on the bed and asked his comrade next to him.

Hearing his words, a sturdy-looking soldier replied.

"I don't know, I haven't fought the Russians before..."

"Cut, you guy hasn't fought at all, and you can still fight with him, when it comes to that kind of sea kladivostok, you guy don't be scared to pee your pants!"

Hearing the sturdy soldier's answer, the other soldier sneered.

Hearing the soldier's ridicule, the sturdy soldier said with some embarrassment.

"You said I didn't fight, did you? You think I don't know you, you guy just enlisted with me, and said I would pee my pants, so you don't pee your pants when the time comes!! ”

Hearing that the very sturdy soldier dared to fight back, the soldier who had just laughed at him also became angry, and soon the two of them quarreled in the cabin.

However, before they could argue, the commander of their company came over and stopped the quarrel between the two men.

However, after stopping it, a hint of gloom flashed on the face of this company commander... Because just like what the two soldiers said just now, the people in their company are actually some recruits who have not been on the battlefield, no, it should not be said that it is their company, it should be said that there are very few soldiers or officers on the entire troop carrier carrying them.

They are just a group of rookie troops who have just been formed for a few years and have never been on the battlefield at all.

This will be the case, because the most combat-ready troops in the country have either gone to the Caucasus to fight with the Turks, or they have occupied territory in Central Asia, Outer Mongolia and the Trans-Khingan Mountains, and the rest have to look after their families, and all of them have stayed in the country.

Therefore, the troops participating in the North Shanghai this time were actually some second-line troops, and only a few of them were one or two who had retreated from the Caucasian battlefield for rest and recuperation, and were sent to participate in this operation after the recuperation.

Of course, this does not mean that there are no other people who have participated in the war except for those who have retreated. In fact, there are still quite a few soldiers or officers in these units who have experienced the flames of war, after all, just four years ago, there was a Shandong campaign with himself.

Many officers in these units now participated in the Shandong Campaign, and some were promoted from soldiers to officers because of that battle.

But... There are too few such people, and more are regular officers who graduated from military schools. Although such officers are definitely superior in military quality to those who were promoted in the war, what they have experienced in ordinary times is only some military tasks such as suppressing bandits, and the great thing is the great operation to exterminate the rebels in the previous two years, in other words, they have not actually experienced too many wars... Of course, Cai Yi, as the chief of the General Staff, was not unaware of this, especially after the outbreak of the European war. In order to deal with this, after the expeditionary force experienced many wars in the Caucasus, Cai Ye also deliberately transferred some very experienced officers from the front line to supplement some first-line and second-line troops in China, such as the company commander just now.

He was originally part of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, of course, he was only a platoon commander at that time, and later returned to China because he was wounded once. However, after his injuries healed at home, he failed to return to the old unit, but accepted the order to a new unit, of course, at the same time as receiving the order, he was also promoted from the past platoon commander to the company commander, which can be regarded as a small promotion.

But it was precisely because of this that he was a little worried about this operation.

Although after he arrived at the new unit, he trained these [recruits] who had never killed anyone based on his experience on the battlefield, but the time was too short, and no matter how well he trained, it could not be compared to real combat... What's more, this is not a field battle, if it is only a field battle, it is better to say, after all, many of the equipment equipped by the Wehrmacht is incomparable to the Russians, especially the light and heavy machine guns that are generally equipped, and they can definitely kill the Russians all over the field in the field.

But the battle... Attacking a strong fortress was something he had never experienced even in the Caucasus.

And relying on those [rookie recruits] under his command to attack a strong fortress, I'm afraid it may not be an easy thing, if you don't get it right, it's not a surprise that they all die in battle..."Really, I thought that I would be able to relax when I returned to China, at least I didn't need to work as hard as when I was abroad, but I didn't expect that it would not be long after I returned to China, and I didn't even marry my daughter-in-law, so I needed to work hard once..."

Thinking so, the company commander glanced at the rookie recruits under his command, looked at their faces with a faint fear of the unknown, and let out a long sigh.

"I don't know how many of these people will survive after the battle..."

After two or three years in the Caucasus, and two or three years in contact with the Russians, he knew very well that although the country of those Russians had died, these old Russian hairy men were never easy to deal with... Especially at this time, when people are cornered...―――――――――― the Russian officers and soldiers in the Vladivostok fortress do not seem to know about the upcoming events of the Chinese expeditionary fleet. But it is no wonder, after all, their former homeland has perished, and the new Bolsheviks are almost the enemy of the whole world―――――― of course, the most important thing is that the new Bolshevik political axe, there is no way to manage Vladivostok, in Vladivostok is still the old ministry belonging to the original Romanov dynasty, although these old ministries may not continue to be loyal to the Romanov dynasty, but it is clear that they did not owe allegiance to the Bolsheviks.

However, because of this, Vladivostok has almost all ties with the outside world.

Merely... It's just a theoretical situation, in fact..."Is this true? ”

Looking at the short man in front of him, the commander of the Vladivostok Fortress, Gunokov, said in disbelief.

"Of course it's true..."

Heitaro Matsushita smiled slightly.

"Now the Chinese expeditionary fleet is heading north, and I believe it will not be long before it reaches Vladivostok and, of course, Sakhalin ..."

Before Heitaro Matsushita could continue, Gunokov had already interrupted.

"But why do you want me to give me this news?"

No wonder Gunokov was suspicious, you must know that the relationship between the Russians and himself has always been bad. Especially after the Russo-Japanese War, the defeated Russians were both contemptuous and wary of the defeated Russo-Japanese themselves, and the veteran Gunokov, who had participated in the Russo-Japanese War, was even more so.

However, after listening to Gunokov's question, Heitaro Matsushita only said softly.

"The reason is very simple, because we don't want the Chinese to get Vladivostok so easily..."

Without saying any nonsense that "the Entente countries are like a family", Heitaro Matsushita just said what he really thought.

That's right, I just don't want China to take Vladivostok so easily, that's all, as for what hypocritical polite words... Gunokov is also a smart person, and Heitaro Matsushita believes that even if he says so, he will not believe it, so it is better to directly say his true intentions, so as not to guess each other.

As for whether there will be any bad results from this... The relationship between Ben and China is already very bad, and this time just one sentence can cause countless obstacles to China, so why not?

And after listening to the words of Heitaro Matsushita, Gunokov also nodded.

If Heitaro had said something else, maybe Gunokov wouldn't have believed it, but that's it......... Considering the always poor relationship between China and China, it is worth believing.

"In that case, thank you Mr. Heitaro for the information..."

When he said this, a trace of solemnity flashed in Gunokov's eyes.

After the formation of the new Bolshevik political axe, because Gunokov, who was the de facto leader of Vladivostok, was quite hostile to the Bolshevik political axe, Vladivostok had not been supplied for a long time... Originally, this was not a fatal matter, but now Chinese actually sent an expeditionary fleet......... Gunokov has heard about the evaluation of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese by his colleagues in the Caucasus, not to mention that the Chinese still have a large number of [tank] troops in their hands..."

After the departure of Heitaro Matsushita, Gunokov was silent in his office for a long time.

He waited until lunchtime to leave the interior, and the first thing he did after leaving was to begin to consolidate the fortifications of Vladivostok.

Regardless of whether Russia perished or not, he was always a Russian general, and it was his duty to guard Vladivostok, even if it was ......... The opponent he was about to face was not something he could handle...

(To be continued)